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Sweet Potato Hash
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 4 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 medium red and/or yellow sweet peppers, chopped
- 1/2 large sweet onion, thinly sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 fully cooked chicken sausage links, chopped
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh thyme
- 1. In a small bowl, combine the first six ingredients; set aside.
- 2. In a large skillet, saute sweet potatoes in oil in batches until lightly browned. Add the peppers, onion and garlic; saute until vegetables are tender. Stir in the sausage, thyme and spice mixture. Cook 5 minutes longer or until heated through.
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May 17, 2015
This recipe is delicious. We don't like peppers, so I left them out. I used Jimmy Dean pre-cooked sausage crumbles instead of the chicken sausage links to make it a little easier. This would be a good recipe to make on a Sunday to have for easy breakfasts for a few days.
Dec 31, 1969
This would be five stars with the following changes: double the brown sugar and half the salt (2 tsp is WAY too much). I used Adelle's Mozerella Italian sausage. Delicious and a hit with the whole family (hubs & kids 11, 9 & 7)!
Dec 31, 1969
I served this Thanksgiving along side of a TASTE OF HOME celeriac mashed potato and a broccoli side dish. The sweet potato hash was the only item without any leftovers. The seasoning was a fantastic blend, so much that I just made a container of this to keep on hand. This was quite a nice change in the ole casserole type side. :)
May 24, 2013
Love love this recipe. My husband & I made it this morning for our bed and breakfast guests... they also loved it. :-). The spices are just right and do not overpower the sweet potatoes. Aside from preparing the potatoes, it took hardly any time to cook them. They held up great while we finished everything else. They are so tasty. We'll definitely be making them a lot more!!
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Bluetooth" may sound like a dental problem, but it's actually becoming one of the industry's favorite buzzwords. And you won't find it at CompUSA or Outpost.com (at least not yet). But according to the official Bluetooth Web site (www.bluetooth.com), you'll see it built in to "hundreds of millions of electronic devices" before 2002. So what is Bluetooth? It's a communications protocol that allows wireless transfer of data between devices-from cell phones to laptops to PDAs, and back again.
What's really driving Bluetooth is who's involved. Ericsson, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, 3Com and Toshiba are considered its chief promoters, and they've signed up over 1,600 other companies as adopters.
The advantage of Bluetooth will be seamlessly integrated communications among electronic devices, both large and small. You'll be able to give commands to desktop PCs from cell phones, and PDAs will be able to talk to laptops-all without cables. Before long, you'll be dialing up a fresh cup from the Bluetooth-enabled coffee pot in the office lounge using your PDA or PC. Backers plan to install Bluetooth in everyday electronic devices, too.
PCI cards and USB adaptors will be available to retrofit your machines and avoid compatibility problems. Bluetooth signals the dawn of what is being called the Personal Area Network (PAN); and while the Bluetooth Web site has been sketchy about product delivery dates, expect them by the end of the year.
As for the name, Harald Bluetooth was a viking king who united Denmark and Norway, just as Bluetooth technology intends to unite electronic devices.
Where's The Bluetooth?
Keeping tabs on Bluetooth involves some Web wandering among the major participants:
- bluetooth.net (www.bluetooth.net): news and usage examples from Digianswer
- Bluetooth Resource Center (www.palopt.com.au/bluetooth): all-purpose Bluetooth reference site
- Ericsson (http://bluetooth.ericsson.se): training and support
- Intel (www.intel.com/mobile/bluetooth): a quick Bluetooth primer
- Motorola (www.motorola.com/bluetooth): "Bluetooth in Action" shows an illustrated Jetsons-like future.
- Nokia (www.nokia.com/phones/bluetooth): Nokia's Bluetooth vision

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Capcom has been adamant about the fact that DMC is a re-imagining of their Devil May Cry mythos. That means Dante looks different, drops the F-bomb a whole lot more and adventures through a different landscape, even if the game plays very similarly to the titles of the past.
Why, then, do some of his weapons still have the same names? Why not different names? Heck, why have names at all? Why not just call the axe an axe and the sword a sword? It's a reboot, right?
When I asked this of Capcom producer Motohide Eshiro, he said keeping the pistols' names Ebony and Ivory and giving nomenclature to other weapons in DMC acts a touchstone to the Devil May Cry games that came before. Sure, they're changing a lot of things, he continued, but if they changed decisions like that, then they might as well call the game something else entirely. Dante's sword may be called Rebellion but Capcom's not going to reject everything about the DMCs of the past.


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Attackers will continue to be effective through an increase in sophistication, but they will also be successful due to the challenges organisations face in recruiting and retaining skilled cyber professionals.
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Le 4 février à 14h30 (heure de Paris), retrouvez David Grout, CTO EMEA à FireEye, dans une session dédiée aux prédictions cybersécurité 2020. Au cours de ce webinaire, David s'attardera sur certains points abordés dans notre rapport ' Cybersécurité 2020 : horizons et perspectives d'une nouvelle décennie '. Suivez notre session afin d'en apprendre plus sur :
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30 mins
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Front and Center with Colin Carmichael and Jason Martin on the Cyber Security Skills Shortage
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60 mins
Matt Shelton, Director, Technology Risk & Threat Intelligence, FireEye
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55 mins
Martin Holste, Cloud CTO, FireEye
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• My organization doesn't use the cloud
• My cloud provider will keep me secure
• The cloud is just someone else's computer
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RIVER FALLS, Wis. – Taylor Nelson threw for a career-high 398 yards, Brad Vogel scored three touchdowns and the Simpson football team made big plays in key situations in a 31-22 win over UW-River Falls on Saturday afternoon.
Nelson and Vogel hooked up on touchdown passes of 42, 37 and 22 yards and Nelson added a 72-yard completion to Billy Weathers as the Storm (1-0) survived some tense moments to win their first season-opener since 2008.
"Any time you win the opener, you have to feel good about it," fifth-year head coach Jim Glogowski said. "It gives us momentum and confidence. Our guys played hard and gave tremendous effort. [UW-River Falls] is a big, physical team that's seen the mountaintop in [national champion] UW-Whitewater. We are very happy with a win today."
Trailing 10-7 in the second quarter, Simpson had its back to the goal line as the Falcons (0-1) were in the midst of a 70-yard drive and knocking on the door with 2nd and goal from the 1.
Ryan Kusilek's second down pass was deflected and an alert Ben Borland snagged the ball off the stomach of a Falcons player for an interception, ending the threat.
Four plays later the momentum switch was complete, as on 3rd and 6 from the 6, Nelson connected on a 72-yard pass play to Weathers. A screen pass to Vogel on the next play resulted in a 22-yard touchdown, turning what could have been a 17-7 deficit into a 14-10 lead.
Vogel caught six passes for a career-high 141 yards and carried once for 19 yards.
"It was a classic first game," Glogowski said. "Both teams made some mistakes. But what I loved was that we played a lot of guys, we played with passion and most importantly, we responded when we had to."
A touchdown run by Michael Chia extended the lead to 21-10 and what appeared would be a comfortable halftime lead.
But Vogel mishandled a punt on the ensuing drive, allowing Kuselik to plunge in from a yard out to make the score 21-16 at the half after failing on the point-after attempt.
Kuselik went 21-for-35 for 225 yards through the air, splitting time with Caleb Hanson who went 11 of 19 for 119. John Wahlstrom made 12 catches for 112 yards and Brad Beeskow carried 12 times for 64 yards for the Falcons.
Logan Klein tacked on a 24-yard field goal in the third quarter to make the score 24-16 but the Falcons responded with a touchdown run by Malcom Wilson early in the fourth. Trailing by two, River Falls attempted a two-point conversion but safety Grant Focht broke up the pass.
Vogel dealt the final blow when he split the seam on a 42-yard touchdown reception with 6:20 left, giving the Storm a nine-point edge.
After closing the 2011 season 4-1, Simpson has now won 5 of its last 6 dating back to last year.
"We picked up where we left off in terms of playing hard and trying to execute," Glogowski said. "We were rusty but threw the ball well and adjusted well defensively throughout the game."
Despite throwing for nearly 400 yards, Simpson struggled to move the ball on the ground, finishing with -1 yard rushing due in large-part to five sacks against Nelson.
The Storm also lost 3 of 4 fumbles, but made enough big plays to offset the mistakes.
Taylor Rogers didn't find the endzone on Saturday but did catch seven passes for 114 yards, including a clutch 40-yard grab on the sidelines which set up Klein's third-quarter field goal.
Defensively, Simpson sacked UWRF quarterbacks four times. Linebacker Mark Cronin had one of those sacks and two tackles for loss, finishing with 10 tackles. Corey Sterling made eight takles and broke up a pass and Borland broke up two passes to go along with his pick. Scott Vierow had a sack and a forced fumble.
The Storm open the home schedule Saturday, Sept. 8 when they host Gustavus Adolphus at Buxton Stadium. The Gusties were off on opening week.
Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.


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ACC Votes To Add Louisville In 2014
(AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced its presidents and chancellors have unanimously voted to add Louisville as the replacement for Maryland. In a statement Wednesday, league Commissioner John Swofford said the addition of Louisville along with Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Syracuse in the past year has made the league stronger. Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich says the ACC was "the perfect fit for us." Maryland announced last week it would join the Big Ten in 2014. A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that ACC leaders also considered Connecticut and Cincinnati before the vote to add Louisville during a conference call Wednesday morning. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the ACC hasn't released details of the expansion discussions. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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Yoga As a Form of Meditation
In this informative dialogue with Dr. Deepak Chopra, Yogi Desai shares what he calls "Meditation in Motion", a methodology whose authentic principles, techniques, and tools create a direct link to the integrative power of Hatha Yoga. When you are connected to the higher source of unity consciousness within you, harmony of body, mind, heart, and soul occurs spontaneously and effortlessly.
As Yogi Desai explains his theories and walks you through simple exercises, you will discover that even the novice can enter the deepest levels of tranquility and stillness, where previously difficult positions are performed with greater ease and the power of healing energy is unleashed.
- Dan
- 2008/03/31
Tons to Ponder
As a very novice yoga practitioner, I enjoyed the deeper concepts about how to use yoga as a means to connect with inner blockages - mental and spiritual. While having tried yoga initially with a physical strengthening motivation, this lecture provided a lot more to think about than just a bunch of challenging stretches and positions.
Note- it is a recording of a live lecture with an audience, the audio quality is fine but not super-polished studio quality.
If you have just been doing yoga for exercise, this will provide a lot more for you to consider .
- Barbora Belova
- 2015/06/17
Yogi Amriy Desai is explaining the duality which actually is unity, how things are connected even if we think they are not and what yoga actually is, when we find our way out of dependencies.
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Yoga as a form of meditation
This is one of the best live seminars I have heard on the subject of Yoga as meditation. The more you listen to it - the more you get out of it.
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The morning after, CNN reports that Barack Obama has already been making (cheap) ad buys ahead of the March 11 Mississippi primary, while Hillary Clinton's campaign released this jubilant statement from Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell:
"The people of Pennsylvania are focused on the two largest issues facing our nation – the state of our economy and national security. On both counts, Pennsylvanians understand how important it is to elect someone who is truly ready to become President and Commander-in-Chief. Hillary is ready to lead our nation, returning us to both prosperity and peace.
"We look forward to making our voice heard in the coming days and playing our part in determining the Democratic nominee. And when we do, the people of Pennsylvania will send a clear message – we want a President who is ready, not one we hope will one day be ready."


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And Then Some . . . Philanthropists Jerry Dietz '75 and Judy Schapiro Dietz '76
A 1970s-era Ithaca couple sets benchmarks for community involvement. by Elizabeth Field and Maura Stephens
When it comes to fund-raising, Jerry Dietz '75 and Judy Schapiro Dietz '76 acknowledge, potential donors must first understand an issue, and then feel it in their hearts. Only then will they be willing to reach into their pockets. "People don't give away money for just anything," says Jerry. "It has to mean something to them."
Jerry would know: In the last dozen years, he and Judy have led Ithaca-area fund-raising efforts that have resulted in more than $1.4 million for fighting hunger and AIDS. Every June, Jerry chairs the Taste of the Nation event at Ithaca College to raise money for food banks, and for many years Judy volunteered as its finance coordinator. In 1999 Jerry, along with friend Russ Traunstein, organized the first annual AIDS Ride for Life, a 100-mile bike ride around Cayuga Lake to benefit AIDS-Work of the Southern Tier. Since then the ride has grown to attract upwards of 300 participants. Judy has participated in the event nearly every September since its inception; this year she coordinated pit stops for the riders.
Jerry and Judy share a philosophy about their role in their adopted hometown. "We feel blessed to have all the wonderful things that we have in our life," says Judy. "We've had a great education, and we feel very strongly about being good members of this community. That means giving back with our time, energy, talents, and money—when we can and when it's appropriate."
Her husband agrees. "Everyone has a strength," he points out. "There are ways to share that strength with a community, whether it's riding for AIDS or fighting hunger. Productive communities find ways to give back—and it doesn't have to be about money."
Jerry has owned and operated two area businesses: Ragmanns, a pub-style restaurant just off the Ithaca Commons, which he co-owned with two of his brothers until selling out his share in 1988; and CSP Management, a property management firm he still runs. He is so devoted to volunteerism that he subsidizes his employees' service as well. "I pay up to eight hours per year for my staff to go and volunteer for something in the community," he says. Most of the company's 17 employees take him up on the offer.
A business administration major who grew up in Rye, New York, Jerry was the head resident for Lyon Hall when he met Judy, a sociology major from Merrick, New York, as she was moving in at the start of her junior year. "It was not love at first sight," Jerry says. "She asked me if her brother, Dick, could sleep in one of the TV lounges after driving her in from Long Island. I said no."
Judy can no longer remember where Dick spent the night, but that's no matter because the end result was that Dick and Jerry became the closest of friends, and she and Jerry became a couple. They married two years after Judy's graduation in a double wedding ceremony with Judy's sister, Gail Schapiro '73, and Jim Salk '74, who also stayed on in Ithaca. "Ithaca is home," Jerry says. "We love it here for the community and for the connections we've made."
Of those connections, IC is once again playing a central role. Their son, Robert, is a music major in his sophomore year, and his cousin Steven, son of Judy's brother Dick, is a sophomore business major. Judy's current job as community liaison at the History Center in Tompkins County has reconnected her with her alma mater as the organization plans a six-month-long exhibit on the history of Ithaca College [see page 25]. And Jerry's work with Taste of the Nation brings him back up to South Hill each year to plan and run the event, held in the Emerson Suites.
"Chairing this event has been a great way for me to reconnect with IC," Jerry says. "This is a huge gala, with 24 restaurants, 18 wineries, and 2 microbreweries participating—and the campus has welcomed us with open arms. Ithaca College is a great host."
David Prunty, IC's director of conference and events services, speaks just as warmly of Jerry as a client. "He's wonderful," says Prunty, "so deeply committed to the cause of fighting hunger. He goes far out of his way to put on a classy event. We are extremely happy to host Taste of the Nation, and to work in partnership with Jerry Dietz."
Taste of the Nation: ithacatasteofthenation.org; AIDS Ride for Life: aidsrideforlife.org


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With his resume, games legend Warren Spector should have been king of the geeks at Penny Arcade Expo, the nation's largest gaming show. As a lifelong innovator, responsible for forward-thinking games like Wing Commander and Deus Ex, he'd been invited to similar bully pulpits. He'd given state-of-the-virtual-union speeches. Yet even his expertise couldn't prepare him for a direct, surprising look at the modern world of gamers. Only PAX 2010 could afford him that view. For three days, over 67,000 fans flooded downtown Seattle to preview new games, revel in old ones, and immerse themselves in the hobby. Spector, the expo's keynote speaker, had the perspective to see them doing something else, too: evolving.
"If you go back 3-4 years [at PAX], a lot of the stereotype of what a gamer was... was true," Spector said with a chuckle. "Now, I see so many more women and younger people than I expect. And older people. The diversifying audience is really apparent if you just open your eyes and look around at PAX."
So Spector launched the festival by telling fans just that. Standing at a symphony hall's podium, he issued a gruff-sounding decree: "We [gamers] are no longer different. We're no longer special."
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Prior PAX keynotes had gone to great lengths to say otherwise, he pointed out, and this year seemed like a good time to cast aside the cheerleading that fans might expect at a geek-out: "Just relax," he insisted to fans. "[Gamers] haven't reached the promised land yet, but we deserve a seat at the cultural table."
The gamers in attendance drove that point home. At the tens of thousands mark, the typical fanboy archetype—out-of-shape, awkward, unfashionable—proved unsustainable at PAX. Rather, the mass resembled an NFL stadium crowd, if the jerseys and facepaint were replaced with ThinkGeek and xkcd T-shirts.
This crowd, too, was here for the big game. From all appearances, that would have been the exhibition hall, filled with four city blocks of playable previews. If video games were made of chocolate, then PAX would look like Wonka's private stash.
Microsoft demonstrated its not-yet-released Kinect rig, a motion-sensing camera for the Xbox 360. Sony, in kind, had its own new motion-sensing gizmo, the Move, scattered around the show floor. And every aisle seemed to feature at least one plastic-guitar game, attempting to cash in on the success of Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
But fans at PAX were cool on all of these tacks, instead lining up behind tried-and-true concepts: Halo Reach, the first-person shooter smash from Microsoft; NBA Jam, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Mortal Kombat, the mid-'90s classics attempting HD comebacks; and long-awaited, Seattle-developed sequels with names like Portal 2, Guild Wars 2, and Torchlight 2, each tapping into a diffferent range of the nerd spectrum.
Towering over all of those was PAX's shocker: Duke Nukem Forever. The game's troubled, 13-year-old development history, which reportedly ended with a cancellation over a year ago, earned a Wired obituary last December. Duke's PAX appearance surprised even the fest's staff, and its vulgar, bloody action drew the show's longest lines. (In spite of its sexism and utter stupidity, I'll admit, I enjoyed the thick, bass-heavy action of the 15-minute demo.)
Not every station could match Duke's pizzazz. One in particular didn't even bother hoisting a sign; it settled on a TV and a controller at a white, unlabeled table, and its game didn't come with a title or instructions.
This mystery title, feet from the entrance, turned out to be the world premiere of an arty puzzle game called The Witness, the followup to 2008's art-game smash Braid. Players were expected to figure out how to wander through its 3D world and solve its puzzles, as if the old computer hit Myst had been redone with a touch of dadaism. For three days, this game's creator, Jonathan Blow, hid nearby to watch the crowd discover his game and other, neighboring small-fry titles.
Nearby sat a four-player diamond heist game called Monaco, a festival award winner designed entirely by one person. It looked like a one-man show, what with its simple, pixelated looks, but the award-winning game's teamwork and suspense made it my favorite PAX game. Spy Party attracted tons of onlookers for its experimental two-player experience: On two screens, facing away from each other, a simple house party played out. One person controlled one of the dozens of partygoers, controlling his or her every gesture, and the other player had to guess which of those 3D partygoers was a real person, rather than computer-controlled. Games would play out for 10-15 minutes at a time, and the crowd would look back and forth between screens to see how well the guesser was doing. For a game that takes place at a simple house party, the crowd-watching that resulted had all the drama of a Hitchcock classic.
That level of intrigue boosted the presence of other "indie" games—a term to describe self-funded titles made by small teams—in the busy exhibition hall. The PAX 10 collection presented the fest producers' favorite new indies, including the show's sleeper smash hit, Retro City Rampage, which satirized Grand Theft Auto from an 8-bit point of view. (Imagine driving a stolen car through the picturesque, retro wilderness of The Legend of Zelda, for starters.) Even Microsoft hosted an booth's worth of indie games, including the hair-pullingly difficult Super Meat Boy and the adorable Ilomilo.
But to know PAX is to understand how small a percentage that exhibition hall made up.I struggled with an abundance of choices. Because I couldn't say no to any of them, I slept for 16 hours the night after PAX.
I played whatever board game I pleased (and discovered fun diversions like Red November and Small World). I attended panels whose "discussions" typically devolved into roars of laughter. I flopped into a beanbag lounge to challenge strangers to versus matches of Tetris. I watched my favorite band of the summer, Brooklyn's Anamanaguchi, perform a symphony hall concert with a Nintendo Entertainment System as its lead singer. And I skipped out on PAX's boozy parties to play games all night with thousands of like-minded nerds (some of whom have already become real-life friends).
My choices paid off. I had a blast. And as I made sense of PAX's aftermath, I kept thinking back to keynote speaker Warren Spector's design philosophy: "play style matters." His obsession with choices—with making video games that are thick with consequences, chains of events, and a causality that has the feeling of real-life—has paid off.
But he's still grappling with a huge choice from last year: to reveal his lifelong obsession in the form of a new video game, one that his old fans are still furrowing their brows about.
An industry legend responsible for epic games about dystopias, space combat, and medieval virtue, Spector surprised the industry last year when he revealed his newest project: a Mickey Mouse video game. For the family-friendly Wii. He insisted it was still his style of game, showing off art and design samples with a dark palette and bizarre characters, but his hardcore fans recoiled.
They knew nothing of Spector's lifelong love affair with all things Disney—that he grew up collecting reel-to-reels of classic cartoons, that he knew about every obscure Disney character ever created, or that he very nearly became a Disney designer, also known as an Imagineer, in the '80s before taking a gig as a video game maker instead.
"I always wanted to build a theme park attraction," he said, "and now, I'm kinda getting to do it virtually." To some extent, that's why Spector came to PAX: to speak directly to the gaming nation, and to tell them that Disney's Epic Mickey, set for release in a few months, is his dream game (and should be theirs, too).
"They have this cloistered view of what games can and should be. I want them to broaden it. I wanted the opportunity to tell them, don't be afraid of games becoming more mainstream. It is a good thing. It will give you some place to go when... when you outgrow adolescent power fantasies, you're going to want some place to go, because you're not going to stop playing games. The available choices are going to narrow, narrow, narrow, given the content constraints that you're imposing on developers with your dollars. I wanted [gamers] to open their minds to new ideas."
As our conversation continued, Spector, a self-described "academic goober," rattled off two discrete lists, each answering a different question of mine. The first was a smattering of hopes about the games of the future. Better artificial intelligence. Better stories for multiplayer games. Worlds that react realistically to what players do.
The second list was all of the innovations that Walt Disney, his idol, brought to American cinema. First feature-length cartoon. First film to employ stereo sound. First use of robotics in a film.
Both lists came off his tongue briskly, minutes apart from each other, but their similarity was striking. I'm not sure he noticed. Spector's keynote speech touched on the notion of his industry reaching a "golden age" of acceptance and popularity. And he's watched that growth from its inception. After decades of work crafting adventurous games, in which players must pick from choices and possible outcomes, Spector is ready to spring his concepts on the larger gaming world.
Disney Epic Mickey's colorful take on consequences, through a paintbrush mechanic that allows gamers to draw and erase entire worlds, is one means of doing so. Allying himself with his idol, Walt Disney, in front of PAX's cheering crowd of thousands, is another.
This year, at this festival, he's proudly clutching a to-do list—a series of gaming innovation dreams—with a Walt-like grasp.
"I keep telling everybody I meet, any part of the
business or outside, ideas are so easy," Spector said. "Ideas are
nothing. Execution is everything. I have over 300 game concepts on my
hard drive right now... With all of the problems we still have to solve
in video games, I could keep busy for the next 100 years."
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In a fundamental shift in the way tour buses are regulated, the federal agency that oversees the companies is implementing a long-sought rule to aggressively go after and shut down those that repeatedly violate safety laws, endangering the lives of tour bus riders as well as motorists and passengers sharing the road.
The move comes a year after a devastating Southern California tour bus crash that left 8 people dead and 32 injured. That crash prompted a year-long NBC4 I-Team investigation which revealed a disturbing pattern of potentially life-threatening tour bus company safety violations.
The crash and the NBC4 investigation were key factors in prompting the change, said Anne Ferro, administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, in an exclusive interview.
The I-Team investigation "identified some operator behavior that had not been on our radar," Ferro acknowledged. "That has enabled us to go after certain companies,"
Ferro's efforts got underway after the terrible crash of February 4, 2013. On the day, a tour bus packed with skiers and snowboarders were heading down the mountain from Big Bear when the brakes went out. The bus careened downhill, colliding with a sedan and a truck before flipping over.
The front end of the bus was crushed, the roof peeled back like a tin can. Body parts and debris littered the highway.
The bus was operated by Scapadas Magicas, a company based near San Diego that had been permitted to continue operating despite previously racking up 59 citations for safety violations.
"That crash provoked and prompted a much deeper look into how we were doing our work," Ferro said.
Ferro's agency has been criticized by National Transportation Safety Board for shutting down unsafe bus companies only after a fatal crash. Nationwide as many people take buses to get from one city to another as domestic airlines—700 million passengers ride a year. There were at least 12 major tour bus crashes in California over the past 12 months, an all-time record.
In an effort to remedy the problem, the agency is implementing a "Pattern of Safety Violations" rule, which enables it to shut down a bus company with a history of safety problems. The rule goes into effect February 21. The rule should prompt "more aggressive action against [tour bus operators] more quickly," Ferro said.
Consumer groups applaud the new rule, and say it's long overdue. Congress first directed the agency to create such a rule in 2005.
"It has taken way too long for them to come out with this rule, and we're hopeful that they will use it," said Jackie Gillan, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, a consumer watchdog group. "There is a need for better consumer information about bus companies."
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The agency is also asking Congress for money to hire 25 more investigators, in addition to the 300-plus it now employs.
"We have asked Congress for several years for additional resources. Our budget has been flat over the past decade," Ferro told NBC4.
Even with its limited resources, the agency says it increased efforts to get unsafe buses off the roads in California in 2013. Ferro said it shut down at least 8 bus companies in the state last year, and inspected more than 850 buses at 100 surprise inspection points.
There are 354 tour bus companies permitted by the federal government operating in California, and Ferro conceded there are potentially unsafe bus companies among them that need to be scrutinized more often by federal investigators.
In addition to stricter enforcement of safety violations, the agency is also planning to change its bus company rating system," Ferro said.
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The government rates bus companies either "Satisfactory" or "Conditional." Conditional is supposed to mean that the company doesn't have adequate safety controls in place.
But Scapadas Magicas, which had a long history of serious safety violations, had a "Satisfactory" rating at the time one of its buses crashed a year ago Tuesday.
"Is there a star rating, a red light-green light, is there a number rating?" Ferro said. "What's the simplest way to do it."
Ultimately, Ferro says her agency wants to reduce bus crashes—there have been 4 in the last 6 weeks in southern California—and better inform consumers.
"Our job is to ensure that the companies that are operating are operating safely," Ferro said, "and the passengers also know how to choose a safe operator."


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Except, NO, they're not — heterosexual males make up at absolute best about 45% of the world's population, which isn't even a majority. So why the tacit approval, even (and especially) by certain feminists, of the current social norm wherein any "sexiness" brought into a conversation must de facto imply women slutting it up as sex objects? Why is it never about men bringing the sexy to the table? Why the gigantic backlash against the Skepchicks owning their sexuality and being sex-positive, as though they're the only skeptics that have ever displayed any modicum of sex-positivity? Why the gigantic backlash against Boobquake, despite the surprisingly good data it yielded in disproving the Muslim cleric's hypothesis that immodesty causes earthquakes?
The answer's obvious — it's because historically, with men in power and controlling all dialog about sex and sexuality, women owning their sexualilty and taking the role of gatekeeper of what's acceptable and what's not in displaying their own assets represents a major (some would say seismic!) shift in the balance of power. As long as men were controlling what's morally acceptable, women are properly subjugated. It's why the burka was invented, for FSM's sake — just another tool of oppression, pushing blame for men's lust onto women. That way, when you need to sell something, men who have historically had all the control over purchasing power are much more likely to buy something involving certain primal "I want that" triggers when you show them something else they want but whose supply is otherwise controlled, e.g. sexy women.
The whole issue revolves around controlling the stock of sexy women — that is to say, women who accept their sexuality and play it up because they want to, not because they feel they have to. To make it perfectly clear, sexy is entirely attitude. Just about any person on the planet can be sexy; if they have the right attitude, someone will find it attractive. (I promise that this is the case, no matter how hopeless you might think your particular case is.)
So why is it that the conversation about sexuality and skepticism is ENTIRELY about whether it's appropriate for WOMEN to be sex-positive? It's well possible to sex something up for the benefit of heterosexual women , too! (And gay men as an incidental, as opposed to primary, target, since society's apparently unwilling at present to target gays yet.) Just look at the ur-skeptic Harry Houdini, as Stephanie Zvan did. (heh.) Or check out the Skepdudes calendar put out by those same debauched females that accidentally kicked off this present cycle of shitstorm by playing up their ability to throw a good party.
Sure, there are other ways of "selling" skepticism. Sex is just a small part of the arsenal — a way of getting people's eyes on the subject to begin with. The fact that the skepticism we want to sell, actually provides a set of tools that teaches people how to cut through bullshit and winnow out the truth behind any claims, seems to me to be a dangerous fact to certain factions. A fact that's hidden in general discussion, where "skeptic" is is often used derisively. But to throw sex out of the equation is ludicrous on its face; and in fact, wholly impossible in my estimation. The fact is, sex and skepticism go hand in hand because skepticism has a specific prerequisite that is tied heavily with sex. Skepticism, as a movement, requires human beings to be skeptical. Without human beings, there's no need for skepticism. And human beings — deny this if you want — are so hung up about sex that it's not even funny. Even the positive ones are hung up about it, because of the cultural norms that are drilled into all our heads. In being sex-positive, they are explicitly being counter-culture. Frankly, I'm tired of this situation.
If certain elements with vested interest in oppressing sexuality (I'm looking at you, religion! And you too, conservative politics!) would just fucking well let human beings be human beings once in a fucking while, we wouldn't have near as much sexism, oppression, misinformation, or manipulation of the public collective consciousness by cynical advertisers. This world would be a much happier place if people would just let people be sexy when they want to be. And I'd have less to rant about. I'm sure that last one's a goal you have high on your priorities, so let's make it happen.


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Rookie right-hander Drew Hutchison left in the first inning with a sore elbow but five Toronto relievers combined on a five-hitter as the Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 on Friday night, snapping a three-game losing streak.
Brett Lawrie had two doubles and drove in a run as the Blue Jays won for just the third time in their past nine meetings with the Phillies.
Philadelphia, last in the NL East, had won two straight coming in but lost for the 10th time in 13 games.
Hutchison became the third Blue Jays starter in five days to leave with an injury when a sore right elbow forced him off the mound after just nine pitches.
Aaron Laffey worked 1 2-3 innings, Carlos Villanueva earned the win by pitching four innings, Jason Frasor and Darren Oliver each worked one inning and Casey Janssen pitched the ninth for his sixth save in seven chances.
Villanueva (2-0) allowed two hits, walked two and struck out five.
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Drabek, who left in the fifth inning of Wednesday's loss to Washington, was placed on the 15-day disabled list and left-hander Brett Cecil was recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas. Cecil will make his season debut Sunday against the Phillies.
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Toronto broke through against Phillies right-hander Vance Worley (3-3) with consecutive two-out doubles in the third. Rajai Davis doubled to left and Lawrie followed with an RBI double to right.
The Blue Jays took advantage of an error by Phillies third baseman Mike Fontenot to add two runs in the fourth. Jose Bautista led off with a single and Edwin Encarnacion followed with a broken bat grounder to third. Fontenot's throw sailed wide of second base and into foul territory in right field, allowing Bautista to score as Encarnacion advanced to third. One out later, Encarnacion scored on Yunel Escobar's groundout.
Fontenot's error was the 13th by the Phillies in their past nine games.
Worley allowed three runs, one earned, and five hits in seven innings, matching his longest start of the season. He walked two and struck out five.
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He is now running consistent 8.2X's at 166-168 miles per hour:
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