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The Sun newsroom was stunned Monday, April 24, when new metro columnist Wendi C. Thomas abruptly resigned, just a week after starting at the paper, and a day before her debut column was set to publish. But Thomas misgivings about moving up from Memphis Commercial Appeal (where she will return) had taken root before her arrival in Baltimore.
On the 900-mile drive from Memphis to Baltimore, every 50 miles I asked my boyfriend if I was making a huge mistake, she says by phone from Memphis. Its not a reflection on The Sun. I didnt work there long enough to develop any strong feelings about them. It was more the city, just getting a sense that it wasnt going to be a good fit.
A Memphis native, Thomas doubts began soon after her initial visit to Baltimore, to interview for the columnist position vacated in January by Michael Olesker. After returning home, she says, I called [The Sun] and said, I dont think this would be a good fit for me. Take my name out of the running.
Thomas, 34, was encouraged by Sun editor Tim Franklin and recruiter Sam Davis to maintain her candidacy, and when she was offered the job she felt the opportunity to move up to a major regional paper was too good to pass up. These columnist jobs dont come up often. The guy Im replacing has been there for 27 years. Do I wait maybe another 27 years? I just couldnt turn it down, she told the alt-weekly Memphis Flyer in March. At the time, she was also still smarting from the Commercial Appeals recent decision to move her column from a section front to an inside page.
My regret, she says now, is that I didnt follow my first instinct [about Baltimore]. Ive wasted a lot of peoples time, the Suns, and, frankly, my own.
Her main gripe with Charm City: expensive housing. Frankly, I was not going to be able to maintain anywhere near close to the standard of living that I had in Memphis, she says. Nowhere near. Initially, Thomas expected to be able to buy a home for about $200,000, but after driving around the city and county with two real estate agents, she quickly realized she would have to spend about twice that for something comparable to her very nice Memphis house.
The Sun would have been paying me well, she says, but not that well.
Tim Franklin wont disclose Thomas salary but says it was absolutely enough for Baltimore. I think that one could live comfortably on what her compensation would have been, Franklin says. And, indeed, they do.
In addition to house-hunting sticker shock, Thomas says she was battling homesicknessshe would be leaving her mother and boyfriend behindso a serendipitous encounter with an E.W. Scripps Co. executive at a Washington journalism event seemed almost fateful. Scripps owns the Commercial Appeal, and the executive informed Thomas that her old job was still available to her.
The terms of her return to the Memphis paper include a pay raise and the return of her column to the metro section front.
Last Sunday, Thomas called Sun recruiter Sam Davis and told him she was seriously thinking about resigning. Davis called Franklin, who says he was surprised and disappointed by Thomas about-face. The following morning, Thomas met with Franklin to hand in her resignation. She had quite obviously made up her mind by the time of the meeting, Franklin says.
Thomas seemed happy during her short time in Baltimore, says Franklin. I know other members of the staff had made a point to greet her and tried to make her feel at home. . . . I dont think any of us had any inkling of this.
It really does look like some sort of personal wet-feet [issue], says Sun reporter Michael Hill, whose newsroom desk was near Thomas. I got to know her a bit, and we had nice talks about Baltimore . . . and she seemed, you know, quite interested and engaged. When he arrived at his desk Monday afternoon, Hill noticed on his desk a pair of Baltimore-history books he had lent Thomas. It was almost poignant.
In addition to being a costly embarrassment for The Sun, Thomas departure is a blow to the papers diversity committee, which had lobbied for her hiring, according to newsroom sources. She is the Commercial Appeals first black female columnist, and would have been the Suns only black woman columnist, as well.
Thomas says she hopes her quitting doesnt hurt the cause of minority recruitment at The Sun, but sounds a somewhat cynical note: I think if the paper is fully committed to diversifying its newsroom . . . then I dont think the departure of one person would affect that, she says. If theyre less committed, then sure, they could use this as a way to say, Well, we tried, we got a black person, and it didnt work out.
Franklin says boosting newsroom diversity is an ongoing priority, but that it was always a secondary consideration to journalistic qualityand will remain one. We hired Wendi because we thought she was the best candidate. She also happened to be an African-American woman. He points out that the Suns newsroom employs slightly more minority staffers than the national average of 14 percent.
Since news of Thomas resignation was reported, Franklin says he has received a dozen unsolicited messages from newspaper columnists around the country expressing interest in the position.
Veteran Sun columnist Dan Rodricks took the occasion of Thomas quitting to suggest to Franklin and managing editor Robert Blau that the paper ought to more seriously consider hiring a local journalist with deep knowledge of the city. No one asked my opinion, says Rodricks. But I thought, why not just look a little closer to home, someone who knows the local scene? They said, OK, make some suggestions. And I plan to. He declined to say whom he had in mind.
Thomas twice-weekly column was set to debut Tuesday, April 25. In her first installment, a draft of which was obtained by City Paper, the writer confessed to mixed feelings about trading Memphis for Baltimore:
Nearly a month ago, I left Memphis, the city in which I grew up, the city where my parents and boyfriend still live, to take this job. I left behind a city and a state that I know all too well, and a great gig as a columnist there, to opine about a city and a region I barely know at all. I left behind the easy eating of pulled pork barbecue to work for my dinner, hammering out the white goodness in steamed crabs. And sometimes, I wonder if I left my good sense somewhere between the River City and Charm City.
The piece ends with the words, Let the conversation begin.
In a profile of Thomas in this months Baltimore magazine, Michael Anft (a former City Paper staff writer) notes that in Memphis Thomas was given to lacing her columns with Bible passages.
When asked what scriptural nugget would make an appropriate epigram for this unhappy episode, Thomas turns to another popular fount of wisdom. OK, its not quite the Bible, she writes in a follow-up e-mail, but Dr. Seuss was another wise man whose words bear repeating. One of my favorite sayings of his, one I kept near my desk in Memphis, and one I had posted briefly on my desk in Baltimore is this: Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind dont matter and those who matter dont mind.
This saying encourages me to do (or write) what I think best, regardless of what the reaction might be. Those who matter to memy family, friends, colleagues throughout the industryhave been incredibly supportive of my decision to be who I am wherever I choose, and I choose Memphis.
And how long will she stay in Memphis? I dont know, Thomas says. I said Id stay in Baltimore for the foreseeable future, and that ended up being one week. I will make no more predictions about my stay at newspapers.
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The problem with information is that it may be out there, but you sometimes really have to work hard to find it.
The Oyster Bay-East Norwich Board of Education members determined last year that they would vote on the salary increase of the Superintendent of Schools, the Assistant for Curriculum, and the Assistant for Business at the July 7, 2009 re-organization meeting – after the school budget vote had passed.
In January of 2009 the board approved retroactive salary increases which caused negative comments from the community.
OB-EN Board Member Donald Zoeller was very forthcoming in both calling this newspaper and talking about the vote. He said the vote was approved at the July 7 re-organizational meeting in executive session. The board had to know who would be elected as board president before they went into executive session to discuss several matters. When they came out of executive session and reconvened the meeting at 11:15 p.m. they handed out an "Addendum Agenda" with the salary raises listed that were voted on.
Mr. Zoeller said the raises were written up in the minutes of that meeting and were available for the public to read at the next board meeting. They were also available on-line on the school website OBEN schools.com. He said they were aiming at transparency and thought they had achieved it but thought in the future the board should consider sending out more press releases.
Unfortunately this is the first time we have heard of the July raises. What we can say is that former OB-EN Superintendent George Chesterton had a five year contract that is re-newable every year – to remain a five year contract. The result was every year there was a discussion on a raise for the position.
All we can say is we will try to do better.
In her letter to the editor, Grace Searby also talks about the school surplus that she said is kept "secret." This matter comes up yearly. The board explains that although the budget year ends on June 30, the bills are still coming in and they are not all paid, therefore the exact figure isn't known until about August.
Last year Dr. Phyllis Harrington said that as the economy worsened she tightened the budget and didn't spend all that they had intended which was part of what resulted in a surplus.
New York State has taken one decision out of our hands: it wants reserve funds to be established. That means that if there is a surplus – a fund balance, it can go into what is looked at as a stabilizing force for budgets.
We plan on attending the Tuesday, Feb. 2 board meeting and to follow the budget process. As Ms. Searby has said, "Please plan to attend the Budget Forum, when the preliminary budget will be reviewed, — Saturday, Feb. 6 at 9 a.m. in the Oyster Bay High School Library."

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Two columns, on completely different subjects, were published last week, and I'm not sure which one left me feeling more vexed or at least confused. The writers in question: the Sun's Rick Maese, about the Orioles' continuing attendance woes at Camden Yards, and the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan, worrying that "We are scaring our children to death."
Let's consider Maese first, since baseball is a lot more fun than looking at another picture of Seung-Hui Cho, and silly insults aimed at an entire city are easier to slough off from a sportswriter than a mass-audience personality like Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, or Jon Stewart. Maese's April 25 column had good intentions, essentially pointing out that when the Red Sox (or Yankees) play in Baltimore, they bring along a large fan base and, as supply-side economics would suggest, the residual business to the neighboring establishments near the ballpark aren't insubstantial.
Yet was Maese auditioning for a role in a third-rate comedy club when he opened his piece with these words about Boston fans? "They come to town today wearing their cargo pants and backward ball caps. They have thick accents, thirsty livers, and girlfriends with blond streaks running through their hair. As they do a couple of times a year, these chowder-eating tourists invade Camden Yards as though it were their own, putting their feet on the coffee table and tracking mud onto the carpet."
Geez, that's a heap of insults in just one sentence. Who knew, for instance, that Boston tourists were unique in their preference for cargo pants and backward ball caps? I've never seen such attire in Baltimore, where young men and women wear tweed in the winter, seersucker in the summer, and the only acceptable headgear is the boater. And what's with the crack about "thirsty livers"? That couldn't be a slur on Irish-Americans, many of whom settle in the Boston area, for certainly that kind of generalization fell out of popular parlance about 50 years ago. If it didn't require extensive research to figure out who exactly is serving as the Sun's publisher this month, I'd call and suggest that Denis O'Leary make a visit to the city and escort Maese to sensitivity courses. As for the "blond streaks" put-down, I guess signifying the "white trash" element ostensibly common in Sox fans, a touchy person might call that sexist.
Maese is correct that Sox games are terrific for the O's bottom line, and in fairness his point, until Peter Angelos can put a winning team on the field, Red Sox games are a needed economic boost to the Inner Harbor area. Still, when my sons and I attended the April 25 game, there was no evidence of unruly behavior. In fact, in section 16, where we usually sit, there were more O's fans than cargo pant-wearing drunks from Boston in attendance, a marked difference from last year. I'm at a loss for this early season optimism, especially when O's manager Sam Perlozzo is still at the helm, but the Baltimore fans who still make it to Camden Yards do seem more cheerful.
Noonan's April 27 essay was more disturbing because it tackled more serious issues. (Disclosure: I've met Noonan several times, and she's a charming and perhaps brilliant woman; in addition, on occasion my op-eds or books reviews have appeared in the Journal's pages.) But one line in her column really stood out: "I would hate to be a child now." That opinion is backed up by the contention that kids can't escape a media culture that's driven by ratings, circulation, and sales figures--hence the ceaseless coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre and the bad behavior of celebrities--and politicians of both parties who will say anything, no matter how provocative, in order to further their own careers.
Furthermore, Noonan claims that in the 1950s and '60s--with the exception of the Cuban Missile Crisis--for a child "life didn't seem menacing and full of dread." She says it was a "boring era." This sentiment may be well-intentioned, but it's naive revisionism. Consider just the 20th century in America and it's easy to find plenty of events that children, if they were inclined, could be terrified of. My parents were adolescents during the Great Depression and began raising a family as the United States entered World War II; their parents grew up at a time when the flu and polio killed or maimed millions and infant mortality was still high. That's scary stuff that makes a mockery of violent television shows, the acceptance of obscenity in pop culture, or apocalyptic predictions of the earth's demise due to global warming.
As for the '60s, there were the mass murderers Richard Speck and Charles Whitman, political assassinations, racial riots, the Vietnam draft, rednecks beating up hippies, kids overdosing on drugs, and increasing alienation between generations. It wasn't boring.
Noonan says that today affluence buys protection, keeping privileged kids "safe" from "the magazine[s] and the TV and the CD and the radio." I don't think any economic segment of youth particularly wants to be sheltered that way, and they clearly aren't, but her idea that the world is more terrifying than the past doesn't hold up. I've no complaints about the year I was born, but despite the constant concern for "the children," the 21st century isn't at all a bad time to grow up.
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text: Phew! As the live tour of X Factor auditions drew to a close with the final round in Glasgow over the weekend, Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue went head to head once again as they engaged in a serious fash-off. But either they've been sharing a few style tips along the way or one of them lost their luggage. Because Dannii jetted into Glasgow airport on Saturday sporting the very same Alexander McQueen print top that Cheryl teamed with jeans the next day. And not content with being papped in the same top, the pair were then both wearing their trusty YSL Tribute heels to the auditions at the same time. So what's going on girls? It's not like you can't afford to branch out a little bit now and again, and we wouldn't want to see you both in the same frock come X Factor final day now would we. Must try harder.


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Kristin Cavallari or Lauren Tannehill: Football wives edition of Who Would You Rather
Jay Cutler, Kristin Cavallari welcome baby Jaxon
The Cutler family grew by one on Wednesday, as Kristin Cavallari announced that she and Bears quarterback Jay Cutler have welcomed their second child into the world.
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It ain't easy being an NFL wife. Just ask Kristin Cavallari. One minute you're all ready to cheer your hubby, Bears QB Jay Cutler, in the big game ... And the next minute, your hubby is being helped off the field with an injury. Then, fans start calling you out on Twitter. Husband gets seriously hurt. @KristinCav tweets about not having hair extensions. -- Justin (@Mangsta...
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Kristin Cavallari says that when she and Jay Cutler decided to get re-engaged, the Bears quarterback did the sensible thing and mailed her the ring.
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Birthday babe of the week – Kristin Cavallari
Bush league thespian Kristin Cavallari turned 26 on Saturday, January 25. The 5-foot-4, 110 pound piece of wealthy wool, born in Denver, Colorado, and raised in Barrington, Illinois, initially gained attention in 2004 as one of the original cast members … Continue reading →
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Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler and fiancée Kristin Cavallari — who's expecting a baby — have put down temporary roots in this $6,100 a month rental. TMZ reports the place would normally sell for more than $1 million, but Cutler is choosing to rent rather than buy.
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The student pilot and flight instructor were departing for his third flight lesson; the density altitude was calculated to be 8,393 feet. The flight instructor said that the student began to level the airplane 5 to 10 seconds after liftoff. He said that he took hold of the yoke and assisted the student in adjusting the airplane's pitch to resume the departure climb, and then gave full aircraft control back to the student. The instructor said that he looked out of the airplane to see if there were any airplanes landing on the cross runway. Suddenly, and without warning, the flight controls went to the full forward position and the plane began to dive directly towards the runway. He said he grabbed the control yoke, but could not arrest the descent before the airplane impacted the runaway. The student pilot was taking a non-approved for flight, prescription medication.
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Until now, I was firmly of the opinion that politics and shoes do not mix, but that was before indie footwear label Komodo Shoes created these cheerful canvas sneakers to show their support for the Free Tibet campaign, a cause they've been championing for many years.
20% off every pair of the distinctive shoes will go towards the campaign, which calls for an end to Chinese occupation of Tibet, and for improved human rights in the troubled region. The shoes are available exclusively through the Natural Shoe Store, priced at £40. [Via Hippyshopper]
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Two different outlets are reporting two seemingly conflicting reports about pay at General Motors, but it's clear regardless of the details that money is in motion at The General. Ed Whitacre, Jr., who doesn't receive any pay as GM's chairman, is waiting on approval from the Treasury pay czar for a $9 million "pay package" for his recent move to CEO. The pay has been "approved 'in principle'," but we aren't sure when it's going to be paid.
Bloomberg reports that "GM said Whitacre's annual compensation will be $9 million, with a $1.7 million cash salary, $5.3 million in stock that begins paying in 2012 and $2 million in restricted stock." The Detroit News says that Whitacre will get the $1.7 million, but that the $5.3 million in stock will be paid out on a predetermined scheduled over three years starting in 2012. The $2 million in restricted stock is also reportedly performance based, but what criteria will be used to determine when the stock's released is not yet known.
Whether it's $9 million per year or $9 million over five years, we hope it's all the incentive Whitacre needs to get the RenCen ship going great guns again. Bloomberg also reports that he's unhappy with the pace of change at the company, canceling executives' meetings because they "spend too much time in such gatherings instead of getting work done." Those are the eggs being broken to make a "corporate culture based on decision-making and accountability" omelet.
There is no question, though, around Fritz Henderson's pay package: he earns $59,090 for 20 hours of work per month as a consultant. He is back in the GM family to help the company with its international operations, something he is well regarded for. It might sound like a lot, but he left with no severance last year and it's only a little less than he was being paid as CEO to do a lot more work. And if he can help GM recharge the Opel/Vauxhall franchise, who knows, he might be worth it. Hat tip to John!
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National Rail tweaks departure board API, 'orders' coder to kill site
Not that simple
"It's not a nationalised industry anymore."
Well, to a point. The infrastructure certainly is, and there's still a legislated public service element in railway service: the privatized operators are not free to do entirely as they choose in regards to the services they provide. It would hardly be inconsistent with current policy for the government to require the timetable data be provided free of charge.
Shaping your next desktop upgrade
I know what mine is
a 120GB RevoDrive. yum.
How much is Facebook worth?
"Claim your name"
"I was sufficiently bored one day to claim my name"
You can't actually 'claim your name' on Facebook (which is a good design decision). Facebook happily copes with multiple user accounts with the same real name. Just try searching for a common name (or even, many uncommon names), and you'll see multiple results; you have to look at some of the public data to figure out which one is the one you were looking for.
Fedora 14: haven for Ubuntu's homeless GNOMEs
One thing
One thing I forgot to mention - Ubuntu's going to Unity with 11.04 and Fedora will be going to GNOME Shell with Fedora 15, so there's really no advantage to Fedora if what you want is to stick with a 'traditional' GNOME desktop. The next Fedora release and the next Ubuntu release will both give you some kind of shiny new-age interface by default, it's just a question of which one you want. (I don't recommend making that decision right now, as both GNOME Shell and Unity will change substantially by next April).
AIUI both F15 and Ubuntu 11.04 will include the old GNOME interface for fallback purposes on systems which can't manage the new composited interfaces, so you should be able to pick the legacy interface on either if you really want to, though it won't be the primary supported interface on either.
A few points
"But when it comes to desktop Linux, does anyone use the default theme?"
Yeah, me. :)
"There is one thing missing in this release: Fedora no longer ships with the Pino social network client. Its absence is probably due to the fact that Pino hasn't yet updated to Twitter's new OAuth system, but the fact that Gwibber wasn't dropped in its place suggests perhaps Fedora is dropping the idea of including a Twitter client. Frankly, given Fedora's overall focus on development tools, Pino did feel a bit out of place."
At first we were expecting this to be fixed with a new version of Pino in time for F14. In the event, that didn't happen. By the time it became clear Pino wasn't going to be working well enough with OAuth for F14 release date, it was a bit late to introduce a new application to the default desktop and be sure it wouldn't cause any problems, so we decided to go with the safer option of just dropping Pino and not replacing it with anything else.
"This release will also see the expansion of Fedora's netbook spin, integrating MeeGo for mobile devices. For most users that means netbooks, though MeeGo has also been adopted by Nokia for use on mobile phones.
For Fedora 14 the core MeeGo 1.0 packages are all available either as a separate spin or through Yum with yum groupinstall meego-netbook. The MeeGo integration builds on the foundations laid by the Moblin spin in previous Fedora releases."
I've got to admit this makes me giggle a bit in an article described as a Fedora 14 review. The joke being...Meego doesn't work in F14. Not at all. Now, that clearly is our fault, but the fact that you (and all the other journalists reporting on this, to be fair) just include the optimistic vision mentioned in the release publicity makes it clear you didn't bother (or, rather, given the absurd publication dates sites work to these days, have the time for) actually trying the thing. =)
There's only a couple of volunteer contributors working on Meego in Fedora (no paid staff, from RH or from anyone else) and they just didn't manage to iron out the bugs by release time. There's a bug which prevents you from launching Meego at all and we haven't figured out how to fix it yet. So Fedora folks took it out of the feature list and it's not mentioned in the publicity from Fedora proper, but unfortunately the message didn't get to Red Hat PR department in time, so it is mentioned - as if it all works great - in the Red Hat PR on F14. Oops. Sorry about that. So, yeah, don't download F14 expecting a neat Meego netbook interface, you won't get one, unless you can fix the bug (do let us know). You'd be better off getting Meego-the-distro direct from upstream, or Novell's Smeegol thing for now.
(Do note, though, that the Plasma - KDE as was - netbook interface is available in F14, and by all accounts works rather well.)
Volunteer biker gang foils Westminster CCTV car fleet
as el Reg is always saying...
...CO2 emissions are not the entirety of 'pollution'. Not necessarily even the most important element.
Fans roast Microsoft for Silverlight demotion
No, but my friend Geoff Peterson does.
"Your comments (or at least the snippets that appeared in print) may have done irreparable damage to my career, and many others like myself that threw all of their eggs into the Silverlight basket."
Sorry, mate, but the one to blame for your career getting wrecked because you put all your eggs in a basket over which you have precisely no control or influence - indeed, a basket over which only an entity which naturally has no regard for anything but its own perceived best interests has any control or influence at all - would be...you. Sucker.
Fedora gets nips and tucks with 14 release
Not at all
Firefox is sitting at 335MB here. Put that on top of GNOME (which is about 100MB by itself) and Bob's your uncle.
Minimum requirements
"a 400 MHz Pentium Pro with 512 MB of memory and 10 GB of disk is the recommended minimum configuration for a graphical Linux setup. Try that with Windows 7."
It's nice of you to notice it but I'm afraid I'd better admit that it's mostly what we in the business would call 'a raging porky'. :) We're discussing how to update the listed system requirements. The problem is that Linux is so flexible; it certainly is *possible* to set up a working Fedora environment with minimal hardware that won't make you kill yourself of frustration, but it's not really true of the *default* environment.
For Fedora's standard desktop - GNOME 2.32 with various heavy apps like Firefox and OO.o - a more realistic minimum would probably be a P3 with 1GB of RAM (512MB is just about enough to run Firefox *or* OO.o, these days). To run on a slower system with 512MB you'd probably want to be using Xfce or LXDE and some lighter weight applications.
(There's also a few more basic problems with the stated minimums: there's no such thing as a 400MHz Pentium Pro, they topped out around 200MHz, and I'm pretty sure it was more or less impossible to shoehorn 512MB of RAM into one).
Competitors seek killer application for Bluetooth Low Energy
Key fob multimeter? Awesome
"In the Home Automation section, we have an electricians' multimeter in a key fob"
I'd definitely buy that. I'm no kind of EE but a key fob multimeter (presumably the bluetooth bit is that it connects to your phone for the actual display, or something) sounds like just about the sweet spot for someone like me who, every six months or so, thinks "hmm, I could kinda do with a multimeter right now, but I guess I'll work around it."
Top Ten Retro PC Games
she included Monkey Island 2 at #1, presumably as a kind of avatar for all the Lucasarts adventures (my favourite's Grim Fandango), which are immeasurably superior in all respects to the Sierra crap. The gameplay works better (having points and 'game over' in adventures is stupid), the artwork is better, and the plotting is vastly better.
Doom, which is on this list, had co-op in 1993.
thanks for writing that, saves me the effort.
what clan were you in? I was in [pp] for a bit, the Cambridge clan, which did fairly well at Counter-Strike purely because of our ridiculously low pings. Before that I was in one called [JK], I think. I remember the top UK clan used to be DC (Demonic Core) - I knew the guys who founded that from the Doom BBS days.
What's sad is that it's almost impossible to find any decent record of the Quake through Quake 3 clan days now (just try it) - there's some dead websites but I can't find any of the classic demos or write-ups of major tournaments or anything any more. I wonder if someone has an archive site up somewhere. It's funny how that scene just died.
It says 'PC' right in the title.
See topic. Given that, you should probably eat that FAIL icon yourself.
I figured pretty confidently in 2003 that I'd played more Doom than anyone else alive; I averaged 2 hours a day every day from 1993 through 2003 (that's *average*, including every day of the year, with no breaks). I more or less quit a few years back, though, so some of the Scandinavian guys who still play have probably overtaken me by now.
The best Doom player ever, BTW, is Mario Sedlic. This is not up for debate. :)
Microsoft holds Androids hostage in open source wars
Specific connection?
"Many of the proposed business models had no specific connection to open source at all, i.e. a closed-source project could operate in the same way."
Who said they needed a 'specific connection'? The OP seemed to be under the impression that it was impossible to make money in relation to open source code. I did a lazy Google and picked one of the first links that does a half-decent job of explaining why this isn't true. There's no need for the business models in question to be *exclusive* to open source software to show the flaw in what he said. They just have to *work* for open source software.
If you'd prefer a different example, I can give you one. It's called 'my bank account', into which Red Hat deposits my reasonably generous salary with cheerful regularity. I'm sure making out okay out of open source.
you can't be that silly, can you?
"All major open source projects have funding from companies that profit from other sources."
No, this just isn't true.
I'd write a long explanation of various open source business models, but happily, other people have been doing it for ten years, so I don't have to. Just Google it. Here's a good one:
er, whut?
Basic reading comprehension fail there, I'm afraid. The post says that open source 'helped' Google make money, which is perfectly true. If I'm selling lemonade, an efficient lemon press is certainly going to help me make money, even if it's not a direct revenue earner in itself.
Apple? What?
"Why? Because Apple has already set the price of an operating system at $0.00 (£0.00, €0.00, ¥000). No one pays an iOS license fee — well, no one is allowed to, but that's a separate matter. The salient point is that Google has simply conveyed this price to ODMs and OEMs."
Um, what? That argument just came straight out of left field and I've no idea what to do with it. How can you say Apple 'set the price of an operating system'? Users don't pay up front for phone operating systems whether there's a charge at some point in the chain or not, and since Apple's phone chain is completely owned by Apple I don't see how they can be said, in any way that makes any sense at all, to have 'set the price of an operating system'. I just have no idea what you mean by that.
People buying a phone look at the subsidised price of the phone, and there's room for a lot of play in that number even if someone somewhere is paying someone else a $10 license fee for the OS. I don't really see anything in your post that contradicts this. I'm really struggling to get any kind of a handle on your argument.
The contention that somehow Microsoft won't be able to enforce a patent suit against Android because no-one pays Apple for iOS, even given its basic problems with coherence, seems silly on the face of it; it's hardly something a court is going to take into consideration. If a court decides Android violates Microsoft's patents then the choices are to quit implementing the patented functionality or pay up; the court's not going to go around considering the effective market price of other operating systems, or whatever the heck it is you're proposing exactly.
Am I the only one all at sea with this analysis? Does everyone else get where Matt's coming from?
Multi-network iPhone SIM rumours at Apple
The answer is
"Because what I'm buying from the network is the service, and the device I use to access it is my own fucking business, thanks". But your scenario is more likely. Sigh.
Bus spotter admits £11k database fees fraud
of course...
...that's not an explanation, all you've done is put a name on the phenomenon the OP identified, which is not the same as explaining it. So we call it Asperger's Syndrome, fine - the question simply becomes 'why do four times as many men as women get diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome?'
...you only get to do it because of who your Dad was, Bruno. Now get off the comment boards and go and twat it into the wall at another simple corner.
BA slams stupid security checks
that's funny...
I carry mine attached to a storage device I like to call 'my laptop', as do millions of other people every day, and I haven't heard of one burning down an airport (or a plane) yet.
How's that tin foil hat fitting you?
Wot, no socks?
freeze it
after all, it's not a liquid then.
(I've been wanting to try carrying a bag containing a litre of frozen orange juice through security for a while. Anyone done it?)
it's not a rule...
...it's a recommendation. the 'rule' is the cut-off time for check in, which is much later. The point of the recommendation is that if you *don't* show up two hours early, then you miss your flight because they had a backlog at check in or whatever and you didn't make it, and you ask for your money back, they can say 'ah, but you didn't follow the time recommendations' and refuse to give it to you. But it's not a rule, and it's never cited as such in any airline stuff I've read.
Erm, what?
"For a start, there are no "terrorists". So-called "terrorists" are a weapon of mass distraction."
What do *you* call people who destroy large buildings full of civilians, marketplaces full of civilians, public spaces full of civilians (hello, Mr. McVeigh) or try to blow up airplanes with bombs in their shoes, then? Accountants?
Fair enough to be annoyed by security theatre, but saying 'there are no "terrorists"' is really pushing it a bit.
The only statistically valid answer I've seen...
...is 'engineers'. I'm not sure how you determine that at a glance, though.
UK border police seize £500k from Nigerians' hand luggage
not that easy
I 'went somewhere else'; the process took five years and cost me several thousand CURRENCY_UNITS. Worth it for me, but I can forgive the OP for giving it up as too much effort and having a good old moan instead. After all, it's the British Way.
Google boss: 'Creeped out by Street View? Just move'
A baffoon? Is that a cross between a buffoon and a balloon? What a lovely mental picture...
Red Hat exec proposes end to IT suckage
Not 'a wash'
"Whitehurst didn't mention that this waste provides $500bn worth of jobs, and that these also have a multiplicative effect, so it could be a wash. But I digress..."
That's the broken window fallacy. It ultimately never contributes to economic efficiency, though economic systems can be sufficiently complex that paying people to do nothing useful can appear beneficial in the *short* term.
11.6in sub-notebooks
don't really fit the category
they don't really fit the category - or at least Sony's doesn't, can't speak to Fujitsu's. Sony's X is really netbook hardware in an odd chassis - bigger than netbooks but incredibly light (much lighter than the machines in this test). It's significantly underpowered compared to the machines in this test.
Sony also sells the Z, which is a 13.3" laptop that weighs less than most of the machines in the 11.6" category and is far more powerful, but also costs a fortune. They also have a fairly boring 10" true netbook, and the 8" P. But they don't really have a dog in the 11.6" 'tweener' category.
believe it or not...
...the entire world doesn't revolve around Apple. Mac.
Osborne details painful cuts for UK
not even close
don't have the numbers to hand, but I think the answer is 'not even close'. the World Service is pretty cheap. it's mostly just talking heads in studios.
Cameron cocks up UK's defences - and betrays Afghan troops
um, really.
Uh...that's a good position to take in re, say, World War II. But the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? *Really*? You honestly think that if the UK hadn't invaded Afghanistan, Afghanistan would have invaded the UK?
(Note, this is not necessarily to say there isn't a plausible argument in favour of invading Afghanistan. But to argue that it's a 'fight there or fight here' war is just frankly ludicrous.)
the US and France, eh?
"The only time you actually need a Nimrod or something like it is when up against a big, powerful force of enemy submarines. The only such forces now in existence are operated by the US, UK and France, so this is an unlikely situation."
Oh, Lewis, Lewis. The UK has been at war with *both* of those within the last two centuries, which as you've been telling us all along is a mere eye-blink to the military bureaucrat's mind. They're probably just lulling us into a false sense of security!
Google Android chief smacks Steve Jobs with Linux speak
you're an idiot
yeah, no, really, you are. Did Andy say 'the definition of why your 13 year old niece should buy an Android phone'? No. He said 'the definition of open'. I don't see what the fuck your niece has to do with the price of fish.
Rooney exits Man U with a few choice words
You realize...
...that the god-fearing, trailer-park friendly audience probably understands Derek Jeter, Joe Torre (yes, I know he's with LA now), the Yankees, jerkoffs, and indeed baseball (a sport which is intrinsically rather more complex than football/soccer) perfectly well, right? So why would they have any trouble with the British analogues with a bit of explanation? Just because you don't agree with Fox News readers doesn't mean they're all incredibly stupid.
(given the high immigrant population of the U.S., BTW, soccer/football news is more commonly available and more widely followed than you'd probably guess. Being as blinkered a Brit as you fondly imagine your targets to be blinkered Americans.)
Jobs savages 7-inch tablet competition
...there's already a bunch of very popular devices out there, which their users generally love, in exactly this form factor. They're called e-readers. Go ask a Sony Reader or Kindle owner if they'd like a tablet in the same form factor as their reader, and a lot of 'em will say 'yes'. Clearly it's a form factor that works for people.
The touch argument is clearly bullshit, otherwise why does Apple sell 3" touchscreen devices? To extend Jobs' silly argument about 'filing down your fingers' to a 3" display, you'd wind up with...well...a stylus. And we all know what Steve thinks of the stylus.
Let's face it, all CEOs ever talk is whatever bullshit they can come up with to support what they happen to be hawking at that particular moment. There's no point taking anything they say remotely seriously.
that the new-gen iPhone and iPod Touch use the exact same resolution as the iPad expressly to make it easy to create apps that run unmodified on both.
No, no, that's something COMPLETELY different
""The seven-inch tablets are 'tweeners'," he said, "too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with an iPad.""
Would that be, er, the way the iPad is too big to compete with a smartphone and too small to compete with a netbook? No, wait, I've got it - that's 'creating a new category'. My bad! As you were, Apple!
Microsoft's fear of an OpenOffice
Please don't make Excel macros work
Please, please, nobody make Excel macros work in OO.o. One of the joys of working in the F/OSS world is that the phrase 'Excel macro' never occurs...
(of course, the local equivalent is 'perl script').
Guardian super-blogger flames Reg boffinry desk
I didn't say they're not. But reporting *only* on studies and flaws in studies which support your side of the argument is not good journalism.
Do you believe that there may actually be valid climate science studies out there which tell us useful things about global warming?
Has The Reg ever reported on one of these (except to point out errors in some of them)?
Do you see the problem now?
y'know, I actually briefly wondered about that, and then was too lazy to go to the huge effort of going back three pages to check.
(why no, since you ask, this certainly isn't the first time being incredibly lazy has bitten me hard on the ass.)
apologies to all concerned :)
Logic, Reg
The Reg has a rather big problem with logic here. Your logic appears to run:
Scientist A is respected for work within his or her field of endeavour; therefore, what Scientist A has to say about climate science is significant and must carry a lot of weight.
This is just not true. Yes, Professor Haigh is a respected physicist. He's also not a climate scientist. Neither is Freeman Dyson.
Roger Ebert is a highly-respected film critic, but I wouldn't necessarily ask him for advice on setting up my home theatre. It's much the same situation. Just because someone is in some sense smart and has achieved undoubtedly good things in some field of scientific endeavour doesn't mean they really have a clue what the hell they're talking about in some other field.
"Then too there are all the embarrassing blunders made by the IPCC lately, in allowing totally unverified claims regarding glaciers, rainforests etc to filter through from hardcore green activists to official UN descriptions of the scientific state of play.
All in all, then, we'd say that our reporting is a lot more accurate than most on the environment beat. But we would say that, wouldn't we."
Yeah, you would and there's a serious problem there, too. The Reg's climate science reporting strategy is to wait until someone makes a mistake and then report on it extensively and repeatedly. Even if every piece you run is 100% factually correct, this is still not a good approach. Strictly speaking, it's 'accurate reporting', but it's not *balanced* reporting and it provides a misleading picture to your readership.
Everyone makes mistakes. I dunno, let's say - the military makes mistakes. If your military reporting desk (and I'm still not entirely sure why the hell the Reg has one, but ah well) had been around in the 1940s, it could have spent all its time waiting for the Allied forces to screw up, then reported at length on the screwups. This would have been 'accurate reporting', and anyone reading the Reg's coverage would have been under the impression that the Allied forces were losing / had lost the war. Would that be good coverage of WWII? No, it really wouldn't.
Slightly esoteric example, but hey, it applies to anything. You could report on nothing but bugs in software, and the logical conclusion from your reporting would be that no software is any good for anything at all, all it contains is bugs. I could go on, but hopefully the point is clear now: faithfully and accurately reporting only one side of the story is not good journalism, it's what Fox News does on its worst days.
hold it, maverick
"So the root cause is that there are too many humans on the planet and the numbers get larger everyday.
But this is way too controversial isnt it. So until somebody has the balls to stand up and say it we will never reduce CO2 output."
Sorry, but you're not some kind of maverick trailblazer. Lots of people have had this thought, someone reliably comes up with it in every story about climate change ever, and it's actually in all the official reports if you bother to look at them. I mean, think about it - it'd be impossible to come up with anything vaguely like an accurate study if you don't factor in population numbers, and how are you going to spend months accurately factoring population projections into your report on climate change and *not* think 'hey, this would be an awful lot simpler if people would just fucking well stop breeding!'? No, really, everyone knows it.
The point is that it's a fairly useless thought because, practically speaking, you're never going to convince the entire world population to stop having kids in a 100 year span, or even to slow down appreciably. The only country that's ever had the tiniest scrap of success in implementing population control is China, and look at the effort that entailed (and, well, the stinky ethics of it).
The other point is that it's really not that simple: what's mostly driving CO2 emissions is the rapid pace of industrial development in several parts of the developing world, notably China. As a lot of nations are being really quite successful in bootstrapping themselves up to the level of resource usage of 'developed' nations - China, India et al - their energy usage and carbon emissions per head are skyrocketing. And, as noted above, China is the one country which is actually able to manage any kind of population control. And good luck convincing the Chinese that they can save the world if they just stop building factories and cities and improving their quality of life and instead choose to spend another 1,000 years holding a buffalo on a piece of string (thanks, Terry). You wouldn't do it, why should they?
Facebook is 'killing privacy for commercial gain'
not that simple
"Call me stupid.... but how exactly does Facebook make money - how did it make that Suckerberk bloke, or whatever his name is, a billionaire?"
"Where does that much revenue come from? Who pays Facebook and for what?"
No-one outside of Facebook actually knows how much revenue or profit Facebook makes, because it's a private company and doesn't have to file this information publicly, but neither profit nor revenue are necessary to make Zuckerberg a billionaire. He's valued at billions of dollars on the basis of sales of shares in Facebook: if you assume that all Zuckerberg's shares are worth what others who've bought a smaller amount of Facebook shares, so far, have paid for them, then he's worth X billion dollars. He doesn't actually have X billion dollars, in cash, which Facebook made as profits and he took out of the business; it's not that simple. So Facebook makes Zuckerberg a billionaire because other people believe that Facebook is worth a lot of money and expressed that belief by paying lots of money for small shares of Facebook (the company). This belief was never actually based on the amount of revenue _or_ profit Facebook was making at the time these people / entities bought their shares.
Philip Green discovers ugly truth of government incompetence
"I find myself incredibly annoyed by both sides of this piece. After 12 years of multi-channel retail experience I can fully understand where Sir Phillip is coming from because he and his staff have the freedom to make a decision and implement it without any recourse to outside considerations or requirements, except shareholder satisfaction. "
Yeah, except it doesn't work that way. Large organizations breed inefficiency and complexity. It really doesn't matter if they're public sector or private sector.
Ask anyone who works at a company the same size as a major government - IBM, someone like that. Do they have the freedom to make decisions on their own authority without regard (I think that's what you mean when you say 'recourse') to any considerations except shareholder satisfaction? Of course they fucking don't. They have to make decisions with regard to a baffling bureaucratic mess of regulations and policies and procedures which have accumulated over the years to try and codify various different people's ideas of what might ultimately engender shareholder satisfaction. As another commenter said, the principle difference between this story and the private sector is we don't get to see the private sector's efficiency reports. I bet if we did, they'd be just as damning, at the high level.
that's okay...
...avoidance is the legal one. OP got it right.
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More Complete Removal of Malignant Brain Tumors by Fluorescence-Guided Surgery
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The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and utility of 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) for identifying your tumor during surgery. 5-ALA is not FDA approved at this time. When the investigators remove the tumor from your brain, it is important that they remove all of the tumor and not remove parts of normal brain. Sometimes this can be difficult because the tumor can look like normal brain. In some brain tumors, 5-ALA can make the tumors glow red under blue light. This may make it easier for your doctor to take out all of the tumor from your brain. The purpose of this study is to:
- make sure that 5-ALA helps the doctor remove more of the tumor, and
- make sure 5-ALA does not cause any side effects. If you do not want to participate in this study, your doctor(s) will still do their best to remove all of the tumor in your brain. Whether or not you join this study will not change your treatment for your brain tumor.
Benign Neoplasms, Brain
Brain Cancer
Brain Neoplasms, Benign
Brain Neoplasms, Malignant
Brain Tumor, Primary
Brain Tumor, Recurrent
Brain Tumors
Intracranial Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Brain
Neoplasms, Intracranial
Primary Brain Neoplasms
Primary Malignant Brain Neoplasms
Primary Malignant Brain Tumors
Drug: 5-ALA (Gliolan)
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|WCI1999-11: A Phase II Study of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid (ALA) to Enhance Visualization and Resection of Newly Diagnosed or Recurrent Malignant Gliomas
- Radicality of Brain Tumor Resection [ Time Frame: Within the first 48 hours after surgery ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Progression-free survival every 3 months after surgery [ Time Frame: Every 3 months until tumor progression on MRI ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|September 2016
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|September 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: 5-ALA (Gliolan)
Drug: 5-ALA (Gliolan)
20mg/kg administered once 3-5 hours prior to surgery
Other Names:
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have a clinically documented primary brain tumor for which resection is clinically indicated. Individuals with suspected newly diagnosed or recurrent malignant gliomas will be considered eligible for the study. Sixty (60) newly diagnosed and recurrent malignant gliomas will be enrolled in this study. The anticipated histology at resection should include: Anaplastic astrocytoma (10002224), Anaplastic ependymoma, Anaplastic oligodendroglioma, Astrocytoma malignant NOS (10003572), Glioblastoma (10018336), Glioblastoma multiforme (10018337), or Gliosarcoma (10018340).
- Prior therapy is not a consideration in protocol entry.
- Age 18-80.
- ECOG performance status <2 (Karnofsky >60%, see Appendix A).
- Life expectancy is not a consideration for protocol entry.
- Patients must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below:
Leukocytes >3,000/mL Absolute neutrophil count >1,500/mL Platelets >100,000/mL Total bilirubin within normal institutional limits AST (SGOT)/ALT (SGPT) <2.5 X institutional upper limit of normal Creatinine within normal institutional limits OR Creatinine clearance >60 mL/min/1.73 m2 for patients with creatinine levels above institutional normal.
- The effects of Aminolevulinic Acid (ALA) on the developing human fetus are unknown. For this reason, women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately.
- Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior therapy is not an exclusion criterion.
- Tumors of or involving the midline, basal ganglia, or brain stem as assessed by MRI
- Patients may not be receiving any experimental therapies.
- History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to aminolevulinic acid (ALA). Patients should refrain from use of other potential phototoxic substances (e.g. tetracyclines, sulfonamides,fluoroquinolones, hypericin extracts) for 72 h.
- Personal or family history of porphorias.
- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.Pregnant women are excluded from this study because aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is of unknown teratogenic or abortifacient effects. Because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with aminolevulinic acid (ALA), breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with aminolevulinic acid (ALA)
- Inclusion of Women and Minorities: Both men and women and members of all ethnic groups are eligible for this trial.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01445691
|Contact: Costas Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD
|United States, Georgia
|Emory University Hospital Midtown
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|Contact: Stephanie Mcmillan email@example.com
|Principal Investigator:
|Costas Hadjipanayis, MD, PhD
|Emory University Winship Cancer Institute
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Costas G. Hadjipanayis, MD, Emory University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01445691 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 30, 2011
|Last Updated:
|June 11, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by Emory University:
Benign Neoplasms, Brain
Brain Cancer
Brain Neoplasms, Benign
Brain Neoplasms, Malignant
Brain Tumor, Primary
Brain Tumor, Recurrent
Brain Tumors
Intracranial Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Brain
Neoplasms, Intracranial
Primary Brain Neoplasms
Primary Malignant Brain Neoplasms
Primary Malignant Brain Tumors
Aminolevulinic acid
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Brain Neoplasms
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms by Site
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Neoplasms
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Aminolevulinic Acid
Dermatologic Agents
Pharmacologic Actions
Photosensitizing Agents
Radiation-Sensitizing Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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November 27, 2014
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - The BCS executive director says the site for the first national championship game under the new playoff system, along with the three remaining semifinal rotation sites will likely be picked by the end of April.
Bill Hancock says future championship sites may also be announced at that time. Hancock says the conference commissioners figuring out details of the four-team playoff that starts in 2014 are working with a concept of having 15 to 18 people on the selection committee that will pick the top four teams in the country.
Similar to the committee that sets the field for the NCAA men's basketball tournament, the panel will be comprised of college athletics administrators.
There is no plan to have an equivalent of the BCS standings in the new postseason system.
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Pandora to Expand Ad Program to TVs, Blu-ray Players
David Kaplan reports that Pandora's new "connected home" program expands its now wide-reaching ad platform from PCs, smartphones and tablets to "in-home connected devices such as TVs, Blu-ray disc players, table-top radios and other digital media players." Wary subscribers who have become accustomed to ad-free TV listening (through services like Roku) should remain optimistic about the expansion, though. Seemingly, Pandora intends to keep the ads exclusively limited to six specific corporations per month, with independent advertisers offering non-competitive products and services.
If the new program operates similarly to the existent ad system for PCs and mobile devices, the in-home Pandora listening experience won't suffer. The overwhelming majority of sites and Web services already display unobtrusive banner ads, so on-screen spots shouldn't annoy regular or first-time listeners. And, if programming is temporarily and infrequently interrupted by a brief, 15-second ad clip, well, that's a small price to pay for free music access.


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Naruto Ninja Faithby NNF Productions
Only Windows users can play this game. If you have an emulator, you can join the waiting list to be informed when a new server is ready to play.
MainAcc: (Jul 8 2013, 6:42 pm)
LingLing misses NNF
Dra99: (Jul 1 2013, 10:31 am)
Can you please set this back up, me and my friend have been trying to find this game for months.. Now that we found it we found it's unavailable, could you please bring it back up. It would bring back great memories for me and my friend, and maybe you could even allow one of us to host thank you very much.
Dovakingdraco: (Mar 21 2013, 8:37 am)
Can i host this game, i miss it and its better than all these other naruto games.?
H4rry: (Dec 3 2012, 7:33 pm)
Currently Unaviable.
Cool... =(
Lordjamex: (Nov 16 2012, 12:31 pm)
Is there a reason why this game has no NPCs and no clans?
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How to Write a Press Release: A Killer Press Release Guide
Planning Begins Before You Write a Press Release
While no one can guarantee your press release will be published or used for an article, there are things you can do to improve your press release success. The biggest obstacle to most press releases is the actual press release itself.
When writing a press release, it should be:
- Concise - editors receive hundreds of press releases a week (perhaps more) and appreciate releases that are brief and to the point.
- Well-written - a good way to ensure your press release ends up in the waste basket is: bad spelling, poor grammar, and illogical or unsubstantiated claims. Ask your friends and family to read your press release. Read your own press release aloud.
- Factual - stick to logical and substantiated claims, avoiding statements of belief: we're the best, the cheapest, etc.
- Honest - avoid the padded quotes by company officers; even if they are experts, they come across as biased, especially in a press release about your company. If used, stick to the facts.
- Timely - if your press release isn't topical, consider incorporating it with a recent news event -- but don't stretch it.
Questions to Consider Before You Write a Press Release:
- Who is the preferred audience of your press release?
- What do you want readers to take away from your press release?
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- What is the tone of your press release?
- Are you aware of possible pitfalls or areas to avoid in your press release?
- What do you want to accomplish with your press release: increase business, disseminate information, or both?
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- 3. Review your entire press release, then summarize it as one strong paragraph. Review if this new paragraph shouldn't become or replace your initial paragraph.
- 4. Brevity is not only allowed, it is encouraged and rewarded. It shows you respect the time of busy editors & reporters. If they require more information, they will ask.
- 5. Purchase an AP stylebook (or use a service like eReleases that takes care of this for you) and learn how to properly abbreviate words and numbers, as well as the proper way to refer to most formal names and titles.
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- 7. Stick to the facts. Don't be afraid to pull statistics from respected third-parties if applicable.
- 8. Provide as much contact information as possible: name, address, phone, fax, email, website. An after-hours number or cellphone can make the difference when you have a journalist under deadline.
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A press release is not an advertisement. A press release is a subtle piece of advertorial: a combination of advertising and editorial content. The point of advertising is to bring a product, service, or cause to the attention of a consumer, voter, volunteer, or contributor. It involves matching the right content with the right audience. A press release is in one sense an advertisement, but in this case your audience is the media. You're selling them an idea for a story instead of a product or service, though, and it's crucial you understand what journalists don't want to hear. (Read more ...)Brushing Up on Some Press Release Basics
Even seasoned public relations pros sometimes need to be reminded what makes for the most effective press release. Whether you're a press release newbie or have written hundreds of press releases during your career, the following tips should serve as a reminder of what to do -- and maybe more importantly, what not to do. (Read more ...)Preparing a Press Release? Think Global, Look Local
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Plus-Sized People and the Massage Industry
2012 marks ten years that I have been involved with massage therapy. I have learned--and now I teach--about muscles, bones and ligaments; skin conditions, pathological diseases and postural distortions. As a soft-tissue specialist, I know how to evaluate the body, and to measure the impact of the forces that are constantly affecting it. There is a lot of healing in this field.
As a plus-sized person, I recognize the sizeism that is rampant in the field. Countless institutions and individual practitioners take it upon themselves to equate health and wellness with body weight/shape/size. Plus-sized people are all but invisible in massage trade magazines, literature and advertising, except for the periodically offered special-focus article on "obesity massage" (yes, I am serious).
I feel obliged to note that massage trade
magazines, etc. still seem to be catching up, in terms of including people of color. I am a therapist of color, and I have to search assiduously to find marketing materials that offer images of
people of color. Not only this, but people of color are also missing from advertising for educational institutions, professional and trade organizations, videos and other types of media for the
field. Perhaps that fact explains the paucity of inclusion among other groups: the industry is simply behind the times. Still, I find that I must question the paucity of imagery for persons of color,
persons of size, and other groups.
But I digress. There are any number of therapists who are violating their scope of practice by selling nutritional supplements or other tools intended to foster weight loss. Spas do not help, as they offer numerous weight-loss or appearance-centered services as well (e.g., slimming wraps). Without training or licensure in a related field (say, nursing or nutrition), these therapists are making assumptions at best. I have heard any number of people comment harshly on the size and shape of other people's bodies. These are not appropriate actions, and they don't contribute to creating a therapeutic environment that is safe or supportive.
It can be a real task to find a blog, a website, or even a magazine article that discusses health, but does not steer the focus to weight or a related topic. One minute, you're learning how to make a chilly cucumber mask to combat headaches, and the next, you're embroiled in a discussion about how the latest grapefruit-and-bat-guano diet* can take up to 15 pounds off of you in a weekend.
Yes, this is the health and wellness field--but it is worth noting that our worth cannot determined by the size of our bodies, and wellness means more than the number on the scale. This field should encompass our inclusion of fruits and vegetables in our diets; whether we move joyfully and with abandon; how hungry we are for life experiences and not just, well...roast beast.
Besides which, the number on the scale, or BMI, or whatever other digits are first and foremost in a person's mind--they don't form an accurate image of a person's overall health. A number can only be a reflection of the overall functionality in one area. The problem with making the scope wider than it is, is that we then see a number and panic. Worse, big people are thrown away with big numbers. This is still just about people...remember?
All of this is worth considering. All of us (not just plus-sized people) need to spend more time thinking about what we put into our bodies, since what we put in affects our physical and emotional health. But there's no excuse for making the therapist's office an unsafe space.
When people make it clear that they are counting their calories and their self-worth on the same hand, it is hard to avoid feeling judged...especially for those of us who are living in a plus-sized body. And let's be realistic: not everyone CAN be a size eight. What would that mean? That we have biodiversity in nearly every other measurable arena, but that body shapes, body sizes, and metabolisms should always be identical? It's offensive to continually recount how we can all look the same, if we work hard. If you're assuming that calories in equals calories out, then tell me this: if someone don't look like you, then what are you saying? The plus-sized person can't follow basic directions (diet and exercise), or that she can't count? Either way, you are making a dangerous assumption.
I don't plug into that system anymore. That cycle of dieting, restricting, counting, and obsession is too much, and it breeds a really nasty brand of self-contempt. Isn't it time to stop signing up for that?
Health at Every Size encourages us to to move well, eat well, and live well in our bodies, no matter what. Everyone can be healthy, by creating healthy habits right now--every size, every body, every day.
My table is a safe place. All bodies are honored here, without judgment concerning shape, size, age, appearance, or functionality. Massage is about touch and healing; nurturing the vessel that carries us; building a bridge to the self. It is my goal that the time we spend together help you create balance throughout your life, just as our session helps create a balanced body.
When was the last time you felt gloriously beautiful, without reservations? Massage can do that for you...but you can do even more for yourself. Go now and pass it on.
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This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Read the amazing book on which the Oscar-winning feature film, Lincoln, is based! By Doris Kearns Goodwin, 916 pages. Paperback.
From a distinguished historian of the America South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of our nation's most epic struggle. Jefferson Davis initially did not wish to leave the Union-as the son of a veteran of the American Revolution and as a soldier and senator, he considered himself a patriot. William J. Cooper shows us how Davis' initial reluctance turned into absolute commitment to the Confederacy. He provides a thorough account of Davis' life, both as the Confederate President and in the years before and after the war.
This contains pictures and descriptions of the uniforms that are part of the Museum of the Confederacy's collection. 55 pages.
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This journal, issued by the Museum of the Confederacy, lists in detail the effects of Robert E. Lee that we have in our collection, plus descriptions and interpretations about his life as it relates to our collection of his items. It also includes an interpretive essay and a chronology of his life.
The New Civil War Handbook offers a complete guide for American Civil War enthusiasts of all ages. Author Mark Hughes uses clear and concise writing, broken down into short, easy to understand chapters, complete with tables, charts, and nearly 150 photographs to trace the history of the war from the beginning of the conflict through the final surrender. By Mark Hughes, 158 pages.
Offers selected excerpts and illustrations from period courting and etiquette guides and manuals. Includes features such as bundling, the language of flowers, courting on the front porch, and the customs of engagement and marriage from the colonial era in America to the early 20th century. By Alain George, 30 pages.
Thirty carefully rendered illustrations depict remarkable women from the North and South in settings that range from the battlefield to the White House. Informative captions highlight the roles and accomplishments of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Louisa May Alcott, Varina Howell Davis, and 25 others. By Peter F. Copeland, 30 pages.
Between 1860 and 1910, stereoscopes were very popular - almost every parlor contained one. Many of the photographers who chronicled the American Civil War employed stereographic cameras to record images of that momentous struggle. The stereo cards that they produced contain two images - one for each eye When viewed with the stereoscope, each eye sees only the appropriate image, producing the illusion of three dimensions. The photographs in this book were taken between 1861 and 1865. They have been digitally restored and converted to red/cyan anaglyphs so that e
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By Roy Kasten, Christian Schaeffer and RFT Music St. Louis isn't just a city. It's a song. Or rather songs, hundreds, thousands and more. Don't bother counting. We tried. In back rooms and basements, on stages and streets, musicians have paid tribute to St. Louis again and again. Place matters. St ... More >>
Remember Chim Richards, that guy who has been messing with us here at RFT Music for weeks by sending phony (and hilarious) event submissions? Well he is at it again, and has stepped his game up this time. See also: Some Joker Calling Himself "Chim Richards" Has Been Messing with Us
The contribution and influence of African-American artists to the St. Louis sound and the universal music scene is undeniable. From Scott Joplin to Chuck Berry and countless others, St. Louisans have helped define what ragtime, jazz, the blues and rock 'n' roll are today. Scattered around the city, ... More >>
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It's time to select the next inductees to the Hall of Famous Missourians, and the state is using democracy to do it! Controversy arose around last year's selection after then House Speaker Steven Tilley chose conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, eventually eliciting some angry petitions. Limbau ... More >>
As you may have noticed from his sign-off post on Friday, Mr. Kiernan Maletsky has officially taken his leave from the Riverfront Times, and is soon to be at the helm of the music section of our sister paper, the Dallas Observer. Maletsky hired me and notoriously gives me too much credit, but it got ... More >>
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A year-end wrap-up of what we adored, what was ignored and what the new year will bring.
The Skeletons reunite, we gift some of St. Louis' best bands and remember Ike Turner.
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A local company is leading kids to water. But can it make them drink?
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It's a hot, sweaty, cutthroat business. And in most city neighborhoods, it's illegal. A report from the front lines of the battle of the Bomb Pop.
Tom McDermott left the Lou for the Big Easy eighteen years ago, but he's holding our musical traditions deep in his heart
Vacant buildings abound in St. Louis, but local bands are finding practice space hard to come by
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Scott Joplin receives a celebratory homecoming with Opera Theatre of St. Louis' revival of Treemonisha
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Yesterday we told you about the SBA's National Small Business Conference going on in Washington D.C. and online. Today we're excited to share that John Jantsch, author of Duct Tape Marketing, is hosting a free webinar on Wednesday May 23 at 11:00 a.m. CST on the 5 Ways to Use Online Tools to Drive More Sales.
Why's that important? 90% of your prospects and customers ROBO. They research online to buy offline and it's one of the most important dynamics that local business need to understand in order to gain a local competitive advantage. CLICK HERE to sign up for this free webinar!


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Our final game of the season ended in a 2-1 home defeat by division winners St. Albans City, as we finished in second place to cap a fine campaign.
We played a really good game against the Champions, as they had the benefit of being a year older through much of their chosen squad.
We matched them in all areas of the pitch, with some very positive and competitive displays from all the lads in our last outing.
A 18th minute opener from influential skipper Mitchell Wiseman from close range, following Callum Madigan's fine set-piece gave us the lead.
The Saints pulled level pretty quickly though, when Zaki Oualah couldn't hold onto Ken Ogbuagu's shot and Lawrence WROE was on hand to tuck away the rebound after 25 minutes.
Into the second-half we still kept playing "cat and mouse" with the Saints making every attempt to keep knocking them out of their stride.
Both Steve Kennedy and his couterpart on the opposing bench made changes offensively in a bid to see who would come out on top of this very tight affair.
It so very nearly paid off for us on 77 minutes, as substitute Ryan Egan delivered a inch perfect cross for our lightning left-back Louis Raphael to come homing in on it and connect with a fantastic header which hit the face of the crossbar and came back out with Warren Bell beaten all ends up by it in the Saints goal!
However, 30 seconds later it showed how football can change in an instant.
The Saints counter-attacked well and the ball was swept out to the left-wing for sub Gio LEE-BAPTISTE to send an unstoppable shot past Oualah into the top right-hand corner of the net.
We kept giving it our all at the end, in a game which on another day would have ended up as a draw being a fair result!
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''This is all about building a relationship,'' said newly-re-elected New York State Senator Michael Balboni, as he discussed his 57 percent win in a post-Election Day interview with the Great Neck Record. Senator Balboni is anxious to ''get out there'' and thank his constituents, and he is most anxious to continue with his work in the seventh senatorial district.
New York State Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli was handily returned to his sixteenth assembly district seat with 70 percent of the vote. ''Personally, these were the best numbers I've ever had,'' said the assemblyman, as he noted that it was also ''a good night for Nassau County Democrats.'' Mr. DiNapoli, who serves as chair of the county's Democratic Party, is now looking toward the future, a future that might include a run for the county executive seat next year.
Kings Point soccer concluded their season last week after a mildly successful run in the NCAA Tournament. On Wednesday, United States Merchant Marine Academy men's soccer team defeated York, 2-0, after harassing the Cardinal defense with tremendous pressure and overworking the York net minder. The Mariners outshot the Cardinals, 42-6, in the opening round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. The victory was the Academy's first-ever win in the NCAA Tournament in any team sport in eight tries.
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Summer music-festival style requires skill. How else are concert-goers supposed to contend with the heat, the rain, and the crowds? Well, this past weekend's Governors Ball was full of concert pros that braved the mud all for the sake of rock (and hip hop and pop). So, in between getting low, singing along, crowd surfing, and, uh, trudging through that muck, we made sure to document the best of the belles of the ball and some favorite acts. Ahead, 15 snaps that were our true headliners.
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A driver in a fatal Thanksgiving crash has been arrested on vehicular homicide charges. Fred Dutton, Jr., turned himself in to authorities late Tuesday night. Officials say Dutton, who was previously charged with OWI in connection with the crash, ran a red light and collided with a car driven by 22-year-old Rachel Sonnier. Sonnier died at the scene. The crash remains under investigation. He is being held on $25,000 bond.
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