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Amino acids are the 'building blocks' of protein that are integral to muscle development.
Supplementing them helps to maintain your 'amino acid pool' (or stored aminos) throughout the day, alongside protein shakes and your regular meals. The branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) leucine, isoleucine and valine are central to muscle protein synthesis, which is why they're of high importance to any training routine.
Forming part of the essential aminos, the term 'branched-chain' refers to their unique chemical structure. Since our bodies cannot make BCAAs, we need to obtain them from food and supplements. In particular, leucine is said to dominate muscle growth, thus it will often feature in protein shakes to provide further nutritional support.
The function of BCAAs is to help increase both the rate and capacity of muscle protein synthesis. BCAAs also work to reduce muscle breakdown (catabolism), and so they're ideal for use with 'fasted' training – i.e. first thing. They can also help to fight fatigue and improve stamina; it's believed they do this by dominating entry to the brain over tryptophan – the precursor amino to serotonin. Being a neurotransmitter that controls mood, sleep patterns and much more, serotonin can cause a dip in energy levels at unwanted times of the day.
It's been argued that taking BCAAs separately is not necessary, owing to naturally occurring BCAAs in protein foods, whey, and so forth. Whilst intake of such is not to be overlooked, it's important to note that that the BCAAs present in proteins are bound between peptide bonds and other aminos; uptake will be delayed somewhat by the process of digestion.
BCAA supplements contain free-form leucine, isoleucine and valine, which have an ultra-rapid absorption rate and potency. You're likely to get the most benefit if you take them just prior to, during and after exercise. With this in mind, many BCAA products are available as a powder which you simply mix with water to create a delicious and refreshing beverage. Factoring these into your routine introduces a degree of 'damage control', and helps to achieve an anabolic (muscle-building) state. Alternatively, you can get them in capsule of liquid form.
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"My name is Jacob and I recently celebrated my second year in the show," says Pinion. "By my calculations, that's more than 800 performances, dancing and singing to the hits of ABBA!"
"Mamma Mia! is the greatest, most rewarding job I have ever had, but some days it can be hard to get excited. Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and wonder: Can I keep it up or will my performance anxiety get the best of me? Is this the day I shrivel and shrink or will I rise to the challenge?"
"Then I think of the smiling faces of all those fans and the blood starts to pump through me. I can't and I shan't disappoint them. Soon I'm standing tall, firm, peaking through the curtain in anticipation. Every day at the Winter Garden we are having a ball, and twice a week, we have 2 balls. This is one of those days."
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The tenth longest-running show on Broadway, Mamma Mia! has been seen by over 50 million people worldwide and has grossed more than $2 billion at the box office.
The Broadway company is currently headed by Judy McLane, Laurie Veldheer, Felicia Finley, Lauren Cohn, Aaron Lazar, Daniel Cooney, Graham Rowat, Zak Resnick, Thomasina E. Gross, Traci Victoria, Albert Guerzon and Jacob Pinion with Deanna Aguinaga, Sydni Beaudoin, Brent Black, Natalie Bradshaw, Felicity Claire, Allyson Carr, Mark Dancewicz, Stacia Fernandez, Adrienne Jean Fisher, Tony Gonzalez, John Hemphill, Bryan Scott Johnson, Corinne Melançon, Paul Heesang Miller, Christopher Hudson Myers, Jennifer Noth, Elena Ricardo, Gerard Salvador, Lauren Sambataro, Victor Wallace and Blake Whyte.
With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, Mamma Mia! is written by Catherine Johnson and directed by Phyllida Lloyd. The production has choreography by Anthony Van Laast, production design by Mark Thompson, lighting design by Howard Harrison, sound design by Andrew Bruce and Bobby Aitken, and musical supervision, additional material and arrangements by Martin Koch.
As previously reported, Mamma Mia!, which is currently celebrating 12 years on Broadway, will transfer from the Winter Garden Theatre to the Broadhurst Theatre, presently the home of the limited engagement of the late Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy, in late 2013.
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I'm looking for the number of Hamilton cycle decompositions of the labelled complete graph $K_n$ for small $n$. From such a decomposition, we can construct a special type of Latin square (called a row-Hamiltonian Latin square).
Edit: Clearly, we require $n$ to be odd. To ensure that each Hamilton cycle decomposition is counted once, we only include the $n$-cycle permutations $\alpha$ of $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ that have $\alpha(1)<\alpha^{-1}(1)$. We also write the decomposition $\alpha\beta\ldots$ such that $\alpha(1)<\beta(1)<\cdots$.
The count for $n=3$ is $1$ counting (123). The count for $n=5$ is $6$, counting the following: $(12345)(13524)$, $(12354)(13425)$, $(12453)(14325)$, $(12435)(13254)$, $(12543)(14235)$ and $(12534)(13245)$. Assuming my code is correct, the count for $n=7$ is $960$.


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Defense acquisition reform: a case of deja vu.
A proposed acquisition-reform blueprint will result from the work of an expert team that was hand-picked to be part of the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment (DAPA) project. England chartered the group to consider every aspect of acquisition--including requirements, organization, legal foundations (such as Goldwater-Nichols), decision methodology, oversight, checks and balances.
Once England approves the recommendations, they will be sent to Congress in late November.
DAPA faces a tough challenge. Currently, more than 80 new major weapon systems are under development, with a combined cost growth of $300 billion and total acquisition cost of nearly $1.5 trillion.
A recent Government Accountability Office study of 26 major acquisition programs suggests the top five programs have nearly doubled in cost during the last four years--in fact, skyrocketing from $281 billion to $521 billion.
The trend is not abating---estimates of cost growth and development time of these same five programs grew 14.3 percent and 5.5 percent, respectively, in the past year alone, according to GAO.
After more than 20 years of numerous attempts to improve the acquisition system, the perception is that no reforms have addressed systemic weaknesses in structure, process and governance of major weapon systems development.
DAPA cites a number of issues that prompted the Defense Department leadership to take action. One is the perception that the military is not keeping up with a changing world--buying the next generation of what we already have today. Another is a "conspiracy of hope" created by an industry must-win mentality and service advocacy for scarce resources.
DAPA also is concerned about "program demagogy" that results from valuing sunk costs more than future options. Further complicating the Pentagon's ability to manage resources is the practice of stretching out funding to support more and more programs, each at its marginally inefficient rate. The problem of "ever-escalating requirements" also has plagued many defense programs.
NDIA and industry representatives had an opportunity to testify recently at a DAPA public hearing. DAPA's leader is retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, who ran the Missile Defense Agency before retiring from active duty.
Panel members include Gerald W. Abbott, professor of industry studies at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; Frank J. Cappuccio, vice president and general manager of advanced development programs at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics; retired Air Force Gen. Richard E. Hawley, an independent defense industry consultant; retired Army Gen. Paul J. Kern, former commander of the Army Materiel Command, and Donald R. Kozlowski, aerospace industry consultant.
The consensus among top industry leaders is that DAPA faces a huge challenge because it has to fix problems that have existed for many years and have been pinpointed by a plethora of blue-ribbon commissions and reports.
The issues DAPA is addressing fall into the category of "lessons we had already learned." Industry officials who testified at DAPA noted the problem of diffused acquisition authority, which often leaves program managers without the proper tools and authority to do their job. This also makes it difficult to hold anyone accountable when problems arise.
As we have reorganized and fixed problems in the past, we appear to have arrived at an acquisition system with inconsistent and inadequate levels of review and oversight, with "distributed" accountability and a system that lacks critical skills in systems engineering and integration.
The recommendations offered to DAPA in recent hearings include many of the same suggestions that have been offered in years past: Stabilize program funding, improve cost estimating and requirements management, bolster the acquisition corps by creating an independent systems engineering organization within the Defense Department, encourage early industry participation, effectively use performance-based contracts, better recognize risks, and provide proper incentives to contractors. Also, the GAO study referenced above listed three items we need to get right: technical maturity, design stability and stable production processes. These conclusions, again, are not new.
One suggestion well received by DAPA officials is the notion that acquisition accountability should be aligned with the authority that approves requirements and allocates resources. In other words, each service must have oversight authority, execution responsibility and control over resources to get the job done. This is consistent with Title 10 legislation that requires each service to organize, train and equip its forces. It is also in line with a recommendation of a recent report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, titled "Beyond Goldwater-Nichols--Phase 2."
It is worth noting that during the past two decades, the Defense Department has developed acquisition processes that have worked well. Consider: analysis of alternatives for major acquisitions, evolutionary acquisition and spiral development, as well as a code of ethics and standards. Many of the current problems stem from having walked away from what worked well in the past.
What comes through loud and clear from the work DAPA is doing is the need for a disciplined approach to acquisition. Also, the alignment of authority with responsibility will help to ensure accountability--an essential characteristic of effective military organizations.
The inescapable conclusion is that we know how to do it well, and indeed there are programs that are still well managed. The question is whether the procurement system can muster the necessary resolve to get its groove back.
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It is a high speed sata drive.
You can get it upgraded with the warranty intact by contacting the importer and warranty agent HTL at www.hooktech.co.nz Costs $75+gst+freight. You supply the brand new high speed drive and they do the work. At this stage they recommend only 1TB as that is recommended by Magic, but I am sure they would install a 2TB if you insisted.
I am not sure what they can do about transfering files though.
If someone can get this file transfer working without having to pull the cover off each time, we wouldn't have to worry about this :-) given time some genius will get it sorted


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Arctic Monkeys are pleased to announce a run of shows in the United States in January/February 2014. Playing shows in several cities including Miami, Charlotte, Minneapolis, the band will also play their biggest headline show in New York at the legendary Madison Square Gardens on 8th February 2014.
Deerhunter will be special guest support on both the New York & Boston shows.
Tickets go on sale on Friday 8th November at 9am (EST).
Thurs 30th The Fillmore, Miami, FL
Fri 31st Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL
Sat 1st Jannus Live, Saint Petersburg, FL
Mon 3rd The Fillmore, Charlotte, NC
Tues 4th The National, Richmond, VA
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Fri 7th State Theatre, Portland, ME
Sat 8th Madison Square Gardens, New York, NY
Mon 10th Madison Theater, Covington, KY
Tues 11th LC Indoor Pavilion, Columbus, OH
Wed 12th The Fillmore, Detroit, MI
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The plodding US economy had one significant bright spot in the first half of the year—a bustling mergers and acquisitions market that stands a good chance of continuing through the second half.
Though the activity was a bit front-loaded in the first quarter, domestic M&A totaled $584.4 billion through June, the best since the pre-financial crisis days in the first half of 2008 and a 41 percent increase over 2010, according to Dealogic.
A number of individual industries—mining, for one—set records, taking advantage of low financing costs and cheap valuations either to expand their operations or swallow up weaker competitors.
Health care led the way for deals in the US, with $71.6 billion in M&A, led by the $21.5 billion Johnson & Johnson acquisition of Synthes.
With the twin burdens of 9.1 percent unemploymentand anemic gross domestic product growth, keeping a deal-friendly environment going could be key to salvaging economic prospects through the rest of the year.
"Companies are pretty cheap right now," says Randy Warren, chief investment officer at Warren Financial Service, in Exton, Pa. "The valuations are not stretched. They look attractive for acquisition purposes."
To be sure, M&A is no panacea for a sick economy.
Mergers between companies trying to streamline operations are generally not jobs-friendly, so more deals of that sort could exacerbate the jobless problem.
Acquisitions, on the other hand, can help create jobs when one company is looking to expand its operations by buying another in a related industry.
"The firm that has a bigger mousetrap has a bigger bank behind it to allow it to grow," says Steve Blitz, senior economist at ITG Investment Research in New York. "That type of merger becomes additive in terms of employment more quickly. You have that much more capital more quickly."
Should confidence remain low, that would cut into M&A prospects, Blitz says, echoing general concerns about the faltering economy and whether the consensus thesis will hold that the US is in a mere soft patch that will pass with time.
Interestingly, the depressed real estate marketwas the leader in global deal volume for the first half, suggesting that cheap valuations and low cost of capital rather than macroeconomic strength are dictating deal interest.
Real estate saw 1,406 deals worth $152.1 billion, marking the first time the industry ever led the M&A trade as it saw 21 deals with more than $1 billion, according to Dealogic.
Private equity, or "financial sponsor" deals, also were strong, with volume reaching $94.9 billion for the half, up 8 percent from the previous year.
Telecom was the third most popular sector, with $137 billion in volume, and is expected to remain a popular deal sector for the remainder of the year. The biggest first-half deal, in fact, was AT&T's announced $39 billion takeover of rival T-Mobile.
"If you see valuations in particular sectors that look too good to pass up, you'll definitely see some acquisitions and mergers there," Warren says. "It wouldn't be a surprise to see more significant ones in the technology space."
How all that bodes for the broader economy is a less certain call. For all its 2011 strength, M&A had a choppy year.
Volume dropped 20 percent in the second quarter from the first, though May gained 27 percent from April and reversed a two-month slide.
Investors, at least, seem to have enjoyed the M&A climate, pushing the broader market higherand generally rewarding deals with pushes higher not only in individual stocks but also across the major averages.
"Overall there is more confidence in the corporate board room today," Aryeh Bourkoff, head of investment banking at UBS, said in a CNBC interview. "The markets have been rewarding M&A. Investors are saying buybacks are not enough anymore."
Of course, that will depend on making good deals and on costs remaining low, a bit of an uncertain prospect now that the Federal Reserve has left the bond market.
For the economy, though, a strong M&A environment could prove a lynchpin to offsetting the other weaknesses.
"You just have to get the right mix of people involved," Warren says. "Somebody's got to want to move the needle."


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You have to have a great face to pull off this hair. She suits the hair, totally. But this hair on a lesser face would be disastrous. It's a testament to how f-cking pretty she is that she can work her face while working this hair.
These are new photos of Kristen Stewart shopping with Elizabeth Reaser and Nikki Reed and her Ebola infected by association boyfriend Paris Latsis. Looks like Stewart bought something at Spank, a very reasonably priced local clothing store chain with 3 locations – Commercial Drive, 4th Avenue, and Granville. Twi-Hards, click here for Spank's website. The upside to your crazy is that you are good for our city business.
Many of you have written to ask about why Nikki Reed and Elizabeth Reaser hang out so much…
Am told that one of the reasons is that Elizabeth is one of the only cast members who doesn't smoke. Nikki quit recently. As someone who's has a sick twisted love affair with cigarettes for 20 years, I can tell you trying to cut it when everyone around you is doing it is a f-cking evil bitch.
Also attached – photos of Christian Serratos and Michael Welch with his girlfriend also out for some shopping. I need to stop looking at Christian Serratos. It's terrible for the self esteem.
Finally, Bryce Dallas Howard, big smiles, walking with her Starbucks to go.
After a slow week that saw several pap teams vacate Vancouver, there is now a renewed presence in the city as the agencies have once again dispatched their shooters to be in town for the weekend shows. Jackson Rathbone's band plays in a few days, Bobby Long, a friend of Robert Pattinson, performed on Monday, and since the cast has been shooting in studio so often, social outing photos are now the prime target for photogs and fans alike.
More on Jackson Rathbone coming up. And also a few details on filming.
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Nobody Elected to HOF: We Deserve It (Revised)
Well, this is it. Kindly pay your piper. Welcome those chickens coming home to roost. Please enjoy your Hall of Fame Day of Reckoning.
The anecdotal accounts – and an invaluable "exit poll" – foresaw that the Baseball Writers Association of America would elect nobody as part of the class of 2013, and though I grieve for Dale Murphy and Craig Biggio and several others, there is a certain poetic justice to it.
We all knew. The players who used, the players who didn't, the owners who enabled it, we reporters who covered it, we fans who bought tickets and cheered anyway. Some of us didn't want to admit we knew until they went after Bonds and Clemens, or until Canseco's book, or until McGwire's temporal displacement in front of Congress, or until that container of Andro showed up in his locker in '98.
But we knew.
We saw utility infielders popping opposite field home runs and part time guys slapping 20 homers and superstars hitting drives that would have set distance records in golf. We saw before and after photos of the Cansecos and the Bondses and we suspended our disbelief.
We all deserve nobody going into the Hall this year save for Hank O'Day and Jake Ruppert and Deacon White. Only O'Day – in his post-pitching career as an umpire – and the bespectacled White were ever accused even of myopia, let alone actual PED-use.
I am not casting stones from inside the glass house. I'm guilty, too. It was the day they gave the 1986 A.L. Rookie of the Year award to Canseco (whose moral standing in this mess has gradually gone from last place to about 4th from the top because he alone was utterly, if mercenarily, honest). One of the runners-up told me off-the-record "you do know that Canseco uses those drugs they give to the East German Women Swimmers, right?"
He didn't even know they were called steroids.
I did what digging I could, and kept an ear to the ground, but how many sources were enough to tell that story?But in 1988, just after Ben Johnson was thrown out of the Seoul Olympics for a positive steroid test, I got a series of four sources – including some of her opponents – who told me that Florence Griffith-Joyner was just as steeped in scandal as was Johnson. I promptly went out and butchered the story. I was trying to write a revelation that should have sounded like "other Olympic runners say this" and included a recitation of the math that she was now breaking records so profoundly and so quickly that if the pace continued, by the year 2188, a runner would actually finish a race before she started it. Instead, I turned it into something that sounded like "I think she's on them drug things." She and her crew threatened suit, I retracted the story, and not long after Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post had the same experience with his "Canseco Cocktail" story. As well-meaning as we each were in trying to expose the putrid mess, we both set back its revelation by some (presumably small) degree. I'm sorry.
About two months after she got back from Seoul, Flo-Jo, who had promised to sue me and CBS and Carl Lewis (who had made the same charge at a speech at the University of Pennsylvania, on videotape, and then claimed it was off the record), and who had promised to keep running until she won Gold in her "home" Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, abruptly retired. We never heard from their lawyers again. She died in 1998, more than a year shy of her 40th birthday. For the record, I think she too either didn't know – or willingly disbelieved – that there was anything more than perseverance to her unprecedented series of record-breaking performances. I think she suddenly found out, which is where the retirement – and the legal silence – came in. But it's just a guess.
In any event, the next time I tripped over something substantial, I kept it to myself. A pro sports team orthopedist remarked on the sudden devastating, nearly career-ending, bizarre injury to a star baseball player. He said that there were only three ways to accomplish what the guy had done to himself: a hereditary circulatory problem or the repeated injection of anabolic steroids into the same place in the body or a horrific car accident ("By that I mean," he told me, "having a car dropped on top of you from about 25 feet.") Having burned myself on the Flo-Jo thing I was not prepared to repeat the process. And now I knew that there was one baseball star on steroids and maybe another one had just had his career virtually ended by steroids and there were not enough sources to mine and certainly nobody to pool notes with.
And then the bottle of "andro" showed up in McGwire's locker. I can remember that week hearing the late baseball writer Leonard Koppett tell me on my show that nobody cared, that it wasn't cheating, that it was nothing worse than vitamins or maybe, maybe, "greenies." To his eternal credit, the author and former pitcher Jim Bouton not only disagreed, but got it exactly right. Some day, he says in the interview, baseball will have to reckon with years and years of records that will be artificially inflated, distorted beyond all measure, by the effects of a drug that lets you keep working out when the guys next to you – or before you, chronologically – have to drop the barbell. It was Bouton, after all, who had written in the eternal Ball Four that if a pitcher could take a pill that guaranteed him a) 20 wins and b) that he'd die five years sooner, he would've swallowed it before you finished that "b)" part.
So I pushed the Andro story – wrote a piece for Playboy in 1999 in which I picked up both Bouton's point and the fact that baseball was going to lose the breathless charm of "chasing the home run record." I pushed that story and every little hint of the truth dropped over the years, by the late Ken Caminiti, by Canseco, by Curt Schilling. But by then, almost nobody cared. I stood atop the right field corner at Fenway at the Home Run Hitting Contest the night before the 1999 All-Star Game at Fenway and ooed and ahhed with the rest of you as McGwire hit 650-foot blasts beyond the wall at the other side of the ballpark. And I knew it was mostly the drugs and while I could still preserve enough of my own disbelief to know it wasn't real, I could see how the results of the PEDs could be as addictive to the fans and the owners' bottom lines, as the drugs themselves could be the players.
By 2002 I was carrying a printed list of the players I had been told by various sources were "using." Printed out and folded up inside my scorebook. I'd show it to colleagues and team executives and even other players and get confirmations or denials or additions. But I never even emailed it to, nor copied it for, anybody. With delicious irony, the legal rules protected the rule-breakers.
My conscience is relatively clean. I've been yelling about the Emporers' Clothes for more than fourteen years. Yet it literally still keeps me up at night. Did so last night before today's announcement. Biggio will probably get in later, and I think the Veterans' Committee will soon note that Dale Murphy has the same OPS+ as Jim Rice, and was at worst the second or third best hitter of the era that matched his days as a starting player, and the collateral damage to them and the other deserving clean players will be transient. I do think there's something delicious about the fact that the Baseball Writers have never even been consistent about what merits election to Cooperstown, and this time they all had to figure it out at the most complex moment in voting history, and that because none of them was likely to reach the same conclusion, for everybody who voted Bagwell but not Bonds, there was somebody who voted Bonds but not Bagwell, and none of them got in.
But they all deserve that kind of self-abnegating communal shame. As do we. They did it. We watched it. Those of us who didn't care, and those of us who cared but couldn't reveal or stop it, deserve similar if not identical fates.
The path to Steroid Hell was indeed paved with good intentions. And Jim Bouton's pills. And the drugs that he didn't know the name of that the guy told me about 26 years ago that they also gave the East German Women Swimmers. And the stuff we saw with our lying eyes and just pretended wasn't real.
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Wow. Beautifully written, and very compelling. And the photos at the end speak volumes.
This is one of your best posts to date. I can feel the actual pain in your writing about this most unfortunate circumstance that has tainted the most revered sport in America. To know and be helpless to do anything about it, is like watching a train wreck that you cannot prevent or even look away from. And that's exactly what we all did. Not look away from a disaster. Some of us were naïve about it all but now that it has been shown, can do nothing. It doesn't excuse us either.
I love watching these HOF voters squirming in their seats to try to justify their votes for who should be inducted or not. And they trying to substantiate their choices knowing that the numbers have been 'pumped' as well as the athletes themselves were while playing.
It is a shame this happened to a great pastime. Boys always looking up to these players must be disappointed. In a very direct way, I'm glad that there may not be candidates inducted into the Hall of Fame. This behavior should not be rewarded in any way. But knowing the Hall of Fame has to save face, they may just hold their collective noses and place some of them on the roster. What I'd like to see the HOF do is feature them in the back of the building or put them in a separate annex all by themselves and in their own classification of PED assisted records asterisks abound.
It will be interesting to watch the train wreck as it happens. Tomorrow.
It cannot be easy to have written this. But it's important that you did. Thank you.
This needed to be written. We all turned our backs on this stuff. Now both single-season and career home run records are a joke.
well now we can finally have Jose Canseco deported to … Canada the once and future ruler of Toronto!!!
You nailed it, Keith. We're all culpable if we look the other way when something immoral or illegal is going on right in front of us & we choose to do nothing. You at least tried & I give you credit for that. It's a shame that we have come to this. To all of those involved in the sport of baseball who turned a blind eye to what was occurring & tried to cover it up, & are upset at what is happening now, it's simple: you reap what you sow. You share some of the blame. That's why I admire those people who are brave enough to become whistle-blowers even at the risk of becoming outcasts. It takes a backbone & a lot of guts. For the die-hard baseball fans out there, this has to be very disheartening; not only the HOF issue, but the whole subject of tainted baseball stats (who makes the record books & who doesn't?). So thank you, Keith, for this posting. Should be eye-opening for a lot of fans. As always, well done.
Thank you Keith, the previous comment by Sandy was also my first thought; you nailed it. As a Giants Fan I did not want to believe the rumors about Bonds and steroids; I knew that he was a cancer in the clubhouse (just ask Jeff Kent) with all his perks. But, I loved watching those homers. Gradually, I came to look at the evidence (like huge increase in hat size, just one example) and had to admit BONDS CHEATED. Speaking of chickens coming home to roost, The Giants still keep Bonds at arms length. Though, no doubt, the Organization was complicit. Great Diary Keith and THANK YOU again
you arent a giants fan and you dont know barry's hat s ize
Re some voting for Bonds and some for Bagwell, Nate Silver explored this point earlier today and looked at the exact numbers: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/suspicion-of-steroid-use-could-keep-bagwell-and-piazza-out-of-hall/
It looks like the BBWAA got it right, I feel that even though we cannot hold these men to any sort of legal standard, to put them in the HOF is to discredit all the others who did it "clean". And yes, I know about greenies, the racists, and the philanders who are in.
This is a good column, but some of these comments…
Let me get this right…greenies are okay because…why? Ford and Perry and Bunning spitting and scuffing on the ball is okay because…why?
If greenies allowed guys in the 1960s and 1970s to play more often than they "should have," why are their career totals somehow exempt from this moral hand-wringing? How many guys did Bunning or Perry or Lew Burdette or Don Sutton get out by throwing illegal pitches…and then joking about it?
This is nothing but selective morality based on when certain baseball writers grew up. It's easier to tear down someone else's childhood heroes than your own, I guess.
Quick nit: That picture of McGwire and Canseco is from 1997, not 1988. McGwire didn't sprout the goatee until 1992 and Canseco came back to the A's for one season in 1997 — minus his '80s mullet and with an affinity for tanning salons.
This would have been a good column when Gaylord Perry went in the hall.
Kudos, Keith! Ouch, but all we have in this old world is the truth…and it is beautiful, even when it is ugly. Gandhi said that in end, it always WINS! Yipee! Who we are is finally trumping what we do. Yahoo! Who's on first in hell?
"Three things cannot long be hidden; the Sun, The Moon, and the Truth" The Buddah
Keith, what a powerful piece of writing. I don't know how you could stand being powerless and watching cheater after cheater receive honors and kudos that you knew they didn't merit. It must have been like acid in your soul. I also feel sorry for the players who didn't use PEDs and are now tainted because they played in the steroid era.
ya…if only everyone had listened to ko
jeez man…you know that the internets exist and we can check the tapes
is there anything you wont lie about?
Thus do drugs make fools out of us all, whether we indulge or are merely placed in circumstances where those indulging are present.
And as noted, it is silly and self-destructive to ask someone if they are using; they can only answer one way, and as my great-grandmother once remarked, "You have no defense against a liar."
Well, Lance Armstrong is going to be on Oprah; will she offer him redemption or take him to the woodshed the way she did James Frey? I'm hoping for a victory for honesty myself, but in Armstrong's case it's way overdue, and he dishonors the concept with his late-arrival.
The player he references must be Albert Belle
Thank you for saying this. Someone had to
Sorry, Keith, but this is a crock. Leave the steroid shrouded guys aside. Biggio, Raines and Trammell are qualified without question, and Morris is a borderline case. If the writers get this so obviously wrong, they are grotesquely unqualified, and it has nothing to do with who behaved badly or was or wasn't a good journalist or a good caretaker of the game during the Steroid Era.
Beautiful, heartfelt column. I am one of those people who think that personal behavior *outside the game* shouldn't go against you at the HoF but game-related behavior should certainly be a factor. If you had an unfair advantage because you were using drugs, then your records should indeed be suspect. Wish there was better drug testing so the guys who have chosen not to use 'roids have a fair shot.
This is a great blog KO. My major problems with the whole steroid-era discussions are two-fold. First, it appears that the players have taken the brunt of the criticism for the steroid era. Now, I am not saying that they shouldn't take a large amount of blame. What I am saying is that the owners, the broadcasters, the reporters and all profited from the excitement that was generated by the artificial feats of the era. Second, what really bothers me is how some of the reporters, those who either ignored the problem or failed to take any action to further investigate, now cast their self-righteous indignation at not only those who were largely proven to have taken PED's, but also towards those where only rumors exist.
wow, according to tom house, they were using since the 60s…and not just a few players, but a significant number
and yet, the first time crack reporter, keith olbermann ever heard anything about roid use came in the form of some player whispering to him about canseco?
all reporters are hacks
the bbwaa is a huge crock
send the drones in to take care of the hof
And I should believe Tom House why? Nobody had a clue about steroids until the 1976 East German Women's Swim Team. Hate to break it to you Walt, but those were innocent and naive times. It doesn't surprise me at all that KO didn't hear anything about steroids until that day because until the late 80's nobody was even thinking about steroids in baseball, so nobody was looking for them.
Hi Keith,
as this story seems to go on, i wondered if besides all this harder punishment talk something like the south-african truth commissions would be a good way out.
Give the players a way out, get as much info/truth about this era as possible and maybe even make a separate section in the hof that handles this era, because truly it was not only money but also fame that made players corrupt their game. (sorry for bad english).
By the way I miss your show.
They reached for a pill instead of the stars, neither the Hall of Fame nor the record books should accommodate chemically drenched players or achievements. Right now the HOF stands for something special, the immutable immortality of greatness, if these juice frauds get in it will stand for nothing…what would the Best Actress Oscar be worth after Paris Hilton won because they used CGI animation & another actress to actually speak the lines?
Please, please, please do NOT blame the fans in the mess, and assume we knew. I did not have access to *any* of the information you relayed, did not have the advantage of seeing these players up close, and often would see nothing more than 3-4 seconds of a highlight on ESPN. I can't stand when reporters – who had information and sat on it – try to implicate fans too because "well, you could *obviuosly* tell." I enjoyed the HR race, and had no idea it was the result of steroids. Now, knowing what I know, I feel like I was cheated and am mad at everyone involved – players (far and away the most), owners, and the media. But generations of baseball fans were the victims, and please don't EVER lose sight of that!
Great, and a year and a HOF election later, still true.
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Living a Microsoft lifestyle using Apple iOS products - Lync, OneNote, Xbox for iPhone and iPad and more, oh my
Sure, I work for The Man in my day job, but I have an iPhone, a few iPod Touches, and two iPads in my personal mobile life. I have great respect for the Windows Phone 7 UX and I have a Samsung Focus that runs Mango that I swap my SIM into every few months to check out, but I'm invested in the iOS app store enough now that switching doesn't make sense for me. I'm teased by some co-workers and community folks who think I should blindly use only Microsoft products. That's fine. I use what works for me and I encourage you to do the same.
I am, however, a Microsoft Office fan and use OneNote (I switched from Evernote recently when Cloud sync via Skydrive for OneNote become available. I also use Lync (formerly Office Communicator) extensively at work as I'm remote.
Recently Microsoft released Lync for iPhone and iPad (as well as Google Android and Microsoft's Windows Phone). The addition of Lync to my iPhone and iPad was effectively the last link in the chain for me as far as making sure my iPhone was connected to work.
I thought I'd take stock of the Microsoft apps that I'm using on my iOS devices, how they work and how I use them.
Microsoft Lync for iOS
I love Lync. Truly. It's corporate instant messaging, sure, but it's also VOIP, presence information, a company directory and it's integrated nicely with Office 365 and Outlook.
I've got a work phone number in the 425 area code that will simultaneously ring at my 503 mobile phone. Lync on the iPhone will also let me make calls from my 425 number by starting the call from Redmond then calling me immediately. Lync gives me iPhone-style access to my Voice Mail. It's a lot like the Google Voice app, except for Corporate VOIP.
It supports notifications as well and I've sorted it to the top in my iOS5 notification center. It'll keep you signed in for 36 hours and send you notifications as long as you've enabled push notify. If not, it'll run in the background for an hour. There's no reason not to turn on notifications on iOS5 as far as I can see, so 36 hours is fine as I'll be launching it more often than that and keep it alive. Even better, it'll notify you to sign in (relaunch) if you don't go back in within 36 hours. Because the notifications are server-side, there's no battery hit.
There's a complete matrix of what mobile platforms support what in Lync over on TechNet.
Bing for iPhone
It's funny, I mostly Google for Web Pages but after my "give Bing a month" challenge, I use Bing for Movies, Weather, Travel and stuff that isn't web page searching. In fact, right now my home page is actually three tabs: DuckDuckGo, Bing and Google. Then I use the one that will give me the best results.
On the iPhone, Bing is a great app with a lot of depth. On the iPad it's AMAZING. If you have an iPad, no joke, check out the Bing App. You'll be impressed, especially when you realize how long ago it was released. It's innovative UI on the iPad predates the Twitter iPad release.
Bing has a great image search, but it's also got three nice features that use the iPhone camera. It'll search tags and QR Codes, it'll search books and CDs using just cover art, and it'll look at text and auto-OCR (Optical Character Recognition) the text then let you search on it.
Frankly, the real crime here is that Microsoft does tell enough people about these features. Rather than trying to uncomfortably fit "let me Bing that" into popular TV shows, why not just have a main character USE the application for a real world problem and not make it so in your face? The Bing iOS app shines when you just use it.
Here I've pointed it at a book cover and it's found the book then linked me to shopping. In the other screenshot I've pointed it at some text, it recognized it, then I can click the words I want to use to search with. Nice for translating signs or searching for ingredients on menus.
Microsoft OneNote for iPhone and iPad
I recently switched away from Evernote in favor of OneNote because I find OneNote's "freeform" notes more flexible over EverNote's more constrained "bullets and lists." OneNote also integrates nicely with Outlook and Office.
When OneNote added cloud syncing with Windows Live SkyDrive, that was nice as I could use OneNote on multiple machines. Then OneNote for iPhone and iPad came out and I was sold.
OneNote supports up to 500 notes for free and then they charge. I use it a LOT and I'm still only at 180 notes.
They could still stand to improve it on the iPad with ink support but generally, having OneNote and Lync together on my iPhone or iPad along with my mail makes me a pretty good little corporate tool when I'm hanging at the Holiday Inn Omaha.
Xbox for iOS
There's even an Xbox app for iPhone. Madness. You can keep track of Achievements, answer messages, set beacons, but also watch videos and game trailers.
You can even change your avatar's look. Jazz hands!
By the way, there's even a Halo Waypoint app for iPhone.
Other Microsoft apps on iPhone
There's a bunch of other apps from Microsoft on iOS, including:
- Microsoft SkyDrive for iPhone - Exactly that. It's a drive in the Sky. They give you 25 gigs for free. I keep my OneNote files up there for syncing but you can put anything there like photos, documents, etc.
- Kintectimals - A nice tie-in with the actual Xbox game for kids with Kinect. It's really cute on the iPad and actually lets you unlock 5 new cubs from the iOS device that your kids can then use on their Xbox directly.
- Photosynth - This app has been downloaded 4.4 MILLION teams on the iPhone. You kinda have to see it to believe it, but it's kind of a 360 degree panorama on steroids.
- Windows Live Messenger - If this is your IM of choice, they've got that also.
I'm pretty stoked about Microsoft's (apparently) new focus on services being available everywhere, rather than sweating whether someone is using those services on a Microsoft piece of hardware.
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This weekend was purely awesome! It was so much fun to have a lovely, drama free weekend with a few of my favorite girls! I was so lucky to get to use Shea's parents house in the desert and the weather was amazing. Shea has been calling me a good luck charm lately and it seems to be true.
I got some amazing gifts and my favorite one is this lovely bride robe! I can't wait to wear it on SATURDAY!!!!!
We had fun playing game and singing karaoke. It was really fun and relaxing all at one. Le sigh, I want to go back already!
My amazing MOTH who did an absolutely incredible job this whole weekend with planning everything. We got adorable shirts, totes and then hats with everyone's name on it to go with the theme of Boats and Hoes.
I wore a captain hat all weekend long and it was SO cute! I loved the theme and it was so me. Seriously, how cute is all this stuff! I was dying when I saw the totes and it was so fun wearing the shirts all weekend.
The AMAZING pool that we laid out in all day on Saturday. My tan lines are finally all even, so whatever dress I end up in I'll be safe!
Our view for the weekend. The weather was about 98, which is really cool for this time of the year in the desert.
I was drinking Coors Light all weekend long and it was amazing!!! Nothing like tapping the rockies.
Saturday night we went out to the 12th floor lounge at Fantasy Springs and it was so relaxing and nice and not club like which I HATE! It was so great to just hang out and laugh and be silly together. We went downstairs to their "club" aka a dance floor with a plethora of people all shapes and sizes and ages. Everyone kept asking us if we were just off the boat. It was a strange, strange place, which made it that much more hilarious. We danced around and laughed a lot and ended the night back up in the lounge for another drink and headed home.
We also took our obsession with toddlers to tiaras to a new level and practiced our cupcake hands and Shea went all around the dance floor showing everyone how it was done. It was HILARIOUS. We were dying laughing. Sunday we got up and had breakfast and packed up. It was everything I've wanted in a weekend, so relaxing, so much fun and so many laughs. It was seriously great and I'm so thankful for the great girls in my life and everyone who made it out! I can't believe that next weekend will be the big day! I am so excited and can't wait!
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I need to make a button which allows the user to enable or disable bold font, as they are typing away in a JTextField, up to now I have only been able to disable all of the text, not parts of it, or as I would specifically need, the text typed after you have pressed the bold button. I have been advised elsewhere to try to use HTML with <b> </b> but this does not seem to work. Does anybody know how to get the HTML code working in java or a better way of getting the result I need?
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Lacey was never a people person, every day she would sit alone. But then what happens when she meets 5 new boys? She then starts to take things further with Harry.....
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BlackBerry Prepares to Slash Its Workforce, and More
What's News: BlackBerry gets ready to cut up to 40% of its workforce. Dozens are missing in Mexico, and 80 were killed after twin tropical storms caused flooding and a mudslide. Pope Francis warns that the Catholic Church is focusing too much on divisive issues. Sara Murray reports. Photo: AP
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... the Chinese has the chance to work for ... this is what's news I'm WS J last I'm there ... the struggling smartphone maker gets ready to cut up to forty per cent of its employees ... sources say layoffs that BlackBerry will come in waves and affect all departments ... several thousand workers are expected to lose their jobs ... the cuts come as the filmmaker tries to rein in costs and shrink its operations ... to compete with the likes of Apple and Samsung ... BlackBerry's market share has shrunk to just three per cent of the U S smartphone market ... down from fourteen percent of the market just two years ago ... and that is that people may sing in a small town in southern Mexico ... that's the aftermath of twenty five Clarence a tropical storm a new law and breaking grand ... the sickies in Mexico and cause a mudslide last weekend ... across the country to eighty people are dead ... and thousands insurance remained stranded in the resort city of Acapulco which is still flat ... to make matters worse even more brains are on the way ... the Catholic Church needs to balance device rolls unforeseen employees and contraception ... or risk falling like House of Cards ... that's the vision Pope Francis lays out the church in an interview in an Italian Jesuit magazine ... in the twelve thousand word article ... the Pope says the church to be a merciful and welcoming place for all ... and he laments that the church sometimes gets caught up in small minded rules ... it comes to an easing of a different set of priorities compared his predecessors ... and it sure reverberate in the U S ... bishops here are already Disney differences has a camera and teachings on abortion and sexuality ... we'll keep you posted on all the latest news developments the rapid day on what's news I'm WS J last ... I'm Sara Murray ...


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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- ABC has given a third season order to its much-ballyhooed comedy "Happy Endings."
The pickup - confirmed via a network spokesperson - means all four series from the Alphabet's fall Wednesday lineup, which includes "The Middle," "Suburgatory" and "Modern Family," will return.
Among its ratings accomplishments: "Happy Endings" was the scripted leader in its time period for 17 consecutive original episodes (10/5/11-3/14/12, i.e. when it followed "Modern Family" originals) among adults 18-34 and women 18-34.
[UPDATED! 12:39 PM] Deadline.com indicates the show's pickup is for 22 episodes next season.


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This collection documents the founding, flourishing and eventual closing of the Presbyterian School of Nursing, a hospital-based nursing school in Philadelphia. The hospital itself was founded in 1871 under the sponsorship of the Presbyterian Church. Its nurse training program was begun in 1889. The collection's strength is the relative completeness of student records, good documentation of the school's curricula and teaching materials. The supportive role both the Ladies Aid Society and the Alumni Association played in the growth of the School are evident in these records.


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Thanksgiving is a time for sharing, and that's exactly what Instagram users did, giving Instagram it's most shared photos ever.
Over at the Instagram blog, the social network reported that over 10 million Thanksgiving specific photos where shared yesterday. The post didn't mention previous statistics, but it did provide a graph detailing the hour by hour photo traffic it received. The majority of photos came in around noon, averaging out to over 200 photos shared every second.
In it's post, Instagram stated, "We're thrilled to see people use Instagram to share their holidays. Whether celebrating with friends and family or sharing photos with them halfway across the globe, we're excited to see the intimacy and immediacy of the Instagram experience bring us all closer together over this holiday season."
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Sending "Lettrs" In the Digital Age
A new website called Lettrs looks to re-create personal letter-setting for the digital age. AllThingsD's Lauren Goode reports.
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Back to keep Cooper out of Blue Jays camp
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Blue Jays first baseman David Cooper is out indefinitely with a back injury, and he will not be reporting to Spring Training this year.
Cooper is set to visit a back specialist in the near future, but there is no timetable for his return; surgery has not yet been ruled out. It appears as though the injury is severe, and it could put his 2013 season into question.
The 26-year-old Cooper injured his back late last August and was unable to return before the end of the season. At the time, it was suggested that the injury resided in his upper back and neck area, but the recent diagnosis is linked to another spot.
"It's a disc in the middle of his back," manager John Gibbons said. "I don't know all the specifics, but it's in a tough area to treat and heal. It's going to be longer than we were hoping. It's serious."
Cooper was not expected to break camp with the Blue Jays this spring but the latest setback still represents a major blow to the club's overall depth.
The native of California appeared in 45 games at the big league level last season, posting a .300 average and a .788 on-base plus slugging percentage. He was set to begin the year at Triple-A Buffalo but would have been the first player called up if either Edwin Encarnacion or Adam Lind sustained an injury.
"He's a good player in the organization -- sooner or later, you'd figure he was going to help us out one way or another," Gibbons said. "You always look at guy's career, too. A guy's back, that threw a wrench in it for him personally now. Hopefully, he heals quickly."


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A life of crime ain't easy, baby.
Take the Money and RunScotland in the mid-'80s didn't exist on gaming's radar, but that didn't stop full-time student David Jones from taking a half-done, spare time project – side-scrolling shooter Menace, written on his Commodore Amiga – into a PC expo to show it around and get some feedback. He walked out with multiple offers. Jones picked Psygnosis mostly because at two hundred miles away, the Liverpool-based publisher was the closest of the bunch.
There weren't any local developers to hire on with, so Jones founded one to facilitate his "hobby" while finishing up a computer science degree. DMA Design (for Direct Mind Access) delivered Menace in 1987 and won praise for its polished gameplay. After a second successful shooter, Blood Money, hobby shifted to career. DMA started hiring.
A throwaway test animation of tiny men marching to their explosive doom, created by programmer Mike Dailly, soon inspired DMA's first powerhouse franchise. Lemmings was a puzzler with a sadistic streak, selling more units on its first day than Menace and Blood Money ever had combined. Sequels and dozens of ports occupied DMA for years. Jones and company settled into the Lemmings business, only dropping two non-Lemming titles in-between to stay fresh.
Before the pattern fully set in, circumstances nudged Jones to break all his old habits. Sony bought out Psygnosis, his one and only publisher, and Commodore's bankruptcy announcement sunk the Amiga, his primary platform. After completing small but admired Uniracers for the SNES, DMA accepted an invite to join Midway, LucasArts and Rare on Nintendo's content "Dream Team" for the upcoming Ultra 64 console. Jones had a new home. He went to work on an exclusive launch title, Body Harvest, DMA's first 3D effort, and it did things a little differently from those other Nintendo games. You played an armed and armored soldier in a free-roaming mission to save humanity from hungry alien carnivores, able to jump into any vehicle you found. Less fortunate humans, whether they fell to invaders, careless driving or over-aggressive marksmanship, died screaming in a haze of 64-bit blood.
It didn't get a pass from Nintendo EAD lead Shigeru Miyamoto. Mario's creator wanted more puzzles, less gore.
Jones' opinion differed. The aggressively over-the-top gameplay and open-world environments fit like personally tailored brass knuckles. It needed more, not different. Body Harvest fell off Nintendo's schedule (to be picked up years later by Midway), but DMA was already moving on a newer, better project. Programming had an engine that simulated a top-down cityscape, and centering the camera on a moving object gave it a incredible sense of speed. Jones quickly dreamed up a cops-and-robbers chase game around that dynamic, set in a living, breathing city where the player could go anywhere and do anything. Then he got bold: The player wouldn't be the cop.
The core problem remained. If Nintendo objected to occasionally splattering the odd civilian, no way would they ever accept the criminal activities on Jones' mind. He needed a new publisher...somebody willing to piss a few people off.
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Sam and Dan Houser were the prep school sons of a London jazz club owner, but their addiction was East Coast rap and America's growing hip-hop movement. Looking to break in, they took jobs at BMG Music, scouting and signing British acts to sub-labels and hunting for ways up the ladder. When a video game division launched in 1993, they jumped to BMG Interactive with big, big plans. If music had a culture, gaming did, too, and the Housers – with zero development experience between them – decided that culture was mad, bad, and dangerous to know. Their product would reflect the attitude and sell a lifestyle around it.
Unfortunately, game developers didn't get the memo. BMG releases like Exhumed and Off-World Interceptor Extreme, both for the poorly performing Sega Saturn, didn't exactly live up to the Housers' vision of unimaginable coolness.
Then David Jones pitched them a PC game called Race-n-Chase.
The 2D graphics sucked by late-'90s standards, but the pure scope of the thing chumped every other game on the market. You played a petty thug making a grab for the big time in the criminal underworld, boosting cars at will and bopping through contract murders, aggravated assaults and chained collateral damage for handsome rewards. Almost any car could be stolen, and a Porsche handled differently from a truck. More importantly, the world responded to your choices, especially the bad ones. Creating armed mayhem in the streets led to increased police response as your Wanted level rose, until you were killed or busted...unless you gave them the greasy slip. If you screwed up a little, the game didn't end; you had to deal with the problem you created for yourself. Advancement was all about scoring cash, and you could do that any way you wanted. Deliver a drug shipment on time. Mug a few citizens on the street. Mow down Hare Krishna for a fat bonus, Death Race 2000-style.
All that freedom carried a price. Players could go anywhere in Liberty City, Vice City or San Andreas, on foot or behind the wheel, and do – or not do – anything they wanted in totally unexpected ways. DMA had to plan and execute contingences for emergent gameplay, something none of them had ever seen, much less coded for. Jones originally scheduled an 18-month development cycle. It took 30 to finish.
As far as the Housers were concerned, they'd just discovered the New World. Here was a mature game with a sick sense of humor, something for anybody who'd outgrown plumbers and Pac-Men and pixelated spaceships. They instantly signed Race-n-Chase, and immediately changed its name. Grand Theft Auto roared into town in 1997 on a solid wave of controversy.
British, German and French officials condemned it before a single unit sold. Brazil banned it outright. There were no aliens, elves, dragons, ninja or princesses to soften the blow; GTA spooled out in the real world – or a stylized super-mafia version of it – loaded with 200 missions that encouraged all kinds of antisocial behavior. Losing Johnny Law usually meant dropping a few badges in your way, sometimes with a flamethrower. One mission involved car-bombing a police station. And at any point, a player could simply step out of his stolen vehicle and start blasting away, challenging the authorities to bring ever-increasing levels of force to stop the rampage. In Grand Theft Auto, consequences followed actions. That was half the fun.
Gamers tore in. Non-linear play was old news, but GTA's early sandbox freedoms easily made backdated graphics acceptable, and if every adult in the world hated and feared what GTA represented, so much the better.
Finally, BMG Interactive had their hit. Sam and Dan Houser had their mean streets lifestyle to sell. Critics had their rally point against the evils of video games.


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Inland Emperor John Weeks has taken time out from his busy schedule to inform us all of some of his favorite vegetarian eateries.
His proclamation can be found here.
It's a pretty good primer if you, like me, occasionally like to dip a toe into the veggie food pool.
So far, I've only been to a pair of the restaurants on his list, though — Veggie Era in Upland and the Patio Pantry at Loma Linda Market.
I'd also recommend Native Foods in Palm Springs or Rancho Mirage.
Most of these eateries offer meat substitutes that, if you didn't know what you were eating, you would swear you were eating meat. Veggie Era, for instance, has a delicious lemongrass chicken…that's chicken-free, of course.
So, carnivores, don't be afraid to step out and go veggie today.


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Planet Racer
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This is a one on one drag racing game based in space. You will be given a small sum of money and a basic car, You will go from planet to planet to challenge others to a race. First race all the not to experienced drivers before moving onto the professionals. You will get paid for every race you win. Before you begin a race you can go to the shop and garage to upgrade your vehicle. You can buy better tyres, nitrus, fix your damage etc. This is one of the best RACING GAMES in the universe.
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