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Update on FY14 Funding:Congress has spent the past few weeks working to pass legislation providing funding for the 2014 federal fiscal year. As the October 1 deadline looms, it appears possible that there will be at least a short shutdown next week. Last week, the House passed a continuing resolution (CR) that would fund the coming year at essentially the same levels as FY13 through December 15, 2013. While some conservatives in the House balked at the spending levels, the bill also contains language that would defund the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a.k.a. Obama Care, which drew enough support from the right to move the bill through the House. However, Senate Democrats have repeatedly said that any legislation that seeks to defund the President's health care law would be rejected in the Senate. As promised, earlier today Senator Reid brought the House CR to Senate floor for consideration and immediately introduced an amendment replacing the text of the House-passed CR with his own proposal. The Senate includes funding levels in line with the House version, however, as expected, the bill eliminates the language defunding the ACA. It also adjusts the length of the CR, which would run out a full month earlier than the House proposal, on November 15. Leaders in the House have already promised to amend the Senate-passed CR as soon as it reaches the House, hold a vote and send it back to the Senate, possibly as early as tomorrow. While it's not clear what language the House will use to amend the Senate bill, it's likely to be another attempt to defund or delay the ACA, forcing the Senate to decide between supporting the program and shutting down the government on October 1. Given Senator Reid's strong stance on the ACA, it is becoming increasingly likely that there will be, at least, a short term shut down of the federal government next week as Congress works towards a compromise. In preparation for the shutdown, Federal agencies began planning furloughs and determining which positions to deem 'essential'. While official furlough notices would go out on Tuesday, some agencies, including DOT, have already notified employees of who will be furloughed in the event of a shutdown. However, because the MCSAP program is funded through the Highway Trust Fund, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration does not anticipate an impact to the program. Update on Relevant Regulations:FMCSA Issues Rule on Tank Vehicle DefinitionOn September 26, the FMCSA published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking(NRPM) to revise its definition of "tank vehicle." According to the notice, commercial driver's license (CDL) holders who operate such vehicles are required to obtain a tank vehicle endorsement. On May 9, 2011, FMCSA published a final rule on Commercial Driver's License Testing and Commercial Learner's Permit Standards" that included a new definition of tank vehicle which required additional drivers to obtain tank vehicle endorsements on their commercial learners' permits (CLPs) and CDLs. After receiving numerous comments on the new definition, the Agency published guidance in the Federal Register to clarify the "tank vehicle" definition in May of this year. This NPRM revises the definition by incorporating the regulatory guidance published in May. Comments are due November 25. PHMSA Publishes Updates on Special PermitsOn September 26, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published several updates on Special Permit Applications.· Special Permit Applications· Additional Special Permit Applications· Special Permit Modification Requests· List of Special Permit Applications Delayed PHMSA Proposes Rule Revoking Operating Authority for Non-payment of PenaltiesOn September 24, PHMSA published a NRPMin order to implement its authority to revoke operating authority from hazardous materials motor carriers who have failed to pay civil penalties within 90 days. The proposal also prohibits the motor carrier from engaging in hazmat operations "until payment has been made or an acceptable payment plan has been arranged." Comments are due November 25. FMCSA Proposed New Bus Leasing RequirementsOn September 20, FMCSA released a NRPMadopting regulations governing the lease and interchange of passenger-carrying commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). This rule proposes to identify the motor carrier operating a passenger-carrying CMV; ensure that a lessor surrenders control of the CMV for the full term of the lease or temporary exchange of CMVs and drivers; and require motor carriers prohibited from operating in interstate commerce to notify FMCSA in writing before leasing or otherwise transferring control of their vehicles to other carriers. The new policies are intended to enable FMCSA to more easily identify passenger carriers in interstate commerce and correctly assign safety responsibility to these entities for regulatory violations during inspections, comprehensive investigations and crash studies. Comments are due November 19. FMCSA Withdraws CMV Training Requirements NPRMOn September 19, FMCSA published a noticewithdrawing the agency's December 2007 NRPM on Minimum Training Requirements for Entry-Level CMV Operators, announcing that a new rulemaking will be initiated. 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If you are in poor health or have an unhealthy lifestyle, you might qualify for an "enhanced annuity".
A single life annuity pays the highest income but stops on your death. If you are married consider the joint life option because if you die first your pension will continue to your spouse at the percentage selected
Most annuities are guaranteed for 5 years, but 10 years is often used instead of a joint life annuity
It is natural to want the highest income initially, but it is important to consider a rising income to protect your income from the effects of inflation
When you have chosen the appropriate annuity options you are ready to shop around for the best annuity on the market. This is called "Exercising the Open Market Option".
It is possible to increase your annuity by up to 25% by buying your annuity from the top company.
A single life annuity pays the most income, but stops when you die.
If you are married it is usual to have a joint life annuity which continues
to your partner if you die first. You can choose how much income your partner
will receive after you have died. For example a 50% joint life annuity means
that when you die your partner will recede 50% of your pension until they
£ 100,000 purchase, male aged 65, female aged 65, level payments.
For male joint life, male 65 female 60, for female joint life, female 65 male 70
Most annuities are guaranteed to be paid for a certain period. This means that if you die soon after purchasing an annuity your family will still receive some income.
If you bought an annuity without a guarantee period, and died the day after, your income would stop, your partner would get nothing or a reduced amount it was a joint life annuity and the insurance company would make a huge profit.
To protect against this unlikely event you can guarantee that your annuity
will be paid for at least a minimum period. If you select a 5 year guarantee
(this is the norm) and died after 2 years, your family would continue receiving
an income for the next 3 years. If you had chosen a 10 year guarantee, the
payments would continue for another 8 years.
Most annuities have a guaranteed period of 5 years, which means that if the annuitant dies after say 2 years, the balance of the guarantee period, that is 3 years will be paid as continued income payments.
The balance of the guarantee period is always paid in the form of continued income to your nominated benificiary, normally your spouse.
Where there is a spouse's pension and a guarantee, the spouse's pension may start immediately after the death of the 1st annuitant, or at the end of the guarantee period. The former is called with overlap and the later is called without overlap.
The balance of any guarantee period is tax-free as it is paid under the terms of a discretionary trust.
Under the proposed new simplification rules, the maximum guarantee period for annuities will remain at 10 years but the benefit must be paid as income because there is no lump sum option (even the guarantee period is 5 years).
A level annuity pays the highest income at the start and does not increase in the future. Whereas an escalating annuity starts at a lower level but increases each year. The increases can be constant, e.g. 3% each year or the increases can be linked to changes in the Retail Price Index, more commonly known as index linking.
It is only natural to want the highest income but you shouldn't forget the effects of inflation. An increasing annuity may start lower but it will pay out more income in the future. Remember "Inflation is like sin, every Government denounces it, but they all practice it".
£ 100,000 purchase, male aged 65, female aged 65, guaranteed 5 years.
The chart below compares the future payments from a level annuity compared to an annuity increasing at 3% compound per annum and an RPI annuity. Future inflation is assumed to be 4% per annum.
£ 100,000 purchase, male aged 65, guaranteed 5 years.
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WORST: We aren't quite sure what Wendy Williams' coat is made of, but it was a definite a la mode miss.
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WORST: Not only was Ashley Judd dressed in awful attire, but the gorgeous actress had the worst makeup mishap during her NYC book signing.
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BEST: Jennifer Garner has been relatively absent from the red carpet lately, so we were delighted to see her looking strikingly sophisticated in shade of grey at the NYC premiere of Arthur. The bigscreen babe rocked an Oscar de la Renta ensemble with triple stacked Casadei pumps and Cartier bling, scoring high marks in style.
WACKY: Nicki Minaj is by far the sassiest rapper around! The Marge Simpson-haired star hit the stage in Florida, bringing psychedelic style to the extreme with her skintight spandex catsuit, in shades of neon.
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WORST: Florence Welch looked more frumpy than fab, wearing vintage threads with Christian Louboutin boots.
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July 25, 2012
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on July 24 that in partnership with the Energy Department, it will publish the final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy development in six southwestern states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The final solar PEIS represents a major step forward in the permitting of utility-scale solar energy on public lands throughout the west.
The solar PEIS planning effort has focused on identifying locations on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands that are most suitable for solar energy development. The solar PEIS will serve as a roadmap for solar energy development by establishing solar energy zones, which have access to existing or planned transmission and minimal resource conflicts, and incentives for development within those zones. The blueprint's comprehensive analysis will make for faster, better permitting of large-scale solar projects on public lands.
These areas are characterized by excellent solar resources, good energy transmission potential, and relatively low conflict with biological, cultural, and historic resources. The final PEIS identifies 17 Solar Energy Zones (SEZs), totaling about 285,000 acres of public lands, as priority areas for utility-scale solar development, with the potential for creating additional zones through ongoing and future regional planning processes. The blueprint also allows for utility-scale solar development on approximately 19 million acres in "variance" areas lying outside of identified SEZs. It also excludes 78 million acres from solar energy development to protect cultural or natural resources. In total, the final PEIS estimates that 23,700 megawatts could be developed from the 17 zones and the variance areas, enough renewable energy to power 7 million U.S. homes.
The July 27 Federal Register Notice of Availability for the Final PEIS will begin a 30-day protest period, after which DOI may consider adopting the document through a Record of Decision. The BLM released the draft solar PEIS in December 2010, and in response to the over 80,000 comments received from cooperating agencies and key stakeholders, issued a supplement to the draft solar PEIS in October 2011. See the Energy Department press release and the solar PEIS.


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LUMBERTON — Robeson County District Attorney Johnson Britt felt he needed to do more than just tell municipal leaders how bogged down the local courts are.
Britt wanted to show them as well.
Armed with court calendars from each of the six towns that hold District Court, Britt said that just this week there have been a total of 1,187 criminal cases scheduled to be heard.
"That's just a week in criminal court in Robeson County," Britt said. "We're overwhelmed. We don't have the capacity to handle these cases and we didn't have the capacity to handle the cases we already had."
Britt spoke Thursday night to about 30 members of the Robeson County Municipal Association at the Village Station restaurant. Britt painted a dire picture of the county's court system and did not seem to hold out much promise for improvements any time soon.
Britt provided a breakdown by towns of the number of criminal cases in District Court this week: Lumberton, 365 cases; Fairmont, 215 cases; Red Springs, 182 cases; Pembroke, 135 cases; Maxton, 127 cases; Rowland, 84 cases; and St. Pauls, 79 cases.
There are also about 80 people charged with murder who are awaiting trial in Robeson County. In the past two weeks, there have been about 1,500 felony cases to go before the county courts.
A recent report published by the Department of Justice and the State Bureau of Investigation ranked Robeson County first in the state in overall crime rate for 2012, first in violent crime rate and third in property crime rate. It was the third straight year the county has ranked No. 1 in violent and overall crime.
Robeson County has averaged about 25 murders a year for the past decade, one of the highest rates in the state.
"Robeson County doesn't compare to any other place in the state," said Britt, who told the group that he was working on 30 murder cases himself. "Our defendants are getting younger and they are getting more violent."
Britt blamed the crime problem in Robeson County on poverty and a lack of education. But he said the lack of skills to resolve problems by means other than violence is also an issue.
"The prevalence of handguns is a problem too," Britt said. "I don't own a gun, but if I wanted to get one, I know somewhere I can get a gun right now and the police and the sheriff wouldn't know anything about it. When people get their hands on a gun, it emboldens them."
Britt said it does not help that the District Attorney's Office lacks the staff or resources to handle the ever-increasing caseload. There are 12 assistant district attorneys serving the county.
Britt urged the local leaders to pressure state lawmakers to provide more money to his office and the court system.
"What can you do as community leaders?" Britt said. "Put pressure on some people. For us to improve our criminal courts, we got to have resources from the state. That is not a secret, just something that no one wants to address. At some point, we have got to break the cycle."
Scott Witten works for Civitas Media as the editor of The Red Springs Citizen and The St. Pauls Review.


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Representative of early small gas turbine technology, the 502 (military T50) turbo shaft engine is the result of work started in 1943 in answer to interest by the U.S. Army Air Force. It became operational in 1947 and was used in a variety of experimental applications, including light helicopters, boats and trucks. It also powered the world's first turbine helicopter, a Kaman K-225, in 1951. Its major use, however, was in the Gyrodyne QH-50C drone helicopter of the US Navy.
The cut-away on display was built by Boeing and shows a typical 502. Different models produced from 200 to 350 hp at 36,000 to 38,000 rpm. By the end of production in April, 1968 nearly 2,500 engines had been built.
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I like current blood and frost. Considering they have barely changed in 2-3 years should tell you plenty about how well they are set up now. The changes to me seem to be simply switching strike names and reducing everything to 1 rune cost/ 20 RP cost. This would pretty much make a pure set rotation with no variation as it would be always holding a spare rune for procs etc. Best thing is DK right now does feel sufficiently different from all other classes and those changes to me would make us feel more like a monk or similar with a set rotation following 2 resources (we currently have 4/5 resources, your change makes it 3 - 2 of which are almost going to be essentially the same to use in rotation)
Best thing I would like to see is the return of the old presences as raid buffs (blood gave healing by % of damage etc) along with other classes which lost those (feral druids leader of the pack, paladin judgements of light/wisdom, priests VT/VE perma regen). Make them adequately weak enough to not be OP but those things were nice.


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Ok, the Mods shut down the actual game threads pretty quickly after they are completed, so here's a place we can use to actually discuss general gameplay, ideas, strategy, rules, and other stuff.
At the time of this posting the game just completed was Jav's anniversary game.
Taking into account all the games I've played in and the one I hosted I am definitely of the opinion that we need to stop all "after death" posting. There are arguments between dead players and alive ones, conversations about stuff non-game related, etc. etc.. As players improve and new strategies emerge we really need to preserve the integrity of the game by limiting these interruptions. Dead players continuing to post is distracting and damaging to play. You may not think you are giving away something, but you are. You may not think you are affecting the game, but by changing the pace or allowing a non participating player to post something random you affect game dynamics.
So, that's a point I wanted to make. What do you all think or what else do you think we need to discuss?
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|Jun 25, 2012, 04:11 PM
I just want to throw my hat into the ring for hosting the next game, if everyone is okay with that.
Also, I agree, mscriv. Maybe allow one non-influencing farewell post and nothing more.
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|Jun 25, 2012, 04:13 PM
One option I was throwing out with ravenvii and others on twitter. Everyone can PM everyone else, wolves don't know who each other are at start of game. Makes it more like a survivor type game with secret alliances.
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|Jun 25, 2012, 04:13 PM
I would disagree that the dead need to stop posting. I just think they may need to be more mindful of what they say. We also dont need any macbookproi5 type posts, but I dont think that will be an issue from here on out.
You maybe be changing the games flow, pace etc, but ive played in end are really boring because no one is posting. I'd rather keep it fun and interesting.
Also I think we need a set of rules we can copy and paste. The game can mod them as they see fit, but a generic outline with stuff that doesnt change much. I feel like we used to do that.
|Jun 25, 2012, 04:16 PM
Agreed. I allowed after-death posting, because I saw it had subsided to levels people could accept. Yet there was still the occasional drama that can be avoided.
I move to ban all after-death posting. After all, dead in-game is dead. No one in real life speaks from the grave.
|Jun 25, 2012, 04:19 PM
I don't mind the after-death posting at all, as long as the comments aren't about the in-game play.
It's a game, and it's supposed to be fun. Part of the fun is continuing to follow along and even participate a little bit in some of the conversations.
|Jun 25, 2012, 04:21 PM
my .02 cents.
i would say one farewall post as well.
i really get annoyed when their are 25+ posts off topic and if your still alive, you have to go thru each post to make sure you don't miss any clues.
for those of us that use tapatalk during gameplay, it sucks.
|Jun 25, 2012, 04:28 PM
Allowing after-death posts inevitably leads to game related posts. It's happened in every game I've seen, so it does need to be outlawed.
Only other option I see is to give the dead a role. I don't know that there's a simple way to do it though.
Perhaps allow the dead to speak and say anything they'd like. They can even vote, but it doesn't impact the actual in-game vote. However, if their majority and the village's majority coincides, and the person lynched is a bad guy, one of them gets to come back to life (only once), such as a crowd-sourced Mystic ability. However, I don't think even this would work: you'd need to strengthen the baddies for this, it would be obvious what the motives of dead bad guys is, and good specials who die could potentially reveal vital information. It makes the good guys too strong and it too convoluted. But maybe there is some way to make it work.
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|Jun 25, 2012, 04:33 PM
If think it should be up to each game god to run it how they see fit.
|Jun 25, 2012, 04:33 PM
I would scream just to be heard, as if yelling at the stars - I was bleeding just to feel.
You would never say a word, kept me reaching in the dark - always something to conceal.
|Jun 25, 2012, 04:35 PM
edit: People seem to be in favor of keeping after-death posts, so it seems there just needs to be strict enforcement of temporary bans from games for those who violate.
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|Jun 25, 2012, 04:35 PM
What if the dead could speak, and collectively revive one of "their own" after there were a specified number of dead. Of course, you couldn't be able to reveal your role while dead.
And, I feel that the goofiness of the dead are a great incentive to even still follow the games.
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|Jun 25, 2012, 05:04 PM
i disagree on a hard ban or a precise number of posts allowe, but players should be considerate and really post little. Most do.
what should be avoided is lengthy off-topic exchanges involving dead players.
overall, i don't think it's a major issue or something that needs to be discussed at length now.
moving to more interesting (to me) topics i think there are two major areas where the game has room for improvement
1. keeping some (legit) involvement for dead players
2. giving plain villagers a more involved role
to address this i propose the following:
1. zombies. when a regular player is lynched or attacked by wolves, instead of dying he becomes a zombie.
Zombies are not 'villagers' anymore, they form a new team that can win the game and beat both villagers and wolves.
there are multiple ways this can be tried.
One is that zombies keep voting in lynchings, and can be lynched or attacked by wolves. Once they are 'killed' for the second time, they are done for good, are destroyed and out of the game.
However, you don't need to waste a lynching to kill a zombie: any zombie with 3 votes (or a number to be decided, which may also be linked to number of players) is destroyed, regardless of the final result of the lynching (so for example in a single lynching you may have a player lynched - who becomes a zombie- and 2 zombies destroyed).
Zombies are not known for their bright minds, so they can vote, but cannot post game related analysis or comments: their regular posting rules are the same as for dead players, but their votes do count as everyone else's.
2. items. every player, regardless of their role, is randomly assigned a special 'item' at the beginning of the game.
Items are useful, but not game-changers, and are not comparable in quality to real 'specials'.
Basically it means that everyone has some (limited) special power, but not everyone has a special role (that's because you need plenty of simple villagers to 'hide' the specials). Specials and wolves also get the special item on top of their regular abilities.
One example of this items would be a one chance of being immune from any night activities (scanning or killing), a vote-blocker or a vote-doubler (to be used only once, publicly). The 'pool' of items is known at the beginning of the game, but not all items are necessarily used.
for example with 12 players you may have 15 items (3 hiding, 3 one-time night protection, 3 double votes, 3 vote blocks, 3 immunity from lynching). 12 are used and 3 remain unused. Specifics obviously need to be fleshed out and balanced.
i think it would give more interest to the game and add a lot of more unpredictability to the end-game, because a game that appears to be finished might not be and vice-versa
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I honestly could say that I wouldn't play in these games if a ban on post-death chatter is made. I know that I haven't played in a while, but after being asked to play in this game I figured I'd keep playing as long as it was fun. Having a rule like that would sour the experience for me. There's enough moderation in these forums as it is.
Part of the fun of being involved in these games is getting to know the other players. In all the games I've played in, the chatter seems to self-regulate itself (unless there is someone who can't take a hint, but in that case, there is usually someone there to tell them to shut it).
I also look at it as part of the game. A way to distract the other players. A way to try to hide strategic or telling posts.
Obviously, it is not up to me, but that is my opinion on that.
|Jun 25, 2012, 07:06 PM
For the most part, it's harmless - recently it just seems out of control because of MBP. Most of us definitely know what the line is, though.
|Jun 25, 2012, 07:42 PM
Look back through the games. The active players are the first to die and, in the games where dead people didn't post, the games got very boring.
I propose that the GM determines if a dead person is posting inappropriately and can ban them from posting in the thread.
I'm ready for the next game with my new wolfish avatar .
|Jun 25, 2012, 07:45 PM
Count me among those that would like to see some kind of participation from dead players - ideally something very small and game-related, otherwise, the occasional cheering post or something like that isn't a big deal.
Actively posting players seem to get knocked off first, and it can get pretty quiet/boring near the end.
DP - your idea seems like a start, would the zombies be able to PM each other? Since they can't post game analysis or anything like that, I assume they'd discuss brain-eating strategy in secret?
Also I really think the item idea is a good one. Let me mull on that one and see if I have anything to add.
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|Jun 25, 2012, 08:21 PM
how much longer is that EM going for?
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Cramer's first coach was ushered in with much fanfare as the school held a press conference at the Rader Staff Development Center in Cramerton. Among those present in addition to Devine and athletic director Terry Radford were school board members Kevin Collier and Jeff Ramsey, Mount Holly mayor Bryan Hough, Gaston County Schools representatives Mark Hollar and Bonnie Reidy, two members from McMillan's church and McMillan's wife Meredith.
McMillan will continue his duties as teacher and coach at Forestview for the remainder of the school year. He'll officially begin his new job June 1.
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Luck or Something Like It: A Memoir
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For more than half a century, living legend Kenny Rogers has recorded some of the most beloved music in America and around the world, creating a sound both wholly original and instantly recognizable. Now, in his first-ever memoir, this rare talent divulges the struggles of his long road to success and how, through it all, he's stayed true to his values as a performer and a person.
Recounting the journey from his early years to today, Kenny charts breakout hits, disappointing misses, and the periods of soul-searching that have led him to reinvent his sound countless times and experiment with everything from gospel to country to R&B. Along the way, he tells stories that have since become legend, as Kenny recalls the making of his classic songs and shares the stories behind his most important friendships with stars like Dottie West, Lionel Richie, and, of course, Dolly Parton.
Staring across the decades, Kenny writes a story seemingly straight from one of his songs, resulting in a rollicking ride through fifty years of music history.
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Kenny Rogers is one of the bestselling artists of all time with more than 120 million albums sold worldwide. He has endeared himself to music lovers around the world with hit songs like "Lady," "The Gambler," "Islands in the Stream," and "Love or Something Like It." He is a three-time Grammy Award winner, and has won eighteen American Music Awards, eight Academy of Country Music Awards, and five Country Music Association Awards.
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McLuhan was still a twenty-year old undergraduate at the University of Manitoba, in western Canada, in the dirty thirties, when he wrote in his diary that he would never become an academic. He was learning in spite of his professors, but he would become a professor of English in spite of himself. After Manitoba, graduate work at Cambridge University planted the seed for McLuhans eventual move toward media analysis. Looking back on both his own Cambridge years and the longer history of the institution, he reflected that a principal aim of the faculty could be summarized as the training of perception, a phrase that aptly summarizes his own aim throughout his career.
The shock that McLuhan experienced in his first teaching post propelled him toward media analysis. Though his students at the University of Wisconsin were his juniors by only five to eight years, he felt removed from them by a generation. He suspected that this had to do with ways of learning and set out to investigate it. The investigation led him back to lessons on the training of perception from his Cambridge professors, such as I. A. Richards (The Meaning of Meaning, Practical Criticism), and forward to discoveries from James Joyce, the symbolist poets, Ezra Pound; back to antiquity and the myth of Narcissus, forward to the mythic structure of modern Western culture dominated by electric technology.
Understanding Media, first published in 1964, focuses on the media effects that permeate society and culture, but McLuhans starting point is always the individual, because he defines media as technological extensions of the body. As a result, McLuhan often puts his inquiry and his conclusions in terms of the ratio between the physical senses (the extent to which we depend on them relative to each other) and the consequences of modifications to that ratio. This invariably entails a psychological dimension. Thus, the invention of the alphabet and the resulting intensification of the visual sense in the communication process gave sight priority over hearing, but the effect was so powerful that it went beyond communication through language to reshape literate societys conception and use of space.
Understanding Media brought McLuhan to prominence in the same decade that celebrated flower power. San Francisco, the home of the summer of love, hosted the first McLuhan festival, featuring the man himself. The saying God is dead was much in vogue in the counterculture that quickly adopted McLuhan but missed the irony of giving a man of deep faith the status of an icon.
Spectacular sales of Understanding Media, in hardback and then in paperback editions, and the San Francisco symposium brought him a steady stream of invitations for speaking engagements. He addressed countless groups, ranging from the American Marketing Association and the Container Corporation of America to AT&T and IBM. In March 1967, NBC aired This is Marshall McLuhan in its Experiment in TV series. He played on his own famous saying, publishing The Medium is the Massage (coproduced with Quentin Fiore and Jerome Agel), even as he was signing contracts for Culture Is Our Business and From Clich to Archetype (with Canadian poet Wilfred Watson) with publishers in New York. Dozens of universities awarded McLuhan honorary degrees and he secured a Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities at Fordham University. At the University of Torontos Centre for Culture and Technology, where McLuhan was director, a steady stream of visitors arrived from around the world to absorb his lessons on media, or just to see him and be seen with him. Andy Warhol was scheduled to visit but did not show (when McLuhan finally met him some time later, he pronounced him a rube); John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrived unannounced. Understanding Media, which was eventually translated into more than twenty languages, overshadowed the only McLuhan book-length publication from the 1960s that took him back squarely to his roots as a professor of English literature, the two-volume Voices of Literature (edited in collaboration with Richard J. Schoeck). By the time the decade ended, he had collaborated with Canadian artist Harley Parker on Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting and once more with Quentin Fiore and Jerome Agel on War and Peace in the Global Village. This popular paperback, exploding at every page with McLuhans observations juxtaposed to a visual chronicle of twentieth century happenings, bore the improbable subtitle, an inventory of some of the current spastic situations that could be eliminated by more feedforward. The book looks and feels light years away from the Cambridge University of the 1930s where McLuhan trained, but that was just where he had picked up the idea of feedforwardfrom his teacher I. A. Richards.
McLuhan wrote with no knowledge of galvanic skin response technology, terminal node controllers, or the Apple Newton. He might not have been able even to imagine what a biomouse is. But he pointed the way to understanding all of these, not in themselves, but in their relation to each other, to older technologies, and above all in relation to ourselvesour bodies, our physical senses, our psychic balance. When he published Understanding Media in 1964, he was disturbed about mankinds shuffling toward the twenty-first century in the shackles of nineteenth century perceptions. He might be no less disturbed today. And he would continue to issue the challenge that confronts the reader at every page of his writings to cast off those shackles.
by Terrence Gordon, July, 2002
W. Terrence Gordon is the author of the biography, Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding. Gingko Press. ISBN: 1-58423-112-2.
This week's T-shirt of the Week is 'Stress Head'.
Life... Seems like everyday it gets more and more hectic.
Work, money, the weather, that pesky hole in your sock... it all gets a bit too much. By the end of it you're pulling your hair out because you just can't fit everything into your day.
I guess sometimes life aint easy. What can you do eh?
No point stressing over it.
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This time tomorrow we will all be sat together chomping on some very tasty food
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so now September is underway and summer is pretty much officially over .
(not that summer actually made much of an apperance this year anyway...)
this week has been quite changeable, the weather doesn't seem to know what it wants to do...
yesterday we had a spell of bright sun followed straight away by some heavy showers
today hes been mostly very wet and windy, but that didn't stop me getting outside for lunch
i went for an aimless walk about in the wet and wind (wearing an old howies softshell so i didn't get wet or cold)
and i was thinking, even though it's not hot and sunny at the moment, i actually like this weather.
as long as you have the right clothes on, it's great to get outside and watch nature do it's wet and windy, early autumn thing.
i enjoy all the weather.
Exciting times here at howies
We're getting ready to launch our new range for Autumn 08.
The new catalouges have been printed up and put in envelopes, and the stock is starting to roll into the warehouse.
If the postmen are really on the ball this morning, a few of you might even see a catalouge arrive on your doormats today!
And the new website will be going up really soon as well, hopefully by tonight, so you'll be able to check it all out and order online as well.
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From routine issues to the very complex, this team of specialists is uniquely qualified to meet the needs of children with ear, nose and throat problems. We use leading-edge techniques and technology, combined with the kind of understanding and compassion children and their parents need while facing medical and surgical issues. The physicians in this service are all otolaryngologists (ENT doctors) fellow-ship trained in pediatrics. The nurses, technicians and other clinical specialists are specially trained in pediatric ENT.
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35 Years Ago: Led Zeppelin Begin Recording 'In Through the Out Door'
Thirty-five years ago, Led Zeppelin – sidelined in recent years by personal issues, including the tragic death of singer Robert Plant's young son – reconvened in Stockholm to begin working on the band's eighth album, 'In Through the Out Door.'
But with Zep mastermind Jimmy Page mired in a nasty heroin addiction and other more mysterious afflictions (mostly rumors about his oft-publicized interest in the occult), and drummer John Bonham battling alcoholism, it was left to bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones and singer Plant to pilot the battered old airship through the album's sessions that started in May 1978.
As a result, 'In Through the Out Door' is the only Led Zeppelin album to include songwriting credits for Jones on every track but one. Plus, for the first time ever, two songs don't even boast a Page credit: the swinging honky-tonk track 'South Bound Suarez' and the graceful tribute to Plant's son, 'All My Love.'
Jones and Plant composed much of the album's mesmerizing opener, 'In the Evening,' before Page contributed his effects-laden guitar swoops. They worked up the Latin and Caribbean rhythms running through 'Fool in the Rain' before Bonham showed up to bring the hammer down with his usual effortless virtuosity. And they assembled one of the most schizophrenic oddities in the entire Zep canon: the 10-minute synth-powered 'Carouselambra.'
The familiar Page-Plant partnership rarely surfaced on the album; only the rather pedestrian and vintage rock 'n' roll rave-up 'Hot Dog' recalls their old work together. Jones stepped up once again (with a little help from Page and Plant) to ensure that 'In Through the Out Door' would end on a majestic but subdued high note with the soulful, yearning 'I'm Gonna Crawl.'
But for all of Jones' admirable effort, he was no match for Page at his peak. So 'In Through the Out Door' remains an intriguing but flawed epitaph for the greatest rock band of the '70s. With Bonham's death in September 1980, Led Zeppelin never had the chance to make another album.
In the end, the album, which sat around for almost a year before finally arriving in stores in August 1979, embodied Zeppelin's late-career swoon. They came in through the out door and out through the back door, as the band's journey, which began with such prodigious sturm und drang, faded with a sob and a sigh.


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Women use makeup every day in an attempt to accentuate their best features and look more attractive in general — but it's not just the ladies who are turning to cosmetics. Over the years, celebs like Johnny Depp, Jared Leto, and Adam Lambert have made eyeliner acceptable for men, if not even cool.
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Men's Tennis Defeats Catawba in Season Opener
September 26, 2013
MISENHEIMER, N.C. – The Pfeiffer University men's tennis team (1-0) defeated visiting Catawba (1-2) in its season opener. The Falcons dominated singles play, winning five of six, en route to a 6-3 victory at Knapp Tennis Center.
Catawba took two of three in doubles competition, with the first doubles team of Loic Minery and Axel Woerner grabbing the Falcons victory, 8-4.
In singles action, Pfeiffer was far superior. Minery, Sebastian Wernecke and Stephen Miller all won in straight sets. The most dramatic match of the afternoon was between Jimmy Molina of Pfeiffer and Michael Patch of Catawba in fourth singles. Patch took the first set, 6-3. However, Molina rallied and won the next two sets by identical 7-6 scores. Wrapping up the Pfeiffer victories was Axel Woerner who defeated Jack Mordey in third singles by scores of 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
The win was the first for new Pfeiffer Head Coach Justin Fainter.
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Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is the latest member of the Volvo Group to partner with the World Wide Fund for Nature's (WWF) Climate Savers program. An initiative that requires participating corporations to commit to cutting CO2 emissions in their operations. As part of the agreement, SDLG, Volvo CE's other brand and joint-venture partner in China, has become the first Chinese company to commit to the program.
The Volvo Group has been a member of the Climate Savers initiative since 2010 — and was the first heavy-duty truck manufacturer to sign on to the agreement. At that time, the company agreed that all trucks manufactured and sold between 2009 and 2014 would see a reduction in CO2 emissions of 13 million tons. With Volvo CE, SDLG and Volvo Buses now on board, the Volvo Group aims to reduce the total lifetime amount of CO2 emitted by the vehicles it produces before 2014 by more than 30 million tons, compared with those manufactured in 2008. Volvo Group production plants will also decrease their CO2 emissions by 12% before 2014, compared to 2008 levels.
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Volvo CE, as with all members of the Volvo Group, is dedicated to reducing carbon-dioxide emissions from its products and factories, as well as developing new technology to enhance fuel efficiency and creating alternate fuel solutions. As part of the Climate Savers program, Volvo CE will develop new prototypes with enhanced fuel performance.
By 2014, Volvo CE, along with SDLG, Volvo Buses and Volvo Group commit to reduce CO2 emissions from production plants by 12% from 2008 levels, which amounts to 0.2 megatonnes (Mt) of CO2. This will primarily be achieved through energy efficiency improvements. In line with Climate Savers rules, no carbon offsets will be used to achieve this objective.
Volvo CE, with the inclusion of Volvo Group, SDLG and Volvo Buses commit to reduce total lifetime CO2 emissions from vehicles sold between 2009 and 2014 by more than 30 Mt compared to 2008 models, via improved fuel efficiency.
Volvo CE will investigate advanced drivetrain technologies and internally present a prototype with considerably improved fuel efficiency by 2014.


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30-10-2010 3:59
Dear friends
I use Nokia N8 and Ovi store 2.0. As the the title states, when I press buy button in Ovi store it shows "Server error, we are experiencing problems with the payment service. You will be taken back to the catalog page."
It occurs to all apps not specific app. The price shows correctly in local currency. I still didn't enter any card number.
I've contacted Nokia call center which they received the issue with no response and solution for more than 1 week.
If this has happened to you before, please share the solution. Thank you in advance.
01-11-2010 18:09
I had the same problem and when I called Nokia Customer Service, their reason is that the developer of the application probably chooses not to receive payment through your phone service but rather have it from a credit card? So, it's not Nokia who controls it, it's the person who made the application. Nokia also said something about calling up the service of your phone and have them remove the phone bill payment so that you can purchase things through a credit/debit or other forms of payment instead. That didn't help me much, but they couldn't solve it any better. Hope that helps.
02-11-2010 14:12
I had the same problem on my new N8. I followed the link from the text to the game I wanted to buy. I pressed the BUY button but got no further payment options, and then the server error message came up.
I did manage to buy the game I wanted by going to the OVI store application that had downloaded and installed on my phone that was "optimised for my device". When I selected the game and pressed BUY it all worked as I expected it to, but I did set my own personal defaults to payment by phone bill.
03-11-2010 16:05
Nokai - connecting people? They seem to struggle to connect me to myself! I had already logged in to this site four times, and had to log in again just to contribute to this discussion. It's no wonder they are taking such a drubbing from Apple.
I have the same problem as described above when trying to buy and app from the OVI store with my new N8, and that problem continues even when I download the version of the store application that is optimised for my phone.
(While I'm on that subject, has anyone else had the odd experience of being told repeatedly to download the OVI app store, despite the fact that it is already installed?)
Please, Nokia, get your act together. Not that anyone probably reads these things, given the exceptionally poor response.
05-11-2010 19:43
I am having this problem with my C7... I get the error that the OP gets and cannot buy anything from the Ovi Store.
10-11-2010 17:51
Disregard what i posted, i found out a way to get around it, if you are using the USA N8 and AT&T server, I think for many people, you won't be able to purchase anything "paid" apps since its default is from phone bill.
I found out if you turn off your phone, take the sim card out and turn it back on, you can download the app by using just the Wifi to connect to ovi store. I was finally able to buy the app i wanted by doing this, it took me to a sign in page for my ovi, and i was able to imput my credit card info there and buy the app.
However, this i the only method I can find to just buy apps, once app is done installing I just made sure the app worked, then turned off my phone insert sim card back in, and turn on phone. App installed was still there but still cannot buy apps with sim card in phone. Hope this helps!
11-11-2010 7:48
I'm glad you've found a solution for the "payment problem". However, I have tried the same method (removing SIM-card, also exchanging SIM-card) and every other method I can think of - without success. Nokia should really do something with this payment problem instead of having their customers spending hours upon hours trying different "solutions". Why can't they use the same payment methods as Apple Store? I have never experienced any payment problem with Apple (for my Ipod touch and Ipad) so why should it be a problem for Nokia??
21-11-2010 11:26
Really not happy with my n8, had it 3 weeks, was a toss up between i phone and n8, went for the n8 as the reviews were blowing the i phone away, it was mentioned that its user friendly and took apples ideas and bettered them 10 fold..... er i dont think so the apps are useless, have to connect to most of them to use, i cant buy any as it says error,payment method not verified and so on, this is not what i wanted in a phone, i wanted to push a button and expect the phone to do as you ask it,i have to turn the thing off now and then to get it to connect, it keeps asking me to download the ovi app even though its already installed on the phone, i cant even figure out how to put a pin lock on my photos and videos, how is that user friendly.ive always had samsung and loved them, my wife has just bought the samsung galaxy, wow what a cool phone blows the i phone and n8 into space, all i can say is an upgrade cant get here quick enough...........
21-11-2010 11:37
23-11-2010 6:01
Same issue here.
I have a VISA waiting to spend money on the OVI store only to be greeted by that message saying that for some reason something went wrong, so I'm left without the app I was wishing for.
Unfortunately, making such a basic thing a hassle for users, all they are achieving is to promote piracy, since annoyed people will seek the software from other sources.
03-12-2010 19:06
The purchase via OVI link does not work.
*So simply search Ovi store what you want in larger PC screen etc.
*Open Ovi in N8
*Log in.
*"Search" for what you want by name.
*"Confirm" if payment method is set up.
*"Change payment method" if necessary in this panel. (ALL credit cards are here.)
*Item is downloaded.
*Launch etc. and have fun.
It all works perfectly but only via OVI in N8, NOT via link.
Use this until Nokia has it sorted out.
Regards karl41
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07-12-2010 22:04
Thank you so much for your post. I have spent over an hour on the phone to Nokia/Ovi support who have not been able to resolve this issue!
Followed your advice - and downloaded first time. Your're a star
14-12-2010 21:57
I am experiencing the 'Server error, we are experiencing problems with the payment service' problem too only for my region (Ireland) and or service provider (Vodafone), credit card payment does not seem to be allowed. When I login to my Ovi store account using a PC and go to the 'Account' section, there is no option to add a credit card payment. When I click an app, the only payment option I get is 'send to phone', which leads to the message: 'Server error, we are experiencing problems with the payment service'
I first noticed this months ago and assumed Nokia would fix it considering that this is a fairly important part of their business. I'm now shocked to see that this affects multiple countries and has not been fixed yet. I guess from the delay in fixing this issue that Nokia haven't recognised the importance though, just like they didn't recognise that apps were going to drive the smartphone market and gave away their smartphone market share to Apple. My next phone will be a Droid, pity because I always liked the Nokia hardware.
29-12-2010 10:56
Enable cookies on browser (they are disabled by default?). Worked for me.
14-01-2011 21:40
Karl41 - Big Thank you! - I can now join in the Angry Birds gang!!
Link sent by text did not work but as you advised browse to the app you want to buy from the phone (Not PC) works with no problems!!
I would not have thought to do this as at I first got free games which I was able to download via text link.
Nokia really need to fix this bug!!
Thanks again
24-05-2011 12:08
I have tried all forms of payment on phone (N8) and web and they all give the same message. What's the point in having a store if you can't pay for things ?
16-09-2011 15:32
This app won't send to Ovi Suite onPC!