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Right-wing media lobbed harsh criticism and conspiracy theories at Jeb Bush in response to his decision to "actively explore" a 2016 presidential bid, even urging more conservative Republicans to run against him.
The Media Research Center (MRC) produced a video attacking Hillary Clinton for evolving on marriage equality, but that organization has no credibility on the issue, having promoted anti-LGBT messages for over two decades.
MRC released a video hosted by Dan Joseph in which he asked people on the campus of George Mason University to identify quotes out of context from someone opposed to marriage equality. When most of the people identified the unnamed speaker as a conservative or Republican, Joseph revealed that the quotes came from Hillary Clinton. The video portrayed Clinton's evolution on the issue - she announced support for marriage equality in a 2013 video produced by the Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocacy group - as politically cynical.
The video was recently revived after a discussion of Clinton's position came up during the promotional tour for her book, Hard Choices.
The Media Research Center (MRC) drew an ugly and factually inaccurate comparison between billionaire Warren Buffett's charitable donations to women's health organizations and felon Kermit Gosnell, a convicted murderer who performed botched, illegal abortions.
A May 13 post from the Media Research Center (MRC) labeled Buffett the "billion-dollar king of abortion," alleging that the Berkshire Hathaway CEO financed "abortion groups" to the tune of $1.2 billion via the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation. The MRC piece, as well as a FoxNews.com op-ed written by MRC's Dan Gainor, tried to make the case that Buffett and convicted murderer Gosnell are two sides of the same abortionist coin:
May 13, 2014, marks one year since Philadelphia abortion Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted of first-degree murder "in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, 'house of horrors' clinic," according to the Associated Press. Gosnell instantly became the face of abortion in the prolife community.
But there's another, more recognizable face pushing abortion in the U.S. - liberal billionaire Warren Buffett. The so-called "Oracle of Omaha" has donated more than $1.2 billion to abortion organizations from 2001 to 2012.
That's equal to the cost of roughly 2.7 million first-trimester abortions - more than twice the number of abortions that occur in an entire year in the United States. Unlike Gosnell, however, everything Buffett has done has been entirely legal. But Buffett does share something else in common with the abortionist. Both their stories have been largely unreported.
Conservative outlets like FreeBeacon.com and The Drudge Report echoed MRC's accusations.
Several right-wing media figures reacted with outrage on Twitter after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would have permitted businesses and individuals to refuse to serve gay couples and individuals.
Republican and conservative media figures lauded a report from CBS' 60 Minutes on the September 2012 Benghazi attacks, using it to advance their attacks on the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton. But that report has since come under fire following the revelation that the piece's key Benghazi "eyewitness" had previously claimed he was nowhere near the compound on the night of the attack.
Conservative media viciously attacked Texas State Senator Wendy Davis after she announced her candidacy for governor, linking Davis to infanticide and calling an image of her with kids "sick" and "disgusting."
We're at the point now where conservatives are going to have to start acknowledging that Barack Obama is the most talented politician in American history. By their own reckoning, the president's five years in office have been marked by so many Watergates, Iran-Contras, and combinations thereof that he should have been driven from office several times over by this point. And yet Obama was easily reelected and enjoys an approval rating in the mid to high-40s. How is this possible?
The explanation, it turns out, is the same explanation the right turns to whenever faced with political adversity: the media. It's all the media's fault. The corruption and various misdeeds of the Obama administration are manifest, but the public never catches on because the press covers it all up and throws out distractions to keep attention focused elsewhere.
When you actually write it out like that it sounds crazy. Because it is. It assumes a) close, unseen coordination between the administration and every major news outlet in America; b) close, unseen coordination between news outlets that are ostensibly competing against one another; and c) widespread moral vacuity among government officials and journalists that enables them to enthusiastically scrub away legal and ethical violations.
But that's what they're going with. Wednesday's House Oversight Committee hearing into the Benghazi attacks didn't quite live up to the pre-hearing promises of political "fireworks" and "bombshells." The morning after the hearing, FoxNews.com published an op-ed by Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center arguing that the Obama administration had "cover[ed] up four murders after the fact" in Benghazi and "with a few notable exceptions, the American media haven't just let them get away it. Heck, they've helped." Now, had the Obama administration actually tried to cover up the fact that four people were killed in Benghazi, that would be a hell of a scandal. But that didn't happen. To my knowledge, no one has even attempted that accusation before now. But that what's Gainor thinks Benghazi is about and he thinks the mainstream press (of which The Daily Show's Jon Stewart is a member, apparently) are the sort of moral monsters who would sign on for such a cover-up.
Right-wing media figures are heaping harsh criticism on Chief Justice John Roberts for his opinion upholding the Affordable Care Act as constitutional. These critics ignore Roberts' record as Chief Justice, which is very conservative. But even this conservative justice recognized that the Constitution gives Congress the power to address the nation's health care crisis with the Affordable Care Act.
Breitbart.com editor-at-large Ben Shapiro blasted the Chief Justice:
I knew that Roberts was a bad pick because he didn't have a proven track record of adherence to the Constitution. He was picked by President Bush because Bush knew he didn't have a track record - and he knew that Roberts would sail through the confirmation process without a hitch.
That should have been an indicator that Roberts was a rotten pick. Nobody doubted Robert Bork's originalist credentials. Nobody doubted Clarence Thomas'. Nobody doubts Judge Janice Rogers Brown's. But nobody had any reason to buy into Roberts as an originalist. Yet they did.
Dan Gainor, Media Research Center's vice president for Business and Culture called the decision to nominate Roberts "awful."
Fox News Radio's Todd Starnes applied the "L word" to Roberts.
This attempt to paint Chief Justice Roberts as a closet liberal is absurd. Experts have called the Supreme Court under Roberts the "most conservative in modern history." As the leader of a five justice conservative majority, Roberts has played a leading role in decisions like Citizens United (empowering corporations and wealthy individuals to spend unlimited money in political campaigns); Wal-Mart (preventing women alleging sex discrimination from joining together to seek justice); Concepcion (allowing corporations to manipulate fine print in contracts to keep ripped off consumers from joining together in court); and Ledbetter (preventing a woman who was paid less than men from going to court).
Also, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce enjoyed a perfect year with the Roberts Court this term, winning every case in which the Court ruled on the position the Chamber took, according to a study by the Constitutional Accountability Center. (The Chamber took no position on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, but merely argued that if the mandate were struck down, the entire Act should be invalidated). According to the study, the Chamber has not won every case in a term since at least 1994.
Rather than calling John Roberts names or trying to make the absurd case that he is a closet liberal, the right should simply acknowledge that their crusade to kill the Affordable Care Act failed because they lost the vote of the deeply conservative, Republican-appointed Chief Justice who heads one of the most conservative and pro-corporate courts in history.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, right-wing media figures claimed Chief Justice Roberts' decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act shows that he's liberal. But Roberts' recognizing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act doesn't change his record as presiding over the most conservative and corporate-friendly court in recent history.
Today, the Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as constitutional. Right-wing media figures immediately began venting on Twitter. Here is an hour's worth of the worst right-wing ranting about the Supreme Court decision after it was announced:
The main difference between liberal and conservative media critics is that the latter would prefer that journalism just didn't exist. That's why conservative media criticism is less concerned with making reporting better than it is with making sure reporters don't ask big business pesky questions.
Don't believe me? Take a look at Dan Gainor's piece at FoxNews.com, in which Gainor goes after liberal billionaire George Soros and the "widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media."
One of Gainor's big beefs with Soros is that he supports investigative outlets, such as ProPublica and The Center for Public Integrity, which produce journalism adhering to a "liberal" agenda.
Writes Gainor [emphasis added]:
The ProPublica stories are thoroughly researched by top-notch staffers who used to work at some of the biggest news outlets in the nation. But the topics are almost laughably left-wing.
So the journalism itself is fine, but the subject matters always leans too far to the left. But what are the supposedly left-wing subject matters that Gainor takes issue with from outlets that receive Soros money? Below, are a list of subjects he singled out:
-"climate change"
-"the evils of big companies"
-"foreclosure industry"
-Anything making "the military look bad"
-"prisoners at Guantanamo Bay"
Nor did Gainor approve of alleged "attacks" on the following:
-"oil drilling"
-"gas companies"
-"oil companies"
-"health care industry"
-"coal industry"
-"payday loans"
This isn't media criticism so much as it is conservatives expressing dismay that journalists are doing their jobs and asking tough questions to people in power.
Media Research Center (MRC) and Fox News appear to be telling journalists that if they investigate the business dealings of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, you will be attacked.
In his bio on FoxNews.com, MRC "Vice President for Business and Culture" Gainor is listed as "the Boone Pickens Fellow" for MRC. Pickens is described by MRC as an "MRC Trustee," has presented at the MRC's annual DisHonor Awards, is listed in their most recent annual report available online (2008) as a "trustee," and was described by MRC founder Brent Bozell in 2006 as "a friend" who "supports" the Media Research Center. Pickens reportedly donated $1 million to the Swift Boat Veterans for The Truth in 2004.
Gainor has written an opinion piece on FoxNews.com attacking progressive philanthropist (and Media Matters donor) George Soros for his donations via the Open Society Foundation into journalistic operations like the non-profit ProPublica:
The ProPublica stories are thoroughly researched by top-notch staffers who used to work at some of the biggest news outlets in the nation. But the topics are almost laughably left-wing. The site's proud list of "Our Investigations" includes attacks on oil companies, gas companies, the health care industry, for-profit schools and more. More than 100 stories on the latest lefty cause: opposition to drilling for natural gas by hydraulic fracking. Another 100 on the evils of the foreclosure industry.
Gainor doesn't seem to have any problem with the factual output of ProPublica, just the fact that it exists and investigates issues. He even says "[t]he ProPublica stories are thoroughly researched by top-notch staffers." So, why the hate?
A couple weeks ago, when the Associated Press issued a memo advising its news organization members to avoid the term "Ground Zero mosque" to describe the proposed Islamic center in New York City because it's not at Ground Zero and isn't primarily a mosque, conservatives looked askance. At Michelle Malkin's website, Doug Powers suggested it was "a retread of a pro-mosque talking points memo" and asserted that the proposed center's site would be considered Ground Zero if the AP's headquarters were there.
The Media Research Center's Dan Gainor was just as harsh, claiming that the AP "had to choose sides" and was acting as "spinmeisters," adding that accurately describing things is "one of the games journalists play." He also repeated Powers' line about how the AP might think differently if its headquarters were closer.
Another day, another AP memo, a completely different reaction from the conservative media.
This time, the memo pointed out that "U.S. troops remain involved in combat operations alongside Iraqi forces, although U.S. officials say the American combat mission has formally ended." This was interpreted by the conservative media as a smackdown of President Obama, of which they approved:
Tom Blumer of NewsBusters -- operated by the Media Research Center, which attacked the AP over the "Ground Zero mosque" memo -- declared that in the new memo "at least one limit has been found to the establishment press's willingness to serve as this government's official apologists" and that "is asserting that Obama is at least not telling the truth in this instance." WorldNetDaily, meanwhile, carried an article on the memo with the headline, "Oops! Did Associated Press call Obama a liar?"
The lesson? The AP has been consistent in endeavoring to tell the truth. The only consistency the conservative media cares about is promoting its right-wing message; the truth is secondary.
As Media Matters has reported, Media Research Center VP Dan Gainor has offered $100 to the first person who "punches smary [sic] idiot Alan Grayson in the nose." When chastised by a fellow conservative for offering to "finance violence," Gainor claimed to be kidding but added "I'd love to see the video" of Congressman Grayson being punched.
Now, you're probably thinking that a person who runs around offering to finance violent assaults on members of Congress probably doesn't get taken particularly seriously as a media critic. But Dan Gainor seems to be the favorite media critic of Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander, who rarely cites ideological media critics by name -- but who has written two pieces in the past four months that prominently feature interviews with Gainor. And as far as I can tell, Gainor is the only professional ideological media critic Alexander has interviewed for a column or blog post this year. (I've found only one other such critic cited by name in an Alexander column or blog post this year: In May, Alexander extensively quoted a blog post by Gainor's colleague Tim Graham. You could add Andrew Breitbart to the conservative-heavy list if you consider him primarily a media critic.)
Last month, I explained that Alexander favors the arguments of right-wing media critics over their liberal counterparts. One way he does so is in his framing of criticism of the Post. If the Post does something that conservatives don't like, Alexander tends to note that conservatives don't like it, and that it contributes to their skepticism of the Post. But when Alexander writes about something the Post does that liberals criticize, Alexander doesn't mention them -- and certainly doesn't indicate that it may contribute to their skepticism of the Post. For example:
Alexander's column about Post reporter Dana Milbank calling Hillary Clinton a "bitch" didn't contain so much as a hint that the episode might damage the paper's credibility among liberals, or that liberals might already have some complaints about the paper that would be exacerbated by Milbank's video. No liberals were quoted or paraphrased; there wasn't even any mention that liberals were unhappy about Milbank's stunt. Contrast that to Alexander's write-up of [David] Weigel's departure from the Post, in which the Alexander dedicated four full paragraphs to the complaints of the conservative Media Research Center's Dan Gainor.
Four paragraphs!
But that isn't the only time Alexander has favored Gainor with such prominent placement. In his March 21 column, Alexander devoted two paragraphs to Gainor's criticism of the Post's coverage of DC's move towards marriage equality -- and seemed to agree with Gainor's broad criticism of the Post:
And the conservative Culture and Media Institute said its review showed that in the week after March 3, The Post coverage totaled 543 column inches ("equal to nearly four full pages") and included 14 photos of "gay celebrations." Supporters of same-sex marriage were quoted 10 times more than opponents, the group said.
"As soon as this became law, it was basically The Washington Post standing up and saying 'Yay!' " Dan Gainor, the group's vice president, said in an interview. "It's news," he acknowledged, but the coverage was excessive and "one-sided." Conservatives see it as evidence that The Post is hopelessly liberal, he said.
The Post is not always sufficiently attuned to conservative perspectives. But with gay marriage coverage, the accusations of journalistic overkill are off base.
It seems the Post's Ombudsman is excessively attuned to the perspective of at least one conservative -- a conservative who offers cash for violent assault on a member of congress. (Good luck finding Alexander writing anything like "The Post is not always sufficiently attuned to liberal perspectives," by the way.)
From Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor's Twitter feed, accessed July 20:


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Ford, GM Shares Soar on Europe Fixes, Earnings Beats
DETROIT ( TheStreet) -- GM (GM) and Ford (F) shares rose Wednesday, reflecting the strong U.S. auto market and the unveiling of aggressive plans to restructure in Europe, where each company will lose at least $1.5 billion this year.
In mid-afternoon trading, GM shares were trading at $25.40, up $2.12, or nearly 9%. Ford shares were trading at $10.98, up 66 cents, or about $6.5%. For the full year, GM shares are up 21% while Ford shares are flat.
Trading reopened Wednesday after both automakers beat third-quarter analysts' estimates. GM, which reported Wednesday, earned 93 cents a share, excluding items. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had estimated 60 cents. Ford, which reported on Tuesday, earned 41 cents a share. Analysts had estimated 30 cents.
In Europe, GM is "putting the tools in place to grow our business," Vice Chairman Steve Girsky, who is overseeing Opel's restructuring, said on the company's earnings call. "We're making some progress. Small wins lead to big wins. We've got a plan, the plan relies a lot on GM and the help we get and the idea flow we get and we're just going to keep doing that."GM said full-year 2012 earnings before interest and taxes in Europe will fall between minus $1.5 billion and minus $1.8 billion. In 2013, results should be "slightly better," GM said. "Break-even EBIT-adjusted results are targeted by mid-decade." Girsky said inventory has been reduced by 100,000 units since February. On the cost side, fixed costs will decline by about $300 million in 2012, with another $500 million in cuts targeted between 2013 and 2015. The work force will be reduced by 2,600 in 2012, with further unspecified reductions expected. GM will introduce 23 new vehicles in Europe by 2016. Stepped-up marketing efforts include soccer advertising and a "Love it or Return it" campaign in Germany. So far, of the 25,000 cars that have been sold, only 10 have been returned. "Opel is not an island in itself, (but) they wouldn't ask for nor get a lot of help from the organization," Girsky said. But GM has been making wholesale management changes. Of the top 18 executives at Opel a year ago, only four or five are left. "We brought in people from the outside (and) we transferred some of our best internal talent to prominent positions in Europe," he said. Already, Opel is gaining share in nine countries and Vauxhall is the fastest-growing retail brand in the U.K., Girsky said.
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Trinity's boys, Southern's girls net wins
SUMNER – Trinity's boys rallied for a 52-37 win over Southern Guilford on Friday night.
In the girls game, Southern netted a 43-36 win.
David Newcomer led the Bulldog boys (3-0) with 20 points, including six 3-pointers, while Jarred Rogers added 15 and Brandon Earnhardt had 12 for Trinity, which made 14 of 17 free throws in the fourth quarter.
Shamar McColl, Jaqwan McCauley and Jalen Seegars led the Storm (0-3) with nine points each.
Sage Earnhardt led the Bulldog girls (1-2) with 14 points, while Angelica Conroy added eight points, 10 rebounds and three blocks, Casey Davis grabbed seven rebounds and Jordan Parker had six steals.
Southern's girls led 18-17 at halftime.
Southern plays host to Trinity plays at Providence Grove on Thursday.
GREENSBORO – Terrell Leach poured in 22 points, five rebounds and four assists and Ben Ferguson added 17 points as Southwest Guilford's boys rolled past Southeast Guilford for a 78-45 win in the Cowboys' season opener.
The Falcons were led by Mike Bass's 22 points. D.J. Chamblee pitched in 10 points for the Cowboys.
WALLBURG – Madison Hallman scored 14 points and grabbed six rebounds as East Davidson's girls edged Ledford 44-35 on Friday night.
Lori Morgan notched 13 points and seven rebounds for the Golden Eagle girls, while Bayley Plummer had 11 points and 11 boards.
Courtney Callicutt led the Panther girls with 11 points and five rebounds. Jada Bell grabbed nine rebounds for Ledford.
TRINITY – Jason Ozment tallied 20 points and Madison Fountain added 18 as Wheatmore's boys cruised past Southwestern Randolph for a 69-40 victory on Friday night.
In the girls game, Kaila Craven pumped in 27 points and Katelyn Doub added 22 as the Cougars won 82-66.
Anthony Harris chipped in 13 points for the Warrior boys.
Taylor Walker scored a game-high 29 points for the Warrior girls (2-2), while Kylie Welborn tallied 14.
Wheatmore plays at Providence Grove on Monday.
WINSTON-SALEM – R.J. Reynolds girls notched a 48-28 win at Glenn on Friday night.
The Bobcat boys secured the split with a 69-63 triumph.
Ciani Bryon led the Demon girl (2-1) with 16 points.
For the Bobcat girls (1-2), Deonna Young led the way with 12 points.
Yiannis Bowden led the way with 29 points for the Bobcat boys, while Domonique Archer added 16.
WELCOME – Joslyn Spires, Christina Coleman and Timber Tate scored 14 points apiece as the Thomasville girls opened the season in fine fashion, topping North Davidson 60-43 on Friday.
The Bulldogs led 39-25 at halftime.
Thomasville plays at Greensboro Smith on Monday, Dec. 10.
HIGH POINT – Westminster Christian rallied from a 15-point halftime deficit to edge Westchester Country Day School 68-65 in boys action on Friday night.
In the girls game, Westchester netted a 29-25 victory. Meghan Ingram led the Wildcats with 19 points.
Sadeeq Bello and Josh Burton scored 22 points each to lead the Wildcats (2-4), who led 37-22 at halftime. Bruno Becca added nine points for WCDS, while Justice Cuthbertson had eight.
Westchester plays host to Calvary Baptist on Tuesday.
JAMESTOWN – Page's boys turned back Ragsdale for a 65-60 victory on Friday night.
Joseph Bryant led the Tigers (1-2) with 28 points, while Dylan Willis had nine points and Daniel Kanakanui added 10 rebounds and six points. The Pirates improved to 1-1.
Ragsdale plays host to Western Guilford on Monday.
HIGH POINT – Village Christian Academy's girls topped Wesleyan Christian Academy 44-26 on Friday night.
Anna Massey led the Trojans (3-2) with 16 points.
In the JV girls game, Village Christian won 67-62. Faith Price led Wesleyan (1-1) with 20 points, while Nicole Mackey had 15, Sarah Bailey 12 and Bailey McCrae 10.
HIGH POINT – High Point Central's boys outlasted Asheboro 50-39 in a game played Thursday night at Southwest Guilford.
HIGH POINT – High Point Central turned back Grimsley 45-27 in action late Thursday.
Winners for the Bison (1-0) were Mark Hairston at 106, Connor Sutphin at 113, Kyle Rogers at 126, Michael Verdi at 132, Luke Bean at 138, Bryan Baccus at 170, Zach McLean at 195, Donte Ingram at 220 and Adam Olsen at 285.
Central competes in the Chair City Classic at Thomasville High today.
KERNERSVILLE - Bishop McGuinness' girls downed Greensboro Day School 57-37, while the Viallain boys won 64-30 on Friday.
Winners for the Bishop girls were:
200 Medley Relay: Bishop (C. Gillooley, Emily Fiore, E. Justice, Maria Kammire), 2:11.03;
200 Free: Katie Oganovich, GDS, 2:19.87;
200 IM: Erica Justice, BM, 2:36.50;
50 Free: Bri Eichhorn, BM, 28.36;
100 Fly: B. Eichhorn, BM, 1:13.02;
100 Free: Ashley Paul, BM, 1:04.48;
200 Free Relay: Bishop (M. Kammire, Gina Koester, Carolyn O'Halloran, B. Eichhorn), 1:56.75;
100 Back: Colleen Gillooley, BM, 1:12.29;
100 Breast: E. Justice, BM, 1:21.37;
400 Free Relay: Bishop (Elizabeth Whelan, B. Eichhorn, E. Fiore, E. Justice), 4:18.70
For Bishop's boys, the winners were:
200 Medley Relay: Bishop (G. Davidson, S. Gorham, B. Coon, Daniel Gomez-Perry), 1:49.06;
200 IM: Sean Gorham, BM, 2:28.51;
50 Free: Ben Coon, BM, 23.70;
100 Free: B. Coon, BM, 51.90;
500 Free: Grant Davidson, BM, 5:41.65;
200 Free Relay: Bishop (D. Gomez-Perry, Jeffrey Davidson, Bryan Soltis, Joseph Farley), 1:41.06;
100 Breast: S. Gorham, 1:12.07;
400 Free Relay: Bishop (B. Solits, D. Gomez-Perry, J. Farley, B. Coon), 3:48.08
HIGH POINT - Southwest Guilford's girls and boys topped Southeast Guilford in late swimming action.
The Cowgirls won 166-94, while the Cowboys prevailed 180-52.
Winners for the Cowgirls were the 200 medley relay of Kylie Jones, Vicki Tsakas, Jessica Daniel and Meredith Stringfellow in 2:10.19; the 200 free relay of Daniel, Tsakas, Thompson and Jones in 1:57.39; Lauren Overton in the 200 free in 2:25.07; Jones in the 200 IM in 2:38.2 and the 500 free in 6:12.59; Erin Thompson in the 50 free in 28.54; Daniel in the 100 fly in 1:09.8 and the 100 back in 1:12.44; Tsakas in the 100 free in 1:03.81 and the 100 breast in 1:21.06; and the 400 free relay of Kennedy Hill, Brittany Turner, Elin Oom and Overton in 4:42.91.
Winners for the Cowboys were Jake Darden in the 100 free in 55.12 and the 200 free in 2:01.66; John Min in the 100 fly in 1:02.7; Matt Hawn in the 500 free in 6:00.44; the 200 free relay of Min, Carlos Ballesteros, Liam Hales and Barden in 1:42.51; Spencer Jordan in 1:05.97; and the 400 free relay of Jordan, Hawn, Dillon Rubalcava and Hales in 4:04.91.
WINSTON-SALEM - Westchester Country Day's boys won three events at a meet that involved eight teams on Thursday.
Charlie Branson of the Wildcats took the 100 freestyle in 58.07. Christian James finished first in the 500 free with a time of 5:19.49. The 200 freestyle relay team of Branson, Jacob Breece, Luca Lagemann and James won in 1:47.95.


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5 Strategies to Build a Strong Work Ethic in Your Kidsby DiscipleLand Staff Children's Ministry Curriculum, Children's Ministry Resources, Discipling Resources, Parenting, What Kids Need
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving" (Colossians 3:23-24, NIV).
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THE ATHEIST'S COMPLAINT:How high was the chapiter? Jeremiah 52:22 says it was 5 cubits, but 2 Kings 25:17 says it was 3 cubits. Is there a contradiction?
RESPONSE:First, so we all know what we are talking about, a "chapiter" is the top or cap on a column or pillar.
It has been suggested by Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary that "There were two parts in the chapiter: the one lower and plain, of two cubits; the other, higher and curiously carved, of three cubits. The former is omitted in 2 Ki 25:17, as belonging to the shaft of the pillar; the latter alone is there mentioned. Here (Jer 52:22, wjs) the whole chapiter of five cubits is referred to."
I can neither confirm nor deny this, as I was not present to view the Temple built by Solomon. It is certainly a possibility.
It is more likely that a difference is the result of one writer using a Babylonian cubit, while the other uses the Hebrew cubit. The Hebrew cubit measured from the elbow to the tip of the hand. The Babylonian cubit measured from the elbow to the wrist. The writer of 2 Kings 25:17 reports the height of the chapiter in Hebrew cubits, while Jeremiah reports the height in Babylonian cubits.
A Hebrew cubit on my arm measures approximately 18 inches. A Babylonian cubit on my arm measures approximately 11 inches. Notice:
18 inches x 3 cubits = 54 inches
11 inches x 5 cubits = 55 inches
Three Hebrew cubits is equal to five Babylonian cubits.
There is no contradiction.
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Greg Harrison is an avid traveler, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner and entrepreneur. As the co-founder of MailSlayer.com, his goal is to make the process of writing, organizing and sending emails more efficient, so you can spend more time doing the things you love.
I have read a lot of the articles about how to clean up and manage your inbox and they have all said to read the important messages, and get rid of the rest. But what happens when every email is important?
If you provide email customer support, you can't just archive your customers' email or you'll likely forget about them and may lose them forever. Worse, that forgotten customer will go on to speak poorly about you to all of their friends, family and anyone who will listen making you lose out on potential revenue later. Answering every single one of your customers' emails is of critical importance to your business, and to make things tougher, great customer service these days is built on the expectation that inquiries will be answered within a reasonable amount of time, the sooner, the better.
I have been in charge of customer experience for the last three startups I have worked with and they all have used Gmail as their customer support inbox (I've seen an increase in the use of Gmail as the platform for email support). So, how could a team of only two people reply to 150-300 customer inquiries within 24 hours only using Gmail? The following is a quick workflow we created to slay email customer support.
Setting up:
First off, you should dedicate one email address as your customer service email, for example email@example.com, and allow everyone that answers those types of emails access to that single account. This simplifies your workflow and helps you stay organized as your company grows.
To start, we want to know how many emails we need to tackle. To do this, I suggest archiving all emails that have been answered and that have no further actions or follow up left to do. The inbox should only be for unresolved emails, while archiving all fully resolved emails. I would also suggest going in to your Gmail settings and selecting "show 100 conversations per page" so you spend less time flipping through pages of emails.
Then we want to set up the "Send & Archive" plug-in in Google labs. This adds an additional button to all of your emails that lets you automatically archive emails once you click send.
Next, lets add an "Important" label and a "Follow Up" label.
You will also want to add an "Assigned to" label for each person who is managing the inbox, for example "Assigned to Greg." At first it may be just you, or you and your co-founder but as you grow, you will want to ensure you are keeping track of who is sending what.
Now let's set up some template responses. Although I recommend using MailSlayer's Snippets App, Google Labs also offers a free canned response tool that you can activate in the Labs setting of your Gmail.
Canned responses are a great way to cut down the time it takes to write emails. It also allows you to add rich text such as links, images and formatting quickly, all of which greatly assist your customer to resolving their issue or finding the information they need. If your website already has an FAQ page, you can add a link to your FAQ to your canned responses.
While the word "Canned Responses" has a negative stereotype, let's face the facts: when it comes to customer service, nine out of 10 questions you are receiving have already been answered before. The good news is, you can always take time to personalize each email if necessary.
Putting it in action!
Now that we have our inbox set up and ready to go, let's walk through the typical workflow when answering emails.
The FIFO (first in/ first out) rule comes into play when answering customer support emails, so click to the back of the list (the emails you received the longest time ago) and work from the bottom up.
Click on the email and immediately drag your "assigned to" label to the email. This means you have now claimed ownership of this email and are responsible for answering it. Doing this will also help you find emails you were working on (in case you run into any distractions while answering an email).
Read the entire email first, this is important as a lot of people will read until the first question and then answer it as fast as possible and miss other important questions. Once you have read the email, use the snippets/canned responses if you can to quickly answer the questions in the email and then add any additional information needed. If you need to follow up with this person, drag the "follow up" label to the email and if it has important information about the person also drag the "important" label to the email.
Adding these labels makes it easy to constantly list who you need to follow up with and what emails had important information when you need to find their emails again.
Using your favourite CRM (I suggest MailSlayer's Notes) add any new notes about the customer that can help you with future communications and also summarize any problems the person had as well as the actions taken from this conversation.
Keeping notes saves you a ton of time. Think about it, if a customer emails you about a problem and you have a few email exchanges back and forth and then 3 months later they write back with a cryptic message saying "The problem happened again", you will be able to easily review your conversation notes instead of reading through multiple emails to figure out what the problem was to begin with. Notes alone will save you hours of time when answering emails!
Now that you have answered the email, spell check and double check to make sure you have answered all questions (if you didn't that means the person will need to send another email to you, a sign of poor customer support).
Now Send and Archive the email and you are ready for the next email.
This workflow has saved me and my co-workers hours of time when answering emails and it's an extremely easy one to implement into your own workflow.
I started MailSlayer because I found that there are a lot of great apps out there to help you with answering your emails, however, many of them force you to counter-intuitively leave your email workflow to use them. MailSlayer is an app platform that plugs in to Gmail and adds powerful apps like Notes, Snippets and Labels directly to your Gmail workflow, all of which are combined to help you write, organize and send emails faster.
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If you are solo-tanking you shouldn't be seeing more than one set of terrors. What we did was have our feral druid off-tank one of them.
So for a while now the pugs I get into use the single tank/2 heal strat for madness. However when it comes to tanking the two elementium terrors, I can't seem to survive.
Here is my Armory: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...tzmoo/advanced
I've tried stringing CDs as well as popping everything at once(including both trinkets) and I can't seem to live past the first round of adds. Fortunately they are nearly dead when I usually die and then the group just zergs through the next set of adds and we get the kill, but it is honestly a bit embarrassing.
I've seen other tanks do this successfully. Is it simply that much harder as a warrior without all the CDs of a pally or DK? or is there something I can do that I haven't tried yet?
I realize I could regem/reforge a bit to add more stamina, and I will as soon as I get a new helm, but I am not sure how much of a difference a few thousand HP would make in this particular situation.
Please Halp! I am getting tired of watching the end of the fight from the ground.
If you are solo-tanking you shouldn't be seeing more than one set of terrors. What we did was have our feral druid off-tank one of them.
I thought (we 2 tank it ourselves) most solo tank strategies demanded some dps (or even healer) taunting off the terrors. The stacks, the part that actualy hurt, go away in 2 (was it 3) seconds. Point is, very quick. If your holy pally just goes 15 yards away and uses righteous defense (taunting both) off you, by the time they are reaching him you can taunt back with zero stacks.


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While riding his moped through Somerset on a family vacation
back in 2006 hedge fund manager Lawrence Doyle spotted a beautiful
old Bermuda property sitting empty along the railway trail.
To his delight, when he investigated further he discovered the
property was up for sale.
Today he is only three years away from the completion of what
developers are touting simply the most satisfying place on earth
the new Lantana.
Last Friday Mr. Doyle was in Bermuda to unveil his plans for the
property, which include hotel condominiums and residences, a beach
club and pool.
"When I first saw the property it was intact but the old
cottages were sitting empty," Mr. Doyle explained. "It has the
waterfront location, the hillside, the vegetation whats not to
The site was put up for sale in the summer of 2006, with an
asking price of $18.5 million. Mr. Doyle purchased the property two
years later and plans to invest $135 million out of his own pocket
in its redevelopment. The 9.4-acre property will house a 28-unit
cottage colony, with waterfront restaurant, private beach, a full
service restaurant, private water shuttle, secluded sun decks,
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providing its guests with room service, high speed Internet access,
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Each of the hotel residences will be between 2,000 to 4,000
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There will also be one and two bedroom suites available. Owners
can purchase a hotel residence located at the North end of the
property and then choose the design of that building. Kevin Petty
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The Planning Department is currently running the rule over the
proposed development. "When I eventually purchased it I thought the
plans for the property were too dense for what I wanted to do," Mr.
Doyle explained.
Now, after plans were changed, the cottages have much more
breathing room. There are hotel residences which people will be
able to purchase almost immediately. Dozens of the original
buildings were demolished eight months ago. And, of course, Mr.
Doyle says he plans to keep one of the residences for himself and
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There have been a number of proposals to redevelop and reopen
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In Fall, 2013, Professor Milofsky is teaching:
SOCI 130, Medicine and Society
SOCI 215, Human Service Systems
In Spring, 2014, Professor Milofsky will be teaching:
SOCI 239, Deviance and Identity (TR 8-9:22)
SOCI 322, Sociology of Medicine (T 2-4:52)
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SOCI 100 (Introduction to Sociology)
SOCI 109 (Social Problems)SOCI 201 (Field Methods)
SOCI 402 (Public Service and Nonprofit Organizations)
UNIV 245 (AIDS) (This link is to an old version of this course. Each semester a different faculty member had primary responsibility for the course and the link is to a semester when Milofsky was in charge. Go to this link for some information sources on AIDS.)
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How to find Cameracoacus for Forever Blue 2: Umi No YobigoeHome / Nintendo Wii /
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- Developer: Arika
- Publisher: Nintendo
- Genre: Adventure General
- Release Date: Feb 22, 2010
- ESRB: Everyone 10+
How to find Cameracoacus
Cameracoacus is a special Legendary. It is not shown in the Marine Encyclopedia firsthand. First, you complete the "Signs of the Zodiac" Voice of the Night Sky quest. Here are some of the coins' names. There are 12 in total, and they are all mentioned in the Notebook:
- Aries(something like that.)
- Pisces
- Capricorn
- Leo
- Libra
- Scorpius
- Virgin
Anyway, after you've found all the coins, there will be a radio transmission that's something like this: "End of the edge of the crimson waters." Crimson is a synonym for red, so off to Zahhab Region we go!
When you arrive at Zahhab, TAKE OCEANA WITH YOU, OTHERWISE YOU FAIL! Select the Twin Crevasses diving area. Pull up your map. Go to H-8. After you are there, Oceana will start talking. After her "speech," 3 orcas swim away at the speed of light because a giant umbrella thingy is chasing them! Oceana will want to go to bed early.
You don't have to make any "interactive contact" with the animal (Otherwise known as Giant Attacking Umbrella Thingy). The GAUT will appear in your Encyclopedia(of dreadful fishies!) and as you can see, the additional info is already there.
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Today CISA, or CSM certification is very important if you want to work as a data auditor. In fact, if you are planning to work in government oversight, or even in a similar position in the private sector, CSM certification is likely to be a key requirement.
Since computerized databases and virtual formats have created some enormous changes in data acquisition and storage, you should always try to keep up to date with the latest CSM certification requirements. This may include specific courses on emerging technologies, as well as investigative techniques used to find faulty data.
CSM Certification –An Introduction to CISA Certification
As you may be aware, CSM certification or CISA certification got its start in 1978. At the current time, there are almost 90,000 people that hold CSM certification. Even though this may seem like a fairly small number of people, it is important to realize that CSM certification will make it much easier for you to compete for data auditing jobs. In some cases, if the company does not have anyone else on staff with CSM certification, you may also be able to negotiate for a higher wage as well as a more prestigious job title.
CSM Certification –Importance of CSM Certification
There is no question that hospitals, banks, and other companies that have access to sensitive information will always be concerned about the integrity of their files. This includes making sure that all of the information is accurate, as well as kept as private as possible.
When you have CSM certification you may work with a wide range of IT security professionals to ensure these goals are achieved. In addition, when you have CSM certification, you are likely to find that upper tier management will ask you to develop protocols for new technologies, as well as look for ways to improve existing in house methods.
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 481 - 08 October, 1997
Written Answers. - Grant Payments.
Mr. Creed Mr. Creed
81. Mr. Creed asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food the reason for the delay in payment of a farm installation aid application to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will have arrangements made to issue payment immediately. [15851/97]
Minister for Agriculture and Food (Mr. Walsh) Minister for Agriculture and Food (Mr. Walsh)
Minister for Agriculture and Food (Mr. Walsh): The Scheme of Installation Aid (SIA) is operated under EC Regulation 2328/91 as amended. Under the regulation, eligibility for the SIA is dependent on the applicant setting up as a full-time farmer for the first time having specified skill and competence and having a labour input of at least 1 man work unit (MWU). The MWU is calculated using a standard number of standard [450] man days for each type of enterprise on the holding for a full production year. The production year used for the scheme is 1 January to 31 December.
In the case in question, the deed of transfer was signed in late July 1996 and, therefore, the MWU will be calculated on the basis of the 1997 production year which will be completed on 31 December 1997. At that stage the form SIA 3 (assessment of labour units), for the period to 31 December 1997, should be completed by the applicant and submitted to my Department's local office.
Once this is received the file will be finalised and, if everything is in order, payment should issue shortly after that.
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RP&, Acura Get Weird with the Holidays
It might be odd to see venerable luxury car company Acura advertising savings these holiday season. But, agency RP& is doing that, in a strange and actually pretty funny fashion.
Seven holiday spots from RP& for Acura are being used this holiday season, all directed by Chelsea Pictures' Rick LeMoine. As the ads state, Christmas gifts can lean toward overindulgence and overspending, or lead to simplicity. If you're like me, the perfect gift can mean heading to the suburbs to find the last remaining copy of Mark Twain's autobiography because the entire city sold out weeks ago (oops). Or, if you're just in the market for a simple luxury car (ha), you can by an Acura during the "Season of Reason."
So next time you scoff at your friend for "reasonably" buying an Acura this holiday, remember, people won't carpool with you because you "reasonably" bought a Toyota hybrid last holiday season.
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UK Sport has announced that London Wasps scrum-half Simon Amor is to join its Performance Advisor team in June.
In his Performance Advisor role, Amor will work with a portfolio of Olympic and Paralympic sports to maximise the impact of UK Sport's investment into their World Class Performance Programmes.
Using UK Sport's Mission 2012 framework, Performance Advisors work closely with key national governing body personnel to capture, measure and challenge the day to day programme delivery and provide performance solutions to drive improvements in overall results.
Liz Nicholl, UK Sport's Director of Elite Sport said:
"At this exciting time for British sport, we look forward to welcoming Simon to further strengthen our team. Simon brings extensive experience of being part of a winning team in high performance sport to the role, that will undoubtedly benefit the sports he works with as they strive for success in Beijing, Vancouver, London and beyond."


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Listening to George Strait put his hallowed voice through its paces on yet another album of immaculately recorded tracks, it's clear that Twang will inevitably top the country charts, yield approximately three hit singles, and sell upwards of a million copies just like the ageless Texan's done nearly every year since 1981. Even though the Strait formula is now carved in granite compact lyrics, good-natured tone, don't forget the fiddle his hearty baritone calls the converted back every single time. As King George himself once sang: It just comes natural.
Why, then, is Strait's 26th studio album worth a casual fan's investigation? Because he continues to define (and refine) his genre, and he does it with such ease. Because he knows exactly how to stretch his Wrangler-clad legs without spooking the herd, most vividly here by kicking up his heels on Delbert McClinton's ''Same Kind of Crazy'' and flinging himself into a full-throated and faithful interpretation of mariachi standard ''El Rey'' en español. And because he's taken a hands-on approach for the first time since 1982, co-writing three of these tracks alongside his son, Bubba: the lackadaisical lead single ''Living for the Night,'' a lonesome two-step called ''Out of Sight Out of Mind,'' and the clever chorus twist of ''He's Got That Something Special.'' Do these self-penned songs explode like bottle rockets in the vast West Texas sky? No. They sound like George Strait songs, of course. But look, the dude's cut 57 No. 1 hits. Would you change your tune? B
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Title: Global GameJam (Sydney) 2011
Posted: February 03, 2011 (06:56 PM)
* This is my largest ever blog. You will work out whether or not it interests you pretty quickly. Some photos are scattered throughout.
From 28-30 January I took part in the 2011 Global GameJam at my local Sydney venue, the Powerhouse Museum. About 40 local gamemakers and artists formed teams on the spot, then lived in the venue for 48 hours with the goal of turning out a game on this year's theme: "Extinction".
This is the me-cam story of my team's experience as we turned out a strategy game prototype which we eventually called "Impacts".
The game runs on Mac OS X and Windows and is here:
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After a fun getting-to-know-everyone-else session on the initial Friday evening, the theme of Extinction was revealed to us jammers, and then we were encouraged to brainstorm ideas and form teams around them. I had met a couple of programmers named Tim and Jacqui, who invited me to join them when they heard I was good on music and sound. They also brought to the team Katherine, with the awesome power of visual artistry.
At our team's brainstorming session, Jacqui started to describe an idea of hers involving people bouncing off volcanoes and something about Final Fantasy. It was amusing but I can't say I understood it.
Then I pitched an idea which everyone on the team liked enough that it became the one we ran with, a butterfly effect kind of thing. The screen would be split into two windows. On one side would be the present, in which you, the human, could walk around doing things like treading on flowers and interacting with animals. The second screen would show a point in the future, which would be a projection of your actions in the present. So if you killed all of a certain type of animal, or trod on every instance of a type of flower, that lifeform would be erased from the future, and there would be an alarming sound effect and a big graphic that said EXTINCT!
We weren't sure of ultimate player goals yet, but we had our main idea, and after pitching it to the room, accompanied by a mock screenshot drawn on butcher's paper in the scale and perspective of Pokemon (a scale we all agreed upon as we all knew it) we set off to nab a cluster of workstation computers in the main room.
(Jacqui, Kat, Tim, Wade)
"So we'll be working in the scale of Pokémon, agreed?"
Pretty quickly I discovered that the promised Ableton Live Suite software had not actually been installed on our computers; an administrative mistake, I guess. I had intended to use Live to do both the music and sound effects, and had left my own laptop at home because of my expectation that I would have access to it. I decided I would have to get a friend to bring my laptop in to the museum the next day. Chances of a late Friday drop off were nil, since everyone in my social group was at that minute drinking at the Bavarian Bier Cafe.
To see what software I did have instead, I sifted through the workstation and found Audacity, a simple and not-bad audio editor, and started downloading animal sounds from FreeSample. I was soon able to start treating and stitching these together in Audacity.
At this point we had committed to bunnies, cows, wolves and fish appearing in the 'present' screen, and worked out that for each animal there would be noises for when they appeared, when they bred, when they died, etc. I made all of these sounds realistic except for the bunnies, since none of us could think of any conspicuous sound we knew that bunnies made. I made a popping sound for when they bred and a squishing sound for when the player clubbed them to death.
The presence of other animals also raised some weird questions, sound wise. What sound does a cow make when it dies? How about when it breeds? Probably pretty much the same stupid sound, I figured.
By the time I was done with the animal FX it was 4 AM. While the rest of my team ploughed on, I mooched off to the dorm, basically a dark room with lots of space in it for people to lie on the sleeping bags they had been advised to bring. Having underestimated the hardness of the floor, I woke up groggy, but still better off, five hours later, and found all of my teammates glued to terminals as I'd left them.
I should point out that my teammates are all a decade younger than I, and that the antidepressants I take screw up my sleep anyway, so I had zero interest in trying to stay awake unnecessarily. Both programmers in my team went with very little sleep, and probably had to to do what they needed to get done. I think Jacqui didn't sleep at all on night one, and Tim was taking power naps of 20 minutes every six hours.
While waiting for Andrew to deliver my laptop that afternoon so I could proceed with our game's music, I decided to ask around to see if any other teams needed sound effects done. The only other audio-oriented person amongst the entrants was already working on behalf of six groups (me and him were the only two audio purveyors, hence our popularity at team building time) but I still found another group that needed help. The team doing the "natives flee from an erupting volcano" game needed a bunch of comical death, grunting and cheering noises. I found I was able to put these together way faster than I was able to assemble the assorted animal noises required for our game.
What state was our game in at this point? Well, when Tim and Jacqui had begun programming on night one, they had asked Katherine to provide the most important graphic tiles first, like the grass and trees, so they could start working with something on the screen as soon as possible.
My memory is already blurry, but I think it was on the morning of day two that they had established enough algorithms to be able show us trees growing and spreading, and that we could chop trees down. But from then until the evening of day two, the programmers' work was fairly inscrutable to onlookers. Whenever I looked at the screen of the game demo, I just saw trees thrashing about, but I knew Tim and Jacqui were working flat out building the engines, and I could see how intensive it was. I realised that since they had done the hard work of defining the rules for how everything would interact in this game, going far beyond the vague ideas we had talked about in early team meetings, I needed to just trust them to do that work.
That afternoon I completed my favourite individual task, composing the game's music with a mouse and my laptop. The track has an insistent and programmatic sound which I think suggests inevitability when you hear it, but also constant change, both relevant themes in this game. I described it to Katherine as sounding like the theme song for a particularly stressful gameshow.
That evening I was again on top of our game's sonic workload, and helped another gent named Aram sort out the soundtrack to his own game "Lingua Franca". This was an interesting challenge involving sourcing some relaxed old European-sounding music which would fade out and be replaced by aggressive rock music if you were losing the game. I found a couple of relevant tracks and looped and pitch-shifted them so they fit together in a nasty way. Unfortunately Aram didn't complete his game by jam's end, so I didn't get to hear this mechanism in action.
Me right. I assume I was thinking deeply..
At some point that night we had our umpteenth team meeting about what our game might be called -- plus our team was still lacking a name. The Internet Random Game Name Generator had us in hysterics with its stupid suggestions, one of which, "The Horrifying Octopus Girl", became our team name. But mostly we were procrastinating.
At another evening meeting, Tim and Jacqui were in game feature prioritisation mode, since the deadline was at 1 PM the next day. Tim was saying, "My priority is to get the future working". I have to admit that when I heard that I was wondering how much game we would actually have functioning 17 hours later. But there was nothing more I could do or needed to do myself at that point, so I went to bed at the very reasonable hour of midnight.
When I woke up, I was amazed to see how much of the game T+J had made active during the night. The player sprites were in, you could perform most of the actions, the bunnies were running around the screen and they were really cute, and the future simulation was working pretty well. I think we only had an hour to go when we put the music in and tested it out. It worked wonderfully. We only had to adjust a few of the volume levels to make sure that particular sound effects remained audible, otherwise it played very well with the action.
(I'd initially intended to have the music play just over the title screen, but I'd realised the judges and audience would be looking at our game for only a short period of time and would hardly have a chance to hear it there, so I recommended on the morning of day three that we loop the track over the whole game.)
We still hadn't sorted out the game's title. Tim kept barracking for his two day-old suggestion "Nexus", which did make extremely good sense, however something about it kept bugging team members. Katherine said something about Star Trek, and I was starting to feel the name was a bit too heavy or literate for our particular game. Jacqui mentioned "Consequences of My Actions". Eventually Tim ventured "Impact", and I recommended we add an "S" to the end of it to make "Impacts". There was still grumbling and indecision in response, and I was reminded that Katherine had pointed out earlier that we often had team meetings that ended but still left her not knowing what had been decided, if anything. If our team had a fault, this was certainly it. So I doublechecked that nobody actually hated the title "Impacts" then announced that it should be locked in, to end our suffering.
The last hour before the deadline was a mad dash to add things like a title page, some instructions about the controls at the bottom of the screen, and to eradicate a few bugs the last 15 minutes before the deadline were especially exciting and nerve wracking.
I've already said I was amazed by the state of our game on the morning of the last day, but I continued to be amazed every time I got to try it. Even though it had no ultimate goal, since we have not been able to implement the full range of animals, human population and mechanics before the deadline, it worked very well as a simulation you could play with, and I kept noticing fine features that Tim would point out to me.
For instance if trees grew all around a field of flowers, the flowers couldn't expand further in the future. If animal numbers were reduced to one, they would cease to breed. The bunnies had many mechanics, like how they would eat grass, creating dirt patches. If a square was entirely surrounded by dirt, it turned into a desert space and was not recoverable. You could also now build huts, and if you did so, skyscrapers would start to appear in the future. Flowers and trees grew constantly, and we had in the EXTINCT! message and sound effect. And something that really impressed me was that as the present approached the fixed date of the future, the two displays would start becoming extremely similar.
So what I was conscious of was that while I had come up with the initial idea, Tim and Jacqui had embellished it with all these excellent details and had worked out all the rules for the simulation. Katherine's art was very cute, my sounds worked okay and the music glued it all together.
After the deadline, each team posed for a photograph, installed their game on a master machine, then got to demonstrate a copy at their workstation to the judges. Amongst the judges was the lead designer of God War 2, and while I try to avoid namedropping generally, I will explicitly point out that he commented on the music being really good. All the judges were pretty impressed with our game in general. I did think we had definitely made the right move putting the music across the whole game, because every second jammer who tried the game remarked on it.
After a hasty lunch, we had to prepare to demonstrate our games again, this time on a giant screen in a lecture hall of the museum to members of the public who had paid $10 to see and hear what us nerds had been up to for the past two days. This was potentially a bit confronting, because one minute you're in the terminal room, where you've been hot-housing it for two days, the next you're being filed into a strange hall before an audience to show your game and talk about it. I had been taking the lead in most of our demo sessions, so I did so again now while Tim played the game for the audience. When I got stuck I handed him the microphone. This session was hosted by local game guy "Junglist" Jeremy Ray, plus the judges were present on a panel.
Me explaining the game to the audience while Tim plays it.
When they gave out some awards, we were very pleased to secure "Most Innovative Game". We got actual trophies, which are jam jars on trophy bases ("The Jammies", get it?).
The event was physically gruelling, and in spite of the excellent catering, I felt pretty washed out at the end of it. Our game is best described as a prototype, but it is a fully working prototype and one with some subtle possibilities. It is certainly sophisticated beyond what could be fully demonstrated at the short sittings we had at our disposal at the Game Jam. That the game has this quality, that we started with nothing and turned out Impacts in what was probably 40 hours, and that the game was unlike anything else turned out at our jam (which is why we got that award) are all things I'm really pleased about.
I hope to go to this event next year and would encourage anyone else reading this to do the same at their local venue. Given the time constraints of the event, I think you do need to have a practical game design skill if you want to participate in making a video game - IE coding, producing graphics or producing audio. Longer haul skills like writing get less of a look in. However, you are allowed to make a game of any kind, whether it's a board game or even a no-props game, like Mafia. It's just that the majority of entrants go for video games. To do something else may require bringing a team whose goal is to do that something else, or that you do it on your own.
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Cool tale. I had looked at the website for GameJam but then forgot about it after that. Thanks for sharing!


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Posted 24 April 2014 - 08:47 PM
@billvoth: PM RT: Think #Panthers are going OT at No. 28? Well ... http://t.co/HjxWdD07Mi
Posted 24 April 2014 - 08:49 PM
There's three guys in this draft that can definitely play left tackle in the NFL: Auburn's Greg Robinson, Texas A&M's Jake Matthews and Michigan's Taylor Lewan. The rest could be right tackles, but there's no guarantees they could play left.
You don't pick right tackles in the first round. And if Gettleman isn't sure a guy at 28 can play left tackle, he's not going to take him.
So here's the second part — all that doesn't necessarily mean the second nugget in Kiper's update will happen.
Yes, receivers' coach Ricky Proehl has been sent all around the country for a reason. The Panthers are turning over every wideout rock they can, not just because it's a need, but because there's a whole bunch of talent out there.
But once the Panthers are on the clock at 28, if someone at another position — say cornerback — is higher on Carolina's board than a receiver, they're going to take the one they believe gives them the best value.
Two weeks out from the draft, I can't tell you who the Panthers are going to take. Shoot, considering all that could happen in front of them, they can't be sure who they're going to take.
But whether it's Kouandjio, Virginia's Morgan Moses or most other tackles currently mocked either late in the first round or the second, the point is a tackle sounds unlikely. The feeling I get is if Gettleman does go tackle at 28, it'll be someone most weren't expecting.
Posted 24 April 2014 - 08:52 PM
Posted 24 April 2014 - 08:53 PM
how many times do you guys have to be told?
Posted 24 April 2014 - 08:57 PM
Posted 24 April 2014 - 08:58 PM
This seems to fly in the face of folks who think that need will be big factor in determining Gettleman's BPA philosophy. Sure he could take a tackle or wide receiver or corner or other position. But it will be based on who they think is the BPA not the BPA at a position of need.
Posted 24 April 2014 - 09:01 PM
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Posted 24 April 2014 - 09:08 PM
yeah i thought the bit on proehl was cool.
Posted 24 April 2014 - 09:09 PM
Those thinking that receiver is the obvious choice might be surprised as well if the top guys are all gone at 28. The only way we go WR is if there are guys who are head and shoulders above who we could get at 60 and there are no guys who are clearly shoulders above the rest at other positions.
Posted 24 April 2014 - 09:12 PM
Posted 24 April 2014 - 09:15 PM
I dont think it would be the end of the world. Especially if there is value to be had at WR or dare I say CB or DE...
Posted 24 April 2014 - 09:17 PM
Looks like WR or CB. I'm pumped! I did some study on Davante Adams and Cody Latimer and both have amazing catching radius with excellent rout running ability. Both are very smart and physical. Both remind of AJ Green.
Posted 24 April 2014 - 09:20 PM
Great point:
You don't pick right tackles in the first round. And if Gettleman isn't sure a guy at 28 can play left tackle, he's not going to take him.
Posted 24 April 2014 - 09:24 PM
Ryan Shazier confirmed.
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Dori: Political correctness to blame for Seattle City Light fake Native American scamon December 11, 2013 @ 2:01 pm (Updated: 9:27 am - 12/12/13 )
King County Prosecutors have now charged three men for the brazen theft. And it's not just what they took but the way they got it that has Dori and a lot of other people scratching their heads.
Charging papers say two of the men showed up at City Hall in April clad in full Indian garb, claiming to be "Chief Little Bear" and "Joe Wolf" - tribal members they said were running an arts and crafts program for disabled Cherokee kids, the Seattle P-I reports.
The men - whose actual names are Michael George and Jim Costa - managed to talk their way into a meeting with City Light Superintendent Jorge Carrasco.
The suspects displayed copper bracelets, necklaces and other trinkets, and asked Carrasco to donate copper to their charity.
A police report says when asked for a business card, the men instead claimed they had a bus full of disabled children circling the block and needed the wire right away. So rather than vetting them further, Carrasco approved a donation and another City Light executive met them at an Industrial District storage lot and pointed out 100 pounds of copper wire they could take.
The men returned later on with a couple of rented trucks and loaded them up with far more than just 100 pounds of wire. The scammers managed to take off with 42,500 pounds of scrap wire worth $120,000.
City Light spokesman Scott Thomsen tells the P-I all the stolen wire was ultimately recovered in Fort Worth, Texas, where it had been shipped.
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Needless to say, Dori has no sympathy for City Light.
"You've got to be kidding me. You fell for this and you're assigning the blame to the fact that these guys were professional con artists?" Dori says.
"We can't even get politicians on our air to talk to me, and because we have a culture at city hall, and everybody is so politically correct down there, they start falling all over themselves."
Producer Jake couldn't agree more - once he stopped laughing at the absurdity of the situation.
"This isn't an Ocean's 11 scenario. They just walked in with a headdress and a fake name and got them to give them everything."
While City Light recovered the wire, Jones and Costa remain at large. Officials say they've pulled off similar scams around the state.
"This is what political correctness does to you. It makes you into boobs and ninnies," says Dori. "You're so afraid to offend that you don't even do the slightest amount of vetting before you take people down to your secure facility because you are so desperate to help out the Native Americans and the disabled kids that you don't even check them out?"
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