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A visit to Cornell's Ithaca campus, an expansive 2300 acres, will give you an idea of the opportunities to be found here.
At Cornell you'll experience the traditional college campus: eateries, residence halls, academic buildings, libraries, and research facilities. But its natural beauty—the nearby lake, natural waterfalls, and gardens—set the campus apart from others in the Ivy League. If you're looking for a city-campus feel, Cornell offers that, too. Collegetown is a short walk away and boasts award-winning restaurants and shops of all kinds.
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Undergraduate Study
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Many of our visitors are prospective undergraduate students. If you're thinking of applying to Cornell (or if you already have) we recommend spending at least a half-day visiting the Ithaca campus. During your visit you should:
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- enjoy a concert of the Cornell Chimes
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Getting Here
Cornell's Ithaca campus is located in central New York. There are many ways to get here.
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The Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport (ITH) is a 10-minute drive from campus and downtown areas. Ithaca is serviced by Delta, Continental, US Airways, and United.
Once you arrive, a local taxi service or TCAT bus can bring you to campus.
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Transportation to campus from the Syracuse airport is available from Cornell Bus Service during certain times of year and from Ithaca Airline Limousine.
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There is a range of options available from business class hotels to bed and breakfasts. To find overnight accommodations, go to VisitIthaca.com or the Cornell University Travel Portal.
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Please note that walking tours are different and separate from information sessions.
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This tour will give you an introduction to Cornell's history, its seven undergraduate colleges and schools, student life, athletics, and some legend and tradition. You'll also learn about Cornell's combined roles as an undergraduate teaching institution, an international research university, and New York State's land-grant institution.
Reservations are not required. The tours are wheelchair accessible, are mostly outdoors, and last about one hour. We conduct tours rain or shine, so dress appropriately and wear comfortable shoes.
General tours depart from Day Hall unless noted otherwise.
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Ithaca's Accolades
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Cornellians may not know every word of the alma mater's six verses, but they certainly know the tune, thanks to the 21 chimes in McGraw Tower. Student chimesmasters climb the 161 stairs to the top of the tower where they play three concerts daily. Here, Uris Library and McGraw Tower sit atop Libe Slope, with West Campus and Cayuga Lake in the distance.
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Deer Hunting with .223??
This is a discussion on Deer Hunting with .223?? within the Hunting North America forums, part of the HUNTING OUTSIDE OF AFRICA category; Its time to bring some answers to an ongoing internet debate. Can the .223 be used for deer hunting? Well ...
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Deer Hunting with .223??
Its time to bring some answers to an ongoing internet debate. Can the .223 be used for deer hunting? Well here we go ..
The short and easy answer is yes it can kill a deer. Is it the best round for deer hunting? Probly not, but that doesnt mean it cant or shouldnt be used. The people arguing that a .223 shouldnt be used for deer hunting are concerned that it wont give the deer a quick clean kill. However, the majority of the people arguing this point have never used a .223 for deer hunting. Most of the hunters that do use a .223 think its completely fine. When it comes to clean kills, shot placement is much more important than caliber.
The next question would be weather or not its legal in your state. Ive hunted with a .223 in Hawaii and in California legally so Id assume its ok for the majority of the states but of course you should double check. To hunt with a .223 in California you have to use a grain that shoots with high enough foot pounds. Plus, several companies are now producing rounds specifically for deer hunting for the .223.
So the answer is Yes, a .223 can be used for deer hunting and can cleanly take it down if you put it in the right spot. If youre buying a rifle specifically for deer hunting then Id suggest a 300wsm or a 30-06. But if you want a fun gun for cheap target shooting that you can still use for hunting then a .223 will work.
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Hey welcome to AH and nice post. I really like the 223 and we have one 223 remmington, its spot on and deadly. Mainly use it for all our small antelope and vermin hunts but because of its accuracy we have taken some larger animals with placement shots like kudu obviously in the head. A friend of mine shot his first leopard back in the days with one shot in the neck just under the chin.
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Hey thanks for your appreciation..and keep posting..
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Not if you can, but if you should, would be a better question. A 223 will kill a deer, no doubt in my mind, IMO the game deserves more respect, it is not worth taking the chance of wounding a big game animal with a varmint round.
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I fully agree with you. In Scandinavia its even illegal to hunt a deer or larger animals than roedeer with this caliber, and for a reason....
03-20-2012, 02:53 AM #6AH Veteran
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Also, agree.
.223 is a very small caliber. Yes, it will kill a deer with a heart shot but it leaves absolutely no margin for error.
It is also illegal caliber in Switzerland and for good reasons (too many lost animals...).
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223 will do it on a deer but its maybe a bit too small
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It would be too small to be legal in the States that I know of, 243 is the minimum.
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well I have had this discussion at length with my brother. He bought a .223 CZ last summer for deer hunting. He has found the gun to be extremely accurate and attests that to the reason he feels comfortable with it. He did kill a medium sized buck about 125lb field dressed this season with it. However it fell over immediately then got up and ran about 100 yards before finally dropping over. I made the same shot(quartering to the left) on a larger buck of about 150lb field dressed with a 30/06 and mine went 30 yards. Both deer ended up dead though, which is the ultimate goal.
But my brother shoots Barnes TSX bullets which I think is the main factor in his ability to hunt deer with the gun. Most over the counter .223 bullets will be more along the lines of varmint bullets and wont stay together after hitting a deer and will not give enough penetration.
I would say yes, providing you hunt smaller deer like in the south where bucks rarely get over 150lb, but those 200lb Iowa deer, and the 250lb giants of saskatchewan would most likely laugh at a .223
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Saeng in the state of Alaska and Alabama as well as several others any center fire rifle is Legal I myself have seen Alaska Yukon Moose taken with a .223 I may not hunt with one but it doesn't make it illegal. In Germany a .223 is legal for Roedeer and smaller game as with all shots, shot placement counts if someone thinks they can't hit the kill zone even if as stated above "in the head" with a .223 then what makes them think they can hit it with a 300 Win Mag thats going to kick the crap out of them. I'm a firm believer in the .223 and our Soldiers lives depend on them.Enjoy life now -- it has an expiration date.
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Armalite has been making some AR-like guns for hunting that turn our very accurate results and are very customizable and cheap to shoot.
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The 223 is a fine little round, and even though I would not intentionally hunt deer with it, I will not tell anyone they shouldn't. I have read the stories about the feats the 223 has accomplished.
Then again, when you are talking military, the US special forces requested something with a little more A$$, hence the birth of the 6.8..."That which does not kill us makes us stronger" Friedrich Nietzsche // That which does not kill me, better run like hell" Scott Smith
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In Wyoming a .223 is illegal to hunt big game with. I had a friend in Idaho who was ex-military. He used a 22-250 and got 1 shot kills. He shot only whitetails and I doubt that they were over 160 lbs on the hoof. I killed a nice 4X5 whitetail with a 22-250 a number of years ago. Deer went less than 20 yards. They can do the job. Just not ideal. Wind pushes the bullets quite a bit. Not enough foot pounds of energy and bullet weight to make it reliable. You really need to pick and choose your shots to use it. I like the .270 for deer. More recoil, but a lot better margin for error on a poor shot. Bruce
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I have no doubts a 223 or 22-250 could kill a deer. Most people complain if you hunt with anything less than a 6mm. I tend to think the 243 Win or 6mm should be the bare minimum for ethical big game hunting. Too many things can go wrong.
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As a soldier i love the .223 for work, it has lightweight rounds, so I can carry more (has been useful more than once). It is easy to shoot and more importantly easy to train lots of folks who haven't fired a rifle before. In FJ it tumble and creates nasty wound cavities, makes four guys carry one off the battlefield. Would i hunt with it for deer size game? No. If placed in the right spot it does the job, but we are all human and the right spot doesn't happen every time, therfore i believe we owe it to the game to step it up a notch.
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I have no beef with people hunting deer with .22 cf's, as long as they use the right bullet. I personally wouldn't, but too each their own.
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Today im a .375 man, but when I started shooting I used a 22-250, .22, and .223...took quite a bit of large game with the .223 including Zebra, Red Hartebeest, and Kudu. But I was well trained with the little CZ fullstock. The problem I found with the .223 even though successful with it, is that I always had to 'be careful' and I always opted to wait for broadside shots very tight 'behind' the shoulder to avoid possible problems, as I also never hand-loaded with premium quality bullets. Smaller game like steenbuck or impala would go down first time, but larger game like blesbuck and up would almost certainly dash off for another 100yrds even heart shot and you can lose the animal like this in thick bush with a bad trail to follow. I avoided frontal shots like the plague. In this sense it was restrictive for me. However, if someone said they were using it for deer I wouldnt even bat an eyelid because I know the capabilities of the .223 from practical experience and I think it is ok for deer, but I would not recommend it as a first choice for deer because as a few have said it leaves no room for error. For me the problem with the .223 is it just doesnt leave a good wound channel, and when fate steps in or human error then you want a larger wound channel for at least a good blood trail to follow, something the .223 lacks if you are a bit off the mark.
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I think the 223 is a excelent cartridge,have culled thousands off duiker,steenbuck and took some kudu with it.It shoots pretty straight on long shots in open country but is a little wind sensitive on windy days.I would recomend only up to springbuck size game but in the right hands it is a killing machine.
I have oppted for a 243 Win these days for my small game hunting,it is just a little more versatile but would any day shoot the 223 again.
new regulations stipulate the usage off this calibre on certain species here in south africa.
the 223 can be enjoyed but young and old,in various types off shooting with no recoil for yougsters,so i recon it have a place in your battery.
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Title text: Disclaimer: I have not actually tried the beta yet. I hear it's quite pleasant and hardly Hitler-y at all.
In this comic, Megan is observing Cueball use a laptop on which he has installed the Windows 7 beta. However, the alleged Windows 7 beta is showing nothing but a picture of Adolph Hitler and Cueball is unable to do anything. Cueball then presses Control-Alt-Delete (the well-known Windows Secure Attention Sequence which opens Task Manager or displays a list of options which includes 'Shut Down' and 'Restart') as suggested by Megan, but only manages to make the picture's eyes flash.
The fourth panel shows Megan commenting that this Windows 7 beta is better than Windows Vista, to which Cueball agrees. The joke is that Megan deems a mostly non-functional OS better than Windows Vista, which had problems that were mocked in Apple Mac OS TV commercials.
The title text is a disclaimer stating that Randall has not tried the beta at the time this comic was written, but has heard positive opinions about it.
- [Megan is standing behind Cueball sitting at a desk using his laptop]
- Megan: What are you doing?
- Cueball: Trying the Windows 7 beta.
- Megan: Why is it showing a picture of Hitler?
- [The laptop's screen is shown with Adolph Hitler's face on it]
- Cueball: I don't know. I can't get it to do anything else.
- Megan: There's no UI?
- Cueball: No, just Hitler.
- [Return to the original scene, except Megan is now scratching her head in confusion]
- Megan: Did you try Ctrl-Alt-Delete?
- Cueball: It just makes Hitler's eyes flash.
- Megan: Huh.
- [Scene remains basically the same, except Megan is no longer scratching her head and Cueball is no longer typing on the laptop]
- Megan: Well, it's better than Vista.
- Cueball: True.
Is this a reference to Godwin's Law? Saibot84 (talk) 21:59, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
- An ironic one, possibly. --Qwach (talk) 13:54, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
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What the confused Apple CEO can do to avoid getting canned and having to slink away with nothing but his $378 million compensation package as comfort.
By Fraser P. Seitel
FORTUNE -- I'm sure Tim Cook is hugely competent, a wonderful operating executive, and a real nice guy.
But as CEO of the world's most respected high-tech franchise, he has been an unmitigated disaster.
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"Incredible," gushed CEO Cook about 10 times in his keynote.
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MORE: Why does Apple charge so much for its iPhones?
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- 1. Apple's products are still the envy of the world.
- 2. Apple's stores and personnel are still the model of enthusiastic competence and professionalism.
- 3. Sure competition has increased -- especially from the Samsung Galaxy S phone -- but Apple is still the dominant force in a market that has ample room to grow, particularly in China and India.
- 4. Apple's price/earnings ratio -- which generally measures the market's "valuation" of a company -- is a paltry 12, compared to Google's 27 (GOOG), IBM's 13 (IBM), or General Electric's 17 (GE). Even the hopeless Dell (DELL) has been awarded an 18 P/E by the market.
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Apple, one of the greatest marketing companies of all time, has never been known for good public relations.
Steve Jobs was a marketing genius but less good when it came to public disclosure. Jobs was well known for his dictatorial control, secretiveness, and arrogance. Apple famously refused to share any details of the founder's health, even though the company's fortunes and stock price were materially linked to the CEO's personal well-being.
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Not only has Apple's public relations gotten worse under Mr. Cook, it's also starting to lose its marketing touch; so much so that with Apple's stock back down 33% from its peak, investors are once again calling for the CEO's scalp.
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Take your "image" seriously.
By all reports, Steve Jobs was one of the most arrogant human beings ever to grace the planet. He was vindictive to competitors, abusive to his employees, and, according to Apple's chief designer, didn't bathe!
But Jobs was also brilliant, so he didn't much care about cooperating with the media, for example; Apple's image, he felt, would take care of itself. And largely he was right.
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So Cook, unlike Jobs, has to pay attention to what's being said about Apple in the market, and he should work to "influence" the conversation, so that investors and others aren't frustrated or disappointed in what Apple ultimately says.
On Tuesday, when the market expected product breakthroughs and a contract with China Mobile, it got, instead, a lot of on-stage whoop-de-doing from Apple executives. Immediate verdict: Much ado about nothing.
Smart companies, concerned about their public image, never let securities analysts or journalists get too far afield from realistic expectations. Apple doesn't seem to care.
It should.
Meet the media.
Steve Jobs rarely deigned to be interviewed by hoi polloi in the media, and Tim Cook appears to share that disdain. So Cook media sightings are few and far between.
Meanwhile, Apple's adversaries -- from self-promoting hedge fund managers to finally vindicated analysts -- are given free rein to bash Apple any time they want. With no resistance from the company -- and little pushback from TV anchors -- Apple enemies pontificate unchallenged, as was the case after Tuesday's suicidal product launch.
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The public relations axiom is that, "Silence grants the point;" and Apple's silence, accordingly, suggests the firm has no answer for its critics.
All Tim Cook would have to do is ask for airtime on CNBC, and his mere appearance -- even if he revealed little -- would at least indicate that Apple is willing to discuss its plans, explain its culture, and answer its critics.
Again, Jobs could get away with media invisibility; Cook can't.
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Which leads to Tim Cook's primary problem as Apple CEO: He ain't Steve Jobs. And never will be.
Somehow, Cook is convinced that he has to become a Jobs' clone to be respected. But whereas Jobs was cocky and confident, Cook is wooden and forced.
Jobs famously presented Apple products, always dressed in jeans and a black turtleneck sweater. Cook presents Apple (AAPL) products in jeans and a black open-collar shirt; evidently believing that switching the shirt for the turtleneck suggests a break with the past.
It doesn't.
Why not take a risk and purchase a blue blazer! Anything to break the deleterious chokehold of the Steve Jobs' legacy.
So while Cook has done some good things like stock buybacks and dividends and China expansion, the stark fact is that Apple's stock slide and reputational falloff are largely "man-made," and the "man" who deserves most of the blame is its new CEO.
Tim Cook needs to be his own man. He should be accessible to the media, change his tone, change his look, and let an increasingly dubious financial community and public understand why he deserves to replace the great Steve Jobs.
Soon, CEO Cook is scheduled to have lunch with his newest shareholder, the ever-lovable and eternally patient Carl Icahn, whose stake in Apple used to be $1 ½ billion, when he purchased the stock a month ago. The two were originally scheduled to discuss another Apple buyback, but after this week's bloodletting, shareholder Icahn may have other things on his mind.
Happy dining, lads.
Fraser P. Seitel has been a communications consultant, commentator, author, and teacher for 40 years. He teaches public relations at NYU and is the author of the Prentice-Hall textbook The Practice of Public Relations, now in its 12th edition, and co-author of Rethinking Reputation and Idea Wise. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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They let an old man run them!
Watch: Angel Pagan hits first inside-the-park walk-off since 2004
The Giants trailed the Rockies 4-0 in the sixth inning on Saturday afternoon, battled back to force extra innings, then watched closer Sergio Romo give up a leadoff home run to Troy Tulowitzki in the top of the 10th.
With his team trailing 5-4, shorstop Brandon Crawford drew a five-pitch walk from Rockies' closer Rafael Betancourt to open the bottom of the 10th and was bunted into scoring position by Guillermo Quiroz, pinch-hitting for Romo. That brought up Angel Pagan, who only needed a single to keep the Giants alive in the game. Instead, after fouling off Betancourt's first pitch, he did this:
That was the first walk-off inside-the-park home run since 2004, when Rey Sanchez of the Devil Rays hit one, also in the bottom of the 10th inning, also against the Rockies, albeit in a tie game. Here's that one:
Most inside-the-park home runs are actually the result of fielding errors, and Sanchez's fit that bill. With one out and the bases empty in a tie game, Rockies' rightfielder Jeromy Burnitz attempted an ill-advised catch, missed the ball, then fell down trying to retrieve it. Sanchez's hit probably should have been a single (Burnitz should have fielded it on a hop) and a three-base error.
Pagan's however, was a legitimate home run. Rightfielder Michael Cuddyer may have gotten a bit to close to the wall, but he was attempting to play the carom when the ball came down only to be victimized by a very high hop. Centerfielder Dexter Fowler backed him up well, got the ball in quickly, hit the cutoff man, and cut-off man DJ LeMahieu's throw to the plate was strong and accurate.
Pagan circled the bases safely because he hit the ball to the deepest part of the ballpark, known as triples alley (there used to be a sign right next to where Pagan's ball hit), with a ton of hang time, particularly if you include that high carom. Playing in his home ballpark and likely knowing he had a chance at a triple, he was busting it out of the box. That high carom and the green light from third-base coach Tim Flannery was all he needed to take the extra base, and it was still a close play at the plate.
In addition to being the first inside-the-park walk-off in nine seasons, Pagan's home run was also just the third walk-off home run this season hit by a player whose team was trailing at the moment of contact. Evan Longoria hit the first with the Rays down 7-6 in the bottom of the ninth on May 11, and the Indians' Yan Gomes hit the second with his team trailing 8-7 in the bottom of the tenth this past Monday.
For more on inside-the-park walk-off home runs, check out this list from Baseball-Reference.com (hat-tip @GiantsNirvana), but note that it only covers back to 1945 and is missing the greatest inside-the-park walkoff in major-league history. That came on July 25, 1956, when, trailing 8-5, the Pirates loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth against the Cubs' Turk Lown. Chicago manager Stan Hack then swapped out Lown to have future author Jim Brosnan face 21-year-old second-year rightfielder Roberto Clemente, who greeted Brosnan with the only inside-the-park walk-off grand slam in major-league history, and the Pirates needed all four runs for the win. Sadly, no video of that one exists.
They let an old man run them!
Question: when did the term "walk-off" come into being? When I first heard it, I thought it referred to remarkable events like this. Now, I see it used for any event where the home team wins in their last at-bat. "Walk-off single," "walk-off error", "walk-off passed ball", etc.
Cutoff man was DJ LeMahieu. Part of Flannery's thought process to send Pagan was that the way the defense set-up, LeMahieu was the cutoff man and has a weaker arm than Tulowitzki. Minor detail to nitpick on but it contributed to the decision for it to be a dramatic inside the parker to win it versus a less dramatic triple to tie the game. Either way though, GO GIANTS!
@Matthew W Old man? Pagan is 31 and still very fast.
@GeorgeBroze "Walk-off job" was coined by Dennis Eckersley when he was pitching for the A's in the late 80's.
@akamikedavid He didn't have time to think about it. More likely why not force the defense to make a play.


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Topekan Steven Bowers Jr. can't be accused of racing on his laurels.
After dominating the Modified class in the 2010 Super Saturday Showdown Series, Bowers abandoned the two-car system that carried him to the track championship and started the current campaign with a brand new car.
"We had a pretty good season last year,'' Bowers said. "Hopefully this 2011 season goes just a little bit better.
"Our goal is to win every week. We don't come to take second.''
Bowers always had two race cars at the ready last season, an approach that paid big dividends. This year, however, Bowers trotted out a new car.
"I sold both of my cars last year and I built me a brand new car this year,'' he said. "It was helpful having two race cars ready to go, but financially we'd like to keep it down to one.''
Bowers' new car debuted with a win on opening night at Heartland Park and he thinks it has the potential to be better than last year's cars.
"It's supposed to be better, but we'll see how it is,'' Bowers said. "We'll see how it pans out. Hopefully we can start out this new season with a bang.''
After a hectic offseason getting everything prepared for 2011, Bowers was ready to get back to racing.
"Uusally the winter time's kind of stressful, getting stuff rounded up,'' he said. "For the most part summer time is kind of relaxing.
"You just go race your stuff and then you've got to get ready to build another new car next year.''


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Ertz is better.
Ertz is better.
More chance of getting Ertz at #42............
btw, alot of people saying a lot of players moving up to first round, well what happens to those projected in round 1 before?
alot of players will surprisingly drop by numbers and draft by position game.
FA: Dmitiri Patterson (Vet min.w/ incentives)
1. Zach Martin OT
2. Bishop Sankey RB
3. Brandon Thomas G/T
4. Max Bullough ILB
5. Crockett Gilmore TE
6. Brandon Linder G/T
I disagree with the idea that Eifert is a better prospect than Fleener was, but I disagree more with the idea that Ertz is better than Eifert.
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Sedentary older people at risk of developing diabetes showed significant improvement in the function of their insulin-making beta cells after just one week of exercise.
Beta cell function is known to decline with age, although it is not clear why, Drs. Cathie J. Bloem and Annette M. Chang explain in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
As people age, they may also become less sensitive to the blood sugar-regulating effects of insulin and develop impaired insulin secretion, the researchers add. And while short-term exercise boosts insulin sensitivity, it has not been clear how it might affect beta cell function.
To investigate, Bloem and Chang had 12 sedentary individuals aged 60 and older perform an hour-long workout every day for a week. The exercise sessions, consisting of stints on a treadmill, exercise bike and cross-training machine, required study participants to work out at 60 percent to 70 percent of their maximum heart rate capacity.
After the exercise period, study participants' sensitivity to insulin had increased by 53 percent, on average, while a measure of beta cell function called the disposition index had risen by 28 percent. However there were no changes in their fat mass, levels of fat in the blood, or other factors that might explain the effect of exercise on beta cells.
"Longer-term exercise training studies are required and are currently in progress to evaluate further exercise training effects on beta cell function in age-related glucose intolerance," the researchers note.
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Well, it's October, which means it's the one time of the year where talking about horror in video games is timely and appropriate, yeah?
Either way, horror is a very fun topic to talk about in video games, especially nowadays. It's hard to believe how far we've come since the sluggish polygons of Alone in the Dark and the tank controls of Resident Evil. There are lots of ways that horror has changed over time, but not all of them have been in the genre's best interest
5. Make You Feel Like You're Not In Control
While Resident Evil 4 remains one of my favorite games of all time and the scariest game I ever played, I still hear arguments from long-time Resident Evil fans who say that the tank controls of older games in the series are actually scarier than what RE4 has made the series today. After diving further into the subject, I can start to see where these "purists" are coming from. Resident Evil was in fact a scary game in a rather interesting way. The perspective came from a number of static camera angles overseeing the character. When you reached a certain point, the camera would automatically shift to another. This simulated someone watching through security cameras and switching their own view to another screen. As a result, the view implied that someone else was controlling the viewpoint from a remote location, as if they are watching you play the game.
This same idea actually appeared in a less horror-infused game Psychonauts. During the boss fight The Den Mother (boss of the already Salvador Dali-level of messed-up Milkman Conspiracy level), psychonaut hero Raz can use the Clairvoyance ability to access the viewpoint of The Den Mother while she's hidden in the dark. You then see what the boss is seeing; she attacks and Raz can then avoid her attacks. Even though this is a rather light-hearted moment, you still see a viewpoint of your character, with the camera completely out of your control. That's probably what makes this idea even more unsettling: you don't control the view. You're under the power of the game's will, a will that watches you and influences you constantly. It's definitely a technique that the industry has since abandoned, but it still has plenty of creepy life in it.
4. Show, Don't Tell
Giving a game's story context can be a great way in developing an expansive and involving game world. But on the other side of the spectrum, by not explaining anything, a mystery and ambiguity appears. As human beings (a species defined by our unique ability to use logic), we are not fond of not understanding something; it throws off our biological equilibrium. So when you don't have any sort of context, things get creepy: we inherently fear what we can't understand.
That's why horror games benefit immensely from this lack of context. Words are our most powerful ways to contextualize a medium, but horror games work best without words. Pictures are creepy when not paired with words. Once again diving into Psychonauts, the Memory Reels are some of the creepiest moments in any game I've seen. In each level, Raz can find bouncing vaults which, when attacked, reveal slideshow reels detailing dormant memories of the world's owner. These stories have no text; instead, they are dark, Burton-esque illustrations that tell incredibly unsettling stories. Sasha's premature discovery of his parents' sexual relationship, Milla's guilt of letting a group of orphans die in a fire and many other creepy stories. This use of illustrations is a juxtaposition: these dark, surprisingly mature stories are shown in a "picture book" fashion, something more suited for a child. By "watching" these, we are put into the role of a child; we instinctively become vulnerable to this sense of unknowing.
In horror games, it's the way to go. Use cryptic clues and a lack of concrete answers to further our exploration. Examining the environment creates context, but a context that remains ambiguous and unconfirmed. Why else would we freeze up when we are simply set into the level instead of led there by the hand?
3. Address the Player, Not the Avatar
When playing a game of pretty much any variety, you, the player, control a character, an avatar if you will. In these games (horror included), these monsters or NPC's talk to your avatar, be it Mario, Link, Master Chief, Nathan Drake or whoever. You play the role and the game addresses the player through that role.
But everyone now and then, that barrier dividing the game world and the player (the avatar itself) is broken. A character will no longer be talking to Mario or Link, but instead talking to the player, maybe like "hey, you with the controller!" or "don't you dare press that button!" This alone is a rather startling moment because the player is always outside looking in. It's like seeing a group of people having a conversation, then they all of a sudden start looking at you. It's a way of abruptly pushing the player into a game world instead of leading them in carefully.
This tactic has been used in games like Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Metal Gear Solid, but its most notorious use is in the horror classic Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Occasionally, as the player's sanity meter went down, the game would throw fourth-wall-breaking curveballs at you like showing a silhouette of an insect crawl on the screen, make it look like the TV's volume is being lowered, or the infamous "erasing" of the player's memory card. This is a prime example of giving the player fear not through their character, but through themselves. It's a shocking moment, but also a personal one. Not only are you involved, but you're affected, and being affected means that you have agency in the game. You are a part of the game, so if the world is threatening, it's not the avatar who's threatened: it's you.
2. Change Aesthetics Abruptly and Frequently
We've seen countless survival horror games reuse the same dark hallways and gloomy sewers. It's been a near-requirement since Alone in the Dark, and while they do provide a recurring sense of spookiness, what's especially creepy is when the aesthetics rapidly change into something else.
Here's an example I found in my favorite XBLA title, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile. One of the bosses is The Invalid, a wheelchair-bound mental patient that cannot attack you directly. Instead, he just plains screws with your head. Right when the fight starts, the screen goes black and the game's graphics go all retro and become 8-bit quality. After a while of NES-style hacking and slashing, the graphics return to normal and The Invalid is mauling on your face. Quickly, the graphics become text-based, like an old DOS RPG. After a while, they then return to The Invalid making hamburger of your head flesh. Eventually, the battle ends and the monster is dead.
These sudden changes in graphic style and mood are extremely disorienting, but in a good way. It adds a feeling of unexpectedness and anxiety. This disorientation means that players are, in a sense, "off-balance." They have trouble adjusting to changes and the comfort of straightforwardness is gone. Think about when you first enter a new level of a game; there is a looming lack of assurance in it. You need a while to get used to things. However, when the game constantly throws new aesthetic design your way, you're in a constant state of disorientation and you feel less in control of your environment, even if you are. Of course, this method can be overused, so it's best to find a clean-cut time slot where changing the aesthetics works best. This varies from game to game, but it's clear that keep the world changing and keeping that unknown vibe alive feeds that anxiety, constantly making the player feel like a newcomer in their own avatar's skin.
1. Keep It Simple
This is probably the biggest issue with the fall of modern survival horror (or as I like to call it, "nu-horror"). Resident Evil 4, despite being a fantastic and memorable game, signified a shift from the claustrophic corridors and stiff controls into a clean, fast action-focused horror world. Over-the-shoulder targeting became a standard for many shooters and taking on a crowd of angry enemies came down to how good your aim was as opposed to how long you can run. Later Resident Evil games followed this template to a troubling low, with Resident Evil 5 and 6 not being scary in the least. Series like Left 4 Dead, Alone in the Dark and Silent Hill followed suit, abandoning the fear that the genre had been known for. The simple avoidance of enemies was replaced with bombastic action scenes that seemed more appropriate in a Michael Bay movie than a horror game. Constant ammunition and supplies made you feel like you could take on a horde of zombies, no matter how large. You felt empowered.
But when you're empowered, you become confident and...wait for it...brave. You feel courageous. You don't feel scared. Fear has been removed from these series because you have such huge arsenals, enormous inventory, or simply a friend backing you up. In this regard, this is why the indie community has done so well with horror games: with a smaller budget and less tech to work with, they have no choice but to keep the game's mechanics simple. They can't pack in a colossal helicopter escape scene because they don't have the money to do it. So instead, these developers use what they have available and let their design create the fear.
Games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent and SCP: Containment Breach are down-to-earth survival horror games. They don't clutter themselves with weapons and action sequences. Instead, you gotta hide. You have to avoid the enemies instead of confronting them. You have to use whatever small amounts of supplies you can find. Simplistic controls, simplistic design, yet you still feel afraid. By keeping combat (if there is any at all) simple, the game is able to focus itself on the fear, not the interaction with enemies directly. You feel powerless in this state; a simple man, by definition, doesn't have much special about him. He doesn't have hypersensory abilities or enormous resistance to damage; he's...simple. He's normal. He's a human, and with that, he's pretty defenseless. And when you have no defense, you are vulnerable to any monsters that hide around the corner.
Well, horror gaming may not abide by these suggestions to the letter, but I'm still eager to see where the genre goes in the next generation.
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FORT MYERS — Community School coach Greg Donahue was enjoying his evening, sitting at the scorer's table, joking with Scott Guttery as he watched someone else coach for a change.
"I'm much happier sitting here," Donahue said. "I did enough coaching this year. It was a long season."
Minutes later, event host and Bishop Verot coach Matt Herting told him that he was coaching in the second half of Tuesday night's Southwest Florida Association of Basketball Coaches All-Star Game. So much for a relaxing evening.
In a ceremony held between the girls and boys all-star games, Donahue was announced as the SFABC Boys Coach of the Year. It was Herting who had nominated him, and he made a strong case for the other area coaches to vote for him.
"I followed him all year because we played him, but I also followed him all year because it was fun to watch him," Herting said.
Under Donahue's leadership, the Seahawks boasted a 28-3 record and went to the state final four for the second time in program history.
It was also a night for First Baptist to show that it has arrived as a basketball power. Not only did coach Scott Stewart have the honor of coaching the South team in the boys game, but more importantly forward Austin Williamson was announced as a Mr. Basketball finalist.
"I was really excited about that," Williamson said.
Though Williamson's college destination has been long decided — he committed to Army in January — he played the all star game as though he was trying to make the team. He led the South team to a 104-87 victory with 19 points in a workmanlike effort. He went toe-to-toe with players from big schools, yet never seemed out of place.
"People can see Austin play against other good players from Southwest Florida," Stewart said. "We don't always get the opportunity to play other teams, as much as we would like to. As you can see, in man-to-man, he does a very good job. It's very tough to stop him. He's a very good fundamental big man."
Gulf Coast's Davidson Neptune, who scored 17 points in the game, was honored as a finalist, as was George Obidiegwu of St. John Neumann. Bishop Verot's Mason Taylor was named Mr. Basketball for Southwest Florida.
Three Collier athletes were finalists for Ms. Basketball, too: Maggie Bender of St. John Neumann, Alli Emerson of First Baptist and Mackensie Reiselt of Gulf Coast. The Ms. Basketball honor went to Mallory Burton of Charlotte.
With eight points, Naples' Samantha Hugan was the leading Collier County player in the girls' game, which the South team lost, 81-70. Though she had her own head coach in Daniella Rosset on the sideline, Hugan had only two practices to get used to her new teammates because she was the only Golden Eagle player on the roster.
"We get to play each other during the season, so we kind of know how some players work," Hugan said. "But it's a really cool experience. You get to see different styles of basketball, different speeds, different sizes. Put it all together and you have an all-star team."
In its 13th year, the SFABC All-Star Game gives the seniors from four counties one more night to represent their schools. In the boys game, the North team featured players from Charlotte, Hendry and Lee Counties, while the South team included all of Collier County and a few Lee County schools. The girls rosters were set up more like the Presidents Cup, in that the North team pitted Lee County against a South team made up of everybody else.


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my favorite cartoon character is johny bravo, what about yours?
who is your favorite cartoon character?
As of now my favorite is Doraemon because of my kids.
chota bheem & Mr Beem
Bobby Hill is my favorite character on King of the Hill.
tom & jerry..............
I don't like cartoon so much but i like tom and jerry..
Well if we talk about cartoons and the first character come in to my mind are TOM and jerry.... I watched these cartoons a lot when I was younger... And the second favorite is the Pink Panther... These cartoons are really nice...
my favorite cartoon charactor is tom and jerry
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Enery Efficiency Important to H&P
With rising fuel costs, energy efficiency is now more important to designers and operators of machinery and equipment. They are looking for ways to build energy efficiency into every operation of every machine. This subject has been important to us at H&P for a long time also.
We have reported on applications where size, weight, and space are critical considerations in the design and operation of all types of industrial equipment and machinery. In our
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Putin's invite to Obama: a formality or a good omen?
Many in Moscow see Putin's invitation to Obama to visit Russia as diplomatic decorum unlikely to warm a chilly relationship. But others suggest that the Russian leader may be ready to deal.
Barack Obama has agreed to hold a summit meeting in Moscow soon, after Russian President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly called him up Tuesday night and extended the invite.Skip to next paragraph
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Some Russian experts say it's a measure of how quickly unusual things can happen in a political system in which a single figure, Mr. Putin, holds so many strings of power in his hands.
The prevailing view in Moscow is that the bilateral US-Russia agenda is too badly stalemated, especially on the critical issue of missile defense, for any breakthroughs to occur in what most agree is an increasingly troubled relationship. In this view, Putin is just going through the motions of making nice with the newly reelected Mr. Obama, and no one should expect anything more than a few photo ops and well-meaning rhetoric from the meeting, whose date has yet to be set.
But others argue that fresh and dramatic departures may be coming, and that people should have guessed it last March when an open mic at a Seoul, South Korea, meeting caught Obama telling then-President Dmitry Medvedev to ask Putin to "give me space" until after the November US presidential election. "This is my last election," Obama told Mr. Medvedev. "After my election I have more flexibility."
"Now the elections are over, and [Putin and Obama] can move on to the next stage," says Sergei Markov, vice rector of the Plekhanov Economic University in Moscow and a frequent Putin adviser in the past.
"Putin views Obama soberly, and sees him as a man who keeps his promises. Obama realizes that Putin has very strong capacities of leadership; in other words, he's a man who can make deals," Mr. Markov adds. "The bad period in our relationship is over, and there are objectively very good possibilities for a new beginning."
Obama came into office nearly four years ago pledging to "reset" the US-Russia relationship after several years of deepening chill under George W. Bush. The consensus in Russia is that he succeeded. Within a year the two sides signed the first full-scale nuclear arms reduction treaty since the cold war, New START, and also established a raft of bilateral government commissions – the sort of forum Russian bureaucrats adore – to discuss issues of mutual concern. Earlier this year, Russia agreed to give the United States routine access to a major central Russian air base to assist in efforts to resupply embattled NATO forces in Afghanistan.
"The current US president is someone you can do business with; he is a man who listens to other people's arguments, knows how to communicate and can take decisions. We do not always agree, but if he adopted decisions he ultimately implemented them," Medvedev, now prime minister, told Finnish journalists Tuesday.