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Students this Fall at Texas A&M International University will hear at least a week's worth of "welcomes" Monday, Aug. 28-Thursday Aug. 31 as the University presents TAMIU Welcome Week.
"Welcome Week" is designated as the official welcome period for enrolled TAMIU students to get the Fall Semester underway at TAMIU. Events for the week include recreational activities, a roving magician, planetarium shows, and the Kinesiology Expansion Groundbreaking.
One of the week's highlights includes a performance by NBC's "Last Comic Standing" winner and member of the U.S. Paralympic Soccer Team, Josh Blue. His self-deprecating humor often revolves around living with cerebral palsy and how he deals with it and defies stereotypes.
He encourages people to overcome their preconceived notions about disabled people with his jokes. A quick-witted comic, Blue began to perform stand-up while pursing a BA degree in creative writing from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. This event is open to TAMIU students only.
The TAMIU Welcome Week schedule is as follows:
Monday, Aug. 28: Information tent with water and popcorn at the University Green from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.; personalized souvenir postcards and key chains give-away also on the Green from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.; roving Zoot Suit balloon artist and magician on the Green from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 29: Information tent with water and popcorn at the University Green from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.; TAMIU's men's soccer team first NCAA game versus Incarnate Word in the soccer field; Josh Blue performance (open only to TAMIU students; ID required).
Wednesday, Aug. 30: Information tent with water and popcorn at the University Green from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.; Kinesiology Expansion Groundbreaking at the Lamar Bruni Vergara Memorial Garden at noon; Campus Recreation Day featuring Wild Rapid Water Ride, human gyroscope, Frisbee disc golf, obstacle course races, rock climbing wall, and fun snacks also in the LBV Memorial Garden AREA from 12:45 - 3:15 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 31: Flavors of Laredo in the Student Center Ballroom from 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.; free Planetarium shows for TAMIU students only (ID required).
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Corrections and retractions: I mistakenly said Ubik when referring to Conrad's plague devastation. It was correctly attributed to Conrad afterward in the normal course of the show so I didn't interrupt the conversation address it then but it's been eating at me nonetheless ever since!
But I get it. All bald fat guys look the same to you. It may as well have been George Costanza who caused that plague, right?
That's really funny Griffith, how long did it take you to make that?
Conrad will now forever be Costanza.
Also, is it just me or does his outfit look like Gore-Tex?

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DailyDirt: Sketchy Meats For Sale
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- Gerald Zimstein coined the term "pink slime" and the substance has been in the news because of its "yuck" factor. But pink slime isn't particularly unhealthy -- or at least it hasn't been proven so (yet?). [url]
- Tuna scrape is almost like hamburger meat, and its use in sushi could become another kind of pink slime issue. So be careful with those spicy tuna rolls... [url]
- The use of antibiotics in food production might be getting out of hand, but fortunately, we can reduce antibiotics in the meat industry by using vaccines and other techniques. The concern is that we're slowly creating a world of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. [url]
- The enzyme transglutaminase is also known as "meat glue" -- and creating frankenstein steaks from cheap cuts of meat. While transglutaminase is generally safe and naturally occurring, the danger of using it comes from gluing together pieces of meat that may have bacteria contamination -- and when the glued-together meat is merely seared on the outside, the rare inside isn't properly cooked (and not sterile like the inner part of a single piece of meat). [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]


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Smuggled Gaza-Bound Missiles US Made? Maybe Not
(CAIRO, Egypt) -- Egyptian authorities say that the six anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles they seized from alleged smugglers headed for Gaza were of U.S. origin – but weapons proliferation experts cast doubt on the claim.
The weapons, which were intercepted in the Sinai desert, were believed to have come from Libya and to have been manufactured by U.S. firms, Egyptian security sources told reporters.
But Peter Bouckaert of Human Rights Watch, who tracked weapons in Libya after the fall of Gadhafi, said he "was not aware of any American weapons in Libya neither from the days of Gadhafi nor under the rebels."
"This is probably a misidentification of weapons systems, confusing weapons made by NATO allies such as France and Italy with U.S.-made weapons," said Bouckaert.
The U.S. State Department bans the sale and transfer of lethal defense materials to Libya.
Since the fall of Libya's longtime dictator Gadhafi at the hands of the rebels in 2011, weapons have been transferred from Libya to Gaza through the Sinai desert, though none have been documented as U.S.-made, according to Human Rights Watch. The weapons smuggled have mainly been Soviet and Warsaw Pact shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, known as Manpads, as well as Belgian FM 2000 rifles and Russian AK-1032 rifles.
The missiles seized in the Sinai Friday reportedly have a range of up to one mile and were buried in a hole outside the city of el-Arish in the Sinai desert early Friday morning according to Ma'an.
The Sinai desert has been a main passageway for weapons smuggling into Gaza. It is dominated by Bedouin tribes and has seen a security vacuum since the Egyptian uprising in February 2011. Through a complex system of underground tunnels, Hamas, the militant Palestinian faction that rules the Gaza strip, as well as other armed groups have been able to smuggle Iranian-made long and medium-range rockets as well as raw materials to make explosives.
Last month Egyptian security forces seized 17 French-made missiles en route to Gaza, according to news reports.
There has been mounting pressure on Egypt to stymie weapons smuggling to Gaza since the ceasefire that ended the last round of hostilities between Israel and Gaza in November 2012.
Israel has imposed a blockade on the Gaza strip since 2007 which includes weapons as well as many basic goods such as food stuffs, medical supplies and stationery.
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How One 'No Name' Musician Used Free Music To Build A Following
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So, the best we can do is continue to show examples of how it works... for musicians of all "sizes" and levels of fame. One of Techdirt's longtime readers, and a well known "social media guru," Adam Singer, sent in a very personal example: himself. It turns out that, on the side, he's been something of a hobbyist musician. After years of trying to sell his music from various sites and getting nowhere, he went free and found an entirely different experience. He chose a Creative Commons license for his music, and it was like "magic." Because people could easily pass around and share his music, suddenly he had a following. Many more people heard his music, even to the point of people creating a profile page for his music on Last.fm, his music showing up on popular music blogs and internet radio programs -- and even people asking to commission him to write new music for them. To say that Adam is a convert would be an understatement.


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Donald Rumsfeld's Rules for Successful Meetings
One tip: Stand while you work—it keeps people from lingering
At their worst, meetings can be both useless and mind-numbing. It calls to mind an observation made in that endless font of wise management advice, the comic strip Dilbert: "There is no specific agenda for this meeting. As usual, we'll just make unrelated emotional statements about things which bother us."
Not every meeting has to be a source of dread. If you think about it, a meeting's function is to pool an organization's collective wisdom and knowledge in one room, making it easier for a manager to learn what...


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Tackling is more about will than any technique a football player can be taught.
Such is the opinion of San Gorgonio High School football coach Ron Gueringer, who didn't bat an eye when Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Monday restricting the full-contact portion of high school football practice to three hours per week.
"My entire head coaching career I've been limiting contact and not bringing guys to the ground in practice," Gueringer said. "I think you're either a tackler or you're not. I'm not saying there isn't technique involved, but it's more about heart and desire. We go full contact for much less than three hours a week."
He has encountered plenty of coaches that disagree with his philosophy, but Gueringer hasn't seen any negative effects on Friday nights from limited contact in practice. The coach of the No. 1 playoff seed in last year's CIF-SS Eastern Division said limiting injuries Monday through Thursday far outweighs anything that can be taught through full-contact drills.
"I don't know of anybody," San Dimas head coach Bill Zernickow said, "who hits more than three hours per week anymore."
Those most negatively effected by Assembly Bill 2127, which also includes a new return-to-play protocol for those who have suffered a concussion and a mandate of no full-contact practices in the offseason, are players who have little experience with contact.
Norwalk High School, which was one loss shy of a CIF-SS Southeast Division championship last season, is home to plenty of such players.
"We get a lot of kids who haven't played much football when they come out for the team," Norwalk coach Jesse Ceniceros said. "They don't know the basics of tackling and they don't know how to handle the contact. This (bill) may hold us back developing players on the freshman level."
The largest concern of Ceniceros are the logistics of AB 2127, which leaves some gray area as to what constitutes full contact.
Monitoring and enforcing the three hours of full contact, which has to be limited to two sessions of no more than 90 minutes on two separate days, adds another layer of responsibility for high school football coaches.
"It's a good law, but it's going to make us head coaches more susceptible to lawsuits," Ceniceros said. "When a kid gets hurt, the first thing they're going to ask is, 'Did it happen during the allotted time for contact?'"
Some football parents, however, believe contact increases safety. Mounting evidence of the head injuries at which this legislation is aimed doesn't make the issue black and white.
Brenda Tilford, the mother of highly recruited Upland High School sophomore running back Nathan Tilford, believes a healthy amount of contact in practice is an essential part of the learning process.
"I believe head injuries a lot of the time have a lot to do with a lack of coaching and I think if players are taught properly how to absorb a hit and make a hit, it can eliminate a lot of them," Brenda Tilford said. "So, I think full contact in practice makes the game safer in a sense."
Several high-profile former NFL players have gotten behind the movement away from unlimited full-contact practice in high school football. Ronnie Lott, Mike Ditka, Archie Manning and Warren Moon, among others, are supporting Practice Like Pros, an organization founded by former New Orleans Saints executive Terry O'Neil that is promoting non-contact practice techniques.
Though accurate numbers are admittedly difficult to find, O'Neil estimates there are "well more than 100,000 concussions suffered each season in high school football."
After restricting its full-contact practices in the 2010 collective bargaining agreement, the NFL combined for just four concussions in practice last season and three in 2013.
Redlands East Valley head coach Kurt Bruich prefers full contact for one week before the season after which he eliminates all contact outside of games. It's a far cry from the philosophy when he was a receiver on the 1987 national champion Fontana High School football team.
"Practice was basically a free-for-all back then, but that was just a different era," Bruich said. "I think a lot of us got head injuries, but nobody knew any better then. I learned a long time ago, the only time worth risking injury is Friday nights."


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Police are on the hunt for a gun-wielding suspect that robbed a bank in Westchester on Monday.
Police said that at approximately 5:45 p.m. on Monday afternoon, a suspect walked into Chase Bank on South Broadway in Tarrytown demanding money while wearing a dark-colored mask and holding a handgun.
The suspect was handed an undisclosed amount of money and fled the scene. Police described him as approximately 5-foot-6 and said he fled in an unknown direction after demanding the cash.
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Calendar information to 30 E. First Ave., email it to email@example.com, or mail it to The Calendar, The Dispatch, P.O. Box 908, Lexington, 27293 so it is at The Dispatch one week prior to its publication date. Include an address for the event. Events listed below are in Lexington, unless otherwise noted. For publication of church and nonprofit yard sales, please call classified advertising at 249-1637.
Calendar information to 30 E. First Ave., email it to email@example.com, or mail it to The Calendar, The Dispatch, P.O. Box 908, Lexington, 27293 so it is at The Dispatch one week prior to its publication date. Include an address for the event. Events listed below are in Lexington, unless otherwise noted. For publication of church and nonprofit yard sales, please call classified advertising at 249-1637.
Welcome Lions Club will have a fundraising dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Center United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 186 Center Church Road, Welcome. The menu is country-style steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, baked apples, homemade rolls, homemade desserts and tea or coffee. All tickets are pre-sold and are $10. Tickets are available from any Welcome Lions member, NewBridge Bank in Welcome or Bank of North Carolina in Welcome. Meals are eat in or take out.
Servant's House Ministry, 601 Cotton Grove Road, will have a car wash from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at NewBridge Bank on Lowes Boulevard. It will be for the outside of vehicles only. Rain date is April 20.
Join Relay for Life Team KO at Central Wesleyan Church, 300 Hinkle St., Thomasville, for a pancake breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. Saturday. Plate includes pancakes, sausage, fruit and drinks. Cost is $6 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under.
Relay For Life Team Fishers for Life will be hosting a car wash on from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at Advance Auto Parts, Thomasville. For $5 get your ride cleaned.
A benefit motorcycle ride in memory of cancer survivor Carolyn Adams will be held on Saturday at Done Right Auto, Denton. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and the ride begins at 11 a.m. Ride will be escorted by the Davidson County Sheriff's Department. Giveaways, 50/50 drawing, live band and hot dog plates will be available. If you would like to register for this ride please visit www.relayforlife.org/davidsonnc.
Bake sale and fish fry hosted by Relay For Life Team Maggie will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the corner of Dixie Street and Smith Avenue. Sandwiches are $3, plates are $7 and includes two pieces of fish, baked beans, slaw, roll and a dessert.
Relay for Life Reeds Renegades will be hosting a fundraiser concert with Gruve Complex at Big Rock Tavern, National Boulevard, at 9 p.m. Saturday. Gruve Complex plays a mixture of music from the '70s, '80s and '90s. Admission will be $5. There will be T-shirts available for purchase and a 50/50 drawing.
A free liturgical dance workshop for ages 5-19 is being offered at 2 p.m. April 20 and 27 at the Robbins Recreation Center. Participants will perform at the 17th Annual Multicultural Festival. To register, visit www.lexingtonnc.net. Note: Registrations can be accepted through the day of the workshop. For additional information, contact Tammy Curry at 248-3960, ext. 3237.
Meadowview Presbyterian Church's Spring Work day will be from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday April 20.
Creasey's Conquerors will be hosting a benefit car wash at Newbridge Bank 941 Randolph St., Thomasville, from 1 to 4 p.m. April 20. For a donation, you can get your ride cleaned.
@:Cornhole tournament benefiting Relay For Life of Davidson County will be hosted by Kendyl's Crusaders at 4p.m. on Saturday April 27 at 2319 Hoover Road. To register, contact Jerry Wayne Freedle at 971-0389. Kid friendly. No alcohol please.
Community Fellowship Moravian Church, 181 Welcome-Arcadia Road, Welcome, will be having a chicken pie-country ham dinner fundraiser from 11 am to 7 p.m. April 20. Dinners are $8 per plate and include chicken pie and country ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, moravian slaw, dessert and beverage. Dine in or take out. Call 731-8265 for more information.
New Friendship United Church of Christ, 307 Turner Road, will host a spaghetti supper from 4 to 6:30 p.m. April 20. Cost isd $6 for spaghetti, salad and dessert. Sponsored by the Women's Guild of the church. Dine in or take out.
The Hedrick's Grove Reformed UCC Men's Fellowship, corner of Allred Road and Old Highway 64 East, will sell barbecued chicken plates from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 20. Tickets are $7.50 and available from any member of the group. Eat in or take out. The Women's Fellowship will have a baked goods and craft sale. The group is also selling tickets for a "Carolina Favorite" gift basket (everything made in North Carolina), a $100 Lowe's gift card and a mosaic mirror. The Youth Fellowship will be selling hot dogs.
Pop Warner football has arrived in Davidson County. Community information sessions will be held at 10 a.m. April 20 at Ledford High School, at 10 a.m. May 4 at North Davidson High School and at 10 a.m. May 11 at Central Davidson High School. Also check us out at www.dcpwfl.org.
South Side Village second annual cookout will be held at Finch Park from 3 to 7 p.m. April 27. Anyone interested in attending this event please contact any board member for more information.: Alandra Reid, 357-2230; Beverly Gilchrist, 248-0048; Laura Fuller, 357-7773; and Shando Perkins, 300-1828.
The Bethesda United Methodist Church Youth will host its annual Spring Fest from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 27. Hot dogs and hamburgers (donation only) and having a lot of fun. From 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. food will be served, the second annual chili cook-off will take place, as well as auctioning off our youth for labor and ending with a corn-hole tournament. The cornhole tournament will be the closing event. There will be a $100 grand prize and $50 prize to the runner up. It will be double elimination. Cost to register your two person team is $20 if you preregister; $25 for walk ins. During the live auction, everyone will be given the opportunity to place bids for your chance to win the labor of the youth. There are categories such as;window washing, mowing lawns, cleaning gutters, painting, babysitting, cooking dinner and more. The winner of the 2013 chili cook off will be determined by a panel of judges and will claim the title of 2013's "Chili Champ". There is no fee for entering but there is a great prize for the winner. Call or write Jake Morgan if you would like to enter your pot of chili or have any questions regarding this event.
A reunion for former Duracell employees will take place from 2 to 8 p.m. April 28 at Finch Park shelter No. 4. Participants should bring a covered dish and/or dessert and drink. Paper products and ice will be provided. The meal will begin at 5 p.m.
The 10th annual Thomasville Spring Daze Festival sponsored by the City Beautification Committee will be held 9 a.m. till 3 p.m., May 4 in downtown Thomasville on East Main Street, rain or shine. There is no admission for the springtime festival that brings vendors offering a variety of plants, flowers, lawn and garden, and home décor items that range from handmade outdoor furniture to jewelry. Vendor applications can be picked up at Thomasville City Hall or downloaded from the Thomasville city website thomasville-nc.gov, go to city board beautification, click on Spring Daze vendor application.
City of Lexington Recreation and Parks Department's Annual Multicultural Festival will be held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. May 4 at Finch Park. Five cultural villages are represented (African-American, Asian, European, Latino and Native American) that showcase various cultures through exhibits, demonstrations, ethnic foods and cultural entertainment. The festival will also host its Second Annual Multicultural Festival 5K Run/Walk for Wellness. Applications to participate in the parade can be found on the City of Lexington's website. Free admission including shuttle service provided every 15 minutes to the park from Roses Shopping Center. For additional information, contact the City of Lexington Recreation Department at 248-3960, visit www.lexingtonnc.net or www.facebook.com/lexingtonrecreation.
Dunbar High School Class of 1961 will meeting and fish fry at 2 p.m. May 11 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Fortune. For information, call Pauline Norman at 225-6886.
Ledford High School Athletic Boosters golf tournament, dinner and mini auction will begin with registration at 1 p.m. May 18 at Meadowlands Golf Club. All proceeds help fund the multipurpose gym and enhance current athletic programs. Buy tickets, become a sponsor or donate items at https://ledford.ejoinme.org/lhsgolf2013.
The Lexington Class of 1963 will hold a 50-year reunion in October. Invitations will be sent to class members with details. Provide contact information for class members to Dawn Koonts Shaak at 214 W. Center St., Lexington, NC 27292 by April 30.
Governments and Groups
Ezekial AME Zion Church, 314 E. Fourth St. Center, will have a chicken and fish plate sale from noon to 8 p.m. each Friday through June 28. The cost of a plate is $6.
The First Lutheran Church clothing closet will be open at its location beside the Habitat ReStore on East Third Avenue from 9 a.m. until noon on the third Saturday of each month. The closet is open to anyone in need, offering clothes for infants through adults. Those wishing to donate items are asked to call the church office at 248-6018.


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Mumbai: Popular singer Daler Mehndi`s son Gurdeep makes his Bollywood debut with 'Meri Shaadi Karao' and the actor says he is proud of the fact that he is the first original `sardaar` hero in Bollywood.
"This is for the first time that Hindi cinema will see an original sardar playing the protagonist. So far only actors have donned a sardar`s look on screen but it will be great to see an original sardar in the film. I am representing my community and it is a great moment for our community," Gurdeep told IANS.
The 23-year-old is even more excited about the fact that his entire family has contributed in his debut film.
"My debut film will see my entire family`s contribution. My mom is playing a small role in the film, my sister has sung a song and the film is presented by my father Daler Mehndi. It wasn`t a conscious effort though but things fell in place on its own," he said.
Though Gurdeep admits music is in his blood, he prefers acting over it.
"Music is in my blood, but I chose acting over it. I have sung four songs in the film but there will always be a comparison with my dad. I can never give competition to my father as he is in a different league altogether," he said.
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A prosecutor at a tribunal in the Hague attempts to convince a potential witness to testify in a crucial case against the man accused of deporting and killing Bosnian-Muslim civilians in a small town now known as the Republika Srpska in this tense courtroom drama from director Hans-Christian Schmid. Hannah Maynard is determined to make Goran Duric pay for his crimes against humanity. Her case is complicated, however, when a key witness in the trial becomes ensnared by the contradictions of his own testimony. In order to gain a better understanding of the facts of the case, the court sends a delegation to Bosnia, where the suspicions regarding the reliability of the witness are quickly confirmed. When the witness commits suicide, it begins to appear as if Duric will walk free. Now, Hannah's last hope of keeping the case alive is to travel to the witnesses' funeral in Sarajevo. There, Hannah comes into contact with the witnesses' sister Mira, who seems to know more about the defendant than she readily admits. Hannah works hard to gain Mira's trust, eventually convincing the girl to face her fears of the past and testify in the Hague. When Duric's defense team attempts to have Mira's testimony disallowed and finds their efforts unexpectedly supported by the members of the judiciary, Hannah realizes that her greatest adversaries aren't necessarily at the docks, but standing right beside her in the courtroom every day.~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide


text: Guyana, a former British colony on the north shore of South America, may soon supplant Trinidad and Tobago as the Caribbean region's biggest oil producer. Reuters/Andrea De Silva November 1, 2017 Guyana, one of South America's poorest countries, struck oil. Will it go boom or bust? Anthony T. Bryan, The University of the West Indies: St. Augustine Campus Guyana is on the verge of an oil bonanza that could bring in US$1 million a day. But if it's not careful, this poor nation – population 750,000 – could fall prey to the dreaded 'resource curse.'


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The celebration call was a rousing success full of warmth, laughter and, yes, celebration! For those of you who couldn't be there, you were missed. But I wanted to be sure you didn't miss out, so I recorded the call so that you can take part in your own time. But if you're going to listen, I have one request: please, wherever you are when you're listening, do the happy dance along with everyone! And thank you to everyone who made the call. It was a joy to share the hour with you!
Your Creative Spark...
I also have some big announcements and lots of wonderful news. First, I'd like to officially announce the release of Your Creative Spark: Inspiring Interviews with 12 Highly Creative Bloggers.
This is a collection of all of the interviews from our 12 weeks together - plus additional bonuses from the interviewees and complete transcripts. There's almost 3 hours of audio and 122 pages of text! I'm offering a special price until Sunday, April 5th at midnight! For more details and to order, go to www.yourcreativespark.com.
The Winner...
You may remember that people who participated in The Next Chapter survey were eligible for a draw to receive this collection for free.
And the winner is (drum roll please...): Boho Mom!!!
I'll be in touch with you soon about how to pick up your prize.
Our Next Book...
I am thrilled to announce that our next book is going to be playful, lively and a big stretch for some of us:
And this week, if you'd like to share your celebrations, intentions or reactions, or anything else for that matter, I've added one final Mr. Linky for The Next Chapter: The 12 Secrets edition.
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Mexican mayor detained for alleged links to cartel
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A mayor in the western state of Michoacan was detained for allegedly ordering the killing of a friend and extorting her employees and street vendors in her city on behalf of a drug cartel, authorities said Thursday.
Michoacan state prosecutors said in a statement that Huetamo Mayor Dalia Santana told her friend to meet her for breakfast at a Chinese restaurant, where a gunman shot him to death last year. The gunman was a member of the Knights Templar drug cartel, which is based in Michoacan.
Officials said Santana demanded 20 percent of her employees' salaries and also extorted street vendors and gave the money to Servando Gomez, the alleged leader of the Knights Templar cartel.
Santana is the fifth official detained in Michoacan this year for alleged links to organized crime. Authorities have also arrested the mayors of Aguililla, Apatzingan and Lazaro Cardenas. In April, federal investigators detained Jesus Reyna, Michoacan's former interior secretary, the state's second highest-ranking official.
The mayor's arrest was the latest case that appears to illustrate the near complete control the pseudo-religious Knights Templar exerted over Michoacan until vigilante groups began fighting them in February 2013.
Michoacan, a fertile agricultural state that also produces drugs and is on a key trafficking route, was long under the sway of the Knights Templar. But the cartel was chased out of many towns by the vigilantes, and the federal government took over control of the state in January.


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Perfect Dark - Four-Player Mayhem Gameplay Movie
Four players and several bots shoot each other.
Four players and several bots shoot each other.
A player snipes at a villa.
A player runs across evil women with shotguns.
A player finds alien technology at Area 51.
A player shoots her way into a secret military warehouse.
A player takes down a special security team.
A player shoots through guards.
It's a busy week at retailers with God of War III, Metro 2033, Resonance of Fate, and more hitting store shelves.
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A Virginia woman has garnered support from thousands of people for her request to Victoria's Secret: Make bras that breast cancer survivors can wear with pride.
Allana Maiden, 27, of Richmond wants the lingerie company to start a line of bras for women who have undergone mastectomy surgery and who now have trouble finding comfortable, attractive bras that fit well.
As of noon on Friday, her public petition to the company on the website Change.org had more than 92,200 signatures, as well as plenty of well-wishes over social media.
Maiden's request was inspired by her own mother, Debbie Barrett, a 21-year breast cancer survivor. Barrett had a mastectomy and wears a prosthesis, and must drive a long way from her home in rural Saltville, Va., to a specialty store to find a bra that fits.
"She lives in a small rural town, and the closest mall is probably a half hour away," Maiden told the Daily News. "She was driving an hour and a half to go to the closest store that sold specialty bras.
"She only goes when she absolutely needs to. She doesn't get to enjoy shopping for bras like most women do.
"So I thought, Victoria's Secret, they have stores in pretty much every mall I've ever been to -- so who would be better to start a line of bras that would be accessible to everyone?"
Tammy Roberts Myers, the company's vice president of external communications, spoke with Maiden Thursday.
"She asked me a few questions about how mastectomy bras work, and said she would pass it along to the right people at the company," Maiden said.
A Victoria's Secret rep said the company has no public statement at this time.
Its parent company, Columbus, Ohio-based Limited Brands, has lent its support to breast cancer awareness initiatives in the past, including Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Race for the Cure. In the past two years the company has raised nearly $10 million for cancer research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
"With a workforce and a customer base that are more than 90 percent female, breast cancer is an issue close to many of us at Limited Brands," the company's website states.


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Splashing Off - Common Goldeneye
Common Goldeneye in Flight from 2017 Workshop.
Lesser Scaup in Flight
A Lesser Scaup drake takes flight during the 2017 workshop.
Common Merganser taking flight
A splash off, Common Merganser (Male) takes flight during the 2017 Birds Galore Workshop.
Wood Duck Portrait
A Wood Duck drake poses for his closeup during the 2017 photography workshop.
Hooded Merganser (Male) - George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary
Hooded Merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus
An American Widgeon flies across the pond towards the photographers during the workshop in 2017.
Flashy! Bufflehead (Male)
The morning light really shows the iridescent feathers of this Bufflehead duck during the 2017 workshop.
Getting to low to enter the birds world is of the concepts that we work on during the Birds Galore Photography Workshop in British Columbia. Taken during 2017 workshop.
Northern Harrier (Female) in Flight
A cool owl like raptor soaring in search of food during the 2017 workshop.
Green-winged Teal
A Green-winged Teal keeping a watchful on the photography group in 2017.
Flaps Down - Mallard in Flight
A female Mallard flying at the photographers during the 2017 Birds Galore Photography Workshop in British Columbia.
Golden-crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia atricapilla
Golden-crowned Sparrow foraging in the leaf litter in 2017.
I see you! Short-eared Owl
A Short-eared Owl pauses his hunt in the delta surrounding Boundary Bay for a photo ops in 2017.
Short-eared Owl - Boundary Bay Delta
A Short-eared Owl resting after a successful hunt near Boundary Bay during the 2017 workshop.
Fluffy the Short-eared Owl
A Short-eared Owl all fluffed up and ready for his closeup during the 2017 Birds Galore Photography Workshop.
Splitsville - Spotted Towhee
We spotted several Spotted Towhees during the 2017 workshop.
Northern Flicker
Early morning rim high illuminates this Northern Flicker in Boundary Bay, British Columbia. Photographed during the 2017 Workshop.
Fox Sparrow and Bramble
A Fox Sparrow posing in a berry bramble with early morning light during the 2017 workshop.
Short-eared Owl in Flight
I used a slow shutter speed to emphasize the fast flight of this Short-eared Owl. Photographed during the 2017 workshop.
Quack! - Northern Pintail Duck
A Northern Pintail sounding off in British Columbia. Photographed during the 2017 photography workshop.
Ring-necked Pheasant
A Ring-necked Pheasant from Birds Galore - Bald Eagles and More Photography Workshop in 2017
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by Michael Caruso
As the organist, choir director, and music director at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Zach Hemenway automatically occupies a position of prominence, not just in Chestnut Hill but in all of Greater Philadelphia. Both St. Paul's Church and the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the other Episcopal parish "on the Hill," are among the leading parishes in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, especially regarding their music programs. Probably only St. Mark's Church downtown occupies a similar position as an active parish with an excellent musical establishment.
For those of us who are fans of Hemenway's organ playing and choral conducting, the last three weekends have offered a trio of opportunities to hear him in different settings. On Sunday, Feb. 10, Hemenway led the final Choral Evensong before the start of Lent at St. Paul's Church. The following Sunday, Feb. 17, he was organist for Choral Roman Vespers for the First Sunday of Lent at Old St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Society Hill. Finally, on Sunday, Feb. 24, Hemenway performed a solo organ recital on the mighty Aeolian-Skinner at St. Paul's Church. Each was a success.
The Feb. 10 Choral Evensong was presided over by St. Paul's rector, the Very Rev. E. Clifford Cutler. Singing under Hemenway's direction were the parish's combined Trebles and Adult choristers. The afternoon's two major works were Herbert Murrill's settings of the "Magnificat" (My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord) and the "Nunc Dimittis" (Lord, now lettest thou they servant depart in peace). The words of the "Magnificat" were taken by Anglican reformers from the Latin Vespers while the latter text comes from Compline, which follows Vespers in the Liturgies of the Hours. Murrill was a prominent Anglican composer of the first half of the 20th century and wrote expressive choral music for the traditional services of the Church of England.
Perhaps the afternoon's finest work, however, was Ralph Vaughan Williams' anthem, "Let all the world in every corner sing." The great English composer not only delivers the text but deepens its understanding through eloquent tone-painting and musical development.
Hemenway's masterful conducting of his 70-plus combined choirs was remarkable, even against the standard of professional-based choruses. Maintaining an unblemished tonal blend is difficult among adult singers. To add into the choral mix voices of youngsters creates an almost impossible challenge. Yet Hemenway met that challenge and triumphed.
Hemenway was the organist for Old St. Joseph's Catholic Church's Lenten Choral Vespers, Feb. 17, presided over by its pastor, Father Daniel Ruff. He played Bach's Chorale Prelude: "Erbarm dich mein O Herre Gott" and accompanied the church's Schola Cantorum in musical settings of three Psalms, one Epistle reading and Leo Nester's setting of the "Magnificat."
The organ at Old St. Joe's was originally built by E.M. Skinner for St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Germantown and was only recently installed at the church. It is similar to the Aeolian-Skinner at St. Paul's Church, both designed in the American symphonic/romantic tradition.
The difference for Hemenway was more the venue than the repertoire. Whereas St. Paul's Church is substantial in size, Old St. Joe's is a virtual chapel in comparison. In fact, it was referred to in colonial maps of Philadelphia as either a "popish" or "romish" chapel. The current structure, built in 1837, boasts the region's most resonant acoustics, so an organist accustomed to filling a large church without resonant acoustics has to pull back so as not to overwhelm a congregation in a smaller one. Hemenway accomplished this feat superbly.
Hemenway really came into his own Feb. 24, presenting a solo organ recital on St. Paul's magnificent Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ. Before a large audience, he played Tournemire's Improvisation on the "Te Deum," two chorale preludes by Bach, settings of Psalm 23 by Sweelinck and Howells, Franck's "Chorale No. 3," a chorale prelude by Brahms, Virgil Fox's arrangement of the Shaker hymn, "Simple Gifts," and Dupre's "Evocation, III: Allegro Deciso."
Hemenway projected the shimmering, silvery timbres of the Tournemire. In both the Franck and the Dupre, he showcased the vast orchestral palette of St. Paul's organ. But for me, Hemenway's loveliest rendition was that given Fox's disarmingly unaffected arrangement of "Simple Gifts." The lush harmonies were delivered through sumptuous registrations that surrounded the beloved hymn tune with a glowing aureole of angelic voices.


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This could be it Cord. Jet and Cord won!
Quote from: HIIPERS GIRL on May 03, 2010, 04:54:04 AMThis could be it Cord. Jet and Cord won!Didn't you say Dan & Jordan won in an earlier thread and am I reading you correctly?
Maybe the trunk is a memory task - it kind of looks like an old fashioned travel trunk. It could be full of items representing various locales and tasks, and when they arrive at their destination the memory task begins??
That's not a label for a checked bag, looks more like an airline label used for carry-on bags which some airlines require you to put on your bag.,
Quote from: gingerman28 on May 02, 2010, 10:13:56 PMThat's not a label for a checked bag, looks more like an airline label used for carry-on bags which some airlines require you to put on your bag.,Agree, the blue one on cowboys' bag is just a name tag, with words "Name Label" and Chinese 姓名牌 on it, probably just those you could get in airport check-in counter
Which team won the race?
Its Jet and Cord/Dan and Jordan/Brent and Caite (45/45/10)
No. Jet and Cord won.
Its a fact that Dan and Jordan won.
... most probably Dan and Jordan will win. Jet and Cord 1st runner up, Brent and Caite 2nd
... Brent and Caitlin is definitely 3rd.
Speculated Finale Placements1st: Jet and Cord2nd: Dan and Jordan3rd: Brent and Caitie
The bottom line is that Jet and Cord won. END
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While his pal John Graziano, the former Marine who was critically injured in the souped-up car Hogan crashed on August 26, remains in a coma in Florida, Hogan spent the day kibbitzing with fans in the NOPI Drift Racing Booth at the show.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, the case against Hogan could go to the State Attorney as soon as today.
Meanwhile, Nick's dad, Hulk Hogan, spent Tuesday night partying at the Playboy Club in The Palms Hotel.


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and Unity Stamp Co. TWO-day event!
You should be joining me from Maria Gurnsey's blog - Gingham and Polka Dots, if not then head to the beginning on the Unity Stamp Co. Blog. You wouldn't want to miss any of the inspiration or a chance to win a prize!
With all the blog-swaps that are happening out there lately, I can't think of one more exciting than when the amazing women of SPELLBINDERS™ get together with the rock stars of UNITY STAMP COMPANY! We can't wait to show you a special line of coordinating products featuring SPELLBINDERS die templates and SAMANTHA WALKER for Unity Stamp Co. rubber stamps!
Not only are we thrilled to be collaborating on such a special 2-day event, but ONE of you will win ALL of the coordinating stamps and dies from the Samantha Walker collection! We will also have 1 winner each day from the comments that will receive one Samantha Walker stamp set and coordinating dies. So be sure to enjoy our hop both days, leave comments on all of the blogs each day and check back to see if you won! (winners will be posted on Wednesday, October 19th on the Unity Blog and Spellbinders Blog)
Today, I have 2 projects to share! A card and a little notebook!
I worked with Spellbinders S5-074 Retro Mod Clocks and a coordinating stamp set from Unity Stamp Co., also called Retro Mod Clocks. The stamps add such great detail to the clocks.
First, I put together this card......
Do you see what I mean about the detail on the clock? All the scrolls and shape lines!
First, I stamped the clock with black ink and clear heat embossed it. Then I aligned the matching Spellbinders S5-074 Retro Mod Clocks die template and taped it in place. I cut it out using my Grand Calibur Machine. I also had the clock face die template in place to cut out the clock face at the same time. I stamped the clock face again on cream card stock with black ink and also clear heat embossed it. I used the matching clock face die template to cut it out. Of course, it fits perfectly in the clock!
For the card background, I used just a portion of Spellbinders LF-190 Grand Labels Four #6 (#1 being the smallest) to cut the shaped background from My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Christmas "trees" paper. I made the same cut on black card stock. I matted it behind slightly offset to add the narrow border.
Below the clock, I created a border with at strip of My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Christmas "Boughs" paper and black card stock. I cut one edge of the black card stock with Spellbinders E8-002 Classic Bracket Edgeabilities. It makes a great border to define the space for my verse. I also added another strip with the bracket edge at the bottom. I added some tiny dots of black Enamel Accents across the wider strip.
This card is 3 1/2 x 8 1/2".
For my second project, I dressed up a Target notebook .
This is what it looked like before.......
and the the notebook after........
I added a clock and a verse to the cover! Really quite simple and quick!
The clock was stamped and heat embossed with gold embossing powder on black card stock. I cut out the clock using the matching die template from Spellbinders Retro Mod Clocks. This time I didn't cut out the clock face. Instead, I stamped it again on cream card stock, cut it out with the matching Spellbinders die template and glued it over the black clock. I used a Versamark marker to ink a few details on the clock and then heat embossed those spots with clear embossing powder. It adds a few shiny accents!
I stamped the verse with black ink and clear heat embossed it.
I inked the cover a little with Distress Vintage Photo to add a little more color. I inked the back cover, too.
On the inside cover, I stamped another verse.
A quick and inexpensive project when you need just a little gift!
Thanks so much for stopping!!!
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Ashley Richardson Allen, Chris Carpenter, Wendi Nix
New Wofford Trustees are, from left, Ashley Richardson Allen, Chris Carpenter '90 and Wendi Nix '96.
– Three new members have been elected to the Wofford College Board of Trustees while five others have been re-elected to four-year terms. The appointments were made at the Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church of South Carolina held in Florence, S.C., June 1-4.
The new trustees, elected to four-year terms, are
Ashley Richardson Allen
of Charlotte, N.C, community volunteer and minority owner of the Carolina Panthers;
Christopher A.P. Carpenter
'90 of Atlanta, Ga., partner with the Garrett McNatt Hennessey Carpenter 360 law firm; and
Wendi M. Nix
'96 of New York, N.Y., ESPN reporter and host. They replace three trustees whose terms expired in June, Paula B. Baker of Spartanburg, S.C., Hugh C. Lane Jr. of Charleston, S.C., and Joella F. Utley of Spartanburg.
Re-elected to new four-year terms were: H. Neel Hipp of Greenville, S.C.; Douglas H. Joyce '79 of Nashville, Tenn.; Betty J. Montgomery of Spartanburg; Stanley E. Porter '89 of Chevy Chase, Md.; and Edward B. Wile '73 of Atlanta.
At the May meeting of the board of trustees, these officers were elected for the 2014-15 year: J. Harold Chandler '71 of Kiawah Island, S.C., chair; James M. Johnson '71 of Birmingham, Ala., vice chair; C. Michael Smith '75 of Greenville, vice chair and secretary; and John B. White Jr. '72 of Spartanburg, vice chair.
Ashley Richardson Allen
, a community volunteer and minority owner of the Carolina Panthers, is the daughter of Wofford alumnus Jerry Richardson '59. For 20 years, she has represented the Richardson family in working with Wofford to administer the Richardson Family Endowed Scholarship, the largest and most prestigious such scholarship at the college. She is actively engaged in the selection process and helps to oversee the family's relationship with the scholars once they are enrolled and after they graduate. As the daughter of one of Wofford's most outstanding and well-known graduates, Allen is the leader of the next generation of the family with respect to their business interests and Wofford involvement.
An attorney and consultant who has worked in politics, government and public affairs in Washington, D.C., and throughout the South,
Chris Carpenter
is a partner with the Garrett McNatt Hennessey Carpenter 360 law firm in Atlanta, Ga. Carpenter works with clients to develop and execute strategic public affairs solutions at all levels of government and policy. As a political consultant and policy strategist he is a veteran of numerous federal, state and local campaigns. While in the public sector, he served as legislative counsel in the office of Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes and later served as the chief of staff for Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor. Carpenter also served as the legal adviser to several committees in the Georgia General Assembly. He also worked in the private sector as a trial lawyer. Campaigns and Elections magazine recently recognized him as one of the leading "Georgia Influencers," naming him one of the "Top 10" political insiders in the state. Carpenter also has been named one of the "Top 40 Under 40" by Georgia Trend magazine and a "Rising Star in the Legal Community" by the Fulton County Daily Report. He is a cum laude graduate of Wofford College and holds a J.D. from the Emory University School of Law.
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joined ESPN in August 2006 as a reporter and host covering college and pro football and golf. Nix hosts both "NFL Live" and "College Football Live" and contributes regularly to "SportsCenter," "College GameDay" and "Sunday NFL Countdown." Since the 2010 season, Nix has been host of ESPN2's pre-, halftime and post-game segments on college football Saturdays. In the 2009 NFL season, Nix served as host of the "Monday Night Football" Chalk Talk luncheon program that showcases the teams and host cities participating in the weekly MNF primetime games and honors local civic and community leaders. She covered the U.S. Open golf tournament from 2007 through 2010, as well as the Masters and British Open tournaments in 2010. Nix came to ESPN from NBC affiliate WHDH-TV in Boston, where she spent three years as a sports anchor and reporter. Prior to joining WHDH-TV in June 2003, she was a national sports reporter for FOXSports and an anchor-reporter for FOXSports New England for two years. She also reported and anchored for the New England Sports Network (NESN) for a year starting in 2001. Her television career began at ABC affiliate WPDE-TV in Myrtle Beach-Florence, S.C., in 1999, where she covered NASCAR and high school sports in addition to news. In January 2009, Nix became the first woman to serve as the master of ceremonies at the Walter Camp Football Foundation All-America awards dinner to honor the division 1A college football player of the year. A native of Murrells Inlet, S.C., Nix was a captain of the golf team at Wofford College for two years, where she earned degrees in French and economics in 1996 and served as president of the student body. She earned a master's degree in sports management from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1997.


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1. Re: JTS in jboss6 (jboss-6.1.0.Final) problemWolf-Dieter Fink Nov 3, 2011 9:30 AM (in response to ganesh jadhav)
Sorry, I don't understand your issue clearly.
Does MDB and SLSB deployed in the same application or server?
And why there are two databases?
Does the SLSB is called during the onMessage() is running and the data (stored in the SLSB) are accessed from the onMessage() after returned? Or is it a different message delivery?
Is there an Exception thrown during processing?
2. Re: JTS in jboss6 (jboss-6.1.0.Final) problemganesh jadhav Nov 4, 2011 2:44 AM (in response to Wolf-Dieter Fink)
Thank you for the reply, let me explain the problem in details.
The normal happy path ( the oc4j working path ) is like this
i) client request comes to MDB (with trans-attribute : Required), it is routed to module A.
ii) if A fails and return exception, in the above MDB's catch, the MDB access SLSB to store the failed message details. (SLSB method is with trans attribute as RequiresNew
iii)The message retry mechanism calls the MDB again with the failed message for the retry,
MDB checks if the message is tried by looking into table where the message was stored in step-ii.
iv) if it finds the message entry in step iii, the it replies to the cilent that the call is failed.
Now module A uses DBschema--2, while MDB+SLSB uses the DBschema--1.
With the JBOSS, the step ii does not persist the data, that's why it is failing.
3. Re: JTS in jboss6 (jboss-6.1.0.Final) problemWolf-Dieter Fink Nov 4, 2011 3:42 AM (in response to ganesh jadhav)
As I understand there is no direct client request for i) but a incomming message.
In this case iii) and iv) sounds like overhead to me.
Why you do this by retry and not handle the message and client notice in one, you might even store the message if it is still needed.
Because the MDB ends with a transaction include no extra information.
Ok, that is not the answer to your initial question, but I have no idea ATM.
You should enable logging for persistence and transaction for this, maybe it will be clarify what happen.


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Time for Tuesdays with Dorie! Our treat of the week is Rugelach! I love Rugelach and blogged about them previously when we made them with Tuesdays with Dorie a couple of years ago. Fruit and nut cookies are my favorites so I was excited to have an excuse to make these, usually I only do them for the holidays.
I was actually a little late making these Rugelach since the past weekend was fully devoted to my sweetheart who turned 6 on March 4th! Oh how time does fly! His current obsession is Sonic the Hedgehog, so I spent a good amount of time making the above cake. He absolutely loved it and we had a super fun birthday weekend.
For my Rugelach nuts I chose macadamias to go with the apricot and I think that was a great choice, the buttery macadamias paired perfectly with the lekvar.
Above are the nuts almost ready to be processed.
Here we have the dough ready to be rolled up. I skipped adding the dried fruit into these this time, I really wanted the lekvar to stand out since I was so impressed with it. Here they are before baking...
And here they are after. I baked them for about 17 minutes and they were perfectly done. You have to keep an eye on these in the oven, I think that they would have burned bottoms had I left them in too much longer. These were absolutely delicious, my four year old absolutely loved them and I'm sure my other two will loved them as an after school snack as well. Thank you to this week's hosts – Jessica of My Baking Heart and Margaret of The Urban Hiker you will be able to find the recipe for these at their sites. :)


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Chris Brown's Grammys Performance - Watch Now!
Chris Brown struts his stuff at the 2012 Grammy Awards held at Staples Center on Sunday (February 12) in Los Angeles.
The 22-year-old entertainer performed "Turn Up the Music" and "Beautiful People" and did a tribute to dance music with Lil Wayne, David Guetta and Foo Fighters.
Later in the evening, Chris picked up the award for Best R&B Album for his album F.A.M.E. Chris beat out El DeBarge, R. Kelly, Ledisi, and Kelly Price for the honor.
Chris was nominated for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Song Performance along with his "Look At Me Now" collaborators Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes, but lost out to Kanye West and friends.
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And, for another thing, has the author stated what version of Time travel he is using. I don't think we can go by what Mikuru said since there is evidence that the Time Travelers have affected the Time Line. It is obvious that they can change things, at least through a third party. Otherwise there would be no point in having Kyon do things to restore the Time Line.
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The latter is more likely, in my books.
How this occurs isn't explained by the principle, nor does it need to. For the purposes of fiction, we only need to know that "A wizard did it."
The Haruhi series probably uses the version that avoids the grandfather paradox, i.e. self-consistency.
Restoring the timeline is not the same thing as changing the timeline.
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New to this stuff, but...
The Haruhi books, in my opinion, tend to do more restoring than changing. If the timeline was changed, then there was something that caused that change; a basic principle of cause and effect. If the cause is not there, there wouldn't be anything to cause the effect.
Also, they technically don't change the timeline, because most of what we see as 'changes' are actually events that have already happened in Kyon's timeline to the future Asahina. So even if Kyon 'changes' the timeline, he doesn't really change anything in the timeline because he was supposed to have changed the timeline in the first place.
I need to read more about this though.
Edit: Okay, read a little bit more about what everyone was talking about. I'd have to agree with the, "The three days never happened except in Kyon's memory idea." [Unless we want to discuss about alternate universes, because in that case it does exist.] My reason for agreeing with that is: Because she had never created the alternate reality, the alternate reality never happened. Kyon cut off the source, which cuts off the result.
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Lets use a better example. According to this theory of time travel, I am physically unable to take 25 of my friends in chicken suits, walk to the current day Dealey plaza on the street where JFK was assassinated, and then travel back to 30 seconds before the assassination. We don't even need to try to stop the assassination, just show up.
There is no rational explanation as to how 25 men in chicken suits appearing in the middle of the road could lead to the JFK assassination happening as it historically did. Their mere presence will create a paradox.
The Universe has to do some very overt things to prevent my 25 chicken suited friends from doing this. Like breaking my time machine every time I try to do this.
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You would be unable to walk there, correct? Something would prevent you from walking there, according to that theory.
If you were to appear just there, there might be a problem though.
It depends on how long you stay there. You might exist as a dead conspiracy theory, but if they get no proof of you being there, it's possible that the events after could be twisted. It doesn't have to be that you would be the cause, but that you might not be mentioned.
For example, you might have stopped the car, which would have led to the assassination. After which, by one way or another, you would be sent back to your present time, which would lead to the absence of proof of your existence, which would lead your existence to become a theory. There's no way people will believe that 25 chicken-suited people just appeared out of nowhere.
I'm not sure, to be honest. I personally like the alternate universes theory better.
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The Universe might as well send Major Zero as their avatar to personally kill you.
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Of course, in real life, time travel can't occur at all.
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The only way a time paradox could be prevented in these circumstances, would be for the "powers that be", to sabotage the mission before they depart. This could range from having the lab explode, all the men simultaneous suffer fatal strokes/heart attacks, or to have the equipment malfunction every time it's used, sending them to a specific time where 25 guys in chicken suits appearing wouldn't change history.
The only time I can be convinced that this kind of time travel is possible, would be with direct interference of higher being not bound by conventional logic and space time constraints.
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It's true that people will see it, but that doesn't mean that Zapruder [I feel pretty awkward talking about someone when I don't know who that person is.] will veer his camera away. I'm explaining what might happen to your circumstance if the Novikov principle applies, so it has to happen in a circumstance similar to that. Even if they did see it, that doesn't mean that it will validate the existence, and over time the "chicken men" might fade away.
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
Age: 29
|2008-06-23, 15:26
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Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong Shatterdome
One learns these sorts of things when your American history teacher is a conspiracy nut.
Plus, it doesn't account for the fact that my friends in chicken suits, could be a platoon of Green Beret's in bullet proof chicken suits armed with Machine guns! A crowd can plausibly ignore chicken men, but it can't ignore bullets.
|2008-06-23, 15:32
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The Comet has Come
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
Of course there could be some sort of conversion of matter block on time travel. Matter from one time is coverted to energy and moved back in time, it displaces an equal mount of energy from the target time period to the future. The question is if the time traveler can be placing into the displaced energy as matter, or if they can only be placed there as energy. Possibly in a non-corporal form and thus not be able to effect any changes in the timeline because they cannot interact with it at all. Only observe from any angle they choose. However if they are there as energy, then might be able to interact or be converted to another form of energy by local means...but that would probably kill the time traveller...but could cause an interaction in time (overloading a powerplant or sparking an spontanious human combustion maybe (a second human sized energy source inside an existing body...doubles the temperature...boom?)
|2008-06-23, 15:36
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Sensei, aishite imasu
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong Shatterdome
One learns these sorts of things when your American history teacher is a conspiracy nut.
|2008-06-23, 16:23
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I'm ga-vomiting
Join Date: May 2006
Location: England - UK
Age: 31
Ah man, Time Travel.
I'm more of the camp that even if you did go back in time to change something, the odds are that you wouldn't change a thing - something would happen to prevent you from doing what you intended to go out to do.
Like, for instance, let's say you really are hell bent on going back in time to the JFK assasination dressed up in Chicken Suits. This is what you plan to do, and there is no way you are going to change your mind.
Even before you set out (in the present time) to do it - it's already happened. You were already there at the JFK assasination anyway. Whatever the circumstances were, you didn't manage to divert the camera mans attention away onto yourselves.
If you had a time machine that would allow you to go to a certain place at a certain time, and you programmed it to take you back to that time right in the middle of the road - something would have gone wrong with the device and it would have transported you somewhere else entirely from your intended place.
This is, unless, you are bringing alternate dimensions and universes into the matter, at which case you'd have left our world and gone into one where the JFK assasination was thwarted by 25 men dressed as chickens
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by MrBlack » Wed May 07, 2014 8:37 amI broke down and picked it up. Not bad for a first issue. The players are in place, and we even got a fair bit of action.
by GOSD » Wed May 07, 2014 10:18 amMOAR please...
by MrBlack » Wed May 07, 2014 4:46 pmI was away from the computer or I would have updated. I had hoped that a few other folks would chime in first, but oh well.
The comic opens with the Watcher on the moon, cognizant of his own approaching death. "I SEE YOU." Big explosion.
Wolverine, Cap, Black Widow, and Nick Fury, Sr. are chatting over steaks when Cap gets a call. He ropes Fury into going with them, and they head to the moon. Thor had discovered the Watcher's death, and pulled the Avengers in to investigate. The Watcher has a hole in his head and is missing both eyes. His home had also been ransacked, and no one knows what exactly is missing. Cap asks Fury to head up his own investigation.
Meanwhile, someone contacts Black Panther, Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Emma Frost, Dr. Strange, the Punisher, Moon Knight, the Winter Soldier, and Gamora and puts them on the trail of "The Unseen. The Original Sin." Panther, Ant-Man, and Frost head to the center of the Earth, Dr. Strange and Punisher head to another dimension, and Moon Knight, the Winter Soldier, and Gamora set course for somewhere in space. As the teams are being put together, we cut to Cap talking to Fury. Black Widow found the "bullet," but all that is left are shards of glowing green crystal or metal.
On Earth, the Thing is facing off against a Mindless One, although he doesn't seem so mindless anymore. And it is armed with the Ultimate Nullifier. It telepathically laments the fact that it "knows," and wishes that it had never gone to the moon. Something there changed it. Spider-Man joins the fight, but the duo make no progress against the Mindless One. The creature threatens the pair with the Ultimate Nullfier, but, in its despair, it ultimately chooses to turn the weapon on itself. BIG explosion. The Thing and Spider-Man survive, but there is little left of their foe. Cap, Wolverine, Black Widow, and Fury arrive, and Fury takes charge of the crime scene.
As the issue closes, we see a room full of Mindless Ones, collapsing in pain as their minds become open to new ideas. We see two partially shadowed figures in the background. One notes that they, as well as the Mindless Ones, are changing, and that the things they stole from the moon are somehow evolving all of them. The second figure acknowledges this fact, but states that it is not their eyes he is most interested in opening as he uncovers a rag containing one of the Watcher's eyes.
Some thoughts:
As I said, this was a good first issue for an event. The stakes are high, there are plenty of mysteries to be solved, and there was a fair bit of action. I am interested in seeing where this goes, but I also enjoyed this as a single issue, which is rare for an event comic.
Initially, I assumed the shadowy figure contacting Black Panther and the others was Nick Fury, but I think that is a red herring. Fury was wearing space gear before and after those scenes, and the shadowy figure is clearly in something far less armored. He also appears to be holding something that very much resembles the bullet used to kill the Watcher. I would be interested in hearing other folks' speculation on who this could be. It would have to be someone all of these heroes trust implicitly, but also someone who isn't above using some less than savory methods to reach his goals, if this issue's dialogue is any indication. I think this will end up being the bigger mystery than who killed the Watcher, particularly as that may be revealed with next month's issue.
by IvCNuB4 » Wed May 07, 2014 4:59 pmCould the Eye of Agamotto return at the end of this event ?
by Pink_Orchid » Wed May 07, 2014 5:02 pmAny mention of lady Watcher and her unborn?
by chap22 » Wed May 07, 2014 5:07 pm
by Juan Cena » Wed May 07, 2014 5:21 pmSo, if the Mindless Ones are involved, I guess that makes Dormammu a suspect? It would make sense then that the female he was with was Umar.
by chap22 » Wed May 07, 2014 5:42 pm
i just don't have any clue why those two would be skulking about the shadows of a warehouse on Earth.
nor why they would need to hire regular Joe Shmoe underlings to case Uatu's place waaay back in Bru's portion of the Point.One special that started all this.
by Notauser » Wed May 07, 2014 6:27 pm
by ElijahSnowFan » Wed May 07, 2014 7:45 pm
So they are linking it to that, then? I wondered if that had been resolved in some other series I wasn't reading, or was simply a forgotten plot point.
I enjoyed the issue, for what it was.
For as much stuff by Jason Aaron as I've read now, over the years, I'm not really certain I recall if I've read a murder mystery by him before.
The reason I mention that is because I don't know if that means he "plays fair" with the reader or not.
If you play fair, then you leave clues in there that, while they might be red herrings, won't be so awful that you anger the reader. While everyone understands there will be some suspension of belief, as JMS once said, you have to play fair with the reader. Then, when you make your reveal and explain how the villain knew that taking the Watcher's eyes would give him knowledge, you won't piss everybody off.
Or you could screw the readers over like Brad Meltzer did with Identity Crisis and, out of nowhere, make it Crazy Jean Loring with a flamethrower to cover her tracks, who also somehow knew enough to put out a hit on Jack Drake...when she had never even met Tim Drake.
Ten years later, yeah, I'm still pissed about that.
by GHERU » Wed May 07, 2014 8:44 pmRead it
Liked it well enough to not be mad I preordered #2
I am genuinely curious about the mysteries, and I trust Aaron enough to know he can write a god one.
by Juan Cena » Wed May 07, 2014 9:49 pm
My first response to the first question that is that Dormammu may still be in a weakened state following his battle with Cyclops' X-Men.
by Rikk Odinson » Thu May 08, 2014 12:30 pmIt was pretty decent but I tend to enjoy Aaron's writing and Deodato is always great.
Really glad to see Moon Knight being used prominently in the story. Hopefully this won't turn out like AoU where he was only in the very beginning.
by sdsichero » Thu May 08, 2014 12:43 pm
Hell hath no fury?
by Eli Katz » Thu May 08, 2014 7:48 pm
See Scalped, the murder of Dashiell's mother.
The identity of the killer became less important with each issue, until the final issues. Not sure if that helps. But I think Aaron will play fair, given his love of crime fiction.
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Church Pews in the Dining Room
We're not recommending bringing your dinner to church. But, look what happens when you do the reverse: bring the pew to dinner!
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A take on the bench at the dining table, church pews immediately impart a feeling of age and architectural weight. And the right pew, pulled up to a big dining room table, can act as a solid bench or banquette.
We come across old pews all the time in antique shops and estate sales, so if you like this look, keep your eyes peeled and it could be a reality in your own home in the near future!
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And the Babe of the Week Is… Christine Dolce!
This has without a doubt been the tightest Babe of the Week race so far. Winning by just one vote (just one!), Christine Dolce slid to the finish line at the last second.
Dolce (aka "Forbidden") comes to us from California where she models on top of being a hair and makeup artist. Some career highlights include winning Stuff magazine's 'Sexiest Woman Online' and the 2007 Spike Guys Choice Award for 'Naughtiest Cybervixen.'
The babe with the highest possible honorable mention we can give out goes to Jennifer Gonzalez. She held the lead for a while, trading off the top spot with Dolce, before eventually falling from the victor's seat.
Looks like the Babe of the Month competition is already gonna be a hard one. Dolce will definitely give Danni Gee a good go.
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Here's the deal: At the end of the week, each Babe of the Day will compete for your votes and the winner will become Babe of the Week. Each week's winner will then face off to become Babe of the Month, and those winners will then duke it out for – you guessed it – the Babe of the Year title. Only those lucky ladies will be inducted into GuySpeed's Hall of Fame, an honor reserved for the hottest of babes.


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NCAA 14 open thread
The game has been available for 14 hours now and wanted to see what the rest of you were thinking so far.
EA suckered me into the season ticket a few months ago so I have been playing it since the 5th and have had a pretty positive experience. I'm one of the die hards that plays on Heisman and destroys teams by 70 with the likes of Toledo and UTSA. I had always felt that the past games were a little glitchy but overall a "good" experience. So far this years game has a lot of promise but I'm seeing some glaring holes while playing the CPU. I created my own playbook filled with I-form, pistol, and shotgun with a ton of read options. It's really fun to run but its becoming almost to easy. Just for kicks I played and entire game with toledo against bama running variations of the read option. Had 650 yards rushing and won 42-10. I found that to be a joke.
I have noticed it to be more difficult to run out of the power. Last year there was a money play out of ifrom twins where it was a power to the opposite side of the twins and if your fb lead through the lb or saftey, you were gone. That sequence is gone now but counters seem to have a little pop to them.
Passing is still a pain but doable if you know what your looking for. Short underneath routes are high percentage still. The deep ball seems more difficult to hit this year but I haven't messed around with that very much as I have been playing with the option to much to care yet. I'm not going to comment much on this.
Defense has been a lot harder vs the CPU and I've had more then a few, "I probably shouldn't whip my controller off the ground" moments. The Blitzs don't hit home nearly as much as they use to. CPU no huddle offense gives you absolutely no time to change forms or call press coverages. The ball carrier recovery feature is cool to watch unless its when your saftey is on an island and a TE just runs through him like a Mac truck. Overall its more realistic but the hair pulling moments are going to drive me nuts for the time being.
I have lightly skimmed over the dynasty so far and thought it looked pretty good and like the new concepts but I haven't dove in yet. I'm waiting for the Operation Sports rosters to come out before I go hard into that.
Whats your thoughts so far? Like? Dislike? best cover are ever? (answer is yes) Whats your money play (formation and primary reads) any rosters that are worth downloading yet?
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More than $15,000 worth of food went from an assembly line of volunteers into 800 boxes Thursday morning to be given out just before Christmas.
More than $15,000 worth of food went from an assembly line of volunteers into 800 boxes Thursday morning to be given out just before Christmas.
The Salvation Army had food boxes assembled and packed by volunteers from Wes Jensen's Sunday school class at First Baptist Church in Hendersonville and members of the Air Force JROTC at East Henderson High. Boxes were also packed Friday morning.
"One of our core values in the Junior ROTC is 'Service before self,' and so we try to get about 2,000 hours of community service in a year," Master Sgt. Michael Jensen said. "The kids love coming out here and helping out knowing it's going to a good cause."
Senior Alexis Brooks has come out during her days off from school every winter for the last three years to help out with the distribution day after packing boxes with her class.
"It's rewarding knowing that the kids still get a Christmas even though their parents can't provide for them," Brooks said. "I like doing it just because I know it's going to a better cause, so it makes me feel better about the holidays knowing that they get something, too."
Brooks will be leaving for college at Garner-Webb next fall, but plans to continue helping pack boxes with the Salvation Army in Hendersonville when she returns home for her winter breaks.
Junior Rebecca Massey said it wasn't hard for her teacher to convince her to come out and volunteer.
"It's not like they have to force us to do it; we all get into arguments over which class is going to come," Massey said. "I would hope that if our family needed it, that people would do it for us as well. It makes me feel good to give back."
The Sunday school class members said having the high school students around was a big help, especially when it comes to the heavy lifting.
"It's a real community activity between the schools, the Sunday school class and working with the (Salvation) Army," Sunday school class member Bob Henson said. "(The Salvation Army does) a tremendous job at Christmas; they do a great job all year, but particularly at Christmas."
Henson, a former member of the Salvation Army's board of directors, has been coordinating the packing of the food boxes since 2000.
Before, Jensen's class used to do food drives with the local schools, but a lot of time was taken just to organize the food items and divide them by size to make the boxes more equal.
"So finally after time, they decided that the best thing to do was just go buy the merchandise and now they all come in the same sizes and fit nicely in the boxes," Jensen said. "It's a great service to the Lord and to these people."
Jensen said everyone in his class looks forward to their annual tradition of packing boxes and ringing the Salvation Army bell at the Fresh Market.
"It's kind of ingrained in me as well, but I love it, love it — It's part of Christmas," Henson said. "Doing the boxes and ringing the bells, that's Christmas."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT's men's and women's tennis teams both earned All-Academic Team honors the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) announced. It marks the third straight year that MIT was the only New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) school to have both men's and women's tennis earn the distinction.
For the men's team it was the fourth consecutive year that it has earned ITA All-Academic honors. Leading all NEWMAC schools, the Engineers had seven individuals named ITA Scholar Athletes, an award that recognizes letterwinners who have achieved a 3.5 GPA for the academic year. Senior Max Nelson (Medicac Lake, Wash.) earned his third ITA Scholar Athlete honor, the second player in program history to be named three times. Seniors Biafra Ahanonu (Tucson, Ariz.) and Neel Patel (Fort Pierce, Fla.); juniors Andrew Cooper (Albuquerque, N.M.), Brian Oldfield (St. Thomas, Virgin Islands), and Michael Walsh (Omaha, Neb.) all earned their second ITA award, while sophomore Vlad Firoiu (Westford, Mass.) was named for the first time.
On the women's side it was the ninth time that the Engineers have received the ITA's All-Academic Team award. MIT led all NEWMAC schools with nine ITA Scholar Athlete award recipients. Sonya Makhni '11 (Fort Pierce, Fla.) become the fourth women's tennis player at MIT to be recognized as a four-time ITA Scholar Athlete to lead the group. Jenny Dohlman '11 (Wellesley, Mass.) and senior Hillary Jenny (Green Bay, Wis.) each achieved the honor for the third time. Earning the honor for the second time in their careers were Melissa Diskin '11 (Newport News, Va.), and juniors Bianca Dumitrascu (Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania) and Caitlin Pomeroy (Cape Elizabeth, Maine). First time recipients were junior Candace Wu (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and sophomores Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.), and Katie O'Neal (New York, N.Y.).


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Ben Affleck is set to play Batman opposite Henry Cavill in the untitled "Man of Steel" sequel that will be directed by Zack Snyder, Warner Bros. announced Thursday.
Oh come on, really? Look, I like Ben Affleck as much as the next guy, but he's going to rival Clooney as worst Batman ever. Way too pretty for that role. Michael Keaton has a dark side. Christian Bale is fucking nuts. But Affleck? Can't wait for Batman to develop a Boston accent and nonchalant attitude toward crime fighting all while giving long, confused and emotionless stares to no one in particular off to his left and do that weird underbite thing before a climactic finish at Fenway Park.


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|2012-12-24, 19:59
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U mad?
Join Date: Apr 2012
Played it a bit, quite a fun tank. Though playing with it, I was matched up with teams where half of the team are T1E6, guess everyone wants to give it a try.
I think I'll keep it for now, playing it every now and then for a change of pace.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Northern Ireland
I think its pretty quick compared to some of the other Tier 2's but beside it not being particularly good I'll probably keep it anyway simply because its a premium.
On another note I gave in and bought a little gold so I could convert the exp from my elite tanks (13.000 odd worth) so I went a little mad and researched a bunch of stuff for my US TD's as well as hitting up the German tank tree and getting my hands on a bunch of light tanks like the PzIII and the luchs (which is awesome fun).
Here are the fruits of my labor and even though they where both loses (due to my team all dying or letting the enemy cap) I still gave the other teams a real headache.
I also just unlocked the leopard but I've yet to try it out.
|2012-12-24, 20:39
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
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I think I'll sell the T1E6 and work toward the PzIV. I don't know what's up with that tank, but I couldn't count how many time I got one-shot by it. Gotta try it out to see what's inside.
|2012-12-24, 20:46
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|2012-12-24, 21:01
|Link #988
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
T1E6: I'm going to farm out XP for the next couple of days while the game is still giving out the 5x win bonus, then I'm going to sell it for the free garage space (which will soon have a T-34-85 in it). I'm happier with my existing Pz35t and A13 Cruiser. (It doesn't help that the gun doesn't go with my playstyle.)
PzIVs with the derp gun: Yeah, that'll do in smaller targets pretty well. My preference remains to use the 75mm L/48 and stay back; the PzIV just isn't sturdy enough to brawl reliably IMO.
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|2012-12-24, 21:24
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Moderate Haruhiist
|2012-12-24, 21:27
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I don't give a damn, dude
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In Despair
Age: 32
Before its nerf, the PzIV was one of the most commonly cited counters to the KV-1 due to its ability to mount the Panther 75. They've removed it since then of course; the PzIV Schmalturm Tier 6 premium is the same configuration people used for their KV-1 busting PzIVs back in the day.
|2012-12-24, 21:27
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A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 31
My Churchill III got another one-shot by the PzIV from the front, and that makes it twice for this month. I really want to know if they actually place the Church's engine or ammo rack at the front or somewhere near that, honestly.
Kinda surprise that I could take out KV-1 in my Churchill I after I got the same gun as the Churchill III. The KV-1's neck is really weak.
|2012-12-24, 22:56
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
Wow, so this was a sad game .. I was driving my Black Prince in a Tier 9 match on "Sand River" --
I rolled down a hill and got stuck near our base after getting pounded repeatedly by a T-54. I basically sat there until I found a long way out .. just in time to watch my base get overrun .. but also in time to ping the enemy team capping our base and win the game (no defender though since they were only at 42%) ..
|2012-12-25, 08:30
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
I'm on my way to the KV-1 and I got the T-28. I thought it was going to be easy, I already got all the engines (thanks to the BT-7) and the 57mm ZiS Gun (I use it on my T-34, which is pretty decent). My first game consisted of T4 or lower tanks only so I thought I was going to 'own' the opposition with the ZiS Gun.
Instead I got killed by a 38nA.
So I checked out the armour: Turret: 30/20/20 hull: 20/20/20. Why did the Russians create a medium tank with paper thin armour?! I can punch through that. This is going to be long and painful road before I have my KV-1.
Anyway I wish you guys a Merry Christmas.
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Pick of the day: Celebrity Big Brother final
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After nearly a month of intrigue, surprises, backstabbing and hissy fits, tonight sees the climax of Celebrity Big Brother 2014.
Will Jim Davidson (left) justify the faith of the bookmakers, who have him down as a clear favourite to emerge as champion after the public vote?
Emma Willis hosts this two-hour special in which the housemates will be whittled down one by one until the identity of the latest winner is revealed.
Then at 11, Rylan Clark introduces the companion show, in which the triumphant contestant will reveal the inside story behind events in the house.
Clark, Willis and guests will also assess whether viewers made the right choice.


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Next Stage Of Security Theater: Homeland Security Wants More Info To Let You Board A Plane
from the feel-safer? dept
Also worth noting is that this is the first time that the government has actually admitted how many people are on the no fly list (about 2,500) as well as the "selectee" list for extra careful searches (another 16,000). They also noted that it's quite rare for anyone on the no-fly list to actually try to fly (about once a month -- and it's almost always initiating in a foreign country). Of course, if you were actually a terrorist, would you fly under your real identity?


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