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all the best. Hope you all have good year and a top one in the biking world. I got out yesterday from Lancaster to Kirby Stephen not so far but I still got out for a while. Anyway a couple of pictures and peace out.
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it was a workout just getting it in and out. but i guess maybe the upside to that was it was planted in corners.
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Fun Fact #XLIV: 276 5309 808, in addition to being the amount of money raised by Luci (and her Imps) in the above strip, also happened to be the Social Security Number of Elvis Presley, Grover Cleveland and Wild Bill Hickok.
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How exactly do you find out a fun little fact like the Social Security Number of Elvis Presley, Grover Cleveland and Wild Bill Hickock?
Well. Those are the world's most expensive cookies.
Did you change the drawing style for this strip?
It does seem a little diff'rent don't it?
… wow, this kid could run the world with these three little monsters. or in her case cut to the front of the lunch line. lol i just found your comic and read through the archive. great story, the shear irony in the girls name is horrible and at the same time great.
WOW! If they had those sweepstakes on that one, she would've won the television, the mp3 player, and every prize below that!
Congratulations, Luci! You have done what every child has dreamt of doing! Even if you had a little help…
That's odd, I never would have thought all three of those individuals had been living in Ohio when they got their SSN. The first three digits of an SSN depend upon where a person lived when they originally obtained the number.
Aah, the B.S. Department- It told me that a goldfish can kill a gorilla- with the element of surprise, of course.
Ohh… I'm thinking of a different B.S. Department. Sorry!
Yaay! I'm smart!
Heh, I heard that too. Only it was where a chiuhua challenges a pit bull and defeats it by getting stuck in the throat. In my area, I guess that's because the only gorillas are the state workers union and the teacher's union.
B.S. Department once told me that if I ate spicy foods, I'd grow taller because the internal steam pressure (from when my saliva turned into vapor as a result of hitting my flaming tongue) would push my head and feet farther apart like a piston.
I was ten and promptly forced myself to like spicy foods. Maybe that's why I have a stomach like a garbage disposal…
L.C.S, aren't you Pain's half-brother or something? I'm noticing a distinct family resemblance (or however that word's spelled. Can't brain right now).
Maaaaaybe. Food can actually be an effective means of torture (just ask any 5 year old who's forced to eat lima beans), so there's a possibility, but I can neither confirm nor deny that rumor… Partly because in hell, genealogy can be a little complicated.
Talk about a profit margin! lolz
I love it, I wish I could have made that much money selling cookies as a kid.
I sorta like the style used in this strip, it looks different, but nice, Luci's smirk in the last panel is amusing.
A self satisfied grin of doom exposed for the whole school to see.
Saint-Saint John…. dang, that is a mouthful to say.
This one made my day.
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Last month I discussed the design inspirations for the RPG Drift. Drift is a space travel RPG, using the motifs of technobabble, and the themes of relativity. The characters of Drift travel in huge generation ships along a circuit of planets. While a few years may pass on the circuit ship, decades pass on the circuit worlds. This month I will focus on an unusual, but quite useful approach to character development used in Drift, a zero sum mechanic.
Character development is a very important mechanic of any RPG intended for long term play. Most players expect their characters to change, and want to have some control over how this happens. But the exact way that change is handled is something which must be carefully considered in light of the goals of your design. The following are some examples:
Climbing Effectiveness - This is the most common type of character development in RPGs. With this mechanic characters change by increasing their ability to change the game world and overcome challenges. Often this is linked with a reward mechanic, as the ability to overcome harder challenges or exercise greater control over the world is seen as enhancing the game.
Falling Effectiveness - This is far less common, because for the same reasons that increased effectiveness is seen as a reward, decreasing effectiveness is viewed as a punishment or penalty. Falling effectiveness is often placed in a small role, serving as an internal antagonist to the character. This approach fits well with games focusing on self-sacrifice or degradation.
Zero-Sum Effectiveness - Largely unexplored, zero-sum effectiveness does not involve changing the quantity of effectiveness, but rather the quality of it. Effectiveness is moved from one regime to another, for example, choosing to neglect swordplay to work on social skills. This method lends itself to a currency of effectiveness, which can then be moved between different applications, while the total remains constant.
Race to the Finish - While effectiveness can be scaled arbitrarily, a race for the finish approach to character development is based on a definite ending, whether positive or negative. In either case your character is lost at that point. This type of mechanic, whether it be falling into madness or attaining divine ascension defines the characters by their place on that path.
Character Discovery - Truly pervasive, character discovery is rarely used as a mechanic in its own right. This method of character development is based on expanding the available information about the character, either by new events or by adding past details. Some games codify this with narrative descriptors or by adding to a written text that describes the character.
Episodic - Perhaps the strangest of these approaches is episodic development. In this method, characters acquire special capability and description purely for the purposes of a local session or episode. Later these are removed, as other aspects are added to the base character for the next episode.
Since Drift utilizes a primarily zero-sum mechanics, the first design element to consider is what will be the currency of effectiveness.
The currency of Drift is that of Cultural Truths and Technological Insights. Each truth and each insight represents an area of ability, in the former case a physical and social capability, while in the later an ability to find a technological solution to the current problem. The following are some example truths:
Aspiration: Knowledge - The advancement of humanity is defined most directly by the body of knowledge that has been accumulated. Without this we would be nothing more than animals.
Law and Order - Society exists because of the rules that must be obeyed. Following those rules provides the necessary structure for humans to grow beyond their humble beginnings.
Sin: Anger - To be clouded in judgment and to show anger to another human is to insult the rise above the beasts. Humanity is beyond such unconsidered action. Violence carries a determined nature and it is with determination that is should be performed.
Virtue: Sincerity - Perception of dishonesty is a break down in the ability to interact in a real society. Truth is less important than the social obligation of being of one face.
And here are some example insights:
In a Long Enough Time Span - Patience allows meaningless data to take on a more structured form, as the irregularities pass away, only the true nature of the system remains. Technologies: Subtle Genengineering, Astrogation, Experimental Sociology
More Power - Any problem can be solved with the sufficient application of force. The hard part lies in delivery. Technologies: Weaponry, Power Systems, Conditioning
Principle: Unification - The goal of unification reveals deep structure other attempts at investigation often miss. Technologies: Theoretical Physics, Political Theory, Quantum Chemistry
Each character has a total of five truths and insights, and at least one of each. Where the character development comes in is how characters gain and lose them.
Drift uses a simple resource system called Impetus to reflect the amount of force and effort a character puts into an action. Each session, players receive a certain amount of impetus to expend, and when they expend them to better perform an action they are marked with the truth or insight used. Since actions can be made untrained, impetus spent for these are added to an special undesignated category, one for insights and one for truths.
Once the impetus reaches a critical mass on an undesignated category, the truth or insight with the lowest impetus is lost, and replaced by a new truth or insight. This process is not entirely free-form. Because the character has suffered a loss of a core part of his or her self, the recovery cannot be delayed, instead he or she acquires insights and truths from the society of the ship, and possibly the local planet.
Radical ideas and understanding drift into orthodoxy. Cultural pride and confidence are lost as the situations that led to them drift away. The wheat of the character is separated from the everchanging chaff, and the stalwart must decide to hold fast to an ideal that has long since passed, or succumb to the ravages of time and space.
Drift has both a surface structure of simple space opera missions, and the deep structure of dealing with cultural change. Next week I'll discuss what this means in terms of the play content theory of RPGs.
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The start of this New Year has not been an easy one around our house. With two daughters in full-blown RAD mode, our family life has not been chaos-free.
One prevalent behavior of Reactive Attachment Disorder is lying. All children fib and stretch the truth, but children suffering from RAD have perfected the art of lying to such a level, the lies should be hanging in a museum.
Elle, my 13 year old RADish, is so proficient at lying I'm not sure she knows how to tell the truth. The hard part about the lying is you know they are doing it because your built-in lie detector is flashing red. But how are you going to prove it? Should you try? Should you call them on it, or just let it slide?
Our therapist told us that for every lie we let slide, the sicker they become. If they can get away with a small lie about using their sister's hand lotion, then they can easily get away with stealing your iPad and using it to text their boyfriend…the boyfriend they lied about having in the first place.
For every lie Bunny or Elle would tell me, my blood pressure became more elevated and my stress level became unmanageable…
…Until I met a very wise, fellow RAD mom.
Around her house, lying is a thing to be celebrated, because every time one of her RADishes lie to her, she earns a point. For every 10 points earned, she gets ice cream, and not just a small scoop of vanilla ice cream from the freezer, but a trip to Baskin Robbins or to Stone Cold Creamery. I thought this idea was brilliant. Why not take a negative and turn it into a positive? Isn't that the whole point behind the saying, "When God gives you lemons, make lemonade?"
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Neither daughter was too thrilled to help me earn my cupcake points. Bunny even cried when I caught her in two lies in a row and danced around the kitchen. When I finally earned my 10th point, I yelled so loud my husband came running to investigate.
Nothing was wrong, it was just me earning 10 points toward a coconut cupcake. And as I ate my bakery work of art, savoring every last crumb, my daughters were rethinking their lying strategy.
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Glissa pouted her lips, resting her head in her hand, "It's rather boring around Phyrexia.."
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Glissa, the Traitor. At first, I thought she'd be really tough to alter and still make sense. Turns out though, she's surprisingly versatile.
Oh hell yeas I wanna be compleat - they got pie !
- What they smell like: Like the forest. She's very flowery compared to most elves.
- How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): She's taken to vampire time I mean what.
- What music they enjoy: Would like Joraga chants and probably would tear up at the Lord of the rings soundtrack.
- How much time they spend getting ready every morning: I imagine a little over an hour because the outfit looks complicated. Also to braid all that hair.
- Their favorite thing to collect: Flowers and information that can kill eldrazi.
- Left or right-handed: Right.
- Religion (if any): JORAGA.
- Favorite sport: Hunting idk.
- Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc): Find elf history stuffs.
- Favorite kind of weather: Not Eldrazi.
- A weird/obscure fear they have: Failure to her people. She mostly fears not being accepted.
- The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: With proper motivation (Sorin or an Eldrazi) she can always win any of those throwing games to hit the bottles.
- What they smell like: Copper and oil.
- How they sleep (sleeping position, schedule, etc): A machine needs no sleep! Actually more like 2 hours tops.
- What music they enjoy: Screams of her enemies.
- How much time they spend getting ready every morning: Either none or an hour BECAUSE DAY HAIR but she doesnt really concern herself with that.
- Their favorite thing to collect: Mirrans.
- Left or right-handed: Left for fighting right for writing (I mean with that blade thing how can you write)
- Religion (if any): PHYREXIAN
- Favorite sport: killin mirrans
- Favorite touristy thing to do when traveling (museums, local food, sightseeing, etc): Spread Phyrexia
- Favorite kind of weather: Phyrexian
- A weird/obscure fear they have: Sometimes she has flashbacks of when she was not phyrexian. Sometimes she fears the monster she's become. Then Glissa remembers she was cast aside by her people.
- The carnival/arcade game they always win without fail: Strength test.
How about I just run my blade through you and see how far it comes out the other side?
Glissa Sunseeker from Magic the Gathering.
'Modern' Glissa, the Traitor, requested by Kiikeluren.
(I would have made her hair look more metallic like in my other Glissa drawing, but it's very tedious to draw, haha.)
Navitograph readings indicate existence of incompleat worlds indirectly connected to New Phyrexia. Experiental communications have begun. After transfer of abstract information begins transfer of physical information. Surveillance high. Level of involvement: currently low.
Calculations estimate quick hypothetical integration into fleeting world.
Current information:
- High levels of radiation exuding from 'breaks' in the world unrecognizable on normal visual spectrum. Despite unrelenting and continuous attempts to widen spectrum enough to make 'breaks' visible, they remain unseen, recognizable only by their unfamiliar energy signatures.
- One hyperphysical datapoint reoccurant in world: 'Ravnica'. Assumed to be either 'deity' or name of world.
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Reading Comprehension Practice Exercises: GED Language Arts, Reading
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Updated on Mar 9, 2011
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Practicing Main Ideas and Themes
Try your hand at identifying the topic and main idea for each of the following passages. Underline the topic and circle the main idea in each passage as you read it through; this will help you in answering the questions.
Passage 1
Reading is an important part of life. Critical reading, however, is a demanding process. To read critically, you must slow down your reading and perform specific operations on the text—with pencil in hand. Mark up the text with your reactions, conclusions, and questions. When you read, become an active participant.
- The topic of this passage is
- how to pass reading tests.
- the hard work of critical reading.
- reading.
- a pencil is an important tool when reading.
- active participation is essential when reading.
- This paragraph best supports the statement that
- critical reading is a slow, dull, but essential process.
- the best critical reading happens at critical times in a person's life.
- readers should get in the habit of questioning the truth of what they read.
- critical reading requires thoughtful and careful attention.
- critical reading should take place at the same time each day.
Passage 2
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution protects citizens against unreasonable searches and seizures. No search of a person's home or personal effects may be conducted without a written search warrant issued on probable cause. This means that a neutral judge must approve the factual basis justifying a search before it can be conducted.
- This paragraph best supports the statement that the police cannot search a person's home or private papers unless they have
- legal authorization.
- direct evidence of a crime.
- read the person his or her constitutional rights.
- a reasonable belief that a crime has occurred.
- requested that a judge be present.
- The topic of this paragraph is
- the Constitution of the United States.
- the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
- a judge's role in search and seizure.
- the origin of search warrants.
- factual bases for search warrants.
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Mathematics allows us to expand our consciousness. Mathematics tells us about economic trends, patterns of disease, and the growth of populations. Math is good at exposing the truth, but it can also perpetuate misunderstandings and untruths. Figures have the power to mislead people.
- This paragraph best supports the statement that
- the study of mathematics is dangerous.
- words are more truthful than figures.
- the study of mathematics is more important than other disciplines.
- the power of numbers is that they cannot lie.
- figures are sometimes used to deceive people.
- The topic of this paragraph is
- truth.
- expanded consciousness.
- using math to mislead.
- how math can help society.
- mathematics.
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Hilton Berlin in Berlin
Hilton Berlin
Hotel Guest Rating: 8.6/10
Mohrenstrasse 30
Berlin 10117
Welcome to the Hilton Berlin
Offering stylish rooms with elegant furnishings, plus a spa, a health club and a swanky lobby bar, the Hilton Berlin overlooks the historic Gendarmenmarkt and is a short walk to Friedrichstrasse, famed for its shopping.
Hotel Features
The eight-story hotel has 601 contemporary rooms decorated in earth tones. Premium bedding and a pillow menu promise pleasant dreams; flat-panel TVs with satellite channels, plus minibars, coffeemakers and bathrobes, keep guests cozy. Book an appointment at the hotel's spa, where services include facials, massages and hydrotherapy treatments, and visit the indoor pool and fitness facility. There are two restaurants and two lounges on-site, plus conference facilities, a business center and a gift shop. There is an additional charge for parking, and pets are permitted for a fee.
Hotel Location
The Hilton is across from the Gendarmenmarkt, one of the most beautiful public squares in the city, and less than one mile from the Sony Center and Berlin Cathedral. It's a two-minute walk to the Stadtmitte metro station, six city blocks to Checkpoint Charlie and one mile to Brandenburg Gate. Berlin Tegel International Airport is seven miles away.
Guest Favorites
Priceline guests praise the "excellent" views, "very comfortable" beds and "friendly staff" at the Hilton Berlin and note that its "outstanding location" puts it "within walking distance to just about everything."
- Internet services
- Indoor pool
- Fitness centre
- Business centre
- Pets allowed
- Restaurant
- Valet parking
- Room service
Hilton Berlin Amenities
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Allergy-free room
- ATM/cash machine on site
- Babysitting/child services
- Bar
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- Bicycle rental
- Breakfast in the room
- Business centre
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- Gift shop
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- Non-smoking rooms
- On-site parking
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- Pets allowed
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- Room service
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Hotel Guest Reviews of the Hilton BerlinOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
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Very supscale, clean and well furnished, friendly, professsional staff near good restaurants with a subway station outside the front door.
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It is across from a BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN square. Location is excellent.
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Hilton Berlin is a big hotel, undergoing renovation, Hotel room was very big, clean. Rooms are old but well kept. Bed was very comfortable. Location is outstanding.
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This was by far the best Hilton Hotel I have ever stayed in. It was a treat to have been placed on the Executive floor of the hotel for the price I paid.
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Almost the only positive aspect about this hotel is its location. Otherwise the rooms are very small, and the even smaller bathrooms rather a joke. Contrary to a rather poor service, the hotel staff shows a very snotty if not arrogant attitude. Furthermore, 30 minutes before the agreed check-out time I was rudely asked by housekeeping when I was about to leave the room.
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Consumers Prefer PS4 Over Xbox One for Holidays, Poll Finds
Although Microsoft has abandoned most of the features and policies that gamers hated about the Xbox One, the next-generation home gaming console still faces an uphill struggle to compete against Sony's equally new PlayStation 4.
A new Reuters survey revealed that consumers are considerably more interested in Sony's new system than in Microsoft's — especially younger consumers.
Reuters collected data from 1,297 people via an online survey to gauge their interest in buying either an Xbox One or a PS4 this coming holiday season (both consoles will be released in North America in November). To be fair, not many people were interested in picking up a PS4 — only 26 percent (64 percent of consumers did not want a new console at all).
If interest in the PS4 was mild, though, interest in the Xbox One was positively anemic: Only 15 percent of respondents intended to buy one.
MORE: PS4 vs. Xbox One: Console Comparison
The data was even more telling when considering consumers under the age of 40. Out of 408 young people surveyed, 41 percent said they wanted a PS4 in November. Only 27 percent want the Xbox One.
Sales, not surveys, are the final arbiter of a product's success, but the numbers are still telling. Surveys that query more than 1,000 random people tend to be indicative of the general public's perceptions (as long as the sample population is truly random), and Reuters is a large enough organization to get Web traffic from a broad swath of the American public.
Although consumers initially greeted the PS4 with only mild interest, the reveal of Microsoft's Xbox One in May — which highlighted the device as a media streaming box rather than as a dedicated gaming machine — unwittingly endeared gamers to Sony's black box.
The two companies' presentations at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in June reinforced those perceptions. While the Xbox One event paraded an endless stream of (admittedly very polished) shooters, the PS4 conference showed an enormous variety of game genres, and reaffirmed that streaming video and music to the PS4 would be free. (The Xbox One requires a $60-per-year subscription fee to access streaming services.)
At E3, consumers also learned that the PS4 would cost $400, whereas the Xbox One would retail for $500, due to its nonoptional Kinect motion-sensing peripheral, which cannot be turned off. The Xbox One was also going to restrict the sharing of games among friends and the playing of used games; the PS4 would not.
Although Microsoft eventually modified some of its more controversial positions on used games, sharing and the Kinect camera, the damage had already been done: The PS4 was easily the more popular choice among gamers.
Now, it seems, the PS4 is the preferred system among the general populace as well.
That said, most consumers are not very excited about buying any kind of new console this year. A full 64 percent of those surveyed by Reuters had no plans to invest in any kind of new hardware, be it a PS4, a Nintendo 2DS or a Steam machine.
No system, however, made out quite as badly in the survey as Nintendo's Wii U. Only 3 percent of respondents had ever played a game on one.
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3Amdlova , September 30, 2013 10:29 AMA full 64 percent of those surveyed by Reuters had no plans to invest in any kind of new hardware, be it a PS4, a Nintendo 2DS or a Steam machine. (new nintendo 2DS ) or 3DS?
0Amdlova , September 30, 2013 10:29 AMA full 64 percent of those surveyed by Reuters had no plans to invest in any kind of new hardware, be it a PS4, a Nintendo 2DS or a Steam machine. (new nintendo 2DS ) or 3DS?
-6ssdpro , September 30, 2013 10:31 AMOne other big reason: between the PS3 and the XBOX 360 the PS3 was the system that fit a more mature lifestyle. It could play blu-ray discs and had a more professional menu system. That culture has grown over time and the result is poll outcomes like this.
Other thought: Considering Windows 8's modest adoption... how would you like to have that rotten sore migrate to your console too?
Wait, so if I'm reading this right, only 408 of the total 1297 people surveyed were under 40? So how is this poll even relevant.....
-1jhansonxi , September 30, 2013 10:33 AMSony made less mistakes this time so they are in a better position to be the top console like the PS2 was. These cycles tend to repeat with every major product generation and happen in other industries (AMD vs. Intel, iPhone vs. Android, Blu-Ray vs. HD DVD). Maybe M$ will be back on top next time.
9clonazepam , September 30, 2013 10:37 AMSony is still one firmware update away from erasing any promises they have made to increase pre-order and release day sales. They have the track record. I'm highly skeptical, and interested to see where everything is at within the next year.
-6MajinCry , September 30, 2013 11:03 AMEh. I'd rather buy a WiiU.
1fudoka711 , September 30, 2013 11:26 AMWell, even though the article decided to focus on under 40 year olds (those that would likely be playing on the console), it didn't focus on who who actually have the money to buy one. Of course anyone 18+ probably can get the money to buy a console, I'm sure most of the purchases will end up being gifts for the holiday season. Under that logic, more parents will still buy their kids the xbox (rather than switch) because its more recognizable to them and they don't have to do anything special with the membership.
Having said that, maybe with parents becoming more tech savvy and kids wielding even more influence over their parents' purchase decisions these days - PS4 sales could indeed top that of the XBONE. Maybe the PS4 will be the new PS2?
8edogawa , September 30, 2013 11:27 AMThis poll is not very legitimate, like many others, I can promise millions of consoles will sell. 1297 people is so small and irrelevant, are these avid gamers, casual gamers? You need to sample the gamer base at a large, in the thousands.
I am a PC gamer only, but I might just buy a PS4 since it's priced so well offering a lot features, I spend more on a single GPU, so why not!?
1bustapr , September 30, 2013 11:36 AMwell it is a given that the ps4 would be the favorite because of its price tag. the initial raging infernal hatred of the XB1 isnt helping MS either. I myself prefer the ps4 for its features and game developer support, AND its price tag. Im not buying any this holiday since my ps3 is still kicking as my media/blueray player. in a year or 2 I might replace it and give my ps3 away to some kid.
-3LordConrad , September 30, 2013 11:38 AMMy Launch Edition PS4 is already on pre-order with Amazon. It will arrive on my doorstep the same day it becomes available for purchase.
The couple of exclusive 360 games I really like are no longer exclusive. I had both a Xbox 360 and a PS3, but I sold my 360 after realizing I hadn't used it for several months.
2ddpruitt , September 30, 2013 11:40 AMI didn't need a poll to tell me this. PS4 preorders sold out within hours, took the Xbone weeks to accomplish the same thing.
-2kartu , September 30, 2013 12:21 PMCause askig for subscription when I start my browser is such a good idea, you Microsoft, you...
And good job in previous generation, Xbox Live Gold suckers...
5alerodsan77 , September 30, 2013 12:25 PMI don't think an online survey is going to reflect the definitive outcome
1) If you took the time to answer an online survey regarding this issue is likely that you are interested in the issue, so the ones who answered that were going to buy a console will be aware of all the development and the Microsoft mishaps along the road, so that could explain the tilt
2) Unlike PC users, the majority of console users are not really aware of whats going on, and just buy things by impulse. Is likely that if you have a Xbox 360 youll be picking a XONE, this also works for Sony, the base of Microsoft console owners is bigger, so they will sell more consoles
3) During the initial months Microsoft consoles will be more available due to a better supply chain
4) Im not sure what to think about the elasticity of de 100 USD spread between the consoles and Microsoft bigger day one titles, I think they won't be determined
Even as I will be buying a PS4, I'll bet that Microsoft is going to maintain a greater user base, but the gap is going get closer over the time
2fulle , September 30, 2013 12:29 PMI think Microsoft and Nintendo have damaged reputations after the last gen.
3slomo4sho , September 30, 2013 12:43 PMWhatever happen to random sampling? This just concludes the likelihood of individuals that frequent Reuters website willing to buy these consoles...
2redstar , September 30, 2013 1:18 PMthis article has bias or just repeating rumours as fact. The xbox one will indeed be able to turn off or pause the Kinect 2 sensor. (http://kotaku.com/xbox-ones-kinect-can-turn-off-microsoft-says-noting-510100564) And it is a bit misleading to drop the notion that PS4 users will now have to pay a year subscription for online play just like the xbox one. Instead, there is just a sub note that well the music will be free and streaming (which yes, is definitely good). Not to mention the assumption that reuters is big so indeed it must be a totally random sample. pshhhhh.
4soldier44 , September 30, 2013 1:33 PMThis is a no brainer, I also blame that horrible Win 8 crapola for the crapbox one's failure and not even released yet. I game on PC which owns both so called next gen consoles anyway.
6koga73 , September 30, 2013 2:03 PMI choose none of the above... PC FTW
4jimmysmitty , September 30, 2013 2:22 PMI think these surveys are pretty much bunk. They take a very small sample size and assume from there when the population changes per area. People on the east coast don't like the same things people on the west coast like.
That said, I will just stick with my PC. Already more powerful than the "next-gen" consoles.
Does that make my PC "future-gen"?


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About CORKART Flooring | Colors & Patterns | Chemical Composition | Harvesting Cork
HARVESTING CORK - THE PROCESSThe harvesting of cork consists of stripping the outer bark of cork oaks. The best time for bark stripping is at the most active phase of the cork oak's annual growth: from May or June to August.
Cork is harvested in steady cycles that promote healthy growth of the tree over its life span of 150 to 200 years. Each cork oak provides an average of 16 bark strippings.
The first stripping of the cork bark takes place once the tree trunk reaches a circumference of 70 centimeters and stands 120 centimeters tall. However, the cork will only be fit for cork stoppers from the third harvest onwards. So it often takes over 30 years before wine-quality cork can be harvested.
The stripped area, known as the 'mother', changes from a rose color to red ochre, then a reddish brown, and the following year to a gray, crust-like formation. Loggers use a special axe for the harvest. The blade is used to make the incision while the end of the handle is shaped to detach the cork.
To keep the trees in good health, government laws regulate the harvesting of cork oaks. In Portugal, trees are harvested in cycles of not less than nine years. Calendar years are painted on the bark to monitor when a tree was last stripped.
The delicate operation of stripping cork has been performed in the same way for decades. Today, cork stripping with a special axe continues to be the quickest and cleanest method available.
The stripping process consists of five steps:
The plank is then prised off the tree, by inserting the edge of the axe between the strip and the inner bark. The axe is twisted between the trunk and the cork in order to peel off the cork in large panels from the main sections of the trunk.
After a horizontal cut, a dividing line is drawn between the cork plank to be removed and what is to remain on the tree. The plank is then removed from the tree with care so that it does not split. The larger the planks extracted, the greater their commercial value. The removal of entire planks depends on the skill of the workers. After the first plank has been stripped, the operation is repeated over the whole trunk.
After being harvested, the cork planks must stabilize. They are sorted according to their future use as natural cork stoppers, discs, or agglomerated cork products, depending on their quality.
The selected planks are then stacked in piles to be exposed to sun, wind and rain for six months or more. During this period, the elements purge most of the sap from the cork, the polyphenols are oxidized and the cork texture stabilizes.
The cork cells are collapsed and wrinkled before boiling, but after boiling, the gas in the cells expands and creates a very tight, more uniform cell structure. This hot water process makes the cork increase its volume by about 20 per cent, and become flatter and smoother.
The boiling operation - a standard procedure defined by the International Code of Cork Stopper Manufacturing Practice - also ensures that microflora is significantly reduced. But many manufacturers are using complementary procedures to achieve significant improvements. Some have introduced computer controlled boiling, processed in a closed environment. The cork industry is striving for even better cleaning methods.
Once the boiling is finished, the cork planks are dried and left to rest in warehouses with controlled humidity and temperature for three weeks. Cutters then trim the edges to make the planks rectangular.
After the three-week resting period in the warehouse, the trimmed planks are sliced into strips and cork stoppers are punched out.
Regular cork strips are ideal for automated punching; less regular strips may be processed by manual punching.
After punching, the ends of each raw cork stopper are cut to size and polished.
Suitable leftover cork pieces are processed into agglomerated corks. Agglomerated cork stoppers - made from compressed cork granules - receive the same care and attention to detail as solid corks.
Unused cork and even cork dust is processed into other cork products such as insulation and construction materials. Nothing from the cork tree is wasted.
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OLYMPIA — Initiative entrepreneur Tim Eyman will not have a measure on this fall's ballot.
Eyman informed supporters today that he and his associates, Spokanites Mike and Jack Fagan, will not be turning in signatures for Initiative 1325, an effort to force the Legislature into sending voters a constitutional amendment for a super-majority to raise taxes. Today is the deadline for signatures to go to the Secretary of State's office.
In an e-mail, Eyman said the campaign worked really hard, but fell short because qualifying for the ballot is "brutally difficult". It also promises to work harder next time. It also contends that just the threat of I-1325 "was incredibly effective in deterring the Legislature from raising taxes this year."
Well, that and the fact the Legislature's two chambers were controlled by different parties that agreed on almost nothing when it comes to taxes.
The e-mail, like most Eyman missives to supporters, doubles as an appeal for money. The post script that says "Please don't forget about us. Jack, Mike and I only earn what our supporters decide to give" and offers a link to the website where contributions can by made by PayPal or credit card.
I-1325 was one of six versions of the the supermajority proposal that Eyman and company filed this year. Longtime Eyman critic Andrew Villeneuve of the Northwest Progressive Institute predicted they wouldn't make the ballot about a week ago, noting the signature effort for I-1325 seemed non-existent and the campaign was not spending money for paid signature-gatherers.
OLYMPIA — For years, Tim Eyman and company proposed initiatives to require a super-majority for taxes. Voters approved them even though opponents said they were unconstitutional.
Turns out opponents were right, or so said the state Supreme Court in last year's ruling that such a change requires an amendment to the state Constitution. But Washington doesn't allow amending the Constitution by initiative; that has to start in the Legislature, get a super-majority there and then move to the ballot. A proposal along those lines last session didn't get much more than lip service.
Today Eyman proposed an initiative that attempts to goad the Legislature into approving such a constitutional amendment. It would cut the state sales tax by a penny, down to 5.5 cents per dollar in 2015 unless the Legislature approves an amendment in the 2015 session that requires a two-thirds yes vote for any tax increase. If they put that on the ballot, no sales tax cut.
Eyman and his organization also filed initiatives to outlaw red-light cameras and re-instate $30 license tab fees, but the proposal to pass the supermajority or lose some of the sales tax proposal seems likely to be the initiative they will put their efforts, and their fund-raising machinery, behind. They filed numerous initiatives to the voters and the Legislature last year in an effort to force a 2/3rds amendment onto the ballot, but eventually abandoned them to concentrate on I-517, the initiative to change the initiative laws, which failed in November.
The proposal hasn't been issued a number yet. If history is any indicator, Eyman is likely to file several versions of the idea before settling on one to take to the printer and begin circulating.
Meanwhile, at the Secretary of State's office, someone filed an initiative to rename the fallen and resurrected Skagit River Bridge for initiative entrepreneur Tim Eyman. . .
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Mike Fagan, Tim Eyman and Jack Fagan, left to right, to file an electronic copy of their new initiative at the Secretary of State's office Wednesday. After several attempts, they wound up submitting a paper copy and paying the $5 filing fee.
OLYMPIA – Unable to ask voters again to approve an initiative requiring supermajority approval of tax increases, a trio of self-described tax fighters will try to prod the Legislature into putting a constitutional amendment on the ballot.
Perennial initiative sponsors Tim Eyman of Mukilteo and Mike Fagan and Jack Fagan of Spokane filed an initiative Wednesday that would require a public vote on any tax increase, a one-year limit on any new tax, and an advisory vote on whether voters should get to vote on a constitutional amendment that requires the Legislature pass any tax increase with a two-thirds majority.
The initiative comes with an "escape clause" which says if the Legislature puts that constitutional amendment up to a public vote, other provisions go away. . .
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OLYMPIA – As state law enforcement officials began investigating more than 8,000 allegedly forged signatures for a pair of ballot measures, a legislative panel looked at changes to the century-old avenue for grass-roots democracy, the initiative process.
One suggestion the Senate Governmental Operations Committee aired out Thursday: Give initiative campaigns more time to circulate petitions.
"If we give citizens more time to get involved, you wouldn't need paid signature gatherers," Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, said. . .
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OLYMPIA — An initiative designed to make changes in the state's initiative law has enough signatures to be sent to the Legislature.
As expected, the Secretary of State's office cleared Initiative 517 for the next step, which is a decision by the Legislature whether to pass it or let it go to the voters in November, either by itself or with an alternative.
I-517 comes from Tim Eyman and his allies, and would set up penalties for harassing signature gatherers, require that all ballot measures that have enough signatures appear on the ballot, and extend the time for gathering signatures from six months to a year.
Under current law, initiatives to the people are filed no earlier than January of the year in which they will appear on the ballot, giving supporters until the end of June, or about six months, to gather signatures. I-517 would allow proposed initiatives to be filed in June of the year prior to the election, and give them through June of the election year to gather signatures.
OLYMPIA – Almost every year for more than a decade, Washington's premier proponent of initiatives, Tim Eyman, has had a ballot measure to promote, and 2013 is no exception. This year's initiative topic: initiatives.
Eyman and other supporters of Initiative 517 filed petitions with more than 345,000 signatures Thursday for a proposal that would make changes to the state's initiative law. It would set penalties for anyone harassing a signature gatherer, allow signatures to be gathered at the entrance to any store or inside or outside any public building, and add an extra six months to the signature-gathering process.
Initiatives to the people can now be as early as January for a general election in November, but the petitions must be turned in by early July for signatures to be checked and counted for validation. Processing the proposal before it's ready to print petitions so signatures can be gathered can take weeks, so the practical time for gathering signatures is often five months or less. I-517 would allow initiatives to be filed as early as July of the year before the election, essentially giving a campaign up to a year to gather signatures.
I-517 has about 100,000 more signatures than the minimum requirement, which makes it all but certain of being validated. It would go first to the Legislature, where it could be passed into law. The Legislature could also reject it, which would put it on the general election ballot, or pass an alternative, which would put both proposals before voters in November.
OLYMPIA — The fiscal note on the latest initiative requiring a supermajority in the Legislature for tax increases will remain in the voters pamphlet, even though it is different from a nearly identical initiative that passed in 2010, a judge ruled today.
That might not have much effect in the upcoming election, but could be a point of contention in next year's Legislature if Initative 1185 passes, sponsor Tim Eyman said
The fiscal note prepared by the Office of Financial Management for Initiative 1185 — requiring a two-thirds legislative approval of any tax increase and a legislative vote on fee increases — says passage may cost the state between $22 million and $33 million in lost toll revenues in 2017 and some other costs in other agency fees.
Eyman challenged that assessment, arguing that I-1185 merely continues the initiative voters passed in 2010, so it doesn't change anything. Calling the fiscal note a "gross injustice" stemming from "a complete lack of accountability," Eyman, who is not an attorney, represented the initiative's sponsors in a hearing on a request to have the fiscal note removed or altered.
I-1185 has the same ballot title as I-1053, he told Thurston County Superior Court James Dixon. It should have the same fiscal note, which in 2010 said I-1053 had no direct fiscal impact.
But since 2010, a pair of attorney general's opinions that looked at I-1053 concluded that the new law could require addiltional authorization by the Legislature for certain fees, Steve Dietrich, a deputy attorney general said. OFM had to take those opinions into account when it made its assumptions about the effect of continuing the law.
"This isn't the same situation they faced when they wrote (the fiscal note for) 1053," Dietrich said.
The Legislature might have to authorize new fees, but that doesn't cost anything, Eyman countered. At the very least, the voters pamphlet should contain a line that says the fiscal note is disputed by sponsors, he said.
Eyman's arguments were "largely political" not legal, Dietrich said. State law allows for someone to challenge the wording of an initiative's ballot title, but doesn't provide a mechanism for challenging the fiscal note for an initiative, he added.
"You simply don't have the power to order OFM to rewrite in the way he would like," said Dietrich told the judge.
Dixon agreed the order Eyman was seeking, a writ of mandamus, didn't apply to the case. If it had refused to write any fiscal note, that option might be available, but OFM has the discretion on how it prepares a fiscal note, he said. If it came up with conclusions that were "arbitrary and capricious", the court might also be able to step in.
"It is not arbitrary and capricious to review a law and come up with new conclusions," Dixon said.
After the hearing, Eyman said he didn't know how much effect the fiscal note will have on voters, and many probably won't study it. "I think voters have seen this issue before, so they're pretty well-educated on it."
But politicians do pay attention to things like the fiscal note, and Eyman and other initiative supporters will raise the part of the analysis that talks about the Legislature needing to approve at any opportunity during the next session.
The campaign has no plans to spend money on ads to rebut the fiscal note, he said. But the court challenge was important for creating a record of the sponsors' objections, if questions about the fiscal impact come up in debates or interviews.
Friday's deadline for turning in initiatives demonstrated clearly that letting voters approve legislation at the ballot box might still be an exercise of government of the people, but getting a measure on the ballot is all about money.
Of some 55 proposals that were filed this year and a half-dozen or so that made at some level of effort to gather signatures, only two reached the deadline with enough names to make the ballot. Both relied heavily on large infusions of cash from businesses or wealthy donors to pay people to collect those names. ..
OLYMPIA — Signed petitions on an initiative to reiterate the supermajority needed for the Legislature to approve tax increases will be turned in Friday morning.
Tim Eyman and other sponsors of Initiative 1185 will be carting boxes of petitions into the Secretary of State's Elections Division office at 10:30 a.m., Eyman said. That's about 90 minutes after petitions for an initiative to allow public schools to set up charter schools
His announcement followed just one day after he told supporters "we're not there yet" and urged them to get even partially filled petitions to the campaign offices because "every signature counts."
Initiatives require about 242,000 valid signatures from registered voters to qualify for the ballot, and state elections officials always urge campaigns to collect at least an extra 15 percent to account for duplicates, people who arent registered and signatures that don't match the state's voter registry.
OLYMPIA — Initiative 1125, which would have placed restrictions on how tolls can be levied and spent, is officially a loser.
Although the fate of the proposal seemed fairly likely when it ended Election Night behind, The Associated Press night called it for the No camp Wednesday evening after another day of ballot counting in some of the state's biggest counties.
Among them, a 71,000 vote margin on the side of the opposition in King County. Other counties voting No included Spokane, Snohomish, Thurston, Whitman, Garfield and Adams. Overall, I-1125 is down by about 40,000 votes out of nearly 1.3 million cast, or about 51.5 percent No and 48.5 percent Yes.
For a map of the county-by-county results on I-1125, click here.
OLYMPIA – A coalition of House Democrats and education advocates are asking the courts to void the supermajority required for tax increases, arguing that it's an unconstitutional limit on legislative authority.
State Republicans and the sponsor of initiatives that have repeatedly resulted in voters imposing that two-thirds majority quickly denounced the lawsuit as ignoring the will of the voters.
Tim Eyman, who had another such initiative certified Monday for this November's ballot, said the suit could boost that measure. It could also provide campaign fodder for Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna, who as state attorney general will have the task of defending the supermajority requirement in the courts.
"This is going to bode well for us," Eyman said of Initiative 1125. "It's an extraordinary gift they've given to the McKenna campaign."
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Initiative sponsors Tim Eyman (right) and Mike Fagan hold a press conference Friday while elections workers begin counting their petitions.
OLYMPIA — Supporters of an initiative to limit the use of road taxes and tolls dropped off their petitions Friday morning with a comfortable cushion that suggests they'll be on the November ballot.
Sponsors Tim Eyman and Mike Fagan wheeled in boxes of petitions they said held some 327,000 signatures for Initiative 1125, an effort to rein in tolls, taxes and fares and force any increases to be approved by the Legislature.
"These kinds of decisions need to be made by elected officials," Eyman said. Tolls would also come off of different projects when the bonds sold to build them are paid off.
Waiting for Eyman and company were members of a forming coalition against the plan. Former State Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald called the proposal "a mish mash" of ideas that doesn't understand modern systems of tolling. It could cause problems for plans to enlarge the 520 bridge across Lake Washington by restricting the use of funds from tolls on the I-90 bridge, he said.
Assuming that the cost of a road or bridge stops when the bonds are paid off is like assuming the cost of owning a house stops when the mortgage is paid off, he said; tolls need to continue to pay for ongoing maintenance.
OLYMPIA — Earlier in the week, Spin Control mentioned that inveterate initiative sponsor and sometime gubernatorial critic Tim Eyman would be attending the final bill signing ceremony that included all those little bills — the operating budget, the capital budget, workers compensation reform, government streamlining.
Spin Control might also have implied that some antics were expected, considering Eyman had in previous appearances made some gestures that signified he didn't much like a particular bill while posing for the ceremonial post-signing photo.
It seems only fair to note that Eyman was what mom would have called a good guest Wednesday. Not only did he not give anything a thumbs down, stick out his tongue or make rabbit ears behind Gov. Chris Gregoire during photos, he brought her a bouquet of flowers.
It would be safe to say Gregoire was surprised, and touched.
He was around when Gregoire signed the budget and said she was not vetoing a shift of money from the state auditor's account that Brian Sonntag said could affect his ability to do performance audits. She said she didn't agree with the shift, and will watch it carefully but "I'm not worried about the Legislature turning its back on perfromance audits."
Later he called to say that while he was disappointed that she didn't line-item veto that piece of the budget, he thought the Legislature essentially left Gregoire with no choice in the matter, and that they should be blamed, not her.
Initiative-meister and red-light camera-hater Tim Eyman is urging adherents to send e-mails to city leaders around the state decrying the tactics of a leading camera purveyor.
The Spokane mayor and city councilmember were included in his missive this week to supporters, asking them to urge leaders to take a stand on "sleazeball" tactics of ATS, the red-light company that operates the systems in Spokane and many other communities. It's a response to a story in the Everett Herald this week that indicates a company executive waged an "Astroturf" campaign on that paper's website to support the systems when locals criticized them.
Spokane city spokeswoman Marlene Feist said city officials had only received a handful of e-mails Thursday. That seemed low, prompting some worrying that Eyman was slipping, until a check of his e-mail links showed addresses were incorrect for several Spokane officials.
The correct e-mails can be found here.
Left in the legislative ash heap last week was a bill to revise rules for initiative campaigns by charging as much as $500 to file a ballot measure and putting stricter rules on people paid to gather signatures.
Like previous attempts to change ballot measure rules, SB 5297 brought out Tim Eyman and other initiative entrepreneurs who understandably don't want the Legislature messing with a system they've figured out. Certain progressive "good-government" groups, eager to clean up abuses they see, provided the opposing view and generated heartfelt if conflicting testimony at the hearings.
Eyman is always quotable, in an "Armageddon is the next stop if we get on this railroad" sort of way. The good government groups warned of dastardly deeds by signature collectors, and usually mentioned a case from Spokane involving the mother-daughter team of Theresa and Mercedes Dedeaux.
The Spokesman-Review detailed the case early last year, when it became a cause célèbre for another bill with another set of restrictions on paid signature gatherers which also ultimately died. This seems a good time for an update…
OLYMPIA – Cities that want to install cameras to catch motorists who run red lights or speed through school zones would have to get voter approval under bills before the Legislature.
They might also have to make the yellow light last a bit longer at intersections with cameras or set the lights so they are red in all directions for at least a second. They wouldn't be able to promise a share of the ticket revenue to the company that sells them the cameras.
Traffic ticket cameras started as a pilot project several years ago and "turned into a big problem in Washington state," Rep. Christopher Hurst, D-Enumclaw, told the House Transportation Committee Tuesday. He proposed two different bills, using different standards for setting up the system; but both would require voter approval whenever a city starts or expands a red light camera program.
OLYMPIA — City of Spokane officials might be watching one election result from across the state pretty closely on Nov. 2. Or if not, they should.
The City of Mukilteo has an initiative that severely limits the use of red-light cameras and speeding cameras which issue tickets to motorists they catch running lights or driving too fast. It would require a two-thirds majority of that city council AND a simple majority of voters to approve the devices, and reduce the cost of a fine to the amount of the lowest parking ticket.
The ballot measure, sponsored by Tim Eyman, had huge numbers of signatures at its turn it, and qualified for the ballot. When one combines the universe of voters unhappy with their government with the universe of voters who don't like to make it easier for police to issue them speeding and traffic tickets, it's would seem this proposal has at least a decent chance of passage. (Note deliberate understatement as an literary device.)
A successful campaign in Mukilteo could spread across the state like BP oil in the Gulf. It's also important to note that Eyman's two chief lieutenants, Jack and Mike Fagan, are Spokane residents.
OLYMPIA — Supporters of the initiative to restore the two-thirds majority required for any tax increase are the latest to do a signature drop.
This morning they turned in what sponsor Tim Eyman estimated was more than 333,000 signatures. Like the other petitions turned in so far, that all but guarantees them a spot on the ballot because the threshold is just over 241,000, and a margin like that allows the Secretary of State's office to do the simpler "spot-check" for validation.
They followed on the heels of I-1107, a plan to repeal most of the temporary consumer taxes (soda, candy, bottled water, but not beer) enacted by the Legislature this spring, which turned in an estimated 395,000 signatures.
That makes five for the ballot: One to privatize liquor sales, one to add private insurance to the mix on workers compensation, one to institute an income tax on people who make more than $200,000, one to repeal taxes that have gone into effect in the last month, and the two-thirds majority.
Another proposal to privatize liquor sales is due in around lunchtime. The proposal to legalize marijuana use didn't get enough signatures and has cancelled its 4:20 appointment.
OLYMPIA — Initiative guru Tim Eyman's latest ballot proposal seeks to ban automated ticketing cameras for running red lights in Mukilteo unless they are approved by two-thirds of that city's council AND a vote of the public.
Spin Control mentioned this morning that Eyman had an event to unveil a new initiative. This is it.


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Los Angeles cops do not need to hand over license plate reader data, judge finds
Judge rules that such disclosure "could greatly harm a criminal investigation."
Judge rules that such disclosure "could greatly harm a criminal investigation."
Feds call it "twelve triple three"; whistleblower says it's the heart of the problem.
"You are playing games with the wrong people and have made a very bad mistake."
After possible malfeasance by district officials, the project is set to start over.
Data like unique phone identifiers, e-mail addresses, and chat handles now being shared.
Young Texan now formally accused of "narcotics trafficking" among other charges.
FAA: "We contacted the LAPD to see if the UAS was theirs. It was not."
First Target, then supermarkets, and now our shipping stores. What's next?
$225 in bitcoins buys you $500 in rare supernotes made by one "Willy.clock."
Drone was "a couple of feet away from my patio, camera pointed right at me."
"We've taken significant steps down the road towards a surveillance state."
Meet the "Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets and Digital Accounts Act."
Former Redflex CEO, contractor, Chicago transport official indicted for fraud.
Coast-to-coast: Albertsons, Acme Markets, Jewel-Osco and more were hit.
Plaintiffs decry "invisible web of consequences that are imposed indefinitely."
Meet the National League of Cities' "Sharing Economy Advisory Network."
"Thank you very much for taking the time to download this MP3 file."
Meanwhile, FCC won't give stingray documents to ACLU, saying they're classified.
SJPD acquired drone in January 2014 but hasn't gotten FAA permission to fly yet.
"It's the responsibility of the drone user to know the drone regulations."
CFPB: "Virtual currencies are targets for highly sophisticated hackers"
Despite the fear, such flights would be illegal, and FAA has yet to cite any paparazzi.
Rangers are trying to find the drone in the depths of the 160-degree spring.
FAA disagrees, says law enforcement definitely needs permission to use a drone.
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Lane closures on Verona Road scheduled for Monday
Updated On: Apr 13 2014 01:51:42 PM CDT
Two southbound lanes on Verona Road at the Beltline interchange will be closed Monday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., according to a Wisconsin Department of Transportation release. One lane will remain open on Verona Road southbound.
Officials expect delays and backups during the closure, and urge motorists to use the signed alternate route of Highway 14 and Highway M to access Verona Road.
Crews will continue to inspect the damage and evaluate ways to safely repair the damage that was caused by an oversize and overweight truck hitting the Beltline bridge over Verona Road Wednesday morning, officials said.
The truck caused significant damage to one of the bridge beams. But the bridge remains safe for traffic on the Beltline and Verona Road, officials said.
According to the release, the outside shoulder of the westbound Beltline at the Verona interchange will be closed long term due to the incident.
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At 4:04 PM -0700 5/23/01, Mike Batchelor wrote:
Sorry, I just have to respond to this. If the solution to the open relay
problem is to make all users/customers upgrade their mail software so that
SMTP AUTH can be used instead, .. [snip]
There's no "make them upgrade" about it.
Lessee... RFC 2487 is SMTP over TLS, dated January 1999, and RFC 2554 is
SMTP AUTH, dated March 1999. So that's a wholesale upgrade of mail
infrastructure that has been more or less completed (forced?) in just two
years. IPv6 is described in RFC 1883, dated December 1995. And here it is,
6 years later...
Apples... oranges.
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D - Clint/Darcy. I've gotten a bunch of fic from authors I love recced to me for Clint/Darcy, but I just… can't. I wish, but I can't.
J - TEEN WOLF. Ruined forever.
Z - I've been having a lot of feelings about Derek Hale and his tattoo lately because I did a bunch of research about the triskelion? And like the triskelion has a lot of associations, but one of them (like one of the originals) is that the triskelion is associated with Hephaestus. So there's this whole level on which Derek literally tattooed fire into his back because he's an emotionally stunted self-loathing little bastard. and I love him.


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Phyllis Hoyer's Event Journal
Sunday February 10, 2013 / 2:00pmMetamorphoses
1 ticket
Orchestra (Rows G-H)
1101 Sixth Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
How was your experience?
Very creative presentation, artistic dramatization. The water was used as an integral element, which was interesting to me. One problem-- when the actors faced away from me I could not hear everything they said. This was disappointing.