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"Some fighters have come for personal glory,
Others have come to fight for those they love,
But all will do their best to be victorious in this tournament
Which will decide their fortunes..."Battle Arena Toshinden (simply titled Toshinden in Japan) is the first 3D fighting game franchise where every character toted a weapon of some sort (the first series to do it in 2D was Samurai Shodown). It was considered a killer app when it was released as a PlayStation launch title, and Sony promoted it heavily. However, as the years passed by, it got left in the dust, as it was upstaged by other 3D fighting game franchises such as the Virtua Fighter, Tekken, and the Soul series, who continued to innovate and refine their gameplay while Toshinden remained stagnant. Not quite as fondly remembered as it was back then, but still worth a look.The story of Battle Arena Toshinden revolves around a secret fighting tournament known only as the Toshindaibukai and that those who are deemed worthy of participating in it are handed invites by a secret group known only as the Himitsu Kessha (Secret Society in the English version).The first game in the series has eight participants competiting in the battle, each of them having their own reasons for heading into the tournament. The second game would be much like the first, except that two new challengers would enter into the fray and that the tournament itself would be nothing more than a mere ruse in order to lure out a specific target named Gaia, who happens to be a former member of the Himitsu Kessha, marked for immediate death after illegally holding the first tournament without the consent of the Himitsu Kessha and that he had tried to start a rebellion against the organization.The third game in the series would center around a new antagonist group known as the Soshiki (Organization in the English version) and their leader, a power-hungry megalomaniac named Abel. In order to bring a destructive fighting god named Agon Teos into the world, Abel and his minions must gather the blood of the strongest warriors and targets the Toshinden fighters as their sacrifices. Hunting them down mercilessly with underhanded ways, and hiring assassins and enemies that could bring them in, he then gives the fighters an ultimatum: Participation in the third tournament to corner them and settle things face to face in the ring, or forever find themselves and their loved ones chased down and victimized until they surrender or die trying to escape their grasp.The fourth and final game in the original series would take place a few years after the events of Toshinden 3 and that it would center around a young man named Subaru Shinjo (the son of Sho Shinjo and Cupido), who sought to find his missing uncle Eiji while participating in a new Toshindaibukai tournament.The series also has a 2D Game Boy port. Unlike other fighting game ports was released on the Game Boy, it's actually quite good and entertaining. It includes all the 8 playable characters from the first game and 4 bosses (Gaia, Gaia II, Sho, and Uranus). The background music is also outstanding to say the least. One weird fact that distinguish it from other 2D fighting games is that keeps its Ring Out feature from the 3D games, but it's made in such a way it doesn't break the game balance (you've a 3 points Ring Out meter; until it gets emptied you don't fall). If you have time in your hands, give it a look, it's worth it.In 2009, the series had gotten a spiritual successor for the Wii in the form of War Budokai (simply titled Toshinden in Japan, but spelled with different kanji charactersnote ), a weapons-based arena fighter with heavy anime influences which also incorporate skills such as summon magic.The original games were also adapted into a 2-part OVA anime in 1996, directed by Masami Obari (who also directed the Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture). It was the first anime DVD released by Central Park Media in the Western market (and possibly the first Western market anime DVD period).There is also evidence of a long deserted plan for a Toshinden prequel, through the pictures found in Toshinden Card Quest, now long known as Toshinden Next. As it stands, Next was supposed to have delved deeper into the affairs of the four executives of the Toshinden games, being Gaia, Cupido, Uranus, and Chaos, before what would lead into Gaia's mutiny, and as well into supporting characters mentioned and hinted to in the main series, with the Secret Society's own influences affecting them all as well.Has a character sheet now.
Battle Arena Toshinden contains the following tropes:
- All There in the Manual: Concerning the series' own world and information, much of it is hugely contained in the many Japanese only development books and strategy guides.
- The Anime of the Game: A two episode OVA, which was dubbed by U.S. Manga Corps and edited into a single movie.
- Bottomless Magazines: Played straight with Vermilion in Toshinden 2, which did not have any ammunition meters to the point that he was a literal game breaker. However, this was subverted in Toshinden 3. Nagisa, Adam, and Vermilion all use firearms, but have to reload them occasionally. Vermilion has to do so constantly, because his regular weapon attacks rely exclusively on them. David has six shots in his pistol, but he can't reload it at all.
- Catharsis Factor: Invoked with the easiest difficulty setting in Toshinden 2, which is called "Stress Relief".
- Captain Ersatz: Judgment (Jason Voorhees), Zola (Catwoman) and Ten Count (Michael Jackson).
- Darker and Edgier: Toshinden 3 in particular, dealing with the antagonistic Organization and their interests into the occult and Blood Magic for their ends.
- Defeat Means Playable: Everyone's evil counterparts in Toshinden 3.
- Dual Wielding: Several characters (Tracy and Rachael with their tonfas, Ellis with her daggers, and Vermilion with his Peacemaker and a shotgun).
- Evil Counterpart: All of the main characters had one, and they were introduced as sub bosses in Toshinden 3. Look closer, and you'll see that they all share special themes in relation to each other.
- Gaiden Game: Battle Arena Toshinden URA for the Sega Saturn.
- Guest Fighter: Earthworm Jim in the PC version of the first game. Rather than having his own attacks, though, he's just a skin swap of Rungo.
- Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels: Numbered difficulties in Toshinden 2, the "Stress Relief" and "Impossible" levels in Toshinden 3.
- Moveset Clone: Eiji and Kayin have the same basic moveset (Rekku Zan/Sonic Slash and Hishouzan/Deadly Raise) although with a few differences. Sho functions as the "Akuma" character, with more powerful versions of all of both characters' moves.
- Nebulous Evil Organisation: The Himitsu Kessha (literal translation: "secret society") in the first two games and the Soshiki (literal translation: "organization") in the third game.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Ten Count, one of the "evil" characters in Toshinden 3, looks, sounds and moves suspiciously like a certain gloved pop singer... His taunt (the infamous "crotch grab" part of you-know-who's dance routine) will instantly max out the opponent's Overdrive gauge when performed.
- Scoring Points: Only the first game had this; the others used a timer.
- Shotoclone: Eiji and his brother Sho; Kayin; Mondo; and their clones.
- Eiji and Kayin even do look like Ryu and Ken with swords, to boot.
- Shout-Out:
- In Toshinden 2, Chaos had some secret moves via some dexterity required commands that are blatant references to other fighting games, usually something made by SNK (the specific special moves that Chaos does includes Terry Bogard's Power Geyser, Ryo Sakazaki's Haoh Shoko Ken, Kyo Kusanagi's Serpent Wave, and Iori Yagami's Dark Thrust).
- Selecting one of Adam's alternate costumes in Toshinden 3 gives him a human, Zangief-like head.
- In some offical artwork, Abel looks a lot like Dio.
- Spin-off Game: Toshinden Card Quest and Puzzle Arena Toshinden.
- Spiritual Successor: War Budokai for the Wii.
- Surprisingly Good English: In the first game.
- Updated Re-release:
- The Sega Saturn received a port of the first game titled Toshinden Remix (Toshinden S in Japan), which added an extra character named Cupido to the roster. It was so graphically worse then the PS1 version, that it virtually proved the Saturn was the weaker machine overnight — a really bad move for Sega (as better looking 3D fighting games, such as Virtua Fighter 2 and Fighting Vipers were later released).
- Toshinden URA is often mistaken for a port of Toshinden 2, but it's actually a different game with a different fighting system and roster (Gaia, Chaos, Uranus, and Master were replaced by Replicant, Wolf, Ronron, and Ripper). It also had a different story from Toshinden 2's own, which revolved around a mysterious traveling fighter named Ripper, seeking out his missing sister (who happens to be Cupido) while dealing with a conspiracy that had involved the theft of an advanced fighting robot.


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Vote in our latest F1 poll and have your say now on who you think will come out top this Sunday at Albert Park.
Its a no brainer, Vettel
crash, if you do these polls for every race, at the end of the season, if you arent happy with the final standings then you could take your poll results and lobby the fia with evidence that you have the name of the most deserving champion, germans and spaniards would thus be put in there rightfull place as track fodder for the 'spice boys'!
Probabley FA but let it be Schumi! That would get things going!
I voted for Schumacher because i would love to see him win again.
HAMILTON!!! thats if his new parts work!
i thought the question was who do you think is going to win not who is your favourite driver???all the testing indicates that rbr has the best car out of the box and if vettel & webber have the same car i think vettel beats webber.so i voted for vettel (not my favourite) because unless something crazy happens i can't see anyone beating the redbull in the first race.
And then you answer the WHY someone should win. You got it wrong as well. It says WHO.
And the winner is...............Bernie!
praying for someone unpredictable to stir things up! Heidfeld maybe or Rosberg
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Modular Combat is a role-playing shooter based in the Half-Life universe. There are over 50 modules that can be upgraded at any level, in any combination. Modules give combatants amazing abilities such as flying, teleporting, spawning minions, and shooting flechettes or energy balls.
looks cool
We're working with a few design guys to try to improve the look of the overall menu. Hopefully, something nice will come of this.
Nice, like the new layout, simple liek it should be, dont change it
We won't...at least, not much.
This moduole should be stronger.
It most likely should be.
Looking good!
Coming from you, that's a huge compliment!
AWESOME!! New stuff =)
Is it possible to have a snapshot of the "Weapons" menu ? THX
I'll be showing that off on the next update post!
Very good. A change from stareing at the old one.
These screenshots depict the new menu layout for Modular Combat v1.77. Let us know what you think!


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SteelSeries Sensei Wireless review
It's a bit pricey, but the Sensei Wireless is a mouse that you'll likely come to love for the next few years.
It's a bit pricey, but the Sensei Wireless is a mouse that you'll likely come to love for the next few years.
Not many games have peripherals designed especially for them, let alone games that are nearly 10 years old. But World of Warcraft is special.
The community of gamers has been consulted by SteelSeries over certain design aspects of the Kana mouse, with the aim of this mouse truly being a mouse designed for gamers by gamers.
Taking its cues from the professional steering wheels found in Formula 1 cars, this gaming wheel is awash with buttons and dials.
Out of the gaming mouse triumvirate of the SteelSeries Sensei, Katu and the Kinzu, it is the latter that is designed to be the smallest.
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Does anyone else here have a storng willed child? Recently we have been having a lot of tantrum problems along with talking back. we have done time outs, tried teaching her to use "big girl words" to explain her feelings, we give warning that she needs to behaive herself or she will not be allowed back to play group. There just are not enough words to express my humiliation today as I left the Zumba daycare room with my baby onder 1 arm and my thrashing screaming and yelling 4 year old under the other. This behavior has never been tolerated and she never gets away with it so I am truly at a loss as to why it continues. Every time she has to pick up her toys or leave a play group or playground it is a huge melt down. She enjoys time out and the point is always missed.
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way to go RCSO!
wow - sounds like people are losing thier jobs
it looks like there are two people on the picture. look in the upper left corner and it looks like someone climbing the tower?!?
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Arkham City.3.cover.colors by ChuckdeeWatch
©2011-2016 Chuckdee
... aaaand here's the color version of this cover. If I am not mistaken, I think this issue came out today (cover printed a bit washed out though)... any of you read it, let me know what you think!
Daily DeviationGiven 2011-08-24
You gotta love all the details and the menacing looks in the faces of The Joker and Harley Quinn in Arkham City.3.cover.colors by ~Chuckdee ( Suggested by Rosella-of-Daventry and Featured by alexandrasalas )
how do you draw joker so perfectly!? OH god I love this so much!
Got the graphic novel and I have to say, this is one of the best GN's I have ever read. Brilliant writing from Paul Dini accompanied by your artwork really made it a pleasure to go through again and again. ^^
I like Harley Quinn most in Arkham City, unlike the dumb original outfit and that skank outfit from the New 52. While the treads are nice, I'd like her better without all the cleavage.
Oh that pisses me off when people do that.
thank you very much for pointing it out!
this is too perfect!
is this available as a print?
So much better that the shitty film.
Cara, seu trabalho é muito bom. Tem mais sites com mais desenhos seus? Os que eu visito tem um número limitado de desenhos. Ou então, página no facebook. Muito bom mesmo seu trabalho.
Wow wicked cool very well done!
I really wish they would of kept the original Harley Quinn Costume from Batman the Animated series. It was so adorable. She looked playful and innocent, but packed a punch. Oh well.
This is sooo awesomeee...i love it!!!
Uhm, where's said comic you mention in the description I'm very much interested in viewing it...
Awesome!!! suberb details
amazing!!! gun barrel is awesome
thank you very much! that black and white of the gun took FOREVER!!! hehe
I actually saw this in my library a while back. I can't believe the artist is on Deviant Art!
Great work!
got the comic for my christmas, some epic artwork
Am I the only one who wants to see Baby-Doll in the next Arkham game?
Gotta find this comic book. The cover is bad ass
This pick rock...really epic..
Harley so hot and Joker so mad.....AMAZING....
Harley so hot and Joker so mad.....AMAZING....
my favourite picture *-* very nice
Harley and Joker <3<3<3
Harley and Joker <3<3<3
awesome art
Its a shame that Harley never smiles when joker gets sick
its like her usual plucky self dies
its like her usual plucky self dies
The detail on the gun barrel is phenomenal!
Not a huge Harles and Mr J fan but this is WICKED sick, I love the looking down a barrel point of view.
Brilliant! Superb lighting, colour, expressions and perspective!
Great post.
Such a good issue.
LOVE this cover...the colors, the posing...amazing work.
you are a color GOD. You are the Einstein of color. no really, your work tickles my brain. I cant stess enough how much Im in love with your work.
hahahaha, thank you very very much! although to be perfectly honest, I consider myself a newbie with color!
this is a really great piece. I love the color. Harley's expression is just great and that gun looks awesome.
this is effin sick being a joker fan myself...
wow that is epic very nice job
Awesome work!
I can't wait to read this comic!
No words can express my love towards these two. Incredibly detailed, beautiful work of art!
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Arlington meet closes, debate continues
Updated: September 21, 2009, 3:16 PM ETBy Claire Novak | Special to ESPN.com
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILL -- It is Saturday, 93rd card of the meet at Arlington Park. Five racing dates remain until the end of the 2009 season, and trainers are already moving their horses over to Hawthorne Race Course or down to Keeneland in Kentucky. The runners are tired, horsemen more so. This week can't pass quickly enough for members of a community devastated by the tragic events that took place here over the summer.
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He's done!
I think I like it now, but there are a few things I think could be better, including shading.
Hope everyone likes my first Monkey D. Luffy!
- HB Mechanical Pencil
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i want to draw(comme) you
Great drawing !!! I love OP
Awesome drawing...
This is spot on!
Thats to Fresh
waw cool . o .
amazing! ;3
wow you're great artist ' i love all your artwork i wish i khan drawing just like you
good nice ^^
I just realized is hand drawn when I read the description. And I have to say HOLY CRAP how do you do this?
Great Stuff.
Well done, man! Your shading skills are awesome ^^
Dem abs tho xD
Loooove the shading. Is this new? If so I believe you have improved ^.^
Haha xD
Yes this is new, maybe a couple weeks? I don't know without looking xD Thank you kindly:3 Hope you're okay ^-^
No problem
Yeah, I'm fine. Just stressing about college exams. XD
I've actually conquered artists block within the past couple of days and am working on one of my WIPS. It's a really good feeling to come back to something you love and see that you've improved
Ahh I'm sure that you'll do great and have nothing to worry about at all ^-^
I know how that feels and it does feel great xD I bet it looks awesome:3
You're right c:
Thanks :3
You should give it a look when I post it! ^.^
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Marguerite Rust gave me a new insight into living a long life — her high school yearbooks. There were four of them in the thick package she dropped off at the newspaper several weeks ago.
She had told Sara Mathis, who works in our classified advertising department, that she was in the process of downsizing her belongings and had read a recent column of mine about a group of Columbus North High School students who were compiling a history of Columbus High School (it became North in 1972) relying primarily on information from past yearbooks. She thought I might be able to pass on her copies of the Log to help fill some gaps.
Sara described her as a "very nice, lively woman." She also mentioned that Marguerite was 102 years old. Passing the 100-year milestone by a couple of years is remarkable. Being physically able to drop off high school yearbooks at a newspaper office at that age is even more impressive.
But centenarians are no longer as rare as they once were. As we have evolved into longer life spans, more three-digit birthdays have been observed. The accomplishment was once cause for front-page stories in this newspaper. These days it often goes without notice.
That's how I first reacted to Sara's note about Marguerite and her package, but when I looked at the books I came to see Marguerite's long life in a different perspective. They covered the four years she attended Columbus High School, 1926 to 1929.
The 1929 Log triggered a thought in my mind. Were one to be held, this would be the 85th reunion of her graduating class. That's highly unlikely. It's a pretty good bet that Marguerite would be the only attendee.
She doesn't know that for sure. She hasn't been able to keep in touch with her former classmates.
"The last one I attended was the 65th," she said last week. "I'm not sure they had any after that."
Sixty-five-year class reunions fall into the unusual category. I remember experiencing a feeling of utter disbelief when I attended a 75th Columbus High School class reunion in 2007. It says a lot that that particular get-together of the Class of 1932 was held at Four Seasons Retirement Center, where most of the surviving class members lived.
Distant as 85- to 88-year-old high school yearbooks might seem to a Columbus resident today, their pages hold memories of people still fresh in the minds of those who have lived here a good while.
Henry Everroad was the 1929 class vice president. He would live his entire life in Columbus.
Jeanne Lewellen was the class secretary. Fifteen years later she was killed while test flying a military plane for the Air Corps. She is the only woman from Bartholomew County to have been killed while in service.
Ray Eddy was the star of the Bull Dogs basketball team. Later he would coach Purdue University's basketball team and serve as its athletics director.
Paul "Dutch" Fehring was one of Eddy's teammates on the basketball team but was a year behind, graduating in 1930. The Flying Dutchman also went on to Purdue and played in three sports. After graduation he became a coach at the West Lafayette school but made his real mark at Stanford, where he was regarded as one of the best baseball coaches in the country.
George Doup was another of Marguerite's classmates. He became an important community leader in Columbus and served for several years as president of the Indiana Farm Bureau.
Some of Marguerite's fondest memories are of Choral "Coke" Coons, with whom she shared a victory in a state editorial writing competition. Coke, another lifelong Columbus resident, would go on to a successful career at Arvin Industries and wrote the company's official history.
Marguerite herself was very active in school. The resume under her senior class picture listed memberships in the dramatic club, the honor society and the Commercial Club. She was also on the school's newspaper staff (The Triangle) her junior and senior year.
Her memories of high school days are still fresh, even after 85 years. She was Marguerite Burns then, and her family lived on a farm outside town.
"In those days there were no school buses to pick us up or take us home," she said last week. "Fortunately, my parents let me use the family car, and I would pick up classmates on the way to school."
Eventually after graduation she married James D. Rust, son of one of the owners of Rust-Unger Monuments. The couple moved to Michigan, where he served on the faculty at Michigan State University. They returned to Columbus in the 1980s, in part to help her mother, who lived to be 103.
Today Marguerite lives in a retirement complex in Columbus. Her husband died in 1988.
The yearbooks are just part of a downsizing project. She is hoping to find new owners for a collection of books she has had since childhood, including several works by famed Hoosier writer Gene Stratton Porter. "I don't have any living relatives, so there's no one to leave them to," she said.
While she's ridding herself of some material things, she's looking forward to the future.
"I'll be 103 in December," she said. "Same age as my mother."
That's just one milestone she's approaching. In June it will be 85 years since her class graduated from high school.


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Rankings: Firing Reid would be mistake by Eagles
The NFL's firing season officially kicked off Tuesday in Jacksonville, where Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver announced that he was getting rid of coach Jack Del Rio and, oddly enough, himself.
There are a whole lot of Eagles fans wistfully screaming, "We've got next!"
Some of those fans were the ones chanting "Fire Andy" at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field last Sunday as the Eagles absorbed a 38-20 defeat to the Patriots, dropping Philly to 4-7. That, of course, was in reference to Andy Reid, who was hired as the Eagles' head coach in 1999 and is the longest-tenured person in his profession.
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Reid's ouster may happen, especially given the meltdown quality to Sunday's defeat, which included a sideline shoving match between two of his assistants, the benching of disgruntled and arguably disengaged Pro Bowl wideout DeSean Jackson(notes) and the all-but-official elimination of a team that openly loaded up for a Super Bowl run.
I can see why Eagles fans are demanding change – it's obviously needed. However, I don't think firing Reid is the best move for the franchise, nor do I think he's the person who deserves the bulk of the blame.
The first thing to consider is that Reid, while influential in the organization's football hierarchy, is not nearly the force he once was. In recent years the balance of power has swung to team president Joe Banner and the young general manager he groomed, Howie Roseman. They're the ones who constructed this current Eagles team, engaged in the contract-related stare down with Jackson and unwittingly messed with the camaraderie within the locker room.
Reid, to his credit, rolled with the changing times and kept the Eagles competitive through last season, when he produced what might have been his greatest coaching job. That included a sudden but prescient audible from entrusting the post-Donovan McNabb(notes) quarterbacking duties to carefully groomed successor Kevin Kolb(notes) to riding the sublimely revived Michael Vick's(notes) scorching-hot passing hand.
The surreal trip ended in the first round of the playoffs, when Philly suffered a narrow defeat to the eventual Super Bowl champion Packers. As they looked ahead to 2011, all three of the Eagles' power brokers were understandably convinced that an elusive title was within their grasp.
So Banner, Roseman and Reid decided to go after it by any means at their disposal. The lockout essentially left them paralyzed through most of the offseason, except for the tweaks Reid made to his coaching staff, including the firing of defensive coordinator Sean McDermott and the surprising naming of offensive line coach Juan Castillo as his replacement. That turned out to be a move that hurt the Eagles on both sides of the ball – Castillo has struggled in his new role, and his replacement, Howard Mudd, has had trouble reaching Philly's younger linemen – and it's absolutely on Reid.
The rest of the moves, however, were driven by Banner and Roseman. Once the lockout ended, as Roseman had predicted, the action was fast and furious. The Eagles were the unquestioned aggressors of the compressed free-agency period, landing former Raiders cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha(notes) and a slew of other well-known and highly regarded players. Roseman also traded Kolb to the Cardinals for a second-round draft pick and talented cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie(notes).
When one of those high-profile acquisitions, former Titans quarterback Vince Young(notes), threw out a cavalier comment likening the Eagles to a "Dream Team," the outside world seized upon it, and a slogan was born. Many of us bought into the hype, though in my case there was a caveat: The Eagles as they'd been in 2010, even without any of the splashy additions, would have struck me as a serious Super Bowl contender.
Not that the caveat really matters. I picked the Eagles to win the Super Bowl. Obviously, I was wrong, and now it's time to deconstruct.
First of all, we should have known better: In the 21st-century NFL, that whole winning the offseason thing is a sucker bet, as Philly's NFC East rivals, the Redskins, are painfully aware. Like Washington owner Daniel Snyder a decade ago, Roseman is a fresh-faced, well-intentioned executive eager to make a name and build a winner. I don't fault him for having been aggressive, but I believe his inexperience may have blinded him to some side effects.
That brings us to our second issue: money. The Eagles' shopping spree bolstered the bank accounts of newcomers like Asomugha, Cullen Jenkins(notes) and Jason Babin(notes), who suddenly were commanding loads more cash than some of the team's established standouts. This is hardly a unique phenomenon in the NFL, but in this case it was amplified.
While the franchise committed to Vick, giving him what amounted to a five-year, $80 million contract extension, Banner and Roseman didn't make a serious push to give Jackson the extension he sought. They correctly assessed their leverage but didn't consider the broader implications.
Jackson, an undersized star in a brutally physical sport, had obviously outperformed his rookie contract heading into its fourth and final year. He had a legitimate case for seeking long-term financial security, and he is a highly emotional employee. A breathtaking scoring threat on offense and special teams who had literally won games for Philly, Jackson suddenly welcomed a teammate (Asomugha) making roughly 24 times his 2011 salary. This was not going to go well.
Stonewalled in his efforts to get paid, Jackson admitted to reporters that his overriding goal for 2011 was to stay healthy. The downward spiral that has since ensued was predictable. While not as ugly as Terrell Owens'(notes) similarly motivated spat with the team in 2005, Jackson's acting out has included a missed meeting that led to a one-game deactivation and, last Sunday, a fourth-quarter benching after he seemed to give less than maximum effort on a pair of potential scoring catches.
Jackson's attitude has alienated many of his teammates; however, the majority are sympathetic to his perspective, especially given the general degradation of the intra-team fabric.
Remember, the Eagles didn't just stock up on new players; they discarded a lot of old ones, too. Even before the league year began, Banner and Roseman had decided not to try to bring back any of their free agents, a crop that included a pair of popular locker-room leaders, safety Quintin Mikell(notes) and middle linebacker Stewart Bradley(notes).
You hear a lot of talk about chemistry, and it's undeniable that Philly's has suffered. The newcomers, for the most part, have been more aloof and less integrated than the players they replaced, and there is less socializing among teammates away from the field.
On game days, this translates into a decrease in trust among some of those players lined up next to each other, and something less than a maniacal devotion to the collective cause. That, more than any statistic or physical skill, is football, and it's no surprise that the Eagles have become a fantasy team prone to experiencing harsh reality on Sunday.
With all of that said, there have been numerous times during Reid's largely successful tenure when the team has run into rough patches and contended with potential crises. On most of those occasions, the players have fought their way out of it, spurred by a collective belief in the system in which they were schooled – and, not insignificantly, in their head coach.
This year, that's not happening. In my conversations with veterans who've spent significant time with the franchise, there's a sense that there simply aren't as many players versed in "The Eagle Way," and it's hampering the recovery process.
At this point, the newly acquired players aren't alone in failing to rally behind Reid. On Sunday, offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg and defensive line coach Jim Washburn had to be separated after pushing and shouting at one another on the sidelines.
Witnesses said the confrontation began when Mornhinweg, pacing along the sideline, refused to yield to an animated Washburn, one of the assistants hired by Reid after last season, and escalated when Washburn questioned the offensive play-calling. One player called it "the most unprofessional thing I've ever seen in my life" and said that on Monday Reid rebuked his assistants and told them they'd embarrassed him.
Is it too late for Reid to reassert his authority and repair the frayed relations in the locker room? For this year, perhaps, but I think it's doable for 2012 and beyond. And while Jackson's situation may be unsalvageable, a clear-the-air session and a fat signing bonus could go a long way, and stranger things have happened.
If I were Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie, I'd give Reid another shot, for two very important reasons.
First, Vick was truly transcendent last season, and I don't think there's any doubt that Reid was largely responsible. Vick has said that his desire to play for Reid was a significant factor in his decision to sign with the Eagles after serving nearly two years in prison for his role in a federal dogfighting scandal, that he wishes he'd been with Reid his entire career and that he hopes to stay with him until he's finished playing. Foist a new coach, and possibly a new system, upon Vick, and the quarterback to whom the team is financially committed could significantly regress.
The second reason is that, though this year is likely a lost cause, I don't think Philly's roster is deficient. If Vick regains his 2010 form, or even approaches it, in 2012, and the intrasquad vibe improves, a title run seems entirely plausible.
If I were Lurie, I'd look to another NFC East rival, the Cowboys, for inspiration. Dallas was the league's most disappointing team in 2010, a perceived Super Bowl contender for whom things got ugly early. After a midseason coaching change from Wade Phillips to Jason Garrett – yes, I know, I'm advocating for the opposite here, but this was a different situation – there were signs of improvement, and Garrett was retained.
Still, most people believed Cowboys owner Jerry Jones would be aggressive in free agency and attempt to upgrade a roster that underachieved so spectacularly the previous season. Instead, Jones resisted the temptation, making a few acquisitions that barely garnered any attention, but essentially sitting out the free-agent frenzy that the Eagles dominated.
Thus far, that approach has been vindicated: Dallas (7-4) leads the NFC East and appears to be peaking as it heads into the regular season's final month.
To me, this year's Cowboys should be the model for next year's Eagles. They won't be the Dream Team, but don't sleep on their potential.
And Reid, in my opinion, is the coach most capable of restoring order and undoing the damage of this lost season.
For now, you'll find the Eagles in the middle of our top-heavy, query-filled sandwich of NFL delectability. Dig in:
1. Green Bay Packers: When Donald Driver(notes) gave the Packers' offense a derivative nickname, shouldn't he have gone with "Greatest Show On Tundra"?
2. Baltimore Ravens: If the Ravens lose as a road favorite for the fourth time in the wake of an impressive victory over a good team, can I officially chastise them for dumping Gatorade on coach John Harbaugh after beating the 49ers on Thanksgiving night?
3. San Francisco 49ers: What's cooler – that the 49ers haven't allowed a rushing touchdown this season or that the last team to go the first 11 games without doing so was called the Steam Roller ?
4. Pittsburgh Steelers: After Al Michaels compared the Steelers to "old East Germany" during Sunday night's victory over the Chiefs, will the organization consider fielding a really, really muscular cheerleading squad ?
5. New England Patriots: When Tom Brady(notes) got rid of the "pain band" he'd been wearing on his throwing arm, did his receivers jump around in celebration?
6. New Orleans Saints: What's more rare right now – a sack of crawfish at the Acme Oyster House or a sack of Drew Brees at the Superdome?
7. Oakland Raiders: Is it acceptable for a punter to kick to Devin Hester(notes) if he can boot the ball over Hester's head?
8. Houston Texans: Is Connor Barwin(notes) the new Mario Williams(notes) – and how scary might the Texans' pass rush be next season?
9. Chicago Bears: If Kyle Orton(notes) beats the Bears on Sunday, will Tim Tebow(notes) somehow get credit?
10. Atlanta Falcons: Does Roddy White(notes) have his groove back – and can a healthy Julio Jones(notes) spice up the mix?
[ Fantasy Football: Do not fret over Julio Jones' Week 12 meager production ]
11. Dallas Cowboys: Will mistakes ultimately doom this team – and, given their penchant for penalties and mental errors, is this some sort of joke?
12. New York Giants: Why do I get the feeling Drew Brees remembers this quote from Antrel Rolle(notes) with the same lack of fondness that I do – and how bummed is he that the second part of a Brees-Rodgers doubleheader awaits him Sunday?
13. Detroit Lions: Before Ndamukong Suh called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to express remorse for his behavior during last Thursday's game against the Packers, did he reject a Vince Young-style text apology?
14. Cincinnati Bengals: With a big-play rookie combination of "Red" Dalton and A.J. Green(notes), are the Bengals feeling the Christmas spirit?
15. Denver Broncos: When Tebow delivered his "Ironman" sermon the night before Sunday's victory over the Chargers, did any of his less evangelical teammates consider blasting some Black Sabbath just to, you know, balance things out?
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16. New York Jets: When Rex Ryan stares down Rex Grossman(notes) at FedEx Field this Sunday, will Speed Racer's long-lost brother be lurking in the stands?
17. Tennessee Titans: Is it fair to say that one clutch play last Sunday justified the signing of Matt Hasselbeck(notes)?
18. Philadelphia Eagles: When Owen Schmitt(notes) went to the School of Rock last summer, did he bust out a sweet Stevie Nicks impersonation?
19. Buffalo Bills: Now that draft bust Aaron Maybin has been rammed down the throats of the Bills, will Buffalo sign Vernon Gholston(notes) and do the same to New York next year?
20. Washington Redskins: As smooth as Roy Helu's(notes) hurdle over the Seahawks' Roy Lewis(notes) was during the rookie's 28-yard touchdown run Sunday, why do I get the feeling he wouldn't have tried it against Ray Lewis?
21. Seattle Seahawks: Wait – Seahawks players were seriously offended because the Redskins held a pregame huddle on their logo at CenturyLink Field?
22. San Diego Chargers: How absurd is it that Dean Spanos' master plan is to groom his son to preside over football operations – and why aren't Chargers fans more appalled by that needless stroke of nepotism than they are by Norv Turner's coaching?
23. Miami Dolphins: Why won't Jeff Ireland free Sage Rosenfels(notes) – who isn't eligible to play for the Dolphins and isn't being paid by the team – the way John Elway did Orton last week?
24. Cleveland Browns: Has Scott Fujita(notes) played his final NFL game – and, if so, has he considered hitting up Jerome Simpson(notes) for some acting tips?
25. Arizona Cardinals: How great is it that the Cardinals have a Paul Pierce Award – and how surprising was it that Beanie Wells returned from any injury to set a franchise record Sunday?
26. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Should the team's new motto be "Lettin' It All Hang Out"?
27. Kansas City Chiefs: Is the Wrong 1 choosing the Right 53?
28. Carolina Panthers: With apologies to teammates DeAngelo Williams(notes) and Jonathan Stewart(notes), are Greg Olsen(notes) and Seyi Ajirotutu(notes) the new Smash and Dash?
29. Minnesota Vikings: If defensive coordinator Fred Pagac and some of Leslie Frazier's other assistants are indeed "dead men walking", can someone kindly crank up the Eddie Vedder/Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn duets?
30. Jacksonville Jaguars: Now that Whine Weaver is finally selling the Jags, why on earth would new owner Shahid Kahn want his predecessor to be heavily involved in the search for a new head coach?
[ Related: Clause in lease keeps Jags in Jacksonville until 2027 ]
31. St. Louis Rams: Which Missourian is more radically conservative – Steve Spagnuolo or John Ashcroft?
32. Indianapolis Colts: Has Peyton Manning's(notes) son met Augustus Gloop's father?
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'Tis the SeasonJournal Entry: Sun Nov 25, 2012, 8:50 PM
It's the holiday season and I'm going to make the most of it. Thanksgiving was amazing, the family is doing great. I hope you found some time to enjoy your family, friends, your dog, whatever gives you joy.
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Olympic gold medalist Keshorn Walcott didn't just return to a hero's welcome in his Caribbean homeland of Trinidad & Tobago. He was also promised a check for about US$155,000, a luxury home and roughly 20,000 square feet of land near his hometown.
Oh, and a lighthouse and a Caribbean Airlines plane will be named after the 19-year-old javelin champion, too.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar lavished Walcott with gifts and praise on Monday at Trinidad's Piarco International Airport, where a few thousand revelers dressed in the national colors of red, black and white greeted the young athlete.
Monday was named a national holiday in honour of Walcott, who won the Olympic javelin title with a throw of 84.58m.
Walcott's victory was Trinidad's first Olympic gold in a field event and its second overall. The first one was notched 36 years ago at the Montreal Olympics when Hasley Crawford dominated the 100m.
"On behalf of the people of Trinidad & Tobago, we thank you, Keshorn, and may the Lord continue to bless you," Persad-Bissessar shouted into a microphone, trying to get her voice above the crowd's chanting of "Keshorn!"
Walcott, who is from the tiny Trinidadian farming village of Toco, looked slightly stunned by the outpouring of gratitude from his countrymen.
"I was proud to carry the flag of T&T and thanks to everyone for all the support and thanks to Mum and Dad, my brothers and sister," said Walcott, who was the world junior champion in javelin before his big weekend win at the London Olympics.
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Last week we ran a cover story profiling marijuana's steady creep toward legalization nationwide. ("Weed Takes Root") And just like some spliffed-out Nostradamus, today it appears that our prophecy may be one step closer to reality here in Washington.
Five local activists say it's about damn time.
Doug Hiatt, a lawyer who represents medical-marijuana patients, and four others known collectively as Sensible Washington filed a ballot initiative yesterday that would legalize all adult marijuana possession, manufacture and sales in the state. Under Hiatt's initiative juvenile possession and distribution to juveniles would still be illegal, as would driving whilst hotboxed.
But everything else? Kosher.Hiatt has long been the point person for frustrated journos and lay folk trying to get a grasp on Seattle's byzantine rules governing pot. He says he was inspired to file the initiative by a county prosecutor who'd long heard him bitch about the law and dared him to do something about it.
Now the only thing standing between him and decriminalization is the Sisyphean task of collecting more than 241,000 signatures to earn a place on November's ballot. Then getting people to vote for it.
Hiatt's initiative joins another similar measure proposed by Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson. The state House member who says she will soon be introducing a bill calling for marijuana to be legalized, then sold, and taxed, in state liquor stores.


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I'm running FCP 10.0.6 on Lion 10.7.5. Far too often, my system freezes at times that I simply cannot duplicate; its random, but it happens and it requires a hard shut down and reboot of FCP. I've tried moving the entire one-hour project over to a different drive running Firewire 800 and still the same problem. I've tried running the project from my 1TB Seagate internal drive, same problem. It happens regardless of what source footage I use. I can't duplicate the issue anywhere. It just happens, it seems, at moments when I am usually trimming or retiming a clip; really, it happens at moments that I don't why WHY! PLEASE, can APPLE, just have a look at the code of FCP 10.0.6. I know that there are others in our editing community that are suffering from this same issue. I've read some of the posts in the forums. THIS IS A PROBLEM! PLEASE, APPLE...do something about it. There is SOMETHING in the 10.0.6 code that must be causing this. I've looked at everything that I'm doing here and it just doesn't appear to be anything on my end. I cannot recall having this issue with earlier versions of FCP! It seems to me that it started with this new update. I don't know what else to say. IF ANYONE ELSE in our community is suffering from this occurance, please speak up and together maybe APPLE SOFTWARE engineers will take notice and have a look at some rogue code that is at the core of this issue.
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I hear harris hawks are most popular because of those qualities yeah. I would like to someday get into falconry, but I move a lot with my family so I cannot afford to get the required licenses and a harris hawk only to move somewhere it isn't allowed and get rid of it. That's just not fair to the animal.
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The Chancel Choir of United Presbyterian Church, 730 Beville Road, Daytona Beach, is offering a special program of Christmas music at the 10 a.m. service Dec. 15. The music will feature familiar and classic melodies in a variety of styles including Latin hymn, Lutheran chorale, folk song, spiritual and contemporary. Dr. Robert Anderson, pastor of United Presbyterian, will read a new narration, written by the church's music director, Richard Butler, which will concentrate on a universal aspect of the familiar Christmas story. For more information or directions, call the church at 386-253-2324.
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This is a solid little company, good management, demand is on the rise for their services. Without pumping, I'm surprised DVR did not shoot up 50%+ on the news, but that is the market. Anyway, I just added, I now own an absurd about of stock in DVR for my portfolio, but I know a good value, and winner when I see one. I still say this hits $3 in coming weeks, but I'm not so sure about today, but I would have to speculate this moves higher in afternoon trading.
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For truly delicious choices ranging from savory pizzas to sweet treats, try Domino's! With your choice of sizes, crusts, sauces, dipping sauces, and dozens of toppings, your pizza creation will be totally customized. And Domino's has more than just pizza! Choices of pasta, sandwiches, breads, chicken, and dessert are all available in the area. Whether you're a student at CDA Technical Institute, or just nearby, or you're ordering from around Kirby-Smith Middle School or near Andrew Jackson High School, Domino's has you covered. That's right! No matter where you are in Jax neighborhood, you'll find fantastic food at your neighborhood Domino's. Pick up the phone, go online, or stop by today!
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|Republicans: The Party That Should Have Known Better
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|Written by Bradley Harrington
|Wednesday, 10 September 2008 02:38
Now that all the hoopla is over in St. Paul, let us examine just exactly what it is that Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin are advocating for America.
McCain's Web site spells out his stand on the issues quite clearly, including, but certainly not limited to, the following:
• Energy. "McCain will commit our country to expanding domestic oil exploration. The current federal moratorium on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf stands in the way of energy exploration and production."
• Veterans. "McCain has voted repeatedly, throughout his career, to ensure that the Veteran's Affairs health-care programs receive the funding necessary to serve our veterans."
• Foreign policy. "McCain believes we must enlarge the size of our armed forces to meet new challenges to our security. ... Our existing force is overstretched by the combination of military operations in the broader Middle East and the need to maintain our security commitments in Europe and Asia."
Yes, we should be expanding oil production by abolishing the federal moratorium on drilling, among other things. Great idea. Problem is, up until 2006, McCain has repeatedly and consistently opposed such actions - yet we have been held hostage to the whims of Arab dictators on oil prices by such policies for several decades. More election-year politics.
And, while McCain constantly touts his military record, strength on defense, and support for veterans, he has repeatedly voted to nix increases in benefits for veterans, and he opposed the expansions in the GI Bill of 2008. McCain, apparently, would rather see a soldier maintaining our "security commitments" in Europe and Asia - continents that ought to be providing for their own defense - than go to college after his time is up. Election-year politics burns another strike right over the plate.
There was once a time, many decades ago, when the Republicans advocated liberty and individualism; when the GOP supported capitalism, free enterprise, and private-property rights; when the party opposed poverty-inducing schemes such as Social Security and food stamps; when they would have viewed institutions such as the Department of Energy or the Department of Education as unconstitutional; and when they believed that the proper role of our military was to protect our nation from attack - not to engage in costly, counterproductive, and imperialistic overseas adventures such as the floundering mess they have made of Iraq.
Today, the only Republican advocating such positions is Congressman Ron Paul - and what Paul got for his efforts was smeardom from coast to coast as an isolationist, racist, white-supremacist pig (with much of the smearing coming from his fellow Republicans, including John McCain).
We all know that the Democrats stand for the "welfare" state. What do the Republicans stand for? McCain poses and postures before the American public as a "maverick," but the facts beg to differ: McCain stands for the status quo, i.e., for the mixed-economy "welfare" state, just like the Democrats. He would merely exercise the federal government's near-totalitarian control over the citizens of the United States in a slightly different fashion.
Yet if the Republicans do not stand for liberty, individualism, and constitutionally limited government, they stand for, and represent, nothing. No principle, no value, no integrity remains (or is even possible) once that level of treason has been committed.
"A Cause Greater Than Self-Interest," trumpets McCain, as if helping millions of Americans protect themselves from the ravishing of a hurricane was not in the self-interest of the rest of us. It is this kind of intellectual befuddlement and lack of understanding of rational self-interest that has led the Republican party to sell itself down the river.
And that is too bad for us, and makes the treason much worse, because, of the two parties, the Republicans are the ones who should have known better. If there is anything worse than the slavery advocated by the Democrats, it can only be the Republicans talking out the sides of their necks about liberty and freedom while securing us just as tightly with chains of their own.
Bradley Harrington is a former United States Marine and a freelance writer who lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
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Volkswagen Golf SportWagen Concept Car Preview: 2014 New York Auto Show
Why the Volkswagen Golf SportWagen Concept Matters:
Although the Volkswagen Golf SportWagen debuted as a concept car here at the New York Auto Show, VW says it will be available in dealerships early next year, so it's as close to a production version as it gets.
But before you get totally confused, note that the Golf SportWagen actually replaces the Jetta SportWagen. Many would argue that the SportsWagen, mostly based on the older Golf platform, should never have been called a Jetta, so now we see a course direction of sorts.
Wagons are back in vogue in the USA because people are finally appreciating their ability to be both fun to drive and able to hold plenty of cargo. Add to that the offering of a manual transmission and a turbo-charged diesel (TDI) engine, and you have a pretty nifty package of goodness, explaining why VW wanted to get the news out about it as soon as possible. The only thing about the announcement that is disappointing is that it seems an all-wheel-drive version will not be offered as it is in the European variant.
One reason for the correction is that this vehicle was created on the new and improved MQB global architecture that Volkswagen is implementing with all its brands. This modular platform was tailored made for Golf and now the wagon variant gets to take advantage of the lighter, bigger, roomier, more fuel efficient, powerful and safer attributes of this new, innovative technology.
These and other widespread improvements are moving Volkswagen in the right direction to their lofty goal of U.S. market domination by 2018, but the jury is still out.
Volkswagen Golf SportWagen Concept Car Preview: 2014 New York Auto Show
What's New for the Volkswagen Golf SportWagen Concept Car?
You might think, because it's a Golf, this wagon would be smaller than the outgoing Jetta SportsWagen, but it's actually larger in interior space and cargo by 10 percent. It's also more fuel efficient by 17 percent.
Other newly improved features not found on the previous Jetta SportsWagen include a 1.8-liter turbocharged and direct-injection 4-cylinder TSI® engine that makes 170 horsepower and a 2.0-liter turbocharged and direct-injection diesel engine that improves horsepower by 10 horses above the current model to an admirable 150 horsepower. There's also a choice of six-speed manual or DSC® dual-clutch automatic transmissions.
The exterior changes include a sloping, long hood designed that creates a "cab backward impression" thanks to the new MQB architecture.
Inside, luxury-level features are added like a 12-way power driver's seat, Bi-Xenon headlights with LED DRLs, Park Distance Control and 18-inch aluminum alloy wheels.
Volkswagen Golf SportWagen Concept Car Preview: 2014 New York Auto Show
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Europeans have a fervent love for wagons, but the US market has been much more dedicated to small SUVs, which are becoming more affordable and feature-rich by the day. Nobody does wagons better than Volkswagen, but will this cool new version be enough to turn an American market's head away from small SUVs and engage with a diesel wagon? Volkswagen's SUVs are extremely pricey in comparison, so its move to bring a comparable product to the mix against more affordable SUVs is not surprising.
Pricing for the production model of the Golf SportWagen has not yet been released, but we expect it to be consistent with the Golf line up and that means a much more affordable alternative – especially with the diesel offering. There's a lot going for the Golf SportWagen, and, as diesel wagons go, you probably won't find a better, more attractive package.


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