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Fear is spreading across the country these days. A late February poll from CNN and Opinion Research showed that 73 percent of Americans surveyed are fearful about the way things are going in the country. Fear can cause some people to do crazy things with their businesses and their money. It also can cause some to just quit when in other times they might have stuck it out. (Read an interesting column, "The Quitter Economy," about this topic in the Feb. 2 issue of Newsweek.)
I don't blame anyone for wanting to curl up in a ball and ask someone to wake them when this mess is over. But this mess will end some day, so no curling up is allowed. And that's what smart business owners need to keep in mind. Smart business owners need to put aside fear and position themselves so they survive this recession and thrive once it's over.
I'm not an expert on business or surviving a tough economy, but I have been reading about businesses that gained market share during other recessions. Procter and Gamble is perhaps the most well-known case. The company increased its status as a manufacturer of soap and other household products and increased its sales during the Great Depression by continuing to advertise when other companies cut back. In fact, the company spent money on a radical idea at that time — radio serials for homemakers to listen to while they did their housework. (Later, these programs became known as soap operas and moved to TV.)
However, plenty of other companies also saw growth during recessions. During the 1989-1991 recession, a MarketSense study found that the following companies increased sales by the following percentages: Jif peanut butter (57 percent), Kraft salad dressing (70 percent) and Pizza Hut (61 percent). How did they do this? Each of these companies increased their advertising during the recession. Taco Bell also increased its advertising and raised its sales by 40 percent. At the same time, its competitor, McDonald's, cut back on advertising and had a 28 percent drop in sales.
A Buchen Advertising study found that companies that decreased their advertising in the recessions of 1949, 1954, 1958 and 1961 lagged in sales behind companies that did not cut back on advertising. The lag continued even after each recession ended. It makes sense that pulling out of the spotlight provided by advertising would hurt sales, doesn't it?
Of course, advertising these days isn't just about placing an ad in the paper or on the radio. It's not even just about sending out direct mail. As more people turn online, club operators must also turn online (see the cover story on lead generation), and they must reach out into the community for low-cost methods of "advertising," such as speaking at community events and meetings.
But it also means that once you have people in your doors, you must follow through with the promises that you've made. As Allen Adamson, managing director of brand consulting company Landor Associates, said in "Marketers: Don't Make Promises You Can't Keep," a Jan. 20 Forbes.com column, "A brand, for every intent and purpose, is a promise." If you break the trust of those you seek by breaking promises, then no amount of advertising will help you through this time.
Advertising and keeping promises. It's a plan of action that's proven more profitable than simply reacting. It puts you in the driver's seat, albeit on a very bumpy road.


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Calling All 4-Wheelers For The 2014 UA - 4xForwardPosted in Ultimate Adventure: 2014 on March 19, 2014
The Ultimate Adventure is our signature 4-wheelering event, famous around the world—and for good reason. Each year we select four readers and their rigs to join the staff, friends, and sponsors of the magazine for the best 4x4 summer camp/vacation ever. It could be you that joins us this year. All it takes is a competent rig and a team of two that can wheel, wrench, get along with others, and abide by our only real rule: No whiners! Sure, there's a bunch of other requirements, but a positive attitude and the ability to go with the flow and fix what you have makes the trip a success for everyone.
Every year the trip is in a different region, and the adventure consists of a thousand-mile road trip with a killer four-wheel trail thrown in almost every day. You get to live out of your rig and cook, camp, and enjoy this great country with likeminded guys for a week in the summer, usually the beginning of July. You'll have to pay all your own expenses and get time off of work to get there, wheel, and get home. Worst of all, we won't tell you where you're going until the last minute, no matter where we're going in the USA. We said it's not for whiners.
The problem is that many people don't apply because they don't think they will get picked—yet, like the lottery, you can't win if you don't play. Your rig only needs to meet minimum wheeling requirements, starting with 35-inch or better tires, a self-recovery winch on the front, locking differentials front and rear, and a protective roll bar (or a cage if it's an open vehicle). It doesn't need to be a buggy or wallet-job either. But it has to be street legal in your state and properly registered, licensed, and insured. We don't allow alcohol on the trail or road, and Illegal drugs are never allowed.
Trailers aren't allowed during the trip, as we live out of the rigs for a week. That means you bring everything you need and nothing you don't, because if you break you will need your own tools, parts, and knowledge. We've had first-time wheelers with well-built homegrown rigs do the entire trip without damage or breakage—so if they can do it, you can too. But carnage and body damage will most likely occur, no matter how careful we try to be, as our purpose is to wheel for the week, not for the day. There are no bypasses, no way to avoid body damage.
It's not hard to apply. In fact, if you can't send us an application and photos by mail, you can do it online. Remember to get your application in to us by March 31, 2014. After that, we select 10 entrants for consideration, and after some phone interviews the final four are selected. It could be you—if you want it. Go to www.4wheeloffroad.com/UA2014app for the application and rules. And remember: No whiners!


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A military collector and enthusiast has traced the military service of a soldier with ties to a Mullinville family.
A military collector and enthusiast has traced the military service of a soldier with ties to a Mullinville family. "A couple years ago I came up with the idea of creating a website, to display my collection," said Daan Stravers a 26-year-old Eindhoven-based signalman for the Royal Netherlands Army. "It would become an online museum. It was a great idea and I thought it would be finished pretty quickly. But eventually I realized that it would take much more time than I anticipated." Stravers works in a bi-national division, installing and maintaining mobile computer networks for the Dutch and German military. "As a kid I was fascinated by the military, and later WWII," he said via email. "I heard stories from my grandparents about the war. They told me about all the planes passing by and how it was like to live in such circumstances." Stravers said his grandparents gave him a few military items that sparked an interest in World War II-era history and collectibles. "I think I got infected by a "military virus" at some point when I was a kid." For the past few years Stravers has been researching the lives and service records of 18 soldiers from the most deadly war in history. He's compiled personal and military items from all of the soldiers and will put them on display on his website www.ww2-eto.com. "I wanted to create an archive, where I could collect all the information I had about these veterans," said Stravers. "I started with basic information like the name, serial number and unit of each veteran. About a year ago I started collecting all kinds of records that were available and also adding these to my archive. Then the difficult part started. I had to write an article about each and every veteran, some with very limited information. That wasn't easy and it was very time consuming." He said curiosity for the lives of the men who wore an article of clothing was the motivation for his research. "When I go to a museum, there are many items on display. Most of them don't have any information or personal history. They might just say something like 'WWII jacket used by U.S. Armed Forces.' I am more interested in the history of these items. To whom did a particular item belong? Where did he come from? What unit did he serve in? Many collectors have dozens if not hundreds of jackets or field gear without any connections to its past. Some have a name, but no history." One of the 18 men is Sgt. Rodney Eaton, a Missouri-native who served as an auto mechanic in the 231st Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 6th Armored Division. Eaton would marry Mullinville-native Eloise Miller in 1942. Acquiring a selection of Eaton's military effects, Stravers set out to uncover information about him, his life and his time in the European Theater of the war. Sergeant Rodney R. Eaton was born on Dec. 5, 1917 in Harrison Co. Missouri to Vaughn and Ruby Eaton. He enlisted in the army on Nov. 25, 1940 a little more than a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He served as an auto mechanic in the Service Battery of the 231st Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 6th Armored Division. His battalion was activated on Sept. 15, 1942 at Camp Chaffee, Ark. Later that year, on Dec. 21, he married his sweetheart Eloise Miller at an intimate ceremony in Kinsley. On Feb. 11, 1944 he left for Europe from New York, arriving in England 12 days later. His unit participated in all five campaigns of the 6th Armored Division. They landed on Utah Beach, France on July 19, 1944, two years and five months after they were activated and about a month after the Normandy Invasion. On July 24 the last of the division's troops and equipment was assembled in the vicinity of Le Mesnil near the west coast of the Cherbourg Peninsula and began operations in the Normandy region. They secured several bridges, relieving the 4th Armored Division in Avranches, which entered combat on July 17. In August 1944, the division moved to the Brittany, a northwestern region of France. It destroyed a German outpost in Plouvien after closing in on the small town of Brest. While combat command A remained in Brest, combat command B relieved the 4th Armored Division at Vannes and Lorient on Aug. 12 and Aug. 15 respectively. On Sept. 2 they relieved the 35th Infantry Division, protecting the south flank between Orleans and Auxerre. In November his division traveled to the Lorraine region, crossing the Nied River under strong opposition, reaching the German border on Dec. 6 and establishing and maintaining defensive positions around Saarbr�cken. In response to the Ardennes counter-offensive, aka "The Battle of the Bulge," the division became responsible for the sector south of the Sauer River, between Ettelbruck and Mostroff on two days after Christmas 1944. They engaged with heavy German troops in the Mageret and Wardin area, east of Bastogne on New Years Eve. They were forced to withdraw until a Jan. 8, 1945 counterattack. By late January, Eaton and his Division had driven the Germans across the Our River back into Germany. They penetrated the Siegfried Line and reached the Rhine River at Worms on March 21 and set up a counter reconnaissance screen along its west bank. They crossed the Rhine River at Oppenheim on March 25 driving onto Frankfurt capturing Bad Nauheim and continuing to advance eastward. On April 4 they surrounded and captured M�hlhausen, crossing the Saale River and assisted in freeing Allied prisoners held in Buchenwald, a notoriously heinous Nazi concentration camp. They took Leipzig, crossed the Mulde River at Rochlitz and on April 15, 1945 they awaited arrival of the Red Army. They maintained defensive positions along the Mulde River until the end of hostilities in Europe. The U.S. War Department determined Eaton had participated in the Normandy Campaign (June 6, 1944 – July 24, 1944), a campaign in Northern France (July 25, 1944 – Sept. 14, 1944), the Rhineland Campaign (Sept. 15, 1944 – Mar. 21, 1945), the Ardennes-Alsace Campaign (Dec. 16, 1944 – Jan. 25, 1945) and the campaign in Central Europe (Mar. 22, 1945 – May 11, 1945). The 6th Armored Division was deactivated on Sept. 18, 1945 at Camp Shanks, New York. Eaton's post-war career included service to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, at the Colorado River Agency, in Parker, Colo. There he planned and directed field construction work, and directed the irrigation maintenance and rehabilitation activities for the Colorado River Irrigation Project. He trained and upgraded the skills of Indian equipment operators. In 1969 he developed, from surplus equipment, a mobile paving concrete mixer that saved the agency thousands of dollars. Eaton was married to Eloise until his death on July 5, 1995 while they were living in La Paz, Ariz. He is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Greensburg. Stravers has compiled stories on all 18 of the soldiers in his collection and plans to share them on his website sometime over the next year. "WWII was such an unreal period," said Stravers. "You can hardly imagine something like that took place; a war on such a large scale. Many people, many allied soldiers left the safety of their home to liberate a country and people they did not know. They left their families, wives and children to fight overseas. This is something that can't be forgotten. People think the soldiers featured in popular movies won the war, but that's just not true. My displays show the actual stories of random individuals that served in all kind of units. Every single one of them made an important contribution to the war."


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The Next 5 Power Tools to Add to Your Tool Box
Last year, we prepared a list of the first five power tools that every homeowner—or ambitious apartment dweller—should add to their tool box. But if you've already stocked up on those essentials (check out the list here to see what made our first cut), we've got a few more suggestions for power tools to add to this year's wish list.
These tools aren't exactly the basics, but they're the next tier of useful tools that will prove their worth in your home projects.
1. Power Sander
One reader suggested that this should have made our first list, and we can't say we completely disagree. A power sander is super-versatile and can help you clean up rough edges on building projects, prep surfaces for painting or take a little bit off a door that sticks.
2. Rotary Tool
A rotary tool, and all of it's multi-functional attachments, is a great addition to any workbench. It's one tool can cut, carve, sand and polish. Plus, it's great to have a tool that can tackle tiny projects at home that a circular saw or belt sander is too clumsy to do.
3. Nail Gun
Sure, you could use a hammer, but a nail gun can get the work done in a fraction of the time. Plus, the quick blow from a nail gun is way easier on your walls than five or six hits with a hammer. And for us aethetites? Well, the nails from a nail gun have smaller heads and leave smaller holes.
4. Power Paint Sprayer or Roller
Sucker for color? You already know paint is the cheapest way to transform a room, but you can save yourself time by investing in a power paint sprayer or roller. Choose the best one for you: A sprayer is best for multi-textured surfaces (like a wall with lots of detail or a fence), while a roller does its best work on a large, flat surface (like drywall).
5. Soldering Iron
Even if you're not into electronics or sculpting metal sculptures, a soldering iron can help with plenty of household tasks. Repair small bits of plastic by melting them together, like a crack in a plastic pot, bowl, trash bin or DVD case.
Plus, you'll be fully equipped to tackle small leaks in your plumbing.
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Apostles Return to Southern South America
Contributed By By Jason Swensen, Church News staff writer
Article Highlights
- More than 35,600 people were instructed by the Apostles in an area-wide meeting for married couples.
- Elder Holland and Elder Christofferson met with civic and religious leaders in Chile and Paraguay.
- The Apostles have developed a lifelong love for the people and cultures in South America through previous Church service in the region.
"There are nearly 600,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the country, even though the Church's first real presence began with the initial missionaries arriving in Santiago just 50 years ago. We are very proud of that growth in his country we love so much." —Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve
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A recent apostolic trip to the southern nations of South America demonstrated the growing ties between the Church and the leaders of many Latin American governments—even as the Church continues to develop in both membership and devotion.
On November 14–15, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland and Elder D. Todd Christofferson, both members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, together with Elder Ulisses Soares of the Presidency of the Seventy, participated in a review of the South America South Area. Several training meetings highlighted their tour with priesthood leaders, members, and missionaries—along with cordial visits with civic and religious leaders in Chile and Paraguay.
Just over a year ago the Chile Area and the South America South Area were consolidated into a single area consisting of four countries—Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
Elder Christofferson told the Church News that the dedicated members and Church employees in the area "have made that [consolidation] a success."
During their tour, the visiting Brethren were able to meet with tens of thousands of members, both in person and via live Internet broadcasts of various meetings.
One highlight was an area-wide meeting for married couples. The event was staged in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and broadcast to meetinghouses across the South America South Area. More than 35,600 people participated.
Speakers at the meeting included Elder Christofferson and his wife, Sister Katherine Christofferson, along with Elder Soares and Sister Rosana Soares.
Elder Holland and his wife, Sister Patricia Holland, concluded the meeting, sharing the podium for a special question-and-answer session. The Hollands responded to a variety of queries that had been submitted prior to the meeting by members from across the area. Their candid answers covered a wide range of issues facing couples and families that included counsel on balancing family, work, and Church responsibilities and a discussion on helping children who have strayed from Church activity.
Their tender counsel "brought a lot of tears and smiles," said Elder Christofferson. "The people were wonderfully edified."
In his remarks, Elder Christofferson said husbands and wives must first build strong, personal relationships with their Heavenly Father. A strong marital relationship will follow.
The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, he added, prayerfully comes to unanimous decisions on key matters. "It ought to be the same in our marriages."
The Brethren also presided over several missionary meetings that included some 2,500 full-time missionaries. Leadership meetings were also conducted in the Chilean cities of Concepcion and Santiago, along with Buenos Aires and the coastal city of Mar del Plata in Argentina.
A meeting was also held for Church employees. The meeting originated in Buenos Aires and was transmitted to various offices across the South America South Area. Technology allowed the Brethren to see audience members viewing the broadcast in another city or country.
"We have a very talented and dedicated group of employees in the area," Elder Christofferson noted.
Elder Holland and Elder Christofferson are not strangers to South America. Elder Holland presided over the Chile Area from 2002 to 2004, when his love for the Chilean people and culture grew deeply. When his assignment ended he left the country having made many lifelong friends both in and outside of the Church.
Elder Christofferson developed a lifelong affection for the region while serving a full-time mission in Argentina from 1964 to 1966.
Meanwhile, the South America South Area Presidency members are all sons of South America. Area President Elder Walter F. González and his second counselor, Elder Francisco J. Viñas, are Uruguayan. First counselor Elder Jorge F. Zeballos is from Chile.
Visits with Civic and Religious leaders
On November 11, Elder Holland paid a visit to the Palacio de La Moneda, the presidential palace in Santiago, where 10 years earlier he had visited and become friends with then President of Chile, Ricardo Lagos.
On this more recent visit, Elder Holland was accompanied by Elder Zeballos and Elder Viñas. Upon entering the palace, Elder Holland was greeted with a warm "abrazo" (an embrace) by Mr. Gonzalo Guerrero, Chile's director of government religious affairs. The two men had become friends at last month's BYU International Law and Religion Symposium.
Elder Holland was then escorted to the office of current Chilean President Sebastian Piñera. The two exchanged friendly conversation, with Elder Holland commending the president's support of family values and Chile's history of religious devotion. The Apostle also noted the significant improvements in the Chilean economy since the Hollands had lived in South America a decade ago.
A Harvard graduate and a successful businessman, President Piñera spoke of his focus on increasing employment to help raise and stimulate the national economy.
The two men also spoke of the growth and influence of the Church in Chile. Elder Holland told the president that "there are nearly 600,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the country, even though the Church's first real presence began with the initial missionaries arriving in Santiago just 50 years ago. We are very proud of that growth in this country we love so much," Elder Holland said, "a love that we have demonstrated by building one beautiful temple in Santiago and announcing the construction of a second one to begin soon in Concepción."
The Apostle also spoke of the commitment of members worldwide to obey the laws of their respective nations and to be "active citizens." The Church, he added, treasures religious freedom.
President Piñera spoke of his own familiarity with the Church and his visits to Utah, including a stop during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The Chilean leader added that he had read the Book of Mormon after receiving a copy from his friend and business associate Rafael Viñas.
"That's my brother!" exclaimed a delighted Elder Francisco Viñas.
At one point in their visit, a little boy walked into the presidential office. Elder Holland, somewhat surprised at this informality in a state visit, smiled broadly and spoke briefly to the boy in Spanish.
"That's my grandson," said President Piñera. "He came to work with me today."
"I needed nothing more than that sweet, impromptu moment," Elder Holland later said, "to know that Sebasian Piñera was a great man. He did not reprove the boy for intruding, nor act in any way embarrassed. Indeed he seemed very proud. That was 'grandfathering' at its best," smiled the Apostle.
"I will always remember that moment in an otherwise formal visit."
Before leaving, Elder Holland presented a gift to the president, the statue Family Ties with a brass plate engraved with the leader's family names—a most appropriate gift in light of the family incident that had just occurred. He also gave President Piñera a globe made of lapis lazuli, a blue stone found only in Chile and Afghanistan.
In return, President Piñera presented Elder Holland with a special edition book celebrating Chile's bicentennial.
Meanwhile, Elder Christofferson made a presidential visit of his own in South America on November 13, calling upon newly elected Paraguayan President Horacio Manuel Cartes. The Apostle was joined by Sister Katherine Christofferson and a small contingent of local priesthood leaders, including Elder González.
President Cartes, who was approaching his first 100 days in office, noted his connection with the Church in improving the lives of the Paraguayan people through service and self-reliance.
"Everything is interrelated," he said. "I am working on finding more jobs for my people, and you are teaching them how to obtain one."
President Cartes spoke of his admiration for the humanitarian work the Church performs in his nation, often done in cooperation with local service organizations. He noted the efforts of the LDS Employment Resource Services in offering workshops about finding jobs and opening small businesses. The president also offered thanks for the Church's involvement in the Instituto Nacional de Cancer where Latter-day Saint doctors have trained local medical professionals and the Church has provided medical equipment. This undertaking was initiated following Elder David A. Bednar's visit with the former president of Paraguay a year ago.
Elder Christofferson also presented President Cartes with a Family Ties statue that portrays a family reading the scriptures together. The Apostle said he was confident the family was reading verses from the Bible or the Book of Mormon.
The Paraguayan leader appropriately placed the family-themed statue in the family room of the president's official residence.
The president spoke of his own appreciation for the scriptures. "I read a psalm every morning before starting my day," he said. "I have confidence in doing that and in praying to the Lord."
President Cartes then made a simple yet heartfelt request: "Please pray for me." Elder Christofferson responded, "We do and we will."
All who attended the meeting noted a feeling of brotherhood between President Cartes and the visiting Church leaders, who left hopeful for strengthened relations and further opportunities to help and serve the Paraguayan people.
While in Paraguay, Elder Christofferson also called on Monsignor Pastor Cuquejo, Catholic Archbishop of Asunción. The two religious leaders met in Monsignor Cuquejo's office in Asunción.
During the 30-minute meeting, the two men spoke of their common faith-based interests, along with shared humanitarian projects between LDS Humanitarian Services and the Catholic charitable organization Pastoral Social, including a project to provide wheelchairs to disabled people in Paraguay.
The monsignor also announced, with a smile, that he was a fan of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Elder Christofferson presented the monsignor with a replica statue of the Christus. Elder González, along with Elder Nicolas L. Di Giovanni, an Area Seventy, and Brother Gustavo Galeano also participated in the visit.


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Meanwhile, blockades concerning copyright are wreaking similar havoc. Users of Sky Broadband recently discovered that the megapopular imgur image hosting site (which we use to host many of our images) was completely blocked in a moronic attempt to try to block access to a torrent site. Because both the torrent site and imgur used the same CDN (one of the most popular ones), Sky mistakenly blocked it all.
Among the sites TalkTalk blocked as "pornographic" was BishUK.com, an award-winning British sex education site, which receives more than a million visits each year.
TalkTalk also lists Edinburgh Women's Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre website as "pornographic."
The company also blocked a programme run by sex education experts, and taught to 81,000 American children, that has been in development for more than 20 years.
TalkTalk's filter is endorsed by Mr Cameron but it failed to block 7% of the 68 pornographic websites tested by Newsnight.
Sky employs an automated blocking system that polls torrent sites' DNS records in order to quickly re-block them in the event they switch servers or IP addresses.Of course, these obvious over-blockages are merely the tip of the iceberg of what people were talking about when they noted that site blocking would "break the internet." They never meant that the entire internet would shut down, but that certain basic functions of the internet would not work properly, including important security tools like DNSSec. But the fact that even beyond that, these attempts at blocking content at the ISP level are flubbing so badly seems like pretty clear evidence that blocking is not a solution, but rather an even bigger problem than expected.
"Sky regularly pull IP addresses listed on our DNS servers and adds them to their block list. This block list is then used by an advanced proxy system that redirects any requests to the blacklisted IP addresses to a webserver that the ISP owns which returns a blocked page message," YIFY explains.
Therefore, when YIFY began using CloudFlare servers in Australia, Sky pulled these IP addresses and blocked them in the mistaken belief that they were YIFY's. Since Imgur uses the same IP addresses, Sky's automated blocking took the site offline, to the huge disappointment of countless customers.
Of course, governments have been warned repeatedly about what a bad idea such blocking plans are, but when you deal with technologically illiterate politicians and pro-censorship extremists, they seem to think that it's the perfect solution, without realizing just how much harm they're doing, not just in the collateral damage, and in guaranteeing that basic internet functions (like DNS) don't perform the way everyone expects them to, but also in general access to important health and safety information.


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I'm trying to get this going on other distros besides Ubuntu, so I was wondering if you would be so kind as to answer a few questions here and there Tim?
Question like:
What dependencies are required to run it on Ubuntu?
What version of python are you using,
anything else one would need to know?
I extracted the deb file and copied all the files to their relevant locations, but I get syntax errors when I try and run the application. Hopefully with a little tweaking I help spread it to other distros?


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The idea that the United States is slowly becoming a nation of renters may well be a myth, if survey results released this week are to be believed.
Some 72% of young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 say that homeownership is part of their American dream — the same as the rest of the overall adult population, according to a survey by Trulia, a real-estate website. And 93% of people in this age group plan to buy their own home some day, the survey found.
"Millennials have been shaken, not scarred by the housing bust," said Jed Kolko, Trulia's chief economist, in a news release. "Nearly all of them want to own a home someday, if they're not homeowners already. But many of them think today's low prices and low mortgage rates will last. They may be in for sticker shock if the cost of homeownership has returned to normal levels by the time they're ready to buy."
Also according to the survey, one in four consumers said they feel more positive about homeownership than they did six months ago. Only 19% of the 2,083 people surveyed said they felt more negative about the market.
Read more Real Estate news in this week's pages, including why refinancing near retirement can be a good idea for some homeowners and the 10 things that real-estate websites won't tell you.
For those interested in buying a home next year, Kolko said that 2013 could be the year that housing inventories turn around.
"Home buyers need inventory to choose from, and with fewer foreclosures on the market, new inventory will come from new construction or homeowners wanting to sell. Rising prices will bring out more sellers, especially if price increases lift them back above water," he said.
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Refinancing near retirement can be smart
Tempting low interest rates continue to make headlines, making refinancing your mortgage look attractive. But when retirement isn't far off, the decision to refinance can get more complicated.
Refinancing near retirement can be smart.
10 things real-estate listing sites won't say
Home buyer, beware: The virtual marketplace is rife with errors that can derail sales.
10 things real-estate listing sites won't say.
Post-Sandy, a surge in flood insurance
Insurance agents and brokers say calls from homeowners inquiring or applying for flood insurance—which isn't included in standard homeowner's-insurance policies—have picked up since Sandy hit the East Coast in October. Most of the demand is coming from clients in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
Post-Sandy, a surge in flood insurance.
Foreclosure starts lowest since 2006
The number of homes entering the foreclosure process in November was at its lowest level since December 2006, according to data released on Thursday by RealtyTrac.
Foreclosure starts lowest since 2006.
Retirement: The downside of downsizing
It's a mantra that millions of people recite when they feel insecure about their looming retirement — when the numbers on the 401(k) statement look distressingly low, or the credit card bills from little Ryan's junior year abroad eat into the savings kitty. It's all right, we tell ourselves, we're planning to downsize.
Retirement: The downside of downsizing.
U.S. mortgage application volume up 5.9% last week
The total number of mortgage applications filed in the U.S. last week rose 5.9% from the prior week as interest rates generally declined, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday.
U.S. mortgage application volume up 5.9% last week.
Survey shows confidence about housing up: Fannie
Despite continued uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff, Americans are showing increased confidence in the housing market and the direction of the economy, according to government-controlled mortgage giant Fannie Mae.
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Valparaiso's bats were alive on Sunday afternoon, but Indiana had just a little more fire power as the Hoosiers defeated the Crusaders 17-14 in Clarksville, Tenn.
The two sides combined for 39 hits, including four by Valpo's Brett Bivens (Battle Creek, Mich./Lakeview H.S.) and five by the Hoosiers' Josh Phegley, who hit for the cycle, who also had five runs batted in.
The Crusaders rallied from a 9-3 deficit with seven runs in the fourth inning to take a 10-9 lead. After Indiana retook a 16-10 advantage, the Crusaders fought back to within three and had the tying run on base in the ninth with two outs, but could not plate any more runs.
"We had two good comebacks today, but it was not enough," head coach Tracy Woodson said.
Indiana started the scoring with two runs in the opening inning, and Valpo matched the Hoosiers in the top of the second. An infield single by Bivens scored one and an Indiana balk tied the game. The Hoosiers added a run in the bottom of the second, only to be matched by a Josh Wallace (Bellfontaine, Ohio/Bellfontaine H.S.) homer to lead off the third.
The Hoosiers scored six times in the bottom of the third to build the 9-3 advantage, capped by a two-run homer off the bat of Ethan Wilson.
Valpo quickly answered putting up seven runs in the fourth, all with two outs. Wallace singled home the first run and Matt Lenski (Milwaukee, Wis./Marquette University H.S.) followed with a run-scoring double. Justin Frane (Fort Wayne, Ind./Carroll H.S.) added a two-run double and Joe Lazar (Traverse City, Mich./Central H.S.) capped the inning with a three-run blast to right-center, his second career round-tripper.
Phegley's homer in the bottom of the fourth put Indiana back on top by a run, and the Hoosiers added five more in the fifth to build a 16-10 lead. A Frane homer in the sixth brought Valpo back within five before Wallace singled home two runs in the seventh. Another Crusader scored on a double play ball, and the Brown and Gold headed into the seventh inning stretch down just two.
Indiana (3-3) added a run in the bottom of the inning and the Crusaders, despite loading the bases with two outs in the ninth, could not plate another run in the game.
"Our pitchers did not get the ball down again today, and with the wind blowing out it hurt us," Woodson added. "We did swing the bats well though."
Kyle Leiendecker earned the win (2-0) in relief for Indiana while Jay Clites (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer H.S.) suffered the loss (0-1) for the Crusaders.
Valparaiso (2-4) will now head to Raleigh, N.C. on Tuesday afternoon for a battle with North Carolina State. First pitch is set for 2 p.m. CST with all the action carried live on WVUR (95.1-FM, Valparaiso) and online at www.valpo.edu/athletics.
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Young Chicago Cubs fan brought to tears with surprise tickets
One young baseball fan's reaction to receiving a surprise gift from his family is warming the hearts of the internet.
Kolt Kyler, 9, has been a Chicago Cubs fan and according to his family, he "may or may not be their biggest fan!"
In the video that was posted to Twitter, Kolt is told that he's been working hard, doing well in school and helping out on the family farm.
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"Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values," Russian President Valdimir Putin said in his state of the nation address in mid-December, The Washington Times reported.
Putin continued, "Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation."
Some have dismissed Putin's rhetoric as nothing more than political posturing. However, leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church have echoed their president's assessment.
Patriarch Krill I of Moscow, the leader of the Orthodox Church, "accused Western countries of engaging in the 'spiritual disarmament' of their people," The Times reported.
"The general political direction of the elite bears, without a doubt, an anti-Christian and anti-religious character," Patriarch Krill said. "We have been through an epoch of atheism, and we know what it is to live without God. We want to shout to the whole world, 'Stop!'"
Another leader of the Orthodox Church, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, "suggested that the modern-day West is no better for a Christian believer than the Soviet Union," The Times also reported.
"The separation of the secular and the religious is a fatal mistake by the West," Chaplin said. "It is a monstrous phenomenon that has occurred only in Western civilization and will kill the West, both politically and morally."
One would be hard-pressed to dispute these assessments from the Russian Bear.
In 2005, USA Today reported, "Every major religion except Islam is declining in Western Europe, according to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. The drop is most evident in France, Sweden and the Netherlands, where church attendance is less than 10 percent in some areas."
If reports are correct, the Russian government is seeking to recover from its past suppression of Christianity. Among these efforts are the rebuilding of churches, religious instruction in public education and state paid chaplains in the military.
The impact of Christian teaching on the Russian people still has a ways to go. Recent surveys by the Pew Research Center and the Gallup organization reveal that the morality of the Russian people is not too different from Americans.
When it comes to attitudes about the moral acceptability of certain practices such as abortion, unmarried sex and divorce, Americans and Russians seem to agree.
However, what must be considered is that less than 25 years ago (the Iron Curtain came crashing down in November 1989) Russia was a society that had been dominated for nearly 70 years by a communist philosophy that indoctrinated its people in atheism. Russia, it seems, now is trying to move toward the light of Christianity.
Could it be Russia's move to Christianity is why 72 percent of Russians believe that homosexuality is morally wrong, as compared to only 38 percent of Americans? Sixty-eight percent of Russians also believe gambling is wrong, while only 31 percent of Americans feel the same way. Forty-four percent of Russians believe that drinking alcohol is morally unacceptable, while a 2012 Gallup poll found that 66 percent of Americans consume alcohol on a regular basis.
It stands to reason that if the Russian people continue to embrace the tenets of Christianity it will be reflected in their morality. Conversely, as America continues to move away from the teachings of the Bible, morality among the masses will continue to decline.
"Some years ago, my wife, Ruth, was reading the draft of a book I was writing. When she finished a section describing the terrible downward spiral of our nation's moral standards and the idolatry of worshiping false gods such as technology and sex, she startled me by exclaiming, 'If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.'"
Countless preachers in recent decades have echoed the sentiment of Mrs. Graham. However, America has continued to run headlong toward a godless secularism characterized by an unfettered, unaccountable hedonism. It seems the God of the Bible is irrelevant even for many who profess to follow Him.
America has thus far ignored the warning of the prophets in her midst. Is God now trying to get the attention of America by speaking through the Russian Bear? It wouldn't be the first time the Lord used an unlikely source to communicate truth. Just ask the wayward prophet Balaam.
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Don Melton, who was originally tasked by Scott Forstall to create WebKit and the Safari browser for OS X, and later WebKit of iOS, has retired from his job as engineering director of internet technologies, and begun writing. One of his writing projects is a blog, and two of his recent posts shed some light on the people and events behind Safari.
In When I first heard the name "Safari", Melton discusses the project name, Alexander, how they jokingly referred to it as iBrowse, and how it ultimately came to be named.
During the Summer of '02, Steve Jobs and the Apple management team realized that we were going to pull this off — we could actually ship a Web browser by the end of the year. And at one particularly good Human Interface design session, discussion turned to what we were going to call this — thing.
In keeping Safari a secret, Melton talks about how his team had to hide Safari's user agent string, so the project could remain a secret until Steve Jobs announced it at Macworld 2003.
For much of the time we spent developing Safari — long before it was called by that name — it pretended to be Microsoft Internet Explorer. Specifically, Internet Explorer for Mac, which Apple had provided with the OS since 1998. Less than six months before Safari debuted, it started pretending to be a Mozilla browser.
Both stories are delightful and add an enormous amount of color and humanity to a technology iPhone, iPad, and Mac users use every day. Give them a read.
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This thread is for the experienced Little Busters viewer (i.e. those of you who are familiar with potentially all the light novels / manga), its purpose is to allow free discussion of theories and speculation over the Little Busters anime series, it therefore will contain unmarked spoilers. If you are not familiar with the Little Busters visual novel, then do not read this thread unless you want to be spoiled (use the Speculation & Theories thread instead).
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This may be difficult, but I think some distinction between Little Busters players and Little Busters EX players might be necessary. The current english translation doesn't include EX, so most people who have played the game and want to compare it to the Anime won't necessarily want to be spoiled about the EX routes.
I don't really have a solution, just identifying the problem.
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Indeed, personally I would like that, though I'm not forcing. I played LB! about 5 years ago and yet I STILL haven't finished EX, despite my ability in doing so if I want to. Mostly because I was traumatized with that horrible bgm when the H-scenes played out...sigh
Anyways, currently my biggest anticipation is how or if Kyousuke's BBS posts will somehow make it into the anime. Probably the short skits during next ep previews? Aaaand, the million dollars question: how will they handle the repetitions?
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Watching the op...im kinda scared they might cram refrain in the last episode and use the normal ending with the true ending squeezed in as a OVA ala persona four the animation. But clannads op had ushio so maybe im just overreacting...
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After Komari's Arc, we'll have Mio's Arc next.
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No when i say normal ending i mean
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@ronelm yeah that seems about right. I think they will go komari > mio > haruka > kurugaya > kud > rin2 > refrain but theres a 50% chance they might just do kud then kurugaya.
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I hope that they include the true ending, since it'd feel unfinished if they just left it with
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As far as an OVA goes, I'd rather that they make it about the Little Busters' trip to the beach at the end, or on an EX route or two.
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Im 99.99% sure theres going to be a ova since each BD/dvd volume will have 3 episodes each and since 9 have been soliticated there needs to be a episode 27 to fill the final BDs episode amount. And i heard that a OVA was mentioned either on the radio show or the pre screening of episode 1. Though whether its the true refrain ending or the beach remains to be seen. That is if they plan to do everything in two cours.
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This is going to sell regardless of how good or bad it is, so why should the studio put in any effort at all?
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Nice atmosphere in the ED, just realized it's the morning of the last...
Also looks like they're doing Sasami's route, as there are key visuals from her route on the litbus homepage.
Spoiler for Sasamis route:
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Would you think that, as a woman, your best professional experience would occur in Saudi Arabia? I didn't…and I was wrong.
I always liked living and working abroad. I was used to discovering a different foreign country every year since I graduated. When I joined global professional services company Accenture, I worked in the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey. When I met my husband, I wanted to spend my time in Belgium to give us time to start a family.
Six years and one son later, the call of living abroad became irresistible. My husband and I estimated our one-and-a-half-year-old son was old enough to start discovering the world. I shared my wish for an out-of-town assignment with my leadership at work. There was one condition—my family should be able to come with me.
About nine months later, I received an opportunity to become the project manager for an SAP implementation for Accenture's first health client in Saudi Arabia. My first reaction was: "When I said 'abroad,' I was thinking something sexier like Singapore or Brazil. ... I would have never thought about Saudi." My second reaction was: "No way. A woman leading a project in a country where she cannot even drive? I will never be credible."
On top of this development, I learned I would be the first female executive with Accenture bringing her family there. I like being the "first," but this time might have been a step too far, I thought. But the part of me that has always been pushing boundaries won the battle. Being successful in such conditions was the ultimate challenge I could take.
On the administrative side, it hasn't been a bed of roses. To give you an idea, my company had long discussions with Saudi authorities to get my family a proper visa because having a woman as a head of a family was something new to them. But still, we made it there, the three of us. And then started a 15-month adventure.
This experience was more than I expected. On the professional side, it gave me confidence that I can manage any kind of project in any kind of environment. I have been in impossible situations.
How do you deliver when IT security is shutting down your VPN (virtual private network) three months before go live and you need six weeks to get proper visas for your people? How do you keep moving forward in the Ramadan month when your team members and clients are fasting all day? You do it by being open on what can be done and not done in the given constraints and by being unconditionally constructive. This approach is the only way you can build trust, with your clients, with your team members, with your leadership.
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Synchronicity can be so simple and yet so seemingly complicated at the same time.
Those trying to match up Vin Scully's KLAC-AM (570) call of the Dodgers-Braves opener to their NL Division Series with the pictures provided by TBS on Thursday were in a time-warp mind-bending wrestling match, depending on the uncooperative cable or dish provider in question.
Some with DirecTV couldn't get the audio from a home entertainment center radio feed closer than 10 seconds ahead of the video. Others had the opposite experience, especially if they, as many were, still occupied their office space when the 5:30 p.m. game started, leading to them tapping into their MLB.com app to pick up the Dodgers' flagship radio.
What to do to resolve the issue? Open it up to social media, for starters.
Simply press "switch audio feed" on the app and you'll pick up seven seconds, came one tweet.
Run the radio signal through the DVR and delay the video seven seconds, came another.
If you have postseason.tv and download NexDef, use the DVR function to synch things up, suggested a guy with the handle LACordCutter.
Go to XM Radio and synch it up with your DVR and it'll work quite nicely, offered Jim at p368241.
If we could plus the radio antenna into our toaster oven, turned on the browning element and wrapped tin foil around the whole operation, with our cell phone charger as a conduit, we'd have been apt to try it.
Some were confused why they couldn't go to the KLAC website to hear the audio feed, but that was also explained on Twitter: You needed to subscribe to MLB.tv.
As a last resort — or, something to consider doing first next time — send an email to a well-placed source at KLAC and ask politely.
Wish granted, by the fourth inning.
We'll call it an act of God to have the voice of Scully come within at least a second or two closer to what we had been experiencing.
It came with a verification on KLAC's Twitter account at about 8 p.m.: "We're here to please Dodger Nation."
Because, by that point, having Scully available to describe playoff baseball is a treat that should not be missed.
It was easily a situation set up where sound could have trumped vision.
As soon as Scully came on the air and before the first pitch was thrown, Scully was already enthralled by the noise generated by the Atlanta crowd, particularly the war chant as they did the border-line insensitive tomahawk chop.
"Listen," Scully simply said, then backed off as the crowd filled the speakers. "I haven't been here in years but the thing I never forget is that chant."
There was the option of flipping over to KSPN-AM (710) to hear Dan Shulman and Orel Hershiser describe the game — much better synched up to the video. But, honestly, why?
Scully, unrestricted by a simulcast that is included in his usual first-three innings of radio work and left to his own devices without having to put captions on a Dodger telecast, was able to weave the crowd in and out as an ongoing theme Thursday, noting how it ebbed and flowed as the Braves quickly found themselves falling behind and unable to catch up.
As the Dodgers' Adrian Gonzalez connected on a third-inning home run, Scully noted: "And you're not going to hear the crowd now. It sounds more like a library. The crowd has been taken out … for now."
Thankfully, he didn't take the opportunity to explain a library.
As much as you might want Scully to be included in any TV broadcast, maybe we have it better this way. Scully, just on radio, is where the master has control of the canvas. Close your eyes and enjoy.


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In the Berlin of the 1920's, inflation is rampant. Middle income people find their savings worthless, black markets thrive, and nightclubs, strip parlors, and the forerunners of gay and lesbian bars are packed each evening as curious tourists with hard currency to spend fill the tables and drink the cheap liquor. Esther, a young Jewish woman finds a steady job in a shady nightclub thanks to her proficiency in several languages. When the nightclub pr...


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Is OS X Going to Die Soon? I say: Why Not?
There's a nice article at Gizmodo called: Another Crystal Clear Sign That OS X Is Going to Die Really Soon. And as the article states, it does seem like Apple has placed iOS on top, and OS X far behind in second place, as I mentioned in my post from few weeks ago: Mac OS X (10.8) Proves That Apple's True "Lion" Is iOS.
As someone who recently got a Mac, I must say it didn't left me impressed like iOS did 3-4 years ago when I just started using the second generation iPhone. The hardware design is impressive, but the OS itself feels old. I can even argue about the usability of some UI elements which exist all over it. And of course, as a newbie, there's this huge gap in apps and productivity options between what I am used to from iOS and OS X
So regardless to the emotional side, which I'm sure causing many fanboys to feel bad about it – I actually think that killing OS X would make a lot of sense. iOS is amazing. iPad is amazing. The world is going there anyhow. If I were Apple I would make iOS stronger, and turn OS X to be similar to iOS (which is something Apple is already doing).
What happens when a PC user gets a Mac
So is OS X going to die real soon? I think not, but if you ask me? I say why not… Don't think the world desperately needs OS X any longer as an alternative to Windows. The real alternatives these days (for the mass) are Android and iOS.


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The Lakers introduced Coach Mike D'Antoni on Thursday as the team's early replacement to Mike Brown.
The team has been under fire by many for not choosing Phil Jackson, who won five rings with Kobe Bryant through two stints as the team's coach.
Even Magic Johnson on the ESPN broadcast put the Lakers on blast.
"I don't feel Mike D'Antoni is the right coach for the Lakers," Johnson said. "Now, especially when you have Phil Jackson sitting out there who wanted to be the Lakers coach, and Jim Buss decided he didn't want Phil Jackson, he wanted Mike D'Antoni, and that's OK. Why didn't you just say that? But the fans were cheering for Phil Jackson two nights in a row."
Johnson is presuming that the call was left to Jim Buss and not Jerry Buss, which might be more of an accurate reflection of how the decision was made.


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UPDATE: Parts Of Minnesota Get Hit With Early Snowstorm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The southwestern and west central parts of Minnesota got hit hard with an early snowstorm.
According to the National Weather Service, the snowfall totals in Pipestone and Lyon counties ranged from 7.5 to 10 inches.
The Twin Cities escaped the worst of the snow that started Tuesday evening, with less than two inches accumulation in most areas.
Greg Spoden, state climatologist with the Department of Natural Resources, calls November "a transition month," where there's enough Arctic air to turn the precipitation to be snow.
The record for the state's earliest snowfall is Sept. 24, 1985 and the shortest snow-free stint is 137 days, from May 25 to Oct. 8, 1925.


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Evening Dress Lara (Tomb Raider Legend) – Cosplay of the Day
Lara Croft is one of the most celebrated heroines in all of gaming with a ton of titles under her belt. So it goes without saying that she's gone through a number of wardrobe changes in her time as a Tomb Raider. Today, we're featuring the ripped evening dress she wore in Tomb Raider Legend.
Miss Croft wore this little black dress to a party in Japan. It was sleek, it was slinky and it accentuated all of her features. But it wasn't until things started going awry at the party that Lara went into kick-ass mode, ripped the sides of her dress and ditched her pumps for better mobility. If you've ever wanted to see someone be a total badass while wearing an LBM, then Lara's your girl.
This is Tanya Croft, a Ukrainian cosplayer whose hobby is perfecting the art of becoming Lara Croft. She's got tons of outfits modeled after the famous archaeologist's different looks, but here she is in the ripped evening dress, guns at the ready and looking fierce. This is one girl we'd love to have on our arms at any party.
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David Benioff is an American Emmy winning novelist, scriptwriter and producer. He is best known for his novels The 25th Hour and City of Thieves, and his role as scriptwriter on Spike Lee's adaptation of his novel as 25th Hour and also on Troy, The Kite Runner, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Brothers.
David Benioff was given the A Song of Ice and Fire novels as a gift and became a big fan of the books. On 16 January 2007 HBO optioned the rights to the books and Benioff and writing partner D.B. Weiss began developing the project as a pilot script entitled Game of Thrones. The two writers appeared with George R.R. Martin at an appearance on social networking site Second Life on 31 May 2007 to discuss the project with fans. On 9 September 2008 HBO exercised their option to buy the rights and ordered a pilot on 11 November, with Benioff and Weiss appointed as executive producers and showrunners of the project.
On Game of Thrones Benioff works as executive producer, showrunner and scriptwriter. Together with D.B. Weiss he has written the majority of the episodes of the series so far. Starting with the third season, he also co-directed (with Weiss) episodes of the series.[1]
Benioff and Weiss won the Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series 2015 Emmy Award for the Season 5 finale, "Mother's Mercy".[2]
Speaking with Variety in April 2016, Benioff said that his favorite character is Sansa Stark - some fans (even from the books) hated her because they felt she started out as a brat, but Benioff enjoyed her character growth and inner strength as the story progresses.[3]
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|Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things
|The Wolf and the Lion *
|A Golden Crown
|You Win or You Die *
|The Pointy End
|Baelor *
|Fire and Blood *
* - co-written with D.B. Weiss
Season 2
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|The North Remembers *
|The Night Lands *
|What Is Dead May Never Die
|Garden of Bones
|The Ghost of Harrenhal *
|The Old Gods and the New
|A Man Without Honor *
|The Prince of Winterfell *
|Valar Morghulis *
* - co-written with D.B. Weiss
Season 3
|Season Three credits
|Valar Dohaeris *
|Dark Wings, Dark Words
|Walk of Punishment *
|And Now His Watch Is Ended *
|Kissed by Fire
|The Climb *
|The Bear and the Maiden Fair
|Second Sons *
|The Rains of Castamere *
|Mhysa *
* - co-written with D.B. Weiss
Season 4
|Season Four credits
|Two Swords *
|The Lion and the Rose
|Breaker of Chains *
|First of His Name *
|The Laws of Gods and Men
|Mockingbird *
|The Mountain and the Viper *
|The Watchers on the Wall *
|The Children *
* - co-written with D.B. Weiss
Season 5
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|The Wars To Come *
|The House of Black and White *
|High Sparrow *
|Sons of the Harpy
|Kill the Boy
|Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken
|The Gift *
|Hardhome *
|The Dance of Dragons
|Mother's Mercy *
Season 6
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|The Red Woman *
|Oathbreaker *
|Book of the Stranger *
|The Door *
|Blood of My Blood
|The Broken Man
|No One *
|Battle of the Bastards *
|The Winds of Winter *
Season 7
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|Dragonstone *
|The Queen's Justice *
|The Spoils of War *
|Beyond the Wall
|The Dragon and the Wolf *
Season 3
|Season Three credits
|Valar Dohaeris
|Dark Wings, Dark Words
|Walk of Punishment *
|And Now His Watch Is Ended
|Kissed by Fire
|The Climb
|The Bear and the Maiden Fair
|Second Sons
|The Rains of Castamere
* - co-directed with D.B. Weiss
Season 4
|Season Four credits
|Two Swords *
|The Lion and the Rose
|Breaker of Chains
|First of His Name
|The Laws of Gods and Men
|The Mountain and the Viper
|The Watchers on the Wall
|The Children
* - co-directed with D.B. Weiss
Other credits
- The 25th Hour (2002)
- When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories) (2004)
- City of Thieves (2008)
- 25th Hour (2002)
- Troy (2004)
- Stay (2005)
- The Kite Runner (2007)
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
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The Pilgrim field hockey team's difficult stretch in Division I continued on Tuesday afternoon, as the Pats took on Lincoln School and lost 5-0.
Pilgrim fell to 0-9 on the season, but it's not as though it was unexpected. The Pats knew they were going to have a hard time competing with the strong D-I teams.
Instead, they just try to do their best and limit the damage. Though they've scored just one total goal so far this year, they hung tough against Tiverton before a 2-1 loss and they only fell to perennial power North Kingstown 2-0.
Out of place in the best division in the state, Pilgrim does what it can to make the best of it.
Unfortunately for Pilgrim, against Lincoln School – which has the third-best record in the state at 8-1-2 – there wasn't all that much the Pats could do.
"There are some games I think that if we play well we have a shot to be competitive," Pilgrim head coach Nisa San Giovanni said. "This is one of those games where I think that even on our best day, they're a little more skilled than we are."
One thing Pilgrim did well on Tuesday, especially in the first half, was defend.
Against the talented Lincoln attack, the Pats held strong for the first 19 minutes of game action before Elizabeth DiSandro smacked a shot past goalie Courtney Cardoza on a pass from Nicole White to break the scoreless tie and put the Lynx up 1-0.
From there, players like Haley Donahay, Julianna Mollo, Sarah Reilly, Kelly Vatter, Jillian Yehle and Brianna Florio kept Lincoln School at bay until the final minute of the half.
With time expiring before the break, the Lynx' Ellie Chrupcala smashed a long, hard shot out of Cardoza's reach for a 2-0 lead at the break.
But Lincoln School had 13 penalty corners in the first half, and the Pats limited it to just two goals.
"I was pleased at the end of the half with my kids," San Giovanni said. "At my last count we had given up something like 12 corners, but I have some tough kids. They don't give up, even when they're outmatched."
Cardoza also did her part, stopping a number of hard shots from Chrupcala with her pads and even using her glove to knock down some high attempts.
"That kid hit some rockets, and Courtney was able to make some nice saves," San Giovanni said. "They hit some air shots and Courtney made nice saves on those too."
Early in the second half, the floodgates opened up a little bit.
Just over three minutes in, DiSandro scored her second goal of the game with a bouncer into the right side.
Then about halfway through the half, Larson Bennett ripped a shot from the middle that flew past everybody for a 4-0 lead.
"You can only expect them to hang on for so long," San Giovanni said. "They almost start settling back. They get rid of the ball and start backing up in anticipation of what's coming instead of playing some offense. I really have to try to instill that. Even if you don't score, at least you're moving the ball down to the other end."
With eight minutes remaining in the game, Lincoln School put together a final goal off a penalty corner when Bennett flipped a pass to White on the left post, who only had to sweep it in to the open net to make it a 5-0 game.
"If they make a couple of passes on a corner and get an open shot with hits that hard, they're going to put one in the corner," San Giovanni said. "And they did."
The good news for Pilgrim is that the potential for greener pastures is right around the corner. The Pats have two good chances to win coming up.
First, they'll play a non-league game at Division II Warwick Vets on Monday at 3:45 p.m. The next day, Pilgrim will go to 0-10 Woonsocket. That game will be at 3:45 p.m.
"We have a few shots next week where, if we play well, we can finally get a 'W,'" San Giovanni said.
Pilgrim is the 5th largest school in D1 field hockey, and has 31/2 times the female enrollent of Lincoln School. The inferiority complex that now envelopes nearly the entire Warwick public schools athletic program has become a self-fulfililng prophecy. The kids pick up the "poor me" mentality on Day One, and it remains cancerous for the next four years. Deplorable field conditions only heightens the message that their school could care less about their hard work. Mediocrity is now the athletic goal against mostly smaller schools. Tragic for the kids. Shameful for the community.


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Maybe the Preds will volunteer to lose!
After two frustrating loses to the Predators already this season and a disappointing performance on Wednesday, game three against Nashville is a bit of an unwanted re-match. Some days I miss playing Florida.
The Jets have a very uninspiring 2-7-1 record againt their Central Divisional opponents, and with two more games played than Nashville, are nevertheless four points out of 'not last.'
Against Nashville, the news hasn't been all bad. The Jets have out shot the Preds at even strength 61-45. Some of that is garbage time in game one, but even when the score is within a single goal, the Jets have led even strength shots 40-38. The challenge has been getting quality shots, and the Preds have led even strength scoring chances 24-14 through two games.
Worse, the Predators are getting better.
Unsatisfied with 5th in the Central, the Preds have made changes already. They sent prospect Filip Forsberg to the AHL, elevated Stalberg from the 4th line to the 1st, and recalled Taylor Beck to create a soft-minutes scoring line. The Jets have only faced Carter Hutton when playing the Preds, and the Predators played game one of the season series without top centreman (and Defender of Faith) Mike Fisher and top-4 defender Roman Josi. Despite struggling with injury and effectiveness, the Predators have taken four points in this season series, and left the Jets with just one.
As Gary Lawless reported, the Predators practiced for over an hour after a 6-4 win over Colorado, despite having 5 of a possible 6 points on their road trip so far. This team is very serious about winning. The Jets, meanwhile, are trying to find chemistry, play as a team, and make simple plays well. They're trying to evaluate their roster and find lines that work. It's about process right now in Winnipeg, and the team is a long way from talking about results.
But nothing is ever won on paper, and maybe the third time is the charm.
Jets Forwards
- Ladd – Little – Wheeler
- Kane – Jokinen – Setoguchi
- Frolik – Scheifele – Halischuk
- Tangradi – Wright – Thorburn
Evander Kane makes his return to the lineup. He proclaimed himself healthy on Wednesday… oh, you heard? Is that really all TSN would talk about through the whole game? They even had melancholy descriptions of him eating popcorn, you say.
The LLW line is back together as well, which we say happen in the third period against Chicago, with unknown effect. They entered the zone well together, created a little offensive chaos. But Ladd and Little still ended up buried in shots and chances, and it was garbage time by the third. So it's hard to know just what effect it had on the game. Still, in isolation, the threesome looked more like last year than the start of this year. That's a positive.
The Jets' current third line continues to be better than it should be, and Scheifele is getting comfortable with Frolik. He had a tremendous game against Detroit, and came out of Chicago without so much as lint in his pockets. They picked him clean. Nashville has much less skill in their roster, so hopefully Scheifele can out-think the Nashville pressure points and avoid playing one-on-five hockey.
Jets Defence
- Clitsome – Byfuglien
- Enstrom – Bogosian
- Pardy – Ellerby
- Pavelec
- Montoya
Playing the Predators should be a perfect reminder to the team that spreading out talent on the back end only makes you kinda bad all the time. With no remaining depth after injuries and lost free agents, the Predators put Jones with Weber and rode them hard – 25 minutes a night or more – just as they had with Suter and Weber before.
The Jets have a similar group. Two great defenceman, a third who can well in the right circumstances, and some specialists. Enstrom and Byfuglien are better together than apart. No further experimentation is needed to show that. Enstrom makes all of his partners better, in fact, but Byfuglien needs the little guy to be the elite level player he can be. That pairing should play 28 minutes, Bogo should get 22, and Clitsome, Pardy, and Ellerby (or whoever they have to play as depth) should be rotated according to matchups, streaks, etc, and range from 14 to 10. It's the Nashville model, and I dare say they've shown it can work.
The Jets already play Buff that much on many nights, but with Grant Clitsome (the poor man's Enstrom). It's a problem for the team, and the coaching mentality to have set pairs that don't change through a game is outmoded and doesn't fit this group's talent distribution.
Noel is already shortening his bench at forward – his fourth line gets 5 minutes in recent games, compared to 10 in months and years past. It's time the Jets shorten their defensive bench as well, and 10 minutes of Grant Clitsome has to be the first casualty.
Predators Forwards
- Wilson – Fisher – Stalberg
- Nystrom – Legwand – Hornqvist
- Beck – Cullen – Smith
- Clune – Gaustad – Spaling
This is the lineup the Preds used to hang six goals on the Avs two nights ago. After trying to create a lineup with four out-scoring lines, the Predators have sent Forsberg out, brought up the higher scoring Taylor Beck and assembled a scoring line. Most teams might pencil it in as a 'second' line, but for Trotz, the Cullen line will appear against Pardy/Ellerby as often as possible, and possibly be faced off against the Scheifele line when Trotz has his way.
The rest of the lineup is very Nashville. Three lines of two-way, gritty forwards – the kind teams always seem to need one more of. The system is fairly simple for the Preds and involves a 1-2-2 forecheck and neutral zone containment pressure. The Jets' defenders won't have the space to make those long outlet passes, and the Jets' forwards will be dumping it in often unless they can break out and in as a unit the way they did in Detroit.
Out chancing the Jets (24-14 at evens, 29-20 total) has come from keeping the Jets to outside. When they transition with speed and Kane or Wheeler or whoever has that clean entry over the blue line, the Predators sag contain the outside lane and funnel the puck carrier into the corner. The Jets often opt for the 40 or 50ft leaning wrist shot with no traffic. The shots mount, but the chances don't. The back-pressure from forwards through the middle is the key to that for the Predators, and the Jets need to develop a more patient offence if they want to score.
Predators Defence
- Jones – Weber
- Josi – Klein
- Ekholm – Ellis
- Hutton
- Mazanec
Roman Josi is back, and Carter "Jets Bane" Hutton is in goal again tonight. It will be interesting to see what former 1st round pick Ryan Ellis gets for minutes now that his partner is no longer a recent ECHL alum. Will the Predators keep him under 14 minutes?
More than likely, the Jets will see 25+ minutes of Weber and Jones, Klein will get his 22 minutes, Josi 18, and the rest will be up to Ekholm, Ellis, and the refs.
Worth Reading Today
- I really enjoyed the Friday Five-Hole by Rhys Finnick today. Smart, mean, and funny.
- Arctic Ice Game Day!
- Does Claude Noel have a communication problem?


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The reason audio and video tags were not implemented in early html/etc (in my guess) is because it wasn't realistic to even consider under the dial-up bandwidth of the time. Audio and video files take a lot of bandwidth, of course.
I remember when downloading a 5meg file took anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes, depending on network conditions.
YouTube would not even function on dial-up. It was the dark ages, for sure. ;)