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PS4 "not designed in an ivory tower", is a console "for gamers by gamers"
Sony went to extraordinary efforts to ensure that the PS4 was designed precisely as developers wanted.
"We've been very closely involved in the development of the machine," Guerrilla Games co-founder Herman Hulst told The Guardian. "We've had [PS4 system architect] Mark Cerny over several times. We got the entire group of core developers together and gave deep feedback on everything system-related.
It's no longer designed in an Ivory tower somewhere in Tokyo, it's shared with us, with Naughty Dog, with Sony San Diego – and together we've built the machine.
As Mark said at one point during the launch event, it's a console for gamers by gamers."
The ivory tower reference, of course, stems from the frustration created by PS3 uniquely odd architecture. Much like the PS2 before it, the machine was the creation of former PlayStation boss Ken Kuturagi.
It eschewed established hardware designs in favour of a bespoke approach that, while powerful in the hands of studios like Guerrilla, was a nightmare for others – particularly when porting games designed for the PC and Xbox 360.
It required extra learning and extra resource to get as game on PS3 and that became harder to justify when most titles shift in higher numbers on Microsoft's Xbox 360.
All of which will be a thing of the past come the PS4.
"This platform is great to work on because of the PC-like architecture," Hulst added. "It's very easy for the engineers to get their heads around. We had the game up and running very early.
We've now had two and a half years of development time, which was about what I'd want for a title of this scope – and the team size is about 150 people, it's only a little bigger than Killzone 3. We've invested a lot in tools, and in various clever ways of having more and more detailed assets, but tools are the key - we're getting smarter."
Furthermore, Killzone: Shadowfall game director Steven Ter Heide disagrees with the likes of BioWare who argue that the next-gen leap will less noticeable than in the past.
Indeed, he argues that we're in for a more dramatic leap than the one we saw seven years ago.
"If you look at the transition between PS2 and PS3 and the launch titles on the latter machine, then look at the launch titles for PS4, I think you'll see a much more impressive leap in quality," he believes.
"I think the console and the ability for us to work with it has shown that we can make that leap much faster – we as developers are much closer to the insides of the thing."
Studios were even involved in the design of the new-look Dualshock 4 controller, with Evolution Studios' Matt Southerns adding: "One of the most positive parts of the development was the work on the controller.
"We all had a secret meeting after E3 last summer and shared our own prototypes, we called it our science fair! There was lots of very open feedback and constructive criticism from a wide variety of studios. That was important because it meant we could build a controller that was a design classic but also embraced a new age."


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As connoisseurs of rain, we'll ride the MoSo this Saturday rain or shine. What type of rain does Texas get: pissing, drizzle, a deluge? Besides, we understand that Texas has been in a drought and needs it. I also fondly recall an old Trek ad showing Lance riding in the rain for 6 hours and then pulling into his garage. That motivated me more than once to ride in Seattle
Rain Plan
Urban Ride: 2 – 4 PM, March 14th, ride as planned. We've got a gigantic tent at Brush Square Park to wait out any storm clouds. We'll group up, ride to Mellow Johnnys and then determine the best route.
BBQ: 4 – 6PM, March 14th – Our tent is protected from the elements and 50 degree temperatures are expected. We're there with music, food, beer, schwag and prize.
MOFO Rain
If the heavens open up, and it's a MOFO rain like this photo, we'll marvel at nature's power for a while, then ride …
Registration Reminder
See this post for all the details and register here
We'll announce how to get your name on the VIP list for the Mellow Johnnys After Party during the BBQ.
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The new headquarters for Founders Federal Credit Union provides cozy confines for its employees while catching the eye of customers and others who happen to pass the spacious campus off Gillsbrook Road in Lancaster.
Some nighttime passersby are so drawn to the building that they try to walk up to it and take pictures. Sightseeing may be fine, but if you get too close, a security guard will be right there to ask about your intentions.
Lancaster County Council will discuss details for the management of an undeveloped airport business park project at its Monday meeting.
The park, which is planned for an area near the Lancaster County Airport, would be similar in infrastructure to industrial parks in Heath Springs and Kershaw, though on a much larger scale, said County Administrator Steve Willis in a memo to council. Willis said there is a need for a project manager due to the size of the project and the need to coordinate with private landowners.
An apparent dispute about a car battery has landed a Lancaster man in jail on felony charges.
Dontae Lavar Thompson, 33, 936 16th St., was charged last week with attempted murder and discharging a firearm into a dwelling.
Lancaster County sheriff's deputies came to 950 15th St. shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday in response to a call about a shooting there.
Staff Reports
Television viewers who want to look back at the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have several programs to choose from today.
• "9/11: 10 Years Later," CBS, 8 p.m. Rerun of insider's account at World Trade Center. Robert DeNiro is host.
• "America Remembers 9/11," PBS, 8 p.m. A recap with the "NewsHour" team examining the impact of Sept. 11, 2001, in different communities.
In the weeks following Sept. 11, 2001, American flags began popping up everywhere.
They were suddenly in everyone's backyard or hanging in front of their home. Miniature flags dotted the landscape of sidewalks and walking trails. Even cars were suddenly plastered with flag decals and yellow ribbon magnets supporting American troops.
• 8:46:26 a.m. – American Airlines Flight 11 crashes the north face of the North Tower of 1 World Trade Center between floors 93 and 99.
The impact kills all 92 on board, including the 11-member crew and five hijackers, along with approximately 1,600 inside the tower.
• 9:02:59 a.m. – United Airlines Flight 175 crashes into the south face of the South Tower of 2 World Trade Center between floors 77 and 85.
Nancy Moore Vinson
ROCK HILL – Nancy Lee Moore Vinson, 72, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, at the Wayne T. Patrick Hospice House.
The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, at Greene Funeral Home Downtown Chapel with the Rev. Arnie McManus officiating. Entombment will be in Lancaster Memorial Park.
A native of Monroe, N.C., Mrs. Vinson was a daughter of the late James Carroll Moore and the late Bonnie Stegall Moore. She was a homemaker.
Alice Stevens Huggins, 90
KERSHAW – Alice Stevens Huggins, 90, died Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011.
She was the daughter of the late John and Ruth Capell Stevens.
Survivors include a daughter, Frances H. Adams; four sons, Marion Huggins, Edward Huggins and Charles E. Huggins Sr., all of Kershaw and Fred M. Huggins Jr. of Westville; 10 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.
University of South Carolina Lancaster
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley recently appointed Jerry Williams and Mary Barry to the Lancaster County Commission for Higher Education.
They join a board of seven community leaders, including Lisa Bridges, Bruce Brumfield, Charles Bundy, Larry Durham, Rosa Sansbury and two ex-officio members, Lancaster County School District Superintendent Gene Moore and University of South Carolina Lancaster Dean John Catalano.
Reece Murphy
A petition for a referendum to allow Sunday alcohol sales at Lancaster County restaurants is now in the hands of local election officials.
Petition organizer Elissa Boyet announced Wednesday the group behind the effort wrapped up the first phase of the drive and submitted the petition to local election officials for certification.
Boyet made the announcement during a press conference at Kilburnie, the Inn at Craig Farm.
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Jan. 15, 2010
The Sacred Heart Pioneer men's and women's indoor track & field teams competed in a quad meet on Thursday against Boston College, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts. The Pioneers finished third on both sides but had a combined 10 New England Championship performances and one ECAC Championship qualifying performance at the event.
Sophomore Athalia Smith (New Britain, CT) won the weight throw and finished second in the shot put. Her toss of 57'7.00" (17.55m) in the weight throw met both the ECAC and New England Championship qualifying distance and moved her into first place on the NEC rankings by one centimeter. Following in the weight throw was sophomores Chantaul Smith (New Britain, CT) and Christine Middleton (Colchester, NY), who join Athatlia in the top-10 NEC rankings. Chantaul Smith finished fourth with a throw of 47'1.50" (14.36m) while Middleton had a personal best throw of 46'4.25" (14.13m). In the shot put, Athalia Smith's throw of 42'0.00" was a personal best, meeting New England standards and moving her into fourth in the NEC rankings.
Junior Angelica Johnson (Little Ferry, NJ) finished second in the 55 meter dash with New England Championship qualifying time of 7.21 seconds. She also turned in a third place finish in the 200 meters with a time of 25.90, also a New England qualifying time. Freshman Julianne Cappadona (North Attleboro, MA) finished fifth in the 55 meters with a time of 7.47 seconds and seventh in the 200 meters in 26.24 seconds
Junior Kimberly DeLoreto (Hillsdale, NJ) finished fifth in the mile, breaking her own school record in the event with a New England qualifying time of 5:04.81. She now takes over the top-spot in the NEC Indoor rankings for the mile event. In the 1,000 meters, freshman Olivia Civardi (Brightwaters, NY) and senior Sarah Tencza (Succasunna, NJ) finished third and fourth, clocking in at 3:04.17 and 3:05.14, respectively. In the 3,000 meters, junior Samantha Troy (Lebanon, CT) ran in fifth with freshman Megan Papp (Niantic, CT) in seventh. Troy boasted a time of 10:36.07 with Papp in at 11:06.43.
Freshman Sandie Heholt-Leeds (Henderson, NV) took fifth in the 400 meter dash with a time of 1:08.62. In the 800 meters, sophomore Brigid Paddock (Stony Brook, NY) finished fourth followed by DeLoreto in fifth. Paddock posted a time of 2:21.40, moving her to second in the NEC rankings with DeLoreto clocking in at 2:23.52. The SHU 4x400 team took second in the event with a time of 4:04.78.
In the pole vault, senior Kerry Ojeda (Coram, NY) finished second at 10'11.75" (3.35m) as she continues to lead the NEC rankings in the event. Sophomore Ashley Matakevich (Stratford, CT) broke into the NEC top-eight in the long jump and the triple jump. Matakevich finished second in the triple jump at 36'2.25" (11.03m) and third in the long jump with a leap of 17'4.25" (5.29m).
Sophomore Bertony Jean-Louis (Norwalk, CT) won the 200 meters and finished second in the 55 meter dash, both in New England qualifying times. Jean-Louis, who leads the NEC rankings in the 200 meters, took the top-spot with a clocking of 22.27 seconds. Freshman teammate Joshua Roman (Seymour, CT) also met the New England qualifying standard finishing second with a time of 22.56 seconds, ranking sixth among NEC runners. Freshman Matthew Lyhne (Wethersfield, CT) ran in 22.75 seconds, moving him to eighth in the NEC rankings. In the 55 meters, Jean-Louis was second in 6.58 seconds. Roman ran fourth in the event in 6.89 seconds.
In the 55 meter hurdles, junior Peter Conti (Mansfield, MA) finished second in a personal best 7.77 seconds, a New England qualifying time ranking third among NEC runners. Senior Jason Soule (South Portland, ME) took fourth running in 8.10 seconds. The Pioneer 4x400 relay team of Soule, Roman, junior Scott Kasper (East Longmeadow, MA) and Lyhne took second in the event with a time of 3:23.17, meeting New England qualifying standards. In the 400 meters, Kasper finished third with a time of 51.76 seconds while Soule took fourth in the 500 meters in 1:08.19.
In the 1,000 meters, sophomores Jeffrey Lusignan (East Montpelier, VT) and John Ahern (Islip Terrace, NY) finished third and fourth, respectively, with times of 2:32.09 and 2:35.31.
In the pole vault, senior Keith Rowe (Taunton, MA) cleared the bar at a personal best height of 13'11.25" (4.25m) for a second place finish. Junior Daniel Galanto (East Hampton, CT) finished third at 13'5.25" (4.10m). In the long jump, sophomore Joseph Toledo-Quinones (Goton, CT) finished third with a jump of 19'11.50" (6.08m) while Jean-Louis won the triple jump with a leap of 44'7.00" (13.59m). In the shot put, freshman Philip Miccio (Jericho, NY) finished fourth with a throw of 38'3.25" (11.66m) and Rowe took fourth with a throw of 37'2.50". In the weight throw, senior Charles Clark (Babylon, NY) was second with a throw of 44'3.50" (13.50m) and freshman Matthew Wagner (Brookhaven, NY) was third with a throw of 42'11.50" (13.09m).
Both Pioneer teams are back in action on January 22nd and 23rd at the 18th Annual Lehigh John Covert Classic.


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One of the hallmarks of the fundamentalist mindset is a reliance on anecdotes rather than evidence. They love their stories, especially fake conversations, and they cling to them like they were made of gold. Here's a classic from young earth creationist Ken Ham:
One supporter of Answers in Genesis was stunned to encounter opposition to the literal six days view. The supporter, identified as J.C. from Boise, Idaho, described that incident to AiG.
"I was at the gym, in the locker room, telling a pastor how great the [Creation] museum was. Pastor Jack asked me, 'You believe in a literal 6 days?'
"'Absolutely!' I replied.
"Then out of nowhere, a man came around the corner who overheard our conversation said, 'Ken Ham is a piece of c-,'" J.C. recounted. "This man went on to tell me that he has four degrees, studies fossils, bends light, is a Christian, and is a follower of Reasons to Believe and its president Hugh Ross. But out of his same mouth he called a fellow Christian a piece of c-. There was no sign of the humble heart of a Christian."I can't believe that I have fellow brothers and sisters wanting to side with 'scientists.'
"This has been a real eye-opener for me."
Except the story is irrelevant entirely. The age of the earth is not determined by whether someone says something mildly insulting, it's determined by the evidence. But this is a very common form of argument among the fundie faithful.


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In response to my Los Angeles Times op-ed on the movie "Avatar," in which I claim that conservative critics missed the central conflict over property rights, I've received some emails arguing that the Na'vi in the film lacked "well-defined property rights" or simply that a collective group cannot have rights to the property they live on.
So I went to some smarter guys to ask them what they thought about "collective property rights." The political philosopher Tom G. Palmer (best known as an activist and traveling troubadour of liberty [see pictures in this very large pdf] but also a deep thinker about liberty, as seen in his new book Realizing Freedom) says:
Just because people did not have English freehold property rights is no reason to chase them off land to which they held a clear customary right. Some people seem to assume that only English freehold counts as property, by which they mean individual property. But there is family property, village property, and many other forms of property, which are defined by the exclusion of others. (Elinor Ostrom has written extensively on how common property arrangements are governed and when they are efficient, and when not.) The critique of "collective property" is certainly not Lockean. In the Second Treatise's chapter on property (paragraph 28) he writes (not entirely clearly), "We see in commons, which remain so by compact, that it is the taking any part of what is common, and removing it out of the state nature leaves it in, which begins the property; without which the common is of no use." Then in paragraph 35, he notes, "It is true, in land that is common in England, or any other country, where there is plenty of people under government, who have money and commerce, no one can inclose or appropriate any part, without the consent of all his fellow-commoners; because this is left common by compact, i. e. by the law of the land, which is not to be violated. And though it be common, in respect of some men, it is not so to all mankind; but is the joint property of this country, or this parish."
Thus Locke would say that the Na'vi, even if they do not have any separate plots, have a joint property in the land, "And though it be common, in respect of some men, it is not so to all mankind; but is the joint property of this country, or this parish."
David Henderson, editor of the Concise Encylopedia of Economics, discussed this point about "collective property" in his own essay on "Avatar":
Now, [Ed] Hudgins could argue that the analogy with the Kelo decision doesn't make sense because this is tribal property, not individual property. OK. So imagine that some civilization more technologically advanced than ours discovers that there's a rare mineral below the hills and mountains of Yosemite, which, in a sense, is tribal property. Our government has refused to sell. To get at the mineral, this other "civilization" must blast and bulldoze Yosemite down to nothing. If that more advanced group comes in and uses violence to grab Yosemite, would Hudgins say that was fine? I think not.
As I noted originally, "At least for human beings, private property rights are a much better way to secure property and prosperity. Nevertheless, it's pretty clear that the land belongs to the Na'vi, not the Sky People."
P.S. For a French version of my article, click here. At UnMondeLibre you'll find many more ideas about liberty, too.


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Contrast to the official installation guide, which concentrates on an arch installation on local storage, here the installation is to be placed on network storage.
Server configuration
You will need a DHCP server to setup networking, as well as a TFTP server to transfer the boot image (a requirement of all PXE option roms). Unlike PXE which is designed for quick-and-dirty/temporary setups to boot installation media, here you're actually doing a network installation, which is more-permanent, and thus calls for doing things properly.
Install ISC dhcp.
# pacman -Syu dhcp
Configure ISC DHCP.
# vim /etc/dhcpd.conf
allow booting; allow bootp; authoritative; option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.1; group { next-server 10.0.0.1; filename "pxelinux.0"; subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option routers 10.0.0.1; range 10.0.0.128 10.0.0.254; } }
next-server should be the address of the TFTP server; everything else should be changed to match your network
Start ISC DHCP.
# systemctl start dhcpd4
The TFTP server will be used to transfer the kernel, initramfs, and pxelinux to the client.
Install tftp-hpa.
# pacman -Syu tftp-hpa
/srv/arch/boot to
/srv/boot if you're going to use NBD, because you'll be unable to mount your root filesystem while in use
Copy the tftp unit files in
/usr/lib/systemd/system to
/etc/systemd/system; the former gets overwritten when systemd is updated. The systemd article talks in more detail about customizing unit files.
# cp /usr/lib/systemd/system/tftpd.s* /etc/systemd/system/
Next we tell tftpd where the tftp root is:
# vim /etc/systemd/system/tftpd.service
[Unit] Description=hpa's original TFTP daemon [Service] ExecStart=/usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /srv/arch/boot/ StandardInput=socket StandardOutput=inherit StandardError=journal
Start tftpd :
# systemctl enable tftpd.socket # systemctl start tftpd.socket
Network storage
The primary difference between using NFS and NBD is while with both you can in fact have multiple clients using the same installation, with NBD (by the nature of manipulating a filesystem directly) you'll need to use the
copyonwrite mode to do so, which ends up discarding all writes on client disconnected. In some situations however, this might be highly desirable.
Install nfs-utils on the server.
# pacman -Syu nfs-utils
You'll need to add the root of your arch installation to your NFS exports:
# vim /etc/exports
/srv/arch *(rw,fsid=0,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,async)
async with
sync--additional options can be found in the NFS article.
Next start NFS.
# systemctl start rpc-idmapd.service rpc-mountd.service
Install nbd.
# pacman -Syu nbd
Configure nbd.
# vim /etc/nbd-server/config
[generic] [arch] exportname = /srv/arch.img copyonwrite = false
copyonwrite to true if you want to have multiple clients using the same NBD share simultaneously; refer to man 5 nbd-server for more details.
Start nbd.
# systemctl start nbd
Client installation
Directory setup
Create a sparse file of at least 1 gigabyte, and create an ext4 filesystem on it (you can of course also use a real block device or LVM if you so desire).
# truncate -s 1G /srv/arch.img # mkfs.ext4 /srv/arch.img # export root=/srv/arch # mkdir -p "$root" # mount /srv/arch.img "$root"
Bootstrapping installation
Install devtools and arch-install-scripts, and run
# pacman -Syu devtools arch-install-scripts # mkarchroot -f --arch x86_64 "$root" base mkinitcpio-nfs-utils nfs-utils
x86_64 with
i686 as appropriate for your target hardware.
ipconfig used in early-boot is provided only by the latter.
Trivial modifications to the
net hook are required in order for NFSv4 mounting to work (not supported by
nfsmount--the default for the
net hook).
# sed s/nfsmount/mount.nfs4/ "$root/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/net" | tee "$root/usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/net_nfs4" # cp "$root/usr/lib/initcpio/install/{net,net_nfs4}"
The copy of
net is unfortunately needed so it does not get overwritten when mkinitcpio-nfs-utils is updated on the client installation.
The newly-created
net_nfs4 hook needs to be added to the
HOOKS array in
mkinitcpio.conf, and
mount.nfs4 to
# vim "$root/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
MODULES="nfsv4" HOOKS="base udev autodetect net_nfs4 filesystems" BINARIES="/sbin/mount.nfs4"
net hook is sufficient for NBD installations; you will also need to append
nbd to your
HOOKS array;
mount.nfs4 is also not needed
The initramfs now needs to be rebuilt; the easiest way to do this is via
# arch-chroot "$root" /bin/bash (chroot) # mkinitcpio -p linux (chroot) # exit
Client configuration
In addition to the setup mentioned here, you should also set up your hostname, timezone, locale, and keymap, and follow any other relevant parts of the Installation Guide.
Install syslinux.
# pacman -Syu syslinux
Copy the pxelinux bootloader (provided by the syslinux package) to the boot directory of the client.
# cp /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 "$root/boot" # mkdir "$root/boot/pxelinux.cfg"
We also created the
pxelinux.cfg directory, which is where pxelinux searches for configuration files by default. Because we don't want to discriminate between different host MACs, we then create the
default configuration.
# vim "$root/boot/pxelinux.cfg/default"
default linux label linux kernel vmlinuz-linux append initrd=initramfs-linux.img ip=:::::eth0:dhcp nfsroot=10.0.0.1:/
Or if you are using NBD, use the following append line:
append initrd=initramfs-linux.img ip=:::::eth0:dhcp nbd_host=10.0.0.1 nbd_name=arch
nbd_host and/or
nfsroot, respectively, to match your network configuration (the address of the NFS/NBD server)
The pxelinux configuration syntax identical to syslinux; refer to the upstream documentation for more information.
The kernel and initramfs will be transferred via TFTP, so the paths to those are going to be relative to the TFTP root. Otherwise, the root filesystem is going to be the NFS mount itself, so those are relative to the root of the NFS server.
VFS mountpoints
Add hacks to your fstab for the root filesystem and devpts.
# vim "$root/etc/fstab"
none / none defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5,nosuid,noexec 0 0
One might also find it beneficial to put /var/log in tmpfs, so that messages from different hosts can be distinguished when viewing logs locally.
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
Client boot
If you're using NBD, you'll need to umount the
arch.img before/while you boot your client.
This makes things particularly interesting when it comes to kernel updates. You can't have your client filesystem mounted while you're booting a client, but that also means you need to use a kernel separate from your client filesystem in order to build it.
You'll need to first copy $root/boot from the client installation to your tftp root (i.e. /srv/boot).
# cp -r "$root/boot" /srv/boot
You'll then need to umount $root before you start the client.
# umount "$root"
/srv/boot using NFS in fstab on the client (prior to doing the kernel update) or mount your client filesystem after the client has disconnected from NBD
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Liverpool are set to step up their interest in Celtic defender Efe Ambrose, according to reports.
Metro claims Reds scouts were impressed with the player's performances at the African Cup of Nations, and that the Nigerian international was the only name brought back to manager Brendan Rodgers after the tournament.
And, the paper goes on to report that Liverpool representatives have been dispatched to watch the £6million-rated 24-year-old during the Hoops' title procession in Scotland, as they 'step up' their interest in the player.
Manager Neil Lennon is well aware of the interest in his player, but revealed that there is yet to be a concrete offer for the player, who is contracted at Parkhead until 2015.
"I know a few Ambrose fans. There is nothing concrete, but I am aware of the interest," he is quoted as saying by the paper.
Liverpool aren't full of options in defence, with veteran centre Jamie Carragher announcing earlier in the month that he's to retire at the end of the season.
That leaves Daniel Agger, Martin Skrtel and Sebastian Coates as the manager's options at Anfield in the summer, and Rodgers already appears to be looking at his options on Merseyside.


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I'm a first time (hope to be- parent) and I took a total of 4 pregnancy tests, which all were a blatant positive.
I took my first test Friday morning, got the positive, then went to the nearest clinic to be tested and find out what to do next since I don't have insurance. There, they said it was negative. I was shocked and couldn't believe it, I told her I haven't had my period since May 20th, and had that positive test, then looks at me like an idiot and says, "yeah well, our tests are pretty accurate"
So I raced home immediately, took yet ANOTHER test, and it was positive again, this is less than 30 minutes from being at the clinic. In my heart I felt she's wrong, but now I feel devastated and getting in my own head that Im not pregnant, and that all the symptoms are in my own head. (I haven't had morning sickness, just cramping, tiredness, ect).
So this morning I was sad, and took yet another test, and it was positive in less than 5 seconds.
My question is, am I alone in this? Is this common? Does it sound like I still could be pregnant and not a chemical pregnancy? As of now, I should be about 6 weeks along.... any advice? suggestions?


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The spotlight falls Saturday on the newest portion of a freshly minted global top 10 destination (sidebar, at right) in the Historic Highway Revived event near Cascade Locks.
Oregon Department of Transportation and Oregon Parks and Recreation Department will dedicate the newest segment of the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail.
The dedication of this newest segment will occur on Saturday at 11 a.m. on the new McCord Creek Bridge.
This 1.6-mile trail connection, from Yeon State Park to Moffett Creek, will allow cyclists to ride from Troutdale to Cascade Locks without having to use the shoulder of Interstate 84.
It's no secret that the Historic Columbia River Highway is a renowned destination for tourism in the Columbia River Gorge, and recently the roadway received some more national recognition.
The Washington Post Social Reader — the social media arm of The Washington Post newspaper — recently listed the highway as one of the top 10 "best destinations for fall" in the world.
In the unranked list, the Historic Columbia River Highway shared the honor with nine other destinations from all over the globe, including the Serengeti in Africa and the Lavaux Vineyard Terraces in Switzerland.
The list was compiled by Mark Johanson of International Business Times, a global news outlet that recently purchased Newsweek. In his review, Johanson said the road was designed as "a platform for viewing the natural beauty of the area, which boasts a tapestry of colors each fall that complement the region's plunging waterfalls, deep gorges and perky wildflowers."
(Attendees are urged to ride bicycles to the event; bike and auto access are described on page A2.)
The Historic Highway Revived event is a celebration of the reconnection of the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail, and it will be joined by dozens of weekend events in and around Cascade Locks.
A 5K and 10K run and cruise-in car show are planned Sept. 14-15 in Cascade Locks, along with live music, a beer and wine garden, art show at Lorang Gallery, and more.
To help celebrate the events to come, Cascade Locks Mayor Tom Cramblett and City Council have declared September to be Cascade Locks Trails Month.
Last week's city proclamation notes that the City of Cascade Locks recognizes the health values of cycling, and its importance to local tourism.
It also recognizes Pacific Crest Trail Days, held Sept. 7-8, and notes that last year the council adopted the award-winning "Connected Cascade Locks 2012 Plan" developed by students from Portland State University.
Other Cascade Locks events include Walk the Bridge of the Gods, Sept. 15 at 10 a.m., and the "Cascade to Crown" bike ride (Cascade Locks to Crown Point) on Sept. 15.
The Port of Cascade Locks will close the Bridge of the Gods for 1½ hours for the "Bridge Walk" event. The bridge will be closed to all vehicles from approximately 9:45 to 11:15 a.m. to allow for event safety set-up and take-down.
The ability to walk or bicycle across the bridge, without vehicles, may truly be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The event is free.
"Highway Revived" and Cascade Locks community event highlights include:
All three days
Friday through Sunday — 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. — information booth and bike valet, WaNaPa
Historic photo exhibits, The Bold Orange, WaNaPa Avenue, noon to 2 p.m. on Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Drop-in movie, "The Road They Built," Best Western Columbia River Inn; Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Highway-inspired art show, Lorang Fine Art, WaNaPa Avenue, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Food, wine and beer garden, Cascade Locks Community Association, WaNaPa Avenue, 3-10 p.m. Friday- Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday
Noon to 3 p.m. — Commemorative Stamp Cancellation, U.S. Post Office and Lorang Fine Art; free postcards and kids' coloring sheets
6-9 p.m. — Live music by Muystik Mojo
8 a.m. to 5 pm. — 5K and 10K Fun Run and Walk
10:45 a.m., to 1:45 p.m. — Scenic boat rides, Sternwheeler, Cascade Locks Port
1 p.m. — Storytelling and Speaker series, Historic Museum or Port Pavilion
3-5 p.m. — Artist Reception, Lorang Fine Art, Highway Inspired Art
11 a.m. — Trail Dedication, 11 a.m. at McCord Creek Bridge
Cascade to Crown bike ride, 7 a.m. (details below)
10-11 a.m. — Walk the Bridge of the Gods; bridge closed to vehicle traffic starting at 9:45 a.m.
10 a.m. — guided hike, Dry Creek Falls, 4 miles, Friends of the Gorge
For Saturday's trail dedication, participants are encouraged to bicycle to the trail along the Historic Columbia River Highway or Historic Highway State Trail. If you are planning to ride your bike to the site you can access the Historic Highway State Trail from the following locations:
n I-84, exit 44 — Cascade Locks, Bridge of the Gods Trailhead (overflow parking will be available along WaNaPa Street). Park in Cascade Locks and enjoy a 6-mile bike ride to the new trail segment and plan on spending your day exploring Cascade Locks and other attractions along the Historic Highway State Trail.
n I-84, exit 40, Bonneville Dam Exit — Parking will be available at the Toothrock Trailhead located on the south side of the Interstate. Park here and ride approximately 3.5 miles to the new trail segment and enjoy the dedication ceremony at McCord Creek Bridge.
If you are coming by car, park at the Ainsworth exit (exit 35) and board the shuttle.
Event parking will be available on the south side of I-84. A shuttle will be available for those driving to the event. The shuttle will drop folks off at the John B. Yeon Trailhead parking area. There is quarter-mile walk to the McCord Creek Bridge from the shuttle drop off. Allow time to walk to the ceremony before 11 a.m.
The John B. Yeon Trailhead parking lot will be closed during the dedication event.
Cruise in details
Sept. 14 — Start your scenic drive at downtown Troutdale, the beginning of the Historic Columbia River Highway. Cruise in on the beautiful historic highway, and be sure to take advantage of the opportunity to drive through Oneonta Tunnel. Head toward the John Yeon/Elowah Falls Trailhead (24 miles, about 45 minutes), then continue to the onramp of I-84 (7 miles, about 9 minutes) to exit 44 into Cascade Locks.
Cars will park in reserved lots along WaNaPa Street; check in at the information booth near the Post Office.
Sept. 15 — Cascade to Crown ride
Ride from the beautiful community of Cascade Locks to the panoramic Crown Point and Vista House. Choose from route lengths of 10 miles, 28 miles, 48 miles and 62 miles. This ride is fully supported with rest stops and mechanical support at Bonneville Dam, Herman Creek Road/Hill, Multnomah Falls and Portland Women's Forum. Read more about the routes at www.highwayrevived.com.
Sept. 12 — Planning meeting
A local planning committee is working in coordination with complementary ODOT and Friends of the Gorge events. Its next meeting will be Sept. 12 at 6 p.m. at The Bold Orange, next to Cascade Locks Post Office.
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Rabbit Room
...is a great site with commentary on art, music, literature, faith, etc. If I lived in Nashville, I'd totally hang out with them (if they'd let me).
A worthwhile meditation on art in light of the human limitations of artists. Read it here.
Brief but interesting thoughts from Seth Godin on early adoption and creativity. "I love to hear about the next big thing, but I'm far more interested in what you're doing with the old big thing." (via LifeHacker)
A short online comic that I enjoyed. Read it here.
A "semi-sort of comic" about creative ideas: "Our brains are not computers. Effectiveness is measured by the quality of the alogical connections, not the logical ones." (via Waxy)
NPR is currently streaming the new Arcade Fire album here. It's a more listen-to-the-whole-thing album than Funeral or Neon Bible, but it's still very good. Reviews are positive (mostly).
Image presents the Top 100 Films list of the Arts & Faith online community. (I've only seen eight of these, although one of those is a trilogy, so that must count for something.)
A song that Ryan and I recorded for FAWM this year will be included on the inaugural compilation of a new label. Check out up your legs forever this June.
Considering that I just finished this book, it's amazing that this interview just came out today. (I love Calvin and Hobbes.)
Makoto Fujimura is working on an illuminated bible. Unless it's ridiculously expensive, I'm getting one...in 2011. (UPDATE: I did, and it's beautiful.)
The mechanics of Choose Your Own Adventure books make for an interesting read and some strangely beautiful charts.
"The NEA did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable." Read more here.
For a limited time, you can download an EP of free music from a new musical called "Prodigal God" here. It's not directly related to the supposed-to-be-great Keller book, if you're wondering. (via BTW)
Read about Reading Rainbow is going off the air here. Which focus will do more for increasing literacy: teaching how to read or teaching why to read? Discuss. (via Waxy)
Click here to download a free album by The Wailing Wall. (I have been enjoying it over the last few months...)
A little piece of comic book art history, shared with the world here. (via Waxy)
I find this article about musical worship at one PCA church very encouraging.... It goes well with this quote, which has been stuck in my head lately.
I'd love to see this singer/songwriter (violinist/whistler/etc.) live. Click here to get a taste of why that is.
The people at Significant Objects have come up with a clever way to prove it. Here is an example of what they're doing. (via waxy.org)
...for many reasons. This is one of them.
Recently, I've been enjoying the album Now They Shut Us Down by Kid Mud. Listen to the whole thing online here.
...is a great site with commentary on art, music, literature, faith, etc. If I lived in Nashville, I'd totally hang out with them (if they'd let me).
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"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will."
--Charles Baudelaire, from The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
"We live in an age notable for a kind of fashionable silliness and imbued with a restless desire for change.
It sometimes seems that nothing old, nothing well-established, nothing which has evolved through centuries of experience and loving use escapes our urge to diminish, revise or abolish it.
Above all every organisation has to be relevant—a very fashionable word—to the needs of modern life, as if human beings in the twenty-first century are somehow fundamentally different in their needs and aspirations from all previous generations.
A country which ceases to value and learn from its history, neglects its language and literature, despises its traditions and is unified only by a common frenetic drive for getting and spending and for material wealth, will lose more than its nationhood; it will lose its soul."
--P.D. James, from "Through All the Changes Scenes of Life: Living with the Prayer Book"
"When we do philosophy we are like savages, primitive people, who hear the expressions of civilized men, put a false interpretation on them, and then draw the queerest conclusions from it."
--Ludwig Wittgenstein (via Fors Clavigera)
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
--Theodore Roosevelt, from his speech "Citizenship In A Republic"
"What we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed....
...the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether."
–G.K. Chesterton, from Orthodoxy
"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us."
–Daniel Burnham, architect of Chicago, quoted in Charles Moore, Daniel H. Burnham: Planner of Cities, II:147. (via Christ is Deeper Still)
"It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books – setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them."
–Jorge Luis Borges, from the preface to Ficciones
See full post for Yancey Strickler's 2005 taxonomy of top ten music lists, as cited here.
"Accept what comes from silence.
Make the best you can of it.
Of the little words that come
out of the silence, like prayers
prayed back to the one who prays,
make a poem that does not disturb
the silence from which it came."
–Wendell Berry, from How to be a Poet
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
—Attributed to Mark Twain
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
–C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
"I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write"
—W.S. Merwin, Opening the Hand


text: Beat Weeds to the Punch August 23, 2013 09:08 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Darrell Smith Farm Journal Conservation and Machinery Editor Email Use products with different sites of action to prevent resistance from cornering your fields As a corn producer, you follow a scouting plan, a hybrid selection plan, a harvest plan and a marketing plan. Now you need a herbicide plan. Why? Resistant weeds have entered the ring. For many farmers, resistant weeds rank among the leading rivals to a yield hike. According to a survey by the Weed Science Society of America, weeds have evolved resistance to 21 of the 25 known herbicide sites of action and to 148 different herbicides. Resistance Defense Plan Scout for weeds Keep records Rotate herbicides based on: Active ingredients Modes of action Sites of action Recropping intervals "Herbicide resistance is random genetic mutation, which happens in the wild all of the time," says Isaac Ferrie with Crop-Tech Consulting. "When you spray the same herbicide over and over in the same field, you select for resistant plants. The resistant plants will be the only ones that survive. That's like natural selection on steroids." Almost every day of the growing season some farmer, somewhere, is discovering resistant weeds in his fields (or he would if he knew what to look for). "It's not unusual for a farmer to find weeds that show no effects at all after three applications of glyphosate," Ferrie says. "That's resistance resulting from too many applications of the same product." In his home state of Illinois, Ferrie says 90% of soybean acreage and more than 70% of corn acreage is planted to herbicide-tolerant varieties. Because there are only a few herbicide-tolerant traits available, that suggests some of the same herbicides are being applied again and again—a recipe for resistance. "Sound practices can't keep resistance from occurring, but they can keep it from spreading," Ferrie says. "That's why you need a herbicide plan—to tell you which herbicides you will apply on each field next season." This common cocklebur shows whitening or bleaching of foliage, characteristic of Impact herbicide, a pigment inhibitor. Get a plan in place. Your herbicide management plan (which you could call your resistance defense plan) involves scouting, record keeping and understanding herbicides' active ingredients, modes of action, sites of action and re-cropping intervals. Planning must start now because herbicide management will impact your hybrid and variety selections for next year. Accurate weed scouting lays the foundation for herbicide management. "As you scout fields and harvest, map where patches of weeds are present and record what species they are," Ferrie says. "Stop the combine and take a close look. Carry a scouting manual. "The patches of weeds you find might be herbicide-resistant species. As you plan for next season, review what herbicides were applied on that field and for how many years you applied the same one. Then rotate to a different product," he recommends. Using one herbicide on all of your acres is no longer an option, Ferrie says. Your herbicide plan will let you select a herbicide to control the weeds in each field, while rotating products to prevent resistance from establishing. Check the label. To effectively rotate herbicides, you need to understand their modes of action, sites of action and active ingredients. "Herbicides are grouped by mode of action based on how they affect the plant," Ferrie explains. "Examples include inhibiting amino acid synthesis or disrupting cell membranes. "Within each mode of action, herbicides can be further divided into various sites of action, based on which pathway inside the plant each herbicide uses to inflict damage. Within each site of action are different chemical families, and within each family are different active ingredients." (Click here to see the table for examples.) The active ingredient is the chemical that causes a fatal reaction in plants. Herbicides with different trade names might contain the same active ingredient. For example, Roundup, Touchdown and other products contain glyphosate. "If you only look at the trade name and fail to consider the active ingredient, you could apply the same product without knowing it," Ferrie explains. Change the target. But herbicide rotation involves more than choosing a different active ingredient. Herbicides actually become resistant to the site of action, not just the active ingredient. "When a weed randomly genetically mutates, the site of action—the pathway the herbicide uses—can change," Ferrie says. "If the site of action changes, all of the herbicides that use that site of action will no longer be effective." Entire chemical families of products use the same site of action. "To prevent resistance from developing, you must vary the site of action from year to year and when you make multiple applications in one season," he says. The same strategy applies to tank-mixes. "When tank-mixing products, you'll get more effective control if you use products with different sites of action," Ferrie notes. "If you mix a fast-acting contact herbicide, such as paraquat, with a slower acting systemic herbicide such as glyphosate, the paraquat might kill the top growth before the glyphosate translocates from the leaves to the roots or growing point. If the paraquat doesn't kill the weed, the glyphosate will add little to the mix," he explains. "The reason tank mixes of glyphosate and 2,4-D are so effective is that the two herbicides have different sites of action and similar reaction times, so they work together" Read the Label A site of action group number is listed on most herbicide labels. It's on the label. Herbicide labels tell you what you need to know to effectively rotate products. Along with the active ingredient, most products now display the site of action group number, a numbering system developed by the Weed Science Society of America. "The site of action group number is usually on the label inside a black box," Ferrie says. "Using products with different group numbers assures you they have different sites of action." Because of late-season rescue treatments, fall applications to control winter annuals and the use of cover crops, your herbicide plan must consider re-cropping intervals. For annual ryegrass and radishes, some soybean herbicides have an 18-month re-crop interval. A dry fall might lengthen the re-cropping interval because micro-organisms won't be able to decompose herbicides in the soil. If you're in doubt when planting nears, have a soil sample tested for herbicide residue or conduct a grow-out test by planting oats in a pan of soil. Keeping resistant weeds under control or preventing them from developing requires significant changes. You might need to apply conventional herbicides. "To diversify our herbicide portfolio, we'll have to use some chemistries contained in older herbicides that haven't been used frequently for some time," Ferrie says. Make sure you understand the product before you use it. "As farmers begin using older products with which they are no longer familiar, we could see a flurry of misapplication, overapplication and drift issues," Ferrie notes. You can e-mail Darrell Smith at email@example.com. Learn and Profit from Corn Navigator The Corn Navigator series will focus on various sources of crop stress and how to manage the situation in order to drive corn yields and profits higher. www.FarmJournal.com/corn_navigator For More Information Many Web sites can help you with your herbicide management plan. Weed Science Society worldwide herbicide resistance survey Chart listing active ingredient, mode of action and site of action for many herbicides and pre-mixes Purdue University site with infrmation about herbicide modes of action North Dakota State University showing how to scout for glyphosate resistance Back to news


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Daredevil 29 (spoilers)
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by TimDrake'sDumbWings » Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:19 pmHow can one title be so consistently good?!??!?!?!
Last issue's fairly implausible cliffhanger is explained away here, and Matt has a new ongoing crusade to replace his 2-year struggle with Bullseye. I don't know much about the Sons of the Serpent, but I hope this storyline avoids treading similar ground to Matt's earlier battles with Megacrime.
Also, who else is pretty certain that Nelson & Murdock will be temporarily changing its name to Walters & Murdock next issue?
by chap22 » Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:28 pmBook is SO good. A few Tracksuit Draculas short of being Hawkguy good, bro, but a very close second. Waid is just killing it on this.
by Draco x » Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:44 pmJust really glad Bullseye is finally back. That guy is too good a villain to stay dead.
by Punchy » Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:17 pm#29
by TimDrake'sDumbWings » Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:34 am
Thanks, Punchy. You read it yet?
by TimDrake'sDumbWings » Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:35 am
I still think Daredevil edges out Hawkeye just barely. Maybe it's because I prefer Daredevil more as a character.
by HNutz » Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:59 am
I think it's because, lately, we've been getting more story out of 3 issues of Daredevil than 3 issues of Hawkeye.
by chap22 » Thu Aug 01, 2013 10:46 amI think you're both nuts. Hawkeye is, no hyperbole here, a brilliant comic book. Daredevil is just standard superheroics. it's damn-near perfectly-executed superheroics, yes, but Hawkeye is on a whole other level from anything being done by the Big 2 right now, on a technical level. and on top of that, it's enjoyable as all holy fuck too. Bro.
by TimDrake'sDumbWings » Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:18 am
Im going to have to go with HNutz on this, chap. While I love Hawkeye and the ways that it plays with the medium, we've watched the same goings-on from different perspectives for the past 3 issues. I'm really excited to read upcoming issues since they'll more directly deal with developments in Clint and Kate's respective stories. Daredevil is well-told AND contains things actually happening. It gets the edge!
by chap22 » Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:25 ambro, buncha Ritalin-needing ADD bros up in this piece. you bros don't deserve a comic as good as Hawkguy, bro.
by Punchy » Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:48 am
Yep, here are my thoughts:
Yet another brilliant issue of Daredevil, I really am running out of ways to praise this title. I sort of wish Waid would write a bad one just to give me something to write about!
This issue picks up where the surprise ending to #28 left off, as Nate Hackett, Matt Murdock's childhood 'friend' and former Sons Of The Serpent member has been shot by a Judge who seems to be a Serpent himself. What follows is a fast-paced action issue with Daredevil trapped inside the Courthouse surrounded by Serpent members and unable to know who to trust. I really like this new threat posed to Daredevil by the Sons Of The Serpent, and whilst I was looking forward to this series telling some smaller stories after wrapping up the Bullseye story, it looks like we may have the next big arc already. The Sons Of The Serpent have been a part of the last few issues of Waid's Hulk too, so it looks like they are a big deal.
I also like how Waid choosing a White-Supremacist group fits with Daredevil being blind. Not only can he not trust any white person around him, because he's blind, he couldn't tell that two of the people in the room with him were black and asian! He really doesn't know who to trust.
As always with this series, the artwork was excellent and regular colourist Javier Rodriguez is proving himself to be just as great as a penciler. My favourite sequence in this issue was when Daredevil and the EMT had to jump down the stairs, those pages were so well done, and you really got a sense of a whole creative team working in sync, even the letterer, Joe Caramagna had a big part to play, as the sound effects of the guns were built in to the bullet-trail, awesome stuff.
So, by the end of this issue, we've got a new threat for Daredevil, and also a tantalising teaser on the last page, who is the mysterious visitor who seems to have taken Foggy's job? It can't be the Silver Surfer can it? I mean, he's in the next issue! That story promises to be insane, how the hell can Daredevil and Silver Surfer interact in a way that makes sense? Only Mark Waid would do something like this, I love it.
by Amoebas » Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:55 amIn the battle of which book is better - the last few issues of Daredevil make it a clear cut choice that Hawkeye is the better book (and with each new issue of DD, the gap widens).
These last two issues could have been about the dangers and effects of bullying but instead it wandered into a typical action strip - of which I'm still trying to wrap my head around this new Sons of the Serpent stuff.
The SotS's plan was to false arrest some guy, so that they could get him into court so that they could kill him (not forgetting that they had to spend ages successfully infiltrating both the courts and the NYPD in unbelievable numbers) and then they had to arrange/hope that a black man would be in the area so that they could frame him for the shooting AND for igniting a bomb in order to start a race war.
Color it up any way you want - that's a pretty fucking amazing/stupid plan that only worked because Waid wanted it to. And now the Sons of the Serpent are talking on ol' green-skin n Hulk.
For an organization that has been led by communists, demons (and a black man) - why would even the worst bigot ever join up?
by guitarsmashley » Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:44 pmWell I enjoyed a fun 5-10 minute escape into the world of daredevil and that's about all you could want.
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High court grants exemption from birth control mandate
The challenge by religious organizations that don't want to be involved in birth control coverage is separate from another brought by for-profit businesses, which the high court will hear this spring
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily exempted a religious non-profit organization from the federal health care law's mandate that insurance plans include free coverage of contraceptives.
The justices' order was a defeat for the Obama administration, which had argued that accommodations already in place protected religious groups from violating their beliefs that some birth control methods cause abortions.
It was a victory for opponents of the so-called contraception mandate, who had contended that allowing their insurance companies to provide the coverage — rather than including it directly in employer plans — still violated their principles.
The group at the center of the case — The Little Sisters of the Poor — can sidestep the mandate while its case is pending before a federal appeals court.
The issue isn't going away anytime soon. The high court already has agreed to consider two cases in March involving for-profit corporations whose owners oppose abortion on religious grounds. The businesses say they should not have to abide by the contraception mandate; the government says corporations cannot practice religion.
Nationally, some 100 lawsuits have been filed against the contraception coverage mandate, almost equally divided between for-profit businesses and non-profit groups.
Under the law championed by President Obama in 2009 and passed by Congress in 2010, health officials created a minimum allowable preventive care plan that includes birth control for women. Refusing to provide the coverage could result in millions of dollars in fines.
When challenged both by for-profit companies and non-profits such as church-affiliated schools, hospitals and charities, the administration backed off somewhat, exempting churches and houses of worship and providing the secondary insurance "accommodation" to other non-profits. Businesses received no such break.
"Religious liberty will be protected, and a law that requires free preventative care will not discriminate against women," Obama said in February 2012, as the controversy threatened to upend his re-election campaign. Catholic leaders, Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers from both parties had derided the original policy for religious non-profits.
But dozens of non-profit groups called the new policy insufficient. With it scheduled to take effect this month, several petitions were filed with the Supreme Court seeking that the requirement be set aside while the matter works its way through the courts.
On New Year's Eve, before presiding over the Times Square celebration, Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted a temporary stay in a case involving The Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of Roman Catholic nuns that operates nursing homes in Denver and Baltimore.
Sotomayor demanded a response from the federal government, which argued that the charity would not violate its religious beliefs by granting authority to its insurer to provide contraception benefits directly. In response, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents the nuns, said they would have to "deputize a third party to sin on their behalf."
On Friday, the Becket Fund and other groups opposed to abortion heralded the high court's order. "The government has lots of ways to deliver contraceptives to people – it doesn't need to force nuns to participate," said senior counsel Mark Rienzi.
Pro-choice groups minimized the importance of the court's decision. "This order is not about the merits," said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "This case raises a very narrow and specific question about the administrative mechanism that religious groups use to claim their exemption. This is a case about paperwork, not religious liberty."
The cases scheduled for oral arguments in March — filed by Hobby Lobby, a chain of more than 500 arts-and-crafts stores, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Pennsylvania-based woodworking business run by a Mennonite family — are the first legal challenges to Obamacare to reach the high court since its 5-4 ruling upholding the law in June 2012.
Neither the business nor religious group lawsuits threaten the law itself. But the business challenge is significant in its own right because it will answer a fundamental question with far-reaching consequences: Can corporations practice religion? Until now, no court has granted religious rights under the First Amendment's "free exercise clause" to for-profit businesses.


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Will Run For Bourbon
The Bourbon Chase celebrates the best of Kentucky. It is a 200-mile journey across the Bluegrass State – through our historic bourbon distilleries, across our majestic horse country, and into our enchanting small towns. The Bourbon Chase is made up of 400 teams. Each team is comprised of 1 captain. Typically there are a total of 12 runners on each team.
Whether you are a serious racer, a casual runner, or just a passionate spectator – there is a place for you in The Bourbon Chase.
Please take a few minutes to peruse our website and watch our video. Drink in the best of Kentucky. Then, we invite you to sign up for The Bourbon Chase – either as a participant or as a volunteer. No matter if you are running the relay or helping on out on the course, we can guarantee you will have a great time.
Over the river and through the woods...Sort of, but not really.
Begin your journey at Jim Beam and head east to Bardstown, the Bourbon Capital of the World. In the quaint city of Bardstown, you pass through Heaven Hill, the largest family-owned distillery in the world. Next, you trek toward the historic and beautiful Maker's Mark distillery. Exiting the distillery, you head into the heart of central Kentucky, passing some of the state's most historic areas. First, the course takes you near Perryville Battlefield, where a significant Civil War battle took place. Next, you will head south to Stanford, the second oldest city in Kentucky. Then, the course turns for the north as it passes through the middle of the enchanting community of Danville where the state's first constitution was written. Finally, before heading back into distillery country, you run through Harrodsburg. Founded as Fort Harrod in 1774, it was the first permanent settlement west of the Alleghenies.
The unique Spanish Mission-style architecture announces that you have reached Four Roses distillery. From here, you come into Lawrenceburg, home of Wild Turkey. Crossing over the Tyrone Bridge, several hundred feet above the Kentucky River, you enter the official gateway to Horse Country. This section of the course, heading toward Woodford Reserve, is undoubtedly the most stunning because of its rolling bluegrass countryside and picturesque horse farms.
From there you head toward the charming community of Midway, home of one of the nation's leading colleges focusing on equine professions. As you wind your way out of Midway and down the delightful scenic back roads of the Bluegrass Region, the course works its way into downtown Lexington. By now, you can smell and hear the finish line celebration that awaits you and your friends at Triangle Park, near the Alltech Brewery & Distillery.
Interested in learning more about how the relay works and the great places to visit in Kentucky? Download our Guidebook.
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For Immediate Release
Media Contact: Julia Ferrante, email@example.com, 717-291-4062
LANCASTER, Pa. —
This story was updated 7/3/14.
Five leaders with deep experience in the spheres of politics, the financial industry and higher education have been newly appointed to the Franklin & Marshall College Board of Trustees, effective July 1.
Matthew DesChamps, chief operating officer of Kepos Capital, and Elaine Tuttle Hansen, former president of Bates College and currently the executive director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, have joined the board for the first time. Anthony Kreisel, a retired money manager who held senior-level positions with Putnam Investments and Baring Asset Management; Kenneth Mehlman, a partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and former political strategist for President George W. Bush; and Laurence Shadek, managing director of Wellington Shields & Co., are returning to the board after previous years of service. In addition, Ricardo Rivers, associate vice president-investments at Wells Fargo Advisors, will serve as the Alumni Board trustee. Rivers will be a trustee during his two years of leadership on the Alumni Board, while the other trustees will serve five-year terms, subject to re-appointment.
"For leading institutions like Franklin & Marshall that are rising to meet the challenge of educating today's students in an increasingly global society, among the most important assets for a board of trustees is expertise in the variety of fields that our new trustees represent," said Board Chair Lawrence Bonchek, a parent of a Class of 1991 F&M graduate.
"Insights in the financial and investment arenas support our imperative to ensure the financial sustainability of the College," Bonchek said. "At the same time, having a former college president is invaluable as we make decisions focused on providing the best education possible for the talented students the College admits. Also, a trustee with intimate knowledge of the world of politics helps us achieve a vital understanding of the way the federal government looks at higher education."
A characteristic that unites all of the new trustees is a strong dedication to the welfare of Franklin & Marshall, Bonchek added. All of the trustees have demonstrated a willingness to commit "time, energy and intellect to help Franklin & Marshall fulfill its mission."
Profiles of the new trustees:
Matthew DesChamps is the chief operating officer of Kepos Capital, an investment adviser and asset management firm in New York, N.Y. After earning his bachelor's degree in government at Franklin & Marshall in 1993, DesChamps received a Master of Business Administration from New York University Stern School of Business. He is a certified public accountant who previously was a founding member and principal at Satellite Asset Management Co., as well as an account manager at Morgan Stanley. His involvement at F&M includes serving on Leadership Council, the Diplomat Athletic Club, the Shadek Stadium Committee for the College's upcoming stadium project; and the Head Football Coach Search Committee, in addition to serving as a volunteer for class reunions.
Elaine Tuttle Hansen is the executive director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY) in Baltimore. Previously, she was the president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, from 2002 to 2011, and served as provost and a professor of English at Haverford College in Haverford, Pa., after holding academic positions at two other colleges. She received her bachelor's degree in English from Mount Holyoke College in 1969, earned her master's at the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. at the University of Washington. She is a recipient of the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. She has served on the University of Maine School of Law Board of Trustees as a member of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, among other community and professional organizations.
Anthony Kreisel of Sudbury, Mass., is a retired money manager who held several senior-level management positions at firms including Putnam Investments and Baring Asset Management. After receiving his bachelor's in economics at Franklin & Marshall in 1966, Kreisel earned his Master of Business Administration at Columbia University in 1968. His F&M College service includes previous terms on the Board of Trustees, from 1998 to 2013; serving on the Franklin & Marshall Admission Network (FAN); serving on the 2010 presidential search committee; and volunteering many times for Reunion.
Kenneth Mehlman is a partner and head of Global Public Affairs at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in New York, N.Y. Previously he was the 62nd chair of the Republican National Committee and campaign manager for President George W. Bush's 2004 re-election. He also served in high-level positions at the White House and on Capitol Hill. After earning his bachelor's degree in government from Franklin & Marshall in 1988, Mehlman received his Juris Doctor from Harvard University School of Law in 1991. His F&M College service includes previous terms on the Board of Trustees, from 2003 to 2013; service on the Greek Alumni Council; and serving as a panelist at F&M forums on presidential politics in New York and Washington, D.C.
Laurence Shadek is managing director and member of Wellington Shields & Co LLC in New York, N.Y. He has worked for the brokerage firm since 1986, serving also on several boards for various funds. After earning his bachelor's degree in history at Franklin & Marshall in 1972, Shadek received a Master of Business Administration from New York University's Stern Graduate School of Business in 1983. He has served as chair of the board of Pax World Management Co. in Portsmouth, N.H., since 1996. His involvement with the College includes previous service on the Board of Trustees, from 1998 to 2013; serving on the Shadek Stadium Campaign Committee for the stadium for which his family donated the founding gift; serving on the Diplomat Athletic Club Advisory Council; and serving as a Reunion volunteer.
Alumni Board Trustee
Ricardo Rivers, the new Alumni Board trustee, is associate vice president-investments at Wells Fargo Advisors in New York, N.Y. He was previously a financial consultant at Citi Smith Barney. After receiving his bachelor's degree in anthropology from Franklin & Marshall in 1993, Rivers earned a Bachelor of Science at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1996 and a Master of Business Administration at St. John's University in 2000. The incoming president of the F&M Alumni Association Board, Rivers also served as vice president of the association and has been a member since 2008. In addition, he is a member of the Franklin & Marshall Admission Network, the African American Alumni Council and Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He is past president of the Alumni Greek Council.
In addition to the new trustees, the following current members of the board were re-appointed to five-year terms: Brian Hard, a parent of F&M graduates in the classes of 2001 and 2003 and president and CEO of Penske Truck Leasing; Raymond Sanseverino, a 1968 F&M alumnus and partner and chair of the Real Estate Department of the law firm Loeb & Loeb; H. Art Taylor, a 1980 F&M alumnus and president and CEO of BBB Wise Giving Alliance; and Frances Donnelly Wolf, a 1996 F&M alumna and Pennsylvania artist.


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BAKER � For the first time in Baker School�s history, an Odyssey of the Mind team will compete against the world.
BAKER � For the first time in Baker School�s history, an Odyssey of the Mind team will compete against the world.
The OM team, coached by Fiona Lukas, returned to Baker on Monday following a state competition in Orlando, where Baker won second place in its category.
The team will compete against several countries� teams in the OM World Finals competition, May 22-25 at Michigan State University.
Fifteen countries, including Mexico, Canada, Germany, China and Canada, usually participate in the event, according to an OM spokesperson.
Coach Fiona Lukas put the achievement in perspective.
"We will not only be representing Baker School, Okaloosa County ... of course Florida, but also the United States!" she said in an email.
Baker�s team members are already excited.
"We feel really blessed because we placed second out of 19 teams," Kayleigh Patterson 17, said. "Only the top two teams get to move on to world."
"I feel really proud," Eileen Brown 17, said. "This year, we are the only team out of our whole region to go to world, and it�s just a huge honor."
However, the team must collect $6,000 by April 26 for the trip to Michigan, Lukas said. Members have planned several fundraisers, including bagging groceries and organizing car washes. The club also seeks sponsorship.
Patterson and Brown, along with OM members Nastya Bateyeba, Elizabeth Lukas, Daniel Thornton and Jaclyn Tipton, returned to Baker this week just in time for the school's open house, where principal Thomas Shipp recognized the accomplishment.
Team members presented their OM skit for faculty, parents and classmates.
Students were responsible for creating a skit � including writing the script, building the set and designing costumes � in the category"ARTchitecture: The Musical.�
The skit involved the disappearance and recovery of a historical monument, and included two musical numbers.
Sponsors wanted
Baker School�s Odyssey of the Mind team seeks sponsors for its May 22-25 Michigan trip to compete against other countries.
Interested donors can call 689-7279 or email firstname.lastname@example.com to contribute.
Contact News Bulletin Staff Writer Matthew Brown at 850-682-6524 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbMatthew.


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Chances are, when you purchased a new refrigerator for the house, you moved the old one to the barn. Problem is, in addition to being worn out, these old units can be very inefficient compared to modern refrigerators. They freeze items placed near the rear element; in the summer, they barely keep cool because the doors don't seal well.
Freezing is one of the worst events that can happen to livestock pharmaceutical products. It's something that can easily happen to everything in the old 'fridge over a large part of the country during the winter.
The above scenario is much too often the case, says Ron Torell, University of Nevada (UN) Cooperative Extension livestock specialist.
"Improperly stored vaccines are a leading cause of immune-response failure," he says. "Not only can this mean money down the drain, but when we use these improperly stored vaccines, we get a false sense of security that our cattle are protected."
Most labels suggest storing vaccines between 35°F and 45°F.
Temps above or below those recommended on vaccine labels will adversely affect all vaccines, killed or modified-live, says Mike Lathrop, Pfizer Animal Health technical services vet. The impact depends on the vaccine, and the duration and degree of variance.
Killed vaccines, as well as many modified-live vaccines, include an adjuvant to enhance the immune response. When vaccines with an adjuvant freeze, the adjuvant, or portions of the adjuvant, usually separate from the antigen(s) in the vaccine.
"The result is we can no longer expect or have confidence the vaccine will function to the level of the efficacy claims stated on the label," Lathrop adds.
David Thain, DVM, UN Extension vet, says there's also the possibility freezing may increase the amount of free endotoxin in a bacterin, which can increase the potential for adverse reactions.
"We recommend throwing vaccines out that have reached temperatures outside the ranges recommended on the label," Thain says.
In 2005-2006, UN Extension conducted a field study of refrigerators used by ranchers to evaluate the suitability and effectiveness of these vaccine-storage facilities. Researchers found 25% of the refrigerators failed to maintain vaccines in the safe range, and several refrigerators actually froze vaccines to 10°F for an extended period of time.
Refrigerators that froze vaccines in winter allowed heating to unsafe levels during summer. In another part of the study, 100% of "feed store" refrigerators maintained adequate temperatures during the entire period.
"Even if you purchase a good refrigerator for the barn, an extended subzero cold spell will freeze everything if the unit isn't in a heated room," Torell explains. "Turning the refrigerator off will do no good. If the ambient outside temperature is zero degrees for an extended period of time, the refrigerator will not maintain temperatures within the safe range."
He also warns a refrigerator that's seldom opened creeps down in temperature, just like a refrigerator that's continually opened will creep up in temperature. Vaccines stored on the door will be warmer, while vaccines near the freezer compartment will be colder.
A good refrigerator stored in an environmentally controlled room is a must. A thermometer that records minimum and maximum temps can be purchased for $14 and allows monitoring of pharmaceutical products in storage.
Torell also recommends buying only enough pharmaceutical products for your immediate needs.
"This is going to require advanced planning and ordering of vaccines," he says. "But a little attention to the seemingly minor detail of proper vaccine storage can pay big dividends."
-- Clint Peck


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|Before there was Uga,
Georgia was represented
by, yes, Stinky...
For decades, there has been some debate regarding the origin of UGA's "Bulldogs" nickname and its Bulldog mascot. Similarly to my "History of the UGA Football Helmet" (right panel), I've attempted to put together a detailed History of UGA's Nickname and Mascot, which can be found at my website.
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Booking Office
Loughborough Central Station,
Great Central Road,
The Great Central Railway is Britain's only double track main line steam railway. Train rides are available every weekend and Bank Holiday throughout the year and daily in May through to September.
Loughborough to Leicester
Disabled visitors, school parties and groups are welcome - please ring in advance. Coach parties by prior arrangement only.
Opening details
2018 prices:
All day rover ticket:
Adults £17
Family Ticket: £40 (2 adults & 3 children)
Family Ticket: £30 (1 adult & 3 children)
Seniors/Concessions £16
Child £9
Under 5s free
More price options available, see the website
Events at this Venue
|Tue 19 - Thu 21 Feb
|See Chase & Marshall from PAW Patrol
|Sat 13 - Sun 14 Apr
|Spring Diesel Gala
|Fri 19 - Mon 22 Apr
|Easter Vintage Festival
- Baby changing facilities
- Coach parties accepted
- Credit cards accepted (no fee)
- Credit cards accepted (with charge)
- Disabled toilets
- Facilities for groups
- Facilities for educational visits
- Gift shop
- On-site catering
- On-site light refreshments
- Picnic site
- Postbox
- Public toilets
- Telephone (public)
- Accepts groups
- Facilities for conferencing
- Facilities for corporate hospitality
- Children welcome
- Disabled access
- Dogs accepted
Disabled visitors, school parties and groups are welcome - please ring in advance. Coach parties by prior arrangement only.
Self-Assessed Accessibility Details
- Designated parking provided for guests with disabilities
- Within 50 metres approx. of entrance
- Surface of the car park and pathway leading to entrance is:
- Solid ie tarmac / concrete etc
- Route from the parking area to the entrance:
- Flat (ie without steps)
- Ramp
- Level access (no steps/thresholds) or access by ramp or lift to restaurant / cafe
- Level access (ie no steps or thresholds), or access by ramp or lift to the toilets
- Restaurant / cafe provide meals for visitors with special dietary requirements:
- Sugar free (diabetic)
- Gluten free (coeliacs)
- Lactose free (dairy free)
- Vegetarian
- Vegan
- High chairs for children
- Children's menu
- Ramp to entrance
GCR strive to provide safe access to all visitors of all abilities. Heritage vehicles and stations were built in an historic time where this consideration wasn't taken and whilst we continue our efforts to overcome this we do have to have restrictions in place to ensure the safety of all our visitors at all times. For full details, please call Loughborough Booking Office on 01509 632323. A brief summary of notes is below, but these are concise. Changes to the below and/or up-to-date information will be known by the Booking Office and can be event-specific and/or unique to the needs of the individual(s) visiting. Car Parking Leicester North: dropped kerbs Quorn & Woodhouse Station & Rothley Station: level kerb-free access and designated disabled parking spaces. Loughborough Station: 2 disabled parking bays; regrettably the Highways Authority has placed these bays adjacent to dropped kerbs. Car to Station Leicester North Station & Rothley Station: paved and level wheelchair-friendly access to the platforms from the parking areas. Quorn & Woodhouse Station: gravelled access from the car park – wheelchair users may need an assistant. Quorn & Woodhouse Station & Rothley Station: platform ramps are a bit stepper than modern ramps. An assistant may be needed. Loughborough Station: lift from street-level to platform-level. Loughborough, Quorn & Woodhouse & Rothley Stations: stairs from street to platform. Not suitable for wheelchair use. NOTE: The wooden slope attached to the surface of the stairs to one side of the staircase at Loughborough is a preserved relic and was historically used to get bicycles and mail bags down to platform level. It is NOT for use by wheelchairs or for any person(s) under any circumstances and use of this ramp by any person is strictly prohibited. Getting on the Train All stations and trains carry portable ramps for safe access by wheelchairs. NOTE: during off-peak times Quorn, Rothley and Leicester North stations may be unmanned, so assistance should be sought from the on-train staff. Although a small number of trains have specific accommodation suitable for less-able travellers, not all do. It is advised that a call to the booking office should be made to enquire which train carries this facility. The design of heritage stock has narrow aisles and corridors, so wheelchair access is not possible to travel through the train. Wheelchair access to board the train is available via a ramp into the guard's van. From there, those who are able to move (either aided or unaided) over a small distance should then be able to access the rest of the train into a seated area of the carriage. Station Building Access Loughborough, Quorn & Woodhouse, Rothley Stations: level wheelchair access to the station buildings. Leicester North Station: no access at present into the station buildings, but this is being looked into. Access can be made by those who can move over small distances or by wheelchair users with an assistant or carer. Toilets All Stations & Cafés have easy-access toilet facilities. No easy access toilet facilities on trains Cafés and Restaurants The Platform Café at Greenacres (Leicester North), Ellis's Tearoom (Rothley), Butler-Henderson (Quorn) and the Refreshment Room (Loughborough): all wheelchair-friendly access. Table design and layout varies at each location. Please ask a member of catering staff should you need assistance. NOTE: Ellis's Tearoom at Rothley has a lift to get to floor level due to its elevated position. Dining Trains, Buffet Car & Refreshment Services Due to the historic design we are unable to provide access to specific wheelchair spaces on our refreshment-services, including our dining trains. The design of heritage stock has narrow aisles and corridors, so wheelchair access is not possible inside the train. Wheelchair access is possible via a ramp into the guard's van and those who are able to move (either aided or unaided) over small distances should then be able to access the rest of the train into a seated area of the carriage. All dining trains have to be pre-booked so please ask any questions at the time of booking. Other Attractions at the Railway For ALL queries regarding access to any part of Great Central Railway including information for visitors of all ages and abilities, please contact the Booking Office at Loughborough. These notes are intended as a guide only and changes will not be updated here regularly. Please use these notes as they are intended, which is to guide and assist in planning ahead, but we reiterate for all firm and up-to-date information, contact us directly on 01509 632323.
Located off the A6 near Loughborough. Signposted on all major routes into Loughbrough. Parking on street is available at Loughborough, there is a car park at the stations of Quorn and Rothley. Buses run regularly from Leicester to Loughborough.


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Rock Anderson has been promoted to vice president and chief people officer for Manheim, a leading provider of vehicle remarketing services, effective July 1.
"Rock has been an important part of Manheim leadership for many years, as a key advisor to the senior executive team and as an advocate for our employees," said Sandy Schwartz, president of Manheim. "As Rock takes on this vital leadership role, I know I will be able to count on his experience, judgment and perspective to prepare the best workforce in the industry for future success."
As a human resources leader at Manheim for more than seven years, Anderson has an understanding of the business and employee culture. He also has well-established relationships with key business and community leaders, says Schwartz.
Anderson most recently served as vice president of people strategies for Manheim. In this role, he was responsible for all human resources functions, including overseeing corporate and field operations, security and employment practices. Before joining Manheim, Rock held leadership positions with several large companies including Siemens, Wachovia Bank and INROADS Inc.
Anderson is a member of the board of directors and serves as chairman of the strategic implementation committee for the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta. He is chairman of the benefits committee and a member of the finance committee for the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta and president of the finance committee for St. Anthony Catholic Church. Rock is also a Leadership Atlanta alumnus and a member of the One Hundred Black Men of Atlanta.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Manheim is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, a leading communications, media and automotive services company.


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New Columbia school added to Missouri Class 2 District 10.
With Jefferson City Helias already entrenched as a major rival, Rolla High School boys' soccer head coach Mike Howard says the Bulldogs' Missouri Class 2 District 10 was already a strong one.
And Howard said it just got stronger on Friday.
The district assignments for soccer were announced by the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) on Friday. And in addition to again being pitted with the always-rugged Helias, Rolla also has to worry about Missouri's newest public school – Columbia Battle.
The inclusion of Battle gives Class 2 District 10 a total of five schools, with the others being Rolla, Helias, Bolivar and Marshfield. The Battle Spartans will come in as a huge unknown. The team will surely be made up mostly of former players from the other two Columbia public schools – Hickman and Rock Bridge, who have both been soccer powers in the past. In fact, the Rock Bridge Bruins have advanced to the Class 3 Final Four the past two seasons, finishing third overall both years.
"It just made a tough district even tougher," Howard said. "We've just got to make sure when November comes around we're playing our best soccer and have a chance to advance."
Rolla hosted the District 10 Tournament last season and put the home field advantage to good use, clipping the Helias Crusaders 3-2 in the title game. The Bulldogs have won three consecutive district championships and four in the last five years. Last year was the first year the 'Dogs moved down from Class 3 to Class 2.
Last year RHS moved on to beat St. Francis Borgia at home in the sectionals and then fell to eventual Class 2 runner-up Carthage on the road in the quarterfinals.
Led by returning senior all-staters Aaron Froehlich – whose 66 goals was the second-most scored in Missouri prep soccer last fall – and Nate Kramme the Bulldogs have a strong group back from last season's 24-5 squad that was ranked sixth in the final 2012 Missouri Class 2 state poll.
This year's Class 2 District 10 Tournament will be held in Bolivar. If Rolla can repeat as district champion and then again meets Borgia in the sectionals, that game will be held in Washington.
And if Rolla returns to the quarterfinals against Carthage...that contest would be held in Rolla.
A lot of ifs to be sure for August.
The same district setup will no doubt be used for girls' soccer in the spring.
"That would make things really hard for our girls," Howard said. "That would be one nasty girls' district."
Helias advanced to the girls' Class 2 State Tournament championship game last spring.