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Along with their 3-10 record, the Cubs entered Thursday ranked last in National League home runs, 14th in slugging percentage, 13th in runs scored and 15th in pitching.
"You never want to start out poorly," baseball President Theo Epstein said. "There are a lot of things we can improve upon, and we will. But you also don't want to read too much into one homestand and one road trip. Certainly crystalize some areas we need to continue to strive to get better at."
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Men Sports
Posted April 19, 2012 at 7:16 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
Christ Fellowship exemplifies most of the latest ways churches dramatically extend their reach of church beyond any one time or local address. Such congregations signal "a willingness to meet new challenges," says Scott Thumma, of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research. He's the author of a study by Faith Communities Today (FACT) of how churches, synagogues and mosques use the Internet and other technology.
FACT's national survey of 11,077 of the nation's 335,000 congregations, released in March, found seven in 10 U.S. congregations had websites, and four in 10 had Facebook pages by 2010, Thumma says.
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Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry * Culture-Watch Blogging & the Internet --Social Networking Religion & Culture
Posted April 19, 2012 at 4:05 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
Church officials said the new bishop will face daunting tasks, including turning around congregations with massive membership declines and repairing deteriorating church plants.
Over the past 10 years, average Sunday attendance has plummeted and 15 congregations have been deemed "at risk."
A number of Episcopal churches have also closed over the past few years.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Bishops TEC Diocesan Conventions/Diocesan Councils
Posted April 19, 2012 at 3:27 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
With the incorporation of the former DDR into the Federal Republic, Germany has become a more Protestant country in demographic terms. But there has been no lasting "Protestant revolution". West Germany is somewhat less secularized than the East, but it too partakes of the overall Eurosecularity. It seems likely that the parsonage still resonates, even if faintly, in the minds of Angela Merkel and Joachim Gauck. Does this mean a new cultural influence of the Protestant church? Probably not. More likely what we hear are the last echoes of a Bach chorale that has ended. All the same, it is useful to recall that history always has surprises.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch History Religion & Culture * Economics, Politics Politics in General * International News & Commentary Europe Germany
Posted April 19, 2012 at 1:14 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
The reports of the band playing "Nearer, My God, to Thee" [as the Titanic sank] were enthusiastically received. The gist of the song is that whatever hardships befall us, they can only serve to bring us closer to God. In terms of the Titanic disaster, the image was of people being dragged to the depths of the sea and yet, paradoxically, scaling the heights of heaven. It was based in part on the story of Jacob's dream (Genesis 28:10-22), in which he sees "a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it." It may have been a particular favorite at the Bethel Chapel in Colne [where the band leader became a Christian] because Jacob marked the spot where he had the dream with a stone "and he called the name of that place Bethel."
It was the best-loved hymn of Hartley and had been introduced to the Bethel Chapel by his father, Albion Hartley, when he was choirmaster. Ellwand Moody, Hartley's friend [and fellow ship musician], told the Leeds Mercury in April 1912: "I remember one day I asked him what he would do if he were ever on a sinking ship and he replied, 'I don't think I would do better than play "Oh God Our Help in Ages Past" or "Nearer, My God, to Thee."
It was also the favorite hymn of many in New York. President McKinley supposedly used the words as a form of prayer as he lay dying after being shot by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, in September 1901.
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Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life Church History * Culture-Watch History Music Religion & Culture * International News & Commentary America/U.S.A.
Posted April 19, 2012 at 11:06 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
The reply brief attaches the latest annual report of the Episcopal remnant congregation as an exhibit, and it is very telling. While some 3,250 Anglicans attended Easter services at The Falls Church two weeks ago, the Episcopal parish's report shows that it has a total membership of exactly 178 as of the end of 2010, and that its total annual budget has income of $233,641, but expenses of $249,306 (i.e., it is out-of-balance by some $16,000). That is less than what has to be paid each year just to keep up the property -- let alone pay for salaries, insurance, retirement benefits and all the other expenses of operating a full-time parish.
But that reality does not stop the Episcopal Diocese from asking Judge Bellows to let it have every conceivable benefit from its victory, pending the appeal. Instead of settling simply the amount of the appeal bond, stipulating to a stay and allowing the appeal to go forward (or not, as the Virginia Supreme Court decides), Bishop Johnston and his Diocese are continuing to pay their attorneys to oppose the Anglicans in court every step of the way, by every argument imaginable, whether meritorious or not.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) Episcopal Church (TEC) TEC Bishops TEC Conflicts TEC Conflicts: Virginia * Christian Life / Church Life Parish Ministry Stewardship * Culture-Watch Law & Legal Issues
Posted April 19, 2012 at 8:00 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
The Episcopal Church's Executive Council began its last meeting of the 2010-2012 triennium contemplating its leadership role — and emotional investment — in the church's journey to its future.
The council has spent much of the last three years exploring how the Episcopal Church must change in response to the challenges facing all mainline churches, including declining memberships and thus declining finances, demographic shifts and cultural changes in the place and authority accorded to religious communities in society. When General Convention convenes in July in Indianapolis, deputies and bishops will grapple with a variety of calls...for changes in the church's structure that their proposers say will help the church meet those challenges.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Episcopal Church (TEC) Executive Council
Posted April 19, 2012 at 7:48 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
Herewith the BBC summary:
In 1943, a group of Belgian Jews escaped from a train bound for the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.Listen to it all (10 minutes). I caught this by accident yesterday in the car driving to a meeting, and it left me shaking in silence. Do take the time to give your attention to it--KSH.
In the only incident of its kind, they were helped by members of the Belgian resistance.
Witness speaks to Simon Gronowski, who at the age of 11, jumped from the train to safety.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch Children History Marriage & Family Religion & Culture Violence * International News & Commentary Europe Belgium Germany
Posted April 19, 2012 at 7:22 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
Well-integrated business leaders can respond to the rigorous demands placed upon them with a servant attitude, recalling Jesus who washed the feet of His disciples. Leadership in this servant spirit is different from the authoritarian exercise of power too often present in business organisations. It distinguishes Christian executives and the work environment which they seek to foster. In living business responsibilities in such a manner, in developing true servant leadership, they give freely of their expertise and abilities. In figuratively washing the feet of their collaborators, business leaders realise more fully their noble calling.
An important part of the business leader's vocation is practising ethical social principles while conducting the normal rhythms of the business world. This entails seeing clearly the situation, judging with principles that foster the integral development of people, and acting in a way which implements these principles in light of one's unique circumstances and in a manner consistent with the teaching of the Faith. The rest of this document is organised accordingly: see, judge, act.
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"Vocation of the Business Leader" may thus be that rarest of Vatican texts: Something that isn't just dissected by vaticanisti and other denizens of the church's chattering classes, but actually used out in the field. One can imagine, for instance, retreats for business leaders organized around the document, culminating in the examination of conscience it invites. One also hopes it becomes a cornerstone of business education, especially in Catholic venues. There are some 1,800 church-affiliated colleges and universities worldwide, roughly 800 of which have business programs, and this text would be a compelling addition to their curricula.
...the real novelty of "Vocation of the Business Leader" is that it manages to bring Catholic social teaching down to earth without actually floating a single concrete policy proposal. Instead, it asks hard questions and trusts people of intelligence and good will to figure out the right answers.
Socrates would be proud.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Religion & Culture * Economics, Politics Economy Corporations/Corporate Life * Religion News & Commentary Other Churches Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI * Theology Ethics / Moral Theology
Posted April 19, 2012 at 6:36 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
A new revelation of young American soldiers caught on camera while defiling insurgents' remains in Afghanistan has intensified questions within the military community about whether fundamental discipline is breaking down given the nature and length of the war.
The photographs, published by The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, show more than a dozen soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division's Fourth Brigade Combat Team, along with some Afghan security forces, posing with the severed hands and legs of Taliban attackers in Zabul Province in 2010. They seemed likely to further bruise an American-Afghan relationship that has been battered by crisis after crisis over the past year, even as the two governments are in the midst of negotiations over a long-term strategic agreement.
The images also add to a troubling list of cases — including Marines videotaped urinating on Taliban bodies, the burning of Korans, and the massacre of villagers attributed to a lone Army sergeant — that have cast American soldiers in the harshest possible light before the Afghan public.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Globalization Psychology * Economics, Politics Defense, National Security, Military Economy The U.S. Government Foreign Relations Politics in General War in Afghanistan * International News & Commentary America/U.S.A. Asia Afghanistan Pakistan
Posted April 19, 2012 at 6:16 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
The Nigerian religious sect Boko Haram had been sporadically attacking police stations and people for years with machetes and sometimes guns to create an Islamic state in its corner of Africa's largest nation.
Then, in 2010, the group exploded into violence with suicide bombings, car bombs and coordinated assaults, months after an al-Qaeda leader in Algeria disclosed that the terror group had decided to help the Nigerian radicals....
"This new Jihadist nexus in Africa" is a rising danger that the West has yet to fully comprehend," said Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Religion & Culture * Economics, Politics Foreign Relations Politics in General Terrorism * International News & Commentary Africa Nigeria * Religion News & Commentary Other Faiths Islam Muslim-Christian relations
Posted April 19, 2012 at 6:00 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
"The University should be thinking about what its heart is," [Sam] Wells said. "If you don't have a heart, you simply commit yourself to a commodity culture where you are only here to get an investment, a degree.... It's an impoverished notion of what a university can truly be." For the Chapel to effectively operate as a church, Wells said that it is important to interact with the people Jesus spent most of his life with—the poor. He tried to accomplish this through outreach to Durham's more impoverished areas.
"Success is seeing people's lives change and not just saying so but actually seeing the differences," he said. "Poverty is a mask we sometimes put on people to [conceal] their real wealth... [but it is important for] a rich person to see how poor they are or for a person coming out of prison to see how rich he is.... That's what the kingdom of God is about, those kinds of transformations."
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Posted April 19, 2012 at 5:45 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
Sudan's Khartoum government says the country is officially in a state of war with South Sudan.
The top United Nations human rights official confirmed that statement by condemning Sudan's indiscriminate bombing raids that resulted in civilian casualties in South Sudan.
Khartoum began the week with a wave of air raids on Southern border areas, killing several civilians and hitting a UN peacekeeper base. South Sudan struck back with a vow to hold their positions in a contested oil field seized from Khartoum's army.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Violence * Economics, Politics Politics in General * International News & Commentary Africa Sudan --North Sudan --South Sudan
Posted April 19, 2012 at 5:31 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
What does it mean to be a Catholic university? This well-worn question emerges even more than usual these days in the face of budget cuts and increasing competition in higher education, as these universities have to identify what unique feature they offer prospective students that justifies their higher tuition costs. Alasdair MacIntyre, perhaps the most influential living philosopher, believes the answer to this question involves a significant place for the Catholic philosophical tradition.
MacIntyre begins his excellent book by raising a paradox for the Catholic Christian: her faith requires her to give unqualified trust to God but she simultaneously poses systematic questions about the God she claims to trust. These questions take the form of traditional philosophical problems for theists, such as the problem of evil, the relationship of body and soul, and how to speak meaningfully of a transcendent being. Thus MacIntyre identifies an apparent tension between faith and reason, a tension that the Catholic philosophical tradition wishes to dissolve.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch Books Education Philosophy Religion & Culture * Religion News & Commentary Other Churches Roman Catholic
Posted April 19, 2012 at 5:15 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
The Vatican has launched a crackdown on the umbrella group that represents most of America's 55,000 Catholic nuns, saying that the group was not speaking out strongly enough against gay marriage, abortion and women's ordination.
Rome also chided the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) for sponsoring conferences that featured "a prevalence of certain radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith."
The Vatican's disciplinary action against the LCWR was announced on Wednesday (April 18), one day before Pope Benedict XVI marked seven years as pontiff.
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Filed under: * Religion News & Commentary Other Churches Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI
Posted April 19, 2012 at 5:00 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
O loving God, whose martyr bishop Alphege of Canterbury suffered violent death because he refused to permit a ransom to be extorted from his people: Grant, we pray thee, that all pastors of thy flock may pattern themselves on the Good Shepherd, who laid down his life for the sheep; through him who with thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, for ever and ever.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal Archbishop of Canterbury * Christian Life / Church Life Church History Spirituality/Prayer
Posted April 19, 2012 at 4:40 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
O Lord God, who never failest both to hear and to answer the prayer that is sincere: Let not our hearts be upon the world when our hands are lifted up to pray, nor our prayers end upon our lips, but go forth with power to work thy will in the world; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life Spirituality/Prayer
Posted April 19, 2012 at 4:20 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love thee, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
--Psalm 18:1-3
Filed under: * Theology Theology: Scripture
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I led you astray. This is because I'm reluctant to change the title of a weekly column that is 17 years old now, so I will refrain from doing so. The problem is understandable though. When I summarize the best 10 teams in the country every week, I do so because I want to calculate who has the best shot of winning the national title and the BCS bowls at the end of the season. Sometimes I feel like 10 isn't enough, and I would be better suited to include about 15 teams, but the name remains the same and so does the list. You can get away with the occasional #11, or the dark horse, or squeezing two teams into one ranking, but anything more and it's a strike against the principles of the column.
I'm sure my father has felt the same way over the years. If I could just tell you what I think of these 15 teams, of these 20 teams who could all be good, but alas, it is, in fact, the top ten. It's more difficult at the beginning of the season. Generally, about 30-35 teams have a shot at making a BCS bowl at the beginning of each year, so it is a shot in the dark to rank the best third of them. I do my best, and this year I attempted to cover every team I could who would possibly later show up in the column. However, teams have come and gone. In just the first 8 weeks I had gone from:
3. Alabama
5. Oregon
6. Oklahoma
7. Georgia
8. Wisconsin
9. Michigan
10-13. Florida, Arkansas, West Virginia, Texas (see, I snuck in 13)
2. K-State
3. Florida
4. Alabama
5. Notre Dame
7. Oklahoma
10. Mississippi State
Well, week 9 is easy. Never did it cross my mind who the best ten teams in the country were because I didn't care. I didn't care who the best ten were, or the best 15, or the best 25, or the best 50. Neither should you. Because I knew. Because we know. Because it all became so simple in 5 games on one Saturday in October. So let's recap, shall we?
2:00 CT- Oregon scores 56 points in the first half yet still manages to both pull their starters in the 2nd quarter and shut out the Buffs until after the Ducks have taken a nap in the victory-laboratory while watching tape of Alabama.
2:30 CT- K-State plays a tight game with a good Texas Tech team. Until they don't. 55-24 'Cats. Meanwhile, Georgia upsets a Gator team that was too big for its britches in front of a raucous Bulldog crowd (perhaps more so than usual). It's alright, SEC, Florida is about to be really good and they could still win the conference this year. You know what are fun? Divisional ties at the end of the season. Good thing LSU beat South Carolina, or the 2 left-outs would be pondering the current state of equal treatment in the FBS (it's about two degrees worse than what women's rights were in the 17th century, in case you were wondering) with Texas and Texas Tech.
7:00 CT- Notre Dame goes on the road, defiles Landry Jones' draft stock, embarrasses Bob Stoops, laughs as the Thunder trade away James Harden on the same day, and then laughs some more when Texas fans remind the Irish that OKC's best player is a Longhorn. Then Oklahoma fans laugh when they remember that they beat Texas 63-21, but stop when they begin to wonder why they have had so many good-not-great teams since 2001. If Longhorns want Mack gone, then the same logic should apply to Stoops, but it doesn't, because they are both great coaches.
7:30 CT- Alabama smashes an undefeated Mississippi State team who had, regrettably for Bama's computer rankings, played even a weaker schedule than the Tide.
So here, for the first time in 17 years, is the Jones Top Four:
1. (BCS says 1) Alabama- Could the Tide lose to LSU? Sure. Whatever. I guess so. If they do the SEC could ironically get hosed out of the tile game. However, I'm tired of doubting this team. They handle business every week and make a mockery of the competition, I see no reason to think the Tigers will win.
1. (BCS says 2) K-State- Only gets a break on a brutal schedule because they avoid themselves. The Wildcats are 8-0 through that schedule, and if you asked me how much I would bet that they will finish 12-0 I would withdraw everything I had. The other good news for the 4 teams remaining? K-State has only gotten better.
1. (BCS says 3) Notre Dame- USC is in for a nightmare. These teams are not comparable, starting with the fact that the best defense Matt Barkley has faced is... Stanford? 'Zona? Washington? He has lost to 2 of those teams and all 3 would improve if Manti Te'o could replace their two worst defensive starters and run a 10 man set.
1. (BCS says 4) Oregon- The Ducks have played roughly the same schedule as Alabama, and because this next stat continues to amaze me I will continue to type it: If you are playing Oregon in the first 30 minutes of a football game, that pace, adjusted to 60 minutes per game, is yielding an average victory of 73-14. Through eight games. Humor me. Check the math. If you actually believe me then please reread, look at their schedule, reason that they have actually played some decent teams, and then check my math. I will spare you the time however, of letting you know that it's right, and proving that it isn't a typo by typing it 5 times again: 73-14, 73-14, 73-14, 73-14, 73-14. And you know what? I wouldn't be surprised if they did it to the Trojans, too.
We need a four team playoff. Now. Winner of Bama/Oregon against winner of K-State/Notre Dame. Not at the end of the season, now. Who needs 12 games? 8 accomplished the task just fine.

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Ruth Mary Leach, 92, Scottsbluff
Ruth Mary Leach, 92, of Scottsbluff, died Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff. A Funeral Mass will be held 2:00 p.m. Friday, November 9, 2012, at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Scottsbluff with Fr. Vince Parsons officiating. The Rosary will be recited at 1:30 p.m. prior to the Mass. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery. Friends may call at Dugan-Kramer Funeral Chapel Thursday between 1-8:00 p.m. Memorials may be given to St. Agnes Catholic Church or to St. Agnes School.
Ruth was born March 8, 1920 in North Platte, NE to Harry George and Catherine (Dolson) Stueve. She graduated from St. Patrick's High School in 1938 and from North West Institute Technology School in 1942. She moved to Scottsbluff on March 19, 1946 and married Milford Raymond Leach September 7, 1946 at St. Patrick's Church in North Platte, NE.
Ruth's employment included working with Drs. Clarke and Schaughnessy in North Platte and St. Mary's Hospital in Scottsbluff.
Ruth was a member of St. Agnes Altar Society, St. Mary's Hospital Auxiliary, and Catholic Daughters. She was a 4-H Leader, enjoyed sewing, playing Bridge, and bowling.
She is survived by her daughters: Mary Jo (Louis) Arbutti, Wentzville, MO, Frances M. (Gerald) Cowley, Ormond Beach, FL, Margaret M. (Jeffrey) Brannan, Minatare, NE and Anne M. Leach, Scottsbluff, NE, Sons: Timothy J. (Kathy) LEACH, O'Fallon, MO and Patrick J. Leach, Scottsbluff, NE; 16 Grandchildren and 18 Great Grandchildren.
Preceding her in death were her parents, husband, son Thomas, infant daughter Helen and sisters: Sr. M. Dolora Stueve, Mary F. Stueve and Angela M. Stueve.
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Three former Texas Tech women's basketball players will be playing in the WNBA preseason game being held at the United Spirit Arena in Lubbock on Fri., May 4, at 7 p.m. Sheryl Swoopes and Erin Grant will be playing for the Houston Comets as they take on Plenette Pierson and the Detroit Shock.
Swoopes, who was a member of Texas Tech's 1993 National Championship team, returns to Lubbock after playing in the Hub City in 2004 when the USA Women's National Team took on Japan in an exhibition game prior to the 2004 Olympics.
Pierson and Grant return to the United Spirit Arena for the first time since playing for the Lady Raiders. Pierson wrapped up her career in 2003, while Grant finished just a year ago.
Tickets are still on sale for the WNBA preseason game between the defending WNBA Champions the Detroit Shock and the four-time WNBA Champions the Houston Comets.
Tickets are available for $10 for lower level reserved and $5 for upper level general admission.
A limited number of tickets are still available for the pre-game dinner for $25, which will be held in the City Bank Conference Center at the United Spirit Arena from 5:30-7 p.m. The doors for the game will open at 6 p.m.
There is also a limited number of reserved parking passes available for $20. The reserved parking area is the North Lot of the United Spirit Arena. The other parking lots surrounding the arena will be open to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Fans can also purchase a $5 upper level general admission ticket to be donated to the local YWCA.
For tickets to the WNBA game, please contact (888) GO-BIG-12 or (806) 742-TECH or stop by the Texas Tech Athletic Ticket Office in the north end of Jones AT&T Stadium. Tickets also can be purchased through the Texas Tech athletic website at www.texastech.com and at area United Supermarket and Select-a-Seat locations. If purchasing tickets from the Athletic Ticket Office at Jones AT&T Stadium, please use the east side parking lot as the west side parking lot is not accessible from 4th Street.
Tickets can also be purchased on the day of the game starting at noon at the Athletic Ticket Office at the United Spirit Arena.
Dinner tickets and parking passes can only be purchased at the Athletic Ticket Office or online at www.texastech.com.
For more information, please contact the Marsha Sharp Leadership Circle at 806-742-1950.
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Hollywood Legend Jack Nicholson Retires From Acting?
What was your absolute favorite Jack Nicholson Movie? When he played the Joker? Tell us below…..
Los Angeles, CA- Tony Batman's A Entertainment News- He'll still sit courtside at Los Angeles Lakers' games, but Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson has quietly retired from the movie business, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
The 76-year-old icon has no plans to appear in films again after a career spanning five decades.
"Jack has — without fanfare — retired," a well-placed Hollywood film insider confirmed to Radar.
"There is a simple reason behind his decision — it's memory loss. Quite frankly, at 76, Jack has memory issues and can no longer remember the lines being asked of him.
"His memory isn't what it used to be."
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Enter Gruden. With Dungy players Gruden was able to take these players and create a game plan to destroy his opponents.
Maybe everyone should start saying with "Sam Wyche's Players" because Dungy may have developed players to be "men" off the field, but he couldn't find players to put on it. Other than Ronde Barber, who did Dungy bring in and develop? Look at Indy. We really see the mess he left them in. I just don't understand the "coaching" pedestal people still put him on. GREAT MAN, but I think far from great coach.Also, everyone forgets we brought in Dilger, Pittman, Juervicious, McCardell, Roman Oben. All which were major contributors and reasons we got where we did ... none of them were "Dungy's Guys".Dungy was a great man and leader that benefited majorly from the foundation Sam Wyche left him with. Gruden was a great coach that was a bad man and couldn't stop lying and back-stabbing players. Morris ... uugh.If Schiano can install his "Buccaneer Ways" (Trust, Belief, Accountability), he'll get the good part of Dungy. If he can install a great game plan and teach the details, he'll get the good part of Gruden. So IMO he has to do what both of those lacked... finding talent in the draft that fit our system. He has to be a Wyche, Dungy & Gruden all rolled into one.


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What's Wrong with 'Flickr HDR'?
Creating an HDR Image
The image you see above was created from
nine exposures
, each spaced one f-stop apart. They were then combined into a high dynamic range image, and saved in the popular .hdr format. So far so good. There are many programmes now that can do this, including Photoshop, HDRShop, Photosphere, Photomatix, and Artizen HDR. I'm sure there are more, but these are the ones that I am aware of. It should be noted that at this stage, we have successfully combined several exposures into
a single image
. The rationale is that each of the exposures contains information over a limited range of intensities, but that together we have good information for all pixels. The algorithm to combine exposures essentially determines for each pixel which exposures contain useable information.
Displaying an HDR Image
Of course, just as we could not capture the scene with a single exposure, we have a similar problem when we want to display the image. We now have a range of values that is much larger than our poor monitors can handle. We therefore have to reduce this range of values again, a procedure known as tone reproduction, or dynamic range reduction. Of course, this means that we have to create a normal 8-bit image. I hope you can imagine that this means that somehow we have to get rid of information. But what information should that be? In short, the answer is that we don't know exactly. It depends on many factors, including what was in the image to begin with, the dynamic range of the display, the lighting in the room that contains the display, and on the specific state of the human visual system of the observer who will be looking at the image.
In essence, we can simply scale the high dynamic range image from whatever it was to a displayable range of 0 - 255. The result is the image seen here on the right. As you can see, this is largely an unsuccessful rendition of the scene we are interested in. However, if the purpose of dynamic range reduction is to make an HDR image displayable, then we have succeeded: all pixels are within the monitor's range of displayable values. Unfortunately, most pixels are too dark to be meaninful for human inspection.
This example illustrates that in addition to bringing all the values within the range of our monitor, we should try to preserve some other attribute(s) of the high dynamic range image, which is our representation of the scene that we have photographed. This is where it gets tricky. We are now interested in the nature of the attributes that we should preserve. It is generally accepted that we are creating images for the purpose of being viewed by humans (as opposed to, say, image analysis or computer vision). Hence, we want to create an image that is matched to our own perception of the scene. In practice, we might want to try to preserve the general appearance of the scene, or alternatively brightness, or contrast, or ... There are many possibilities.
We cannot in general preserve all attributes of a scene at the same time. We therefore have to make choices. This is all perfectly fine. However, it should be realised that dependent on which choice we make, we get an image that has a certain 'look' or 'feel'. Now, the problem here is that these choices are in principle not made by you, the photographer, but by the designers of the programmes that you use to manipulate high dynamic range images. Sometimes you do get some parameters to tweak, but these only give a limited freedom to steer the final result.
The Problem
Now look again at the image at the top of this page. It is displayable on your monitor, so it means that all the values are within range. The designers of the programme used to achieve tone reproduction have instilled a particular look and feel. Some people like it and some, like me, don't. For me, the problem with this image is that it is no longer a natural representation of the scene that I so caringly photographed. I lugged a heavy tripod around, and took the trouble to take a collection of nine photographs. I then ran them through software to create a single high dynamic range image. After this much trouble, I expect my tone reproduction software to produce an image that looks as close as possible to the scene I witnessed with my own eyes.
In other words: tone reproduction should produce a natural image. If I wanted the image to have a specific 'look' or 'feel', I am perfectly capable of running the image through a set of Photoshop filters. Tone reproduction has a single purpose only: reduce the dynamic range so that a good natural image can be displayed on a monitor without making it look funny in any way.
The image at the top is not what I expected to happen. It does not look natural. The tone reproduction operator has done something that it shouldn't have. Unfortunately, the image above is not an exception. The
site has oodles of HDR images that were butchered by incapable use of a tone reproduction operator. I would argue that the vast majority of images tagged HDR on this site are seriously messed up. I am not surprised that there now exists a Flickr group called 'I hate HDR'. Photographers are split as to whether HDR is a good thing or a bad thing. This is a real pity.
HDR: Good or Bad?
I think that HDR is unequivocally a good thing ---
if done right
. The general technology allows photographers to take photographs that they would otherwise not dream of. The image shown here is a point in case. Without multiple-exposure techniques we would never ever shoot into the sun (and yes, I know that this particular photograph has a flare problem --- in fact, it was taken for the purpose of demonstrating flare in my new book on
colour imaging
. It just happens to also be a good example to demonstrate what typically goes wrong with tone reproduction). The image to the right here shows the best single exposure: it is clear that a single exposure does not adequately capture this scene, as there are both under- and over-exposed areas in this one image. As a further example, we also have problems taking photographs of indoor scenes, if there are windows visible. I hear that real-estate agents encounter this problem regularly!
So HDR is a good thing --- if done right. Unfortunately, the Flickr HDR community does it wrong on a massive scale. My aim here is to get you to understand that your choice of software probably has the single largest impact on whether you will be able to produce natural looking images. The second issue is that you should realise that as soon as the image looks funny in some way, then this is wrong. It is an artifact that should be avoided! If you want to deliberately produce an artificial looking image, then by all means do so. However, please do not abuse tone reproduction to get there. And please do not then go and call it 'HDR'.
If anything, the image at the top looks sufficiently unnatural that I would call it 'NPR', which stands for 'non-photorealistic rendering'. I consider it an example of HDR gone wrong.
Of course, after such a rant, I should now provide an alternative. Luckily I do have one on offer. The image shown below was created with a tone reproduction operator I developed several years ago with the help of Mike Stark, Peter Shirley, and Jim Ferwerda. It is used widely in various industries. It is aimed to provide a natural look. This means that there is less emphasis on preserving every tiny detail, but instead on giving a good overall impression. It is not meant to produce a spectacular result, just a natural one. I think that the image below achieves that. You can almost sense that it is 6:30 in the morning, and not too warm. It matches my memory of the scene I photographed pretty well. This image is not perfect, but it does not stand out as obviously wrong.
Oh, before you ask. This tone reproduction operator is
for free, and everybody is invited to experiment, use it, and build it into their own software. I do not require royalties for this, given that my boss has already paid me to do the work (the
University of Utah
in this case). There are also several others that are available for free, which I would encourage the technically minded reader to experiment with. See for example
Below is another image. This was produced with a slightly more obscure
, which I worked on in 2005 with Kate Devlin. It is more directly inspired by what we know about the human visual system. It includes a rudimentary form of white balancing, which is seen here as an image which has a little less yellow in it. However, where I really think that this image improves over the one above, is that the sun was allowed to burn out. This has the effect of producing an image with a truly bright sun. Do you see that the sun appears even brighter than the white background of this page? That is very difficult to get with coloured light sources such as the sun in the image above.
Now, before you start thinking that all of this is a shameless plug, I fully acknowledge that there are many other tone reproduction operators in existence. Several of these produce excellent results. They are described in the scientific literature, as well as in technical books on high dynamic range imaging, including the
one I was involved with
, together with Greg Ward, Sumanta Pattanaik, and Paul Debevec. Several papers have compared them by means of psychophysical experiments, not leading to a fully clear answer as to which operator is best. It depends a little on the application. You can imagine that for instance in medical visualisation, a tone reproduction operator does not have to look natural. Instead it should produce a visualisation that avoids mis-diagnosis.
However, these pages discuss high dynamic range imaging and tone reproduction for the purpose of photography. In my opinion, this means that visual artifacts should not be introduced anywhere in the imaging pipeline, unless the user specifically requests it. This is not what I see happening at the
site. Photographers have to tonemap their HDR images to prepare them for display, and inadvertently introduce many ugly compression artifacts. The 'look' and 'feel' associated with these compression artifacts are now being taken as representative of HDR: tone reproduction and aesthetics are hopelessly confounded. This is wrong. The purpose of this micro-site is to show that it is also avoidable. All it takes is a little common sense and a little awareness. I would encourage you to have a look at the
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So Ethical Pat's latest PR stunt is releasing nonsense about a Reggie Bush apology (HT Bruin4ever15):
"He's really contrite," Haden said of Bush, according to USA Today. "He knows he made a series of mistakes. It wasn't just one mistake. It was a series of mistakes."
Bush, a running back for the New Orleans Saints, has not been stripped of the Heisman Trophy he won in 2005, though USC has returned Bush's Heisman given to the school. Two trophies are awarded for each recipient.
"He told me, 'If I could turn the clock back, I would. If I could give the Heisman Trophy back, I would,' " Haden told the newspaper.
Uhm. Obviously that raises a whole lot of questions. How the hell does one of the posterboys and superstars of the program make "series of mistakes" without any kind of intervention from the AD or the HC? Ethical Pat didn't provide any explanation for that.
Of course Ted Miller from tWWL just laps up the Trogan spin and puts all the blame on Reggie while remaining in total denial over how it all happened under Garrett and Carroll's watch. It is really pathetic how Miller has gone overdrive in shilling for the Trogans.
As for wanting to give his "Heisman Trophy back," what exactly is stopping one of the most over-rated NFL busts in recent history. Reggie can give his trophy back any time. He certainly can ship it back to NYC if he is really serious about it. What is funnier is this hilarity from Ethical Pat:
"I wish I could ask Reggie to come talk to our football team. I can't," said Haden, who replaced ousted AD Mike Garrett on Aug. 3. "He's not allowed on the campus. But I think he would tell them what a big mistake he made and how sorry he is."
Uh, Pat, if he is so serious about ethics and integrity and wants to keep Bush barred from his cherished little "campus," why is he still displaying the Heisman Trophy won by an alleged double murderer and criminal in his athletic department? Is that something his mother really proud of?
All of this is of course is nothing short of total BS spin. It is all about creating media stories to create a favorable message frame around their bogus appeal to the NCAA. Of course we don't expect dumb reporters to figure that all out (these guys were out to lunch when all that cheating was going on). What we do expect is NCAA to laugh these stunts off and stick to their sanctions which arguably should have been more severe against the most corrupt athletic program in recent history of the NCAA.
UPDATE (N): Wow. That was a fast walkback. Now Ethical Pat is saying there was no "apology":
USC Athletic Director Pat Haden said Friday that he spoke last week with a contrite Reggie Bush, but that embattled 2005 Heisman Trophy winner did not apologize for actions that played a major role in the NCAA's decision to hit the school with severe sanctions.
That contradicts a report by USA Today that Haden had said Bush apologized for those actions.
"Never did he say I'm sorry or I apologize," Haden said. "Never did he say, 'I lied to the NCAA or I took stuff.' "
Whatever. No one knows what the heck is going over at Hello Kiffin's "Touch Football U." GO BRUINS.


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The marquee sports programs at KU & KSU both appear to be headed in opposite directions lately in a trend we have seen before.
I guess all plans for spring development are gone. This is suspicious on multiple levels and certainly can't be an endorsement to his ability to lead a football team.
Just a little word cloud of TG's first paragraph from the press conference. Football and STAFF. Full size here.
Why not wax Shakespearean on my Wildcats 59 to 7 destruction of KU?
It's time to put our K-State/KU predictions out there for you to marvel at or scorn, depending upon your perspective.
A brief history of how the Big Game (K-State/KU) came to matter so much to this writer.
Which two Big 12 fanbases might be wishing football to get over soon so basketball can start? Find out who doesn't feel the same way.
Guess this is probably why nothing has happened yet. That's a big ticket to pay, I'm guessing Lew and the others are double-checking all claims to make sure they can't lose this one.
...just what in the hell is going on over in Lawrence? First, Ben Lueken was in the hospital for three days before the Lawrence Journal-World got around to publishing the story. Jocques Crawford was arrested, then unarrested in connection with it. Watching this one play out is going to be very entertaining. (H/T Tim Griffin)
KU has a new recruiting pitch: "Come play for KU, where you'll learn more from a video game than you will the coaches." H/T: Catfan33 (sorry it took me forever to get it posted)
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No, I am not a billionaire, I am a lowly paid hospitality worker. To be honest, I hate my birthday. Ironically, this makes me want to celebrate it more. I have a Champagne taste, but sadly reside on a beer budget. Sometimes, I can't even afford the beer. Since I am not a billionaire (yet) I had to make some compromises.
Lunch vs. Dinner - Did you know you can save Y8,000 (AUD$100) just by having lunch? I did and that is why I visited Les Creations de Narisawa (can we just call it LCN?) for lunch. Normally I am very stingy, I will drink only tap water to save money (to spend more on beautiful food) and leave a tip. But this time I went all out and had matching wines. I think I had too much wine because I even bought half a bottle of 1996 French Riesling.
Set Menu vs. a la carte - At RyuGin, the set menu is Y23,000 (AUD$280), but ... If you make a booking on the day after 9pm you can enjoy the a la carte menu. Set menus are a great way to experience a restaurant, but a la carte allows you to budget.
These two tips allowed me to save enough money to experience two of the city's best restaurants (and on the same day).
Still can't decide between the two? It's simple - Pick both!
Les Creations des Narisawa (lunch)
LCN (something tells me this name won't catch on...) was fine dining at its best. The service was polished, the food took you on a journey, and there was a high level of detail.
|Gift from SATOYAMA and Le Potager - Radish,
Sumi and Onion
Green asparagus from Furano, Hokkaido and
Tomato from Kochi
|Gift from SATOYAMA and Le Potager - Radish,
Sumi and Onion
Green asparagus from Furano, Hokkaido and
Tomato from Koch
|Gift from the Forest - Amagi no Shamo,
Chicken from Shizuoko
Whole free range organic chicken cooked above fire,
and continually doused with olive oil.
Amazingly tender with crisp skin.
|Gift from the Sea - Akodai Snapper from Odawara,
Asari from Aichi
Vinaigrette from Kyoto and ground pepper
and English sea salt ... added the snapper broth - WOW!!!!
|Okinawa dessert - Pina colada with jelly and
nitrogen infused ice cream
|Our dessert BUFFET!
RyuGin (dinner)
While LCN (do you get it yet?) was polished and slow paced, ryugin was the complete opposite. Elegantly presented food that you recognised, versus experimental food. Food that melted in your mouth, versus food that exploded in your mouth. Is this a bad thing? Not at all, but they are completely different. I visited RyuGin in August 2011, before they received their third star, it was busy then, but I can imagine it will be even harder to get in now.
|Such a humble man, he looks so calm and quiet
but his food is insane!!
|Amuse Bouche - Crab from Hokkaido,
wrapped in seaweed with cucumber
|Sea urchin wrapped in seaweed tempura, seasoned with
Japanese lime, ginko nuts, NZ sea salt and leek flakes
|Squid sashimi, pickled cucumber, sake marinated sea weed,
with shredded Japanese lime, NZ sea salt and wasabi
The squid is cut especially so that the texture is
very smooth, and tastes sweet.
|Grilled sea perch with crispy sushi rice, artichoke, baby corn,
endame, ginko nuts and leek with black vinegar sauce
|Another specialty - Roppongi Pudding with coconut
milk and caramel, INCREDIBLE!!
|Chef Yamamoto has been is an avid collector of
dragon plates from China.
|Chef's collection of fine plates decorated the room.
There were 22 in total and he has collected these his
whole life. The restaurant is designed as a gallery
with the plates a focal point.
|Squid sashimi, pickled cucumber, sake marinated sea weed,
with shredded Japanese lime, NZ sea salt and wasabi
|Specialty dessert - 196°c Popping candied grape
and 99°c grape jam
|Specialty dessert - 196°c Popping candied grape
and 99°c grape jam
|Happy camper!
Les Creations de Narisawa
$: from Y7,350 (AUD $90) (lunch)
address: Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
$: from Y23,100 (AUD: $280) (dinner) - a la carte available after 9pm
address: 7-17-24 Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo


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Behavioral Models in Tort Law
Barbara Luppi
Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) - Faculty of Business and Economics; University of St. Thomas School of Law
Francesco Parisi
University of Minnesota - Law School; University of Bologna
October 23, 2012
U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-37
Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-56
In this paper, we illustrate how different behavioral problems can be incorporated into the standard economic model of tort law. Through this exercise, we develop a modeling language that can be utilized by law and economic scholars when considering the effect of behavioral biases and cognitive imperfections in tort law. We use these models in conjunction with the standard taxonomy of psychological biases, to show the effect of different biases on the behavior of tort agents. The models we present are applicable to a wide range of tort problems, and have the potential for application to a broader range of legal problems.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 37
Keywords: behavioral biases, social biases, memory biases, tort law
JEL Classification: K13, K43, D03, D81working papers series
Date posted: October 24, 2012
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Daniel Craig nearly went James Bond on someone in a New York supermarket when the man tried taking a photo of Craig and wife Rachel Weisz while they were shopping. The fan reportedly took out his phone to grab either a photo or a video of the couple when Craig yelled "Is watching me food shopping with my wife really all that interesting to you?" and grabbed the phone out of the fan's hand, reports Daily Star. Than he pulled out his silenced pistol, shot the man in each knee, quick shook himself a martini, then escaped via rope ladder attached to a waiting helicopter.
Well … it could've happened that way.
Weisz then stepped in to calm her husband down.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin are separating after 11 years of marriage. A message posed on the 41-year-old actr
Sean "Diddy" Combs has changed his name back to Puff Daddy. In the new trailer for his music video,
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are expecting their first child a source told E! Online on Sunday night. For the full
British star Benedict Cumberbatch is reportedly headed to the London stage to play Hamlet from August to October 20
Kanye West's campaign to get fiancee Kim Kardashian on the cover of Vogue magazine has finally paid off. They
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Neighbors: Christian Land
Date: February 7, 2013
by: Yaryna Klimchak | Staff Writer
Beige storage-like units line the 17th Street lot where The Cabin recording studio is located. Behind its metal garage door sits a studio filled with equipment, musical talent and artists' dreams. Christian Land, a bass player for the band Gray State, runs the studio. He found the space when he was looking for a place to play.
"This place was wall-to-wall full of recording gear, six different drum sets, it was packed," Land says.
Land wanted to preserve the dying aspect of music.
"If this was torn down 35 years of Sarasota Heritage would have been lost," he said.
The wood-paneled recording studio was built in 1977, for The Allman Brothers, who recorded their second and third albums there. Metallica, The Smashing Pumpkins, Black Crowes, Cher and hundreds of local bands have all come through this studio.
"There is a web that runs through the Sarasota music scene," Land says. "It is all connected, and everyone plays with each other and helps each other. "It's a close-knit community of musicians."
Land believes that Sarasota is on the verge of becoming the music scene it was when the Allman Brothers were here.
Land has been playing in bands since he was 16 years old. He moved 10 years ago to Florida, from Minnesota for the warm weather. When Land isn't working with musicians at the studio he works at Siesta Sports Rentals. He hopes to keep the studio going and rock 'n' roll alive in Sarasota.
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I don't remember who said this on Twitter earlier today but it stuck with me and decided to sneak in a poll on it. The Panthers will for the first time in franchise history enter the NFL draft without a punter on the roster, currently comprised of 71 players. I suspect that reason is that not only is their plenty of supply on the market but also this a draft rich with NFL quality punters.
In prior drafts one or maybe two punters might get drafted, if any at all. The 2012 features four to five quality punters that could get selected in this draft. It just depends on your preference because we have a bit of a buffet of punters so to speak.
Want one of the best punter prospects in the last decade? You could go with #1 ranked Bryan Anger from Cal who kicked 18 punts over 50 yards and downed 20 kicks inside the 20 in 2011. But he will cost you at least a 5th rounder, maybe a 4th if you really want him.
More after the jump...
If you don't like the price, how about more of a directional punter that can pin opponents back inside the 20? FSU's Shawn Powell has a 43% accuracy rate at pinning teams inside the 20. Better yet, he excels at pooch kicks and is an excellent FG holder too. Powell is worthy of a 6th or 7th round pick.
How about a punter with some swagger and the ice in his veins to make his best kicks when the pressure is on? Drew Butler out of UGA not only has the leg and experience making big kicks but the bloodlines too. Butler should be there in the 6th round.
If by chance all three of these guys are selected earlier than expected then there is still guys like Kyle Martens of Rice, Brad Nortman from Wisconsin and Brian Stahovich from San Diego St who could warrant the 7th round pick or even come in as a UDFA. Even if the Panthers select one of the top punters why wouldn't the top UDFA come here as well knowing they have a real shot at winning the job? A guy like Stahovich if he goes undrafted and being from the west coast would be a guy Rivera tends to favor.
So who do you favor? Take the poll.


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Self-proclaimed freedom fighter Alex Jones berated UK-born talk show host Piers Morgan tonight over his efforts to enforce gun control laws in the US.
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0But is There Going to be a 'Saved by the Bell' Reunion?
From TMZ:
Saved by the Bell" is another step closer to a comeback … Mr. Belding himself — aka Dennis Haskins — tells TMZ he's all for a Bayside High reunion, just days after Mark-Paul Gosselaar said he wasn't opposed to the idea.
TMZ broke the story … Mark-Paul was in L.A. last weekend … and told our photog, if the upcoming "Boy Meets World" revamp works out, then "maybe we'll do a reunion as well."
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As for the rest of the cast, I think it'd be super good publicity, too. Lark Voorhies … well, we all know what kind of craziness she's been up to lately, and if Dustin Diamond isn't too busy filming scat porn, then we've got those two also. Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley? Easy. Mario would just be in his glory to be around three hot pieces of ass all at once, and Elizabeth, well. Where the hell has she been, anyway? … Never mind. Don't answer that.
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1Screech Has Some Words About Lisa Turtle, Too
Yesterday we talked about how Saved by the Bell's Lark Voorhies' mom came forward and blamed the "erratic" behavior that her daughter had been exhibiting over the past year on the fact that her daughter has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Which, if you can get past the fact that it was really f-cked up that a grown-ass woman's mother is talking personal details of said grown-ass woman's life without permission, I guess it's what our moms do, sometimes, right? Give things away that we'd all rather not discuss with people who don't know us, yes? Well, former SBTB co-star Dustin Diamond (otherwise known as 'Screech') has also come forward saying that she's not the same girl he used to know, and he's kind of worried about her, too.
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In 2003, Lark Voorhies and Dustin Diamond reunited after many years to record commentary for a Saved by the Bell box set. But it wasn't the Screech-and-Lisa reunion he expected.
"I was always used to playing off of her and looking into her eyes," Diamond says of his former costar. "When I saw her at the commentary, it wasn't the Lark I knew."
Voorhies stared into space, Diamond says, much like she did during a series of interviews with PEOPLE. Voorhies says she is spiritual, but her mother Tricia revealed her daughter was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
She wasn't always like this. Voorhies, who famously played the bubbly Lisa Turtle on the '90s Saturday morning sitcom, was just as engaging offscreen, recalls Mario Lopez.
"[She] came from a real nice family – close with her mom. She carried herself like a little lady," says Lopez, who played jock A.C. Slater on the show. "She was a sweet, pretty, cool teenaged girl. I was a big fan of hers. We got along great."
She also got along with Diamond, despite her character rejecting his countless advances. Last year, the pair found themselves working side-by-side again, this time on an indie film called Little Creeps.
But the girl Diamond knew from Saved by the Bell looked more like the woman he saw while recording a commentary nearly a decade ago. Diamond recalls her darting off set and creating tension when she was there.
"Part of me is putting it out of my mind and not thinking about it, but the other part is that of concern," he says. "Man, I hope she's all right."
So, OK. I don't doubt what Dustin Diamond is saying to be true. But guys, it's Dustin Diamond. He'll pretty much comment on anything at all if it'll give him a few seconds of press, right? But still. I find it really, really strange, and almost Britney-like that everyone in this woman's life is making statements about emotional and mental health aside from the woman herself. And that's just not cool, guys.
October 5, 2012 at 11:30 am by Sarah
2If You Didn't Hate Screech After Seeing Him on Celebrity Fit Club …
Beet told us the other day that Dustin Diamond, better known as Saved by the Bell's Screech, has bundled together a collection of his delusions and found a publisher willing to call it a book.
This morning Double D (and he is a complete boob) was on Fox 5 to plug his new book. He shared a story of when an extra on the SBTB set irritated him and he responding by pissing in her purse. Oh. The. Hilarity.
If you saw Double D on VH1′s Celebrity Fit Club, you know that he's a big fat liar (emphasis on fat since he kept leaving the show every other episode), but I'd still buy his book just to see what type of shit he's trying to peddle. Well, I'd buy his book if I could get it on my Kindle. For … like, a quarter.
September 30, 2009 at 2:12 pm by Wendie
"We weren't in rehab and Mr. Belding wasn't my crack dealer."
Mark-Paul Gosselaar, responding to accusations Dustin "Screech" Diamond makes in his latest attempt to salvage his finances and his fame with no thought of salvaging his dignity. Screech has "written" a "memoir" called Behind the Bell, about his days on the set of Saved by the Bell. Us Weekly has a sneak peak at all the fabricated dirt:
He also alleges costar Mark Paul Gosselaar — who played popular Zack Morris — used steroids before production started on 1994′s short-lived Saved by the Bell: The College Years.
"He suddenly exploded with manliness, loading 25 pounds of muscle on his once-scrawny frame in, oh, about a month," says Diamond, who is not in touch with any of his costars. …
Diamond — who filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and had his own sex tape released in 2006 — goes on to say his costars hooked up off-camera.
"If Kelly [Tiffani Thiessen] was interested in Slater [Mario Lopez] one week, then backstage there was a lot going between them in Mario [Lopez]'s room," he tells the new Us Weekly. "Then, if Jessie [Elizabeth Berkley] kisses Zack, then you know Elizabeth Berkley is going in Mark-Paul's room."
I don't know how much if any of this is even remotely true, but, even if it is, like, let me get this straight: These uber-attractive teenagers who had basically no social circle or life outside of that cast hooked up with one another? Often switching partners? GASP. I mean, I'd always surmised that some crazy shit went on in that greenroom, but teenagers hooking up? I'm sickened, just sickened. I have to buy the book now so I can find out what other juicy tidbits are in there. I bet one time Elizabeth Berkeley asked Tiffani Thiessen if she could borrow a tampon and Tiffani was all like, "Sure, but I thought you just finished your period?" and then Elizabeth Berkeley was like, "Oh, no, I'm not on my period. I just need this one to masturbate with." BOOM!
September 25, 2009 at 12:47 am by Evil Beet
24Dustin Diamond to Write Saved by the Bell Tell-All
Ohhhhhhhhhhh hells yes!!!!
A very bright spot in a looooong week of boring, boring news.
Dustin Diamond, aka Screech Powers, is going to publish a tell-all about life behind the scenes at Saved by the Bell. The book is called Behind the Bell, and promises to detail "sexual escapades among cast members, drug use, and hardcore partying."
You know he's just bitter because none of these "sexual escapades" involved him.
I will read this book the second it hits shelves.


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Best products tested in 2011
by B.B. Pelletier
Happy New year! I thought I'd review the best products I got to test last year. Some will be new, but others have been around a long time — I just got around to testing them.
Benjamin Marauder pistol
Back in January, when I was pouting about missing the SHOT Show, I had the opportunity to test the Benjamin Marauder PCP pistol. Actually, the test began in 2010 and extended into 2011, but it was such a good test that the pistol has to make it into this report.
Benjamin's Marauder pistol, known as the "M-rod," is a winner!
I even did an extra accuracy test because for the first one I mounted an old Leapers 6×32 scope that didn't seem to give the pistol a chance to perform up to its capability. When I substituted a CenterPoint 3-12x44AO compact scope in the last test, the pistol showed what it can do.
The Marauder pistol is a .22 caliber with all the accuracy you could hope for. The power is great for this size airgun, and I strongly recommend attaching the standard shoulder stock extension that comes with the gun.
Beretta 92FS
The next great product of 2011 was the Beretta model 92FS air pistol with wood grips. I completed the test on this one in March. I was so impressed that I thought for a long time that Edith and I needed to get the firearm to go with it. In the end, we returned it because you just can't keep them all; but while I had it, I thought it was a wonderful air pistol.
Hawke Sport Optics 4.5-14x42AO Tactical Sidewinder rifle scope
This one is not an airgun, but I would be remiss if I didn't tell you about the finest rifle scope I've ever tested — the Hawke Sport Optics 4.5-14x42AO Tactical Sidewinder rifle scope. I've owned several Leupolds and looked through other premium scopes, but this Hawke has them all beat.
What's so good about this scope? The clarity. It's even clearer than my Unertl 6x that used to be a standard for target shooters. At 14x, it's clearer than other scopes are at 32x. You have to see it to understand how that could be possible, but it is.
It's very costly, though with the clarity it surpasses others of greater price. It's the best I've ever seen.
Crosman Silhouette pistol
The Crosman Silhouette PCP air pistol is another pistol that made my list. I'd tested it the year before, but this one had some improvements, the most notable of which was the trigger.
The power is great, in the high 400s with medium-weight .177 pellets, but the number of shots on a fill reached 75, which is even more phenomenal. Crosman really did their homework on this pistol — refusing to let it alone after the initial offering. The result is that they launched an even better model in 2011 that will have airgunners talking for a long time.
Looking very Western, the Walther Lever Action rifle was one of the best airguns from 2011.
Walther Lever Action rifle
Walther already had a good lever-action air rifle, but last year they modernized it to accept the 88-gram CO2 cartridges, and the new Walther Lever Action Rifle is even better than before! I liked it so much that I did a special 4-part review on the gun and showed you accuracy you didn't expect to see from this kind of airgun.
This rifle is pricy, but you get what you pay for. It's slick, accurate and reliable. If you want a good lever-action pellet rifle it's the only game in town. (My test featured the nickel version, but Pyramyd Air no longer sells it…but the blued version is still available.)
Crosman's new M4-177 multi-pump rocks!
Crosman M4-177 air rifle
I would be remiss if I didn't rave about the new Crosman M4-177 multi-pump air rifle. I liked mine so much I bought it! Does that tell you anything?
The gun is realistic, accurate and well-made. I bought one of the early guns that were mismarked, but Crosman begins shipping guns with the correct marking this month. I don't know if Pyramyd Air has any of the mismarked ones left. However, don't let that stop you — this is an airgun we can all enjoy.
MTM Predator Shooting table and Predator shooting rest
I use both the MTM Predator shooting table and the Predator shooting rest for almost all of my tests, if that tells you anything. But they've just been added to the Pyramyd Air product list and are now available to all of you. So, I included them in the 2011 list, even though I've had mine for several years. Both products let you make a firing line wherever you are, and that's a necessity for someone who shoots a lot. I take mine to the rifle range and use the table in preference to the concrete tables on the range.
Dan Wesson BB revolver
We ended the year on a high note with the Dan Wesson BB revolver. When I reported on this novel new revolver, I said I was impressed by the realism they packed into the design. Twenty years ago, you just couldn't get this level of realism in an airgun.
The one thing I failed to note in my report is the quirky way the safety works. Of course, a safety on a revolver is about as common as a unicorn horn; but if you have one, it ought to work right. This one doesn't. You can put it on when the hammer is down and the action will be locked; but if the hammer is cocked, the safety does nothing at all. That's dangerous, because there are new shooters who haven't been properly trained and will test every safety in an unsafe way. This one will fire if they do.
Still, the gun is powerful, gets lots of shots and is quite accurate for a BB pistol. It's also all metal. I don't know what more you could ask for.
I reviewed many other airguns in 2011, including a host of vintage models that I won't report in this list. These are the ones that stood out and caught my interest. You may have others, and now it's your turn to comment.
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Hey BB – on the 4.5-14×42 Hawke Tactical Scope. Have you looked through several, or just yours ? Also, do the other Hawke Tactical scopes like the 6×24 share the clarity ?
Happy new year to all! Hope this new year will be better in every way possible.
I agree with everything, as I already told I would buy that Marauder pistol in heartbeat if I could.
I will probably be buying the Crosman Silhouette pistol as my next PCP and will be getting at least one Dan Wesson pistol when my parents go to Florida in the coming months (so I can order from PA) and i got the Predator shooting bench for my birthday.
The only things I think I could add are the 3 airsoft conversions offered by Cybergun, the Tanfoglio Witness 1911, SIG Sauer P226 and GSG 92. I think that besides owning the real (which is really complicated and very expensive here in Canada) it's the next best thing. I haven't any of my other Action BB guns since getting those 3, the real single action trigger, all metal construction and blowback are the strong points for me. The fact that they can be disassembled and can accept a lot of custom parts from the firearm it copies is a bonus.
But for me the biggest airgun highlight of 2011 is getting my first PCP, I now wish I had made the jump earlier, these things are awesome. Aiming at something with the scope, controlling your breathing, taking the shot and seeing the pellet go exactly where you were aiming almost like it was slowmoshioned (is that a word?) was an awesome feeling, I don't think I had ever felt that while shooting. Before I was plinking now I can target shoot, I learned thru it what follow thru really is and I think I'm now a better shot because of it.
TwoTalon if you still haven't found a game you like on your Wii you can try Wii resort, you can fly an airplane and archery games, there's no gore or blood (nintendo isn't big on gore and blood, you need a PS3 or Xbox for that), with the plane you have to explore the island to find interest points and blow balloons up (flying in tunnels and under bridges is tricky and fun at the same time), the remote is the airplane so it's quite instinctive to play but I tried but haven't found a game that comes with a gun that's fun to play, I have no idea who made these but YOU CAN'T SHOOT WITH YOUR TRIGGER FINGER !!!! How lame is that !?! So they've been gatering dust on my shelf what's the point of a shooting game that comes with a gun to put the remotes in if you can't use your trigger finger to actually shoot? I tried but wasn't able to learn how to do it and kept trying to use my right index.
Not looking for any games. Don't expect to.
There are some very nice picks here, some of which definitely made my short list, especially the following:
1. The Marauder pistol.
2. The Crosman Silhouette pistol,
3. The Walther Lever Action rifle.
Off topic question here.
In, say, a hunting rifle, why would choose a short-action versus a long-action?
When would one want to choose a short-action (i.e., when might it actually be a better choice)?
When would one want to choose a long-action (i.e., … a better choice)?
At one time the Model 70 Winchester was made in .22 Hornet in the same length action that was used for the .30-06. Way to big and impractical for such a small round. So one reason is that the rifle will be sized to the cartridge, and is more aesthetically pleasing as to size. But a long action can be an advantage in a caliber that can be loaded with longer heavier bullets that are seated further out. It's magazine will take and feed such rounds . Now we have short actioned rifles chambered in cartridges that provide the ballistics of older rounds that are to long to function in a short action. A lot of it is marketing hype though, as the newer cartridges often are not much better than the older ones and cannot handle heavier , longer bullets. You can not put 5 1/2 gals of water in a five gallon jug.
Either will work fine. Which you chose is really a function of the caliber that you select. For a "Deer Rifle" lots and lots of rounds will work. Some suggested ones are as follows. Short action: .243 Win.
.308 Win. 7mm08 Rem. Long Action: .30-06 Springfield, .270 Win, .25-06 Rem., .280 Rem., 7mm Remington Magnum. These rounds will all work given the right bullet. Me, I'm using a .25-06 in a Sako Rifle. I don't see any advantage to the newer short magnum rounds. They just cost a lot more.
Good answers! I understand. Thanks!
My understanding is that a short stroke action will be a little easier to make 1 hole groups with for target shooting, but a bigger swept volume is needed for hunting level power. Since the air tube cylinder is only 1.25" , I think you need a long stroke action for hunting.


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