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Fresno State: A candidate for the Wooden Award and All-America honors in his senior season ? has emerged as one of the nation?s best centers ? by the end of last season, he was one of the most dominating players in the nation ? the 2000-01 WAC player of the year ? a first-team All-WAC selection ? his 273 career blocked shots is a Fresno State record and ranks fourth in WAC history ? led the WAC in field goal percentage (.583) and blocked shots (2.7) ? his career field goal percentage of .584 10th-best in league history ? has made .594 of his field goal attempts in WAC games in his career, which is the fifth-best percentage in league history ? has started all but one game in his Fresno State career ? had an outstanding performance for Team USA in the World University Games in China during the summer, averaging 10.5 points and a team-high 6.3 rebounds per game ? he shot .619 from the floor and led the U.S. team with 11 blocked shots ? led the team in scoring with 19 points against South Africa. (2000-01) Selected the WAC Player of the Year and first-team All-WAC ? played in and started all 33 games ? led the conference in field goal percentage and blocked shots as well as ranking fourth in scoring and rebounds ? Fresno State?s leading scorer at 16.0 per game and leading rebounder at 7.5 per game ? led the WAC and was 17th in the nation in blocked shots with 2.7 per contest ? had a season-high 24 points against TCU on Jan. 10 ? had 21 points on 8-12 shooting from the field in FS?s victory over California in the NCAA tournament ... pulled down 13 rebounds including a career high 11 defensive boards vs. Cal ... scored a team high 17 points on 8-13 shooting against Michigan State in the second round of the tournament ... had a season-high 12 boards against South Carolina State ? led the team with five double-doubles this season and 16 in his career ? rated as the 16th best center in the nation by The Sporting News ? named to the All-WAC Defensive team for a third consecutive year ? scored in double figures in 28 of the last 32 games ? reached the 1,000-point plateau Jan. 10, 2001, against TCU, his 79th career game ? had a season-high six rejections against TCU ? led the conference in field goal percentage in WAC games at .627 ? was WAC player of the week Feb. 27 after leading the Bulldogs to at least a share of the conference title. (1999-00) Was named second-team All-WAC by conference coaches ? named to the WAC All-Defensive team for the second consecutive season ? finished the season with 92 blocked shots, most in school history ? had the fourth-best field goal percentage in WAC history, making .644 (87-135) of his attempts in league games ? he ranked sixth in the NCAA in field goal percentage and 16th in blocked shots ?was named WAC Player of the Week on Feb. 7 after going 18 of 22 (.818) with 39 points, 21 rebounds and 11 blocks in a road sweep over San Jose State and Hawai?i ? had a career-high eight rejections against UTEP on Jan. 15 ? has seven double-doubles, including a 16-point, 11-rebound performance to lead FS to victory over Tulsa in the first meeting of the year ? tied the school record for field goal percentage, going 10-of-10 against High Point on Jan. 7 and San Jose State on Feb. 3 ? scored in double figures in 12 of the last 15 games ? tops on the squad with a .606 shooting percentage, a number which led the WAC ? missed time at the beginning of the season with a stress fracture. (1998-99) Set the Fresno State single-season blocks record with 91 ?named to WAC All-Newcomer and All-Defensive teams ? averaged 11.2 points and 6.5 rebounds ? Hit 58.5 percent from the floor in the last five games ? had highest FG percentage on the team at 56.2 percent ? scored in double figures in 21 of the 32 games. ? missed only one game ? San Diego State ? with bronchitis ? scored career-best 26 points in collegiate debut vs. Coppin State ? had five blocks at BYU, four in the first half ? ranked second on the team in rebounding at 6.5 per game ? opened the season with three straight double-doubles ? led the WAC for much of the season with 3.0 block average. (1997-98) Sat out the 1997-98 season while meeting NCAA eligibility requirements ... one of the featured signees in Fresno State?s nationally ranked 1996-97 recruiting class.
High School: Earned All-America honors from McDonald?s, Parade (first team), Basketball Times (second team) and Basketball Weekly (second team) at Thornton Township High School (Harvey, Ill.) as a senior in 1997 ... averaged 15.5 ppg, 9.3 rpg and 5.2 bpg during the regular season ... was named the Chicago Sun-Times player of the year and first team all-state ... as a junior, he averaged 12.6 ppg, 8.1 rpg and 5.4 bpg ... led Thornton Township to a third-place state finish in 1997 and runner-up state showings in 1996 and 1995 ... from 1995-97, Thornton Township posted a combined record of 93-4, including marks of 32-1 in 1997, 31-1 in 1996 and 30-2 in 1995 ... helped his Illinois Warriors I summer team to a championship in the 1996 Adidas Big-Time Tournament ... entering his senior season, he was rated the No. 1 center in the country by Athlon, No. 2 by BlueChip and No. 5 by Dick Vitale?s ... he also was labeled "the most sought after post player in the class of ?97" by Sports Illustrated ... was named co-MVP of the Magic Johnson High School All-Star game (Auburn Hills, Mich.) in 1997 after making 11 of 13 field goal attempts and finishing with 24 points ... he helped the East squad to a 94-81 win over the West in the McDonald?s All-America game in Colorado Springs.
Personal: Born May 2, 1978, in Chicago Heights, Ill. ... mother?s name is Melvina Ely ... has two brothers and one sister ... his older brother, Louis, played basketball at Wisconsin ... is a distant cousin of Dale Ellis ... also considered Syracuse, Connecticut and Wisconsin.
STATISTICS Year G-GS FG% FT% PPG RPG 1998-99 32-32 .561 .500 11.2 6.5 1999-00 31-30 .606 .662 13.3 7.0 2000-01 33-33 .583 .671 15.8 7.5 Totals 96-96 .584 .596 13.5 7.0
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by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby Jordan Baker Quotes
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"Nevertheless you did throw me over," said Jordan suddenly. "You threw me over on the telephone. I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me, and I felt a little dizzy for a while." (9.129)
You know how text messaging and online dating have supposedly changed dating? Well, new technologies like cars and telephones were doing the same thing at the beginning of the twentieth century. Can you imagine if Daisy had had Snapchat?
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"You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride."
"I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor." (9.134-35)
(1) What is Nick lying to himself about? Loving Jordan? Having honest intentions toward her? Or something else? (2) Why do you have to stop lying to yourself at 25? And, if 30 is the new 20, does that mean we get an extra decade of deceit?


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Well week 1 is complete and I weighed in at 272 which means I'm 4 lbs down from last week. The alarm went off this morning at 5 and I got up and headed out the door. It felt so great outside. The temp has dropped dramatically in the last few days. It was 47 degrees outside this morning and lord knows I am very hot natured so I loved it. I'm trying to run again after being very sick with bronchitis and I feel like I'm starting over at the beginning. I had my Gymboss set to do intervals of 2 minute walk and 1 minute run. It wasn't too bad but my lungs are just not as good as I would like them to be but it's a process like everything else. Then it was off to shower and go to work.
I got home from work and was so excited because Lancelot was supposed to make me dinner but low and behold he was nowhere to be found. My phones acting up (I think it's time to get a new one) so I texted him to see where he was. Needless to say I wasn't getting the dinner I was looking forward to. All of a sudden I get a FB alert from my niece in England that there's been a wreck in front of her dads house down the road that has literally taken out his driveway so I went to check it out. Turns out I knew the kid. He had blacked out and went into the ditch taking out my brothers mailbox and then hitting the culvert of the driveway which launched him in the air and rolled before coming to a stop. The whole front end of the car was gone. He came out of the wreck with a possible broken arm and the boy wasn't wearing his seatbelt. DUM DUM DUM. I'm just grateful he was ok. There's a weird rise in the road there and my brother has had 4 big accidents land in his yard since he's lived there. Well I hope everyone has a great week. Next weigh in is Monday. See ya then. KK
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Joey Gamache had engaged in hundreds of boxing matches before he stepped in to the ring at Madison Square Garden on February 26, 2000. He was an ace as an amateur, and secured professional titles as a super featherweight and lightweight. His resume was solid as a rock, something he could look back on with pride as a graybeard. But then Gamache gloved up with Arturo Gatti, and his impressive pedigree became tainted. In the mind of fight fans, he was "that guy" who got demolished by Gatti. He was not a veteran of 58 pro bouts, a victor in 55 of those contests, but instead a victim, another notch in the belt of the "Human Highlight Machine" Gatti, the balls-out brawler. "KOBY-2" would be the last listing on his record, because Gatti's fists inflicted severe damage on Gamache, brain damage, to be exact.
He has headaches to this day, excruciating reminders of what went down on February 26, 2000. And they might not ever go away. But Joey Gamache was hoping that he'd receive a measure of relief, an acknowledgement that the beatdown he absorbed from Arturo Gatti at Madison Square Garden in 2001 didn't come about because he was in over his head, a mere opponent brought in to bolster Gatti's diminished reputation. For ten years, he hoped that people, friends, acquaintances, fight fans would get the real scoop on what went down on February 26, 2000, and more importantly, February 25, 2000.
Gamache maintained that the weigh in for his bout against Gatti, in which the Maine native was knocked out, in vicious, near lethal fashion, was overseen in a shoddy fashion, and contributed to Gatti being given an unfair weight advantage on fight night. For ten years, he didn't go out of his way to "educate" one and all about that weigh in, but he hoped that the truth would emerge the right way: through our legal system. For ten years, Gamache battled the headaches, and the psychic pain that flared when he flashed back to February 26, 2000, and the time he spent in St. Vincent's hospital after the bout, being examined by neurosurgeons, as friends and family clustered around, hoping that he'd "only" suffered a concussion, and not a subdural hematoma.
For ten years, Gamache pursued justice. Not revenge. Not an alibi. But justice. For he, and for every boxer gloving up in New York, and the rest of the United States. He pursued the truth, and hoped that a judgment in his favor, a ruling that the New York State Athletic Commission had acted in a flippant, irregular, and downright irresponsible manner, would signal to the world that his loss wasn't merely what it appeared to be on his record. He hoped that a judge would find that the Commission hadn't just showed ineptitude, but in fact a grave disregard for the sport, for the rules and regulations which fighters rely upon, so moving forward, fighters could be assured that the playing field is level when they step in the ring and put their life on the line.
PUT THEIR LIFE ON THE LINE. He needed regulators entrusted to ensure fair play to get that deep in their gut. That lives are on the line when two men glove up. This ain't tiddlywinks. You don't "play" boxing. Gamache almost lost his life on February 26, 2000, as he was knocked down twice in the first round, and then in horrifically violent fashion, for the count, in the second round. With his quest to prove that the weigh in was conducted in a slipshod manner, Gamache wanted to clear up the public record, and send a message to commissions and authorities in all jurisdictions--this is a life and death sport, and you best take your responsibility to oversee the fighters with the utmost seriousness.
For the record, it was announced Friday afternoon, 29 hours before the fight, that Gamache weighed 140-1/4, and Gatti 141. Team Gamache, which included advisor Johnny Bos and trainer Jimmy Glenn, contended that the scale never centered on 141 pounds, a single, and permissible, pound over the contracted weight limit. Bos saw that the scale didn't level out, and thundered at commissioner Tony Russo. Bos was already concerned when commissioner Bob Duffy, who usually oversaw weigh ins, was shunted aside, and Russo, who lacked experience with the procedure, grabbed the reins. The weigh in for Oscar De La Hoya, the next night's headliner, was in dispute, as opponent Derrell Coley's cornerman Leonard Langley felt that De La Hoya didn't make weight, but was given a pass by Russo, right before Gatti hopped on the scale.
"Weigh Gatti again," Bos yelled to Russo after not seeing the scale settle at 141 pounds, or under.
Russo barked back at Bos: "Shut up!"
The matter was over, the dispute was not open for discussion, in the minds of Russo, or chairman Mel Southard, who exited the weigh in hastily.
HBO weighed both fighters before the walked up the four steps at MSG the next night, and Gamache was 144 pounds. Gatti had puffed up to 160 pounds, unofficially. This, despite the fact that the NYSAC rulebook stated that in a welterweight bout, no more than 12 pounds can separate the fighters. A welterweight was battling a junior middleweight, in effect, and Gamache was stunned when he saw Gatti in the ring that fateful evening.
"I've fought a lot of good guys, but for the first time in my career, when Gatti took of his robe, I was shocked," Gamache said after. "I mean, the size, the presence that he had. I thought, 'Wait a minute, I'm fighting that guy?'" Of course, no rule existed that prevented a monumental weight gain in between the official weigh in and fight night, a glaring glitch in the system that plagues the fight game to this day.
The ex boxer, who now lives in New York City, waited patiently as a case lodged against the New York State Athletic Commission moved forward at a turtle's pace. He pleaded his case in the New York Court of Claims last July, and was pleased at the case laid out by his attorney, Keith Sullivan.
Sullivan too was cautiously optimistic that Judge Melvin Schweitzer would see the situation as they did, that the weigh in for the bout, held the day before, was farcical; that Gatti never made the junior welterweight limit; that state officials, including Tony Russo and NYSCA chairman Southard, didn't follow correct protocol at the weigh in, and allowed Gatti to enter the Madison Square Garden ring with an unfair edge.
Gamache and Sullivan bided their time after the week-long trial wrapped up, as Schweitzer pored over testimony. They crossed their fingers, and hoped mightily that Schweitzer would note that testimony from Southard seemed to change significantly from a deposition and his time on the witness stand; and that the judge would lean heavily on video of the weigh in, and the testimony from Gamache advisor Bos, who testified that Gatti never made weight, and that he was warned explicitly not to make trouble by Russo after he showed his disgust at the manner in which Gatti "made weight." The state argued that Gamache could have chosen to pull out out of his fight with Gatti, if he felt the deck was stacked against him, and countered that a skill edge, or reach or height advantage was the catalyst for a Gatti win.
Through it all, as the videotape of the brutal rubout was played, and replayed, and played again, Gamache sat stoic. His wife Sissy cringed, and dropped her head into her hands as the court saw the image of Gatti, looking a weight class or two bigger than Gamache, smash the game Mainer around the ring, and heard the announcers describe the beating her husband was taking.
Gamache never for a minute blamed Gatti, who did his job on fight not, which was to inflict damage upon his foe in a violent and conclusive fashion. "He was a fighter, just doing what he's supposed to do," Gamache said. "The commission was supposed to protect us fighters." Tragically, Gatti was found dead in Brazil, under still murky circumstances, in July 2009, while the trial took place.
The system, overseen in this case by men who seemingly had less than proper regard for the gravity of the event, of the sport, had been compromised; and Gamache needed, for himself and fellow pugilists who trusted the system and its overseers, to shine a light on the shameful manner in which rules and regulations were, in his mind, disregarded. He and his attorney didn't dwell on some political certainties, unpleasant ones, which would make their case a harder sell. In order to prove that the state was negligent, and obtain damages, the case would be presented in the Court of Claims, in front of a judge put upon the bench by the Governor. Strange set-up, no? No aspersions being cast on anyone, but ponder this arrangement. Is it in the best interest of the judge presiding over a case such as this to award a vast settlement to a plaintiff, and thus award that plaintiff funds from the state coffer? In a perfect world, a judge would be freed from any motive of self preservation, and would not fear that his or her record would be examined and that his or her term would be more or less likely to be elongated if he or she didn't award vast damages to plaintiffs.
Is anyone reading this under the impression that this is a perfect world?
Is anyone reading this not cognizant of the fact that the state budget is teetering on the brink, and that the state is struggling to stay solvent? Some attorneys shudder at trying to pry a settlement from the Court of Claims, viewing that branch as "kangaroo court" of sorts. Clearly, there would be no "home court advantage" for Sullivan and Gamache. With that daunting task at hand, Sullivan and Gamache pressed on. The case was laid out, and both were satisfied that they made clear what needed to be made clear. And they waited...
Gamache is a full-time boxing trainer now. The New York resident stayed busy, trying to build his client list. In fact, he was in the gym when he got a phone call from Sullivan. It was Thursday afternoon.
"Joey, the verdict came in," Sullivan said, and drew a deep breath. "It's a mixed verdict. The judge ruled that the state was negligent. He said that what happened at the weigh in was akin to a 'fast shuffle.' He said that commission members were lax in the performance of their duties. ....But you're not going to get any money." Just then the bell in the gym rang. Gamache was silent for a second. Sullivan expected that he'd move away into a quiet office, and get the full lowdown on the decision, a 47 pager from Schweitzer.
"Keith, I gotta go," Gamache said. "I'm training this kid right now. He's on the heavy bag. Listen, you did a great job, thank you so much. We'll talk later."
Ponder this...Gamache wasn't thinking about his case, his redemption, the reasons for the lack of damages. He was thinking about some green prospect's form on the heavy bag.
TSS reached out to Gamache Friday. We could hear his smile on the phone.
"I'm very, very happy," he said. "We succeeded. We proved they were negligent. I'm going to go out with my wife tonight and celebrate."
The lack of damages didn't weigh him down, he said.
"It's never been about the money. I've never been that attracted to money."
Imagine that...As we read on a daily basis about the sickening Wall Street greedmongers who accrue billions and billions with their fancy flim flam trading methods, this guy really could not care less that the judge didn't ascertain that the shady weigh in could be construed as a substantial factor in the beating he absorbed.
Important point: the judge didn't have to be convinced that the weigh in shenanigans, and the weight disparity was the SOLE CAUSE for the pummeling. He only needed to be convinced that it was a strong factor. He had wiggle room, and could have determined that these were two boxers of similar ability, and that a slight Gatti reach and height edge weren't overwhelming factors in his blowout win. Of course, on occasions when a righteous weigh in had occurred, Gatti had won in similar fashion, so it's probably not fair to label the decision an egregious abomination. Sullivan, while disappointed, does not.
Sullivan talked to TSS Friday, and shared his reaction when he called Gamache with the good news-bad news verdict on Thursday.
"This spoke to the integrity of Joey Gamache, and laid out exactly what this case really meant to him," Sullivan said. "It wasn't about the money. And believe me, for most people it is. For 99% it's about the money. Joey never even allowed me to discuss a settlement with the state."
The attorney said he was proud of the fighter for staying in this battle for the duration.
"People looked at Joey as the guy who fought Arturo Gatti. Now they'll look at him as the guy who stood up to the State Athletic Commission. That's going to be his legacy. He came out a champion again."
So justice has been served. Maybe it's not an overwhelmingly appetizing entree. Some questions still linger. For one thing, why did Russo tell Duffy to get lost, and do the weigh in? A reason for Russo seeming to favor Gatti, while whispered about in boxing circles, has never been proven, and likely will not be. Russo died from cancer in October 2008. Bos, so vocal about what he perceived as a "rigged" weigh in, hasn't been shy that fallout from his public stance on the matter has hurt him vocationally; he says he's been persona non grata in New York fight circles for years because he railed against that commission. Will the judgment allow him to be vindicated, and make doubters realize that just maybe his rantings over the years have resulted in a lessening of his professional options as a matchmaker?
More certain is the effect the ruling will have on Gamache.
"I feel I'll be able to put the Gatti fight behind me," he told TSS. "I'll put it behind me for sure. It's a win for me."
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Published: Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 5:30 a.m.
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Mainland senior guard Wayne Scott visited Tennessee State this weekend.
Scott said that TSU was the second visit he has taken. The other was Jacksonville University.
Scott said he will likely take another visit next weekend but has not decided where he will go.
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Prague Counterpoint is the second novel in the riveting Zion Chronicles by Bodie Thoene. It continues the story of Elisa Linder, John Murphy and Thomas von Kleistmann as they continue their attempts to stop the oncoming Nazi invasions and the slaughter of "inferior" humans. The base of this novel revolves around Elisa discovering her true calling in the fight against the Nazi's when she discovers the plight of two little boys. John Murphy continues to chase the truth and even finds himself somewhere a little more familiar. Thomas continues his fight with the Greater Reich from inside the government itself and Elisa discovers a new ally where she thought them least likely to be found.
An interesting aspect of Prague Counterpoint is the new perspective offered through two new characters and their flight from the Nazi thugs. The two boys, identical twins, have been hiding from the Nazi's since their birth due to a defect in one of the brothers at birth. The plight of these twins reveals an even harsher image of the hate that can be inspired in the hearts of man.
Prague Counterpoint allows readers to glimpse a broken, almost apocalyptic, world. However, instead of experiencing these historic events with cold realism, readers are given reasons of hope even through the hard times. God plays a crucial role in shaping the decisions and lives of most of the characters and when all other forms of hope leave, readers discover the continuing grace of God and His persevering presence in the lives of those who put their faith in Him.


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Laptop-shooting-Dad Tommy Jordan is an American Hero, Yet NBC Liberal Media Tries to Smear his Parenting Technique
The liberal media is trying to smear the name of yet another good man. The laptop-shooting-dad who made all parents with a loud-mouth, click-fingered ranty teen who posts nonsense on Facebook proud. Yet, liberals –the same people who are responsible for all the school shootings, teenage pregnancy and drug use– are now trying to bash a father who simply did his job to teach his daughter an important lesson: shut-up and respect your father.
For those of you who do not know the backstory here, several months ago a random teenage girl decided to show typical emosexual angst on Facebook by writing a very long, explicit diatribe against her parents who clothe her, feed her, love her and just bought her a new laptop. The girl was apparently angry because she was tired of doing chores in her parents fascist regime. Making her wash those danged dishes and being respectful who just unreasonable.
Enter Dad. He saw the nasty post on her Facebook wall and along with his wife, decided to let her daughter know that she was not going to disrespect him in his house, using things that he bought for her. The IT mogul and large land owner took to his property, taking a laptop out to pasture and also bringing a laptop with him.
He then pulled out his gun and shot that laptop with 9 clips. 35 million YouTube viewers later, media wants a piece of this parenting 'monster'.
Matt Lauer: Paraphrasing, "Don't you think you are wrong for teaching your daughter a lesson, whahh whahh, we'd rather her be disrespectful, challenge your authority, turn into a drug hooker and then use Obamacare to make all taxpayers buy her contraception that she won't use because she's too lazy and can just get more government money for popping out snotty nosed kids who are not up to date on their immunizations?"
Laptop-shooting-Dad Tommy Jordan: "I stand by what I did."
Lauer and NBC was not happy with that answer, so they manipulated the situatino until they undermined Jordan's parenting authority in the interview and made his daughter out to be a victim. They painted a picture where a dad should not do whatever is needed to get the kids in line. This is why America has all the problems we do.
When I was young, if I talked back to my father I would get in trouble. If I spoke back to my mother, I may as well had the combined forces of Grendel, the 1984 Chicago Bears defense and Iran-Contra commandos shooting small freedom-guns at me because it would have been less deadly. My mother would whip the hell out of my for lipping off, then give the 'just wait until your father gets home'. That's discipline and it kept my butt in line.
Today, parents would get arrested. Laptop-shooting-dad is being made into a media monster for his actions. They are trying to act like a video just made to get through to his troubled daughter should have considered 'how everyone else would react'. Since when has a parent cared about making you look dumb in public?
It's the classic case of the kid who cries in a store. Who comes out better: the mom who frets and yells, talking on her cellphone to her 'parenting advisor' to see what Dr. Lipschitz says about handling a 7-year-old who is still throwing tantrums in the candy aisle. Or how about mommy who leaves the kid crying, not knowing what to do as Mr. Stranger steps in to give some parenting help. Sound common, remember the girl in Georgia where that happened just a few weeks ago? That is liberal parenting.
Real parents would beat that ass right there on the spot. Wham, wham, wham. The same discipline you get at home, you get in the store. Trust me, you learn real quick that those little whaps are just the tip of the iceberg, because 'just wait until we get home' equals no dinner, bare butt beatings and punishment of 'hard labor' like little missy complained about for a week being nothing in comparison. But it teaches character and discipline, love and respect for parenting authority.
And in this world where there are so many negative influences, we need as many homes with loving parents who can responsibly dote discipline as possible.
I say kudos to laptop-shooting-dad and please, keep your daughter offline and keep whooping her however she needs to turn her into a functioning young woman who respect authority, but more importantly, herself and her family. Ignore NBC.
Also, for those who asked, laptop-shooting-dad did save all his daughter's vital data from the computer so she would not lose any images, documents or the like. So, again, it's just good parenting. She was abusing her computer, so he took it away. The Father giveth, and you better believe he can taketh away. Or as my momma used to say, "Boy, I brought you into this world, and you better believe I can take you out."
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links for 2008-11-07
By webmink on Nov 07, 2008
- Obama: Open Source President?
Fascinating comment from a Republican analyst no less. It's interesting just how impressed by Obama many of the Republican pundits admit to being now that the contest is over.
- Change.gov
Someone was expecting Obama to win! This is a very promising and professional web site for the transition, worth exploring.
- Sun Microsystems
New design for the Sun home page looks pretty cool. I like all the download links, and the news feed. Sad to see the links to top bloggers gone though - now what will we all compete for? :-)
- Sun Systems for MySQL - Servers, Storage and Software to Optimize your MySQL Deployment
MySQL in a box.
- Digging into MySQL billing data from Sun
Savio dissects the billing data for MySQL and Infrastructure software at Sun that Jonathan disclosed. Great to see the model working.
- New Sun URL goes live
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CLEMSON - Outstanding graduate students were recognized at this spring's Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Achievement Award Ceremony. Graduate students Peng Xu and Kang Shen received Harris Awards, two department-wide awards which have been given each year for the past 29 years in recognition of outstanding accomplishment in the preceding year by a current Clemson graduate student in each of two areas: laboratory teaching and research.
Peng Xu received the Harris Award for the Outstanding Graduate Laboratory Teaching Assistant in 2012 based on evaluations by undergraduates enrolled in ECE laboratory courses and assessment by the faculty supervisors of the laboratories. Peng completed the B.S. degree in automation at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 2008 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering at Clemson in 2011, and he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in EE with an emphasis in intelligent systems under the direction of Dr. Burg. Peng serves as graduate assistant for ECE 496, the capstone senior design course, and his dedication to the assignment is reflected in the comments of the students: "He really understands our project and helped us solve our computer vision problem", "He was available at almost any hour to help us", and "Peng can solve any software or hardware problem; if he just gets close to our project it will start working."
Kang Shen received the Harris Award for the Outstanding Graduate Researcher in 2012 based on the recommendation of a faculty member and evaluation by a committee of ECE faculty. Kang received the B.S degree in electronics and information engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2005 and the M.S. degree in communication and information systems from the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008, and he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering at Clemson with an emphasis in peer-to-peer networking under the direction of Dr. Shen. Kang's research on peer-to-peer file sharing and routing in delay-tolerant networks has been presented in several conferences, and his work on social networks as resources in peer-to-peer file sharing will soon appear in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Since their inception, the Harris Awards have been accompanied by a monetary stipend, which is provided by the generosity of Harris Corp. The department was fortunate to have Lynn Fagan and Thomas Brown of Harris Corp. in attendance at this year's awards ceremony to present the recipients with their awards. The Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering appreciates the support and encouragement that Harris and its employees provide to our department and our students.
Also recognized at the awards ceremony were the following ECE graduate students who have received scholarships or fellowships in the past year:


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SIDE EFFECTS: Nausea and upset stomach may occur. If either of these effects persists or worsens, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.Tell your doctor right away if you have any serious side effects, including: yellowing eyes/skin, stomach/abdominal pain, dark urine, unusual tiredness/weakness, easy bleeding/bruising, signs of infection (such as fever, persistent sore throat), mental/mood changes, unusual/sudden weight gain, seizures.This medication can cause low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). This may occur if you do not consume enough calories from food or if you do unusually heavy exercise. Symptoms of low blood sugar include sudden sweating, shaking, fast heartbeat, hunger, blurred vision, dizziness, or tingling hands/feet. It is a good habit to carry glucose tablets or gel to treat low blood sugar. If you don't have these reliable forms of glucose, rapidly raise your blood sugar by eating a quick source of sugar such as table sugar, honey, or candy, or drink fruit juice or non-diet soda. Tell your doctor immediately about the reaction and the use of this product. To help prevent low blood sugar, eat meals on a regular schedule, and do not skip meals. Check with your doctor or pharmacist to find out what you should do if you miss a meal.Symptoms of high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) include thirst, increased urination, confusion, drowsiness, flushing, rapid breathing, and fruity breath odor. If these symptoms occur, tell your doctor immediately. Your medication dosage may need to be increased.A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, get medical help right away if you notice any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.In the US -Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
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It's the most adorable little baby Begonia. Begonia species are nearly impossible to identify, so I won't even try. And most of the begonias we came upon in Costa Rica were in bloom, but this one was so photogenic even without the flowers that it had to be shared.
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Nancy Bond Says:
February 11th, 2009 at 6:04 am
That is adorable — will it grow and bloom there?
Cactus Says:
February 11th, 2009 at 7:50 am
They are indeed growing in the crook of the tree. And we saw other related begonias growing and blooming along concrete steps. So they get all the nutrients they need on the steps, but it's hard to tell whether or not it can bloom in the tree. Yet I'll hazard a guess: Yes!


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where does it say he was 51 years old?
Can someone please provide a reference to Vinny's real age because on the article as of 24th May 2010 it says's he's 63 years old thank you.Andrew nicholson 17:24, May 24, 2010 (UTC)


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1970 Chevrolet C10 Brake Kits
Fortunately, ineffective brakes can be easily replaced with a 1970 Chevrolet C10 brake kit. Drivers who have installed superchargers or turbos will want to install a 1970 Chevrolet C10 racing brake kit, as a vehicle's stock brakes are no longer enough to slow down a car that can now reach speeds significantly higher than it was designed to go. For other drivers, high-level 1970 Chevrolet C10 performance brake kits should more than suffice, providing the traction and timely responses one should expect when pressing his or her car's brake pedal.


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Men's Club
St Ignatius Men's Club
Mission Statement
The purpose of the Men's Club is to be a social, service and faith formation organization for all men in the parish and school and to build parish community through ongoing fellowship, service and out reach.
The Men's Club will have consistent meetings, service projects and social events to help us all be better connected as a parish family. Monthly meetings are scheduled for the fourth Thursday of each month, September – May with summer activities and service projects as scheduled.
Next gatherings will be on:
Pictures from the Men's Club Texas Hold'em
Pictures from the Parish Breakfast - Hosted by the Men's Club:
Men's Golf outing! More photos!
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TUCSON – For the second consecutive game, Arizona pitchers allowed just a single UTEP hit in Arizona's 14-1, five-inning victory to sweep the two-game series.
To complement the pitching staff, the UA offense hit three homers and scored 14 runs, marking the third consecutive game, and sixth game overall, that the Wildcats have scored double-digit runs.
All three home runs came engulfed in its own story line. Katiyana Mauga's second-inning grand slam marked the second consecutive game in which Mauga hit a grand slam. It was Mauga's fourth homer of the season and Arizona's fourth grand slam of the year. UA had two all of last season. Kellie Fox's first-inning three-run homer gave her the solo lead in the Pac-12 with seven home runs. Cynthia Pelayo, who entered the game 2-for-2 on the year, homered over the batter's eye to keep her 1.000 batting average intact.
Kenzie Fowler (2-0) pitched the first three innings and allowed a single run on one hit. The senior walked four and struck out two in the start. Nancy Bowling pitched the final two innings and did not allow a hit. Bowling walked two and struck out one in the outing.
The Wildcats scored 14 runs on 14 hits in the contest. Hallie Wilson, Fox and Mo Mercado had two hits apiece.
Mauga's five RBI were a season high while Fox's four gave her 26 for the season.
For the second consecutive game, Arizona put a six-spot up in first inning. Five of the six runs scored before UTEP had recorded a single out. Hallie Wilson and Chelsea Suitos singled to start the frame before Kellie Fox launched her league-leading seventh homer of the season. A pair of singles and a walk loaded the bases before Mo Mercado doubled in a pair of runs to chase UTEP starter Taylor Grohmann. Katiyana Mauga's sacrifice fly made the score 6-0 after one inning.
UTEP got a run back in the top of the second after a trio of walks loaded the bases with two out. Miraya Montiel delivered a single to right to put the Miners on the board.
Fox delivered RBI number four on the day when her single through the right side in the second scored Suitos to make the score 7-1 Arizona. Lauren Young and Mo Mercado followed with singles to load the bases and Mauga, for the second consecutive game, hit a grand slam to make it 11-1 Arizona.
In the third, Cynthia Pelayo hit her first career homer to dead center field, a two-run homer to put Arizona ahead 13-1.
UA added a run in the fourth inning when Siera Phillips notched her first-career hit, a double to right-center and was batted in by Courtney Rodriguez's team-leading fifth double of the year.


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At the City of Rockwall Animal Shelter they are hosting a Pet-A-Palooza adoption event on Saturday, June 9, 2012. The event is scheduled from 10:00am to 5:00 pm.
There will be fun for the whole family, with hot dogs and drinks.. but most of all your next furry friend will be waiting for you there! They have plenty of dogs and cats of all sizes just waiting for their forever home.
The shelter has also just announced their Summer Blowout Special! Beginning on Friday, June 1, all dogs can be adopted for only $50 and you could adopt a second dog for a total of only $85! That is a fantastic savings for two dogs, microchipped, altered, vaccinated and registered for only $85 (or only $50 if you only need one). Cats will be able to be adopted for only $35 each or two cats for only $60. If you want a Dog/Cat combo package, it's yours for only $75! This Summer Blowout Special will end on Sunday, June 10.
If you can't commit to a forever home, perhaps you would like to offer temporary housing and love to a shelter animal. You can fill out a volunteer or foster animal adoption application during the Pet-A-Palooza event on Saturday.
You can also help the shelter by bringing in animal related supplies or just money for donations. Everything is appreciated by the staff.
Please help the Rockwall Animal Shelter reach their goal of becoming a 90% Live Outcome shelter.
Visit Rockwall Animal Shelter on Facebook. View some of their available pets online at Petfinder.
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Huawei will bring both low-end and high-end Windows Phone 8 devices to CES 2013
Although Huawei was among the first handset makers to announce their support for Microsoft's Windows Phone 8, it didn't officially present any WP8 devices until now. But it looks like it's finally going to unveil a few of them at CES 2013, in January.
We've previously heard that the Chinese company would announce the low-end Ascend W1 at CES, and now My Drivers reports that the high-end Ascend W2 is going to be showcased there, too.
As reported last month, the Ascend W2 will have an 8MP rear camera with Flash. Its other features are not known, unfortunately. But we can assume they include a large display with 1280 x 720 pixels, and a powerful processor.
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As for the Ascend W1, this will come with a 4.3 inch WVGA display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 5MP rear camera, VGA front-facing camera, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of ROM, and a 2,000 mAh battery. My Drivers says the W1 will cost 1,499 CNY (about $240) in China. At this price, the handset will be slightly cheaper than the Lumia 620 (announced earlier this month as Nokia's most affordable Windows Phone 8 device). Of course, it remains to be seen if Huawei intends to launch the W1 all over the world, or just in China.


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Samsung Huron Leak Shows Upcoming Windows Phone 8.1
We all know what Samsung did with the Ativ-S, the Korean manufacturer took basically identical hardware as the Galaxy S3 and slammed on Windows Phone on it.
Samsung is apparently planning to repeat the same again, we've been hearing about this for quite a while now. According to the tipster @evleaks, the Samsung Huron looks like that just that it would be running the Windows Phone 8.1 OS so don't expect this device to launch anything near end of Q2. On close inspection we did notice that there wasn't the mandatory camera shutter button here.


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INTERNATIONAL ( 12V546000 )Publish Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 06:00:01 EST
Vehicle Make / Model: Model Year(s): INTERNATIONAL / 9900 2013 INTERNATIONAL / LONESTAR 2012-2013 INTERNATIONAL / PAYSTAR 2012-2013 INTERNATIONAL / PROSTAR 2012-2013 INTERNATIONAL / TRANSTAR 2012 INTERNATIONAL / WORKSTAR 2012-2013 Manufacturer: Navistar, Inc. Report Receipt Date: NOV 21, 2012 NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID Number: 12V546000 N/A NHTSA Action Number: N/A Component: SERVICE BRAKES Potential Number of Units Affected: 6,779 Summary: Navistar is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 International brand 9900, LoneStar, PayStar, ProStar, TranStar, and WorkStar commercial trucks, manufactured from August 01, 2011, through July 31, 2012, and equipped with front brake linings listed as feature codes 0504501 or 0504504. The brake S-Cam tube bracket assemblies on the steer axles may fracture. Consequence: Brake assembly fractures may result in an inoperative brake on the affected wheel. This will cause the vehicle to pull to one side unexpectedly during breaking and/or increase the stopping distance. Either result may increase the risk of a vehicle crash. Remedy: Navistar will notify owners, and dealers will replace S-Cam tube bracket assemblies free of charge. The safety recall is expected to begin by January 21, 2013. Owners may contact Navistar at 1-800-448-7825.


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July 30, 1998
SEATTLE, Wash. -- Fred Honebein has been hired as the Washington men's freshman crew coach, Husky director of athletics Barbara Hedges announced. Honebein replaces John Parker, who left to pursue graduate studies.
Honebein spent the past year as freshman coach for the California women's rowing program. His 1998 novice eight crew placed second, behind Washington, at the San Diego Crew Classic and Pacific-10 Conference Championships. The Pac-10 finish was the Bears' best showing by a frosh crew in 10 years.
As a rower, Honebein was captain of the United States Olympic men's eight-oared crew from 1993 to 1996 and led his boat to a fifth-place finish at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He was a part of crews that won a gold medal at the 1994 World Championships and bronze medals at the 1993 and 1995 championships. Honebein was the US Rowing Athlete of the Year in 1995.
He was a member of the US National Team from 1992 through 1996 and during that time won numerous regattas throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. His crews twice won the Grand Challenge Cup, in 1994 and 95, at the Henley Royal Regatta in England.
Honebein began his collegiate rowing career at Orange Coast College, where his frosh crew won the San Diego Crew Classic in 1987 and his junior varsity boat won in 1988. He rowed on the varsity eight at California from 1989-90.
"I am excited to begin my tenure at Washington," said Honebein. "This is a great opportunity to work with Bob Ernst and Jan Harville, who are both highly successful coaches. I look forward to learning as much as possible as well as contributing to an already outstanding program at Washington."
"We are lucky to have a person with Freds athletic background and character join our program," added Ernst. "His knowledge and experience will be a significant contribution to the tradition of outstanding freshman crews at Washington."
A native of San Francisco, Honebein graduated from California in 1991 with a degree in Eastern European history.


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|Meadowood (The Restaurant)
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2-Michelin stars means stellar food
(Posted by: Kathy on 09-30-2008 @ 12:14 PM)
Driving up to Meadowood feels like going to an exclusive resort on the east coast. Seems there is lots of old money (big Bentleys and lots of Mercedes), plenty of tennis courts, and a group of middle-agers dressed in whites to play crouquet on the finely manicured lawns. Meanwhile, Meadowood Restaurant teams with an international staff all well-versed in the food and wines. We built our own tasting menu included my absolute highlight: lobster with sweetbreads and summer truffle foam. It was incredibly delicious - sending shivvers from my tongue to my toes. We also had the wine pairings with the dishes. My smoked toro and oestra caviar was paired with a woody, smooth sake, which I thought was a clever "wine pairing."
Despite all this culinary ecstacy, I did overhear other patrons complain about the food. Two people sent back dishes for being too salty. Another complained that the wine overpowered the food it was paired with. Certainly, these are all subjective matters based on the individual palettes, but I was surprised that the tables within earshot weren't 100% happy with the 2-Michelin star food.
It was definitely delicious, inventive and beautifully presented. But that one extra star that French Laundry received really shines brighter than you'd imagine. If you want to save up for the stars - prioritize French Laundry. For two-stars, I think I'd go for Cyrus in Healdsburg over Meadowood. But, heck, it's not like I go to Michelin-starred restaurants every day, so Meadowood still is an absolute treat.


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Do you think you're getting enough sleep?
A new study finds we don't sleep as much as we think we do.
Experts recommend that adults get at least eight hours of sleep each night, but surveys find people report averaging less than seven hours.
Now a new study reveals we may be sleeping even less than we think.
Doctors at Arizona State University analyzed sleep in more than 2100 adults.
They compared the amount of sleep people said they got to their actual amount of sleep as measured in a sleep lab. People estimated that they typically slept seven hours, but the lab found most subjects averaged just six hours.
Even the morning after the test, when asked about their sleep the night before, participants routinely over estimated by about twenty minutes.
Researchers say that this means self-reports on sleep are probably off target, and Americans may be more sleep deprived than they know.
Good sleep is linked to a lower risk of accidents and health problems, so experts suggest people maximize their sleep by setting a consistent bedtime, avoiding caffeinated drinks and removing distractions from the bedroom such as the the TV and the computer.
Sleep is needed to regenerate certain parts of the body, especially the brain, so that it may continue to function optimally.
After long periods of sleep deprivation, neurons in the brain may begin to malfunction, which can negatively affect a person's behavior.


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todays haul with 3 bands
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HRC- Our season never ends
"Shoot fast or shoot last"
HR UH Nilsson's on a wing n a prayer MH WCX
Hey you mind picking out the ones without bands... give them a chance to make it down south.... haha that is pretty impressive congrats!
Drew Allain
HR Cajun Made King "Zeus"
These are awesome pics! I'm jealous. Dumb question....what's the difference between a banded and not banded duck or goose?
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter, don't mind. --Dr Seuss
Sue Puffenbarger
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last eve watching da bears grate some cheese, I got a hankering for some cheetos.
eased up quiet like and snuck to the cupboard. tip toe back to the chair and ever so quiet opened the bag.
had to snap the photo with the telephone.
are you able to tell what dog hunted all morning and what dog did not?
"So what is big is not always the Trout nor the Deer but the chance, the being there. And what is full is not necessarily the creel nor the freezer, but the memory." ~ Aldo Leopold
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In order to characterize the reliability of a packaging process and to identify existing or potential failures in the package, especially in a package having complex wire bonding, the dimensions and proximity of the wire connections before and after encapsulation need to be determined. Traditional methods to make this measurement are tedious and destructive making it practical to measure a single wire on a specific part.
The high-resolution and 3D capabilities of the VersaXRM family offer a complete non-destructive method to determine essential parameters of wire bonds. An example of the 3D data potential is shown in Figure 1 is of a part imaged by the MicroXCT. It is possible to cross section this computer-based data set into two-dimensional slices of any desired orientation. Three-dimensional X-ray microscopy thus offers a flexible way to characterize shapes, dimensions and proximity of many of the wire bonds and features in a complex package.
Figure 1. 3D rendering of a wire bonded package. The 3D volume was created through a tomography generated by the MicroXCT-200.
In comparison with the three-dimensional tomography information offered by the VersaXRM family, non-destructive 2D X-ray radiography can miss critical information. Figure 2 shows X-ray image of a similar package that has failed due to an electrical short. Take note that the wire has two different diameters; the thinner carries a signal and the thicker carries power.
By examining the failed component with 2D X-ray imaging as shown in Figure 2 is inconclusive because it did not provide sufficient depth information to reveal whether or not the wires were shorted together, or whether the large diameter wire was simply passing over the thinner wire.
Figure 2. A 2D X-ray image of a wire-bonded package
The 3D microscope image taken by the Xradia MicroXCT as shown in Figure 3 upper section shows that the two wires were actually in contact with one another. In Figure 3 lower section, a virtual cross-section of the 3D data confirms that the wires are close enough to be the cause of the electrical short.
Figure 3. Upper-3D rendering of two wires suspected of touching.
Lower figure: Virtual cross section of 3D image at the location of the yellow line confirms the wires are touching.
The traditional technique used to make this measurement after encapsulation requires a physical cross-section of the package. This is a tedious procedure as a wire of interest, such as a wire that is suspected to be causing an electrical short must be detected first and then the cross-sectioning cut must be made exactly parallel to the wire. Also, as the package is cut physically, other wire bonds may be disturbed. Because of this it is normally not practical to perform measurements with traditional techniques.
The VersaXRM™ family of submicron resolution 3D X-ray microscopes, including the MicroXCT, enables characterization of some or all of the wire bonds in an intact package without de-packaging or destroying the sample.
Non-destructive 3D X-ray microscopy is beneficial as it enables the measurement of many or all of the wires in a given encapsulated package without requiring physical cross section. Virtual cross-sections exactly parallel to the wire can be easily made via software. This allows not only wire height measurements, but also distances, such as the clearance from the top of the wire loop to the edge of the encapsulating material as shown in Figure 4. This is especially important for a relatively thin package where it is critical that wire loops do not extend beyond the resin that covers the part. Such height clearance measurement is impossible with 2D X-ray imaging and difficult-to-impossible with destructive imaging techniques that require physical cross-section. In addition to individual wire lengths and angles, it is possible to measure wire-to-wire minimum distances as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 4. Virtual cross section of a single wire bond. Notice how it is possible to measure its shape and proximity to both the chip and the top of the plastic encapsulating material.
Figure 5. Virtual cross section enables measurement of proximity between multiple wires.
The high-resolution capability of the VersaXRM offers value for the characterization of new wire bonded devices, especially as wire bond diameters and pitches decrease and more complex architectures are introduced. The non-destructive nature of the VersaXRM offers the unique ability to perform multiple measurements on the same sample, such as before-and-after stress measurements. Moreover, in addition to 3D interconnect morphology, the microscope can simultaneously provide additional failure analysis information such as broken wires that cause opens and wires touching wires that cause shorts.
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I attended a few panels while at the New York Comic Con this year. It was my first time at the Con and I decided to go because I'm greatly excited about the "DC Universe Online" project, which, according to the design team, is still in its "alpha stage." During the panel for the forthcoming game, we the fans were shown slides of various as yet unseen bits of art as well as many we have seen and we were given a sneak peek of a mish-mashed trailer put together specifically for the Con. The panel was exciting with the audience sighing and whispering in amazement at some of the slides and applauding and cheering at things that were said.
Mr. Wes Yunagi, the Senior Producer of DCUO, moderated the panel and began by asking Jim Lee, Executive Creative Director, what some of the challenges were in transferring his artwork into the game. Jim responded saying that he quickly discovered his drawings aren't really created to be turned around and examined from all sides because the characters' eyes tend to be higher on profile shots and in different lower spots when seen from the front. "My involvement on the game is to take what I see as the ideal version of the DC Universe and give that concept art to the team in Austin, led by Jared [Carr], to create." According to Lee, what we will see in the game is not any one version of Metropolis or other comic locations that we may be used to seeing, but instead an amalgamation of all the different mediums and phases of those locales.
Some things, such as the length of Batman's ears or how to display Superman's heat vision were details that often required multiple changes before getting right. For instance, says Jim Lee: "...in print you go well I like the ears kind of short but then you look at it on the screen at that four or five inches high the ears tend to disappear. So you find that you have to beef up or make things larger on screen that you wouldn't necessarily do if you were drawing it because it wouldn't show up." When I asked Wes Yunagi why in the trailer for the Doomsday Caper does Superman press his hands against the side of his forehead while blasting his heat vision I got much the same response. Though Wes assured me that the footage they were showing was by no means final, the theory was that Superman touching his forehead would read better from a distance; especially when you consider that many times during the game there will be various blasts of energy coming from all sides of the screen.
Both Lee and Carr then went on to emphasize how this entire project is really a collaborative effort. Lee stressed that he's had some really great teachers in Carr and the rest of the Austin team and that he's loving working with them all because they're really "great artists." Carr, who is the Art Director on the game, explained that while comic book artists' work from a standpoint of conceptualization and really creating the look that his team works in the opposite way by taking what's already been done and then adapting it for the game.
There will be different factions in the game, according to Lee, and when a player takes a mission, he or she will find that they are aligned with a particular faction for the duration of that mission. Factions such as LexCorp and S.T.A.R. Labs were described as each having their own color scheme, as all factions will, so that players will know exactly what side's faction base or location they are in. The game will have hundreds of locations all over the world and at different times during game play alerts will pop up asking the player to get involved in a mission against or for a particular faction. But in each location, the specific factions will be identifiable by their specific colors.
Lee made it clear that while he's certainly familiar with Superman and Batman, that there are hundreds of characters everyone wanted to have in the game that he wasn't even aware existed. The process then was to start from scratch and "concept it out" to come up with the best version of those characters. Because there's no way one person could do all that, Lee once again commends the great team he gets to work with and says everyone involved has come up with some really great ideas. One example he gives as to how things work in the one office at Wildstorm Studios where they all work together involves the character Zatanna and her trademark top hat and fishnets. "I wanted to keep the top hat and fishnets and Jens [Andersen, Creative Director] didn't." The audience found that rather funny and Lee continued, "I tried to tell him there's just a huge part of our audience that really love fishnets. So, in the end we settled on some comfortable slacks for Zatanna."
I think he was joking.
"We got stumped by some press guys the other day talking about The Red Bee," said Andersen. "Why don't you tell us who The Red Bee is?"
"The Red Bee is a Golden Age character who has trained bees," answered Geoff Johns, responsible for back story on the game. "It's hard to do."
"Are you going to make him a Lantern?"
As the crowd was laughing at Johns' humorous expense, the panel went on to discuss how the characters in the game will all have a unique look to them, but that fans will definitely recognize who each of them are. The Green Arrow was specifically explained as having a really cool look that the designers think we'll love.
Can I be Superman?
Geoff Johns went on to talk about how he was initially approached about the game when he first came onto the project. He said he first assumed that players would get to play as Batman or Superman but when he was told each player would have their own superhero that would enter the world and interact with the environment he was somewhat dubious. "I have to say though," said Johns. "That after playing the game as a hero and getting in Metropolis and seeing Doomsday and going Oh my God there's Superman, and saying, I get to help Superman fight Doomsday, I got it. I got what the game was all about." Geoff says that's when he really decided he wanted to help craft the story that would make players feel as if they were the superhero coming into this environment fresh. Johns idea was that the player would be the secret identity at home while he entered the world as a superhero.
"I know I can't talk about anything," Johns said to which the crowd responded with laughter. "So I took the job and I was very happy Marv Wolfman, all of you know who Marv Wolfman is, but for me he's one of my greatest influences and favorite writers and one of my good friends and so I was very excited to work with Marv on this."
Marv, who serves as the ongoing story and missions writer, then talked about how blown away he was by Geoff's outline and his ideas for the story of the game. Marv says Geoff's managed to take every part of the DCU and just create these blocks where every type of character you can think of can be in the game. This is a very hard thing to do, says Wolfman, because DC is a very different company than a lot of other companies out there because it was built over 75 years. For Johns to take all of that and then figure out who certain types of characters belonged with and then on top of that there's just a really great story and Marv was asked to take all of that and then go to the next level. Wolfman says he's thankful he didn't have to come up with the overview that Johns did because he doesn't believe he could have come up with the "really, really good" story that Geoff came up with.
Andersen then talked about how action was at the forefront of the game and even though DC is a very rich, dramatic world about great stories and characterization, the team really didn't want players having to read massive amounts of text. From a design standpoint then it was their job to take that experience and really hammer it home in a visual way so that the player will really feel a part of the action. Andersen talked about how content is spawned by saying that it's very dynamic and that the objectives you need to do in the mission are right in front of you. How a player gets in is that players will be in the world and simply see things happen and decide to act. The story will be evident by having a player see what is happening in a visceral "right in front of you" sort of way.
Andersen further described the way "cases" and "capers" will occur, with cases being what a hero themed mission is and capers being missions for a villain. Most of the missions will be able to be entered by both heroes and villains and both types of players will be able to interact with the world and see what's happening but obviously, based upon their faction, will be able to act with it in a different way. Types of missions will include the Doomsday scenario debuted at Comic Con, which is the first completed module for the game and others such as heroes needing to protect a certain individual or get them to safety while at the same time villain players will be trying to stop that from happening by perhaps taking out the same individual.
Yunagi then asked Chris Kao, Creative Director for the Austin Studio, about some of the early design decisions made on the game. Kao expressed that in ways it's very easy but it's also very hard to bring the DCU to life in a game like this. For instance, when you're talking about another game, where you're playing as Superman or Batman that's one thing, but when you're entering the universe and you're seeing the Daily Planet and interacting with everything in that world, that's a very different thing. Obviously though, players will need to decide what type of hero or villain they will be. What choices you will make from your appearance, your movement style, your powers, down to the way you approach the game needs to be as individualized from a design standpoint as possible, says Kao.
"At the end of the day," says Kao. "Imagine trying to earn the respect of these legendary characters or the fear if you're on the villain side that you have accomplished enough to actually stand along side them."
Q & A Type Stuff
At the end of the panel, as par for the course, there were questions from the audience. Someone asked if the Atomic Skull would be in the game. Jens talks about all of the characters that will be in the game, saying that there are always a lot of questions about what specific characters will be in the game and as they continue onward working with Geoff and Marv and developing the story, more and more characters will be introduced. Part of the fun will seemingly be which characters appear and whom players will actually have the chance to run into and work with or against.
Jens answered another question about whether Johns' "Blackest Night" storyline will appear in the game. The design team and writers, he said, have so many stories in mind for the game and so many things they're planning that they're not really concerned with bringing the game up to match exactly what's going on in the comics right now. For instance, "Bruce Wayne will be our Batman," he said. "We're not worried about who's currently doing what."
A question I've personally heard a lot and even asked myself once or twice was asked. Will PS3 players and PC players be able to play alongside each other? Before the Con, I'd always hoped that they would. Now though, I'm not so sure. See, I'm not the brightest bulb in the box and even though one side of my brain always knew that Sony was behind this game and that SOE meant Sony Online Entertainment, I really figured it was in the game's best interest to have everyone able to play together. What I mean by that is, if I want to play but feel the game will be more fun for me only if I can convince my friends to join me, but my friends only have one machine or the other and can't afford or don't want to buy whatever one I'm playing on, maybe I won't play. That's just a scenario of course for others, because I will be at least trying this thing out for the free month. The panel really thought it was a great idea to have PC and PS3 players able to play together and added that it was technically supported since they're currently playing it in the office that way, but no decisions have been made yet.
"It would be really cool to have that," said Wes Yunagi. "But it would be nice if everyone would just get PS3s."
The crowd laughed, but I agree with Wes.
Speaking of the free month, people keep asking whether this game will require a subscription fee to play or if it will just be a flat fee. In this panel, someone worded it in a way I haven't yet heard though. Their exact question was whether or not people on the PS3 will have to pay a subscription fee for the game. So what, he expects that because he has a PS3 the entire game and universe of the way things work will shift for him and his superior machine? If you're reading this now, whether you're really still wondering about PS3s or PCs or just whether or not there'll be a subscription fee for you personally, let me answer this for you now. Yes. Unless you're a member of the design team or the president of Sony or hold some other extreme position like, oh I don't know, Brainiac level computer hacker, yes you will be paying a subscription fee to play this game. It makes no sense any other way. For players who have played MMOs before, they already know that the constantly updated content requires throngs of programmers and designers to continue getting paid in order to keep the game running. For those who haven't played MMOs because they refuse to pay a fee or just haven't decided to try yet, it's really something we all have to get used to. I'm not personally thrilled about shelling out dough continuously to play a game. But then, if you love the content, and you want to have continuing things to do that are new and different; not to mention if you'd rather have the servers working and not crashing every ten seconds, MMOs will always require a fee to play. Sure, there are some very basic, sort of blocky free games online you can play without a fee, but they're not all that hot and they certainly don't star Jedi or take place in the DC Universe.
The panel, of course, declined to answer; instead saying no decision has been made.
On the subject of raiding and whether or not there will be a difference between high end and highly experienced players and those players who are simply DC Comics fans who want to play, Chris Kao explained that he expects there to be raids and groups getting together to do different things but that this is a game where players will be fighting with or against forces in the DCU and that it won't be about sitting around in a cave. So where there might be raiding, says Chris, it won't be like anything you've seen before. One explanation for how it might be different is the prospect of having random missions and content spring up actively as you play, which is what has been suggested. It sounds like a lofty and ambitious goal to set, but if DCUO can actually pull it off, it will really be unique. I say this because what typically tends to happen with MMOs is that missions and places programmed in the box, as well as new updates and modules made available for download end up permanent fixtures in the game and players know where they are and know that they can get certain extra experience or goodies or whatever by simply going back and doing the same "raid" over and over again. This tends to get tedious and I personally have never been a player who wanted to do that. I'd rather continue my ongoing story and gain what I gain by doing different things and actually actively participating in the universe.
You might be wondering how the hero or villain types will work. Will you need to pick a specific template and then stick with it or be able to take different skills as you'd like them and make a really extensively skilled character. Jens believes that superheroes are made to be flexible and that they adapt to situations so all players will be able to choose many different skills and that the plan isn't really to do a class type system.
"We want you to bring your friends, right," says Jens. "Not their classes."
Chris Kao elaborates on that by saying that over time your character will gain dozens and dozens of different skills that they'll be able to pick and choose based on the mission or need which to use. On the demo I played, there were 4 abilities on one side of the screen and 4 on the other that came up when you pressed a certain button. Kao explains that these are "presets" that already start to specialize your character. But at the start of each fight you can switch those out or choose what you think is best and those choices go on and on over time where you'll always have the ability to combine your different skills together in many variations.
Regarding updates and how they'll work, Kao says that it's no secret there will be expansions for the game. The team wants to continue to work together as writers and artists and designers and their plan is to keep bringing new missions and new stories to the table but since it's impossible to introduce the entire DCU out of the box, updates will be ongoing. This is normal with MMOs and for those uninitiated there's no need to worry, it always works that way and it's working out just fine. There will also be plenty of live updates and seasonal things players will download as they play.
On NPC reactions, the panel tells us the type of reaction you'll get will depend on where in the city you are. In some places, as a villain, you will be idolized as if you were a hero and other section will have you cheered, jeered or ignored. Then, depending on what you're doing you may also get an unexpected reaction. If you're a villain and you're doing major damage and throwing cars, you'll get the same reaction that a hero would get if he were doing the same thing.
"Will the game be more mission based," asked someone. "Or say some friends and I just want to get together and kidnap people can we do that?"
"That's kind of scary isn't it?" Joked Johns.
Apparently though, rather than it being a completely open world where a player can just go kidnap someone or smash open a wall and rob a bank it will be more that the designers and writers will spin up scenarios where those types of things will happen so you can choose to be villainous or heroic and you can be on the prowl or on patrol. Further, the same bank robbery or mission spawns won't just show up on schedule in the same place over and over. It will be more random and more story driven.
Wondering whether pedestrians would be in the way and constantly in danger during a battle, someone asked if hero players would need to worry during battle about causing harm to innocents. Andersen says that the game would be heavily unbalanced if villains could harm people or start battles but heroes needed to make sure people weren't hurt. "You'll find," he says. "That the pedestrians in the game are extremely agile."
"If you were living in Metropolis," added Johns. "You'd be super-agile!"
There will be no death in the game, per se, but players will find the more damage they get, the weaker they become and eventually they fall unconscious. After a set amount of time players will revive and be able to recharge over still more time. When I played the demo it didn't take very long at all for me to build my energy back up after being knocked down. Further, I did notice that I couldn't activate some of my powers when I was getting low on health.
Is You a Goodie or a Baddie?
Finally, if you were wondering on what side of the law some of your favorite artists and writers would land:
Jim Lee says he's spent so much of his professional life drawing heroes that he'd choose to be a villain. "I wouldn't want to be a mamby-pamby villain," he says. "I'd want to destroy the world."
"Okay." Says Geoff Johns. "Jim wants to destroy the world." Funny as Jim's response was to Geoff, he also chose villain.
Marv Wolfman also said he was excited about playing a villain.
Well friends, I guess we'd better watch out when we enter our favorite universe sometime in the near future, it appears some well known names will be looking to team up with those of you who will also choose villains and come a-gunnin' for use hero types.
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Kathleen Parker had poetry on her mind when she wrote the article referenced below. Tis the season for poetry, one guesses. Referring to Obamacare:
"Today, knowing what we know, we are left with what we used to call a million-dollar question, though it is much more expensive now: How does one defend spending $1.2 trillion for a health-care overhaul that disincentivize people to work, and that leaves us with 31 million uninsured?
One writes poetry."
Poem: "The Truth Hurts, Swear It."
A good life for all is not guaranteed,
Neither is equal opportunity and economic parity.
Intelligent design would have it that there are winners and losers,
Darwin professed that as his creed.
Wealth in America is a rarity.
Poverty and diminishing returns result from greed.
The Affordable Care Act performance metrics are not anywhere close to what was defined as the problem and required solution. Obama's management approach is to evade any real definition of outcomes with metrics, so one never knows what he had in mind. It doesn't matter. The return on cost from the Affordable Care Act doesn't add up. The legislation was a fast job, rushed through by an incompetent Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. They should be chopped along with all incumbents who had anything to do with passing this bad legislation.
One more slip up by Obama, and he should be impeached.
"The poetry of bad news around Obamacare
By Kathleen Parker, Published: February 14
It is easy these days to imagine that one is living in a fairy tale, albeit a dreary one.
In fairy tales, as in Washington, things are true that can't possibly be — and what is not true can be defended by tilting the facts a certain way and catching the light just so.
Objective truth, it seems, has gone the way of trolls, goblins and gremlins, by which one should not infer that Truth has taken up residence in the U.S. Congress.
Cognitive dissonance is a rational response to recent news that Obamacare will reduce the workforce, which is hardly helpful to the economy, and insure less than half of the uninsured — from 55 million down to 31 million.:


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