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Nation's Longest Win Streak at 6
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Wearing an enormous No. 1 target on their backs was tough enough. Watching a senior teammate go down with an injury just 16 seconds into the game could have primed the Bulldogs' struggling opponent for a major upset. Instead, the No. 1 Yale men's hockey team used both to motivate it to a 3-0 win over Vermont in front of a third straight sellout crowd at Ingalls Rink.
The Bulldogs (11-1), who own the nation's longest (6) active win streak, got 32 saves and a second straight shutout from senior goalie Ryan Rondeau and two goals from senior forward Chris Cahill to help avenge a loss to the Catamounts (1-8-4) last year at Burlington. Andrew Miller, who had the other goal, and Brian O'Neill each had two points in Yale's last game before a three-week break for exams and the holidays.
"We've had a target on our backs since midway through my freshman year," said O'Neill, who thinks the Elis are accustomed to playing under pressure. "It's cool being No. 1 but the only thing that matters is getting to the [NCAA] tournament and hopefully winning it."
Yale lost Jeff Anderson to an injury and scrambled to get its typical offensive flow. The Elis, outshot (32-30) for the first time this year, rallied with great defense and hit the net three times over the last 40 minutes.
Rondeau, whose scoreless streak reached 135 minutes and 23 seconds, became the first Bulldog netminder to notch consecutive shutouts since Alex Westlund blanked Cornell (11-0) and Colgate (2-0) at the Whale on Feb. 6-7, 1998.
"I felt like my positioning was solid today, but my rebound control was a little suspect," said Rondeau, who is 10-0 this year and is now ranked fourth in the country in goals against (1.70) and save percentage (.935). "The defense did a good job of boxing out and keeping them on the outside."
The Bulldogs had a 10-8 edge in shots over the first 20 minutes but neither team found the net. A Yale man-advantage produced a few close chances but there were few grade-A chances overall. The big bodies of the UVM defense (6 averaging 213 pounds, all but one 6-foot-2 or taller) clogged the slot and made it tough for Eli skaters to create space.
Meanwhile, Vermont goalie Rob Madore (27 saves) was making big stops on Yale's second power-play opportunity early in the second. Two of the biggest stops came later on Broc Little. On one of them, Yale's top scorer came in alone after a nifty Colin Dueck feed and tried to slip a shot five-hole, but the junior netminder closed his legs in time.
The home team finally broke through at 10:24 of the middle frame during a delayed penalty. With a pair of orange-striped arms in the air and the Yale goalie on the bench, captain Jimmy Martin sent the puck across to Miller at the left point and the sophomore center rifled a slap shot off the left post and behind Madore for his fourth of the year.
UVM, blanked for the second time this year, came within inches of the equalizer on its first man-advantage when a shot from the point hit the post and dangled dangerously behind Rondeau before he covered up.
A five-minute major penalty gave the Elis' power-play unit another chance, and Yale used it to get a hard-working tally and a 2-0 lead six minutes into the third. Madore stopped a point-blank Cahill shot, but the juicy rebound was there for the senior to notch his seventh goal of the year.
Rondeau, who had 16 saves in the third, took over from there. His biggest saves of the night came early in final period during a 4-on-4 and then late when UVM pulled its goalie.
The extra skater did not work. Cahill's empty-netter from mid ice with 15 seconds left clinched the victory and sent the crowd home with one last roar.
"We've been more focused on defense and protecting leads, but we are not sitting back," said senior forward Denny Kearney.
O'Neill added some perspective to that thought. "We get a lot of publicity for our offense, but our defense is playing very well."
BULLDOG BITES: Yale is off for three weeks and next plays at home on Dec. 29 against a Russian Touring Team. That night the Elis will be without head coach Keith Allain, who is serving as head coach of the U.S. Junior National Team at the World Championships in Buffalo, N.Y... This was Yale's first win over UVM since 2003.
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Grand Theft Auto V Delayed: What We Know So Far
Grand Theft Auto V, initially scheduled to hit shelves in Spring 2013, has been pushed back to September 17, 2013. The news comes from the official Rockstar games website.
Here is what else we know:
- Rockstar games knows this release is four months later than originally planned but "it will be worth the extra time."
- Rockstar admitted in the press release that Grand Theft Auto V is a complex game that "needs a little more polish."
- Rockstar hopes fans will accept their apologies regarding the GTA V push back.
- Take-Two Interactive, the parent company to Rockstar Games, is trading lower on the stock market according to Forbes because of the news.
- This isn't the first push back for the game that was originally scheduled to hit in March 2013
- Max Payne 3, L.A. Noire and Red Dead Redemption were all May releases as well and all were huge games for the publisher.
- There are still strong rumors that a PC version of the game will be released.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior Zach Kabelac (Potomac, Md.) added another honor to his impressive resume with his selection to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-New England North Second Team. He is the first player to receive this accolade since 2006 and 16th overall in the history of the MIT men's soccer program.
A four-time first team NEWMAC All-Conference award winner, Kabelac finished his career tied for second in goals (40), third in points (97), and fifth in assists (17). As the team leader in goals (eight), points (19), and game-winning goals (four), he closed the season tied for sixth in the NEWMAC in goals and points while tying for second in game-winning goals.


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JT Lambert Intermediate students showed their creativity with science that helped advance them into this weekend's statewide competition.
J.T. Lambert Intermediate students showed their creativity with science that helped advance them into this weekend's statewide competition.
Among the projects, they played a duet on PVC pipe drums that they constructed to be perfectly on pitch, built a boomilever out of balsa and bass wood that can support more than 500 times its own weight, and designed a helicopter out of balsa, mylar ad music wire, to fly and remain aloft for more than two minutes on rubber band power.
These are among the 23 science challenges taken on by the school's Science Olympiad team, which has spent countless after-school and Saturday hours preparing for the rigorous academic state-level competition, being held today at Juniata College. Fifteen students in grades six to eight excelled at regionals held at the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus last month, earning myriad first- and second-place finishes, and will now compete in the middle school "B" division.
Each student can compete in a maximum of four events. They range from building working machines and weight-bearing bridges to written knowledge exams and on-site problem solving.
"Most of the events have two students competing," explained Sheila Bove, science and gifted support teacher at J.T. Lambert, who has been coaching Science Olympiad for 12 years. "Mission Impossible and Experimental Design each have three people. And we can bring two students to do trial events — Geologic Mapping and Green Generation."
Before becoming a teacher, Bove worked as an exploration geologist, locating oil drilling sites. The maps she saved have proven useful for familiarizing team members with geologic mapping.
Using simple machines
Mission Impossible uses simple machines to complete a given task. Students recently decided to use K'nex to get higher lift, connecting the circuitry to assemble a small battery-powered motor.
"It's kind of like a chain reaction," sixth-grader Michael Sezen said. "You start with dropping a quarter "� finally, it lifts a platform that goes over the entire device. It all takes about three seconds. A longer time is better. We're trying to get it closer to 60 seconds."
One of the trickier events — "Write It, Do It" — requires a student to study a given design and write detailed instructions for a second student to re-create.
"Then the writers leave the room and they take away the model," said eighth-grader Stephanie Sezen, older sister of Michael. He is partners with her on the project that they also work on at home. "You're not allowed to look at or talk to your partner (while exchanging places in the room)," Stephanie said. "Then the doers enter the room and are given mixed materials — legos, K'nex, marshmallows, pipe cleaners — and they build the model."
Then there's the Sound of Music project.
"Sound of Music required us to come up with a design for an instrument," said Carissa Root, who is competing in the category with fellow eighth-grader Johanna Herb. "We decided on PVC pipe drums. Once we got those built, we chose our songs, and now it's a matter of practicing (playing). The scientific part of it has to do with how the instrument makes the sounds and the scientific principles behind it."
The pair finished first in their category in regionals.
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Mousetrap Vehicle, yet another building event, requires students to design a simple vehicle powered by two mousetraps. The time challenge is to get the vehicle to accelerate quickly and travel a distance of eight to 12 meters. Making accurate predictions and calculations before and during competition is key, as eighth-graders Nick Frassinelli and Kasie Berkowitz know, having placed second at regionals.
In Keep the Heat, students construct a box in which they'll house a given quantity of water heated to between 60 and 90 degrees Celsius. They have to predict the water temperature at the end of the elapsed time in the insulated box. Points are awarded for heat retention as well as accuracy in prediction.
"The competition is two parts," explains sixth-grader Austin Possinger, who along with Frassinelli placed third at a recent science invitational. "We have to take a (written) test about thermodynamics — heat and how it moves. For the second part, you build a device inside a box that can insulate a beaker of water. We create graphs from data (trial runs) so at the competition we can pretty accurately predict temperatures. Ours is insulated with felt and polyester batting and cardboard, lined with wax paper to protect the wood box from moisture."
Building levers
In Boomilever, students create a boomilever, attached to a wall by one or two mounting bolts; a gradually increased load is suspended from its end, with the goal to build as light a lever as possible, to support the most weight for its mass.
Michael Sezen and sixth-grader Anum Khawaja have each built — and snapped — more than 10 boomilevers in the course of prepping for competitions. The two took first place at regionals.
"It's called destructive testing," explained assistant coach Lachlan Peeke, also a guidance counselor at J.T. Lambert. Peeke's sons, Lachie and Charlie, compete in the same event for the East Stroudsburg South High School team. "It takes about four hours to build it really well, and maybe two minutes to crack it (during testing)."
"One of the big challenges is how do you get 15 kids to cover all the events," Peeke said. "As a team, you can't become complacent, because the events change. Over the last few years, we went from Elevated Bridges to Towers and now to Boomilevers. It will eventually go back to Elevated Bridges, but the rules will change. It gives lots of opportunities for the kids to develop skills they wouldn't otherwise get in the classroom."
Received a grant
This year, the JTL team was awarded a $2,100 Summer of Innovation grant through NAS, to encourage student involvement in STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The grant helped the school to afford supplies for the building projects and to sponsor several Saturday building events last fall as an introduction to any interested students.
"The events rotate every year, so it's somewhat new each year, and prevents any one team from having an advantage over the others," Bove said. "They become friends with kids from other teams. We stay at the same hotel for competitions and Science Olympiad has a website where the kids can chat online with other kids.
"It's great to see students that work hard and then experience success," Bove said. "State is much more intense competition; you're not the only team improving."
On the Competition Team are Kasie Berkowitz, Gaby Bonnar, Marissa Farrell, Nick Frassinelli, Li Ling Goldston, Johanna Herb, Adam Khawaja, Anum Khawaja, Ugochi Onwuka, Powell Posten, Austin Possinger, Carissa Root, Michael Sezen, Stephanie Sezen and Alyssa Sukra. Additional students who are club members and meet when they can to help their classmates practice and prepare for competition include Shaun Jorstad, Taylor Juszynski, Samuel Kang, Cooper Libby, Lily McHugh, Julia Olivencia, Audrey Rooth and Mark Wang.


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I just talked to Davie. Right now, there is plenty of availability. What time did you want to play? 10am is probably earliest I can do. I can do later also. I'll should try to get back to them quickly. I'll messg you my cell & regular email.
I'm in Berkeley, south of the campus in the ElmwoodRockridge area. I play at Davie a lot & can probably reserve a court there, but that's kind of a drive for you. Albany would be about 1/2 way between us. Did you mean the courts @ Albany High? I could play at noon or later if that works and you think we could get a court. If you don't think we're likely to get a court there, I'm not familiar w/the others you mentioned, but my preference would be whatever is nearer to Berkeley. Thanks.
Hi Rick,
I can't make it tomorrow. I could hit on Friday at that time (5:30-7) or Saturday 10am or later. Do either of those work? If not, it will have to wait until after 6/29 as I'll be out of town.
Hi Rick,
I'm rated 3.5. I'd like to think a pretty strong 3.5 edging into 4.0 territory, but that may be wishful thinking. My guess is you'd be best off/happiest with a strong 4.0 partner, but if you want to hit and see if we'd make a good team we could give it a shot.
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by SuperginraiX » Thu Dec 31, 2009 8:25 pm
Wait, what? What did I say? I seem to be pissing people off and provoking them without trying or meaning to lately.
Regardless, the two posts I've had in this threat previously weren't meant to offend AT ALL. If they did, I apologize. They were meant as playful banter but context is lost on the internet. Maybe I should use more smileys.
by Eric Ratcliffe » Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:11 pm
Okay, that was good. The last line sells it.
by Eric Ratcliffe » Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:23 pm
No chance in hell.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:44 am
Personally, my favorite part was referring to thefourthman as "a known loser."
by prozacman » Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:38 amNot my actually entry but I thought I would post The short lived Geekoverse web comics by my friend Tom Day. http://geekoverse.webs.com/
by Old Man » Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:09 pmI asked my LCS to order me some Web comics, and they said they weren't available in print form. WTF?
by thefourthman » Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:12 pm
there are plenty that are...
Girl Genius has 8 trades available. Zuda's Bayou and High Moon both have one volume out. The Devil's Panties is on volume 3. Wondermark currently has two volumes. Achewood has 2 or 3. Dreamland Chronicles has four or five currently available. Freakangels has 3 available. Penny Arcade even has a couple of collections available.
by thefourthman » Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:22 pmSidewise
Written by Dwight L. MacPherson
Illustrated by Igor Noronha
Adam Graham, a 15 year old, activates his parent's time machine and goes back in time. He doesn't just go backwards though; he goes sidewise into a parallel universe. Now the date is 1902 and Queen Victoria's preserved brain has a tight grip on London. Graham is saved by Tesla who leads the SteampunX and a fun adventure begins.
First of all, Macpherson and Noronha should be complimented on the concept. This is Doctor Who meets the best Steampunk has to offer. It should be a lot of fun and truthfully, it is. Giant robot contraptions with historically brains at the control, the minister of compliance is none other than Moriarty, Tesla leads a rag tag group with agents named Wells and Fawkes. It has all the ear marks of a kid's version of A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
That is also its biggest problem. Despite the critical acclaim Moore's Literary Adventure gets, it rings false to this reader. There is a disconnect in the story telling and how cool the idea is. Much like the more recognized work, Sidewise suffers from its own ideas. MacPherson is so quick to fill the panels with everything cool about the parallel history that he forgets to connect the dots. It feels like Final Crisis, big ideas with a lack of big execution. Granted, it is only 21 pages in and still heavy on exposition, it is possible that when it is 80+ pages in it will settle into a groove as opposed to a concept.
Noronha's art is just as mixed a bag. The design work is somewhere in between a more traditional American Animation style (think a refined Mr. Magoo) and the aesthetic of manga. This seems to be a bridge between older characters and younger, but it is a problem and makes for a clunky panel regardless of the remarkable consistency of the line work. However, he does a remarkable job with the kinetic chaos of the script. It feels exciting, even if it forgets to make sense here or there. The colors are dynamic and probably the most overall accomplished unit of the whole.
Sidewise is full of potential. It screams PX!, Doctor Who, and Steampunk but falls short of the awesomeness of any of its influences. Fortunately, this is a comic that is not even at the full issue mark by the industry standard and if this were the first issue of a monthly publication, there is enough good to make me check out the second, here is hoping that its potential can be realized.
Story 6 (gets a whole extra point for having a super cool premise)
Art 5
The Zuda reader is baffling. Evidently, the artists are allowed to work at their own pace. I believe this book produces a page a week, others come in four or eight page installments a month. The freedom is a great thing, but the interface does not work differently for each comic. Instead it advances everything at one page; or ten pages; or from to the beginning or end. Given that none of the books are released in ten page installments, it means that getting to the page you are on is a pain in the ass and even though there is a membership for commenting, there is no bookmark system. Other then that it is smooth, nice looking and works well with any size screen (especially in the full screen mode) and its controls are familiar and intuitive.
Interface - 7
Overall - 6
by thefourthman » Fri Jan 01, 2010 2:34 pmCan't wait to be told by Punchy and Amlah that the interface has no bearing on the quality of the book.
by Kerny » Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:23 pmDr. McNinja
I don't know much about this, but after reading, I might have to get familiar. The parts I read had a remote controlled goat shooting heat lasers out his eyes,ninjas vs pirates, some funny dialouge, and good, clean art.
All that adds up to some entertaining reading
a 8 out of 10
by thefourthman » Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:27 pm
that sounds awesome and like you would enjoy PX! - which is one of my personal favorite webcomics : http://www.pxcomic.com/
by Kerny » Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:30 pm
Looks pretty cool, really like the art style
by SuperginraiX » Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:10 pm
If they do, they're totally wrong. It affects the quality of the read for certain. I'm a big fan of simple buttons on the top and bottom of a comic that'll direct you to the first comic, previous comic, next comic, and last comic. Comics that you don't have to scroll through just need on of these.
And now I wonder what kind of interface Blud Blood has.
by SuperginraiX » Fri Jan 01, 2010 5:47 pm8-Bit Theater
By Brian Clevinger
8-Bit Theater is one of the many sprite based comics that were popular in the late 1999's and early 2000's. Unlike most of those, it was actually good (or got good over time) and survived. You could also blame this on the dedication of the creator who has managed to stick with this comic for a good nine years with only minor breaks. Brian Clevinger has a clever sense of humor that usually includes twisted logic and crazy comic science.
The plot of 8-Bit Theater loosely follows the game Final Fantasy and the main characters are four of the selectable class characters from that game. The main cast includes many cliches that have become common in web comics over the past years. At one time, every fantasy based comic NEEDED to include the dumb as rocks swordsman with a heart of gold and this comic is no exception. The same goes with having a main character that can see through most of the idiocy of being a video game character. Cliches abound but, at this point, part of the comedy happens by playing against those cliches. It's all held together by being genuinely hilarious.
The art... well it's a sprite comic. You're not going to see fantastic angles or a huge selection of character poses. Clevinger does do a lot with special effects and has manipulated the sprites in fairly original ways but, at the end of the day, it's still based mostly on Final Fantasy graphics.
Here's a few samples if they work:
If not, enjoy the red x's.
All in all, 8-bit Theater is something I look forward to every week. It's currently on a small break (I think Clevinger is in the middle of a move but, since I usually don't read status updates, I could be wrong) and I await it's return. The comic has been winding down to some sort of ending but it's been doing that for a good portion of 2009. If there's one thing 8-bit Theater can do, it's milk a scene for all it's worth.
8-Bit Theater gets a solid 9. It even has a good navigation panel. Sold!
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Wait is Demoman dead? Or severely injured?
Colette wrote:Instead, they hit a mass of mechanical, unfeeling Mass-Produced Frigates. If Briktoid's IR337l could laugh, it would have.
Bereft of using her main weapon, Admiral Payton became a little distraught.
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"What kind of a space battle is this!?" bitterly lamented an Assyrian gunner down below. "These invincible, unkillable littles shites! They bring in a force somewhat close to one hundred times the size of ours! And most of it is cheap cannon fodder. Let the Great Triangle damn the Third Alliance, then Briktoid, then Akkadia. And RIN and Trattoria while we're at it too!"
Colette wrote:The interior of the TURD was cramped, lacking in creature comforts, and all-around, utilitarian.
At least, that was what the enigmatic Commander NightOwl noted. He was at the helm of his own personal TURD, leading a force of Geraldden mercenaries.
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The mercenaries nodded grimly- the lure of riches and women had attracted them to the offer, but they soon realized even their entire mercenary company couldn't hold a candle to the forces they were facing in a war they were thrown into. They were fighting in the biggest city of the country that spends more than almost the rest of the brik-verse combined on military expenditures.
Soon, the TURD crashed through some skyscraper or other, with a loud crunch of metal and brick underneath. The access doors opened, and immediately the first few Geralddens were blown away by a tank shell. An Assyrian Artemis light tank, now painted white with a black AN logo on its turret, was reloading and preparing to fire another shot.
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Choosing a dog for your family can be an exciting experience. All those loving eyes looking your way, just waiting to be chosen for their forever home. But choosing the dog breed that is best for you and your family can be tricky, and few things are more important in pet parenting.
Dogs breeds vary greatly in size, temperament, and needs (such as dogs that don't shed), and you'll want to share your life with a dog who will thrive in your environment and with your family. According to the ASPCA, millions of animals are given to shelters every year because a family's needs don't match those of the pet. Set yourselves up for success by learning more about the dogs you're interested in.
Remember that every dog is different, and so your greatest resource will be the shelter or breeder you're buying from. Ask lots of questions! And if a specific doggie personality would be a dealbreaker for you, consider adopting an older dog, since their behaviors and needs will be much easier to discern than those of a new puppy.
Take a look at some of the best dog breeds for different lifestyles.
If you're looking for a hiking buddy, hunting partner, or camping mate, take a look at these dogs that love the outdoors. They may even help to keep you in shape!
If you're a globe-trotter, consider getting a dog that will love traveling with you. These breeds are great adapters to new situations, and will be well-heeled in no time.
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Initially there were no lights, no mess halls, and no recreation areas on Pavuvu, as well as no adequate supply of fresh food. The menu was officially called "B," which in fact was like a warmed version of "C" rations — the minimum sustenance. Bathing was done naked in the open with hopes both lathering and rinsing could be completed before the fickle rains that supplied the shower ended. The island also lacked adequate training space, particularly after firing ranges were established. Maneuvers of units larger than a company inevitably overlapped terrain occupied by some essential function created by the Marines.
Then there were the rats and land crabs. Rodent raiders seemed to mass at night for close-order drill across tent tops. When they became bored, they fell out with squeals to scamper down the sides and ropes. Great ingenuity went to devising means of rat control, from individual traps to on one occasion a mass flamethrower hunt. The rats at least evoked some grudging respect for their nerves and agility; the slimy land crabs provoked nothing but disgust.
"You could almost hear the noise that loneliness made as it came crashing through the grove at sunset," noted the division historian. Anyone who sought solitude at night was recognized as sick. Instead, with rituals that would have filled the notebooks of an eager anthropologist, Marines organized themselves into small groups of friends. The one great shared recreation was an ad hoc movie amphitheater. Hollywood's best and worst enjoyed equally avid attendees. When well-proportioned actresses appeared, the projectionists learned to halt the film and back it up to reshow the scene three and sometime four times.
Veterans retained just one joyful memory of Pavuvu: Comedian Bob Hope made an extraordinary effort to put on a show there for them they never forgot.


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Current rock-bottom mortgage interest rates make it a buyer's market in most of the country, but there's more good news for homebuyers: their money will also go further.
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Buyers can get a four-bedroom house in many parts of the U.S. and it won't cost them more than $200,000, according to a new home prices survey by real estate firm Coldwell Banker.
"In 35% of all the markets in this survey the average price for a four-bedroom home is under $200,000," says Budge Huskey, president and chief executive of Coldwell Banker. "When you look at interest rates where they are today: with a $200,000 home purchase you are looking at a monthly mortgage of around $1,000."
While the idea of buying a four bedroom, two bathroom home seems unimaginable to buyers hit hard by the economy, they might be able to afford more than they think.
According to Coldwell data, many of these affordable houses exist right outside the most expensive markets in the country like Lake Elsinore, Calif. A house in Lake Elsinore costs around $193,000; homes located just an hour inland in Newport Beach price around $1.66 million.
States with four-bedroom homes for less than $200,000 include Arkansas where the average price is $186,767, Texas at $186,144, Georgia at $169,625 and Oklahoma at $182,765.
If $200,000 is out of your budget, you can still purchase a starter home in these areas for less than $60,500. According to the pricing survey, buyers can get a starter home from $60,490 in Redford, Mich., which is the lowest price in the survey, all the way up to $97,886 in Maricopa, Ariz.
The economic crisis took its toll on Michigan, and despite the reignited auto industry providing a nice boost, home prices still remain relatively cheap in the state. Four of the top 20 most affordable markets are in Michigan, even though bidding wars are breaking out in the metro-Detroit region. Take Redford for example: Despite its close proximity to Detroit and Ann Arbor, home buyers can still get a house for relatively cheap.
Rounding out the top five most affordable cities to buy a home are College Park, Ga. (average price $62,080), Detroit (average price $65,155), Cleveland average price $70,066) and Poinciana, Fla. (average price $76,341).
Affordability may be the name of the game in many parts of the country, but there are still some markets commanding high prices. Indeed, the Coldwell survey found a listing price difference of more than $1.6 million between the most expensive and most affordable markets.
In years past, the priciest houses were located in areas like Beverley Hills or Palm Beach, but the this latest survey shows the top five expensive markets centered in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay area, hotbeds for the technology sector.
"It's simply indicative of the economic impact of technology," says Huskey. "In areas such as Menlo Park and Palo Alto, these are within 10 or 15 minutes of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)." These pricey homes aren't being used as second homes but are primary residences and are a product of demand, and according to Huskey, there's "understated wealth" and a community feel in those markets. "They are centers of economic growth. They continued to be strong during the recession as it related to the economy and job creation."
The top five most expensive housing markets, according to Coldwell, were:
Los Altos, Calif. where homes go for $1,706,688
Newport Beach where the average home price is $1,658,000
Saratoga which came in at $1,582,434
Menlo Park where homes go for $1,506,909
Palo Alto where the average price is $1,495,364.
Even though California is home to very expensive markets it wasn't the priciest state to buy a home. The average listing price for a four bedroom, two baths home was $742,551 in Hawaii and $489,063 in Massachusetts, both of which are more expensive than the average of $431,625 in California.


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John Mellencamp: The Internet Is An Atomic Bomb For Music
from the that-radioactivity-may-have-gone-to-your-brain dept
That's a funny sort of "destroyed" industry, and a funny sort of atomic bomb. The music industry appears to be absolutely thriving. It's true that the selling music business may be having some trouble, but that's not the music industry. So why does the press simply take the obviously false claims of folks like John Mellencamp and repeat them? Aren't journalists supposed to point out when people say things that are false?
Either way, this isn't the first time Mellencamp has made this sorts of claims. Last year, he wrote an article about the mythical good old days of the music industry, where apparently his success came from the ground up -- as compared to today... when it's all top down. Of course, that made us scratch our heads, because Mellencamp was a major label artist, who benefited tremendously from major label (i.e., top down) promotions. And that was fine. Because there was no bottom up option in those days for most artists. Yet, today, we hear about totally independent artists building successful bottom up careers all the time. So, once again, it seems like Mellencamp has a view of the industry that might sound good from where he's sitting, but don't seem to reflect reality.


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jameszol necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
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I'm a former home security technician turned web marketer. I love art, artsy websites, creativity on the web.
The target audience for this landing page is the general home owner consumer. I would say the following would fit my ideal audience per Google's Ad Planner (awesome for demographic profiling btw):
Male - 41%
Female - 59%
Majority of audience is 35 - 60 years old
Household Income Range: $50,000 - $75,000 annually
Majority of audience has some college or a bachelor's degree
My opinion on what the audience is looking for emotionally: Comfort, Peace of Mind, Control, Safety and Security. They want to feel welcomed, well taken care of and they want to trust somebody with their security system needs.
I LOVE creativity. The only limitations to this design project are the following:
I really like the overall layout of imgur.com/T4YHd.jpg for a one page layout. I do not want a clone of this site in any way...I simply like the layout.
+Small but nice header with simple text or whatever you envision that says "My Home Security Site"
+Directly below the header, there should be a big focus on the banner/call to action/arrow that points toward the right sidebar
+2 Columns below the header/banner
+Left column roughly 2x+ the width of the right sidebar
+Right sidebar (3 Step Deals will go here for my home security services)
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I like simple designs and colors but am open to creative designs!
My biggest requirement: I want a person to naturally see the page and instantly be drawn to my 3 step solution in the right sidebar. I will be particularly interested in this 'eye tracking' by design. Influence the user with color, creativity, stock photos...anything.


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The First Nations Environmental Network - is a national organization of individuals, non-profit groups and Nations who are actively working on environmental issues.
Many of our members have worked on environmental issues for over 20 years, people like Guujaw, now President of the Haida Nation. Elders such as Joe Iron, who led the longest blockade in the history of North America to prevent clear cutting in his territory in Northern Saskatchewan and Lorraine Sinclair who helped found FNEN in the 80's; these are some of the special people who formed this network . It includes the Innu Nation, the Barriere Lake people, the Chief of the Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia who has fought the fouling of the waters and land by Pulp Mills in his territory and people like Larry House from the Cree Nation who took a canoe down the Hudson River to highlight their concerns about Quebec Hydro and managed to stop the damming of the Great Whale River.
There are many more who have changed the course of history here in Canada and who are continuing to do so....out of a heartfelt need to take action to stop the further destruction of our Mother Earth and to ensure a safe and healthy, sustaining future for us all.
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Cameron Diaz & Alex Rodriguez Split
It's over for Cameron Diaz and Alex Rodriguez.
Rumors recently surfaced that the 39-year-old actress and 36-year-old Yankee star had split, but Alex confirmed the breakup, telling People he has "a lot of love for Cameron. We'll always be friends."
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A source also told the mag that "the decision to call it quits was mutual."
"They have considerable respect for each other," explained the source about Cameron and Alex, who dated for a year and a half.


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The Rev. Dr. Robin Steinke came to Luther Seminary as president in June 2014. She is the first woman in the 145-year history of the seminary to be named to the position.
Prior to coming to Luther Seminary, Steinke was the dean of the seminary and professor of theological ethics and public life at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, where she served from 1999. She previously served as an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) pastor; a training manager and financial planner at American Express Financial Advisors; and a middle school band director in Marietta, Ga. Steinke is a graduate of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D. She holds a Master of Divinity and a Master of Sacred Theology from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in England.
Steinke is known for her strategic leadership and passion for sharing the gospel. She is involved in a number of important church and academic initiatives. She is currently co-chairing the national ELCA Theological Education Advisory Council that is evaluating and exploring the future of theological education. She serves as the ELCA Representative to the Lutheran World Federation Council and chairs their Endowment Fund. She is a member of the ELCA Ecclesiology Task Force and serves on a number of other church and academic committees. She previously served a six-year term as a commissioner for the Association of Theological Schools' Commission on Accrediting.
On Oct. 12, 2014, the Luther Seminary community celebrated the inauguration of Robin J. Steinke at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church in Apple Valley, Minn. ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton presided.


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Though it may be hard to believe, chipmunks can become little terrors to your garden or lawn. Research indicates that the main reason chipmunks will bother our bulbs and new plantings is because they detect the human smell and consider it an invasion of their territory.
If you spend many hours each week perfecting your garden only to have chipmunks eat all your handiwork, you certainly want effective means of Bug Control Near Me West Point GA ridding yourself of these critters. Below are some non-lethal ideas that have proven effective for me over the years.
1. Planting garlic, marigolds, and aromatic herbs in your garden will usually deter most animals and insects, including chipmunks.
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3. Another aromatic option is to mix 1 tbs. of lemon ammonia with 1 tbs. dishwashing soap in one gallon of water. Spray your garden liberally every few days for a couple of weeks. Not only will the smell prove offensive to the animals, but it will also deter insects.
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Muppet Maestros: The Beatles
On July 6, 1957 a 15 year old named Paul McCartney went to a church picnic. Local band "The Quarrymen" was playing the song "Come and Go With Me." What caught Paul's attention was the lead singer didn't know the actual lyrics to the song, so he was substituting words from old blues tunes. "Come on baby come and go with me, down down to the penitentiary." Afterwards Paul introduced himself to the singer, 16 year old John Lennon. Paul played "Twenty Flight Rock" and John was impressed that Paul got all of the difficult lyrics right. The miracle of that day is 16 year old John Lennon had enough ambition and self-confidence to get past his own ego, and invite McCartney, a considerably stronger musician, into the band. Paul would bring his younger friend from school, George Harrison, into the band. And in 1962 they brought in Ringo Starr on the drums.
If you want to hear the rest of THAT story I'd recommend renting "The Beatles Anthology." Fast forward to 1969. In September 1969 John Lennon announced that he wanted out of the band. Although the breakup would not be official until seven months later.
John and Yoko Ono went to the United States, and John became obsessed with the brand new show Sesame Street. Sesame Street, particularly in its first season, would feature a lot of Beatles songs including: "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "All Together Now," "Yellow Submarine," "Octupus' Garden," and "Help!" John's favorite part of the show was Cookie Monster. In his 1970 album, "Plastic Ono Band," on the song "Hold On" at one point you can hear him shout "COOKIE!" Ringo, who was the drummer for that song, later shouts "Cookie" himself on his song "Early 1970" about his relationships with the other ex-Beatles. Later, when John was interviewed by a man named Bert, he launched into a Bert and Ernie impression.
During the Muppets' year long stint on Saturday Night Live, the characters from the Land of Gorch sang parts of Beatles songs as part of the ongoing joke that Lorne Michaels was trying to book the Beatles on the show. The famous picture of George Harrison with a Kermit doll on his head is claimed to be taken from when he was on the Saturday Night Live set.
The Muppet Show had a plethora of Beatles covers: "Octopus' Garden" (a popular song with the Muppets, as they also did it on Sesame Street and The Ed Sullivan Show) featuring Robin, Kermit (in a bathing cap), Animal, and a Miss Piggy Mermaid, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with an especially strong Jerry Nelson vocal from Floyd, "In My Life" featuring Twiggy and a slide show of her career, "Good Day Sunshine" which morphed into "Dancing in the Dark" when the lights went out... and many many others. According to a Jerry Nelson interview, they tried to get Paul McCartney to host, but McCartney insisted that his band had to be there as well, and the cost proved to be too high.
Sesame Street has also done a number of Beatles parodies over the year, mostly with the parody band The Sesame Street Beetles. The first was "Letter B" by Chris Cerf and featuring Richard Hunt on vocals. I imagine there are a lot of you out there who have heard the song "Let It Be" and started singing "Letter B" along to it. That was followed by "Thinking of U" and "Hey Food", which had Cookie Monster on vocals. (I imagine John Lennon would have been especially delighted about that last one.) Sesame Street also had a parody called "A Little Yelp From My Friends."
In 2002, at Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, Paul McCartney sang "Hey Jude" with a group of celebrities behind him, including Kermit the Frog. You can view that performance, as well as several of the Muppets' Beatle covers and parodies on our Muppet Mindset playlist:
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Great article! As a diehard Muppet fan and Beatle fan since I was 4, I love the various connections the Muppets have with the Beatles' music. One reference you left out though: In the beginning monologue for John Lennon's solo song "Steppin' Out" he again mentions Sesame Street as follows: This here's the story about a house husbandReplyDelete
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The San Diego Zoo named their latest little one, and HOO BOY IS SHE A KEEPER. In keeping with Chinese tradition, Xiao Liwu received his name — which means "little gift" and is pronounced "sshyaoww-lee-woo" — upon becoming 100 days old. There were over 7,000 name submissions, and it was selected by popular vote of zoo patrons and Chinese officials. Team work!
According to Raw Story:
Born July 29, Xiao Liwu is the record-setting sixth cub born to 21-year-old Bai Yun, giving the San Diego facility the largest array of giant pandas in captivity, as part of a loan agreement with the Chinese government. As part of the program, most of his siblings have been taken back to China after turning 3 years old. Xiao Liwu and another of Bai Yun's offspring, 3-year-old Yun Zi ("Son of cloud") are the only cubs currently in San Diego.
You can even watch Xiao Liwu on the PANDA CAM (!!!) but it makes me a little sad because she doesn't really have much room. What's up with the teeny tiny enclosure? There's now a hole in my heart where all my baby panda love should go, and it's filled with sadness. Ugh, gonna have to go look at all the baby pandas in the world, one by one, to feel alive again. BABY PANDAS I LOVE YOU!!
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I just got back from ICDM (the IEEE conference on Data Mining). Data mining conferences are quite different from theory conferences (and much more similar to ML or DB conferences): there are numerous satellite events (workshops, tutorials and panels in this case), many more people (551 for ICDM, and that's on the smaller side), and a wide variety of papers that range from SODA-ish results to user studies and industrial case studies.
While your typical data mining paper is still a string of techniques cobbled together without rhyme or reason (anyone for spectral manifold-based correlation clustering with outliers using MapReduce?), there are some general themes that might be of interest to an outside viewer. What I'd like to highlight here is a trend (that I hope grows) in negative results.
It's not particularly hard to invent a new method for doing data mining. It's much harder to show why certain methods will fail, or why certain models don't make sense. But in my view, the latter is exactly what the field needs in order to give it a strong inferential foundation to build on (I'll note here that I'm talking specifically about data mining, NOT machine learning - the difference between the two is left for another post).
In the interest of brevity, I'll break this trend down in three posts. The first result I want to highlight isn't even quite a result, and isn't even from ICDM ! It's actually from KDD 2011 (back in August this year). The paper is Leakage in Data Mining: Formulation, Detection, and Avoidance, by Shachar Kaufman, Saharon Rosset, and Claudia Perlich, and got the Best Paper Award at KDD this year.
The problem they examine is "leakage", or the phenomenon that even in a 'train model and test model" framework, it is possible for valuable information to "leak" from the test data or even from other sources to the training system, making a learned model look surprisingly effective and even give it predictive powers beyond what it really can do. Obviously, the problem is that when such models are then applied to new data, their performance is worse than expected, compared to a model that wasn't "cheating" in this way.
They cite a number of examples, including many that come from the data challenges that have become all the rage. The examples highlight different kinds of leakage, including "seeing the future", cross contamination of data from other data sets, and even leakage by omission, where a well-intentioned process of anonymization actually leaks data about the trend being analyzed.
While there are no results of any kind (experimental or theoretical), the authors lay out a good taxonomy of common ways in which leakage can happen, and describe ways of avoiding leakage (when you have control over the data) and detecting it (when you don't). What makes their paper really strong is that they illustrate this with specific examples from recent data challenges, explaining how the leakage occurs, and how the winners took advantage of this leakage explicitly or implicitly.
There are no quick and dirty fixes for these problems: ultimately, leakage can even happen through bad modelling, and sometimes modellers fail to remove leaky data because they're trying to encourage competitors to build good predictive models. Ironically, it is this encouragement that can lead to less predictive models on truly novel data. But the paper makes a strong argument that the way we collect data and use it to analyze our algorithms is fundamentally flawed, and this is especially true for the more sophisticated (and mysterious) algorithms that might be learning models through complex exploitation of the trained data.
It remains to be seen whether the recommendations of this paper will be picked up, or if there will be more followup work along these lines. I hope it does.


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Interviewing someone is a tricky business. By tricky I mean downright difficult. Particularly if that person is 17,000kms away, and on the other end of a dodgy mobile connection, with a Boston accent. And a musician's temperament.
The ancient art of the interview should be old hat for this girl. Back when I was meant to be into strawberry-scented 'My little ponies' and rainbow-embossed Care Bears, I was, instead, wielding one end of a skipping rope handle and interrogating anyone who'd yield; moonlighting as Jennifer Keyte and publishing the articles in our family newsletter 'Boundy Union Monthly' (created by me, read mostly by me). 12 years later, my first real job was interviewing patients with severe psychosis in a hospital ward in Liverpool, and I spent a large chunk of my twenties interviewing everyone from doctors to small children and their MGB (Main Grocery Buying) mothers, often in a group setting, attempting to penetrate the minds of consumers. I've interviewed scientists on live radio and drug addicts connected to EEG machines. But that's all child's play compared to the telephone interview with someone vaguely famous or talented. It turns out that in these conditions I turn into a flirty, breathless mess with absolutely no regard for the formal protocol of the time-honoured interview modus operandi.
Groupie magazine was the first publication I pitched to as part of this experiment, the first to publish an article of mine, and has been a regular source of writing jobs since – unpaid alas, but the contra in free gigs and festivals has more than sort of made up for it. An unexpected-but-not-altogether-unpleasant-by-product of having a semi-regular gig is the chance to write about stuff you'd never think to pitch, and the opportunity to talk to people you'd never otherwise meet.
For instance, until a few months ago, I thought Aussie Hip Hop was merely a blight on our musical horizon, an offensive assault on the senses that had me reaching for the mute button every time on JJJ. But after interviewing the lovely young, philanthropic, and incredibly charming Pez, I was converted, to the tune of iTunes and a credit card payment. I'd never heard of young soulster Eli "Paperboy" Reed until the chance to interview him from his couch in New York (sans pants) nor spunky 60s all-girl outfit 'The Like' and both are now on high rotation. But upon listening to the recordings of each interview to write up the story, a few things became embarrassingly clear. Aside from a couple of mortifying gaffs* I realised most of the interview was me giggling and wanting to converse and share my own anecdotes as though it was a chat with a old mate, rather than an interview with a clear goal of a good story at the end.
Here are a couple of things I've learnt over the past few months when conducting a phone interview, which I'm slowly learning to put into practice:
- Listen. Listen until they stop talking and then listen a bit more. Don't be afraid of pauses and feel the need to fill them with reassurances ("yes, I know the feeling!) and more questions… this is often when they'll keep talking and fill the space with the juicy stuff. Because this medium lacks the body-language cues of the face-to-face interview, this is really the only way you know the interviewee is finished.
- Probe. If the interview goes off track or you hear something interesting, explore it. This can often provide the colour for a story.
- Challenge, especially if something contradicts a point you've read or heard about them. New angles and controversy are what differentiates your story from the press release everyone got
- Recap and clarify, particularly on an interesting point. A few times I felt silly asking what they meant (assuming I'd look like a bit of a twat) but missed out on a really interesting point that I couldn't use in the article for lack of context
- Have a list of some interesting questions (beyond the usual stuff) at your disposal – a) because sometimes they can be fairly monosyllabic and run out of material and b) it usually makes a more interesting story
- Don't try to befriend them, revere them or laugh at all their jokes. You've both got a job to do, and if nothing else, there's nothing more torturous than having to hear your own sycophantic cackle played back when transcribing notes.
Which is a timely segue to the most important point – record it! Put the phone on speaker and record it on your iPhone Voice Memo, or computer if you're using your mobile (you can use Garage Band on a Mac or Sound recorder on a PC, or download free software such as audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) for this very purpose). Attempting to reread your hieroglyphics of notes or get a quote right from a few scribbles is both impossible and potentially dangerous (did someone say litigation?) and not having to take notes frees you up to be present in the conversation.
Looking forward to putting these into practice next interview (unless of course the Editor reads this and sacks me on the basis I'm not quite the music aficionado I once claimed).
* such as asking the lead singer of 'The Like' if she was going to put her hand in the 'last shadow puppets' herself in a dream collaboration, without realising they were actually a prominent HUMAN band, led by Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, and not, in fact, puppets at all.


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From QoS to QoE: A Fundamental Change in Focus
By Steven Shepard, Contributing Columnist
I've been thinking a lot lately about evolution. Not the Darwinian type, nor even the evolution of business (such a common theme today among business strategists), but rather about the evolution of the market — and most specifically about the changing demands of the market as its choices become richer and more varied in the face of remarkable technological change.
Since 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid into his lap, causing him to call out to his colleague, "Come here Watson, I need you," thus starting the communications revolution that would change the world (Watson unexpectedly heard Bell's voice through the speaker on the device they had invented), telephone companies have prided themselves on the quality of the service they have offered to their customers.
Over the years they have come up with a host of quantitative measures to determine the degree to which they have reached their desired levels of delivered quality, including Mean Time Between Failures, Mean Time to Repair, Delay, Jitter, Percentage of Packets Lost, Hold Time, Five Nines of Reliability, Carrier-Grade Service, Toll-Quality Voice, and so on. These are excellent measures of network performance, yielding significant insight into the operational efficiency of the network.
Quality Metrics: An Outside-In Perspective
These measures are important, but they do have one flaw: They are exclusively inward-looking. They examine network performance, which is only one half of an increasingly important equation — and the reason that most service providers are now shifting their focus from quality-of-service (QoS) to quality-of-experience (QoE).
QoE is an interesting metric, because it is exclusively outward-looking — meaning that it is a customer-focused measure, rather than a network-oriented one. Customers really don't care about the inner workings of network performance, nor should they have to. Increasingly, particularly in light of the much more media-rich services that service providers are being asked to transport, QoE is the coin of the telecom realm. It is, however, fraught with complexity.
Whereas QoS is sublimely easy to gauge — it is, after all, a numerical measure of some aspect of network performance — QoE is an entirely different beast. How do we measure, "Was it good for me?" This is the challenge that the industry faces today, and it is a serious and significant one, particularly in the mobile space.
The most obvious measure we have, of course, is subscriber churn rate: After all, if a customer fails to receive the level of service that they expect, if they fail to have a memorable experience when engaging with the network, they will vote with their wallets and leave, taking their spend to a different carrier — because they can.
This is the challenge that lies before the modern telecom service provider. Today, network traffic is growing at a precipitous rate and is becoming increasingly media-intensive thanks to the popularity of such free services as iTunes, YouTube, Pandora, and others. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, by 2015 (that's four years away), total network traffic will exceed 7 million terabytes — that's a seven followed by 18 zeroes — and more than 65% of that will be video.
As a consequence, the revenue-per-transported bit is in sharp decline, which means that service providers must find other ways to make up the difference if they wish to remain profitable.
Progressive ICT Policies Include All Stakeholders
One of the biggest challenges they face in the U.S. (and, to a large extent, in other developed nations) is the fact that they are operating under a regulatory structure that was conceived and put into place in 1996, with few changes since. Let's take a moment to examine what DIDN'T exist in 1996, starting with the Internet.
OK, it existed, but had only been in the public domain for a few years. What definitely did not exist was iTunes, YouTube, Yahoo!, NetFlix, Pandora, Slacker Radio, or Google. So what we now have is an industry that is governed by a regulatory model that is woefully inadequate, resulting in the regulatory equivalent of bringing a knife to a gunfight.
Change is needed, and it can't come soon enough. Everybody deserves a place at the telecom table, and a well thought-out regulatory regime will help a great deal. Furthermore, customers will accept nothing less than a rich experience; we owe it to them.
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Standard - 4.1.1 has the following text:
display A string value that can be none, popup, or mobile. prompt A space delimited list that can contain login, consent, and select_account.
It does not explain how and when the values are to be used. It should point to the messages spec for the explanation.
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From Draft 4 ( http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-standard-1_0.html#code_flow) , both "display" and "prompt" are refering Messages.
Those parameter in Message (Draft 04) looks being described well.
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MARTINSVILLE, Va. -- Who is Mr. Martinsville now?
Jeff Gordon once appeared to own sole possession of that title, but he ceded it to Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jimmie Johnson several years ago. Gordon took a large step toward reclaiming it Sunday when he earned his first win of the season, and the eighth of his career at Martinsville Speedway, by capturing the Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500 powered by Kroger.
Gordon made what proved to be the winning pass on Matt Kenseth with 21 laps to go and held off the rest of the field for the victory. It moved him into third place in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings, 27 points behind Matt Kenseth and Johnson, who are now tied for first with three races remaining in the season (Kenseth owns the tiebreaker).
"I'm just so proud of my team for never giving up. We've shown it all year long and we've been through a lot. But this is making it all worth it, to get this huge win at Martinsville," Gordon said in Victory Lane. "Man, what a great race car."
Kenseth was attempting to win for the first time in 28 career starts at Martinsville, where he typically has struggled.
"Jeff's experience got me. I just don't have that much experience running up front here," Kenseth said. "I had something that was working, but I was hurting the rear tires and ended up hurting the front tires, too."
Johnson, who also has eight career wins at Martinsville, finished fifth. He said he wasn't surprised Kenseth bucked past history and tightened the Chase points race.
"It's been a great battle with the 20 car (driven by Kenseth) and the 24 team (of Gordon) has shown it wants to be a part of the championship battle as well," said Johnson, who owned a four-point advantage heading into Sunday's race. "It's going to be a fight to the end. It's what I want to see and I know it's what the fans want to see, too. We'll keep digging hard."
Kenseth appeared in command but ended up barely holding off Clint Bowyer to finish second after Gordon made his nifty pass to the inside going into Turn 1 on Lap 479 of the 500-lap event. He and Johnson spent much of the day sparring, trying different strategies as numerous cautions -- a total of 17 for 111 laps in all -- continued to mount on the only short track on the 10-race Chase schedule.
At times, Johnson and Kenseth took turns running up front. Then one would fall back, only to rally again.
Gordon, meanwhile, kept lurking in the vicinity of the Chase leaders. Now he can be called one of them, as he at least injected himself into the championship conversation heading to Texas.
"I think anyone within a race (or 43 points of the lead) is still in it," Kenseth said.
Using that criteria, that would also include Kevin Harvick, who is in fourth and 27 points back; and Kyle Busch, who is in fifth and 36 back heading into next Sunday's race at Texas Motor Speedway.
It appeared heading into Martinsville that Johnson would have a huge advantage over Kenseth at the storied paper clip, where NASCAR races have been held since 1949. While Johnson entered with eight career wins, 16 top-fives and 20 top-10s in 23 career starts at the track, Kenseth had never won and had registered only three top-five and eight top-10 finishes in 27 career starts. To put it in even better perspective, Johnson entered the day having led a total of 2,327 laps in his career at Martinsville; Kenseth had led a total of 169 out of more than 13,000 laps he had run there.
Those numbers meant nothing when it came right down to it Sunday.
Kenseth said that Kasey Kahne, another of Gordon's teammates at Hendrick Motorsports, helped Gordon catch him.
"When the 5 (driven by Kahne) blocked us in there or whatever, we lost a lot of momentum and Jeff got to me. From that moment on, I had a hard time holding him off," Kenseth said. "All the lapped cars up until that point were so courteous and you could roll right by them."
Regardless, Gordon was stalking Kenseth for several laps and carefully plotting his course of action.
"I was thinking, 'What would Jimmie Johnson do?' Or better yet, 'What would Richard Petty do?' "Gordon said. "The tires really went away on us there at the end. I knew his car was good on the short runs, and he was putting together a really good run. But every time I saw him slip a tire, I just tried to conserve my tires and drive real straight into the corner and off the corner. … I finally started seeing where he was struggling on the exit (from the corners). I dove in there a couple times and couldn't make (the pass).
"Matt really drove a first-class race. I didn't know if we were going to get him. But it was awesome when we finally did."


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The Environment Agency's warning for the River Thames from Days Lock down to South Stoke, including Dorchester-on-Thames and Overy, Shillingford, Benson, Wallingford, North Stoke and Moulsford was lifted yesterday.
But as the Oxford Mail went to press last night, a similar warning, which means flooding is expected, was still in place for the River Thames and tributaries at Sandford and Radley near Abingdon. It is now the only one in Oxfordshire.
Architect Ralph Saull, 24, from Abingdon, was cycling to work on Friday morning when he snapped this abandoned car surrounded by flood water in Sandford Lane, Kennington.
The 24-year-old architect said: "I find it quite incredible that he didn't look at the stretch of water ahead of him and think 'maybe not'."
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by Punchy » Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:08 pm
I said as much in my review. I didn't like it, but I'm sure I would have if I'd read the other issues.
by fieldy snuts » Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:26 pmConsidering how good most of the other issues of Detective were, #881 dropped the ball. it was rushed, the mixed artwork was weird and the way it was all wrapped up was contrived with Batman popping up out of nowhere in what was mostly a Jim Gordon story.
Thinking of how to review this but I'll just say that I hated the opening Arkham scene so much along with the 'Joker' reveal. That was one of the most contrived ways to sucker in a read I've ever seen. Everything else is mostly character building for this setting, but god Capullo's art goes from average to downright terrible back and forth this entire issue.
Snyder's finally slipping. I knew it was only a matter of time till he hit the same rut's that Spencer and Hickman hit in their meteoric rises from indy sensations to mainstream writers and this is it.
Hate me for saying it, but this really is the beginning of the Snydelash.
by Comic_Doctor » Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:27 pmI quite enjoyed Batman #1 from Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. Like the other DCnU #1's so far, I wasn't sure what to expect going into this issue, but Snyder seems to have a good feel for writing Batman/Bruce Wayne and the Batman family. He nicely introduced us to the supporting characters, showed us a plethora of villains, and set up a solid mystery for the first arc. While there may have been too many characters to attract 'new' readers, it didn't take away from the story at all. If anything, new readers may be more curious as to who some of these cool looking villains are.
Capullo's art is probably the best I've seen from him. He's been around for a long time, and it was nice to see some cleaner work as opposed to his older work which had too many unnecessary lines. Gregs' storytelling, pacing, and facial expressions were great too.
GRADE: 8 of 10
by Comic_Doctor » Thu Sep 22, 2011 8:29 pmMy original plan was to pick Brilliant #1 for the Review Group, but I'm not sure of the price, or how many stores will have stock.
by Zero » Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:22 amI liked this a lot, and Capullo's art was a nice surprise because I didn't think I'd like it. Review coming this weekend, followed by bitching about something probably.
by eltopo » Fri Sep 23, 2011 6:10 amI read this yesterday, I thought it was incredibly meh it's not terrible but I just found it really mediocre
by Daringd » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:14 amHere is part (would be the whole review but way to spoiler heavy) of my review that was for a site my buddy runs.
To put it bluntly this is EVERYTHING a Batman comic should be. Scott Snyder wrote 10 issues of Detective Comics over the past year, they were legendary. One of the greatest runs ever on the character (even if it was Dick Grayson as Bat's). Now Snyder is writing Bruce as Batman, he gets it.
I had some reservations about Greg Capullo doing the art, because I'm not crazy about his style. Even if I thought he might be a good fit for Batman. Capullo kills it on art, it looks like nothing I've ever seen him do before. He has and I hate to say this a Darwyn Cooke look to his work here. It really fit the book had a cartoon look while also fitting the tone perfectly. Of course his art would be nothing with out the inks and the absolutely amazing coloring job Fco Plascenia did. Fco's work has always been amazing on Robert Kirkman's Invincible but this was a whole new level.
by alaska1125 » Sat Sep 24, 2011 11:00 am
Yep, this one hit the mark.
by Stephen Day » Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:09 pmMaybe its a case where my bias is showing (I've never been a big Batman fan) but I didn't enjoy this issue as much as some other people did. I found that really nothing much happened. It was all well written for what it was, but I guess it's just not my cup of tea.
The cliffhanger ending was not bad either, but it's not like the character named will actually turn out to be a murderer. It's a case where it's too obvious that things aren't as they appear and I found that that took a great deal a way from the impact.
Like I said, it's not bad, but nothing I'd personally give a really high score to either -- 6 out of 10 I guess.
by guitarsmashley » Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:21 pm
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by guitarsmashley » Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:24 pmScott Snyder may finally be starting to slip. Swamp Thing was alright but this comic is what I was afraid it was going to be. A really good Batman comic with all the familiar trappings of a pretty good batman comic but one that's been read many times before. The rope a dope of Joker and Dick was a pretty cool moment as was the new Batcave contact lens. We are introduced to a new character and well, we all know what new characters are... villains...something Snyder avoided in his original run by reintroducing Jim Gordon and you knew he was evil but not how evil. The last page reveal also very pretty awesome but it's something that can be easily resolved.
The art was fine and cartoony action packed. To his credit Snyder demonstrated that after Morrison he's the best Damian Wayne writer. So in the end I give this book....
by Punchy » Sat Sep 24, 2011 5:58 pm
I've seen some griping online about how Damian Wayne would never wear Converse.
by alaska1125 » Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:05 pm
I thought, where you felt the old familiar, it did a great job of carrying the DCnU mission statement: bring in new readers. You might never have heard of Batman outside of the Superfriends, but this gives you pretty much everything you need to get up to speed. In issue one. And for what it's worth, I think Capullo draws a pretty badass Batman.
by ****** » Sat Sep 24, 2011 6:38 pm
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