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I just wanted to put up a quick post to let folks know what's been going on with me lately. Things are a little chaotic for me IRL and as such my gaming habits have changed quite a bit. For the most part I've been playing single-player games that have the benefit of a pause button such that I can deal with interruptions without a fear of dying So this post will just be a quick summary of what's going on and hopefully soon I'll get back to my MMOs of choice!
The majority of my single player gaming has revolved around 2 sports games, which I must admit have grabbed my attention more then I expected. The first game is Football Manager 2012 (available on Steam) which I've talked about before and I'm still really enjoying. I'm still primarily just managing Everton and my last save I ended up pretty much winning everything in my fifth year after some pretty close calls. One of the things I enjoy most about this game isn't so much the actual games themselves but the player management and dealings. After a while, once you build a successful team it can become a little boring from that aspect and I usually end up restarting. With the start of the actual real life Premier League this past weekend I decided to start another game off with Everton as I get the most enjoyment out of those first couple of seasons. While some aspects aren't 100% accurate every once in a while a story from the current news occurs in a VERY similar manner to what happened in one of my games which I always find pretty cool. I think I'm going to have some very hard decisions when FM13 is released as one of my favorite players (Jack Rodwell) is now playing for Manchester City. For whatever reason I just don't find playing the bigger clubs as intriguing, but we shall see when it is launched.
The other single player game I've really gotten very deep into is Pro Cycling Manager 2012 (another one available on Steam) as the combination of the Tour de France and the Olympics have gotten me following cycling more then I have in a long while. Unlike soccer, I really know VERY little about the workings of professional cycling so there's been a pretty steep learning curve on that aspect. Because of that I'm actually finding this game pretty darn challenging to actually do well in. I've started with a custom team revolving around the 3 big names from Team Sky (Wiggins, Froome, and Cavendish) as well as Phinney and TJ VanGarden from the US and a host of other Brits and Yanks to fill out my squad. But despite all the big names I have, I find it really hard to consistently do well – which of course is what drives me to continue to play the game! I've restarted probably at least 6 times as each time I get a certain way in and then realize some part of the game that I didn't even know existed, or realized that the way I was racing was totally wrong.
Both of these games have similarities in the ability to micro-manage training and individual progression but with PCM you have much more control over the actual outcome of each event. The actual games in FM are much more like traditional simulations where you set things up and just let the computer figure out the outcome. Where PCM you have much more control over all aspects of the race, or at least you can choose to control those if you want. You can run it in more of a sim mode, but I like to actually do the races. Of all the career games I've played, these 2 seem to be amongst the best when it comes to individual and team progression. They're not the most graphically or aesthetically pleasing (go play an EA game for pretty graphics) but the depth of these games is pretty amazing.
As for MMOs, I'm still "playing" both LOTRO and The Secret World. TSW probably has more draw for me right now, but I haven't been playing that much as I really want to be able to take time and dive deep into that game. I've been VERY impressed with how well they've been able to not only maintain things but continue to push out new content. Even though the press is hammering them, I think TSW is one of those rare games that might have a larger community 6 months after launch then the first month of launch.
As for LOTRO, I really haven't done much of anything in Middle-Earth lately. And that even includes the Rohan beta, which yes I am a part of but really haven't done a whole lot of. I really want to be excited for Rohan and mounted combat but for some reason I'm just not. And maybe (I'm hoping) it is just because of everything else that's going on such that once that's resolved I'll get back into a better grove. I haven't seen anything that I haven't liked as the region is absolutely gorgeous and everything I wanted Rohan to look like. Mounted combat is actually better then I had expected, although probably slightly worse then the Mount and Blade series (which I realize is a pretty darn high bar). I'm actually quite impressed that Turbine pushed back the launch date for Rohan as that's something I've ripped them quite a bit for in the past with the various updates and expansions.
To wrap things up, I'm still gaming and hopefully should be back into MMOs here soon and am still quite available via email, skype, and twitter for those who want to chat or carry on via other means.
One last thing I want to toss out is that I am planning to support CSTM in their Child's Play fundraiser this year and am looking for ideas of how my time could be used. The concept they're introducing this year is to auction off people's time such that the winner would get something, for instance Pineleaf has offered to run skirmishes with the winner (assuming server issues can be resolved). So I'm certainly open to run skirmishes or instances as can be arranged on Silverlode or just have a general skype/vent chat session to talk about the various classes I play or even other games if folks want. I may even try to convince a certain suicidal Minstrel to see if we can arrange for a "let's see how much we can pull" session if someone's interested in that kind of chaos Anyone else have any ideas or suggestions?
First Season Finished in FM20120
This season didn't go quite as I planned (here's my initial hopes post), but there were some parts that pleasantly surprised me and others that were downright frustrating – but I guess that's life in Football
To start off the season, I didn't go all that heavy into the transfer market and didn't add too much during the year either. I was only able to loan players out and not get full transfers for Tony Hibbert, Victor Anichebe, and Joao Silvia but I was able to get some decent up-front money for them as well as covering for their wages. I ended up brining in Right Back Vegar Eggen Hedenstad who quickly became a fixture there for a modest $1.9 million and also added Arne Friedrich as a free transfer mid-year who helped add extra depth for me. I then picked up an attacking midfielder Ravel Morrison in the January period for $1.9 million but he promptly got hurt and spent much of the year with the training staff Despite not making too many moves, I was able to hold my own with the big boys (Chelsea, Man City, Man. U., etc) but what sunk me in the Premier league was my performances in games I should win. Losses to folks like Blackburn, Wigan, Swansea, and the like made the ties and losses to the big clubs absolute killers. I had originally hoped I could sneak into 4th place if I could hold my own against the big boys and win the games I should, but I lost just a couple too many games and wound up in 6th place. However, the struggles I had on the league side were tempered by the success I had in tournaments as I was able to win not only the League Cup but the FA cup as well. However, I think that is as much due to luck in teams losing as it was my good play.
After a more or less successful season of not only on the field progress but pretty tight control of the finances I was allowed to spend a decent amount of money during the offseason. Given a budget of roughly $25 million, I set my eyes upon a striker since during the previous year Rodwell was my leading scorer with 14 goals, and Baines was tied for second with 9. I zeroed in on my new-found favorite player Andre Shurrle but although I could afford him he had no interest in joining the squad. After my initial heartbreak I started looking around and set my eyes on the glut of strikers over at Manchester United and was able to pry Welbeck away for just under $25 million. Welbeck fits in very well as he's young, fast, and English In addition I also picked up another young English talent James McCarthy who will be a nice utility midfielder for me. To offset these transfers, try to clean up my jam packed roster, and dump the overpaid and/or unhappy folks I unloaded a number of players either on free transfers or actual full transfers. By getting rid of Seamus Coleman, Joseph Yobo, Jan Mucha, Victor Anichebe, Tony Hibbert, and Joao Silva I was able to bring in $32 million which covered completely the 2 stars I brought in.
One of the problems I was running into towards the end of the year were just too many people competing for too many spots. And with the talent I have on my youth squad as well as the good prospects coming in, the older guys are just too darn costly to keep around, especially when they expect to start over clearly better players.
The only other big change I've made this year in the hopes of more offense, and since my side is changing slightly, is to install a 4-1-2-1-2 formation. I still have my previous 4-3-3's training as well but I think having 2 strikers up top playing off each other will work better then the pseudo wingers I was trying to force in there.
As for expectations, I really don't think I'll be able to have the same tournament run as I did last year but hopefully I'll get somewhat far in the League and FA cups. I really want to do well in the Euro Cup and am going to push VERY hard for a top 4 finish in the premier league. That should then set me up very well for a strong Champions league run the following year as I should be able to attract some big time players and pay for them as well
My Other Addiction – Football Manager 20129
I'm sure some of you have noticed that I'm not posting a whole lot and part of that is due to me just not playing MMOs much recently. However I have still be gaming (as you may have noticed from my Raptr profile), as I've found a new addiction thanks to the crew over at LOTRO Academy – Football Manger 2012. Part of it is the gameplay fits in well with my life right now, but I'm also very much caught up in the recent excitement in the soccer world with the amazing end of the English Premiere League and the current Euro Championships. For those of you who haven't heard or seen this game (and are still reading since I'm not talking about MMOs) FM2012 is more like a soccer simulation then a twitch based sports game like any of the EA versions. Both have their places, but for some reason I've never been real good at console based versions of games like soccer and hockey. What FM2012 excels at is all the details around setting up and managing your team, while the actual game itself is a "hands-off" simulation based on how you've set up your team. Now you can make changes and micro-manage during the game, but you can't actually control any of the players. Not only do I really enjoy these kinds of simulations (I'm also a big RTS fan) but this also fits really well into my current gaming availability that consists of many interruptions.
This post will essentially walk through how I approach this game and the various settings in it. So if you're not a soccer or FM2012 fan you might not be terribly interested in this particular post
For the actual game itself, I'm mainly working on two different versions both managing my favorite club Everton out of the English Premier League. I think my tie to this club is partly due to the American stars that have played well for them (Howard and Donovan) as well as the general underdog spirit of the club as they always seem to be low on funds when compared to the other bigger clubs. Like I mentioned, I have two current, one being more of a "fun" one in that I will firmly admit I've cheated quite a bit by saving before kick-off and re-loading if I don't get the result I want. This was primarily during the first couple of seasons as later on (I just finished season 7) my team does pretty darn well for the most part. I look at this game as more of my learning curve where I've tried to understand how things work and what the various options are. There are tons of options and after reading various sites I've actually started to realize that many of the settings and tabs I never touched can actually be quite important. Specifically, I started toying around with Training pretty early on, but I've come to realize not only how important it is but the keys regarding timing and workloads. In my reading I've figured out that I've quite possibly been over-training not only in my schedules but in how I handled match preparation. I tended to get quite a few people complaining about their training workloads and I also did WAY too much match tactics preparation early on in the season. I've grabbed one of the popular training routines off the web and have tweaked it a little bit to match my personal preference. I've also taken on the suggestion to start off with very low match preparation early on in the season such that I get the most out of my primary training. With regards to match training, the other aspect I learned was that you can use Teamwork as the secondary focus and then switch the day before a game to maximize your match preparations. I've noticed this has made quite a difference especially when I've switched from things like attacking to defending. Overall in my "cheat" I did try to stay with mostly English players, but picked up a number of international stars as well. I mainly tried to only bring in a couple of players per transfer window as not only do I not have all that much money but any more seems to really flip the club on its ear. Some of my most notable signings were:
- Ryan Shawcross
- Rafael
- Nigel de Jong
- Kaka
- Dimitar Berbatov (on a free transfer)
- Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
- Andre Shurrle
- Edwin Bakker
- Mario Goetze
The last couple were a little ridiculous as I just built up a nice $100 million warchest based on my success. Not to mention that this last year, Fellaini requested a transfer as he was bored with winning win which brought in an additional $62 million. I did get my new stadium built this year, but as much as I have enjoyed this particular game-save it does feel a bit hollow.
With that game more or less on hold, I'm starting up another Everton game this time not "cheating" and really trying to focus on English (or at least UK) players mainly. Although I have to admit I'm going to try to sign Shurrle as early as I can since he scored almost 150 goals in two years for me The actual setup of a season takes quite a bit as I need to clean out some of the current players (sadly I just can't get rid of that dead weight Junior) via transfers or loans as well as clean up the staff. There's a lot of fluff there and quite a bit of people that just aren't all that good. In this game training is SO important so I try to get the best staff I can early on. I also ask the board early on for training/youth upgrades in addition to getting a feeder club. I'll admit I probably don't use feeder clubs as well as I should but I mainly use them as a place to bury people who are un-happy or if I have too many young guys to deal with that I can't get time on my reserve team.
The next big key will be settling on a formation and tactics and I think I've settled upon a 4-3-3 with 2 wingers, a defensive midfielder, and a defensive minded central midfielder. This seems to fit pretty well with the starting personnel as there are quite a few wingers (Osman, Barkley, Gueye, Pinear) and not all that many folks that can play down the middle. I mainly plan to play with Cahil as my attacking central midfielder, Rodwell as that defensive CM, and Fellaini as my defensive midfielder. This not only puts some of my best talent on the field but gives my young guys as chance to grow very quickly. Rodwell especially shoots up quite well if he's played early on. I've tried to play a pretty fluid and roaming style but I may have to dive a bit deeper to see if that really fits best with my players available. When it comes to tougher games, I also have a slightly different 4-3-3 trained which has 2 DMs and one CM, without the Attacking midfielder, that's very defensive and rigid, but again I might switch that up a bit this time but it did seem to work very well in clogging things up as well as providing some good counter attack options.
Another aspect I've started to look into this time around are the various shouts that are available during the game. I've never really used them, but I've set up a couple of combinations to use while trying to hold a lead or come from behind. It seems as though these are better of your overall teamwork then swapping out completely different formations.
The last aspect I'm just now starting to play with is the Opposition tab of the pre-match setup. I had NO idea you could actually change stuff here and change how you play your opposition. Essentially on this tab you can decide to mark closely, harass, push onto a foot a particular player if that makes sense. This allows you to do things like focus on their key playmaker or if there's someone weak you can try to force mistakes. The usage of this tab also assumes you've set it up for one of your scouts to do pre-match scouting
Speaking of scouting, this is one area that I know (in addition to the opposition tab) that I'm not utilizing all that well. I pretty much set them up and let them do their thing but I have a feeling I could get more out of them if I tried to do more stuff with them.
One of the main things I've realized as I've played through parts of many seasons with different teams is that you can play this game to whatever depth you want to. You can go super micro-manager and get involved in all the details, which is sort of the route I'm walking down. Although I have to admit I more or less fast-forward through the actual games themselves Or you can focus on the games solely and leave the rest to the "defaults" and play it more as an action game.
As for my hopes for this upcoming game, I'm hoping for at least Euro qualification although I'd love to sneak into a Champions league spot if I can get some help from the other teams. Hopefully my third season will see me strong enough to actually do some damage in the champions league such that I can help fill the coffers a bit. Much of this hinges on how well I can hold on to my core players as Baines, Heitinga, and Fellaini are all in high demand and I may be forced to deal someone without being able to grab a decent replacement. In one of my games Fellaini put a $30 mil buyout clause in his contract and you just can't easily find a replacement of his caliber at that dollar amount. If anything, that's one of my complaints with the game is that the dollar amounts for players seem to be skewed towards the AI managers. Although I guess that does add a degree of difficulty to the game, so that's not a terrible thing I've also found that in many cases it helps to hop in when there's a bidding war for players as you can then see their bids (sometimes) which usually are MUCH lower then what I can usually get players for. Of course the other cloud hanging over Everton is the always present fear of a buy-out and coaching change. In my other games, I've been able to successfully navigate buy-outs, but there's always the possibility of the buyers brining in their own management team.
As this season progresses I'm sure I'll have some updates, and you'll notice quite abruptly if things in my life change such that I'm playing MMOs more frequently
If you'd made it this far in this post, you either enjoy soccer or FM2012 and I'd be very curious what you think on either subject


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Canadian grind veterans Fuck The Facts are currently prepping the release of their new EP Amer which is set for release this Summer. Whenever I go into new Fuck The Facts, I expect perfection. I know these dudes (and lady) and I know they are capable of absolute awesomeness. Well, of course, I was right. This new track "L'enclume et le marteau," which means "The Anvil and The Hammer," is a fucking riot. Continue reading
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If you've been reading this site for a while, you'd know I used to do Q&A's with my good friend, and Fuck The Facts guitarist Topon Das a lot. It's been a while since he and I have really talked, so I decided it was time to resurrect the "Talking With Topon" section of American Aftermath. So read on to find out about Fuck The Facts' upcoming tour, new album and what Topon has been doing when not ripping that six-string.
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Remember Did You Just Hex Me?? I've talked about them here before. They were a band that I really loved that ended far too quickly. I knew that Did You Just Hex Me?'s vocalist Brandon May has been working with another band formed from members of other Ottawa bands called Letters From The Princess but I hadn't check into them yet. Well, after hearing the band's demo, I can some one thing. Continue reading


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Tonight team Specialmoves were at the Test Lab at Wired2013. We were invited to demonstrate our work with the Oculus Rift and in true Specialmoves style, built an entire app and experience in 2 weeks, specially for the event.
I'll let someone more technical than me write a proper tech post, but essentially -
The user is wearing an Oculus Rift VR headset. We built an app in Unity which shows the headset wearer a scene - of dropping gradually through clouds, across London and ultimately landing on a large red and white target at Tobacco Dock, where Wired2013 is being held.
In order to reach the target, the person sitting in the hammock chair, suspended with their feet off the floor, uses their own body weight to shift the seat from left to right. This movement impacts on the iPhone, cunningly attached to the bar over their head, which then acts as steering within the app (via the iPhone's gyroscope), allowing them to navigate left and right towards the target.
Some sound effects via headphones and the obligatory giant fan, and virtual reality sky-diving the experience was complete!
One guest who actually had been sky-diving, said it was "just like the real thing".
With spectators able to "see" what the Oculus wearer was experiencing (on the iMac, left-of-screen), a crowd soon formed to photo, video, tweet and have a go themselves.
The biggest challenge of the night was not the technology (which worked perfectly), but on working out who in the large crowd that had gathered was next in line for their turn!
Well done Team Specialmoves (particularly Rik, Gav, Christophe and of course Pascal) on a fine job and a great experience for our visitors at Wired2013 Test Lab.
Specialmoves will be at Wired2013, in the Test Lab all day tomorrow from 08:00 til 18:00 for those lucky enough to have tickets to the conference.
(but there will be videos posted on our website in due course..)
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Gifts are not worth much if the recipient cannot keep them. In fact,
that is the very meaning of the word ōgift,ö something that is given,
something that may used in any way the recipient sees fit. If so, how do
we explain the TorahÆs choice of words when describing the mitzvah of
giving tithes and gifts to the Kohein, the one who performs the priestly
duties for the community? Listen closely to the words of the Torah. ōAnd
all that a man gives to the Kohein shall be his.ö (5:10) Well, if he gives
it to the Kohein, then it is obviously his, isnÆt it?
Some commentators perceive a novel insight in this verse. The
Torah, they explain, is addressing the instinctive defiant reaction of a
person who is required to give some of his hard-earned money to the
Kohein or to the poor. ōWhy should I give him my money? He didnÆt
work for it. I did. Why shouldnÆt I be allowed to keep it?ö The Torah
reassures this person that he is mistaken, that the money given to the
Kohein is indeed money well spent, that it is actually the best by far of
all his diversified investments.
A person never really has his possessions firmly in his grasp. If he
uses them up, he many have derived some enjoyment from them, but
they are now forever gone. If he hoards them, he can never be assured
that they will stay with him. They may be stolen. He may suffer financial
reverses. Nothing is guaranteed.
The only way a person can safeguard his money and make sure he
always retains it is by using it in a way that will bring him eternal
reward. When he gives some of his to a beggar who cannot feed his family. He
has earned himself eternal reward. When he gives to the Kohein who
ministers to the spiritual needs of the community, he has earned himself
eternal reward. When he supports institutions of Torah, he has earned
himself eternal reward. This is what the Torah is saying. ōAnd all that a
man gives to the Kohein shall be his.ö Only when he uses his money for
a higher purpose does it become truly ōhis.ö Only then is his investment
ōThey say you are very rich,ö said the sage. ōIs it true?ö
ōIÆm afraid it is,ö said the man. ōI am one of the wealthiest men in
the country.ö
ōIndeed?ö said the sage. ōCan you prove it to me?ö
The man smiled. ōI could take you on a tour of my properties, but
we would have to travel for days on end. I could show you my
storehouses of treasures, but you would become weary climbing from
one floor to the next. But I can show you my account books. Would you
like to see them?ö
ōPlease,ö said the sage.
The man took the sage into his back room and opened some of his
account books for him.
ōI am not convinced,ö said the sage. ōShow me more.ö
The man opened more and more account books for the sage, but
he was still unconvinced.
ōI have no more account books,ö the man finally said in frustration.
ōWhat is that little book up on that shelf?ö said the sage.
ōThat is the ledger of my charitable donations,ö said the man.
ōShow it to me!ö said the sage.
He leafed through the little ledger and closed it with a smile on his
face. ōI see that you are indeed a wealthy man,ö said the sage. ōVery
few people have given as much to charity as you have. You see, all
those other account books mean nothing. Tomorrow, you can be
penniless, and then what would you be worth? But the charity you gave
can never be taken from you. Your good deeds are yours forever.ö
In our own lives, we often feel pressured by the communal charities
and all those worthy institutions who are always so desperately I need
of funds. And there is no end to it. If we give to them this year, we know
they will be back next year for more. But let us look at them from a
different perspective. Let us see them as an opportunity to make an
investment that will bear dividends for ourselves and our families for all
eternity, in this world and the next. Let us be thankful that we are
fortunate to be on the giving end and that by doing so we enrich our
own lives beyond measure.
Text Copyright ® 2011 by Rabbi Naftali Reich and Torah.org.
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Craig will be talking about this topic on CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz (Sunday, 11 AM ET)
Let the news media handwringing begin. It's another predictable scene in our presidential campaign soap opera. Why didn't we cover more issues? How could we chase so many silly stories? Too much horse race reporting. Obsession with polls. And so on.
All legitimate concerns that we ask at the end of every campaign, but nothing much changes.
While the news media takes its ritual beating don't let the candidates off the hook. This time around I'd even say the campaigns bear most of the blame.
Neither side wanted to talk specifics about much of anything. Distraction was the name of this game. Obama had a lousy first debate and his aides drove Big Bird to the stage. Romney has no plan of his own for the Middle East and stirs up the phony debate about security personnel at the Benghazi consulate.
Nearly every news cycle for months you can find tweets, YouTube ads and one-liners directly from the campaigns designed to ridicule and distract. Spokespeople are put forward daily to spin every nuance of the polls, but ask for the actual numbers behind Mitt Romney's tax-and-spending rhetoric or President Obama's next jobs plan and you get canned non-answers.
And maybe a billion dollars spent on TV ads mostly aimed at personally destroying the opponent.
Forget trying to press the candidates themselves on the issues. They spent way more time repeating vapid stump speeches to supporters and talking about nothing on fluffy talk shows than taking serious questions from serious journalists.
For sure, blame the media for taking the bait without fail. But don't forget it was the only "substance" these campaigns put out there.


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4:25 PM, Dec 4, 2013 • By ROGER I. ZAKHEIM and THOMAS DONNELLY
House Armed Services Committee chairman Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon doesn't look like an insurgent. The quintessential Californian – a man of Reaganesque optimism whose congressional district now includes the Gipper's presidential library – McKeon has been a steadfast supporter of House speaker John Boehner in turbulent times. Yet, to the green-eyeshade editorialists of the Wall Street Journal, McKeon is leading a "rebellion" of defense hawks, an "act of masochism" threatening the Holy of Holies: the sequestration provision of the Budget Control Act (BCA). McKeon's crime is that he's hoping for a 2014 budget deal that would reduce the amount of defense sequestration by half.
The BCA has, as the Journal argues, marginally reduced federal spending, although the paper skews the numbers by comparing figures from 2011 to 2013. Overall federal outlays went down by about $150 billion in that period, but the roughly half of the reduction came from "ending" the war in Iraq and the surge in Afghanistan; "overseas contingency operations" spending went from $165 billion to $95 billion. Conversely, the BCA and sequestration did nothing to curb the rise in "mandatory spending," which rose by about $200 billion from 2011 to 2013.
If the economic effects of the BCA have been microscopic, the national security effects have been metastasizing. The Journal patronizingly claims that "defense hawks" like McKeon "exaggerate how severe the cuts [in military spending] are." But hawks have no need to exaggerate; the facts speak loudly enough.
Let's just review the history of the Obama administration. Defense cuts didn't begin with the 2011 Budget Control Act. In 2009 and 2010, the Pentagon reprogrammed more than $300 billion – that is, terminating major programs, moving planned spending farther into the future while using a good deal of what was left to offset war costs. Robert Gates, then the secretary of defense, offered up another $100 billion in "efficiencies" that became simply cuts.
But the BCA reductions have been much larger. The "baseline" provisions of the law reduced military budgets by $489 billion. If sequestration – or simply sequestration levels of spending enacted without the across-the-board, automatic trigger mechanism – continues, the Pentagon will lose another $500-plus million.
The cuts total $1.2 trillion or more, or about 20 percent of planned defense spending. That's a lot of money, even by government standards.
The effects are immediate and unquestionably severe. There is already a crisis in military readiness – in the fundamental measures of defense preparedness. Army chief of staff Gen. Ray Odierno admits his troops now have "the lowest readiness levels I've seen in our Army since I've been serving for the last 37 years." Pentagon comptroller Robert Hale agrees: "We clearly have degraded readiness in the military right now."
The problems of current readiness are about to bloom into a larger problem both of force size and weapons modernization, a shrinking of capacity and decline in relative capability. "We will get smaller, and we will have fewer forces," predicts Hale. "And you will see, especially in a sequestered budget [for next year], a disproportionate cut in procurement and research and development areas." In other words, the current-readiness money is all gone, and the future-readiness money will go soon.
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Robbie Williams & Take That reunion won't last
Yesterday, the media was put on alert that a major announcement would be made by a pop band.
Oh no, I thought, Jedward have split up.
Well, it would have been more newsworthy than Robbie Williams rejoining Take That. The reunion of the original line up of Britain's best-loved overgrown boy band is not so much a surprise as an inevitability. It is the merger of two best-selling brands, a blockbusting money-spinner at a time when the moribund music industry needs all the blockbusters it can lay its grubby fingers on.
With Williams stellar solo career at last showing inevitable signs of decline (last year's 'Reality' was his first studio album not to reach number one in the UK), a reunion with his commercially revived former bandmates provides both a respite from the intense demands of solo stardom and the possibility of rejuvenation. And while the four piece Take That mark II have been enjoying amazing commercial success as a kind of mature man band since their 2006 reunion, with number one albums and stadium tours, they reside in a pop market that thrives on at least a sensation of novelty, which the completion of the Williams soap opera provides. Falling record sales have led to an increasing emphasis on live touring, but this in turn has led to a fall in live ticket sales, as stars come around more and more frequently. One response, particularly in America, has been all-star packages (like the Elton John / Billy Joel tours, James Taylor / Carole King and Eagles / Keith Urban / Dixie Chicks). But how much more exciting if you can have a double bill in one band.
Not that I doubt there is genuine emotion in the reunion for both the participants and audience. Williams has always been a bit of a lost soul, and indeed his very visible wounds, expressed through a complex mix of arrogance and insecurity, are at the core of his appeal. This reunion completes a prodigal son narrative, full of mutual forgiveness and redemption, with Robbie gratefully gushing about feeling "like coming home".
For fans, reunions represent a return of the old gang, an important part of their youth, comforting them with the notion that love and friendship endures, and everything will turn out alright in the end. As Sting said of the Police reunion, "People reacted as if mum and dad had got back together after a divorce."
Musically, this point of this reunion is harder to fathom. There was never much reason to celebrate Take That in the first place unless you were a teenage girl in the early 90s. They were a manufactured copy of US sensations New Kids On The Block, an assembly line creation by would be svengalis at the point when the mainstream recording industry was increasingly focussing resources on formulaic pop constructed to marketing principles. They made some decent singalong pop records, but at a period when the UK music scene was actually bursting with creativity (the boom in rave and techno culture mutating with drum n bass and ambient hybrids, the futuristic twists of trip hop and the birth of Britpop), Take That represented the cheesy, derivative, light-entertainment end of the spectrum.
Which is part of what made Williams escape so fascinating. Having come to prominence in the highly disciplined, completely artificial and psychologically repressive constraints of a clean-cut teen pin-up pop troupe, he made a wild break for personal freedom that embraced sex, drugs and motor-mouthed self-expression. Musically and lyrically, he made records that really engaged with contemporary pop culture, and carried an emotional and even philosophical punch behind the hooklines. He was as much Eminem and Liam Gallagher as young George Michael (the latter being the very model of blue eyed soul singing the rest of Take That seemed to aspire to). Williams has been a great pop star, and he made some truly great pop records, songs that outshine anything that Take That could come up with, with their taste for schmaltzy romance. Songs like Feel and Come Undone have a bittersweet core that you simply can't contrive in song-writing by numbers. And like it or not, they'll be singing Angels at weddings and funerals for a long time to come.
Williams and Take That have recorded a new album, which will be out later this year.
There is also the promise of a tour next year. And I think the experience will probably be good for Williams. But I can't see how this new arrangement will last. How do you squeeze all that raging talent, all that ego and anxiety, that irrepressible energy and hyperbolic verbosity into some tightly choreographed dance routines and five part harmonies? Somehow, a punning couplet in every third verse just isn't going to cut it for Williams, or his fans.
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Entity Framework 4.3 release finally brings the Migrations feature to Developers, without having to depend on separate pre-release binaries.
What is EF Migrations? If you are using Entity Framework Code-First, Migrations allows you to update your database schema to reflect your POCO classes without having to drop and recreate them. This involves DDL statements to create new tables/columns, alter existing ones, etc. which get generated. The feature has been available to developers for a while as a Nuget package (which can be still used if you are using a lower version of Entity Framework for legacy reasons), but not formally supported by Microsoft.
For a while, this has been one of the most requested features in Entity Framework.
Separate walkthroughs for Automatic Migrations and Code Based migrations are present on the MSDN Team blog. The first one uses features inside Visual Studio along with code-based migration, whereas the second one uses a pure code-only approach. Ideally you only require code based migrations in cases where you want to override default behavior for e.g. renaming columns instead of dropping and creating a new one or providing a default value for the added column.
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Local football teams have taken heat for their early departure from the WPIAL playoffs, but some regular-season accomplishments — particularly those of running backs — won't soon be forgotten.
The area produced five 1,000-yard rushers — with the group providing a unique mix of running styles: Burrell's Cole Bush, Springdale's Sean Dugan, Freeport's Brendan Lynch, Valley's Demetrius Houser and Knoch's Ben Tackett.
All but Houser, a junior, will graduate. Lynch was the only quarterback in the group.
Bush and Dugan had record-breaking seasons. Bush shattered single-season records for rushing yards and touchdowns. He finished with 1,794 yards and 33 touchdowns.
Dugan became the A-K Valley's second all-time leading rusher, eclipsing the 4,000-yard mark while also shattering the school's career mark. He finished with 1,738 yards and 20 scores.
His 4,262 yards rank him 40th on the WPIAL's all-time rushing list. Riverview's Lucas Heakins holds the A-K record of 4,276 yards.
Valley's Brandon Williams is the only other local back in the WPIAL's 4,000-yard club (4,214 yards).
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Local star rushers at least had a chance to compete in the playoffs.
Imagine how Eastern York senior running back Alex Cooley feels. Cooley rushed for 492 yards and 10 touchdowns in an 81-56 regular-season finale against York Tech.
Cooley finished with 2,830 yards and 38 touchdowns — 11.1 yards per carry — but his team finished 4-6 and missed the District 3 Class AAA playoffs.
Cooley broke the state single-game record with 500 yards rushing against Hanover in Week 5.
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Last week was a whirlwind for the Fox Chapel field hockey team.
The Foxes (13-5) won their first WPIAL Class AAA championship since 1997 late Wednesday evening and had to be in State College at 2 p.m. Thursday for a PIAA play-in game against the host school.
The championship was moved from Tuesday because of the weather.
"It is what it is. There was no time to celebrate," Fox Chapel coach Jen McCrady said. "The WPIAL did go to bat for us. (The championship game) was scheduled for Halloween night. When they moved the WPIAL finals, no one made any effort to move (the play-in) game."
State College blanked the tired Foxes, 5-0.
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And there I was standing next to my kitchen counter in front of a beautiful and very much alive Maine lobster. With my brother on speaker phone coaching me through the process, my will to "humanely" sever the lobster's main ganglion with the knife I held in my hand waivered. Although I was an avid cook, before this particular weekend, I had never actually killed my own meal.
Like most of my kitchen escapades, this meal began with the thought of recreating a homemade dish. Growing up in New England, summer meant seafood season. Our annual Fourth of July barbecue always had a big pot of steamers along with burgers. My mother and I would usually swap out grilled salmon for steak. And on nights when we were too tired to cook, it was an unspoken agreement that we all piled into the car and drove off to the Clam Box for fritters and chowder.


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When conductor Michael Berkowitz leads the Santa Rosa Symphony Pops orchestra in concert July 4 at Sonoma State University's Green Music Center, it'll be a special occasion for a many reasons.
The concert marks the return of the traditional Independence Day pops concert and fireworks show, originally presented on the Rohnert Park campus from 2000 to 2007. And it opens the Green Music Center's first summer concert series.
The concert also kicks off the classical-music summer season, which includes the Mendocino Music Festival, Midsummer Mozart concerts in Sonoma and two Napa Valley concert series — Festival del Sol?and Music in the Vineyards.
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A cyclist has his helmet to thank for saving him from a serious head injury after he came off his bike on Cannock Chase.
Crews attending the scene, on the Monkey Trail mountain biking route, said the fall caused bad damage to the cyclist's safety helmet, which had a significant crack in it. Had he not been wearing it, the damage would have been to his head.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called shortly after 9am on Easter Saturday.
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"He had shoulder and rib injuries but avoided a head injury because we was wearing a helmet which ended up badly damaged. Had it not been for the helmet, he would have sustained a head injury.
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Earlier this year, King County created a Regional Transit Task Force to make recommendations on how Metro can close its multimillion dollar budget gap. For those who are following their meetings, you will quickly discover its mostly an exercise in deciding what services to cut.
The Seattle Times covered our research on bus driver salaries today and it included comments from the leader of the bus union, which caught my eye:
Seattle's blind infatuation with Road Diets will make traffic congestion worse. Seattle officials are quick to say Road Diets maintain the car carrying capacity on the roads in which they are applied. However, Seattle officials are much slower to admit that Road Diets also do not improve the car carrying capacity either. This means Road Diets are essentially exchanging the future capacity needs of the roadway for other uses today; in this case, bicycle traffic.
Despite calls from union leaders that talks on a new labor contract should stay at the negotiating table, the bus union in King County held a press conference on Friday to discuss, what else but their new labor contract.Seattle Weekly CoveragePublicola Coverage
Sound Transit just released its 2nd Quarter Ridership Report for this year.
Light rail ridership is higher than the previous quarter but still far below projections:
Randal O'Toole, a senior fellow at CATO has written for WPC a number of times, including this piece on why Washington State should not invest in High Speed Rail.
In the August issue of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 587 newsletter, there is a lot of attention given to WPC and our recent reports on King County's ability to deliver the bus service promised to voters after the last two sales tax increases.
Once you get past the partisan, inflammatory and personal attacks, union leaders aggressively defend the higher pay for bus drivers, which has risen about 60 percent since the tax increases. This is twice the rate of inflation over the same time period.
A driver's union leader says this:
"Bus Drivers [sic] wages have tracked King County inflation for twenty years, but little more. The working conditions inflicted on Drivers [sic] is so distasteful that METRO could not hire an adequate number of Driver [sic] in a good economy offering the wages and benefits that they did."
"Bus Drivers [sic] wages have tracked King County inflation for twenty years, but little more. The working conditions inflicted on Drivers [sic] is so distasteful that METRO could not hire an adequate number of Driver [sic] in a good economy offering the wages and benefits that they did."
I'm not sure these union leaders realize it, but in their haste to defend the higher wages, !
they precisely prove my point. The last two sales tax increases that Metro officials promised would deliver 1.28 million hours of new bus service have instead been used to increase wages for union bus drivers.
This is not a liberal or conservative issue. Nor is this a rant against how much money a bus driver makes. Metro drivers work hard and should be paid for it. This is simply about the ability of County officials to deliver the bus service they promised to voters after the last two sales tax increases.
WPC just released two new studies that look into the performance of King County Metro to deliver on
During this one year anniversary of light rail, Sound Transit officials keep bragging about how they have carried six million riders since it opened. That is about 16,000 trips per day.
In 1996, Sound Transit officials promised voters the line would be complete by 2006 and carry about 107,000 trips per day. That means Sound Transit should be celebrating its four year anniversary, carrying over 100 million trips by today.
Sound Transit officials missed their ridership target by a mile!
As our first year with light rail comes to a close, Sound Transit officials are certain to declare the
experiment an unqualified success.
Yet, a closer look at the actual performance shows citizens are not
getting what they are paying for.
In 1996, Sound
Transit officials promised voters they would build 25 miles of light
rail for a total cost of about $1.8 billion, and they would be finished
by 2006. In fact, officials were so confident in their "conservative"
projections they called it, "Sound Move, The 10-Year Regional Transit System Plan."
years later, Sound Transit officials have reduced the planned line to
21 miles, and have only delivered about 17 miles for about $2.6
billion. The rest will not be finished until around 2020 for a total
cost approaching $15 billion. In other words, Phase 1 is smaller,
billions over budget and more than a dozen years late compared to what
officials originally promised voters.
Here are
some other promises from 1996 that Sound Transit officials have failed
to deliver (quotes are from the Sound Move plan adopted in May 1996 and
passed by voters in November 1996):
WPC just released two new studies that looks into the performance of King County Metro to deliver on its promises from the last two sales tax increases.
In 2000 and 2006, Metro promised 1.28 million hours of new bus service in exchange for higher sales taxes.
Voters agreed and sales taxes in King County rose 0.3 percent.
Today, Metro has only delivered about a third of that new service. And despite Metro's excuse that the economy is to blame, the County did collect more than enough revenue to provide all of the service from at least the first tax increase.
While taxpayers and transit users have not received what they were promised, one group has benefited from the two tax increases, public bus drivers. Bus driver salaries have increased about 60 percent, which is twice the rate of inflation over the same time period.
King 5 covered our findings and you can watch their report here:
The full Washington Policy Center reports are available here:
King County Officials Over-Promise Bus Service for Tax Increases
King County Metro Bus Driver Wages Grow Out of Control
June Revenue Forecast for the Transportation budget.
Fuel tax collections for the Nickel and TPA projects are down about $140 million (over 16 year construction horizon) just in the last four months.
Consider state officials first estimated both programs would bring in about $1.052 billion in the 2009-11 biennium. In reality, officials now project about $917 million in the 2009-11 biennium, about 13 percent less.


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SCOTT, JAMES (1799–1856). James Scott, early plantation owner, was born in Milledgeville, Georgia, on March 15, 1799. In Tennessee, where he was a friend of David Crockett, he married Sarah Lane. The couple moved to Mississippi, where Scott studied law and became a judge of the Mississippi Supreme Court. In 1838 or 1839 they moved to Montgomery County, Texas, and established a plantation. Scott represented his district at the Convention of 1845 and protested the homestead exemption provisions in the Constitution of 1845. In August 1856 the steamship Nautilus, on which he was a passenger, was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico during a storm, and he was drowned.
Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas (Austin, 1963-). Annie Doom Pickrell, Pioneer Women in Texas (Austin: Steck, 1929). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832–1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).
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Cowboys playoff push ends soon if team doesn't improve on 1-3 road record
The Cowboys have put themselves in position to make a playoff push.
That push will fall short if they don't start to win some games on the road.
"We've played some very good teams on the road, some of the better teams in the league," head coach Jason Garrett said. "In some of those games we played very well, we just didn't do what we needed to do at the end of the games to get those victories.
"In general, people would say it's more challenging and more difficult to play on the road."
The Cowboys have been challenged to the tune of 1-3 on the road as they prepare for this weekend's game outside our nation's capitol. The team's only road victory came in Week Two in overtime against San Francisco.
"One of the things we try to emphasize to our football team is you have to try to be at your best regardless of circumstance," Garrett said. "At Cowboys Stadium, at FedEx Field, in the parking lot. You have to try and be your best.
"We understand the challenges of playing on the road. Certainly, there are some communication issues you have to deal with, but everyone has to deal with it. We have to continue to work hard to play well in any sort of environment."
Three of the team's next five games are on the road. The Cowboys have lost four of their last six games at FedEx Field.
"In order for us to accomplish the goals that we've set out, we have to play no matter where we are," linebacker Bradie James said.
Here's a look at how the Cowboys have performed on the road this season compared to home.
Road _ Category _ Home
1-3 _ Record _ 4-1
18.5 _ Avg. pts scored _ 29.8
26.2 _ Avg. pts allowed _ 15.4
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There is always a beginning.
On January 13, 2008 I had a really good idea. I started a blog. I wrote a post. I posted a picture. I opened up comments to anyone who might (most accidentally) stumble upon my ramblings… and I misspelled the title of my first post (thereby setting the tone for every other word I would type in this space).
My beginning was short, yellow-lit, and misspelled.
In the five years that I've lived in this little Internet space I've also…
lived in three different apartments, driven two different cars, and held the hands of various dudes, dates and boyfriends. I've made a best friend. I've created podcasts with another best friend. I've traveled to London, over-eaten in New Orleans, and nursed (at least) two and two-thirds hangovers. I've borrowed three cameras. I've dropped one computer on the concrete. I've cried at least eight times. I've adopted one cat. I've lost two jobs. I've gotten in one bike accident. I've had 89 freak-outs of varying degrees. I've written one book, made hundreds of biscuits, and eaten dozens of pounds of chocolate chips.
For the past five years, this little space has always been where I want to spend my time. When I started this blog I didn't really think about who might come here and read it… mostly because I figured no one would. I just wanted to play with my butter, sugar, and camera. Somewhere along the way, you joined me in this weirdo journey and I'm really so glad you did. I didn't know I missed you until you got here… and now I'm sure I can't do without you. I am so thankful for your enthusiasm and kindness. You're weird too! Seriously, let's high-five!
This Cinnamon Sugar Pull-Apart Bread is the most bonkers popular recipe I've ever shared. Something about doughy cinnamon bread reaches inside your heart. We are all the same… this bread proves it.
This is the most useful bit of unsolicited advice I've shared with you in five years: On Turning TwentyOne. There's a few gems about the importance of water over rum, and eye contact over Facebook. I'm ThirtyOne now and I really need to write the ThirtySomething follow-up to this list. Lord knows I'm still out in the world acting a fool.
I wrote a bit about accidentally seeing an ex-boyfriend on the Internet. This had some of you thinking that I had taken up drunk blogging as a hobby. Yea… I've read the hate boards… I know what's going on. Was I drunk when I wrote that post? No.
That should clear things up.
It hasn't all been sweet in these few years. I have been very fond of sandwiching. Pepper Jack Grilled Cheese Sandwiches? Out of control!
And I have so many more cookie stacks in me. These Vanilla Almond Cloud Cookies are just the beginning.
All of this is really just to say THANK YOU! Thank you for indulging my boy talk, life lessons, poor spelling, and sometimes awkward food photography. Thank you for making as many cupcakes as you have, and leaving all of the awesome comments that you do. You make my life better everyday. It's so weird and awesome and true.
Five years! Working on six! I have you to thank, and thank you I do.
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Your amazing Joy! Just simply AH-mazing! Congrats and wishing you much more success with your blog. : )
Congratulations on five years and one amazing blog.
I devour every word and recipe – heres to the next five years :)
You and your blog are so lovely! Thank you for making the Internet a better place.
Congratulations from across the pond.
Come visit again soon.
Happy 2013! X
Joy – you were well-named. I know there's some sad bits in here but you are so disingenuous that your joy for life and the little things is infectious. It's what keeps us coming back. Thank YOU Joy.
Here's to the next five – your posts make me so happy when they land in my inbox :-)
You are my number one favourite blogger. I would never have started my blog last year had I not spent years reading these pages wishing I could do what Joy the Baker does and then thinking 'why don't i?'.
Thank you for being awesome!
Happy 5 years Joy, I hope you are going to celebrate with a day filled with cake xx
Happy Five, Joy! I first found your blog just under four years ago – it's funny to think how long ago that was – in both of our lives. I hope you have another fabulous five years and here's to more butter and sugar!
I've been reading your blog since about April 2008 and it was the first food blog I truly loved. Thanks for sharing your food and your life with us.
I've been reading your blog for about two years, I guess, who knows. I guessed randomly. I really like you a lot and I feel like I know you. There's probably a lot more to you, though.
I have made many of your recipes, but I've also skipped many, as I've been afraid they wouldn't come out right (the pull-apart bread!).
But now you've given me courage to try those, too, and I will.
Thanks for the 21st birthday advice, too. I'm 22 now, I just read them right now, and although I have most of the points covered, I still needed to be reminded of some things, namely the last point.
Happy 5th anniversary!
Hello Joy,
few weeks ago I found ur blog, but just started to comment few days ago. So it is great to know that u have this blog for five years. Amazing and Congratulations! I started mines five months ago and I cant imagine how it will be in five years….
It was so great to read what things u live trough in this five years and I like the way u are writing.
Have a nice and creative week and if u got some free minutes visit me and tell me what u think abt my blog, that would mean a lot.
happy b.day to your blog!
you 've been such a good company the last 5 years.
here's to the next 5!
joy i can honestly say you are such an inspiration to us all here in the crazy-ass world of food blogs. you're one of the best!!
this was just too sweet. congratulations and cheers to another happy five!
Your blog is one of my favorite places to visit on the internet! I don't know that I've ever commented before … but definitely wanted to congratulate you on 5 steady years of following your dreams. Also, more kitty pictures? ;-)


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When gas prices were high, suburbanites with long commutes were hurt the most — and now with the economy tanking, many suburbanites are losing their homes! So now seems like an appropriate time to watch The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream, a 2004 film that's predicted a lot of what's happening today — and continues to caution us about what's to come.
The End of Suburbia shows how our car-dependent — and thus fossil fuel-dependent — lifestyle's unsustainable. It's caused us huge problems like war and global warming, but also lowered our quality of life, taking away our walkable neighborhoods, forcing us to spend hours stuck on gridlocked freeways, disconnecting us from the community around us.
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Time to complete: 35 minutesRing in spring with this Japanese-inspired origami garland.
What you need:different colors of construction paper , origami paper in flowered pattern , scissors , stapler , ribbon , glue
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Supporters of free markets are often attacked for their "Do Nothing Principle" position, which tends to deeply upset policy wonks and media talking heads alike. Obviously this is buncombe, and to the contrary it is these would-be do-somethingers who are intellectually or ideologically incapable of grasping the sweeping scope of necessary changes that free market advocates are calling for.
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Do nothing you say?
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