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A group of Black supporters under the moniker,"Obama Supporters For Brown," are campaigning in Boston for U.S. Senator Scott Brown, a White Republican candidate who is in a tight Senate race in Massachusetts against his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren.
However, this band of Black folks are working for a small fee, the Boston Herald reports.
Homeless people and others are being paid a "per diem" of $8 per hour to wear T-shirts in areas that are considered Warren strongholds. Benjamin Thompson, a former Boston city employee, is running Obama Supporters For Brown out of a storefront in the city.
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The state's GOP MassVictory program is paying for the effort. The per diem is suppose to pay for child care and other costs, "works out to" roughly $8 an hour, the Globe quotes Thompson as saying.
He says he is supporting Brown because he wants to let Black folks know they have choices.
"We want to let black people know that they actually have an option. This state is controlled by the Democrats to the extent that before we came here on Thursday the Warren office was closed every day," Thompson said. "They've put no money in the black community because urban America, the black community is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic party. If I had my way, every black person in America would be unenrolled and you'd have to fight for our votes.
"I'm voting for two incumbents who have a track record: that's Obama and Brown. I know what they stand for," Thompson added. "I don't like every vote Scott Brown has taken but I respect the fact that I know what he stands for."
Well, we know that Thompson and his fellow Brown supporters are standing for something alright: $8 per hour.
According to the article, Obama Supporters For Brown came to life after Warren won key endorsements from Mayor Thomas M. Menino and leading black ministers in Boston. It was a critical blow to Brown's efforts to campaign in the city.
Well, if you can't get Black folks to help support you, paying them may work. Though, Warren is leading the incumbent by as many as six points in the polls, so that may not work, either.
Good luck Mr. Brown! You certainly need it.


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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Café au Lait
For Cinzia of Cindystar, I drink to her good health as new administrator of Black and White Wednesday - A Weekly Culinary Gallery. This photograph is my contribution to her inaugural gallery, scheduled for publication tomorrow, Wednesday, October 10.
Since I have passed the reins to her talented and capable hands, Cinzia has already scheduled much of the guest host roster for several coming weeks. Despite no longer presiding over the weekly festivities, I will be joining each week as a participant, as well as popping in for occasional hosting duties. Though it was time for me to move on from the event that I created, black and white photography will never lose it luster for me. If you feel the same way, I'm sure Cinzia will welcome your images with the same enthusiastic and admiring spirit which I have over the last year.
Thanks again for sharing your generous talents with me. Let's look forward to another year of Black and White Wednesday, now also concurrently presented by Cinzia in Italian. I thank her for accepting the leadership role and adding her own special touches to its continued success.
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I'll be done with school soon and ready to be back in with BWW...yay!ReplyDelete
Thank you, thank you, thank you!ReplyDelete
It's very auspicious (and quite comforting for me :-) to drink with a healthy café au lait, I love it! :-)
Thanks for your picture, the gallery is up:
Enjoy! :-)
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There are a few things to note about this recipe…. First of all regarding the tomato sauce, due to my husband's dislike to tomato chunks I always blend my tomatoes or use passata (sieved tomatoes). If you prefer a smooth sauce blend away otherwise keep the sauce chunky! Secondly, the lasagna sheets that I buy are quite large so I cut them in half – if yours are smaller don't bother cutting them. Finally, I use a rectangular glass Pyrex dish to cook my cannelloni in – approximately 9" x 13 ½" – and it fits perfectly. If you don't have a similar dish use what you do have – you can always cut the cannelloni to make them fit! This is real, fresh home cooking at its best.
For the Tomato Sauce:
1 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
2 x 400g (or 1 x 28oz) tin of chopped tomatoes
250ml passata (sieved tomatoes or alternatively add another tin of chopped tomatoes blended)
1 tsp dried oregano or fresh if you have it
½ tsp chilli flakes (optional)
1 tsp sugar
150ml chicken stock or white wine
Salt and Pepper
For the Filling:
300g soft goats cheese, at room temperature
5 tbsp basil pesto
Squeeze of lemon juice
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
1 packet of fresh (no need to pre-cook) lasagna sheets (I get 6 large sheets per pack)
Small handful of fresh basil leaves
Extra virgin olive oil
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/GM 6.
Start by making the tomato sauce. In a medium sized pan heat the olive oil then gently cook the onions for roughly 5 minutes or until softened but not coloured. Add the garlic and cook for another minute before adding the tomatoes, oregano, chilli (if using), sugar, stock or wine, salt and pepper. Leave to simmer for 20 - 25 minutes until thickened slightly (you don't want to over reduce it as otherwise by the time it has been in the oven it will have dried out too much). Taste to check the seasoning then leave to cool slightly.
While the sauce is simmering make the filling by mixing all of the ingredients together in a bowl until well combined. In a large rectangular oven dish (see notes in intro) put enough tomato sauce to lightly cover the bottom. Cut each sheet of lasagna in half then put a couple of spoonful's of the filling in the middle of a piece of lasagna, then using your fingers spread it out slightly like a sausage then roll up the lasagna sheets around it. Add the lasagna rolls to the dish, making sure they are tightly packed together (I have 10 in a row then the remaining 2 lengthwise along the 10). When you have rolled them all, top with the rest of the tomato sauce. Sprinkle over a good grating of some fresh parmesan then cover with tin foil and bake in the oven for 30 minutes, removing the foil for the last 5 minutes. When ready to serve drizzle with a little extra virgin olive oil and scatter over the torn basil leaves and a little extra parmesan.


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The technology for manipulating single molecules in the nano and micro scale has been around since the 1980s. Holographic or diffractive optical tweezers are continuous-wave micro laser beams whose photons, when tuned to a specific frequency and energy density, can influence a certain type of matter due to weak interactions between photons. A team from University of Science and Technology of China, led by Yin-Mei Li, has been experimenting with infrared optical tweezers that can manipulate red blood cells, about 10 micrometers in size, in living organisms.
In a report published by the journal Nature Communications, the team explains their manipulation of red blood cells (RBCs) in sub-dermal capillaries on the ear of a mouse.
In a series of experiments, the team showed they could use optical tweezers to move individual RBC in capillaries, recreating blood clots as well as deconstructing blockages cell by cell. Currently, the laser can only penetrate 40 micrometers deep, but more intense lasers, combined with advanced optics, will increase this depth in the future.
This type of non-invasive vessel clearance has never been done on a live specimen. The team was able to determine the trap stiffness for controlling a RBC in a capillary, a calculation that depends on the wavelength; polarization; intensity of the focused laser; the micro object's aperture, size, and shape; as well as the refractive index of the particle and medium. The energy density needed for interactions between infrared optical tweezers and red blood cells is in the order of 10^7J/cm3.
This method of manipulating living cells has potential for some exciting experimentation and research. New physiological information could be obtained concerning live cellular dynamics about processes that are still mysterious. The tweezers could also be used to study cellular pathology by keeping cells still and watching diseases develop under a microscope. As photon scattering is prevented and lasers penetrate deeper, this non-invasive technique could be used to relieve blockages in bigger blood vessels like veins and arteries in humans.
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It's been ages since I did much work on my unimaginatively-titled train driving game. Surprisingly some people have actually been trying to build the last release and it turns out anything using Boost bit-rots at an alarming pace. So I've bundled up the latest working version as TrainGame-0.2.2.tar.gz. It's not all build fixes though. Looking […]
Archives for 2012
Out wandering high up in the Chilterns near Russel's Water I came across these pretty fluffy things. No idea what they are as usual. Perhaps some sort of dandelion? Blodgett would know. Daily factoid: perusing the previously linked Wikipedia article, I discovered that these plants are adjacent to a pond featured in Chitty Chitty Bang […]
The protagonist was thrilled to finally meet his long-standing hero, cyclopean freak "Mandeville", at the Paralympic rowing this weekend.
I went to the Eastbourne Airshow with my mum while I was at home last weekend. Borrowed my Dad's SLR avec telephoto lens to take some snaps. I think they came out rather well after some judicious cropping.
More Castle
I spent last weekend visiting some northern acquaintances in Yorkshire. On Saturday we went on an adventure to Richmond Castle via Darlington. And a very pleasant castle it is too! It's got a nicely preserved keep which you can climb to the top of for some excellent views of the quaint market town and surrounding […]
Rochester Castle
I had some surprisingly well-timed holiday booked this week so I decided to visit a nearby(ish) castle at Rochester. The last time I came here I was a small child and all I remember is being terrified by how tall and massive it was. Some shrinkage has occurred over the last twenty years. Still it's […]
Two for the price of one
Got this really cute hemp chalk bag. Climbing is all about the fashion.
Automagic Debugging
It's kind of annoying to have to go back and run GDB after your program crashes. Here's a signal handler I've been using which drops you into GDB straight away: static void gdb_sighandler(int sig, siginfo_t *info) { char exe[256]; if (readlink("/proc/self/exe", exe, sizeof(exe)) < 0) { perror("readlink"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } char pid[16]; snprintf(pid, sizeof(pid), "%d", […]
Red Flowers, Big Stone
Title says it all: some red flowers in a field last weekend: I don't know what sort they are :-(. Also a big stone in a place appropriately called Ibstone: Wikipedia thinks the stone is marking the Bucks/Oxfordshire border, which is a bit mundane. Also I've decided that driving is among the most stressful and […]


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The City Council will review and discuss a proposal at its October 16 meeting to convert street lights in Portland from metal halide and high pressure sodium to LED technology, which has long been a goal of the Council and City in order to reduce costs, energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions. The Sustainability and Transportation Committee identified this project as a priority this year. City staff gave an update on the project to the Finance Committee during its September 21 meeting following a successful pilot installation on Cedar and Casco Streets. On October 12, the Finance Committee recommended forwarding the project to the full Council for approval. Staff has worked with its partners TEN Connected Solutions and Bernstein Shur to purchase the street lights from Central Maine Power and to develop a conversion plan that includes many smart city technologies in addition to the new streetlights.
Following Council approval, the City is prepared to begin implementation of phase one, which includes $4 million for the replacement of all overhead street lights that are attached to utility poles throughout the city, and some smart city technologies including public Wi-Fi locations, exterior lighting at City Hall, athletic field lighting improvements, and a pilot project for decorative lighting. The conversion offers significant energy savings, a reduction in street lighting costs by about $1 million for the City, and will improve the overall quality of lighting and safety along streets. Staff is proposing to finance the conversion over the two phases of the project. Phase two, also $4 million, includes additional upgrades to street lights, controls for all decorative lights, and additional smart city technologies including more public Wi-Fi locations, intelligent traffic controls, and environmental sensors.
LED streetlights offer several advantages over older lighting technologies:
The City is specifying lights with a warm color temperature of 3000K to avoid the metallic blue light associated with some LEDs. This follows the recommendations of the International Dark Sky Association and the American Medical Association.
In Maine, street lights are typically owned and maintained by the local electric utility. Portland's lights are currently owned by Central Maine Power. A state law enacted in 2013 now allows municipalities to purchase the utility owned street lighting equipment in their communities and to replace it with energy efficient LED lighting.
In October 2016, the City issued a Request for Proposals soliciting interested vendors to assist the City with the conversion and implementation of smart city technologies. TEN Connected Solutions of Pittsburgh, PA offered the most advantageous proposal. Staff and partners from TEN Connected Solutions and Bernstein Shur have worked with CMP to develop a customer owned street lighting agreement in conformance with PUC rules that will allow the City to take ownership of the CMP-owned lighting equipment within City limits. This includes the lamps, fixtures, and mast arms that attach the lights to the poles. The agreement also transfers ownership of CMP owned poles that are used for street lighting purposes only. The cost to purchase the street lighting assets from CMP is approximately $590,000, which was allocated for in previous CIP project funding rounds.


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NanoDays 2010: Highlights from the Reports
Summer may be drawing to a close, but the NISE Network is already gearing up for NanoDays 2011. While the finishing touches are put on some new activities and kit contents, I'd like to share some of the feedback collected from NanoDays 2010.
First, the basics: 200 kits were distributed across the US in 2010; they went to all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, DC. As of Aug. 25, 2010, 80 percent of kit recipients have provided feedback through the report form. If you have not yet reported on your kit use, you have a week before the form is closed. You can find the link here.
While we await the kickoff for NanoDays 2011, I'd like to share some details about events that were held in 2010. I've selected a random report from the database to highlight. Here is our first featured NanoDays collaborator.
Rebecca Shackleford, public programs manager, submitted the report for the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum. With a crew of over 30 staff and volunteers, Rebecca and her colleagues delivered hours of programming for visiting children and their parents. They set up the "Exploring" nano activities from the kit in a series of stations with stamps. Once a participant had collected 8 stamps, they received an "I'm made of Atoms" tattoo. They also offered two additional cart activities from the catalog: Lotus Leaf Effect and Balloon Nanotubes. Congratulations to Rebecca and her colleagues for a great intro to NanoDays!


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The exercises of the Second Level of Sentence Analysis are typically part of the Advanced Elementary curriculum, but they are often presented to ...
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These lessons describe and explain on a step-by-step method how to present pertinent Montessori language materials and exercises to children from ages 6 to 9. The information provided with these notes is not intended to be a substitute for live instruction offered by a formal Montessori teacher preparation course. For the experienced Montessori teacher, these notes will serve well as enriching professional insights; for the beginner, they will lay a solid foundation for understanding the Montessori Method and for practicing many of its principles and techniques in the role of teacher-assistant or private home-teacher. Formal courses for the C.M.E. certification program have been discontinued and are no longer offered by The Albanesi Educational Center.To order Montessori materials used by the students to carry out the exercises, please visit our website www.MontessoriResources.com
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A new Beatles compilation, Tomorrow Never Knows, was today released exclusively on Apple's iTunes Music Store.
The collection includes 14 of The Beatles' rockier songs. Priced at $7.99 or £5.99, the tracklisting contains six songs primarily written by John Lennon, six by Paul McCartney, and two by George Harrison.
- Revolution
- Paperback Writer
- And Your Bird Can Sing
- Helter Skelter
- Savoy Truffle
- I'm Down
- I've Got A Feeling (Naked Version)
- Back In The USSR
- You Can't Do That
- It's All Too Much
- She Said She Said
- Hey Bulldog
- Tomorrow Never Knows
- The End (Anthology 3 Version)
The promotional film for Hey Bulldog is also available to stream and download via the service.
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl has written liner notes for the digital album, in which he describes the impact The Beatles had on his life.
If it weren't for The Beatles, I would not be a musician. It's as simple as that. From a very young age I became fascinated with their songs, and over the years have drowned myself in the depth of their catalogue. Their groove and their swagger. Their grace and their beauty. Their dark and their light. The Beatles seemed to be capable of anything. They knew no boundaries, and in that freedom they seemed to define what we now know today as 'Rock and Roll.'
"Recently I showed my 6-year-old daughter, Violet, the brilliant Yellow Submarine movie. It was her introduction to The Beatles, and she instantly shared the same fascination I felt when I was her age discovering The Beatles for the first time. She wanted to know their names, which instruments they played, who sang what song, etc etc etc....it made me so incredibly happy (and proud!). Within days she knew the verses and choruses to every song on the album. But, there was one song that stood out for her....
'"Hey Bulldog" is not one of The Beatles' greatest hits. It's what most people would consider a 'deep cut.' But it is a quintessential Beatles rocker. The rolling bass line, the trademark Ringo drum fills, the gritty distorted guitar, and that sound that only the back of Lennon's throat could produce. It stomps. It grooves. It makes your head bob. It makes your hips shake. When Lennon sings, 'If you're lonely you can talk to me!' it soothes your heart, like you've finally found something to believe in. It's so raw and real. It is 100% timeless Rock and Roll...
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
Just ask Violet.
The album contains no previously-unreleased recordings, although the Let It Be... Naked version of I've Got A Feeling is made available on iTMS for the first time. The service's introduction to the album also hints that Come Together was meant to have been included, although it is not one of the Tomorrow Never Knows tracks.
From John Lennon's opening guitar crunch of Revolution to the dizzying psychedelic wind-up of Tomorrow Never Knows, this exclusive album collects The Beatles' songs that rock the hardest. The early power of I'm Down only hints at the band's colossal statement of heaviness with Helter Skelter – a song that came well before Zeppelin and AC/DC fully powered up. The stripped-down rock and soul of I've Got A Feeling is set up with mid-period FM radio rockers like Come Together and And Your Bird Can Sing.
What do you think? A good introduction for newcomers, or yet another Apple Corps shameless cash-in? And which songs would you have included? Let us know in the comments section below.
Also on this day...
- 2011: Paul McCartney live at Comerica Park, Detroit
- 2010: Paul McCartney live at Sprint Center, Kansas City, Missouri
- 1969: Recording, mixing: Come And Get It, Sun King, Mean Mr Mustard
- 1968: Recording: Sexy Sadie
- 1967: The Beatles go sightseeing in Greece
- 1967: The Beatles call for the legalisation of marijuana
- 1965: Ringo Starr buys Sunny Heights, Weybridge
- 1963: Live: Odeon Cinema, Weston-super-Mare
- 1962: Live: Cavern Club, Liverpool (lunchtime)
- 1961: Live: Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool
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2019 Summer Business Experience
A Business Program for Exceptional High School Students
Program Dates: June 24-28, 2019
Applications are closed for 2019.
Now in its sixth year, the Gary W. Rollins College of Business Summer Business Experience is a 5-day residential summer program designed for academically talented rising high school seniors (a senior in the fall of 2019) who are interested in pursuing a career in business.
The UTC Summer Business Experience offers the opportunity to interact one-on-one with university professors and successful business professionals through a variety of hands-on workshops, field trips and seminars. In addition, students will get a preview of college life and the Chattanooga experience through recreational events that include athletic activities, picnics, visits to area attractions and more.
The Business Experience includes visits to top employers of the Rollins College of Business school graduates, including national and regional leaders in the manufacturing, retail, and service industries.
Students will experience personal interaction with top-level executives as well as behind-the-scenes tours.
Program participants will explore each of the business disciplines – accounting, finance, economics, marketing, management, management science, information systems – in interactive formats designed to provide insight into those disciplines and potential business career paths.


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At least one AL East team has found a way to fix their shortcomings in the rotation.
(And we post this picture of the Rocket, in honour of his two Cy Young seasons in T.O., which pretty much went for naught.)
Monday, May 7, 2007
Look who's back in the AL East
Posted by Tao of Stieb at 11:31 AM
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- Darren Priest said...
45 year old Roger Clemens, who admits he is not in game shape yet, is treated like the Second Coming...should be interesting to see how this pans out.
- May 7, 2007 at 2:54 PM
- sager said...
The Yankees won't make the playoffs.
- May 7, 2007 at 3:58 PM
- THE GREAT LAKES KNUCKLEBALLER said...
Good thing the Yankees hold themselves to such high standards that a guy who thinks he's above spring training and travelling with the team can still be welcomed as a member of said team with open arms.
What's next for the Yanks, unruly moustaches?
- May 7, 2007 at 4:49 PM
- Darren Priest said...
What do you have against unruly moustaches? :)
- May 8, 2007 at 12:15 PM
- THE GREAT LAKES KNUCKLEBALLER said...
I'm a giant fan. I don't think George is, though.
- May 8, 2007 at 1:26 PM
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Last season, male Packer fans everywhere were pleasantly surprised when three young vixens started getting noticed during televised games. In Packer country and across the nation, the Bikini Girls were making all sorts of noise – showing up in papers and crashing blogs across the interweb.
And who are they? Turns out they are related. Jen and Liz (middle & right) are sisters and Ashley (left) is their cousin. All three are diehard Packer fans, college students and have been flaunting their stuff since 2002. Given that they are now 23, 22 and 21 years old, that means they were sporting bikinis at Lambeau since the ages of 17, 16 and 15, respectively….nice!
At the end of the 2007 season, the Bikini Girls were quoted as saying, "Thanks for the support, keep the Packer faith because they will be back and we'll see you next year!" Well the obvious question is, where are they? We at the Packer Ranter are going to find out. Franklin and I will be on the prowl at the Colts game Sunday. We are planning to circle the stadium before, after and at halftime of the game in search of these girls. If we seen them, we'll buy them a couple of Leinies on behalf of all the fans. No thank you necessary - the pleasure is all ours.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Where are the Bikini Girls?
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Senior wide receiver Daniel Passafiume (Louisville, Ky.) scored on a 25-yard run in overtime as the Hanover College football squad rallied from a 20-point second-half deficit to defeat the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 33-27. The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference battle was held Saturday, Sept. 29, at L.S. Ayres Field.
Sophomore running back Spencer Corrao (New Albany, Ind.) rushed for a career-high 156 yards and Hanover overcame five first-half turnovers and the double-digit margin in the second half to post the victory.
Down 27-7 early in the fourth period, Hanover reeled off 20 consecutive points to knot the game in the closing 77 seconds.
Junior quarterback Dexter Britt (Louisville, Ky.) scored on a one-yard run to cut the margin to 27-14 with 10:11 left in the game.
Corrao scored on a 21-yard pass reception with 6:54 to play and added a one-yard run to tie the score at 27-27 with 1:17 left. The Panthers missed the potential go-ahead extra-point to give Rose-Hulman a final shot in regulation.
The Engineers (2-3; 2-1 HCAC) advanced to the Hanover two-yard-line in the closing seconds, but were whistled for a substitution infraction during an ill-fated field-goal attempt as time expired to send the game into overtime.
Rose-Hulman had first possession in the extra session, but the Engineers' quarterback Mitch Snyder fumbled on the second play. Senior linebacker Andy Dalton (Guilford, Ind.) recovered to give the Panthers possession and a shot at the squad's second come-from-behind win this season.
On the Panthers' sole overtime play, Britt rolled to the right and handed the ball to Passafiume, who sprinted around the left corner and scampered into the corner of the endzone for the game-winner.
Hanover, now 2-2 overall and 2-0 in the Heartland Conference, totaled 465 yards of offense, including a season-high 270 yards on the ground.
Corrao banged his way to 156 yards on 17 carries, including the one-yard touchdown.
Britt, who spent time on the bench after tossing three interceptions and fumbling twice in the first half, directed all four scoring drives in the second half. He finished the game 15-of-25 for 164 yards with a touchdown. He also rushed 15 times for 31 yards and a score.
Passafiume caught nine balls for 89 yards and rushed twice for 28 yards, including the 25-yard game-winner.
Rose-Hulman had 399 yards with 230 through the air and 169 on the ground. The Engineers had 264 yards in the second half, but lost the ball twice on turnovers, once on downs and were forced to punt three times.
With Rose-Hulman ahead 27-7 early in the third quarter, junior defensive back Matt McConnell (Buckner, Ky.) picked off a pass inside the Hanover 10-yard-line to thwart a potential scoring drive.
Dalton had 14 tackles and junior linebacker Brandon Foster (Haubstadt, Ind.) added 10 stops.
McConnell and sophomore linebacker Justin Magaw (West Palm Beach, Fla.) added eight tackles apiece for the Panthers' defense.


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5 of the worst rebranding disasters
From Radio Shack changing its name to "The Shack" to Dr Pepper trying to rebrand diet drinks for men, here are some big brands' biggest mistakes.
You'd think we would have learned our lesson from the New Coke fiasco, yet failed attempts at rebranding continue.
One of the boldest experiments in marketing, rebranding has never been scarier than it is today.
Years of reputations and relationships can now come to a crashing halt within seconds of a rebranding mistake via the often unforgiving world of social media.
I decided to take a look at a handful of the worst rebranding efforts of the past few years. This isn't to make a mockery of them, just to see what marketers can learn from other brands' biggest mistakes.
1. Overstock.com becomes O.co (2011)
In June 2011, Internet retailer Overstock.com completed its transition to the name O.co. Only three months later the company returned to Overstock.com—but not before spending millions of dollars on a six-year naming rights deal with the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
A decade of brand equity wasn't enough to get customers to warmly greet this rebranding effort. Customers swarmed the company with questions regarding the name change. They accused the company of moving too quickly in changing the name of a brand customers were still getting to know. Some marketing executives went so far as to question the use of the beloved letter "O," which had long been associated with Oprah.
Overstock.com president Jonathon Johnson buckled under the pressure weeks later and admitted the company had been too aggressive with its initial rebranding strategy.
Although you can still use O.co as a shortcut to reach the deal-finding website, the still-planned switch to O.co doesn't seem to be taking hold as much as the brand might have hoped.
At the beginning of March 2013, the brand closed the O.co Travel portion of Overstock.com. The O.co Cars, O.biz B2B, and O.info sections remain on the site—for now, at least.
2. RadioShack becomes The Shack (2009)
Sometime between the iPod and the iPad, RadioShack decided to get all hip on us. In August 2009, the iconic electronics retailer swiftly dropped "radio" from its name and chose to be known forevermore as "The Shack."
Come to find out, the word the company's marketing executives were sure was the brand's greatest liability, "radio," was instead one of its greatest assets. Of course, this realization came a bit too late.
The 92-year-old electronics store had already spent nearly all of its $200 million dollar budget on new television and digital ads to proclaim that "The Shack" was here to stay.
While the brand initially made the change to attract savvy shoppers in search of a wider range of electronic products, the retailer quickly learned it's never fun to play with an iconic American brand or its loyal customer base.
Although "The Shack" ads are now at the bottom of some digital dump, the term is far from dead. Brand copy referring to "The Shack" remains evident within RadioShack.com.
The brand continues to deal with a long list of business challenges. The decision to focus on selling popular (yet lower profit-margin) items such as tablet computers and smartphones to help offset declining sales of consumer electronics is still hurting earnings in the long run.
3. Pizza Hut becomes The Hut (2009)
In 2009, hearsay became news when the public got wind of Pizza Hut's plans to forever be known as "The Hut." Attributing the change to the need to better fit within 2009's texting generation, Pizza Hut officials spent many weeks claiming this name change was never set in stone.
"Pizza Hut is not changing its name," Brian Niccol, chief marketing officer of Pizza Hut, said in a 2009 press release. "We are proud of our name and heritage and will continue to be Pizza Hut. We do use 'The Hut' in some of our marketing efforts. To the loyal fans of Pizza Hut and pizza lovers around the world, we're happy to tell you that nothing is changing, we're still Pizza Hut, America's Favorite Pizza."
The only problem is that the college junior who likes his pizza at 3 a.m. rarely reads press releases from marketing heads. The damage was already done.
The days of "The Hut" still sneak into Pizza Hut's marketing plans in 2013. In January, Pizza Hut made news with its "Hut Hut Hut" campaign, which helped introduce the pizza sliders menu item during the Super Bowl.
4. Tropicana's new packaging (2009)
Who would have thought an orange would stir up controversy?
It did in 2009 when PepsiCo partnered with The Arnell Group, a design and branding company, to launch a new look for the iconic beverage company.
The innocent intentions to repackage Tropicana products came dangerously close to a rebranding disaster. Customers left grocery store aisles perplexed and downright shaken by the new look of their orange juice, and a public outcry ensued.
Sales fell nearly 20 percent. Some people compared the repackaging to changing the Mona Lisa. The universe shifted—or so it seemed—for those few weeks before PepsiCo executives retreated back to the original logo.
The brand treads lightly these days. It moves to new bottle sizes and containers with caution-many people are still trying to get that bad taste out of their mouths.
5. Dr Pepper Ten (2011)
In 2011, customers called the No. 3 soft drink company, Dr Pepper, sexist when it attempted to bash the stereotype of diet soda. Its intentions were good; it wanted to create and promote a better-tasting alternative for men who disliked the image and taste of diet soda.
Boldly declaring that its new 10-calorie soft drink, Dr Pepper Ten, was "not for women," the beverage maker angered a majority of its female customers. One television ad went so far as to promote a faux action movie in which men jumped off cliffs while proclaiming women should stick with their girly diet sodas.
So yes, the marketing surrounding Dr Pepper Ten did not get off to a great start. But here's to the Dr Pepper Snapple Group for not giving up on the Ten concept. The company actually learned from its misstep.
In early 2013, the group rolled out 10-calorie versions of five of its biggest soda brands: 7Up Ten, A&W Ten, Sunkist Ten, Canada Dry Ten and RC Ten, in addition to its existing Dr Pepper Ten.
And guess what? The brand is marketing the new 10-calorie sodas to both men and women rather successfully. Being cited as one of the company's biggest-ever national ad campaigns, the ads for the new drinks will target both sexes and play off the theme of learning to compromise via a shared love for the 10-calorie beverages.
Tricia Despres is a freelance writer. A version of this article originally appeared on iMediaConnection.com.
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The World's 10 Weirdest Laws Not to Break
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Wacky laws are alive and well and on the books in most American states and in many international destinations. Although it is rare to find oneself under arrest for driving more than 2,000 sheep down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles or throwing out anything but water and chicken feathers from a car in California, the law is the law and it could happen.
To prevent getting tickets, fines or spending time in the clinker, here are the top ten of the wackiest laws you need to know about as you head off in your travels.
1. In Alabama, it is unlawful to wear a false mustache in church and cause "unseemly laughter." The state also keeps a law against driving while blindfolded on the books, just in case you are in a hurry to get to church and do not want to be sidelined by even the possibility of seeing someone with a false mustache and risk breaking into a gale of chortles.
2. In Phoenix, Arizona, the law states that every man who enters the city limits must wear pants. Maybe this was aimed at Scottish bagpipe players, but the law has ensured the city stays clean of men in skirts from wherever they hail.
3. In Hawaii, coins may not to be placed in one's ears. You can wear them in your nose, on your toes and under your arms but the ears are definitely out. Magicians take note.
4. In Montana, it is illegal for married women to go fishing alone on Sundays. And it is illegal for unmarried women to fish alone at all. This law is so critical to the upholding of ethical behavior in the state that the Billings Convention and Visitors Bureau featured the tidbit of information on its website.
5. In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth. But a note from hubby should make it all ok again no matter where the spectacle occurs.
6. In Australia, you'll never be far from a comfortable bed of sorts if you are in a taxi. Taxicabs are required by law to carry a bale of hay in the trunk at all times.
7. In Singapore – a country where caning is not an act reserved for wicker furnishings, and mandatory death penalties are handed down for many narcotics offenses – take care of what you do with that plastic water bottle. A litter law dating from 1968 states if you drop trash on the ground you can pay up to $1,000. Do it again and you might be forced to do community labor and pay another fine. Even worse you'll have to wear a bright fluorescent jacket that says in so many words, "I am a litter lout." Similar statutes are in place for relieving yourself in an elevator. Better keep that plastic water bottle handy.
8. In Switzerland, it is illegal to flush the toilet after 10 p.m. in most apartment houses. Polite as always, this considerate population would rather suffer a build up in the toilet bowl than a row with neighbors over the roar of flushing through the midnight hours.
9. In Thailand, it is illegal to leave the house without wearing underwear. Perhaps it's a public health issue or a law aimed at the ladies of Patpong who might be practicing their amazing feats while walking through the supermarket or seated on the bus. It is not clear how the law is enforced, however, nor what the penalty is and whether a note from one's spouse will make everything right again.
10. In Connecticut, it is illegal cross the street while walking on your hands in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Why didn't he just use a Wolfbane Potion as a child instead of all that story with the Shrieking Shack?? So that he couldn't harm other students and go somewhere in the forest?
- Because, I believe, the potion wasn't invented until after Remus had already finished school. You can read the article here. --Cubs Fan (Talk to me) 20:12, November 26, 2012 (UTC)
I have a different question: why do the werewolfs have to bee aggressive? And hurt them selfs? And why does company with animal help them? By the way, the answer above me is correct. It was invented after mid-1970.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 22.214.171.124 (talk • contribs).
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How did Vanessa Hudgens get started in her acting career? This girl was born Vanessa Anne Hudgens on December 14, 1988 in Salinas, California. Her looks can be attributed to her parents' descents. Her dad, Greg Hudgens is an American with the Native American and Irish background. Her mother, Gina, is a Filipino who grew up in Manila with traces of Filipino, Chinese and Spanish blood.
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Vanessa was inclined on the performing arts since she was a child. After she finished seventh-grade at the Orange County High School of the Arts, Vanessa opted for a home school setup.
When she was eight years old, she began joining musical plays. She was included on the main and supporting casts of plays such as "The Wizard of Oz," "The Music Man," "Damn Yankees," "Evita," "Carousel," The King and I," and "The Music Man." Everything happened by chance for little Vanessa. Her first gig was a commercial. But it was purely accidental why she landed the part. She went on the audition just because her friend, who was supposed to go there, got sick and asked her to come instead.
In 2003, she debuted in the feature film "Thirteen." This stars Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter. Vanessa also starred in "Thunderbirds," an action-adventure film. But Hudgens hit it big after playing the part of Gabriella in High School Musical, a TV movie made by the Disney Channel that was first released in 2006. That same year, she was able to release her debut album entitled "V." In July of 2008, her second album entitled "Identified" was released.
After she started on movies, she also played bit roles for television. She guest starred for TV shows such as "The Bothers Garcia," "Still Standing," "Quintuplets," "Drake and Josh" and "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
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BALTIMORE - Greg Cantori plans to downsize when he retires. Really, really downsize.
His retirement home is 238 square feet - one-tenth the size of the average new American house - and sits in his Anne Arundel County, Md., yard. He and his wife, Renee, can hitch it to a truck and take it with them wherever they go.
"It's so cheap - that's what's so cool about this," said Cantori, 52, who envisions a surf-and-turf future, alternating between the house and a sailboat. "We bought the house for $19,000. We can live an extraordinary life for very little money."
It's an example of the "tiny house" movement, which has collected a small but growing - and passionate - group of adherents. Some like the freedom from a big mortgage and high energy bills. Some, the freedom from roomfuls of stuff. And some see it as a promising option for workers whose rent overwhelms their paychecks.
Tiny houses fall into two categories. Some, like Cantori's, are technically travel trailers - tagged and road-ready. Others have foundations and aren't going anywhere.
The houses usually manage a lot of function in a little bit of space - kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, laundry room - and they're often cute to boot. Gables. Wood siding. Even porches.
"These are beautiful works of art," said Joe Coover with Tumbleweed Tiny House Co., a California firm that sells tiny homes - as small as 65 square feet - and tiny-home designs.
U.S. houses got bigger for decades, ballooning from a little less than 1,700 square feet in the early 1970s to 2,500 square feet last year, even as household sizes shrunk, according to Census Bureau figures. But the housing crash, foreclosure crisis and rough recession have pressed some to think differently about how much space they need. And a house you can move with you has a certain appeal to anyone stuck in a place worth less than its mortgage.
But whether you actually can live in a tiny home depends on more than your ability to pare down your possessions. Location matters. Zoning, building codes, health codes and even private covenants in subdivisions effectively can render a tiny house illegal.
In the eyes of the law, there's such a thing as too small. Some jurisdictions bar people from living in travel trailers, too, no matter what they look like.
"That's the No. 1 issue - zoning," said Steven Harrell, owner of Tiny House Listings (tinyhouselistings.com), where 20,000 to 50,000 people visit per day to check out tiny houses for sale. "There are a lot of people advocating, �Hey, what's the big deal? Why don't you ease square-foot (regulations)?' Times have changed. The economy has changed. People are having to make choices. And tiny houses are one of them."
In Washington, D.C., advocates hope to make inroads on rules affecting small residences as officials overhaul zoning regulations. Three tiny-home enthusiasts are building examples in an alley lot as a showcase - not to live in, because they can't. (Their homes fall in the travel-trailer category.)
Brian Levy, part of that group, thinks small places in a pricey city make sense - either alone on tiny lots or sharing a bigger parcel as an "accessory" structure.
"There's all these empty spaces around the city," said Levy, who lives in a Washington rowhouse near the lot he's building on. "If you take an aerial photo (and look at certain parts of D.C.) � it's striking that about 50 percent of the land is open space in the backyard. And right now, you can't build anything back there."
The alley-building group, dubbed Boneyard Studios because the lot borders a graveyard, wants to get people thinking about the possibilities - and seeing what small looks like. Levy thinks that's important because "trailer" conjures up deep-seated, knee-jerk reactions.
"In contrast to the manufactured-housing park, the tiny homes are typically about one-fifth the size, they've got gabled roofs. They're designed and built by architects," Levy said. "And people, they stand in line for an hour to have a look. Calling a tiny-house community a trailer park is like calling Dupont Circle rowhouses tenements."
Tiny houses aren't the only example of small living. "Micro-apartments" of a few hundred square feet are popping up in some expensive cities, such as San Francisco, for young professionals who'd rather spend their free time downtown than in a sprawling living room.
The cost for a tiny house varies. Coover, a workshop host with Tumbleweed Tiny House, said the company's ready-made homes sell for about $40,000 to $60,000. But people who buy plans, purchase materials at a home-improvement store and build it themselves - as in free labor - probably will spend $18,000 to $20,000, including appliances, he said.
One customer managed to keep the costs to just $5,000 by salvaging wood and waiting for great deals on other supplies, Coover said.
Of course, that doesn't include the cost of land to sit the house on. Some tiny-house folks buy. Some rent. Some find people with extra space and share.
In Cantori's case, it's sitting near his bicycle shed in his Pasadena, Md., yard. His actual residence isn't huge, either: just less than 1,400 square feet for a family of four and their two dogs.
Cantori has spent his life in modestly sized places. At 19, he bought a dilapidated sailboat, fixed it up and lived there for nearly five years - all 180 square feet of it. His next move was to a studio apartment in Baltimore. Living cheaply has allowed him to pursue the nonprofit career he wanted, save money and go sailing on the side.
His tiny home was built by a lawyer from Kansas who intended to live there with his family of three. Then the family grew by one. So he sold to Cantori, who flew west with his brother two years ago, rented a U-Haul and drove back to Maryland with his new home hitched to the back.
For Cantori, the affordability of a tiny house is part of the draw, but it's also the ability to use less energy, take up less land and generally be "lighter on the environment." A 6,000-square-foot house not far from his neighborhood baffles him. Who would actually use that much space?
"The walk-in closet's bigger than our tiny house," he said.
His future retirement home is robin-egg blue, with a porch out front. Inside, there's a tiny stainless-steel fireplace, a closet and a combination washer-dryer. A table in the living room/dining area seats two, or up to five if folded out. The kitchen has an RV stove, microwave and small refrigerator. In the bathroom is a full-sized shower and a composting toilet. And up top, two lofts - each a bedroom.
Cantori thinks it looks spacious, thanks to high ceilings, white walls and 16 windows. There's nothing extra inside.
"No wasted space," he said. "It's all about not wasting."


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Among the writers of English prose I most admire is P.G. Wodehouse, and one of his most-quoted – and misquoted - lines is this one -
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine
It has been used to support almost every conceivable position on Scots and Scotland, usually pejoratively and often highly selectively. It is a favourite among Englishmen who like to patronise Scots, and among unionist Scots who like to patronise nationalist Scots (the ones who believe their country should be independent, like most other democratic countries across the globe). It is used to justify reaction to near-racist abuse – vitriol passed off as humour.
For the delightful 'Plum' (P.G. Wodehouse) – the least racist of men, despite his unfortunate wartime experience with the Nazis, caused by his naivety – it was just another keen observation of human character and character types.
I have long realised and commented on what I call the politics of insult, and its power to create a reaction and galvanise opinion. I can track it from reactions to my YouTube videos, tweets and blogs. In fact, one of the factors that converted me to nationalism in the first place was the systematic patronising and insulting of nationalist Scots, and indeed Scots in general by Westminster.
Of course, there are many who feel it is an over-reaction and demonstrates a lack of humour to react. My feeling is they don't know their history in respect of racial and political 'humour', especially of colonial Britain, of Ireland, and of that fermenting decade, the 1930s, especially in continental Europe.
Last night's 'joke' by a member of the Lancaster Question Time audience, and the audience's reaction to it is a recent example – a clip post less than 24 hours ago is currently running at over 3100 hits, and has provoked a torrent of comments. Here it is, plus just a few from my collection – there are many more …


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EU regulator monitors Apple iPad and iPhone distribution
The European Union is looking into potential antitrust violations involving the distribution of Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads, after receiving what sources said were informal complaints from telecoms operators.business Updated: Mar 23, 2013 11:27 IST
The European Union is looking into potential antitrust violations involving the distribution of Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads, after receiving what sources said were informal complaints from telecoms operators.
The complaints involve handset subsidies and marketing that the world's most valuable technology corporation sign-off with operators that carry its smartphones and tablets, and also includes subsidies that carriers pay to Apple, one of the three sources told Reuters on Friday.
The source insisted on anonymity because contracts with carriers are business secrets.
"Apple insists on a certain level of subsidies and marketing for the iPhone," said the source, who declined to identify the companies that had approached the Commission.
U.S. and European operators pay hefty subsidies to smartphone makers including Apple, offering customers an attractive discount on devices in exchange for tying them into lucrative two-year wireless contracts.
Historically, Apple has been able to command higher fees for its devices because of its market dominance. It also tended to tightly regulate launch prices for its devices, while rival handset makers with less market share tended to defer to operators on pricing announcements.
Since 2012, however, Samsung Electronics unseated Apple as the world's most-used smartphone brand, which industry experts say will erode the U.S. corporations' ability to negotiate the best subsidies and marketing support.
U.S. regulators are unlikely to launch their own investigation into Apple's industry practices because of a different regulatory approach, and also recognition that the company's own market clout is diminishing.
"They're one failure to innovate away, or one innovation by somebody else away, from being in a very different spot," said a U.S. telecom industry lobbyist close to both carriers and device manufacturers, but who asked not to be named due to a lack of authorization to speak to the media.
"Apple is an important, powerful and innovative company but I don't think they've got the kind of market power that maybe some in Europe are alleging where it would rise to the level of running afoul of the antitrust laws," the person said.
A Commission spokesman on Friday said that EU competition regulators had been informed about concerns over Apple and its distribution practices. Three people familiar with the matter said that several telecoms companies had aired their grievances to the Commission.
Their concerns focused on the commercial terms in contracts with Apple, said one of the sources, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.
"There have been no formal complaints, though," Antoine Colombani told a regular Commission briefing. "Generally, we are actively monitoring developments in this market. We will, of course, intervene if there are indications of anticompetitive behavior to the detriment of consumers."
Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris said: "Our contracts fully comply with local laws wherever we do business, including the EU."
A second source said that the companies expressed their concerns to the Commission late last year.
It is not the first time Apple has come under the scrutiny of the EU antitrust regulators. The company was the target of an investigation nearly three years ago over its iPhone business practices.
It subsequently allowed cross-border repair services and eased restrictions on applications for the iPhone, which resulted in the Commission dropping its investigation.
"Historically, carriers have looked at themselves as being at the center of the ecosystem, and if there was a party in the relationship ... that held the power, it was them," the industry lobbyist said.
"The dynamic is a little different with respect to Apple, but I don't think that's a problem because Apple has rivals."
The New York Times first reported that the EU was looking into complaints about Apple.
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I'm trying to automate access to a website via scraping, and I'm trying to determine what parameters are being sent to the server in a POST request. I've currently got Wireshark open, but is there a better way to do this? Will I be able to see my POST request in plaintext, since the connection is HTTPS?
If you are using Firefox als your HTTP-client there's the option to use the "Tamper Data" AddOn to investigate your HTTP POST requests (and even replay them with an editable set of data).
Use Fiddler2. It acts as a proxy and will basically perform a man-in-the-middle attack to sniff HTTPS. You'll get a cert error, but that's fine.
EDIT: It also works for more than just web traffic.
The wireshark wiki has a link on how to decrypt SSL traffic with wireshark. That requires control on the certificate that the client uses, though, not sure it applies to you.
3It also requires the right cipher. Only SSL/TLS ciphers using RSA key exchange can be decrypted, not those using diffie-hellman. – penguin359 Apr 8 '11 at 8:24
My favorite Firefox extension is Live HTTP Headers. You can either capture live headers as various HTTP requests are made, and open up page info and look at the headers for the current page that was loaded. In addition to showing both all request and response headers, it also show the contents of a POST body.


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I'm a professional French blogger, well know in France for my blog http://www.des-livres-pour-changer-de-vie.fr/ .
I launched a few months ago a blog about "how to live your dream life with your blog", http://blogueur-pro.com/
I'm actually writing an ebook that I will give freely to my readers of http://blogueur-pro.com/ . The title will be "Vivre la vie de ses rêves grâce à son blog - De 0 à 14 000 € par mois en un an et demi" which can be translated by :
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It will be a 50-60 pages ebook that will teach them how to create and develop a successful blog, and then how to successfully monetize it. I share my success story too, as an inspiration example of what to do and what to NOT do ;)
I can provide the ebook as it is for the moment (means : unfinished), in French, by request.
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Well, I'll try to start a thread here. As Nick Brooke reminded us in today's (5/19/93) RQ Daily, the current SR system has awkward stat based breakpoints, among other problems. Now, one possible fix for this is the alternate SR system proposed by George Harris on the net last year. In anyone hasn't seen that, I'll include it here. Skip on down for further discussion if you're familiar with it. <<<<<<<<<<<<begin included file>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>From: firstname.lastname@example.com (George W. Harris)Subject: RQ: Changes to the Strike Rank Calculation MethodDate: 13 Aug 92 12:06:26 GMT As most of you probably know, when one attacks with a melee or missileweapon and when a spell takes effect are in a large part determined by one'sDex and Siz strike rank modifiers. The underlying assumtion of this mechanicis that the more dextrous one is the sooner one acts, and the larger one isthe quicker one lands a blow in melee. I am not going to contest theseassumtions, but rather try and streamline how they are implemented. Characteristic Dex Strike Siz Strike Rank Modifier Rank Modifier1-5 5 46-9 4 310-15 3 216-19 2 120+ 1 0 Ordinarily, when one is using a missile weapon (or casting a spell), oneacts on Dex Strike Rank (plus the magic points in the spell), and when oneis using a melee weapon, one acts on the sum of Dex Strike Rank and SizStrike Rank and Weapon Strike Rank. These are the main uses of the Dex/SizStrike Rank table. However, there are two things that should strike youabout this table: One: It is not an even progression. The steps alternate in sizebetween four and six, rather than being a constant five. Two: Siz Strike Rank alone is never used for anything, but isonly used in conjunction with Dex Strike Rank. The first item is easy to fix. Just make the intervals 1-4, 5-9, 10-14,15-19, 20+. As for the second, I propose replacing the Siz Strike Rankcolumn with a combined Dex+Siz Strike Rank column to be used for figuringmelee strike rank. As the table stands, someone with a Dex 10 and Siz 10 would have a meleestrike rank of 5. However, someone with Dex 9 and Siz 11 would have a meleestrike rank of 6, as would someone with Dex 11 and Siz 9. Since, the way thesystem is structured, Siz and Dex are equally important in figuring meleestrike rank, this result doesn't seem proper. Therefore, I propose using thefollowing table for figuring melee strike rank:Combined Siz+Dex Melee Strike Rank 2-4 9 5-9 8 10-14 7 15-19 6 20-24 5 25-29 4 30-34 3 35-39 2 40+ 1 The advantages of this table are that it eliminates the standard optimalbreakpoints for Siz and Dex, and also regularizes the progression. Onecould complain that it is undesirable for a table to use the sum of twocharacteristics, but as the damage bonus table already does this, thatobjection doesn't stand. Of course, one would still use the Dex Strike Ranktable to figure strike ranks for spells and missile weapons. --"If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste more likeprunes than rhubarb does." -Groucho Marx email@example.com George Harris, Tufts Univ. Dept. of Mathematics <<<<<<<<<<<<end included file>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now, my group and myself have been using this rule for a while now, and it works well with one correction. With the normal human range of SIZ, everything is copacetic, but if you start using this with trolls, giants, and scorpionmen, those with SIZ>>20 pose the following problem. If the creatures DEX SR is less than their SIZ SR in the old system, the new will give them a melee SR less than their DEX SR. In other words, they could hit with a maul before they could throw an axe. This is fixed by just ruling that any SIZ > 20 uses SIZ=20 in the Melee SR table. In this case, their Melee SR would equal their DEX SR, which gives the same result as the current system. With this fix, this system works well, and eliminate


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The fanverse has finally calmed down in the wake of Ben Affleck being cast as Batman in Zack Snyder's sequel to Man of Steel - which we're referring to as Batman Vs. Superman. We were finally moving on and entering a discussion about what kind of Batman Affleck would be playing (a Warner Bros. executive said he'll be "tired and weary and seasoned"). Affleck has not yet commented on his involvement, but no one really expected him to do so, as even a diplomatic, carefully-worded statement would likely be the equivalent of throwing gasoline on a bonfire.
Which, it seems, is exactly what teen pop star Justin Bieber has done. Bieber recently Instagrammed a photo of himself holding a screenplay up to a mirror. The title of the script is Batman Vs. Superman, credited to David S. Goyer and Zack Snyder and supposedly based on Batman: The Dark Knight Falls by Frank Miller & Klaus Janson (that's the last issue of The Dark Knight Returns). Bieber's un-subtle caption reads: "#robin??"
The script has a big "Bieber" watermark stamped across the title page. It's even bound by just two brads, one in the top and one on the bottom, which the middle one left open (it's quicker and easier to copy scripts this way, ask anyone who's ever been a development reader).
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Many of those questioned admitted they brag about their baby's early development in crawling, walking or talking, or the classroom achievements of older children.
Others boast about losing pregnancy pounds quickly, keeping their houses tidy or having a successful husband.
But although 78 per cent of survey respondents agreed that their one-upmanship at the school gates is "ridiculous", they said they "just can't help themselves".
It suggests that mothers are just as keen for their children to excel as fathers, illustrated by the Competitive Dad character in The Fast Show.
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"It is hard enough to cope with the lack of sleep, getting the children dressed and keeping them entertained all day, without worrying about what the world and his wife are saying about you."
The study of 3,000 mothers found that their competitive streak emerges as soon as they give birth, with almost half reportedly "obsessed" by having the first baby in their peer group to crawl, walk and talk.
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