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not as cool as the SlashandBurn's Micky D racer but heres mine
Heres a few pics of my merv::
^^Summit Kawasaki Edition and E-revo VXL^^
Just a little bashing.
My brothers Merv. he just painted this new shell and added his new summit tires.
New shoes. They're huge but they grip!
Revo 3.3
Upgraded my MERV for my middle daughter. She wanted candy blue. So I gave her candy blue, new shoes and some other parts to make it her own ride... 7 years old and drives it like she stole it!
Lipo'd and Nitro'd - J-Rod
alright, here's my first vid with my new gopro!!!!! i just slapped some new gpm turnbuckles on and didn't even mess with toe in or camber. so it looks like my front tires are mad at each other!!!! lol also the gear mesh is not working out so well. hope you guys like it!!
addicted much....
Got rid of my ERBE project car today and picked up this.
It started out as a 1/16 Slash...but the only things left are the chassis,bumpers,body mounts,and part of the body(lol).
It now has a JConcept W/T kit and a Castle Creation 10th scale 5700kv sidewinder motor and ESC.
The body is chopped up to clear everything and will be replaced.(probably going VW Bug with Merv bumpers/wing)
I'll say this...with a 3S Lipo...it's WAY faster than my 1/16 Summit VXL with the same battery.
Here's a few pics...
"Dude,I almost had you"
R.I.P Paul Walker
Video of my MERV with an On-Board camera!
Watch in HD
MERV, Broken Alias.
Ok...I think I have an addiction problem.
First I buy a 1/16 Summit VXL about a month ago(it's at Traxxas for an ESC issue right now)
3 days ago I got rid of a 1/10 ERBE and picked up the 1/16 Slash/Revo conversion with the 1/10 Castle Sidewinder pictured a few posts above.
Now today I snagged (basically stole) a 1/16 KB Rally/Revo conversion(with both bodies and all the stuff to switch it back to a KB if I want to).
Also snagged a mint replacement KB body (and a bunch of extra/upgrade parts)for considerably less than retail from a HS that's closing.
"Dude,I almost had you"
R.I.P Paul Walker
My Mini E-Revo In the Snow
MERV, Broken Alias.
Here is me driving my MERV everywhere with CheetoBoss and his Mini Summit
MERV, Broken Alias.
flourescent green and a silverish green.
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here's a vid i made of me and my neighbors messing around in front of our houses. one of my neighbors is driving my mini summit and has never drivin an rc, so there's some funny shots of him completely losing control. still trying to figure out which video editor i want to purchase. so for now i'm using windows movie maker which leaves something to be desired.
addicted much....
I like the range of the Long Travel rockers...That jar is 4 7/8" high.
From Russia with lights! Custom light system (32 LEDs)
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Just got the MERV yesterday and sadly, I like it more than my Revo 3.3
Put the old body back on....Looks mean.
rat rod body
I like turtles.
Mini-revo from Chelyabinsk city (Rus)
Hello all!! New to the Traxxas forum. Here are a few pics of my 1/16 E-Revo.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Track mode: 2S and buggy rears
Revo 3.3
This is Trina. Yes, I named my remote control truck.
My mini monster. Has a few newer upgrades since these pics. Picking up big brother 1/10 in a few weeks!
All blacked out
Sent from my iPhone 5 using Tapatalk
Been here a long while.....but thought I'd post up some old pics of my Mini.
Forget what upgrades it's got, RPM arms, center diff,no name wheelset, Flysky GT3b radio. Turn1gy Lipos...upgraded shocks, forget the brand.
Edit: lol @ auto blank out of non Traxxas parts. Lame.
anotherbopdy, using EL wire for a TRON style body...
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Fluttershy is best pony.
Stampede VXL hit it at full speed on 3S.
Last edited by geckoboy86; 05-06-2013 at 10:56 AM.
Hi some front flips with the my VXL MERV, only changed green RPM arms.
The best of both worlds, "imo". Tekin &
Modded to the Max
Drive it like its Hot


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Primary Source Activity: Depression Photographs, 1930s
1. Overview
In this activity, teachers examine three photographs of Floyd Burroughs and his family, all sharecroppers in Hale County, Alabama. As sharecroppers, the Burroughs were virtual slaves to landowners in the area. The photos, taken in 1936 by Farm Security Administration photographer Walker Evans, paint a portrait of rural poverty. First, teachers examine the map, and ask the following questions:
- What do you notice about these photographs?
- What questions do you want to ask about these photographs?
After discussing these questions, teachers learn more about the historical context of the Depression, and draw conclusions about the photographs and the photographer. After completing the activity, teachers discuss possible classroom applications.
2. Source Analysis
- Distribute a copy of Photograph 1 to each teacher. Ask teachers to work in pairs while examining the photograph and noting observations and questions.
- Distribute a copy of Photograph 2 to each teacher. Ask teachers to work in pairs while examining the photograph and noting observations and questions.
- Distribute a copy of Photograph 3 to each teacher. Ask teachers to work in pairs while examining the photograph and noting observations and questions.
- Ask teachers to spend an additional 5 minutes comparing the three photographs.
3. Group Discussion
Write three columns on the board: Notice, Questions, and Historical Background.
Use the following questions to guide discussion:
- What did you notice about each photograph?
- How do the people in the photos appear?
- What are they wearing? What emotions do they display?
- How do they interact with each other?
- What did you notice when you compared the photographs?
- What is missing from these photographs? What can the photographs tell us and what can they not tell us about this time period?
- What questions do you want to ask about the photographs?
- What do you already know about these photographs? About the time period in which they were created and published?
4. Historical Background
Present this historical background to enhance the group's knowledge of the time period, and as a basis for drawing conclusions in Step 5. Write the words in bold on the whiteboard, and use the rest of the text for guidance.
- Walker Evans and the Farm Security Administration:
Walker Evans worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) Photographic Project. Between 1935 and 1942, FSA photographers created a pictorial record of the Great Depression and its impact on the nation, primarily on rural Americans. A major goal of these images was to justify New Deal legislation designed to alleviate economic crisis. Evans was the most outspoken of the FSA photographers in his opposition to posed or arranged photos. Yet Evans's camera of choice was a bulky 8 by 10 view camera that had to be mounted on a tripod. This setup required his subjects to remain motionless while he took a picture. Historians and art critics have long praised Evans's photography for the clarity and precision this camera helped his photographs achieve, but his reliance on large format photography required the very arrangements he would later denounce.
- Documentary Photographers:
Documentarians like Walker Evans and James Agee succeeded because they understood the desires of their audience and did not shy from molding their images accordingly. Far from being passive observers, documentary photographers were active agents, searching for the most effective way to communicate their views and those of the FSA. Each photograph represents an argument or a particular perspective. Evans at his best, though, convinces us that we are seeing facts, presented without comment.
- Intended Audience:
The intended audience for the photographs was urban, middle-class Americans. Many of the 80,000 photographs taken by the FSA photographers were distributed by the agency to newspapers and magazines—read largely by urban, middle-class Americans—to build support for the rural programs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Evans's photographs turned these portraits of families into icons of Depression-era misery and poverty. Today, in Hale County, Alabama, Evans and his photographs remain controversial. Many descendants maintaining that their families were presented in an unflattering light by Evans's photographs.
5. Conclusions
Which photograph do you think Walker Evans published?
Answer: Photograph #3 was published.
- Photograph #1: This photograph was not published, perhaps because Evans felt the hint of a smile on Burroughs's face projected too much confidence. In addition, Burroughs's shirt and overalls are clean. Evans, as well as the Farm Security Administration, wanted to document the problems of the Depression and the difficult conditions among people in rural communities.
- Photograph #2: This pose was not published, perhaps because Burroughs's posture and pose with his family seemed too self-assured. Today, we tend to think of the Great Depression as a time of extreme hardship, discounting the realities of the lives of the people who experienced that hardship. In this photograph, the family looks cohesive, is relatively well-dressed, and seems happy. Some are smiling, and it is clear that they are enjoying posing for the picture.
- Photograph #3: Evans chose this photograph for publication. In it, Burroughs projects an anxious dignity that would bolster Evans's desire to show the extreme poverty of the South and the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression—the popular image of the Great Depression that we have today. Our view of the Great Depression has no doubt been shaped by the choices that the Farm Security Administration and other arms of government chose to portray.
6. Classroom Applications
- Do you think this activity would work with your students?
- Could you use this strategy with other resources?
- Would you do anything differently in your classroom?
*This activity is based on the History Matters exercise Making Sense of Documentary Photographs: How Was the Photograph Taken?

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I suppose "more interesting than a Zynga financial call" isn't a particularly ringing endorsement — that pretty much covers everything from small jagged rocks on up. Perhaps I should have said something about the lovely graphics with their unearthly lighting effects, the simple and satisfying single-finger navigation or the wonderful atmospheric soundtrack.
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It was a great honor Thursday night at the annual banquet when the Hays Area Chamber of Commerce gave a gift to Mary and me for our new home. As part of retirement this summer, we will be moving out of the president's house on the Fort Hays State University campus. Our future home is under construction, and the chamber gave us a limestone marker engraved with the new street number and emblazoned with the likeness of Victor E. Tiger.
I was told the gift was in recognition for all I have done for the chamber and the Hays business community. Of course, the great accomplishments at FHSU during the last 27 years have resulted from the efforts of many people.
The gift also recognized Mary in her own right. She has been active, serving on the chamber Board of Directors and in the Chamber Ambassadors. This seems the perfect occasion for me to thank the chamber and its members for all they have done for Mary and me personally and for the university.
From a business standpoint, FHSU has been a huge factor in the prosperity of Hays, Ellis County and the region. During my tenure, we have spent tens of millions of dollars on physical improvements. Some of the highlights have been construction of Tomanek Hall; construction of the Stadium Place, Agnew and Heather residence facilities; construction of Bickle-Schmidt Indoor Training Facility; ongoing construction of the Center for Networked Learning; and significant renovations of Lewis Field Stadium, Sheridan Hall, McCartney Hall, Albertson Hall, Martin Allen Hall, Picken Hall and Memorial Union, among others.
The great majority of that work was done by local contractors and subcontractors, with the bulk of the materials provided by local vendors. That provided a great financial boon to the community, but it also provided the tremendous benefit to FHSU of having top-quality results, thanks to our skilled and conscientious local craftsmen.
I always have said the success of Fort Hays State University is due in large measure to this community, as represented by the chamber and its members. Mary and I thank you for your friendship and for the successful partnership that has produced a thriving university and a thriving business community.
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1 Make card from cardstock; adhere cardstock rectangle.
2 Adhere cardstock and patterned paper strips to patterned paper, trim bottom edge, and adhere rickrack. Adhere.
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When Bobby Wood began working for Northside ISD, district enrollment was just 5,500, Murray Boone was superintendent, and John F. Kennedy had just been elected president.
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If you've been watching television lately, you've seen a couple of very prominent Texans making a stand for public education. Tommy Lee Jones, actor; Ed Whitacre, former CEO of General Motors and AT&T; and Spurs players Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili have all filmed commercials for Raise Your Hand Texas, a nonprofit organization that advocates for public education.
The votes are in and students who will attend Lieck (prounounced Leek) Elementary School when it opens in August 2011 have selected a school mascot and school colors.
Linda Kelly, a chemistry teacher at Marshall High School, was named a winner of the 2011 Trinity Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
John McLaughlin, senior vice president and co-general manager of the Capital Group/American Funds in San Antonio, received the Northside ISD's first Superintendent's School-Business Partnerships Award Tuesday night.
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In just one month, almost 5,500 seniors will don caps and gowns and collect their diplomas at one of 11 commencement ceremonies being held for all comprehensive high schools, Health Careers High School, and the Reddix Center.
Plan calls for no employees to be terminated
Following months of discussions, the Board of Trustees Tuesday night voted to cut the budget by $61.4 million, which will eliminate a total of 973 employee positions district-wide.
Visit the Northside ISD Facebook page and click "like" to stay up-to-date on important announcements, emergency information, upcoming events, student achievements, links to news stories about Northside ISD, and photos of school activities.
Once again, Northside is expecting record-breaking kindergarten enrollment for the upcoming school year, making it critical that parents register their children now in order to secure a seat at their neighborhood school. More than 7,300 kindergarten students are expected to enroll for the 2011-12 school year.
Once again, Health Careers is the No. 1 high school in the San Antonio area, according to Children at Risk, a Houston-based nonprofit organization that researches and ranks public schools.
This year's Fiesta will be extra special for Reddix Center student Katie Burress.
Schools and teachers grapple with massive impending cuts from the state
The Board of Trustees Tuesday night voted to save first-year probationary teachers' jobs but at the same time directed the superintendent to prepare a budget recommendation that will cut an additional 705 positions through attrition next school year. The Board is expected to vote on the recommendation at the April 26 Board meeting.
In Northside ISD, the wheels on the bus go round and round over 8.2 million miles every year, getting 60,000 students to and from school every day.
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Congratulations to Northside School District's 186 campus first year and veteran educators of the year for the 2010-11 school year.
Local attorney and philanthropist David Earl and his wife Melanie Earl have donated $750,000 in tree credits to Northside ISD.
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For our March 2, 1987, issue, InfoWorld asked industry figures to comment on the new Macintoshes at the time -- the Macintosh II and Macintosh SE -- and to speculate on their impact on the corporate market.
Included in that article was commentary from then Living Videotext President David Winer; then Apple Computer Manager of Software Products Guy Kawasaki; Philippe Kahn, founder and president of Borland International; and John Warnock, then president of Adobe Systems; among others.
[ For more Macintosh nostalgia, see our special report "Apple Macintosh at 30," including all the original reviews of the early Macintosh models. ]
The following is Microsoft Chairman and Founder Bill Gates' take on the Macintosh and its future outlook in business organizations.
By having a very high-end offering with the 68020 performance and a larger display, I think it makes it easier to people who'd like to have the Macintosh serve all their needs. Not many people have complained about the small display on the Macintosh, but I happen to believe that for a lot of the applications the Macintosh is so excellent at, like desktop publishing, the small display really holds you back.
If you look at a product like Mac Word III on that full-page display, it's pretty awesome. With a factor of three speed improvement, it's incredible.
I'm happy that Apple has separated the notion of their network protocols and their network user interface from the notion that Appletalk, the wire, is the only transport for that, and now with this plug-in bus, you could buy those machines and connect them with Ethernets or put in the Ethernet card in the Apple bus and use one of the third-party SCSI-connected Ethernets.
Our publication department uses Macs to do their manuals, and the Appletalk network, as nice as it is, just doesn't have the bandwidth to send around the documents we have, with the scanned images and everything. So we needed to get them hooked up to Ethernet to tie into our other stuff. Apple's starting to take better advantage of one of their built-in benefits, which is the low-cost -- although low-speed -- network that's built-in. So Apple's really pulling all the pieces together.
As far as the corporate buyer goes, that's the area I doubt Apple will do better in. Every little bit makes a big difference to them. The ratio of PC to Mac sales, even in the United States, is like 11 to 1. It won't change dramatically. The IBM world isn't standing still. You're starting to see higher resolution video cards and a product like Pagemaker comoing out. It's move and countermove. Both of these architectures are improving a lot.
I would say, at least for this round of announcements, Apple's relative share in the market as a whole will go up. But the corporate buyer is never going to be a strong point for Apple.
I don't know the pricing, but bringing the Mac Plus down is important. The credibility of the family is anchored on the high end, but they have to think about the low-cost clone market. That's move countermove. You look at the price of low-cost DOS machines; it's a tough problem for them. They don't just compete with IBM. They compete with everyone who makes DOS machines. They've got to look at the Compaq Portable III, the Compaq 386, the Tandy 1000.
It'd be easy for them to compete just with IBM. Then, any little deficiency in the IBM machine they could do something about. Without a bus, they've always been at a little bit of a disadvantage. There are a lot of things that are wrong with the IBM PC that customers don't see because there are great plug-in cards that provide whatever the missing thing is, third-party plug-in cards, and now Apple will have some of that.
Special report: Apple Macintosh at 30
- Review of Apple Macintosh (3/26/1984)
- Apple's first Macintosh: Product of the Year winner (1/14/1985)
- Review of the Macintosh SE (4/13/1987)
- Review of the Macintosh IIx (2/6/1989)
- Review of the Macintosh SE/30 (3/27/1989)
- Review of the Mac Portable (10/23/1989)
- Review of the Macintosh IIsi and Macintosh Classic (11/12/1990)
- Review of the Macintosh System 7 (6/17/1990)
- Review of the PowerBook G4 (12/16/2002)
- Review of the Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X Panther (1/5/2004)
This story, "Mac flashback: Bill Gates on the business impact of the Macintosh (3/2/1987)," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in Mac OS X at InfoWorld.com. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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There they were, in the same diner, in the same (more or less) booth – Jerry and George trading the same yada-yada-yada as if no time had passed since the last full episode of "Seinfeld" aired more than 15 years ago.
The semi-expected, semi-"Seinfeld" reunion during Sunday night's Super Bowl proved that on the show about nothing, nothing ever changes – not that there's anything wrong with that.
The spot explained why Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander were spotted recently outside Tom's Restaurant, the Manhattan diner that served as the exterior for the fictional Monk's on the long-running NBC comedy. It also showed that even after all these years, Jerry and George find their comfort food in the same place – and so do "Seinfeld" fans.
The short, ostensibly an ad for Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" web series on Crackle, gave us the duo discussing the art of "the mumble." They also bickered over George getting disinvited to an annual Super Bowl gathering because two years ago he dared to "over-cheer" and – worst of all – use the bathroom in the hosts' master bedroom.
"You know why," George said.
"I know why. Everyone knew why. But you don't do it – not at the Wassersteins!" Jerry replied with his trademark sardonic exasperation.
There was no sign of Elaine or Kramer – but Newman showed up for his usual uncomfortable "Hello, Jerry."
Wayne Knight, who plays Newman, looked remarkably unchanged. And while Seinfeld and Alexander might have lost some hair, they've lost nothing on their delivery, falling right into their familiar rhythm.
It was great to have them back, even if for just 90 or so seconds at halftime (there's a longer, six-plus-minute version on the "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" site).
To ask why they went to the trouble would be folly. Maybe Seinfeld is still trying to make up for the 1998 series finale that some fans found disappointing. Maybe the show-within-show "Seinfeld" reunion arc on co-creator Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" in late 2009 gave him ideas about keeping the characters alive. Maybe Jerry and George still need to prove that when it comes to Tom's/Monk's, they're still the master of their domain.
The "Seinfeld" flashback of sorts came during a Super Bowl where commercial breaks brimmed with old, familiar faces: The Muppets, the guys from "Full House" – and a Radio Shack 1980s-themed ad that teamed, among others, Cliff Clavin, Alf and Chuckie.
But Seinfeld and Alexander's bit upstaged them all, showing there's still something super about nothing. Check out the full version of their mini-episode – dubbed "The Over-Cheer" – here.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is also the author of "Raising a Beatle Baby: How John, Paul, George and Ringo Helped us Come Together as a Family." Follow him on Twitter.


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Ever wondered what Super Mario Bros. would be like if it had an intelligent story? Ever wanted to know what it would be like if some of the high reflexes needed were replaced by cunning and wits? Not to mention if the acid-trip like environment were to become a consistent gameworld? What you would get, is a game that's far more challenging, charming and fun. That game is Doukutsu Monogatari.
You start out when you awaken in a small cave of what seems like an entire complex of large and small caves and corridors, and will soon enough find out in what kind of world you are. It won't take long before you meet the Mimigas, rabbit or dog-like intelligent creatures that act and think exactly like humans. Almost as soon as you've met them, one gets kidnapped. This is the start of your epic journey through the wonderous world of Doukutsu.
The story's built up like the best. It starts out by introducing you to the world. Slowly but surely, things unravel, with new information and plot twists as you go. This is done so masterfully that it will keep you captivated and absorbed in the game from the very moment you start playing right to the very end. Before you know it, it'll be morning again and you'll still be clutching the game, wanting to see how it goes on. To top it all off, there are three different endings you can play for, so when you replay the game it could very well be that the game develops with new and different plot twists, new items and other locations you can access.
Graphics are like those of the console games from the nineties. They're colourful, atmospheric, charming and cute. Even if you didn't understand what it's about, you'll still keep playing the game, simply to see what treats await your eyes next. Not to mention it's still possible to finish the game, even without understanding it. Anyway, when talking to certain NPC's, a portrait of them will appear next to what they say. These portraits are in a simple anime-style, but with an amazing eye for emotion. Thanks to this, the graphics add to the depth of the game.
In this game, you'll always have music and sounds. The sound effects are the simple sounds of your gun blasting and the hopping and buzzing of enemies. The music, on the contrary, is extensive. It sounds a bit like music from the NES, but with better voices and overall quality. The music plays as themes of characters. If there's no significant NPC coming into play, it plays the location's music in a loop. You'd think that looped music would get boring as quickly as the third time it loops. That's not the case with these songs. They stay pleasant to listen to, no matter how many times you've heard them.
Gameplay's pretty straightforward. In the settings, you can choose to play with either the keyboard or a gamepad. While a gamepad seems more fitting for this kind of game, the keyboard controls are laid out so it's easy to use. You cycle through weapons with Q and W, open inventory, jump, shoot and use the map (once you've found it) with A, Z, S and X. Even the clumsiest person can't miss getting these controls right. When you kill an enemy, they often explode into yellow triangles. You'll have to collect these to level up a weapon. There's a progress bar that shows how much longer it'll take before your weapon levels up... or leveled down, as you'll lose some experience when you get hit by an enemy. The maximum level of each weapon is three. Any more would be too much a bother, any less would either make the game more difficult or kill the challenge.
All in all, Doukutsu is a charming gem which you can just play over and over. The atmosphere created by perfectly matching graphics, music and story while the gameplay stays as simple as it can get makes this game into one everybody can enjoy, no matter how young or old, game master or first-time gamer.
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e still don't know what happened back then, and we probably never will.
But what we can be almost certain of now that UCF has completed its internal investigation into its football training methods is this:
If any problem did exist before Ereck Plancher died, it has been corrected.
And, at this point, isn't that really the most important thing of all?
A football player is dead. That's not going to change.
Now how are you going to make sure it doesn't happen again?
"In a time of trouble, it's an opportunity to get better," said Michael Glazier, the former NCAA investigator who conducted a third-party probe in the wake of Plancher's death and the collapse of another player ( Brandon Davis). "But you can only get better if you're honest about what your issues are."
UCF, in the midst of being sued by Plancher's family, was probably about as honest as the lawyers would allow Friday when it released Glazier's findings. The naysayers will point out that Plancher's death was not part of the investigation's focus.
"This was about current policies and practices," Glazier said. "If things were different 14 months ago, that's not where my interest was. My charge was, 'What are you doing now?'"
On the surface, this seems a little like Bud Selig saying he's not making Alex Rodriguez part of baseball's steroids investigation because A-Rod is currently testing clean. But in fairness, can you really blame UCF when you consider the pending litigation? It's not very sound legal strategy to investigate your own role in Plancher's death, make all the findings public and give the Plancher family attorneys a study guide on how to beat out your brains in court.
The critics also will point out UCF paid Glazier $60,000 to conduct this investigation, and therefore its findings can't be taken seriously. Again, what did you want UCF to do? It's not like there is a waiting list of qualified former NCAA gumshoes willing to conduct gratis investigations consisting of three months' worth of digging and interviewing more than 100 UCF football players and employees as well as administrators and trainers from other universities.
Does this investigation exonerate UCF in the Plancher case? Of course not. But it might just help UCF and other programs avoid another catastrophic death.
UCF President John Hitt, Athletic Director Keith Tribble and Coach George O'Leary indicated they will accept Glazier's suggestions to improve their football training methods. Even though Glazier glowingly said the school's procedures are currently "more than adequate," he did come up with a list of "recommendations for enhancement."
Among those: An additional athletic trainer, better communication among the trainers and coaches, and improved monitoring in overseeing nutrition and hydration.
Who knows if any of these recommendations would have saved Plancher's life, but maybe they would have prevented Davis from wilting and ending up in the hospital with kidney problems. UCF officials said afterward that Davis' decision to skip breakfast and only eat a Pop-Tart contributed to his severe case of dehydration. Perhaps one of Glazier's recommendations — a mandatory team breakfast — would have averted Davis' collapse and resulting controversy.
Glazier points out that O'Leary's program is a "rarity" in that it conducts morning football practices. While such a schedule may be ideal in avoiding the intense Florida heat, it can mean players show up for practice without having ingested food or water for eight hours. Obviously, you don't want players going through a grueling workout without being adequately nourished or hydrated.
"Most kids, if they need to be at practice at 7 o'clock, are going to get up at 6:45," Glazier said. "That doesn't leave a lot of time for [proper] nutrition."
A team breakfast may seem like a small step, but someday it might make a huge difference. I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: Sometimes it takes a tragedy before quintessential changes are made. This will be the legacy of Ereck Plancher.
His team, coaches, teammates and university have learned from his death. They will be more careful in the future, more cognizant.
We may never know if UCF followed the proper procedures that might have saved Plancher's life. The lawyers will try to figure out what happened in the past.
As for right now, groundwork has been laid and recommendations made that just might help save lives in the future.
If that's the result of Michael Glazier's investigation, it was the best $60,000 any university ever has spent.


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On Feb. 4, 2011 veteran starting pitcher Andy Pettitte announced his retirement from baseball. The crafty southpaw sat in front of an audience of his peers and teammates, emotionally declaring he was done with baseball at the age of 38. Pettitte last pitched in 2010, making 21 starts for the Yanks and finishing the year with a record of 11-3 attached to a respectable 3.28 ERA.
As a player, Pettitte has accomplished nearly everything one can accomplish. He owns five World Series rings, and has been on pennant-winning teams eight times – seven trips to the fall classic with New York, and one with Houston. He is a three-time All-Star, and even earned the honor of the 2001 ALCS MVP.
Pettitte has also shown that he can get it done on the big stage with 19 wins in the postseason under his belt. His 19 victories make him the winningest pitcher in playoff history.
Really the only accolade Pettitte never captured was the Cy Young Award, and he could have easily won it several times. In fact, in 1996 he was the runner-up to Pat Hentgen. In 2003 Pettitte won 21 games which put him in the running for the Cy, but ultimately he lost out to 22-game winner Roy Halladay.
It was nice to see Pettitte bow out of the game gracefully last winter. Although I was disappointed to see him hang up his spikes, I was happy to see him give it up on his own terms. His teammates, the Yankee organization, and the fans all seemed fine with his decision.
Throughout 2011 Pettitte was asked several times if he would come out of retirement, and whenever he was asked, he remained adamant that he was staying retired. And for that, I respected him. I truly admire when players retire – and stay retired.
And yesterday, all of that changed. My respect, my admiration…all gone.
Jack Curry of the YES Network (That's right Jack Curry, and no one else) broke the news that Pettitte, who had been in Yankee camp serving as a special instructor, is planning on coming out of retirement. He was offered a one-year minor league deal by the Yankees worth $2.5 million.
According to sources Pettitte threw a discreet bullpen session in front of the Yankee brass on Tuesday morning, and they liked what they saw. Both sides were interested and just like that number 46 is coming back. Yankee fans everywhere are ecstatic to see Pettitte return to the team, granted he has to fight for a spot in the rotation.
But unlike most Yankee fans, I'm not too happy about it.
If it's one thing that I absolutely cannot stand in sports, it is players who make a big fuss about retiring, hold pressers, become overwrought with emotion, and declare that, no matter what, they are done with the game – only for them to come back and play, for whatever reason.
Following the 2003 season Roger Clemens announced his retirement from baseball. The Yankees sent him off with a Hummer and congratulated him on a wonderful, Hall of Fame-worthy career.
Clemens then hopped in his new Hummer and drove it all the way to Houston, where he pitched for three seasons. Come to think of it, Clemens announced his retirement for the second time following the first annual World Baseball Classic in 2006. Of course that was before he re-joined the Astros midway through '06 and the Yankees in the middle of 2007.
I hated that. It irked me to see Clemens flip-flop so many times. And considering how close Clemens and Pettitte were during their respective tenures on the Yankees and Astros, I couldn't help but make the comparison in the case of Pettitte coming out of retirement yesterday.
To Pettitte's credit, he is taking far less money than Clemens did back in '07. The Rocket was getting paid somewhere around a $million a game, whereas Pettitte will only make $2.5 mil overall – so in that regard, it's a little different.
But it doesn't change the fact that he retired and should have stayed retired. Whenever players play the "I'm retired, I'm not retired" card, I lose respect for them. If Pettitte wanted to remain involved within the Yankee community, he could have just as easily grabbed a blazer and a microphone and gone to the YES booth with his former teammates David Cone, Paul O'Neill, and John Flaherty.
Or better yet, he could have sought a job as a pitching coach. Obviously Larry Rothschild is occupying the job at the big league level, but that doesn't mean he couldn't have gone out for a job coaching one of the minor league teams and worked his way up.
What also doesn't make sense to me is that the Yankees are already at a surplus as far as starting pitching goes. The Bombers have six arms fighting for five rotation spots. Manager Joe Girardi has already said only two hurlers have guaranteed jobs: CC Sabathia and Hiroki Kuroda.
Ivan Nova, Phil Hughes, Freddy Garcia, and Michael Pineda are currently battling for the final three rotation spots and now the competition just got stiffer. All because Pettitte just couldn't stay retired.
Something else that confuses me is his problems staying healthy, dating back to the last season he pitched. On July 18, 2010 Pettitte made a start against the Tampa Bay Rays, and came out after just 2.1 innings of work. He hobbled off the mound, sustaining a groin injury. Pettitte didn't make another start until Sept. 19, exactly two months and a day later.
In an interview yesterday, Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman admitted he is "concerned about Pettitte's lower half," and even Pettitte himself said he has to "get the lower half in shape."
With that in mind, why even bother trying to make a comeback? He's only a year older, what makes him think his problems concerning his lower extremities are going to be solved? The last time he pitched his season was basically injury-ravaged. So why would he test himself, risking those types of injuries again?
Now to be fair, Pettitte hasn't made the team yet. In all likelihood he'll throw in extended spring training and won't join the team until the end of April or May, or maybe even later. It all depends on how well he is pitching and how long it takes him to get ready for the regular season.
However in that respect, it's almost another way he's comparable to Clemens; coming out of retirement and not joining the team until after the season starts.
The bottom line is: I dislike the signing and I have lost an amount of respect for Pettitte. A lot of Yankee fans are probably going to disagree with me, and that's fine; they don't have to agree with me. I fully understand I am in the tiny majority of fans who think his decision to come out of retirement is not the right move.
I have a feeling the next baseball conversation I have with anyone, I'm going to take a lot of heat for my stance on this issue. But I'm not going to budge. Even if Pettitte goes on to have a remarkable season – and I hope he does, for the Yankees' sake – the fact that he went back on his retirement will never sit well with me.


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A 49-year-old Dunlap Road man was charged Thursday with two counts of public lewdness after being filmed by a Montgomery County highway crew.
Jeffrey C. Smith was arrested after twice masturbating in front of a team of DPW workers, even after he was warned that the workers were taking his picture, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said
The DPW crew was hosing down a nearby bridge when they saw Smith leave his house about 1:20 p.m. and peeked around the corner at them from an outbuilding on his property, the sheriff's office said.
When the workers confronted Smith, they allegedly found him masturbating, yelled at him and left the area to refill their water tank, the sheriff's office said.
After the workers returned about 20 minutes later, Smith allegedly left his house and headed toward the outbuilding a second time, the sheriff's office said.
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For the 4.5 of you that follow my blog, by now you've become familiar with my pattern. I have little bursts of productivity lasting anywhere from a few days to a few months and then things die down, life or fatigue step in, and I disappear from the blogosphere for a while. Various things have roused me out of my previous genealogy hibernations, usually family trips and/or overwhelming, crippling, self-inflicted guilt. This time it's different.
Another genealogist on the other side of the country came across my blog when he was researching his own ancestral ties to Martinique (you can see the comments from Luis here and here). Luckily for me, genealogists, like all researchers (and like all humans, really) are curious people. He did a little hunting around to see if he could track down my great-grandmother Adele "Josephine" Cadignan…and he did! Continue reading


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The Júcar Canyon, a natural wonder in Castile-La Mancha
Júcar River gorges
In inland Spain, the Castile-La Mancha Region awaits you. It is dominated mainly by large plains and broad valleys. Nevertheless, this Region also has some truly surprising areas of countryside. The Júcar Canyon, in Albacete province, is one of them. This journey will show you its picturesque landscape, with narrow river canyons, villages that seem to float in the air and houses carved out of the rock.
As the Júcar River passes through the province of Albacete, it gives rise to one of the most unusual landscapes anywhere in the Region of Castile-La Mancha: the Júcar Canyon. It is in the northeast of the province, in an area known as La Manchuela. Initially, the landscape is dominated by vegetable gardens and riverbank vegetation. As you continue, however, it gradually changes: the river starts to wind, forming sharp meanders, and flows down narrow gorges whose walls reach more than 100 metres in height. On the steep surrounding slopes there are woods of juniper, pine and holm-oak; meanwhile, the most vertical parts of the canyon wall are ideal shelters for birds of prey such as the golden eagle and griffon vulture.
Nevertheless, one of the most noteworthy aspects for visitors to the Júcar Canyon is the unique setting of its villages. They are located at the top of the gorge, with incredible views of the area. If you want to discover the main attractions to be found in the region, we would suggest a route from Valdeganga (25 kilometres from the city of Albacete) to the village of Villa de Ves, following the road that runs parallel to the river. This is an excellent way to make sure you don't miss a thing.
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Stop at the different viewpoints you find along the way - you can enjoy some breathtaking views. On the way it is also worth stopping at some of the most interesting villages in the Júcar Canyon, such as Jorquera, Alcalá del Júcar or Tolosa. The first, Jorquera, is a medieval village surrounded by 12th-century walls, where you can see many stately houses with their coats of arms, along with the Gothic-Renaissance Santa María de la Asunción Church, just one of many outstanding buildings.
When you get to Alcalá del Júcar the sight is spectacular. The houses are located in the canyon walls, set in steps up to the top, where there is a castle of Moorish origin. Strolling through the steep, sloping streets you will notice that many houses are caves carved out of the rock or built beneath overhangs of the canyon wall. Some are open to the public for visits. Other attractions in the village include the bullring, with its completely irregular shape and San Andrés Church, with its Baroque dome. In Tolosa the landscape gets more rugged and the gorge narrows. A good option is to make an excursion in the nearby area, to places such as Las Rochas, El Tranco del Lobo or El Molinar, where there is a bathing and recreation area.
Hiking, fishing, cycle-touring, kayaking... you can try all these outdoor activities in the Júcar Canyon area. Head for the Tourist Office in Alcalá del Júcar where they will give you information on all the leisure options available in the area - come and enjoy the natural wonders awaiting you in inland Spain.


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(PHOENIX, AZ—September 30, 2003) Attorney General Terry Goddard announced today that he and the Attorneys General of 42 other states have reached an agreement under which Wal-Mart will implement new policies and procedures to reduce tobacco sales to minors. The agreement will affect Wal-Mart stores throughout the nation, including all 53 Wal-Mart, SAM'S CLUB, and Supercenter stores in Arizona.
"I am committed to reducing underage smoking. Today's agreement is an important step designed to keep cigarettes out of children's hands," said Goddard.
The Wal-Mart "Assurance of Voluntary Compliance" is the most recent agreement produced by an ongoing, multi-state enforcement effort to get retailers to adopt policies and practices to prevent youth access to cigarettes and other tobacco products. The agreement requires Wal-Mart to:
- Train employees on state and local laws and company policies regarding tobacco sales to minors, including explaining the health-related reasons for laws that restrict youth access to tobacco.
- Check the ID of any person purchasing tobacco products when the person appears to be under age 27, and only accept currently valid government-issued photo identification as proof of age.
- Use cash registers programmed to prompt ID checks on all tobacco sales.
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Attorneys General have long recognized that youth access to tobacco products ranks among the most serious public health problems. Studies show that more than 80 percent of adult smokers began smoking before the age of 18. Research indicates that every day in the United States, about 2,000 people under the age of 18 begin smoking and that one-third of those persons will one day die from a tobacco-related disease. Young people are particularly susceptible to the hazards of tobacco, often showing signs of addiction after smoking only a few cigarettes.
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"I administered multiple choice exams from 1973-78 until I realized how trivial and insulting the questions were. Students needn't have read the text; Cliffsnotes would've done nicely. The exams also encouraged laziness in myself. A quick scoring by machine, a few (or many) clickety-clacks, and the grade was recorded. And I hadn't prepared the entire exam by myself—parts came from a testing service. In effect I was saying: "I don't have time to evaluate your progress." Since then, I have used essay questions that grow out of the discussions, lectures, and readings. I no longer teach to the exam but write the exam based on the teaching. My exams encourage students to develop and sustain a critical argument, identify and outline essentials, subordinate details, and develop a sense of perspective. I have learned to make exams a part of the learning process rather than a mere test of it."
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Okay, so it's already the end of Feb but it only just occurred to me that maybe I should put a shout out just to see who's still awake and alive around here...
The band is busy recording, so there's not much for us to do except to tell everyone we run into that THE FIXX is recording a new album! Yay!
I was thinking of painting all the hills in Southern California green to match the new website...wasn't sure how to go about that but luckily God beat me to it! With all the rain, we're lookin' like Ireland these days. Just need to emblazon "The Fixx" across one of the hillsides. ...or across all of the hillsides... like cattle rumps!
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I have had this discussion on other threads and I wanted to get your opinions on what most fellow Atheists consider an "Atheist".
I have always considered an "Atheist" as someone who does not believe in even the possibility of a God/Gods, an afterlife, reincarnation of any kind, energies "living on" or being "transferred to other forms" after death, ghosts/souls, and/or superstitious beliefs.
I have not considered Buddhists atheists as they still believe in "energies" and the sorts; and believe that people who say that they believe in the "possibility" of an afterlife as agnostics or the sorts - I have been an atheist for example since I was 15-16 and maybe an agnostic for a couple of years before then.
For example, I am sure that Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the likes all fit into the aforementioned definition of an "Atheist". So, what do you think?
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I'm an agnostic atheist by that definition too, the only quibble I would make is that agnosticism in philosophy tends to refer not just to the idea that we "don't have knowledge" (which, depending on your definition of "knowledge" actually applies to a lot of areas) but to the position -as defined by Thomas Huxley- that we can't have knowledge on that area.
Agnostics in this sense are people who don't just believe that we don't have enough evidence to come to a conclusion, but that we can't come to enough evidence because the question is fundamentally unanswerable.
In this sense I'm not an agnostic atheist, just an atheist.
As I said, a quibble.
I have always considered an atheist to be someone who does not believe in the existence of any deities or that their lives are being governed by some other supernatural force.
On that note however I think there can be a small grey area as far as beliefs in things like ghosts or other supposedly unexplained events go. So long as the person in question is not making the jump to claim that such events point to a higher power or forms spiritual or ritual beliefs around the possibility.
While I personally do not believe in ghosts or anything akin to ghosts and other similar phenomena due to the lack of any real evidence I can see how some people could consider themselves atheist and take the position of "I don't know" on such subjects.
Or at least that is my take on it.
I consider myself to be an Atheist because I do not believe in the supernatural. If someone believes in the possibility of a supernature* they are not Atheists.
Therefore I agree with your definition.
I have always considered an "Atheist" as someone who does not believe in even the possibility of a God/Gods
By this definition even Richard Dawkins is not an atheist. See his Spectrum of Theistic Probability where he leaves open the possibility that God/s may exist. And I agree with him:
I think the historical definition of atheism might be the same as yours, but these days atheist is a catch-all term for all who lack belief in a god.
atypical = not typical
asymmetrical = not symmetrical
atheist = not theist (i.e. does not believe in God)
This lack of belief definition is how most people understand the definition today.
Your definition goes further and says atheists must also have a positive belief in the non-existence of Gods. But most atheists do not make such bold statements, rather, they remain agnostic atheists. Me too.
You can call it semantics, but it's actually just philosophical etiquette. It's pretty much impossible to prove a negative of this kind (the same way it's impossible to disprove the Flying Spaghetti Monster) so you allows have to allow for some possibility.
In your definition, an atheist is someone who says there is NO possibility, and so obviously that does not include Dawkins then.
Pointing this out is not semantics: it's just applying the definition you yourself set up.
Theist: someone who has a positive belief in a God.
Atheist: someone who does not have a positive belief in a God.
That's my definition (incidentally also the one used by most philosophers, and they use it because that's just the definition that makes most sense).
Defining atheism as someone who does not believe in the possibility of a God is also not the way philosophers do it: that position is called strong atheism. Regular atheists are just people who don't have a belief in God, for whatever reason.
So no, I don't think you can define atheism as to be an explicit rejection of the supernatural altogether. People who don't believe in ghosts and don't believe in God are atheists. People who do believe in ghosts but don't believe in God are atheists too.
Atheism isn't really a belief in and of itself but a response to claims of belief, the response being that the proof of the existence of one or more gods has not been demonstrated by those who believe in them. Without theism there would be no atheism, there being nothing to be against. In an atheistic panacea, atheism would cease to exist because no one would believe make claims about belief that are not demonstrably true. Or, if you prefer, atheism would be the default position and would therefore not require an explicit definition. By way of example, there aren't, as far as I know, any dragonists (those who believe in dragons) and so therefore we don't have the word "adragonist".
Atheism, however, is really a specific subset of skepticism - the atheist (hopefully) having applied skepticism to the subject of the existence of god(s). Personally, all atheists I know are also skeptics. However not all skeptics I know are atheists which, IMNSHO, is being a poor skeptic.
So I guess I would postulate that an atheist is a skeptic who has applied skepticism and found wanting the claims of those who believe in gods.
"The lack of belief in a deity, which implies that nothing exists but natural phenomena (matter), that thought is a property or function of matter, and that death irreversibly and totally terminates individual organic units."
How on Earth does the lack of belief in a deity "imply" those things in any way shape or form?
There are tons of people who lack a belief in a diety who do believe in many supernatural phenomena. Your definition leaves all those people out of the atheism category, yet they're clearly not theists either.
It's equipping atheism with more bagage than it deserves.
You can only set the "theist"-"a-theist" labels up as a dichotomy of each other... I don't know why that's hard.
I don't consider people who believe in the supernatural as atheists either - since they still believe in irrationality.
While this may not be the dictionary definition - sometimes the practicalities of the matter differ from dictionary definition.
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