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Welcome to the official website and patient portal for Kidswood Pediatrics, located in Winter Park Florida.
Although molluscum contagiosum is a common skin rash in kids, many parents have never heard of it. The most important thing to know about it is that, for most children, the rash is no big deal and goes away on its own over time.
Molluscum contagiosum is a viral infection that causes a mild skin rash. The rash looks like one or more small growths or wart-like bumps (called mollusca) that are usually pink, white, or skin-colored. The bumps are usually soft and smooth and may have an indented center.
Infection is most common among kids between 1 and 12 years old, but also occurs in:
As you might guess by its name, this skin disorder is contagious, and can be passed from one person to another. It is unknown how long the rash and virus may be contagious.
Molluscum contagiosum is caused by the molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), a member of the poxvirus family. This virus thrives in warm, humid climates and in areas where people live very close together.
Infection with MCV occurs when the virus enters a small break in the skin's surface. Many people who come in contact with the virus have immunity against it, and do not develop any growths. For those not resistant to it, growths usually appear 2 to 8 weeks after infection.
Kids can get molluscum contagiosum in a few different ways. It spreads easily, and most commonly, through direct skin-to-skin contact, but kids can get it by touching objects that have the virus on them, such as toys, clothing, towels, and bedding. It can also spread in water.
Once someone has molluscum contagiosum, it can be spread from one part of the body to another by scratching or rubbing the bumps and then touching another part of the body.
Molluscum contagiosum also can be spread between sexual partners.
Because it is a skin infection, the only real sign or symptom of molluscum contagiosum are the small round pink, white, or skin-colored mollusca on the skin. These bumps are filled with a white, waxy pus core that contains the virus, and might have a shiny or "pearly" look.
Each molluscum starts out as a very small spot about the size of a pinhead and grows over several weeks into a larger bump that might become as large as a pea or pencil eraser. A tiny dimple (indentation) often develops on the top of each molluscum.
The mollusca can appear alone as a single bump or in groups, clusters, or rows. They can show up almost anywhere on the skin, but in kids are most commonly found on the chest, stomach, arms (including the armpits), legs, groin, genital area, and face.
In sexually active teens and adults, the bumps are usually located in the genital area or the inner thighs. Rarely, the bumps can occur around the eyes or around the mouth.
Most people develop between 1 and 20 mollusca. They're usually painless, but can become itchy, red, swollen, sore, and infected, especially if scratched.
A doctor is likely to recognize molluscum contagiosum just by looking at the rash. The doctor might refer you to a dermatologist, a doctor who specializes in skin diseases.
In rare cases, the doctor or dermatologist will take a sample of the bump (either through a biopsy or by scraping an area of infected skin) to look at the cells under a microscope and confirm that the growths are mollusca.
In many cases, molluscum contagiosum is left to go away on its own without treatment. Each individual molluscum typically disappears in about 2-3 months. However, new growths generally appear as old ones are going away, so it usually takes 6-18 months (and can take as long as 4 years) for molluscum contagiosum to go away completely.
Sometimes, doctors use treatments to remove the growths or help them go away more quickly, such as:
Although these treatments can sometimes help the disease resolve more quickly, most doctors do not use them on kids because they can be painful and burn, blister, discolor, or scar the skin. The use of treatment sometimes depends on the location and number of lesions. Some people request it if the rash is embarrassing or causes other problems, such as itching or other discomfort.
Treatment works best when started early because there are usually only a few growths. Your doctor will talk with you about the advantages and disadvantages of treatment and help you decide whether treatment is necessary. Be sure to talk with your doctor before trying any at-home remedies, including removing the bumps yourself.
Molluscum contagiosum generally causes no long-term problems, and the growths usually leave no marks. However, treatments might scar the skin, and some people develop a secondary infection, which can be treated with antibiotics.
People with weakened immune systems can sometimes get a more serious form of molluscum contagiosum. They typically have more mollusca, especially on the face. The growths are larger, look different, and usually are more difficult to treat. In these cases, doctors might prescribe medications that help strengthen the immune system.
Because molluscum contagiosum is contagious and can spread to other parts of the body, someone who's infected should follow these precautions:
As long as they follow these precautions until all of the bumps are gone, kids with molluscum contagiosum can still go to school or daycare, participate in sports, and play with other children.
A person can get molluscum contagiosum again through contact with someone who's infected, but this is rare.
To avoid infection, have your kids follow these tips:
Reviewed by: Patrice Hyde, MD
Date reviewed: April 2013
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Caloric counts don't deter fast food customers
While the high calorie counts of artery-clogging fast foods are often printed right in front of our eyes, most people ignore them and go ahead and order their burgers and fries anyway, a new study finds.
New York University School of Medicine polled 2,000 Philadelphia fast food customers, aged 18 to 64, finding that few paid attention to calorie counts on menus, HealthDay reports.
Study author Brian Elbel, an assistant professor of population health and health policy, presented his findings Friday at the Obesity Society's annual meeting in Atlanta. The research is published in the November issue of the journal Obesity.
The research team collected customer receipts at McDonald's and Burger King restaurants and surveyed customers about how often they ate at fast food restaurants and whether or not they glanced at calorie information. Researchers surveyed customers both before and after February 2010, when the Philadelphia calorie-count label mandate went into effect.
The researchers also conducted a telephone survey of the city's residents, to gauge how much people paid attention to calorie counts on restaurant menus.
Findings showed no difference in how often people ate at fast food restaurants or the amount of calories they consumed before and after the policy went into effect in Philadelphia, HealthDay reports.
Elbel led a separate 2011 study with similar findings, but this study examined 427 parents and teenagers in low income areas of New York City and Newark, N.J., before mandatory menu labeling began in 2008 and after. While people noticed the labels, those labels didn't have much effect on their orders at the counter, the findings showed. That study was published in the International Journal of Obesity.

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Inside Google Spreadsheets — Thanks to Sam Davyson, I was able to take a first look at the new Google Spreadsheets. At this time, Google is sending out invites to the first people who signed up for what must be the 15th or so product launch this year. See movie 1 [WMV] …
Discussion: Scobleizer, Incremental Blogger and Tom Raftery's I.T. views
John Markoff / New York Times:
Google Takes Aim at Excel — SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 — Stepping up its attack on Microsoft's core business, Google plans to make available on Tuesday a test version of a Web-based spreadsheet program that is intended to make it simple to edit and share lists and data online.
Discussion: CNET News.com, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Digital Inspiration and Screenwerk
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com: Google Spreadsheets turns up heat on Excel
Jim Benson / J. LeRoy's Evolving Web: When is a Spreadsheet not a Spreadsheet — Google is releasing …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration: Google Spreadsheets Screenshots
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: Google Challenge to MSFT Excel
Nick / Rough Type:
Google's Office add-on — Google Spreadsheets, released in beta today, is being touted in both the print and online media as a challenger to the ubiquitous Microsoft Excel - part of Google's mythical "Office killer" suite of online applications. The New York Times headline runs "Google Takes Aim at Excel."
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Google competing with OpenOffice and StarOffice — Google Spreadsheets will be announced today. Google also recently acquired Writely, and On-line word processing company. All the pieces are coming together for Google to compete directly with free open source offerings such as OpenOffice and Sun's StarOffice.
Discussion: Incremental Blogger and Digital Tech Life
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
GOOGLE MY SPREADSHEET — So, Google is doing a spreadsheet. On the Web.
GOOGLE MY SPREADSHEET — So, Google is doing a spreadsheet. On the Web.
Discussion: Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google tests Web-based spreadsheet to organize data
Google tests Web-based spreadsheet to organize data
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Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer: Google's Spreadsheet Striptease
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
Google spreadsheet moves it further away from search
Google spreadsheet moves it further away from search
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Michael Santo / Alice Hill's Real Tech News: Google Develops Web-Based Spreadsheet
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Google Spreadsheets complements Excel?
Google Spreadsheets complements Excel?
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Marc Delehanty / The Test Bed: Google Spreadsheet Adds Up
Wendy Boswell / Search Engine Journal: Google Spreadsheets
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Spreadsheets To Launch Shortly
Google Spreadsheets To Launch Shortly
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Coming soon: Google Spreadsheet. @SUM(trouble) for Microsoft's bottom line?
Coming soon: Google Spreadsheet. @SUM(trouble) for Microsoft's bottom line?
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google: Google Spreadsheet, will it be used?
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog: GOOGLE: FU, MSFT
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle: GOOGLE DEVELOPING ONLINE SPREADSHEET
John Markoff / New York Times:
Google to Release Web-Based Spreadsheet
Google to Release Web-Based Spreadsheet
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines: Google spreadsheet in the works
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Om Malik / GigaOM: Google Spreadsheet, Not iRows
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Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets: Trying out Google's newest playground project: a Google spreadsheet
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Playstation United / AMCP Tech Blog: Google to release Spreadsheet App
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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Study: Web is the No. 1 media — Web media is the dominant at-work media and No. 2 in the home, according to a new report from the Online Publishers Association. — The Web also ranked as the No. 1 daytime media. — A research project, conducted by Ball State University's Center for Media Design …
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Moving On — Well all, sadly it is time for me to move along from Bloglines. The service is in great hands with Ask and I am confident it will live long and prosper under their watch. — But "why" you cry? According to my ever-present Ask PR twin, "to spend more time with my family."
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog: Mark Fletcher Leaves Ask.com & Bloglines
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Season of Bad Laws, Part 4: Music Services Sell Out Fair Use — According to our DC sources, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property is planning on marking up and expediting a not-yet-introduced bill entitled the Section 115 Reform Act (aka SIRA) this coming Wednesday, June 7.
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Online Newspaper Ads Gaining Ground on Print — IN the matchup between the print and online versions of newspapers, signs of the Internet's ascendancy are growing stronger. As Colby Atwood, a newspaper analyst and a vice president at Borrell Associates, put it, "The tail is beginning to wag the dog."
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Warning over 'illegal' MP3 site — Britons using bargain music download website allofmp3.com have been warned that they are breaking the law. — Record industry trade association the BPI said consumers were breaking UK copyright law because allofmp3.com was not licensed to sell recordings.
Discussion: Techdirt, Neowin.net and MobHappy
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Why Adobe and Microsoft Hit Delete on PDF Deal — If you want to know why so many computer programs are so bad these days, take a look at the Adobe-Microsoft mess. — These two powerful software developers have gotten into an argument over whether Microsoft can include a new feature …
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Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
Microsoft to Announce Ventures in Europe — PARIS, June 5 — Microsoft plans to announce in Brussels on Tuesday that it is investing in a London-based computer networking company and a Dublin developer of mobile phone software — fresh evidence of what some leading venture capitalists …
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Valerie Thompson / alarm:clock euro: HabboHotel's Sales To Reach $77M This Year
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A.C.L.U. Raises Surveillance as Issue in Big Phone Merger — The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Federal Communications Commission yesterday to withhold approval of AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth until it reviews allegations that the companies gave customer records to the government without warrants.
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: ACLU Opposes AT&T-BellSouth Merger
New Research Reveals Collaboration Is a Key Driver of Business Performance Around the World — Verizon Business, Microsoft sponsor international study; create first-of-its-kind collaboration index to measure impact of communications culture, technologies. — BASKING RIDGE, N.J., and REDMOND …
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City in grip of property slump
MELBOURNE'S property market has posted its weakest performance in nearly a generation as home prices continue to fall despite deep interest rate cuts.
Defying hopes of home owners for a recovery, the city's property slump is set to continue as new figures show prices fell nearly 3 per cent last year.
Values have now slid 8.4 per cent from their peak just two years ago - the biggest fall for the Melbourne market since price records began in the mid-1990s, according to research firm RP Data-Rismark.
But while industry experts warn that a city-wide recovery could be up to two years away, low mortgage rates and price falls in many popular inner and middle suburbs are tipped to make these enclaves more affordable.
''The interest rate cuts have probably shielded the market somewhat from bigger falls over the last year, but I think Melbourne will continue to be one of the weakest performing markets in the country,'' said RP Data analyst Cameron Kusher. ''I wouldn't be surprised to see values fall again over the next year.''
The prediction will be welcome news for buyers but a bitter pill for home owners, who saw prices soar nearly 37 per cent in 2009-10. That boom, fuelled by record low interest rates and the generous first home buyer grants on offer during the global financial crisis, is being blamed for the serious affordability problem in the city.
''Prices have gotten too high in Melbourne and it hasn't taken its medicine yet,'' Mr Kusher said.
BIS Shrapnel analyst Angie Zigomanis said Victoria was facing a ''trifecta'' of issues - a weak economy, unaffordable housing and an oversupply of new homes and apartments - that was blunting the impact of recent interest rate cuts.
''Melbourne came out of the blocks the strongest after the global financial crisis and many of the problems we're facing now are the hangover from that,'' he said.
House prices have continued to fall despite the Reserve Bank cutting the interest rate six times since November 2011. While the 1.75 percentage point fall has seen the cash rate match the GFC low of 3 per cent, mortgage rates remain at about 6.45 per cent as lenders have held back the full savings from borrowers.
However, some industry operators say the RBA's moves have laid the groundwork for a recovery this year and the current conditions are creating rare opportunities for buyers.
''Auction clearance rates have improved and that's directly related to the interest rate cuts,'' said Nigel O'Neil, chief executive of agency Hocking Stuart. About 60 per cent of homes going under the hammer last spring sold, compared with barely half at the same time in 2011.
''There's definitely evidence that suggests if the rate cuts continue - which is important - then the market will continue to strengthen,'' Mr O'Neil said.
Richard Wakelin, director of Wakelin Property Advisory, said the decline in the cost of borrowing could be a ''tipping point'' for buyers.
''Some people - those who feel pretty secure in their employment - are going to see that now is the time for them to make their move. Interest rates are well down, prices have come off in some areas, and that's going to prove very attractive,'' he said.
The price and interest rate falls come at a critical time for the Melbourne market, with a recent RP Data survey revealing it is cheaper to buy than rent a home in only six suburbs in the entire city.
Inner-city and bayside suburbs are expected to draw the most interest from buyers this year. ''Buyers in those markets are less exposed to job security, cost-of-living and interest rate movements, which means we're likely to see some strength in the $1 million to $3 million price bracket,'' APM economist Andrew Wilson said.
''It's first home buyers and the outer suburban areas that will still be confronted with the same affordability and economic issues.''


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Molecular Manufacturing and The High Frontier
There are many challenges facing humanity as we take tentative steps towards the beginning of the nanotechnology revolution. One of the most obvious is the fact that Earth has limited resources. Nanotechnology in general and molecular manufacturing in particular will make it possible to substantially raise the standard of living for everyone on this planet with little environmental impact, even with large population increases. However, there are still definite limits to the physical resources of this planet. In addition, technological progress does not solve the problems of war, ignorance, or injustice, and doesn't reduce human greed, hate, fear, or lust for power.
It is clear that humanity needs to expand outward into Space. Currently, with the financial and technological limits on transportation to Low Earth Orbit, humanity has no physical frontier. This results in several serious problems for the future of the human race:
The solution is to expand out from Earth and into Space. Unfortunately, other planets are barely habitable, or are not habitable at all. In addition, they are difficult and expensive to travel to, much less to establish viable living environments. Large, free-floating, rotating habitats (O'Neill colonies), which provide Earth-like ecosystems for thousands or millions of people, are independent of planets, but are extremely expensive to build.
Nanotechnology can make significant contributions to the expansion into Space. First, bottom-up nanoscale technology (i.e. advanced chemistry and materials science) will make possible better materials for advanced transportation to low Earth orbit, not only with improved rocket motors and SSTO spacecraft, but also with rotating and stationary tethers. These advances will increase payload, lower cost, and increase safety. Other advances in materials science will improve the quality of support systems, from computers to water filters. Currently, much of the National Nanotechnology Initiative is geared towards nanoscale scientific and engineering advances that will enable these types of applications.
Second, molecular manufacturing will extend bottom-up methods into top-down ones, multiplying our technological capabilities substantially. Molecular manufacturing is the branch of nanotechnology concerned with developing nanoscale machines that can coordinate to build atomically precise but large products. The nanoscale machines do not self-replicate (in fact, nanoscale self-replication is a very difficult engineering problem). Instead, desktop nanofactory appliances would coordinate many nanoscale machines to precisely fabricate molecular systems and assemble them into identical or improved copies of the appliances themselves, making possible controlled exponential growth in manufacturing capability. Terraforming planets would be one impressive application of this technology. For example, automated systems could cover Mars with solar cells to provide energy to release oxygen from the regolith to create an atmosphere; alternatively they could cover the planet with billions of large greenhouses. Other large projects, such as O'Neill colonies or one-AU-aperture telescope arrays, would also become affordable to small groups of average investors. In addition, a space-faring civilization would protect humanity from asteroidal impacts like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Third, molecular manufacturing will enable new scientific discoveries; the ones with the most impact on humanity will be in the medical field. While it is speculative to predict how this knowledge will enhance human capabilities in space, it is probable that it will make a huge difference. Simple applications may include repairing human tissue damage from cosmic rays or from extended time in zero gravity. More advanced applications may include life extension and frozen hibernation for long-distance voyages.
Molecular manufacturing will multiply the power of human whim, desire, and knowledge that controls the destiny of our species. The darker episodes of human history should therefore caution us in the use of this great power. Banning nanotechnology is not an option because the potential benefits in health and electronics are so great, and the incremental payoffs so irresistible. Attempts at prohibiting it will push it underground where it cannot be regulated.
As Walter Kelly's comic strip character Pogo prosaically put it, "There is no problem so big and so complicated that it can't be run away from." His caveat is also appropriate: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." In other words, can't run away from ourselves, even if we leave Earth.
However, the historian Jackson Turner captured the essence of American and Ancient Greek culture when he pointed out how frontiers make it possible for our Western Civilization's values of humanism, reason, and science to flourish. Molecular manufacturing will have major social impacts; whether those social impacts occur in the context of a hopeful society with open frontiers, or a closed society without them, will make a huge difference in our survival as free and prosperous people.
So humanity must continue to push towards the settlement of Space, where the limits to growth can be transcended in ways impossible here on Earth, and where opportunity will abound for individuals and for new organizational experiments in governance. Molecular manufacturing will make that possible for a large percentage of people. We will no longer be trapped on one planet, but will spread throughout the cosmos.
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Lewis and Clark State Park is a fine place for a leisurely hike. On the trails, park visitors can see a variety of trees, shrubs, and, often, wildlife including deer, rabbits and squirrels, as well as a wide variety of bird species.
Lake Activities (Swimming, boating, fishing)
The 250 acres of Blue Lake offer a variety of water-oriented recreational opportunities. The beach is a fine place for sunbathing and swimming. One double boat ramp is available for easy lake access. No restrictions are placed on motor size. The lake has been stocked with panfish, bass, channel catfish, and northern pike. There are high numbers of black bullhead and carp from the 2011 flood. Lake restoration is in progress and there are fish trap structures in place.
Beach Monitoring Results
Keelboat Display
While visiting Lewis and Clark, please take the opportunity to view the full-sized reproduction of Lewis and Clark's keelboat/barge, "Best Friend," which was constructed by Butch Bouvier of L&C Replicas. The keelboat display room offers visitors the ability to see all of the boats that were utilized on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The replica boats on display are a keelboat, two pirogues, a dug-out canoe, The Iron Boat, and a bull boat. Also on display are many informative pieces from the expedition. Large groups may schedule an appointment to go on an exciting boat ride in a working keelboat. The keelboat display is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9 am to 4pm from April 15 - October 1. October 2 through April 14, you can visit by scheduling an appointment with park staff.
Lewis and Clark State Park lies on the shores of Blue Lake, an "oxbow" formed by the meanderings of the picturesque Missouri River many years ago.
The park is named for Meriwether Lewis, secretary to President Thomas Jefferson, and Captain William Clark, United States Army, who were commissioned by President Jefferson in 1804 to head an expedition into the northwest to explore the vast territory purchased from France. With 26 men and supplies, Lewis and Clark led their expedition up the Missouri River from St. Louis by keelboat.
On August 10, 1804, the expedition arrived at the site where Lewis and Clark State Park now lies. They spent some time there exploring the region and making observations on the geographical conditions, plants and animals in the area. Today, thousands of people visit the park every year for outdoor recreation and to learn a little bit more about the Lewis and Clark expedition. The park has been designated as part of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail by the National Park Service.
Nearby Towns
Onawa is 5 miles east of the park on State Highway 175. Blencoe is 5 miles east and 7 miles south on U.S. Highway 75. Turin is 12 miles east on State Highway 175. Sioux City is 41 miles north on Interstate 29. Council Bluffs is 65 miles south on Interstate 29.
Lewis and Clark Festival
In 1984, the first annual Lewis and Clark Festival was held at Lewis and Clark State park near Onawa, the site of an 1804 Lewis and Clark encampment. The June festival features movies about the 1804 expedition, buckskinners in frontier dress, bluegrass music and historic presentations. A major attraction is the full-sized reproduction of Lewis and Clark's keelboat, Discovery, constructed by local volunteers and park staff.


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There was no final decision coming out of NFL headquarters Monday regarding the discipline that will be imposed on Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin for making a mockery of the game -- and himself -- on Thanksgiving night.
It will come soon enough.
And they should throw the book at Tomlin -- one of three coaches on the NFL's nine-member competition committee -- for daring to step onto the field of play to even provide a hint that he interfered with the electric kickoff return by the Baltimore Ravens' Jacoby Jones.
"I do it quite often, like everybody else in the National Football League," Tomlin told news reporters. "I was wrong. I accept responsibility for it."
Given his status on the NFL's rules-making committee, Tomlin must be held to a higher standard ... as if being a head coach doesn't raise the bar enough.
The NBA moved swiftly last week in levying a $50,000 fine on Brooklyn Nets rookie coach Jason Kidd after he purposely spilled a drink on the court to buy an extra timeout.
Kidd spilled and was docked the next day.
What's taking the NFL so long?
Well, for one thing, there are a few other items to sort through at 345 Park Ave.
Although the blunder at FedEx Field near the end of Sunday night's game didn't ultimately cost Washington a victory that was ripped out of Pierre Garcon's hands, it's inexcusable that referee Jeff Triplette's crew bungled such a basic procedure as ensuring whether or not the chains needed to be moved for a first down.
It's not funny that Triplette is again in the midst of controversy.
If the officials needed to measure, so be it. Triplette's explanation that he didn't want to provide an advantage for Washington by stopping the play was weak.
Measurements are a natural part of a game's flow. Like injuries.
There's much less debate about Tomlin.
His explanation didn't hold up, either. After Thursday night's loss, he said he lost track of his sideline location -- as he stared at a Jumbotron showing the return in real time -- and accidentally put himself in the way.
Yeah, right.
Tomlin also grumbled something about how players and coaches routinely cross onto the 6-foot wide border along the sideline -- which is true, to an extent -- as if that excused his actions.
I never thought I'd see the day when Tomlin -- sharp, edgy and cool -- would make himself look so foolish.
He's human. Tomlin lost the game, maybe a playoff slot and probably, for a brief moment, his mind, too.
But temporary insanity is not a defense in this matter.
Tomlin's stunt was reminiscent of something to be expected when watching the WWE, not the NFL. It's professional football, not professional wrestling.
As more video surfaced Monday from KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, showing another angle of Tomlin's gaffe, it further weakened his position.
Yet that video also underscored what Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs said after the game. The officials should have at least flagged Tomlin.
The crew headed by Clete Blakeman -- at the center of controversy after Week 11 for picking up a flag at the end of the Carolina Panthers-New England Patriots game, then running off the field without serving up an explanation -- has another demerit.
The video clearly shows that as an official ran down the sideline, there was no chance of missing the coach hanging on the border.
Coincidentally, that's the same visiting sideline at M&T Bank Stadium where four days earlier a New York Jets staffer got in the way of an official. It cost the Jets 15 yards.
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Welcome to Local 6 Theme World
September 5, 2013
Universal Update Pt.1
Before I start, a quick note: SeaWorld is tweeting a big announcement is coming tomorrow for Aquatica with the hashtag #nothingtaller. I'm told it will be a pretty big addition. I look forward to sharing it with you tomorrow.
I said it early this year, and I stand by it: The momentum right now in the theme park wars is clearly with Universal. That doesn't mean they are number one in attendance. It will take something unfathomable for Disney's Magic Kingdom to be dethroned in terms of numbers. But I understand Universal's very happy with continued increases in crowds, and as importantly, guest spending. They have faith in their product and their future plans, or the mammoth Cabana Bay Resort wouldn't be rising fast out of the ground.
Today -- I'll look a little at how Universal's bets for 2013 are paying off.
Let's start with the crowds.
I visited the day before Labor Day, so I expected some crowds. But how they spread out is telling: new attractions were clearly the draw. In the picture above, you can see the area around "Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem." The one-year-old attraction never had a wait shorter than an hour while I was there, and much of the day it was at 85 minutes.
Coincidentally, that was the average wait for Transformers.
And a long line of people were also in line nearby to meet Megatron.
But what's interesting -- most of the rest of the park's attractions were at 10-30 minute waits, even the excellent Mummy coaster.
Other than Rip Ride Rocket (which was up and down all day) the only other part of the park that felt crowded was the OTHER new 2013 attraction.
Yes, welcome indeed to Springfield. There are two things I think are brilliant about this relatively low-cost addition. First -- it re-themed perhaps the ugliest stretch of concrete in the park and added a clever, yet simple new ride in Kang and Kodos Twirl & Hurl.
Second, it upgraded an aged food court into a place that has better and more varied food.
and since that food is linked to icons like Moe's Tavern and Lard Lad Donuts, it draws large crowds eager to spend money on a Flaming Moe, a Krusty Burger or a Duff Beer.
They clearly are building on the Potter model here. Unique food & merchandise leads to more people spending money. And for the record, I tried the Duff Beer -- it's quite tasty -- especially for a beer that (in the series) is meant to be notoriously cheap.
In case you missed it, I had a pretty exciting Potter update earlier this week. Once Diagon Alley opens, Universal's bets from the past couple of years will pay off even more.
But not everything is beautiful at Universal Studios. Next time I'll take a look at some areas that still need work -- and what could be coming soon.
Keep your emails, questions, tips and comments coming! I always appreciate the feedback.
Here's a link to my most recent Theme World blog entries.
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These Were Pretty Decent Predictions
Before we look ahead, it's necessary to look back. The divisional forecasts from this blog, from the end of March and beginning of April, beginning with the American League East:
Things I do not expect to see repeated from 2009: 1) A.J. Burnett's reliability and perhaps even his stamina; 2) Joe Girardi's ability to survive without a reliable fifth starter (if Phil Hughes really can pull it off in this, his fourth attempt, he might become the fourth starter if my instincts on Burnett are correct); 3) Nick Swisher's offensive performance (his average and his RBI totals have never
PREDICTIONS: Tampa Bay steps back into the forefront in an exciting race with the well-managed but decreasingly potent Red Sox, and bests Boston by a game or two. The Yankees contend – possibly even dominate – into June or July before the rotation, and/or Posada, and/or Jeter, blow up, and they fade to a distant third.
Manager Ron Gardenhire of MINNESOTA knows 447 times more about baseball than I do…The new double-play combo is also symbolic of some serious problems. It is made up of two very nice men named J.J. Hardy (who was run out of Milwaukee even before the ascent of Alcides Escobar), and Orlando Hudson (who has been run out of Arizona and Los Angeles and who somehow lost his job to Ronnie Belliard in the middle of the pennant race last year). It is also the direct result of what must be viewed as two disastrous trades (Jason Bartlett and Matt Garza to Tampa for Delmon Young, and Johan Santana to the Mets for Carlos Gomez – now swapped for Hardy – and nothing of even impending value). Nothing would please me more than to see the Team They Tried To Contract rear up and fulfill its potential. I don't think they have the front office personnel to pull it off.
PREDICTIONS: I like Detroit to get more lemons out of the slot machine of chance that is this division, than I do Chicago. Thus, the Tigers, close, over the White Sox. Minnesota and Cleveland will spar for third place…Well, I got the part right about Gardenhire knowing 447 times more about baseball than I do. I do wonder about this team's long-term prospects given the Garza and Santana trades, and its short-term's prospects given its stumble to the title.My forecast for the AL West was, if I must say so, pretty darn sharp:
With the strategic building in SEATTLE over the last two years – Figgins, Wilson, Gutierrez, Lee, even Byrnes and Snell and League (to say nothing of Wakamatsu) added to the Ichiro/Felix base, it would seem it would be almost impossible for the Mariners not to be favored. But as I have suggested before, Jack Zduriencik managed to make the one move that could undo all the good ones…It's not as if Milton Bradley has had a few problems. This is six clubs in six seasons and the longest he lasted with any of them was until June 29th of the second year. I don't know what it will be, I don't know when it will be, but Bradley will do something to cost the Mariners the division.
The line-up in TEXAS frightens me. I know Josh Hamilton is not going to hit 57 homers. I understand Vlad Guerrero has aged. I'm sure Chris Davis could repeat the first half of 2009. I noticed Ian Kinsler's on the DL. Without them this is still the most potent batting order in the division.
DIVISION FORECAST: As suggested, I like Texas. Oakland's pitching could jell to challenge them; Milton Bradley could go AWOL on May 1 and save Seattle's season; Brandon Wood could be e
verything the Angels ever wanted from him. But I don't think any of those things are going to happen. Rangers by a five or six game margin, with the others following in a jumble I can't quite yet discern.Texas, as you know, won not by five or six or by nine, with the Angels ten back and the Mariners having screwed themselves into the ground thanks to the continuing curse of Milton Bradley.Over in the National League:
ATLANTA is the obvious sleeper, if that's not too much of an oxymoron. If Troy Glaus and Jason Heyward produce as Atlanta expects them, Bobby Cox will have a competitive final year. If they exceed expectations (and Heyward gives off the vibe of a Pujolsian, From-Day-One-Superstar) the Braves might actually air out the division. The rotation gets a little sketchy behind Hanson and Jurrjens, and there is little or no room for injury...Florida's biggest question mark is the bullpen, where Leo Nunez may or may not succeed.
All that can be said about NEW YORK is: Sigh. I love the people who run this club, from the ticket takers to the owners. But this year the wheels could fall off even worse – and farther – than last…Plus, the silence
DIVISION PREDICTIONS: I'll take the long odds that the Braves' breaks fall the right way and Cox goes out with a winner in a tight race over the Phillies. The Marlins will hit a ton but waste the brilliance of Josh Johnson and Ricky Nolasco by using 11 different fifth starters and half a dozen closers. The Mets will have their nightmare collapse and be wondering if they can unload not only Castillo, but maybe Beltran and Reyes, too.It is amazing that the prediction about the Braves wasn't a bad one, and the forecast on the number of injuries in Philly rolled out pretty much as expected – and Philadelphia still won the Division. It is why the Phils must be considered the early line post-season favorites, and why the fact that the NL Manager Of The Year Award discussion is farcical if Charlie Manuel isn't the odds-on winner.Here's another prediction I am proud to recount, from the NL Central:
CHICAGO…The starting line-up is five-eighths made up of guys who significantly regressed from 2008 to 2009…The Cubs are a mess…But there is at minimum some sense of upswing in Cincinnati. Dusty Baker gave Drew Stubbs the chance to play last year, and might even find spots for Aroldis Chapman, Mike Leake, and Yonder Alonso this season. The bullpen is strong, the rotation potentially deep… What's the psychological saw about repeating the same unsuccessful action with confidence that this time it will succeed? The Brewers are confident Dave Bush, Doug Davis, and Manny Parra and/or Jeff Suppan constitute three-fifths of a pitching staff. They're certain Rickie Weeks and Corey Hart will harness their talent. Everybody knows this is the year Yovanni Gallardo leaps to the forefront of NL starters. This is a recording….
ST. LOUIS is the most overrated team in the majors. Albert Pujols glitters so brightly, he makes you forget that the rest of the infield is an assortment of Brendan Ryans and Felipe Lopezes and David Freeses. Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright were so dominant that they obscured the reality of what happened if you actually beat them on consecutive days – the Cards' season would be snuffed out in a sweep. This is a team that was ready to trot out a rotation in which Kyle Lohse, Brad Penny, and Rich Hill would pitch more often than did Carpenter and Wainwright (the first light bulb going off: giving the fifth spot in the rotation not to Hill but to Jaime Garcia). The bullpen is a jumble, the bench non-existent, and lord help Tony LaRussa if Yadier Molina is really hurt or Pujols' back is cranky for more than 45 minutes at a stretch.
PREDICTIONS: You know what? I'll take the long-odds bet on the dice coming up for the Reds and not the Cardinals.Pretty much got that division correct, right down to the ascension of Jaime Garcia and the injury to Yadier Molina, to say nothing of being one of only two forecasters I'm aware of to pick the Reds, who won by five over the only other team to finish above .500 in baseball's biggest division.I will not claim I did as well in the West, but this does wind up describing what actually happened:
COLORADO…This is a well-rounded, deep team, and Troy Tulowitzki, batting clean-up, may reassert himself this year on the path to being one of the league's top ten hitters. In LOS ANGELES or anywhere else, I would trust Joe Torre with my wallet or my vote or my house keys. But I think he's in for a dreadful year. The Dodgers cannot get a full season out of Ronnie Belliard, haven't gotten one out of Blake DeWitt. They may have burned out Russell Martin. And Manny Being Just Manny (No PEDs) is a just slightly better offensive force than, say, Mark DeRosa. The McCourt Divorce may be a lot more interesting than the 2010 Dodgers, and a lot less painful to watch.
SAN DIEGO might catch lightning in a bottle, if Mat Latos and Kyle Blanks and Nick Hundley get off to explosive starts and there is no need to unload Heath Bell and Adrian Gonzalez…Watch, hope; rent, don't buy.
I don't much like SAN FRANCISCO's outfield (maybe they should have given John Bowker's spring training resurgence more attention), and their third best all-around player might spend most of the season backing up Bengie Molina, but that's some pitching staff Bruce Bochy and Dave Righetti have to play with…if Colorado falters, this is the West's best bet.
PREDICTIONS: Colorado in a runaway, unless the Giants put everything together early. The Dodgers finish third, just ahead of the Diamondbacks – unless the Padres blossom early as mentioned above and don't trade everybody, in which case the three teams will place within a few games of each other.
So all in all, the only division I got wildly wrong was the AL Central. Tampa, Texas, and Cincinnati were picked outright. I had the Braves winning the NL East and they go in as the Wild Card, and the Giants winning the Card and they instead go in as West Champions. Swing and a miss on Minnesota and Philadelphia, and all I can say is to repeat: when do we stop thinking of Charlie Manuel as an affable guide of talent-heavy teams, and start thinking of him as one of the top managers of the early 21st Century?
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Mmm.. Not saying Manuel doesn't have a solid case, but I think Buddy Black should be NL manager of the year. Even though the Padres faded in the end, I think that team did way better than expected. That offense really had nothing. Interesting you thought they might catch fire.
Charlie Manuel's Phillies have won four straight division tirtles, with better W/L totals in each successive season. I think that might be a first. And still, no Manager of the Year honors.
Oh my goodness, Keith. You left yourself quite a few loopholes in those predictions, you know. But yeah, they were pretty decent. If nothing else, they helped a beginner know what to look for, so that was fun. Since the Giants won yesterday, I won't beat up on you today about the NL West. Maybe I'm gettin' soft. Hmmmmm…. Nah, it's 'cause the Giants won! 🙂
I tend to believe the Manager of the Year award should go to the guy who does more with less, and that's Bud Black. I can't find anyone who thought the Padres would be in it until the end (Keith, you get credit for saying they'd be good enough not to unload Adrian and Bell, but even "placing within a few games of each other" doesn't necessarily mean in contention until the final pitch), yet the Phillies were written in Sharpie as a playoff participant, and usually as the NL East winner. Manuel and everyone else will have to realize that it's a lot easier to win when you're already starting with a better team than everyone else. It's why Joe Torre only won one with the Yankees.


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At long last, the details of the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack have been revealed. Beck wrote and provided instrumentation for all of the Sex Bob-Omb songs? What? Really? How did I not know this? Broken Social Scene did Crash and the Boys' songs? The Plumtree single that gave Scott Pilgrim his name (which I originally heard over at Bryan Lee O'Malley's official Ning)? Frank Black? T. Rex? Is there any doubt this will be the soundtrack of the year? Am I asking too many questions? Am I?! HUH?! AM I?!?!?!?
While you ponder that, here's the full tracklist:
02 Plumtree: "Scott Pilgrim"
03 Frank Black: "I Heard Ramona Sing"
04 Beachwood Sparks: "By Your Side"
05 Black Lips: "O Katrina!"
06 Crash and the Boys (Broken Social Scene): "I'm So Sad, So Very, Very Sad"
07 Crash and the Boys (Broken Social Scene): "We Hate You Please Die"
08 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): "Garbage Truck"
09 T. Rex: "Teenage Dream"
10 The Bluetones: "Sleazy Bed Track"
11 Blood Red Shoes: "It's Getting Boring by the Sea"
12 Metric: "Black Sheep"
13 SEX BOB-OMB (Beck): "Threshold"
14 Broken Social Scene: "Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl"
15 The Rolling Stones: "Under My Thumb"
16 Beck: "Ramona (Acoustic)"
17 Beck: "Ramona"
19 Brian LeBarton: "Threshold 8 Bit"
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- Altap Translator detects clipping of texts in dialogs in all values of DPI (see Control Panel / Appearance and personalization / Make text and other items larger or smaller or Control Panel / Personalization / Adjust font size (DPI)) from 100% to 200%. Each chosen DPI value can have different font size and also check box, radio box, and combo box icon/symbol/button size, so dialogs in Altap Salamander 3.0 beta 1 and in older versions are not displayed properly in all DPI values (e.g. in 125% or 180% DPI are many clipped texts due to different font proportions). We have corrected dialogs layouts in all supported languages.
- Altap Translator contains some additional text clipping tests: static texts with variable content (e.g. current operation name in progress dialog), some combo boxes are tested to fit all their possible values (e.g. Schemes and Items in Colors configuration page), buttons with drop-down or more symbol (e.g. Options button in Copy dialog), and bold and variable texts in About and Evaluation dialogs.
- Added Slovak, French, Russian, and Dutch versions. Only Slovak and Russian versions are complete, other versions need to be finished.
- Version 3.0 contains new style of dialogs with different font, so layout of dialogs has been changed. We have altered layout of all language versions to pass validation tests.
- On first start: main window of Altap Translator is maximized and child windows are placed to cover whole screen reasonably.
- Layout Editor: newly is possible to move left top corner of control (Ctrl+Shift modifiers), specify how many times should be an arrow key repeated (e.g. '3', '0', left-arrow = 30x to the left), Size to Content on static text, checkbox, or radiobox also moves left side of neighboring horizontal line, specify directly horizontal spacing of controls (e.g. '6' 'h' will arrange selected group of buttons to have 6 units spacing), and Size to Content on right aligned static text enlarges control to the left side.
- Slightly enlarged minimum sizes of static texts, buttons, checkboxes, and radioboxes (it makes dialogs more resistant to font changes).


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Read this post from profootballtalk.com. They cite this article in the Green Bay Press Gazette, but they share with us what the original title was for the article: "All But Over: Favre to Go to Jets (It's Over: Favre traded to Jets)". Interesting. I think the question would be, would Favre really report to the Jets – would he accept this trade? Especially if there's any truth to the thought that he's been angling to be a Viking all along? Though the Jets are better than their record last year, they don't seem to fit Favre's requirement of going to a contender.
This would be an interesting conclusion to all of this. I wonder what we'd get for Favre? Pennington and a fifth round pick? I wouldn't mind something like that because I may be the only person left besides Pennington and his parents who thinks Pennington isn't done yet. But my guess is TT will just go for as high a draft pick as he can – maybe a 3rd or a 4th rounder.


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Angband development tracker
Welcome to the Angband development wiki. If you do not consider yourself a developer but rather a player, you might prefer to read the main angband wiki at http://rephial.org/wiki/. Of course, in the world of open source, anyone can be a developer - even if you only want to edit a single text file in lib/edit/.
If you have come to open a ticket, please read both the TicketCreation guide and the KeywordGuide first. Then check one or more of the following:
- New and unconfirmed bugs
- Bugs which have actually been fixed in another branch but are not yet in nightlies
- Ticket list for the next release
- List of all open tickets by keywords
In particular, please check this last one before opening a new ticket, in case a ticket already exists for the same issue. Duplicate tickets are painful and should be avoided wherever possible: if you're not sure if your ticket would duplicate an existing one, leave a comment about your issue on the existing ticket in preference to creating a new ticket.
Whatever you aspire to do, please read the coding guidelines if you intend to read or modify the source code. To get a copy of the latest released development code, use git clone git://github.com/angband/angband.git.
The development wiki is still in, er, development. For now, we have the current useful things:
- Compiling - help with compiling the game
- ReleaseChecklist - things to be checked before a release
- CodeMasters - a guide to which developers are most familiar with which parts of the code, and who is currently working on what
- GitUsage - a guide to pushing etiquette and tips for those cowed by the awesome complexity of git (i.e. everybody)
- ToDiscuss - stuff that the devteam should make a decision on
- ToDocument - stuff that the devteam needs to document fully ...
- Policy - a growing archive of helpful guidance
- StatsHowTo - a description of the Monte-Carlo stats generation routine
- SavefileHowTo - a high-level guide to maintaining savefile compatibility
- UTF8Notes - a note on the design changes to handle UTF-8 files and wide chars internally
- NewEgos - an explanation of the new affix-driven ego item code
- PlanningWiki - a place to plan stuff, organised by game unit (whatever that means)
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I hear many people talking about the 1970's as if " that was the period"; that was the time; the place to be; everything cool came out of 1970; No it didnt; It ######6 sucked. It sucked the big one; It was a waist of 10 years. the decade before it; now thats where the real world developed.
It was 1966 and Star Trek was on Friday nights; and I was loving it; watch every Friday; I had it all picked out; my shows. I love it; I always wanted to be James T Kirk when I grew up. I wanted to be an Actor just like him and be on a movie set. And many other things I wanted to be...
And then I was destroyed; around 1972. the era of the 60's ended about 1972 1973- and then it went into disco dancing and all this other ridiculous clutter. The only good that came out of the 70's was the reemergence of skateboarding; In, around 1975, bowl riding and new skate board types started showing up. Rich kids turned their parents pools into mini skate parks; I was invited a few times. We kids: would go all over looking for old reservoirs; concrete spillways that were empty or not in use; and skate them. For me it was all a horrible time; I was thrown away and living somewhere else with no parents. School was a complete non existence.... I was traumatized to the point of non ability in the school system; CPTSD would stop my ability to function; no one cared. This would continue into college.
Back to the story;
Im watching Star Trek and many other shows and looking at what I want to be when I grow up. And then Im destroyed. As I wake up now; 50 years later; for the first time; I have the opportunity to participate in life again; but it will be hard; very hard; I must break through some CPTSD dissociative walls of steal; and this is going to hurt; lots of screaming and rage... And its an opportunity; like; we are the opportunity to send a man to mars; However, how hard will it be? ITs just an opportunity.
The child in me; as he wakes up wonders; " Hey, I can now become captain Kirk" And then suddenly the child in me ask me a question; " what year did you say this is?"; to the shock and horror of my inner child; its 50 years later before I get to start my life.
Better late then never?
Schooling was completely destroyed, relationships never started, money never developed. Nothing; no talents developed; never used regardless of potential; and no skills developed on talents. And allot if not all of this has to do with neglect, and abandonment and shear CPTSD and dissociative disorder and the anxiety of ever getting close to that anxiety wall that stops me.
I dont know how I should feel about this; happy or sad.....
I believe I can accomplish the 2 goals I have set before me; they are simple but not so simple; and I must go one step at a time. I must humble myself and realize; Im simply trying to accomplish the goal. I must break through dissociative disorder; and that is an art form; but I have people working with me to be accountable 2. And its all business; not emotions; step by step to getting the job done; thats what Im learning these days. I have to start somewhere.
Going back into reality is not fun; I had no preparation for reality when young; nothing. I was stripped of everything.
So; being in reality is a place of poverty and nothingness but fear and anxiousness. However, today, I have the ability to write scripts about my new life; and this keeps me present and on top of things.


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In the 1940s, 1950s and right on through the 1960s, Hollywood churned out war epic after war epic. Sure, we still get war movies, but Hollywood isn't exactly popping them out bam bam bam. Video game developers are. But why?
Let's get the obvious out of the way — these games make serious dough.
"Business leaders have an opportunity to... reverse an alarming trend of not recognizing the sacrifices made by the men and women of our military service," CEO Robert Kotick tells Victor Godinez at the Dallas Morning News. Business leaders also have the opportunity to make a gajillion dollars on the backs of those sacrifices.
But, that's being jaded — perhaps too jaded. Video games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare have not been critical of the military like many war films of this past decade have. What's more, war, for better or worse, is an ideal setting for a video game. There's conflict, shooting, objectives — the laundry list goes on and on.
As Godinez points out, video games are filling that gap left by Hollywood.
"The last Brothers in Arms video game," developer Randy Pitchford says, "if that was a movie shot in live action, could never exist because it would cost a billion dollars."
Video games take command of war epics as movies retreat from recent conflicts [Dallas Morning News]


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Here's an issue I have with grids. My users generally want wrapping similar to a raw html table. The solution to this is well documented in the Grid FAQ for Ext 3.
Code:It seems that grid css has changed. To get cells to wrap I can use x-grid-cell-inner instead. I do have apps where it was useful to have the headers wrap, though. Is there any way to achieve this in 4? I was hoping I could change x-column-header-inner, but this didn't appear to work.
I have a suggestion for the migration guide. IMHO the faqs are one of the most useful resources on this site. They should be where everyone looks first for answers. Eventually someone should go though these item by item to see if the workarounds etc listed in them still apply to 4 and document this knowledge.
I assume that you're referring to these FAQ's? I'm not sure how much of that would be directly applicable to migrating from 3 to 4, but I'll keep that in mind as we're documenting the migration guide.
Yes, those were the faqs I meant - thanks for considering them. My point is that they contain many solutions to common tasks and if these solutions have changed in 4, then we need to know.
I found another cosmetic gotcha with GridPanel. In the past, you could specify stripeRows as a config option on the GridPanel itself. This has been moved explicitly to the viewConfig with 4 so you have to do something like
Also, the style for alternate rows appears to have changed from x-grid3-row-alt to simply x-grid-row-alt. People need to be aware of this if they were overriding the style for alt rows.Code:var grid1 = new Ext.grid.GridPanel({ ..., viewConfig: { stripeRows: true }, renderTo: Ext.getBody() });
And making text in a grid selectable has changed as well.
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Last 2 days we tried to migrate from ext3 to ext4 and found several issues(or changes without any documentation in ext4 docs):
1) We can't find any config property for buttonAlign for buttons section for Form/Panel. Now this buttons section transform to special toolbar (fbar) and we can't find how to get this buttons after create panel/form.
2) GridPanel's hideHeaders isn't work. How to hide grid columns headers?
3) UI rendering very slow. Some operations such as hide/show form in rich layout may take 1 second and high load google chrome (but in ext3 this operations work ok).
Also in the Ext4 api docs many inline links have wrong path (link to local server localhost:3000 e.g. http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0...e.Element.html Ext.Fx link).
exactly, agree with the uzver. I spent a few hours of migration is extjs3 extjs4. First of all documentation - not all work, many lack the komponet�w mention of plugins. In general, rework my 150 units at this state of things - it's a massacre! So think first wait for ExtJS 3.3.2 - potemna final version 4.1 and can be taken up for anything.


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NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- A contract proposal from NHL players was rejected by club owners Thursday and talks aimed at saving the hockey season came to at least a temporary end.
After more than 20 hours of negotiations over the previous two days, including a late-night session on Wednesday, the optimism that had been generated faded away.
Union chief Donald Fehr said a message had been sent from the owners that the most recent offer by the players' association had not been accepted and that the message indicated there was no use in holding more talks on Friday.
The players had asked for the talks to continue with federal mediators present, but both sides must agree to that before outside representatives can enter the negotiations. Fehr said the owners had not agreed to having the mediators present.
The talks that took place Tuesday and Wednesday involved only a group of owners and players. Neither Fehr nor NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman were present during those sessions.
Representatives from both sides met for an hour Thursday before the talks came to an end.
Among the owners who had been present for the talks on Tuesday and Wednesday were Pittsburgh's Ron Burkle, Toronto's Larry Tanenbaum and Boston's Jeremy Jacobs.
The players involved have included Sidney Crosby, Shane Doan, Martin St. Louis and Manny Malhotra.
NHL owners locked out the players Sept. 16 after no new collective bargaining agreement could be reached. Games through Dec. 14 have been canceled, as has the Winter Classic and the 2013 All-Star Game.


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The driver of this $140,000 Ford GT was traveling through Norton Shores, Mich., when he swerved to avoid a car heading into a driveway. The GT lost control and was split-in-half and roasted by a utility pole like a giant, V8-powered sunflower seed. The passenger and the driver somehow survived the crash, though the extent of their injuries are unknown.
Photos sent to WOOD-TV show most of the nose of the Ford GT and at least one of the doors still intact. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the rest of the smoldering crater that was once a majestic supercar.
Police say the GT was traveling at a high rate of speed, a good guess considering cars don't generally perform vehicular mitosis while traveling at slow rates of speed. Despite the horrorshow look of it all, it could have been worse. If you click through the photos you notice the power pole is leaning against signage for an Exxon gas station.
Yeah, it could have been much worse.
(Hat tip to Adam, Gale!)


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We're sure this isn't NASA meant, but seeing the Earth as a tiny speck of light in all that darkness … well, it's hard not to think us a rather insignificant part of it all. Meanwhile in Warsaw, the world's scientists and policy makers are trying to figure out how we can not kill ourselves off with climate change.
But hey! It's an amazing photo of Saturn and it's equally amazing that we sent a machine that far into space that can take the photo and send it back.
Here's the technical stuff from NASA:
NASA has released a natural color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.
The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes, was unveiled at the Newseum in Washington on Tuesday.
Cassini's imaging team processed 141 wide-angle images to create the panorama. The image sweeps 404,880 miles (651,591 kilometers) across Saturn and its inner ring system, including all of Saturn's rings out to the E ring, which is Saturn's second outermost ring. For perspective, the distance between Earth and our moon would fit comfortably inside the span of the E ring.
"In this one magnificent view, Cassini has delivered to us a universe of marvels," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini's imaging team lead at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. "And it did so on a day people all over the world, in unison, smiled in celebration at the sheer joy of being alive on a pale blue dot."
The mosaic is part of Cassini's "Wave at Saturn" campaign, where on July 19, people for the first time had advance notice a spacecraft was taking their picture from planetary distances. NASA invited the public to celebrate by finding Saturn in their part of the sky, waving at the ringed planet and sharing pictures over the Internet.
An annotated version of the Saturn system mosaic labels points of interest. Earth is a bright blue dot to the lower right of Saturn. Venus is a bright dot to Saturn's upper left. Mars also appears, as a faint red dot, above and to the left of Venus. Seven Saturnian moons are visible, including Enceladus on the left side of the image. Zooming in to the image reveals the moon and the icy plume emanating from its south pole, supplying fine, powder-sized icy particles that make up the E ring.
The E ring shines like a halo around Saturn and the inner rings. Because it is so tenuous, it is best seen with light shining from behind it, when the tiny particles are outlined with light because of the phenomenon of diffraction. Scientists who focus on Saturn's rings look for patterns in optical bonanzas like these. They use computers to increase dramatically the contrast of the images and change the color balance, for example, to see evidence for material tracing out the full orbits of the tiny moons Anthe and Methone for the first time.
"This mosaic provides a remarkable amount of high-quality data on Saturn's diffuse rings, revealing all sorts of intriguing structures we are currently trying to understand," said Matt Hedman, a Cassini participating scientist at the University of Idaho in Moscow. "The E ring in particular shows patterns that likely reflect disturbances from such diverse sources as sunlight and Enceladus' gravity."
Cassini does not attempt many images of Earth because the sun is so close to our planet that an unobstructed view would damage the spacecraft's sensitive detectors. Cassini team members looked for an opportunity when the sun would slip behind Saturn from Cassini's point of view. A good opportunity came on July 19, when Cassini was able to capture a picture of Earth and its moon, and this multi-image backlit panorama of the Saturn system.
"With a long, intricate dance around the Saturn system, Cassini aims to study the Saturn system from as many angles as possible," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. "Beyond showing us the beauty of the Ringed Planet, data like these also improve our understanding of the history of the faint rings around Saturn and the way disks around planets form — clues to how our own solar system formed around the sun."
Launched in 1997, Cassini has explored the Saturn system for more than nine years. NASA plans to continue the mission through 2017, with the anticipation of many more images of Saturn, its rings and moons, as well as other scientific data.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. JPL designed, developed and assembled the Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
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Rick StevesRick Steves advocates smart independent travel. As host, writer and producer of the popular public television series Rick Steves' Europe, and best-selling author of more than 50 European travel books, he encourages Americans to delve deep into Europe and become "temporary locals."
His readers and viewers not only discover major cities, but also cozy villages away from tourist-trampled routes. He helps American travelers connect much more intimately and authentically with Europe — and Europeans — for a fraction of what mainstream tourists pay. Rick's television series, guidebooks, and his company's European bus tours continue to attract loyal "Rickniks" and a growing stream of new devotees.
Over the past 20 years, Rick has hosted more than 100 travel shows for public television. Rick's relationship with public television began with his first series, Travels In Europe With Rick Steves. In 2005 Rick launched a weekly public radio program, Travel with Rick Steves. Focusing on world travel, each hour-long program has a guest travel expert for interviews, followed by call-ins with questions and comments.
In addition to his guidebooks, Rick pens columns for newspapers and magazines through a travel column syndicated by the Chicago Tribune. He is also a regular on the op-ed page of USA Today. He appears frequently on television, radio and the Internet as the leading authority on independent European travel.
Rick lives and works in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington. His office window overlooks his old junior high school.


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Need video confirmation of why Joe Satriani is considered one of the most frightening shredders on the planet? Then crank up your YouTube and surf with the alien.
When this track from 1987 hit the guitar universe with its twisted interpretation of a classic rock 'n' roll form, Satriani's stature as a guitar god was pretty much cemented.
Satriani has always had a way with ballads, and this live 2006 footage from the Grove in Anaheim revisits perhaps his most influential ever.
Watch studio footage from the Unstoppable Momentum sessions as you listen to Satch's new tune "A Door into Summer."