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This short interview actually tells a lot about ICT events, and how they have been changed over the years.Very good and entertaining yet informative, thanks, I am going to participate Publish Helsinki.
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Have you heard the big news that Kourtney Kardashian is pregnant with baby number two? She made the announcement last week that she is expecting again, and reported that she was about nine weeks along.
Kourtney is still a couple of weeks away from entering her second trimester, which is typically when women start to show visible signs of a growing belly.
As of now, Kourtney's tiny baby bump really isn't visible, as she's not showing yet. She is wearing looser fitting clothing, but you really can't tell that she's pregnant by looking at her.
It will be so much fun to watch Kourtney's bump grow as her pregnancy progresses. She had such a cute maternity style while pregnant with son, Mason, and she's sure to be dressed to impress this time around too!
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I keep my music collection on my iPod, but since I got my first iPhone two and a half years ago I have quit using the iPod as a portable music device. It's just an external HD. Benefit of having it as an external HD is that when it's connected to some other computer iTunes can play its music and update iTunes database.
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After a couple of weeks of pussyfooting around and pretending that rules which clearly would have needed to be drawn up months ago were not actually quite ready yet, Microsoft has unleashed its licensing and connectivity outline for the Xbox One upon the world.
It's a draconian set of principles, plucked from the dampest of publisher wet dreams and designed to remove or alter almost every level of control that a player previously had over their console games.
"But wait," ask many Xbox players, pushed face-to-face with monstrous digital DRM for the first time. "Isn't this just the same as Steam?"
Well, in some straightforwards ways, yes. In many other (rather important) ways; no, not even close.
Here's where the two are kind of the same:
(1). Both Xbox One and Steam tie games to a user account. Once activated, they sit in your digital library and have restrictions on what you can actually do with them.
(2). Yeah, that's pretty much it.
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(1). Let's start with the one minor way in which Xbox One's system is actually more positive than Steam. You can (albeit in a absurdly limited way) re-sell or trade your games; if a publisher allows it, and only at "participating retailers." It also seems to be possible to give a game to a friend as a one-time transfer. On Steam you can only 'gift' games at the time of purchase, or by passing on spare, unused codes.
(2). Ok, now the biggies. Steam won't stop you playing the games you own if you lose internet access for more than 24 hours. Xbox One has to phone home every day. When functioning as intended (and yes, it's only fair to say that there have been issues with this,) Steam will let you play games in offline mode indefinitely. If your internet connection is down then you (obviously) won't be playing much multiplayer or redownloading something from your library, but everything else will work as it should.
That's a pretty huge difference. Unreliable internet, which only affects … ooh, I don't know, most of the world that isn't a major urban area in the United States … doesn't prevent Steam gaming.
(3). Sales, man. Nobody really likes the fact that Steam ties a game to a lone account and prevents you from selling, trading or doing much of anything with it post-purchase, but the policy is tolerated (in part) because PC digital platforms hold so many regular sales. There is vast, open competition between Steam, Amazon, GOG, Green Man Gaming and the myriad of other digital sellers out there. Hell, even Origin manages a halfway-decent sale every now and then.
A used game market for PC titles has kind of faded into irrelevance, because it's possible to pick up even major releases for about $5.00-$10.00 USD a mere six months after they come out.
I'm not going to try to predict how Xbox One pricing will evolve in the futu … actually, you know what, yes I am. The exact same closed market of retailers who are selling console games now will still be selling them once the Xbox One is released. Do you think they'll have a sudden change of heart about their business model and start slashing those $60.00 USD prices? No, neither do I.
(4). Unlike Xbox Live, Steam does not require an ongoing membership fee to access the full extent of its features. Xbox One is going to literally make you pay to not be allowed to do things with your games. Welcome to the glorious connected future.
(5). PC digital is a wacky, wild wasteland of fun. We have to put up with a fair amount of DRM nonsense on PC, it's true. But that's offset by all the benefits: modding, indie bundles, alpha/beta tests, variable pricing models. You've got everything on PC, from DRM models to rival Xbox One's (hi there, SimCity) to digital platforms that are 100% DRM free ('sup, GOG.)
Hopefully that clears up some of the confusion, and provides a handy set of retorts for the next time someone says "But Xbox One is just the same as Steam! Why are people upset?"
"Yes," you can reply. "It is the same. Except for all of the ways in which it is completely different."
they're still in heavy DRM, the reason why i rather go to GOG.
a console is suppose to be easy to use, just slap the cd in the console and play.
now we have to go trough all the DRM crap just like steam, it's like promiting a VCR and say that this one can also record.
Something that often gets overlooked in the Steam/XBOne comparisons is historical context. Before Steam, PC gaming was basically the wild west. If you wanted to play a multiplayer game, you never knew if the server was going to be running the same version of the client you had, and patching it was frustrating and involved hunting for updates on a publisher's website. With Steam's instant patching, everyone was going to be playing the latest build. That's just one of the ways that Steam actually provided value over pirating, which is what PC gamers are battling, and it's much more insidious than used games. Patching isn't much of an issue now, but Valve had to win users over with these perks, and now that we're in their ecosystem, we don't feel the need to leave. Xbox is not providing the same added value (despite what they're flowery press release wants you to believe), but they still want consumers to give up the rights they've always had.
The truth is that Steam may have a few of the same "DRM" issues that the XBox one has, but it also had 10 years to mature; Valve has built-up a significant amount of goodwill that Microsoft certainly doesn't have.
Man, i just want to say that i tottaly agree! I am very happy with my 126 games on Steam (most paid with 50%-75% discount). STEAM I LOVE YOU !
I have never felt that the second-hand market is that big or important, its certainly a niche but it isnt the all-evil-thing which publishers are so scared off.
Thats why I dont care that I cant resell my games on my Steam acc, it doesnt matter me because I probably bought with a discount anyway, and Steam is a good platform and great for gathering with a community, as soon as I buy one game that was just released my friends are asking what I think of it and the ones who already have it are asking me to play with them and all that.
What publishers need to understand is that the second-hand market has little impact on their so precious sales, its the game quality that matters, if the sales of a certain title are tanking there are many other factors to look for before pointing their finger at the reselling of games, like pricing, content, gameplay, expectations/popularity of the title's franchise, etc…
Anyway… to me, all this ruckus and chaos about Xbox one is so "meh". I really dont care, I have steam and a good PC, I see all of these complaints and tantrums about it, I am always like: "Guys… why dont you guys buy a PC rig and use Steam?" but console gamers are so resistant and afraid of PC gamming, go figure…
i would not go for PC as console player of ppl keep on talking steam, DRM scares ppl and for good reason.
you can't resell your game when you don't like it anymore, you can't try it and return it for a refund and you most certainly can't give it to a friend so (s)he can try it too.
the worst part about DRM is internet, normally you just slap a game in the computer and instal the game, now you are forced to register it on a third party program that eats up RAM space and slows down the computer, sometimes crashing the game.
if you want console players to come to the PC then make sure you don't mention steam, that's pretty much like showing off your girlfriend when she is in her cicle.
The Xbox One is a huge gamble from Microsoft – either they win because most people don't care and restrictive DRM truly becomes the norm among AAA games, or Sony eats their lunch.
Either way, they're ceding even more ground to indies and medium-sized studios, particularly on the PC and maybe on the PS4 as well.
"a third party program that eats up RAM space and slows down the computer, sometimes crashing the game"
Currently Steam is taking up ~22 meg of ram out of the 4 gig I've got, hardly massive amounts (~0.5%), Firefox is taking up ~280meg (~7%).
As the article said, Steam used to be a bit ropey & unstable, but after 10 years it's much more reliable & I've never had it crash (though I'm sure some will have) recently.
From the sound of it, if a console gamer doesn't like steam, they probably won't like the new Xbox either, for much the same reasons (& probably some new ones too).
Bought an xbox 360 years ago because Sony seemed complacent but the Xbone looks very anti-consumer. Maybe I'll just have to stick to my PC for a year or two and see if they improve. Can't see that losing my rights to own or sell a game or play it when I want is worth it. I feel sad and disrespected at weasel words I've been following so far from M$ and Sony and developers.
P.S. Just bought Saints Row 3 for $9.99 on steam but I can't see Xbone games being less than $60 ever. The Xbox live prices never compete with retail copies.
22? you mean 50MB, firefox takes 75MB and 150 with youtube on, i have 2GB ram.
On the "differences" you listed:
2) The 24 hour thing is indeed a valid difference and I don't like it.
3) Sales. Publishers want profit, that's all. With unprecedented total control over how their games are sold and resold (or not) they would be absolute idiots not to try out different pricing models. Sales can generate more profit, and the first publisher to realise it will reap the rewards. The rest will follow suit quickly.
4) Xbox Live is free. There are paid subscriptions, but what you get for your money is stuff that Steam does not offer, so this part of your argument falls flat on its face.
5) I thought you were comparing to Steam? What does GOG have to do with it?
In summary, the 24 hour rule is the only one of your points that is actually valid.
"4) Xbox Live is free. There are paid subscriptions, but what you get for your money is stuff that Steam does not offer, so this part of your argument falls flat on its face."
Except for online multiplayer. You can argue bits and pieces like Netflix and Amazon Video, but the majority of these (not all, admittedly, but most) require additional subscriptions on top of Xbox LIVE Gold.
"5) I thought you were comparing to Steam? What does GOG have to do with it?"
That's a bit of a strawman argument, no? The majority of that point – mods, bundles, alphas/betas, pricing strategies – relate to Steam, but also contextualise Steam as part of a wider environment that simply doesn't exist with the XbOne.
I do partially agree with you on the sales point, though. Console game prices rarely fall as far as Steam, but – super AAA titles aside – most games drop in price fairly quickly. Off the top of my head, I saw both Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Persona 4 Arena for half of their RRP a few months after launch, and they drop lower still in the odd sale.
How these prices will actually be affected by the publishers wresting control away from retailers, though, we'll have to wait and see. Generally speaking, publishers don't want to piss off retail because they rely on retail for advertising and putting their games in noticeable places. It's why the 360's Games on Demand is rarely even *competitive* with retail prices, let alone cheaper. I'm kind of intrigued to see how that pans out with the XbOne.
"Except for online multiplayer."
Steam does not provide multiplayer. It does provide a means of browsing for multiplayer hosts (provided the game dev adds Steamworks support to their game) but it does not host the games.
Steam provides the exact same service that Xbox Live does on the multiplayer aspect. In fact it goes above and beyond by having dedicated servers in it's own titles such as L4D2, DOTA2, CSGO, TF2 etc. Xbox Live doesn't even host dedicated servers for any of it's titles, it's simply a system that searches for available lobbies that are hosted by players themselves, and searches for players that are also searching for players at the same time, otherwise known as listen servers. This gives a serious advantage to the one player that is hosting, or in some games that intentionally put simulated latency on the host, a disadvantage. All XBL does is matchmaking and in no unique way, it's identical to the matchmaking PC games and PS3 games use. Anyone who actually thinks Xbox Live makes for better multiplayer is living in a placebo effect of paying for nothing.
Obviously Valve provide servers for their own games. Other publishers also provide servers for their games, where required. It's not a Steam feature, it's a publisher feature.
I've never owned an Xbox so I'm not sure how it works, but if Xbox Live Gold only allows you to search for games hosted by other players (i.e. does not host the games with dedicated servers) then I'm baffled as to why anyone ever pays for it. Regardless, if that is the case then yes, this is another advantage that Steam has.
"Obviously Valve provide servers for their own games."
Oh my god, Valve is Steam. Valve has their own games, that yes they sell on Steam, and yes they own Steam, and yes they have their own servers on Steam cause it's their own games.
also remember I can download 175 games from steam for FREE and i pay no additional fee for access to my library. Oh yea by the way all 175 games I can play on EVERY SINGLE LAPTOP OR GAMING RIG I HAVE EVER BUILT.
And Steam games is getting ready to introduce SHARING!!!
That is true innovation. This was MS money grab. If they truly believed what they were doing was going to be innovative they should get rid of the subscription.
"Unreliable internet, which only affects … ooh, I don't know, most of the world that isn't a major urban area in the United States … doesn't prevent Steam gaming."
This is SO wrong. In fact, areas with high speed internet connection are the only place where Steam isn't a bother. Here's why-
Last week one of my RAM modules failed. So I had to take that thing off the computer. And BAM! Steam thinks I'm possibly pirating by (I don't know: carry my hard disc over to my friends and sharing with him) and must connect to the internet. That'd be great Steam, but I just quit my last ISP before all this happened and it'd be a month before I get a new one. And I can't run Steam in offline mode until then because Steam thinks I'm pirating?
Even if I had the internet, places with lousy broadband services isn't viable enough for Steam either. What happens when STEAM FORCES AN UPDATE on you over a very wobbly network? 10%. FAIL. 12%. FAIL. 2% FAIL. 7%. FAIL. 22% FAIL. 16% FAIL. Or even worse: 99%. FAIL.
That's right! Steam doesn't know how to resume from that 99% next time it's picked up my feeble connection.
Because places where internet DOES suck, Steam demands internet like in USA. Go figure.
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Not all search warrants are equal. Using a warrant to locate and seize a single piece of evidence, such as a firearm or crack cocaine, may be a fairly simple matter. Using a warrant to obtain the business records of a corporation or an executive suspected of fraud is quite another.
Although the same body of law applies in both instances, the techniques used to draft the applications for these warrants and to carry out the searches differ significantly. This article addresses some of these differences and suggests ways investigators can accelerate the process of obtaining search warrants infraud cases, while minimizing the possibility that errors will be found by a court after the search has been completed.
Search warrants are very powerful investigatory tools, as well as very restricted ones. They permit agents of the government to invade a person's home, personal papers, and privacy, in order to search for and remove particular items of evidence. In short, warrants are intrusive, and for this reason, they must be specific. In this regard, a search warrant differs from a subpoena duces tecum,(1) which permits subjects to conduct their own searches for requested items while permitting the government to embark on a fairly wide-ranging and speculative inquiry for possible evidence.
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Fraud is a crime of deception. Someone attempts, whether successfully or not, to deceive another party, usually for the purpose of obtaining money or something else of value. Obtaining the item of value is not the crime. Likewise, in a case where someone trades a worthless item for cash, the exchange is not the crime. In both scenarios, the act of deception, the "telling of the lie," is the crime.
An example may clarify this basic, but important, point.(2) The U.S. Air Force contracts "Aerospace, Inc.," to supply parts for military aircraft. Unknown to the Air Force, the company intentionally uses substandard metals in the manufacture of these parts. Investigators wish to obtain a search warrant to seize company plant documents that they believe will prove that Aerospace, Inc., is using sub-standard materials.
Because a search warrant will be issued only if probable cause exists that a crime has been committed, the investigators should first ask themselves, "What is the crime?" The answer may come as a bit of a surprise, for the crime is not the use of substandard metals, nor is it the fact that the suspected firm supplied parts made with the sub-standard metals to the Air Force. While both of these actions are clearly "unethical," simply acting in an unethical manner is not a crime. Investigators must search the criminal law in order to find a specific statute violation.
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November 14, 2012 3:25 PM ET
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Gary Kain
Thank, Ken. And thanks to all of you for your attendance and your interest in AGNC. Look, given what's going on in the REIT space, clearly the stocks have been volatile and volatile in kind of the direction for them not to be volatile in. I had been planning on going through kind of the key themes from our Q3 earnings presentation, but given kind of what's going on, I thought it was more appropriate for me to take a somewhat different approach today.
And over the last month or so, investors have been pummeled with a host of reasons to panic around the agency REIT space. And these things include things like the record-low mortgage rates due to QE3 prepayments, the election, tax changes, the fiscal cliff, and now rumors about the head of FHFA, DeMarco, potentially getting replaced. So what I want to do is directly address some of these concerns and use a few of the slides from our earnings presentation where appropriate. And since I'm just going to be jumping around, I'm not going to be going through obviously the presentation in any order. But if you are interested in the earnings presentation, clearly it's recorded; the presentation is on our website and there's a recording of the earnings call that will go through everything in detail.
But with that, let's start with kind of QE3 and the first concern that we hear, what are the implications of QE3. And so, if we actually go to slide 9, we look at some of the -- we have a slide that really talks through that. But the real key ramifications of large scale mortgage purchases by the fed are that the yields on mortgages are going to be lower than where they would have otherwise been and prices are higher, these lower yields means the returns on new purchases are going to clearly be less attractive than if the fed hadn't involved over time
But the other issue that concerns people and probably the bigger issue is that these lower mortgage yields also mean lower mortgage which means prepayments on our existing portfolio will be faster and that will hurt the yields of the current portfolio, plus you will have to then reinvest those pay downs into a lower-yielding instrument. And so, realistically, so what are the implications of QE3? And we'll talk more about prepayments in a little bit, but the reality is there is some reason for concern here. This is not a benign prepayment environment. Prepayments are going to be faster given QE3, but there are also some places to hide. And so irrespective of changes to policy or whatever, prepayments are a factor and we're going to talk a little more about that in a second.
But another thing that comes up periodically in these discussions really relate to, look, all right, so QE3 was a reasonable possibility, the stocks were fine for a little while after QE3. So was there something that really stands out that surprised us with respect to kind of how the market is reacting, the mortgage market or the prepayment landscape? And on that front, the answer is absolutely no.
And if we go to slide 11 for a second, this is a slide that we had originally included in our Q1 earnings presentation back in early May. And what it shows, it was the center scenario -- we talked about three scenario -- and the center scenario was one, a hypothetical QE3. And what you see is what we said under prepayment rate impact materially accelerate. We talk about what would happen in the mortgage market; the prices of lower coupon and prepayment protected mortgages would increase materially; that has happened. They've given back some of those gains but they're still up.
And then prices of generic or higher coupons would perform -- their gains would be considerably less and the driver there is because there was no fed bid and the prepayment issues were going to be factor. When you go down to kind of the impacts on AGNC, prepayment protection is critical to the returns on the existing portfolio, returns on new purchases less attractive, and book value would increase in response to QE3. So when you put those together, what we've -- seeing the environment we're looking at is absolutely what should have been predicted in kind of how we described this hypothetical scenario back in the first quarter or in the first quarter call.
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Sriskandarajah N, Blanchette P, Kucharski TJ, Teodoro JG, Branton PE. Analysis by Live Imaging of Effects of the Adenovirus E4orf4 Protein on Passage through Mitosis of H1299 Tumor Cells. J Virol. 2015 Apr 15;89(8):4685-9. doi: 10.1128/JVI.03437-14. Epub 2015 Feb 4.
Wimmer P, Berscheminski J, Blanchette P, Groitl P, Branton PE, Hay RT, Dobner T, Schreiner S.PML isoforms IV and V contribute to adenovirus-mediated oncogenic transformation by functionally inhibiting the tumor-suppressor p53. Oncogene. 2015 Mar 16. doi: 10.1038/onc.2015.63. [Epub ahead of print]
Gilson, T., C.Y Cheng, W.S. Hur, P. Blanchette and P.E. Branton. 2014. Analysis of the Cullin Binding Sites of the E4orf6 Proteins of Human Adenovirus E3 Ubiquitin Ligases. J. Virol. 88, 3885-3897.
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A stationary front across the East will not move for the next several days, resulting in more shower and thunderstorm activity. The intensity of the storms will vary from day to day. Because of the clouds and the chances for rain, expect temperatures once again to fall short of 90 degrees. That's not necessarily a bad thing, as the humidity more than makes up for the slightly cooler weather. In fact heat indexes with feel like 90 degrees despite the clouds and showers.
The good thing about the rain...is we seem to forget the agricultural interests that depend on the rain. And you may have noticed our fire danger had be nonexistent this summer. Last year it was a different story with the persistent fire on the Outer Banks and very little relief from mother nature.
At this point there doesn't seem to be a break in the wet weather in the near future. And as long as this is the case..90 degrees might be tough to see in the near future.


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A Vancouver man was sentenced Tuesday in Clark County Superior Court to 10 years in prison for an October 2010 stabbing at an Orchards Chevron station.
Byron K. Chant, 24, entered an Alford plea, acknowledging that a jury could find him guilty, to a charge of second-degree assault. In exchange, Deputy Prosecutor Anna Klein agreed to drop a charge of first-degree assault with a deadly weapon, which would have carried a sentence of up to 25 years due to Chant's extensive criminal history. He also will be required to pay more than $7,100 in restitution mostly related to the victim's medical bills, Klein said.
According to a court affidavit, the 32-year-old victim, Jason L. Stricker, was involved in a fight with another group of people late Oct. 23, 2010, in the parking lot of a Chevron at 12100 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd. A Chevron employee who called 911 broke up the fight.
Stricker had gone to his truck and sat in the passenger seat just before midnight when an unknown person stabbed him in the right side of his torso through an open window, according to the affidavit. The knife punctured the right side of his chest and caused an internal hemorrhage, according to medical records cited in the affidavit. He survived his injuries.
As part of Tuesday's plea deal, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office also agreed not to charge Chant in a drive-by shooting Jan. 22, 2011, on Todd Road. A man and a teenage girl were shot about 9 p.m. Emergency responders found the 18-year-old man on Todd Road. They found the 15-year-old girl nearby in the 2000 block of Brandt Road, where she apparently had walked to seek help. Both victims were hospitalized.
Chant was a suspect in that shooting, but some of the witnesses in the case had credibility problems, Klein said. The witnesses were essentially "jailhouse snitches," Klein told Judge Scott Collier Tuesday.
Chant's attorney, Bob Yoseph, said there also were credibility questions with witnesses in the stabbing case, but Chant was not willing to risk being convicted of first-degree assault at trial.
"Mr. Stricker could never identify the man who stabbed him," Yoseph said Tuesday.
He said Chant didn't match a description of the stabbing suspect, who was reportedly Hispanic, 6 feet tall and weighing 200 pounds. Chant is upwards of 5 foot 7 and weighs about 150 pounds, Yoseph said. Yoseph suggested a male witness, who would have testified against Chant at trial, may have been the stabber. The other witness, a woman, was sleeping with the male witness at the time and received favors of drugs, he said.
"That's why she is covering for (him)," Yoseph said.
The witnesses didn't come forward until human DNA found on a cigarette and a hat led investigators to them in 2013, according to the court affidavit.
Vancouver police investigators in 2011 found a sweatshirt and hat at the stabbing scene. A DNA profile from a cigarette butt found in the sweatshirt matched that of the female witness, according to the affidavit. The woman said the sweatshirt belonged to her and that the hat belonged to the male witness who was involved in the initial altercation, the affidavit says. A DNA profile from the hat matched that of the male witness.
The woman told police that she saw Chant grab a knife from his vehicle, head over to Stricker's car and then return to his vehicle. Later, the woman said, Chant reportedly told her that he had "started stabbing that fool," the affidavit said.
Chant was transported to Clark County in August from the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, where he was serving 38 months for a second-degree robbery in December 2010. He also has convictions of second-degree assault in 2007 and first-degree criminal impersonation and second-degree identity theft in 2010.


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Why the Arizona Cardinals' decision to start John Skelton at quarterback in Week 1 was the right call:
Wins and losses: The Cardinals went 5-2 with Skelton starting last season. They went 3-6 with Kolb, with one of those victories coming when Skelton was the primary quarterback. While Skelton benefited from defensive improvements late in the season, he also benefited from the bottom line. The Cardinals won more frequently when he played. Kolb didn't do enough this offseason to alter the perception that the team responds better to Skelton.
Durability: Skelton is 6-foot-6 and 244 pounds. He's sturdy and has proven durable to this point. Kolb (6-3, 218) has had a hard time staying on the field. Arizona's ability to protect its quarterbacks was in question even before starting left tackle Levi Brown suffered a torn triceps tendon. Skelton has a better chance at holding up.
Pressure: The contact Kolb signed last offseason put pressure on him to play at a high level. Kolb admittedly pressed. He said he was working this offseason to achieve a freer, let-it-rip mentality. That pursuit proved fruitless from the beginning. Kolb did not appear comfortable when under siege against New Orleans in the exhibition opener. The injury he suffered early in that game didn't help. Arizona figures to need both quarterbacks this season. Perhaps Kolb will fare better coming off the bench, without so much pressure.
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Monday, October 7, 2013
The only things missing from Jack Johnson's show at the State Theatre on Monday were blankets and dirt. The Hawaiian singer is well-known for his festival performances, but no one at his sold out out show let seats stop them from having fun. Johnson has more than enough hits to fill his two-hour set without faltering -- and that didn't even come close to covering all of his catalog.
Most bands keep the similar setlists for a tour, but Jack changed things up because he can. For his acoustic opening, Johnson put a simple, stripped-down take on some of his hits including "Good People," written about reality television when it was in its height of popularity. The treat of the evening came early in the form of Mason Jennings. The Minneapolis performer was invited to sit in on "Fall Line" and contributed two of his songs, "I Love You and Buddha Too" and "Living in the Moment." He and Jack traded vocals on all three songs, blending in the chorus as if they were one talented person.
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In a sea of his hits, Jack was able to throw in some new songs from his latest album From Here to Now to You without it being a wrench in the evening. The reason being that the new pieces like "Washing Dishes," while fresh and fun, still run in the same veins as much of his other music -- starting off slow, building into a tempo change. Johnson knows which side his bread is buttered on -- not always a band thing. Johnson even kept it all in stride when his guitar strap came loose, almost losing his guitar towards the end of the song.
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The acoustic stuff out of the way, Jack's band snuck onstage to join him for the rest of his set, filling out the sound and complementing Johnson's laid-back surfer sound. The crowd went crazy and hesitantly stood up after sitting politely at the opening riffs for "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" and danced along to the rest of the evening.
What's amazing about Jack's music is that each song is catchy. While it may be formulaic -- slow-tempoed open, quick-tempoed verse, chorus, bridge -- each one sounds original, and most importantly, fun. The same could be said for Jack. He looks like an average guy, but onstage, the singer is the ultimate performer, commanding everyone in the crowd's attention.
Many of Johnson's songs talk about relationships -- good or bad -- and spin them into stories that make you lean in and want to hear more such as "Wasting Time" and "If I Had Eyes." While most include a festive feel -- heck, he even brought out the ukelele for "Don't Believe a Thing I Say" -- some even have a country music vibe to them like "Shot Reverse Shot." Some fans went crazy on the balcony during "Banana Pancakes" where the houselights came on for a sing-along. This segued into Jack telling a story of how he urged a man during Bonnaroo into climbing a tree to go higher. "Not a good idea," he confessed. A good idea was to include a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" at the end of his regular set.
While Mason Jennings was the treat of the evening, Johnson's encore was the icing on the cake. The opening track off his new album "I Got You" is the perfect piece for weddings -- simple, lovely, and delightfully sunny. At the turning point in their career, Black Eyed Peas sampled Jack's "Gone" for their song "Gone (Going)," but in Johnson's hands, it still retains its core message -- that material things are basically worthless in the end. The night couldn't end without the hit "Better Together," but "Home" off From Here to Now to You was the perfect ending to the evening. The song has Johnson longing for all the things and moments that happen at home while he's on the road -- a perfect way to allow everyone a glimpse into his world.
Critic's bias: I have forgotten how many songs of Jack's that I like. While he may be in the same realm as Dave Matthews Band, Johnson has a broader appeal with his pop music.
The crowd: Many Cities 97 listeners.
Overheard in the crowd: I don't think anyone could miss the lady behind me and her constant request for "Staple It Together."
Random notebook dump: Jack is not just an amazing performer, but also a humanitarian. Besides being environmentally friendly, in the past, the singer has donated 100% of his tour profits to charity, and he most likely will for this tour too.
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Living in the Moment (Mason Jennings)
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If I Had Eyes
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Wasting Time
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Watch Heart Warrior - Isabella Rizzo's video on her story and invitation to join the Bizzy Bees Team for Cardiac Kids at the WALK OF LIFE 2016.
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CONGRATULATIONS to ALL the CHEFS who made the Healthy Hearts Challenge a great success!
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Board of Directors congratulates Dr. Terry Kavanagh at the special announcement of the Dr. Terry Kavanagh Heart Health Lab at U of T's new Goldring Centre.Pictured: Dr. Terry Kavanagh, Leo DelZotto (President), Morty Glickman, Barb Kennedy ( Executive Director), Ildiko Marshall, Harvey Fruitman, Adam Sorrenti, Carrie Lavack, Gina Pereira, & Dr. Jack Goodman.
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BMO's Corporate Finance Division Real Estate Finance team won top fundraising prizes donated by Rogers for the Cardiac Health Foundation Of Canada's WALK OF LIFE 2015. Pictured: Kellie Sawyer- Rogers Communications Specialist, Neil Eccleston, BMO Sr. Deal Specialist, Halim Chaccour & Victor Wong - Directors, Mike Beg-Head of Real Estate Finance and Barbara Kennedy – Executive Director of the Cardiac Health Foundation of Canada
Top Individual Fundraiser for WALK OF LIFE 2015 is Irving Buchbinder raising $8,610 ..and he has raised a total of $124,224. over the past 15 years !! Pictured: Leo DelZotto-President; Irving Buchbinder ; Bernice Buchbinder, Barbara Kennedy - Executive Director.
Please watch this short video further highlighting the differences between women and men with respect to cardiac events.
The newly re-branded Cardiac Health Foundation of Canada is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting cardiac rehabilitation and the advocacy of prevention and education across Canada.
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If you have time to help out either at the walk of life or throughout the year, the cardiac health foundation always needs helpers. more
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Behind the Carlyle Brera Hotel lies the Pinacoteca di Brera art gallery; just a short distance away we can visit the large Parco Sempione, Castello Sforzesco, the Piccolo Teatro and the Milan Arena Civica.
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In times of war, codes are a way to pass along sensitive information.
This isn't a spy story, however. We're talking about World War II sailors who just wanted to update the folks back home.
They include Vancouver resident Hal Berven, who was a crewman on the USS Gambier Bay, and former Vancouver resident Bill Tunstall, who spent part of his Navy hitch on the USS Kitkun Bay.
Both aircraft carriers were built at the Kaiser Shipyard during Vancouver's baby flattop boom (a related story is on Page A1) and both ships took part in the Battle of Leyte Gulf (that story was on Page A1 on Sunday). Tunstall's ship drew fire from the same Japanese warships that sank Berven's carrier.
When service personnel wrote back home, they knew their letters would be at the mercy of military censors, so Tunstall and Berven devised ways of letting their loved ones track their progress across the Pacific.
Bill and Dottie Tunstall were married in 1943. Before heading back to sea on the USS Kitkun Bay, Tunstall took a map of the Pacific Ocean, charted it into grids, and wrote different greetings inside each grid. Then he created a duplicate map for Dottie.
Tunstall, who died June 26 in Portland, paired different combinations of "Dear" and "Dearest" and "Darling" with different combinations of "Dottie" and "Dorothy" and "Wife."
There were several other variables. The greeting "Princess" meant that Bill had been somewhere near the New Hebrides Islands when he wrote the letter.
Bill figured his coded map covered just about the entire Pacific, he told The Columbian a few years ago.
Longitude, latitude
Berven used a different system in letters to his mother. He explained it a few days ago while being interviewed for Sunday's Columbian story about combat in the Pacific.
"I told her that she would notice two numbers in my letter," Berven said. Maybe he'd tell her how much money he'd won in a poker game.
"The first number was latitude, and the second was longitude. It worked out well."
Off Beat lets members of The Columbian news team step back from our newspaper beats to write the story behind the story, fill in the story or just tell a story.


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It has been observed that with the fall of the German Empire the doctrine underpinning the German state disappeared because the kaiser represented the German "imperium." From its foundation in 1871, Germany had recognized in the Crown the concrete foundation of state authority. Paul Laband, in the first volume of his Das Staatsrecht des deutschen Reiches [The Public Law of the German Empire] ( 1876-1882), pointed to the imperial constitution as the legal basis of the Reich; the state as a juridical person had behind it the physical person of the emperor, who, in his turn, represented the German people. In this way state power operated through the kaiser and the state apparatus he directed. In the postwar political context, which legal authority was capable of restoring moral force to the state, in whose name Bismarck had given national unity to Germany?
Many observers believed that Parliament could become the concrete expression of the state's organic unity because it represented the people and expressed the two fundamental functions of political life--the legislative and the executive. If the old political doctrine had justified the kaiser's monarchical government, according to jurists such as Hugo Preuss and Hans Kelsen, the new republican state had to find its juridical reason for existing in Parliament.
Unfortunately for this theory, Parliament--with its shifting majorities, its unstable changes, the alterations caused by elections--did not appear able to lend authority to the state and constitute the foundation of its sovereignty. Moreover, the legal order lost at least part of its legitimacy because of its dependence on the legislative choices of an uncertain parliamentary majority. Criticisms such as these were voiced against Kelsen


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Justin Bieber, trying to make up for his bratty past, says that his "hard" life in show business caused him to act "arrogant" and "conceited" over the past "year and a half."
The 20-year-old singer Wednesday posted an apology video following an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, his first talk show chat in awhile. In the clip, Bieber admitted he "was afraid of what people are thinking" about… Continue reading Sorry World! Bratty Bieber Says 'Hard' Life Motivated His Recent Bad Behavior