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"Revolution" Ends, "TMNT/Batman:TAS" Begins in IDW's November 2016 Solicitations
Comic Books
A comic book in which I appear on the last case of the bottom right. It was drawn by my ex and since it was released after we broke up, if you ask her, she'll probably never admit it's me.
My comic book collection, It's the result of 2 years of advices by my estimated Comic Master, Fran. I hope I make you proud Shifu even if I know we'll never agree on Marvel…
My English comics
Damn man, you have some cool books and some nice figures, but what a freaking mess you got going on there…
You should clean that shat up… You can't even see the color of some of the figures anymore…
The amount of dust on most of those toys is truly disturbing…
The content is great, but that dust needs to be cleaned up. So disturbing
Not a good set-up. Messy, dirty…
Total disregard for Additional Tip #1 for submitting your pics.
What a mess.
Clean your house.
Are submissions so low this is all we get this week?
I'm not a fan of having to scroll through 20 pages to see a collection. As a result I've only looked at about 4 pages. Can we go back to the original presentation format? This one sucks.
As for what I've seen of the collection, to be fair there are times when my own Man Cave is in disarray ( which to me means the room is being used) but a general clean up would allow you to enjoy the area more. I tend to do it on a monthly basis. Anyone out there with any tips on how he can dust regularly ( heard there was some kind of air-brush that allows you to dust easily?)
serious…action figures should not be so dusty the look hairy.
Great collection! I live in NYC and have to battle dust all the time so no judgment from me. Wonderful collection. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with Jimmy. Scrolling through this new presentation format is tedious and cumbersome. If it ain't broke…
The dust. The dust. Oh the collector's horror. You can actually wipe the dust on your collection with Swiffer Dusters. You probably need more than 10 refill cloths.
Hope they sell this or something like it in Switzerland.
Set a day to clean up the mess.
Previously, on hoarders…
The new format, scrolling thru pages, has backfired because after reading the comments it's obvious this collection is not worth the time and effort to do so. I checked out a few random pages, Judge Dredd collections are cool, just picked up the 5th collection myself, but the manner of their presentation ruins it for me. I don't blame the dude who owns it – it never should have been loaded up on CBR. Parkin should have told him to clean it up and resubmit. I just feel it's disrespectful to anyone here who has taken the time to clean up their room and display it for everyone on CBR, not to mention the poor sods who HAVE submitted and are still waiting.
Sorry if I'm sounding too harsh – I don't tend to like writing negative comments, but it's hard to find anything positive to write about this display.
This sums everything up…
hmm.. have some of you heard the expression "if you have nothing nice to say.. dont say anything at all" ??
Ok, first off, did we really need a dozen posts to tell him over and over and over again that he needs to dust? Some of you even came back a second time to add to the pile? I think he gets it, so lay off.
To Cjorg, sorry that this didn't meet your standards. We've had a lot of collections in the past that look like photos from museums; we've also had others that have gotten the hoarders comment (so that's not even original, Jimmy; sorry!). And many that were in between. The point of the column isn't to try to find the biggest or "best" or even the cleanest, it's to showcase collections of all shapes and sizes and yeah, sometimes they might need dusting, but so what? Unless you're Daniel's girlfriend or allergist, what's it to you?
There was a time not long ago that we weren't getting any submissions, so I'll take any and all comers, and I'm going to post them all. I don't think anyone who has submitted here before is going to feel "disrespected" (it isn't a competition, and I'm not sure what one collection has to do with another) and those who have submitted will get their day in the sun soon enough. And I bet they're pretty excited about that after seeing the comments here. The ones I worry about are the people who were thinking about submitting but after seeing the comments here today probably had second thoughts. I wouldn't blame them for it, though.
Look, everyone, when we post something here on Robot 6 about a comic you bought, or some political topic you don't agree with, or whatever, I get that you're going to have a reaction. Hell, you paid for the comic; you bought the right to post how you feel about it. But it really pisses me off to no end to see that kind of negativity on Shelf Porn. Some guy on the other side of the world has the balls to post pictures of his stuff that he loves on the Internet, and you're gonna take it as an opportunity to prove how clever you are with your smartass comment? Keep it to yourself.
And finally, and in all sincerity, thanks to those of you who commented on the formatting. The pagination function is new, and it is good to hear from folks on whether it works or not. So thanks.
Hey Dude… WE MADE IT!!! (What a timing)
By the way, Happy fuc&%*+ birthday to you, what a beautiful way to enter the good ol' US Of A with your personal shelf porn!
Ignore the comments about dust, they don't know the great and passionate guy you are.
We miss you so much (especially your mad Joker laugh)
See you in 6 month in Switzerland!!!
Love & affliction
Lobo & the Brat Pack
Thank you JK Parkin,
You are the Man.
It's not just the dust, it's the piles of crap strewn about everywhere. (I find it humorous that the tiny pic on the main page has cobwebs hanging off of it.)
We're all collectors, so when you see this many negative comments, it's not about people piling on. I think it's more a general sense that showcasing such a grubby display is an insult to the rest of us (but feel free to correct me if if I'm wrong).
Usually people who share their collections get lots of compliments, but if you don't put any effort into it, or your collecting focus is a Peanuts Pig-Pen shrine, I don't feel sorry for him.
JK Parkin, I think that the pagination is not a bad idea, but it should be more "fluid". I know almost nothing about programming, but I think that it should be more like… the comments pages in Youtube: when you go to another page, it doesn't have to load the whole page again.
Please dust your collection.
Hey guys, are you geeks or janitors???? You don't live there, so why the heck do you care about the mess???
I have found that a makeup brush works really good to dust. Especially because it can get into tiny areas and you don't have to worry about it damaging the item being dusted.
Just curious why doesn't his friend who had to force him to post these help him tidy up a little. Maybe the dust was the reason he didn't want to in the first place.
I just want to distance myself from the second poster with ian as a comment name. I say again. If you have nothing nice to say maybe you should not say it. That means you second ian.
A lot of the comments seem nastier than the dust.
One thing I like about Shelf Porn is that I get to see stuff I didn't know existed. I'm suddenly interested in getting those phone book sized Judge Dredd volumes for myself.
No one here has made comments like, "you only like X-Men comics so your collection sucks!" or "you have bad taste." The negative comments have been about one thing, and one thing only – the lack of care in the presentation of his display. Cobwebs, dust, and things just thrown all over the place. If I invite someone into my home I clean up to demonstrate respect for my guests. I'm not going to leave it in a shitty state and expect you to put up with it. That's disrespectful, and if that's my attitude I shouldn't have invited you in in the first place. If I'm going to invite you in to view my Man Cave on this column I'm going to clean it up before I display it to demonstrate respect to the people on this blog. Maybe you have different standards, good for you, but don't go after us for expecting someone to put a little effort into demonstrating his collection. Sure, there's nothing forcing me to click on to this blog – I actually enjoy seeing people who take pride in their collections, and I'm not expecting the Louvre. But geez, if this is OK with you, and you're lowering standards to point where someone can just throw their shit on the floor and say, "hey check out my collection!" then I doubt you'll have many people continuing to check out this column.
Well, here's the opposite point of view to those guys who don't even get their comics out of their boxes for fear of the covers fading.
Firstly, there's some incredible stuff in that collection – I envy you for a lot of those statues! But I have to wonder what the point of having them is if you let them get as dusty as that. That's not a criticism, just a thought. I know that for me, and for a lot of enthusiasts, part of the joy of collecting is in displaying your stuff in the most beautiful, impressive way. I always thought that fact was kind of the root of Shelf Porn. What's the point of spending the money on a gorgeous, intricate statue, only to let it get so caked in grime that you can't even make out the detail? It just seems like a shame. Or to spend hours constructing and painting these minute little figures so carefully, and then watch it get smothered in six inches of dust.
I suppose everyone enjoys their collection in a different way, but if I had half the beautiful stuff you do, I'd make sure it looked great all the time!!
Cjorg2, keeping with your example, if you went to someone's home and it was dirty, would you go off on them and be a jerk about it? Would you call out your friend who invited you to come over and get all pissy because he invited you somewhere that was dirty? Probably not. So why do that here? For example, Harriet's comment above makes the same point without being a jerk or accusing anyone of anything.
"you're lowering standards to point where someone can just throw their shit on the floor and say, 'hey check out my collection!'"
That wouldn't actually meet the definition of *shelf* porn, now would it? Although maybe there's room for a floor porn column …
Go off at them? Be a jerk? Do you practice what you preach?
I don't think most of the people here have been acting like jerks or going off at this guy, let alone me. As I stated before, this isn't about the quality of his collection but the lack of care taken in presenting it. He has a lot of great stuff in that collection there is no disagreeing with that. This is about you writing that your OWN expectations are that you, "clean up and dust your shelves before submitting," and suddenly we're all the bad guys, negative nannies, and as you so eloquently wrote being a jerk ( am I the only one seeing the irony here?)
Would I call out a friend who invited me over to his house and it was dirty? Sure I would. It's called constructive criticism. I certainly wouldn't be the guy who smiles, and then complains about it on the car ride home. Maybe that's your preference, but not mine. How is not saying anything going to help this guy?
And if there's been any pissy behaviour from me it's likely been directed at you for admonishing myself and others for calling you out on following your own standards. But feel free to attack me, but try to do it in the manner you want me to apparently behave and leave out the name calling. It's beneath you.
Very strange comments since saturday…
We are friends with Daniel and the dust was never an issue during our visites at his home.
His place was a sanctuary for his friends, Now he's gone in The USA and the dust is gone for good. We miss him a lot but, at least, all of you, pricks, give him a warm welcome in your country.
Thanks a lot.
P.S. JK Parkin, you are so cool.
Salutation du Québec,
J'adore les Boule et Bill. Ça me replonge dans mon enfances. Très belle collection de crâne.
T'as des trucs vraiment hallucinants.
Côté CD et DVD ça semble aussi plutôt impressionnant
À ton retour, ça serait bien d'avoir un aperçu de ce que t'as ramené d'amérique et de voir où en est ta collection.
For those who complain about the state of his collection. What, you've never seen dust?? Just show a little respect for the guy who took the time to show us the amazing stuff he have.
JK Parkin, you're a gentleman, really cool of you.
Let's go
Daniel walks warily down the street
With his brim pulled way down low
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet
Machine guns ready to go
Are you ready hey are you ready for this?
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat yeah
Another one sees the dust
Another one sees the dust
And another one gone and another one gone
Another one sees the dust
Hey I'm gonna get you too
Another one sees the dust
I think that's an appropriate introduction, borrowed from Queen, for my answer to all the bashing I've been put under in so few days.
Firstly and like I said in my description, it does pain me to have let my collection gather so much dust, and like it was also written in my description, the lack of room somehow discouraged me to clean more my collection which was never meant to be seen in that state (also written in my text, but apparently the dust was to thick for some of you to see).
When my friend Fran asked me to take pictures of my collection, he told me that most of you would see beyond the dust and that the collection was more important. Apparently, it wasn't, but I don't blame him, it was an honest mistake. I even take this opportunity to thank him again to have convinced me to display my collection to others. Mainly for two reasons, first because I do realize that my collection is pretty decent and secondly it encouraged me to rework the displaying once I'll come back to Switzerland and move in with my girlfriend (I also said that in my description, but why bother to read). She also made some pretty good suggestions about it, but I'll keep them secret for now.
Not wanting to waste too much written space on the haters and the cleaning enthusiasts, I, however, would rather thank all the objective commenters and I'll take your advices and tips under good consideration, regarding the many ways to take better care of my collection.
I also specially want to thank JK Parkin to have let me the chance to show my stuff on this page and also for his objectivity and kindness towards me in his posts.
I will update the displaying of my collection and, if it is the will of the gracious Mr. Parkin, you'll see it under a better light, then we'll see who's gonna bite the dust.
ya, why submit pictures of a dirty room to the website. my room is far from good, but if i want to display the collection to the world i would clean it up and present it in a best manner. why was this featured on shelf porn?
N, you moron.
I always liked this collection & find the dust adds charm to the gloomy figurines, kind of a nuclear winter apocalypse touch.
Yes it was surprising the first time I saw it, but you get charmed by it & as with anything photography modifies perception & doesn't do justice to real life.
Great collection I'll miss it & anticipate the new set-up in a couple of months with anticipation.
Hope you'll share it.
PS liked your reply Daniel.
PS: the collection is an excellent distraction when you wake up at xx hours in the morning still hung over & are looking for something to read, or to look back to you in the eye
Waow man! So many things in that little room!
I love your collection!!!!
Particularly the sculls! They are so cool!
Impatiente de voir la suite!
@ Cjorg2 – I agree with you buddy!
Love it. A lot of people spend more time setting up and dusting or organizing than actually reading. Keep up enjoying your collection. HH
Can't wait to hear you have a new appartment for making new photos!!!
Wow you have a lot of nice stuff . Hell I think the dust adds to room .


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It should be a bit faster then that Could you try again, wait for some minutes, and post the debug.log (zipped) here?
Does the video counter always stay at 0? Did you enable plugins?
It's not finished yet :ph6h wrote:I like PMS simply adding all drives by default and folders & files sorted A-Z (Alphabetical). I just wish I can change to sort-by-date for files (only) under specific folders (online or pre-configure).
PMS-MLX changes the default behavior of PMS. I thought that having to pre-scan files and then configuring folder by folder is not like PMS anymore. I can see some serious effort given by the developer(s) with PMS-MLX. I guess I have to give up PMS-MLX since the pre-config effort became overkill for my need outlined above. Thanks just the same.

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OAKLAND -- The positive vibe that permeated the A's locker room and dugout before the game as a result of the trades for pitcher Jon Lester and outfielders Jonny Gomes and Sam Fuld didn't translate into hits and runs once the game started.
The only run of the game came courtesy of a Raul Ibanez home run off A's starter Sonny Gray in the fifth inning as the Kansas City Royals put a damper on an otherwise festive day for the A's with the 1-0 victory.
"One pitch; other than that he was terrific," A's manager Bob Melvin said of Gray, who allowed only three hits in seven innings without walking a batter.
The A's lost for the third time in four games and saw their lead over the Angels in the American League West reduced to one game.
You can bet that anytime the A's offense struggles, as it did Friday night, or the A's lose a close game, people are going to question the wisdom of trading away slugger Yoenis Cespedes.
To that, the A's no doubt will counter by saying to check back at the end of the season, when there's enough of a sample size to fairly assess the trade of Cespedes to Boston for Lester and Gomes, who didn't play Friday.
Melvin said the offensive ineptitude Friday is in keeping with a recent dry spell for his hitters, among other things.
"A lot of it had to do with their pitching tonight," Melvin said of the Royals.
Indeed, Royals starter Jeremy Guthrie and three relievers held the A's to five hits.
Ibanez's home run was all the Royals needed. He jumped on Gray's first pitch and deposited it over the fence in right-center field.
Gray said he didn't second-guess his pitch selection to Ibanez.
"Plenty of times, they swung at the first pitch and grounded out," Gray said. "He just got that one."
The A's had their chances Friday, though they were few. They just failed to deliver a timely hit. Twice they had Fuld on third base with one out. Both times, cleanup hitter Brandon Moss didn't get the job done, when an out could have plated a run.
"You want him up there anytime," Melvin said of Moss. "He hooked one foul. It looked like off the bat it was going to be a three-run home run. ... You always feel good when Brandon's up there in those situations."
Moss just missed a home run on the second of the aforementioned two at-bats. His deep drive had plenty of distance, but Moss pulled it foul.
Such is the fine line between success and failure in baseball. Moss has come through for the A's more times than not this season, as evidenced by his 23 home runs and 72 RBI.
"It was hooking off the bat," shortstop Jed Lowrie said. "You could tell it was going to be foul."
Johnson came to the A's with huge expectations as being the closer to replace Grant Balfour, having had back-to-back 50-save seasons in Baltimore.
Things never worked for Johnson and the A's, and he was designated for assignment on July 24 with a 4-2 record and 7.14 ERA. He'd saved two games and suffered one blown save.
Johnson, 31, who will be paid the full value of this $10 million contract, is free to sign with any big league organization.
The A's also designated right-handed reliever Evan Scribner for assignment.
"It made him feel a little bit better," Melvin said before the game.
With Crisp ailing and backup center fielder Craig Gentry on the disabled list, the A's lacked a true center fielder. Hence, trading for Fuld filled an immediate need, Melvin said.
"That was another really important trade," Melvin said. "That was a for-now, right-now trade, because we were playing some guys out of position in center field."
"He certainly hasn't done anything to deserve that," Melvin said of Chavez being sent to the bullpen. "It's just the way our rotation is right now."
Staff writer John Hickey contributed to this report.
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Assistant Professor of Applied Behavior Analysis, Director of the Applied Behavior Analysis Programs
Research Interests: Complex human behavior; Verbal behavior; Assessment and treatment of disordered gambling; Translational applications of clinical behavior analysis; Development and implementation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for gambling disorders and emotional behavior disorders
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Education History: Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
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PINOLE -- A four-run deficit was nothing the Pinole Valley High baseball team couldn't handle in Friday's Tri-County Athletic League title game.
After falling behind early, the Spartans came back in a big way to beat St. Mary's 8-4 at Pinole Valley Park, capturing the league's tournament title after already securing the regular season championship.
Catcher Alex Melendez drove in five runs and Pinole Valley also got a big boost from pitcher Sammy Esparza, who threw five innings of no-hit relief after the Spartans went down 4-0 by the second inning.
"All year they've been resilient," Pinole Valley coach Curtis Sandeford said. "We've come back numerous times before. We stayed with the plan, and the plan was hitting it hard on the ground. We have an all-dirt infield and things happen."
The win was the ninth straight for Pinole Valley (20-6-1), which earned the league's automatic berth to the North Coast Section playoffs.
St. Mary's (17-10) got off to a good start with Andre Nnebe launching a two-run homer to straightaway center in the first inning and Josh Cohen adding a two-run single in the second.
But Pinole Valley began its comeback in the fourth inning. Melendez, a senior captain and four year varsity player, hit a two-run double and scored later in the inning on an error.
The Spartans put together another rally in the fifth, sparked by a fielding error. Esparza hit a sacrifice fly that scored Ryan Rodrigues, who slid home safely under the tag, for the tying run.
Melendez then made St. Mary's pay for intentional walks to Kasey Wallace and Jeffrey Kersten that loaded the bases by drilling a bases-clearing double off the left field fence.
"He stepped up when we needed him to," Sandeford said of Melendez.
The Spartans capitalized on two errors to add another run in the bottom of the sixth.
Esparza, a sophomore normally used in the closer role, earned the win with his dominant relief outing. He entered trailing 4-0 to start the third inning, but didn't let a runner reach second through his five shutout innings.
He struck out seven and walked one.
TCAL playoffs Championship Pinole Valley 8, St. Mary's 4
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Students in the fashion design and retail merchandising programs at Lindenwood University are presenting the third annual student designer fashion show, "Fashion for Every Millennium" May 5 at the Lindenwood Cultural Center.
The show, which will be presented at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m., will showcase a number of senior collections, including two bridal wear and tuxedo, a large evening wear segment, swim wear, lingerie, casual wear, and career wear. The fantasy-art wear collection will show Tudor and Elizabethan influences.
The children's wear collection was designed in connection with Something Special Children's Wear in Mid Rivers Mall.
"The store owners contacted us because they needed clothing designed for 10, 11 and 12-year-olds," said Teri Jones, associate professor of fashion design. "This was an excellent opportunity for our students to design fashions for a specific client."
The annual Lindenwood University Student Designer Fashion Show is a cooperative effort between the fashion design students who create the collections and the retail merchandising students who produce and promote the fashion show.
Tickets for the fashion show are: $5 for general admission seating at the Friday matinee; $10 for general admission seating at the evening show, and $25 for designer seating (first four rows, left and right center) at the evening show. Call (636) 949-4866 for tickets. Proceeds from the event will help fund student scholarships and the Fashion Design program.
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Friends of Lake Perry Horse Trails
Location: Perry State Park
Type: Third Annual Horse Trails Fundraiser
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2014
Contact: Jo Turner or Dewayne Burgess
Phone No: 785-232-0579
Time: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
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3rd ANNUAL HORSE TRAILS FUNDRAISER
SATURDAY, March 29, 2014
$10 per rider. $5 for non-riders. FREE entrance to State Park on March 29th.
Modern Woodman will match up to $2,500 in funds raised at this event, so please come and help us reach this goal. Funds raised will go toward campground improvements.
You may ride the trails on your own or follow one of our guides. We will split into a suitable number of groups based on the number of participants. We're excited to show you the new trail heads, trail markers, trail maps and other improvements since last year.
• 9:30 AM – Registration begins.
• 10:15 AM – James Jacobson Trail Head A & B Dedication
• 10:30 AM – Leave Wild Horse Campground for a guided ride on Perry State Park.
• 11:30 AM – Leave Wild Horse Campground for a guided ride on Perry State Park.
• 1:00 PM – Covered dish dinner. Hamburger & Hot Dogs, buns, condiments, chips, paper plates, napkins, plastic ware, tea & water provided by Roy Frey Western.
• 1:30 PM – Report on projects completed since last year, future projects and financial report followed by live auction.
Bring any item you would like to donate to the auction, a covered dish for the dinner and your lawn chair. Cash donations graciously accepted. Primitive horse camping is encouraged. Contact Perry State Park, 785-246-3449, for fee information or to reserve an improved campsite.
**Please join us for Crossroads Cowboy Church (CCC) Services Sunday, March 30, 9:00 AM, Williamstown, KS on the corner of Hwy 24 & 59. Biscuits & Gravy for $2 sold by CCC Youth to provide Rodeo School Scholarships. Plenty of trailer parking is available.
Questions? Contact Jo Turner or Dewayne Burgess at Roy Frey Western, 785-232-0579.


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BART riders say they worry a threatened strike on Monday will make their travel difficult, longer, inconvenient, and some aren't sure yet what they will do
"I don't know how I will get around," said Dan McClure, an unemployed Oakland resident without a car who rides BART several times per week. " ... How do you get around to look for a job if the trains aren't running?"
While a short strike might not be too inconvenient for him, a long one would be, he said. BART unions have threatened to strike after their old contract expires at midnight Sunday, allowing riders to finish their Sunday night travel but there would be no trains to ride to work on Monday.
Dominic Campisi, a Walnut Creek attorney who regularly commutes to San Francisco, said he expects he would resort to taking a carpool with other friends, as he did during the last BART strike in 1997.
"Traffic will be a mess, but there are other ways to get around. They will take longer, though," Campisi said Friday during a wait for a train at the Walnut Creek BART station. "It will not be the end of the world."
David Levin, an Oakland attorney, said he would take a ferry to his San Francisco job if BART workers were on strike when he returns from a family vacation to Disneyland in about a week.
"I'm lucky I will be at the happiest place on earth next week, taking me away from the stress and tie-ups if there is a strike," Levin said. "If the strike continues when I'm back, I'll take the ferry."
Rene Vandemeer, a journalist visiting Walnut Creek from the Netherlands for a month, said he is puzzled how he would get around in a strike.
"It's going to be very inconvenient without the BART trains," To make matters worse, his bicycle was stolen recently. "I don't know what I'm going to do," he said.
Shelley Sun of Danville, a daily BART commuter, said she could be forced to drive to her software job in San Francisco if the trains aren't running, she's not looking forward to it.
"It's going to take a long time to get across the Bay Bridge," she said. "It will be very disruptive."
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Not even close. We were rank 1, after we passed Rambojohny, and then they disband and remade. Dextr/Jim/Meld came up the ladder about a week after us. Wulfshadow/Borngood/Bass were always at 2330-2350. We got 2375ish. Waited until more people got to our rating, and then queued to 2400 and stopped since queueing into 2200 teams for 2 points after 25 minutes is dumb. It is highly suspicious that 4 teams happened to rocket up in rating after the mmr bug. Not saying it was on purpose. But most likely wasn't 100% legit.
Kaylol, on 15 November 2012 - 02:39 AM, said:
Apparently you can't read. Its okay, because it still makes you smarter than half the people on here.
But it is quite hypocritical around here. "LOL THIS GAME IS BAD, TITLES DONT MEAN ANYTHING SINCE EVERYONE CHEATS>!11!!one!!!11!! BLIZZARD. WINTRADERS. MMR HAX. UGH"
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I was able to have ubuntu recognize my printer (Lexmark-9000 series) via USB; however, the printer is unable to print the test page and the printer states: "processing-printer is on line." then it goes back to idle. Does anyone know what I should do next. I have read the post in FSM- very helpful, but no success.
What version of Ubuntu are
What version of Ubuntu are you using? You should try 9.04, it has more support, drivers, and works with more types of hardware.
My guess is a driver problem. You may wanna work with the CUPS
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wireless printing
I've read many tutorials regarding wireless printing
with ubuntu to no avail. I am running 10.04 LtS Lucid Lynx and have a canon Pixma MP560 wireless printer. Also have Windows XP dual booted with Ubuntu on one desktop and am able to get the printer to work on XP.
Am also able to get the printer to work on a secend computer with Ubuntu and Windows 7 dual booted. The printer will work with Windows 7. Since I seldom use ether windows I really would like to get the printer to work with Ubuntu. Any help would be appreaciated.
may not get many answers here
@paulcav Your question is fairly specific and may not get many answers here. I am guessing you have tried the Ubuntu forums but if not my initial search found this post which seemed to help several people in the same thread.
if you have any questions folllowing that you'll probably get a greater response on the Ubuntu forums than here.
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SAN JOSE -- Monarch madness bounced off the walls Friday morning inside Archbishop Mitty High's gymnasium in a rousing send off to the school's newest Olympian -- sophomore sensation Polina Edmunds.
Throughout an hour-long assembly filled with chants, singing, photo snapping and boundless teenage energy, the figure skater sat shyly, grinning in awe of the school's outpouring of love.
"This is like really crazy right now," Edmunds told the assembly. "I'm, like, shaking. It means a lot to me to have all of you guys supporting me and behind me."
Then Edmunds concluded, "Continue to cheer for me."
Before she could finish the student broke into chants of "USA! USA!"
Edmunds, 15, heads to the Sochi Olympics next week for her first international competition at the senior level. She got a little advice and a lot of inspiration from two of the world's most influential female athletes -- Mitty graduates Brandi Chastain and Kerri Walsh-Jennings.
The soccer star and three-time beach volleyball gold medalist told Edmunds and her fellow students to believe in themselves to reach their potentials.
"She has a good vibe about her," said Walsh-Jennings, who is training to reach her fifth Olympics in 2016. "She's a little girl but she's obviously a warrior."
Chastain, one of the stars of the U.S. women's soccer team in the 1990s, was awed by Edmunds' ability to handle the attention. She gave the skater a U.S. soccer pin from the 1996 Summer Olympics and a scarf designed like an American flag.
"Good luck," Chastain told Edmunds. "But more important, be fearless. Go out and skate your heart out."
On the podium, the 6-foot-4 Walsh-Jennings turned to the 5-41/2 Edmunds, and said of the Olympic rink, "It's your home. Just because it's this big event you don't need to change a thing."
Edmunds is one of three Americans entered in the Ladies' competition Feb. 19-20 at the Iceberg Sports Palace in one of the Winter Olympics' marquee events. She won't know until Wednesday whether she also will skate in the new team competition that helps open the Sochi Games.
"It's another opportunity to medal," Edmunds said of the team event. "I'd be happy either way, but my main focus is the individual competition."
Focus has been the key element for the San Jose teenager since stunning the figure skating world by passing veteran performers to make the Olympic team. She attended another celebration Thursday night at Sharks Ice San Jose with members of her Peninsula Skating Club.
Edmunds is the latest Bay Area star in a club that includes Brian Boitano, Rudy Galindo and Debi Thomas.
But the rabid reception at Mitty was special for the Olympian who likes to blend in at the San Jose campus.
Her parents, John and Nina Edmunds, attended the event with grandmother Irina Tarakanova. Also, sitting in the front row were coach David Glynn and his mother, Linda-Dorian Glynn, who happens to be Polina's geometry teacher.
Glynn initially had concerns about the adulation and attention overwhelming the girl he has coached since age 4. But in the whirlwind three weeks since she placed second at the U.S. championships in Boston, Edmunds has been gracious to media, fans and friends.
She also has trained as hard as ever.
"She is such a professional," Glynn said. The Mitty assembly, army of television cameras and microphones, "actually strengthens her," he added.
Edmunds loves the spotlight, if not being signaled out by her peers. She has been on ice competing for judges for much of her life.
"It's crazy," she said while sandwiched between Chastain and Walsh-Jennings. "I like it."
Edmunds will miss three weeks of school because of the Olympics, but she has arranged with teachers to do schoolwork while in Sochi, something she has done while at other competitions for the past two years.
"It's all going to work out perfectly -- I hope," Edmunds said.
The kid was referring to her classroom assignments.
Edmunds wasn't ignoring schoolwork Friday, either. A half hour after her fellow students had returned to class, the skater was escorted out of the gym by Mitty's athlete director.
When asked if she had to get to class, Edmunds, turned, smiled, and nodded her head yes.
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There were 44 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Monday. At that time, there were 1,436 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411. When the jail is full, some inmates may be released early.
Man shot: A 26-year-old man, looking to buy marijuana at 1 p.m. Monday near Hammer and West lanes, was directed to see a man hanging out at a nearby gas station, police reported. After the victim handed over money for the marijuana, the seller brandished a black revolver and demanded all his property. The victim told officers he raised his hands and the gunman fired a shot, striking him in the hand. The victim then fled the scene and was taken to a hospital for treatment. The gunman was described as a black man in his early 20s with a dark complexion, short dreadlocks and a small goatee last seen wearing a black T-shirt, blue jeans and black and white tennis shoes.
Weapons arrest: Officers arrested Steven Richardson, 37, of Stockton at a home in the 4800 block of Ridge River Avenue at 7:58 p.m. Sunday on suspicion of possession of two loaded guns. The San Joaquin County Wide Multi-Agency Gang Task Force was conducting a probation search targeting gang members at the time. Richardson is reportedly on probation and prohibited from possessing firearms. Crime:
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'Gravity' Tops Box Office, WikiLeaks Movie 'The Fifth Estate' Flops
"Gravity" continued to exert a dominant pull on the box office this weekend while a new movie about Wikileaks proved about as popular with the public as the organization is with the U.S. government.
With ticket sales off only 28% from the prior weekend, "Gravity" grossed an estimated $31 million on its third weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters, making it once again an easy No. 1. The 3-D science-fiction film starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney has ridden its must-see status to $171 million at the domestic box office and $114.2 million internationally so far, making it a huge hit for Time Warner's Warner Bros.
Its closest competition this weekend was "Captain Phillips," another movie benefiting from strong word-of-mouth. On its second weekend, ticket sales for the Tom Hanks thriller declined only 33% and the Sony Pictures Entertainment release brought in $17.3 million, boosting its domestic total to $53.3 million.
Close behind was "Carrie," a remake of the 1976 horror movie based on Stephen King's book. It opened to an unimpressive $17 million. The film cost close to $30 million and was co-financed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and Sony, which also handled distribution and marketing duties.
Aging action stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone co-starred in a movie for the first time, but it was apparently too late to get audiences excited. Their thriller "Escape Plan," which cost about $50 million to make, opened to a weak $9.8 million. It was financed by distributor Summit Entertainment, owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., together with Emmett/Furla Films.
But the weekend's largest commercial failure by far was "The Fifth Estate," about Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. With just $1.7 million, it posted the lowest opening of the year for any film at more than 1,200 locations — "The Fifth Estate" was at 1,769 — as mixed reviews and the draw of "Gravity" and "Capt. Phillips" kept the movie's target adult audience away.
It was financed by DreamWorks SKG together with Participant Media for about $26 million and released by Walt Disney Co.
The script for "The Fifth Estate" was posted on Wikileaks and criticized by Mr. Assange as inaccurate before the film opened. The @Wikileaks Twitter account has been spending much of the past week bashing the film, and is crowing about the movie's box office failure now.
Assange to #Cumberbatch ten months ago: "this is not a good film" "reconsider your involvement in this enterprise." http://t.co/PdZzyaFSwX
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 20, 2013
Assange three weeks ago: "[Fifth Estate] will flop at the box office and deservedly so." http://t.co/nkCYCf7HGc http://t.co/UEnMXt3eBr
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 20, 2013
Box office disaster: anti-WikiLeaks film 'Fifth Estate' biggest flop of entire year http://t.co/ifR5gwXiQJ
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 20, 2013
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joh, the -36 error is our top priority right now. It seems to be related to poor network connections. This error seems to be related to poor network connections. There's only so much we can do when data doesn't make it between the client and the server. That said, the -36 error is a real usability problem for some people, and we're doing everything we can to improve the behavior.
i am experimenting with a 30 day demo of expandrive (1.1) and mounting a remote disk (my dreamhost account which runs linux i think) in the finder ... so far so good! beautiful wonderful looks just like a usb drive...
but ... copying files to it and back to the local drive : small txt type files seem to copy ok and smaller pdfs < 1mb but larger files (pdf mp3) are consistently producing an error -36 which i understand is an I/O error and failing to copy - so much for being just like a usb drive!
no word from support in response to my email so far.
I think I'll give it another chance:
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Does it not mount normal FTP servers? I tied to add a valid address with correct password and all information, but it didn't let me connect to that server, even if I knew (and tested) that it was indeed online and fully working...
Appreciating some enlightenment here.
I was thinking along the same lines at first since It uses FUSE just like MacFusion. But it's faster and I have a feeling that it'll quickly outpace MacFusion in stability and therefore dependability.
I can't see any reason why to buy this app when there's MacFusion for free - or is there anything special what I missed?
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As a curator at the Computer History Museum, Alex Bochannek has encountered all sorts of gizmos that their owners have stashed in the garage for years before deciding that maybe their devices should be enshrined in the Mountain View museum.
"Usually what we have been offered are things that people have hung onto, usually a computer or some manuals," he says. But that was hardly the case when he got a call to meet with Chan Yeh at the Sunnyvale headquarters of the groundbreaking company Yeh launched in 1972.
"It looked like it was cast in amber," Bochannek says of the Ideographix offices. "It's a bit overwhelming. It's rare that someone has an entire company that is sort of stuck in time."
What Yeh has is an accidental shrine to a remarkable and little-known Silicon Valley story. In the '70s and '80s, Yeh and his team came up with a way to streamline the method for digitally typesetting and printing Chinese characters. They did big business in Asia for a decade and a half, before the PC revolution overtook their innovation.
Yeh has hardly changed a thing since.
Stroll through Ideographix and you'll find yourself back in the 1980s. There's the earth-tone offices, the lobby area walls decorated with colorful geometric designs, the 1988 San Jose phone book, complete with a listing for Apple (AAPL) co-founder Steve Wozniak that includes a landline and two mobile numbers.
"There are little sorts of cultural markers," Bochannek continues. "The fact that there are ashtrays everywhere and the fact that there is a typewriter in the reception area."
And in the back is the assembly area where 30 years ago crews built systems that allowed Chinese characters to be typed directly into computers, which displayed them as they'd look in print. In one corner is a Digital Equipment Vax 11/750 minicomputer that would have been new in the early 1980s. There are bins of parts and chassis waiting to be filled with electronic brains. It looks as if the production workers took a lunch break and are expected back any year now.
"He kind of likes to keep things," Yeh's son, Yong Yeh, 33, says with obvious understatement.
Sitting with Yeh, 78, in the conference room of his dormant company, it's apparent to me that in some ways he feels his accomplishment was overlooked. He built a company. Overcame a problem at the time. And now he's reached an age where he is taking stock.
"We were able to solve all the major obstacles," Yeh says. "The more I think about it, the more awesome it is."
And the more I talked to Yeh, the more I started wondering about how much of what's gone on in the valley has been buried under the brilliance of the big winners -- Google (GOOG), Apple, Facebook, Intel (INTC), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Oracle (ORCL). They are all amazing companies that changed the way we live. But there are no doubt so many others, companies that burned brightly and briefly, changing the world before disappearing or providing the seeds of ideas that later would fully blossom.
Yeh, a Taiwanese immigrant, and his Ideographix crew created a new method for writing on computers in Chinese. No longer did computer users have to type in strings of numeric codes to represent each of thousands of Chinese characters. Instead, Ideographix came up with a specialized keyboard, display and software that allowed computer users to type Chinese characters directly into their machines without fooling with numeric codes.
Better still, the system meant that Chinese documents, books, newspapers and even utility bills could be typeset and printed using modern photographic methods. No longer did printers have to handset lead type for each page.
"The consequences of this is the tremendous productivity that comes with it," Yeh says.
Jobs that took hundreds of workers days to complete were being finished by a tenth of the workers in a faction of the time, Yeh says. He says he started selling custom systems for millions of dollars to government agencies in Taiwan and the Republic of China. Utility operations in Asia began purchasing the systems to prepare and print bills. Then newspapers and book publishers from China and Taiwan came calling for Ideographix's system.
Bochannek says it's hard to determine just how significant Ideographix's breakthrough was because the company's market was in Asia decades ago and very little has been written about the company since. But he has little doubt that Ideographix is of historical interest. China in the 1970s was in the process of opening itself up to the world while becoming a global economic titan in the process.
"It's a cultural story," Bochannek says. "It's a social-technical story. One of the most important countries on the world stage, 40 years ago. How did this guy who immigrated here seize that market?"
Yeh would say he seized it through hard work and brain power.
"Now should be the time to tell the world," he says.
And in saying so Yeh is no doubt speaking for an army of anonymous Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
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"The Other Side of the Mountain"
May 13 Like the novice trekkers featured in the new IMAX film Kilimanjaro:
To the Roof of Africa, I should have been ecstatic when I summitted Africas
highest peak. Instead, I felt numb. Ten minutes earlier, the peak in sight, I
had been on my knees in the snow, trying to breathe life into a dead woman. I
never thought my trek up a 19,341-foot mountain would be a cakewalk. But I didnt
expect it to unfurl like a Jon Krakauer book either.
KILIMANJARO IS NOT supposed to be a dangerous mountain. At least, thats what the travel brochures and tour operators tell you. And now that same message, writ large, is beginning to flash across IMAX screens around the country. Kilimanjaro, which was shot by Everest director David Breashears and opens in a host of cities this spring and summer, follows five tourists, ages 12 to 64, on their scramble to the summit. Their seemingly smooth and easy success coupled with the swooping, breath-catching IMAX visuals will no doubt inspire adventurous viewers to try the climb themselves.
But the experience portrayed in the film is far from typical. As I learned the hard way, climbing Kilimanjaro is much more treacherous than the brochures and an IMAX film will allow you to imagine. Indeed, just 40 percent of climbers who attempt Kilimanjaro ever reach the summit, and each year about 10 people die trying.
It was the picture of Kilimanjaro that first hooked me in a benign and inviting dome, like the soft top of an ice cream cone. The mountain has none of the crevasses and ice walls that signal a dangerous mountain, and the climb to the top is completely non-technical no crampons or ice axes required. A stroll at high altitude, one guidebook called it. I was sold. And I was hardly alone. In recent years, Kilimanjaro has become a mecca for novices. About 15,000 people trudge up the mountain annually, most of them tourists. Martha Stewart made the summit; so did a guy wearing inline skates, and a 62-year-old South African man walking backward. If these folks could make it, surely I had nothing to worry about. I met up with the other 12 people on my climbing team one Christmas day in a small hotel in Moshi, Tanzania. We were a motley bunch, among us an overweight orthopedic surgeon, a patchouli-chewing naturalist, a chain-smoking triathlete and an investment banker who had been hospitalized just two weeks earlier for severe flu-related dehydration. The only thing we had in common was that wed all read Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauers nail-biting chronicle of an Everest trip gone disastrously wrong not exactly an auspicious sign.
Joining us on our climb were a guide and about 40 porters (hiking up Kilimanjaro is more than a tinge colonial, and having locals shoulder your stuff is standard practice). Curiously, it was not the guide wed expected. Most of the trips organized by our moderately priced outfitter, California-based Tusker Trail & Safari, were led by its seasoned South African owner, and wed all assumed that he would be the guy steering us up the mountain.
Instead, we were greeted on the day after Christmas by John, a tall, lean Tanzanian banana farmer who spoke cobbled English and wore glasses with coke-bottle lenses. Kilimanjaro National Park requires that a Tanzanian guide accompany each team up the mountain, but, if the trip is organized by a U.S. company, he usually rides shotgun to another leader. Most local guides consider themselves more porter-coordinators than team leaders, and are known to be hesitant about turning back climbers; to them, these trips are about commerce, not climbing, and a lost client means lost tips and bad PR.
When John hustled us into Range Rovers without inquiring about our equipment, I started to wonder if he was one of those guides. Am excited but nervous, more about disorganization than altitude, I scribbled in my journal. Am staving myself for chaos.
As the new IMAX movie vividly illustrates, Kilimanjaro has an odd ecology the volcanic mountain is striated by five distinct climate zones, and moving from base to summit feels like walking from the equator to the North Pole. My teams route, which wound slowly up Kilimanjaros southwestern face, would take us through those zones most scenic patches. The route was longer than the ones most tourists take, which meant we would have more time than most to adjust to the altitude.
But on the way up through the rainforest to our first camp, at 9,000 feet, acclimatization looked to be a sizable challenge for some on my team. The recently hospitalized investment banker was throwing up frequently; the orthopedic surgeon .phped for breath; a few others winced with headaches. Meanwhile, the altitude-adjusted porters whizzed past us despite their heavy loads. One raced by with a 50-pound bag of potatoes balanced on his head. Pole, pole, they said in Swahili slowly, slowly. Most of us had been at sea level just two days earlier; now we were nearly two vertical miles up, and climbing higher.
Altitude sickness is notoriously fickle it can strike experts and skip
over novices, affecting nobody or everybody. But it is rampant on Kilimanjaro.
Acute mountain sickness is the mildest form, but its still pretty bad
labored breathing, blazing headaches, confusion, nausea. Sixty percent of people
who climb above 10,000 feet experience it. The worst kind of altitude sickness
is pulmonary edema. The pressure on a persons pulmonary arteries becomes too
great, and capillary walls shear, leaking fluid into the lungs. Its onset is
swift; a person can go from cough to suffocation to death in mere hours. About 2
percent of people who climb above 9,000 feet show signs of pulmonary edema, and
half that number could die if they dont descend.
All of this was bad news for us, and for the hundreds of other people crowding Kilimanjaro on their New Years climbs. The more rapid the ascent, the higher the risk, and nearly every climb up Kilimanjaro shuttles tourists up the mountain too fast. At altitudes of more than 5,000 feet, the conventional climbing rule is to ascend no more than 1,000 feet per day. We were scheduled to climb three times that almost every day, and our itinerary was sluggish by Kilimanjaro standards. Most people climb the 13,000 vertical feet from trailhead to summit in just four days; we were taking seven.
By the end of the day two, we had reached 12,800 feet, and more than half my team had symptoms of acute mountain sickness. In order to keep up with the rest of us, they had learned to vomit without stopping. The sickest three settled on a team motto: puke and rally.
We camped on an eerie plateau peppered with giant rocks blown centuries ago from the volcano, and hovered there for an extra day to adjust to the new altitude. The respite was marred by bad weather; a cold rain cloud had settled right over us, and our guides glasses fogged over continually. During our second night on the plateau, the cloud lifted. When I peered out of my tent well after midnight, stars filled the sky, and the mountains snow-capped dome was backlit by the moon. It was a perfect night, and perfectly quiet, except for the sounds of deep coughing. They were coming from the tent of a team member named Craig a super-fit cross-country skier from upstate New York and the strongest guy on our team.
Craig hacked all night, and by morning he was coughing up blood. He shrugged off our concern, insisting it was exercise-induced asthma. If he suspected something else, he didnt say so. Neither did our guide John, who let him keep climbing.
By now we were converging with the masses headed up the mountain at least eight other teams, all on their way to a 15,000 cliff called the Lava Tower, and then down the crease of a valley into the next camp at 13,000 feet. All but three members of our team continued to be hit hard by the altitude, but they were hardly alone. What I witnessed that day was alarming: an assembly line of trekkers forging on despite dizziness, vomiting, disorientation all symptoms of acute mountain sickness, all flashing warnings not to climb higher, all hardships they were willing to bear for a chance at bagging the summit.
By late afternoon, Craig was breathlessly coughing up blood, coherent only in patches, and had blue lips. He insisted, through slurred words, that he would be okay by morning. It was a textbook demonstration of high-altitude judgment; left on their own, even deathly sick climbers dont always know when to stop.
Our guide John recommended that Craig sleep it off, but with blood coming out of Craigs mouth, that seemed like a deadly idea. A few of us sprinted ahead to our tents, now wedged between those of other climbing teams, and started yelling around for oxygen.
A broad-chested, tan giant of a man emerged from a tent and offered his help. It was Todd Burleson, a top-notch American mountaineer known for his level-headed caution and a hero of the 1996 Everest disaster wed all read about an irony wed mull later. Burleson whistled for a cardiologist who was climbing with another team, and together they examined Craig. The verdict was grim: Craig had pulmonary edema, and he needed to descend immediately or he would die.
HE DIDNT HAVE hours, he had minutes, Burleson said, adding that if
Craig werent so fit hed be dead already. When we got to camp there was
a case of pulmonary edema from another group, with no Western guide, Burleson
wrote in his daily dispatch to mountainzone.com. He had a 125 pulse, throwing
up blood, and it was a bad situation.
Burleson choreographed a swift rescue plan. He found the quickest route down, and through his satellite phone (a luxury we didnt have) arranged for transport once Craig reached the base of the mountain. John hovered nearby, usurped. A few of our climbers and a handful of porters dragged Craig down a steep trail, through settling darkness. After a few thousand feet he started to breathe more easily, they reported, and alertness returned to his eyes. The climbers returned to camp, shaken but also flushed with the pride of chance heroes.
The next morning, I approached Burleson during breakfast. Our teams trip
plan called for us to spend a night in the crater at the summit, at 19,000 feet.
It is dangerous to spend so long at such high altitude, and a quick scan of the
groups revealed that we were the only ones attempting it. A grand plan!
our trip itinerary had called it. More like a cold way to kill myself, I was
beginning to think. Burleson only confirmed my worry. When I told him about the
crater, his eyebrows shot up. My stomach dropped 10,000 feet. Its a great
experience, sleeping at the summit, Burleson said, glancing over at John. But
only if you have a leader.
Watching Burleson strap on his gaiters and move out his high-paying clients, who were relaxed and laughing as they hiked onward, I felt lonely and more than a bit uneasy. Seeing Burlesons competence made Johns lack of it more glaring. John was nice, and probably a great banana farmer, but his loose leadership had nearly cost Craig his life. The thicker the wallet, the safer the trip, my tent mate grumbled. I didnt know if there was worse to come, so I steadied myself with a promise: At the first signs of new trouble, I would grab a few porters and hustle down the mountain.
For a few days the mountain seemed more friendly, and on New Years Eve my pared-down group (now eight, not 13) reached our last camp before the summit a long spine of rock that was already crowded with clusters of colorful dome tents (from above, they would have looked like a smattering of M&Ms). This high up, at nearly 15,000 feet, the air holds half the normal amount of oxygen, and even the smallest exertion left us huffing. The wind whipped up and down the ridge, making the sub-zero temperature feel even colder.
At midnight, the wind-whips were accompanied by a new sound: the screams of noisemakers and pops of champagne bottles. The new year had arrived. As I hunkered down in my sleeping bag, all the groups save ours began their bid for the summit, hoping to reach it by sunrise. (Because of our plan to spend the first night of the new year in the summit crater, our team wouldnt leave until morning.) The night was pitch black except for a long line of headlamps glowing up the mountain. Hours later, I watched the sky lighten through the thin wall of my tent, and zipped out in time to catch the first sunrise of the year a blaze of pink and orange. While my team nervously swallowed breakfast, the first summitters were scrambling down, relating tales of ice-blocked water bottles and useless frozen cameras. They were hypothermic, but happy. As the last were descending, we lifted our gear and started climbing.
The final push up the mountain seemed endless. We stopped often so that people could rest or drink or throw up. The hiking was hard; for every step up we slid half a step back, releasing small rockfalls of scree. Around 4 p.m., after nearly eight hours of climbing, we reached the lip of the crater. We stood there for long moments, stirred by the view. Beneath us spread the arid plains of Africa. This was what wed come for this view, and the feeling it elicited. We were an hour away from the summit, and happy for the first time since Craigs evacuation.
We began walking along the curve of the crater rim, a half-circle to go before the summit. Our progress was slow, not out of caution so much as necessity. We were 19,000 feet up, and the air so thin that sucking it in I felt as if my lungs were porous, the air traveling right through me, inflating nothing. I walked especially slow, worried by a pounding head and the disembodied sense that I was walking above the ground, not on it. I ran simple math in my mind to test myself, and plodded forward.
I paused to take a picture. Looking ahead, I could see the summit in the distance. I could also see that my team had stopped and was huddled in a circle. Standing among them was a stranger in a yellow jacket. Curious, I approached; we werent expecting anyone else to be up here. The face of the man in the yellow jacket was locked in a horrible expression. Lying on the ground was another stranger, completely still, mouth slightly open his wife. Her lips were blue, and her chest was not rising. The couple plus a porter had been on their way down from the summit and just passing my team when the wife had collapsed.
Her pulse was weak and frightening; it would beat once, stop, then beat a crazy rhythm. Her eyes were fluttering continually. John screamed at the porter in Swahili: Why is she up here? Where is the guide? This woman is going to die! A few of us dropped down to help. We lost her pulse, pumped her chest a few times, and tried CPR, cycling again and again through compressions and breathing. The motions sickened me; the bump of her teeth against mine made me cry. The only sounds were the creaking of boots and the rustle of nylon, and the husband in the yellow jacket saying, Jennifer?
I looked at John, and his expression told me what I already knew: She was dead. The porter who had been hiking with the couple coaxed her husband away and down the mountain. I closed the womans eyes, took out an angel-shaped pin that a friend had given me to bury at the summit, and attached it to her backpack. I helped John cover her body with one of those foil blankets that marathoners wrap up in at the finish line, and secured it with rocks. Shed spend the night here, and rescuers would come for her in the morning.
Her name, I later learned, was Jennifer Mencken. She was a 53-year-old librarian from Long Beach, California, a rugged sportswoman and veteran of higher mountains. She and her husband were on a belated honeymoon. Despite Menckens distress the night before, shed come into camp 10 hours after the rest of her group she must have convinced her Tanzanian guide that she was fine. He had gone along with it, and left her with the porter. Her cause of death was pulmonary edema the same illness that had nearly killed Craig.
My team reached the summit 10 minutes later. It seemed like such an absurd achievement, given what wed just witnessed, and given how far wed all gone and been willing to go to stand on the top of this mountain. Looking at my photos from that moment the team standing in front of the summit marker, my face creased in a fake smile I cant help but think of what lay just beyond the frame; it still haunts me. We spent a miserable night in the crater, and the next morning broke camp quickly and headed down the mountain.
Craig met us at the bottom, looking healthy but horribly disappointed. Two of the four others in our group, who had turned back, were with him along with news that a second climber, a German tourist, had died on the mountain. One griped that shed stood there and watched fat women with cellulite amble down the mountain, and couldnt believe they had reached the top and she hadnt. She still had summit hunger in her eyes the same hunger that many who see the IMAX film Kilimanjaro will carry out of the theater with them. Id had that summit hunger too we all had but I lost it for good when we covered up Jennifer Mencken.
Jeannette Johnston is a Boston-based editor and writer.


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ST. LOUIS – St. Louis Blues Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Armstrong announced early Wednesday that the club has recalled goaltender Jake Allen from the Peoria Rivermen, the team's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate.
Allen, 22, has appeared in five games with the Blues this season, posting a 3-1-0 record with a 2.62 goals-against average and an .895 save percentage.
In 34 games with the Rivermen, the 6-foot-2, 195-pound goaltender has a record of 13-18-2 with a 2.92 goals-against average, .904 save percentage and two shutouts.
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Abdullah II touted the Jan. 23 election as a "milestone" in reforms he initiated two years ago to forestall large-scale Arab Spring unrest that toppled four of his peers since 2010. He recently suggested that the new legislature will have more powers to run the daily affairs of the state and monitor the Cabinet in the future as the monarchy takes a step back, giving the people a wider say in politics.
The parliament is supposed to choose the prime minister, who was previously appointed by the monarch.
In his speech to lawmakers, Abdullah said Jordan was going through a "decisive transitional period," which will start with lawmakers electing a prime minister under palace supervision—at least until fragmented and nascent political parties mature and are able to compete on ideological basis in future elections.
"We will start as part of this new approach with consultations over the government's formation with the Lower House and parliamentary blocs as they take shape, in order to reach consensus that leads to the designation of a prime minister," Abdullah said.
A government official said that the king wanted to avoid "political chaos" as novice politicians make key decisions. He insisted on anonymity, saying he could not comment publicly on a matter considered a royal prerogative.
The Brotherhood had in fact demanded a change to the election law. It says that in its current form, the election law favors locally based independents over ideological blocs.
The king said he would revisit the election law.
But the next elections are four years from now, and it is unclear how much this will address a wave of protests that, although small and peaceful compared to others in the region, are an opposition movement's strongest show of force in Jordan in decades.
Abdullah dissolved the previous legislature halfway through its four-year term last year amid complaints that its predominantly conservative tribal lawmakers were too docile. Following the elections, the last royal-appointed prime minister, Abdullah Ensour, resigned. But the king asked him to stay on until a new prime minister is elected.
Abdullah spoke at a joint meeting of the 150-member Chamber of Deputies and the 75-member royally appointed Senate. Beforehand, the king participated in a lavish military ceremony outside the domed parliament chamber in the heart of Amman. Abdullah inspected an honor guard as he received a 21-gun salute.
Parliament later elected ex-Cabinet minister Saad Hayel Srour as its speaker. Srour is a Bedouin tribesman who is loyal to Jordan's king and has served as parliament speaker for several previous terms.


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Children's Day Festival & Business Expo to be held April 28
Published: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 1, 2013 at 6:58 p.m.
Planning for the 14th annual Children's Day Festival & Business Expo is under way. The free, family-focused celebration will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at Jackson Park in Hendersonville.
The event will honor the importance of children in our community with games, a youth soccer tournament, talent show, raffles, toys and cultural and educational activities for the entire family to enjoy.
Children's Day is an international celebration whose origins come from a world conference held in Switzerland with the goal of empowering youth. The general assembly of the United Nations ratified the International Day of Children with a resolution signed in 1954, recommending that each country dedicate one day to celebrate their children.
For the last seven years, the local festival has been organized by two area nonprofit organizations — Mountain BizWorks and El Centro — with support from volunteers. The event gives local small businesses the opportunity to promote their services and products to some 800 families. In addition, various agencies and community service providers will offer vital information about community resources.
This program received support from the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, and is administered by the Arts Council of Henderson County.
For more information, or to register as a vendor or volunteer, contact Carolina McCready at 828-693-1981.
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WACO (December 09, 2012)- President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met for the first time in weeks at the White House Sunday to discuss the upcoming fiscal cliff deadline.
Economists agree "the cliff" could throw us back into a recession if a resolution on the budget isn't met by President Obama and members of the U.S. Congress by December 31st.
The fiscal cliff has dominated discussions on Capitol Hill since election day. When the clock hits midnight on December 31st, the Bush Administration tax cuts on income and investments will expire. An end to the payroll tax holiday will come as well.
What begins from there are massive spending cuts for over 1,000 U.S. Government programs. Also, taxes related to President Obama's health care law will begin.
Confused yet? Here's where taxpayers come in. Economists say if the U.S. goes over the fiscal cliff, taxpayers could owe an average of $3,500 more per household.
Waco financial consultant, Kendall Lovett, says he's been gearing up clients for "the cliff" for weeks.
"Taxes could rise across the board, and the U.S. Government pulling out on programs could cause major job loss," Lovett said.
"It's not good for the market and it's not good for the economy."
The tips, Lovett says, to survive pending tax hikes are simple.
"Reduce your debt as much as possible, stay away from credit cards as much as possible, and pay cash for things because it makes you aware of how much money you're spending," Lovett said.
"Also, if there are any retirement programs you can take advantage of, it would be in anyone's best interest to do that."
The fiscal cliff could potentially lower the U.S. debt by billions, but many members of Congress are worried about long term effects.
A solution is expected to be made on Capitol Hill between President Obama and members of Congress, but time is running out. Until a resolution is met, America will wait to learn her future.


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SAN JOSE -- Forty years ago, the Rotarians of Almaden Valley wanted to put on an all-star high school football game but weren't quite sure how to do it.
So they called on a group that did.
"You came to the right place," Jim Guido, then director of the Police Activities League, told them. "That's all we do here is sports for young people."
Forty years later, the PAL is no longer affiliated with the game now named in honor of Charlie Wedemeyer, a former Los Gatos High coach who died four years ago after a lengthy battle with ALS.
But Guido -- and the Rotarians -- still are.
"I don't know where the years went," Guido said Tuesday, on the eve of the 40th Silicon Valley Youth Classic, a.k.a. the Wedemeyer game, which will be played Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at San Jose City College.
The memories, naturally, are everlasting for Guido and two of his colleagues who have worked behind the scenes for the game's entire run, vice chairman Paul Consentino and administrative assistant Jane Tolentino.
"The main thing I've appreciated is the volunteers," Guido said. "We've had volunteer game officials, volunteer police, volunteer doctors, volunteer trainers. Where else can you go and have a game like that with all volunteers who believe in the same cause of helping the young people?"
Proceeds from the game have helped various charities, including Superstorm Sandy relief efforts in 2012.
"Wherever the need is," Guido said.
The undertaking is not lost on the participants, nor is the uplifting presence of Wedemeyer's widow, Lucy, who provides words of wisdom to the players and regularly greets them during pregame introductions.
"It's been mind-blowing, to be honest, to see what happens behind the scenes with the rotary club and everything that Lucy does, Mrs. Wedemeyer," said Los Altos' Trevor Pruitt, who will coach the North on Wednesday. "Just what this game means, that's huge."
Christopher's Tim Pierleoni, who will coach the South, noted the impact the game has had on him.
"I grew up in Gilroy, went to Gilroy High School, so I have seen the game since I was in high school," he said. "I've seen how much it means, the type of players that have played in the game and how much it means to the kids.
"Some of these kids have been waiting their whole lives for a chance to play in this game. The day that we handed out the jerseys, you could really see that in their faces, the things that they were saying and the pictures that they were taking and how excited they were."
One only needs to look at this year's game program cover to see the caliber of players who have participated through the years. The cover features the likes of Pat Tillman (Leland), Jeff Garcia (Gilroy) and Trent Edwards (Los Gatos).
Millard Hampton, another player highlighted on the cover, is best known for his accomplishments on the track as an Olympian. But the former Silver Creek star made a difference in the first of the 40 all-star games, back in 1974, returning a kickoff for a touchdown in a South victory.
Pruitt and Pierleoni spoke highly of their rosters, which include All-Mercury News players such as linebacker Sione Finefeuiaki (Wilcox) and safety Drew Mount (Archbishop Mitty) of the North and receiver Joseph Romero (Piedmont Hills) and defensive back/kicker Grant Bush (Bellarmine College Prep) of the South.
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Columbia County School Board meetings will soon be a shorter drive for many. The headquarters has moved from Appling to a 60,000 square foot headquarters in Evans.
The new building is on Hereford Farm Road. Construction is finishing up, and the offices are up and running.
"We're real excited about this," says Columbia County school superintendent Tommy Price.
Price took News 12 on a tour of the new facility. He says all the departments are now under one roof: human resources, public safety, and administration.
"For the first time in a long time, there will be better communication, and it will be more efficient," he says.
Public meetings will also take place in the new location.
At last Tuesday's BOE meeting in Appling, there wasn't room for all the attendees.
"Once construction is finished, the board room will hold about 250 people," Price says. "The old only held about 75.
"It will be more accessible for those who want to attend."
Superintendent Price says the new location is closer for many parents and will make school visits easier for the board, as most schools are close to the Evans area.
"It's going to get a lot of use," Price says. "We're looking forward to it."
The board expects to start public meetings in June.
All the construction should wrap up in a few months.


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Diah Profile
Country: Bali
Height: 176cm (5.77ft)
Weight: 49kg (108lbs)
Age: 19
Occupation: Model
Cat-like Grace
Getting a top model from the Muslim world of Bali to undress for the camera is as easy as finding a cheap apartment in Manhattan.
TALL AND beautiful Balinese girls are worshipped on Bali and carry strong connections to one of the eight royal families on the island. Diah is no exception to this rule. Despite the fact that posing for Petter was Diah's first nude sitting she never once let her amateur status show.
Graceful like a princess with flawless skin and a gaze that can make mountains shake; Diah comes armed with a strong belief in her people and a respect for her culture and religion. It took a bit of convincing but Diah decided to pose for Petter Hegre as a means of showing the beauty Balinese woman. After gazing on the figure of Diah, you can consider us convinced for the rest of our days.
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Aaron and Leah Kuehl have an extra gift under the tree this year as they were the winners of a Lionel train set.
The kids were the winners of fundraising raffle held by the Roundhouse railroad club in St. James. The raffle was held a the end of the open houses the Roundhouse held between Thanksgiving and Dec. 20.
A member of the Roundhouse club, Dale Hedlund said that kids still get a thrill from getting train sets at Christmas.
The Roundhouse will next officially open during Railroad Days. However, the club members are usually there working on Thursday nights and Saturday afternoons and nights, so if people stop by, members are happy to show visitors around.
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Featured · Government · Legal Affairs · Politics
It's Time to Ratify the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) outlaws the testing of nuclear weapons. So far, 183 countries signed the treaty, but it cannot become a binding international law until it has been ratified by all states capable of developing nuclear weapons, of which there are 44 specified in the treaty. Of these states, three (India, Pakistan, and North Korea) have not signed the treaty, and a further six (China, Egypt, Israel, Iran, and the United States) are yet to ratify it.


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How 12 EpiPens Saved My Life
August 30, 2016,
The slit-lamp examination looks at structures that are at the front of the eye.
The slit-lamp is a low-power microscope combined with a high-intensity light source that can be focused to shine in a thin beam.
You will sit in a chair with the instrument placed in front of you. You will be asked to rest your chin and forehead on a support to keep your head steady.
The health care provider will examine your eyes, especially the eyelids, cornea, conjunctiva, sclera, and iris. Often a yellow dye (fluorescein) is used to help examine the cornea and tear layer. The dye is either added as a drop, or the health care provider may touch a fine strip of paper stained with the dye to the white of your eye. The dye rinses out of the eye with tears as you blink.
Next, drops may be placed in your eyes to widen (dilate) your pupils. The drops take about 15 to 20 minutes to work. The slit-lamp examination is then repeated using another small lens held close to the eye, so the back of the eye can be examined.
No special preparation is necessary for this test.
Your eyes will be sensitive to light for a few hours after the exam if dilating drops are used.
This test is used to examine the:
Structures in the eye are found to be normal.
The slit lamp exam may detect many diseases of the eye, including:
This list does not include all possible diseases of the eye.
The dilating drops may cause increased pressure in the eye with nausea and pain. This is very rare, but you should return to your doctor's office right away if you experience either of these symptoms.
American Academy of Ophthalmology Preferred Practice Patterns Committee. Preferred Practice Pattern Guidelines. Comprehensive Adult Medical Eye Evaluation. Available at http://one.aao.org/CE/PracticeGuidelines/PPP_Content.aspx?cid=64e9df91-dd10-4317-8142-6a87eee7f517. Accessed February 26, 2013.
Colenbrander A. Principles of ophthalmoscopy. In: Tasman W, Jaeger EA, eds. Duane's Ophthalmology . 2013 ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012:vol 1, chap 63.
Fellman RL, Spaeth GL. Gonioscopy. In: Tasman W, Jaeger EA, eds. Duane's Ophthalmology . 2013 ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012:vol 3, chap 44.
Miller D, Thall EH, Atebara NH. Ophthalmic instrumentation. In: Yanoff M, Duker JS, eds. Ophthalmology . 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Mosby; 2008:chap 2.10.


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Green Groups Spend to Defend 3 Democrats
An alliance of clean-energy groups is launching a $5 million campaign of issue ads and an 11-state grassroots effort on Monday in support of three Democratic Senate candidates who have been attacked in ads from Americans for Prosperity, a political advocacy group supported by the conservative Koch brothers.
Several green groups including the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Sustainable Business Council Action Fund, will pay for $2.5 million in TV and digital issue ads supporting embattled Sen. Kay Hagan in North Carolina, and Senate candidates Rep. Gary Peters of Michigan and Rep. Bruce Braley of Iowa.
The TV ads will run for two weeks, said communications consultant David Di Martino, who is working with the green alliance.
The $2.5 million field campaigns cover 11 states including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado and Montana, and continue to the November election. Funders include the Natural Resources Defense Council and the National Wildlife Federation. The grassroots effort will involve phone calls, leafleting, knocking on doors and local events, according to Mr. Di Martino.
Democratic lawmakers and fundraisers have been fretting in recent weeks that they won't be able to match conservative groups' outside spending in the midterm elections. The new green campaign was planned to help belay some of those fears.
"While we may be drastically outspent," by conservatives, said Mr. Di Martino, "This is just the tip of the spear of what our groups are willing to do for clean energy leaders."
This is the second major push by Democratic groups in the past week to respond to a wave of ads from Americans for Prosperity and its allies. The Senate Majority PAC is spending $3 million to launch campaign ads in Colorado, North Carolina and several other states, saying that Republicans want policies that help the Kochs and other billionaires.
The new green-oriented issue ads make a different point. "The message is this: if you stand up to the big polluters, support clean energy, then we will stand up for you," said Mr. Di Martino.
The spokesman for Americans for Prosperity, Levi Russell, said, "Americans for Prosperity has raised a set of concerns about senators and candidates' support for Obamacare, and senators haven't yet explained their support for it."
The coalition also plans ads to support a centrist Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who has pushed for federal support for Maine's wind energy industry. "There will likely be several votes on clean-energy issues this year, and we want Senator Collins to know we will have her back," said Mr. Di Martino.
The green coalition's campaign signals that green groups, aside from wealthy San Francisco environmentalist Tom Steyer, are willing to spend large sums to help Democrats. Mr. Steyer, a top Democratic donor, has been supporting lawmakers who share his opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline and has said he's not going to assist lawmakers who continue to promote fossil fuels and Keystone.
The new ads for Ms. Hagan, who supports the Keystone pipeline, only refer to the Koch brothers indirectly.
The voiceover in the commercial begins: "Who's behind the attacks on Kay Hagan? Oil industry billionaires." It goes on to say she has been "holding corporate polluters accountable." Ms. Hagan has been the target of an $8 million campaign by Americans for Prosperity.
Election analyst Stuart Rothenberg predicted the ads would be ineffective, calling the campaign an "inefficient way to spend money." He said that this fall, environmental issues won't resonate with voters, who want to hear about jobs and the economy.
Mr. Di Martino said, "Public polling has consistently demonstrated the American people want action on climate change and want clean energy sources."
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Just recovered from a grave illness, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called to the bedside of an elderly priest. When Dalgliesh arrives, Father Baddeley is dead. Is it merely his own brush with mortality that causes Dalgliesh to sense the shadow of death about to fall once more?
"Splendid, macabre," wrote the London Sunday Telegraph. "The Black Tower is a masterpiece," the London Sunday Times concurred.
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P. D. James's creepiest yet, August 15, 2003 Reviewer: Peggy Vincent from Oakland, CA The bodies of the murder victims keep piling up in this whodunit set in a nursing home on the coast of Dorset. The isolation lends to the aura of incipient terror that hovers over the scene, and more layers to the bottomless depths of Commander Adam Dalgliesh's character are revealed. One of James's best.


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Friday August 5, 2011
Barnwell, SC--It's a brand new attitude in Barnwell. After some sub par seasons and a change in coaches, the Warhorses are thinking big in 2011. They can credit second year Head Coach Ed Moore for the change in attitude.
The Warhorses have struggled in that department the past few years, but not anymore. While they posted just three wins a year ago, they were in several other ballgames that could have gone either way. A mistake here or there probably cost them. Now they are hoping the new attitude and desire to win can turn those losses into wins.
"We got a lot of bad breaks last year, but we've got to learn to play through those," says Moore. "There's not a championship team out there that doesn't go through a year without facing some of the same levels of adversity that we did. Granted we had a lot of injuries, but the teams we played did to. Championship teams learn how to play through those injuries, play through that adversity and still come out on top, and that's what we're trying to do."
"It feels like anything you're trying to do, nothing works," says senior Jake Parler. "Since I've seen one side, I want to get a taste of the other side and see how the other side wins and wins championships, and everybody on this team is hungry for it."
Keeping healthy could also be key because they had several offensive linemen go down a year ago. This year's seniors, though, want to change the mindset of the program and are doing and saying all the right things to make it happen. Barnwell plays in one of the early games August 19th.


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Up to two years of a foreign language other than French, Russian, or Spanish may be taken on independent study, provided the student has a legitimate need and a qualified instructor agrees to supervise the work. The Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities will determine on a case-by-case basis whether or not these provisions have been met.
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