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WASHINGTON — Containers of goods idling at ports. Reduced sales at sandwich shops in downtown Washington. Canceled vacations to national parks and to destinations abroad. Reduced corporate earnings forecasts. Higher interest payments on short-term debt.
Even with the shutdown of the United States government and the threat of a default coming to an end, the cost of Congress's gridlock has already run well into the billions, economists estimate. And the total will continue to grow even after the shutdown ends, partly because of uncertainty about whether lawmakers might reach another deadlock early next year.
A complete accounting will take months once the government reopens and the Treasury resumes adding to the country's debt. But economists said that the intransigence of House Republicans would take a bite out of fourth-quarter growth, which will affect employment, business earnings and borrowing costs. The ripple from Washington will be felt around the globe.
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Economists say the shutdown and near breach of the debt ceiling would be unlikely to derail the recovery, now that Congress resolved the impasse late Wednesday. In the weeks after the government reopens, there should be a modest rebound as employees spend their paychecks for the days they were on furlough and the government rushes to process backlogged orders.
Still, many businesses might not recover all the money they would have made had the government operated normally, said Shai Akabas of the Bipartisan Policy Center, a research group based in Washington.
The two-week shutdown has trimmed about 0.3 percentage point from fourth-quarter growth, or about $12 billion, the forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, based in St. Louis, recently estimated. Standard & Poor's is more pessimistic, estimating that the shutdown will cut about 0.6 percent off inflation-adjusted gross domestic product, equivalent to $24 billion. Most analysts are predicting that growth will remain subpar, at an annual pace of 2 percent or less.
Moreover, this latest budget impasse came after years of similar episodes, and the economic ramifications have accumulated over time, analysts say. A new report from Macroeconomic Advisers, prepared for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, estimates the costs of the fiscal uncertainty of the last few years. Its model suggests that uncertainty since late 2009 has increased certain corporate borrowing costs by 0.38 percentage point; lowered economic growth over that period by 0.3 percent a year, costing at least $150 billion in lost output; and left this year's unemployment rate higher by 0.6 percentage point. That translates to 900,000 jobs lost.
The unusually rapid pace of deficit reduction, concentrated on goods and services the government delivers, has had a further damping effect on growth, swamping the cost of the relatively brief shutdown, economists said. Macroeconomic Advisers estimated the impact at about 0.7 percentage points of G.D.P. a year, equivalent to over $300 billion in lost output over the last three years. Additional cuts would slow the economy even more, economists say.
"We are baffled by the idea that the pace of deficit reduction needs to be increased, given how rapidly the picture is improving already," Ian Shepherdson, the chief economist of Pantheon Macroeconomics, wrote in a note to clients.
The 16-day shutdown itself has already led to the biggest plunge in consumer confidence since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Howard R. Levine, the chief executive of Family Dollar Stores, said his customers, most with modest incomes, had pulled back on spending this month. "The threat of the shutdown, the uncertainty regarding some of the government assistance that our consumers receive, the uncertainty around job growth are very real to our customer every day," Mr. Levine said.
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Residential real estate, which has been one of the brightest points of the recovery, suffered. An index of sentiment among home builders fell in October from a month earlier, according to data released on Wednesday from the National Association of Home Builders. The decline was greater than analysts had expected. One cause for the decline is that the approval process for government-backed mortgages has slowed with the shutdown.
The damage to business has been intensified by the timing of the shutdown. "We're in budget planning for 2014, so it casts a pall," said John Selldorff, who runs the American operations of Legrand, a global manufacturer of electrical and data products based in France. "We are definitely pausing and being more careful."
The impasse over the debt ceiling raised the United States' short-term borrowing costs, with investors demanding triple the interest payments they received just a few weeks ago, in some cases. Concerns about the United States as a borrower may have a much longer and deeper effect than the shutdown, analysts say.
"Even with a deal to avoid a default, the damage has been done by the fact that we have had a debate questioning whether the U.S. will pay back its debt," Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of the money manager BlackRock, said Wednesday morning. That means higher borrowing costs in the United States and elsewhere.
While this fiscal impasse may be ending , many on Wall Street fear that Washington is not done.
"Then we can come back some time in December, January and February," said Brian Gardner of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a New York investment bank, "and do this all over again."


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Heart-related issues. I'm not sure where this is going, but there's talk of a third surgery : ( As Doris sang, "whatever will be, will be" ... but Oi/Oy! I have another followup with the doctor a couple days before Thanksgiving. I'm assuming that he will discontinue my medication again and we'll see what happens after that.
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Vegetarianism v The Worlds Healthiest Foods
Why Vegetarianism?
Vegetarianism and more so Veganism is based on a diet very high in total carbohydrate and low to none existent in saturated animal fats and animal protein, this immediately starts to raise alarm bells because of what we know about digestion and how the body responds to high levels of carbohydrate. So for this reason we are indeed right to ask why vegetarianism? However carbohydrate is actually the bodies preferred fuel, though this is only because it's easier for it to process, more like a higher grade fuel and for this reason one must consider not just the volume but also the type of carbohydrate you consume. Refined carbohydrate is akin to high octane rocket fuel…and we're not machines.
Carbohydrate is the only macronutrient that is 'none' essential…we can not just do without it but we can thrive without it. The root cause of all obesity epidemics around the world is without any question…carbohydrate. In addition it is carbohydrate (sugar) that is responsible for destabilising the brain function and development, couple this with a low-fat and second-rate protein from carbohydrate sources, and you're in big trouble as nothing is more stabilising to the brain than natural dietary fat, sadly lacking in these type of diets. Carbohydrate rich diets (sugar) damage the brain. So our initial question…Why Vegetarianism? is looking increasingly justified.
A new study out claims vegetarians have smaller brains linked to a deficiency of B vitamins found in meat and fish which would seem to fit knowing what we know about the damaging effects of sugar and a lack of natural dietary fat. However vegetarians (vegans aside) are quick to make a counter-claim that they get vitamin B from eggs and that Americans having meat as a high proportion of their diet also suffer this deficiency. Of course the more likely reason Americans suffer vitamin B deficiency is down to the high levels of refined carbohydrate. This depletes serotonin and greatly depletes B vitamins needed to convert amino acids to the neurotransmitters. Americans have a high 'carb' loading due to the processed foods they consume. So
Vegetarianism is not a natural choice for us humans, whom after a quick check of the skeletal and dental evidence suggests, are indeed omnivores (animals & plants). We simply do not have physiology to process high levels of carbohydrate in our diet and stay healthy…think Insulin pancreatic cancer etc. It is only in the developed world where we see un-natural diets of a high carbohydrate loading, where we find people consuming a diet of this type we find..obesity, heart, disease, metabolic syndrome + many more. In cultures not exposed to processed foods (sugar) obesity is almost unheard of, but noticeable by their absence are the autoimmune and degenerative diseases mentioned before. The case against carbohydrate but in particular refined carbohydrates is overwhelming.
The Worlds Healthiest Foods
What is the worlds healthiest food? Well having studied nutrition for many years now and having hands on experience both personally and professionally, I along with all my family only consume a natural diet free of refined carbohydrate having a high percentage of saturated (animal) fat together with a protein intake of around 20-25%. We only eat real foods, these are the nutritionally dense foods your grandmother and her mother alike new as food, these of course are the foods us humans evolved on. These are the foods we are designed to eat and our bodies know how to process efficiently, these are the foods we thrive on.
Though this was not always the case as there was a time before my studies when my our diet was as most others in the developed world. However I was 45lbs heavier and in pretty poor health on a collision course with one of those modern diseases, my wife was overweight, my youngest son had been overweight for most of his life. Thankfully that was then and this is now, we are all lean and fit in optimal health with no medical complaints whatsoever. In addition to this many of our clients are former Vegetarians or Vegans so we see at first hand the damaging effects this kind diet does to the bodies chemistry.
So What is the worlds healthiest food? The answer is a simple one, it is the food our caveman ancestors would recognise as food. This is natural food high in saturated animal fat, moderate animal protein and supplemented with plant carbohydrate.
Next time in the supermarket you find yourself looking at the fancy boxes enticing you to buy, ask yourself…Would a caveman know it was food?
I would also like to make one last point and that is this: No human culture in our evolutionary history has ever adopted vegetarianism by choice.
Therefore vegetarianism is nothing more than fashionable trend and an unhealthy one at that. Why Vegetarianism? I think we may have covered that one now.
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Is it Better to Buy Gold in Singapore?Commodities / Gold and Silver 2012 Nov 15, 2012 - 09:28 AM GMT
Switzerland is a traditional investment safe-haven, however in a recent survey we found that when it comes to gold bullion storage there is a new star emerging and our customers want to be a part of it. Below we explain why those looking to invest in gold may want to look at Singapore to store their gold.
In a recent survey The Real Asset Company asked readers and clients 'When selecting a vault location, which would you choose?'
Voters were given the following options:
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
When we originally posted the survey we unanimously expected Switzerland to be chosen by the majority those surveyed as the location of choice. However this wasn't the case, Singapore took nearly 39% of the votes, followed by Switzerland with just over 35%. Lagging behind, the US and Hong Kong took around 11% each whilst the UK brought up the rear with 5%.
Americans want gold investments in Singapore
North American voters were those who pushed Singapore into the lead, finding the Asian city state the best location for gold bullion. A notable 37.4% voted to vault their gold bullion in Singapore.
Europeans as a whole prefer to keep their gold in Switzerland for now, but this may not last long, votes for Singapore were a close second taking 31% of the vote. Germany was the second most active European voter in our survey and interestingly 60% of them voted to vault their gold in Singapore.
39% of voters in Asia would prefer to keep their gold in Singapore; this is perhaps the least surprising result. Switzerland lagged behind as the second preferred location with just 16.7% of the votes.
For the other areas of votes, South America, Africa and Australasia the votes for Singapore were equally split between other options. For instance in Australia 50% would store gold in Hong Kong, whilst the other 50% would store in Singapore. In Africa voters equally prefer Singapore and Switzerland, whilst in South America they're equally torn between Hong Kong, Singapore and Switzerland.
Whilst we can't say that Singapore is the definitively preferred location to store gold for all of our readers, it is undeniable that there is a clear shift in individuals choosing Singapore for their safe-haven investments.
To lovers of spy films and those less sure of international banking rules, Switzerland might have seemed the more obvious place to protect your wealth and avoid the beady eye of the government. So what's changed?
Gold investing in Switzerland
As we saw on our poll, Switzerland does remain a popular place to store gold. For centuries, the small European country has been the investment haven of choice for wealthy individuals from all over the world.
However, the fact remains that it has been overtaken by Singapore as the optimum location, mainly thanks to our American readers. Whilst Switzerland remains a popular location of choice for UK customers, it is slowly losing its appeal and all has definitely been lost with the majority of US investors.
The Swiss banking system is no longer seen as it once used to be; it is no longer as well capitalized as it once was and there is now a distinct lack of privacy compared to previous eras.
Switzerland's decision to peg to the euro has certainly left many investors wondering whether the country's currency and banking is as safe as it once was.
In 2007, the US Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into UBS and later Credit Suisse, along with other Swiss Banks for providing banking services to wealthy Americans which allowed them to avoid taxes. In 2009 UBS agreed to hand over the names of 4,450 US clients to the IRS.
The EU also began investigations a few years ago into Swiss bank accounts, through stolen data, as part of a tax evasion exercise.
In 1934, the Swiss Banking Act was passed which outlined the code of secrecy that made Switzerland the ultimate wealth haven for so many years. Singapore is now working hard to emulate this, offering banking secrecy provisions which are comparable to those once seen in Switzerland.
Better to buy gold in Singapore?
Banking in Singapore offers the highest confidentiality, with laws protecting individuals' privacy whilst allowing for banking information to be provided to foreign authorities where crimes are being investigated.
Changes in banking secrecy are likely to continue and get more complicated thanks to the US' FATCA – the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. The Act requires foreign financial institutions to send details to the IRS of US clients who hold more than $50,000 in a foreign bank.
Should the foreign financial institution choose to not disclose details to the IRS, then they will suffer a 30% US withholding tax on its and clients' income and gains, as of January 2014. Rumour has it that other countries such as China and Switzerland are looking to 'piggy-back' onto the back of the Act.
The fact is, for Switzerland and many other countries, the US is the scary bully who you give your lunch money to. Singapore is the nerdy kid who's too bright for the bully and can outwit him.
Singapore does not tax its citizens and companies on foreign earnings on a worldwide basis; therefore it pays little attention to their companies' bank accounts in foreign lands. The motivation for the Singaporean authorities to disclose bank accounts in their domain is, therefore, non-existent.
Countries are also not allowed to launch 'fishing expeditions' into account holders' details in Singapore, foreign authorities must have apparent links and good (suspected criminal activity) reasons to want to investigate someone's account holdings.
As your investment business increasingly becomes the government's business it is understandable that individuals are looking for alternatives. But the Singaporean government are onto a niche here and are fully embracing their new-found 'Swissness', they seem to care very little if the bully in the playground wants their lunch money, because he 'aint getting it.
Winning the trust of investors
Trust between an investor and their bank is something which has been on thin ice in recent years, to trust your country not to investigate is also a growing issue and one which is becoming more mainstream.
That's why at The Real Asset Company when we talk about gold investment we see it as key to reduce counter-party risk as much as possible and provide internationally diverse storage options in countries you trust.
Store your gold in Singapore
Singapore has, in recent years, emerged as one of the world's most favoured hubs for private banking for HNWI. But now the City State is moving to enter another attractive market – custody and secure storage of gold and silver bullion.
Earlier this year, IE Singapore, the area of the Ministry of Trade and Industry which facilitates overseas growth of Singaporean entities and promotes international trade, announced its plans to make Singapore the Asian hub for physical gold trading. They aim to increase the country's share of the precious metals market at least five-fold over the next ten years. Currently, Singapore operates about 2% of the gold trading market (in terms of tonnage) according to the agency.
At the beginning of October the Singaporean government scrapped its 7% tax on gold and silver with hopes of turning the city into the centre for precious metals trading. It is hoped to rival both London and Zurich. In both cities, VAT does not apply to the trade of gold which is investment-grade whilst it remains 'bonded'.
Unlike other countries which also offer physical gold storage and trade, the country aims to capitalise on the growing bull-market for sound investments and safe-havens away from fiat money. They have identified an increasing demand and intend to capitalise on it.
Singapore's Freeport free-trade zone allows non-residents to store the gold bullion without paying tax or signing customs forms. This offering of client confidentiality is an attractive prospect for those wishing to hold their gold out of their country's jurisdiction, particularly countries whose governments are slowly driving themselves bankrupt and looking to find sources of income elsewhere.
As a result of the poll and Singapore's growing status as a hub for gold, customers of The Real Asset Company can now store their gold in Singapore with our vault provider Malca Amit. The vault is within the Freeport facility and has seen unprecedented demand in the last couple of years. We are pleased to be the first online gold investment provider to offer Singapore as a vault location.
No matter how much or how little gold you own, customers of The Real Asset Company can store their gold in our Malca Amit Singapore facility. If you own a kilo or more, you can even have your own vault agreement.
Want protection from debt and defaults? Buy gold online in minutes…
Jan Skoyles contributes to the The Real Asset Co research desk. Jan has recently graduated with a First in International Business and Economics. In her final year she developed a keen interest in Austrian economics, Libertarianism and particularly precious metals.
The Real Asset Co. is a secure and efficient way to invest precious metals. Clients typically use our platform to build a long position and are using gold and silver bullion as a savings mechanism in the face on currency debasement and devaluations. The Real Asset Co. holds a distinctly Austrian world view and was launched to help savers and investors secure and protect their wealth and purchasing power.
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On this day in 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur lands in Japan to oversee the formal surrender ceremony and to organize the postwar Japanese government.
The career of Douglas MacArthur is composed of one striking achievement after another. When he graduated from West Point, MacArthur's performance, in terms of awards and average, had only been exceeded in the institution's history by one other person—Robert E. Lee. His performance in World War I, during combat in France, won him more decorations for valor and resulted in his becoming the youngest general in the Army at the time. He retired from the Army in 1934, only to be appointed head of the Philippine Army by its president (the Philippines had U.S. commonwealth status at the time).
When World War II broke out, MacArthur was called back to active service—as commanding general of the U.S. Army in the Far East. Because of MacArthur's time in the Far East, and the awesome respect he commanded in the Philippines, his judgment had become somewhat distorted and his vision of U.S. military strategy as a whole myopic. He was convinced that he could defeat Japan if it invaded the Philippines. In the long term, he was correct. But in the short term, the United States suffered disastrous defeats at Bataan and Corregidor. By the time U.S. forces were compelled to surrender, he had already shipped out, on orders from President Roosevelt. As he left, he uttered his immortal line, "I shall return."
Refusing to admit defeat, MacArthur took supreme command in the Southwest Pacific, capturing New Guinea from the Japanese with an innovative "leap frog" strategy. MacArthur, true to his word, returned to the Philippines in October 1944, and once again employed an unusual strategy of surprise and constant movement that still has historians puzzled as to its true efficacy to this day. He even led the initial invasion by wading ashore from a landing craft—captured for the world on newsreel footage. With the help of the U.S. Navy, which succeeded in destroying the Japanese fleet, leaving the Japanese garrisons on the islands without reinforcements, the Army defeated adamantine Japanese resistance. On March 3, 1945, MacArthur handed control of the Philippine capital back to its president.
On August 30, 1945, MacArthur landed at Atsugi Airport in Japan and proceeded to drive himself to Yokohama. Along the way, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers lined the roads, their bayonets fixed on him. One last act of defiance—but all for naught. MacArthur would be the man who would reform Japanese society, putting it on the road to economic success.


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Kompany: Belgium, Ivory Coast can cause surprise
Belgium captain Vincent Kompany feels his country and Wednesday's opponents Ivory Coast could be surprise packages in the FIFA World Cup.
The sides meet in Brussels in what will be the first of a series of friendlies building up to the competition in Brazil next year.
The likes of Kompany, Eden Hazard and Romelu Lukaku are among Belgium's brightest stars, while Ivory Coast can call on Yaya Toure, Didier Drogba and Gervinho.
Manchester City captain Kompany believes both countries could cause an upset against the bigger names in Brazil.
"The World Cup favorites are the usual suspects - Germany, Spain, Argentina and Brazil. Behind them I see a group of countries, which sometimes cause a surprise," he told Het Laatste Nieuws.
"I reckon (these) include Colombia, Chile and Japan as well as Belgium. Ivory Coast also has a very strong team. They may also be a surprise at the World Cup like a lot of other countries.
"There are teams that have more talent than Belgium. Based solely on our talent, I do not think that we will win the World Cup. That can only be done with some luck, if everyone plays very strongly and if we have a strong team spirit."
Marc Wilmots' side will be fancied to progress from Group H ahead of fixtures with Algeria, Russia and South Korea.


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Swine flu, the disease of the week a few weeks ago, eclipsed life and most of us were bombarded with, and sought, accurate and up to date information. The media blitz and health campaign to educate everyone about the risks (and realities) of swine flu reminded me that secondary illness can cause rapid decline in those of us with dementia. Dementia is a symptom, the causes are varied.
Harried and happy caregivers alike need to be reminded, as do those of us still primarily responsible for our own lives, that people with dementia certainly are susceptible to other illnesses and that our lack of communication or altered sense of reality can prevent us from telling you, or acknowledging to ourselves, that something other than dementia is going on. When you note that you or your loved one is having a very sharp change in behavior, it may be temporary and it may be caused by an infection.
Sorting out the cause of decline is challenging and requires psychic powers or the skilled team that I hope everyone has at their disposal: a knowledgeable physician or health care provider, a phone nurse and a daily care partner who knows you intimately. Lacking these, it is best to keep a daily or weekly journal of activities so that someone with only knowledge of current symptoms and the journal in hand can see changes. I see many care partners take medical matters into their own hands, adding and subtracting medicine and over the counter medicine. While I understand that a deep knowledge of your loved one can motivate you to take swift action, I firmly believe that all changes need to be noted and any medication changes need to be handled in conjunction with a qualified health care provider. Cranberry juice is not effective against all bacterial infections of the urinary tract and Uncle Joe's medication may not be best for your husband.
When changes occur, and they will, consult your loved one, journal (theirs and/or yours) and call your health practitioner. Sometimes careful monitoring is the best choice, sometimes an office visit is in order, but rarely are sudden cognitive changes permanent. With careful work amongst the team, causes can be sorted out. Though we don't always bounce back to our former level of functioning, the longer our symptoms are brushed off as "just dementia" the lower our chances of regaining lost ground.


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The book is so good that I had to read it over and over again. I would recommend this book for children of my age. The illustration was colorful and very bright.I truly love it. This story reminds me of my parents because my parents loves me.


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Skullgirls dev offers to donate engine to MLP fan team
Skullgirls developer Lab Zero Games has announced a generous final stretch goal for its crowdfunding campaign, offering to share tech with a group of My Little Pony fans working on a troubled fan game.
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My Little Pony creator to help resurrect Fighting is Magic game
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic creator Lauren Faust has signed on to help fan developer Mane6 resurrect its tribute fighting game. Hasbro shut the not-for-profit title down last month, but as detailed on Mane6's blog, Faust is going to help develop all new characters so as not to waste the significant work the team […]
My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic fan game shut down
A fan-built 2D fighter based on the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic cartoon series has been shut down. Hasbro served up a cease and desist over the project, and in an update to the tribute's blog, the Mane6 team said it will comply while attempting to negotiate. The Fighting is Magic project has lost […]


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Liam Neeson, in a futile attempt to hide his Irish accent, plays a former CIA agent searching for his missing teenage daughter in this preposterous thriller.
Leave it to Luc Besson to make an uproarious comedy out of human trafficking. What's that? "Taken" is not a comedy? A thriller, you say?
Well, you could have fooled me. All I could do was laugh uproariously, as Liam Neeson's ex-CIA spook makes like a middle-aged Jack Bauer dodging bullets and smashing skulls while wiping out half of Paris in search of his abducted daughter.
It's violence at its gratuitous best, with effete Frenchmen and zany Albanians behaving like effete Frenchmen and zany Albanians do when confronted with an indestructible movie star just itching to snap some necks and shun all pride in service of a fat paycheck.
A paycheck Besson is all too happy to sign in his mission to saturate theaters with over-the-top action flicks that are the definition of guilty pleasures, rich in style but weak of mind.
Whether it's "The Professional," "La Femme Nakita" or the three "Transporter" flicks, Besson is always eager to indulge his twin fetishes of ludicrous plots and utter mayhem.
"Taken," co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, is no different, luridly exploiting the very thing it seeks to damn – in this case the snatching of young women to be sold into sex slavery.
It's a ripped-from-the-headlines subject that instantly recalls Natalee Holloway, who like Neeson's daughter, Kim (former "Lost" star Maggie Grace), was an underaged girl who went abroad unchaperoned and suddenly vanished.
But that's where the similarities end. That was real, this is pure fantasy, the kind where the bad guys are smart enough to pull off the perfect crime, but dumb enough to be taken down – not by Interpol, but a single ticked-off dad.
That would be Neeson, futilely struggling to hide his brogue as Bryan Mills, a former "preventor" (his word, not mine) at Langley who recently retired in a last-ditch attempt to reconnect with his estranged 17-year-old daughter.
The spoiled brat (her new daddy is a multi-millionaire) has other ideas. She's planning on a long European vacation with her BFF, Amanda (Katie Cassidy). Not for educational reasons, mind you, put to follow U2 from city to city on their European tour.
First off, what kind of mother would allow her 17-year-old child to do such a thing? And second, how many 17-year-olds like U2? Beyonce, yes. Bono, no. Oh, I forgot, this is Luc Besson, the man with no concept of reality, and nothing but contempt for women.
The latter might explain why just about every female in his movie, which was directed by Besson flunky Pierre Morel ("District B-13"), is either a shrew (Famke Jannsen as Kim's irresponsible mother) or a prostitute. But Besson is the one who shuns all semblance of storytelling in favor of guns and T&A.
All the better to deliver the cheap, easy thrills 13-year-old boys – and brain-addled French filmmakers – crave. Those also happen to be the only demographics that won't sneer and roll their eyes, as Neeson out-Rambos Rambo in his solitary request to break up an international kidnapping ring that out numbers him about 100 to 1.
Lucky, none of them can hit the broadside of an SUV with a machine gun. It's even more fortunate that none of the bad guys owns a vehicle that Neeson can't outrun on foot. Where was this guy at the Olympics? He might have given Usain Bolt a run for the gold.
Preposterous! But because it's so preposterous, you can't stop laughing, which in a strange way makes the film oddly enjoyable.
But then, I saw it for free. If you paid $10 I doubt you'd be in such good humor. Those poor fools will likely find a whole new meaning to the title "Taken."
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Farmed Salmon's Diet Yields Unhealthful Cardiovascular Effects
Plant oils in their standard feed regimen may slash heart benefits of farmed salmon
Plant oils in their standard feed regimen may slash heart benefits of farmed salmon
This news comes under the category, "questions we're glad someone asked."
Last year, researchers at The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science in Oslo set out to determine what impact the typical farmed-salmon feed regimen—which is high in grains and plant oils—might have on cardiovascular risk markers in consumers (Seierstad SL et al. 2005).
Why did the Norwegian vets seek an answer to this cardiac health question? As they said, "Because of the shortness of marine resources, vegetable oils are increasingly used in fish farming."
Fortunately for the few who may hear about it, they thought it a good idea to find out what effects the unnatural (for salmon), plant-heavy diet fed farmed fish actually exerts in humans.
The results would have given farmed salmon consumers an unpleasant surprise, if they'd heard about them. But, as far as we can tell, the results of this obscure veterinary science investigation escaped public notice.
We only uncovered it in the course of an unrelated literature search, and we were surprised that The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science—which has close ties to that country's large farmed salmon industry—even chose to examine this subject.
However, they did probe the cardiovascular implications of the vegetable-oil-rich diet fed most farmed salmon. The results, albeit pretty predictable, were not pretty.
How the study worked
The Norwegian vets enrolled 60 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), and assigned them, randomly, to one of three groups, each of which consumed about 700 gm (25 oz) of farmed Atlantic salmon per week for six weeks (Seierstad SL et al. 2005).
Each of the three groups ate salmon that had been raised on a standard farmed fish diet consisting largely of grains and oils, but each group ate salmon given a different feed, distinguished only by its unique oil profile:
"FO" salmon feed featured 100 percent fish oil, which is very high in long-chain "marine" omega-3s
"CO" salmon feed featured 100 percent canola oil, which is high in omega-6s and low in the short-chain, less beneficial type of omega-3s
"FO/CO" salmon feed, featuring a 50/50 mix of fish and canola oil
As expected, these three distinct feeding regimens produced farmed salmon fillets containing widely varying levels of marine omega-3s:
"FO" salmon feed yielded fillets high in "marine" omega-3s
"CO" salmon feed yielded fillets low in "marine" omega-3s
"FO/CO" salmon feed yielded fillets with intermediate omega-3 levels
To determine the effect of these differing salmon-feed regimens on salmon-consumers' risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), the researchers tested all of the participants' blood for three key indicators of cardiovascular risk—fatty acid profile, cholesterol profile, and markers of vascular inflammation—before and after the six-week study period.
What the fat-detectives discovered
The before-and-after tests of participants' blood showed significant differences between the groups, especially when it came to their blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids and the ratio of anti-inflammatory omega-3s to pro-inflammatory omega-6 fatty acids.
Compared with the other two groups, participants who ate the farmed salmon fed only fish oil enjoyed markedly higher blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids and a higher (hence, more desirable) ratio of omega-3s to omega-6 fatty acids.
The fish-oil-only group also displayed significant reductions in blood levels of triglycerides (fats) and two key markers of inflammation: vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 and interleukin-6.
As the Norwegian vets concluded, "Tailor-made Atlantic salmon fillets very high in n-3 PUFAs [omega-3s] of marine origin seem to impose favorable biochemical changes in patients with CHD when compared with ingestion of fillets with intermediate and low levels of marine n-3 PUFAs [omega-3s]….
While this outcome seems inevitable in hindsight, the complexities of human and salmon biochemistry precluded any firm conclusions concerning the actual cardiovascular effects of eating typical farmed salmon, which are raised on an unnatural diet high in grains and plant oils.
Thanks to these findings, it's clear that the diets fed typical farmed salmon put a real dent in the cardio-prevention potential of domesticated fish.
And as the Norwegian vets noted, the scarcity and cost of fishmeal and fish oil mean that this situation isn't likely to change.
Fishy "finishing" diet leaves deficient nutrition profile
The farmed salmon industry likes to point out that when fish are switched over to a diet enriched only with fish oil for the last 20 weeks of life, their fillets contain omega-3 levels about 80 percent as high as the omega-3 levels produced diets enriched only with fish oil.
However, even when their diets contain flax oil and canola oil—which contain short-chain omega-3s—switching to a fish-oil-only diet for the last 20 weeks still produces levels of omega-6 fatty acids a full 50 percent higher than in fish fed only fish oil-enriched diets.
In other words, farmed salmon placed on a "finishing" diet enriched only with fish oil still present consumers a salmon product saddled with an inferior fatty acid profile.
Seierstad SL, Seljeflot I, Johansen O, Hansen R, Haugen M, Rosenlund G, Froyland L, Arnesen H. Dietary intake of differently fed salmon; the influence on markers of human atherosclerosis. Eur J Clin Invest. 2005 Jan;35(1):52-9.
Bell JG, Tocher DR, Henderson RJ, Dick JR, Crampton VO. Altered fatty acid compositions in atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fed diets containing linseed and rapeseed oils can be partially restored by a subsequent fish oil finishing diet. J Nutr. 2003 Sep;133(9):2793-801.
Torstensen BE, Bell JG, Rosenlund G, Henderson RJ, Graff IE, Tocher DR, Lie O, Sargent JR. Tailoring of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) flesh lipid composition and sensory quality by replacing fish oil with a vegetable oil blend. J Agric Food Chem. 2005 Dec 28;53(26):10166-78.
Bell JG, Henderson RJ, Tocher DR, Sargent JR. Replacement of dietary fish oil with increasing levels of linseed oil: modification of flesh fatty acid compositions in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) using a fish oil finishing diet. Lipids. 2004 Mar;39(3):223-32.
Bourre JM. Where to find omega-3 fatty acids and how feeding animals with diet enriched in omega-3 fatty acids to increase nutritional value of derived products for human: what is actually useful ? J Nutr Health Aging. 2005 Jul-Aug;9(4):232-42. Review.


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13-Year-Old Boy Shot His Mother Dead After Trying To Rape Her!
Police continue to look for a possible motive in the shooting death of Gretchen Crooks, allegedly by her 13-year-old son Noah. Police responding to the Crooks home, in Osage, Iowa, on Saturday night, found the woman shot multiple times after her teenage son - the alleged shooter - called 911. 'We're at a loss. These are good people,' sheriff Curt Younker said. There was no history of domestic abuse or criminal records associated with any Crooks family members. The 13-year-old boy who allegedly shot his 37- year-old mother dead with a hunting rifle is also facing 'unheard of' charges that he tried to sexually abuse her. Now, authorities are saying Noah Crooks also tried to sexually abuse his mother, which mental health professionals say they have never encountered among juveniles Charges filed today in Mitchell County District Court further accuse Noah Crooks, an eighth-grader at Osage Middle School, of assault with attempt to commit sexual abuse against his mother. Shelia Aukes, a licensed social worker in Des Moines who works with young people on a variety of mental health issues told the DesMoines Register: 'The victims in most sex offenses committed by juveniles are siblings, other juveniles or, more rare, other adults. 'A child or adolescent sexually abusing a parent is completely out of the norm, totally unheard of.'
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I believe I said " I start off civil and somewhat respectful". Unlike you Mac and Pueno I can poke fun at myself, and man enough to apologize when I cross the line. And just for the record I have said many things that are nice.
It is ironic that the two nastiest liberals on here are the ones to criticize me.
You two should really go back and read your many post, filled with insults , personal attacks, and derogatory comments.
A study in hypocrisy would be an understatement.
And if you ever want to talk about the rising stars in the GOP let me know.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:50 pm
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And if you ever want to talk about the rising stars in the GOP let me know.
So, Mr. Meffah, what/where/who is/was "Jumbo"?
(Yes, a quick Google search helps, if you know the search terms.)
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:17 pm
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mat-ty, I've been gone for a while, but from what I've read on another thread, you've been in rare form. While not much is really new, I guess you've investing a lot more time at it. Maybe that's why you're running into difficulty from pueno and mac.
I have to admit though, your opening to this thread did start off on a positive note rather then just another wingnut tirade against President Obama, someone else in his administration or your most hated list of Democrats. So, I'll briefly offer my thoughts about what's happening in Tampa. One of the speeches I saw was front the keynote speaker Chris Christie. For the keynote speaker, it was a pretty lame speech from many that have touted him to be one of the upcoming leaders in the Republican Party. It was hardly inspirational, and a bit more about him blowing his own horn. In fact, many of the speakers that I saw were doing the same thing, including Mayor Mia Love. I don't know if she is credited for the "We built it" headline at the convention, but she apparently isn't looking at what the Republican Party "built" since 2001, including what they haven't built since 2009. It's not like some folks aren't watching what's really going on.
Speeches are just speeches though, whether it's coming from the right or the left. I can't hardly wait until the airy BS is over and we get down to what Romney, Ryan and the Republican platform are really about. Just deriding President Obama isn't going to cut it in my book. Sooner or later we have to get down to the hard promises that are going to be offered. I wait with anticipation with all the specific details of how many further tax cuts are going to be paid for. Moreover, how are they going to "save" Social Security and Medicare when they're actually planning to cut the crap out of these programs to ultimately enrich Wall Street and the health insurance industry. Then, there's all those regulations that they want to eliminate. Overall, there's a lot of important blank space to fill in.
Do you think that Romney and Ryan will be that candid and forthcoming to all Americans, and not just appealing to wide-eyed Republicans that feed off of hate, simple talking points and vague promises of real economic change? Time will tell.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:43 pm
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"I feel very good that this is a party on the rise with a bench that looks great. '
Conservatives really need this right now since the display of our best and brightest during the primary.
The world news really had a good time with that. Portraying Americans as loonies is easy when we pull our pants down in public like that.
. They spin the story so Bachman, etc, has huge support and by implication all Americans left and right are just the same as these clown pols.
They have idiots in their gov too, esp Italians and French, but they rarely trot them out as their best and brightest for the world to see.
Do you conservatives really think the present day leadership represents your interests and is entirely truthful with their own?
I think Romney is head and shoulders over the likes of Mitch and Limbaugh and the rest of those guys who got us into this mess.
For every one of my conservative friends the GOP is the default choice not the party of Lincoln.
That Party closed down under Gingrich Speakership and never recovered.
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Have you heard an obama speech lately, it's all about fairy dust , and the evil rich. Hardly the words of a leader , and far from inspirational. From the first day he took office it's been all about his base, someone needs to remind him he is the POTUS not the leader of the democratic party.
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The joke is Medfa, Mefffah, based on its known mafia connections, but in reality it is pronounced by locals Med-fid.
I am sure I saw Jumbo when I was a kid, and I do vaguely remember the fire.
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Christie may be a blow hard, but I think he has earned a lot of peoples respect , even in liberal NJ. From most accounts he has done a pretty good job. Ryan , Walker, Christie, Haley, Kasich , Jindal, and others are doing a great job on a daily basis and are far from just hateful speech sound bites as you describe. These guys are backing it up with results and brutal honesty. The future of the GOP looks very good with or without the acknowledgement of the left.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:27 pm
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I am sure I saw Jumbo when I was a kid, and I do vaguely remember the fire.
He musta been a GOP animal -- floppy ears, up in flames.
Tuft luck.
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Christie may be a blow hard, but I think he has earned a lot of peoples respect , even in liberal NJ. From most accounts he has done a pretty good job. Ryan , Walker, Christie, Haley, Kasich , Jindal, and others are doing a great job on a daily basis and are far from just hateful speech sound bites as you describe. These guys are backing it up with results and brutal honesty. The future of the GOP looks very good with or without the acknowledgement of the left.
So says Fox.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:54 pm
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mat-ty, what I don't want to hear about during the Republican Convention is a bunch of BS about President Obama. Of course, those in the convention would like to harp about him endlessly for every problem America faces, but that's a total cop-out that fails to take into account reality. Where the rubber meets the road, I'm interested in hearing a lot more about all the details that Republicans "leaders" are conveniently omitting. I think that you're thinking that "others" aren't listening, and that also includes Democrats, Independents and many others.
Hearing Representative Paul Ryan speech today was a real disappointment. It's no small wonder why he had to clear his throat so many times. Did he offer any real specifics on his plans for America? Hardly. The guy is just a tool for special interests. The classic politician of the worst sort. As I've said before, he's a real weasel that I don't trust for one second. It's ironic that he wants to kill the ACA, but promotes privatization of Medicare. What's with that? Maybe the fact that insurance companies don't want to assume responsibility for folks with prior health problems. Most savvy folks know it's really about profit and little else.
The only speech tonight that was notable was from former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She's one smart lady that I have respect for, even though I feel differently on many different topics. Needless to say, her comments were far more measured and free of the partisanship and divisiveness so prevalent from the host of others talking tonight. You can tell that she's looking beyond just this convention.
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Chandler, you're chirpping Chris Matthews words from MSNBC. I watched it on MSNBC so I could see just how pathetic their analysis would be. I think Obama is toast. He's going to have to go to work at a real job when this is over.
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Honey Wheat Sourdough Bread
We've been enjoying this slightly sweet bread on a daily basis for more than 10 years. A fellow teacher shared the recipe with me when my family lived in New York. I was sure to pack up the recipe when we headed west. &Mdash; Evelyn Newlands, Sun Lakes, Arizona
Total TimePrep: 20 min. + rising Bake: 25 min. + cooling
Makes2 loaves (12 slices each)
- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast
- 1 cup warm water (110° to 115°)
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons molasses
- 2 cups Sourdough Starter
- 3 tablespoons toasted wheat germ
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 3-1/4 to 3-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- Canola oil
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the butter, honey, molasses, Sourdough Starter, wheat germ, sugar, baking soda, salt, whole wheat flour and 2 cups all-purpose flour. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining all-purpose flour to form a soft dough.
- Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide in half. Shape into loaves. Place in two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Brush with oil. Bake at 375° for 25-30 minutes or until browned. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.
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I make this frequently and it is always successful! Has a very nice rise and texture.
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Jul 2, 2009
I tried it using water and it turned out great! Although I definitely used more flour than is called for and also added flax seed in addition to the wheat germ.
Jan 10, 2009
This is an excellent recipe. Ingredients list warm water, but directions list "warm milk". I used the milk. Turns out fine. I also substituted ground flax seed for the wheat germ. Delicious!


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This is a 1959 Fiat 600 as photographed in 1968 at the Wood River Shell Plant in Roxana, Illinois around the time of the 1968 Shell Mileage Marathon. That year the Fiat achieved a new fuel mileage record of 244mpg. This site documents the recovery of the car in 2005 where the car was found sitting inside Talladega Raceway park since early 1980s. The car had deteriorated sitting out in the weather. To see that condition, click and view the Fiat restoration in the category "Vehicle Pictures". To learn more about the history of this vehicle (and others) click the links above and read more about the Mileage Marathons from 1939 to 1977. I will post pictures as the progress warrants. Welcome to my site.
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Duncan Oughton's new feathered haircut inspired the debate of the worst haircuts in Crew history at Thursday's training. Here is the input from Crew players and staff:
Head Athletic Trainer Dave Lagow: Terrible haircuts I've seen: Eric Gehrig, terrible this year and the long, Beetlejuice, some would argue the Crypt Keeper from Tales of the Crypt to the terrible combover he has right now. Cole Grossman, last year just went in for a normal haircut and came out with an awful, awful child's haircut which led to him grown his hair out like a girl, terribly. But he's kind of got it back together now. Duncan Oughton, present. Rusty Wummel- not a bad haircut, but a bad style. I would argue, prior to my time, the Guille mullet was not a good look. I hate to do it, because he's been a great addition this year, but (assistant athletic trainer) Phil Watson had a terrible haircut this year, which he felt awful about. He needed a haircut, he had a very specific instruction to the woman and she ran with it and it butchered it. He was a Peyton Manning lookalike.
Eric Gehrig: My defense is, it was damage control…
Cole Grossman interjects: Can I just go on record and say that I've liked all of his haircuts? (laughs) I just want that to go on record to show that I'm his only friend, his only true friend that appreciates his hair.
Gehrig: My current hair situation is due to (a female hair stylist at a Columbus salon that will not be named) really did me bad.
Josh Williams: How much did you pay for that?
Gehrig: Fifteen.
Grossman: FIFTY?!?
Gehrig: Fifteen or twenty. Then I had to go home, go shorter, and this is where it's at. But for sure, worst haircut on the team is Netzo.
Andy Gruenebaum: Everyone is going to say Gehrig. Gehrig had a Zack Morris phase. He's had a lot of different phases. I'm going to go Netzo. I don't know what he's doing with that hair. It's beyond anything a Jewish man could accomplish.
Equipment manager Rusty Wummel: There's been so many guys with so many bad haircuts… Manu (Emmanuel Ekpo), when he first came, it was pretty bad… Duncan never left the seventies. That's part of his problem, in general. It explains a lot about him.
Chad Marshall: The one that Duncan has right now. He asks for the Lloyd Christmas I think… I think it's straight Lloyd Christmas from Dumb and Dumber.
Duncan Oughton: Chad said that? He's ridiculous. Worst haircut… There's been a lot of them over the years. Gehrig's is kind of a lack of haircut. Obviously, front office-wise, Brian Bliss's horseshoes are less than average. Your red hair, Cody, it's struggling. (Editor's note: It's strawberry blonde.) Sebastian Rozental, when he was her had kind of a Worzel Gummidge thing going on, like a scarecrow cut. Bobby's mustache, in terms of hair was really bad and occasionally still is. As a consistent performer of bad hair, I'm going to say Danny O'Rourke. He thinks it looks amazing, but it's always emo, there's been cornrows at one point in time. It really just average… Also, Mike Lapper's hair hasn't changed in 12 years. It's the LEGO man clip on cut.
Danny O'Rourke: No comment.
Eddie Gaven: The worst haircut would have to be my army haircut from 2008. I tried to cut my own hair. It didn't work out too well, so I had to buzz it and it was real high and tight. I got grilled by the guys for a while from it. I don't even know if I had a beard back then, so I just looked really weird. That's probably the worst haircut in my time here. Basically, I'm throwing myself under the bus.


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AMES, Iowa - Clint Chelf certainly didn't solve Oklahoma State's issues in the passing game.
It didn't matter though, because Desmond Roland and the Cowboys ran all over Iowa State.
Desmond Roland ran for a career-high 219 yards and four touchdowns and 19th-ranked Oklahoma State routed Iowa State 58-27 on Saturday for its third straight win.
Quarterback Clint Chelf had 163 total yards in his second start of the season for the Cowboys (6-1, 3-1 Big 12), who ran for a season-high 342 yards.
Though coach Mike Gundy wasn't thrilled with Oklahoma State's paltry 78 yards passing, he indicated that he'll stick with Chelf when the Cowboys face Texas Tech next week.
"I think Clint did a good job of managing the game. I think he did a good job of getting us in the correct run plays and was an effective runner," Gundy said.
Oklahoma State scored 14 points in a 21/2 minute stretch late in the third quarter to extend its lead to 45-20. Roland ran 58 yards for his third touchdown of the day, and Tyler Johnson took a fumble 54 yards for a TD with 4:17 left in the third.
Sam Richardson had 95 yards passing and a touchdown for Iowa State (1-6, 0-4) before leaving the game late in the first half after an apparent blow to the head and neck.
Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads was optimistic that Richardson will be healthy enough to play next week.
"When you play an opponent like that, you can't give them things. You can't make mistakes, you can't turn the ball over, you can't have foolish penalties. We had way too much of that in 60 minutes to give ourselves an opportunity to win," Iowa State coach Paul Rhoads said.
After a blistering start, Oklahoma State let Iowa State sneak back into the game by halftime.
The Cowboys blew past the hapless Cyclones with a dominant third quarter.
Roland broke at least four tackles during his 58-yard TD run, the longest of his career, to put Oklahoma State up 38-20.
Cowboys linebacker Joe Mitchell then stripped Ernst Brun, and Johnson deftly maneuvered through a crowd of Cyclones and found the pylon for the defense's second TD of the game.
Chelf, who got the starting nod over J.W. Walsh, was just 10 of 26 passing for 78 yards. But he added 85 yards rushing and a touchdown for the Cowboys - who had 179 yards rushing in just the third quarter.
"The offensive line just ran them down the field," Roland said. "Coach Gundy said 'Let's stop playing with them. Get them out of the way and make some big holes,' and they listened."
Iowa State was coming off the most lopsided loss in school history, having been throttled by No. 6 Baylor 71-7 last weekend in Waco.
The Cowboys made the Cyclones look just as bad in the first 10 minutes.
Roland opened the scoring with a 2-yard touchdown run, and Justin Gilbert made it 14-0 Cowboys by taking a Richardson interception back 31 yards.
Oklahoma State pushed its lead to 21-0 on an 8-yard TD pass from Chelf to Charlie Moore midway through the first quarter.
To that point, Iowa State had given up an astounding 92 points in the 69:15 dating back to the start of the Baylor game.
But instead of burying the Cyclones, the Cowboys allowed them to climb right back into it.
Quenton Bundrage caught TD passes of 22 and 20 yards - the first from Richardson, the second from backup Grant Rohach - to help Iowa State pull within 28-20 by halftime.
But there would be no repeat of 2011, when the host Cyclones stunned the Cowboys in double overtime and ruined their shot at a national title.
"I would argue that momentum was almost on our side as we went into the locker room," Rhoads said. "With the ability to come out and get a stop, which we did in a way, and go get a score, you've got a chance in the last 30 minutes to knock off a top (20) team. We didn't do enough execution-wise in the second half to make that happen. Was that frustrating? Sure."
Rohach finished with 97 yards passing for Iowa State, which converted just 4 of 20 third downs and punted 11 times.
Rohach will likely return to the bench when the Cyclones play at Kansas State on Saturday. But Chelf will probably get another shot, even though his legs were ahead of his arm on Saturday.
"We have to become a better throwing team. We were very average throwing the football," Gundy said. "But rushing the football was good."


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American moguls skiier Heidi Kloser, touted as a legitimate medal contender, ripped up her knee on a crash during warm-ups, just minutes before she was to begin her qualification run. Her ACL is completely torn, and her first Olympic games are over before they began.
The fall looked innocuous, but Kloser couldn't get up and had to be pulled down the mountain on a stretcher. Her parents were there, and joined her in an ambulance for the ride to a hospital. Father Mike revealed on Facebook what Heidi said them:
When she was in the ambulance, she asked Emily and me if she was still an Olympian.... We said of course she is!
Kloser, 21, stood fourth in the World Cup standings entering these games, and second among U.S. skiers, behind presumptive gold medal favorite Hannah Kearney. Depite Kloser's hopes that the injury was minor and she might return for tomorrow's finals, the Vail native was treated by Tom Hackett, the U.S. Olympic Team's physician, who diagnosed a completely torn ACL, a partially torn MCL, and a fractured femur.
"She's in good hands right now," said her father, Mike Kloser. "But she's so sad."
Olympic sports are especially cruel. Yes, there are annual world championships, but at least in terms of international attention and acclaim, athletes get but once chance every four years to reach the sport's pinnacle. It's not an exaggeration to say Kloser's entire life was building to these games—and now, without even competing, she has to wait until 2018.
But, yes, she is an Olympian. She earned her way to Sochi as much as anyone else, bad luck and bad timing be damned. And, according to her father, she still hopes to walk with her teammates in today's opening ceremony.


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I gotta say, though, that when they had originally announced that they were working to design them more along the lines of the detail in Swift Flight Form and the Raven Lord mount, I expected more of a change than what this preview shows. Granted, I don't have much issue with the current graphic design of the tauren bear: it's a decent model, far more bearable (heh) a design than, say, tauren cat form.
Tauren Bears: Blizzard's image + Tigerfeet's Color Chart
These are some of the changes I noticed in the preview.
- Different fur colors, changeable at the barbershop (via hair/hide color in caster-form)
- War paint and recoloring of the druid tattoo to match
- Eyebrows??! heehee
- Eye color and angle/shading looks more intelligent
- The large fangs on the lower jaw are less pronounced than before
- Ears held at a different angle
- Horns are behind ears now, and arc forward rather than up
- Fewer wrinkles in the face (around the snarling muzzle, etc)
- Decorations in the form of horn-wraps, arm bands, collar, and "earring" (maybe coming from a horn rather than an ear?)
- Bird-skull pendant on the collar: we ate our bird form.
- The "beard" is now just a tuft of chin-fur; feels more appropriate for females than the full Wolverine thing
- Edit: 4 claws per paw instead of 3!
ROARS: the bears can and will close their mouths. Blizzard chose screenshots of the bears roaring, so it only looks like they all still have the same open-mouthed grr-argh expression, but the blue-posters have confirmed that the bears will usually have their mouths closed while idling/sitting about/standing around etc.
COLORS: For a full color chart, I recommend Tigerfeet's blog post! Tiger made a great chart that shows what skin color will result in what bear/cat color.
I am very excited at the idea that multiple colors will be available to choose from, such as what was hinted at in the pre-WotLK-ptr minor cosmetic glyphs. The ability to have 2-3+ bears in a raid and be able to tell them all apart at a glance is really nice, particularly after I had raided through TK/SSC with 4 total feral druids. Was fun sometimes having the kitty squad, though...
"FIRE ZE KITTY LAZERS! PEW PEW!" Anyway, back on-topic...
I love that it will be tied to your actual character's own hair color: for night elves, your hair color will determine your cat/bear fur colors. For Tauren, they're adding the ability to re-dye our caster-form cow-fur, as our cow-fur will be the basis for our bear/cat colors. My own tauren bear will be the sandy tan color.
Night Elf Bear: Blizzard's image + Tigerfeet's Color Chart
...They have sideburns?!
That's my only complaint about this version. I do love the facial markings, especially as they more or less match the markings on my own elf's face. Their faces actually have fur, rather than looking as though they have mange. I think the teal-haired and white-haired elves are easy to pick out, but I'm at a loss for guessing on the others: the dark blue hair is the darkest color of those available to night elves (tieing with the dark purple), so I would expect such a color would be given the darkest bear, but then there's a brown bear with blue "hair," so I may very well end up with that form (unfortunately so, as I don't really like that blue/brown combination as much as I do the black bear). The faintly-purple-tinted bear will probably be the bear for all of those elves with purple hair. The greenish-black bear... green hairs that aren't teal, I suppose? Or the lighter blue? Maybe? /shrug
I'm not giving up Kae's dark blue hair, regardless, so I'll have to live with whatever I end up with. I just hope I don't get disappointed.
EDIT: feral-Kae will be the black bear, as that was the color paired with the dark-blue hair :) Blizz released the full color breakdown, and you can see what colors will result in the link above!
What about the other forms?
This is all the preview they've given us so far, and it's a nice teaser :) I look forward to seeing what they've come up with for the other forms, particularly tauren cats. I do still love the original night elf cat model, though, and hope that the new form for NE cats does it justice. They have promised future updates with previews of the other models they're planning to release in the next content patch, so let's keep a close eye on them!
EDIT: Cat forms post here.
As for tree, they did add that it's something still under development, so I imagine that they just can't make any promises for a tree-form graphic upgrade being ready in time for the next major content patch.
I have wild hopes of them changing night elf travel form to that of a wolf rather than the "open plains" cheetah, but I think that's just a pipe dream :) I love wolves, but shaman have had a claim on the ghost wolf for so long that I think they'd complain otherwise.


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Slashdot | AT&T Welcomes Programmers for All Phones Except the iPhone:
"Apple's reasoning for keeping the iPhone a closed platform is that they don't want to 'potentially gum up the provider's network'. An article in the New York Times, though, points out that there are hundreds of phones out there working on open platforms that don't seem to be causing network interference. AT&T and Palm, in fact, welcome experimentation on their platforms. In AT&T's case ... on every phone but the iPhone. 'Hackers who have explored the workings of the phone say it uses the frameworks and structures that Apple uses on its other platforms to enable development; it just hasn't been documented. So if Apple is going to allow applications later, is there any reason -- other than vindictiveness or obsessive interest in control -- that it would want to cut off those developed by the pioneers who figured things out ahead of the official launch?'"
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