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Considered charming in the Super Nintendo and N64 days, now only the laziest of developers just throw the name of the Nintendo console the game is on into the title. These are those games.
Sure, these days have almost every game sporting the newfangled 3D, but way back when, everyone had to live with plain old 2D. 2D, or two dimensions, limit the game to scrolling backgrounds, but some games even now make use of this basic concept.
An AI companion is a computer-controlled ally who follows and aids you through your adventures or who requires your protection. The AI companion's survival is often essential to game and story progression.
A Grass/Ice type Pokemon and the evolved form of Snover.
Abra is a psychic-type pokemon from the original Pokemon Red/Blue. With spoon-bending powers, he attacks using his mind.
Absol is a dark-type pokemon from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire. From the shadows Absol strikes out at an unwary foe.
A generation V pokémon that was introduced in Black/White.
When a game inclüdes an accènt in its title.
Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Aerodactyl is a rock/flying-type pokemon first found in the original Pokemon Red/Blue. Aerodactyl is formed from old amber, blood from the creature trapped inside the amber allowing scientists to revive Aerodactyl to full health.
Third generation Rock-Steel type Pokemon which evolves from Aron and Lairon
A Johto native, Aipom is a small normal type pokemon that has resembles a small monkey and has a large hand on the end of it's tail.
An innate ability to control the behavior and direction of the air. This ability can also be used to create and control bursts of wind.
Alakazam is a psychic-type pokemon from the original Pokemon Red/Blue. As the evolution of Kadabra, Alakazam is the third in a line of powerful spoon-bending psychics.
A water Pokémon added in Black/White.
A Pokemon which appears to be engulfed in a cloud.
Fourth-generation Pokemon created as an evolution to Aipom
A generation V pokémon that makes it's first appearance in Pokémon Black/White.
Ampharos is an electric-type pokemon from Pokemon Silver/Gold. As the evolution of Flaaffy, Ampharos is the third in this line of sheep-looking electric pokemon.
Whether making pinatas do the dance of love or breeding two Pokemon together, making fictional creatures make the fictional creature with two backs is a popular game concept.
This Bug/Rock type Pokemon can be found in Pokemon ruby and Sapphire.
Arbok is a poison type Pokémon that evolves from Ekans.
A majestic and fierce fire pokemon, Arcanine is the evolved form of Growlithe.
Fourth-generation legendary Pokemon able to change its type depending on what plate it is given. Believed to be the creator of the Pokemon universe.
Some games offer alternate modes or specific sections of the storyline that involve arena combat, gladiator style.
A Pokémon first found in Johto. It evolves from Spinarak.
Armaldo is an ancient Pokémon that must be revived from a fossil. It has the ability to blow players' minds upon realisation that the red spots on its head aren't actually its eyes.
A Pokemon first found in Hoenn. It evolves into Lairon.
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Washington D.C. forecast: warmer Saturday but snow possible by Sunday
Today will feel more like February than late March.
Friday: Patchy Clouds, Breezy & Cool
Highs: Mid 40s | Wind Chill: 30s
Overnight: Mainly Clear & Cold
Lows: 25-32 | Wind: NW 3-8 mph
Sunday: PM Mix and/or Snow Likely
Highs: 41-46 | Wind: NW 5-13 mph
One year ago today the cherry blossoms were in peak bloom, and the high temperature at DCA was 78 degrees. Well, today will be about 30 degrees cooler than that and peak bloom is expected in early April (3-6). Highs today should make it into the mid 40s, but it'll feel like the 30s when you factor in the gusty wind. Saturday is looking sunny and warmer, but still below average as highs creep into the mid 50s. The prospect of snow still exists for late Sunday into Monday, but it's too early to pin down totals (if any at all). Such a warm and sunny Saturday and the high sun angle this time of year will make it tough for those first flakes to stick on Sunday. However, some accumulation is possible especially in the higher terrain and some spots west of D.C. by Monday morning. We will have constant updates here on www.wjla.com/weather
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The Spanish property market continues to suffer acutely, according to the latest reports. Some 600,000 homes are currently languishing on the market unable to find a buyer, and a further 200,000 partially completed properties are in the same boat. Most of these are in the popular holiday areas.
According to the Bank of Spain, house prices in the country have fallen 17% since 2007. While this may be good news for buyers, sellers are forced to slash their prices much further before they can even think about getting an offer.
Take the British owners of a three bedroom villa in Valencia's Castellion. The have slashed their property's price from $176,563 to $289,953 (a drop of over 15 percent) and then to $106,910 (a drop of over 30%) and still have no takers. Taylor Wimpey is selling off its villas in the Costa Blanca at $226,779 which opened for sale at $380,664, a reduction of around 40 percent. Prices in the Balearics, previously thought to be immune to price declines, are also down around 40 percent.
"There are some real bargains, especially at the top of the market," says a spokeswoman for Savills estate agency, which has one new luxury villa on Mallorca slashed from $24.9m to $15.4m.
As well as the dire state of the market (oversupply, overvalued, prices falling, illegal properties), the weak pound/euro exchange rate is also being blamed. One developer is offering a guaranteed rate of 1.25 Euros to the pound in order to entice buyers to take the plunge in their Catalunya golf resort.
Another major problem for the market is the baron mortgage market, arguably especially for foreigners."Spain stands out with a housing market and a lending record that's far worse than France, Portugal or Italy. If you must buy, somehow try to remortgage money from your own home back in Britain," says Melanie Bien of mortgage broker Private Finance.
Four years into the downturn and there are still few signs of hope. The stark rise in the sale of new homes at the start of 2010, hailed as the start of a recovery was simply a mad rush to beat the deadlines on the scrapping of mortgage relief and an increase in VAT. This was proven by the slide in sales towards the end of 2010.
With so many homes and so few buyers, the additional 257,443 further homes completed in 2010 can only add to the misery. Despite this worsening of the oversupply, the construction industry declined 43 percent in 2010, according to Eurostat.
In the United Kingdom, homes are still unaffordable and this needs to be corrected either by wage increases, or the faster option, by price reductions. In Spain, the situation is the same, but on a grander scale. Spain built more homes during the boom than Italy, France, and Germany put together. No matter how long it takes the economy and banking sector to recover, and prices to fall far enough for people to start buying in numbers again, the oversupply is so severe that the only cure is time, and a lot of it. Spain will likely face a property depression until at least 2015.
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Volunteers give Brunswick animal shelter a makeover
BRUNSWICK — In lieu of a company Christmas party, a Portland business owner this week donated more than $30,000 worth of renovations to the Coastal Humane Society.
The work Monday and Tuesday by Hardypond Construction took place throughout the animal shelter's 30 Range Road facility.
Shelter leaders said the work will be a "Band-Aid" as they continue a campaign to raise $4 million for a new adoption center at 190 Pleasant St.
Hardypond owner Bob Gaudreau's wife, Dorothy Wentworth, is the shelter's vice president. But Gaudreau said his past contract work for CHS at Pleasant Street convinced him to donate his company's materials and labor this week, and to get several other companies to donate supplies.
"We learned there were less-than-desirable conditions for animals and volunteers," Gaudreau said.
Some of those conditions included leaky roofs, insufficient storage space, inadequate living space for some cats and dogs, and poor insulation.
The condition of a dog isolation area – and the shelter's previously deferred improvements to the section – were the chief basis of public criticisms in 2013 by a group of volunteers who were later dismissed because CHS officials said their behavior was creating an uncomfortable environment for other staff.
Dr. Mandie Wehr, the shelter veterinarian, said the former volunteers' campaign wasn't the impetus for the renovation work.
While poor conditions in the dog isolation area have always been a concern for the shelter, she said, "It was just that we didn't have the resources until now."
One of the major improvements Hardypond made to the area are new, insulated walls that enclose the former outdoor kennels.
Because that side of the kennel was previously unavailable during the winter, dogs had limited space indoors, Wehr said. It also created problems for volunteers trying to clean the cramped space.
"Doing this kind of work will increase their comfort," Wehr said, and reduce stress for dogs.
Wehr said the volunteer construction workers also modified the shelter's cat kennels, so that felines have more space to move around.
When the Pleasant Street expansion is complete, she said, all of the adoptable animals will move there, while the rest of the animals, including dogs in the current isolation area, will be moved to a newer part of the Range Road facility.
Gaudreau said the company cancelled its annual Christmas party to make time for the shelter work, and all of his workers, and some of their family members, agreed to pitch in.
"It sounds like we're all dog and cat owners," Gaudreau said. "It's the right thing to do."


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Both OS's seemd to be unstable when Windows crashed so I could not mount
the Windows partitions to backup files (that was one of the first things I
tried, and kernel panic came up)
I do have two large HDD (40G for win98 and 30G for RH7.2) and thought that
would suffice to keep the two lovebirds away from each other, but I'll try
the fdisk /mbr and boot linux with a floppy instead of grub. When I do
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what sys c: does? (I'm a plant biologist, not a CS major, so please bear
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Addison has a strong quantitative background, having conducted financial analysis for numerous international multi-million dollar transactions.
Addison began his career at Goldman Sachs, working in the Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities Division. After Goldman, he worked at Swiss Re where he developed complex financial models for the firm's commodity trading activities.
Following his work at Swiss Re, Addison moved to Mauritius where he was one of the first employees for SEACOM, a US$700M project, which was the first submarine fiber optic network to connect South and East Africa to India and Europe. At SEACOM, he led the financial modeling and analysis of the project, including the management of a US$225M equity facility and procurement of a US$75MM senior debt facility.
After SEACOM, Addison worked for Siemens Venture Capital, where he performed financial and business due diligence on investments in the energy, materials, green technology and industrial solutions space.
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Volleyball: Mountaineers Honored at Banquet
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University volleyball team honored multiple Mountaineers at its 2011-12 Go West Virginia Gala team banquet, held tonight, at Touchdown Terrace at Milan Puskar Football Stadium.
Second-year coach Jill Kramer presented sophomore Liz Gulick with the Academic Achievement Award, senior Abby Monson with the Achievement, Effort, Attitude Award, senior Serinna Russo with the Tough as Nails Award and junior Karly Rasmussen with the Be a Mountaineer Award. MacKenzie Keenan was also honored with the Manger Award.
Gulick, a two-year letterwinner, has the highest team GPA of 4.0 and is a member of the Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll and a BIG EAST Academic All-Star. Gulick was also recently honored with the inaugural WVU Female Student-Athlete Community Service Outreach Award. The Wheaton, Ill., native competed in 44 sets for the Mountaineers as a defensive specialist and finished the season with 52 digs and two service aces.
Monson concluded her four-year career this past fall after playing in every set and match for WVU in 2011. Monson finished her career with 85 kills, 29 digs and 61 blocks. The middle blocker is a member of the Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll and a BIG EAST Academic All-Star. Monson was recently named a 2012 WVU Foundation Outstanding Senior and will graduate with a 3.87 GPA before beginning graduate school this fall at WVU.
After transferring from Concordia-Irvine, Russo made an immediate impact for the Mountaineers in her two seasons. Russo moved to the libero position for the 2011 season and finished No. 7 in the nation and No. 2 in the BIG EAST in digs per set with 5.82. The Riverside, Calif., native is No. 1 and No. 3 in the WVU record book for digs per set in a single season (5.82) and digs in a single season (530), respectively. Russo is also a member of the Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll and a BIG EAST Academic All-Star. She will graduate in May.
Rasmussen has been a vocal leader on the bench for the Mountaineers the past three seasons. The setter and defensive specialist stepped in and ran the offense five times for WVU this past fall and had a career-high three assists against DePaul. Rasmussen is a member of the Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll and is a BIG EAST Academic All-Star.
In addition to Monson and Russo, the coaches also honored seniors Kylie Armbruster, Michelle Kopecky and Kari Post.
The Mountaineers finished the season 7-19 and 5-9 in BIG EAST play.
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The gaming industry's current state of motion controls is a "gimmick" and won't be featured in Battlefield 4, according to the DICE executive producer Patrick Bach.
Speaking to Edge, Bach added that companies have been "throwing money" at the studio in an effort to get them to code support for "quirky" control schemes, but added that DICE is not interested.
"We are not interested in things that don't make the game better," said Bach. "There are a lot of gimmicks--people throwing money at us--'can you implement support for this quirky control thing'. No, it doesn't make the game better."
"We are extremely open to innovation, but if it's a gimmick, there's no point unless it adds value to the player. Touch screens used to be a gimmick, because no one could get it to work until iPhone came out and used it right. It adds to the experience, and now everyone is doing it. To us it's the same with motion control and perceptual gaming in general; if it adds, great. If it's a gimmick, ignore it."
Battlefield 4, which uses the next iteration of DICE's Frostbite engine, was announced with a 17-minute gameplay video at GDC 2013. The game is due to be released later this year, but so far only Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC versions have been confirmed.
Promotional material spotted at US retailer GameStop suggests Battlefield 4 will feature three playable factions and see a return of Commander Mode.


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Saurimo — The Swiss minister of Justice and Police, Simoneta Summaruga, last Wednesday in Saurimo City, eastern Lunda-Sul Province, her country's interest in having an economic co-operation with Angola in the diamonds sector.
The Swiss official gave this information after a meeting with the province's governor, Cândida Narciso.
Simoneta Summaruga said that she went to Lunda Sul to learn on the spot of the potential of the Catoca mining company and check whether her country can set up in this province firms that can contribute to the region's socioeconomic development.
She stressed that on the basis of the partnership that has been recently signed with Angola, her country can keep a close collaboration with the province, in actions like fight against immigration and illegal exploration of diamonds by foreigners.
In the meeting with the local executive, the Swiss government official was informed, by the provincial governor, about the socioeconomic and cultural situation of Lunda-Sul and the diamonds exploration activity.
On the visit that she paid to Catoca, Simoneta Summaruga checked the mine field, the high technology used in the exploration activity and the results being obtained by the company.
In the end of the visit, the governor offered the minister some craft items that identify the Lunda-Tchokwe culture.


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Affordable Cruiser Bikes in India
Cruiser Bikes in India
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This is really beauty..
But in India lighter bikes are more success..
[...] Introduction | Bajaj Avenger 220cc | Royal Enfield Thunderbird | Hero Honda Karizma | Yamaha Enticer | Conclusion [...]
yes, i would love to ride cruiser bike. i own yamaha enticer & im happy with that bike bcz its good for city heavy traffic as well as for long drive . in cruiser bike comfort level is more .
Its true… the first one to venture in this segment with a decent HD look alike with sweep all the stakes just like Bajaj did with Pulsar.
Now its upto the manufacturers to seize the initiative. Hyosung are you listenting we still have nothing to beat the Aquila
hmm good thought…..manufacturers here in India only concentrate on making more bikes that's why we are so much deprived of the fun of real cruisers..
We definately need a good cruiser. Enfield bikes,though a possible alternative, have become dated and to say the least, quirky. What we need is mid price range cruisers, with a good service network (why go in for a cruiser if you dont want roads less travelled), reliable, NOT TOO SPEEDY (Takes away the fun of cruising), a good road presence ( A big plus for Enfield bikes). IN short PURE BIKING PLEASURE —- ROADS/ BAD ROADS/ TRACKS
I own an avenger…and guys she is a great machine!! She is a headturner in my place, as there are only a few possibly less than 10 in my town at Kerala. I wonder why Herohonda, Honda and Suzuki are not entering the cruiser segment? The stats show that more and more Indian youths are coming into the cruising section but the problem is the option, only avenger and thunderbird!!!
I went for Avenger today and was very disappointed with 220 CC's finishing, the clotting like shape occur after welding were left as it is and ….. !
i dont think this guy knows the difference between bajaj-kawasaki eliminator & bajaj avenger…
I really don't think any of these bikes are actually cruiser bikes… its quite an insult when compared with American standards where the cruiser bike concept started. We really need one company to start the concept of actual 'Cruiser' bikes and the volume business when captured will automatically have alarm bells ringing for the others. Till then enjoy these "Pseudo-Cruisers' as I must say!
I like to buy Avenger & I went bajaj showroom nellai for enquiry avenger looking good but I am upset while talking with salseref person he didnt give many reply for some technical quastion
thunderbird rocks
Thunder Bird TS Rocks 350 CC n i have a milage of 48-50 kmpl
bikers who loves mileage too have the love towards cruisers, a mid range of 60,000 priced cruiser of around 150cc displacement, with a fuel economy around 55km/l would be the best seller cruiser in india. i am really surprised why indian companies are not looking to this segment, except BAJAJ autos.
which cruiser bike is good at mileage , available in india ?? what is the mileage of avenger ???
honda shadow phantom is the sexiest cruiser bike in india it gives a mileage of 23km/l and it costs around 3.5 lkhs wow smooooooooooochhhh
But is it available in india???
But Honda Shadow is not available, if you get it, let me know
currently i am ridin bajaj avenger 220, it feels gr8, has a very comfortable ride position n a gr8 engine,
truly a gr8 indian cruiser
It's my dream bike!
I had an avenger, rode it from 2008 – 2010, now I have a Thunderbird… but Im a kind of guy who always looks for more….. I feel that its hi time for more cruisers to enter the market…. and by that I do not mean machines that are bulky and show offs (obviously not with a high price tag) a descent cruiser which is practicle on indian roads and can reach the masses with the right pricing…… anything between 1.5 – 2.5 lakhs with a good enough engine of 200 – 250 CC engine would be good enough… we have enough Harley Davidson options….. What we need is more options in the Avenger , THunderbird league


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Wildcat Day Camp, provided for boys and girls entering grades 2 through 9 will be held July 17-21 and July 31-August 4.
The day camp features basketball instruction for both the beginning player and the advanced youth from college coaches, UNH players and high school coaches. Campers will participate in skill development sessions plus two games per day.
Each registered camper will receive a tee shirt and UNH basketball. All skill levels are welcome.
The Next Step Camp is provided for high school boys aged 14-17. The camp is geared for the player who is serious about developing his skills. The camp runs evenings July 31-August 3.
Information as well as registration forms are available online at www.unhwildcats.com/camps or by calling camp director Scott Weitzell at 603-862-2490.


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Lose yourself in the beautiful travel photography & exotic recipes of "The No-Potato Passover" and let Aviva Kanoff take you on an international culinary experience from Italy to Morocco. Explore the tastes and colors of cultures far and near as Aviva explores creative recipes with these exotic cuisines.
Every recipe in The No-Potato Passover is kosher for Pesach, which may seem surprising as these Pesach recipes lack the typical Pesach starchy staples.
Leave potatoes behind! Explore the possibilities of quinoa and spaghetti squash in your Passover menu.
The recipes in The No-Potato Passover are so delicious, you'll want to make them all year round!
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Nelspruit — Nigeria skipper Vincent Enyeama last night hit out at the officials following his side's 1-1 draw with defending champions Zambia.
Nigeria were leading 1-0 through Emmanuel Emenike's strike but six minutes from time, Eddy Onazi was adjudged to have fouled Emmanuel Mayuka. Kennedy Mweene, Enyeama's counterpart, stepped up and swept in the equaliser.
"It was a bizarre call for a penalty," said 30-year-old Enyeama after the game in Nelspruit.
"It was one of the worst calls I've seen in the history of football. It doesn't belong to football. If we want to develop the football of Africa, you don't see such calls for a game of such magnitude - Nigeria v Zambia - to give such a big call."
Enyeama, who was captain in the absence of Joseph Yobo, said his side was still harbouring grievances about the standard of officiating during their 1-1 draw with Burkina Faso on 21 January.
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi was reluctant to become embroiled in a row over decisions. "I'm not sure it was a penalty," Keshi remarked after the game. "In a big game like that, the penalty has to be clear. But the referee is the chief, he's the boss of the game. He's taken his decision."
Of more concern to Keshi will be his team's lack of composure at crucial moments.
They were leading 1-0 and controlling the game against Burkina Faso when Eric Ambrose was sent off for his second yellow card. That dismissal changed the dynamic and allowed Burkina Faso the opportunity to hunt an equaliser which arrived with the last kick of the game.
Against Zambia, Jon Obi Mikel scuffed a first half penalty against the post though he did atone for the error in the second half by muscling Chisamba Lungu off the ball and playing the through pass for Emenike to fire home.
And then with the three points almost collected, Onazi was reckless to tangle with Mayuka in the area.
Nigeria will advance to the last eight if they beat Ethiopia on 29 January in Rustenburg.
"We just have to move ahead and prepare for what we have to do next," says Keshi. The Ethiopians have an outside chance of qualification despite being thrashed 4-0 by Burkina Faso on Friday night.
At any rate Ethiopia coach Sewnet Bishaw has promised all out attack for goals to maintain the possibility of progress. There's also the no small matter of Ethiopian pride.
But will it be enough to arrest Nigerian ambition?


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Seabelo's Express was still travelling the Gaborone-Johannesburg route last week despite what appeared to be a revocation of their operating permit by the High Court on July 19, 2007.
In his decision, Justice Maruping Dibotelo stated: "The second respondent (the director of transport) is ordered and directed not to re-issue any P-permit or short term permit with regard to the said route to Seabelo Express or its nominee or agent before the whole applications and advertising procedures prescribed by the roads transport act are fully complied with.".
Delivering the judgement, Dibotelo said that the then director of transport, Moses Sebolao acted in contravention of the law and that his decision to grant Seabelo Express the permit was invalid and should be set aside.
TJ Motlogelwa's Express (PTY) LTD initiated the court action seeking review and setting aside of Seabelo's permit. He argued that the Seabelo's Express applied for a P-permit to operate a luxury coach on the Gaborone - Johannesburg via Lobatse and Johannesburg-Gaborone.
He stated that the application was published in the government gazette of January 24, 2003 pursuant to the provisions of regulation 4 of the road traffic regulations.
In that publication, Dibotelo indicated that notice was given that the application would be heard at a public sitting on February 18 and 19, 2003 at the National Stadium Conference room number one and that any persons who objected to the application to submit their objections to the director.
Dibotelo revealed that it is not in dispute that in May 2003 Seabelo's Express was granted the permit by the director to operate a bus service on the Gaborone - Johannesburg and Johannesburg - Gaborone route and that this route passed through Tlokweng and not via Lobatse according to the application.
The judge pointed out that TJ Motlogelwa's Express complained that the director grossly misdirected himself, unduly preferred Seabelo's Express and acted ultra vires the act in granting a permit on the basis of an application that was never heard by the transport advisory board at a public hearing.
According to Dibotelo, the director alleged that at the time there was no luxury coach serving the route and the chairman of the board advised him that if the permit was granted, "it could not include Lobatse as there was an intergovernmental agreement relating to border control that this kind of traffic use the Tlokweng border post. He alleged that he accepted the board's right to impose conditions on permitted routes even though such a limitation meant that Seabelo's Express could not take advantage of the Lobatse market".
Dibotelo judged that it was not true that the director was advised by the chairman of the board that if the permit was granted it could not include Lobatse. He sated that the reason why it must be believed that there was no public hearing is simply because there were no minutes to show that the hearing did in fact take place.
"I find it inconceivable that if there had been a hearing as contended by Seabelo's Express there would have been no minutes or some sort of records to show at the minimum that its director did appear to represent it at such a hearing," he said, adding that the conduct of the Attorney General and the director over the period of August 2005 to March 2007 when they failed to produce any semblance of a record despite court orders direction them to do so proved that there was no hearing.
The judge also pointed out that in amending the application for a new route that was not advertised showed that the director was not varying or amending an existing permit but was dealing with an application for a new permit.
"In these premises it follows that the decision of the director to grant the permission in question to Seabelo cannot be allowed to stand," Maruping said nullifying the permit.
The company was nevertheless granted a short-term permit on the same day, seemingly in contravention of the High Court decision.
A letter from state counsel, Moemedi Modisenyane, to transport director, Mmoshe Mookodi, advises that in his legal opinion the court order 'did not prevent Seabelo's Express from making a fresh application for the permit, including a short-term permit for the same route'.
Modisenyane also advised that the order 'did not prevent the transport director from receiving, considering and if satisfied that the provisions of the Act had been fully complied with, proceed and issue the permit'.
Modisenyane also met with the Deputy Minister of Works and Transport, Frank Ramsden, who later advised the transport department to deal with the application on the basis of the office of the Attorney General's advice.
Mookodi communicated with Modisenyane the following day seeking further clarification on the interpretation of the court order.
His concern was that at face value it was directed in the court order that the transport office was not to reissue a new permit or even a short-term permit.
Modisenyane repeated his earlier advice and undertook to furnish the director's office with written confirmation of their conversation for the record.
"We once again confirm having no doubt whatsoever that the advice given to the department is sound in law. Put in another way, the court order did not say that the controller cannot reissue permits, period," Modisenyane said.
He added that in granting the application the department had not fallen foul of the court order and in point of fact has complied fully with the terms of the court order.


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Video feature: 'A Year in Review: 2014-15'
By the Office of Communications · Posted June 29, 2015; 12:00 p.m.
The 2014-15 academic year at Princeton included moments of joy, protest and wonder for the University community, and this video shows some of those key points, from Opening Exercises in the fall to the University's 268th Commencement in the spring.
Video feature: 'Hero': The making of a senior thesis
By Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications · Posted June 22, 2015; 12:00 p.m.
Eamon Foley, a member of the Class of 2015, was an anthropology major who also earned a certificate in theater. For his theater thesis, he blended his academic studies in ethnography — the process of studying a culture through observation and interviews — with his professional experience as a performer to create an original theater-dance piece titled "Hero." The show tells the story of a young man transformed by his experiences in the Vietnam War through indie rock music, dance and aerial choreography.
Princeton Summer Theater explores the timelessness of myth
By Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications · Posted June 18, 2015; 12:00 p.m.
Princeton Summer Theater will immerse audience members in multiple facets of myth and storytelling, presenting four mainstage plays and a children's show in eight weeks. The season runs June 18 through Aug. 8 in Hamilton Murray Theater on the Princeton University campus.
Video feature: diSiac dance 'family' performs at Richardson
By the Office of Communications · Posted June 15, 2015; 12:00 p.m.
diSiac Dance Company, a Princeton University student group established in 1998, welcomes dancers with a variety of backgrounds — from various dance styles to different levels of experience, and from all corners of campus. This spring, as the group prepared for its show "Novum," students worked with the staff of Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall as part of the venue's new Student Artist in Residence program.
Video feature: Hepler-Smith examines origins of chemical names
By Staff · Posted June 10, 2015; 12:00 p.m.
Evan Hepler-Smith, a doctoral student in Princeton's Program in History of Science, is examining the history and impact of the International Commission on Chemical Nomenclature, which established the framework for naming chemical compounds.
Eisgruber to Princeton graduates: Pursue ideals that are 'beautiful and profound'
By Karin Dienst, Office of Communications · Posted June 2, 2015; 06:00 p.m.
Umbrellas, ponchos — and smiles — were in abundance as Princeton University celebrated its 268th Commencement on a rainy Tuesday morning, June 2.
Princeton University holds 268th Commencement
By Min Pullan, Office of Communications · Posted June 2, 2015; 01:00 p.m.
Princeton University awarded degrees to 1,268 undergraduates in the Class of 2015, three from former classes and 885 graduate students at its 268th Commencement Tuesday, June 2.
Today: Commencement
By the Office of Communications · Posted June 2, 2015; 07:00 a.m.
The Commencement program begins with the academic procession at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 2, on the front campus on Nassau Street. The University's 268th Commencement ceremony is slated for 11 a.m. on the lawn in front of Nassau Hall. All guests must be seated by 10:20 a.m. Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber will preside over the event and address the graduates. Several honorary degrees traditionally are conferred, with names being announced that day.
Film director Nolan challenges seniors to 'chase your reality'
By Emily Aronson, Office of Communications · Posted June 1, 2015; 05:00 p.m.
At Princeton's Class Day ceremony Monday, June 1, film director, screenwriter and producer Christopher Nolan challenged seniors to help improve the world by chasing their reality, not just their dreams.
Today: Class Day and Hooding ceremonies
By the Office of Communications · Posted June 1, 2015; 08:00 a.m.
The Class Day ceremony for seniors will start at 10:30 a.m. Monday, June 1. Because of severe weather, seniors will assemble in the University Chapel rather than Cannon Green. Guests may view the ceremony from simulcast locations. The speaker will be film director, screenwriter and producer Christopher Nolan. An interactive campus map is available.


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text: Also, that's it for tonight guys. There's still 5 more segments to do, but at this pace (or rather my computer's pace :mad: ) I'll be here for another 2 hours I'd say, and I simply have to sleep or I'll never get up in time for college. Can't afford to be late lol!


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In addition to the many available services and resources here at Regional Mental Health Centers, we've assembled numerous websites of organizations that offer information and advice regarding mental health issues and suicide prevention. If you need immediate crisis assistance, crisis assistance, call our hotline at 219.769.4005 or 888.398.7050, call 911 or go to the nearest hospital emergency room.
National Institute of Mental Health: The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery, and cure. www.nimh.nih.gov
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities. www.samhsa.gov. In order to achieve this mission, SAMHSA has identified 8 Strategic Initiatives to focus the Agency's work on improving lives and capitalizing on emerging opportunities. Many of the mental health and substance abuse brochures, fact sheets and posters are downloadable and some can be shipped free in quantity.
Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addictions: Mission is to ensure that Indiana citizens have access to quality mental health and addiction services that promote individual, family and community resiliency and recovery (includes listing of state services and programs. www.in.gov/fssa/dmha/4521.htm
Mental Health America: www.nmha.org Click on Indiana to locate the chapters in Indiana. There are fact sheets which can be translated into several different languages (see drop down box). The following are in Spanish: www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/en-espanol.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): Awareness, Education and Advocacy Organization. Family to Family, a program of NAMI to inform and support family and friends: Click on the tab "Find Your Local NAMI" to locate the Indiana chapters. There is a chapter listed for Merrillville (meets at Regional Strauhun Center (call Kathy Prospolonis). www.nami.org
Families/Depression Awareness: A national organization helping families recognize and cope with depressive disorders to get people well and prevent suicides. www.familyaware.org
Schizophrenia.com: A national non-profit community providing in-depth information, support and education related to schizophrenia, a disorder of the brain and mind. www.schizophrenia.com
Healthy Place.Com: Consumer mental health site providing information from a consumer and mental heatlh community including networking, documentaries, research reports and topic information (i.e. mental illness, substance abuse, self harm, medications, eating disorders) www.healthyplace.com
Active Minds: National Organization developing and supporting chapters of a student-run mental health awareness, education, and advocacy group on college campuses to increase students' awareness of mental health issues, provide information and resources regarding mental health and mental illness, encourage students to seek help as soon as it is needed, and serve as liaison between students and the mental health community. Click on tab "Chapters" to find Indiana chapters: www.activeminds.org
Bring Change 2 Mind: BringChange2Mind.org is a not-for-profit organization created by Glenn Close, the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (CABF), Fountain House, and Garen and Shari Staglin of IMHRO (International Mental Health Research Organization). The idea of a national anti-stigma campaign was born of a partnership between Glenn Close and Fountain House, where Glenn volunteered in order to learn about mental illness, which both her sister andnephew suffer from. The goals is to provide people who have nmisconceptions about mental illness quick and easy access to information that combats stigma and provide people who have mental illness and those who know them with quick and easy access to information and support. www.bringchange2mind.org
American Psychological Association: Based in Washington, D.C., the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide. The mission of the APA is to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives. www.apa.org
NARSAD (The Brain and Behavior Research Fund): NARSAD invests in the best and brightest scientific minds throughout the world to unravel the complexities of schizophrenia, depression, anxiety and many other psychiatric diseases. www.narsad.org
NARSAD Artworks: Museum-Quality Art Products by and on Behalf of Mentally Ill Persons www.narsadartworks.org
Depression Bi-Polar Support Alliance: Marked by changes in mood, depression and bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) are both highly treatable, medical illnesses. Site provides information and links to resources. www.dbsalliance.org
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare: The National Council is the unifying voice of America's behavioral health organizations. Together with our 1,800 member organizations, we serve our nation's most vulnerable citizens — more than 8 million adults and children with mental illnesses and addiction disorders. We are committed to providing comprehensive, quality care that affords every opportunity for recovery and inclusion in all aspects of community life www.thenationalcouncil.org
National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advanced Directives: Psychiatric advance directives are relatively new legal instruments that may be used to document a competent person's specific instructions or preferences regarding future mental health treatment. Psychiatric advance directives can be used to plan for the possibility that someone may lose capacity to give or withhold informed consent to treatment during acute episodes of psychiatric illness. www.nrc-pad.org
Annie Casey Foundation (Youth to Adult Assessments and Lifeskills Information): Here you will find free and easy to use tools to help young people prepare for adulthood. The life skills assessments provide instant feedback. Customized learning plans provide a clear outline of next steps, and the accompanying teaching resources are available for free or at a minimal cost. www.caseylifeskills.org.
Team Solutions and Solutions for Wellness (Lifeskills Curriculum downloadable and free ordering of materials): This site is intended to assist prescribers, nurses, case managers, social workers, and therapists who actively seek information, like psychoeducational and psychological materials, which can help them treat their clients with serious mental illness. www.treatmentteam.com
The Alzheimer's Association: Voluntary health organization dedicated to Alzheimer care and support, and the largest private, nonprofit funder of Alzheimer research. Articles, links, caregiver support, research and local organization referrals. www.alz.org
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Pink Spandex, the Human Epigenome and Apostasy
Workout notes
Yoga with Ms. Vickie:
No, we didn't do this, and no, there was no awesome pink spandex in the class. What we have is not so much a true yoga class as an exercise class in which the moves are inspired by yoga poses. The goal is to get stronger and more flexible rather than better at yoga.
Then I ran 6 miles:
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No, I didn't see this….this time. ;)
It was a cool, dry day. I jogged 1 mile to the gooseloop. Then I did 9 laps (3.24 miles) in 29:59 (9:55, 10:13, 9:51) where I ran .5 miles reasonably hard, then .22 miles (to make 2 loops) easy and repeated this; the only exception is that the last "hard" part was one full loop (.36 miles). Then I walked and then tried to jog two miles; that was hard. In fact, I had to walk twice during my super slow cooldown jog.
I did better two and three weeks ago (in terms of total time), but this time, I ran the interval bits harder and really slowly shuffled my recovery.
This workout reminds me of some in the book Running Tough by Michael Sandrock. One of my favorites is one that Robert de Castella used to do: he would warm up and do 8 x 400 m at 5K race pace. But he would recover 200 meters at something like a 6 minute per mile pace (which was about 20 percent slower than his marathon race pace!). You'd end up with 5K and he'd time the whole thing. The temptation is to take a bit off of the 400 meter interval part; that is a mistake. One way a mortal could do this: 400 meters at 5K pace, with a marathon pace recovery (since we tend to race marathons at a proportionally slower pace than the pros do); perhaps we could add 1 minute to the marathon pace. That workout is a killer.
Find the Kitten in the photo; you'll see that house cats have amazing camouflage characteristics!
You can see just a short clip of a film and, from the colors, determine if the film is from yesteryear or from the present day. Why is that? Mano Singham talks about this and links to a couple of interesting sources.
Example: watch the first two minutes of this; notice the colors:
Yes, you can tell it was late 1960's-early 1970's era (even if you didn't recognize a still-young Roger Moore; yes this was the last film he made prior to assuming the James Bond role).
In a nutshell: producers in those days didn't have the option of changing color by computer; hence they paid more attention to color quality while filming. Now-a-days, producers digitally alter the color to give a flatter, somewhat bluish effect.
this is a two part interview with Richard Dawkins. If you like evolution and science, you'll like this interview. He discusses things like punctuated equilibrium. He doesn't come across as strident at all, at least not to me.
More science: Europe will attempt to map the human epigenome (roughly speaking: the chemicals that allow for gene expression):
DNA-modification studies get a multi-million euro boost.
The health-research division of the European Commission launches its largest-ever project next week with a €30-million (US$41-million) investment in understanding the human epigenome, the constellation of DNA modifications that shape how genes are expressed.
With the project, called BLUEPRINT, Europe intends to become a major player in the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC), set up last year to help biologists understand how the epigenome influences health and disease.
All the cells that make up an individual originate from the same fertilized egg and share the same genome. But during development, cells acquire epigenetic changes — such as chemical modifications to DNA, and changes in the shape of its tightly coiled three-dimensional structure — that affect which genes will be active in which cells at a given time and which will be silent.
The epigenome then remains largely stable, so that a liver, for example, remains a liver throughout life. But small parts of the epigenome change constantly as the cell responds to environmental changes. The epigenome also changes in diseases, including cancer.
The importance of the epigenome in health and disease is becoming increasingly clear. But researchers studying it have faced a big hurdle: the lack of a reliable library of high-quality, quantitative reference epigenomes against which new data can be compared. Little is known, even, about how much the epigenome normally varies between individuals, or between the different cells in an individual.
Enter BLUEPRINT, which unites 41 institutions and more than 50 principal investigators across Europe who will contribute a further €10 million to the project. BLUEPRINT will provide at least 100 reference epigenomes toward the IHEC's goal of amassing 1,000 reference epigenomes by 2020.
BLUEPRINT has chosen to focus on the blood system. This should help move discoveries quickly into the clinic, as many diagnostic tests rely on blood samples. "Blood is also what gets stored in biobanks and used for genome analysis," says BLUEPRINT coordinator Henk Stunnenberg at the Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences in the Netherlands.[…]
This is an attempt to respond to a "defense of naturalism". Meh. If there are other ways of "discovering" or "knowing" truth (other than by naturalism), then please present such a result. That is all. :)
Why I have no automatic respect for religion or religious belief
Ok, let me be clear about what I am saying: many religious are genuinely nice, intelligent people. And yes, many beliefs and practices ARE commendable. For example, there is one organization that I have given money to and they are religious; they get out there and feed and house the hungry and homeless.
But the beliefs that I respect get my respect because the beliefs and commendable and because they lead to good actions; I do NOT automatically respect a belief because it is "religious". If I encounter a belief or an idea that catches my interest, I critique the same way I critique any other idea (science, social, political, etc.)
So, here is an action that is being taken in the name of religion that I find horrific:
The Foreign Secretary and the Archbishop of Canterbury intervened last night to try to save a Christian pastor in Iran who has refused to renounce his faith to escape a death sentence.
An Iranian court gave Youcef Nadarkhani, 34, a third and final chance to avoid hanging, but he replied: "I am resolute in my faith and Christianity and have no wish to recant."
The panel of five judges will decide within a week whether to confirm his execution for apostasy, Mohammed Ali Dadkhah, his lawyer, told The Times.
William Hague said he "deplored" Pastor Nadarkhani's plight, and a senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office diplomat telephoned the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London to protest.
"This demonstrates the Iranian regime's continued unwillingness to abide by its constitutional and international obligations to respect religious freedom," Mr Hague said. "I pay tribute to the courage shown by Pastor Nadarkhani, who has no case to answer, and call on the Iranian authorities to overturn his sentence."
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, broke his silence to express "deep concern" at the sentence faced by Pastor Nadarkhani, and at the persecution of religious minorities in Iran generally.
Sources said that Christian clerics and advisers had been working hard behind the scenes to save the pastor's life, but had sought to avoid "megaphone diplomacy" in case it did more harm than good.
The US Department of State has also condemned the Iranian judiciary for demanding that Pastor Nadarkhani renounce his faith or face execution.
Yes, a few hundred years ago, Christian authorities did exactly the same thing, and the Jewish Bible describes the same thing being done to others.
This is a case of a nonsensical, downright evil religious belief. Yes, "the State" would do the execution, but this would be required by their form of clergy.
I challenge anyone to claim that they respect this religious belief, idea or practice.
And no, the irony is NOT lost on me (that one is being killed by one follower of an imaginary entity because the soon-to-be victim believes in some other imaginary entity…or professes a different way of worshiping the said fictional character.)
And I'll say this: anyone who finds this sort of religious conduct to be acceptable or even tolerable does not belong in the United States.
September 30, 2011 Posted by blueollie | blogs, books, civil liberties, evolution, movies, nature, politics/social, running, science, social/political, spandex, superstition, time trial/ race, training, world events, yoga | Leave a comment
28 September 2011 issues
Workout notes
First, walking on the university indoor track: I had a 13:46 first mile and then did: 2-1-2-1-4-1-2-1-10 where the 1's represent recovery 200 meter laps. My miles: 13:36, 11:44, 11:29, 10:25 for 47:25 for 4.
I then swam 2200 yards; the guard didn't open the pool until 7:15 so I had only 45 minutes. So I did 2000 yards straight in 38:00 (very slow for me) then 200 front/back pull.
College Football
So the Aggies (Texas A&M) is headed to the SEC. Good riddance. They'll fit right in; at halftime they can start with a prayer-revival service and end with a public execution, no doubt to a loudly cheering crowd. But there are past games that I remember fondly and this is one:
Well, they held the Longhorns to only 49 points, so what the heck. :)
As for what Rice University thinks of the Aggies:
Non-football posts
Remember when Rush Limbaugh did this?
Well, I wondered what English speakers sound like to non-English speakers.
This outstanding web page has a collection of videos of non-English speakers imitating English. What I noticed: how they imitate English depends on, surprise, their own native language.
Here is one of the better ones (short)
and here is the best one (much longer)
Science and Health
3-quarks daily pointed us toward this post which reminds us that sometimes the solution to health problems are, well, simple.
Take what must be the greatest cheap medical fix in all of history: the bar of soap. Soap never stops proving itself. As recently as 2005, a study from the slums of Karachi, Pakistan, showed that free bars of soap (and lessons in how to use them) cut rates of childhood killers like diarrhea and pneumonia by half.
But you don't find soap in American hospitals anymore, at least not in its classic solid rectangular form. A variety of expensive improvements have replaced it, all created in response to the various ways in which modern doctors and patients reflexively undermine good, inexpensive tools.
First, we automatically capture these things for our own personal use: Bars of soap left in any public place are likely to disappear in short order. (That is why toilet paper rolls are generally locked into their little metal houses.)
Second, we find fault with them. People will actually use the observation that bar soap is "dirty" as an excuse not to wash their hands. (Studies have shown that you will not pick up somebody else's germs from a piece of soap, however dingy it may look.)
Finally, we ignore them. Who notices a bar of soap? It does nothing for you unless you notice it — but it is so humble and boring; and sudsing, rinsing and wiping are so pedestrian. Also, if you are in a hurry, they seem prohibitively time-consuming. Studies continually show low hand-washing rates among rushed hospital personnel. Hence the large-scale adoption of more convenient liquid products, and the slow segue into alcohol-based hand sanitizers, which obviate the rinsing and wiping.
There is more there.
I remember reading in Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs and Steel that, right now, humans have a much lower probability of dying a violent death than at any time in human history. Now there is a book which explores (and proves) this claim, and more.
Will Governor Christie run and if he does, will it matter? Frankly, I think that Nate Silver greatly overstates Mr. Christie's talent. Sure, he sometimes says good stuff (here and here) but on the whole, he is too thin skinned and high tempered; the national media would have field day with him. Yes, he is obese and that would have been a negative a long time ago, but not in today's America and certainly not with today's Republicans. :)
Besides, if *I* find stuff to like about him, he probably won't play well with the Republican base.
September 29, 2011 Posted by blueollie | 2012 election, college football, football, political/social, politics, politics/social, Republican, republican party, republicans, republicans political/social, republicans politics, rick perry, Rush Limbaugh, science, swimming, training, walking | Leave a comment
Ok, what do you see here?
I know what I saw.
Can you guess what I missed? :)
September 28, 2011 Posted by blueollie | big butts, spandex | Leave a comment
Shilling, Zombie Ideas and other Republican nonsense…
Mathematics and Statistics
I am going to have to look at some of these fun-sounding pop-science statistics books. But I was really struck at one statistician's comment:
What do you mean by "risk literacy" and why do you think it is so important for people to have it?
I am a statistician and I know that people find probability and statistics quite difficult to understand, and not intuitive. And after years and years of careful research I have finally concluded that it is because probability and statistics really are difficult to understand and unintuitive. I think knowing something about how chance works in the world is a basic skill that people should have, along with reading, writing and basic numeracy. Otherwise you can be subject to all sorts of manipulations, and that will come out in some of my book choices.
Paul Krugman seems distressed. First he notes that conservatives are cherry picking from past data to bolster what they already want to believe. Check out the graphs: the conservatives are ignoring the large trends and instead are pointing out the "wiggle" (aka "noise"). In fact, he is distressed to the point of claiming that economics, as a discipline, is actually REGRESSING instead of getting better:
I've never liked the notion of talking about economic "science" — it's much too raw and imperfect a discipline to be paired casually with things like chemistry or biology, and in general when someone talks about economics as a science I immediately suspect that I'm hearing someone who doesn't know that models are only models. Still, when I was younger I firmly believed that economics was a field that progressed over time, that every generation knew more than the generation before.
The question now is whether that's still true. In 1971 it was clear that economists knew a lot that they hadn't known in 1931. Is that clear when we compare 2011 with 1971? I think you can actually make the case that in important ways the profession knew more in 1971 than it does now.
I've written a lot about the Dark Age of macroeconomics, of the way economists are recapitulating 80-year-old fallacies in the belief that they're profound insights, because they're ignorant of the hard-won insights of the past.
What I'd add to that is that at this point it seems to me that many economists aren't even trying to get at the truth. When I look at a lot of what prominent economists have been writing in response to the ongoing economic crisis, I see no sign of intellectual discomfort, no sense that a disaster their models made no allowance for is troubling them; I see only blithe invention of stories to rationalize the disaster in a way that supports their side of the partisan divide. And no, it's not symmetric: liberal economists by and large do seem to be genuinely wrestling with what has happened, but conservative economists don't.
Remember: being a conservative means that one doesn't need evidence for one's beliefs and positions.
It doesn't help that people forget who correctly predicted what: liberal economists said AT THE TIME that the stimulus was too small and bound to fizzle. It did have some effect but not a large enough effect; hence conservative "intellectuals" (those who can write in complete sentences and use existing vocabulary) are crowing about the stimulus being a massive Keynesian failure. Why Dr. Krauthammer is considered an authority on anything remains a mystery.
Republican Shilling
I keep up with Dick Morris; part of the reason is that I want to know what is being fed to the rank-and-file NewsMax Republican (mostly the undereducated "Obama is a Muslim and evolution is a hoax" crowd). Part of the reason: it is good comedy.
Back in April, Mr. Morris was all but writing off Mitt Romney.
Now he is touting Mr. Romney. :)
So what is he saying this time? Well, he is saying that President Obama might not run for reelection:
He stays on this theme by talking about how Bill Clinton is attacking Obama's jobs plan.
Then Mr. Morris cherry picks from polls and even declares that Blacks are leaving President Obama!
I am not saying that President Obama's path to reelection is sure; it isn't. In fact, he has dipped below 50 percent on Intrade (and at times rose above it).
But…it still appears that the Republicans are not happy with their field either.
Upshot: this coming election appears as if it will be a hard, close, nasty contest; I'd rate it as a "toss up". But to hear Mr. Morris talk, well, President Obama doesn't stand a chance.
I hope that the Republicans keep believing that.
September 28, 2011 Posted by blueollie | 2012 election, Barack Obama, economics, economy, mathematics, political/social, politics, politics/social, Republican, republican party, republicans, republicans political/social, republicans politics, statistics | Leave a comment
Indecision 2012 – The Great Right Hope – The Ideal Candidate – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – 09/26/11 – Video Clip | Comedy Central
The Republican base is at war with its own talking points. Airdate – 09/26/11
September 27, 2011 Posted by blueollie | 2012 election, political humor, politics, republicans | Leave a comment
Global Warming – The Colbert Report – 2011-26-09 – Video Clip | Comedy Central
In the face of all the mounting evidence for climate change, America has stood with one voice and boldly proclaimed, "Eh."
September 27, 2011 Posted by blueollie | environment, humor, political humor | Leave a comment
Christine O'Donnell in her youth?
Seriously, this makes an important point. The government isn't allowed to promote a particular religion. So if you allow one type of organized prayer in a public school….be prepared for HAIL SATAN! Or "PRAISE BE TO THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!!"
Actually, the MIGHTY CALVIN remains one of my favorite deities:
Now THIS reminds me a bit of the traditional Jewish sky-god (the Christian "Old Testament deity"). :)
September 27, 2011 Posted by blueollie | civil liberties, humor, political humor, politics/social, religion | 1 Comment
27 September 2011: Centrist Obama and the falling slinky
Workout notes
Monday: weights then a swim.
Swim: 500 of 25 fist, 25 3g, 25 fist, 25 swim
250 of 25 kick, 25 free (fins)
250 of 50 free (5 second pause)
250 of 25 kick, 25 free (fins)
250 of 25 fist/25 free (5 second pause)
500 of 50's (5 second pause)
200 free/back (fins)
Weights: rotator cuff, 1 set of lunges
Hammer Row: 3 sets of 10 x 200
Pull down: 3 sets of 10 x 145
dumbbell curls: 3 sets of 12 x 25 lb.
Bench: 10 x 135, 8 x 155, 6 x 155
Incline: 2 sets of 10 x 125
dumbbell military press: 2 sets of 15 x 40 (seated), 5 x 45 standing
adduction: 3 sets of 10 x 180
abduction: 3 sets of 10 x 180
push back: 2 sets of 10 x 110
sit ups: 100 (2 sets of 50)
Tuesday: yoga followed by a sloooow 6 mile (+) run; It was my basic 5.1 mile course plus 3 more goose loop laps. Time was 1:10, but that included a 3 minute walk at 27 minutes when my "behind the knee" area got achy. I was ready to bail but after a bit of relaxing walking, I was able to start up with no difficulty. It was one of those "cramps that needed to be stretched" things.
The falling slinky
(hat tip: Jerry Coyne)
Note: even a seemingly solid rod will have this effect; remember that there is no such thing as a purely rigid object.
No, politics these days is NOT "both sides" being unreasonable:
Greg Sargent touches on a point I've been meaning to make; he does it in the context of third-party fantasies, but it's true more broadly of calls for "centrism". Namely, the hypothetical position self-proclaimed centrists want somebody to take — Michael Bloomberg, a chastened Obama, whatever — is almost always the position actually held by the Democratic party. But to seem "balanced", the pundits involved have to ignore that inconvenient fact.
Greg puts it this way:
One of the two parties already occupies the approximate ideological space that these commentators themselves are describing as the dream middle ground that allegedly can only be staked out by a third party.
That party is known as the "Democratic Party," and it alreadly holds many of the positions these commentators want a third party to espouse.
Well, it's not just the third party thing. I was struck by this passage in Tom Friedman's last column:
We know what to do — a Grand Bargain: short-term stimulus to ease us through this deleveraging process, debt restructuring in the housing market and long-term budget-cutting to put our fiscal house in order. None of this is easy and the economy will not be fixed overnight; it will take years. But there is every chance it will get healed if our two parties construct the Grand Bargain we need.
Who is the "we" who knows this? Well, me; Christy Romer; President Obama. The GOP, on the other hand, is fiercely opposed to any form of stimulus — it insists that we need to slash spending right now, that anti-stimulus is the way to create jobs. And anger over the prospect of helping delinquent debtors was, you might recall, where the Tea Party got started.
September 27, 2011 Posted by blueollie | physics, political/social, politics, politics/social, Republican, republicans, republicans political/social, republicans politics, science, swimming, training, weight training | Leave a comment
Someone is drowning…a Democrat and a Republican go to help
(note: I've taken a joke that I saw on facebook and changed it just a bit).
There is someone who is 100 feet away from shore and they are drowning; they cry out for help….
The Democrat shows up and throws the victim 300 feet of rope. The excess rope weighs the victim down and the victim drowns.
The Republican shows up and throws out 50 feet of rope and demands that the victim take some responsibility for himself and swim to the rope. He can't and drowns.
A libertarian shows up and shrugs "it isn't my problem" and just goes away; the victim drowns.
A bunch of Tea Party types show up. One throws the victim a heavy rock; the victim drowns and all of the tea party types cheer.
A Green Party type shows up. He yells at the victim for polluting the water. The victim drowns.
September 26, 2011 Posted by blueollie | political humor | 1 Comment
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