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Welcome to the Capital of the South, Invercargill
Invercargill is the southernmost city of New Zealand, known for its warm and friendly people, unique architecture and landmarks, wildlife and scenery.
The City of Invercargill is the southernmost city of New Zealand, known for its warm and friendly people, unique architecture and landmarks, wildlife and beautiful Southland scenery. The city is also the gateway to some of New Zealand's most beautiful destinations including Stewart Island, Fiordland and the Catlins. Whether you're just stopping by during a tour of the South Island, or choosing Invercargill as your next family holiday destination, you'll find plenty of things to see and do.
Starting in the city centre, you'll find Queens Park - a beautiful botanical reserve famous for its beautiful rose gardens and the huge Steans Memorial Winter Garden, filled with flowering potted plants. Other attractions here include a small wildlife park featuring deer, wallabies, and a large aviary of exotic birds.
The Water Tower on Leet Street is another very popular attraction - now allowing visitors to climb to the top and see breath-taking views of the entire city. This building was finished in 1889 for the Public Works Department, and is today a unique landmark of Invercargill.
If you're planning a day trip, the Invercargill Botanical Rose Gardens feature a wide variety of plants and groomed landscapes, a bird haven, kangaroos and llamas. While you're there you can stop by the nearby Southland Museum and Art Gallery on Gala Street. This unique building is designed in the shape of a pyramid, and features art exhibition galleries, live Tuatara, and a Sub Antarctic Islands Centre with an introduction to New Zealand's five isolated island reserves, which remain hundreds of kilometres south of Invercargill.
Just five kilometres north of Invercargill City Centre, you'll find the Anderson Park Art Gallery - an elegant Georgian style house built back in 1925, surrounded by carefully groomed gardens and New Zealand native bush. The Art Gallery itself is home to a number of works from famous New Zealand artists, as well as hand-made pottery, sculptures, landscapes and portraits.
Further out, just 45 minutes from Invercargill, you'll find Porpoise Bay - home to the rare Hector's dolphins. Take the opportunity to watch them surfing in the waves, and you might just see the yellow-eyed penguins, fur seals and sea lions while you're there. This beautiful beach is a stunning example of New Zealand wildlife at its best. And finally at the southernmost point of the South Island is Slope Point. This scenic wonder of New Zealand can be reached by a short 20-minute walk across private farmland. You'll know you're there when you find a signpost that shows the distance to the equator and the South Pole! Make sure you use the opportunity to take some photos while you're there.
Invercargill is very tourist-friendly and has plenty of shops, café's, restaurants and accommodation options available for travellers. If you're looking for affordable, comfortable accommodation that makes the most of the unique Southland scenery, book your accommodation at the Invercargill camping grounds - you'll find them just 10 minutes from Invercargill City and three minutes from the Southern Scenic Route!


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- Proceed on Route 192 west for 8 miles
- Make a right turn onto Church Rd. (immediately after crossing bridge into Village of Cowan)
- Make a right turn onto Dieffenderfer Rd.
- Lodge is at end of the gravel road

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Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Lying becomes automatic with practice
A more useful foundation for lie-detection is the simple fact that lying is more cognitively demanding than telling the truth. False answers therefore usually take slightly longer than honest responses, especially when a suspect is burdened with an extra mental challenge, such as telling their story backwards.
However, a new study suggests that the cognitive demands of lying can be reduced with practice. Xiaoqing Hu and his team presented 48 participants with dates, place names and other information and asked them to indicate with one of two button presses whether the information was self-relevant or not. In real life this would be equivalent to a suspect posing as a different person. Instructed to lie, the participants took longer to respond than when they told the truth, consistent with the well-established idea that lying is cognitively demanding.
Next, a third of the participants were told about the reaction time difference and given extensive practice (360 trials) at lying more quickly about the self-relevance of information. The requirement to get faster was made explicit because past research found lying practice without such an instruction was ineffective. On retesting, the trained participants in the current study no longer took more time to answer dishonestly compared with telling the truth. "Deception is malleable and its performance index can be voluntarily controlled to be more automatic," the researchers said.
Another group had no training but were told about the reaction time difference between lying and truth telling, and encouraged to answer faster when lying. They got faster at lying compared with a control group, but still they were speedier when being honest.
The researchers admitted that their sample size was small and a replication is needed with more participants. However, they said their results suggest that to be more realistic, lie-detection research based around the cognitive demands of lying should incorporate the effects of practice.
Hu, X., Chen, H., and Fu, G. (2012). A Repeated Lie Becomes a Truth? The Effect of Intentional Control and Training on Deception. Frontiers in Psychology, 3 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00488
Also published recently: Sorting the Liars from the Truth Tellers: The Benefits of Asking Unanticipated Questions on Lie Detection.
Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
5 comments:
- Atlantic Development Group said...
Lying becomes automatic with practice but HOW?????????
- 10:14 am
- Guires Research said...
Nice post valuable information about Lying practice .Keep up your good work doing Research and analysis
- 10:17 am
Great experiment using cognitive psychology to be able to tell the difference when someone is telling the truth or telling a lie based on the time it took them to tell it. Does lying really become automatic, I'm not sure, but I do believe that someone can train themselves to mask their lie as truth effectively. The person still has to first decide if they're going to tell the truth or a lie before they tell the truth/lie.
- 5:47 pm
Its interesting knowing that the brain can be trained to lie when practiced. People can put on such called bluffs and make them seem almost realistic and believable. Studies show that the brain can not be trained to lie but it can change into another personality in a person.
- 12:24 am
Very intriguing. I must agree with the post above that lying is learned and as a result, it can alter a person's personality. The mind is a powerful thing. Over time and with much thought, we can manipulate our cognitive processes to say false statements. With much practice, I believe a person can become a "professional liar." That meaning they are not giving any communication whatsoever that they are lying. I believe this experiment is a great way to use cognitive psychology. Props to those who are involved!
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The Spring Racing Carnival is upon us again. It's the time of the year when we dust off the fascinator, order the chicken and champagne lunch, and get out the form guide. The roses are blooming at Flemington, the TAB has been urging the punters amongst us to place our bets ahead of Cup Day to avoid the queues, and most of us will be taking part in the office sweep for the race that stops a nation. Continue reading


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A Letter to the Editor in the April 13, 2010, Tomahawk Leader:
I'm well aware of the adage "curiosity killed the cat." Nevertheless I'm curious as to why the continuation of cluttered, unsanitary yards and buildings are allowed immunity from the city "junk ordinance."
I'm told the protocol is to file a complaint against the properties at the town hall. They in turn are to pass it on to the Police Dept. for enforcement.
So you file a complaint and later check with the police dept. only to be told they have no record of a complaint ever having been filed.
What's going on here? Is there an unholy alliance in existence between the enforcement personnel and slumlord owner/tenants allowing immunity?
Let's show some pride in our property!
To reiterate, I'm just curious.
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Perhaps no player symbolises how much Arsenal have progressed more than Aaron Ramsey. There was a time when the midfielder was the target of such fierce criticism from a section of Arsenal's fans that Arsène Wenger wondered whether it would be best to leave him out of home matches for his own sake, but no one doubts his value now. These days the questions Wenger has to answer concern whether Ramsey will develop into one of the best players in the world after his outstanding start to the season.
It has been quite a turnaround for Ramsey, whose goal in the 1-0 win at Borussia Dortmund three weeks ago has put Arsenal in control in their Champions League group with two matches remaining. The 22-year-old has scored 11 times in all competitions but no goal has been more significant than the one in Dortmund. Marseille, who are bottom of Group F with no points, arrive at the Emirates on Tuesday night with nothing but pride to play for and a home win would put Arsenal through if Dortmund do not win at home to Napoli. If Dortmund lose, a draw would suffice.
Few predicted this scenario when Arsenal, who are likely to replace Jack Wilshere with Mathieu Flamini after the Frenchman's return from suspension, were drawn alongside Dortmund, the beaten finalists last season, and Rafael Benítez's Napoli. Yet Arsenal, the Premier League leaders and top of their Champions League group, have been busy confounding expectations and Ramsey, who has worked so hard to regain his form after breaking a leg against Stoke City in 2010, typifies their growing maturity.
"Let's not forget that one year ago people were saying to me: 'It's difficult to play him at the Emirates,'" Wenger said. "But you have to give him credit for that transformation – the credit goes to him because he could deal with that. He could come back, never give up, convince everybody that he has the needed quality.
"You could see there was an impatience with him. As a manager you think: 'Do I push him through and he can go more down or do you give him a breather to regenerate to get him a fresh start?' That's always difficult for us to assess because it is linked to their mental state. When their confidence is down they are in trouble. But he is a confident boy."
Confident enough to hit the post with a volleyed backheel in Saturday's 2-0 win over Southampton. Sitting next to Wenger, Ramsey smiled. "It was instinctive," he said. "The ball came to me at that angle so I thought: 'Why not? Have a go.'"
Wenger appreciates that ambition and imagination but stressed that Ramsey still has plenty to learn. "He's 22-years-old," he said. "I'm 64 and I still think I can improve so why should a guy who is 22 think he is at the top of his game. It's impossible. If he has the right attitude, he will continue to improve."
So will Arsenal, but they are taking nothing for granted. Even though Marseille are without the injured André Ayew and Dimitri Payet and could play several promising youngsters, Wenger pointed out that they have won their past two league matches and also refused to discuss whether Arsenal are among the tournament favourites. "If we qualify, maybe," he said.
Then again, Wenger, who said that Lukas Podolski needs another "three or four weeks" to recover from his hamstring injury after his return to training, does not mind if his side are seen as outsiders. "It's not too bad that they don't talk about us. What is important for us is that we qualify. In recent years we have not been spoiled by the draw. We didn't play Mickey Mouse teams. We played Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Milan.
"I like it that people are not talking about us because it means you can focus on what is important, which is to play well and not answer too many questions or get a false level of confidence. Just enjoy what you are really here for, which is to play football."


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March 04, 2011
Review: MAC Style Snob
Lately (on days when I actually wake up early enough to slap on more than just blush and lipbalm), I've been wearing eyeshadow.
And among the many, many eyeshadows I have amassed over the years, I find that I've been reaching for this one fairly frequently - MAC Style Snob.
And so I thought it would be good for me to share my thoughts on it. Here goes!
MAC Snob to me, is a gorgeous taupe-y brown, and a fantastic crease shade. More often than not, all I need is a little bit of a base shade (I used this yesterday), with Style Snob as a wash over my lids and I'm done!
It works well, both on its own and when used with other shades. It's very neutral and very work appropriate, in my opinion.
Texture-wise, it comes in the Starflash finish and it's soft and pigmented enough to be easily picked up with a brush. It applies beautifully, and blends easily with other shades too. It's very shimmery but I do love shimmer, so no issues there.
One slight problem though. Style Snob was an LE from the MAC Love That Look collection which was released around July 2009, and I don't think it's been back since. However, the good news is, there is always eBay and the likes.
(Style Snob on the left, with another hugely popular taupe shade, Smoke & Diamonds, from the same collection.)
It's also said to be a lighter version of the permanent Satin Taupe, so you might want to take a look at that too.
(With Estee Lauder Silver Leaf as a base, and Style Snob as a wash. Please do pardon my awful brows. Been too busy to keep them in check!)
It is worth it? I believe very much so. I love this shade.
PS: How much did this cost me? Oh dear, I haven't bought a MAC eyeshadow for so long, I can't even remember how much one costs, but it should be priced the same as their permanent range.
7 comments:
- Crystal Gan said...
The MAC eyeshadows have recently increased in price. It is now RM60 per eyeshadow pot.
- 4 March 2011 at 09:05
- Jenn said...
Thanks for the review! I kinda regret not getting style snob because its such a versatile shade!! :D
I LOVE my smoke and diamonds to death though... i've been using it very often lately! :D
- 4 March 2011 at 10:17
- Askmewhats said...
I think I have a similar shade of this from Bobbi brown but I can't really tell if its really close or just because of photos?
Overall it looks really good for daily makeup :D
- 4 March 2011 at 14:59
- Petra said...
Aiyo Syen. You're going to turn me into a cosmetics thief by night!
- 7 March 2011 at 10:41
- Syen said...
Cystal: Thanks for the update! =)
Jenn: Ooh yea.. I love my Smoke & Diamonds too! It's awhsum!
Nikki: Yeaps. It is! =)
Petra: *tee hee* As long you don't steal MY Style Snob... LOL.
- 7 March 2011 at 15:45
Hi I liked this colour but is it a limited edition because I cannot see it on the net.
- 27 March 2011 at 20:17
- Rita G. Howell said...
Great review! Keep it up! Your blog is awesome!
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Before I started buying fabric to make fabric flowers ( that now I make for my shop, to come!!) I had great fun in finding scrap pieces of fabric or any other fabric I could use. And those dollar stores organza bags that they give you as loot bags at parties some times are a perfect source!
They cost 1 dollar /package of 4 at my local dollar store.
1. The bag...
2. Cut off the top
3. Tighten the knot by pulling the ribbon
4. Cut the ribbon
5. If you want, put more flowers for more layers. In this case I used a white organza bag
6. Use a hot glue gun to attach them together and stitch some cute beads in the middle
7.Use the hot glue gun again to attach a hair pin
8. Here I made another one with pearl beads
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According to this page, Concept Subsumption is defined as follows:
Given an ontology O and two classes A, B, verify whether the interpretation of A is a subset of the interpretation of B in every model of O.
For example, concept mapping the string "Lung Cancer Symptom" would yield the following concepts - "lung cancer symptoms", "lung", "cancer", "lung cancer" and "cancer symptoms". Using the definition above, we can say that the concept for "lung cancer symptoms" subsumes the other concepts listed, since the meaning of the words in this concept is a subset of the meaning of the same words in the set of other concepts.
However, if you now look at the same problem from a pure text processing point of view, its just an application of the Longest Match or Maximal Munch rule - ie, map the longest substring(s) that can be mapped to one or more concepts.
My TGNI application reports all concepts found (along with their start and end positions) in a body of text. While some clients may prefer to filter the concepts based on custom (usually semantic) criteria, subsumption is a common enough requirement to be the default expected behavior. So I need to modify TGNI to only return the longest matches (unless all concepts are specifically requested).
A naive implementation of such a filter would be to sort the concepts based on match length (longest first), then for each matched text, check for subsumption with the concepts previous to it on the list, basically an O(n2) operation. Checking for subsumption involves either checking whether the current matched text is a substring of all the previous ones, or whether the range defined by the start and end positions are contained in all the previous ranges.
Another interesting way, which I thought about recently, would be to compute intersections of bitsets representing the input text and the matched text and drop a concept if the intersection caused no change in cardinality. Its probably easier to describe with an example:
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input : patient with lung cancer symptoms 111111111111111111111111111111111
(13,32) : lung cancer symptoms 111111111111100000000000000000000
(18,32) : cancer symptoms 111111111111100000000000000000000
(14,23) : lung cancer 111111111111100000000000000000000
(18,23) : cancer 111111111111100000000000000000000
(13,17) : lung 111111111111100000000000000000000
Notice how the only time the cardinality (number of 1s) of the input bitset changes is when the bitset for "lung cancer symptoms" is ANDed with the input bitset. Using our test described above, the only concept that would survive the subsumption filtering is this one.
Here is some JUnit prototype code I wrote to prove to myself that this will work as described above. Folding this code into the ConceptAnnotator is fairly trivial (it will be called as a post-processing step to remove ConceptAnnotations from the FSIndex after all the concepts are mapped), so I will not describe that code on the blog unless I make some major changes to that class in the future.
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// Source: src/test/java/com/mycompany/tgni/uima/annotators/concept/MaximalMunchTest.java
package com.mycompany.tgni.uima.annotators.concept;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.lucene.util.OpenBitSet;
import org.junit.Test;
public class MaximalMunchTest {
private static class Annot {
public int start;
public int end;
public String text;
public Annot(int start, int end, String text) {
this.start = start;
this.end = end;
this.text = text;
private static final String INPUT =
"lung cancer symptoms and kidney cancer";
// 0 1 2 3
// 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789
// lung cancer symptoms and kidney cancer
public static final Annot[] ANNOTS = new Annot[] {
new Annot(0, 3, "lung"),
new Annot(0, 10, "lung cancer"),
new Annot(0, 19, "lung cancer symptoms"),
new Annot(5, 10, "cancer"),
new Annot(5, 19, "cancer symptoms"),
new Annot(5, 10, "cancer"),
new Annot(25, 30, "kidney"),
new Annot(25, 37, "kidney cancer"),
new Annot(32, 37, "cancer")
public void testMaximalMunch() throws Exception {
OpenBitSet tset = new OpenBitSet(INPUT.length());
tset.set(0, tset.length());
List<Annot> annots = Arrays.asList(ANNOTS);
// sort the annotations, longest first
Collections.sort(annots, new Comparator<Annot>() {
public int compare(Annot annot1, Annot annot2) {
Integer len1 = annot1.end - annot1.start;
Integer len2 = annot2.end - annot2.start;
return len2.compareTo(len1);
List<Annot> maxMunchAnnots = new ArrayList<Annot>();
long prevCardinality = tset.cardinality();
for (Annot annot : annots) {
OpenBitSet aset = new OpenBitSet(tset.length());
aset.set(0, tset.length());
aset.flip(annot.start, annot.end);
long cardinality = tset.cardinality();
if (cardinality == prevCardinality) {
// complete overlap, skip
prevCardinality = cardinality;
for (Annot annot : maxMunchAnnots) {
System.out.println("(" + annot.start + "," +
annot.end + "): " + annot.text);
As expected, the code successfully identifies the longest matched concepts in the list.
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[junit] (0,19): lung cancer symptoms
[junit] (25,37): kidney cancer
The nice thing about this algorithm is that it has O(n), ie linear complexity, compared to the naive approach I described above, at a cost of slightly more memory used to hold the bitsets. What do you think? If you have suggestions on a different/better algorithm/data structure to achieve this stuff, would appreciate you letting me know.


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Access to the Collection All Day, Every DayIt used to be that you could only discover and experience the works of art in the Museum's distinguished collection if you happened to be physically in the galleries while a given object was on view. In the last decade, however, all that has changed. The internet has allowed an audience of art lovers the world over to access the collections in unprecedented ways, and now we're entering a new chapter in this growth with ART 24/7. The goal of ART 24/7 is to make the entire diverse and dynamic collection accessible to everyone, everywhere, at any time, by publishing detailed records and high-quality photographs of each object online. With 227,000 works of art among the Museum's holdings, it's an enormous and ambitious undertaking. Each one of these objects is a treasure that tells its own unique story about time, place, and the connecting threads that weave cultures and eras together. With ART 24/7, these stories can always be available for your study and delight whether the physical object is on display in the galleries, on loan to another museum, being cared for, or in storage for safekeeping due to fragility. Accomplishing this involves giving each object a new life—a digital life—with unlimited reach and scope. It's an ongoing, multi-faceted project that has actually been evolving for some time. ART 24/7 is off to an exciting start, and the possibilities are only growing. Be a part of the future of the collections, and help make each object's story known, by making a gift to ART 24/7 today.
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In 2001, the Museum began entering objects into a collections management database known as The Museum System, or TMS. Every print, painting, textile, sculpture, decorative object--indeed, every single one of the Museum's holdings, has a spot in this growing database. Many of the object records are incomplete, but as the project proceeds, staff will add updated information, interpretive material, and photography available for each object. Documenting the collection is a huge project that requires the tireless work of many behind-the-scenes researchers, photographers, media managers, and more. Objects need to be photographed, and the resulting images need to be processed. Information is checked, enhanced and edited. Before an object can be published online all the information needs to be checked again, and any image rights need to be secured. After an object record is published online, the task is still not completed--each record is continually checked to make sure that the online database always reflects any subsequent additions or changes that are made to it. Your support of ART24/7 allows this critical work to continue. In addition to being checked regularly and updated as necessary, web-published objects may be enhanced with any number of features: audio tours or video clips, links to an artist biography or a gallery of similar objects, maps of both the object's origin and where it resides in the galleries, and educational resources. By publishing object information online--images, audio, video, and other digital assets--we are opening up the entire collection for you to explore and use in your own way. You may share your favorites and educate others via social media, use our collection to deepen your understanding of art, help others find connections, and anything else you can imagine. This initiative is made possible by generous support from The Annenberg Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Young Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rubin Family Foundation, and individuals including Martha Hamilton Morris and I. Wistar Morris III, Lisa D. Kabnick and John H. McFadden, and David Kowitz.


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Artifacts from the Queen Anne�s Revenge, flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard, were installed Friday in Duffy Gallery at the N.C. History Center.
Artifacts from the Queen Anne�s Revenge, flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard, were installed Friday in Duffy Gallery at the N.C. History Center.
The exhibit, which has more than 30 pieces, informational panels and a video, will be on display through Feb. 15.
There is also a traveling trunk with games and a model life-sized pirate. The exhibit has multimedia displays explaining what life was like aboard the ship, and will feature Tryon Palace�s own original 1710 royal portrait of Queen Anne, for whom Blackbeard named the ship.
Staff members from the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort brought the exhibit to New Bern. It has toured the state, with its latest stops being in Asheville, Edenton and Sedalia.
Michael Carraway, the exhibition curator at the state�s maritime museums, said this exhibit tours at state historic sites such as the Palace. It is the largest of the traveling Blackbeard exhibits, some of which have been shown as far away as California.
Lynn Anderson, the museum�s collections manager, said the Palace exhibit has 31 pieces and five concretions.
Concretions, she explained, are masses of calcium, sand and metal corrosion, typical with shipwrecks. They usually contain clusters of artifacts in concrete-hard masses.
The exhibit includes a replica cannon from the Queen Anne.
Anderson explained that most of the recovered cannons weight in the range of 1,000 pounds, making them unsuitable for exhibit travel.
She said it takes five years to exhibit a cannon after it is recovered. The process includes cleaning, rinsing, 2 years of electrolysis, drilling and brushing. Some of the cleaning instruments are tiny, so as to not eliminate any markings.
She said the most popular items, especially among children, are cannon balls. There are two six-pounders in this exhibit. The cannons had a range of upwards of a mile, but were much more accurate at short range.
There are glass pieces and putter plates and brass measuring instruments among the artifacts.
Anderson said the recovered items, which as processed at an East Carolina University lab outside Greenville, range from 1680 to 1715.
The Queen Anne was sunk off Beaufort in 1718. There are about 400 recovered artifacts at the museum in Beaufort.
Admission to the exhibit is included with the regular cost of admission to Tryon Palace, or a separate Galleries Pass may be purchased at a cost of $12 for adults and $6 for students.
For more information call 639-3500 or on the web: tryonpalace.org.
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Starring Heroes' Greg Grunberg, Big Ass Spider is about a big-ass spider. Specifically, a big-ass alien spider who, "escapes from a military lab and rampage the city of Los Angeles. When a massive military strike fails, it is up to a team of scientists and one clever exterminator to kill the creature before the city is destroyed." Damn, we love these sort of B-movies.
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Oneida grad Dylan McGee living dream of making money from video games
ONEIDA >> Nobody will be able to convince Dylan McGee that playing video games is a waste of his time.
The 19-year-old Oneida High School Class of 2011 graduate just returned from a video game tournament in Beverly Hills last week, where his four-person team won a prize of $35,000.
"I think it's every kid's dream to be able to play video games for a living," McGee said.
McGee, the son of Patti McGee of Oneida and John Hoffman of Sherrill, is a sophomore computer information systems major at Mohawk Valley Community College. He was only 4 years old when he played his first video game, and from there a life-long hobby -- now turned into a profitable business -- began.
In those early days, McGee liked playing "Mario Party," "Mario Kart," and the game based on the James Bond film "Goldeneye." Xbox Live changed the way he played video games back when he was just starting middle school, he recalled. The Xbox let him compete against other players remotely with each of them operating their own game consoles from their own homes.
He was into "Halo" by the time he was in 8th grade, and went to a tournament at the Mind Games store in Oneida where he and a classmate won 14 contests in a row. That first competition won each of them somewhere around $20, McGee remembered.
After that, McGee devoted his time to mastering "Call of Duty," where he played against gamers from all over North America from the comfort of his home. In 2008, his team was even ranked second in virtual competition, and in 2009 they won the playoffs against 4,000 teams in a "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" tournament.
In 2010 he started playing "Modern Warfare 2" and joined up with the Major League Gamer (MLG) group. They placed fourth in their first MLG event.
McGee and a group of his online gaming buddies saw the announcement of a "Halo Reach" tournament in Washington, D.C. that same year, and decided to try their skills against the more than 1,000 other participants at that competition. He recalled the tournament was "crazy," a giant convention center filled with people with the same interests he shared. They placed a respectable 44th out of 256 teams there, he said.
A move to "Call of Duty: Black Ops" in 2011 brought McGee to five major events that year, traveling to Dallas, Columbus, Orlando, Raleigh, and Providence with different teams. They placed 18th in four out of five of those competitions, and 17th in the other.
"That was really the beginning for me," McGee said of traveling to those competitions.
Since then, he has competed in Chicago a couple of times, Philadelphia, and Dallas, watching his winnings increase as he became more experienced in playing the tournaments. At the Dallas event last month they placed third out of 206 teams, bringing home $7,000 between them.
They also earned an invitation to the "Call of Duty" championships at the Hollywood Palladium in Beverly Hills.
McGee and his team received plane tickets, a hotel room, and a private driver -- although his mom quipped he always had a private driver to his video game events while growing up -- for the April 4-8 championship. They had one major glitch, however. The championship was for players 17 and older, and one of McGee's teammates was only 16. This meant bringing in a new fourth member, and having only two weeks to practice together as a team.
Spending three to four hours a night every night honing their skills together, the foursome prepared for their trip to California.
"It wasn't an ideal situation, but we had to deal with it," McGee said of the roster change.
McGee text messaged his mother within an hour of arrival in California to say he wouldn't be coming back.
"No one should go there with intentions of going home," he said. "We passed by $2 million worth of cars just parked, and we saw SONY Studios, the Hollywood sign, and Playboy mansion. It was insane."
There were 32 teams in the championship, with 15 from North America and the rest hailing from as far away as England, Italy, Ireland, Germany, and New Zealand. On the first day of competition, they arrived at the Palladium at 10 a.m. and practiced for 90 minutes. There were five gaming stations, and they played their first match, had an hour break, and then played two more.
They won all three that day.
McGee said they were done by 3:30 p.m., but stayed around socializing and watching other competitors until 5 p.m. Then they took a shuttle back to the hotel, and went out sight-seeing.
The second day they were back at 9 a.m. and won their first game. They lost their second, but came back in a the third with another win. They ended up losing the fourth that day, but played a consolation game and won.
McGee said the highlight of the event was when they beat the German team to place in the top eight teams.
"That was when I knew we were going to go home with some money," he said. "I was just happy to be in that moment and to share it with my teammates."
The team's seventh place finish won $35,000 to split between them. McGee said his portion would make his car insurance payment with the rest going into the "unfortunate events" fund.
"Now my mom will not have to support my video game habit," he joked.
McGee has also landed major company sponsorship, including VVV Gaming, SteelSeries, and Raza. He will compete next in the UGC Niagara tournament with some friends in early May, followed by a trip with his regular team to an MLG event in California at the end of June and then on to Florida in early August.
While some people might object to the war-themed games and their inherent violence, Patti McGee said her son was told right from when he started playing the difference between the shooting and killing in the game and the way he should act in the real world.
"We educated him early on about what is real and what isn't, and that this is OK when used in the right context," she said. "Video games don't kill people."
His mom said McGee has worked hard to be able to compete and win in the tournaments, and over the years the family has made a lot of time and financial sacrifices to transport him to and from competitions all over the country.
She recalled the long hours of travel and practice time, countless holiday and birthday gifts of money and games to help nurture his passion, and the time they arrived in Washington D.C. with only $3 in her pocket. Thanks to his winnings, though, their investment is starting to pay off.
"Now he's getting a nice return on all of our hard work, and I wouldn't change a thing," Patti McGee said. "We've supported him right from day one. Playing video games has really changed Dylan for the better. They have helped him mature, and now he can talk to adults and hold a nice conversation with them. He has had to hire and fire players and really treats his video gaming as a business."
"I wish other parents would realize playing video games is not just a waste of time," McGee added. "I've built some really great connections through it. I used to be shy but this has given me the place to reach out and make friends. Too many people think video game players are antisocial, but they are just socializing in their own way. If kids enjoy doing something, they should just support them."
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Directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo, a notable Manga artist and anime (animation) creator in
The story was also written by director Katsuhiro Ōtomo. The complexity of the story can be overshadowed by the animation quality of the movie. All of the characters are well-organized and the characters are easily introduced to the viewers. The story is based on the unsettle situation of post World War II Japan. The destruction of the nuclear explosion is clearly seen in the movie. Above all, you will find a new
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Spirited Away
The Academy Award winning movie Spirited Away is another trade mark anime (animation) movie produced in
The movie was first released in Japanese language in 2001 and later on translated in to English and released in US,
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
The movie is one of the greatest ever anime produced in
The movie depicts the future technology and plotted in 2032. You already know about the movie Terminator, a super block bluster movie of
The movie was released in 2004 in
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Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke is one of the greatest anime ever made in
The movie is based on an interesting story. Ashitaka is the prince of Emishi. He saved his village from a demon God and eventually he was suffered from a dangerous disease. Aiming to be cured from the disease, the price set out for
The movie was released in 1997 and at that time it was the most expensive animation movie with a production cost of US$20 million. The movie was a mixture of traditional technology of making anime and computer technology. Among the 144,000 drawn cells, about 80,000 cells were re-drawn by the director.
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Ninja Scroll
The movie is based on a story of feudal
You will find an attractive love story between the two protagonist roles of Kagero, a beautiful Ninja, and the hero Jubei. The story is plotted in a national crisis of the country. A giant man is emerged in the movie with an evil power and the couple tries to save themselves from this evil power.
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Grave of the Fireflies
Based on the World War II, the movie has been critically acclaimed both in
The movie depicts the post World War II destroyed
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Perfect Blue
The story of the movie Perfect Blue is little complicated but the story explores a mysterious serial killer. Mima Kirigoe is a popular pop star who wants to be an actress. That is why, she left his group. At that time, she finds a autobiographical website which seems to her own autobiography and the most interestingly the name of the website is Miam's Room. She suspects her manager Rumi. Then through a drama series, Mima rises to stardom as an actress. However, a serial killer emerges in the movie and the situation starts changing overnight. The quality of the animations is really very good and the characters are well designed too.
The movie was directed by Satoshi Kon. At first the movie was released in
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The movie is one of the forerunners of the Japanese anime outside
In the movie, the anime fans were first introduced with the dark future which has become a common topic of the science fictions now-a-days. The movie shows the fight between human and vampires. The movie starts in 12,090 A.D. where vampires dominate the world and humans are seen struggle for their survival. The movie was released in three languages- Japanese, English and Spanish.
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My Neighbor Totoro
The movie is another great anime of Hayao Miyazaki, the most famous anime creator in
My Neighbor Totoro was produced by Studio Ghibli in 1988 and later on the movie was released in
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Cowboy Bebop
This anime series was directed by Shinichiro Watanabe. The movie was released in 2001 in
The movie is based on the bounty hunter cowboys. The story of the movie starts in 2071. Some crews visits solar system in search of bounties. Each of the 26 episodes of the anime is based on a particular bounty.
The martial art action scenes are really something attractive for the viewers. The background music is largely dominated by both Americaan jazz and rock music. The well-organized characters are impressive and music used in the movie helped the movie get such a huge success. Besides the two counties, the movie was also released in Brzil and
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- Domestic violence is a pattern of coercion that can include repeated battering and injury, psychological abuse, sexual assault, progressive social isolation, deprivation and intimidation
- Over five million women a year are affected by domestic violence in the United States; over one million victims require medical attention
- In the United States, a woman is beaten every nine seconds by an intimate or former partner
- 75 percent of women who are in an abusive relationship receive battering to their face and head area
- Women are more often victims of domestic violence than victims of burglary, muggings or other physical crime combined
- Women who leave their batterers are at 75 percent greater risk of severe injury or death than those who stay
- 42 percent of murdered women in the United States are killed by their intimate partners
The National Domestic Project…
The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) through its Educational and Research Foundation, is the first surgical group to take a firm stand against domestic violence. Through surgery, counseling, and support, the AAFPRS is helping victims to break out of the cycle of abuse, enhance their self-esteem and begin to rebuild their lives. In 1994, the AAFPRS teamed up with the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) – the umbrella group for a majority of shelters in the United States – to develop FACE TO FACE: The National Domestic Violence Project. The AAFPRS works hand-in-hand with shelters nationwide in making sure that the individual is helped emotionally as well as physically. After the psychological healing has begun (with the help of professional counseling) and the victim is safely away from the violent relationship, surgery is performed to repair damaged facial features and to hopefully alleviate the painful memories of past abuse.
The AAFPRS is leading the medical community in the fight against domestic violence by helping to empower individuals who have been physically abused. Participating AAFPRS surgeons offer complimentary consultation and surgery to survivors of domestic violence.
AAFPRS Is Taking A Firm Stand…
The initial call.
The AAFPRS and NCADV offer a 24-hour toll-free number – 1-800-842-4546 – for victims of domestic violence who are burdened with physical scars or injuries located on the head, face, and neck. During the initial call, survivors are screened to determine if their injuries are a result of domestic violence, if they are out of the abusive relationship, and to obtain a brief description of the injuries sustained.
A domestic violence shelter must be contacted.
The survivor is given the name of a domestic violence shelter in their local area and advised to set up an appointment with a domestic violence counselor at the program. There are two purposes for this appointment: to receive verification from an independent source that the injuries are due to domestic violence, and to ensure that all participants are attending a local domestic violence program. It is anticipated that the individuals requesting services will have been out of the violent situation for at least one-year.
Facial plastic surgeon referral.
The shelter counselor then contacts the AAFPRS domestic violence coordinator to confirm that the individual has begun the inner healing process and is out of the abusive relationship. The next step is a referral to an AAFPRS local surgeon who will provide complimentary consultation and surgery.
The process is simple – no forms are required – just the heartfelt desire of individuals to empower their own lives, make the changes that are necessary to free themselves from harmful situations and to move away from the emotional and physical effects of abuse.
The AAFPRS is the world's largest association of facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons – with more than 2,600 members – whose cosmetic and reconstructive surgery focuses on the face, head and neck. Academy fellows are board-certified and subscribe to a code of ethics.
Partial funding for this program has been provided by Physician's Choice of Arizona, Inc. and Allergan. We would also like to thank LifeCell Corporation for their donation of the product Alloderm, for use by patients in this program.


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Hi Guys, just to let you know a black Míleata watch was stolen from a hotel in Utah a short while ago. It was serial number 8 (as far as I remember)
Just incase they try to sell it online.
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Thanks for spreading the word, Graeme. That's an easy one to remember.
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|Glow - the next frontier tackled by the scientists at MVP! Inside the white outer rim is a dense concentration of glow material. Using the signature outer-rim plastic to hold ALL the glow material makes the Eclipse line Volt one of the brightest glowing discs out there. No more dull camoflage orbs


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"That's what they call 'mud,'" I say, getting my camera out. As I'm blogging the photographs, he wants to put the instructions his way: "Step 1: Buy the best coffee beans you can afford. Step 2: Grind as fine as possible. Step 3: Put ground coffee in a mug, pour hot water over it, stir. Step 4: Allow 1 minute for grounds to settle — for mud to settle — to the bottom. Step 5: Profit! Enjoy! Salut!"
I'm all excited because mud is a theme here on the blog lately. Writing yesterday about The House of Fallen Timbers, I was thinking about Henry David Thoreau, who built his cabin in the woods. I dug out an old quote about that, and got quite absorbed in a passing reference to Thoreau's concern with "how to get my living honestly, with freedom left for my proper pursuits." What are these "proper pursuits" that are not getting your living, and how much do you try to make time — to make freedom — for the things that are not living-getting? Do you even think in those terms? Perhaps you see getting your living as your proper pursuit, and it involves no loss of freedom. But then why do you see it that way? If you did not see it that way, what would you see? What would be your proper pursuit if it was not doing your job for the purpose of making a living? Perhaps there is another way to make coffee.
But Meade's mud took me back to the comments on the "Fallen Timbers" post. In the comments over there, Milwaukee said:
Henry David Thoreau is much more impressive if one doesn't learn that his mum wondered [sic] out once a week to collect, and drop off, laundry. But he did give us some things to think about, and I have a few favorite quotes, attributable to him, which I mangle. Specifically, the one about 'want to live, so as when I came to die, find that I had not lived.' and the different drummer thang.Ah, it hurt me to see him diminished like that, because Thoreau had a big effect on me as a teenager, when I was thinking about how I wanted to live — what my proper pursuit was. There was one quote in particular, not any of the ones Milwaukee mangled. It was something with a distinctive word — mud — which made it easy to Google. I found it and wrote this in the comments on the "Fallen Timbers" post:
I was assigned to give the "invocation" at my high school graduation, and I based it on a Thoreau quote. Afterwards, some people — including a nun — criticized me for not making a more conventional prayer.Are you going about your business?
Now, I teach Religion and the Constitution in law school, including the case where the Supreme Court nixed all graduation prayers.
My rights were soooo violated, and I was only trying to share a Thoreau quote that impressed me.
And now I share Thoreau quotes with all the world.
This was the quote:
"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through Church and State, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin, having a point d'appui, below freshet and frost and fire, a place where you might found a wall or a state, or set a lamp-post safely, or perhaps a gauge, not a Nilometer, but a Realometer, that future ages might know how deep a freshet of shams and appearances had gathered from time to time. If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business."


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LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE >> New findings on the surface of Mars suggest the Red Planet was a habitable environment more recently than researchers previously thought.
The rover Curiosity found evidence of an ancient lake that could have supported life as we know it for possibly millions of years. The results were detailed among six different papers published Monday in the journal Science.
The lake, about 30 miles long by three miles wide, was located at the base of Mount Sharp in Yellowknife Bay and believed to have been filled with fresh water at least 3.7 billion years ago. Though that water is long gone, the clay sediments and formations left behind contain clues of a soggier, life-sustaining version of the dry, barren Mars we know today.
"The rocks that we drilled into were very fine grain rocks called mudstones," Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said. "Those kind of fine grain sediments, you'd expect to settle out in a lake."
Samples extracted by Curiosity's drill and studied by the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) software marks the first time nitrogen has been detected on Mars, according to Doug Ming, lead author of the new report and a soil mineralogist at NASA Johnson Space Center. Other building blocks of life like carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and phosphorus were also found in the minerals.
"Quite honestly, it just looks very Earth-like," Curiosity lead scientist John Grotzinger told Space.com.
Curiosity landed on Mars in August 2012 with the goal of finding evidence that the Gale Crater could have supported microbial life.
The ancient lake could have supported a class of microbes called chemolithoautotrophs, which obtain energy by breaking down rocks and minerals, according to a news release. The class of microbes can be found in caves and hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.
"We have no evidence in our data that there were microbes in this material," Ming said. "Now with that said, we do have evidence of elements necessary for life."
The mudstones discovered in Yellowknife Bay usually form in calm, still water. A river once flowed from the northern part of the 96-mile-wide Gale Crater before it fanned out and emptied into the lake.
"If the water was just flowing out of a river you'd expect it to be more lumpy, but if the sediment is flowing into a lake, it just gets mixed inside the lake and gravitationally settles out over a long period of time, and forms layers of sediment over the bottom."
Based on the samples of sediments extracted by Curiosity, the PH of the water was neutral — not too acidic, not too neutral — and life could have made use of it, Vasavada said. Some scientists believe water on Mars evaporated.
"When this water presumably existed, the atmosphere was more stable," Vasavada said. "There's a lot we don't know about the environment back then."


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New York Jets draft pick Geno Smith has parted ways with Select Sports Group, but told SiriusXM NFL Radio on Tuesday that it wasn't related to his big drop in last weekend's draft.
The former West Virginia quarterback was taken 39th overall, rather than in the first round as some had predicted.
"I don't want to shed too much light on it," he told SiriusXM. "The thing that I can tell you is that it's not because of the whole draft experience. It's not because of one particular incident. There are a number of things, and that story, you know, that battle will be fought on a different day. As of right now, I don't feel too comfortable talking about all the details of it."
Smith must wait five days before he can sign with another agent. Sports Business Journal was the first to report his decision.
Because of the rookie wage scale, Smith will net a contract similar to last year's 39th pick, St. Louis Rams cornerback Janoris Jenkins, who earned a four-year deal worth $4.99 million.


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BofA's Merrill Edge: Here to Make You Look Old
Merrill Edge has a new partner in getting clients to save more: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
The online brokerage of Bank of America Merrill Lynch rolled out something it is calling Face Retirement. Not a cosmetic surgery trust fund, but a new computer-generated aging tool to convince customers that they should be saving money for retirement.
Here's how it works: It's a website that takes your current image, using a web cam, and makes you old and decrepit — the kind of person who will need some cash socked away. (That may be a little harsh.)
Why does your broker want to make you look old?
Because a study once said a young person who sees himself or herself as an old person apparently is better at saving.
"Face Retirement is designed to minimize that gap by giving consumers a preview of their future self, encouraging them to take control of long-term financial planning," said an actual press release quote from Alok Prasad, the head of Merrill Edge.


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The Superbowl and the medianet
It's always exciting to be a part of a string of important video technology trends. It's even more exciting to be a part of a string of important video technology trends that happen at the Super Bowl.
The February 7th matchup between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts included three technology twists. On the surface, and to the (record-setting) 106 million television viewers, they combined to create a replay so flawless in video detail, a call was overturned – putting the Saints in the lead by two points.
But underlying that was an earlier series of decisions: A 10-camera array, transmitted in uncompressed digital, over IP.
Published reports about the setup reveal some initial internal concerns about technical overkill. But over and over throughout the game, the additional cameras, edited in uncompressed form, yielded an unprecedented level of visual precision – which resulted in overwhelmingly positive professional and public reviews. (See "CBS Sports Delivers Winning Telecast as Production Team Excels," 2010-FEB-9roadcasting & Cable Magazine)
Behind the scenes, two other important things were going on. One was the decision to use uncompressed digital camera outputs, rather than MPEG-compressed versions. Compression is an unparalleled way to conserve bandwidth, but it works by throwing away duplicative bits, from one frame of video to the next – a technique that is inherently "lossy."
By contrast, uncompressed video is "lossless." Nothing is lost, no bits are thrown away. Uncompressed, "lossless" transmission of the camera outputs is what gave CBS Sports editors the raw video bit strength to broadcast hyper-accurate slow motion, for the overturn call, and multiple camera angles, to deal with the no-huddle strategies of both teams.
When you're in video production, it's fairly simple: You want as much detail as possible. You want lossless. You want uncompressed.
Technology twist number three is where we come in. Our partner, Level 3, stepped up with the fiber resources to enable a clean, wide, 1.5 Gbps passageway between Florida and New York – a distance of more than 1,200 route miles and placed our Digital Content Manager Gateways (DCMs) at both ends of the fiber, to encapsulate the uncompressed HD video streams into IP for transmission.
For us, this was all another exciting validation of our video strategy around medianets – which isn't always easy to explain. Here's one way to look at it: If medianets are about an all IP network optimized for rich media, then, chalk one up for medianets.
In the language of broadcast-quality video, "contribution-grade" is at the top of the food chain. The uncompressed video that was sent from Miami to New York with the DCM Gateway was inherently contribution-grade. And, it moved over a media optimized IP infrastructure.
This was a medianet in action, and that truly is exciting for me, and for all of us at Cisco.
Again. We were a participant in a much larger thing. We participated as a partner and equipment vendor to Level 3, who contributed the glass and the 1.5 Gbps connectivity. CBS Sports is who made it compelling and unprecedented and fantastic – for 106 million loyal football fans.
Here's hoping this trend toward unsurpassed, lossless video quality is a trend that sustains.
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Since NFL teams will be forbidden from talking to players during the lockout (should there be one), I had a crazy idea that the Texans defensive players should hire a former assistant on Wade Phillips' staff to walk them through the intricacies of the new defense.
I'm not talking about full-scale workouts, which would be dangerous in that if a player were injured in such a practice, teams could classify it as a non-football related injury and not pay him as it would were he hurt in minicamp or OTAs.
In fact, I had the crazy idea that a smart organization that values winning might encourage its players to do so, and might even unofficially let it be known that it wouldn't try to be cheap and hold such an injury against a guy were he to suffer one.
It was a crazy idea that only a smart organization going through a significant offseason change like hiring a new defensive coordinator and switching from the 4-3 to the 3-4 might consider. A smart organization willing to risk the substantial fine that it might incur (it is only money, right?) should a player file a complaint with the NFLPA (why would a player do such a thing if he wants to win?) if he felt the team pressured players to do this (as opposed to rewarding them for doing so).
It was just a crazy idea.
If you're like me, you hate it when sports and money mix.
Money messes up the games; messes with the minds of those who watch the games.
But money is the reason most owners own, and the reason some players play and some coaches coach.
Unless they work for a team, money isn't the reason fans are fans, save for the few who claim they have elected to become fans of minor sports because the pricing is cheaper. I don't doubt their truthfulness, but their numbers are few.
Anyway, just so I won't completely ignore the money talk that is so dominating the NFL these days, here are a couple of interesting reads on the labor situation.
* My man Jim Trotter of Sorts Illustrated gives you an inside-the-negotiating room look at some of the goings on and has hopeful thoughts from MLS players, who were spared a work stoppage in part because of the efforts of mediator George Cohen, who is working with the owners and NFLPA.
From Trotter: "One NFL source said the owners have been "fully engaged and fully responsive for almost two years" and have made "numerous proposals and counterproposals." The players believe otherwise, and their willingness to go toe-to-toe with the owners stems largely from their belief that they are better educated about the issues than at any point in the past three decades."
* For a look at how many of us see the owners in this situation, read this piece by Bill Simmons of ESPN.
From Simmons: "This isn't about common sense, dignity, relationships, long-term plans, or even preserving the fragile relationship between a customer and a provider. It's about generating more money …"
The Astros are shooting for an $80-million budget for 2011.
Philadelphia will pay around $80 million to its four starting pitchers, its closer and Ryan Howard.
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The Depth Chart and Other Randomness
Posted by bcbenzel on July 17, 2009 · 18 Comments
Depth Chart
Earlier today, Mike Russo of the Star-Tribune posted what will be the Wild's depth chart if it starts the season with the way the roster is now:
Niklas Backstrom
Josh Harding
Barry Brust
Anton Khudobin
Kim Johnsson-Brent Burns
Nick Schultz-Marek Zidlicky
Greg Zanon-Shane Hnidy
John Scott-Jaime Sifers
Tyler Cuma-Justin Falk
Clayton Stoner-Jamie Fraser
Marco Scandella-Maxim Noreau
Andrew Brunette-Mikko Koivu-Martin Havlat
Owen Nolan-James Sheppard-Pierre-Marc Bouchard (RW until training camp)
Antti Miettinen-Eric Belanger-Cal Clutterbuck
Colton Gillies-Kyle Brodziak-Derek Boogaard
Petr Kalus-Benoit Pouliot-Craig Weller
Robbie Earl-Morten Madsen-Danny Irmen
Matt Kassian-Cody Almond-Carson McMillan
First of all, if you haven't checked out Mike Russo's blog and you're a Wild fan, shame on you. It's one of the best resources for all things Wild out there. Click here to go there. Bookmark it, scour it daily and above all thank him for his amazing coverage of the Wild!
Anyway, off my soapbox for the moment.
Looking at this depth chart, the thing that immediately jumps out at me is not the center position. A lot has been made of our depth (or lack thereof) down the middle. In looking at the team, however, we've got five potential pivots on our roster, and that's not including Colton Gillies, Owen Nolan or Benoit Pouliot. Throw those two into the mix and we could have as many as eight players on the opening day that could be capable of anchoring a line in the middle.
The thing that really jumps out at me is our lack of depth at left wing. After Nolan, Andrew Brunette and Antti Miettinen, the talent level really drops off. This isn't a knock on Gillies; however, we have a serious lack of skill and depth on the left side and, honestly, on the wing in general.
To no one's surprise, I'm sure, is our talent on defense and in nets. Our top-six defensemen could be the best top-six that the team has had. The additions of Zanon and Hnidy give the team two reliable, physical anchors on the blueline and will force opposing teams to keep their heads up. Meanwhile, expect Scott and Sifers to compete for the seventh spot in camp, most likely with Scott winning the battle. That's not to say, however, that our youth could not come in and surprise. With Cuma, Falk, Stoner and Scandella in the wings, there is a good chance that Scott and Sifers may not be foregone conclusions at the 7 and 8 slot. It will take a lot for any of these four to make the squad, however. Of the four, Stoner probably has the best shot as this could be his make it or break it year, but make no mistake — the Wild's top 7 are pretty much set.
Olvecky Signs in Nashville
Joel Ward, Ryan Jones and now Olvecky? Those Tennessee boys sure do like Wild prospects.
In all honesty, I think that Olvecky has a fantastic chance to make the Nashville squad next season right out of camp. Olvecky is a big body with a lot of untapped talent to boot, and he performed admirably for the Wild in a limited role with the team in the handful of games he played for us last season.
He really started to come into his own last season and seems like he could be the type of player that Barry Trotz will really love. For $600K and a two-way contract, I'd take Olvecky any day of the week. A good depth pick up by the Preds.
Qualifying Offers Signed
The Wild had a few players of their own signed as well.
Restricted free agents Benoit Pouliot, Clayton Stoner, Danny Irmen and Robbie Earl all signed their qualifying offers and it seems as if the lot of them (with the exception of Pouliot) could see another year playing in the minors. Earl and Irmen both have too many players in front of them to have a shot at making the squad (that is, barring a spectacular camp from either) and Stoner will have to do some serious damage in camp to work his way up the depth chart.
Injuries do happen, though, and we could very easily see one of them get a cup of coffee in the NHL and do what Cal Clutterbuck did last season and not let go.
In addition, Russo reports that the Wild could be close to signing Duncan Milroy and Joe DiSalvatore to plug some holes in their minor league system.
Fletcher Working Trade Market
There are a lot of people who are getting scared by the Wild's seeming lack of movement this off season.
Those fans are the Chicken Littles of the fanbase.
While there are some quality players out there, there really aren't any players that would meet any immediate needs for us. I mentioned Mats Sundin, Robert Lang and Mike Comrie previously, but Sundin likely doesn't have much more tread on his tires, Lang is rumored (or already has) to jump ship to the KHL and Comrie, well, let's just say I don't want to sign a player for his girlfriend. In addition to those players, there are players such as Alex Tanguay and Petr Sykora left over. Undoubtedly, these players could make an impact on the Wild roster, but would they really fit?
In the case of Tanguay, he's a tremendous talent, but he's also been pigeonholed as a playmaker — of which, the Wild have many. Sykora would be a cheap, effective sniper, but do the Wild want to sink the money it would take to get him on an aging player?
Bottom line is that the best route for the team to improve, at this point, is the route that Fletcher is taking — trades.
There are many top flight forwards that have been presumed available via trade. Phil Kessel of the Boston Bruins, Dany Heatley of the Ottawa Senators, Jonathan Cheechoo of the San Jose Sharks, even Chicago's Patrick Sharp, Dustin Byfuglien and Patrick Kane have always been rumored to be available.
To be honest, the names remaining in free agency don't even hold a candle to a lot of these names. I'd much rather have a Kessel, Heatley, Sharp or Kane over any of those available — regardless of the assets we have to give up for them.
The bottom line is that the Wild are far from done, in my opinion. But Fletcher has said all along that he's not afraid to go late into the summer with a less than full roster to give himself the flexibility that he needs to get the players it takes to make this a winning team.
Fear not Chicken Little. The sky is not falling. With a little patience, we could have a playoff team yet.


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Weekly Writing Update – 1/11/16
It's been quite a long time since we've done one of these! A weekly writing update is when I take a look back over the last week and determine what goals I've met and what goals I haven't. Sometimes I'm proud of myself, and sometimes I'm not, and I find lately that that feels wrong. I should ALWAYS be proud of what I achieve, even if it isn't what I wanted to achieve. Trying to be more grateful for myself and my works is one of my goals!
Word Counts
Knight of Kuryle – Unknown wordcount (still need to download and use Scrivener to edit)
Ashes and Ink – The New Kaimi Rowe book – 25997 words – First draft
The Faery King's Bride – A fanfic project I started a few days ago – 2702 words
Blog Posts
Pet Peeves – 07/16/15
Half a Year Gone By – 12/04/16
ISWG – New Years Resolutions – 01/06/16
Books Read
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
- Tiny House Living by Ryan Mitchel
- Beekeeping for Dummies
- The Backyard Beekeeper by Kim Flottum
- Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Wolf
Get a new job (my current one is disagreeable)
Finish Fafsa
File Taxes
Download Scrivener (if I can on this thing)


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Pat Buchanan: Putin's Contempt For Gay People Shows He's "One Of Us"
December 17, 2013 11:43 am ET by Luke Brinker
Pat Buchanan praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for his defense of "traditional values," citing his opposition to such "evil" developments as marriage equality to position Putin as the global leader of the fight "against the militant secularism of a multicultural and transnational elite."
In his December 17 syndicated column, Buchanan pondered whether Putin is a fellow "paleoconservative" before checking off a list of Putin's culturally conservative stances, which seemed to suggest a clear answer to Buchanan (emphasis added):
Is Vladimir Putin a paleoconservative?
In the culture war for mankind's future, is he one of us?
While such a question may be blasphemous in Western circles, consider the content of the Russian president's state of the nation address.
With America clearly in mind, Putin declared, "In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered."
"They're now requiring not only the proper acknowledgment of freedom of conscience, political views and private life, but also the mandatory acknowledgment of the equality of good and evil."
Translation: While privacy and freedom of thought, religion and speech are cherished rights, to equate traditional marriage and same-sex marriage is to equate good with evil.
And same-sex marriage is indeed an "abstract" idea unrooted in the history or tradition of the West. Where did it come from?
Peoples all over the world, claims Putin, are supporting Russia's "defense of traditional values" against a "so-called tolerance" that is "genderless and infertile."
Suggesting that with its increased acceptance of LGBT equality "Barack Obama's America" has taken the place of the Soviet Union as "the focus of evil in the modern world," Buchanan argued that Putin's Russia is a better example to the international community. He applauded a recent India Supreme Court ruling reinstating that country's ban on gay sex, seeing it as a sign that Putin's vision may yet prevail (emphasis added):
President Reagan once called the old Soviet Empire "the focus of evil in the modern world." President Putin is implying that Barack Obama's America may deserve the title in the 21st century.
While his stance as a defender of traditional values has drawn the mockery of Western media and cultural elites, Putin is not wrong in saying that he can speak for much of mankind.
Same-sex marriage is supported by America's young, but most states still resist it, with black pastors visible in the vanguard of the counterrevolution. In France, a million people took to the streets of Paris to denounce the Socialists' imposition of homosexual marriage.
Only 15 nations out of more than 190 have recognized it.
In India, the world's largest democracy, the Supreme Court has struck down a lower court ruling that made same-sex marriage a right. And the parliament in this socially conservative nation of more than a billion people is unlikely soon to reverse the high court.
In the four dozen nations that are predominantly Muslim, which make up a fourth of the U.N. General Assembly and a fifth of mankind, same-sex marriage is not even on the table. And Pope Francis has reaffirmed Catholic doctrine on the issue for over a billion Catholics.
It's true, as Buchanan notes, that Pope Francis hasn't changed Roman Catholic doctrine against same-sex marriage. Still, Buchanan's apparent praise for the pope is odd, given that just one month ago he denounced the pontiff for saying he wouldn't "judge" gay people.
Buchanan's warm words for Putin echo a column he wrote in August shortly after Putin signed laws banning so-called "gay 'propaganda'" and prohibiting the adoption of Russian children by parents from pro-equality countries. At the time, Buchanan commended Putin's efforts to "re-establish" his nation's "moral compass." Now, as Putin further hardens his anti-gay stance, Buchanan has promoted Putin to the role of cultural conservatism's savior.
Pat Buchanan Wishes Pope Francis Would "Judge" Gay People More
Pat Buchanan: Anti-Gay Putin Bravely "Trying To Re-establish" Russia's "Moral Compass"
Pat Buchanan: Acceptance Of Gays Shows We're A "Mentally And Morally Sick Society"


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Actress Kristen Bell and her "Veronica Mars" co-stars are set to reunite for a special fan event at California's Comic-Con in July.
The cast will get fans revved up for the film adaptation of the cult TV show by debuting exclusive movie footage at the annual comic book convention in San Diego on July 19.
Creator Rob Thomas and Bell are throwing the private event at Comic-Con for fans who have contributed $150 or more to the Kickstarter.com campaign set up to finance the upcoming Veronica Mars movie project.
Thomas is also in talks with convention organizers about putting on an official panel discussion at Comic-Con.
He began the online fundraiser last month in the hope of pulling in $2 million for his Veronica Mars movie dream; the target was hit less than 24 hours after its launch.
The Kickstarter page has pulled in more than $5.2 million to date.


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Red Hot Chili Peppers Unveil Video for New Single 'Look Around'
Ever wonder what it would be like to have Red Hot Chili Peppers play your house? Well, you can suspend disbelief for a moment and pretend like they are doing just that when you watch the video for 'Look Around,' the latest single off their 2011 album 'I'm With You.' The video mimics that idea, with each member getting his own room in the clip, where he is seen playing his instrument and dancing and prancing around maniacally.
Anthony Kiedis shakes his thang in a red-walled living room. He is eventually joined by a hot chick who emerges from a refrigerator of all places! She then sprays graffiti on the wall. A dog and a little girl also turn up a few seconds in. We're not sure how or why they are all related, but they are having a good time, so we'll just enjoy watching them.
Drummer Chad Smith is shown smashing the skins in a pristine, sterile, white tiled bathroom. There's also a punching bag at which he throws a few jabs, because some people like to box after their baths.
Guitarist Josh Klinghoffer is chilling solo in a sparely decorated room, musing and scribbling in a journal.
It's bassist Flea who seems to have the most fun in the 'Look Around' vid, though. He is dancing his arse off in brightly color sweats with a young, blue-haired girl. They eventually strip down to their skivvies, dancing the day and spraying each other with some white, foamy substance. You get a shot of Flea in his tighty whities!
The video is fast-paced and is linear like a comic strip as the camera acts like a flip book, moving from room to room. Check it out for yourself below:


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The intricate flowers and leaves decorating a well-crafted latte can transform your morning cup into a special event. Matt Milletto, coffee consultant and trainer at the American Barista & Coffee School and an award-winning latte artist, shares his insider tips for drinkable designs. Don't get discouraged if you don't achieve a perfect rosetta on the first try—like painting, latte art takes practice. "If you're doing everything right with your espresso and milk, it will come naturally over time," Milletto assures. This greater attention to process will also improve your drink's taste and texture.
—Shoshanna Cohen
Espresso machine with steam wand
Steel milk pitcher
Espresso cup
Thermometer (optional)
Step 1
Pull a shot of espresso directly into your cup.
Step 2
Fill a cold steel pitcher about one-third to one-half full of cold milk. Raise the pitcher so the espresso machine's steam wand is submerged beneath the surface of the milk. Position the wand to one side of the pitcher while keeping the pitcher level. Turn the steam wand on full-blast and lower the pitcher until you break the surface of the milk and hear a hissing sound. This will induce enough air into the milk to develop a velvety texture.
Step 3
Once the pitcher becomes warm (100+ degrees F), raise it up and maintain a rolling motion in the milk. This will cause any larger bubbles to fold into the milk and create a consistent texture of milk and foam.
Step 4
Turn off the steam wand when the milk temperature reaches 140–150 degrees. If using a thermometer, shut off the steam earlier as the thermometer will read roughly 5–10 degrees cooler. Give the pitcher a few taps on the counter to pop any remaining bubbles on the surface of the milk. To keep the milk constituted, swirl it like you would aerate a glass of wine.
Step 5
Pour the milk directly into your cup of espresso. Sink the milk below the surface of the crema by pouring with the pitcher raised above the cup a few inches.
Step 6
When the cup is about two-thirds full, lower the pitcher closer to the crema and speed up the flow of pour—this will encourage a white dot to form on top of the crema.
Step 7
Gently but quickly, move the pitcher from side to side in a zigzag motion, starting at the white dot and gradually moving toward the edge of the cup. You'll create lines of white milk to contrast with the dark crema.
Step 8
Raise the pitcher slightly and pour straight through the pattern, finishing the pour on the opposite side of the cup. This will feather the design.


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ISPE San Francisco/Bay Area Vendor Night – Top Line
Come Visit Top Line in table R24 (area 3) at the ISPE San Francisco/Bay Are Chapter 28th Annual Vendor Night
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Oracle Park (Formerly AT&T Park)
ISPE provides tremendous value through various products and services that include on-going education and training programs, the ability to stay current on the latest industry trends on a worldwide basis, working with the FDA to develop Baseline® Pharmaceutical Engineering Guides, articles, career opportunities activities and ISPE Discussion Forum Groups.
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter has won numerous ISPE Awards by virtue of their contributions to industry. They continue to have their finger on the pulse of the local industry and respond with innovative and educational programs. ISPE has worked with Stanford University and University of California Berkeley to provide special educational semester courses to attract and educate potential candidates in the biopharm industry. They were also the first to host CEO Night. This annual event has grown to be one the most attended programs for the chapter. It focuses on local CEO's and provides them the forum to focus their vision of our industry and address the future in terms of the challenges, latest technologies, local economic issues, mergers/acquisitions and strategic relationships, finance and resources.
Other events include a newly-offered Young Professionals Forum, Commuter Conferences, which are Member only events held in the afternoon to avoid traffic, dinner meetings, facility tours, an exhibit show, and social event events including the popular annual event, Fun Day, offering a golf tournament and winery tours.


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Adrian is a Senior Air Transport Editor, based in New Zealand. He covers commercial aviation in Australasia and Japan, leads Aviation Week's coverage of air traffic management and heads Aviation Week's high-profile Top Performing Airlines.
Adrian was based in the Washington bureau for eight years, writing for a range of Aviation Week publications. He won the breaking news category in the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards.
Prior to joining Aviation Week in 2002, Adrian covered aviation industry and policy issues for two other publishing companies in Washington. He has also worked for newspapers in Texas and New Zealand, covering a wide range of topics. Adrian graduated from Auckland University with a degree in history and English.


text: These are based on some galician spoons inspired by a dedign I saw in an ethnographic museum during a trip to Spain. This is the design of spoon I use every day for breakfast and they are equally good for soup or desert, a classic design and a delight to use, they get nicer the longer you use them. These are made from birch.


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Today, a federal district court judge in Tacoma, Washington held that the discharge of Air Force flight nurse Major Margaret Witt under the federal government's policy barring lesbian, gay, and bisexual people from serving openly in the military violated the United States Constitution. Judge Ronald B. Leighton ruled that the government violated Major Witt's constitutional rights by discharging her under the policy—popularly known as Don't Ask, Don't Tell. The court held that the discharge of Major Witt did not advance the Air Force's interest in military readiness, unit morale, and cohesion. To the contrary, the judge concluded, "it was Major Witt's suspension and ultimate discharge that caused a loss of morale throughout [her] squadron."
Judge Leighton ordered that Major Witt should be restored to her position as an Air Force flight nurse as soon as possible.
Statement by NCLR Executive Director Kate Kendell:
"Today's decision is the second within the past month to hold that the discharge of service members under Don't Ask, Don't Tell serves no legitimate purpose and is blatantly unconstitutional. Major Witt's victory underscores why Congress and the President must put a stop to this destructive and irrational policy. It is an outrage that the federal government continues to intentionally discriminate against thousands of dedicated service members based solely on anti-gay prejudice. We congratulate and thank Major Witt and her lawyers at the ACLU of Washington for bringing this landmark case."