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Although February 14 is typically remembered for Valentine Day, this year that date brought new findings on the cumulative costs of the Great Recession – $13 trillion in cumulative losses in household wealth and high unemployment are the result of the Great Recession, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Earlier research by the Center for Responsible Lending found that the spillover effects of foreclosures wiped out nearly $2 trillion in family wealth. From 2000-2010, African-American family wealth dropped 53 percent, and Hispanic families lost 66 percent. By comparison, average White household wealth dropped only 16 percent. The foreclosure crisis and resulting economic downturn have turned back the clock on previous wealth gains, especially in communities of color.
The GAO report was performed at the request of the Senator Tim Johnson (SD), chair of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, and Rep. Michael Capuano (Mass., the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance.
Responding to the report's findings, Capuano said, "I thank the GAO for this comprehensive report. Millions of Americans lost their homes to foreclosure, Millions more lost retirement savings and too many Americans found themselves unemployed. . . Any costs associated with implementing Dodd-Frank pale in comparison to the trillions of dollars in losses that have already occurred. Congress must ensure that Dodd-Frank is implemented comprehensively and effectively so that the tools are in place to prevent another crisis."
Despite the independent, non-partisan GAO findings, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) opponents insistently call for changes to Bureau, the centerpiece of Dodd-Frank Reform. These critics either do not know or are ignoring how the Bureau returned $425 million in consumer refunds and levied another $70 million in fines for abusive financial practices.
Nor would these critics likely acknowledge that new CFPB rules will ensure that no mortgage borrower will be given an unaffordable and unsustainable loan. Thanks to CFPB, each lender is now required to determine and verify borrowers' ability to repay before the loan is issued. Additionally, consumer-friendly changes in mortgage servicing means borrowers will no longer incur costly surprises with their loans or be given a runaround by a servicer.
Had CFPB and these mortgage rules existed before the housing crisis hit, communities of color would not have been financially devastated. Every consumer can be encouraged by the Bureau's actions to increase greater transparency in financial services, coupled with common sense rules of the road. America's families need nothing less.
Responsible businesses have recently begun speaking up in defense of CFPB. For example, John Arensmeyer, founder and chief executive of the Small Business Majority, recently said, "The financial industry wrote its own rules for too long. Honesty and transparency are not too much to ask from institutions that helped run the economy into the ground. Lawmakers – many of whom talk a lot about protecting small businesses – should be the first in line asking for more accountability."
The U.S. Senate is charged to advise and consent on presidential nominees. On Valentine's Day more than half – 54 in all – wrote to President Obama to express their strong support for the CFPB and Director Richard Cordray, advising, "One of the most basic lessons learned from the Great Recession was that the failure to adequately protect American consumers has consequences not only for individuals and families, but also for the health of America's economy. . . A bipartisan majority of Americans support the agency as currently constituted, and so do we."
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PORTLAND, Maine -- A 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck southern Maine just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening, with Berkshires residents feeling it across a wide swath of the county.
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Every year the Fiesa International Sand Sculpture Festival takes place in Pêra, Algarve, Portugal bringing together the most talented sculptures from around the world to build a city-like installation. Using thirty-five thousand tons of sand to build with, the theme is ever changing ranging from Hollywood, discoveries, living world, and animal kingdom. This year's event opened last Friday on May 25, 2012 and will run until October 25. These photos are from previous events and we will keep you updated on this years event when photos surface.


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The Internet world is full of rumors. It's what makes the net go 'round. 2012 was full of crazy rumors from real-life Olivia Popes to illegitimate kids nobody could prove. We're here to count down all the insanity and see if any of these rumors actually got resolved. Take a look and find out.
Kerry Washington Wants Obama – There was a rumor that Michelle Obama had to keep Barack away from Kerry Washington because she wanted to chop him down so bad. Sounds like they were just promoting Scandal if you ask us.
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Since the early '90s, New Orleans band Galactic has seamlessly traversed various genres: Jazz, Funk, Electronica, Fusion and Hip Hop. Galactic's 2010 release, Ya-Ka-May, celebrated this fact by likening the group's musical palette to a New Orleans dish that combines NOLA soul food with other cultural flavors. Their latest release, Carnivale Electricos, is a marriage of New Orleans' Mardi Gras traditions and Brazil's Carnival.
"Ha Di Ka" gets the party started, starting with thumping drums and chants, culminating in an oh-so-funky mash of bass strums, keyboards and everything but the kitchen sink. "Hey Na Na" keeps the energy with electric guitar, horns, and low-fi vocals courtesy of The Revivalists' David Shaw. "Out In the Street" is dripping with funk, with Cyril and Ivan Neville's everyman song lyrics about chasing the almighty dollar and the allure of music are instantly relatable.
The cultural influences abound on this album. "Magalenha" combines the Sergio Mendes hit of the same name with Casa Samba's Afro-Brazilian styles. Aside from the cited Brazilian influences, "Voyage Ton Flag" finds its roots in Zydeco, and samples a traditional Cajun Mardi Gras song, "La Chanson de Mardi Gras." The tremendous horns on "Karate" are courtesy of KIPP Renaissance High School's marching band, a nice touch that really gives the listener a sense of what the New Orleans music scene is all about.
Speaking of influences, Galactic's Hip Hop track record is stronger than many realize: in addition to their 2007 release From the Corner to the Block, which featured Lyrics Born, Mr. Lif, Gift of Gab, Chali 2na, Boots Riley, Juvenile, and Ladybug Mecca, the group collaborated with Dan The Automator for their 2003 release Ruckus. Carnivale continues that tradition, as "Move Fast" features NOLA natives Mannie Fresh on the hook and Mystikal delivering some of his most quirky and hilarious rhymes in some time: "Eat rappers with crackers and vegetable soup… / I'ma tell you the truth, do that too / You ain't gonna make a solo, get in a group! / I was gone six, still in the loop / go Mystikal, go Mystikal, go! / Hold up – look I'm forty, baby, go slow! / My backs' sore, I can't party like that no' mo' / Get off the flo', my knees won't let me get that low!"
It's not an understatement to call Carnivale Electricos one of the most fun, vibrant, and culturally-diverse albums in recent years. With each album, Galactic has expanded its repertoire, all the while remaining firmly rooted in New Orleans Funk and Jazz. This release is no exception. The sheer range of sounds and styles on Carnivale make it the sort of rare album that will simultaneously keep the party going whilst providing inspiration to music ethnocologists writing their theses. If nothing else, it's a must-listen in 2012.


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A Clarkson University undergraduate has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and three recent graduates have received honorable mentions.
Maria C. Lang, a senior mechanical engineering major from El Paso, Texas, received the fellowship. She is a member of Clarkson's Honors Program and a Ronald E. McNair Scholar.
Honorable mentions went to three Clarkson graduates now studying for their doctoral degrees: Andrew D. Davis '10, a mahematics Honors Program graduate now studying at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eleanor L. Davis '10, an applied mathematics and statistics Honors Program graduate now at University of Texas at Austin; and Farshad Madhi '09, a mechanical engineering McNair Program graduate now at University of California-Berkeley.
This is the fourth consecutive year a Clarkson undergraduate has received an NSF Fellowship for a total of six fellowships over the same period. Although the fellowships are awarded to both undergraduate and graduate students, they typically go to students already into their graduate work.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships are the most prestigious awards available to students beginning their graduate studies in engineering and the sciences. The ranks of NSF Fellows include individuals who have made transformative breakthroughs in research and have become leaders in their chosen careers, including several Nobel Laureates.
Lang entered Clarkson as one of the first cohort of the S-STEM program funded by NSF in 2007. She was admitted into the Honors Program after her freshman year due to her outstanding performance.
Lang was inspired by late astronaut McNair and a former McNair scholar to dream of becoming an astronaut. She participated in the NASA Academy in 2010, working in the propulsion branch at Goddard Space Flight Center with Rich Luquette and Paul Mason.
Her honors thesis is on the computational fluid dynamics of nano-aerosols, supervised by Prof. Suresh Dhaniyala. After graduation, Lang will pursue her Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she will investigate electric propulsion/plasma dynamics with Prof. Iain Boyd. She is also a recipient of the Rackham Merit Fellowship there at the Rackham Graduate School.
"Maria has been an outstanding scholar and role model for her fellow McNair Scholars," said Tammy McGregor-Twiss, assistant director of Clarkson's McNair Program. "Her strong work ethic, drive and passion have led her to aspire, advance and achieve at every step of her undergraduate career. From obtaining two McNair research opportunities at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, to participation in numerous professional conferences, tutoring and honors research, Maria is very deserving of this fellowship."
"Maria exemplifies the all-around excellence of an Honors student," said Jon D. Goss, director of Clarkson's Honors Program. "Not only is she a brilliant student doing cutting-edge research, but she also tutors math and physics at Clarkson, and is extensively involved in outreach to promote sciences and engineering in K-12 education in the region. On top of that, she is an accomplished pianist and she imagines the prospect of playing in the first piano quartet in space when she succeeds in becoming an astronaut."
The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program is intended to help ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States. It provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees.
Clarkson's Honors Program is an intensive four-year curriculum for exceptionally talented students. The University admits only 30 new students to the Honors Program each year.
As one of the eight federally funded TRIO programs of the U.S. Department of Education, the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program prepares first generation & low-income and/or underrepresented students for doctoral studies. The McNair program hosted at Clarkson University is one of 200 across the United States.
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Discussion in 'General Pro Player Discussion' started by nikdom, Jan 16, 2013.
That describes Federer from 2004-2006.
Who cares? The dominant players at USO post 2009 (other than Rafa himself) were Djoko and Murray. And Nadal did have to beat Djoko in the final.
Nikdom's still a whippersnapper. Let him talk.
Nadal would have CRUSHED Roger at Flushing that year. Please.
Nadal was peaking there. His serve was a beast, and he was ultra aggressive.. Fed wouldn't have stood a chance
You're either very forgetful or trolling.
Nadal has the "super serve" not just for USO, but for tourneys after as well, his serve helped him a lot in Tokyo as well. But the problem is that it messed up his shoulder so he reverted to his more traditional serve by AO 2011. So that serve wasn't in effect for 2 weeks but all throughout the autumn season.
Heck, there were some signs of the super serve before:
In a match that he LOST, in Cincy.
Even if you believe the "Nadal doped to get that serve" theory(that is what you seem to be implying), then I ask you: Why didn't Nadal just cycle again anytime in the next 2 years to get that booming serve? Nadal never served that well again, except maybe the first set in WB 2011 final.
Heck, even resident silent ban aficionado and expert drakulie doesn't believe Nadal doped to get that serve and yet some of you do. Boggles the mind.
Really? where do you guys get this crap? Uncle Toni?
1 min this guy is serving bombs, next day his shoulder is messed up. One day he's running around like a rabbit, the next day he's retired because his knee's are shattered?
Gimme a break. This guy has to be the most impressive athlete since Lance Armstrong. You know how that guy did it right...
eh, what ? federer faced djoker more times in slams than rafa did ... 10 times since montreal 2007 in fact ... rafa only faced him 6 times since then ...
and you missed that federer also dealt with younger nadal, roddick, older agassi
eh,no , not necessarily.... One would anyday face murray in the AO 2011 final or soderling in the RG 2010 final rather than tsonga in AO 2008 final or gonzalez in AO 2007 final ( or going a bit further back : safin in the USO 2000 final or hewitt in the USO 2001 final )
and again, djoker in the 2010 USO final was clearly better than soderling in RG 2009 final , but delpo in the FO 2009 SF was clearly better than djoker in the USO 2010 final , it's a no contest IMO ...
You need to get your facts straight.
Not the next day but a couple of months later. Nadal had a improved serve(for most of the time, in some matches that autumn it did not click) in 2010 for USO, Bangkok,Tokio,Shangai and TMC(where he made his first final by beating guys like Murray,Roddick,Djokovic on HC indoors). In AO 2011 he dialed back on his serve from what I'd seen.
But still, let's assert that Nadal DOPED to get his serve for USO 2010 since that's what you are implying and he didn't actually have shoulder issues towards the end of the year.
It stands to reason that he would whip out the massive serve again at least ONCE since autumn 2010 but 2 YEARS(years in which Nadal reached another 5 slam finals) have passed and we haven't seen Nadal try to hit bombs again, it's still mostly his spin serve out wide with a slower speed.
Now I don't know about you but if I had the ability to get a powerful serve with the use of PED I would use as frequently as possible. And since the Federer warehouse has already established that Nadal is an all around awful person,a cheater of the highest magnitude, I don't see why he wouldn't use PED's to boost his serve as much as is humanly possible on a frequent basis.
I know I'm just bashing my head against the walls here trying to argue with a hater but just to know how off track you are again: drakulie, a fellow Nadal hater who believe that Nadal was already silently banned twice for doping, doesn't believe the super serve via PED theory. Why don't you have a talk with him about the Nadal super serve's appearance and disappearance?
^^ Your reasoning is as convoluted as Nadal's excuses are unconvincing.
For someone who you guys believe is the strongest, best, invincible player of all time, from your very own conclusions seems an incredibly fragile fellow.
I say no one fluctuates between invincible and disabled without some serious 'boosting'
All I ask is that you answer my not at all convoluted question:
If Nadal has a booming serve in his backpocket via PED, why doesn't he whip it out at every slam at least?
We know that you and other worthy posters have correctly identified Nadal as a cheater who pisses on the system and who is also backed from the inside(silent bans to cover up, Tony's influence, Mallorcan Mafia etc.) so why would he have qualms about pushing the super serve in our faces every other tournament?
For a guy with Nadal's(lack of)morals, it wouldn't make sense to ditch a superweapon. Did Nadal stop taking shady MTO's? Did Nadal stop wasting time? Did Nadal stop coaching? Then why did Nadal stop using PED's on his super serve? The dude is backed by the system, the fans and media are gullible enough to buy his crap(grip change, yeah right ) and yet he chooses to abandon a MAJOR weapon? Makes no sense.
It'll be too obvious if he uses that trick everytime. He wanted one USO to his name to complete the career slam and he pulled out all stops! satisfied?
It will also be more obvious if it is only a one time thing.
A guy with no morals like Nadal would have no problem using a superserve(fueled by PED) constantly. Did he stop his other nefarious antics over time? Why would he bring something new to the cheating table only to take it off after 2 months or so?
Also, why just ONCE if it is an option? Ok, it was the career slam but are you telling me that Nadal would shy away from using a superserve at say WB 2011, USO 2011, AO 2012, especially when he was getting beat ragged by Djokovic? If that's not a time to pull out all the(cheating) stops, I don't know what is. We all know that Nadal wants to do ANYTHING to get close to Fed's GS count and displacing Djokovic would have been FAR EASIER with that superserve. He could have been sitting on 14 slams now instead of 11.
Are you telling me that Nadal grew a conscience after USO 2010?
^^ too long, didn't read. I made my point already.
I'll never understand this very selective view of Fed's competition people seem to have, Baggy? Seriously? Fed played him like two times in slams?
Fed's main competition during his peak years were Hewitt, Roddick, Safin, older Agassi (though keep in mind this is the guy who won the bulk of his slams at the age of 29+), pre prime Nadal (Fed faced him in 3 slam finals) and yes Nalbo as well.
However if we concentrate on slam meetings alone then Novak is bigger competition for Fed than Nadal given the number of slam meetings and he also played Murray in 3 slam finals.
It seems Nadal, Novak and Murray are considered to be Fed's rivals only when it comes to their winning (likely soon to be in Novak's case as well)H2H against him and how it "tarnishes" his career (having a losing H2H against his "main" rivals) but when it comes to analyzing the strength of Fed's competition people bring up Bagdathis and Gonzales which doesn't really make all that sense when put together.
2010 USO was only Novak's 2nd slam final after 2+ years of pause, he was also having a relatively mediocre year with no wins against top 10 (and only Dubai to his name IIRC) until that USO match against Fed, no masters final, having issues with his serve, heck he was close to getting knocked out by his pigeon Troicki in that USO tourney.
You can put it down to bias but yes I agree with Abmk that Delpo in 2009 FO SF played better than Novak did in 2010 USO final.
Well yes, there's no arguing about that but it's not like those tourneys happened 30 years ago so all we have to go on are statistics, people remember them and have a subjective view.
Every fanbase here is is into 1.0/2.0 business, they just might use different terms (peak, prime, baby, old etc.).
Agree, though given how he's such a monster compared to Fed's competition in 2004-2007 I would have expected him to win more than one set combined in his 3 slam finals against the weak era benefactor Fed.
That said, I do expect him to beat Fed in a slam in the near future and as a consequence be included in "strong era" talks more often (with our local experts given well informed predictions of Fed's hypothetical slam count had he been the same age as 3 giants of the game).
That is true and given how great Nadal was playing in 2010 USO (on the level of multiple USO champions IMO) I have no doubt he could have won it with a tougher (or any at that moment basically) draw.
That said, Fed displayed more consistency at FO than Nadal did in any HC slam so far, actually the first time Nadal reached 2 HC slam finals in a row was during his massive decline in 2011-2012 . Of course, how much you value consistency is subjective.
Actually, his (Namelessone's) logic is sound.
If Nadal "cheated" to get his career slam with his superserve why the heck wouldn't he do the same in 2011 when he was having major issues with improved Novak? What stopped him from "pulling all stops" to counter Novak's game, his guilty conscience? Heck I'm sure Nadal would have loved to get closer to Fed's slam count (or Pete's at the very least) in 2011-2012.
I agree with everything you say. It's silly to suggest that Rafa used PED serve only in US Open 2010. If he used PED and succeeded in that why wouldn't he do that in 2011?
Every player should be considered innocent untill caught. If we are to make allegations we can raise that against any player.
I agree with what you've said but the point I was making about Nadals 2010 'fluke win' was that certainly I can find at least one Federer slam draw that compares . As far as Noles mediocr performance in USO 2010, I think we all know this AFTER THE FACT but he at the time he was still the no 3 player in the world and someone who hammered Nadal on hard courts. If he didn't actually play to his potential does that make the draw weaker. Should the strength of the draw also factor in whether the player played to his potential because we should discount the FO 08 win as well since Fed played pretty poorly in that one. Or AO 2010 final since Murray played like deal in the final.
Was Fed closer to an FO than Nadal was to a USO? yes. But that's like saying Murray never made a USO final until 2012 so his win is more flukey.
yeah, only nadal has beaten federer @ the FO on other occasions .. AO 2010 final, murray actually played decent tennis ( unlike USO 2008 final or AO 2011 final )
tbh, there should be no "discounting" of any slam win in any full or near full field ... but when some rafa ****s say fed's win @ FO 2009 doesn't count or something like that because he didn't face nadal, its laughable, because federer had a much tougher draw in FO 2009 than rafa did in USO 2010 ( even if rafa was capable of winning with a tougher draw , fact is he had relatively easy )
actually, murray had made the final of the USO in 2008 .....
I would say that while 2010 was clearly Djokovic's worst year, and that he wasn't playing well in the USOpen, he was still playing better than Federer in that event, if only with a thin margin. It might be that , if he had won that SF, Federer would have dramatically increased his level in the final, but it is unlikely. And if he played Nadal in the final with the level he showed in the SF, he would certainly have been beaten.
I think Djokovic played ok in the semis and finals but I don't think he was playing as badly as people suggest. Here was his 2010 US open performance
R128 Viktor Troicki (SRB) 47 W 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3
R64 Philipp Petzschner (GER) 52 W 7-5, 6-3, 7-6(6)
R32 James Blake (USA) 108 W 6-1, 7-6(4), 6-3
R16 Mardy Fish (USA) 21 W 6-3, 6-4, 6-1
Q Gael Monfils (FRA) 19 W 7-6(2), 6-1, 6-2
S Roger Federer (SUI) 2 W 5-7, 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 7-5
F Rafael Nadal (ESP) 1 L 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 2-6
Outside of the 1st round against Troicki, I think he played quite ok. Straight sets all the way until he played Federer. And in the Fed match, he actually had some periods of pretty good play, especially in that 4th set.
I'm a Nole fan along with a Nadal fan and I think most would agree that Nole did not play USO 10 at the level he played some of his 2011 matches.However that does not take away from the fact that even a sub peak Nole is tougher to beat than 99% of the tour.
It is not really his performance at the USOpen which matter, but his performance all year long. He beated nobody until the USOpen, and nobody after it. Except Federer, he had to wait until the WTF to beat over top 10 players. That's poor...Apart Dubai, he didn't reached a single final...that's poor too.
Nole did show signs of improvement that foreshadowed the USO and 2011 in the 2010 Canada Semi vs. Fed. I was at that match and Fed completely hammered him in the 1st set, but Nole made a really gritty comeback in the 2nd and pushed it to the final games of the 3rd set. It was a really high level match that took most by surprise because at one point it looked like Fed was going to win in straight sets in less than an hour.
Nole's year before that was no doubt very mediocore, but that shows his USO performance and victory over Fed were not completely out of the blue. Both the Canada Semi and the USO Semi were very similar 50/50 matches only with different players winning the key points in the last set.
I have no doubt about it, all players have their fair share of easy, medium and hard draws.
Besides, Nadal was playing great tennis in 2010 USO, it may have been a one off performance in terms of level of play (which you could also say about his 2008 FO or Fed's 2007 AO for example) but he also reached SF the year before and reached his 2nd final in a row in 2011 so I certainly wouldn't call it a fluke either way.
Also, keep in mind that this thread was clearly made in retaliation to Smoledman's thread about 2009 Fed's FO being hollow (or some such nonsense) so I doubt it was that well thought out.
Definitely disagree with this, he was having a very mediocre year, didn't reach a slam final in 2+ years and barely scrambled past nervous Fed (who from what I've seen was trying to conserve energy, was calculating at certain points of the match which is incredibly risky to do in a slam SF) in the SF while Nadal was playing arguably the best HC tennis of his life, I fully expected Nadal to hammer him in the final and was pleasantly surprised Novak managed to take a set (I actually think Novak raised his level in the final quite a bit compared to the rest of the tourney).
Well, when analyzing the strength of the draw, ideally one should take all factors in consideration, current form, match-ups (yes, they do exist despite what some Nadal/Sampras fans say) and yes past achievements as well.
Well, no one was stopping Nadal in 2008 FO so that's one case where I think the draw was largely irrelevant concerning the eventual winner of the tourney.
Regarding Murray, he's a specific case, I'm pretty sure even most of his fans would agree that he was playing some of his best HC tennis leading into 2010 AO final but obviously at the time Murray's performances in slam finals were still atleast a level below his performance during the rest of the tourney (in stark contrast to Fed, Nadal and other all-time tennis greats who raised their level for slam finals).
I also don't agree with discounting slam titles in principle.
I didn't say Fed was closer, just more consistent and/or better against the field, I viewed Nadal's chances of winning a HC slam at say end of 2008 about as equal as I've ever thought Fed was going to win FO since 2005.
I'd actually say that his 2010 USO was not at the level of the vast majority of his 2011 matches save for the post USO part of the season when he was just burned out.
Yeah, agree.
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A good outcome. Not the best outcome, but a good one. LSE has ruled that its Student Union Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society does not have to remove any Jesus and Mo cartoons from its Facebook page, nor does it have to remove the prefix LSESU from its name. It has also ruled that the crappy things the LSESU said about LSESU ASH were crappy things to say (or rather, in bureaucratic language, that they were inappropriate).
LSESU ASH President Chris Moos made a statement on behalf of the Society's committee, saying, 'We wish that LSESU could have engaged with us originally in order to resolve the situation when it arose and remain disappointed that they have not apologised for their unjustified defamatory remarks against us. However, we are very pleased that no action is being taken to interfere with our right to free expression, nor to remain a society clearly affiliated with our university. The cartoons on our Facebook page criticised religion in a satirical way and we continue to reject any claim that their publications could constitute any sort of harassment or intimidation of Muslims or Christians. '
Andrew Copson, BHA Chief Executive, said, 'It is good that free speech has not been curtailed at the end of this saga, but it is a great shame that non-religious students were let down by their union in this way. The conflation of offence with intimidation, which allowed this situation to escalate as it did, is totally out of place in a university, where the challenging of deeply held believe should be a routine activity.'


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SMS student wins community service award
As one of the two State Honorees, Michelle will receive $1,000, an engraved silver medallion and a trip in May to Washington, D.C., where she will join the top two honorees from each of the other states. During the trip, 10 students will be named America's top youth volunteers of 2014.
Over the past seven years, with the help of the "Junior Board" Michelle co-founded and is now the co-president of, she has raised more than $150,000 over the past seven years for a non-profit organization that provides educational scholarships and medical care to families of employees of the Hualalai Resort in Hawaii, where she spends two months of each year.
"My sister and I created the Junior Board, which is now a committee of the Adult Board of the Ohana Foundation, to show the youth of the Hualalai community that fundraising for a good cause can be fun, and also to assure that our efforts will be continued through later generations," Michelle said. She also promotes recycling at the resort and brought a curbside recycling service to residents.
"Seeing the same employees every year, they became part of my family, or 'ohana' as they say in Hawaiian," Michelle said. "At the age of 10, I realized that it was time to start giving back to the employees by making a donation to the Ohana Foundation."
At Stratton Mountain School, Dreimann has organized many fundraisers, including a bake sale for the Susan G. Komen breast cancer foundation, local clean-up efforts after Hurricane Irene, and fundraising for the KURAproject.
Dreimann has also participated in junior firefighter training at the Stratton Mountain Fire Station and helped to clean the trucks, and she is one of two secretaries of the Student Council, as well as a class representative.
Dreimann said her parents instilled in her the desire for volunteering at a young age.
"My parents have motivated and inspired me to get involved with volunteering," she said. "Since I was little, they have always told me that it is better to give than receive."
She remembers the first time she got involved with the Ohana Foundation, which started her lifelong love of giving back.
"When I was 10 years old, my sister and I planned a golf cart wash for the Ohana Foundation. This was our first project for the foundation, and the result was bigger than we could have ever expected. In two days, we raised over $20,000. Washing golf carts was a fun way to get all the kids in the resort to help the foundation and it definitely showed me that motivation can go a long way. I first got involved with the Ohana Foundation to give back to the employees of the resort, but after seeing all that we accomplished by washing golf carts, fundraising meant so much more. After the golf cart wash, I was invited to attend and speak at the Higher Education ceremony, in which the employees' kids that obtained a GPA of 3.5 or better were given scholarship money for college. Once I saw how much the scholarships meant to all the high school students, helping the Ohana Foundation meant so much more to me," she said.
Alex Lehmann, SMS Dean of Academics said, "She is one of the most committed and thoughtful students with whom I have worked. I have never seen a student with Michelle's history of community service, and her empathy and caring are evident every day."
Morgan Taylor, SMS Dean of Residential Life and the Community Service Coordinator, helps organize the students to fulfill their requisite five hours of community service each year.
"Michelle seeks out community service opportunities even though she has an over-abundance of service hours," Taylor said. "Michelle will engage in any activity in which she is helping others. She even created her own fundraiser last year at SMS to help raise money for breast cancer. She volunteers as a Junior Firefighter with our local volunteer fire station because she is eager to get involved in the community. In her own school community, Michelle is a Student Council member and has a true desire to serve her classmates and make her school the best it can be. She is enthusiastic, positive and driven to make things happen."
Stratton Mountain School is a ski and snowboard academy located at the base of Stratton Mountain. SMS serves students in grades 7-12. The SMS community of students, faculty, coaches and staff share the pursuit of academic and athletic excellence.
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DTS students can receive course credit for hitting the road with Dr. Mark Yarbrough this summer.
Dr. Yarbrough, DTS's dean of academic affairs, will be in Asheville, NC, June 24-28 to teach a course entitled "The BIG Picture: Grasping the Master's Plan from Genesis to Revelation." The week-long class is offered as an intensive Bible training course by the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove.
Too often, Christians view the scriptures as a collection of unrelated stories by many different authors. Dr. Yarbrough's course teaches the unity of the Biblical narrative across all 66 books. Through daily class sessions and reflection time, this training will help students understand how every page of the Bible is connected and will encourage them know God in his role as Divine Author.
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Short Cake: The Farmer's Market Sweet Spot
30 Dec
The Farmer's Market at Third and Fairfax is a Los Angeles landmark. However, when my out-of-town friends used to ask me to take them, I always suggested we walk around there, grab a donut at Bob's and perhaps an appetizer at Loteria, and have a full meal elsewhere. Since the opening of Short Order and Short Cake at the Farmer's Market, I've been the one suggesting to friends that they Meet Me at Fairfax and Third.
Short Cake is one of my favorite bakeries in Los Angeles. In addition to offering one of the largest selections of consistently delicious treats, you can get your coffee fix with Verve coffee from Santa Cruz, and enjoy savory open faced toasts.
Front: Cereal cookie topped with cornflakes
Rear: Brunette with pine nuts & thyme
Armed with excellent recipes and a heart-warming smile, pastry chef Hourie Sahakian took an unlikely path to running such an impressive bakery. Short Cake was the passion project of renowned pastry chef Amy Pressman. Pressman met Hourie at the gym, and before she know it, Hourie was working the line with Pressman at Test Kitchen. Following Pressman's devastatingly premature passing at the age of 53, Hourie went from protégé to running the show. Fortunately, Short Cake is in great hands.
Short Cake, just like Short Order, takes pride in using fresh and local ingredients.
If you love milkshakes, Short Cake is going to be your new favorite place. I couldn't stop drinking this Black Forrest Custard Shake, despite my stomach already hurting from my irresponsible binging on pastries. Fortunately Mark of iFlipForFood helped me with the pastries, and a run-in with a couple distinguished friends meant I had help with the milkshakes.
I don't know why I was even surprised to find dessert connoisseur Nastassia "Let Me Eat Cake" Johnson and Julie "Hunter of Cool" Wolfson (plus her sweet daughter) sitting at Short Cake's inviting counter. Mark and I had no qualms crashing the ladies who lunch gathering.
I also appreciate that Short Cake is an open kitchen where you can see the talented crew at work.
I'd be remiss if I didn't warn you to show more restraint than I did with the pastries in one visit, because you'll want to visit Short Order upstairs. Chef Christian Page, formerly of Eva, is using only the highest quality ingredients to make great burgers and other dishes.
My first time at Short Order, I was sitting at the bar, enjoying a couple cocktails from LA's finest Julian Cox, and polishing off a burger while periodically glancing at Short Order partner Nancy Silverton a few seats down to see if she was enjoying some new menu items. I had never met Chef Page before, but he made his way down the bar excitedly telling me and a few other patrons about some new grass-fed beef he was excited about. He asked if I'd want to try it. I obviously said yes, expecting a few bites of ground beef. Nope – he brought me out another full beef patty. It was so delicious I polished off the whole thing. Normally I feel pretty gross after a whole burger, but after having two burgers made with high-quality meat, I still felt great. Short Order recently launched a new menu and I'm looking forward to checking it out.
Disclosure: pastries were hosted
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Three singles matches in three days remain at the Australian Open. Roger Federer and Andy Murray meet in the last semifinal on Friday with the winner getting Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final.
• No. 2 Roger Federer vs. No. 3 Andy Murray (3:30 a.m. ET, ESPN): I feel pretty confident in saying that this men's semifinal won't turn out to be the 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 drubbing that David Ferrer received from Djokovic on Thursday night. No, for all the dramatic previews and trailers the men's draw has provided -- and we have to thank the Bernard Tomics, Stanislas Wawrinkas and Jo-Wilfried Tsongas of the world for that -- the screen now turns dark. We begin the main attraction of the fortnight, as 128 players have dwindled to three. The Big Three.
Federer and Murray meet before the final of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time. Murray has another shot to get the one scalp that has eluded him on the big stage. It's easy to forget that Murray is one of the few players, along with Rafael Nadal, who actually has a winning record against Federer. But despite that 10-9 edge, Murray is 0-for-3 against Federer in Slams, with his most recent loss coming in last year's Wimbledon final. Of course, all that came before Murray got the better of him in the Olympic gold-medal match, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4, his first best-of-five win over Federer.
Djokovic plays doctor at legends match
Murray, the only semifinalist who has yet to drop a set, was blessed with an easy draw after Jeremy Chardy knocked out No. 6 Juan Martin del Potro in the third round. As a result, he's faced only one seeded player through five matches, No. 14 Gilles Simon, who was clearly dead-legged after his five-set marathon win over Gael Monfils a round earlier. So the question is whether Murray is battle-tested coming into this match. Federer looked untouchable through four rounds before a five-set tussle with No. 7 Tsonga in the quarterfinals, narrowly escaping with a 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 6-3 win.
The British press reported this week that the Murray camp was unhappy that the Scot was given no night matches until now, putting him at a disadvantage to Federer, who has played four straight under the lights on Rod Laver Arena. Murray dismissed the reports, saying he would have scheduled things the same way if he were the tournament director. Regardless of what the truth is, the first few games of the match will be telling. After his quarterfinal victory, Murray went out to hit at Hisense Arena under the lights to get used to the conditions, but Hisense and RLA play differently. Murray won't have much time to make the adjustments he needs, and if he's not careful he could find himself in a one-set hole.
The keys for Murray are his serve and forehand. Those two shots allowed him to take his first set off Federer in a major, at Wimbledon, and beat him one month later at the Olympics. When they're clicking, he can hold easily, remain aggressive in the rallies and stick his running passing shots. The forehand is the shot that's more prone to break down for Murray, and Federer will keep banging away to that side in hopes of earning the error.
PREDICTION: Federer in five sets.WERTHEIM: Five thoughts on women's semifinals


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Man critically injured in Wichita shooting
The man was hit multiple times and taken to the Wesley Medical Center.
The man was hit multiple times and taken to the Wesley Medical Center.
Kansas authorities have fatally shot an escaped elk inside Wichita city limits after it eluded officers for hours.
The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce says it's making strides toward meeting its top goals for the region.
The Shawnee Heights Thunderbirds are aiming for more than just another playoff appearance in their 2014 football season.
The Kansas City Royals hung on to beat the Texas Rangers on Monday night in Kansas City.
A motorcyclist was taken to a Topeka hospital with non-threatening injuries following an accident Monday night.
Underage drinking has always been a problem on college campuses.
During Labor Day weekend, more than 100 players were at Gage Park to participate in the Kansas State Horseshoe Tournament.
The Topeka West Chargers are anxious to begin their 2014 season on Thursday September 4 against Wyandotte
Do you love your job? Hate your job?
Two local golfers performed well at the Labor Day weekend's Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston.
The Kansas State Wildcats have 11 former players who are currently on an NFL roster.
Concern about drug and alcohol abuse by parents is the biggest reason hundreds of Kansas children are removed from their homes.
The FBI said Monday it was addressing allegations that online accounts of several celebrities.
It likely will be some time before a positive ID and cause of death are determined.
The Kansas City Royals made several roster moves on Monday as they enter the final month of the regular season.
Tony Stewart returned to the race track at Atlanta on Sunday night, but Kasey Kahne stole the show in the final few laps.
State offer big bucks in incentives to get the deal.
The Kansas City Royals versus Cleveland Indians game was suspended in the 10th inning on Sunday night due to severe weather.
Firms wants to create 350 acre office park.
Donnie Wahlberg's "Favorite Girl" Jenny McCarthy is now his wife.
Thousands of cases of cheese subject to the recall.
Will number of highway accidents increase?


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BERLIN- After starting the season with a 7-0 record, Worcester Prep's girls' varsity basketball team dropped its first contest of the year last week, falling to visiting Delmarva Christian, 32-36.
The Mallards ran the table during November and December with a 7-0 mark, but may have suffered from the nearly three-week layoff during the holiday break. The Worcester girls fell to Delmarva Christian, 36-32, in a tight game last Friday. Sophie Brennan led the Mallards with eight points.


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Great speculation, but one critique would be your use of science to describe lightning in a shonen manga -__-. Trust me it is very menial to include it, all you needed to say in the end was that the Sharingan/Raikiri combo is enough to counter Kirin.
That being said this only leaves one person who can actually pull off this specific counter, Kakashi. Something could be said about the Raikage, and also Naruto is probably a given.
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A dugout is a foxhole, a player is a soldier, a coach is a sergeant, a manager is a lieutenant, a GM is a captain, a president is a general, and Jimmy Rollins is a corporal for the Philadelphia Phillies. The game is a battle for the red pinstriped warriors, but can camaraderie help them triumph?
Please, scroll down for this edition of Fresh Insight: Time Travel.
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Time Travel:
Near the end of his baseball journey, Jimmy Rollins can see familiar faces daily during the seasonal grind: reminders of his early campaigns in Philly.
Before he arrived in town, there were questions about his fielding from scouts. Hard to believe, Harry. If you don't know the famous words of Richie Ashburn to Harry Kalas, you missed the special interaction between these broadcast legends from Phillies teams past. Only Kalas of the pair lived to witness J-Roll atop the baseball mountain in 2008. But if you listened closely enough, you could almost hear Ashburn above the celebration in the TV booth: Hard to believe, Harry.
The Mustard Seed:
Rollins' self-description is this section's title but one seed alone would wither and die. That stated, when the shortstop was a September call-up in 2000, Terry Francona was in his final month at the helm: a 65-97 debacle for his fourth tour.
The following season, new skipper Larry Bowa was barking orders, while regulars prepared for the 162 games ahead. However, riding the wave of his rookie shortstop's enthusiasm, Bowa found a way to squeeze an 86-76 mark out of the 2001 squad: a pickup of 21 wins.
Every step along the minor league path, Marlon Byrd was two years behind Rollins, but they finally were in the same clubhouse at the Vet during September 2002. However, because Byrd went from .303 in'03 to .228 for '04, their time together in the majors was only two full campaigns: By mid-April '05, the Nationals acquired Byrd during their inaugural summer in Washington.
The second Phillie seed was Chase Utley, who arrived here three seasons after the shortstop. Unlike Rollins, number 26 did not find a spot for the taking, Placido Polanco was the regular second baseman. That place-to-play complication was not a short-lived one. Despite that blockage, however, the second cornerstone was on the 25-man roster for the 2003 opener. But, only hitting exactly .200 with limited April at-bats was Utley's bus ticket back to Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes Barre until mid-August.
Decision Time:
Many changes occurred from 2004's Opening Day until 2006's trading deadline. From April '04 to the present, Rollins and Utley have been together. J-Roll had two double-play partners–Polanco and Utley–for almost two summers. While the shortstop played every day, Utley until his breakout '05 campaign learned in Polanco's shadow.
In the final tally, Bowa couldn't push the club past 86-76, which the red pinstripes accomplished in three of his four tours with Rollins. After 160 contests in '04 (85-75), Bowa exited and the team split the last two decisions without him. However, the rub was Bowa had Jim Thome's long-ball power for '03 and '04: There were expectations, expensive and unmet.
Ryan Howard–the third Phillie seed–arrived a half year early because of Thome's DL stint in '05 and averaged .288 with 22 homers and 63 RBI for those last three months. Before Thome's absence and despite Howard's lofty minor league numbers, Wade could not find a realistic taker for the rookie first baseman. However, J-Roll and the Big Piece became fast friends and roommates at the veteran's digs.
While the unresolved first-base issue carried into the offseason, the 88-74 record for '05 was Wade's swan song. Surprisingly, the GM search landed a top-notch executive to evaluate the personnel around Bobby Abreu, Pat Burrell, Thome, Rollins and Utley. Inheriting the coveted homegrown talent of Utley and Cole Hamels that Wade refused to trade, new head honcho Pat Gillick knew they were keepers. Also, like his predecessor, Gillick was not able to move Howard. Instead, the GM dealt Thome to the White Sox.
With the mid-May roster addition of Hamels–the fourth Phillie seed–the final cornerstone was working his first MLB starts in '06. The core four that began with Rollins in September 2000 was now with the parent club: Rollins, Utley, Howard and Hamels.
With July 31 approaching, the Phils were 46-54, and Gillick wanted to move Burrell's salary and gain financial flexibility for 2007. But the Yankees would only take Abreu off Gillick's hands, and Burrell maintained his four-month seniority over Rollins.
The Payoff:
With the front office sights turned to '07, the surprise happened: Shane Victorino hit .307 as the newly minted right fielder, and the team went 38-23 (.623) to reach 85 victories. Rollins, the Flyin' Hawaiian and their teammates went 15 games over .500, which is a 101-win pace for a full 162-game schedule, and the flashy shortstop did not forget this accomplishment. By February '07, J-Roll had already uttered his famous pronouncement, but most don't remember its entirety.
According to an Associated Press article, here is the exact quotation from January 23, 2007. "I think we are the team to beat in the NL East–finally," shortstop Jimmy Rollins said Tuesday. "But, that's only on paper."
In the 2007 postseason dugout, J-Roll saw who also learned how to triumph: Utley, Howard and Hamels.
The Camaraderie Factor:
Hal Bodley of MLB.com wrote that '14 is a Phillies' season of ifs, and their age is a frequent factor among many uncertainties. Basically, his premise for Rollins and his key teammates is to stay off the DL and perform up to their career standards. Although Bodley provides many well-known examples, he did not mention the scenario of opportunistic veterans. This situation, albeit a rare one, is a combination of experience and opportunity, and it occurred here long ago in 1983.
With the free-agent addition of Byrd to the core four, it brings back memories of the Wheeze Kids some 31 years prior. The '83 Phillies had a wealth of experience from parts of two championship foundations: Mike Schmidt, 34; Steve Carlton, 39; Pete Rose, 42; Joe Morgan, 40; and Tony Perez, 41. With a void at the top of the NL East after five months, they went 90-72 on the way to the Fall Classic after September's 23-8 stretch drive. This 2014 squad has its championship core plus a former Phil: Rollins, 35; Utley, 35; Howard, 34; Hamels, 30; and Byrd, 36. That stated, their mind-set is on par with the NL pennant-capturing Wheeze Kids, and these '08 champs will also be deadly if they have a shot at a wild card.
In other words, Rollins and the other five vets have enough energy, know how to win, and their history together kindles a camaraderie of a vintage variety.
Vocalizing recently about the franchise hits record, Rollins made clear that he will be here to set that organizational high point. However, a second world championship ring would be a first for a Phillie. If the five stars can find a give-and-take with Ryne Sandberg and Bowa, they can achieve a last October hurrah. If not, Ruben Amaro Jr. has said rebuilding is a consideration.
And, yes, these red pinstripes are younger than the '83 group.
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Snipe Hunt
I recently had a dream that woke me and made me grab my covers. Then it stayed with me all day. The genesis of that dream was The Great Snipe Hunt. It struck me in my throat and grabbed some veins. I hope this story is made into a made for cable movie because it is THE story that shook me and wouldn't let me go. I was totally creeped out…… l love it 🙂
Sure, we all want to see Infected and Contagious on the big screen, but I think Snipe Hunt would be a fun movie. Clearly MUCH better than the usual made-for-Syfi channel stuff.
Why yes, apples. How did you know? [flickr-photo:id=4347154616] Pusher and member of the Gutter Sistren
This video is made of win!!
I am Gmork, professional multitasker and smorker
The groups have come to a truce. BTW are Marie's Children in San Fran only?
I only got thru part 2 when I got to the office and had to wait for lunchtime to finish it. Really loved the story, great tension. More Snipes please. Wonder if any of the Nocturnals have seen snipes and if so, do the snipes have to kill the Nocturnals? Hmmmm…
Why yes, apples. How did you know? [flickr-photo:id=4347154616] Pusher and member of the Gutter Sistren
it allows crazed people to put out their crazed animations so other crazed people can enjoy them worldwide.
the trick to staying sane is to just out-crazy the world
Wow, just wow.
Why yes, apples. How did you know? [flickr-photo:id=4347154616]
did I not see this the first time? I guess I was not paying attention. WOW, what the fuck?.
I AM not just junkie, I AM a pusher man & I AM Sadocks Tangent Brother.
this story genuinely creeped me out. I was watching every crumpled newspaper on the way home!
Molly McButters is my Homeboy!
can I have your records?
the trick to staying sane is to just out-crazy the worldI ain't afraid of no SNIPE
"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun.
written all over it.
the trick to staying sane is to just out-crazy the world
After hearing what the snipes actually were this freaked me out a bit.
i luv it those little ting freak me out now
Im a friend of death, a brother of luck and a son of a bitch!
You don't understand. I'M not locked in here with YOU. YOU'RE locked in here with ME. – Rorschach
I'm your pusher (as of 03/11/09).
Yes, I'm a hick, whats your point?
Western Carolina Catamounts Sports update:
WCU Catamounts Softball has won a thrilling victory over the EVVVILLLL Appalachian State University……6-5 in 8 innings..
squeak squeak
Yes, I'm a hick, whats your point?
Western Carolina Catamounts Sports update:
WCU Catamounts Baseball opened up a can of WHOOP ASS on University of North Carolina: Asheville 11-0
Yet another african mammal I can no longer trust
Hsu Dek (Pronoced Sue Deck)
ok that's one fight club refence ans counting.
Hsu Dek (Pronoced Sue Deck)
the hoop upside down and land on all 4….
I AM not just junkie, I AM a pusher man (6060 and climbing) & I AM Sadocks Tangent Brother.
In training.
"Chief informationless officer of the office of knows nothing" Any questions? 🙂
as a snipe!!!!!! I don't know what has been killing all of the junkies but it is NOT a snipe!!!!!!! Now where did my pet sni….., I mean my pet dogs go??????
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." – Goethe
of snipe porn
I AM not just junkie, I AM a pusher man (6060 and climbing) & I AM Sadocks Tangent Brother.
I found a snipe on zeh internets….
Yes, I'm a hick, whats your point?
Western Carolina Catamounts Sports update:
WCU Womens' Track and Field came in 2nd in the SOCON championships.
Thats a scene from a Snipe porn tape..
Yes, I'm a hick, whats your point?
Western Carolina Lady Catamounts beat the College of Charleston Lady Cougars 101-87 in a record 3 overtimes
WCU LADY CATAMOUNTS ARE 2009 SOCON CHAMPIONS! Next stop, March Madness!!!!!
I AM not just junkie, I AM a pusher man (4000 and climbing) & I AM Sadocks Tangent Brother.
You don't understand. I'M not locked in here with YOU. YOU'RE locked in here with ME. – Rorschach
This is an awesome short story which could be a great full length novel………mmmm food for though Sigler
Yeah I hope we havnt heard* the last of them.
*I was going to write seen but then I would probably be dead and wouldnt be able to write this..
just normal junkie state
* Murder at Avedon Hill – http://www.pgholyfield.com/maah/
* Numbers are the keys that unlock the universe…
I love it.
It was creepy.
It was scary.
It made me paranoid.
It had D&D in it.
So I LOVE IT.
I Live in LalaLand
The great thing about the snipes is that they are able to slot into most stories. I really hope we haven't seen the last of them.
My thoughts this week: Waiting is an essential part of junkie life.
6 Days to John Barrowman!
" no way lil' pistol toting meerkats are killing people that see them, and they constantly go undetected"
i see you are working FOR the snipes helping them maintain the myth of their non-existence and hidden identity
(of course i am on YOUR side, no need for the little buggers to seek me out)
the voices just got VERY anxious
It's all about the Numbers, my friends
The Math god
I finished this on the way home from work today. Have to say I was disappointed that the fabled snipe was a meerkat. I would have worked it to be a shapeshifter with telekinetic properties, that tricks people into thinking they did NOT see anything, thus how it stays hidden for centuries. Flaw in the story is that no way lil' pistol toting meerkats are killing people that see them, and they constantly go undetected. Needed some p-a-r-a-n-o-r-m-a-l aspect to pull it together.
"Trample the weak, hurdle the dead."
The best bloodcast in my opinion, loved it, maybe a sequel?
You're the one who told us the story 😮
i checked on my friend and he was fine it turns out he had recent ly heard it and is persistently trying to scare me shitless
"What do you mean there's nothing i can do, you mean im hooked on Scott Sigler's podcast novels… im… a junkie…"- me
I need more of this story, I want to know more and find out what happens to the Snipes, I need MORE MORE MORE ! PALEEEEZE. I am a Junkie after all…………
that merkaat camera photo was on have I got news for you today. Mmmm, i love russell brand. But i just thought of scott then.
World domination is in our clutches!
it's AWESOME, isn't it??
it has the voices scared
It's all about the Numbers, my friends
The Math god
my freind was just talking to me on msn and said that he saw some news paper going up a wall outside his house then well i copy and paste.
h3y h3y h3y: hey al i just saw som paper go up a wal!
Alex Sipiere: what lik an updraft
Alex Sipiere:???
h3y h3y h3y: mor lik ba blanket 4 somthin
h3y h3y h3y: its at mi window now
Alex Sipiere:dude wtf?
Alex Sipiere:thats so wird
Alex Sipiere:you there
Alex Sipiere:hello??????
then he logs off
im worried shit less i called him but it goes straight to voice mail.
"What do you mean there's nothing i can do, you mean im hooked on Scott Sigler's podcast novels… im… a junkie…"- me
I liked Snipe Hunt, but the ending seemed to lack … something.
Not the kick you between the eyes climax we expect from Scott.
Do over, Mr. Sigler? Please?
That is GREAT!
The Irishman from Ohio"I never Get to Get it!"-Wacko Warner
Unless you leave an offering of Crunchy Peanut Butter with a bag of almonds. They like almonds are our friends. We can trust them. they protect us from ourselves. Besides, since they like Peanut Butter they cannot be THAT evil.Anonymous November 13, 2007 at 2:32 am
Seriously, don't EVER change this.Anonymous November 13, 2007 at 2:31 am
The first rule of knowing about the Snipes – do not talk about Snipes. The second rule of knowing about the Snipes – do NOT TALK about Snipes! Once they find out you know, it's only a matter of time until you're a gonner.
I haven't gone to the zoo or watched Timon and Pumbaa since I heard it. Always thinking about it at work at night with all my friends alone.
They just have good PR. Cute? Cuddly?Family oreinted?
FUCK NO! They too dam close to being little Evil hobbits.
P.S.Fuck hobbit too
I got a pdf of Snipe Hunt from David Wellington before Sigler podacasted it!
Zac Scott, Dictator for life of The Crumpet Society for the Advancement of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Tea
I listened to Snipe Hunt late one night and I swear to you that several times that night I felt
small things running across my bed. I could feel something moving and it woke me up. It was creepy.
Snipe Hunt rocked and ended up being worth the wait for the last installment. Very kewl to hear Dawn and Drew included in the story. Unfortunately, I now have a new paranoia to keep me awake at night. Thanks for making me afraid of random pieces of newspaper now, Scott! Sheesh!!!
Agreed, snipe hunt rocked ASS!!!! Which is why I wrote up a huge synopsis on it in the siglerpedia, but you shouldn't trust that I wrote everything that is necessary to explain it's badassedness, so in conclusion, I urge you all to edit the siglerpedia, or DIE!
Snipe Hunt was GREAT; the idea of such a creature was very intriguing (sp?) and creepy. Just goes to show, there very well could be–and probably is–something (not necessarily a creature of some kind) that exists right under our noses.
Scientific progress goes 'Boink!'
Snipehunt is what happens when you have too much alcohol/drugs and then watch meerkat manor. hehe. And it turns out that those things make a great combonation. Snipehunt is deffinitely my favorite Bloodcast short.
I would finally break down and get cable just to watch that.
The ways of the Lord are often dark but never pleasant.
The snipe hunt was cool but a little creepy
You know every time I watch meerkat manor, I am ready for one of them to run out of a hole with a spear. Or a few to come out holding a revolver.
This has been my favorite Bloodcast short story so far. Like all really good stories, it left me wanting … no, needing … more. Any chance you'll be expanding this one, or at least running with it's concept in something more novel-length?
Maybe the snipes just want you to think that. Has anyone check to see the the camera owner suffered any untimely accidents? I bet the snipes that took that picture have already been dealt with for leaving evidence and anything that says hoax was planted after the fact. Internet access is pretty simple now a days afterall.
Too bad (or not) it was a hoax.
Meerkats photo report was a hoax
Okay, that's more than a little creepy…Anonymous September 7, 2007 at 1:47 pm
If you have not listened to SNIPE HUNT, then get the hell out of here and get it done:
Now if you HAVE listened to SNIPE HUNT, check out this crazy link:
Longleaf snipes take photos of themselves
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Thanks to Junkies Jay Parlar and Chris Kirshman for submitting.Anonymous September 7, 2007 at 1:36 pm
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The latest news in the Ruby and Rails community.
2010 Rails Rumble results, Microsoft relinquishes IronPython and IronRuby, Laptops, Capybara, Translations, and Jazz are all on this episode of Ruby5.
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If you're looking for a Ruby job or for top Ruby talent, then you should check out Top Ruby Jobs. Top Ruby Jobs is a website dedicated to the best jobs available in the Ruby community.
The results are in for the 2010 Rails Rumble. There are a lot of useful, interesting, or otherwise worthy contestants, so you should check them out, if you haven't had a chance, yet. Spoiler: Indiana Coders took home first place with Beer Checkin. And Jeremy McAnally won the solo division with tldr.it.
Last Thursday, Jason Zanders, Corporate Vice President for the Visual Studio team at Microsoft announced that control of IronPython and IronRuby has been handed off to the open source community. This is A Good Thing™ for the community, with Miguel de Icaza and Jimmy Schementi leading these community efforts.
Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-text search engine library written in Java and you'll find it behind some of the major Internet applications out there. But, since we're in Ruby land, Java doesn't work terribly well for us unless we're in JRuby. So, this week, Ilya Grigorik wrote up a nice article covering Apache Lucene and Solr, which is, kind of, a REST wrapper for Lucene, supporting both JSON and XML requests.
What do you do if you have too little screen real estate to hold all of your windows when developing? Well, Bernerd Schaefer at HashRocket calls on the power of fg. Using the Linux fg command, he's able to switch back and forth between multiple processes without wasting space. See how he does it in his recently write up on Laptop Driven Development.
Tristan Dunn put together some code showing how you can utilize Capybara to run multiple browser sessions in your tests. For him, this was useful, because he was writing a multi-user application which relied heavily on web sockets. So, what better way to test it than to fire up two browsers and start banging away?
The guys at AmberBit just released GoTranslateYourself, a Rails 3 engine which allows your clients to manage your application's translations from within your application. It uses Mongo DB to interactively update your translation tables; and those changes are then immediately available to your users.
Ben Hughes recently put together a set of ActiveRecord models which codify Jazz theory. With them, you can enumerate notes of a chord or a scale, get the mode of a scale, and more. It's probably not useful for Twitter, but, if you're a music geek and a Rubyist, it's worth a look.
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Phusion Passenger 3.0.0, Rails accepts_nested_attributes_for vulnerability, ARel 2.0, Slim, RFID, Fog, TinyTDS, and more on this episode of Ruby5.
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Back to Basics: Surround Sound Speakers
I probably don't need to convince you that HDTV is a spectacular viewing experience, with astonishingly lifelike images. But to enjoy all the benefits of HDTV and DVD, you need a multichannel surround sound system.
Let's face it - TV speakers are better than they used to be, but most of them still aren't great. Some video displays don't even have speakers. To maximize the impact of home theater, you need an audio system that literally surrounds you with great sound - from the most explosive action-movie mayhem to the subtle ambience of a gentle rainfall or rustling leaves.
Equipment Essentials Aside from source components like a DVD player or an HDTV tuner, you need two es sential things for home theater surround sound: an audio/video or "digital surround" receiver and a multichannel speaker system.
An A/V receiver is your home theater's control center, providing amplification for the main speakers, volume control, source selection, decoding for Dolby Digital and DTS surround sound, and other features.
Most home theater speaker systems come in a 5.1-channel configuration, with speakers for the left and right front channels, two more for the left and right surround channels, a center-channel speaker, and a powered subwoofer. (The subwoofer channel contains bass frequencies only, hence its ".1" designation.) You'll also find receivers and speaker packages for 6.1- and 7.1-channel systems, which have one or two back surround channels for speakers centered behind the listening position. But to keep things simple, we'll stick with the popular 5.1-channel setup.


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Hm no one made a game thread so here it is...
Nothing to say really just a topic for discussion on the game
Hm no one made a game thread so here it is...
Nothing to say really just a topic for discussion on the game
jst checked the espn boxscore in first quarter, and it said gallo went 1-5 from the foul line. did he really miss 4 ft's?
Yes He Did But He Is Playing Good Besides The Free Trows
How classy of Dudonkey to miss those two FTs, followed by bricking a 3 in crunchtime all within a two pt. game.
And the then-galvanized Spurs start storming ahead.
Lee and Gallo look damn good, though, especially Gallo showing that slashing talent more n more.
Looks like another last couple of minute 4th Quarter meltdown by the Knicks.
At least the Knicks are contributing to the emotions of many NBA fans by helping the teams that they root for win.
The Knicks made a lot of Heat fans happy on Christmas day by losing to them and they are pleasing a lot of Spurs fans today by doing the same.
As long as the Knicks are in the league they make the other 29 teams better.
Every Knick loss makes thousands of people happy and as long as they're happy this world is a better place.
The meltdown was spearheaded and carried out by Duhon. The rest of the team was dealing, the crowd was in the game, the team was competing and on the cusp of getting a win. Gallo and Lee were looking ruthless.
Fitting that Duhon's missed layup officially sealed the L.
Do you expect Knick fans to bring out their pom poms and say,"Oh wow, what a wonderful point guard that Chris Duhon is" ?
Or have a smile on their faces after they watched their team play another 36 minutes of basketball?
I am trying to be positive and look at the glass half full.
Even though I desire for the Knicks to be a competitive team, you cannot get upset when a fan reacts a different way than how you react towards losing.
Maybe you have no problem with rooting for a team that's played 9 straight seasons of losing basketball but when a team that I root for does things to lose a close basketball game it exasperates me.
With the young talent that they have along with the veteran coach that they have the Knicks are a team that should have a better record than 11-19.
There should be no excuses when you are playing at home against a tired team that's in their second game of a back to back.The Spurs might be a better team than the Knicks but they're very beatable.
When I criticize the Knicks it's for a good reason.I don't write these things just because I want to be a negative Nancy.
I've been a fan of the Knicks for 15 years and when they lose winnable games I will voice out my honest opinion.
I know it's in our human nature to get upset at those who seem the most cynical but it's even more frustrating when your team goes on losing streaks after it seemed like they were turning their season around.
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Although Duhound made his first points halfway thru the 3rd quarter
(4 points in 37 minutes!) he did have 13 assists, and seemed to come alive
by driving the lane, but he f*cking sucks, missing layups like that.
Another sh*t game for Hughes and Futurama man, total wastes of space tonite.
David Lee, another great game. he's playing like an All-Star...
Gallo doing all the intangibles.
Jefferies? feh. wtf was up with that quarter-ending 3? Duhound!
The Knicks are a pretty good 3-quarter team with 8-man rotation,
I have to hand it to Damntoni.
I watched the Damntoni show before pre-game, and I understand where he's coming from
benching N8 and others. Nothing personal, just stupid.
Not playing N8, Douglas and Hill is a BIG MISTAKE.
Not playing Curry, who cares?
To live and die by Duhound, that is the story. Peckerhead!
chris duhorrible/dudonkey/dudu has time after time again rightfully earned our nicknames. he is so ****ing useless that hes unwatchable. many educated and casual fans even know the knicks would be good if they had a DECENT pg. this guy blows, my sunday was amazing until i cancelled my night plans to watch this game nd chris DUDU **** up the arena during clutch time. how many ****ing layups did he miss?? wtf? how the **** do you miss as many layups as this guy? its really scary man that hes this bad, like seriously he needs to get benched, its just scary how bad he is.
great game by lee, he should be going to the all star game
another good game by gallo, who is on a severe cold stretch but has started to ATTACK the basket and get to the free throw line, a sure sign of future stardom.
Going into this season I was really looking forward to see the growth of Jordan Hill, Toney Douglas, Darko Milicic, but our idiot coach is sucking the dick of our expiring players. I thought it was about the future of our team and not the future of players who haven't accomplish **** on this league.


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I am a mature student, working and doing night classes to complete my Degree. I have read the link on homework and I understand the policy, not looking for answers just need some help to understand
Here is my current problem I have to load CSV data from a file into what I think must be an array or struct of arrays I then need a main program that prompts the user for options. These will be modular functions in a menu list that would ADD DELETE EDIT PRINT the data stored in the array and Save the list on exit of the main program
So what I can do is open the file with fopen error check it with perror and use fgets to capture the lines of CSV data to a Char variable. I can also use puts to print the CSV data to the screen.
The problem I have is to wright the ADD function in a way that the Load function can call it to save the CSV lines to the array.
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KKR on Shale, a Q&A With the Firm's Head Oil Man
KKR & Co. is a big believer, an investor, in the shale boom.
The private-equity firm has pumped billions of dollars into shale-related deals, from a 2009 investment in Pennsylvania gas producer East Resources that brought a $1.5 billion return a year later, to last year's KKR-led $7.2 billion buyout of oil producer Samson to a tie-up this year with shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy to acquire drilling rights across the U.S.
But KKR sees those deals as only the start of its participation in a long, sustained increase in U.S. energy production.
The firm is not alone. On Monday the International Energy Agency predicted the U.S. would overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2020 as previously unreachable reserves are extracted from shale formations.
Today KKR has published a 23-page report outlining what needs to happen for the U.S. to realize the full potential of the shale boom and what fruits it may bear. Deal Journal sat down with its author Marc Lipschultz, KKR's global head of energy and infrastructure. Here's a Q&A with him:


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EXE732 - Social Justice and Difference
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Educators are increasingly dealing with questions of difference in terms of their practice, their students and the diverse school communities in which they are situated. However, there are surprisingly few opportunities to reflect on and analyse the effects of these differences on educational practice. This unit engages students in a range of theoretical debates about social justice, difference, and the 'politics of identity'. In particular, it foregrounds theoretical engagements with questions linked to gender, sexuality, social class, race, ethnicity, disability and the intersections between them.
Visual Media Journal 2500 words or equivalent worth 50%
Critical Essay of 2500 words worth 50%
HURDLE REQUIREMENT – FOR E734 and E744SP STUDENTS ONLY
Completion and documentation of 2 days of professional development relating to the Practicum Case Study.
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crazy. hopefully we'll see something neat come from those tapes provided Hooky and Barney can talk to each other long enough to get it done
― Edward Bax, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:20 (five years ago) Permalink
Hooky found the original master for "Unknown Pleasures" in much the same way, in the basement of the Hacienda. According to his book, it was acting as grounding for the dance floor.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:23 (five years ago) Permalink
The Onion weighs in
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:50 (five years ago) Permalink
Hopefully the masters are in pretty good shape. I seem to remember Robert Smith saying a few years back that the masters to 'Seventeen Seconds' got severely damaged.
― Turrican, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:05 (five years ago) Permalink
this wasn't true, btw, it was clarified elsewhere that this situation is the one hook outlined as happeneing several years ago. people misinterpreted oliver's tweet.
― akm, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:54 (five years ago) Permalink
Alan Mcgee is flogging off all his old shit and it contains many, many items of interest to the New Order / Joy Division obsessive such as myself (but please don't bid on item 91 because I want that for sentimentral reasons - k thanx)
New Order stuff
Joy Division stuff
― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:54 (five years ago) Permalink
aww i was hoping one of the t-shirts was the one with ian with head in hands & lots of small orange squares at the bottom - they were everywhere c. 1983-5 and i'd get all sentimental for one of those (+ that photocopied book collecting music press clippings & badly transcribed lyrics!)
― zappi, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:29 (five years ago) Permalink
Which one is item 91? You can't tell until after you've clicked on one.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:32 (five years ago) Permalink
"Prev Lot | Next Lot" on right hand side once you've clicked on one
― zappi, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 12:37 (five years ago) Permalink
It's a poster for a gig in 1988 with the Mondays and ACR. I went with the woman who is now Mrs. Trifle (awwww...).
― Ned Trifle X, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:23 (five years ago) Permalink
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Olympus C-740 UZ debuts new streamlined design of the next Ultra Zoom generation
Olympus introduces the new compact design of its next-generation Ultra Zoom series with the Camedia C-740 UZ, a 10x optical zoom and 3.2 megapixel digital camera. The camera is ideal for the budget-conscious family photographer who wants the flexibility of a wide focal length range, automatic controls for basic point-and-shoot simplicity, and manual controls for maximum creativity in a portable package...
Features ED Glass Lens, Compact Body, 3.2 Megapixels at Affordable Price
Melville, New York, March 3, 2003 - Olympus America introduces the new remarkably compact design of its next-generation Ultra Zoom series with the CAMEDIA® C-740 Ultra Zoom, a 10X optical zoom, 3.2 megapixel digital camera. The sleek, compact C-740 Ultra Zoom is ideal for the budget-conscious family photographer who wants the flexibility of a wide focal length range, automatic controls for basic point-and-shoot simplicity, and manual controls for maximum creativity in a portable package.
"Olympus has responded to consumer demand for a compact, powerful zoom digital camera by redesigning our Ultra Zoom series and making these cameras more portable," said Martin Lee, vice president of marketing, Olympus America Inc. "The most remarkable feature of this new camera is that even with its smaller size it features an incredible 10X optical zoom glass lens that ensures the best image quality in its class."
The C-740 Ultra Zoom offers a powerful Olympus aspherical ED (extra dispersion) glass lens to evenly distribute light across the camera's CCD sensor to create a sharp, even exposure for details and vibrant colors at distances near or far. The camera's 10X optical zoom is an equivalent zoom range of 38mm to 380mm - longer than many lenses used on professional SLR film cameras - and its additional seamless digital zoom capabilities increase the lens range to a total 30X seamless zoom (10X optical zoom + 3X digital zoom) of about 1050mm equivalent.
The C-740 Ultra Zoom is based on the popular Olympus C-700 Ultra Zoom series (the world's smallest optical Ultra Zoom digital cameras), and provides even more pixels and has a sleeker, more compact durable body than its predecessors. Because it uses the miniature xD-Picture Card exclusively, the C-740 measures a mere 4.2" long x 2.6" high x 2.7" wide, and weighs just 10.4 ounces, making it the perfect travel companion to go the distance.
The 3.2 megapixel CCD of the C-740, and Olympus TruePicTM technology, allows users to obtain a realistic look with their photographs at all photo sizes e-mailed or printed. The camera's CCD captures the detail needed for true crystal clear photo quality printing even on print sizes of 8" x 10" and larger.
The C-740 Ultra Zoom offers a menu architecture that's easy to navigate to get the right settings fast. In fully Programmed Auto mode, the camera offers basic point-and-shoot simplicity for flawless picture taking in typical situations. The easy-to-use Scene Program on the mode dial provides fully automatic exposure adjustments for the photographer who wants optimum results in a wide variety of settings: Portrait, Self Portrait, Landscape-Portrait, Sports, Night Scene and Landscape photography. The special "My Mode" feature saves time by allowing the user to assign frequently used settings to the mode dial for quick access.
The C-740 Ultra Zoom's advanced settings include controls for aperture priority, shutter priority, and full manual operation and are ideal for experienced photographers who want to take control. And transferring images to the computer has never been easier with the supplied Auto-Connect USB feature that does not require software drivers for hassle-free image downloads. Images may also be viewed on a television with the supplied video cable.
Exciting Features for the Most Realistic Digital Images
With the C-740 Ultra Zoom, what you see is what you get because its Electronic Viewfinder (EVF) shows you exactly what the camera will capture on the CCD. The EVF also displays aperture, shutter speed, and image quality settings and can be used in playback in addition to the 1.5" color LCD display.
The C-740 Ultra Zoom sports a fast shutter speed of 1/1000th of a second for action photography, the extensive shutter speed range also allows long exposures of up to 16 seconds in manual mode, enabling photographers to express their creativity when capturing night scenes or sunsets.
Olympus photos are known worldwide for vibrant, sharp and photo-realistic image quality. This is achieved with a host of key technologies including Olympus' high-quality all-glass lens (with aspherical lens elements) that's specially designed for digital cameras, and provides the equivalent of 38 to 380mm, f2.8/3.7 to 8.0 in 35mm photography. The Macro Mode allows users to take close up photographs to capture details like dewdrops on a petal.
Other controls include Digital ESP multi-pattern and spot metering; auto white balance; multiple flash settings and exposure compensation. The camera comes with a built-in flash that offers 5 settings including slow synch to provide the widest range of options.
The cameras also capture QuickTimeTM video so users can create short movies that can be sent over the Internet to co-workers, friends and family.
The C-740 Ultra Zoom will be available in April 2003.
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