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Bank of America Merrill Lynch downgraded Taiwan-based LCD driver IC vendor Himax Technologies (HIMX) from Buy to Underperform, with a new price target of $12.5. Shares of Himax closed at $13.38 yesterday and opened 7% lower this morning.
The bank is concerned that Himax is not progressing fast enough in their LCoS (Liquid crystal on silicon) business. Here are analysts Daniel Heyler and Kyna Wong:
During our TTB conference, mgmt was positive on LCoS but the listed challenges suggested to us that growth could be more in 2015/16 vs 2H14. Barriers appear to be (1) applications, (2) costs, (3) power (20nm preferred), and (4) technology (optical engine, contrast, brightness). Mgmt viewed this as a niche market in the early stages of development. We remain positive on LCoS opportunities in industrial and games but a broad-based consumer roll-out by Google will be highly calculated; It's difficult to recover from a flopped consumer electronics new product roll-out.
Essentially, the analysts are saying we should not be expecting Google Glass (GOOG) till next year.
And without the LCoS business, it is hard for Himax to expand profits in a competitive display industry:
The company is competing in a number of highly competitive markets so sharp margin expansion will be difficult without a sharp ramp in LCoS.
Our numbers reflect 2ppt OPM expansion and 28% revenue growth in relatively competitive, high-volume standard products known for undergoing pricing pressure.
UPDATE: Thanks @richmando for the comment (see below) on Luxiottica. News on the Luxiottica deal came out on Monday and the Bank of America Merrill Lynch report was dated today, March 25, after the Ray-Ban deal.
What the analysts were saying is that a broad-based Google launch is not likely till next year. Here is some more tidbits from their report:
Wearables are looking like a 2015/16 story
We estimate that total wearables contribution to Himax should reach 30% by the end of 2015. We need to see a number of areas mature before the market accelerates: (1) software and applications need more time to emerge, (2) headgear cost to decline (or be subsidized by optical insurance potentially for corrective lenses), power consumption needs to decline to project better images for 16 hours, (3) resolution (when used in bright sunlight) needs to improve. We have moderated our LCOS business revenue assumptions from US$137mn/358mn to US$27mn/240mn as we see increased risk that (1) Google might need more time to fine tune the software and user-experience, and (2) other LCOS customers may be awaiting the Google launch. Handsets, games, and industrial usages are reflected in our current model but not a broad-based Google launch.
UPDATE-UPDATE: Shares of Himax fell 11.4% today, but was up 3.7% in the after-hours trading. Seeking Alpha said Himax got a lift from Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of virtual reality headset developer Oculus VR, which features a Himax LCD timing controller. The Facebook buy may also boost demand for LCoS. Credit to reader Hal Schoenfeld for pointing this out.


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My husband and I have been watching Kitchen Nightmares recently and I felt it was our responsibility to let the public know about this place.
He worked there for a few weeks a couple years ago. He quit because he said the place was filthy. He previously worked at Olive Garden for 3 years which has is immaculate I might add. He ended going back to Olive Garden.
When they were showing him around they went inside the walkin in cooler. On the floor was a bin...like a Sterilite bin. Inside this bin was their main sauce that they use. It was not covered at all, just sitting on the floor open to let stuff fly in it. They told him to step over so they could show him stuff. He lost balance while doing so (those things are pretty large) and his foot went in the sauce. He immediately apologized and they were like "Don't worry about it" and continued to use it. His nasty dirty shoe WENT IN THE SAUCE and they STILL USED IT!!!! EW. He also said the kitchen was disgusting. He actually took it upon himself and tried to clean it.
He and the other line cooks would smoke in the walk in cooler. The managers/owners did know about this because he said one time they walked in when they were smoking. The guy was like "Hurry up" He also said they would sometimes join.
Before I even met my husband and knew about this place, many of my friends had gotten food poisoning from this place as well.
I beg of you, please please do not go to this restaurant. I've never eaten there myself and now I never will.

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by Jim Stiles
(Editor's note: Third in a four-part series.)
When Ashley Korenblat and the Utah Outdoor Business Network appeared before the San Juan County Commission last summer to pitch a dramatically expanded tourist/recreation economy, she explained it was "all about entrepreneurship."
She talked about lost tourist dollars in San Juan County and lamented, if only "there were some incentive for them to stop here in Monticello..."
And there's the rub.
Why DO tourists prefer to drive all the way back to Moab for the evening rather than stay or stop or even slow down when they zip through Monticello?
We all know the answer to that — it's the amenities Moab has that Monticello doesn't. It's the plethora of motels and bed & breakfasts and restaurants and cafes and brew pubs and yupster bars and bike shops and bike rentals and zipline companies and climbing gear stores and BASE jumping guides and slackline parks and river companies and canyoneering companies and Adventure tours and Adventure motels and Adventure stores and curio shops and T-shirt shops and yoga shops and massage therapists and aquatic centers and private gyms and personal trainers and life coaches and nightly condo rentals and wineries and spas.
As the marketing people might say: "...and SO MUCH MORE."
Monticello has a nice little grocery, perfectly suited for the population that now lives there, a fine mercantile store and a good drug store and several reasonably priced places to eat. It has a (relatively) new Maverik Store that serves soft-serve frozen yogurt. And its biggest tourist draw is the LDS mini-Temple.
In fact, Monticello lacks almost all of the 'amenities' that makes Moab, well, Moab.
To use the vernacular and marginalize a once significant and meaningful word, Moab is "Epic." Monticello is not. It is Epic-less. Monticello is Epic-free. It lacks Epic-ness.
The question is, how badly does Monticello (and Blanding and all of San Juan County) want to be the next Totes Awesome New West town? Does it long to be Epic? Because when Ashley Korenblat talks about a more vibrant recreation economy in San Juan County, when she enthuses about the kinds of businesses that would encourage climbers from Indian Creek to turn south instead of north at the end of a thrill-packed day, this is what she means. It's about transforming a rural Utah Mormon town into something more palatable to the same people who now make Moab their real "base camp to adventure."
Like Moab, if Monticello is to change, it will be pushed by outside money. For the most part, its citizens don't have the resources and capital to make huge investments in a massive makeover.
For example, the soon to be constructed multi-million dollar Four Corners School 'Canyon Country Discovery Center' was an idea first embraced by local citizens. But the money to make it happen won't come from the local citizens.
Bill Boyle, one of the architects and supporters of the CCDC (and the Editor of the SJR), and I have had some lively conversations over the project these past few years.
I've come to regard Bill as one of my best friends and to appreciate the fact that he and I can have differences of opinion, express them freely, and without fear of the argument turning rancorous. The fact that you're reading this essay in his newspaper is testament to that kind of open dialogue.
Years ago, Bill saw the Discovery Center as a way to help a floundering economy and add some diversification to the town's business community. It's a sentiment and an economic strategy often embraced in small rural western towns with shrinking populations and sliding economies.
What most proponents fail to grasp, until it's too late, is that these kinds of economic infusions rarely help the citizens they are intended for. Economic development should primarily assist the people who already live in that town.
Chambers of Commerce should first and foremost be looking after their own, not seeking new competitors for their own members.
When a local debate broke out about the CCDC in 2012, some wondered if there weren't a hidden agenda and questioned the motives of its executive director, Janet Ross. After all, she was once a SUWA board member herself.
Some insisted that her secret plan is to push a wilderness agenda that would restrict access to more public land. The San Juan Record's Buckley Jensen responded, "Janet Ross is far more the shrewd fundraiser and businesswoman than she is the wild-eyed environmentalist bent on shutting down everything in San Juan County."
Buckley is absolutely right. What few residents of southeast Utah realize, whether they are pro-wilderness or anti-wilderness, is that the issue of legislative 'wilderness' itself, in 2014, has little to do with some passionately held 'cause.'
"Restricting access" is no longer a moral issue; it's not an honest attempt to protect what remains of southeast Utah's wildlands in order to spare it from future development and destruction. Wilderness is now about how it can make money for the people savvy enough to "invest" in it. It's about replacing one kind of extractive economy with another. Wilderness IS money now and has little meaning to anyone beyond that.
As Ross said in 2012, the CCDC will, "produce an estimated potential Social Return on Investment of $9.8 MIL annually (based on the monetized social value of all teacher retention and renewal programs, student education/motivation programs, professional certification programs, workforce development/youth employment programs, and scientific research for San Juan County and the Colorado Plateau."
Not much "wild-eyed" wilderness poetry in that statement.
"Clearly," she concluded, "this facility will draw visitors to the City of Monticello and its businesses, and is meant to be an economic driver for all of us."
In other words, Ross offers the Discovery Center as a financial opportunity to anyone who wants to climb aboard the fast-moving engine of a tourist/amenities economy.
It's an engine that could be an integral part of transforming Monticello and San Juan County.
But whether it will benefit "all of us" is questionable. There is an assumption that visitors to the Discovery Center will require many more 'amenities' than Monticello can currently provide. The reality that goes with it is, if the local citizenry can't provide them, the new amenities must predominantly come from elsewhere. And they will.
For the Discovery Center to become a reality, much of its funding comes from the same wealthy benefactors that keep organizations like the Grand Canyon Trust and the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance flush with cash.
When the Four Corners School became an active participant and driver of the CCDC, Ross knew how to bring in money in ways other locals would never imagine. Recent major contributors, according to the CCDC's web site, include billionaire Hansjorg Wyss, who sits on both GCT's and SUWA's board of directors. He has provided significant funding.
Venture capitalist David Bonderman, a billionaire who recently spent more than $10 million on his own 70th birthday party, added his own generous donation. He also sits on the board of directors of The Grand Canyon Trust and is a major SUWA financial backer.
Other multi-millionaires with roots in Moab and longtime supporters of mainstream green causes have tossed some of their largesse into the CCDC pot as well.
The list of Four Corners School/Discovery Center 2013 'gear sponsors' sounds like a roll call of Outdoor Industry Alliance (OIA) members, including Adventure Medical Kits, All Terrain, Alpine Aire Foods, Backcountry.com, Black Diamond, Camelbak, Carhartts, Camp Chef, Clif Bar, Columbia, Crazy Creek, Don't Go Nuts/Pinto Barn, Eureka, Falcon Guides, GSI, GU, Hanes/Duofold, Hi-Tec, Honeystinger, Hyalite, Jansport, Kahtoola, Katadyn, Keen, Kelty, LaraBar, Mountain House Foods, Mountain Khakis, Mystery Ranch, Osprey, Patagonia, Petzl, Princeton Tec, Polar Bottle, Red Ledge, Sea to Summit, Smart Socks, Smartwool, Stage, TEVA, Timberland, and Travel Chair.
Yet the letter that ignited the recent controversy over the "Greater Canyonlands" proposal was, in fact, from the OIA — a letter that Korenblat vainly tried to distance herself from when she addressed the commissioners.
The same people pushing the Greater Canyonlands plan are simultaneously dedicated to seeing CCDC work. Why? Is it possible to believe that billionaires like Hansjorg Wyss and David Bonderman or OIA sponsors like Black Diamond and TEVA have the best interests of rural San Juan County in mind and heart when they dump money by the truckload into this project?
No. What these benefactors want, and what most people who embrace a New West Amenities economy to fuel its future want, is the same kind of demographic change that happened in Moab. This is about changing the social fabric of a small town from one that is essentially rural and conservative to a more "progressive"/mainstream "green" New West population center. It's that simple.
Next week: Finding consensus with Ed Abbey and Brigham Young.
(Jim Stiles is publisher of the "Canyon Country Zephyr – Planet Earth Edition" now exclusively online. He is also the author of "Brave New West." Find both at www.canyoncountryzephyr.com. Stiles can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.)
Part 1: Moab is assimilated. Bike borg moves south. Is resistance futile in San Juan County
Part 2: Ashley Kornblatt's Amenities Dream Scheme
Part 4: Finding consensus with Ed Abbey & Brigham Young


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Feel Good Walk – Leytonstone
17 May 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Our Feel Good Walks are suitable for anyone to join and are FREE. They provide a great way for people to get out and about, meet new people and explore some of the beautiful green spaces Waltham Forest has to offer.
Walking is a great way to explore the borough, a great way to keep active, stay healthy and it's good for physical and mental wellbeing too.
So come along and join us on our Feel Good Walks.
Just turn up on the day, there's no need to book in advance.
We organise weekly walks from 11am every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning.
Tuesday Walks: Chingford Duration: 30 – 60 minutes
Meeting point: Ridgeway Park Tennis Hub, Chingford, E4 6XU
Suitability: Beginners to intermediates
Wednesdays Walks: Leyton Duration: 30 – 60 minutes
Meeting point: KukooLaLa Cafe, Leyton Jubilee park E10 7BL
Suitability: Beginners to intermediates
Thursday Walks: Leytonstone Duration: 30 – 60 minutes
Meeting point: Lakeside Diner, Hollow Ponds E11 1NP
Suitability: Beginners to intermediates


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Need a little audiovisual pick-me-up? Check out Ryan Barger's music video for "Dreams Are Real" in which the world's most agreeable cats encounter dinosaurs, soar through space, drive through Tron's MCP, and, of course, dance.
Hank and Buster are the extraordinarily sedate stars of this music video, with production design by Katie Akana.
Dreams Are Real [via The Mary Sue]


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Nomalanga: Miss World announces contestants list-what about the judges?
It is being reported that a list of 50 winners of national beauty pageants around the world was made public. These 50 are the first of what is expected to be a total of 120 women all vying for the Miss World 2012 title. What I find interesting is that we always know so much about the contestants but so little about the judges.
It makes sense that in order to protect the integrity of the judging process, the international beauty pageants would not disclose the names of the judges but I also think it is reasonable to expect that after the pageants, there should be full disclosure. If there is no transparency in the judging process, we can never be certain that the winner was chosen fairly.
My experience at Mrs World 2011 led me to write a letter to the Mrs World Pageant owners, specifically because the pageant lacked both transparency in the judging process and there was a lack of diversity in the selection of the judges as well. Of the nearly 60 women that entered the Mrs World pageant, there were no less that 12 women who were either African or identified themselves as being of African decent and yet, not one single one made it into the top 14. Of the women that the judges selected to go into the top 14, only Mrs Vietnam (a gorgeous and phenomenal woman) made it in. The problem with this is that the only non-white judge on the judging panel was a Vietnamese woman who is also a former Mrs Vietnam.
I'm saying all this to make one basic point, we need BOTH transparency and diversity in judging international pageants. If pageants are going to define beauty by narrow, euro-centric standards, then it may be best for those that do not fit into those narrow stands to forgo entering the pageants all together. Although pageants are about more than how the women look, it is next to impossible to deny that how the women look is certainly a critical factor in deciding who walks away with the title.
The main reason why I wrote the letter to the owners of the Mrs World pageant is because I believe that the Mrs World did not select a diverse pool of judges and in so doing, they opened most of the Mrs World contestants to an unfair pageant experience.
One thing that I absolutely love about the Miss World (not MRS) pageant system is that their judging system is such that they always have a finalist from every continent or region of the world. That being said, in their history, they have only, to my knowledge, ever had two Black women win the title. Statistically, that is not high enough and I hope that in the coming years, we will see an improvement. Being a finalist and or runner up is great, but black women deserve to wear the crown as well.
Tags: African American Women, African Women, April Lufriu, Beauty Pageants, black women, David Marmel, defining beauty, Diversity Speaker, Miss World, MRS BOTSWANA, MRS BOTSWANA 2011, Mrs World, Mrs World 2011, Nomalanga Mhlauli-Moses, pageants, racism


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A quick glance at her resume and it's obvious that Jody Rogers is a born winner. With more than 500 career victories in 21 seasons as a head coach, Rogers knows how to build and run a winning program.
That's what Rogers will be looking to do at VCU after Athletic Director Ed McLaughlin announced her hiring as the new Head Coach of the VCU Volleyball program on Feb. 11, 2013.
"Jody is a proven winner who brings a lot of energy to the VCU Athletics family," McLaughlin said. "She is a teacher of the game who will promote hard work, discipline and strong communication as keys to sustainable, elite-level success, both athletically and academically. We are excited for her to lead our program and achieve our goals of providing a tremendous student-athlete experience and winning championships."
Rogers comes to the Black & Gold after spending the past 16 seasons at the University of Indianapolis, where she built the Greyhounds into a perennial national power at the Division II level. This past season, she led UIndy to the 2012 Final Four and the program's third 30-plus win season in the past six years.
"I would like to thank VCU for giving me such a great opportunity to lead a program that has so much potential for success," Rogers said. "I really look forward to being challenged both personally and professionally, and I'm excited to get into the gym with our student-athletes and get back to the winning ways."
During her 16 years at UIndy, Rogers compiled a 406-180 (.693) mark, which ranks in the top-30 nationally among Division II coaches for both total wins (26th) and winning percentage (26th). She has led the Greyhounds to four straight top-15 finishes. She was named the 2012 CaptainU National Coach of the Year, as well as the 2009 AVCA National Coach of the Year. Rogers coached seven AVCA All-Americans during her tenure at UIndy.
"The program has so much potential and that's the main reason why I came to VCU," added Rogers. "My coaching philosophy is that we go fast and we have athletic players that can do great things on the court and in the classroom. There's a solid foundation in place, but now we look to operate at an even higher level."
A 1993 graduate of Eastern Connecticut State, Rogers had been the women's volleyball coach at Newbury Junior College in Brookline, Mass. She also was the boys' volleyball coach at Waltham (Mass.) H.S., starting a new program in February of 1997.
In 1995-96, Rogers was an athletic compliance intern at Boston College, working with BC's 32 varsity sports. Prior to her stint at BC, Rogers was an assistant volleyball coach at Springfield College (Mass.) from 1994-96. In 1993, Rogers was the assistant volleyball coach at her alma mater.
Rogers was a standout volleyball player at Eastern Connecticut from 1991-92. She earned team MVP honors as a senior in 1992, serving as team captain. She played her first two collegiate seasons at Miami-Dade CC (Fla.), with MDCC's 1989 team winning the junior college national championship.
Rogers earned her bachelor's degree in business administration from Eastern Connecticut in 1993 and her master's in physical education with a concentration in athletic administration in 1997 at Springfield College. She was inducted into the Newton North (Mass.) High School Athletic Hall of Fame in November 2012.


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BURBANK — Emily Tubert received some good news last week while she was competing in the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship.
Tubert, a Burroughs High graduate who will be a sophomore at the University of Arkansas in the fall, learned that she had earned a sponsor's exemption to play in the LPGA Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G at Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers, Ark.
The event is scheduled for Sept. 5-11, and Tubert is the fifth Razorback women's golfer to earn a sponsor's exemption and will be the 12th player in program history to take part in the event since it began in 2007.
Tubert said getting the opportunity to compete in her first LPGA event is special.
"I'm really looking forward to it," Tubert said. "I went out and watched the event last year and it's just a great tournament. To get to play in the tournament, in a place where there is so much support for the Razorbacks, is going to be incredible.
"I'm just fortunate to have the opportunity to do this and I'm excited. It should be a great experience."
Arkansas women's Coach Shauna Estes-Taylor said she is impressed with what Tubert has been able to accomplish during her one year with the program.
"I've said many times that I couldn't be more proud of Emily and the accomplishments she has achieved as a Razorback," Estes-Taylor said on the university's website. "Earning an exemption into this event, which is quickly becoming a premier event on Tour, is another feather for her cap and she has a long way to go in her collegiate career. The sky is the limit for this young lady and I'm excited that Razorback fans will have a chance to see her and support her against the world's best players."
Tubert, the defending champion in the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship, played well in the event last week. She advanced to the round of 16 at the tournament in Bandon, Ore.
Tubert won her first match of the day in dramatic fashion over Harin Lee, 1 up, in the morning contest. Tubert and Lee were square after the first hole before Tubert took a lead on the second hole when Lee bogeyed the par-three pin.
Tubert went 2 up on the third hole and increased her lead to 3 on the ninth hole. But Lee played her way back into the match winning the 11th, 12th and 13th holes to even the score.
Lee then won the 14th hole when Tubert bogeyed the par 4, 306-yard hole and held onto the lead through the 17th hole, when Tubert again squared the match.
Tubert then won the 18th hole and the match when Lee bogeyed.
With the win, Tubert went on to face Brianna Do in the second match of the day. Tubert grabbed a lead on the third hole of the match and hung on through the 14th when Do squared the match with a birdie on the 14th hole.
Do went 1 up on the 15th and she held on for the win, eliminating Tubert from the contest.
Do, who competed for UCLA and went to high school at Long Beach Wilson, went on to capture the tournament championship.
"The tournament was a real learning experience for me," Tubert said. "It just put in perspective just how hard it is to win that event and it gave me some perspective and some appreciation for what I was able to accomplish last year.
"Losing to the eventual champion was tough because I was up for much of the match. You can't win everything, but as long as you take the positives from every tournament and learn from that, than you will only improve your game."
Tubert will return to Arkansas for her sophomore season after having a record-breaking freshman campaign with the Razorbacks. Tubert, won tournaments, earned Southeastern Conference player-of-the-week accolades, made the All-SEC team, was named to the All-SEC Freshman Team, the All-Central Region Team and helped lead Arkansas to the 2011 NCAA Women's Golf National Championship, where it finished tied for fifth.
However, Tubert earned her biggest honor of the year following the NCAA tournament when she garnered First-Team All-America honors by the National Golf Assn.
A Junior All-American at Burroughs, Tubert was the Leader's Female Athlete of the Year in 2009-10. She also captured a CIF Southern Section championship and was a two-time All-Area Girls' Golfer of the Year.


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What is it about Emalon that is so much more difficult than Koralon?
- DPS has to swap targets.
So, in the hopes that others will learn how to actually fight Emalon and make my life pugging VoA25 less of an axe through my sanity, I am posting this strat. I will add illustrations tomorrow. I may even break down and do a full comic version, for those puggers that can't seem to read >.>
The Pull:
Your best tank should be on the adds, and your OT should be on the boss. The add-tank will run in and gain initial aggro; the OT will follow and single-taunt Emalon himself off of the MT. In the meantime, all ranged dps and healers need to be spreading out: some can remain on the stairs, while others need to run through to the back of the room, because you do not want to be clustered together or else chain lightening will eat you alive.
As a note, most PuGs will tank the adds on one side of the room, and Emalon on the other; this is not necessary as long as your healers are capable of keeping both tanks up through the Lightening Nova. You can successfully have all of the adds and Emalon tanked on the same side of the room, or close together, which can make it easier to pick up new add spawns and provide less distance for your melee to traverse to reach the Overcharged add. This is the method my guild prefers to do our own VoA10 runs, though I have never seen a PuG group do it that way.
|Rogues/Hunters: use misdirects and tricks of the trade to ensure all 4 of the adds are on the MT, or else those adds are going to run off and eat your best healers. If your OT has threat problems, have someone give them a threat boost on Emalon during the pull, as well.
The Fight:
Stay spread out as much as possible. DPS will begin on Emalon. If you have Deadly Boss Mods or Bigwigs (and I highly recommend you have one or the other installed), you will see timers for a couple important things: next Overcharge, and Lightening Nova.
- Overcharge is what can and will wipe your raid, if your DPS is not paying attention. Overcharge will enlarge an add, and 20 seconds after it starts, the add will explode and pretty much wipe the raid. ALL DPS MUST SWITCH TARGETS and kill this overcharged add! It is easy to pick out since it will be enormous compared to the others. KILL IT. If you don't see an enlarged add in the pile when Overcharge is cast, check near the boss: the OT may be tanking it on the far side of Emalon instead.
- Lightening Nova is an AoE off of Emalon that does more damage the closer you are to the boss. If you aren't a tank, you need to move away from Emalon when he begins to cast this, or you will be killed. It is possible to pop survival instincts/shield wall/Cloak of Shadows/etc to survive it, but in a pug, it's better to be safe than sorry. Get out of it.
- Do not use AoE on the adds unless you're tanking them (or using a misdirect ability to put them on the tank).
- Do not try to kill any add that is not overcharged: he will just spawn a new one in its place and make your tank have to re-establish threat.
- Do not stand in Lightening Nova unless you know you can survive it with your current HP.
- Do not ignore the Overcharged add, even if you're melee.
- Do not cluster together too closely or chain lightening will fry you.
- Do not pull aggro.
~~This is a public service announcement brought to you by Dreambound and Vortex.~~


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I've been putting-off this post for a while...avoiding the inevitable if you will, but after over three months of slakerdom in this space, I am officially retiring Raising Foodies (for now, because you just never know...)
I kept thinking I would come back, I did, but it just never seemed to happen. It didn't happen after a holiday filled with cooking (and eating)... It didn't happen after I made an enormous six-layer rainbow birthday cake for Millie... It didn't happen after baking spice cupcakes, a cake, and the best brownies of all-time on the same snowy, house-bound day.
So I finally came to terms with the fact that it was never going to happen, and this is my attempt at closure. (I'm a fan of therapy, can you tell?)
I am proud of what "Raising Foodies" was. I loved interacting with you guys in this space, I loved that it made me think about how we were preparing and eating our food... that it was the catalyst for the girlies to try lots of new things they may not have otherwise.
But I think what I'm most proud of is how it's changed the way we approach dinner every night as a family. Our meals now are very different than they were pre-"Foodies". They're less harried, more mindful, more wholesome. We eat out very rarely (a major change), all four of us preferring to eat at home most nights. Sure some of this can be attributed to the fact that the girls are older, more independent and amenable, making cooking easier, but I believe when you put a goal out there, when you invite others to be a part of it, thus feeling some accountability to those people, it will change you.
So thank you. Thank you for being a part of our little food adventure, for helping us change.
And as a token of my appreciation, I've leaving you with (literally) the best brownies I have. ever. eaten. (and I have eaten a lot of brownies). I made them last night, and I'm not going to lie...they were a revelation.
Oh and they were super easy too. Enjoy!
Alice Medrich's Cocoa Brownies with Browned Butter and Walnuts (via Bon Appetit)
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder (spooned into cup to measure, then leveled)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, chilled
- 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon unbleached all purpose flour
- 1 cup walnut pieces
Position rack in bottom third of oven; preheat to 325°F. Line 8x8x2-inch metal baking pan with foil, pressing foil firmly against pan sides and leaving 2-inch overhang. Coat foil with nonstick spray.
Melt butter in medium saucepan over medium heat. Continue cooking until butter stops foaming and browned bits form at bottom of pan, stirring often, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat; immediately add sugar, cocoa, 2 teaspoons water, vanilla, and 1/4 teaspoon (generous) salt. Stir to blend. Let cool 5 minutes (mixture will still be hot).
Add eggs to hot mixture 1 at a time, beating vigorously to blend after each addition. When mixture looks thick and shiny, add flour and stir until blended. Beat vigorously 60 strokes. Stir in nuts. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
Bake brownies until toothpick inserted into center comes out almost clean (with a few moist crumbs attached), about 25 minutes. Cool in pan on rack. Using foil overhang, lift brownies from pan. Cut into 4 strips. Cut each strip crosswise into 4 brownies. DO AHEAD Can be made 2 days ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.


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Zappolo re-signs
It's a sign of the churn in the broadcast news business that Ron Zappolo and Libby Weaver at Fox Channel 31 are the currently longest-lasting late news anchor team in Denver. They've been sharing the anchor desk since 2000.
In the intervening years, Ed Sardella and Bill Stuart retired from Channel 9 and Channel 4, respectively, and Jim Benemann jumped from Channel 9 to Channel 4, all creating on-air change. Of course Ernie Bjorkman is no slouch in the longevity department at Channel 2. But Zap
and Weaver are the longest tenured current team.
In the old days, anchor teams lasted for 16 years if they were as lucky and good as Sardella/Mike Landess. Nowadays, eight years is a good run.
Which makes it extra noteworthy that Zappolo just signed a new contract with Fox 31, (a deal approved by the incoming management, pending FCC approval) and keeping him there for what the 56-year-old anchor says is likely the rest of his career.


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Injured Army veteran part of A's Memorial Day
OAKLAND - In the A's clubhouse, Josh Donaldson walked in with camouflage cargo shorts, and in the team kitchen, Australia native Grant Balfour practiced memorizing the U.S. national anthem.
But before the A's-Giants series opener Monday, the meaning of Memorial Day was most apparent on the field.
Staff Sgt. Dale Beatty, a Purple Heart recipient and veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, tossed the ceremonial first pitch. Beatty was deployed to Iraq in 2004, and on Nov. 15, 2004, his vehicle hit a land mine and as a result, Beatty became a double-amputee below the knees.
Beatty was at the Coliseum also to help raise attention for the Fisher House Foundation, whose homes allow soldiers and their families to stay at no cost while they are receiving medical treatment. Beatty and his family stayed at a Fisher House, and he's now a trustee of the organization.
"It was an irreplaceable asset to have a home away from home," Beatty said. "It was a support system for my family and for all the families there."
The Fisher House Foundation has 60 homes around the world, including one in Palo Alto and one at Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, where a second is under construction.
Beatty said he played baseball as a youngster, just like his son does now, for their hometown youth league in Statesville, N.C. That team's colors? Green and gold, just like the A's. But, Beatty said, "I'm neutral."
Oakland reliever Jerry Blevins and many other players Monday put on their special camouflage A's caps as soon as they saw them hanging in their lockers.
"It's a national day," Blevins said. "This is about letting people gather today and as a society, as a people, taking the time to appreciate it all. As much as baseball is America's pastime, what they do is much more important."


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Samsung Galaxy Express
When the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini arrived, Office Cat was disappointed that its specs didn't measure up to those of its big brother. The Galaxy Express ups the oomph with a 4.5in Super AMOLED Plus screen, 1.2GHz dual-core and 1GB RAM along with a 5MP snapper – and, best of all, 4G LTE connectivity. Perfect for those with smaller paws – though details on UK availability have yet to be revealed.
Source: Pocket-Lint
NASA might have taken us to the Moon, but the space agency's spelling is lamentable – this new lunar digging robot, RASSOR, is pronounced "Razor." Silly NASA. Like Office Cat, the RASSOR is a master of digging, though unlike Office Cat it doesn't use its skills to hide its leavings in the Stuff office flowerpots. Thanks to the arm-mounted drums, RASSOR can dig far more than its weight should allow and can easily flip itself upright if it gets into trouble. The plan is to use the digger to collect lunar soil – and extract water from it, for future space exploration. Expect a RASSOR 2 in 2014.
Source: Engadget
Self-destructing tech
Remember the self-destructing messages in Mission: Impossible? DARPA wants to make that tech a reality – the US Department of Defense agency is working to produce electronics that can be destroyed by a liquid catalyst at the touch of a button, to conserve sensitive data and tech in the battlefield. Office Cat only wishes he could do away with some of his past tech errors as easily.
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In the absence of Wayne Rooney, the 18-year-old has taken on the role of United talisman and, though he did not score, was the inspiration behind Saturday's 2-0 Premier League win over Swansea at Old Trafford.
Fletcher was certainly impressed, and the Scot feels he has the potential to match any player he has worked with at United, which considering that number includes Cristiano Ronaldo is praise indeed.
"For his age, he is up there with some of the best I have seen, without a shadow of a doubt," said Fletcher.
"He is a great kid. There is no ego. He wants to learn and listens to advice he is being given. He just wants to go out on the pitch and express himself.
"Hopefully we have given him a platform to do that.
"The fans have taken to him straight away and he is making an impact. Hopefully he is here for a long time."
In what has turned into a tortuous debut season for manager David Moyes, Januzaj offers a genuine reason for optimism.
After three successive defeats, the youngster had a hand in the second-half goals for Antonio Valencia and Danny Welbeck that ensured the sorry run came to an end.
There was no chance of Moyes getting carried away, though, not when he knew the failure of Welbeck, Shinji Kagawa and Chris Smalling to take clear opportunities prevented United from recording their biggest Premier League win of the season.
"We deserved to score more," said the Scot.
"There were chances. It is annoying me because we have to start taking them."
With a rare blank midweek, and an unwanted 52-year old record for successive defeats avoided, Moyes may be able to spend some time reshaping his squad.
The Scot has privately conceded up to 10 players may have to be moved on, with out-of-favour midfielder Anderson and defender Fabio set to be among the first to leave.
Rio Ferdinand and Alexander Buttner will surely not last beyond the summer, while Nani, Patrice Evra and even skipper Nemanja Vidic are on shaky ground as Moyes looks to build a team in his own vision capable of challenging for major honours, something patently beyond them this season.
Others have work to do if they are to salvage their United careers, among them Kagawa who, after a series of below-par displays, excelled in the second half against Swansea once he was switched into the central position he craves.
"He does relish being in there and he was fantastic in the second half," said Fletcher.
"He linked the play and was always available for me and Michael (Carrick) when we were on the ball. He receives the ball so well on the half-turn, was looking to create and make things happen.
"He will take great confidence from that. He is a great player and he is a big part of Manchester United."
It cannot have gone unnoticed either that Welbeck is flourishing in a central position, something that tends to be denied him when Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie are fit.
Given Sir Alex Ferguson had clearly resolved to move Rooney on last summer, something Moyes worked so hard to prevent, the question remains whether it would, in fact, be a long-term benefit for one of the big names to eventually leave.
Certainly there can be little doubt over Welbeck's present contribution, which now extends to six goals in nine games.
"It is a big improvement on last season," said Welbeck, who only found the net on two occasions last term.
"I have said it plenty of times, last season I was playing on the left wing, which is not really where I want to be.
"I am happy to do it for the team but if you put any striker out there it would be hard to judge them in terms of goalscoring."
Though the scrutiny may not be quite as intense, Swansea boss Michael Laudrup has his own troubles, with his side slipping ever closer to the drop zone after picking up just one point from their last five games.
In truth, the visitors never looked like repeating their historic FA Cup win of six days earlier.
"We went into this game motivated, exactly the same as the first one," said Laudrup.
"But we are very limited in numbers right now and if the characteristics in midfield that worked very well the other day were to be more complete, we should have threatened them more."
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The mystery object is, in fact, the asteroid Toutatis. It was snapped last week by China's Chang'e 2 probe when it flew by the lump of rock. The three-mile-long asteroid was 4.4 million miles from Earth when Chang'e 2 passed it by, missing the tumbling rock by just 2 miles.
Chang'e 2 was originally sent into space to map the moon. After 8 months doing that, it was sent off farther into space—and capturing this image marks the success of its first non-lunar mission. That means the satellite has now set a record for the most distant Chinese space probe ever, and by January it will reach a distance of more than 6 million miles from Earth. [Space Flight Now]


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There's actual forward motion on the new Terminator film, which Megan Ellison and her brother David have been trying to get off the ground for a while. According to Deadline, two new screenwriters have been hired to collaborate on the project... and they're kind of a weird pairing.
There's Laeta Kalogridis, a frequent collaborator with James Cameron who worked on Avatar as a producer and also co-wrote the Fantastic Voyage and Battle Angel films that Cameron has been associated with at various points. Kalogridis also was a writer on Shutter Island, Alexander, Night Watch and the Bionic Woman pilot.
Working with her on the script will be Patrick Lussier, the writer/director of Drive Angry and Dracula 2000. We loved Drive Angry for its completely over-the-top insanity and skull-beer-drinking, but it's hard to see how his sensibility will mesh with Kalogridis'. Lussier's main experience in Hollywood is actually as an editor, with tons of films under his belt.
So... if Kalogridis' character-based approach can combine with Lussier's apparent love of splatter and over-the-top set pieces, we could have something really special here. Update: It's been pointed out to me that this isn't the first time these two have worked together. Kalogridis and Lussier have another project set up at Ellison's Skydance Productions, and they're also working together on rebooting the Western TV show The Rifleman.
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'Johns' caught paying kids for sex still dodging hard time, sex offender registration
King County Prosecutor Satterberg: 'Our community is better than this,' lauds new initiative
The detective must have been a disappointment.
Pulling his Mercedes into a Kent Jack in the Box, Scott Fulton hoped to meet – his words – a "steady to bareback all the time."
Fulton, 49, cast a 17-year-old girl for the role. Responding to a prostitution ad on Backpage.com, he set up a "date" with the girl he hoped to pay $120 for unprotected sex.
Instead, Fulton got a meeting with the catfishing detective – "Kara" online, a Kent vice detective in real life – with whom he traded sexually explicit text messages in the weeks before. Questioned by detectives, the Bellevue man said he planned to "hang out and soak" with the teen prostitute at a Federal Way hot tub parlor.
That thwarted May 15 liaison left Fulton a convicted felon -- he was sentenced to 216 hours of community service -- and registered sex offender. And, in that, Fulton is something of an oddity – he's one of only a handful of Washington men caught paying a child for sex who has been ordered to register.
Demand, if that's not too clinical a word, for child prostitutes is as strong as ever. Police stings like the one that snared Fulton draw dozens or hundreds of would-be "johns," only a scant minority of whom is caught and prosecuted. And most men nabbed have managed to dodge stiff penalties created by a zealous state Legislature three years ago.
In recent months, though, King County prosecutors and police have fine-tuned an effort meant to show many more "johns" the inside of a jail cell and add their names to the sex offender rolls.
Thanks largely to sting operations, prosecutors filed child prostitution charges against 47 men in 2013, up from 14 the year before and nearly twice as many as the preceding three years combined. And, in a change promised by a 2010 state law yet to be fulfilled, they expect most of the men will be forced to register as sex offenders.
Washington's largest county remains an outlier when it comes to enforcement of state laws targeting men who pay children for sex. Just one other county has seen a customer convicted of the offense since the anti-child prostitution laws were strengthened three years ago; most have not charged anyone with the offense.
Online police stings account for nearly all of the increase in King County. Flanked by a senior deputy in charge of the prosecutions, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said earlier this month that the response to the undercover ads – the number of men seeking sex from kids – has been unpleasantly strong.
The men run the gamut. Executives and workers. Students. Ministers. Plenty of husbands.
Most unnervingly, Satterberg said, they are neighbors and friends.
"They're regular, common people, our coworkers, and when they have free time they're looking to abuse teenage girls sexually," Satterberg said. "Some admit to doing this a lot. Some claim when they're arrested that this is the first time they've done it."
"A lot of people don't like to think about it," the prosecutor continued. "If we're ever going to turn the corner and increase the dignity of the community and the safety of these kids who are on the streets, we have to start with the demand side."
Most 'johns' caught with kids still dodging promised punishment
As men who've paid children for sex go, James Kilburg is nothing special.
Police hunting a wanted robber instead saw Kilburg walking into a Kent Motel 6 looking for a 16-year-old girl who'd been selling herself on Backpage.com.
Kilburg told police he was there for "companionship." Text messages on her phone showed he was there for sex; a used condom and the girl's statements to police backed that claim.
A year later, the 63-year-old Sammamish man has pleaded guilty to a felony – second-degree assault – and is slated to be sentenced in January. Prosecutors will ask that he serve 90 days in jail.
What Kilburg won't be doing is registering as a sex offender. And that is entirely usual.
Despite a 3-year-old change in state law meant to punish "johns" who pay children for sex, the vast majority of men caught and prosecuted avoid sex offender registration.
Pushed by police, prosecutors and anti-sex trafficking activists, the Washington Legislature in early 2010 passed sweeping enhancements to Washington's laws on prostitution. Pimps and men who bought sex from children were to feel the heat while prostituted children were to get more help.
The reform was also meant to lighten the burden on prosecutors taking the cases to trial. Under the new law, "johns" could no longer defend themselves by claiming they thought the girl or boy they paid was an adult.
Rather than a fine and jail time, "johns" caught with a kid were to face at least 21 months in prison. And sex offender registration was to be mandatory.
None of that amounts to much next to the price paid by girls and boys who find themselves prostituted.
Beyond the trauma of the work itself, kids working the "track" – stretches where customers know they can find prostitutes – and online face rape, sexually transmitted disease and violence at the hands of "johns." Pimps keep the money, starve them, feed them drugs and use pain to maintain control.
Earlier this year, a woman who asked to be referred to as "Nicole" detailed her time in "the life" to a gaggle of reporters gathered at a conference room in the Seattle FBI office.
Nicole traveled the country as a teen working for her pimp, now a federal inmate. Prostituted in Las Vegas, Oregon and around Seattle, she recounted bone-breaking beatings delivered by the pimp she thought she loved.
Now a college graduate in her mid-20s, Nicole said one particularly savage incident left her looking like Quasimodo, the titular character in "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame." She joked that surgical repairs to her face and body left her with more metal than Ironman.
She would've left if she could have managed it, she said. Most of the girls she met would do the same.
"We're not bad people," she said. "It's not that we chose to commit these crimes because it's fun."
"I tried to do the best that I could," Nicole continued. "I was locked in where I was. … I had nothing to run to."
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Enthusiastic proponents held a news conference in the parking lot of a downtown Seattle strip club days after the law went into effect in June 2010.
Since then, though, just three convictions have been won under the state's child prostitution law, commercial sexual abuse of a minor. Two were in King County, where more than 40 men have resolved child prostitution charges filed for crimes committed since the tougher penalties went into effect.
A seattlepi.com review found 15 of the King County 41 defendants who have been convicted pled guilty to crimes requiring sex offender registration. Several of those prosecutions involved particularly egregious circumstances – a girl was chained, beaten and sexually assaulted by one defendant – or police stings; prosecutors won the sole child prostitution case that went to trial.
Senior Deputy Prosecutor Val Richey, the lead trial attorney for human trafficking investigations in King County, said evidentiary issues in some of the earlier cases forced prosecutors to resolve them through generous plea bargains. Some have pled misdemeanors, including patronizing a prostitute.
Defendants caught "hands on" with a child are generally allowed to plead to second-degree assault, as have Kilburg and at least 12 other King County men since penalties were increased in 2010. That assault conviction doesn't require sex offender registration.
Offenders caught in the stings face stiffer penalties – the plea offered generally is to a felony pimping charge and a sex crime requiring registration as a sex offender.
The King County plea scheme has meant convictions. Only three men have seen the charges dismissed since the change in law, and one of those did so through a plea deal that involved court supervision.
Prosecutors in Pierce County have charged eight men with commercial sexual abuse of a minor since the law changed. Of those, two men have been convicted of sex offenses and a third was convicted of a drug crime. Charges were dismissed against three defendants, while two cases remain outstanding.
In Snohomish County – a community of 733,036 people, a third the size of King County – prosecutors have not charged anyone under the strengthened child prostitution law.
All those prosecuted have been men, and all their victims – real or invented by police – have been girls. Those near the issue believe boys are being turned out as well. If child prostitution is an industry in the shadows, though, sexual exploitation of boys is happening in the darkest corner.
Investigators say privately that worries about the perception that they're targeting gay men have effectively blocked such investigations. Those concerns, of course, spring in part from rampant police abuses against sexual minorities during less tolerant times.
'We need men to step up'
All this comes at a moment when child prostitution is the issue du jour.
In the past decade, the Legislature has passed at least 47 bills related to the human trafficking and financially motivated sex crimes. Forty of those laws were made in the past three years.
Co-sponsor to the 2010 reform and a state senator with long-experience on the issue, Jeanne Kohl-Welles said she's seen attitudes improve on human trafficking in recent years. Lawmakers and the public have tuned in.
"Now trafficking is becoming a term that is much more understood by people," Kohl-Welles, a Seattle Democrat, said recently.
Enthusiasm for the issue prompted the creation of the first shelter dedicated to children made to work as prostitutes. Adapting to the prostitute-as-victim mindset, Seattle police renamed the vice unit – it's known in most circles as the high-risk victims unit these days – and sent an officer to Washington, D.C., to argue for greater resources for prostituted children.
The city of Seattle briefly considered paying Microsoft to build an information-sharing network with Portland police. That scheme was abandoned after the Seattle FBI agent leading the regional child exploitation taskforce informed the mayor's office that the feds already have it handled.
Shelters and new programs for prostituted girls and, now, women are meant to create a kind of sanctuary. But, while the progress is undeniable, the tools available don't match the job at hand, said Melinda Giovengo, executive director at Youth Care, a service organization that operates a center for sexually exploited children in Seattle.
Most communities don't have anywhere to place and help prostituted children. And, Giovengo said, there still exists a permissive attitude toward child prostitution in certain circles.
"This is not an acceptable form of entertainment," Giovengo said recently. "I would say that we need men to step up and say, 'Not on our watch.' I don't think we have that yet."
Giovengo said she has seen a cultural shift during her nearly three decades working with King County's homeless youth. Women and girls who've sold sex are treated as victims; the men and, very rarely, women who pimp them are vilified and punished.
Giovengo acknowledged that prosecuting men in numbers in harmony with the scale for problem would prove "very, very difficult." Deterrence aside, though, she said such prosecutions do help the victims of sexual exploitation.
"To be honest with you, there's nothing like seeing your victimizer heading to jail," she said. "It can prove to (the children) internally that they were a victim of a crime and not a perpetrator."
Stronger laws and a public willingness to address the issue have put a price on pimps' heads. In Washington, recruiting or transporting a child or an adult as part of the sex trade now can carry a prison sentence equivalent to second-degree murder; pimps who turn out children face punishment on par with defendants convicted of life-threatening assaults and violent rapes.
Records kept by the state Caseload Forecast Council show a steady growth in the number of prison sentences doled out for pimping-related crimes, and state and federal prosecutors have garnered several high-profile convictions against pimps sentenced to more than a decade in prison. Twenty-three defendants have been sentenced in pimping-related offenses in 2013, more than triple the number from a decade before; the past four years have seen 104 men and women sentenced on pimping charges.
Largely unaddressed, though, have been the men who make it all possible.
Kids walking still streetwalking in Seattle
Prosecutors in King County say they may have solved a piece of the puzzle, thanks largely to detectives posing as teen prostitutes.
Classic "john patrol" investigations work something like the May 30, 2012, bust that saw Seattle resident Scott M. Dougherty, 31, charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor.
That evening, King County Sheriff's Office detectives saw the girl first.
Wearing tight jeans and a puffy jacket, the 16-year-old walked in the 9800 block of Aurora Avenue North, a stretch of state highway long popular for streetwalking among prostitutes working out of motels near there. She'd passed a strip mall restaurant when Dougherty rolled up.
Detectives followed Dougherty's truck as the pair drove to an unlit alley, pulled over and turned out the lights. Dougherty was literally caught with his pants down.
Dougherty ultimately pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and was sentenced to four months in jail with work release, meaning he could leave jail for work. Because Dougherty did not plead guilty to a sex offense, he was not required to register as a sex offender.
Prior to sentencing, Dougherty was checked out by a social worker specializing in sex offender treatment. The reviewer described Dougherty as a sex addict in need of therapy; he would likely continue seeking out prostitutes if he didn't do so, the social worker.
Prosecutors require defendants to undergo similar screenings – sexual deviancy reviews, in the parlance of the court – before allowing the men to plead to reduced charges. During those reviews, offenders are questioned about their offenses and sexual histories by trained evaluators; Richey said deals aren't cut with offenders whose histories are particularly problematic.
Their advantages aside – actual girls often get pulled of the street is the big one – "john patrol" prosecutions can be difficult and time consuming. The "johns" are generally freed after their arrest and have little incentive to cut a deal that involves a significant sentence or sex offender registration. In King County, offenders caught "hands on" with girls are almost all allowed to plead to second-degree assault after a sexual deviancy evaluation.
Jury trials are generally rare – less than 4 percent of Washington's criminal defendants convicted in 2013 faced a jury – though sex crime cases are slightly more likely to go to jurors. Making a traditional child prostitution case stick at trial means the prostituted teen has to testify, and they're often not interested in doing so.
"The victim is often unwilling to cooperate or unable to cooperate because of having been manipulated or scared by their pimp," Richey said.
Prosecutions involving real girls have seen Seattle vice detectives cross the country to recover witnesses and bring them to court. Once there, they may decide to exercise their right exercise the right against self-incrimination and refuse to testify meaningfully.
The faux "girls" netting men online don't have such concerns.
Detectives finding dozens, hundreds of takers online
Posing online as girls interested in having sex for money, detectives in Seattle, Kent and elsewhere have found plenty of takers at a variety of popular websites.
"These are sites that are prolific with commercial sex transactions," said Richey, who serves as the King County Prosecutor's Office pointman on the commercial sexual abuse of children.
"These are men who respond. And when they respond, they respond en mass," Richey continued. "We're seeing dozens or even hundreds of responses to a single ad."
As a practical matter, the cases against the would-be "johns" are straightforward. The men aren't exactly subtle in discussing the sex acts they want to pay for, and they usually show up to the "date" loaded for bear.
"When they show up with a box of condoms and lubricants and sex toys, that's certainly indicative of what they're intending to do," Richey said.
Satterberg said he doesn't doubt each of the men undercover detectives nabbed and his deputies convicted would have found actual children to sexually exploit were it not for the stings.
Speaking at his downtown office, Satterberg described the effort as a new start in a relatively new fight, one that is for the prostituted girls as much as it is against prostitution.
"None of them wanted to have a life like this, to be put out on the street or trafficked on the Internet by a violent pimp, forced to have sex with dozens of men a week, keeping none of the money," Satterberg said.
"The more you find out about the reality of these young girls," he continued, "you have to conclude that our community is better than this."
Check the Seattle 911 crime blog for more Seattle crime news. Visit seattlepi.com's home page for more Seattle news.
Seattlepi.com reporter Levi Pulkkinen can be reached at 206-448-8348 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow Levi on Twitter at twitter.com/levipulk.


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Your morning roundup for June 8, the day you were warned not to follow purveyors of dong shots on Twitter. Video via tipster John.
What we watched: Just when it looked like Jozy Altidore belonged on the bench of a team in a town you've never heard of somewhere in Turkey, he goes and scores a goal and sets up another in the 2-0 United States win over Canada last night. Sure, the goal should have been stopped by the Canadian keeper. And, sure, it's Canada, not Spain, which didn't even let Altidore sniff the ball the other day. Whatever. It was nice to see Altidore doing that thing that strikers do when they kiss their wrists after they score. If he can turn himself into any sort of threat again, it'll open the field up for other players, as it did on Altidore's assist to Clint Dempsey.
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Against Canada, in fact, the entire U.S. team looked great. Tim Ream and Clarence Goodsen were solid in the back. Jermaine Jones was exactly the kind of steady defensive-minded central midfielder that should be paired with Michael Bradley, who likes to go forward and has been excellent doing so. Expect more of the same dominance in the next two matches against Panama and Guadeloupe. Then expect it to stop quite suddenly, possibly with a Chicharito hat trick. (Luke O'Brien)
What we're watching: It's hockey night in North America (8 p.m., Versus), and not in the same way it was after game one or game two. Boston routed the Canucks twice—4-0, then 4-1, in the final two periods of game three Monday night. They scored as much in each period as they had in games one and two combined. The scoreless first brought consequences, too: the Bruins' Nathan Horton was knocked out for the series, and the Canucks' Aaron Rome was suspended for the Horton hit. Not only is this a series now, but it's a series jolted from of its cushy low-scoring, mostly smart-hockey baseline. Scrums, scoring, shutouts: we might just see all of it tonight. (Jack Dickey)
Time to get that timeshare in Winnipeg: "Hockey? To Popeye Jones this had to be a phase. His sons wanted to play hockey? At first he smiled when the subject came up after he returned home from an NBA season away. Sure, he liked watching hockey and he noticed that the neighborhood children played it outside their suburban Denver home. But he was an NBA basketball player, after all, a forward well into an 11-year career. Didn't basketball players' kids want to be basketball players too?" [ThePostGame]
Terrelle Pryor may, in fact, have some 'splaining to do: "Terrelle Pryor, who announced through his attorney Tuesday that he would bypass his senior season at Ohio State, made thousands of dollars autographing memorabilia in 2009-10, a former friend who says he witnessed the transactions has told "Outside the Lines." The signings for cash, which would be a violation of NCAA rules, occurred a minimum of 35 to 40 times, netting Pryor anywhere from $20,000 to $40,000 that year, the former friend says." [ESPN]
Yeah, he's probably not leaving just because he misses Tressel: "In addition to Pryor's past NCAA transgressions, today I confirmed that Ohio State was recently cited by NCAA enforcment officials for dozens of payments Pryor received in past years from a Columbus sports memorabilia dealer that are considered outside of NCAA rules. The NCAA violations were discovered when the name of the local memorabilia dealer, Dennis Talbott, was seen on checks Pryor was depositing in his personal bank account." [Sports By Brooks]
X-Pac defends Mick Foley, a mensch among mere mortals: "When I recently learned Mick had joined forces with RAINN (Rape,Abuse & Incest National Network), the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization, I reached out to him to express my sincere gratitude for his work in fighting & helping bring awareness to this epidemic. Many of you may be asking yourselves, "Why is X Pac so concerned with Mick Foley's cause?" Good question; here's the answer: I am a survivor of repeated sexual abuse/molestation, from about age 5 to around the age of 12, at the hands of both female & male perpetrators. The most psychologically damaging incidents came at the hands of an adult male who actually brought me to my first pro wrestling match." [Real X-Pac]
Cocks of Manila: "This is the only sport in the whole world where there will never be one argument," Mr. Alexander says in a thick southern drawl. "If you lose, you pick up your chicken, hold your head high and walk out with class and dignity."[Wall Street Journal]
Paul Shirley enjoys Tecmo Bowl: "As video games go, Tecmo Super Bowl is not the most complex or the most intense. Its graphics are terrible (with the exception of the jumping high five) and like many Nintendo games, it only works about forty percent of the time (when the cartridge is pushed all the way in and when the Nintendo itself feels like it). But it reminds me why my brothers and I started playing video games in the first place. We didn't do it to escape from the world or to take out our anger on a set of pixellated Russians. We did it because video games are, at their core, games. And the primary objective of games, whether they're called Scattergories or Starcraft, is exactly what Tecmo Super Bowl delivers every time: fun." [Flip Collective]
Your morning freestyle canoe interlude:
Continuing Deadspin coverage of the Grantland countdown clock: Last night, Simmons tweeted, "We're launching Grantland.com tomorrow at noon ET. It's just too bad we don't have a countdown clock." Has this guy ever passed up a chance to needle ESPN when the stakes are astonishingly low? Also, Grantland staffer Molly Lambert tweeted, re: the new venture, "imagine the beginning of Thunder Road when you put on the first side of Born To Run #Grantland." We were thinking more the day you got to choose between Lucky Town and Human Touch.
We are all Dave McKenna CXXIV: Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit returns to its dreamer's dark heart. The Redskins are adding a party deck at FedEx Field. The party will resemble the one where your best friend stole your girl, similarly boozy and devoid of supportive seating, except it'll probably cost 75 dollars or so.
The cheerleader is dating Mark Sanchez's terrifying friend "Hayden Panettiere clearly has a thing for athletes. One month after she split with Ukrainian heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, a source tells Us Weekly that the 21-year-old Scream 4 star is dating New York Jets player Scotty McKnight, 23." [US Weekly]
Has Maury verified this bloodline?: "Valparaiso outfielder and new MLB draft pick Kyle Gaedele says he is proud of the major league bloodline that runs through his family - no matter how short it is. Gaedele, whom the San Diego Padres picked in the sixth round of the draft on Tuesday afternoon, is a great-nephew of 3-foot-7 Eddie Gaedel, the shortest (and lightest) player in major league history and star of its greatest stunt. Gaedele, who stands 6-foot-4, says he only knows what many fans do about his famous great-uncle, who weighed 65 pounds and dropped the third "e" in Gaedele for business purposes." [Big League Stew]


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Taka: Take it easy, Menos. We need people to vote for their Winter 2020 anime titles. animevice.boards.net/thread/15694/winter-2020-anime-guide Feb 10, 2020 4:09:02 GMT
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Master Menos: It's damn awesome to be honest. It shot to 1st Place! Feb 11, 2020 6:31:08 GMT
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Master Menos: My V-Day present will be belated this year because I "Had some trouble with ol' Johnny." (That's your hint.) Feb 15, 2020 4:17:13 GMT
Dream: The joys of adulthood. Joking aside, plan to at least attempt to wrap up Gankutsuou sometime early to mid next week so I can get done with my Funi voted titles. Afterward, not doing any more voting for a while considering how long this had been taking. Feb 15, 2020 16:50:30 GMT
Dream: Done with Gankutsuou. Will be working to get a review up for it by sometime tonight. Feb 16, 2020 20:57:26 GMT
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Taka: Great job, Dream! I should do some reviews, too. Feb 17, 2020 5:24:39 GMT
Dream: Looks like MAL's currently down due to the site getting hit by a major denial-of-service attack, just as a heads up. Feb 18, 2020 17:55:23 GMT
Taka: I added 2 polls tonight. Also, I wonder why MAL was down. Crunchyroll also had it, too. Feb 20, 2020 4:05:24 GMT
Dream: Not sure about Crunchyroll. For MAL, the DoS attacks may have been retaliation by those who dabbled into manipulating the site's scoring system for certain anime titles. The admin on MAL announced they would be overhauling the system to prevent said... Feb 20, 2020 13:42:15 GMT *
Dream: ...manipulation last week. Feb 20, 2020 13:42:45 GMT *
Master Menos: My Manga poll is up again after the rough time I had. Feb 20, 2020 20:59:12 GMT
Taka: I'm going to PM the folks who need to correct their ballots because they voted for anime series that didn't aired in 2019. I'll give them a week. Just another reminder Feb 21, 2020 5:27:37 GMT
Taka: I can do the calculations in the meantime Feb 21, 2020 5:27:46 GMT
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Master Menos: The Monthly Manga Poll is up! That should never have been a nightmare to post, but it was, somehow. Feb 25, 2020 20:35:49 GMT
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Abstract: Hybrid governance forms that seek to meld the virtues of both market control and traditional hierarchical control are alluring. While extensive research has examined such hybrids forms, the research has been restricted largely to external hybrids --- market exchanges infused with elements of hierarchical control. Comparatively little research, outside of the M-form literature, has examined internal hybrids --- hierarchical forms infused with elements of market control. This paper contends that common change initiatives, such as TQM, reengineering, autonomous work teams, and group-based rewards, are appropriately viewed as attempts to craft internal hybrids by selectively infusing elements of market control within hierarchy. However, these common change initiatives are implemented commonly in isolation and, as a consequence, violate patterns of complementarity that both sustain traditional hierarchy or support the stable infusion of market control. Managers overlay new measures on existing, functionally-oriented structures; they implement new structures without new performance measures and without new pay systems; they implement new pay systems, but fail to restructure or develop new performance measures. The paper argues that these violations of complementarity often trigger the unraveling of the bundle of elements that support traditional hierarchy and spiral hierarchies toward fundamental transformation. The clear trajectory of these transformations is toward quite radically, disaggregated organizations structured around teams. The paper presents both logic and evidence supporting the existence of complementarities among these common change initiatives. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6933
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Adapted from Andrew Carmellini | American Flavor | Ecco, 2011
Here's what I've learned from all the Korean cooks who've worked with us over the years: at the end of a long service, there's nothing better than Korean barbecue. We like to go to Hahm Ji Bach in Flushing, Queens (I like Park's in Los Angeles, too). But I wanted to learn how to make it myself. When I started asking Korean cooks about it, I learned that in every family recipe, there's always one key ingredient in the overnight marinade for sweetening and tenderizing. Sometimes it's Asian pears; sometimes it's kiwi. But the most popular ingredient? The ultimate American flavor: Coca-Cola.
This Korean barbecue recipe is definitely not authentic Korean bulgogi: it's my backyard version of that sweet-salty, late-night flavor. I like rib eyes for my version, but you can use any kind of steak that you like to grill—and actually, you don't need a grill to do it. Even if you're using the broiler in your apartment oven, I guarantee it will come out seriously succulent and flavorful. I really love to serve this with Korean kimchee, which you may wish to consider optional, and grated daikon, even though it's not Korean at all.–Andrew Carmellini
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As the author concedes, this Korean barbecue recipe is most definitely–and defiantly–not Korean bulgogi. That's a salty, sweet, supple, traditional Korean barbecue sensation that stipulates a specific cut of meat and a slew of other marinade ingredients. This is still salty, sweet, supple, and a barbecue sensation, though of a different (yet still darn enticing) sort. It's also a cinch of a weeknight dinner. Just 10 minutes in the a.m. to toss together the marinade and plop in the steak and dinner is almost done by the time you kick off your heels shoes when you come home. The original recipe called for monstrous 2 1/2 pound rib eyes. We adore a swell steak, but we don't often come across steaks of that girth, so thought we'd leave the exact size—and, yes, the exact timing—up to you.
Korean Steak
- Quick Glance
- Serves 4 to 6
- 1 cup soy sauce (preferably low-sodium)
- 1 cup Coca-Cola
- 1/4 cup toasted sesame oil
- 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 4 scallions, minced
- 2 rib eye steaks (bone-in or boneless), or other steak, such as sirloin
- 1. In a small bowl whisk together the soy sauce, Coke, sesame oil, and hoisin sauce. Add the garlic and scallions and whisk again.
- 2. To get the marinade on the steak, do whichever of these floats your boat: Place the steaks in a large deep dish, pour the marinade over them, and cover the dish tightly with tin foil or pour the marinade into a large resealable plastic bag, add the steaks, seal the bag, and shake them around till they're coated in the marinade. Either way, the steaks should marinate in the fridge for up to 12 hours but no longer than that.
- 3. Pull the steaks out of the marinade, pile them on a plate, and let them rest at room temperature for 20 to 30 minutes. Discard the marinade.
- 4. If you're using the grill, fire it up. Lay the meat right on the rack and let it grill until it gets a nice char, turning once. The timing will depend on the thickness of the steaks. You just want to get a nice char going, you don't want to cook them through. Transfer the steaks to a cooler portion of the grill until the desired doneness, about 4 minutes for medium-rare, depending on the thickness. They're done when the meat springs back to the touch [if you have a meat thermometer, the internal temperature should be 115°F (46°C)]. You could instead bring the steaks back inside and finish it on a rack in a roasting pan in an oven preheated to 400°F (204°C)…but why turn on the oven if there's no need?
If you're using a cast-iron skillet or grill pan, heat it over medium-high heat until hot but not smoking. Sear the steak on each side for about 4 minutes, then check the steak for doneness. If you prefer anything beyond medium-rare or if you're dealing with steaks that are larger than a pound or so each, transfer the steak and skillet to an oven preheated to 400°F(204°C) . The exact time that the steaks require in the oven depends on the thickness of the steaks. They're done to medium-rare when the meat springs back to the touch [if you have a meat thermometer, the internal temperature should be 115°F (46°C)].
If you're using the broiler, turn it on. Put the steaks on a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet, place the baking sheet on the middle or middle-high rack, and broil the steaks to the desired doneness. The exact timing will depend on the thickness of the steaks. They're done to medium-well when the meat springs back to the touch [if you have a meat thermometer, the internal temperature should be 115°F (46°C)].
No matter how you're cooking the steak, transfer the meat to a cutting board and let it rest for 5 minutes before thinly slicing it.
Korean Steak Recipe © 2011 Andrew Carmellini. Photo © 2011 Quentin Bacon. All rights reserved. All recipes and photos used with permission.
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