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Utah Jazz 2010 Media Day Megapost: New Guys Part 1
Returning New Guys
Raja Bell was mauled. Cut off midsentence, grabbed with two long arms and almost tackled by a much-discussed man with shaggy blonde hair.
Bell quickly turned around to discover the culprit. In turn, Bell found a friend.
Andrei Kirilenko was saying hello. And Bell was once again a member of the Utah Jazz.
The duo embraced, laughed and smiled. They requested a moment alone and were granted it. Within seconds, the former and current teammates were catching up and reconnecting after five long years. (sltrib) :) :) :)
Raja: "[Jerry's straight shooting was] one of the biggest factors, if not the biggest factor, of wanting to come back. … As a professional and as a man, I appreciate that. I don't really buy into all the politics of the NBA, and so to come to [a team] that doesn't play many games and has very little political games being played, it's refreshing and I enjoy it."
–Top objective for the team: Learn each other, and get on the same page as the coaches.
–"There are a lot of great organizations (in the NBA) but the Jazz are at the top of that list. Coach from the top down, it's a no-games organization, there are not a lot of smokescreens, a lot of games played. It takes a certain player to respect that, and know you might not hear exactly what you want to hear, but you're going to hear the honest truth and you can deal with it and move on from there. I respect that, and there are few organizations that do that."
–I'm here to win…If Jerry asks me to come off the bench, if he asks me to be the eighth man, I'll do it and I'll do it to the best of my ability. I'll push these guys in practice everyday. I'll always compete as if I'm trying to start."
New Guys
Watson: "I'm definitely a pass-first guy, love to get out on transition, love to play defense, just bring toughness to that position."
(BTW, I had a total FAIL moment just now. I was watching a video of Watson talking to the media and wondering to myself whether, you know, there was anything wrong with him because he speaks SO slowly. Eventually I realized I'd accidentally hit the "Slower" playback speed button. /facepalm)
–Earl didn't work out for the Jazz; Jazz brass flew out to see him. He was looking to join a veteran/winning team, and would have gone back to Indiana if he couldn't sign with a Playoff team.
–Had his first daughter last year.
–"Deron and I, we have a great relationship. At the same time, we complement each other. I can learn a lot from him offensively, and defensively I can teach him a lot…Every position on this team is deep, so you just look forward to playing deep into the Playoffs."
–"You never hear a basketball player say this, this may be the first time ever: I'm really excited to be on a court defensively with Raja Bell. I'm really excited about that. I'm really excited to play defensively on the same team as he and make it a nightmare for opposing teams and opposing guards."
[I tell you this with 100% honesty: I went a bit lightheaded when I heard this. Lightheaded and heart palpitation-y. AKA I'm excited too.]
–Started the most games in UCLA history; sponsors inner city youths in Kansas City and provides them with the resources to get them to college. This is the first year his sponsored kids are in college and he's really excited about that.
Elson: [first reaction to Jazz offer:] "I was ecstatic, because Utah always has a great mentality, winning mentality."
–[Locke: I grew up in Palo Alto and hated Cal, and [you] went to Cal. I won't hold it against you.] "I'm not even going to comment."
–"Obviously my basketball career has not ended yet, and you always have room to improve and learn. Why not learn from one of the greatest coaches in the game?"
–Elson grew up doing track and field, karate, playing soccer, and swimming in the Netherlands. His brother was the basketball player in the family. One day when he was 12 a guy came to pick his brother up for a basketball tournament and recruited him to play on the spot. He started playing and concentrating on basketball at 14 or 15. His dad, who was from Suriname, was a soccer player.
–Elson got a little emotional talking about his brother, who suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 21 while playing basketball. He struggled with playing basketball afterwards because it reminded him of his brother to be on the court, but when he didn't play he missed the game too much.
–He was pissed off by the heat when he first arrived in Texas.
–Like Watson, he works with inner city kids to help them stay in school, especially since the financial crisis hit.
–"MEHMET OKUR, Mehmet Okur, Mehmet Okur man, that's my guy. … It's a good situation because it's a very young team right now and they have a great history and playing for Coach Sloan is going to be good, it's going to help me out a lot."
–Locke: "[Brent Barry's] wife is better looking than Tony Parker's." Elson: "I have no comment on that. I don't look at people's wives." (laughs)


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Spin on economy data leads partisans to opposite conclusions
Minutes after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address last week, the Washington chattering class spun like a cartoon Tasmanian Devil.
Republicans took to the airways, grumbling that Obama offered no real solutions to the country's problems. Democrats cheered and said he had the answers.
Then came the spin typical of any major political event, whirling with facts and figures.
The economy's better off since Obama took office, said U.S. Rep Hank Johnson, a DeKalb County Democrat.
"Unemployment has fallen from 10 percent during the president's first year in office to 8.5 percent today," Johnson said in remarks posted on Patch.com's local news site for Stone Mountain-Redan.
No, the economy's worse, said U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey, a Marietta Republican.
Three years into Obama's presidency, "2 million more Americans are out of work," Gingrey said in a news release posted on Rome Newswire, an online news site covering the Rome area.
Can these both be true? Is it possible for unemployment to drop as the ranks of people who are out of work grow?
Because of this conundrum, we'll depart from our usual Truth-O-Meter format and do a special doubleheader. We'll check both stats and tell you whether one of them is wrong or whether it's possible for both to be correct.
First, let's consider Johnson's unemployment statistic.
In January 2009, when Obama was inaugurated, unemployment stood at 7.8 percent. It peaked at 10 percent in October 2009, eight months later.
In December 2011, the rate stood at 8.5 percent.
Johnson's numbers are accurate, but he runs into trouble when he said that "it is remarkable what President Obama has achieved in his first three years."
Labor economists have repeatedly told PolitiFact that it's hard for any political leader to take credit or blame for something as complicated as the economy.
Johnson spokesman Andrew Phelan offered proof to bolster the congressman's claim that Obama deserves credit for lower unemployment. He cited a November report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which reviews bills that will have an impact on the federal budget. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the stimulus legislation that Obama backed, lowered the unemployment rate by between 0.2 percentage points and 1.3 percentage points during the third quarter of 2011, the office determined.
Phelan also cited a 2010 report by a Princeton professor and the chief economist of Moody's Analytics saying the Recovery Act and monetary policy reduced unemployment.
Still, other factors are at play. For this reason, Johnson's statement earns a Half True.
Now on to Gingrey's statement, where he says "2 million more Americans are out of work."
Gingrey spokeswoman Jen Talaber pointed us to a July check by our PolitiFact Ohio colleagues. It analyzed a television ad by the Republican National Committee criticizing Obama's economic policies.
Since he took office, it said, "2 million jobs. Gone."
PolitiFact Ohio found that the drop in employment was actually more severe than the ad said. The economy lost 2.5 million jobs between January 2009 and May 2011, according to employment figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tracks employment and other economic data.
But the ad was missing a crucial piece of context. It neglected to mention that the economy gained 1 million jobs in the year before the ad came out. PolitiFact Ohio gave the claim a Mostly True.
Six months have passed since PolitiFact Ohio's story ran, so we checked the latest employment statistics to see whether the figures were still correct.
We found that the country's employment outlook is sunnier.
In December, there were nearly 132 million nonfarm employees in the U.S., down 1.66 million from January 2009. This means that Gingrey's 2 million figure is some 20 percent too high.
We found a few other problems with Gingrey's use of employment data.
When the economy loses nonfarm jobs, it does not mean that "2 million more Americans are out of work," as Gingrey said. The Bureau of Labor Statistics did not design this metric to measure how many people have become unemployed.
It's likely many did get laid off. But others might have chosen to return to school, become stay-at-home parents or leave the workforce for any number of other reasons.
It's also worth noting that while payrolls have declined since January 2009, they've been rising since October 2010, according to BLS data.
Because Gingrey's claim cherry-picks unflattering data and his numbers could use some freshening up, we rate his statement Half True.
Now we come to the larger issue at hand. Gingrey and Johnson used valid data to give opposite impressions of the state of the economy. Their interpretations had some shortcomings but weren't wholly incorrect.
So how is this possible? Can unemployment decline under Obama if payrolls shrank?
Yes. The reason is that Gingrey and Johnson used data from different time periods.
Gingrey chose to consider nonfarm payroll numbers starting in winter 2009, while Johnson started his unemployment count in October 2009.
The economy didn't post its worst numbers until the latter half of 2009.
Between January 2009 and December 2011, the economy lost jobs. Nonfarm payrolls decreased by some 1.7 million jobs. As you'd expect, unemployment increased during the same time period from 7.8 percent to 8.5 percent.
But from October 2009 to December 2011, the economy gained jobs. Nonfarm payrolls actually rose by about 2.4 million. Unemployment dropped from 10 percent to 8.5 percent.
It's easy to cherry-pick data that give opposite impressions of the nation's economic health. With statistics, the devil's in the details.

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Europe: Day 4, Vienna
When you're in a European city and all the museums and shops are beginning to blur together, there's only one thing to do: Head to the train station.
Europe's train systems make it possible to reclaim a sense of adventure--and still be back in time for dinner.
The capital of Slovakia is less than 40 miles from Vienna, but it feels like another world (and be sure to bring your passport). A city of fewer than 500,000, Bratislava has only been the capital since the separation of the Czech and Slovak republics in 1993. But it boasts a rich history: Back when the Turks occupied the largest part of the Kingdom of Hungary, Bratislava became the coronation seat; 10 Hungarian kings and one queen were crowned here. It has also been home to large German and Jewish minorities, who have left their rich traces in art, architecture, and food. And the historic, well-renovated Old Town--most of it a pedestrian-only zone--makes Bratislava perfect for a day trip: Buzz between busy cafés, explore romantic art museums, and clamber around the castle district. Woch Restaurant, in a corner of the main square, serves local fare such as fried goat cheese with grilled salmon, and a spicy bean soup. To catch a glimpse of local student life, have a beer at Slovak Pub. If you aim higher than the regional handicrafts offered at market stands, take a look at the famous Moser glass from Bohemia sold at a special store, Sklo-Porcelán, also on the main square.
Woch Restaurant: Frantiskánske námestie 7, 011-421/254-432-927, woch.sk, entrées from $7. Slovak Pub: Obchodná 62, 011-421/252-926-367, slovakpub.sk. Sklo-Porcelán: Zelená 1-3, 011-421/254-435-510.
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Starting at 5 A.M., trains depart Vienna's Südbahnhof at 28 minutes past every hour, arriving at Bratislava's Hlavná stanica (main station) about an hour later. Ask an agent at Südbahnhof for a EURegio Excursion Ticket--the special price includes the round-trip fare and use of Bratislava's public transportation system ($19 round trip). Tickets are valid for same-day travel only and can be purchased up to four days in advance. Hop the 5:00 P.M. train to be back in time for dinner. Schedules at oebb.at. A few times a day, there's also a high-speed catamaran sailing between the two cities' downtowns. Catch the 8:30 A.M. departure for the 75-minute ride down the Danube; a return boat leaves Bratislava at 6:30 P.M. (from $67 round trip, reservations required). Schedules and tickets at twincityliner.com.


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Photo: Brandon Thibodeaux / Oprah Winfrey Network
For the students at Houston's century-old Franklin Beauty School, the path to a better life involves a cosmetology license, tough love from director Glenda "Miss J" Jemison and, apparently, a bit of drama. Just how much drama remains to be seen, but we can all watch it unfold on national television in Oprah's latest reality TV endeavor, "Houston Beauty."
A clip of the show reveals six animated arguments among students, one heartfelt lecture from Jemison, a fashion show, a group hug, a group dance and Jemison dressed as an imperial ruler of some sort. It's reality TV at its finest.
You can watch a sneak peek episode of "Houston Beauty" on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 9 p.m. The official season premiere is Saturday, Nov. 2 at 9 p.m.
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To understand why a raging wildfire near the Los Alamos National Laboratory is a big deal, you must understand how wastes were disposed.
AP writes today:
Los Alamos Canyon runs past runs past the old Manhattan Project site in town and a 1940s era dump site where workers are near the end of a clean-up project of low-level radioactive waste. The World War II Manhattan Project developed the first atomic bomb, and workers from the era dumped hazardous and radioactive waste in trenches along six acres atop the mesa where the town sits.
"The threat is pretty limited," said Kevin Smith, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration site manager for Los Alamos, which over sees the lab. "Most of the materials have been dug up."
But a report produced by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability found:
Approximately 18 million cubic feet of radioactive and chemical solid wastes onsite were disposed of since 1943. "All of the radioactive waste and most of the chemical waste have been buried on the mesas of Pajarito Plateau where LANL is located. Radioactive liquid wastes were discharged to the canyons, initially with little treatment."
For many years, one method of disposal was "kick-and-roll". The back of a truck was brought to the edge of a hole and barrels of waste were kicked. Wherever the barrels rolled tow as their final resting place.
No protection was put in place to ensure contaminants did not spread from the barrel. It is not clear that today's practices are more protective.
An estimated 899,000 curies of low-level transuranic [i.e. radioactive elements heavier than uranium, such as plutonium] wastes were buried at Los Alamos. It is difficult to estimate exactly the quantity of radionuclides buried onsite due to the inaccurate record keeping and alterations in the definitions of low-elevel waste in the intervening years. Disposal continues today in unlined pits and shafts, a practice declared illegal by the New Mexico Attorney General's office in 2011…
Tons of plutonium were processed at LANL in the early years of development and again in the 1980s. After the Savannah River Site, LANL contains the second largest volume of plutonium-238 in the US nuclear weapons complex: this type of plutonium has a 90-year half-life, a very high activity and is extremely hazardous…
No wonder people have warned that the trees and soil in the areas surrounding the Los Alamos Laboratory may themselves now be radioactive. See this and this.


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Audi's are good cars but you'll get raped in repair costs.
Im going to look into buying this car, hopefully for a cheaper price. Anyone have it? Audi's good cars?
And yes, im going to get my license this summer. And yes I have money for a 1st car. No stupid comments please.
Audi's are good cars but you'll get raped in repair costs.
Can we turn this into a first car thread?
You do know that Audis are very fun to drive, but have a very poor reliability record.
Buying a used one would make me even more suspicious.
Why would you want your first car to be in the shop half of the time?
I would go Japanese if I were you.
I drive a BMW hardtop convertible and am above all of you.
Carry on.
I'm comfortable with my 2006 Chevy Equinox, haven't had any problems.
(Knock on wood)
And I mean raped.
You'll be crying when a common problem happens like a blown water pump.
Oi Vey.
SBIII, if you're seriously looking into buying a used or "pre-owned" (ghey) car, then go to http://www.edmunds.com/ It's a fantastic resource for both new and used cars. Oh, and don't buy an Audi unless it's a TT or an A8. Anything else and you'll more than likely see a chick behind the wheel.
SBIII, could you please start a thread about things you are NOT buying? Your list of things you're about to buy, just this week, include...
- iPhone 3G
- Jets season tickets
- Audi S4
I don't mean to be a wiseass, but it's almost getting ridiculous (translation: "ridicurous" for Fishooked) as you're now outspending SAR by thousands.


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Jack-of-all-trades Carden masters the stage
For local singer, composer, and hairdresser John Carden, being a jack-of-all-trades is second nature. After finding international success as an opera singer, Carden unexpectedly shifted his tune and began performing jazz with iconic local pianist George Melvin in 2007. Now Carden has shifted once more and embraced a new form– the musical.
During the summer of 2006, Carden put on his composer hat and began penning a musical based on an Italian play from 1682. "I had never written a musical before, so I really gave it a lot of thought," Carden says. "I wrote a whole new script, changed characters and it became Fabulous Flavio."
The musical, which follows the comic and tragic trajectory of King Flavio and his kingdom, combines all aspects of Carden's musical career. In composing the score, the opera-turned-jazz singer brought all his musical influences to the task.
"I decided to compose the music according to who the characters were," Carden explained. "The comic characters live in a jazz world while the tragic figures live in more of a popular-rock-opera kind of world. The king lives in a very traditional Broadway world."
But how did Fabulous Flavio, which Carden composed "for himself", make it to the big stage of Piedmont Virginia Community College? After entertaining salon client Wendy DeVere-Austin with tales of his composing experience, Carden was surprised when her husband Raymond Austin– Hollywood producer of such shows as The Avengers and Loveboat– approached him at a party.
"He asked about what I was doing and then asked to have a chance to hear the music and script," Carden says. "April 2007 rolled around and he wrote me an email to ask if it was done. That's when I knew he was serious."
So serious, in fact, that after he heard it, he began to try to help Carden line up a venue. On a whim, Carden approached friends at Piedmont, who quickly invited him to direct it as the college's spring production.
"Raymond said, 'I would like to do it as a community production because I've never had the opportunity here to do that,'" Carden says. "The performers who are in this are all local, but it's the first time I've seen this much firepower under one ensemble."
The 18-person cast ranges in age from 17 on up and includes the king, two "star-crossed" couples and an ensemble of dancing ladies. The entire production has benefited from Austin's experience, according to Carden. "He really gets to the essence of it. If there's an actor struggling, he knows immediately how to remedy the situation and make it easy for them," he says.
As the curtain goes up on Flavio's opening night, Carden will be content to stay in the shadows backstage. After letting his singing take the spotlight for the majority of his musical career, that will be a new experience: "Writing was the hardest part for me because I knew it was important to create characters we would care about," he says.
He'd better get used to it, since he's already gearing up to work on another script with Austin and might very well end up taking that one all the way too – that is, if he doesn't change course again before then.
PVCC Theatre presents Fabulous Flavio April 2-4 at 7:30pm, April 9-11 at 7:30 pm, and April 4 & 11 at 2:30 pm in the V. Earl Dickinson Building. Tickets are $10 adults, $8 students/seniors.


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Last year I resolved to use up all of the skincare and makeup I had been hoarding during the last few years. Some of it went in the garbage but most of it was used up to the point where my stash got pretty lean, something the old Carla would have hated. The current Carla is pretty happy with the size of her stash, there is plenty of room for new green additions.
I worked my way through quite a few cleansers, exfoliators and moisturizers. Along the way, I developed an interest in oil cleansing. I was reading everything I could on essential oils and carrier oils until I finally started using my own blends to remove my makeup and moisturize my skin. There was a period of adjustment but I found that I really preferred oil cleansing to how I use to cleanse my skin, it was relaxing and left my skin feeling better than ever. I was hooked but more on that later…
As for makeup, there are two things I have not purchased recently: foundation and concealer. I know a lot of you can relate to this, I had so many bottles of foundation and tubes of concealer that I forbid myself from buying any more. For the most part, I stayed the course. Small samples don't count, right? I still have some foundation to work through but I'm almost at a point where I'm ready to scoop up some products I've been dying to try. I'm looking at you, Gressa and Kjaer Weis!
Do you know that feeling when you've gone for a long walk and you realize the end is in sight? That's how I feel about this foundation/concealer "no buy" of mine, I'm glad it's nearly over!


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(AP) – A student at a Nevada middle school opened fire on campus, killing a staff member who was trying to protect other children, police said Monday.
The suspected gunman was also dead, and authorities say no shots were fired by law enforcement.
Two other students were critically injured in the violence that erupted around 7:15 a.m., shortly before classes began Monday. One is out of surgery and the other is doing well, according to police.
Police said between 150 and 200 officers responded to the shooting.
Students from the middle school and next door elementary school were evacuated to the nearby high school, and classes were canceled.
At the evacuation center, parents walked with their arms around their children, some of whom were in tears.
"We came flying down here to get our kids," said Mike Fiorica, whose nephew attends the school. "… It's really chaotic. You can imagine how parents are feeling. You don't know if your kid's OK."
The shooting happened on the school's campus, but outside the school building itself, according to police.
Gov. Brian Sandoval issued a statement after hearing about the shooting.
"I was deeply saddened to learn of the horrific shooting at Sparks Middle School this morning. My administration is receiving regular updates and the Nevada Highway Patrol is assisting at the scene," he said. Sandoval extended his thoughts and prayers to those affected.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, offered his condolences to students, parents and staff who experienced "a traumatic morning."
"No words of condolence could possibly ease the pain, but I hope it is some small comfort that Nevada mourns with them. I stand by to be of any assistance if there is anything that can be done," Reid said in a statement.
The school, located in a working class neighborhood, enrolls about 700 students in 7th and 8th grades.
The violence erupted nearly a year after a gunman horrified the nation by opening fire in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., leaving 26 dead. The Dec. 14 shooting reignited debate over how best to protect the nation's schools and whether armed teachers should be part of that equation.
Washoe County School District held a session in the spring in light of the Connecticut tragedy to educate parents on what safety measures the district takes.
Sparks, a city of roughly 90,000 that sprung out of the railway industry, lies just east of Reno.
(Photo: Swat team members secure the scene near Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nev., after a shooting there on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. Authorities are reporting that two people were killed and two wounded at the Nevada middle school. AP Photo/Kevin Clifford)
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If there is a gap between the amounts of student aid or free money your child is receiving and the total amount of money that he will need for college, then you and your child may need to consider more loan options. The Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students and/or a private education loan are just two loan options that you and your child could choose to fill this gap. Consider the following questions to help you decide which one (if either) is right for you and your student.
Who is responsible for repayment? The parent or guardian takes out the Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS) and is responsible for repayment. On the other hand, many private education loans make the student responsible for repaying the loan but sometimes require the parent to cosign. This makes the parent responsible for repaying if the student should fail to make timely payments on the loan.
What is approval of the loans based on? For a Parent PLUS loan, approval is based on the borrower's credit standing. For a private education loan, the borrower must meet minimum income and debt-to-income ration requirements as well as pass a comprehensive credit check.
How much money can be borrowed? For the Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students, one can borrow the total cost of the student's education minus the total financial aid. For the private education loan, program limits apply. See specific loan terms for details.
How much will it cost? Interest rates on Parent PLUS loans are market-based, so they will fluctuate from year to year. However, once the loan is issued, the rate is locked in. Rates for Parent PLUS loans are capped at 10.5%. For the current year interest rate, view our federal student loan comparison chart. Private education loans have fixed and variable interest rates and usually have a higher interest cap. See specific loan terms for details.
Do the terms ever change? As menioned above, interest rates on Parent PLUS loans will fluctuate from year to year, but once the loan is issued, the rate is locked in. Private education loans could be fixed or variable depending on the terms. If interest rates in the current financial market appear to be lower than your original interest rate or you are no longer taking out additional loans on your child's education, you may want to consider refinancing or consolidating your loan into one (possibly lower) monthly payment. Student loan borrowers have the option of consolidating or refinancing through the Federal Direct loan consolidation program or through a private lender, such as ELFI. Specific requirements exist for eligibility in these programs based on your financial profile, so be sure to research whether student loan refinancing or consolidation is right for you.
When does repayment begin? For the Parent PLUS, repayment begins 60 days after receipt of initial disbursement of funds. For the private education loan, the repayment period will depend on the specific terms of the loan.
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For those of you with recent college grads going off to graduate school, your child may be interested in taking out a Grad PLUS loan. The main difference between the Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students (PLUS loan) and the Grad PLUS loan is that the student is the borrower of the latter, not the parent. For more information about loans and the application process, contact the financial aid office at your child's college.
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I'm a fan of Markiplier. I used to be a fan of pewdiepie but I got tired of him...Marauder4 wrote: There were a lot of reasons why the dev quit, but negative youtube videos was a big part of it especially pewdiepie. It's just kind of ridiculous how serious the dev took the criticism (and pretty disrespectful to his fans and backers).
P.S. Who are you a minion of?
Whoa... that's huge. I wonder if he had a team helping him develop the game.Marauder4 wrote: Is it bad that I kind of agree with pewds? Not because he's famous, but he did make some good points on the subject. I've played the game and I don't see where FarJay Studio's $100k budget went to for that game. . .


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The current KDE development concentrates on KDE 4, which will be a major release. It will include several new features as well as new APIs and frameworks and therefore will break the API compatibility. However, at the same time there are several efforts in the community making porting apps to KDE 4 quite easy.
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PUEBLO, Colo.—Vestas is cutting the work week for its Pueblo plant because of an industry slowdown blamed on a delay in extending a wind tax credit.
Officials for the Danish wind turbine manufacturer told the Pueblo Chieftain ( http://bit.ly/XpyME2) they're reducing the work week to 24 hours to avoid laying off more employees.
Congress extended the wind tax credit Tuesday as part of the measure that averted the fiscal cliff, raising hopes that some laid off workers could get their jobs back.
However, many customers had accelerated projects to start in 2012 to qualify for the credit. Wind projects take months to develop so 2013 could be a slow year for manufacturers at first.
Vestas reduced its Colorado workforce from 1,800 workers to 1,100 in 2012.
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Why is it important to develop computer savvy students of biology?
A good fraction of modern biology is heavily quantitative. Photo: Microsoft Images.
Gross: A good fraction of modern biology is heavily quantitative, and one of the main complaints that I have heard for a very long time from biologists is that students do not have the capability to carry out the basic quantitative research that is critical to all modern biology across the spectrum.
One of the most distressing comments has been about the simplest things: reading, interpreting, and producing graphs—simple graphs that students have seen again and again since they were in elementary and middle school. Things like bar charts and histograms are common, but certainly the kinds of graphs that come up again and again in science include those that have logarithmic and exponential scalings. These are the ones that are typically called log-log or semi-log graphs. These are used throughout biology and the rest of science to describe systems, particularly those in which there is an exponential component. An exponential response is something students learn in high school and, from my experience, they never really get an understanding of it. What educators need are good data sets and good ways to explain why these kinds of graphs arise. That includes what are called allometric relationships, such as the relationship between body size and weight in mammals, or that of diameter, breast height, and tree height. Such scaling relationships occur in biological systems from the level of individuals to that of entire global systems.
Perhaps the simplest illustration of this point is the basic way we communicate science, which requires a quantitative framework for understanding. I gave the example of graphs, but we also communicate science through symbolic means, from simple equations to more complicated ones.
How do teachers go about helping students become more computer savvy?
Gross: The students that are coming into upper high school and college level now are computer savvy in a variety of ways. Certainly they have the capability to use programs such as Word, PowerPoint, and even Excel to a certain extent to carry out analysis because they have been using them for other tasks. Perhaps the easiest way to help is to build on students' own experience. That means having them carry out some variation of observations or experiments themselves, then having them enter their data into a program like Excel or one of a wide variety of others and carry out some level of analysis. That level of analysis could be very simple, for example, creating scatterplots that relate two variables like length and width or heart rate before and after exercise. One thing that you can do here is to make sure that students are invested in some sense in the data sets that they have collected. There are now lots of tools that are useful in providing sensor input into data loggers, and calculators that directly connect to them, allowing students to collect real time data on a variety of things.
What key skills should a teacher help students develop so that they can become good computational biologists?
Gross: First I should say that being a good computational biologist is not going to come from just a few exposures. It is going to require considerable exposure to lots of different areas of what we generally call computational science. Just because someone learns what an algorithm is is not enough. Working with algorithms is key. It helps you gain an understanding of how any computer program operates, that is, by one step following another in a logical sequence of operations. It is possible to teach computational biology from a wide variety of perspectives, including the cellular level. There are great websites and collections of materials, such as the ones produced by BioQUEST, that provide ways to introduce students to a logical sequence of operations. Even in Excel there is sort of a logical construct for what goes first and what goes next. It is kind of hidden in that people are not running programs in the same way they would if they were using basic computer language, but they are good things to start with.
Beyond that there are a good variety of resources available on what computational biologists need to know. I even have something on my website about this, but it is not a one shot kind of thing. It requires a long-term, sustained exposure of students to a variety of computational science issues. My preference is to focus on the general biology student and not to target students that are going on to do computational biology. I focus on the key concepts that underlie quantitative approaches in the life sciences and across the board. The Math & Bio 2010 report has a listing of these concepts, if an educator wants to know how to train what we could call "fearless biologists." Fearless biologists can go off and do a wide variety of research related to the basic biological questions that they are interested in and not be constrained by their lack of understanding in some discipline.
What you are aiming for is a conceptual foundation for undergraduate education. For example, most science undergraduates take some kind of course in which they learn about catalysts and what an instantaneous rate of change is in a very formalized way. But there are other kinds of rates of change, rates of change over a time period, say, and these are not instantaneous at all. A very different underlying mathematical framework is required for analyzing things like the change in population size from one generation to the next, the change in inset populations as the population changes through time, or the change of a number of individuals in a population affected by a disease such as HIV or rabies. That is not something students pick up in a calculus course. What we can do in our biology courses is reinforce these basic quantitative concepts that occur again and again throughout the life sciences. Rates of change are just one example, but there are many others. The whole notion of homeostasis and what equilibrium is in a biological system are concepts that you would hope every undergraduate in life sciences has some conceptual foundation for understanding. Even if they can't do the underlying mathematics, they should at least understand the notion of equilibrium in a process for which there is no change through time. We hope they have some understanding of what we call dynamic equilibrium, such as a distinct increase in heart rate. Just those basic concepts are important: equilibria, dynamic equilibria, and associated issues of homeostasis. Again, Math & Bio 2010 report has a listing of the key conceptual foundations for biology that have quantitative components, and I think that serves as a good guide to what one could encourage students to grasp throughout undergraduate studies or in a general biology program.
What advantages does a biology student with some computational skills have?
Gross: One is, of course, just an expansion of the skill set, in that anytime you learn a new skill you have the potential to utilize that skill. Much of the job opportunities in modern biology require quantitative training, so graduate students should be encouraged to use quantitative skills. In fact, many of my colleagues would argue that it is much easier for students to learn biology if they have quantitative training. It is certainly easier if you develop the skill along the way. There is a movement toward developing programs that train students at the undergraduate level in both quantitative skills and in biological skills.
Pick up any issue of Science and Nature and you will see that the job ads for people with PhDs are looking for people with quantitative skills. In addition to ads for computational biologists, there are technical jobs that require an understanding of what is going on inside machines, if nothing else. Admittedly, there are many technicians who don't understand what is going on in the machine that they use, but I think that those who are most in demand would be those who have an understanding beyond just pushing a certain button to produce a particular result. Technicians need to know why a result arises, and often that involves sitting down and analyzing the techniques that the piece of equipment utilizes. A piece of equipment can be simple or complicated; for example, in ecology we use a wide variety of photosynthetic measuring devices. The underlying mathematics is not outrageously complicated, but it requires some thought to understand what you are measuring when you measure photosynthesis.
Any suggestions for high school teachers about adding computational biology skills to the curriculum?
Gross: There are wonderful resources, including computer programs and free programs, which are designed to assist students at the high school level [see "learn more links" below]. The vast majority of students entering college programs in biology already have had calculus. They often have already taken a course viewed as a college-level course, and students realize quite well that they need this kind of background. Good biology students today, whether they are interested in the health sciences or in veterinary medicine, ecology, or other areas, realize that quantitative skills will enhance their ability to work in the future.
Therefore, I would encourage students at the high school level to think about data. Having students collect and analyze data gives them quantitative skills that will serve them well in the long term no matter what they do. In addition, many of the students entering college now have had a statistics course in high school. Coupling that statistics course with their biology courses or any lab experience would also be beneficial. Much of what we call bioinformatics relates to statistical methods, and a good grounding in statistics is critical in life science research as well.
I have an entire website devoted to modules aimed at incorporating the basic high-school-level mathematics into a general biology framework (these modules are now part of the BIO2010 report, http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309085357). The set of modules is applicable for both college-level biology as well as the high-school level because the mathematics that underlies the activities is at the high-school level. The objective in that set of modules is to have cases in which the mathematics adds something that was not possible to see from biological data sets by themselves, that is, to devise a new way of thinking about a biological question.
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admin. Chairs Design. November 21st , 2017.
One piece of thing which you can utilize in order to bring a unique and classic flair into your decoration is the so called Windsor chair. Have you ever heard about that type of chair? This unique type of chair is basically solid wooden chair with its back and legs round-tenoned. Other way which is also possible is that the back and legs are joined into drilled holes.
Those are pretty much in contrast to common or standard design of chairs with the back and legs along with the uprights are continuous. A pretty distinctive appeal of this Windsor wooden chair is given by the seats that are carved into kind of shallow dish and a saddle shape to get the highest level of comfort. Now can you see the uniqueness of this Windsor chair?
Looking back at the history of Windsor chair, it is not that clear about the first one to be made. It is only know that back in the 16th century, there are chair spindles created alongside the production of wheel spokes. That may just be the start of this chair. It is also considered that this particular type of wooden Windsor seating is a kind of further development of West Country, Irish, and Welsh stick-back chairs type. Anyway, who really know about that?
As any other pieces of furniture, you can consider having various finishes for this Windsor chair. Back in the early period of British version of this chair, it was painted. Moreover along the development of human life, the later versions of this chair incorporate the finished look of stained and also polished. Meanwhile the American Windsor chairs are often painted. At the period of 18th century the paint was bright. The next period paints in dark colors were used. In the later version, the chair was coated using linseed oil in order to protect the fragile state of the paint as the finish.
The finish of Windsor chair also develops even further. In the period of 19th century, a unique type of paint known as milk paint was used. This paint is a combination of turpentine, buttermilk, and also cow's blood. Can you imagine the use of those materials to finish your chairs today? Solid color of the paint was used along in order to meet the demands of this chair back then. An experienced painter could paint the Windsor chair in less than 5 minutes during that time.
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It was August, and Crest Properties had just bought a 3,100-square-foot house at 1614 Meadowlark Landing Drive in the Lawing Pond neighborhood in Charlotte.
The subsidiary of Indianapolis-based Timberstone Homes had planned to renovate, and then sell, the 4-year-old home. With the home-construction industry suffering, Crest has been buying up unsold homes of other builders and fixing them up.
The Meadowlark house was one of those purchases, and, after Crest bought it, the company gave the key to a contractor to start renovations.
But when the contractor went to the home Aug. 30, an odd thing happened: The key wouldn't work, said Curtis McCurry, division manager for the Charlotte office of Timberstone.
So McCurry went over to the home. He tried to unlock the door. Nothing.
Once Crest was able to get into the home, the company discovered something that didn't belong there: clothes hanging in the closet and fast-food wrappers in the kitchen.
"There were 'no trespassing' signs put up in the window and they had cut the grass," McCurry said, referring to the home's unwelcome occupants.
So Crest changed the locks. Then, the next day, a vehicle containing Jason Callender, a woman whose identity The Meck Times has not been able to confirm and a child pulled into the driveway. The vehicle was filled with items they apparently planned to move into the two-story home, McCurry said.
What happened next was a first for McCurry and, he said, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers called to the scene.
The family told police that they had filed an "affidavit of adverse possession" with the Mecklenburg County's register of deeds. That document, they said, gave them the right to possess the house.
McCurry was stunned.
"I took the deed from the closing and the HUD statement and showed them I actually do own the house," he said, adding that Crest had inspected the property and researched the title history before the sale, all things a smart purchaser should do.
To McCurry's dismay, police spent hours determining whom the true owner was.
"It was concerning because of the length of time it took for police to sort things out," he said. "I was not getting any direct answers from the police attorney or the register of deeds. The folks at the time didn't understand the process."
In the end, McCurry got his house back.
But David Granberry, Mecklenburg County's register of deeds, said he is familiar with such stories.
Since June, at least three affidavits of adverse possession have been filed with his office, which has been dealing with other questionable paperwork this year, such as that filed by people claiming to be affiliated with the Moorish Science Temple of America.
In the MSTOA cases, which don't appear to have any connection to the affidavit of adverse possession filings, squatters have changed locks and moved into vacant, and often foreclosed, homes after giving illegitimate deeds to registers' offices in Mecklenburg and Union counties. Arrests have been made in connection with those cases.
According to Granberry, it's possible for someone to come to own property in North Carolina through adverse possession, although it's likely they'll get busted for trespassing.
Under state law, if someone uses another's property as their own for 20 years, they can become the owner, he said.
For example, he said, if someone put a shed on another person's property, or staked out a corner for a garden, if the intruder acted for 20 years like the property belonged to them, it could become theirs.
Granberry said there is another option that allows someone to take possession of a property, after seven years, under a "color of title" provision. In such cases, someone appears to have title to a property when actually there is either no title or the title has a defect, or the person might have a title but in reality they have deeded the property to someone else.
Affidavits of adverse possession could be used to show that a claim on a property had been made for 20 years, Granberry said.
It doesn't cost much to file one of the affidavits.
Until Oct. 1, it cost only $17 for a three-page filing. Now the basic filing fee is $26, Granberry said.
"So, file a document for $17, and it's yours," Granberry said. "You're basically admitting to trespassing. Your document is not going to keep the police from throwing you out."
When the Meck Times told Tom Miller, general counsel for the North Carolina Real Estate Commission, about the adverse possession cases in Mecklenburg County, he said they were news to him.
He said the state's adverse possession law would grant the property to a person if they occupied a site "openly and with hostility" — a legal term meaning they would be defending off other claims to the property — for 20 years or, in the case of color of title, for seven years.
"If someone who has been using and claiming the property as though they were the owner, and the rightful owner doesn't step in and stop it, then the adverse possessor gets to have it," Miller said. "His claim becomes superior."
The purpose of the state's adverse possession law is to make sure that property does not go unused and unclaimed, he said.
He said that, in most cases, adverse possession claims are used to clear up longstanding property disputes or for situations in which a property has not been deeded correctly.
That doesn't appear to be the case for one affidavit of adverse possession filed in Granberry's office.
On June 10, Carlos Weathers file an affidavit for 1041-J Churchill Downs Court in Charlotte.
Sgt. Walt Bowling, head of CMPD's financial crimes unit, said Weathers was being evicted from his townhome and knew of a foreclosed townhome just across the parking lot from his old one.
Bowling said Weathers moved his belongings into the home, changed the locks and filed the affidavit.
On Sept. 30, Weathers was arrested for misdemeanor burglary at the foreclosed townhome, which BB&T bank owned.
Bowling said it appeared that police were called to the home a couple of weeks earlier and Weathers showed officers the affidavit of adverse possession. But he was not arrested until police figured out what was going on.
Even the police, it seems, did not know what to do when they saw the affidavit the first time.
"After the call, they (police) followed up and understood what the document was and that it did not give him a right to remain on the property that he had no right to be in," Bowling said.
"An immediate decision whether a person has a right to be there is hard," he said. "Any kind of financial crime, we like to educate people, especially the public. But two weeks from now, it will change to something different. There will be a new twist. It's a constant battle of chasing the next scam."
Weathers has been released from Mecklenburg County Jail on a $1,000 secured bond.
For the Meadowlark property, Callender filed an affidavit Aug. 9 in his name only. Callender also filed an Aug. 2 affidavit with Fatima Callender for a property at 9811 Falling Stream Drive in Charlotte.
Both Callenders, who were not arrested or charged, could not be reached for comment.
McCurry said there was no damage to the Meadowlark home.
But Callender had turned on the power and water, apparently using the affidavit as proof of ownership, McCurry said.
The woman at the home told McCurry that she wanted his company to reimburse her for changing the locks and for the deposit for the utilities, he said.
McCurry said that even when police told Callender and the woman that they had to leave the property, the woman said she had spoken with several people who told her that if they vacated the property they would lose their rights to the home.
"They were very upset about this," McCurry said. "She said, 'Possession is nine-tenths of the law.' I said, 'No, the deed is law.'"
McCurry said the family had a home not far away from Meadowlark.
"They weren't homeless," he said. "They were just moving up."
"This is absolutely the first time I've experienced anything like this," he said. "I heard stories about it on national level, but I haven't known anyone here locally to experience this yet."
Now that the house is void of occupants, Crest Properties is hoping to sell it for $175,000.


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The mother of a 6-year-old Massachusetts girl has been charged with kidnapping after she allegedly abducted her daughter to avoid losing her to state child protective services.
The district attorney overseeing the case said officials believed the girl had been in "immediate danger."
Alize Whipple, 6, was found at a relative's home in Shelby, N.C., Saturday along with her mother Leeanna Wilson, 50, who was stripped of custody of the girl on Friday.
Alize had last been seen boarding a school bus to go home on Wednesday.
Police issued the Amber Alert Friday after the Department of Children and Families went to court to legally take custody of the girl, according to the Fitchburg Police Department. They would not comment on why social services decided to take legal custody of the girl.
Amber Alert Issued for Day-Old Baby Girl
Wilson was charged with kidnapping and reckless endangerment, Worchester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said.
He told ABC affiliate WCVB-TV in Boston that there were allegations of abuse in Wilson's home.
"When she was notified she was going to lose custody of the child, that's when all of this started," Early said in a press conference. "Once this Amber Alert went out we received approximately 100 tips that led us to safe return of this child."
Officials from the state Department of Children and Families decided to move Alize into state custody after visiting Wilson's home on Wednesday, according to WCVB-TV.
"We believed that the child was in imminent danger, that's when the Amber Alert was requested," said Early.
Wilson has other children and Early said she was "known" to the state's Department of Children and Families since the 1990s, according to WCVB-TV.
Alize's step-aunt Debbie Jackson told WCVB-TV that she was happy the pair were "safe" in custody, but questioned why Wilson was charged with kidnapping, since the state did not have legal custody of the girl until Friday.
"You guys went after the fact and went ... got custody of her after she had already gone with the child," Jackson said of the Department of Children and Families.
Jackson also questioned why the Amber Alert was not issued till Friday.
Early said in a press conference the requirements to issue an Amber Alert were not met until Friday.
Alize was with a foster family in North Carolina today and Jackson told WCVB-TV she plans on trying to get custody of the girl.


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1. "Anybody can do this job."
The liquidation business is driven by the four d's: downsizing, death, divorce and debt. With about 10,000 Americans turning 65 each day, boomers account for many of the downsizers. But plenty of other people can find themselves in need of help dumping property — whether they are struggling to fit recently inherited antiques into a tiny apartment, liquidating assets as part of a divorce settlement, staving off creditors, or simply moving across country for a new job. And since the average American home spans some 2,500 square feet (not counting the storage lockers rented by one in 10 U.S. households), emptying one out isn't easily accomplished alone.
Enter the estate liquidator. There are roughly 14,000 estate liquidators in the country, according to Julie Hall, an appraiser and estate expert in Charlotte, N.C., and the executive director of the American Society of Estate Liquidators. Members of that organization must meet certain education or experience requirements and abide by a code of ethics. But most liquidators have no formal training, Hall says. Anyone can set up shop as an estate seller, and plenty of folks who lost their jobs in the recession did just that, she notes.
So how can consumers find a reputable seller amid all the dabblers? There's no regulatory body that oversees the estate liquidation industry and no central repository for complaints. But some basic research can turn up red flags, Hall says: Do a Google search on the name of the liquidator you're considering hiring, check with the local Better Business Bureau for reviews, and ask for references and relevant education. Websites like Angie's List and Yelp can provide additional insight, although the former charges members a fee. And if there's time, insiders say, owners should attend some estate sales run by any potential hires before committing.
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Why is a monad like a writing desk?
A presentation by Carin Meier at Clojure/West. Only time I've been accused of writing poetry. Spotted by Mitch Wand.
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Mo' money, more problems?
More like more money, no sex: More than 50 percent of women polled in a new survey said they'd give up sex for six months if it meant they would save $2,500. Which would mean we value sex at about $100 per week. Just tallying that is making us feel a little like Vivian in Pretty Woman—and not in the best way.
Give up sex for only $2,500 in savings? You're selling yourself short, ladies!
Don't get me wrong, I love a good bargain. (Online sample sale, anyone?) Saving money can be a huge rush, but I wouldn't call it orgasmic. A big wallet just doesn't feel the same as a big youknowwhat.
Call me a dreamer, but I don't think wanting both money and sex (and the occasional online bargain, for that matter) is asking too much.
Tell us: How much money would it take to get you to give up sex?
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Racism affects different races differently. Just because you and your parents choose to not care about race as much as those before you doesn't mean that other races have the same privilege. Those affected most by racism aren't presented with the choice of toning down racism. I'm glad that there are optimistic people like you and your future children, but it seems like (from your post) that you don't get it. That's ok though. The fact of the matter is, racism has been around forever. There are those of us that won't just let it fade away waiting for every White person to take your path.
Racism is a problem for all races. Some races have to live a entire life under the shadow of racism, while others (black, white, other) are privileged enough to only have to live under it in isolated moments.


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Aniara: A Review of Man in Time and Space
Story Line Press, 1999 - Poetry - 157 pages
The great Swedish writer Harry Martinson published his masterpiece, Aniara, during the height of the Cold War - right after the Soviet Union announced that it had exploded the hydrogen bomb. Aniara is the story of a luxurious space ship, loaded with 8,000 evacuees, fleeing an Earth made uninhabitable by Man's technological arrogance. A malfunction knocks the craft off course, taking these would-be Mars colonists on an irreversible journey into deep space. Aniara is a book of prophecy, a panoramic view of humanity's possible fate. It has been translated into seven languages and adapted into a popular avant-garde opera. This volume is the first complete English language version and received the prestigious American Scandinavian Foundation Award.
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