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Delbert and Evelyn Howell of Goose Creek celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on May 9. The couple was married on May 9, 1953.
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Select Health of South Carolina was a top four finalist and received honorable mention in the diversity communications category at PR News' Corporate Social Responsibility Awards luncheon, held Feb. 11 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Select Health was acknowledged for its culturally competent cervical cancer screening initiative aimed at reducing health disparities among African American, white and Hispanic/Latina women on First Choice, the state's first and largest Medicaid plan. This statewide initiative was implemented by Summerville resident Jennie Butler, health promotion program specialist at Select Health, as well as Jill Lemay, culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) coordinator of Mount Pleasant and Kimberley Wilson, community outreach specialist from Columbia. From left, Jennie Butler, Jill Lemay, and Kimberley Wilson.
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Arosa has a total of 4.7 kilometres of toboggan runs. One of the highlights is the run from the Tschuggenberg down to the valley station for the Kulm cable car. The descent is also popular with night owls who want to sledge to the village after an enjoyable dinner.
Starting point: Tschuggen Hut (2,000 m.a.s.l.)
Starting point: Tschuggen Hut (2,000 m.a.s.l.)
Accessibility of starting point: Cable railway / cable car
Finishing point: Kulm cable car valley station (1,820 m.a.s.l.)
Altitude difference: 180 metres
Length: 0.9 kilometres
Level of difficulty: medium
Toboggan hire onsite: no
Illuminated for night sledging: yes
Option to eat: at the start and at the finish


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was simultaneously one of the most critically acclaimed and most erratic country singers of post-World War II era.
had all the elements of being one of the great country stars of the '60s and '70s, but his popularity never matched his critical notices. What made him a critical favorite also kept him from mass success. Throughout his career,
willfully bended genres, fusing country, jazz, blues, gospel, rockabilly, and soul. Though he had 45 country hits in a career that spanned nearly four decades, he became best-known for his lush,
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-produced countrypolitan records of the early '70s. Instead of embracing the stardom those records brought him,
shunned it, retreating into semiretirement by the '80s.
began his professional musical career while he was enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in the early '50s. While he was stationed in Oklahoma, he formed a group called
the Velvetones
, which played jazz and blues and featured his fiancée, Margaret Ann, on lead vocals.
left the military in 1956, and he began performing clubs around the Memphis area, playing both jazz and R&B; he also began writing his own material.
managed to land a job as a session musician for Judd Records, which was owned by
Judd Phillips
, the brother of Sun Records founder
Sam Phillips
. Around this time, saxophonist and Sun recording artist
Bill Justis
play at the Sharecropper Club and asked the pianist to write arrangements for him.
perform with
at a club gig and asked him to record some demos at Sun Studios.
rejected the resulting demos, claiming they were too jazzy. After absorbing some
Jerry Lee Lewis
gave him,
returned to Sun quickly and became a regular session musician for the label in 1958, playing and/or singing on records by
Johnny Cash
Warren Smith
Billy Lee Riley
Carl Mann
, and
Ray Smith
. He was also writing songs, including "Break Up" for
, "The Ways of a Woman in Love" for
, and "I'm Comin' Home" for
, which was later cut by
Elvis Presley
In August of 1958,
released his first single, "Whirlwind," for the Sun subsidiary Phillips International. Throughout 1959, he recorded a number of songs at Sun, though only a handful were actually released.
didn't have a hit until 1960, when his third Phillips International single, "Lonely Weekends," became a Top 30 pop hit. However, none of its seven follow-up singles were a success, though several of the songs would become staples in his set, including "Who Will the Next Fool Be?," "Sittin' and Thinkin'," and "Midnight Blues." In the early '60s,
's career remained stalled. He left Sun Records in 1964, signing with Groove, a newly established subsidiary of RCA. His first single, "Big Boss Man," was an underground, word-of-mouth hit, but its
Chet Atkins
-produced follow-ups all stiffed. On Groove, he jazzily interpreted standards, but he also performed a handful of originals, including "Tomorrow Night" and "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore." Groove went out of business by the beginning of 1965, leaving
without a record contract.
Under the direction of
Shelby Singleton
, Smash Records signed
early in 1965.
's producer,
Jerry Kennedy
, encouraged the pianist to emphasize his country and rock & roll leanings. The first single for Smash was "Mohair Sam," an R&B-inflected novelty number written by
Dallas Frazier
. "Mohair Sam" became a Top 30 pop hit, but none of its follow-ups were successful. Again,
changed labels, moving over to Hi Records, where he recorded straight country, but none of his singles for the label made any impression on the country charts.
Despite his lack of consistent commercial success, Epic Records signed
in 1967, mainly on the recommendation of producer
Billy Sherrill
refashion himself as a Nashville-based, smooth, middle-of-the-road balladeer. At first, the singles were only moderately successful -- "Set Me Free" and "Raggedy Ann" charted in the mid-40s in 1968 -- but persistence paid off in the summer of 1972, when "I Take It on Home" rocketed to number six. "I Take It on Home" set the stage for
's big breakthrough into the mainstream, 1973's
Behind Closed Doors
album. The title track from the record became a number one hit early in 1973, crossing over into the Top 20 on the pop charts. Following the success of "Behind Closed Doors," RCA re-released "Tomorrow Night," which reached the Top 30, but it was "The Most Beautiful Girl," the proper follow-up to his first number one single, that established him as a star. "The Most Beautiful Girl" spent three weeks at the top of the country charts and two weeks at the top of the pop charts.
Behind Closed Doors
won three awards from the Country Music Association that year: Best Male Vocalist, Album of the Year, and Single of the Year for the title track. The album was also certified gold,
won a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, and he also took home four ACM awards.
After "The Most Beautiful Girl," number one hits came quickly -- "There Won't Be Anymore" (re-released from his RCA sessions), "A Very Special Love Song," "I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Anymore" (also from RCA), "I Love My Friend," and "She Called Me Baby" (RCA) all topped the country charts, and several of the songs also crossed over into the pop charts. Mercury began re-releasing his Smash recordings, and two of them -- "A Field of Yellow Daisies" and "Something Just Came Over Me" -- became minor hits. All of this success led the CMA to name him Entertainer of the Year in 1974.
didn't quite dominate the charts in 1975 as he did the previous year, but he did have three Top Five hits: "My Elusive Dreams," "Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)," and "All Over Me," plus the Top Ten "Since I Fell For You." Even though he was at the peak of his popularity,
had begun to drink heavily, causing considerable problems off-stage. His destructive behavior culminated at the CMA ceremony for 1975, when he presented the award for that year's Entertainer of the Year. Instead of reading the name of the winner, he set fire to the certificate that named the new winner, who happened to be
John Denver
. Fans and industry insiders were outraged, and
had trouble having hits throughout 1976 -- none of his singles cracked the Top 20.
The slump in his career couldn't be completely attributed to
's behavior. His records had begun to sound increasingly similar, as he and
were working over the same territory they began exploring in 1968. There were exceptions -- such as 1976's acclaimed gospel record,
Silver Linings
-- but it took
until 1977 to break back into the Top Ten with the number one "Rollin' With the Flow." Early in 1978, he signed with United Artists and throughout that year had hits on both Epic and UA.
worked at United Artists with
Larry Butler
, a producer who had a similar style to
. Epic continued to have hits, as "Beautiful Woman" reached the Top Ten in the summer and a duet with
Janie Fricke
, "On My Knees," became his last number one hit that fall. "I'll Wake You Up When I Get Home," taken from the
Clint Eastwood
movie Every Which Way But Loose, was a number three hit early in 1979; it would be his last Top Ten single.
struggled to have a big hit throughout 1979, but none of his singles were anything more than a minor success. In 1980, he switched labels to Elektra, resulting in the number 12 single "A Man Just Don't Know What a Woman Goes Through" in the fall of that year. One more Top 40 hit followed -- "Are We Dreamin' the Same Dream" early in 1981 -- but
decided to remove himself from the spotlight. For over a decade,
was silent, living in semiretirement and only playing the occasional concert. He returned in 1992 with
Pictures and Paintings
, a jazzy record produced by journalist
Peter Guralnick
and released on Sire.
Pictures and Paintings
received positive reviews and restored
's reputation, but it would be his last record.
died from a blood clot in his lung in the summer of 1995, when he was travelling to Florida with his wife, Margaret Ann.
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13 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts For the Insane Workplace
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Because we can't do a god-damned thing without enumerating its many variations and rating them on badassedness, we decided to do that here with our favorite keyboard shortcuts. These are shortcuts that we use every day at Cracked. You'll recognize some of them, but others may be unfamiliar as our IT department has implemented a number of different desktop extensions to improve our mirth-ficiency. Whether these same extensions allow IT to monitor our porn-usage - and with the help of webcams, our porn-usage-usage - is as-yet unknown, although an informal poll of Cracked writers suggests that we're pretty cool with that possibility. "Let them watch. They might learn a thing or two."
With that unsettling image lurking in your mind's eye, trapped there no matter how much you blink, let us now turn to the most badass keyboard shortcuts around.
The Classics: Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V
These are probably the first shortcuts most people learn, and with good reason - they are incredibly handy, and used in almost all aspects of computing. Jokes about plagiarism aside, at Cracked we use these quite a bit, editing articles, moving around chunks of HTML, and plagiarizing.
Data Entry Professional's Choice: Tab
In most environments the Tab key lets you move the focus of the keyboard input amongst different fields on the screen. This is of limited use when navigating the web, given the mouse-driven nature of websites, and because the tab-order of most sites was programmed by a drunk. But it is very handy when doing any tasks which require repetitive data entry; at Cracked we use Tab a lot when entering facts about presidents into our fact about presidents database.
Let's Get Out Of Here: F6
In most browsers, pressing F6 will highlight the address bar, allowing you to quickly type a new url and leave that web site (I urge you to not try this for a few minutes.) With the autocomplete feature in most browsers, this can make switching from website to website as simple as three or four keystrokes. An example: just now, DOB came into my office and asked me which were the most fire-retardant presidents of all time. Using F6, I was able to quickly navigate to the Library of Congress website, and check for him. In this particular case, it turned out that no-one knows, which meant that further research will be required, which meant that DOB cackled and sprinted from my office, which meant that something horrible will almost certainly happen quite soon - a chain of events that would have taken seconds longer to develop without the power of F6.
The Boss Key: Alt-Tab
The favorite keyboard shortcut of slackers everywhere, Alt-Tab quickly switches to a different window, which is often used by people who don't want their bosses to see what they're doing. If instead of writing a column about how to ride a dinosaur like you're supposed to, you've instead been mainly looking at pictures of people dressed as dinosaurs rubbing against one another, this is a useful key to have ready when your boss comes in with his judgin' eyes.
Boss Keying Like a Boss: Alt-F4
Alt-F4 (and it's cousin, Ctrl-W) shuts programs entirely, which is useful if you've got a boss who likes to get right up into your grill and snoop around the items on your taskbar. You see a lot of Cracked staffers with a hand hovering over Alt-F4 as they work - looking for their other hand at such times is typically not advisable.
What Is The Deal With Airline Food: CapsLock-Shift-F8
This keyboard shortcut is one of the specialized ones we have here at Cracked, which inserts a joke into any document. Our IT guys found this huge book of puns in the children's section of the local library, and hard-coded the lot of 'em in one of our desktop extenders.
For a title promising nutty jokes, few, if any, are actually about testicles.
Obviously not all of our jokes come from this feature, but if we ever need a "quick" gag, we can always press CapsLock-Shift-F8, and bam, right there we have a filthy rag wearing tennis shoes!
Shaft: Shift-Ctrl-F3
Similar to above, but this one only works in Photoshop and only if you've got the right extensions. Shift-Ctrl-F3 will insert a penis bulge into any image you're working with.


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Welcome back the Scoutmaster Minute. In this show we are revisiting an older show of mine, show number 4. It seems so long ago.
With the new Scout requirements for Tenderfoot, Second Class and First Class all centered on Bullying, it was time to get a podcast out there. Using the BSA's Bullying awareness presentation as a guide, this podcast gives definitions and solutions for bullying in your unit.
Produced in cooperation with the National Association of School Psychologists. Jeffries, P. W. & Goodwin, K. (2001) Stop School Bullying: Kalamazoo College's Site Dedicated to Creating Safe Learning Environments for Kids.Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo College.http://www.kzoo.edu/psych/stop%5Fbullying/ National Crime Prevention Council (2006) http://www.ncpc.org/topics/by-audience/parents/bullying/ Newman, D. A., Horne, A. M., Bartolomucci, C. L. (2000) Bully Busters- A Teacher's Manual for Helping Bullies, Victims, and Bystanders. Champaign, IL: Research Press. Olweus, D. (1993) Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do.
Oxford, UK: Blackwell. Sassu, K. A., Elinoff, M. J., Bray, M. A., & Kehle, T. J. (2004) "Bullies and Victims – Information for Parents." Helping Children at Home and at School II: Handouts for Families and Educators. Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists. Sheras, P. (2002) Your Child: Bully or Victim? New York, NY:
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friend - "Holy crap, dude, my new car has seat warmers, and they're total butt-welders!"
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Every year about this time I think about two firsts in my sporting life, and both happened while I played in the Chicago Cubs organization: my first win as a professional baseball player on July 5, 1976, and my first and only NASCAR race on July 4, 1977.
During the summer of 1977, I played for the Cubs' Florida State League, Class A affiliate in Pompano Beach, FL. We were on a road trip over the weekend of the Fourth hitting Daytona and Cocoa Beach. It was 99 degrees that weekend with a humidity reading of 110 percent and some moron scheduled a doubleheader for July 4, a Sunday afternoon.
We didn't want to play in any Sunday afternoon doubleheader. Mired in a nine-game losing streak we had lost the first two games of a four-game series, badly in fact, the Friday night game erupting in a bench-clearing brawl. I had started the game and lasted three innings, giving up a game-tying grand slam home run to Kenny Phelps, who incidentally, hit the game-tying homer in my first professional win a year earlier.
Phelps went on to play a dozen or so years in the big leagues as a DH with Kansas City and Seattle. When I die and am sent to purgatory for living an impure life, I will endure eternity delivering gopher balls to Kenny Phelps.
After curfew check our clubhouse boy, Kenny, a 16-year high school sophomore who is today either a millionaire several times over, or serving 10-to-20 for securities fraud, knocked on my hotel room door.
With him were Rudy and Flip, the two clubhouse boys for the Islanders.
And they fanned out field passes to the Firecracker 400 like you would a deck of cards.
"Complimentary infield passes," Rudy said, "You in?"
Sure thing we're in, and we grabbed at the passes.
"But how are we going to go when we have ball games?"
This is where Kenny revealed his true genius, "We're going to make it rain."
The forecast for Sunday called for sunny skies and a high of 99 degrees.
There is no rain in the forecast, we mournfully replied.
"Leave that to me," said Kenny like Moses.
Because of plausible deniability, if we wanted the infield passes we had to take part in Kenny's scheme. We arrived at the ballpark after 3 a.m. and found several members of the Royals out there waiting on us. "We're all in this together," they said.
I was just a naïve Indiana country boy who asked the obvious question, "How are we going to make it rain when there is no rain in the forecast?"
That's when Flip produced a key to the groundskeeper's shed.
"Sprinkler system," he said wearing a smug grin.
It took a few "One-Mississippi's" for it to sink it.
"We're going to water the grass?"
Flip smiled, "Sure . . . for the next twelve-to-fifteen hours," and he keyed the switch that fired-up the ballpark's sprinkler system.
The call came at breakfast the next morning. The doubleheader had been rained out. The baseball field was under six inches of water where someone had broken in as a prank and turn on the sprinkler system. The groundskeeper's shed had been inadvertently left unlocked.
The police were investigating.
The games would be played instead on Monday. This was fine with us, we didn't mind. I got to roam the infield at Daytona, meet Richard Petty, Bobby Allison signed my baseball hat and I couldn't hear for three days.
Great times.
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A 22-year-old man was fatally stabbed late Friday night on the city's East Side, Buffalo Police reported today.
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Part I of two-part series Why do some people become addicts and others not? Does trauma play a role in the development of addiction? Or is it genetic predisposition and the environment of the person......
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About the people widget
Email is just as much about the people you communicate with as it is what you're communicating about. The Gmail people widget, located on the right-hand side of your messages, shows you contextual information about people you're interacting with in Gmail.
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figuerres wrote:
ZippyV wrote:
Haven't seen the vid yet but have they talked about microphone/webcam support?
Uh how the heck could you do that and still be "cross platform" and "in a sandbox" ??
just as SL is not hardware accell for Video, to access a camera or a mic you need some driver / OS support that will be very different for each combo of OS / hardware ....
and for what benefit?
I would say that an app that needs that support should be a sperate app.
also there are some security issues... if SL could use that hardware how would I know that some evil person had not sliped a "spy app" into my system ??
and if the SL CLR had the guts to do the hardware IO then how could anyone say for sure it would be 100% imposible to exploit it to do other system calls ?
sorry but I just see a lot of problems with doing that and keeping with the idea of SL as cross-platform and safe to deploy.
omg omg omg :O *overstimulated*
cant.. watch.. soon.. enough...
Too... much.... cool... stuff... not... enough... time...
I know excally what my first project for this will be
CRPietschmann wrote:Hmm... For some reason I feel like drinking a Pepsi...
Yeah, I wonder how much Pepsico paid for that product placement. Apple, on the other hand, got no love, hiding behind Scott's Macbook Pro's C9 decal.
Great video! I'm excited to learn more about Silverlight 2, particularly the DLR, Python, and Ruby.
ZippyV wrote:Haven't seen the vid yet but have they talked about microphone/webcam support?
figuerres wrote:I would say that an app that needs that support should be a sperate app.
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figuerres wrote:
I would say that an app that needs that support should be a sperate app.
I think people should be able to communicate with others without installing a separate app.
Sounds and looks really cool. It seems like the Internet and the desktop (from any software pov) will merge very very smooth. And that is awesome, because you can think at the following scenario:
You will not have to worry about porting an app to the web from the desktop and vice-versa. I mean, any app will be able to run on any browser, on any platform, desktop and web, just using one or two of your favorite programming languages. That's really interesting!
I wonder how all this stuff can be packed in a 4.3 MB installer
kamii47 wrote:figuerres If that is the case then it is really odd but in the following post it is mentioned that
The security model enforced by the System.Net.Sockets namespace in Silverlight 2 allows for a connection only back to the site or host of origin.
If any body also have any expalination then please provide it
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There aren't a lot of people out there who would tell you that they love wearing helmets; just the thought of them can discourage some cyclists from hitting the road at all. So when Sweden passed a new round of bicycle laws in 2005 mandating that all children under 15 years of age wear helmets while cycling, adults worried that they might be next.
The panic prompted then-industrial design graduate students Terese Alstin and Anna Haupt to explore for their thesis at Lund University why exactly people, in a country that boasts both one of the largest populations of cyclists and one of the highest numbers of bicycle-related deaths per year, were so averse to donning the protective gear. The pair found that, aside from helmet head, people thought traditional helmets were unsightly and uncomfortable. Not to mention, it's hard to find a smooth way to walk into a meeting or bar with a hard, clunky helmet in tow. Given these responses, Alstin and Haupt set out to design head gear that people would wear whether they were forced to or not.
"There was one person who actually said, 'I think it would have to be invisible for me to want to wear it,'" says Alstin. "It was great motivation for us because we began to think, well, maybe helmets aren't supposed to be worn on your head."
Seven years later, the duo had developed a prototype of Hövding, a helmet worn around the neck as opposed to atop the head. They gave the product a Swedish name to honor its roots. "Hövding," meaning chief, leader or role model, seemed like a good fit, considering that wearers of the helmet are certainly in the vanguard. Known as the "invisible helmet" to most, the device's motion sensors—the same kind used in Wii-style devices—detect when the body is moving abnormally. In circumstances when cyclists are in an accident, or begin to fall, the helmet, using airbag technology, deploys an inflatable nylon hood around the cyclist's head.
A cold gas inflator, positioned in the helmet's back collar, pumps the hood with helium when the sensors are triggered. The helmet stays inflated for several seconds, so that it can absorb the shock of multiple hits in the same accident, before releasing the gas, and slowly deflating.
"It recognizes that your body movement is having an abnormal movement that you can't have unless your body is positioned radically different than how it's supposed to be," Alstin says. "In a way, it's technology that has existed before, but used together in a new way."
But what if your bike catches a rock in its tire, or you swerve to avoid a car and then manage to correct your path? Will the helmet deploy?
That's one of the concerns Alstin hears most often about the product. But so far, it hasn't happened. The reason, she says, is this: The sensors are programmed with years worth of data on bicycle accidents. She and Haupt recreated "nearly every kind of incident"—from slipping on a patch of ice to taking hits from multiple vehicles—and tracked with high speed cameras and computer programs how stunt riders and crash dummies moved in response to them. They also collected data from hours and hours of safe cycling. Together, this information powers an algorithm that separates normal and abnormal movements. The helmet uses the algorithm to recognize the difference.
"We had an enormous number of different prototypes in order to tune the algorithm and the trigger function and make the airbag inflate correctly around the head," Alstin says.
Once a prototype was in place, it had to be certified by the Swedish Technological Institute, which tests all bicycle helmets for safety before they can be sold in Europe. The helmet was released on the market in November 2011 in Sweden; in early 2013, it launched across Europe. More than 250 retailers sell the product, and thousands of cyclists across the continent are using them, Alstin says. It's too soon to say when the helmets might be available in other countries, like the U.S. and Canada.
Still, the helmet has had its critics. At around $540, the hood, which comes in several designs, is much more expensive than most cyclists would normally spend on a helmet. On top of that, they can use it only once; it's useless after the first time the hood is activated.
In defense, Alstin says traditional helmets also have to be replaced after they take a hit. The Hövding claims other benefits too, from the ability to take multiple hits in a single accident to providing more coverage than a typical helmet. The shock absorbency is also three times as great as the traditional helmet, the creator says.
In Sweden, retailers often offer a 50 percent discount on new helmets for those who have been in accidents. Helmets are also covered by home insurance, which means the full cost of a new helmet usually isn't out of pocket, according to Alstin.
"It's expensive to produce," she says, "but what you get is a superior product."
The technology Hövding uses could soon give rise to other applications, though Alstin says she doesn't recommend using the helmet for anything other than cycling, Hövding has been "continuously approached" since its launch by people with epilepsy who are looking for a way to protect themselves from seizures. They have even heard accounts of people who say the helmets have protected them while they were seizing. The group recently won the Epilepsy Innovation Seal of Excellence from the Epilepsy Foundation, which came with a $25,000 grant to motivate a development of an airbag for people with epilepsy
"We're hoping to enter new areas of usage and develop the technology further into new applications [so we can] save people in other ways," she says. "There's a lot to be done—we're definitely not short of ideas."


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More companies recognize the perks of enabling their workers to participate in community services. And those bottom-line benefits are available to organizations of all sizes -- from a three-person mom-and-pop shop to a 30- or 300-person company.
Companies have always supported the local little league team or donated money to various causes. Yet, this new wave of philanthropy goes a step further: Employees are encouraged to give their time while on company time.
Bosses aren't simply saying, "Hey, go volunteer while you're on our clock ... have fun!" They know it's a strategic decision with bottom-line business benefits, and that's why they're paying their people to perform community service work.
The benefits to the employer fall into two categories:
First, there's the feel-good benefit. The company gets recognized as a good corporate citizen, which is great PR in a community, and employees feel good when they're involved in giving back.
Then, there's the strategic benefit. Volunteering serves as leadership development when people with the most potential are put into challenging roles. Giving back builds business relationships, because companies want to do business with other companies that are good corporate citizens. And volunteering helps with recruiting and retention: When people are engaged and happy, they don't leave.
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Businesses of all sizes and in multiple industries are getting in on the action.
Gap and Target are just two retailers that allow employees to get paid while giving back. At Target, its store-level employees are engaged in the assembly of "comfort kits," which feature personal care items for disaster victims and first responders. Those kits, which are created before a nature disaster, have recently benefited people displaced by the tornadoes and floods that have ravaged areas of the country.
UPS, Pfizer and Ernst & Young are among the corporate giants that are focusing their efforts on an international scale. At Ernst & Young, for example, its Corporate Responsibility Fellows Program sends manager-level employees on three-month, fulltime assignments to work one-on-one with entrepreneurs in underserved markets in <st1:place>South America</st1:place>.
While most small and medium-sized companies can't afford to contribute time and resources on the same scale as a global powerhouse, every company has the ability to create a community service program and reap similar benefits. Start with four basic steps.
Determine goals. Have a broad discussion among your staff and colleagues about your company goals. Are you looking to enhance your company's reputation in your community to attract new customers? To attract employees? Are you looking for a way to retain current employees by giving them a meaningful opportunity to get involved in community service, especially if you're unable to give substantial raises? Maybe it's a combination of all of those things. If you could project six, 12 and even 24 months from now, what would you have hoped to accomplish? Focus on up to three final goals.
Pick a project. Use those goals to select a project and beneficiary. Target, for example, has committed to totally renovating 23 K-12 school libraries. Most businesses don't have the resources for such an effort, but you could adopt your local school and volunteer in a way that matches your expertise with their needs. Maybe you work for a landscaping company and your employees start and tend to a garden year-round at a high-profile school in your area. That effort not only beautifies the school, but it also reaches parents who could become potential customers. Your people feel great in the process and they take pride in ownership of the project. Other people who work in the landscaping field want to work for your nursery because they're impressed with these efforts. <form> </form>
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Monitor and market the progress. Establish milestones for how you'll measure the success and impact of the program. Is it simply smiling faces of employees? Is it an increase in applicants to work for you? Is it new customers? Is it media coverage? Take photographs, keep a video diary and ask for testimonials from the participating employees and the project beneficiaries. Then market your efforts on your company Web site, to your business partners, to all employees, to the local media in your area, and even through signage within your office or store for visitors to see. Don't assume your efforts will go noticed unless you market them. There's no reason to be shy about letting people know what you're doing and how you're making a difference.
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The Stetson men's soccer team returns to Atlantic Sun Conference action with a 1:00 p.m. bout with USC Upstate on Sunday. The Hatters and the Spartans are both 1-1 in league action before Upstate takes on FGCU Friday night.
USC Upstate makes a trip to Florida this weekend for a pair of games at FGCU and Stetson. The Spartans are currently 1-1-0 in league play and 3-6-1 overall. Upstate lost five straight contests before defeating North Florida by a score of 4-1 on October 7. It marked one of only two games this season that the Spartans have scored more than one goal. Dave Musambi and Dylan Hoope lead the team with three goals each in 2012.
The Hatters have never lost to the Spartans in the short time that this series has been alive. Stetson holds a 4-0-1 advantage over USC Upstate since the first meeting between the two teams back in 2007. Last season the Hatters won a 3-2 overtime game in Spartanburg.
Junior Andreas Schnabl recorded his second shutout of the season in Wednesday's 0-0 draw with UCF. It marked the 12th of his career, setting a new record at Stetson for all-time shutouts. The junior passed former Hatter Ed Funcheon, who tallied 11 from 1985-88. Schnabl is also the current leader in all-time career goals against average with a mark of 1.12.
Fans can follow @StetsonMSoccer on Twitter for in-game updates. There will also be Live Stats available at GoHatters.com and live video courtesy of HatterVision.


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Just two months ago chef Robert Carter of Carter's Kitchen in Mount Pleasant said he planned to open a new restaurant called Rutledge Grill and D's Liquor Bar at 1300 Rutledge Ave. in Wagener Terrace on Charleston's upper peninsula.
He also said actor Bill Murray was not a partner in the project.
Earlier this week, he said Murray still is not a partner though other published reports say otherwise. He also said the restaurant's name has changed. It's now Rutledge Cab Company and it should open later this month.
Murray's managing partner is Brad Creger. It also has been reported by others that RiverDogs president Mike Veeck is in on the project, but Carter said Veeck is not a partner either, though both Murray and Veeck have had input in the concept, he added.
Now, Carter is ready to open, hoping to start offering charcoal-grilled steaks and seafood, grilled pizzas and wings, signature desserts, throwback cocktails and craft beer later this month in the retro restaurant that once served as a gas station and D's Grocery at the corner of Rutledge Avenue and Mount Pleasant Street.
The 3,200-square-foot space seats 70 indoors and 80 on the patio. It includes 45 parking spaces and a bike rack. It will be open daily 10:30 a.m.-1 a.m. The restaurant also will be open at 8 a.m. for breakfast and brunch on weekends in January. The website is www.rutledgecabco.com.
Banking on it
The Ordinary, a full-service restaurant with a focus on seafood, plans to open the week of Dec. 17 at 544 King St. in a former bank. A more specific opening date will be announced after some final city inspections.
With the massive vault door still in place, the oyster bar is the latest venture of chef Mike Lata and Adam Nemirow in the rapidly redeveloping upper King Street corridor.
Short shelf life
Revolutionary Eating Ventures' latest restaurant concept didn't go over so well.
Less than five weeks after opening Izakaya Ramen, REV announced this week that the noodle bar at 298 King St. has permanently closed. It opened Oct. 29 after undergoing a face-lift and new menu. It was formerly Izakaya Hiro, a sushi bar.
REV's other restaurants, which have done very well, include Taco Boy, Monza, Closed for Business, Poe's Tavern and The Royal American.
The skinny
A new tattoo studio could soon be on its way to Mount Pleasant over the town's objections.
Charleston County's Board of Zoning Appeals signed off on the new Blu Gorilla Tattooshop earlier this week, paving the way for it to open on an unincorporated lot at 1465 Stuart Engals Blvd. It will be behind Skin Therapy Center. Applicants were Tim Dennis and Alyx Baranow, who have another shop in Charleston.
Because the site is not inside city limits, the town could not control its use. Mount Pleasant allows tattoo parlors only in light industrial zoning districts that are not within 1,000 feet of a church, school, playground or residential property. The town objected because it is too close to residential uses.
Page turner
"That Holiday Book Sale" is set for Friday and Saturday at Mount Pleasant Regional Library at 1133 Mathis Ferry Road.
Books, CDs, DVDs and rare collectibles will be on sale during the event sponsored by Charleston Friends of the Library. It runs 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.
Children's books start at 50 cents. Other paperback books, CDs and DVDs will start at $1. Hardback books will start at $3. Money raised supports library services, equipment, training, materials and public programming. Admission is free.
For more information, go to www.CharlestonLibraryFriends.org.
Harbor Specialties embroidery, engraving and gift shop has moved. It's now open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday at 893 Houston Northcutt Blvd. in Patriots Plaza shopping center in Mount Pleasant. The shop at 190 E. Bay St. will remain open until Monday.
Whopper of a deal
To honor the 55th Anniversary of the iconic Whopper, Burger King is offering a deal. Go to any participating Burger King restaurant nationwide today through Sunday and get an Original Whopper for 55 cents, when you purchase any other Whopper.
Do you know of a business that is opening, closing or expanding? Reach Warren L. Wise at 937-5524 or twitter.com/warrenlancewise.


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The University at Buffalo women's basketball team opened a stretch in which it plays six of eight games on the road with a thrilling 78-70 victory over Mid-American Conference host Miami (Ohio) before 1,128 at Millett Hall in Oxford.
Freshman Mackenzie Loesing overcame an early knee injury and scored a game-high 19 points, including seven during the final 3:18, to lead four Bulls in double figures. Six players scored at least eight points for UB (7-13, 5-2), winners of two in a row.
With the game tied 67-67, the Bulls closed out the RedHawks with an 11-3 run over the final 3:18. Loesing canned a pair of jumpers to start the run, her first giving UB the lead for good.
The Bulls overcame a 13-point first-half deficit and trailed by just two (36-34) at the break. Sloane Walton (Nichols) scored nine of her 15 points from beyond the arc during the first half to help fuel the rally.
Margeaux Gupilan scored 13 points for UB, while Kristen Sharkey added 11. Christa Baccas had 10 rebounds to go with eight points.
UB visits Akron at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Niagara loses in OT at Loyola
Niagara came oh, so close to leaving Baltimore with a win, only to lose in overtime to Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference host Loyola (Md.).
Alyssa Sutherland's jumper with eight seconds left tied the game at 61, and the Greyhounds held on in overtime to take a 71-68 decision from the Purple Eagles before 257 at Reitz Arena.
Katie Sheahin's layup broke a 63-63 tie with 3:44 left in OT and gave Loyola the lead for good. The hosts stretched the advantage to six before Kelly Van Leeuwen's three with three seconds left gave Niagara slight hope, but the Greyhounds (8-12, 3-6) ran out the clock.
Sheahin finished with 21 points for the winners. Lauren Gatto scored a game-high 25 points and had eight rebounds for the Purple Eagles (9-11, 4-5), who visit Rider on Saturday.
Canisius visits Marist tonight
The Canisius-Marist rivalry has gone from being quite intense earlier this century to becoming a little one-sided in recent years. The Golden Griffins will try to do something they haven't done in three years tonight and beat the seven-time defending Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champions when they resume pleasantries at McCann Arena in Poughkeepsie.
Canisius (8-11, 5-3) has three wins over Marist (13-6, 8-0) since 2004-05, the most recent coming in 2009 when the Griffs were the last MAAC team to win in McCann Arena. The three wins over that period of time are the most by any MAAC team against Marist.
Still, Canisius trails the all-time series 26-13, although it is the last team in the conference to beat Marist in a MAAC title game (2005).
The Red Foxes have won the last nine games against the Griffs, including the first meeting of this season, 51-41, at Koessler Center on Jan. 18.
Canisius senior Ashley Durham ranks second in the MAAC, scoring 17.1 points per game and has scored at least 11 points in nine straight games. Durham, who ranks sixth nationally in free-throw percentage (93.1), has made 53 of her last 55 free throws and ranks first in program history in free-throw percentage (83.9).


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Upshur County residents should brace themselves for a 20 percent increase to
their water bills after the first of the year, as the Buckhannon Water
Department needs the additional revenue to take on some long-delayed
maintenance projects and system upgrades.
City attorney David McCauley said legislation could be presented at an
upcoming city council meeting. The increase would also effect those county
Public Service Districts which purchase their water from the city department.
"Buckhannon has done a good job of holding our rates down as long as they
can," McCauley said. "But one of the compelling reasons for the increase is
there are plans for a new water tank, upgrades and deferred maintenance items.
Unless you have the bucks, you can't do them."
This would be the first increase to water rates since 2007, and only the
second in the past 15 years. McCauley said the state Public Service Commission
recommends that rates be increased every three to five years.
"Employees' salaries and benefits come out of those revenues," he said. "The
cost of doing business never gets lower. But folks don't like increases, so we
have tried not to do that."
The new water tank would be an addition to the local system, and McCauley said
the rule of thumb is to set aside about $1 for each gallon the tank is
expected to hold. The new tank is being designed as a 1 million gallon tank.
Residents pay about $15.48 per 4,000 gallons of water on their monthly bills.
That rate would jump to $18.76.
A public hearing will be held on Nov. 15 at the start of the regular city
council meeting, and that will be followed by the second reading of the
Of the 398 regulated water utility companies in West Virginia, Buckhannon's
rates rank as the 40th lowest.


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In America, the pragmatist must be heard
December 31, 2012
The recent massacre at the Sandy Hook school has inspired the idealists. However, this country has suffered greatly because idealists have refused to be pragmatic....
"We will spend more tax monies on usually distant public safety."
And the NRA response was to have police in schools, which in turn will cost more tax money. I'm all for it so long as there is a tax on guns and ammo to pay for it. Congress was urged to pass funding for this "tomorrow", so when is this going to happen?
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If folks truly wish to ban firearms there is a "simple" way to do so. Repeal the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Go for it! Let's see if the support is there to do away with one of our Constitutional rights and quit this ticky-tack, knee-jerk, limits on this "mean looking" weapon, or that style of bullet or whatever buzz-word is associated with the latest act of a homicidal maniac.
That is how we are supposed to deal with such large issues. Not with some political grandstanding by the sitting President and Congress.
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Pritchard is so just plain wrong, again . He and many other posters here should never be allowed to have weapons of any kind -- their minds are too dangerous as it is...
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Pritchard is so just plain wrong, again . He and many other posters here should never be allowed to have weapons of any kind -- their minds are too dangerous as it is...
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"Do you realise how much time youd save us both if leftists would just admit that up front."
Coming from someone who constantly posts "Constitutional Convention", tells us who thinks the Constitution is "the crappy, inconsequential, outdated, and racist document". Your projection is obvious. But thank you anyway.
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"But I think this tactic of calling me a liar is interesting."
You're the one constantly saying we need a "constitutional convention" and you're saying it would be nice if liberals would admit it's "crappy, inconsequential, outdated, and racist document".
This is calling someone a liar? Really? It's called do as I say not as I do. Add how many teapublicans have called for abolishing amendments or changing them and you say liberals have a problem with the Constitution? You are confused and projecting that to others. Cheers.
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Lincoln had no right to free the slaves. I encourage everyone to research their ancestry and determine if they owned slaves. If so, get yourself a AR15 (if you dont already have one) and head to the nearest urban area and reclaim your property. WoooHooo. Lets bring back the 19th century.
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2). "But instead of augmenting religion's civilizing morals"
Really? Have you not read ANY history? Every century for 2000 years people have been massacred in the name of religion.
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1). There is no evidence that American slave owners would have accepted payments from the govt to free their slaves.
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3). The author criticizes abolition, but does not come out in support of marijuana or other illegal drugs.
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4). "The confiscation of guns increases crime. This is fact proven in country after country - the United Kingdom, Australia and Switzerland, for examples."
This is not true. Do some research. The data is very mixed, and affected by many socio-economic factors.
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Thanks, well said! It baffles me why so many are in denial and seek to miss the major cause of the problem - which is a very sick and demented soul, who may have been so full of hatred, bitterness that he fell off his rocker to be a tool for unexplainable and inexcusable evil and murder and usually suicide Certain folks don't want to believe we are fallen creatures, nor believe that the evil one and his demons might exist, and more than likely inspired the likes of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, who all believed in an anti-God world view and murdered millions - brutally seeking the salvation of an alleged utopian-like police state, massively under socialism and near complete control.
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VISHAKHAPATTANAM: "The recent event of disrespecting the Malankara Association Secretary Dr. George Joseph at Sharjah Church was a shocking news to know from Mr. John John, Sharjah. The Church Vicar and Managing committee of Sharjah Church ignored the presence of Church dignitaries, mainly, Orthodox Church Sabha Secretary. It is a matter of shame that he was not allowed to speak at the function, where he had been deputed by none other than Bava Thirumeni", said Sam Cherian Karuvelil, Sabha Managing Committee Member from Vishakhapattanam.
"This is very serious error at the Sharjah Church committee's part and I am sure that someone's hand may be behind it, where the Vicar might have been a silent spectator. But the Vicar got full right to control the Church committee in such matters and why Achen become silent is a riddle to me. This incident shall be thoroughly inquired by Diocesan Council or at the Church working committee level to pin point the guilty. This sort of incidents should not be repeated at any of the Malankara Orthodox parishes", he demanded.
The entire Orthodox Church can be proud on Dr. George Joseph, the young and dynamic, hardworking secretary of the Malankara Association, Sam Cherian suggested.
"He at the helm of Church administration gave a new direction to all the Church activities, by sincerely leading the clergy and laity smoothly into the 21st Century", Karuvelil carried on to state.


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Potomac Edison officials feel the notices issued to customers on their electric bills, as well as calls made in April, were enough to make them aware of results that stemmed from the company's change in meter reading cycles, according to Todd Meyers, a spokesperson for Potomac Edison.
That's not to say there were no lessons learned from the billing issues that were created by the renumbering process. When Potomac Edison began renumbering in an effort to make meter reading more efficient, the company didn't anticipate the resulting widespread billing issues, Meyers said.
Potomac Edison performed a pilot of the meter reading change in Morgan County and saw that it worked well, Meyers said.
"We didn't have any problems crop up in that area," Meyers said Thursday in a telephone interview.
The pilot in Morgan County was conducted before the heating season, so any effects on bills that resulted wouldn't have been as large as they were in Berkeley and Jefferson counties, which saw the renumbering toward the end of winter.
While the renumbering will continue, Meyers said it will be conducted during "shoulder seasons," meaning spring and fall.
"We're not doing the process near times when electric usage is up, and that's summer months for (air conditioning) and winter months for heating," Meyers said.
Meyers said the company will also take into better consideration how many estimated readings customers have had prior to renumbering. During renumbering, two things can happen:
A customer's billing period can be extended temporarily, usually between 35 and 50 days, or an estimated reading will be added in lieu of an actual reading, Meyers said. The additional estimate can lead to high bills like those of which many Eastern Panhandle customers have spoken.
"We're going to try to make sure we're in a spot where we don't have numerous estimates where we add an additional," Meyers said.
Potomac Energy is encouraging customers to contact its customer service representatives if they have any questions regarding their bill. The company's call center can be reached at 1-800-686-0011.
- Staff writer Rachel Molenda can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 215, or www.twitter.com/rmolendaJN.


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Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2006-01-27
Belongs to: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto. Julkaisu - Tampere University of Technology. Publication; 583
University: Tampere University of Technology
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In this thesis we report on the experimental studies on the generation of ultrashort pulses from mode-locked ytterbium fiber lasers operating at 1 mm wavelength region. Different fiber cavities, all with a linear geometry, were studied. The passive modelocking investigated here was based on SESAM technology. GaInAs and GaInNAs material systems were explored as saturable absorbers. The results obtained with the GaInNAs SESAMs demonstrated that these reflectors can be faster than the mirrors made of GaInAs. This allowed shorter optical pulses to be achieved from ytterbium fiber lasers with saturable absorbers based on dilute nitride, and suggests that using dilute nitride material system allows avoiding post-growth actions needed for reducing the absorption recovery time and, therefore, making SESAM technology more efficient and cost-effective. The cavity configuration which was studied allowed for tunable pulse operation in three adjacent wavelength bands which cover the spectral range from 977 to 1115 nm. The typical pulse width was in the picosecond range with an average output power of tens of mW. The amplification of these pulses in a cladding-pumped fiber amplifier up to average power over 700 mW has been demonstrated, that corresponds to a peak power of 6 kW and a pulse energy of about 23 nJ. Using a grating pair for dispersion compensation inside the cavity, pulses as short as 1 ps were achieved. External pulse compression was also used resulted in 340 fs duration pulses. The generation of mode-locked pulses in a cavity without dispersion compensation was also studied using a short-length cavity with a doped fiber placed inside a loop mirror. The self-starting mode-locked operation with overall normal cavity dispersion was initiated and stabilized with optimized high-performance SESAMs. In another cavity using the dispersion compensation by a Gires Tournois interferometer (GTI), the reduction of the pulse duration by an order of magnitude was achieved, as compared to the pulses obtained without dispersion compensation. To conclude, the main result of this work is an extensive study of SESAM technology for mode-locking of fiber lasers in the 1 mm wavelength region. The results which should be emphasized are -the demonstration of GaInNAs SESAMs in short-wavelength region (<1.1 µm), -broadly tunable mode-locked ytterbium fiber oscillator, -dispersion compensation free fiber lasers mode-locked with SESAMs, -the use of a compact GTI for dispersion compensation in a fiber cavity.
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6 Reasons 'Resident Evil' Movies Are Better than the Games
Gamers are naturally suspicious of Hollywood, which processes source material with all the care of a digestive system. And with similar results. But the Resident Evil movies are the most successful video game movie series ever made, four films earning almost half a billion dollars. Remember that the next time you hear about education funding being cut, because the facts are probably related.
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Kicking an infected zombie is an exactly equal mix of badass and dumbass.
Some gamers complain about the movies, which is proof that some gamers can whine about anything, even a company spending hundreds of millions of dollars hiring a supermodel to act out their most ridiculous fantasies. But I love the movies and have six reasons why those complaints are invalid.
#6. Resident Evil Isn't Allowed to Criticize Movies
In 1996, the Resident Evil games and their fans surrendered any right to criticize any moving image with the worst intro movie ever made:
Back then, people were still excited about full-motion video, and you'd swear that Resident Evil was trying to warn them that it would never get better. If you didn't watch that clip, I'm not going to ruin the blissful ignorance you've wisely earned. But let's just say that people have looked tougher than this grizzled action hero while losing on Cake Wars.
#5. The Movies Don't Waste (as Much) Time
Fans of the game have complained that the movies are lowbrow, and yes, they are clinically incapable of going five minutes without doing something awesomely stupid. But at least they're doing something. The games use more padding to keep people stuck than Arkham Asylum, and the contents make less sense. Most of the games are one part zombies to 20 parts fetch quest. Resident Evil 2 has you placing a unicorn medal in the police station foyer fountain statue so it can pour you a key. The quests have less than no explanation. Legend has it that encyclopedias get one page shorter with every sequel.
Code: Veronica has you find a player piano roll in a surgical torture dungeon to unlock the death camp's casino's slot machine to get an ant statue to activate a music box to trigger the secret bed-ladder to a carousel. You haven't gone aphasic, Capcom just randomly picked words from a dictionary instead of writing them. And we obeyed their instructions and convinced ourselves that we enjoyed it. This wasn't a game; it was a brainwashing program.
The result is trawling endless narrow corridors full of undead and picking up anything you find because those are the only paths you can follow. So basically, Pac-Man. At one point you have a square crank but need an octagon crank, so you use a metalworking machine to cut it down to size, and then you're told you need a square crank again, and have to find an octagon-to-square crank converter to proceed.
Video games can be worlds of limitless imagination. The Resident Evil games make you reuse crank handles.
The problem is that the games are enormously popular. Three million people wasted two hours of their free time trying to figure out how to reuse crank handles. Six million man-hours. That game effectively killed 10 people. The other time-padding reverse intelligence tests were the ridiculous puzzles, most of which you solved by very gradually clicking buttons to see what they did to arrive at a solution. Imagine your grandmother pecking out an email about the gold standard, but less fun.
On par with Battletoads' jet bike level.
#4. The Games Have a Worse Plot
The first and stupidest complaint that gamers have about the movies is that they don't follow the plot of the games. Of course they don't! The movies aren't nine hours long, and even if they were, eight hours of watching people slowly fetch pointless objects while avoiding shambling bodies isn't cinema, it's a shift at Walmart. The plot of the first Resident Evil game kicks off with the only special forces team in the entire world that doesn't know how to break down locked doors. From there, the stories only got dumber. Gordon Freeman could complete the entire series in about half an hour.
Hollywood, we're mentioning Half-Life in an article about video game movies for a reason. Take the hint AND OUR MONEY.
The plot of the first game had three secret Umbrella Corporation labs close enough to steal each other's Wi-Fi but utterly unaware of each other's existence. It depends on one character forgetting that she blew up a secret virus lab on the way to another virus lab. In fact, the plot of the original games got so stupid that even the games dumped most of it, restarting in Resident Evil 4. But not before Resident Evil 0 gave us a dead scientist empowered by singing opera to leeches.
And apparently on loan from Final Fantasy.
Resident Evil 2 is regarded as the best of the early games, and a breakthrough in survival horror, and the main villain's only powers are giant weak points and impregnating his own daughter.
A giant eye, and an exposed heart, and both are pulsing red? The laws of nature and video games want this thing dead.
That thing's backstory is that Umbrella scientist William Birkin knowingly injected himself with a virus that gave him a giant eye to see what he was doing, tentacles and a biological compulsion to implant embryos in his 12-year-old child. That's not a boss fight so much as a game designer practicing his insanity plea.
Yes, that detached tentacle is bleeding while crawling away from her crotch. No, we won't find a better quality image.
This crime against pretty much everything doesn't happen in a psychological horror "it's meant to be disturbing" way. It happens while you're busy collecting keys, blowing up a giant alligator and generally playing a game you thought wasn't made by sex offenders. You spend the rest of the game searching for a mutant morning after pill. WARNING: That was not a joke.
The game's other villain is a murderous rapist police chief who was murdered by being raped by the murderous rapist mutant. Somewhere there's a correctional facility holding the wrong man, desperately trying to explain that he really is a Capcom writer. And remember, this isn't a weird spinoff, this is the primary plot that commenters complain wasn't shown in the cinema. Which is probably why Capcom kept making sequels: It's a cheaper way to keep them off the streets than jail.


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Mannish wife of Barack Obama. Widely regarded as being more masculine and certainly more gangsta than Barack. Was rejected by the WNBA for ambiguous gender reasons. Some have argued that Barack is actually gay and believed that he was marrying a man when he married Michelle.
"I am Michelle Obama and I wear the pants in the family. Bring me another beer Barack."
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Barack Hussein Obama's ugly, big armed, America hating, racist, Angela Davis wannabe, coated tongued, bitch ass wife.
Michelle Obama said, "America is a downright mean country."
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She should get the fuck out of here then.
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Cunt who took away our soda machines, snacks, and tasty lunches from school and replaced them with cheap nutritious "wholesome" DIGUSTING food. Ironic because now we teens will be bringing our own even unhealthier lunches, AND the public schools will lose funding from lack of students' will to buy their crappy shit-lunches.
Dude Michelle Obama's a cunt for taking away our food, man.
IKR DOOD she might as well hire ppl to come to our homes and force feed us health shit
IKR DOOD she might as well hire ppl to come to our homes and force feed us health shit
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Obnoxious, totalitarian, masochistic wife of our current president. Has an inhuman hatred towards good food. Would be happy if the entirety of America subsisted entirely off of celery sticks and quiche.
If you take a mousetrap and replace the cheese with a stick of celery, it can now be used as a Michelle Obama trap.
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The current first lady who has a nice badonka donk.
She doesn't look all old dusty like some of the previous first ladies.
She doesn't look all old dusty like some of the previous first ladies.
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The Sundance Film Festival begins this tomorrow, which means we're officially eyeballing movies for the 2017 award season. As always, narrowing this down to just ten movies was a son of a bitch. There are a lot of interesting and good-looking movies at Sundance this year, but here are a few that are worth keeping an eye on for one reason or another. Full Story
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
So I decided to go all out this week and make a bunch of spring cookies (without a hint of Easter cookies). What a fun set. I tried lots of new things and enjoyed every second of it.....except for the utter exhaustion as I crawled to bed last night. But it was a good kind of tired. ;)
Garden cookies...... that cute garden glove idea came from Callye's brilliant-ness. =)
April showers.......
.....bring May flowers. :)
BUZZZZZZZ........... (love how the hive turned out....and it was so easy.)
Ladybugs.....I love them so much. They're pretty generic.....everyone makes them.....but I can't get enough of them.
Birdhouses..... 'pillars.....and dragonflies. I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome of the birdhouses.
Lots of butterflies this go around......first some with buttons, stripes and polka-dots.
A more quilted look in a big butterfly.....
And then some more realistic butterflies. I love how the black in these just make them pop.
And my favorite of all in this batch......some patchwork flowers with buttons. My daughters were oohhhing and ahhhhing........made me feel so good. =)
My latest spring collection. Fun!
Hopefully I'll get to play again next week. Now that Easter (and tons of Easter music) is over.....I have more time on my hands. Hip hip hurray!
23 comments:
- Whimsy Cookie Co. said...
Hi Pam!! They are all beautiful as always.. I love the butterflies with the touch of black and the buttons in the middle of the flower..so cute!! Happy Spring!! Laurie
- April 8, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Loren @ The Baking Sheet said...
Wow...So pretty! Love the ladybugs...yeah everybody makes them but not as good as you do!!! :o)
- April 8, 2010 at 6:10 PM
- Baking Momma said...
Love the bee set. But I have to ask can I trade you the 65 degree weather for my 85 degree weather?
- April 8, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- Soph said...
- April 8, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- Lyndsey said...
Wow, they are amazing as always, Pam! I can't pick a favorite, but seeing your bee set has made me decide to pick up those cutters the next time I'm at Country Kitchen!
- April 8, 2010 at 7:36 PM
- Lyndsey said...
And how do you do your swirls on the flowers? a toothpick? they look awesome! :)
- April 8, 2010 at 8:06 PM
- The Painted Cookie said...
Pam love them all, but the gardening gloves really caught my eye. I think it would be a great mother's day gift pack, the watering can, the gloves and maybe a trowel? I think I am off to find a trowel cutter!
Happy Spring!
- April 8, 2010 at 8:45 PM
- CookieD'oh said...
Especially love the black and red butterfly. Gorgeous!
- April 9, 2010 at 12:51 AM
- Diane {createdbydiane.blogspot.com} said...
They are all so pretty! Happy SPRING!
- April 9, 2010 at 2:58 AM
- maria elena said...
las tuyas me parecen las galletas decoradas mas bonitas que vi nunca.
gracias por tantas ideas.
- April 9, 2010 at 6:54 AM
- Pam said...
A big thank you to all of you. You make my cookie decorating every more special by your kind comments and support.
Baking Momma.....no trading. This morning we have 39 degrees. Brrr!
Lyndsey.....yes, I used a toothpick. :)
Susan....if you find a trowel cutter.....PLEASE tell me where you get it! That sounds like a perfect cookie set. :))))
Happy Spring to all of you. :)
- April 9, 2010 at 8:13 AM
- Lis said...
The bee picture is awesome but the red butterfly is just beautiful.. Love all your work, such an inspiration!
- April 9, 2010 at 8:55 AM
- Kate said...
I just love the bees and bee hives. They are about the cutest cookies I think I've seen in a long time (:
great job & Happy Spring to you!
- April 9, 2010 at 2:36 PM
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- cookies and cups said...
Those little umbrellas are precious! I love them!
- April 12, 2010 at 7:37 AM
- Kelley said...
Did you use a toothpick to make the flower on the watering can?
Place a few dots of icing and then pull with the toothpick?
- April 12, 2010 at 1:39 PM
- Pam said...
Thanks everyone.
Kelley....I just piped on the water can flowers.
- April 12, 2010 at 2:21 PM
- Kelly said...
Pam, the edges on your birdhouse cookie are so sharp. Also, on the tails of the blue ribbon cookies. How do you get them that way? I normally put my cookies in the freezer until hard (about 15 minutes) before putting them in the oven at 325, but they still spread.
Any suggestions? Thanks!
- April 13, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- Pam said...
The only suggestion I might give.....add more flour to your dough. I don't refrigerate my dough at all and use the recipe linked on this blog. I've always gotten excellent results from it. Sorry I'm not much help.....
- April 14, 2010 at 6:58 AM
- Mellie12 said...
I am so happy to see the results you get using the corn syrup icing. I thought the only way to get good detail was to use Royal icing and I find it difficult, unforgiving, and yucky to work with! I am really shocked at the fine detail you were able to get with it. I thought the only way to get those tiny details was to use royal icing. I think the royal icing breaks off to easily to try and package up for friends....plus a pain to make!
- May 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM
- Kelley said...
Did you use a toothpick to make the flower on the watering can?
Place a few dots of icing and then pull with the toothpick?
- March 5, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Lyndsey said...
And how do you do your swirls on the flowers? a toothpick? they look awesome! :)
- March 5, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Pam said...
Thanks everyone.
Kelley....I just piped on the water can flowers.
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