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There were only three things that truly shocked me about Kick-Ass. Only one of those pearl-clutching moments was due to the film's violence. The other was the way it dealt with sex. Shocked may be the wrong word for it -- disappointed would be more accurate.
Kick-Ass introduces us to a very typical 16 year-old boy, Dave Lizewski. There's already been a bit of digital ink spilled about the wadded-up Kleenex the film (and its making of book) proudly dwells on. It was a deliberate toilet humor moment that might have been a little more effective if the same joke hadn't been made in the Adam Sandler trailer that preceded my showing. Lizewski's hormones are rampant. He has no outlet. We're shown and told.
Lizewski also reads comic books. Obviously, this is no surprise. The main conceit of Kick-Ass, the one voiced over the trailer, is that Dave wonders why no one else has actually pursued being a superhero. He's a fan of comics, he's disgusted by the petty crime of the neighborhood, and he sees a natural course of action. He'll become a superhero. As he points out to his friends, you don't need superpowers, you just need a suit and a weapon. Batman does it without superpowers, so why couldn't an ordinary mortal? Again, this is the main marketing thrust of the film, and what is supposedly so innovative about Mark Millar's story.
But the thing is, Dave never really becomes a hero. There's no real Batman moment until the end (a weaker ending which differs from the comics, having been written before Millar had actually hit that point of his series), but Dave spends much of the film just wandering around in his costume. He never does much in the way of superheroics, and his half-baked dream of being Kick-Ass ends as soon as one important thing happens: he loses his virginity to his dream girl. He no longer wants to be Kick-Ass, and he flees the comic store to have sex with his girlfriend behind it.
The metaphor is appallingly clear, and as old as the pulp Detective Comics is printed on. Comic readers only enjoy comics because they can't get laid, and once they finally leave their basements and meet a girl (or boy, though it doesn't extend as nastily to women or gay men), they aren't interested in DC or Marvel anymore. They sell their precious, preserved collection in order to move in with their female companion, and all proceeds go right into the suburbs. Comics and geek trappings are the stuff of childhood, and no normal, healthy adult enjoys them even ironically.
It was a weird jab at the Kick-Ass audience, particularly since the film is asking you to buy into the conceit that Dave is simply doing what we all want to do. Throughout the film, it's stressed that Dave was moved into action because too many good men do nothing -- at one point, he and his friend are mugged while an older man watches from a window -- and you're supposed to cheer for him the way you would Spider-Man. Dave has no great power, but he chooses to take on a great responsibility. This is, after all, the definition of heroism. Until, of course, you have sex. Then being a hero flies out the window, and all your friends are trying to get girls into comics because they, too, want to get laid.
Look, I get that one of the angles of Kick-Ass is that Dave is about the fantasy and that he's hideously unprepared for the reality. The marketing played on his bruised and bloody face while stressing he could kick your ass, an approach that now seems as schizophrenic as the film itself. Of course, many heroes meet a girl and decide to give up crime-fighting (until she's kidnapped, or his partner is killed, or the entire city is held hostage by a bomb ...) but Kick-Ass took the conceit and turned it around until it became something vaguely insulting. And while that may be the mark of deconstruction -- and I could definitely entertain the thought -- I don't think it's a very solid one. It's hard to believe that Millar or Vaughn, enamored as they are with the notion of their teenagers actually kicking ass, are trying to tear apart the action hero's journey in any way.
There are shades of Nite Owl -- only while dressed as Kick-Ass does Dave have the gumption to talk to his dream girl -- but without any of the guts or understanding. Nite Owl was impotent outside of his costume, but in it, he could be a hero. He didn't drop the idea of springing Rorschach because he had finally gotten lucky with Silk Spectre. If Alan Moore can acknowledge that a woman doesn't sap the fighting spirit, than I think Millar and Vaughn could have too. Perhaps it's just me, but I think it's awfully hard to buy into a Kick-Ass franchise when you're simultaneously suggesting to your audience they will stop watching this superhero stuff as soon as they're getting laid on a more regular basis.
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At the age of 16 Dickmann was employed by a large lumber company. At 18 he entered the real estate business with his father, Joseph F. Dickmann. In World War I, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and rose to the rank of Gunnery Sergeant. Following the War he returned to the real estate business in St. Louis. Dickmann served three terms as Exalted Ruler of the St. Louis Elks Lodge. He devoted much time of the affairs of the St. Louis Real Estate Exchange, being a member of the Board of Directors, then secretary, and president in 1931.
Bernard Dickmann did not marry until after he served as mayor. In February, 1949 he married Mrs. Beula Pat Herrington, Postmistress of Mount Olive, Mississippi.
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At his inauguration, Mayor Dickmann promised a program of economy leading to a balanced budget. He said studies would be made to make the city government more economical and efficient.
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Forty City blocks on the riverfront were cleared to make way for the beautification of the site for the Memorial. Mayor Dickmann obtained an Executive Order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, retaining the Old Court House, the Rock House, and the Old Cathedral as part of the Memorial Area.
For many years St. Louis had been attempting to clear its atmosphere of smoke palls. The Smoke Ordinance, creating the Division of Smoke Regulation in the Department of Public Safety, became effective in February of 1937. By 1941, eighty-three cities from 31 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada had sent to the St. Louis Smoke Commissioner for information on the new Law and its application.
Mayor Dickmann's Survey of the city's governmental organization, services, and finances, was the first general and complete study made here. $40,000 was appropriated, and a group of municipal consultants, Griffenhagen Associates and Governmental Research Institute, conducted the survey under the direction of a local committee appointed by the Mayor. Mayor Dickmann was defeated by Republican Judge William D. Becker when he ran for a third term in 1941.
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In this offbeat anthology, editors Black and Larbalestier embark upon a literary throw-down to determine which is superior: zombies or unicorns. To that end, each assembled a six-person team of writers and set them loose. Each story is prefaced by editorial banter as each editor (hilariously) makes her case. Highlights include Diana Peterfreund's Rampant tie-in, "The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn"; Libba Bray's postapocalyptic tale of teens trying to maintain a semblance of civilization in "Prom Night"; and Maureen Johnson's pointed take on celebrity fads in "The Children of the Revolution." Meg Cabot's "Princess Prettypants" skewers the image of unicorns as sparkling, rainbow-farting "symbols of pure happiness, hope, and awesomesauce," while Carrie Ryan's "Bougainvillea" acts as a prologue to The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Scott Westerfeld's "Inoculata" examines what happens when the zombie hordes finally win, while the zombie in Alaya Dawn Johnson's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" isn't nearly as far gone. Without a clunker in the bunch, this anthology more than lives up to the potential its concept suggests. Zombies or unicorns? There's no clear winner, unless it's readers. Ages 14-up. (Sept.)[Page ]. Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.
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LAKE ELSINORE As a freshman, Lisa Taranto tackled the 100-meter intermediate hurdles in a most unusual fashion.
"I stopped in a race, stepped backward, and jumped over the hurdle," Taranto said.
Stopping for any reason in the middle of a sprint is not recommended. It took her more than 28 seconds to complete her first race.
"My freshman year, I was the most awful person on the entire team," Taranto said. "The funny thing was, I thought I was good."
She is now. Taranto, a senior at Elsinore High, easily won the 100 intermediate and 300 low hurdles — as well as the high jump — at the Sunbelt League track and field finals Wednesday at Lakeside High.
Elsinore won both the boys (100 points) and girls (118) team titles.
The top three finishers in each event qualified for the CIF Southern Section prelims meet, which will be held at different sites May 11.
Taranto, who will compete in the heptathlon next year at Riverside City College, had difficulty as a freshman overcoming the mental hurdle of the event.
"It was a classic because she stopped for more than one hurdle," Elsinore coach Jeff Hodges recalled. "It was funny as can be. But she finished every race that year, regardless of her time, with her hands up in the air, screaming 'Woo!'
"I was like, 'She loves it. Let's keep her there.'"
She improved by leaps and bounds over time.
"I learned that when you're doing something, you may as well put your whole heart into it," said Taranto, who also won the 300 hurdles (47.67) and the high jump (5 feet, 2 inches). "I constantly push myself in order to make myself better."
In the boys 100 meters, defending champion Dallas Deville of Perris was disqualified for an early start.
Lakeside senior Marcus Love missed his close friend and competitor, but still won the race in a personal-best time of 10.77. Teammate Wyatt Staggers finished second (10.86).
"After Dallas DQ'd himself, I didn't think I'd run as fast as I did," Love said. "No matter how many races I win, Dallas is the person that pushes me.
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He felt a bit of redemption after winning the 200 in a personal-best 21.96. Love placed second (22.28).
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The latest figures show the Baton Rouge metropolitan area as first and the New Orleans metropolitan area as fifth in the rate of AIDS cases in the United States. The Louisiana Commission on HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, which was formed to advise the governor on the viruses, met October 24, for the first time in more than two years. The commission failed to muster a quorum, but did review the grim statistics and discuss the commission's future, specifically its role.
The statistics showed that new diagnoses of the HIV virus, which causes AIDS, are increasing in Louisiana. Also, the number of people infected is spreading from the metropolitan areas to other parts of the state. Other statistics presented: 18,502 people in Louisiana have AIDS or HIV as of June 30. Of those, 54 percent have AIDS. The number of people newly diagnosed with HIV in Louisiana increased by 12 percent from 2010 to 2011. Seventy-one percent of the newly diagnosed HIV patients were men. Seventy-four percent were black.
Some progress was made in between meetings. Louisiana succeeded in whittling down its wait list for people waiting to receive medications through the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), due to the infusion of federal funding and the elimination of people who were not eligible. Also, the Division of Human Development and Services for Baton Rouge (DHDS) received a 6 percent increase in funding for the 2012 fiscal year, with awards increasing to $4.3 million. Raman Singh, chairman of the commission, urged the group to meet more regularly to stop the serious problem of the large numbers of HIV/AIDs cases in Louisiana.


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So what have we learnt from this in-depth interview?
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Bribery 101Stefanie Wilder Taylor
I believe the deliciousness of a snack food can be measured by its ability to inspire my kids to listen to me. The stronger the influence over behavior (read: bribe tool) the clearly tastier the treat.
Here's the problem: My kids are shockingly immune to a lot of typically great negotiation tools: cookies, gum, soda (my kids hate it) and most shocking, Halloween candy. One would think that a plastic pumpkin full of left over Halloween candy would have given me a lot more traction getting my kids to get things done. But one would be wrong. My kids are pretty over everything Halloween from their costumes to the rest of the mini Kit Kat bars. Even though there's plenty of candy left, I've been forced to move on to bigger and better.
So with the holidays coming up, the kids have been extra rambunctious in the evenings. Let's take a moment to acknowledge that I just used the word "rambunctious." Am I a grandma all of a sudden? Honestly, who uses the word rambunctious besides little old ladies seated at the next table at Coco's. "My word your children are certainly rambunctious, aren't they? And when is that waiter coming back with my red snapper?"
Today I bought a bag of Hostess frosted devils donettes —and then I subtly pulled them out after dinner as if it were no big deal.
Turns out I found my new bribery tool. Elby ate three faster than I could say, "You may have two" and Sadie scarfed down a few herself. So later, I told Elby that if she wanted to, she could have a few more for breakfast the next morning if she cleaned her room right now.
"So are you saying I can't have donettes for breakfast if I don't clean myroom?" she asked.
"That's exactly what I'm saying."
"Okay, then I'll go clean it cause I really want some of that chocolaty goodness for breakfast."
"Well then it's a win win, Sweetness." Would it really be this easy? And it was.
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The Packers Are Bad In Close Games; Here's Why
All six of the Green Bay Packers losses have come by four points or less, this season.
To be exact, four losses have come by three points and two have come by four. Meanwhile, the Packers average margin of victory is a shade less than 17 points per game.
That last statistic is slightly misleading because not all of the Packers victories have been blowouts. They beat Detroit by two in week four and Minnesota by four in week seven. However, by and large, when the Packers win, they win big.
That brings us back to that record in close games. The Packers are 2-6, so far this season.
I'll give you the quick explanation why — coaching.
Mike McCarthy has the second-worst winning percentage among active coaches in close games. He's 5-15, which is a .250 winning percentage. The only coach who's worse is Buffalo's Chan Gailey, who is 3-11 — a .214 winning percentage.
Go ahead and say I'm unfairly piling on McCarthy again, but the statistics don't lie.
Neither does the evidence.
The simple fact is McCarthy's Packers are consistently bad in less noticeable, but extremely important areas of the game.
For years, the Packers have been among the league leaders in penalties. In 2009, they were first with 118 penalties. In 2008, they were second with 110. In 2007, they were fourth with 113.
While they've committed far fewer penalties this season — they're currently 28th in the NFL — it's still been a problem area.
The Packers gift wrapped the week three game for Chicago by committing a team-record 18 penalties. Then there was Robert Francois lining up illegally on a fourth quarter punt against the Dolphins. The resulting first down gave Miami their first go-ahead score.
Both were huge factors in Packers' losses.
For the past three seasons, the Packers have fielded one of the worst special teams units in the league. In 2009, they finished 31st in the Dallas Morning News' special teams rankings. In 2008, they finished 26th, which cost special teams coach Mike Stock his job.
This season, the Packers have been killed by their special teams — from New England lineman Dan Connolly's 71-yard return just before the half, last week, to Atlanta's Eric Weems' 40-yard return after the Packers tied the score with 1:06 left in week 12, the hits keep coming.
Both of those plays proved pivotal in Packers' losses and they aren't isolated incidents.
Certainly, I could go into the whole clock management thing again, but I don't want to beat a dead horse.
Gary D'Amato points to the Packers shortcomings in short-yardage situations, as well, which shouldn't come as much of a surprise. The Packers failed to score a touchdown after first-and-goal at the 2 against New England. They failed to score any points after Aaron Rodgers fumbled following a first-and-goal at the 2 against Atlanta.
The biggest part of the problem seems to be the Packers predictability. They consistently try to run up the middle, but that's beside the point.
Again, these aren't isolated incidents.
The Packers rank 24th in the NFL in fourth-down conversion percentage (5-13, 38 percent). Like penalties and poor special teams play, this problem isn't unique to this season.
The Packers were 30th in fourth-down percentage (3-9, 33 percent) in 2009 and 23rd (8-18, 44 percent) in 2008.
When a talented football team develops a pattern of losing close games it's usually the result of recurring, seemingly secondary, problems. After all, the Packers aren't losing because their offense can't score or their defense is getting run over.
They're losing close games because they can't put it all together on a consistent basis.
When these problems develop into a pattern over several years, it's because the team isn't well coached.
Monty McMahon is one of the founders of Total Packers. He is probably the most famous graduate of UW-Oshkosh next to Jim Gantner.
Great article McMahon. It sums up what many of us have been saying for a couple of seasons now. McCarthy has failed to fix these issues because he fails to consistently recognize them. I thought Slocum got of to a good start this season when he demoted Donald Lee for leaving his lane on a pre-season kick return. Unfortunately that was the end of holding guys accountable, after that it was just talk.
I'm beginning to think McCarthy needs to go through what happened Belichick when he got fired from Cleveland, because they had many of the same issues. Now by all accounts New England the guy relentlessly reinforces the important concepts and corrects negative trends to the point of Ad Nausium. The result is that the Patriots almost never make the stupid personal and team mental errors that the are becoming the Hallmark Packers.
Simply put, I don't think MM has the common sense and basic math skills necessary to be a Head Coach. Period. How else can you justify throwing the ball deep on 4th and 1 with a backup QB, plenty of time, and 2 timeouts…..AND try and argue that it was the correct call?
How else can your logic be so flawed in the 2 minute drill that you think leaving no time on the clock is more important than actually scoring.
He's dumb. End of story.
Maybe MM is to blame for global warming and the JFK assassination too.
You know what is more important than your record in close games? Your overall record. After taking over a 4-12 team, MM has had one losing season in 5 years. That is not a recipe for getting fired.
Now, I don't find 8-8 acceptable either; so, if we lose the next two games and THEN go 8-8 or worse next year, then I'm all for MM being shown the door. But until then, we can criticize MM all we want. Afterall, that is what we are here for, but talk of firing him is just a waste of time until then. It isn't happening.
Amen to the whole running up the middle problem. You want to know the best way to ensure we don't gain any yardage in the run? Head directly for the heap of people. Jackson consistently, maddeningly doesn't even try to juke left or right when by doing so he could bypass almost everyone. Instead, he stops dead short due to an elementary law of physics – you can't run through people.
It is frustrating that the Pack have so much "potency" (the ability to generate point differential, which is the point of the game) but not "consistency" (winning big, losing small). It is Thompson's job to supply potency, it is McCarhy's job to supply consistency. It's basic organizational structure in any industry.
A team that has a +344 "potency" the last three seasons, even including a thin 2008 defensive performance that has been more than adequately fixed, but is only on pace to be as good as the 92-94 era team, if that? I don't know if many Packer fans realize that this Packer team is the best team, potency-wise, we've had since the Superbowl era of 95-97. And we're getting playoff pretender caliber results? If this is acceptable then I need to start bagging my own poop and sell it as fudge.
I think two games a season minimum hang exclusively on McCarthy, everything else being equal. It is the HC's job to get the best he can, and MORE, out of the team, not sandbag it. Too much talent getting too little results.


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Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum welcomed their first child together in London on Thursday. And while you can add Channing and Jenna to your list of sexy Hollywood parents, we still don't know the gender of their sure-to-be genetically perfect bundle of joy.
The couple announced that they were expecting their first child together in December, and she was expected to give birth any day now.
Channing, 33, and Jenna, 32, met on the set of Step Up in 2006 and tied the knot three years later in July 2009. Even during the pregnancy, the couple kept up with their hectic work schedules. In fact, Channing brought Jenna with him to London to shoot his new film, Jupiter Ascending. "We're going to actually have the baby in London while I'm shooting, and then there will be no downtime whatsoever after that," Channing told Ryan Seacrest in an interview. Production for the film will move to Chicago in July, and Jenna will begin working on her fall Lifetime series, Witches of East End, in Vancouver around the same time.
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"I'm not one of those people who just sings in the shower," Mo Brady declares during a break from rehearsals. "I'm walking up and down Pike singing along to whatever's on my iPod. And doing it loudly. I sing all the time."
Brady is like somebody out of a '50s family-oriented television sitcom. Wholesome good looks, endearing personality, and capable of playing adorably awkward characters? You betcha.
The 28-year-old actorâ€"who looks and comes off much youngerâ€"has earned notoriety in quirky supporting roles in productions at the 5th Avenue Theatre and Seattle Children's Theatre. In Hello, Dolly!, he portrayed Barnaby, a determined store clerk who travels to, and refuses to leave, New York until he sees a stuffed whale in a museum and kisses a girl. And in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, he was a bumbling boy smitten by a girl he meets at a social. Brady is never cast in a lead roleâ€"but he's the one audience members fall in love with and remember.
"I usually end up playing the 16- and 21-year-old nerds," Brady acknowledges. "On the page, these aren't always real people. They're setups for jokes. But I try to create something out of them that people can believe in and will have empathy for."
That he does exceptionally well. Partly because he's dedicated to his craft, spending 50 hours a week rehearsing for a production, as well as clocking in additional time at the gym and in dance classes. Also partly because he has no qualms about being consistently cast in an ensemble or as a supporting character. In fact, he embraces it.
"I never wanted to be a soloist," Brady says. "I like it when I make a sound, and then you make a sound, and then we bring these sounds together...that's what feels good. That's what I loveâ€"to play off each other and create something that's much bigger than ourselves."
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(Sports Network) - Counted out before the new NBA season even began, the
Portland Trail Blazers apparently never received that memo.
Did the Blazers deserve to be labeled irrelevant? Absolutely. All they have is
LaMarcus Aldridge, right?
Hold your horses, partner.
The Blazers missed the playoffs for the first time in four years with a 28-38
record in the 2011-12 lockout-shortened season, and were "blessed" with two
picks in the first 11 of this past summer's NBA Draft. If anyone's been
monitoring Portland's situation, especially the backcourt, selecting a point
guard was priority No. 1.
Enter Damian Lillard.
Lillard was a standout for Weber State, a lesser-known school in northern
Utah, and knew coming into his current situation he would have some big shoes
to fill. Brandon Roy was the face of the Blazers' franchise and reluctantly
let go following too many knee issues. Roy could score at will at full
strength and since received a second chance with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Now backcourt duties rest upon the young shoulders of Lillard, a floor general
with speed and ball-handling skills worthy of future All-Star status. What
more can first-year head coach Terry Stotts ask for? Not much after what
Lillard and the Blazers did in a 116-106 season-opening triumph at the expense
of the mighty Los Angeles Lakers, a team loaded with future Hall of Famers in
Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard and Steve Nash.
"A huge win for us," Wesley Matthews, who scored 22 points, told the Portland
Tribune. "We have a lot of doubters against us, a lot of people writing us
"This isn't going to silence them, but it should certify our belief in
Lillard convinced some cynics, too, as he filled the stat sheet with 23
points, 11 assists, three rebounds and one steal. He did have six turnovers,
but give the kid some credit. He just helped dispatch the Lakers, the
favorites to represent the Western Conference in the finals and possibly win
another NBA title.
Portland has something going here early on. A Lillard-to-Aldridge connection
could become an ordinary phrase in the Pacific Northwest. There's also
Matthews and Nicolas Batum for Portland, which might have reached the playoffs
a season ago had Lillard been drafted before the lockout was official. On the
flip side, Lillard may not have been there for the picking in June had the
Blazers finished better than 10 games under .500.
It's just one game for the Blazers, whose five starters scored in double
figures and helped shoot 50.6 percent on the evening. Lillard was the key. He
got everyone involved and even Aldridge said the rookie "played great."
Lillard joined Oscar Robertson and Isiah Thomas as the only players in NBA
history with at least 20 points and 10 assists in their NBA debut. The 11
assists were the most by a player in his debut since Jason Kidd had 11 back in
1994, when Lillard was still learning how to talk.
The 22-year-old Lillard became the first player with at least 23 points and
nine assists in his initial pro appearance since LeBron James in 2003, and is
only the third player in franchise history to net 23 points or more in his
coming out party (Maurice Lucas, Mychal Thompson). Lillard said it's easier
for him to distribute the ball when Aldridge, Matthews and Batum are making
their shots. He also wanted to make Nash work on both ends of the floor and
the two-time NBA MVP was forced to leave the game with a leg ailment. Perhaps
the spry Lillard was too much for Nash, whose career is soon coming to an end.
According to Aldridge, the team's lone All-Star, Lillard ran the offense like
a seasoned veteran and made shots "when he had to." Batum was impressed with
his new teammate as well, saying "the balance of his game is really good."
Lillard is reminding Portland fans of a former point guard with his polished
skills, and could be the best floor general since Terry Porter kept the likes
of Clyde Drexler, Jerome Kersey, Buck Williams and Kevin Duckworth in check.
Yes, it was only the first game and there are 81 to go, yet it wouldn't be a
surprise now if Portland sneaks into the playoffs with a seventh or eighth
seed. That's miles away, of course, and things could happen down the road.
Fatigue, injuries, egos are just a few aspects that could be a distraction.
In a season loaded with questions regarding chemistry, the development of
youth and avoiding another lottery pick, the Blazers are off to a promising
start. As if facing the Lakers on opening night was a burden, Portland has
three straight road tests against Oklahoma City, Houston and Dallas on the
horizon. Lillard won't catch a break either against upcoming guards Russell
Westbrook of Oklahoma City and both James Harden and Jeremy Lin of Houston.
Lillard was asked if the intensity level will be different at the Thunder.
"I know it will, especially going to their gym," Lillard said. "It looked like
a crazy atmosphere. I watched their team a lot. They have a really competitive
team and two of the best players in the league."
That trek could deflate the high hopes Portland has right now. The upcoming
path won't get any smoother after the grueling road swing, with the Clippers,
Spurs and Hawks slated to invade Rip City from Nov. 8-12.
Lillard said after his dazzling debut that the Blazers haven't set specific
goals this season other than to "get better everyday" and "compete."
To reference the Beatles, the NBA season is a long and winding road, and
Lillard will experience his ups and downs. For now, at least, he has the Rose
City optimistic the roller coaster season will come to a halt in the playoffs.
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Missouri tax revenues lag behind budget
Friday, March 2, 2012
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri revenues through the first eight months of this fiscal year remain below what's needed to balance the state budget.
The state Office of Administration reported Friday that net revenues from July through February increased about 2.4 percent over the same period a year earlier. The governor's office says the budget is based upon a 2.7 percent growth rate.
Most of Missouri's general revenue comes from individual income and sales taxes.
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Berglund's 2 goals lift Blues to 6-1 win
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The St. Louis Blues insisted their lopsided win Sunday over Columbus was nothing personal.
Patrik Berglund scored twice and Jaroslav Halak had 23 saves as the Blues dominated for much of the game and won 6-1 on Sunday. St. Louis sent the Blue Jackets off their home ice to a chorus of boos from the few fans left behind from an announced reported crowd of 13,538.
The Blues said the rout wasn't a payback for an 8-1 setback back in November in the same venue.
"It's probably just two teams that like to play hard and guys who are willing to push that envelope," Blues coach Davis Payne said, explaining the chippy nature of the game and the series.
Before the game in November, the teams got into a shouting match in a corridor outside the dressing rooms. The bad blood carried over to the ice. There were fights, cheap shots and St. Louis' T.J. Oshie broke an ankle and missed 31 games.
The Blues came into that game with a record of 8-1-2, but the defeat started a five-game skid that sent the Blues spiraling down the standings. Both the Blues and Blue Jackets had long been eliminated from the Western Conference playoff picture.
"We are division rivals. So obviously when you play against division rivals, you want to beat them, you want to win every game," Halak said. "That's what we were trying to do."
Chris Porter, Andy McDonald, Alexander Steen and Carlo Colaiacovo also had goals, with Chris Stewart, Matt D'Agostini and Vladimir Subotka each adding two assists for the Blues, who have earned points in five of six games.
Payne said early leads in the meetings this season have led the teams to get even more physical than usual.
"If you look at all the games, one team has jumped ahead so it has never really been that tied, tight hockey game, a one-goal hockey game," he said. "You start to get too much distance on the scoreboard, and one team or the other team usually has some sort of a response to get their team going. That may be one reason."
Columbus coach Scott Arniel offered another reason.
"Against a team like St. Louis, if you play like that, soft and aren't ready to compete, stuff like that happens," he said. "We just weren't very good. Our compete level wasn't very good. We weren't ready to match what St. Louis was doing."
To be fair, the Blue Jackets were without captain and leading scorer Rick Nash and top goalie Steve Mason.
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A Bangladeshi paramilitary court handed down jail terms of varying degrees to 665 rebel border guards for their roles in the 2009 BDR mutiny, as the country nears the completion of trials of soldiers who were accused of minor mutiny charges.
"The special (paramilitary) court today handed down rigorous imprisonment ranging between four months to seven years to 665 jawans of 44 Rifles Battalion," state prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Zakir Hossain told newsmen.
The erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) is now called Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) after an exercise to revamp the force after the February 25-26 carnage at the frontier force's Pilkhana headquarters in the capital in 2009.
While the trial of soldiers, who were accused of minor offences like looting, was being held in paramilitary courts, a parallel trial is underway in a civil court that is trying the 'core culprits' accused of slaughtering 74 people, including 57 army officers.
Hossain said the court headed by BGB's Colonel Ehia Azam Khan also simultaneously fined each of the convicts Taka 100 and acquitted eight soldiers as allegations brought against them were not proved under the BDR Act.
Journalists who witnessed the procedure at the makeshift court inside the Pilkhana said the convicts were whisked away in police vans to be brought initially to the high security Dhaka Central Jail.
BGB officials said the six special paramilitary courts have so far completed trial of rebel soldiers in 56 out of 57 units of the frontier force, handing down imprisonment of different terms to more than 5,000 out of suspected 6,054 border guards.
The rebel soldiers staged the rebellion at Pilkhana at the heart of the capital city on February 25, 2009 but the mutiny quickly spread at sector headquarters and regional units of the frontier force across the country. The casualties took place only at Pilkhana.
Bangladesh last year renamed the mutiny-infested force and changed its laws, uniform, flag and monogram.
The new law or BGB Act laid out death penalty for mutiny, replacing the previous BDR Act that prescribed only seven years of imprisonment as the highest punishment for ordinary disobedience or breach of command.
The provision of lenient punishment under the previous BDR Act required the trial of the "core culprits" of the 2009 mutiny under the country's civil Penal Code for "murder charges".
The prosecution lawyers at the sessions' judge's court, where the suspected "main massacre culprits" are being tried, said they expected the trial of the 847 detained accused to be completed by the year-end under the penal code which lays out the highest death penalty for the convicts.
"It is clearly understood that the government is very active to complete the trial and so far we have not faced any obstacle from the defence side to disrupt the trial process...we expect it to be completed by the yearend," chief prosecution lawyer of the case Advocate Anisul Haque earlier told PTI.
The authorities earlier scrapped the annual month-long vacation of the Dhaka Sessions Judge's Court to allow for undisrupted trial. Several hundred witnesses have already testified before the court.
A government committee report said "a certain quarter" of soldiers had staged the mutiny exploiting a sense of deprivation of the ordinary BDR soldiers but only a few BDR men knew about the plot to kill.


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- This book presents a data-driven approach to constrained control in the form of a subspace-based state-space system identification algorithm integrated into a model predictive controller. Previous research into this area focused on the system identification aspects resulting in an omission of many of the features that would make such a control strategy attractive to industry. These features include constraint handling, zero-offset set-point tracking and non-stationary disturbance rejection. Parameterisation with Laguerre orthonormal functions was proposed for the reduction in computational load of the controller. Simulation studies were performed using three real-world systems demonstrating: identification capabilities in the presence of white noise and non-stationary disturbances; unconstrained and constrained control; and the benefits and costs of parameterisation with Laguerre polynomials. The discussed algorithms have also been presented in Matlab code.
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"Wouldn't it be great if we could make a world that was always there for you? Wow. That would be great."
No word on precisely what he meant, but it smacks of an obvious trial balloon. My guess is that they're currently bouncing around several proposed IP, and this comment is an attempt to see how the public reacts to this particular suggestion. But set that aside, ignore for a moment the weird tendency in marketing to anthropomorphize the product, and let's consider the question. Would it, in fact, be great? Obviously that depends on what it is. MMOs are really hit and miss. Even so, after spending the last few weeks awash in Halo: Reach, the answer is yes. It would be great.
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This document contains information and links that may be useful for Editors of WebApps' specs, including information about publishing a document as a W3C Technical Report, often called TR (and the document is said to be published in /TR/).
This document is a WorkInProgress and as such is subject to change. Members of the WebApps Working Group as well as the W3C community are encouraged to update and maintain this document!
Spec Editor Roles and Responsibilities
Besides the mechanics of specification authoring, WebApps' specification Editors also have other roles such as:
- Making sure their specification(s) reflect consensus (see WebApps' Consensus WorkMode and WebApps' Editor WorkMode for more information)
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- Tracking comments when a specification is in Last Call review. For more information on issue and bug tracking see WebApp's Issue and Tracking WorkMode wiki.
- Making a specification Pubrules compliant before it can be published as a Technical Report (see below for details)
- Assuring their specification(s) PubStatus data is accurate and current
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TR Publication Rules
The W3C's Publication Rules aka Pubrules defines all of the requirements for documents that will be published as a W3C Technical Reports (TR). When a document meets all of the publication requirements it is referred to as "PubReady'".
- PubRules - defines the publication requirements for documents based on the maturity level of the document. For example, the requirements for a Working Draft are different than the requirements for a Candidate Recommendation as indicated in the PubRules Filter. A document must meet every Pubrule requirement before it can be published in TR.
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- The document must pass at least the following Validations including: HTML Validator, CSS Validator, Link Checker. Note the validators (especially the CSS validator) may report errors that are not errors. See the Validator Help Page for information about how to get help with the Validators and how to report Validator bugs/issues.
- The Status of This Document section should include the subject tag prefix that should be used for comments (e.g. [spec-name] comment ...)
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Here we go, it's time to get down to the most important Father's Day post of the week…father's day kid made crafts. Every year we are faced with this question. I've tried to put together a collection of crafty ideas that both young and old kids can make. Year after year the most loved "gifts" are those that were made by hand…especially little hands.
Love this monster hug from My Little 3 and Me.
Here's one for the big kids to make, a puzzle for dad from Impress Your Kids.
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Make a dad medal inspired by No Time For Flash Cards.
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