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Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)was founded at June 6, 1844, organization having as its objective the development of values and behaviors that are consistent with Christian principles.
Despite the retention of the name, membership is not limited to Christians, and since World War II women and girls have been accepted as members.
The first association was launched (1844) in London by Sir George Williams and a group of young men in business as a place to help other young working men find God through prayer and Bible study.
In 1851 the movement took root in North America. Following the lead of Montreal and Boston, a number of other cities soon formed their own YMCAs, and in 1854 the first convention of North American associations took place in Buffalo, N.Y. A world conference in Paris (1855), attended by delegates from eight nations, led to the formation of the World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations in the same year.
The organization now has branches on every continent. Originally focused on Bible study and religious activities, the YMCA has greatly broadened its mission statement over the years. YMCAs often provide inexpensive housing, meeting space for community groups, gymnasiums and pools, and child-care programs. YMCAs serve 30 million people in 120 countries.


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Kick sets can get rather monotonous in the pool, and a swimmer's mind can wander from one lap to the other.
In one particular instance, Brianna Utley actually forgot all about the one thing she was supposed to be doing — kicking.
Such a lack of focus in practice on a basic task can often bring down criticism from a coach, but in the case of Mountain View High School's Nicole Bird, she completely understood.
In fact, Utley's escape to another world was really Bird's fault.
"I received an email from the band director at the school saying to congratulate these people for making all-state band," Bird recalls. "I saw it on my phone and I went up to Brianna and said congratulations on all-state band. She said, 'really?' She didn't know yet, but she was so excited, so it was fun."
It went beyond that for Utley, who had made the all-state concert band as a sophomore and was an alternate her junior year. Making it better this time around was the fact she made the top band — symphonic — and one of her best friends made it, too.
"I fell behind in my kick set a little bit," she admitted with a bright smile. "I got excited and I stopped kicking and started celebrating, and my teammates were already done."
Her venture into all-state band is far from over — as is her musical path. She has received a scholarship offer to Chadron (Neb.) State College, where she plans to pursue a degree in music education.
Her audition for that program is in two weeks, a week after the Class 4A state swimming championships, an event for which Utley hopes to qualify this weekend at the Northern Conference meet. In April, she has her chair auditions for all-state band, as she's already considered one of the top four bass clarinetists in the state.
When she talks about all of it, it is with a mixture of excitement and exuberance, the type of tones that leave no question it's not just important in her life, it's her most passionate pursuit.
"Sometimes when I play, it overwhelmingly absorbs you," Utley said. "That happened to me my freshman year, the first time I played in a big school band."
Coaches love having all-state talent on their team, even if it means their skill set is in something else. As Bird explains, when teenagers have a passion for something else, they have no problem putting the proper direction into other endeavors.
"They've got a drive. When they're good at something else, they have a drive, and that can translate into the sport," Bird said. "With Brianna, her mom swam in college, but Brianna came in not knowing how to swim. She had enough drive, excitement and energy that she learned how to swim. She was on our state team last year, and we're going for state cuts this year.
"She's come so far. Obviously there was some natural ability there — some really great natural ability. The drive got her there, which I'm sure she learned from her music."
She will play a role in the two relays Bird has targeted for the best chance to qualify for state, and Utley said she can relate that to playing a tough piece of music in front of a crowd of people, a situation that is actually comfortable for her.
"You know what it feels like to succeed, to do that well and feel that accomplishment," Utley said. "I know people like Hannah (Morse) and Kate (Wall) who (swimming) really is what they do and it's their passion, it's fun to cheer them on. You understand, and you become more of a family."
For Utley, the discovery of music happened in middle school. She so wanted to play the flute, but found she couldn't make a sound. The man introducing instruments to the class handed her a bass clarinet, forming a natural partnership. She fell in love with it, and he felt she was so gifted, he told Michele Massey, the choir director at Conrad Ball and a private instructor, all about her.
For the past five years, Massey has given private clarinet lessons to Utley and so much more. Utley now helps Massey in her classroom four days a week.
Massey said Utley also has a gift with students, something she's also witnessed in their workings at First United Methodist Church.
"The kids her just love her because she's very personable, she's very caring, she has a very kind nature," Massey said. "They just respond well to that."
It was there Utley found her direction, paying Massey the ultimate compliment in informing her she wanted to teach music herself.
"Especially that she wants to teach middle school," Massey said. "That is the highest compliment that she could ever give me. The fact that she feels like I have enabled her and inspired her enough to follow in my footsteps, that's is huge. That is the ultimate compliment."
Utley has already started preparing herself for her chair tryouts over spring break at the University of Northern Colorado. She's listened to the music to pick up rhythms and has fingered along on the clarinet, and this week she plans to start actually playing the challenging pieces that have been selected.
Naturally, her goal is to sit in the first chair, and while she figures her practice time will double in preparation, it won't so much be work as an escape into the part of her world she enjoys most.
"There are times I've walked into lessons and I'll be having the worst day of my life, and I just feel better," she said. "It's a constant in my life. It's always there for me."
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Prior to joining EFF, Jillian worked at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where she researched Internet filtering and worked on the OpenNet Initiative and Herdict. In a previous life, she lived in Morocco and worked as an English teacher and travel writer.
Jillian is a fellow at the Centre for Internet & Human Rights in Berlin and a founding member of the Deep Lab collective. She currently serves on the IFEX Council, and on the advisory board of SMEX.
Jillian holds a BA in Sociology from Binghamton University, where—like a surprisingly large number of individuals in her field—she also studied theatre. She alternately resides in the Internet or on an airplane and can often be found blogging or tweeting, as @jilliancyork.


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Someday we'll vanquish all those who dare talk over their guests!
You would have to write a whole new medical manual to describe Alex Jones personality disorders. Some that come to mind are: Delusional, Narcissistic, Liar, Misguided, Greedy, Bigoted.
After all he is the guy that was supporting a sex and drug addict like Charlie Sheen who surrounded himself with porn stars and high end prostitutes on a daily basis while carrying HIV.
All this stuff about Muslims terrorizing Americans
when so called Christian white men have terrorizing different groups in America for centuries when it is not even their land.
So who do you listen to instead of Jones?
I tried listening to Mike Rivero but he constantly makes snot-nosed, bratty remarks about his Creator while blaming Jews for everything.
It keeps the conversation rolling;
especially if a guest has a tendency to ramble with their answers.
Too much detail causes narcolepsy.
I'm tellin' ya folks, the properly-placed interruption IS a hallmark of a great radio broadcaster.


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The cameras were set to shoot for only eight minutes.
"Oh, it won't take that long," Dan Feyer said, with the hint of a smile.
Hubris, anyone?
The pressure was on. Mr. Feyer (FAY-er), 33, a soft-spoken, balding musician, had come to a photo studio at The New York Times to demonstrate one of his odder talents.
With the clock ticking and the shutters clicking, he put pencil to crossword. Not just any puzzle, but the Saturday one from The New York Times — the week's hardest, notoriously clever and tricky. Fiendish, even, some would say. A form of mental cruelty. There are people who spend hours on this puzzle, people who give up, people who won't even touch it. And then there is Dan Feyer.
His left hand tracked the clues while his right skittered over the grid. He pressed his lips together and grimaced. He erased, and rapidly filled in more boxes. Then he paused, erased again, and resumed skittering. Nearly five minutes had passed and he still seemed to be working the top left corner of the puzzle, the very beginning. He mumbled once and erased three more times. Was he in trouble? He wrote something, looked up, put his pencil down.
Done. Five minutes, 29 seconds. Penmanship, neat as a nun's. Mr. Feyer, in jeans, sneakers and a black T-shirt, hadn't broken a sweat.
Who is this guy? What kind of person knows the name of Gorbachev's wife (Raisa), a synonym for no-good (dadblasted), the Rangers coach in 1994 (Keenan), a platinum-group element (iridium) and the meaning of objurgation (rant)?
The kind of person who whips through 20 crosswords a day (at least 20,000 in the last three years), who won this year's American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and who has 100,000 puzzles saved on his computer.
"I feel I want to do them all, somehow," Mr. Feyer said. "I've probably done more crosswords than anybody in the world in the last three years. I don't know if that's something to be proud of, but it's a claim to fame."
He does have another life, as a pianist and music director for musical theater productions. His most recent shows were "With Glee," which ran Off Broadway in Manhattan last summer, and "Dracula, a Rock Opera," which ran in Rochester, Mich., in October.
"Music directors teach actors the music, accompany them in rehearsals and conduct the band," Mr. Feyer said. "On Broadway, the music director is the guy with the baton in the pit. Off Broadway, it's the guy sitting at a piano conducting with his head."
So how does that guy become a puzzle ace? Besides training like an athlete, Mr. Feyer said, it helps to have "underlying brain power and a head for trivia." He always had high grades and test scores, he said. He excelled at math as well as music, abilities that he thinks go together with crossword solving.
What they all have in common, he said, is pattern recognition — as he begins filling in a puzzle grid, he starts recognizing what the words are likely to be, even without looking at the clues, based on just a few letters.
"A lot of the time, crossword people are musicians," he said, noting that Jon Delfin, who has won the tournament seven times, is a pianist and music director. "Mathematicians and computer scientists are also constructors."
Arthur Schulman, a crossword constructor and retired psychology professor from the University of Virginia, who taught a seminar called "The Mind of the Puzzler," agreed that there is a strong correlation between skill at word puzzles and talent for math and music. All, he said, involve playing with symbols that in and of themselves are not meaningful. "There's an underlying connection, but I'm not sure what it might be," Professor Schulman said. "It's finding meaning in structure."
Mr. Feyer is a relative newcomer to the world of competitive crosswords, though he has liked all sorts of puzzles since childhood, when his parents bought him books of brain teasers to make up for his boredom at school. He grew up in San Francisco, where his father is a municipal bond lawyer, his mother a law professor. He has two younger brothers, one a management consultant and the other an English teacher in Bhutan. His grandfather George Feyer was a pianist, and played for decades in the lounges of some of Manhattan's most elegant hotels.
Mr. Feyer went to Princeton, majoring in music. He did crosswords from time to time over the years, but he didn't get hooked on them until he saw the 2006 movie "Wordplay", a documentary about crosswords, the tournament and Will Shortz, the New York Times puzzle editor and the founder and director of the tournament.
"I didn't realize this whole puzzle world existed," he said.
He bought a book of crosswords, and then another, and began following crossword blogs and downloading puzzles. Before he knew it, he had become one with the puzzle people.
In 2008 he entered his first tournament, in which hundreds of people in a hotel ballroom race to finish a series of puzzles. He had found his niche: the sound of 700 people turning over a piece of paper at the same time thrilled him. He finished "50-somethingth," he said. But that put him at the top of the rookie division for which he had qualified. The following year, he finished fourth. This year he won, beating many veterans, including Tyler Hinman, the champion of five previous tournaments.
His brain is jammed with factoids: the names of songs and rock bands that lived and died before he was born, far-flung rivers and capitals, foreign sports equipment, dead astronomers, fallen monarchs, extinct cars, old movies, heroes of mythology, dusty novelists and the myriad other bevoweled wraiths that haunt the twisted minds of crossword constructors. He has learned their wily tricks and traps, like using "number" in a clue that most people would take to mean "numeral" but that really meant "more numb."
He was almost stumped recently, by a clue asking for a type of wheel. The answer: wire spoke. "I had a heck of a time with that," he said. Cruel? Maybe so, he said, but he shrugged and added, "That's what Saturday is for."
Each morning, he finishes a half dozen newly published puzzles and a few more from the trove stashed in his computer. The easier ones take him only two or three minutes. He does puzzles while riding the subway and while watching TV. He may do a few before going to sleep and even take one to bed with him. He said he now spends about an hour a day on puzzles.
"It hasn't taken over my life or anything," he said, then added, "I don't think."
Nonetheless, on his blog, Mr. Feyer describes himself as "a mild-mannered musician who developed an addiction to crosswords," and he posts his solving times every day. There is, he says, a friendly competition among top-ranked solvers. For a Monday puzzle in The New York Times, his fastest time by computer was 1 minute, 22 seconds. Paper takes longer, 1 minute 58 seconds, maybe 59. His fastest time ever was 1 minute, 9 seconds, for a Newsday puzzle. But he admits that in speed-solving, one can lose the "Aha!" moment and the chance to savor a clever solution.
Another musician who works in puzzle publishing helped Mr. Feyer land freelance editing and proofreading work for a company that produces books of puzzles, and signed him up to write a book of word-search puzzles. He has tried his hand at constructing puzzles, but decided that just as he is better at playing or directing music than composing, he is better at solving puzzles than creating them.
Even so, he has managed to sell a few puzzles, including one to the Times; it will run on a Tuesday, a relatively easy day (the Times puzzles get harder each day, with the easiest on Monday and the hardest on Saturday). He spent 20 hours creating it, off and on over six months. The pay for a daily puzzle is $200 ($1,000 for the big Sunday one).
Given a choice, he prefers to solve crosswords on a computer. But in competitions the puzzles are done on paper, where the clues are arranged a bit differently, so as the yearly tournament approaches (the next one is in March), he switches to paper to stay on top of his game. Otherwise, he said, "you can lose precious, precious seconds looking for clues." He writes with a mechanical pencil, the same kind he uses to mark up musical scores.
He plans to compete again.
"I'll definitely try to defend the title," he said. Winning is fun, but also, he added, "the only way to make money with this hobby."
The grand prize is $5,000. He professed mock outrage that Sudoku tournaments pay much more — $10,000.
"I'm not particularly good at Sudoku," he said.
He does not play Scrabble. That game and crosswords differ in the types of words they use.
"It would probably hurt my championship chances if I tried to memorize the Scrabble list, too," he said. "My brain is full of crossword vocabulary."
He figures he has seen just about everything that is likely to appear in a crossword puzzle. But he continues to collect them. "One day," he said, "I will have done them all."


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Three years and two houses ago, we hosted our friends for a dinner party featuring a slow simmered Braised Beef Ragu and homemade pasta. We had just returned from our honeymoon in Italy and were brimming with new recipes to make. This "meat sauce" has become a staple in our house - we make it about once every two weeks. My recipe from three years ago is very basic - and easy, and delicious, but through the years I've made some tweaks and changes that I've grown to love even more. Of course, easy and simple is always good, but this is the kind of recipe you should make when you want to relish your time in the kitchen - like on these cold, dreary winter days.
I make this version with stew meat - much leaner than a chuck roast (per the original), but still gets very tender and falls apart (a good thing...) after it has been slow simmered. Also, instead of the wide pappardelle pasta, we opted for homemade tagliatelle - sort of a very thin fettucine pasta. However, any shape of dried pasta works really well with this - penne, cavatappi, ochiette, spaghetti, etc.
Beef Ragu
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1/4 cup of olive oil
3 carrots
2 ribs of celery
1 yellow onion
6 cloves of garlic
6 large green olives
1 cup of red wine
2 pounds of stew meat
1 - 28 ounce can of whole peeled San Marzano tomatoes
1 sprig of rosemary
1 tablespoon of fresh thyme leaves
1/4 cup of fresh basil leaves (about 6 large leaves)
1 tablespoon of sea salt
1/4 teaspoon of red pepper flakes
1/4 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup of fresh grated parmesan cheese
fresh basil
pasta (homemade or dried)
parmesan cheese for serving
Finely mince (or use your new food processor from Christmas like I did) carrot, onion, and celery. In a large sauce pan, dutch oven or stock pot, add the olive oil and cook minced vegetables over medium heat until they've softened - about 3-4 minutes.
Finely mince (or whirl in the food processor) together garlic and olives; add to the cooking vegetable mixture and cook for 2 minutes.
We are lucky enough to have a freezer full of fresh beef from my Dad and brother's farm - all pasture raised.
Add red wine and stew meat to sauce pan with vegetables and olives. Simmer for 10 minutes.
Add can of tomatoes and herbs to the food processor and whirl.
Smells so good. Add them to the sauce.
Add salt and red pepper flakes.
Simmer on low for 4+ hours until the meat is very tender and easily breaks apart. With two forks, break apart the meat so it is in shreds.
Add cream, parmesan and fresh basil.
Cook for 10 more minutes.
My pasta makers have been busy at work... perfect activity for a snow day.
Cook pasta in salted, boiling water 2 minutes short of instructed cooking time - for fresh pasta that equals about 30 seconds, for dry pasta about 6-8 minutes, depending on the shape.
Strain it, then put it directly into the pasta sauce, tossing to coat.
Serve with extra parmesan on top.


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I was a vegetarian for 12 years and recently decided to become vegan. My decision was based on a few things: improving my health, helping out the environment and most importantly - my love of animals. I simply do not want to contribute to their suffering any longer. I'm pleasantly surprised at how much I'm enjoying vegan food. I'm doing alot more cooking and loving every minute of it. I absolutely love feeling healthy and having lots of energy! I'm a big believer in 'you are what you eat' and as a result I have a pretty clean diet and avoid processed foods most of the time. In my vegetarian days I did a lot of baking so now the challenge is finding new, yummy vegan recipes for baked goods... not much luck so far...! But will keep trying... :)
I'm a positive, easy-going, friendly, compassionate and open-minded individual seeking like-minded people. I love animals and have three pets (2 cats and a dog). I like to check out live music, have drinks on a patio in the summer, or just get outside and enjoy nature, and be active. I ride my bike quite a bit, more so in the summer of course and as for walking - my little pooch and I get out every day regardless of what the weather is doing! :)


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BOSTON, Mass. - In their first meeting since 2010, a game which MIT were victorious 3-1, the men's soccer team defeated Emmanuel, 7-1. Freshman Sean Bingham (Garden City, N.Y.) and sophomore John Kramer (Glastonbury, Conn.) each scored two goals. MIT's record is now 6-2 while the Saints dipped to 1-5-2.
In the first two minutes of play, sophomore Nick Diamantoni (Belle Mead, N.J.) and freshman Austin Freel (San Diego, Calif.) both shot at the goal, but Diamantoni's was saved by keeper Garrett Charette and Freel's hit the post. Five seconds after Freel's shot, Kramer headed the ball into the net after a cross from freshman Andrew Liotta (Menlo Park, Calif.).
MIT were in control for the remainder of the first half. Bingham scored his first goal of the game off a feed from the left side from Diamantoni in the seventh minute and was right back at it in the 22nd minute after another assist from Diamantoni, giving the Engineers a 3-0 lead with 24 minutes remaining in the half. Kevin Shirley scored Emmanuel's only goal of the game in the 27th minute, raising the score to 3-1, where it would stay for the rest of the first period.
A mere 14 seconds into the second half, Kramer sank the ball into the net for the second time after a long pass from Liotta after kick-off. One minute later, Freel had his first goal of the game after a scramble in front of the net following a corner kick by Kramer. The score remained at 5-1 until the 78th minute when senior Tim Joubert (Meritt Island, Fla.) lobbed the ball into the top right of the net from 30 yards out after a cross from sophomore Nick Albarran (Buffalo, N.Y.). With nine minutes left in the game, sophomore Jason Adler (Scarsdale, N.Y.) registered MIT's final goal. At the end of the 90 minutes, the Engineers were victorious with a 7-1 win over Emmanuel.
MIT outshot Emmanuel, 26-8 and only had to make two saves, while the Saints recorded eight. Freshman Jake Amereno (Commack, N.Y.) and sophomore Sam Cannon (Scarsdale, N.Y.) each spent just over 40 minutes in net, making one save apiece. Sophomore Colin Hong (Honolulu, Hawaii) made his first appearance this season when he guarded the net for the last seven and a half minutes of play.
The Engineers will host Elms College on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 7:00 p.m., while the Saints will travel to Rivier University for a game on Sept. 25.


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So this is my current setup.
Talent Spec
Current spec and Glyphs: 31/5/5
I take the Word of Glory points, skip Tower of Radiance, and put 1 point in Blessed Life.
On the Word of Glory side, WoG is really good for tank healing. Even if it does less healing than Light of Dawn, it's much easier to keep a tank up with it. I put Beacon on one tank, and mainly focus the other tank.
Healing-wise, my seal is Seal of Insight naturally. My main rotation is 3pt WoG (or LoD if need more raid healing), then Holy Shock, then a HS-DL macro:
/castsequence Holy Light, Holy Light, Divine Light
What I've found is that if I only use HL as a filler, I spend almost no mana, but it seems to need a little more punch. If I try and use DL as a filler, I go dry very fast. The 2:1 ratio of HL:DL seems to drain mana at a nice rate, while doing a solid amount of healing.
Of course, if you need to bust out DL or FoL for intense healing you still can. I've macro'd Guardian of Ancient Kings with DL, so that the emergency heals start together.
/cast Guardian of Ancient Kings
/cast Divine Light
I've also macro'd my trinkets and Divine Protection to Holy Shock, to get maximum use out of them.
/castrandom Divine Favor, Avenging Wrath
/cast Holy Radiance
What this does is trigger one of Divine Favor or Avenging Wrath. It casts whichever one is not on cooldown, or randomly picks one if both are available. I find it's good for spreading out your CDs, while still ensuring that your Holy Radiances are boosted.
Edit: As people have indicated in the comments, this does not work as I intended. The /castrandom can choose the spell on CD, and if that happens then it won't choose a different spell until it casts the original spell.
So that's healing spells. Also don't forget Blessing of Sacrifice and Judge often. I definitely need to improve the amount I judge.
Stats and Gear
Main stat is Intellect. Intellect flask and food.
Secondary stat order: Spirit > Haste > Crit > Mastery.
Reforge Mastery then Crit to Spirit then Haste. Enchants focuses on stats as presented, but get Run Speed to boots.
For gems, I think the stat bonuses are worth it this time around, so red Int gems, orange Int/Haste gems, and blue Int/Spi gems.
Personally, I don't worry about specific gear pieces, just upgrade whenever possible.
So that's my current Holy setup for raids. It seems pretty decent so far.


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The SC072-PDS is a 100 GFlops 72-processor deskside computer from the defunct SiCortex corporation. It is sometimes available on eBay. Community support is available via the sicortex-users mailing list. It contains 12 nodes of 6 cores each, each of which is usable as a separate computer [1], plus an x86-based master node. A modified version of Gentoo GNU/Linux is the only operating system known to run on it as of Dec 2009. It is a little endian (mipsel) system.


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Your morning roundup for Dec. 22, the day we learned that a black hole won't end the world. Video via HBO. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors.
What we watched: Last night's episode of HBO's 24/7. As our very own Barry Petchesky wisely observes, "Bryz knows precisely as much English as we love our movie Russians to know."
What we're watching (all times EST, unless noted): UTEP vs. Clemson in men's college basketball at 2:30 (ESPN2). Chelsea at Tottenham in English Premier League soccer at 2:50 (ESPN2). Kansas State vs. Southern Illinois in men's college basketball at 4:30 (ESPNU) and Memphis at Georgetown at 7 (ESPN2). Houston at Indianapolis in NFL football at 8 (NFL Network). Illinois vs. Missouri in men's college basketball at 9 (ESPN2), Lehigh vs. Michigan State at 9 (ESPNU), Long Beach State vs. Xavier at 11 (ESPNU) and Kansas at Southern California at 11 (Fox Sports Net).
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Getting down to what is really real: "But as algorithms make consciousness a built environment, perception itself becomes in some way designed, in which sense 2011 wasn't totally stuck in the past—it offered a new sensation-of-being: Drudge's report on Trump's quest for Obama's birth certificate sends you clicking Facebook pictures of a lost love's fat children as prelude to a brief viewing of the Muammar el-Qaddafi snuff film, Tim Tebow chatting-up Yahweh on the 50-yard line or, attention span permitting, Fukushima's 'heroes' streaming across your iPhone in frog masks and body suits, their solemn death-trudge naturally interrupted by a billing reminder from Verizon Wireless. 'It's nice to have moments that are real,' said Ashton Kutcher to the young girl, sharing a little postcoital wisdom." [Observer]
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Dec. 22, 2010: The Greatest Letter Ever Printed On Team Letterhead
Taking shots at Darrelle Revis: "I thought the New York Jets were supposed to be the loudmouth, chest-thumping, attention-seeking team this week. The New York Giantshave stolen their thunder. Not only that, but they've chosen as their target, of all people, all-world cornerbackDarrelle Revis. For some reason, Giants wide receivers Victor Cruz, Hakeem Nicks andMario Manningham took turns heaping disrespect upon Revis on Wednesday afternoon. First, Manningham: 'I'm not about to give all their corners credit because I feel like their defensive scheme is what makes them good in man coverage because they have to play it because of how their scheme is.' Hakeem Nicks took a turn: 'He's decent.' And finally, Victor Cruz: 'Teams aren't really scared (of Revis) anymore. He's got to earn his money this year. Teams aren't really backing down. I feel like we're going to do the same thing. We're going to go out. Until he physically stops us we're going to throw the ball on him.'" [Shutdown Corner]
James Harrison wants the Browns suspended, or something: "What Harrison doesn't quite understand, however, is why the Browns haven't also been disciplined by the league for allowing McCoy to return to the game so quickly if the quarterback was in such bad shape. 'If he was hurt so bad I don't know why they let him back in ... two plays later,' Harrison said. 'Something should be done to them, I would think. I don't know. I got a game, what should they get?' League spokesman Greg Aiello said the Browns will not be penalized for their handling of McCoy's injury." [ESPN]
Your Fan On The Pitch Interlude:
Green Bay is the new America's team: "A new national survey released Wednesday has found what Green Bay Packers fans have been saying for years: The Pack is 'America's Team.' Public Policy Polling, which normally conducts surveys on politicians and issues, sometimes throws in a few questions about sports. In its most recent survey, conducted Friday through last Sunday, survey respondents nationwide were asked to name their most favorite team in the National Football League. A total of 22% said the Green Bay Packers, far outdistancing the second most favorite team, the Dallas Cowboys, which got 11%. After the Cowboys, 8% each named the Chicago Bears, the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Steelers. A total of 7% said their favorite team was the New Orleans Saints, with 6% for the New England Patriots, 4% for the Washington Redskins and 2% for the New York Jets." [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
There's a new sheriff in town: "UCLA Coach Jim Mora was direct and stern about the Bruins' tradition of going over the wall to skip out on practice. 'It's completely unacceptable and will not be part of the program going forward,' Mora said of Tuesday's action, a tradition that dates to 1980. 'It's a privilege, not a right, to play football for the UCLA Bruins. With the commitment you make when you sign on here comes a commitment to do what is asked of you.' Mora said he and Athletic Director Dan Guerrerodiscussed such issues during the interview process. 'We both agree that the culture of UCLA football needs to change,' Mora said. 'We're going to do all we can to change it.'" [LA Times]
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Photo: Las Vegas roulette table shown hitting same number 7 times in a row
UPDATE 8:34 P.M. | Our partner over at The Detroit News has confirmed with a Rio spokesman that the casino was conducting a "diagnostic test" and no one was playing at the table.
The number 19 supposedly hit seven straight times at a roulette table at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas on Monday night.
How heavy are the odds stacked against this actually happening?
Las Vegas insider RJ Bell says the odds of a roulette number hitting seven times in a row is 114.4 Billion to 1 against (more precisely: 114,415,582,591 to 1).
You're 586 times more likely to hit the Powerball than a roulette ball stopping at the same number seven straight times.
Put another way by Bell, if you played roulette every day, 24 hours a day, your favorite number would hit seven straight times once every 217,000 years. Read more…


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Head coach Jerry Smith, on the game: "Almost everybody got to play and there are a lot of positives to take away from today's game, but I would like us to play a little sharper. I am glad we got the victory, a shutout and did not have any injuries."
Smith, on freshman Kathleen Matthew starting: "It is always tough for a freshman to start in their first game, but this is a great experience for her which she will be able to build on. All-in-all for a 90 minute performance she did well.
Smith, on the freshmen playing in their first collegiate games: "Five players played in their first college game," said Smith. "It was good to give our young players the opportunity to play because traditionally you do not play as well due to nerves. The exception would be Jenny (LaPonte) who scored her first goal fairly soon after she subbed in."
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A very nice way to spend your Outdoor Wednesday is with Susan and friends. Join us at http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com.
We all have our lonely days. Even this bird looks sad and lonely. Possibly looking for something that will never come.
In this sky shot, do you see what I see? To me, that is a man laying down, face up and behind him is his wife.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Outdoor Wednesday
Posted by LV at 5:13 PM
Labels: outdoor Wed.
31 comments:
- Jan n Jer said...
Two great shots...the bird does look a little lonely. I used to participate in a meme which she posted photos of clouds and you had to say what you see. It was kinda fun...lots of times I just couldnt see anything. In yours, I do see the man...but cant find the woman. Have a great day LV
- March 1, 2011 at 5:58 PM
- Happier Than a Pig in Mud said...
Somehow I think the only companion that little bird is looking for is a minnow for dinner:@)
- March 1, 2011 at 6:15 PM
- Ginny said...
A lovely solitary bird shot, a blue heron? Yes, even this bird looks depressed, only I don't think that birds can get depressed. That must be singularly human.
- March 1, 2011 at 6:58 PM
- Betsy from Tennessee said...
Great photos, LV... I see what you see in the clouds in that second shot..... Neat!!!!
Have a great evening.
- March 1, 2011 at 7:11 PM
- Donnie said...
Saw the man but the lady must be pretty small...lol...great photos.
- March 1, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- Tracy said...
Beautiful shots, LV...I did see the man but not sure about the woman. He looks like he's taking a little afternoon siesta :) Yes, the bird does look lonely...thank you for such lovliness!
- March 1, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- anne said...
Hi LV it took me a moment to figure out the sky lol but I did hehehe.
- March 1, 2011 at 7:38 PM
- Light and Voices said...
Wonderful to see a blue herron. A little boy years ago that went fishing with us, said that herron's not blue it is gray. The things that come out of the mouths of babes.
Joyce M
- March 1, 2011 at 7:57 PM
- Misalyn said...
terrific captures! especially the sky shot. Yes, I did though it took me a while to figure it out. The man has a big nose :))..just joking.
- March 1, 2011 at 8:46 PM
- genny said...
i love your interpretation of the sky photo. i can visualized it also. nice shot LV.:-)
- March 1, 2011 at 8:57 PM
- George said...
Thank you for pointing out the man in the clouds. I can see him.
- March 1, 2011 at 9:11 PM
- Happy Cottage Quilter said...
Such a sad little bird. Guess he was looking for lunch :-)
- March 1, 2011 at 9:12 PM
- Linda Chapman said...
I see them, too!!
- March 1, 2011 at 10:29 PM
- Sallie (FullTime-Life.com said...
I still do that too (look at clouds and make up picture stories) -- one of the things that keep us young-at-heart LV!!
Sallie (70+ blogging to ??)
- March 2, 2011 at 7:28 AM
- Ann said...
The bird needs a companion, I think that's it!! I see the man in the clouds, the woman eludes me. But everyone sees something different in the clouds, I love doing this too.
- March 2, 2011 at 8:27 AM
- Mary @ Framed and Tagged said...
I see them both!! Glad you caught that at the right moment. A few minutes later and it would be maybe an elephant?
- March 2, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- Stephanie @ La Dolce Vita said...
I do see the man, but not his wife. He is a "big guy" so maybe she is too small for me to see? :) Hope you have blue skies and sunny days!
- March 2, 2011 at 9:34 AM
- Glenda/MidSouth said...
Nice shots. I need to go back and look at the clouds again. My coffee never kicked in this morning. :)
- March 2, 2011 at 9:59 AM
- Sil Campschroer said...
Thanks LV for visiting my blog and become a follower. It's amazing and inspiring to blog with someone of 81 years old! My compliments and wishing you all the BEST. Dutch greetings with heart&soul from Sil.
- March 2, 2011 at 10:36 AM
- Regina said...
So cute! Great outdoor post LV.
Have a lovely day.
- March 2, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- Debbie@Debbie-Dabble said...
I just wanted to say sorry for the delay with your gift that you won in my Giveaway. My printer is down and I use it to print my shipping labels on line. My son is coming on Thursday to look at it and if he can't get it back on line, Joe will take them to the Post Office on Friday. I will let you know when it does go out in the mail.
- March 2, 2011 at 12:27 PM
- Kate said...
Love the heron and the gorgeous clouds!
- March 2, 2011 at 1:25 PM
- Lola said...
Totally agree with you that those colours over at my place aren't for me either!
Hope you're having a lovely week,
XOXO Lola:)
- March 2, 2011 at 2:59 PM
- Oregon Gifts of Comfort and Joy said...
Hi LV ... very cool shots. I see 3 faces in the clouds: A big head above the middle fence post and a smaller head right next to it on the right. But I also see another one, a face wearing glasses in the top left hand corner.
Last night, when I was posting my WW/OW ... I could see lots of faces in the water.
Have a great day!
- March 2, 2011 at 3:01 PM
- Leslie said...
I must be blind.. I stared at the photo for 5 minutes and couldn't see anything but beautiful fluffy cotton balls...
- March 2, 2011 at 4:03 PM
- NatureFootstep said...
I use to see forms in the clouds too. :)
Glad you found my Costa Rican Birdblog. Your are welcome back there, It will be a lot more until I am finished. :):)
- March 2, 2011 at 4:15 PM
- Vhincci Subia said...
I feel sorry for the bird... :( It looks really sad, wet and sick...
- March 2, 2011 at 4:30 PM
- Charlene: the Polarblogger said...
Yes, lovely shots that clearly tell stories.
- March 2, 2011 at 4:32 PM
- ~Lavender Dreamer~ said...
Great photos! I've been watching a pair of herons at the park where I walk...they are so interesting! ♥
- March 2, 2011 at 7:38 PM
- Rita said...
Wonderful post. I also love your new layout.
Thanks for the visit my way and for leaving the wonderful comment.
- March 3, 2011 at 2:57 AM
- Blue Ridge Altered Art said...
Oh my what wonderful photo's. You have a wonderful eye for beauty. ~~Sherry~~
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Daloris A. "Dee Dee" Price
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Daloris A. "Dee Dee" Price, age 49 of Columbus and former longtime Delaware resident was taken from us tragically by accident early Thursday morning, October 27, 2011 while a pedestrian in Columbus.
Born in Delaware on October 27, 1962 she was the daughter of the late Robert H. Price and Carolyn (Flournoy) Williams of Delaware. A graduate of Delaware Hayes High School in 1981, she studied data entry at Delaware JVS and was a member of the Hayes track team, running on the 440 relay team.
She had been an employee of Advance Auto in Delaware for many years and recently became a transportation engineer with Urban Transport in Columbus.
With a loud personality and at times bossy, she was always enthusiastic and very spiritual. She was a devoted member of the AGAPE International Cathedral, her favorite place.
Always loving, she treasured time spent with her family, especially her grandchildren. She had weakness for peanut M & M's, chocolate ice cream and ice cold Pepsi. Her door was always open; she was gifted in housing the homeless or anyone in need. She will be remembered for her love of family, whom numbered many more than her own.
She is survived by her mother: Carolyn (Herbert) Williams, children;Triyonnia Price,Tersheika, and Terryun Lewis, and all of Delaware, grandchildren: Meesha and Malachi Lewis, sisters: Deborah Simpson of Delaware, Heidi Johnson of Columbus, Tonya Price of Delaware, Latears Campbell of Columbus, brothers: Stanley (Tawanna) and Joshua Williams of Marion, numerous Aunts, Uncles, Nieces, Nephews, Cousins, extended family and a host of dear friends.
Friends may call Tuesday 6-8 p.m. at the DeVore-Snyder Funeral Home, 75 W. William St., Delaware, where services celebrating her life will be held Wednesday 10:00 a.m. with Pastor Wesley Moore officiating, friends may also call one hour prior to the services. Burial will follow in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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The letters HPV generally connote America's most often sexually-transmitted virus, but they can also mean something similarly unfortunate: Human-Powered Vehicles. A contest for the latter kind of HPV at Grove City College in Pennsylvania nearly ended in tragedy when this HPV from Olin College (clearly modeled after a diaphragm) lost control and plowed into the crowd.
I appreciate any kind of scholastic engineering competition, but I have to question the efficacy of a drag race that involves one participant crashing and still winning. Maybe Olin College is just that good.
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On a SOHC engine, an adjustable cam gear will allow you to move the power curve to a specific area in the rpm band. Like moving your peak power on a high-revving Honda to max out at 4000 to 5000 rpm. Typically to improve bottom end power advancing a SOHC engine will do the trick and the converse is true to enhance top end power.
Basically, the job of the camshaft is to open and close the intake and exhaust valves at the "proper time" relative to engine position (piston travel) - to charge the combustion chamber and expel burnt gasses.
However, once you've bolted on performance parts, milled the head or installed a lumpy performance cam, you also alter the optimum cam timing that most sport compacts prefer. What can you do?
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In racing, the ability to dial-in ignition and cam timing/overlap for different track conditions can mean the difference between winning and losing a race. Autocross enthusiasts rely on low to mid-range power for tight turns, whereas drag racers need all the power at the top end. This applies to setting up a car for mostly city or highway driving. In either case, adjustable cam gears will optimize the peak power curve so that maximum performance is adjusted to your style of driving.
While the aftermarket is ripe with adjustable cam gears, don't assume that all cam gears are the same. Variations in material, design, anodizing, and other engineering deviations can affect quality.
It's important to note that adjustable cam gears have no direct effect on the duration and lift of the valves, that's the job of the camshaft lobes (profile) as dictated by the cam manufacturer.
If the intake valves open at 10 degrees before top dead center (TDC) and close at 190 degrees after TDC, the total duration is 200 degrees. The opening and closing times can be shifted with adjustable cam gears to rotate the cam ahead a little as it spins. For example, if we advance the intake cam 5 degrees then the inlet valves would open 5 degrees earlier. The intake open timing would shift to 15 degrees BTDC and the intake valve would also close earlier by the same 5 degrees. In the example above, the valve timing would be IO at 15 degrees BTDC and IC at 185 degrees ABDC. With SOHC engines the cam timing events for intake and exhaust occur together so intake and exhaust events move the same amount. Retarding timing works just the opposite.
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Yahoo's board has unanimously signed off on a $1.1 billion deal to the blogging service Tumblr, reports published Sunday indicated.
The deal will be announced Monday morning and represents a major move by chief executive Marissa Mayer, who is hoping Tumblr's young-skewing audience can provide a shot in the arm to the Silicon Valley Internet titan.
Also read: Yahoo Beats Expectations With Q4 Revenue of $1.22B
Mayer is known to covet the site's user-generated content, and strong mobile usage, in hopes that it will help Yahoo find new audiences. The deal is easily the biggest she's made since taking over last summer.
Tumblr is a popular destination that provides easy-to-use publishing tools that mix text, images and video, but at this point has negligible ad revenues. Chief executive David Karp is expected to continue to head operations, but it's not known whether it will continue with its own brand or be absorbed into Yahoo.
Tumblr's valuation is now reported at $800 million. Investors include Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Insight Venture Partners and the Chernin Group.


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Landsat satellites find the 'sweet spot' for crops
Farmers are using maps created with free data from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat satellites that show locations that are good and not good for growing crops.
Farmer Gary Wagner walks into his field where the summer leaves on the sugar beet plants are a rich emerald hue—not necessarily a good color when it comes to sugar beets, either for the environment or the farmer. That hue tells Wagner that he's leaving money in the field in unused nitrogen fertilizer, which if left in the soil can act as a pollutant when washed into waterways, and in unproduced sugar, the ultimate product from his beets.
The leaf color Wagner is looking for is yellow. Yellow means the sugar beets are stressed, and when the plants are stressed, they use more nitrogen from the soil and store more sugar. Higher sugar content means that when Wagner and his family bring the harvest in, their farm, A.W.G. Farms, Inc., in northern Minnesota, makes more dollars per acre, and they can better compete on the world crop market.
To find where he needs to adjust his fertilizer use—apply it here or withhold it there—Wagner uses a map of his 5,000 acres that span 35 miles. The map was created using free data from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat satellites and tells him about growing conditions. When he plants a different crop species the following year, Wagner's map will tell him which areas of the fields are depleted in nitrogen so he can apply fertilizer judiciously instead of all over.
A farmer needs to monitor his fields for potential yield and for variability of yield, Wagner says. Knowing how well the plants are growing by direct measurement has an obvious advantage over statistically calculating what should be there based on spot checks as he walks his field. That's where remote sensing comes in, and NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat satellites step into the spotlight.
The Sensors in the Sky "Trip the Light Fantastic"
Providing the longest, continuous record of observations of Earth from space, Landsat images are critical to anyone—scientist or farmer—who relies on month-to-month and year-to-year data sets of Earth's changing surface. Landsat 1 launched in 1972. The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), the eighth satellite in the series, will launch in 2013 and will bring two sensors—the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS)—into low orbit over the Earth to continue the work of their predecessors as they image our planet's land surface.
Land features tell the sensors their individual characteristics through energy. Everything on the land surface reflects and radiates energy—you, your backyard trees, that rocky outcropping, and a field where a farmer is growing a crop of sugar beets. The sensors on LDCM will measure energy at wavelengths both within the visible spectrum—what people can see—and at wavelengths that only the sensors, and some other lucky species, such as bees and spiders, can see.
OLI will measure energy in nine visible, near infrared, and short wave infrared portions, or bands, of the electromagnetic spectrum, and TIRS will measure energy in two thermal infrared bands. And that's what makes them such powerful tools.
Jim Irons, NASA Project Scientist for LDCM at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., says that the instruments will deliver data-rich images that tell a deeper story than your average photograph of how the land changes over time.
Wagner's map—a special kind of map known as a zone map—shows the difference between healthy and stressed plants by representing the amount of light they're reflecting in different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. To display this information on his map, the visible colors of light—red, green, and blue—are each assigned to a different band. Red, for example, is assigned to the near-infrared band that isn't visible to humans. Healthy leaves strongly reflect the invisible, near-infrared energy. Therefore green, lush sugar beets pop out in bright red on Wagner's map while the yellow-leaved stressed plants appear as a duller red. Wagner can use this map to track and document changes in his crop's condition throughout the season and between seasons. As a tool, this map supports and enhances his on-the-ground crop analyses with independent and scientific observations from space.
Different band combinations tell farmers—and scientists, insurance agents, water managers, foresters, mapmakers, and many other types of users—different information. Additionally, since the Landsat data is digital, computers can be trained to use all the bands to rapidly recognize and differentiate features across the landscape and to recognize change over time with multiple images.
"Therein lies the power of the Landsat data archive," says Irons. "It is a multi-band analysis across the landscape and over a 40-year time span."
Both OLI and TIRS use new "push-broom" technology, in which a sensor uses long arrays of light-sensitive detectors to collect information across the field of view, as opposed to older sensors that sweep mirrors side-to-side. The new technology improves on earlier instruments because the sensors have fewer moving parts, which will improve their reliability.
OLI will also be more sensitive to electromagnetic radiation than previous Landsat sensors, which is akin to giving users access to a new and improved ruler with markings down to one-sixty-fourth of an inch versus markings at every quarter inch. For Wagner, this means that next summer with LDCM in orbit, he will be able to better discriminate the degree of stress on his sugar beets, giving him a more finely tuned view of what his plants need across the field.
The View of the Field is the Right Fit for its Purpose
Each step of the way, OLI will look at Earth with a 15-meter (49 foot) panchromatic and a 30-meter (98 foot) multispectral spatial resolution along a ground swath that is 185 kilometers (115 miles) wide. TIRS will measure two thermal infrared spectral bands with a spatial resolution of 100 meters (328 feet) and cover the same size swath as OLI.
Different scale resolutions—low, moderate, and high—deliver different levels of detail in remote sensing images, and each has its purpose. The 30-meter (98 foot) resolution of the Landsat images Wagner uses allows him to see what is happening on his spread, quarter-acre by quarter-acre. He doesn't need a view so narrow that the high resolution image tells him who's sitting in the combine parked in his field, or a view so big that it shows him smoke from forest fires drifting over the North American continent with no detail on his farm.
The moderate resolution also means Landsat satellites are able to fly over the same piece of real estate more frequently than high resolution satellites. Once every sixteen days, Landsat 7 in orbit now or LDCM after it launches, will revisit Wagner's farm, and every other place on Earth, too, for global coverage. "We're looking forward to having a real quality instrument in space," says Irons, who is excited about having OLI and TIRS come online. He says the Landsat 30-meter resolution has been assessed in the scientific literature as being a suitable resolution for observing land cover and land use change at the scale in which humans interact with and manage land. The sensors will record 400 scenes a day, giving users 150 more scenes than previous instruments. Data from both of the sensors will be combined in each image.
The Legacy in the Landsat Mission is its Continuity
In daily operations on his farm, Wagner has used Landsat data in near real time. He's anxious for the launch of LDCM and NASA's newest sensors, OLI and TIRS, because not having the remote sensing data really puts him in a bind. A lack of current satellite data disrupts Wagner's understanding of what his plants need, what the soil needs, the long-term performance history of his place, and his budget.
For now, with his zone map in hand, Wagner adjusts his care for his sugar beet crop, allowing the plants to deplete fertilizer in the soil so he can change the bright red on the satellite image to the yellow of sweet beets in his field.
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I have been to the cold, white north and I have seen the dragons.
that looks more like a bad ass tiger person then a kitty cat person like in the other game
It's a shame I'll have to buy the console version, for I fear that the PC version's graphics would utterly destroy my laptop. Nonetheless, the game is just sounding better and better.
Epic preview. This game will be phenomenal!
Screw Minecraft's release on 11/11, Skyrim all the way.
Can't wait for this.
XD yayayayayay
Sounds promising
were they able to show the demo in video yet? I'd love to watch the demo myself.
I wandered around Oblivion for a while before I just got bored and quit. Fallout 3's leveling enemies are much more to my liking. Hopefully this Elder Scrolls fits me :] I do want to get into it
What about all the important stuff? Like will there be giant floating squid?
I simply canNOT wait for this game.
That sounds amazing but I'm not sceptic about the eco-system in the world. Red dead redemption offered a system like that where you get to see animals hunting each other e.t.c. But it was just a series of random encounters.
Even if the eco-system isn't what its supposed to be skyrim still looks the be one of the best games ever!
I'm trying to convince my wife that I need to upgrade my computer before this gets released, although her getting an Ipad for her birthday my sweeten my chances
Well....that looked awesome.
Yep... Still can't wait.
Also, Khajit looking like Khajit and not an overgrown kitten = win.
Ooooh. I am drooling. I am drooling heavily. Call me a TES fanboy if you want, but serve me up games like this and I'll wear that damn moniker with a smile.
Oh, shitting dick cheese, I need to improve my PC SOON!
Looks awesome!
Also: Whenever I play an Elder Scrolls game, I like to imagine that all my new characters have been imprisoned for public urination.
It will be interesting to play DAII and Skyrim the same year. Sounds like they are going to be very different experiences.
Damn, I wants it now. I especially love the sound of how items you drop can even affect what happens, and that it's your morality that will make those differences. Actually, I hope the morality plays a bigger difference than the last Oblivion cause I felt it was just there cause it could be.
Also, wonder if the Dark Broterhood are still around and kicking >:3
Wow, this sounds impressive. Can't wait!!!
Meh, I'm still not jumping on the hype bandwagon. Oblivion also promised loads of cool stuff, looked unbelivable, but, IMO, all we got was a watered down action game that barely represented an RPG. It's going to take more than a few videos and promises to get me excited for this one.
Even if the "radiant" stuff is less than they are making it out to be (again), this game is going to be made of win.
I'm very intrigued !
The Khajiit look like what they did in Morrowind.
This is a very good thing, very good.
Still not gonna get hyped for this, until I know more, and when I say more I mean played it because I am not going to listen to any Bethesda fanboys which are a plenty.
... I cant believe there is still 7 months left until this
"As in previous games, the right stick can add a little English to your strikes, which should give you a sense of control over your swings and stabs."
I don't think I appreciate them taking our children and sticking them to their swords.
Seriously, what does that mean?!
Do want, do want, do want!
Um... I guess they're saying Englishmen fight well? I think?
Goddammit, now I want to play this. Too bad my PoS laptop probably can't run it. Also, the Khajiits looking like tigers kinda seals the deal.
What? I like Khajiits.
Hopefully this environmental/AI system works as well as it sounds. Then I can shove it in the face of all the STALKER fans who claim that STALKER has the best environmental/npc AI ever (you know, despite it being so buggy that it doesn't matter), and can only do so with a segmented, loading screen world, and not an open world.
I also like the idea of not determining your characters core path before you get a chance to play. I've always hated that, because I inevitably come to a spot in a game where I go "dammit, I should have picked that trait instead," but at the very start of the pre-game, there's no way you could tell anything about that.
Also, having fluid conversations while being able to move around and progress with the game... f'ing awesome. I hate the stilted mannequin conversations in Mass Effect that totally suck you out of the action.
I'm pretty sure it means you'll be given some control over the direction you attack. I know in billiards, applying English to the cue ball influences its trajectory, making it curve a little instead of traveling in a straight line.
I'm excited, but still suspicious. I've bought and played every mainline Elder Scrolls game (yes, even Arena!), and I've long feared they've been stagnating. And taking undue advantage of the Construction Set.
Bethesda, please do things like make nice-looking character models this time. All the scenery in the world isn't worth much when my character looks like she's been run over by a cliffracer. Don't just throw the game out with any old polygons and trust the modding community to make your game actually look decent. Hire the Better Bodies crew on contract if you have to. But the past two games have felt to me like you've gone through the motions and let the modders finish your game. (Seriously. If you're going to package a construction set and make it blitheringly easy to make custom races, don't you think you should ship the game in a state that it will actually start if you're playing one? That shouldn't require a mod to fix.)
I can't wait to play a completed Skyrim. But only if it's completed by Bethesda instead of people who are working for free. Otherwise I'd rather send money to the modders instead of Bethesda.
Man, this game looks like it's going to be incredible, and definitely the type of game I want to get for the PC...I just have to build a new one now that can handle it... T_T
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Review Market leader Onkyo doesn't tend to go light on the features, and this midrange unit is no exception. The upgrade from the TX-NR707 now includes network capability (the cheapest Onkyo that does) as well as an amplifier that carries the THX Select 2 Plus certification, though you'll need some hefty speakers to take full advantage of this.
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James said, "We can only hope that its demise is not hastened by such self-fulfilling profit-sees as Dominion and the Rapture."
This is why we have to convert them.
I have been a lifelong skeptic. When I was in high school, there was a young man a little older than I was who had been planning on becoming a minister from an early age. His family was very devout and active in the church. He was respected and admired. Unfortunately for his family, they sent him to a university which had a hundred years prior been a church supported school but was now very progressive. When he enrolled in religious classes the curriculum gave a broad overview of all beliefs and supported no particular belief. The next thing I knew, he declared himself to be an atheist and left the church. The point is his abrupt denouncement of his faith was further proof to me that the emperor wore no clothes. I think we never know when we might be planting a seed for someone to begin questioning the dogma.
You know the statistics showing that atheists know more about Christianity than the average Christian: his holy books and history of the religion in relation to others. But they go on mouthing complete nonsense Sunday after Sunday. This is what Abraham Maslow meant when he said that their words in church are meaningless to them, rote recitation, an example of the very worst sort of presentism: pretending that ancient events have anything relevant to say about our species today. When the Jehovah's Witnesses come to the door, I tell them God must like fathers who commit incest with their daughters because that is what Lot did when God killed all the alleged homosexuals in Sodom. "So, God lets parents grouse in the goodie with their own daughters -- that's OK, but having sex with our own kind is not?" If they have not fainted, they run. Hopefully they will go home and actually read that part of Genesis and find some inconsistencies, contradictions, physical impossibilities, and so forth.
The first thing to been religions is everything need to be on faith, so reading I would say is the last thing religions people do. After all if they really took time to read and follow their own holy book they would need medication to cope. Ask any christian which ten commandments they follow version one or two and they look at you with a black stare of a 3 year old.
And that, Lillie, is exactly why Rick Santorum - bless his little pea-pickin' heart - came out so strongly against higher education on his stump speeches! For the same reason that Mankind's "original sin" was the acquisition of knowledge.
I had nothing but House to watch that was in English during a week-long vacation in Mexico City since the hotel cable system catered to Mexicans. (Great way to save money while visiting: stay where families and businessmen stay.) I watched episodes back to back, three at a time. I already knew House was a Brother, but was let down when only the "attitude" emerges from episode to episode, and that, of course, paints us as grouches, yes, but also people who will not allow others' delusions to interfere with taking care of business. I like the show but think it is dragging a bit now. We need more rationalist chracters on TV, that is for sure. Role models and living examples of "critical thinking."
I would suggest we argue our point just by making it clear we are atheists. As a minority, we're given short shrift. At some point, as our numbers grow, we hit critical mass and our ideas will be perceived as intelligent. Kind of like my parents wising up while I was away during my early 20's.
Amazing how their IQ's shoot up during those years, isn't it Greg?
I don't know how they got along without me ;-)
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