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At the Marvel: Cup âO Joe panel, Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada joined Marvel TV's Jeph Loeb and Editor-In-Chief Axel Alonso to speak with fans and announce whatâs next for the Marvel Universe.
Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada and other special guest bring the latest in the Marvel Comics App, social media and more for Comic-Con International. Plus, new details on the upcoming Marvel Infinite Comic.
The latest edition of CSBG's look at easter eggs in comic books looks at a variety of Easter Eggs in Joe Quesada's "Daredevil" run, including references to Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon and Kevin Smith!
Writer Robert Venditti spoke with CBR on bringing classic Valiant hero Ninjak to the pages of "X-O Manowar," setting him up as an adversary to Aric of Dacia in the series' second arc.
Joe Quesada, CB Cebulski and Kieron Gillen discuss Marvel's current crossover event, displaying exclusive art from future issues and reacting to the Agent Coulson/Vision rumours in the wake of "The Avengers."
Joe Quesada's traditional Cup o' Joe panel arrived in London for Kapow 2012, where Joe Quesada, Mark Millar and more discussed an "Avengers Vs. X-Men" movie, digital comics and the point of the Ultimate Universe.
Marvel Comics has provided an exclusive first look at Sara Pichelli's cover for the first issue of her and Brian Michael Bendis' "Spider-Men" series which sees Peter Parker come face to face with Miles Morales.
Marvel Comics' Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada spoke with CBR News from the floor of C2E2, discussing the inception of the Marvel Universe/Ultimate Universe crossover "Spider-Men" and his appearances on Disney XD.
Marvel Comics Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada brings his signature Q&A panel to Chicago as he teams with Axel Alonso, Jason Aaron and Leph Loeb to announce new series for "Hawkeye" and "Powers" and a return for Sabertooth.
Marvel Comics major summer event gets a Chicago spotlight as Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, CCO Joe Quesada and writers Jason Aaron and Rick Remender dish on "Avengers Vs. X-Men" and the return of Captain Mar-Vell.
Marvel begins its C2E2 schedule with the House of Ideas panel, discussing all the latest news on the Marvel Comics App, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited and more.
The "Avengers Vs. X-Men" tie-in that launched Marvel's Infinite Comics digital platform goes under the spotlight as Joe Quesada, Mark Waid and Nick Lowe unpack the storytelling techniques of Nova's crash landing.
In advance of Saturday's premiere of Marvel Studios latest animation project, Man of Action members Joe Casey and Duncan Roleau go inside "Ultimate Spider-Man" revealing the unique humor and big stories behind the series.
With "Ultimate Spider-Man" debuting this weekend on Disney XD, Marvel has released a new, extended sizzle reel featuring new scenes from the series along with interviews with the cast and crew.
"Ultimate Spider-Man" Co-Executive Producer and Marvel icon Stan Lee speaks about the new animated series, organic vs. technological web shooters and the enduring appeal of the wall-crawling hero.
Jeph Loeb, Joe Quesada and Disney XD Vice President David Levine speak about XD's Marvel Universe block and the animated "Ultimate Spider-Man" show.
The writer whose passion for digital comics has been well known brings his tablet-first findings to Marvel as Mark Waid explains how his Nova "AvX" tie-in story for Marvel Infinite Comics is just a first step.
Marvel CCO Joe Quesada talks the launch of Marvel Infinite Comics, a new run of stories created specifically for tablet devices tying into "Avengers Vs. X-Men."
After news that "Ghost Rider" writer Gary Friedrich will owe Marvel Comics $17,000 stirred the comics community, Dan Buckley and Joe Quesada explain the publisher's point of view in regard to the case and convention sketches.
Doug Zawisza gives Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness' "Avengers: X-Sanction" #1 4 stars, calling the first chapter of Marvel's "Avengers Vs. X-Men" prelude series "big, loud and most importantly, fun."
Marvel Comics has released several variant covers for "Avengers: X-Sanction," featuring art by Joe Quesada, Leinil Francis Yu, Steve Skroce, Stephen Platt, Ian Churchill and series artist Ed McGuinness.
Tis the season, so Augie's looking back at "The Last Christmas" and some Santa Claus trading cards. Also this week, one company stops short of innovating digital comics while one creator takes a stance against digital.
Marvel Entertainment COO Joe Quesada speaks with CBR TV about a possible return to comics in 2012, his thoughts on the first month of DC Comics' New 52, his first digital comic from 1998 and more.
A jam-packed version of Joe Quesada's panel saw plenty of Marvel news including a new movie-esque Avengers series from Brian Bendis and Mark Bagley, Jeph Loeb's resurrection of Sabertooth, "Dexter" comics and more!
Marvel Entertainment CCO Joe Quesada returns to the drawing table to create a variant cover for "Avengers: X-Sanction" #1, Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness upcoming series re-introducing Cable to the Marvel Universe.
Marvel Comics CCO Joe Quesada brought Cup 'O Joe to the Disney D23 Expo to discuss Disney's acquisition of Marvel, show exclusive footage from "Ultimate Spider-Man" and give the history of Marvel from 1939 to 2011.
Today's teaser for the November-hitting Fantastic Four-themed project helmed by current "FF" writer Jonathan Hickman features a Joe Quesada-drawn shot of the original FF.
With a new face under Ultimate Spider-Man's mask, Marvel CCO Joe Quesada returns with his take on the character's creation and the overpowering public reaction, plus an exclusive look at the Ultimate Spidey cartoon!
Marvel Entertainment CCO Joe Quesada spoke with CBR TV about Marvel's movies, past, present and future, DC Comics' relaunch, Marc Silvestri on "Hulk" and more.
Marvel Comics has released an especially enigmatic teaser this morning promoting a new project from the "Hulk" and "Superman/Batman" team of Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness to be announced at CCI.
Marvel Comics has released Joe Quesada's "Not A Dry Eye In The House" variant cover for the June-shipping final chapter of the current "Death of Spider-Man" storyline running through the Ultimate Universe.
Joe Quesada returns for another Cup O'Video to answer fan questions on the fate of the Ultimate Universe post-Death of Spider-Man to the possibility of new Spider-Man 2099 comics. Plus, a post-credits blooper and more!
Marvel returned to WonderCon with a Friday panel featuring Joe Quesada, Axel Alonso, Jason Aaron and more, telling stories and offering advice for aspiring creators to break into the business.
Marvel Comics Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada returns to the stage for a round of questions, answers and announcements in his classic Cup O' Joe panel at WonderCon, and CBR News has word of the next "Secret Avengers" team and more.
Have a query for Marvel Comics Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada? Then head on over to the CBR Message Boards for a chance to have him reveal the secrets of comics, TV and movies on video at WonderCon.
Marvel Comics Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada is back for a video Q&A based on your questions, covering the process behind animation, the sales of "Spider-Man" and tweaking the costumes of Marvel's big franchises.
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Nets topple Magic 98-86
Published: Friday, November 30, 2012 at 9:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 30, 2012 at 9:30 p.m.
ORLANDO — Joe Johnson had 22 points and the Brooklyn Nets earned their fifth straight victory, holding off the Orlando Magic 98-86 on Friday night.
Gerald Wallace added 20 points, including five 3-pointers, as all five Nets starters reached double figures.
They beat the Magic for the third time this season and wrap up their five-game road trip in Miami on Saturday.
Glen Davis had 16 points to lead the Magic, who lost their third straight game.
Brooklyn center Brook Lopez missed his first game of the season with a mild right foot sprain. He is day to day.
Orlando begins a five-game road trip Sunday in Los Angeles. It will be their first meeting against Dwight Howard since trading the All-Star center this past summer.
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Beadnell Cottages
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Please find below a selection of self catering holiday cottages to rent in Beadnell, Northumbria.
Northumberland's beautiful coastline is renowned for its magnificent beaches - and that's exactly what you'll find close to a Beadnell holiday cottage.
The attractive village of Beadnell nestles alongside a sweeping curve of golden sands, with far reaching views towards the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle. The bay is a natural haven for water sports like sailing, windsurfing and scuba diving - the latter especially popular around the Farne Islands just off the coast.
Walking, cycling and bird-watching opportunities are fantastic, whether you choose to track the stunning Heritage Coast along the coastal path, or venture inland to the rolling Cheviot Hills.
Beadnell's history is worth a closer inspection. Step back to the 18th Century down at the harbour with its distinctive lime kilns. Head east to Ebb's Neuk Point and roam around the ruins of a 13th Century chapel. There's even evidence of Bronze Age burial chambers along the shore, a strong indication that Beadnell has probably been inhabited for thousands of years.
Today's Beadnell caters for all your holiday needs, with a local pub and hotel both serving food, as well as a traditional fish & chips shop - always best eaten straight out of paper by the sea. There's also a small grocer's and Post Office.
When it's time for a little exploration, Holy Island, Alnwick, Bamburgh Castle and the Cheviot Hills are just a few of the many places within easy reach of your Beadnell holiday cottage. But don't feel guilty if you keep wandering back to that wonderful beach!


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One goal of process characterization is establishing representative performance parameter ranges that can be used to set validation acceptance criteria (VAC). Characterization studies yield varying numbers of data points from multiple experiments, and may also include data generated at different scales (e.g., bench, pilot, and commercial), which add complexity to the analysis. Many statistical approaches can be used to set ranges from large data sets. As an example, we present the statistical considerations and techniques for setting validation acceptance ranges for a chromatography step used in purifying a recombinant protein. Performance parameter data from a combined data set consisting of 67 bench, six pilot, and three full-scale runs were analyzed using the statistical analysis software JMP (SAS Institute). The combined data set was used to compute tolerance intervals, so that sources such as scale and column feed material could be properly modeled. The resulting ranges were used to establish validation acceptance criteria.
If there are no representative bench-scale data from process characterization studies, the data set used for a statistical analysis to establish acceptance criteria may be quite small. Yet, if both process characterization data from bench scale studies, as well as data from large-scale runs are available, it may not be obvious how to combine these data sets in an appropriate way. In this article, we describe statistical methods in which bench-scale process characterization data are combined with a smaller, large-scale data set to establish validation acceptance criteria that are indicative of process consistency, yet are not unduly restrictive.
A two-sided tolerance interval is an interval thought to contain 100p% of a population with 100(1 – α)% confidence. For example, if p = 0.99 and α = 0.05, then a two-sided tolerance interval will contain 99% of the population with 95% confidence. This means that the reported range is expected to include 99% of the PP values that will be generated by the process under consideration. Tolerance intervals are particularly useful for setting VAC because they describe the expected long-range behavior of the process.
Tolerance intervals can be computed and used to set VAC under any of the following scenarios:
a. setpoint conditions; or as
Examples of calculating tolerance intervals computed for each of these scenarios appear in the three scenarios that follow.


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Suns rally to beat Hornets in overtime
Published: Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 12:28 a.m.
PHOENIX — Markieff Morris scored a career-high 23 points, including a 3-pointer in overtime, and the Phoenix Suns rallied from a 19-point third-quarter deficit to hand the New Orleans Hornets their sixth straight loss 111-108 on Friday night.
Goran Dragic scored 20 points, 12 in the final 6 1/2 minutes of the third quarter, for Phoenix.
New Orleans got career performances from Ryan Anderson and Greivis Vasquez. Anderson scored a career-high 34 points, hitting 8 of 13 3s. Vasquez had 25 points and 14 assists, both career bests.
After blowing their big lead, the Hornets forced overtime by scoring the final eight points of regulation.
P.J. Tucker had 15 points for Phoenix, also a career best. Jermaine O'Neal had 13 points and 11 rebounds.
The Suns, down 74-55 after Vasquez's 16-footer with 5:45 left in the third quarter, outscored New Orleans 39-9 and led 94-83 on Luis Scola's 8-foot hook shot with 6:37 left in the fourth quarter.
Dragic led the comeback with three late third-quarter 3s. Tucker's 3-pointer at the third-quarter buzzer cut New Orleans' lead to 81-77 and started what turned out to be a 15-0 run as the Suns reserves scored the first dozen points of the fourth quarter. Jared Dudley's 3-pointer gave the Suns their first lead of the night at 82-81.
Jermaine O'Neal's 5-footer put Phoenix up 86-85 with 5:49 to play and, after New Orleans cut the lead to three, Dudley's third 3-pointer of the quarter had the Suns up 103-95 with 1:37 to play.
But Anderson, whose 9 3-pointers also were a career best, sank a step-back 28-footer, former Sun Robin Lopez made a 14-foot shot and Vasquez made his only 3 of the night to tie it at 103-103 with 17.8 seconds left. Dudley misfired at the end of regulation.
Dragic's high-arching 18-footer put the Suns up for good in overtime, then Morris' 3-pointer made it 108-103. Anderson's 22-footer from just inside the 3-point line cut the lead to 108-105. Tucker sank a pair of free throws, but Roger Mason made a 3-pointer to cut it to 110-108 with 1.4 seconds to go.
Morris gave the Hornets one last chance by missing one of two free throws, but Mason could only toss up an air ball under pressure at the buzzer.
Anderson had 25 points in the second half and overtime, 14 of them as New Orleans blew open the big lead in the third quarter. He made 1 of 3 3-pointers in the first half, 7 of 10 after that.
Notes: Vasquez was 7 of 7 from the field in the first half, 10 of 13 for the game. ... The Hornets lost Jason Smith early in the game with a corneal abrasion. ... Phoenix was the second stop on a five-game trip for New Orleans. The Hornets are at Denver on Sunday. ... Phoenix opens a six-game trip Sunday at Philadelphia. ... The Hornets' 19-point lead was their biggest of the season. Their previous high was 14.
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The Benassi Slide has a one-piece synthetic upper with jersey lining, and foam that contributes to the comfort and also makes this sandal durable. The rubber sole protects feet, grips the ground, and gives the Benassi its sturdy shape.
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Gas Prices
Published: Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
In reference to the article by Ryan E. Little on why analysts can't figure out why gas prices are going up at this time, every year gas prices jump up when our Northern friends are coming down.
They usually leave at the end of April and, of course, during holidays ["Analysts Stumped by Gas Price Increases," Feb. 20].
This is unfair to everyone, but no one seems to want to do anything about it.
I run a large golf league, and have noticed that, mostly because of the economy, some of the golfers have chosen to come in later than usual, and some are leaving earlier than usual.
I think some of our Northern friends (other than the golfers) have chosen the same route this year, and the gas stations have noticed this and decided we better change our timing. It's all about the almighty dollar.
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McPherson County Extension's Master Gardeners and Friends have worked hard to put together the annual horticulture program. This program is open to anyone interested in horticulture, and who wishes to become more informed on horticulture topics.
The schedule is:
Jan. 17: Planting Perennials for Continuous Bloom
Feb. 21: Vegetable Gardening
March 21: Water Wise — How Do I Water My Lawn and Landscape?
April 18: Prairie Star Flowers
Sept. 19: Spectacular Shrubs
Oct. 17: Winter Gardening in Kansas Without a Greenhouse
These lectures will take place on their designated dates at the 4-H Building at 710 W. Woodside in McPherson. Cost to attend is $5, with all youth 18 years and younger admitted for free. All lectures will begin at 7 p.m.
McPherson Counties Master Gardener and Friends group is very active within the county. In 2012, they provided more than 2,400 volunteer hours to the local communities.
Anyone interested in becoming a Master Gardener should call or stop by the Extension Office to receive information on an upcoming Master Gardener certification program being offered in Salina next year.
Jonie James is a McPherson County Extension Agent for agriculture.
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I'm in Atlanta, Georgia, at present, among the scent of pine trees and the reek of southern denial. The moribund economy has thwarted the city's manic drive to silence its resentful ghosts by means of constant motion … Below the lilting southern accents here, one detects rage … Not simply the ubiquitous hate-speak on right-wing talk radio. But an animus bred by truth-deferred … that southern pride is a lie of the mind — a blown banner … foisted skyward to distract the minds of my fellow southerners from the ground level truths of a system rigged to enrich the privileged few and keep the many working for their benefit. (How do you think they filled the ranks of the Confederate Army to kill and die for the rights of rich men to own slaves.)
I arrived in Georgia by route of the US interstate system.
Traveling US interstate highways one suffers a confluence of so much contemporary madness and tragedy extant in the land … so much suppressed fear and aggression. Yet, through it all, the heart still yearns to see what lies over the next horizon.
Although, lamentably, what is revealed, all to often, proves to be as sterile, inhospitable, ugly, and inhuman as what was beheld at the last.
"Who has twisted us around like this, so that no matter what we do, we are in the posture of someone going away?"
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Any situation, as is the case with interstate highway travel, in which to momentarily stop or even to slow down, one risks death should be regarded as an affront (if not anathema) to common sense and the longings of the heart. When the landscape we pass through has been reduced to a meaningless blur, our lives grow indistinct as well
The apologists of the present system tell us ad nauseam, and have convinced most, that a similar disastrous fate will befall the nation if the engines of global capitalism were to slow down even a bit. Interstate travel is emblematic of the manner a system based on ceaseless production and manic consumption degrades the senses and inflicts a dehumanizing assault upon the psyche.
When stopped at an anonymous interstate service island or some off-the-exit-ramp retail strip — those inhospitable nether regions evincing a paradoxical mix of sterility and toxicity — the permeating odor of exhaust fumes and processed food makes us woozy. These places, only distinct for their ugliness, reek of how soul-numbing and joyless travel has become . . . now a task nearly devoid of any sense of the mystery, the option of exploration, or the possibility of serendipity travel once offered.
Travel has been reduced to a tedious ordeal, whereby our inchoate longings to escape the quotidian prison of our economically circumscribed existence are mangled and suppressed, only to rise as the hollow appetite of reflexive consumerism and the ineffable sense of unease, so evident in the troubled American psyche.
Enclosed in our vehicles, we hurdle from one sterile, impersonal location to the next sterile, impersonal location, and then on to the next. As forbiddingly huge trucks, loaded with the cargo of extinction, bear down on us, we grip the steering wheel -- we know to stop is to risk death therefore we continue onward, believing we must drive and consume and drive and consume in order to survive. Yet the knowledge nettles, just below the surface of our harried minds, that to continue down this road will, in turn, cause the world to die.
Even the landscape itself of the US is stretched to the breaking point: Cluttered upon it are gigantic islands of garish light that torment the night …scouring away the stars. As, all the while, SUVs and oversized pickup trucks -- the overgrown clown cars of the demented circus of decaying empire trundle past -- the extravagant size of the vehicles vainly compensating for how diminished and powerless those within feel in relationship to the course of their fates.
Known and very popular cialis coupon which gives all the chance to receive a discount for a preparation which has to be available and exactly cialis coupons has been found in the distant room of this big house about which wood-grouses in the houses tell.
The corporate empire is imprinted in us. If one listens one can hear arias of decay -- a death-swoon operatic in scale. Manifested before us, it is as visible as the noxious vapors of pollutants veiling the horizon line at sunset; it shimmers like heat spires above traffic-stalled interstates; it reeks like the endless archipelagos of overflowing landfills spanning the length of the land. Yet, as mortifying as it is, the vales and vistas of the US spread before us … are as horrible and beautiful as a great cry of grief.
Manifested en mass, as our collective way of existing in the world -- the flickering of our tiny desires have set the vast world aflame … There is needless suffering and death that history will affix to own names … We are destroying our planet and her exquisite, irreplaceable creatures, as well as, our own sanity.
Feeling the full implications of this, how does one make it through the day and sleep throughout the night?
Following their defeat at the Battle of Shiloh, the shattered Confederate ranks fled for their lives. General A.S. Johnston, desperate to restore order and rally his men to return to battle, commanded a fleeing soldier to stop, demanding, "Private, why are you running?" The soldier replied, "General, I'm running 'cause I can't fly."
The act of being in perpetual flight (even the somnambulant variety) from consequences requires a great amount of energy; one must have the endurance of a marathoner sleepwalker to keep ahead of the sound of the fast approaching footfalls of reality at one's rear.
Depression is what catches us.
I have been accused being a poet … I know I am a wanderer through the landscape of the heart. I navigate by narrative, by words and feelings: It occurs to me: the term depression is a misnomer for feelings of despair brought on by powerlessness i.e., disconsolation over the death of an internal verity -- or having our will thwarted by inexorable, outer forces. Grief is a living prayer of our vulnerable hearts.
The salesmen of the eternal, big happy ... are just that -- salesmen ... One is required to respond to the intoxication of the sales pitch and is not to question the condition of their heart ... The commercial come-ons insist that the heart's grief and a lost soul's emptiness and panic can be fixed by some new bright and shiny: a new appliance, therapy, "hope and change". By the incessant promotion of the gospels of the hyper-capitalist sects of Happiness Uber Alles, the implicit message imparted is … suffering is a character flaw that can be mitigated, elevated -- even redeemed by consumerism, antidepressants, acquiring a positive attitude -- all the uttered homilies and donned vestments of the consumer state.
"The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering."--Carl Jung.
What kind of miserable malcontent would resist changing this social milieu and personal mode of being: Sitting stuck in commuter traffic; eating high fat, low quality food from a drive-thru window; languishing in a cubical … stranded in a low benefits, little chance of advancement job -- until, of course, the job is outsourced; waddling around the mall ... clad in off-the-rack, sweatshop sown clothing; dozing off in front of the TEEVEE with Cheetos crumbs stippled in the folds of one's jowls. Aint that the life -- or what? By any means possible, we preserve the death-styles of empire.
This mode of being is far removed from the norms of nature and the revelries and attendant sublimations necessary to engage in civic life ... Here, ruthlessness and rationalization banish reason; ambition trumps merit; expediency pushes aside wisdom; and empty sensation masquerades as experience.
Like interstate travel, the collective mind of the consumer state propels us forward to the next empty agenda, the next perfunctory task, the next meaningless purchase … But depression slows us down, inducing us to feel the grief inherent in our alienation … to cease the incessant, habitual hurdling forward and striving upward … to stop and investigate the mysteries of our hearts … to feel the sadness of the suffering earth …
"I can't go on. I'll go on."
--Samuel Beckett
But we must slow down: We are destroying our planet and her exquisite, irreplaceable creatures, as well as our own sanity.
Two weeks before the Deepwater Horizon, Macondo Well "spill" (what a dishonest word for that noxious, bleeding gash) into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, I dreamed of a badly injured fish who had had half his face torn off by some brutal method employed by the practitioners of industrial scale fishing operations to exploit the world's oceans … The fish had worked himself upon a rock on a craggy shoreline; holding an eternity of suffering in his one remaining eye, the fish turned to face me … Ever since, this dream image has lived within me ... I carry the fish's suffering and I bear his dark rage regarding what our species has done to his/our home -- this complex, mysterious, beguiling, dangerous, sublime, monstrous, and magnificent world we were cast into ... My sense of sorrow, at times, seems unbearable; my rage … bottomless ... Who will speak for the voiceless -- who will make amends for their suffering?
In childhood, I loved this body of water … loved it as one can love any living thing (which it is). I swam in it, collected jewel-like shells on its beaches of bleached sand, and went deep sea fishing with my father in its azure waters … Wherein, I was in awe of its (seemingly endless) bounty and abundance. Its winds and waves intimated to me the nature of eternity and the Gulf's living things drew me into the beauty and terrors of the living moment.
Approximately, ninety percent of the large fish (Tuna, Mackerel) in the world's oceans are gone due to overfishing. Oceanographers predict in 50 years time the oceans and seas the earth over will be dead. (And these are conservative estimates.)
Much like the denizens of late Cretaceous looking dumbly at the sky and barely giving a second thought to that bright, shining thingy that appeared above, this is a calamity so large in scale and so all-encompassing in its implications that we human beings just can't wrap our minds around it … In fact, by our elevation of willful ignorance and mindless consumerism to a cultural imperative, we human beings, acting collectively, are the equivalent the planet-decimating Cretaceous comet.
I try to resist losing myself to misanthropic rage when I read statistics such as this one. Yet I am enraged at the waste -- the sheer stupidity, mendacity, and hubris of it all. I want to grab the human race by the lapels and shout, "Stop it. God damn it. Just stop it. How could you destroy something so beautiful and then just continue to go through your sub-cretinous day? What the hell is wrong with you? Didn't anyone ever teach you the meaning of decency?
This is not a political debate. This is a choice between sanity and mass suffering; perhaps, even the survival of our species and a mass die off.
But listening to the pronouncements of Washington's political class and the mainstream media's ceaselessly shallow, miss-the-point narratives is like eavesdropping on the palaver from a petri dish.
Excuse my sense of fatalism: At this point, the system is too far-gone to be redeemed; it is in the process of systemic breakdown. Although, this is not as awful as it sounds, for one must let the old go and let a natural process of decay take over. When the rot is this advanced, at best, what you have is culture as a compost heap. Yet that doesn't mean in times of decay, there cannot be meaning and beauty, because life itself becomes vivid and alive in contrast to the extant ugliness.
Without decay, there is no change. The world would be as pointless as paradise. If you wish to find the future forest, look to the humus upon its floor. The future is decay; and decay is the future. The old ego must sing, even within the compost heap of its own putrefied concepts.
And, as it does, it must sing of its suffering and the sorrows of the earth … singing like the severed head of Orpheus floating to Lesbos.
Arias of compost sing of new understandings but you cannot skip the singing school of grief.
Frank O'Hara suggests: "In times of crisis we must all decide again and again whom we love."
Things are going to work out -- but not in ways we can predict.
There is a mournful beauty, even a providential utility, attendant to living through at time of putrefaction: Compost (the anti-Astroturf) nourishes fledgling life and novel forms. A new paradigm will morph from the remnants of the old, putrefied system.
If Confederate ghosts could shout through the prison of their enshrinement — they would call out to us, "Don't believe it. Having seen the meaningless waste of war, we know now that we would have chosen to live out our lives, breathing in the humid, Georgia air, having our troubles softened by the sight of dappled light filtered through pine needles, and being lulled to sleep at night by the song of crickets and cicada.
Don't you believe the lie, as we did, that dying in a rich man's war is a virtue; don't buy into the fraud that working all your life for a greedy few is a sound way to proceed through the fleeting and finite years of your time upon this earth."
Phil Rockstroh is a poet, lyricist and philosopher bard living in New York City. He may be contacted at: email@example.com. Visit Phil's website http:// philrockstroh.com/ And at FaceBook: http:// www.facebook.com/profile.php?
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Take the train.
When I first got my driver's license, I drove every spare moment, even though I had nowhere to go. But that wore off in time. Now when I wish to go longer distances, I take the train. Even Amtrak is better than driving, and in civilized countries, train travel can be a pleasure. I once took my sister from Venice to London on the Venice Simplon Orient Express (though it did not go through the Simplon tunnel; it did go through the channel tunnel). The VSOE is a bit too expensive for routine travel, but European trains are excellent and have much more frequent service than those in the United States.
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In the past, filmmakers who have set their horror projects within the rough and tumble confines of the old West haven't had much success, both critically and financially. An excellent example of such limp-wristed cinematic goofiness is Richard Governor's grossly uneven 1988 genre actioner "Ghost Town," a film that narrowly misses the proverbial mark despite a solid turn from late character actor Jimmie F. Skaggs.
Rest assured that JT Petty is a name you will be hearing in the horror genre for some time to come. He busted out with a really great short film "Soft For Digging" a few years back, and has slowly been working his way on to bigger and bigger projects. "The Burrowers" is one he both wrote and directed, so this project is 100% his. The DVD will be released in a few weeks here, and Todd will have a review for us all tomorrow. In the meantime, you can wet your palette with the synopsis and trailer below.


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Endless curiosity about people and a generous enjoyment of human nature are the hallmarks of Maeve Binchy's life and work. Sadly she passed away last July, but she's left us with A Week in Winter, the spell-binding final novel that shows her at the height of her powers. Cahir O'Doherty considers the life and work of the unmatchable Irish author.
If you've ever spent a week in an Irish guesthouse in the company of a cast of characters that Agatha Christie herself might have hand picked (and who hasn't?) then you're going to love Maeve Binchy's final novel.
Few writers knew Ireland or the Irish better than she did, frankly. It's why she became an international bestselling author, and it's why other more critically celebrated Irish authors loved her too.
In particular, Binchy had a real gift for uncovering the passions, hopes and private hurts of her instantly recognizable Irish characters, and then making you care about their fates. That takes real skill.
Her final novel, A Week in Winter, is easily as strong as the other 19 books that made her reputation, and there's a special poignancy in knowing this one is her last.
But there's consolation in knowing that wrote the book at the height of her powers and that it's the best possible tribute to her long and successful career.
Set in a small fictional Irish coastal town of Stoneybridge where everyone knows each other, in A Week In Winter Binchy, who passed away last July aged 72, introduces us to an enterprising young woman named Chicky who has just realized her lifelong dream, to take over a decaying Stone House mansion and turn it into a going concern.
The locals think she's crazy. Who'd holiday in a guesthouse in this godforsaken backwater, they demand?
But before the paint is even dry on the walls the first guests are arriving. They include John, an American movie star who thinks no one recognizes him because the Irish refuse to invade his privacy or make a big fuss.
We also meet Nicola and Henry, husband and wife, both doctors, who find themselves spiritually shaken up, by having witnessed far too much death. Unsurprisingly, they're looking for a little rehabilitation themselves, and at Stone House they have certainly come to the right spot.
Then comes Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher who finds she must criticize everything and everyone she encounters. Miss Howe, we discover, is the sort of woman who makes flowers wither as she passes.
Severe and cold, she's actually toxic to the hopes and dreams of the people around her. From the moment she appears you begin to ache for her comeuppance.
Next up is Lillian and Winnie, a mother and would-be daughter-in-law who have been forced into taking a short holiday together, with all the tension and awkwardness that implies.
Binchy doesn't spare us the embarrassment or anger that eventually erupts between them, and her you-are-there portrait of two decent but very different women attempting to make peace is one of the highlights of the book.
She's particularly good at conveying the distances, seductions and tensions that can open between people, and A Week in Winter is unflinching in its honesty.
For years dismissed as a romance writer, real fans of Binchy's work know that she's never been afraid to tackle the darkest themes, nor are her characters walking paragons of virtue. Instead they're all too human, with all the good and bad that goes with it.
When I asked her last year about her habit of writing characters who contain elements of saintliness and selfishness combined, she laughed in agreement.
"It is more interesting writing about someone who has flaws as well as strengths like the rest of us," Binchy told the Irish Voice.
"I don't like these perfect heroes or heroines who look flawless, dress elegantly are highly successful at work and immensely attractive and desirable to everyone they meet. Those kinds of people don't exist -- or if they do I never met them!"
The women in her books are always spirited and smart as hell and some of the men are too, the way it actually is in Ireland.
Binchy's focus on everyday people, and the ability to see that if you look closely, there is really no such thing as every day people, is why she's so adored by her fans. It helps that's she can be screamingly funny too.
In A Week in Winter Binchy has assembled a likeable group of people who, whether they know it or not (and in the beginning they mostly don't) are looking for a change in their circumstances that will lead them toward the life they always imagined they should be living. In the process they step into themselves.
"In a magic world we could all have eureka moments and see the folly of our ways," Binchy said last year, referring to the way in which her characters slowly come to a realization about themselves.


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There's no better time than those long and lazy days at the beach to sneak in some learning for kids. Once parents have a few ideas to keep in their back pockets, beach-time learning will become a natural part of summer fun.
- Tic-Tac-Toe: Use a stick or the handle of a shovel to show your child how to draw a board in the sand, and then let each player decide what he or she will use for markers. Try to move away from the standard X and O, and instead encourage children to draw their initials or a favorite shape.
- Write the Word: Take turns writing a word in the wet sand near the water and try to read it before the water washes it away. Use sight words, family names, or word families!
- Gather (and Count!) Shells: Children love to search for shells, so use the found shells for learning by working together to line them up and count them. Count first one by one, and then model skip-counting by even and odd numbers.
- Hunt for Treasures: Go beyond shells and encourage children to find treasures of all kinds–sand crabs, rocks, sticks, and so on. Then take a look at the treasures and work to sort them by size, color, texture, and use. Encourage children to find other ways of categorizing them.
- Guess the Object: Get into the sand with buckets and shovels (like Melissa & Doug's Clicker Crab Pail and Shovel or any of these cool Sunny Patch tools). Take turns building and molding the sand, allowing friends and family to guess what you created.
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NASA Astronautsare going back to The Moonand when they get there they may need quake-proof housing. The Moonis shaking with "shallow moonquakes" that researchers don't fully understand.
Solar Minimum has Arrived
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Something's happening on the sun: all the sunspots have vanished. Solar physicists say this is a sign that solar minimum has arrived.
Bizarre Lunar Orbits
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Mysterious concentrations of mass in the Moon's ancient lava seas disturb the orbits of Moon-circling spacecraft. NASA is taking these "mascons" into account as the agency prepares to return to the Moon.
Magnetic Moondust
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Researchers have discovered something odd about fine-powdered moondust--it's magnetic. This raises the possibility that magnets could be used for dust abatement when Astronautsreturn to the moon.
A Meteoroid Hits the Moon
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Last month, astronomers watched a meteoroid blast a hole in the lunar Sea of Clouds. Their video of the event is a must-see.
The X-ray Transit of Mercury
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Using a high-resolution X-ray telescope, Japan's new Hinode spacecraft captured some unique and beautiful images of last week's Transit of Mercury.
The Sky is Falling
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Every day The Moonis hit by a surprising number of meteoroids. NASA researchers are poking through old Apollo data to find out if these projectiles pose a threat to future explorers.
Crash Landing on the Moon
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At the dawn on the Space Age, the first spaceship to reach The Mooncrashed. Forty-seven years later, NASA plans to do it again.
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The ski report is out of this world: clear skies, no wind and deep powder. We're talking about the moon.
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The Moonhas plentiful oxygen for future astronauts. It's lying on the ground. NASA researchers have developed a device that can extract breathable oxygen from lunar soil.


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There weren't many bad stretches of music anywhere in 1997, and you could argue that July was as strong a month as November or December. Summer 97 was definitely Phish at their most playful--and funky. Though Fall 97 often gets given the funk-throne, I think that's a bit erroneous. Not that there wasn't a ton of funk in the fall, but by November Trey was also channeling Hendrix more and more, and the band was doing much more group oriented spacey stuff as well. You were just as likely to hear a space-rock jam as you were a funk one. No if you really want the funky shit, your odds are just as good to pick a show from July.
And this one is maybe where things really got going in earnest. The Stash from the Paradiso a few days prior is one of the band's best otherworldy melodic expeditions of 97, foreshadowing the glorious 8/10 Cities. But this Twist is one of the first examples of their funky throwdowns that would also become a big summer touchstone. The Groove is in the Heart jam is no token throwaway tease, it's a proper 'groove' that's pure dance. Page shines, and you can feel their collective momentum just swell up in it--the sound of a band really starting to hit their party stride. Just so much fun. This vibe would return again through the fantastic YEM->Ghost>Poor Heart sequence with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones a few days later in Lyon (7/9), the standout Ghost in Atlanta (7/23), and basically every Gin they played that summer up through to the Great Went.
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News 12 First at Five / Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- He is the outspoken community activist who has proven he is willing to go jail for what he believes.
Woody Merry is back, and he is pushing the city to reconsider relocating an entire Augusta neighborhood.
The plan is to turn the Hyde Park community into a regional retention pond.
Merry says he has a different plan.
"We've got elderly people that have been there their entire life," he said. "Sixty-three to 65 years."
A plan to relocate people living in the flood prone Hyde Park community is lighting up the airwaves. City leaders made the case for turning the area into a regional retention pond on our weekly radio segment on 96.3 KISS FM. The pond would relieve flooding in a 3-to-5-mile radius.
"This is not something that just came up a couple of years ago," said Commissioner Corey Johnson. "This has been going on for years. I'm talking at least three decades or better."
Merry is now saying let's make a deal. He is offering 5 acres of land from a family trust to the city for free to build that pond.
"The easiest thing to do is take this land. You don't have to remove anybody," Merry said. "There is already a drainage canal cut."
Johnson says no thanks.
"The 5 acres is fine," Johnson said. "But it's not enough to do what we need to do to create that regional pond. We need 20 acres."
"And what are they going to do with the people that don't want to move?" Merry asked. "They are just going to evict them?"
More than 60 households are impacted, and Merry is naming names of those against being forced out.
"Mrs. Lilly and her husband cleared that land by hand and you're going to evict her?" questioned Merry. "An 89-year-old woman who has lived there 63 years? Come on."
But there are also people like Joe-Anne Jones whose home is falling down around her.
"We want out of here," Jones said. "What's the holdup?"
Commissioners recently approved more than $400,000 to jump-start that relocation plan.
"We have enough funding to pretty much get everybody out of there." Johnson said. "Let's be clear. The funding is already there for that."
The entire project will cost more than $18 million. The city has about $4 million so far -- enough to relocate the community.
The plan from Merry:
"We have been working diligently with a team of experts to come up with feasible and cost effective solutions to the flooidng problem in Hyde Park.
We have a family trust who is willing to donate 5 acres to the city of Augusta for a detention pond. The lot and parcel numbers are 087-0-005-00-0-3.588 (170 Dan Bowles Road) and 087-4-172-00-0-1.835 (166 Dan Bowles Road). The size of this property and its elevation are perfect for the construction of a detention pond. There is a drainage ditch already in place and currently feeding water to Phinizy Swamp. This, along with the following, will eliviate the flooding problem at Hyde Park.
The city of Augusta paved many ditches in Hyde Park. However, many of the residents will rake their leaves into these ditches, causing them to clog, thus holding water. Many ditches have become just plain old trash dumps, again causing the stoppage of water flow. Replace ditches with concrete pipe. Build culverts with grates. This is a lot less expensive than $18 million.
To assist in drainage of Hyde Park, the city installed drainage pipes underneath the railroad tracks. This helped tremendously, but residents complained that they needed more and possibly bigger pipes. Add more and possibly bigger pipes under the railroad.
According to officials from Phinizy Swamp, they have no issues with the stormwater runoff going directly into the swamp. Why not direct runoff into the swamp?
These solutions should be explored before we destroy Hyde Park. The residents who have come to me are proud of their homes and do not want to relocate. Several of these homes were built with money provided by the G.I. Bill after World War II. Some were built by hand one brick at a time. Many men worked at the local Merry Brothers Brick & Tile Co. and were given bricks and concrete blocks, mostly seconds, to build their homes.
Residents have fond memories as children helping clear the land and help their parents with construction. There is not another community in our area that has the distinction of this type of dedication to family.
Combining these two soloutions will permenantly eliminate flooding in the Hyde Park community and save the city millions."


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She's Just One Thought Away from Success
Success, we all want it for our kids, don't we? Whether it be in the classroom or on the athletic field we do all we can to insure that our daughters have every opportunity to succeed. And yet the secret to her success may be far simpler and far closer than you can imagine. Let me explain.
Every human being carries within him or her self a dominant thought pattern. This dominant pattern of thinking is the result of many internal and external factors. However, the most important determinant of someone's dominant thought patterns is his/her belief system. In the case of your athlete what does she believe about herself? What does she believe herself to be capable of?
For most of us our beliefs limit our potential, it's that simple. As I say often, "Either you think you can or think you can't." But even within that statement are varying degrees of success and limitation.
Now you may say..."John, are you crazy...of course my daughter wants to be successful," and I don't doubt for a minute that at the "conscious" level of her thinking she does. However given that she, like all of us, has over 50,000 unique thoughts swirling through her head everyday ultimately it's what her "subconscious" thoughts say that will determine her fate. These subconscious thoughts are, again, a byproduct of what she believes about herself.
Watch John Kelly explain how to skyrocket your athlete's game day performance HERE.
As a game coach, as well as a mental skills coach, I see young athletes struggle on a weekly basis with self imposed limitations -- all as a result of their beliefs about their abilities and their potential. Much of this limiting belief may come from thoughts, and the emotions that accompany them, of past mistakes or failures. This "past focus" can ship wreck your athlete's performance before it even gets started.
A single positive thought about herself, her abilities and potential can truly hurtle her towards levels of success she never thought possible. If she can start to believe greater success is possible (and ultimately, with enough"right" thinking, believe her success is "probable") this will trigger a subtle shift in her subconscious mind and empower her towards an avalanche of positive thoughts that become her new dominant thought pattern.
As she takes this new approach to the field her successes will mount and those old negative files (thoughts) will be deleted forever from the hard drive between her ears! And it all starts with a single thought.
Your athlete's thoughts are powerful enough to make or break her level of success on the athletic field and in the classroom. The good news is that she always has a choice of what she thinks. After all, who else controls the inside of her head?
Is this process easy...no. It takes a recognition of what her current beliefs about herself are, and a commitment to changing those beliefs and the thoughts that ensue. It also takes having access to the proper mental skills tools and training.
A majority of elite amateur and professional athletes throughout history at one time or another struggled with limiting beliefs about themselves. However, with enough hard "mental work" over time they overcame these limitations and soared to greatness. Your athlete can do the same.
It all starts with a just a single thought. What could be simpler?
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Thanks for reading! -- John Kelly, Softball Smarts
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By a unanimous vote Monday night, Anderson County Commission approved an Economic Impact Plan and Tax Increment Financing for the Oak Ridge Mall redevelopment project.
The vote was met with a round of applause by those in the audience, which included area residents, Oak Ridge City Council and city Chamber leaders, as well as the project's developers, Charlotte, N.C.-based Crosland Southeast.
The Economic Impact Plan and TIF have already been approved by Oak Ridge City Council and the city's Industrial Development Board.
"Our relationship with Anderson County is the strongest I've ever seen," Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan said. "That's how you move a community forward."
More on this story in Wednesday's print edition of The Oak Ridger.
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It's a fight over combining fire departments in Columbia County. The county says one department means equal service. But some think it means less. News 12 is on your side with both sides of the debate, and what this all means for your safety.
On December 31, Columbia County combines its fire departments under one roof. The only exceptions: Harlem and Grovetown.
But people like Pastor Anthony Booker, who lives outside city limits, will also live outside city protection.
"You're losing five to ten minutes and here in this area, five or ten minutes is someone's life," Booker said.
New Hope Baptist and all the other areas right around Harlem will be covered by Martinez-Columbia. And a new station is coming in only miles from his church.
The new Martinez-Columbia station will be right outside Harlem city limits on White Road.
Some worry it could take years to get that station up and running, but the EMA Director, Pam Tucker, says she's got something ready to be shipped in within a week. She also offered to let Harlem continue service the area south of the city and pay those firefighters $2,000 a call.
"I didn't want to leave anybody out who wanted to participate," Tucker said.
But Harlem Mayor Scott Dean says this isn't good for his budget.
"The cost of trucks, the cost of the personnel, the cost of the training is still there whether you roll or not," Dean said.
He wants a guaranteed rate for the year, something the county attorney says they can't pay. So Mayor Dean left the offer unsigned.
"We don't care if it's Harlem or Martinez-Columbia. We just want to make sure they have the same coverage across the county," Dean said.
The county says the 170 firefighters on staff will do jus that, but some still fear the change.
The city of Grovetown is also separate and agreed to the pay-per-service agreement. There's a town hall meeting tonight at New Hope Church in Harlem where local leaders will meet with anyone who has concerns. All of this will be final after tomorrow's commission meeting, and everything goes into effect on the 31st of the month.


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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - "We've been coming to Gwyn's for breakfast on Super Bowl Sunday for the last 15 years," said Florida resident Doug Clark in between bites of his eggs over light and potatoes. "We love everything about this place."
Clark, who began the trip more than a decade ago with 16 to 20 friends, now returns to Snowmass each year with 15 men and one woman - a group made up of sons, friends and family who live to carry on the traditions of their vacation, from where they eat to where they stay and ski. And, according to owner Gwyn Knowlton, who has run Gwyn's High Alpine restaurant with her family for more than 30 years, Clark's story isn't unusual. The restaurant has been a hub for repeat customers year after year.
"We are family so we understand family," Knowlton said, referring not just to her family, but the entire crew of employees. "We love being the place where people can continue their traditions, but we also love getting creative and switching it up now and then, too."
And when it comes to the menu, drinks, parties and celebrations at Gwyn's, nothing could be closer to the truth, as the whole team joins together to come up with new and exciting ways to spice up our ski days.
The latest was a "Soup-er-bowl" competition for the best football-related soup to serve on Super Bowl Sunday. The winner: Caroline Scace with her soup, "49 Bean."
Snowmass Sun: What made you come up with the idea for the "Soup-er-bowl" competition?
Gwyn Knowlton: We came up with it last year to do something different, partly because the snow was scarce and we wanted to get people excited. We got these giant, 6-inch-wide portabella mushrooms and carved the letters "NY" in them to place over our barley soup. We called it "Giant Portabella and Barley," which we think helped lead the New York Giants to their victory.
SS: Can you describe this year's winner, the "49 Bean?" Did you have a soup for the other team?
GK: The 49 Bean had just about every bean in it that you could imagine, and every portion had at least 49 beans in it as well. For the Ravens, we did a twist on our popular chicken tortilla soup and called it the "Screamin' Raven Tortilla."
SS: Aside from your soups, what other items are popular at Gwyn's?
GK: I would say we have a really delicious breakfast menu, especially our tasty beignets. We also just refurbished our deck to get it ready for warming temperatures, and we are excited to get to light up the grill again for our seared ahi-tuna sandwiches, beer brats and half-pound buffalo burgers.
SS: What else, besides good food and fun times, makes Gwyn's unique?
GK: We take a lot of pride in our snow-measuring stick outside, which we use to post overnight snowfall reports on our Facebook page. People appreciate it because it's a firsthand reading of how much snow they can expect to find when they ski here.
SS: Do you have any other events or special days you are looking forward to this season at Gwyn's?
GK: Yes, Fat Tuesday! Our whole crew dresses up for Mardi Gras every year, and it's always a really great time. We will have food specials, and bartenders Aly and Morgan will be mixing up Hurricanes at the bar all day. We hope everyone comes out for the occasion.


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VAIL - As Vail and Beaver Creek opens more terrain this season, it harks back to Season One.
Vail opened Dec. 15, 1962, with a little snow but lots of potential.
The ski company they called in the Ute Indians for a snow dance and 50 years later it remains a mystery whether it was a publicity stunt or if Vail Associates honestly thought it would help, but suddenly they had plenty of snow.
One morning a couple weeks later Pete Seibert announced that they were going to open Sun Up Bowl for the first time. It seemed like everyone on the mountain was crouched behind the rope, ready to be the first to spring into Vail's already famous Back Bowls.
"It looked like the Oklahoma Land Rush. No one had ever seen anything like it," said Morrie Shepard, Vail's first ski school director.
When Shepard and Seibert skied past the rope and stopped, looking for a better view, someone in the crowd yelled, "They're going to ski it all out!"
It wasn't possible then and it's still not, Shepard said.
"We dropped the rope and we heard whoops and laughing and we knew it was going to be a success," Shepard said..
A week or so prior to that, Seibert and Shepard took Vail's new ski instructors into the Back Bowls for the first time. They skied down Milt's Face in 6 inches of sugary powder with grass and weeds up to their knees.
There was a little whispering among the instructors that they didn't think the average tourist would be able to ski the back side of Vail Mountain, but they didn't complain to Shepard or Seibert.
In the beginning, 1962, Vail's originals were struggling to come up with enough money to build the dream. Faced with a brutal decision, they were leaning toward postponing opening the Back Bowls, and using the money they'd save to build more hotel rooms for guests.
Bob Parker, Vail's original marketing magician, stood up and declared that he needed those Back Bowls to put Vail on the map. They'd have to find some other way to raise the money, Parker insisted.
George Caulkins, Harley Higbie and Keith Brown came up with a scheme to sell additional shares and at the last moment put the money together.
"Vail is successful because of the Back Bowls," said Dick Hauserman, author of "The Inventors of Vail."
Fast forward to the late 1980s when China Bowl opened and thousands of skiers were waiting behind a rope, waiting to careen down.
Vail Mountain president Mike Shannon made a brief speech about terrain expansion and how this would shorten lift lines and distribute skiers more evenly around the mountain. As the rope dropped, Shannon shouted into his microphone, "Lift lines are a thing of the past in Vail!"
So many people skied down so fast that it took 45 minutes to ride out.


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January 12, 2013
PARKERSBURG — A man seen throwing a chunk of concrete through a window of a car Thursday evening on Division Street and taking a purse was arrested by officers who obtained his description from 911......
good job by dispatchers in getting the info and getting it to police to make an arrest good job to 911 and the Parkersburg Police dept.
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Again, good job.
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Why so low of a bond? He probably did more monetary damage to the car and what was stolen than the bond. Heck this just tells perps that it is worth it. Hes a waste of good air.
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Headlines for Sunday:
- Get-togethers I would like to have 00:45
- Refined list of get-togethers 01:26
- Team IITians bags the 2005 Trend Micro P1M Tech Challenge 01:35
- Ouch. Time to reflect. 19:11
- Quarter-life crisis 21:46
- Quarter-life crisis update: Let's do that virtually 22:38
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1. Get-togethers I would like to have
- Geekettes speak. Exclusively for women, all forms of geekiness accepted. What can we do to encourage extraordinary learning and success in girls? Also, brainstorming for Charo's summer camp. Let's make that happen.
- Education. People with a passion for teaching: let's talk. What do we need? How can we make a difference?
- Open source development. Who's working on what? What do we need to do in order to get more people to contribute to open source? How can people get started? What problems do people encounter? What can we do to make open source development more visible?
- Open source and education. What does it take to get Linux and open source into our classrooms? Who's doing that? What's it been like? What help do people need from the community?
- Cybercafes. Who's doing open source in cybercafes? How are they doing? What else do they need? How can we support them? What's the next important thing we can do to get open source into cybercafes?
2. Refined list of get-togethers
- EDUCATION. Jan 7, afternoon. Who else is passionate about teaching
and education? What do we need? How can we make things better? Audience: teachers and other people who have good ideas or can volunteer to help. So far: Butch
- GEEKETTES SPEAK. Jan 7, evening. Let's talk about what it's like to
be female in technology and other fields. (And swap tips on what to do with pesky people who hit on you! ;) ) We can also brainstorm Charo's summer camp. =) Audience: Women. Newbie women particularly welcome--good opportunity to get to know other people and feel more comfortable in PLUG, for example. It really helps. Guys will stay in another area and play games or chat. (Should ask someone to bring gaming console.)
- MAKING A DIFFERENCE. Jan 14. Help me figure out how I can make a
difference in the Philippines all the way from Canada. Tell me how you want to make a difference in 2006. (Who knows? Maybe I can help.) Audience: Anyone who wants to talk to me before I go off to Canada. So far: Zak
I want to get together with other people who are passionate about these topics. It's not going to be a big party where you might get to relax, eat food, and talk to three or four people, but rather something where we'll all tackle a problem and come up with ways we can help solve it.
- OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT. Jan 14, afternoon. Who's working on what?
What do we need to do in order to get more people to contribute to open source? How can people get started? What can we do to make open source development more visible? Audience: Open source developers and people who want to contribute to open source in 2006.
3. Team IITians bags the 2005 Trend Micro P1M Tech Challenge
Totally awesome. =)
4. Ouch. Time to reflect.
I'm getting deeper into social bookmarking and tagging because that seems to be what I can do for research, but I'm not sure if that's how I personally can make the most difference. How can I solve real problems?
5. Quarter-life crisis
QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS: Best practices for twenty-somethings
- Time management - Money management - Career management - 2005 review, 2006 planning
Here's the idea: if you're a twenty-something (or near it) figuring out life for the first time, come. If you've figured out one or two of these issues and you want to share your insights, come no matter how young/old you are. We twenty-somethings will ask questions, talk about our fears, and share our current practices in the hope of walking away with one or two things we can use to improve our lives. Non-twenty-somethings can comment on our practices, share their experiences, and give suggestions. I think we'll have great personal growth all around. =)
This will be in Manila when I go home. Probably at my house, too. My availability: Dec 19 - Jan 19.
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6. Quarter-life crisis update: Let's do that virtually
I'd love to hear about any questions, comments, suggestions or links that you might have. Your comments will not be posted on this website immediately, but will be e-mailed to me first. You can use this form to get in touch with me, or e-mail me at [email protected] .


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Observing the mistakes and silliness of others is a perfectly useful way to learn how to live the well-lived life.
For instance, my mother's mother, may her soul rest in peace, was a tremendously loving and caring grandmother, but I probably learned at least as much about life from her flaws as from her positive attributes. In particular, I was able to see the damage my Bobba wrought (to herself as well as others) as she bitterly held onto grudges and regrets as if they alone could sustain her, and often retaliated to perceived insults with petty nastiness.
I realized such behavior had to be terribly unsatisfying, and ultimately unproductive, and believe I have embraced a much healthier way to deal with people and events that disappoint me (I forgive easily. I focus on the positives. I take my share of the blame. I think before responding, and try to consider the long-term implications of my actions).
Alas, I'm beginning to realize that a fair amount of my A-Z Guide to Living will also end up serving as a cautionary tale, full of advice which I believe to be critically important but am not following for whatever reason.
Give charity generously, unlike me.
Avoid distractions, unlike me.
Overcome your fears, unlike me.
And now, for my latest lesson, I want you to fight inertia, unlike me.
In physics, inertia is the resistance of any object to a change in its state of motion. When you throw in the additional effects of friction and gravity one encounters here on Earth, inertia basically means that things have a tendency to be still and tethered to the ground.
Or specifically: My ass has a tendency to be tethered to the couch, watching TV.
My college roommate and I used to comment all the time about how our lives were basically ruled by inertia. Recognizing we were powerless to stop it, we embraced its presence, bowing to the ever-looming God of Inertia and offering it regular sacrifices, which of course meant continuing to sit on our asses and watch TV.
It's no surprise that the root for inertia comes from the Latin iners, meaning lazy.
Unfortunately, with the passing years, inertia tends to exert an even more powerful hold. Energy levels deplete as responsibilities build, so sitting on your ass during those precious moments of free time almost always seems the most appealing option. Indeed, nowadays when I find myself stymied by inertia, it often takes a tremendous amount of unexpected force – such as the passing odor of freshly baked M&M/fluff cookies – to get my ass to move.
I probably don't need to tell you the problems that will develop as you let inertia work its voodoo, but like those scary stop-smoking commercials, I'm going to anyway: Atrophied muscles, weight gain, poor vision, loss of brainpower, diminished creativity, decreased sex drive, general ennui, a disturbing accumulation of knowledge of lame reality TV shows.
And inertia will increasingly sneak its way into other parts of your life, as well. It will keep you in unhealthy relationships and unfulfilling jobs. It will make the prospect of change seem like the most frightening thing in the world. Its primary goal is to turn your life into one big rut.
Seriously, you must fight inertia with all of your might.
Go to the gym. Play a sport. Find a fun new hobby, like say, blogging. Make love to your wife. Cook dinner. Meet up with friends (but not my college roommate, especially if there is a couch involved). Always be moving. Always be changing.
Yes, it is tiring to battle the God of Inertia, but the most appropriate place to sit your ass down is the coffin, not the couch.
I won't join you in your fight, of course … but if they make it into a reality TV show, I'll likely watch.


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Did you install DVD X when you used the hacmkii installer?
Also, how old is your wii?
Sent from my DROID X2 using WiiHacks
Install the Homebrew channel and Can run all the apps... But still my Wii doesn't play DVD player. It just says mounting DVD and doesn't play it... Any other hacks, mods that I need? Thanks.
Did you install DVD X when you used the hacmkii installer?
Also, how old is your wii?
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If what Nightstah said is the case. Then you might be able to fix this by replacing the DVD drive with an older model. Would someone confirm this? I don't mess with those newer Wii's too much. I owned one once.
Sent from my DROID X2 using WiiHacksOriginally Posted by nightstah
Okay, I wasn't sure if there was an different model because I did see a part from an odd that didn't look familiar on someone's thread.Originally Posted by nightstah
The newest model I did swap pcbs on was d2e and d2b. But that was to see if something was defective. I swapped them back since then. No-one wants D2E in their Wii.
Sent from my DROID X2 using WiiHacks
I got this Wii from my mother in law and have no idea how old it is. I'm a newbie on this... 4.3 version hack installed. How do I find out how old or what type of DVD player I have?
Kenobi yes... I'm a distant cousin .
I guess it doesn't matter what hack I used right?
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