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In context: What Obama said about "fundamentally transforming" the nation
When President Barack Obama said he had no plans to "fundamentally transform" the nation during a Super Bowl Sunday interview, that sent some viewers back to the archives to find a 2008 quote.
By Tim Ryan :: Published on Thursday, February 6th, 2014 at 03:00 p.m.
Obama on Wisconsin's Truth-O-Meter
Obama on Ryan, Obama on manufacturing jobs. Johnson on Obama. Duffy, Kind, Baldwin and Walker on Obama. With Barack Obama visiting Wisconsin, we look at how he's fared on our Truth-O-Meter.
By Tom Kertscher :: Published on Thursday, January 30th, 2014 at 05:00 a.m.
Top 10 most fact-checked people on the Truth-O-Meter
Curious about who -- other than President Barack Obama -- has been fact-checked on the Truth-O-Meter most often? We were, too. So we created a list.
By Angie Drobnic Holan :: Published on Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 at 09:00 a.m.
On eve of the State of the Union address, a look at income inequality
Income inequality is an issue that PolitiFact has analyzed frequently since we started fact-checking political claims in 2007. So as President Barack Obama prepares to focus on income inequality in the State of the Union address, we thought it was a good time to review some of these claims, from both sides.
By Louis Jacobson :: Published on Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 at 09:00 a.m.
Fact-checking Obama's 2014 State of the Union
We've checked Obama's State of the Union facts on wages, climate change, energy policy and our economic competition with China, as well as claims from reponses.
By Katie Sanders :: Published on Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 at 06:00 a.m.
The 500 fact-checks of President Barack Obama
It was 2007 when a young senator from Illinois arrived on the national scene and launched a campaign for president. By coincidence, that's the same year PolitiFact launched. We've been fact-checking the man who became President Barack Obama ever since. Recently we published our 500th fact-check on Obama.
By Angie Drobnic Holan :: Published on Monday, January 27th, 2014 at 09:00 a.m.
On eve of the State of the Union address, a look at income inequality
As President Barack Obama puts the finishing touches on his State of the Union address, we take a look at one of the themes he's expected to bring up: income inequality.
By Louis Jacobson :: Published on Friday, January 24th, 2014 at 09:15 a.m.
How many people have been saved from poverty by unemployment insurance?
President Barack Obama marshaled a statistic on his Facebook page to show the value of long-term unemploymet benefits. But how accurate is it?
By Louis Jacobson :: Published on Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 at 11:23 a.m.
Chain emails claim this picture's 'worth $678 million'
Texas readers asked us about chain emails on the contract to build Healthcare.gov going to a company linked to a Princeton classmate of Michelle Obama. FactCheck.org and Snopes.com have taken a hard look at several claims in such emails they received. Was CGI Federal given a no-bid contract to build Healthcare.gov?
By Sue Owen :: Published on Monday, January 6th, 2014 at 12:36 p.m.
PolitiFact Florida's Top 10 fact-checks of 2013
Fact-checks about Trayvon Martin, Obamacare and the federal government shutdown were among PolitiFact Florida's most read items in 2013.
By Amy Sherman :: Published on Friday, January 3rd, 2014 at 01:18 p.m.
Fact-checking immigration: A year-end report
In 2013, the U.S. Senate passed immigration legislation, but it died in the House. Along the way, we rated plenty of claims from all sides.
By Amy Sherman :: Published on Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 at 07:49 a.m.
The Top Ten of 2013
Since May 2013, we've been presenting our monthly High Five -- the PolitiFact Wisconsin articles that got the most page-views each month. But, hey, it's the end of the year -- time to reflect and to celebrate. So, here are 10 items -- the ones that attracted the most eyeballs in all of 2013.
By Tom Kertscher :: Published on Monday, December 30th, 2013 at 10:00 p.m.
Obamacare claims rarely get clean bill of health
If you wanted to ignite an argument in Georgia, and the rest of the nation, in 2013, you just had to say one word: Obamacare. The Affordable Care Act -- its official name -- became a lightning rod of controversy and a springboard for political pontificating. President Barack Obama's assurance that if you like your health care plan you can keep it was named PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" by PolitiFact editors. PolitiFact readers also selected it as their "Lie of the Year" with 59 percent of the vote. It was a landslide. The next highest vote total went to Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas for his contention that Congress is exempt from the health care law. But that only got 8 percent of the vote. Summaries of a few of our favorite Obamacare fact checks from 2013 can be found below. To comment on our rulings or suggest one of your own, go to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/politifact.georgia). You can also follow us on Twitter through our Twitter handle @politifactga. Full versions, including full coverage of the Lie of the Year, can be found at www.politifact.com/georgia/.
By Jim Tharpe :: Published on Friday, December 27th, 2013 at 06:00 a.m.
Fact-checking immigration: PolitiFact's year-end report
In 2013, the U.S. Senate passed immigration reform, but it died in the House. Along the way, we rated plenty of claims on both sides.
By Amy Sherman :: Published on Thursday, December 26th, 2013 at 09:00 a.m.
The president gets asked about winning PolitiFact's Lie of the Year
But he pretty much sidestepped the question during his final press conference of the year.
By Louis Jacobson :: Published on Friday, December 20th, 2013 at 06:00 p.m.
Lie of the Year: 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep it'
PolitiFact has chosen the most significant falsehood of the year: President Barack Obama's repeated statement, "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it."
By Angie Drobnic Holan :: Published on Thursday, December 12th, 2013 at 04:44 p.m.
PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep it'
President Obama has walked away with the dubious distinction of having uttered PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year" for 2013.
By Dana Tims :: Published on Thursday, December 12th, 2013 at 04:00 p.m.
A look at claims about minimum wage
Increasingly, state Sen. Nikiya Harris is making a push to raise the minimum wage in Wisconsin. Here is a recent look at claims related to the minimum wage from elsewhere, and how they fared on the Truth-O-Meter.
By Tom Kertscher :: Published on Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 at 06:00 a.m.
Fact checking claims about low-income workers
With a presidential speech on income inequality and strikes by fast-food workers in the news, we fact-check two recent claims about the plight of low-income workers.
By Louis Jacobson :: Published on Thursday, December 5th, 2013 at 10:46 a.m.
Cruz, Obama vying with others for Lie of the Year
PolitiFact in Washington, D.C., is primed to name its lie of the year, which may have been uttered by Ted Cruz or Barack Obama. And don't forget the Readers' Choice award.
By W. Gardner Selby :: Published on Monday, December 2nd, 2013 at 03:49 p.m.
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Monday, November 4, 2013
If there was one thing that I learned in Italy this summer, it is that all fats should NOT be treated equally. It is important to be able to recognize healthier fats and try to minimize certain less healthy fats in your diet.
For a general rule of thumb, saturated fats are solid at room temperature. They can be found in many animal products such as cheese, meat, milk, etc. Foods that have lots of butter and shortening are also high in saturated fat. The American Heart Association recommends getting less then 7% of total calories from saturated fats.
Trans fats are found in highly processed foods. They are unsaturated fats that have been altered by hydrogenation to make them more solid. Both trans and saturated fats should be consumed in minimal amounts because of their tendency to raise LDL cholesterol ("bad cholesterol").
Unsaturated fats dominate the Mediterranean diet. They are consumed in much higher amounts then saturated fats. During the 7 Countries Study performed by Ancel Keys, Cretans were consuming around 40% of daily calories (that's a lot of olive oil!) from unsaturated fats, yet they were living longer and healthier lives than Americans consuming saturated fats. An unsaturated fat contains at least one double bond in its conformation. Monounsatured fats are often times noted as being "good fats," and come from vegetable oils such as olive oil. These fats will actually lower LDL cholesterol.
Another type of unsaturated fat is called polyunsatured (meaning multiple double bonds). Polyunsaturated fats get broken down further into Omega 3's or Omega 6's. Omega 3's come from sources such as fatty fish, walnuts, or flax seed, while Omega 6's are from things like soybean or corn oils. Omega 3's and 6's competitively compete in the body and ingesting more Omega 3's is considerably better to reduce inflammation.
Fat intake should always be monitored mainly because of its high choleric density, effects on cholesterol, and heart health. Be a smart consumer by checking nutrition labels for fat content, and try the Mediterranean style of using vegetable fats rather then butter while cooking or baking.
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No. 10 South Carolina Gamecocks shook off a slow start to beat the the No. 21 Nebraska Cornhuskers 30-13 in the 2012 Capital One Bowl in Orlando, Florida.
South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw completed 11-of-17 pass attempts for 230 yards and two touchdowns, including a 51-yard strike to Alshon Jeffery in the second quarter that proved to be the winning points. Jeffery caught four passes for 148 yards, earning Most Valuable Player honors despite being ejected in the third quarter after getting into a scrap with Alonzo Dennard.
With the win, South Carolina improved to 11-2, the best record in school history. Head coach Steve Spurrier is looking for more.
We're a happy bunch of guys," Spurrier said. "Like I told the guys, next year's team, they'll try to win 12 because 11 already happened, so we'll have some new goals next year."
Cornhuskers head coach Bo Pelini felt his team was the better one on Monday, but just couldn't get out of its own way.
"I mean, how do you explain it?" Pelini said. "Whether (we) got rattled, I don't know. … If we take care of our business, you know, you can't give a good football team the amount of things we gave South Carolina today."
For more on the Capital One Bowl, visit South Carolina blog Garnet and Black Attack and Nebraska blog Corn Nation. Also check out Big Ten blog Off Tackle Empire and SEC blog Team Speed Kills.


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OAKLAND - There was good news coming out of the Coliseum for both A's and Tigers fans Thursday.
Oakland's Yoenis Cespedes and Detroit's Miguel Cabrera both were given a thumb's-up to play in Friday's Game 1 of the American League Division Series in the Coliseum.
The 6.37 p.m. start to the playoffs pits the two winningest pitchers in the AL this season, Detroit's Max Scherzer (20-3) and Oakland's Bartolo Colon (18-6).
The bad news is neither Cespedes nor Cabrera is likely to be at his best. Cespedes has played just half a game in left field since Sept. 13 and the latest outbreak of tendinitis in his right shoulder.
Cabrera also limped in down the stretch, waylaid first by abdominal pain and more recently by groin problems.
And yet these are right-handed hitters who inspire confidence in their teammates and induce fear in the opposition, so just having them playing is a step forward for each offense.
Cespedes spent most of his time batting cleanup this year for Oakland, but lately he's spent the majority of his time batting fifth against right-handed starting pitchers, which is the only kind the Tigers have. It's not by coincidence that lefty Brandon Moss' late-season homer surge has come largely with the right-handed Cespedes batting fifth behind him.
"Having him healthy and in the lineup is really good for our balance," Moss said. "And it makes the other side think about what they want to do with their relief pitchers.
"Do they want to bring in a lefty for me, then burn him because they don't want to have any lefty face Cespedes?" Moss asked Thursday. "We all know he crushes left-handers (11 of Cespedes' 26 homers came off lefties even though he only had 161 at-bats against them this year)." Moss hit .350 in September while having Cespedes behind him, scoring eight times and driving in 11. The outfielder-turned-first baseman-turned outfielder had half of his 14 hits in that stretch for extra bases - two homers, five doubles. Teams don't want to pitch to him unless they have to. But they don't want to face Cespedes, either, who hit .314 with six homers for the month.


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---- — Thomas E. Prophet Sr., 57, Logansport, passed away at 11:45 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, at St. Elizabeth Central Hospital, Lafayette.
Born on Dec. 16, 1955, in Logansport, he was the son of the late Dale and Barbara (Russell) Prophet.
Tom retired from Indiana Packers, Delphi. He also formerly served in the Indiana National Guard. Tom enjoyed playing Santa for many years throughout the community.
Survivors include sons Thomas Prophet Jr. (Julie), and Shaun Prophet, all of Monticello; daughter, Candy Catt of Logansport; father, Bill Watts (Rosemary) of Winamac; brothers, Johnny Watts (Melissa) of Winamac, Jack Prophet (Kim) of Logansport, and Dale Prophet Jr., of Logansport; sisters, Tammy Brown (Rich) of Winamac, Ginger Elpers (Dave) of Logansport, Sue Welch (Dave) of Logansport and Tammy Doss (William Harts) of Logansport; and grandchildren, Jamie Prophet, Connor Prophet and Cadence Prophet all of Monticello. He is also survived by several nieces, nephews and his beloved dog and best friend, Bandit.
He was preceded in death by his mother and stepfather, Barbara (Russell) and Dale Prophet Sr.
Visitation will be 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Marocco-Rans Funeral Chapel.
A graveside service will be 1:30 p.m. today in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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Suffering through a fact-killing epidemic
(Opinion, The Virginian-Pilot, October 27, 2013)
Most recent public opinion polls show more people favor Democrat Terry McAuliffe over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the race for governor.
That polls show Cuccinelli behind is indisputable and true, backed up by mountains of data produced by a number of pollsters. Sadly, that kind of thing doesn't matter as much as it used to.
We like what we like, and we believe what we believe. We tend to favor information - and sources - that reinforce our existing ideas.
If you think I'm a hopeless liberal, for example, and you detest liberal ideas, you might not believe a word I say, even after I cite a well-regarded source like Real Clear Politics (http://bit.ly/1c0HTms) or the more partisan HuffPost Pollster (http://huff.to/10wS8DN) or a clearly Republican poll tracker if I could find one.
The trouble for all of us comes when we believe something so strongly that even indisputable facts can't shift us. I still believe the Redskins are a decent team, for example, despite years of evidence to the contrary.
This idea of "confirmation bias" is old, but we probably have never seen an epidemic quite as dangerous to democracy as the current one. Jesse Richman, an Old Dominion University professor who released a wide-ranging statewide opinion poll last week, had a warning about that.
"Sometimes people fall into the trap of unreasonable concern," he said. "That can lead us into the trap of relying on bad information."
Bad information. (More)
Hotel revenue drops across South Hampton Roads
(The Virginian-Pilot, Oct. 26, 2013)
Hotel revenue is hitting record levels nationwide this year, but it has dropped across South Hampton Roads.
Four of the region's cities - Chesapeake, Norfolk, Suffolk and Virginia Beach - registered declines in hotel revenue in the first three quarters of the year, compared with the same time in 2012, according to STR Global, a research firm.
Suffolk suffered the largest drop, a 6 percent decline. Norfolk faced the greatest decrease in dollars - slightly more than $3 million.
STR does not compile data for Portsmouth because it said the city doesn't have enough hotels. ...
Tourism is one of the three major prongs powering the regional economy, the others being defense and the port, said James Koch, a professor of economics and former president of Old Dominion University. South Hampton Roads, including Portsmouth, has about 200 hotels with nearly 22,000 rooms, according to STR.
All of the local cities registered growth in hotel revenue in 2012, STR said. Yet Virginia Beach is the only one that has a higher rev-par level than it did in 2007, Koch said.
"The recession hit the region's tourism industry so hard and collectively that the industry has yet to recover," said ODU's recent State of the Region report.
Koch, its main author, offered varying critiques of the cities' approaches to tourism. Virginia Beach, he said in an interview, "seems to have developed a pretty good recipe," drawing more affluent visitors who have lengthened their stays. The average income of an overnight visitor rose to $97,333 last year from $86,844 in 2009, according to Ricketts' department. (More)
Ball State president plans to retire
(The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Ind), October 26, 2013)
Ball State President Jo Ann Gora informed the board of trustees Friday that she will retire at the end of June.
"This year will be my 10th as president at Ball State but my 40 in higher education," Gora said in a news release from the university. "It has been a rewarding and fulfilling career, especially these years in Indiana."
Board president Hollis Hughes said in the release, "Jo Ann Gora has taken Ball State to new levels of excellence and recognition during her presidency. There is no good time to say goodbye to such a leader, but the university is well positioned to continue to press forward in the course she has helped us set."
Gora arrived in 2004 as the 14th president of Ball State in 2004, becoming the first woman to serve as president of a public university in Indiana. She had previously been chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and as provost and vice president of academic affairs at Old Dominion University.
The university underwent more than $520 million of facilities construction and renovation during the time she was president. That included a $70 million geothermal project that taps the earth's nearly constant temperature for campus heating and cooling. (More)
Marriage equality moving southward
(Editorial, The Virginian-Pilot, Oct. 25, 2013)
Virginia's place on the gay marriage map is a sadly familiar one to residents of the commonwealth and students of its history.
Once again, we're the northern barrier to the southward march of a long-established basic civil right: The right to choose a life's partner.
To our north, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that his administration will no longer fight a court ruling extending the right to marry to gay couples, essentially making it law in the Garden State. Marriages became legal at 12:01 Monday morning.
Only Pennsylvania still denies marriage equality in America's Northeast. Every other state from Maine to Maryland permits gay marriage, according to Freedom to Marry, an advocacy group. So do California and Washington, Minnesota and Iowa.
More than a third of Americans now live in states where gay marriage is legal or recognized. More than 40 percent of Americans live where marriage or civil partnerships are allowed.
Virginia's station as the battleground for the fight over gay marriage is no surprise. In 2006, 57 percent of voters approved a constitutional amendment barring not just gay marriage but also civil unions and anything else that might legitimize a gay relationship.
According to polling released last week by Christopher Newport University, a full 55 percent of Virginians now support the amendment's repeal. A poll at Old Dominion University showed support at 52 percent for legalizing gay marriage.
In the wake of this year's Supreme Court decision invalidating California's Proposition 8 - a far less onerous prohibition of gay marriage than Virginia's - the commonwealth's constitutional amendment is finally under real challenge.
Timothy Bostic, a professor at ODU, and partner Tony London, a Navy veteran and real estate agent, tried to get a marriage license at the Norfolk Circuit Court but were denied because of the 2006 amendment. (More)
Norfolk's The Y on Granby quickly surpassing expectations
(The Virginian-Pilot, October 27, 2013)
Expectations were high for The Y on Granby when it opened its doors nearly five months ago, and the $8 million family fitness and activity center hasn't disappointed.
"In terms of membership and usage, we have met and exceeded our goals," said Anthony Walters, the center's executive director.
As of Sept. 30, The Y on Granby boasted 663 memberships, which equates to about 1,658 individuals. Walters hopes to secure 1,000 memberships by year's end. The clientele is diverse in terms of age, race and socio-economics. The YMCA center draws members from throughout the city.
"That's what I was dreaming about - a place where Norfolk can come together," Walters said.
Walters said while The Y on Granby is a great community resource, it can't meet all outreach goals alone.
"We want to be a hub where collaboration can occur," he said. "We hope to partner with other organizations to meet community needs."
The center recently teamed with art-education majors from Old Dominion University to offer art instruction to elementary and middle school students.
In 2014, there are plans to partner with city elementary schools and offer subsidized or free swim lessons. (More)
Fulfilling game, empty stands for ODU-NSU
(The Virginian-Pilot, October 27, 2013)
As expected, it was 59 degrees under a cloudless autumn sky when Old Dominion and Norfolk State kicked off Saturday afternoon at Dick Price Stadium.
The forecast was spot-on. The anticipated turnout was not.
Just 11,308 gathered in the 30,000-seat venue as ODU survived for a 27-24 win over its crosstown rival. The relatively sparse crowd, much like the thin final margin, was a surprise by any measure.
Reasoning that NSU's fan base tends to buy walk-up tickets rather than purchase in advance, athletic director Marty Miller said in the days leading up to the game that good weather likely would equal a packed house.
He got one, but not the other.
"I'm not disappointed in the crowd, although I hoped we'd have closer to 20,000," Miller said through a school spokesman after the game, declining to speculate as to why the showing was barely half that size. "I thought it was a decent turnout."
The last time the teams met, in the 2011 FCS playoffs at ODU, they quickly sold out then-19,818-seat Foreman Field.
Fans of the Monarchs, who improved to 5-3, didn't exactly make the 4-mile trip in droves. Despite selling out all 33 home games in the program's 41?2 seasons, ODU returned about 300 of its allotted 2,000 tickets.
About 5,000 fans traveled to ODU's opener at East Carolina, and about 2,000 went to Maryland on Sept. 7.
Athletic director Wood Selig said this week he anticipates taking as many as 5,000 to North Carolina on Nov. 23.
Add those trips to six ODU home games this season - including four in a row recently - and the tailgating tab skyrockets.
NSU, which charges $25 for reserved seating for most home games, raised the price to $35 for the ODU game and this Saturday's homecoming contest against Florida A&M.
"It's just whether or not the fans want to come see it," said ODU coach Bobby Wilder, who wouldn't allow his players to speak about the crowd. "I understand there was a significant cost involved to come see this football game. I certainly respect, whether it's when we play at home or when we travel, an expense to go see a football game. We're just appreciative of all those fans that were behind us on our sideline, because it got pretty loud." (More)
After Hurricane Sandy, One Man Tries to Stop the Reconstruction
(Outside Magazine, October, 2013)
THE PROPHET AND I return to the drowned city. Trailing robes behind him, he will point his wooden staff at the places where the waters rose, the subway steps turned into rapids, and the cross streets became fast-flowing inlets. He'll gesture toward the river, explaining how it was pushed back by the winds and tide, how the full moon affected this most modern of places. Four years ago, when he pointed at these same spots and told me what was going to happen to New York City, I only half believed him. Now I believe, along with everyone else. We have seen it with our own eyes.
The prophet's name is Orrin Pilkey, and his day job, for many years, was as a coastal geologist at Duke University, where he started teaching in 1965 and is now a professor emeritus. (Duke is honoring him by building a $6.8 million marine-science center in Beaufort, North Carolina, with his name on it.) In lectures and in 40 books-including 2009's doom-laden The Rising Sea, cowritten with fellow coastal geologist Rob Young-Orrin has issued steady warnings about the dangers of living by the shore during an era of climate change. At a time when everyone seems to be using military terminology to describe our battle against the attacking ocean, he has a term of his own: retreat.
Our next stop, two hours up the road past swampy Virginia lowlands, is Norfolk, a place that has become a model for how coastal cities might adapt to climate change. At Old Dominion University, we talk with Larry Atkinson, a professor of oceanography and an old colleague of Orrin's, who outlines what's going on here. Sandy barely grazed Norfolk but still left it under three feet of water. The town is used to flooding: through an unlucky combination of low elevation, subsiding land, and rising sea level, downtown streets are often submerged.
Larry says that he's been impressed by Norfolk's mayor, Paul Fraim. Rather than debating sea-level rise, he has "jumped over it" as a political issue, simply declaring that Norfolk has to prepare for rising seas. In North Carolina, members of the state legislature, pressured by real estate interests, have argued that climate change should not be factored into sea-level rise by state regulators. Virginia has followed suit, with one state senator claiming that the phrase is a "left-wing term" and suggesting it be replaced by "recurrent flooding." But here in Norfolk, leaders know the problem is urgent, and they have a powerful ally: the U.S. military. Right down the street is the biggest naval base in the world, where a massive project is under way to raise the docks. Here, sea level isn't a conservative or liberal matter but a practical one. (More)
(The Huffington Post, Oct. 25, 2013)
"A statewide poll released Wednesday, Oct. 23, by the Old Dominion University Social Science Research Center shows Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe with a significant lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the race for Virginia governor...ODU researchers randomly queried 670 likely voters by cell phone and landline and determined that support for McAuliffe currently stands at 44.1 percent. That gives him a 7.2 percentage point lead over Cuccinelli, who was supported by 36.9 percent of respondents. Libertarian Rob Sarvis was supported by 6.9 percent of likely voters, a substantial number given Virginia's tendency to shun third party candidates, the poll concluded" (More)
McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli by 7% in new ODU poll
(The Daily Press, Oct. 24, 2013)
Two statewide polls released Wednesday showed Democrat Terry McAuliffe maintaining his lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the governor's race.
Quinnipiac University found 46 percent of likely voters backed McAuliffe compared to 39 percent for Cuccinelli and 10 percent for Libertarian nominee Robert Sarvis.
Old Dominion University's Social Science Research Center found that 44 percent supported McAuliffe, while 37 percent preferred Cuccinelli and about 7 percent favored Sarvis.
Cuccinelli, who is the state's sitting attorney general, has trailed by at least five percentage points in various public polls dating back to mid-September.
The ODU poll says there's still potential for a Cuccinelli comeback. That's thanks to a combination of undecided voters and the 33 percent of Sarvis supporters who said they're unfamiliar with their candidate.
"In spite of McAuliffe's substantial lead, there are enough undecided and third-party candidate voters to generate potential paths for a Cuccinelli victory," the ODU pollsters wrote.
But the poll also found that on several important policy questions McAuliffe's positions were the most in sync with the majority of voters.
By a 58 percent to 28 percent margin, poll respondents supported Gov. Bob McDonnell's transportation overhaul, which lowered the state's gas tax and raised revenues through a combination of fees and local taxes.
McAuliffe championed the bill while Cuccinelli, in his role as attorney general, issued advisory opinions stating it didn't pass constitutional muster. (More)
Poll puts McAuliffe over Cuccinelli by 7 percentage points
(The Virginian-Pilot, Oct. 24, 2013)
Democrat Terry McAuliffe's lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the race for governor is largely unchanged, while Libertarian Robert Sarvis has gained modestly in a new poll out less than two weeks before Election Day.
Quinnipiac University gives McAuliffe a 46 percent to 39 percent edge on Cuccinelli, Virginia's attorney general, but finds that many voters view both men - and the campaigns they've run - unfavorably. Sarvis registered 10 percent in the poll of likely voters, with 4 percent undecided. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Its Oct. 10 poll had the race 47 percent to 39 percent in favor of McAuliffe, a businessman known as a major Democratic fundraiser, with Sarvis at 8 percent.
An Old Dominion University poll released Wednesday shows McAuliffe ahead of Cuccinelli 44 percent to 37 percent, with Sarvis at 7 percent.
Quinnipiac's, like other public polls, indicates voters have a negative view of the race and the candidates by a 58 percent to 36 percent margin ; 43 percent of likely voters see McAuliffe unfavorably, and 52 percent said the same of Cuccinelli. (More)
McAuliffe leads Cuccinelli by 7% in new ODU poll
(WVEC-TV, Oct. 23, 2013)
With less than two weeks to go before the election, Democrat Terry McAuliffe holds a substantial lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli in the race for Governor. McAuliffe was the choice of 44% of those surveyed by Old Dominion University's Social Science Research Center while the Republican Cuccinelli was the choice of 37%. Libertarian candidate Rob Sarvis was supported by 7% of likely voters while just under 9% were undecided. The statewide telephone poll of 630 "likely voters" has a 5% margin of error. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday also showed McCauliffe with a 7 point lead (46%-39) and has Sarvis hitting 10%.
The ODU poll (view complete poll results here) also took the pulse of voters about 20 different issues, ranging from education spending to abortion. Political science professor Dr. Jesse Richman led the study for ODU. Richman says "Poll results imply that the essential problem for Cuccinelli's campaign is issue positions that are out of step with the electorate. Of the twenty issues examined, McAuliffe's position is consistent with the plurality of responses on sixteen, while Cuccinelli's position is consistent with the electorate on only five.There were only two issues (charter schools and voter photo-identification) on which Cuccinelli and McAuliffe disagreed and a majority of the public supported Cuccinelli's position. " (More)
Les Smith Reports: New ODU poll shows McAuliffe with a slight lead
(WTKR-TV, Oct. 23, 2013)
ODU released a new poll Wednesday on the governor's race. It's a real glimpse into the minds of voters.
Researchers interviewed 627 likely voters. They asked not only about the candidates but about how they felt about 20 important issues.
The results show Democrat Terry McAuliffe with a seven percentage point lead. McAuliffe's support is at just over 44 percent, while Republican Ken Cuccinelli stands at just under 37 percent.
ODU's Dr. Jesse Richman conducted the poll.
"I'm pretty confident that we're seeing a lead for McAuliffe that is big enough that this isn't just statistical sampling. That's unlikely," he says.
The poll also showed support for the third party candidate, Libertarian Robert Sarvis at around 7 percent. Less than some other recent polls, but a strong number for a third party candidate in Virginia.
He pulls more support away from Cuccinelli than McAuliffe, but does even better with independents.
"Principally from those people who are disenchanted, people who are not affiliated with either party and that seems to be a growing portion of the electorate," Dr. Richman says. (More)
Veterans tour coming to Hampton Roads
(The Daily Press, Oct. 22, 2013)
The "Defend Freedom" Veterans Bus Tour stops in Hampton Roads Thursday as part of a 11-state tour aimed at highlighting issues of importance to former service members, including the disability claims backlog and reform of Pentagon spending.
The tour will make two stops Thursday:
-- Old Dominion University Breakfast, 5115 Hampton Blvd., 9-10:30 a.m.
-- Town Center, 222 Central Park Ave., Virginia Beach, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Many decorated veterans have joined the tour, which is hitting Nevada, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia.
The tour is sponsored by Concerned Veterans for America, a national, non-profit group whose chief executive officer is Pete Hegseth. The goal of the tour is to build an "activist base" to promote issues of importance.
"Unfortunately, our great nation is failing to live up to its potential, and in particular, failing in its commitment to our veterans," he said. (More)
A threat to ODU
(Letter, The Virginian-Pilot, Oct. 23, 2013)
Imagine Old Dominion University losing its football team, not due to NCAA sanctions or a loss of donors, but due to sea level rise.
ODU's 20-year plan calls for moving the football stadium close to the water. A stadium of this size is a massive investment, but that investment will go completely to waste in coming years due to sea level rise.
The only real debate about the increasing sea levels is about the level of increase. The most accurate models show that most of ODU would be under water. Among the first casualties would be the new football stadium.
This is bad news, but the good news is that we have time to act. Sea walls and levees can buy us the time we need to start investing in renewable energy technologies.
Brian Williamson, Portsmouth (More)
Obama yet to make appearance for Va. Democrats
(The Virginian-Pilot, Oct. 22, 2013)
Creigh Deeds faced dire headwinds when President Barack Obama visited Norfolk in late October 2009 for a rally with the Democratic candidate for governor and his ticket mates, one week before voters rejected them at the polls.
Circumstances appear more favorable for the current Democratic slate led by Terry McAuliffe, but as the time until Election Day winds down, it's unclear whether Obama will stump in Virginia, or whether the president and his diminishing popularity would help McAuliffe if he does.
It has many asking the same question: Where's Barack Obama?
Candidates are so selective about whom they lock arms with that even presidents can be shunned if politics demand it, said Old Dominion University political science professor Jesse Richman, recalling George W. Bush's obscurity in the 2006 elections amid public disenchantment over protracted Middle East wars.
"Given the stakes for the party, Obama would be very likely to campaign for McAuliffe if asked," Richman added. "But McAuliffe may not want to risk upsetting the dynamics of a race that seems to be going his way by bringing Obama in."
McAuliffe has held a consistent lead in polls over Republican Ken Cuccinelli since September while Obama's approval rating has generally been upside down for months and now stands at 51.3 percent disapproval, according to the Real Clear Politics average. (More)
Va. Beach receives two more train service proposals
(The Virginian-Pilot/FindLaw, Oct. 22, 2013)
Two more private companies want a chance to extend passenger train service into Virginia Beach.
One wants to use magnetic levitation technology instead of traditional light rail.
Monday was the deadline for firms to submit proposals to the city to build a system that would connect with Norfolk's Tide. The two new proposals follow an unsolicited plan that a group led by Philip Shucet, the former Hampton Roads Transit president and CEO, brought to the city in April. City officials then asked for other proposals.
At the same time, Hampton Roads Transit is researching a public sector light-rail project. A study on that option is expected next year.
One of Monday's new proposals came from American Maglev Technology, based in Georgia.
The other came from Parsons Construction Group, a unit of Parsons, an engineering, construction and management services firm based in California. The company has built light-rail systems in cities including Houston, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Los Angeles and Denver, said Richard White, a rail program analyst for the company.
American Maglev Technology is proposing to build an elevated concrete structure akin to the Disney World Monorail that would use magnetic levitation and electricity to propel vehicles up to 60 mph, said Tony Morris, the president and CEO of the company. He estimated he could build a line to the Oceanfront for about $344 million.
Morris was involved in developing a maglev track at Old Dominion University that never worked as promised. He said the ODU system suffered technical problems that he has since worked out, and that he has an operational test track in Powder Springs, Ga.
Passengers would have to leave The Tide and transfer to a maglev vehicle at Newtown Road to continue the trip through Virginia Beach, Morris said. (More)
ODU Students Visit USS Abraham
(Naval Today, Oct. 22, 2013)
Students attending Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk visited Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) and one of the ships in the yard, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in Newport News, Oct. 18.
The students, enrolled in the Mechanical Engineering and Technologies (MET) program at ODU, toured the bow area of Lincoln and looked into the dry dock.
One of the students, Michael Kammerer, is a former machinist's mate who worked on board USS Enterprise (CVN 65) in the Reactor Department as an Engineering Laboratory Technician.
"Being in this program is not only going to help me further my career in engineering, but because I have prior military experience I have hands-on training not many other students have," said Kammerer.
At the shipyard the students were greeted by Gary Fuller, construction director at NNS.
"I was very excited to meet these students," said Fuller. "I am a graduate of the ODU MET program as well." (More)


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The only negatives were rather insignificant --- several very drunk people, but there were lots of places to get away from them. The biggest negative for me was that smoking was allowed on the ship. I had assumed that no smoking would be allowed. I smelled smoke while on my own balcony and left other areas because of smoke.


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text: In Out of My Mind, Tuchman's third exhibition with Pan American, she has created a dialogue between her two bodies of work - the witty and nostalgia-packed narrative oeuvres and the painterly paper quill internal landscapes of the mind. Exploring the nature of our minds and the brain in this new body of work, Tuchman's outlook is both serious and whimsical. Tuchman states "Clearly, I am slightly insane and the obsessive details in my work manifest a need for reason and order, but with humor and a light touch. Otherwise, life becomes much too grim." A tension exists here exploring beauty vs. tragedy, big ideas vs. minute detail, and craft vs. art.


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Trappers have caught at least one of the wild pigs that have been terrorizing a Lithonia neighborhood.Residents in the Stonebridge Crescent area say that a group of wild hogs have been tearing through trash and scaring neighbors in the last few days. On Thursday night, one boar's brush with the suburbs ended when it crossed paths with hog hunter Tavarres Dennis.Dennis said he and his dog caught the 400-pound hog in Tracy Hull's backyard.The hog hunt will continue as several neighbors have stated that they've spotted numerous pigs roaming in the area.
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Like most people, we like to talk about the weather, but it's rare when we actually get up off the couch to do something about it.
Yet the cold snap this week, with discussion of the "polar vortex" and numbers of minus-this or minus-that, had us reminiscing about what it was like back in the day.
Some of the older folks among us may understand that what is happening today, historically speaking, was then known as "winter."
It has a long history and, in fact, seemed to come around about every year or so.
That was before breathable and waterproof miracle fabrics, or even polar fleece longjohns. We had Woolrich hunting jackets, dark red with a thin weave of black plaid. They still sell those today, and they're still as expensive as they were then.
But they were the only good hunting gear we could get. Even if they got wet, the thick wool would provide some warmth. And we could almost dry them out if we hung them overnight next to the hunting camp's stove. Almost.
Back then, there were several less-scientific answers to the question of the day: Just how cold was it?
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On the day that three more US soldiers died in Iraq, Californians elected a narcissist governor in a bizarre recall election. As Der Gropenfuhrer** heads for
Try as they may, liberal Democrats can't attribute their heavy loss in this election to the hanky panky Republicans used in
Rather, Democrats should go back to the world of fiction for their insight. The descendents of Californians described in 1939 by novelist Nathanael West in The Day of the Locust have now put into office a man who hobnobbed with the very oil thieves (like former ENRON CEO Ken Lay) who stole billions from the state to help get Californians into the current mess. West called the
I did my own little public opinion experiment. On election day, the following conversation took place between middle aged Hispanic women. "Hey,†said one housewife, "Arnoldo can pinch my nalgas if he wants. It's more than my husband does these days. But I need the $130 we'll have to shell out for the car tax.â€
Another said: "Who does Cruz [Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante, Schwarzenegger's main Democratic competitor] think he is, taking us Latinos for granted? Does he think we don't know he tried to take the Indian gambling money and use it for his own campaign?†(A reference to Bustamante's attempt to transfer Indian gaming money to another fund he controlled and calling it a donation to charity).
In my suburban precinct at 8:00 a.m., I estimated the average age of the long line of people waiting to vote to be about 80. I talked with an elderly couple.
LANDAU: So, what brings you out so early?
OLD LADY: Imagine, telling us that we have such a large deficit and we have to pay more taxes to meet it. He never told us that when he was running for reelection — last year [2002], was it?
LANDAU: You mean Governor Davis?
OLD MAN: He had plenty of time to raise money for his campaign from those billionaire friends of his. Why didn't he use some of it to meet the deficit?
OL: I voted for him in the last election and I don't recall him mentioning that we had such a large deficit. He tried to hide it from us. Who did he think he was fooling?
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OM: I voted for
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN, (shaking her head in disgust). "Yeah, you ain't got nothing to grope. Man, some people never learn.â€
She was right. Once again, rich Republicans figured out a way to screw the poor and manipulate them into voting for it. Back in 1978, Howard Jarvis pushed Proposition 13 and convinced working and middle class people to put a lid on the legislature's ability to raise property taxes. Yes, they did save a few hundred dollars a year, but they lost far more as their children's education got cut along with other vital services. Proposition 13 required a 2/3 vote of the legislature to pass a tax increase.
The big winners, the ultra rich and the big corporations, saw their property taxes reduced dramatically. Indeed, one of the world's richest men, Warren Buffett, admitted to paying only $2,000 a year on his $4 plus million fourth home in
The tax loopiness had decisive results. From leading the nation in education in the 1960s and early 70s,
By doing so,
The testosterone-exuding
Indeed, they saw the politics of blame as running through
The descendent of these people now find themselves paying outrageous prices for almost everything especially homes, cars and gasoline. "They realize they've been tricked and burn with resentment,†wrote West. He might have added: "Not only against taxes, criminals and pederasts, successful people and children, but against those who in the name of feminism, women's rights, modern times, justice or whatever have shaken the foundations of their social status.â€
Millions of Californians voted with discipline: against the recall and for the lackluster Bustamante the much lesser of two evils. But many more, some 4.5 million plus, voted for Schwarzenegger or for Tom McClintock, the traditional anti-abortion, pro prayer Republican.
The San Francisco Bay Area and the heavily liberal areas of southern
Jokes aside,
In the real world of politics,
What lessons does the
*Mamas and Papas hit from the 1960s
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California Dreaming Got Lost Along The Way*
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Third string quarterback Matt Blanchard broke his knuckle in Thursday night's game against the Chargers, so the Bears signed quarterback Jordan Palmer on Friday.
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McCoy in fine win for O'Neill (From Cotswold Journal)
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CHAMPION jockey Tony McCoy shone to get favourite backers off to a winning start with the Jonjo O'Neill-trained Goodwood Mirage at Kempton.
The Green Ogre, a 33-1 outsider, landed over the final flight with a handy advantage as Goodwood Mirage, the 6-4 market leader, bundled through the last two obstacles.
But the four-year-old demonstrated his flat speed under a powerful drive from McCoy to snatch a shorthead verdict on Saturday.
The autumn purchase for the O'Neill stable in Temple Guiting was trimmed to 25-1 from 33-1 with BetVictor for the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival.
Meanwhile, Millicent Silver (11-2) scored for trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies and his jockey son Sam in the Betfred TV 'Newcomers' Standard Open NH Flat Race at Warwick.
Stow-on-the-Wold's David Bridgwater enjoyed success at Plumpton through No Buts (11-4 second-favourite).
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Hello Colorado & Rocky Mountain Region: My partner and I are planning to climbing Pervertical Sanctuary on the Diamond soon. The only route I've done so far on Longs was Directissima, and the sound of rock fall from the North Chimneys has made us consider the Chasm View Rappels as an alternative. With this approach, we would hike in the preceding afternoon bivy in the boulder fields. I don't particularly mind hiking, and I enjoy sleeping outside. I'm interested in what insights this forum might offer on the two approaches. Thanks, Jerimiah
I've done the Chasm View raps and thought they were pretty cool. The first anchor off the edge is a little spooky to set up, but after that the rest are fine. On the other hand you could just climb Crack of Delight or another, cleaner route on the lower wall. COD has the rappel anchors for retreating from Broadway, so that should speed your progress.
I've done the North Chimney and didn't find it too spooky. It helps considerably if you're the first team up in the morning because then you only have to worry about knocking things down (which is obviously still something to be concerned about!), and not getting bonked from above. The climbing is very reasonable though and as long as you pay attention loose rock shouldn't be a problem.
hardly anyone seems to do the chas.raps. i would recommend the n.chim. it is not that bad if people are smart. loose rock can be an issue, but if you know the way, nothing gets knocked off. it is mostly if not all solo terrain. the exit at the top out to broadway is a bit hard for a move, which you can rope up for (1pitch at the end...) and it goes fast. the other thingy about the n.chim. is that you get a wayyyy better bivy spot down below the area you will be climbing. you can then study the objective all evening while enjoying those special beers you brought in. also plenty of water around... here is a picture of how i navigate the chimney. (click the pic. to blow it up to large size.)
I have done the chasm view raps to climb the CR. It worked out pretty well if you're willing to carry bivy gear all the way up to Chasm View or the Boulder Field. We had a nice bivy at Chasm View and were able to rap first thing in the morning and start the route very quickly. One downside is that if you have to bail, you still need to get back up to your bivy gear if you left it up there and that almost happened to us. I guess you could leave it on Broadway if you plan on coming back down that way. We came down the N face cables and collected our bivy gear and hiked out. Kind of long. I'm not sure I'd do it this way again since it seems much longer and took more effort, but I think it worked out well.
Eventually, you will do them both. The Chasm View way means you get to sleep a lot more.
i strongly discourage approaching via chasm view raps. lots of loose rock that will inevitably be knocked loose while pulling your ropes on the raps. all loose rocks then go down north chimney onto parties coming up. if your going to be slow, go up the night before and sleep on broadway.
I was out in RMNP two weeks ago and I will never do the Broadway approach the morning of again. It was VERY easy and super simple HOWEVER, we were still behind people that came down from Chasm, and with the weather the way it was (and the fact that they were doing a pitch every 2 hours) there was no way we were going to send without getting rained off the wall. Plan an early early start to rap, and you should be able to summit and get down the north cables before the weather comes in. Or as others have mentioned you could bring your gear and bivy on Broadway the night before...but that just doesn't seem like fun bringing bivy gear up the north chimney... My 2 cents.
I've done the raps. Would have worked well if we didn't end up bailing. We got to Broadway Ledge while it was still dark. Regarding loose rock, we didn't knock anything loose. Also, if you're going that way the reason is to start at O-dark-30, so hopefully you are doing the raps before anyone is in the N. Chimney. The downsides have already been mentioned. The hike is long, and if you leave your bivy gear at Chasm View bailing is problematic. We ended up bailing since the storm that everyone including the forecaster said would show up like clockwork at 2pm decided to arrive at 6:30am instead. If you do need to bail, you can get back to the upper boulder field by following the narrowing Broadway Ledge right until it ends. Climb a few traversing pitches until you can climb a pitch up to the rim. It goes at 5.7, with plenty of loose rock, and if you need to climb it, it will probably be in the rain.
We did our route car to car, so no bivy gear to haul.
We approached via the Chasm View raps recently... I think it's a good plan (especially for those doing it car-to-car in a single push), as you can potentially get more of a jump on parties bivied down below. Also being above loose rock is better than below it, and for me is worth the extra effort of hiking up to Chasm View. North Chimney just seems like a death funnel to me if you're below people with less experience. With a Chasm View approach you can then descend via the North Face / Cables route to retrieve your stuff on the way down, versus being in the queue for rappels. But obviously you have to make it up the Diamond before you go down that way, so start as early as you can possibly imagine. Be rapping in before first light.
+1 for N Chim approach. Stay out of the gully on climbers' R and chances of being hit by rockfall are far lower. If one were to knock rocks down on the Chasm View raps, they would have to travel several hundred feet horizontally in order to hit climbers in the N Chimney. This is unlikely. The Broadway traverse above the chimney, however, is quite loose and exposed.
There are a lot of pros to the chasm view raps, but if you have to bail and your bivy gear is still up there, you will be very sad.
I have done the Diamond approach both ways several times each and I believe that the North Chimney is my favorite way.


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Lies, missing features, censorship, and a removal from Steam: The War Z controversy so far
Hammerpoint Interactive is in hot water over alleged misrepresentations of its newly-released game, The War Z. The game was posted to Steam yesterday, and almost immediately gamers reacted with anger over what they see as lies or misrepresentations of the game's features. The War Z's executive producer Sergey Titov calls them "interpretations."
You can't handle the truth
In an interview with GameSpy, Titov stated that the game was "foundational," and that the game would never be "fully released" due to its online nature. "Online games are [a] living breathing GAME SERVICE. This is not a boxed product that you buy one time. It's evolving product that will have more and more features and content coming it. This is what The War Z is," he said.
"I'm sure there'll be people who will look into small details and will say 'no I was mislead,' where in fact they imagined something to themselves without checking details first."
Except people have checked the details, and therein lies the problem. The initial listing on Steam advertised multiple maps that were colossal in scale – 100 to 400 sq. kilometers. The page has since been revised to reflect the truth that the game only has one map, which is supposedly 100 sq. kilometers in size. PCGamesN did a thorough test of the game and found the map to actually be less than a tenth of that.
There are many other examples of exaggerated claims and outright falsehoods. Tom Ohle of Evolve PR, the public relations firm behind The Witcher 2, has shared his thoughts. "Okay, so normally I do everything I can to avoid criticizing someone's PR efforts. Who am I to say that the way you've learned to do something is wrong? Well, in this case, I want to give a bit of advice to the fine folks at Hammerpoint: please, guys, stop talking!" his column starts.
"The sad part of all of this is that the negative publicity will merely lead to more awareness of a game that — by a number of accounts — isn't (in its current state) worth the time," Ohle writes. "There are a lot of developers out there who are under-promising and over-delivering, and many of them (and their games) will slide under the radar, never to achieve the sales success of The War Z."
We've seen something like this before; when Towns was made available on Steam Greenlight, players had a similar reaction. That game was marketed as a fully-playable build even though it hadn't reached version 1.0 yet, and used modified assets as official screenshots. When players complained, a moderator for the community told them they "should have done more homework." Developer arrogance never helps these situations, and it seems clear Hammerpoint is barely willing to admit any wrongdoing.
Terms of Disservice
Titov's suggestion that players are imagining their plight is bad enough, but Hammerpoint's abuse is systemic. Kotaku has a rundown of other ways in which The War Z has alienated players and tried to cover its mess, which includes several eyebrow-raising points.
For one, players aren't allowed to talk about why they quit on the game's forums. This is perfectly legal, mind you – these are Hammerpoint's forums, and they can moderate as they please, but it's still worrisome that they would squelch any messages that might worry newcomers.
Other rules are just as ludicrous, or even hypocritical. One rule states that calling posters "care bears," "trolls," or "fan boys" will not be tolerated, yet Titov said in an email to Kotaku that, "While over time, especially after game have been launched publicly players been able to see that those two designs are pretty different, there're still DayZ fanboys out there who just can't accept fact that similar concept doesn't mean being copycat."
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All of the above might be forgivable if the game was of astounding quality, but even that's not the case.
TotalBiscuit posted a scathing, 3/4 hour impression piece that recapped several of the game's problems, from both a public perception standpoint as well as game play. If you want to see the quality of game that people are arguing over, it's a fascinating watch.
All of this has inspired the upset gamers to charge forth to the game's Metacritic page, where it currently has a user score of 1.2. Of course, that's bad, so what is Hammerpoint to do? Post a thread on the game's forums asking players to vote for the game, naturally.
Valve will have its hands full as it investigates the game's misrepresentation, Hammerpoint has a PR disaster on its hands, the game's low quality and controversial microtransaction model have become even more apparent to a wider audience, and simply put, people aren't happy. Some players started a petition demanding refunds. Others wanted the game removed from Steam. It seems they have gotten their wish.
In a statement to Kotaku, Valve called the release "a mistake," and via their usual support site, those who already purchased the game and are unhappy can ask for a refund. The game may still yet return; Valve said they're working with Hammerpoint on a new build of the game. Until then, hold onto your money.


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ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta's zoo says the departure date has been delayed for two giant pandas born at the zoo that were set to leave for China later this month.
Five-year-old Xi Lan and 3-year-old Po were supposed to leave Nov. 24 for China's Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Zoo Atlanta said officials decided to delay their departure following pre-shipment physical examinations.
The zoo says both pandas are healthy but delaying their departure will allow them to develop sufficient reserves for their long journey and transition period in their new home. No new departure date has been announced.
Under a deal between China and the U.S., all giant pandas originally from China are lent out to foreign zoos. They and any cubs they produce must all return to China eventually.
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First item to do today - get to the gym and watch the edit of last night's scrimmage. Everyone contributed with points, rebounds, deflections and ENERGY. I thought we were good in transition and scored several easy baskets.
Coach Hewiit had some old school music playing during practice to see if guys would talk louder and concentrate more. The look on the guys faces when songs like Car Wash, Fire, Run Joe, 6 minutes and Money were priceless!!!
Some of them knew the songs, but not the artist. They all were stunned that old hip-hop music didn't have curse words or talk about violence!
We are getting better with each practice. Guys are starting to get to know one another on a personal level as well. It's hard to develop team chemistry in such a short time span, but our guys are coming together well.
I got some shots up myself in the gym with my man Kyle Pilapovich (dad is an assistant coach at Air Force) rebounding for me. The international 3-point line is not as far as I thought - I made just a few!!
It's been really funny that all the players are all dying to get some fast food as we've had great meals all week. Tonight we had another good meal on the USA Training Center campus. It had a lot of variety for adults, but you know tennagers only want the greasy stuff.
The mountains here still have snow on them. The picture with this story I took on the way to practice this morning. It's absolutely beautiful out here.
My project for the rest of the week is learning how to Skype this week so I can be ready to do it when we leave the country.
Tonight's practice was focused on half court execution, with work on zone offense and defense. After that, a little more film study.
Before I leave, summer session #2 started Monday at JU. Our freshmen on campus are getting a real break that I'm not on campus! Ha ha ha!


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As a result of the 2010 oil spill, over eleven million dollars will be pumped back into a Bay County City. In the "out of court" settlement Panama City Beach calculated the economic loss for past present and future damages and they waited for BP to accept or deny the figure.
Panama City Beach city manager for reaction. According to city officials, keeping the negotiations out of court saved both time and money for BP and the city. Panama City Beach is receiving the largest economic loss claim paid by BP to a local government.
This is the final settlement by BP rounding out the money the city has received to eleven point two million dollars. In 2011 the city was given one point two million dollars to offset lost business tax revenue. Now BP is giving nine point eight million to the city to compensate for past and future losses caused by the oil spill.
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Set in the 90's San Andreas is set to offer a vast game world and bring many new additions to the GTA series.
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Few saltwater angling spectacles match a feeding frenzy of adult red drum. From the mid-Atlantic to Texas, the combination of copper-clad muscle and bullish attitude brings anglers to their knees, literally and figuratively. I've been on redfish bites where my exhausted guests would cry, "no mas," refusing even to look at another bent rod. Yet for a time in the 1980s, the future of redfish free-for-alls was in jeopardy.
The Battle for Bull Runs
In the late '80s, red drum in the northern Gulf of Mexico came under heavy fire from industrialized fishing operations using spotter planes and football-field-size purse seines. Coated with fiery spices and charred in a cast-iron skillet, the previously unmarketable fish suddenly became a favorite of Cajun/Creole restaurant customers.
It took about 20 years of give-and-take on the part of anglers and government fishery managers to find a balance that ensures the future of the redfish. Today, the burgeoning adult population provides predictable and accessible trophy fishing. To protect what we've gained, anglers have honed tackle and techniques to release reds in the best possible condition.
What's Old Is New Again
About the same time that the rotund New Orleans chef Paul Prudhomme was hawking his blackened redfish recipe, anglers rediscovered something once used by our ancestors - the circle hook. In 1987 a local surf caster showed me my first circle hook, a heavy-wire commercial model manufactured by Mustad for tuna longlines. I tried it, I liked it and a couple of thousand bull reds later, it's hard to imagine using anything else.
The circle hook's design allows it to set itself, making it the top choice for multiple-rod redfish spreads. Most times, a circle hook lodges in the corner of the fish's mouth, causing little injury and making removal easy. It's a win-win for everyone.
When selecting a circle hook for bull reds, you quickly discover that, unlike conventional hooks, circle hooks do not have standardized sizes. More important than the manufacturer's number designation is that the width of the gap between the hook's point and shank suits your quarry.
For bull reds, you need a strong hook with a gap of at least a half-inch. Proven models include Eagle Claw L2004, 10/0 or larger; Mustad Demon Perfect, 12/0; Owner SSW Circle, 9/0 or larger; and 10/0 Gamakatsu Big Eye Circle.


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One rare bird is making an extraordinary adventure from the tropics, to the northeast and now Florida.
Tuesday, the Peace River Wildlife Center released a purple gallinule into the wild at Ollie's Pond in Port Charlotte.
Fishermen found the bird about 75 miles off the coast of Nantucket this January.
"They threw a plastic bucket into the water and it hopped right on it and they pulled it up into the boat. And they didn't restrain this bird at all. It just sat there while waiting to be brought to shore," explains Robin Jenkins, a veterinarian at Peace River Wildlife Center.
The fishermen brought the bird to rehab center in Hampton Bays, NY. Vets there transferred the gallinule to Florida, once the weather started to get warmer. It's been recovering in Punta Gorda for about a month.
Veterinarians say the purple gallinule was in surprisingly good shape when it got to shore, just dehydrated and hungry.
They have no idea where it came from or how it ended up way up north.
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