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American ag journalists were widely recognized by global judging panels in the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) Star Prize contests, whose results were announced September 4 at IFAJ's World Congress in Rosario, Argentina.
A Progressive Farmer team of American Agricultural Editors' Association (AAEA) members ‑ Gregg Hillyer, Barb Baylor Anderson, Charles Johnson, and Howard G. Buffett – took home the IFAJ-Yara Award for Sustainable Agriculture Reporting for "Bursting at the Seams."
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I grew up a stone's throw from where Flight 3407 crashed. I was in the area an hour before it came down. I bought the book, "Everything Changed," by Robin Tolsma. It has been so hard to get my mind around what happened, and four years does not lessen the impact.
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The modern zeitgeist is obsessed with zombies. In the past decade, 439 zombie-themed films were made, as compared to only 65 in the previous decade. In 2010, The Walking Dead TV show, based on a successful comic book series by the same name, premiered to 5.3 million people. Its second season premiered to 7 million. Some of our most beloved comic book heroes fell in to the 2005 Marvel Zombies series and its sequels. And even our classic literature isn't safe. As if Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy hadn't been through enough, in 2009, along came Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
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I enjoyed the guide a lot :) My mind immediately went back to flying cars! We had a lot in the movies and the BBC posted an article about it.
a new generation of flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. that is the verdict of engineers from the US space agency and aeronautical firms, who envision future commuters travelling by "skycar"
the FSF went even further, with its car analogy
but we have no flying cars yet, unfortunately.
Awesome guide!
As a compliment, take a look at the most popular mobile application stores and see yourself how many apps are related with zombies.
oh yes! i guess that all those hours that I spend playing Resident Evil since I'm 15 be worthwhile!
Don't we already have enough zombies in Congress to do us all in? They sure seem to be trying hard enough.


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How To Install Xdsl On Your Xbox
Posted 11 May 2005 - 05:57 AM
To do so, you will need :
- A computer with windows and an internet connection
- A .zip extractor (i recommend WinRAR)
- A FTP Client (i recommend Core FTP)
- A copy of Isobuster
- A modded Xbox (modchip, TSOP, or softmodded)
- A dashboard with FTP feature (unleashx, evolutionx)
- xDSL 0.2
Start by installing the extractor and the ftp client. Download xdsl-0.2.zip somewhere on your computer, if you don't already have it.
Extracting the files
Open xdsl-0.2.zip with WinRAR.
Extract all the files to C:/xdsl (or where you want)
You can now close WinRAR and open IsoBuster.
Open the xdsl-0.2.iso file and extract the files to c:/xdsl/extracted (i'll edit this section tomorrow with screenshots and details, cause i'm on xdsl right now and i don't remember wich one you got to extract)
Transfert the files over the Xbox
Your C:/xdsl/extracted folder should now look like this : (screenshot tomorrow sorry)
Open Core FTP and setup a new connection according to your Xbox parameters (again, screenshot tomorrow)
Connect to your Xbox. You should see something like this : (tomorrow...)
Double click on the E partition
Now drag and drop the files from C:/xdsl/extracted in the E partition, and wait for the transfert to complete.
Start Linux
You'll fiirst need to add launch link to your dashboard pointing over the xromwell xbe.
If you use Unleashx, edit the config.xml like this : (yea i know, screenshot tomorrow)
For Evolutionx, edit the evox.ini like this : ( )
Reboot. To launch linux, simply use the Linux link. The next screen should look like this : (i promise u i'll do thoses screenshot right after breakfast tomorrow )
In about a minute, linux should boot!
Note : If xromwell freeze at the blue loading screen, try to remove your dvd dongle, your usb mouse/keyboard, and any controller that are connected. This is a know bug in xromwell. You can also use the shallax gentoox loader, that seem to be more compatible with those usb devices.
What to do now?
I'll add this section tomorrow. I'll explain how to setup a swapfile, do a loopback/native install, reactivate the mouse scroll, desactivate the onscreem leyboard, reactivate apt-get, all with screenshots and detailled info!!
For now, this tutorial is really incomplete. But it's 1am over canada and i'm starting to be r eally tired. I promise you all that i'll add the screenshots and complete it really shortly. Please excuse all the gramatical errors, i'm having such a hard time writing this in english!!
And thanks to all the xdsl crew for this incredible distro!!!!
Posted 12 May 2005 - 02:26 AM
The devs just think we all use FluxBox and know where that is..
Took me a friggin hour yesterday to figure it out.
Edited by MicroMods, 12 May 2005 - 02:32 AM.
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Posted 19 May 2005 - 01:09 PM
You recommend to edit the evox.ini so that xsdl appears in the Dashboard and can be started from there.
I find it much more easy to rename the xromwell xbe in default.xbe and move it to the other apps. I have all my apps like dvd2xbox and XBMC in e/apps. There I created a new folder called Linux and moved the renamed XBE in it. This way it appears not only in Evo-X but also in every other Dashboard like Avalaunch or UnleashX without having to edit a Config-File. For Avalaunch or UnleashX now just find yourself a nice Tux-Icon and be happy
I had no problems so far doing this and neither with Gentoox before.
Posted 20 May 2005 - 11:18 AM
wouldn't that just work with evolution x ?
i have a wireless mouse and key board connected onto 1 usb receiver ,would this work then.?
Posted 20 May 2005 - 03:14 PM
wouldn't that just work with evolution x ?
i have a wireless mouse and key board connected onto 1 usb receiver ,would this work then.?
This wont work for 2 reasons
1) Cromwell is hardcoded to look for linuxboot.cfg in E:\linuxboot.cfg
2) The inital ramdisk looks for the XDSL filesystem on \KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX for every Xbox partition (i.e. C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX, D:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX, etc)
If you want the linux bootloader to appear in your dashboard menu, by all means copy the xromwell xbe (default.xbe on the cd) to a folder in your apps dir. However the other files have to be in the correct places.
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Posted 24 May 2005 - 12:30 PM
And how to MOUNT the DRIVES E and F of my xbox for install games and utils after ... ?
Posted 24 May 2005 - 01:45 PM
The sound ouput works great for me in xdsl-0.21. It could be your optical cable or maybe opticle ouput not being supported in xdsl. I use the stock cable that came with my xbox.
Posted 24 May 2005 - 08:08 PM
so i put
linux24 -> e:\KNOPPIX\linux24
minirt24 -> minirt24
the linuxboot.cfg should be in the root (e:\linuxboot.cfg)
and the default.xbe i can put in e:\apps\linux\default.xbe
and then al should work ?
i tried to load it from apps first ,it loads and then i have to choose between cd or a pc symbol
what should i choose there ?
Posted 24 May 2005 - 08:53 PM
and no you must boot default.xbe in the ROOT of your E drive dont hide it anywhere else.
Posted 28 May 2005 - 03:22 PM
nothing else happens.
I've tried doing an FTP launch with the same result. Is there anything glaringly wrong with what I'm doing?
I followed the instructions to the letter which can be found here
Cheers for any help
Posted 31 May 2005 - 07:46 AM
nothing else happens.
I've tried doing an FTP launch with the same result. Is there anything glaringly wrong with what I'm doing?
I followed the instructions to the letter which can be found here
Cheers for any help
Do you have a USB mouse or keyboard connected to your Xbox? If yes, remove them before starting the Xromwell bootloader. This should help!
Posted 31 May 2005 - 11:05 PM
I originally had the files in this order:
E:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX (the last one being the file)
I beleive i was getting the same error message as you (cant remember).
I fixed it by simply not adding the KNOPPIX folder so all the files where in the same directory:
E:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX (the last one being the file)
The i placed the default.xbe in e:\apps\cromwell\default.xbe
This seemed to work.
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SANDY ISLAND Beulah Pyatt wears a snug life preserver and a heavy-weather overcoat during the 10-minute ride to the mainland.
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Supporters of acquiring a private boat/ferry for Sandy Island have registered as a charitable group with the S.C. Secretary of States office. They can be reached by mail at:The Sandy Island Transportation ProjectC/O Charles PyattP.O. Box 75Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
While memories of the three islanders who tragically drowned nearby have made her extra cautious, shes equally anxious that nearly four years later, locals still dont have a steady craft or a regular ferry service of their own.
You pray to God he brings us over safely and back again, Pyatt said last week after stepping out of the johnboat that carried her in.
Ever since the February 2009 loss of a mother, daughter and another local young man, various efforts have come and gone to bring the islanders a safe alternative for making the 5,000-foot run to terra firma.
The latest attempt is through the creation of a nonprofit charity to help raise the thousands of dollars needed for a sustainable ferry-type boat system. Charles Pyatt, chief executive officer of the Sandy Island Project, said about $23,000 has been raised so far toward the $34,000 price tag to secure a covered pontoon boat about 25-feet in length that could safely seat 16 adults.
But Pyatt admits thousands more dollars are needed to cover annual insurance, gas and a long-term schedule to help transport the islands 75 deep-rooted inhabitants, especially the aging ones.
Its hard for them to step into a small boat or get in and get out when youre older and your balance is not as good, Pyatt, 59, brother-in-law of Beulah Pyatt, said last week.
Sandy Island is one of the more isolated yet still inhabited parts of the state. Located just outside the Litchfield Beach area and about 3 miles west of U.S. Highway 17 in Georgetown County, its heavily wooded 12,000 acres are surrounded by the Waccamaw and Great Pee Dee rivers and accessible only by boat.
For decades the island and its 20 families were mostly a quiet novelty (electricity didnt come until 1964; municipal water even later) until the night of Feb. 18, 2009, when a 15-foot boat capsized in stormy and chilly conditions about 10 yards from shore. Drowned in the accident were Lou Ann Robinson, 47; her daughter, Shaquatia Robinson, 19; and high school senior Rishard Pyatt, 18. None was wearing a life jacket.
Three others whod been on the craft survived, including Shaquatia Robinsons 11-month-old son. He was found floating on a boat cushion.
Since the accident various efforts to secure reliable transportation have routinely fallen through. The most recent came last year when a deal for a 90-foot, vehicle-carrying ferry boat from Alabama fell through. Reasons included the hundreds of thousands of dollars it would have cost to transport the vessel to South Carolina, the expense of making it Coast Guard-certified operational, and questions over whether the ferry was just too big to navigate the tricky shallow channel from the island to the mainland.
Today, residents still make the trip to shore using their flotilla of private boats of all shapes and sizes, some in worn fiberglass and dating to the early 1970s or so. Many of the crafts seem to function OK but still show years of weathering, exposure and heavy repairs, with some featuring two-by-fours modeled into replacement seats. For the islands school-age children, though, there is a day-time ferry available.
Charles Pyatt said the immediate goal is to secure a boat that would be crewed and piloted by volunteers. He doesnt envision the vessel, when acquired, following a regular ferry schedule but said it would be geared more toward getting older residents to medical and other appointments on shore.
It would also be run by the islands homeowners association, which means it would not need special licensing or be made available to day-trippers wishing to catch a glimpse of island life. No tourists, just locals, Pyatt said.
Until then, Beulah Pyatt is preaching caution and hope. We need it in every way, she said.
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WOW,this story kind of relates to tax and spenders like Charles Town City Council members that are not from here and push their socialist agenda. Council members Bringewatt, Paonessa and Slover recruited another liberal spender to run for City Council that has only lived here a few months and is not from Charles Town. This hurts our City because all of them are not from here, moved here, and immediately ran for office and did not take the time to get to know the people or our issues. They try to block growth and fail to improve our infrastructure such as sidewalks and our terrible drinking water. Paonessa nominated a new liberal resident that had only lived here for a few weeks and put him on the CT Planning Comm. Bringewatt, Slover and Paonessa want to increase their voting block on Council to stop growth. There is nothing wrong with being from somewhere else, but soon no one on Council would be from West Virginia or Charles Town. We don't need another no growther on Council.
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"Once again, I see the losers sitting in The panhandle at their keyboards because they under achieved, couldn't assume the risk to get out of the burg, are just plain lazy or their low I.Q. never allowed them to aspire to be anything but local yocals. I feel sorry for you miserable posters who seek to find fault in everything and everybody. Look in the mirror and ask yourself what happened." I'm a local whos' only left here to serve in the military and return.My home, my land, everything I have is paid for,I wouldn't call that under-achieving! and I didn't have to go to the city to do it,either!!! those who CHOSE to move here are the ONLY ones responsible for transportation to/from work.noone else.and it shouldn't cost WV'ians 1 dime. all the $$ you run your mouth off about bringing in here? where is it? whaT LIL TAXES YOU PAY doesn't make up for the over-crowding YOU helped create! nor the cost of education your implanted children caused to be built!! you take more than you
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Once again, I see the losers sitting in The panhandle at their keyboards because they under achieved, couldn't assume the risk to get out of the burg, are just plain lazy or their low I.Q. never allowed them to aspire to be anything but local yocals. I feel sorry for you miserable posters who seek to find fault in everything and everybody. Look in the mirror and ask yourself what happened.
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That is still no reason to get a subsidy for your commute to work.
They could work more locally for that annual income...and not pay over 10% just in train tickets (or over $4,000 a year, $16 a day x 5 days x 50 weeks).
If it is their dream to work in DC, then they can pay for the full amount. Just like if it were my dream to work in Las Vegas, but live in WV, then it would be my responsibility to bear the burden for my choice.
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Majoritarian, you know that i agree with 99.9% of your posts... but i have to disagree on this one. A lot of these folks that I ride with make about $30k-40k/year, and feel it a privilege and a dream to work in DC. They're not over-privileged millionaires by any means. When MARC kicked in their $80/month Hillbilly Tax, it stung. It stung BAD.
Regardless of Snyder's history, when constituents asked for a little help, he responded. and, i appreciate that. it's a lot more than manchin or any other rep did.
The 400+ folks who ride daily bring that "dc money" home and spend it here in West Virginia. btw, I'm trying to change this administration from the inside-out. i'm the only right-winger tea partier within my organization, and i wear that badge proudly.
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I think we should furnish the DC commuters with an armed guard to protect their cars when parked at the station, too. And let's give them a gas tax break, too. After all, they are reducing pollution by taking the train. And how about a breakfast snack for their morning commute while we're at it?
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What CRAP. Mr.Snyder saw a petition with 373 votes on it and does not care that the rest of us have to pay for others' transportain costs. I can't take the train and no one pays me to get to work. This is why we have a spending problem in this Country. People like Mr. Snyder take our tax dollars and redistribute them. He and some of the commenters below need to read and heed the Constitution. It explains governments role. That role is not to take from me and give to you for other liberal causes. Security, safety, not a problem to fund. Train tickets and bike pathes - no way.
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This is all hype by Snyder. This bill, as most bills introduced by Eastern Panhandle representatives is DOA. It will not pass the House, and if it does pass, Tomblin will veto it, as Snyder well knows.
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Snyder and cronyism are the same. His only priority is Herb Snyder.
The commuters being subsidized by WV taxpayer money are overwhelmingly government workers, fat paychecks, fat pensions, all off the taxpayers back. They don't produce a cent worth of wealth.
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Government taking money from everyone in order to provide special privileges for a wealthy and VERY tiny subset of the citizenry.
In other words, politics as usual... Do the investment bankers needs another bailout, too?
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Also, those "400 commuters" are the ones that did not opt to go to Brunswick when the Hillbilly Tax was added ($80/month) to our tickets. If this is reversed, I'll guarantee there will be more commuters going back to their home stations in WV, which will reduce traffic and wear-and-tear on 340 and other roads in the Panhandle as well as free those funds for spending in the Panhandle businesses. Believe it or not, that would produce a Win-Win situation!
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Bookem is the one needing a math lesson. 400 X 10k happens to be 4 million when using normal math skills
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Let me tell you why that is a moronic statement lil lady. Fist it brings money into your lil backwards village. Just because we work in DC we still pay this quaint lil states taxes. I for one don't like traveling on your converted goat paths you call roads. SO the train is a better mode of transportation. I get the feeling you are of too low a skill value to have a job in DC and it makes you jealous. So go on and you work where you want to and I will where I want to. Besides I didn't see you run your trap about the people coming from PA to work in WV. What's the matter you have the same reading level skills as your average WV? HBrDumb is obviously a transplanted Obama supporter that thrives on WV's lower cost of living and looking down that long nose at the neighbors. HBrDumb also supports banning coal so the upper ozone layer doesn't clog the sinus.
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Why is it so much time and effort is being invested to please 400 daily commuters? 400 X $10K annual state/county tax contribution = $400K, but the state is going to grant $1 million over 2 years....Gov't math! These funds should be used to create REAL jobs here in WV.
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The Environmental Recreation and Tourism Management program prepares students for careers ranging from park interpreters to recreation resource managers, camp directors, municipal recreation directors, nature-based tourism providers, hospitality & tourism managers, and many more.
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Liam Hemsworth, 23, got home from his trip to Australia and Manila on Wednesday night, and the two have been inseparable," a source tells PEOPLE.
"Since Liam returned to L.A., Miley has been in the best mood. They are together, and will continue their wedding plans," the source adds of the couple, whose time apart ignited rumors they had split.
On Friday morning Cyrus, 20, dropped by Ryan Seacrest's Kiis FM show to talk about her "twerking" video that went viral this week (enjoy below!).
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Discover the essential techniques you need to paint confidently with acrylics! Experienced instructor Michael Lynne walks you through setting up your palette and introduces you to the colorful world of tints, tones and shades. Learn to recognize and recreate value shifts to depict light and form, and develop your painting skills with fun cube studies. Use a simple block-in method to sketch your first still life, and create a sense of space and dimension with cast shadows and highlights. Find out how to incorporate perspective and color theory into a landscape painting, and add depth and luminous warmth with acrylic washes and glazes. Discover essential acrylic tips and techniques and become a better artist today!
Meet your instructor, fine art instructor Michael Lynne. Set up a workspace with Lynne's tips for preparing a limited nine-color palette, creating transparent, translucent and opaque washes, and identifying and mixing the values and hues that you want to work with.
Create a value scale and start a series of cube studies that explore value changes between planes. Lynne demonstrates how to vary your work between sharp and soft lines, train your eye to identify and recreate gradation, and lay in light and shadow accurately.
Outline your subject in a contour drawing that you'll turn into a monochromatic still life. Using a cube and a cylinder, you'll carefully block in value as you bring more complexity to shadows, highlights and various planes. Lynne shares his professional tips along the way to help you develop strong, lifelike forms.
Immerse your senses in a wash of color as Lynne walks you through everything you need to know about color relationships. Learn the difference between monochromatic, analogous and complementary colors, as well as how each type will help inform your work. You'll learn how to mix the colors you want, create neutral tones and choose eye-popping pairs with Lynne's professional tips along the way.
Plunge into a colorful still life as you continue to improve your skills in drawing contoured reference sketches and painting the hues, values and forms that you see. Working with a simple still life, Lynne helps you break away from your preconceived notion of color relationships as you implement soft and hard lines and various color pairings to represent the ever-changing nature of shadow and light on your subject.
Consider the qualities of aerial perspective as Lynne points out methods to create a sense of depth and distance using acrylics. Then learn how to mix and apply translucent glazes, a classic technique that will add an eye-catching glow and timeless appeal to your work.
Finish the class with an in-depth exploration of landscape studies. Lynne helps you determine how to identify, photograph and crop intriguing landscape images before walking you through ways to lay in the sky and use contour mapping to block in the foreground and background. You'll finish the class with a beautiful completed painting and a new understanding of the myriad ways you can use acrylics to create anything that catches your imagination!
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The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality has issued fish consumption advisories for fish taken from 32 lakes in Oklahoma.
The department said Thursday that each lake has some species of fish that contains levels of mercury that are unsafe for unlimited consumption by humans. DEQ says each lake has its own recommendation and that more information is available on the DEQ fish consumption webpage.
The advisories are the result of testing by DEQ with the cooperation of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.


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After graduating from Kenmore East High School in 1989, Robby Dinero put his salesmanship abilities to the test, working as one of the youngest new car salesmen in the area.
"I worked at Flannigan Chevrolet in North Tonawanda and every month I was in the top four for sales and it felt good," Dinero said.
But he soon realized there was more to life than making money.
"I wanted adventure and I wanted to be tested."
So, he gave up selling cars at age 20 and enrolled at Buffalo State College, supporting himself by plowing driveways in the winter and sealing them in the summer.
"I graduated with degrees in political science and criminal justice, but while I was at Buffalo State I played on the rugby team and became captain. I realized I had leadership skills and I wanted to follow in my family's footsteps of military service. My father and his three brothers all served," Dinero said.
Wanting to make the right choice, he visited Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps recruiters. The first three said he could basically write his own ticket in their branches.
It was a different story with the Leathernecks.
"I walked in and told the Marine Corps recruiter I wanted be an infantry officer and he told me to sit down and shut up. He told me I would be lucky just to finish officers' candidate school, if he let me join. I was sold on the spot."
Dinero's journey with the Marines would take him to a number of global hot spots, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, during his second deployment to Iraq in 2008, he earned the Bronze Star for taking decisive actions against the enemy.
"There had been multiple vehicle ambushes. It would be a combination of lots of improvised explosive devices and rockets," Dinero said. "I was very lucky and brought all my men home with me."
A few years earlier, in 2005, Dinero had spent eight months in Afghanistan.
"I was with another Marine and we were living with a company of Afghan National Army soldiers. I was a military transition team leader and my job was to train those soldiers on how to work with a U.S. Special Forces team," the 41-year-old recalled.
Back home in his final stateside post, Dinero served as the commanding officer of a 23,000-square-mile recruiting territory in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. It was there that he embarked upon a path that would lead him and his family back to civilian life.
Always a physical fitness enthusiast, he said he leaned on exercise, in particular boxing, to overcome the mental stresses brought on by his multiple deployments.
Dinero joined a gym in Gibsonia, Pa., where "functional fitness," also known as "CrossFit," was the specialty.
"I was literally in the best condition of my life," he said, adding that the experience reminded him of how much he enjoyed training and training others. "You could see the physical and mental transformation that occurred in people."
He and his wife, Jennifer, also realized the time had arrived to move on from the military and put down permanent roots for themselves and their two children.
"At this gym called R.A.W.-Training in Gibsonia, I experienced the same camaraderie and close community that I experienced as a Marine, and that caused my wife and I to realize we could probably build the same thing for ourselves in Western New York," Dinero said.
And so last April, the Dineros departed from the security and familiarity of the military and returned to Western New York, where they have opened a fitness facility, Athletes Unleashed CrossFit AU, on California Road in Orchard Park.
"It's going spectacularly well. We opened Nov. 3 and we have around 30 members and I'm booking people into February," Dinero said.
"I wanted to come back and change people's lives, and physical fitness does that. I see it every day, this transformation in physical and mental well-being. We just don't build strength here, we build character," Dinero said.
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Hometown: Buffalo
Residence: Holland
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$7500 First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit
Update 2/12: The $15,000 provision has been replaced by an $8,000 first-time home buyer credit, according to the Wall Street Journal. The credit is set to expire November 30th unless it is extended (which is currently being discussed).
Senate Republicans added a provision that would make the credit a $15,000 tax credit for all home-buyers, not just first time home-buyers. It would also be a true credit, not a "credit" you have to pay back over 15 years.
One of the big pieces of the housing rescue bill, passed and signed into law in July, was a $7,500 "tax credit" for first time homebuyers. While experts aren't sure whether it's "going to work," these types of tax credits have been used in the past so they do have some history.
There is one aspect of this bill that is surprising and it has to do with one of the qualification rules. You can own a vacation home or a rental property and still qualify for this tax credit. I don't know if it's an oversight because of the strict determination of "primary residence" or if it was an intended rule. I don't think individuals who own rental property or vacation homes necessarily need assistance on buying a primary residence.
First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Rules
To qualify, you must satisfy these conditions:
- The home much be purchased as a primary residence.
- You must not have owned a primary residence in the last three years. For couples, both individuals must not have owned a primary residence in the last three years. Vacation homes and rental properties don't affect this (you aren't DQ'd if you have a vacation home or rental property).
- Must not be a non-resident alien as defined by the IRS in Publication 519.
- Individuals must have a modified adjusted gross income of less than $75,000 annually and couples MAGI of less than $150,000 to qualify for the full amount.
- The phaseout range begins at $75,000 and ends at $95,000 for individuals, $150,000 and $170,000 respectively for couples.
- The home must be closed between April 9th, 2008 and July 1st, 2009.
- No mention of a credit score or history requirement, but knowing that will help when it comes to getting a mortgage. I recommend checking out myFICO.com, a service of Fair Isaac, the people who invented the FICO credit score.
How the "tax credit" works:
- The tax credit is 10% of the home's sale price with a maximum of $7500.
- You can claim the credit on taxes filed in 2008 or 2009.
- It's a credit and not a deduction (difference between tax credit and tax deduction).
- "Tax credit" is a misnomer because it's really a zero percent loan with some qualifications.
Tax Credit Loan Repayment Terms
The tax credit isn't really a tax credit, it's really just a tax free loan with some qualifications. You have to start paying back this loan within two years and you make equal payments over 15 years. When you sell your home, any profits will go first into paying off that loan. If you sell at a loss, the difference will be forgiven… meaning you will not owe any money on the loan (though it should be recorded as income as is typical with most loan forgiveness agreements, so you will owe taxes on it).
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This week might be a good time to hang outdoor Christmas lights, with daytime high temperatures in the mid-50s and dry conditions through Thanksgiving Day, according to the National Weather Service in State College.
Temperatures will be a few degrees above normal for most of the week, said Barry Lambert, a forecaster with the weather service. The average normal high temperature for this time of year is 49, he said.
Lambert said clear, dry air will dominate most of the week, but the Williamsport area will experience "a little below normal night temperatures."
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Members of Melissa Augustine Dance Academy present "Christmas Fantasy" during the Festival of Lights.
Today will bring sunny skies and a high near 52 degrees. Temperatures tonight will dip to around 31.
Tuesday will be sunny with a high near 54 and a low around 33.
Wednesday will be partly cloudy with a high of 55 and an evening low of 32.
Thanksgiving Day will have mostly sunny skies and a high near 55. The low Thursday night will be near 36.
"The next big weather factor is Friday into Saturday," Lambert said.
A chance of showers will be around Friday into Friday night, according to the weather service.
"Next week will be noticeably colder, windier and cloudier," Lambert said.
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Williamsport could see a dusting to an inch of snow late Friday into Saturday, he said.
Colder temperatures didn't stop the Festival of Lights tree lighting ceremony Sunday evening, however, in Brandon Park at the Dr. Kenneth Cooper Stage.
About 150 people gathered at the park's band shell to watch youth and teen dancers from the Milissa Augustine Dance Academy and Penn College Dance Team.
Santa and Mrs. Claus, Disney princess characters and the infamous green-furred Grinch made an appearance at the event.
Sally Wiegand, Brandon Park and Shade Tree Commission chairwoman, announced writing contest winners Jaydeun Wright, Elizabeth Zellers and Chloe Wagner.
Horse-drawn wagon rides through the park also were offered to attendees.
Laura Winters and her daughter Madison, 9, and their Shetland sheepdog, Riley, were part of the crowd.
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ROARING SPRING - Even after parents and teachers spoke out against an earlier decision, Spring Cove school board members voted Tuesday to continue with a plan for major job restructuring.
Tuesday's special meeting opened with parents and staff members airing concerns that the board's prior vote to move Stephanie Thompson - formerly Central High School assistant principal - to a newly created job would deprive high school students of an important resource.
Thompson is transitioning to the job of assistant principal for pupil personnel services, Superintendent Robert Vadella said Tuesday. The new position, which will oversee guidance programs and student-service contracts, covers the entire district, Vadella said.
"In 1982, when I graduated high school, we had a principal and an assistant principal ... and that structure has stayed in place," high school teacher Philip Waite told the board. "They need that extra structure. They need that extra person to talk to."
Parents complained that guidance and discipline, long the assistant principal's responsibility, would suffer with the job empty.
Kate Muthler, a parent from Roaring Spring, said she worried that the loss of the high school's only top-level female administrator would leave troubled girls without a personal contact. Others suggested that a reduced adult presence would hinder security.
Vadella and board President Jeff Brennecke explained that the decision was part of an ongoing administrative shake-up, planned in part to cut away some of the district's $1 million budget deficit in the coming year.
"[It's a] complete restructuring of administrative and office staff," Vadella said, asking for patience as more changes are rolled out in the next few weeks. "I think you will be satisfied."
At the Tuesday meeting, board members voted to create a new position - "PIMS/Child Accounting Manager" - and shift Kim Moyer, Vadella's secretary, to the job at a $40,000 salary.
Vadella said Moyer will oversee filings, such as enrollment reports, that dictate state funding. He won't get a new secretary, he said.
"I get to lose my personal secretary to this position. That's how important this is," Vadella said.
A second vote added 40 days to the special education director's schedule. The change was needed, Vadella said, because the per-diem pay to keep the director working through summer cost more than a simple salary increase.
Vadella said the restructuring will continue as budget season approaches.
"We're making changes a little bit at a time," he said.
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Other stars – from Angelina Jolie and Nicole Richie to Samuel L. Jackson – have admitted to dabbling if not struggling with the drug. And many have offered chilling personal accounts of their heroin use.
Here are six celebrities who have shared their experiences with the dangerous drug over the years:
Russell BrandNearly 11 years sober, Brand has been very open about his struggles with heroin in an effort to help those facing similar addictions.
"I cannot accurately convey to you the efficiency of heroin in neutralizing pain," the actor-comedian wrote in a column for The Guardian in 2013. "The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction."
Robert Downey Jr.He wasn't always Iron Man. The action star has one of the best comeback stories in the business. After several stints in jail and treatment in the late '90s and early 2000s, Downey Jr. turned his life around.
"I accidentally [got] involved in heroin after smoking crack for the first time. It finally tied my shoelaces together," Downey Jr. told Rolling Stone in 2010. "Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention."
Corey FeldmanThe troubled child star had a very public and tumultuous battle with addiction in his early career.
After a breakup, "I was like, 'Well, I've tried everything else, and it doesn't seem to fill this void, so maybe I should try that now.' So I did, and boom – instantly addicted…The only one that really ever took me down that fast and that hard was heroin, and it was awful. It lasted maybe a year, a year and two months," Feldman told HuffPost Live in 2013. "I've never looked back."
Courtney LoveIntervention for the grunge rocker meant urine tests while working on a movie in 1996. The Hole front woman first did heroin at 16 but has said she didn't develop a problem until partying at Charlie Sheen's mansion while establishing her career.
Aside from one relapse in an attempted suicide attempt in 2005, Love told sobriety blog The Fix, "I think of myself as sober. When you're used to heroin and cocaine, a few pills doesn't seem like the end of the world. As they say in AA, it's about progress, not perfection."
Tatum O'NealThe actress is the youngest performer to ever win an Oscar (for Paper Moon at age 10), but her adult life was full of hardships. After divorcing her husband in 1993, she became addicted to heroin.
"I was still looking for a panacea, for some kind of relief from all of that life, from all of that damage," she told Stone Phillips in 2004.
She also detailed her experiences with the drug in her memoir, Found: "I had started craving [heroin] psychologically, longing to sink into oblivion. Then without it, I began to experience frighteningly dark depressions, with fierce anger as their flip side."
Keith RichardsNot everyone has seen treatment as the only choice for heroin use, though. In a controversial interview last year, Keith Richards told Men's Journal, "I hate all this idea of rehab and giving stuff up because it just means you're hung up on it."
The Rolling Stones guitarist has said the only drug he does now is marijuana – possibly to stay out of trouble with the law. "With smack, I knew: 'I've got to stop now, or I'm going to go in for hard time."
Even so, the rocker noted reckless use of the drug when he was on it: "I was very interested in what I could take and what I could do. I looked upon the body as a laboratory … But all experiments must come to an end."


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Recognizing the need for highly trained scientists conversant across disciplines, the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center created an interdisciplinary research program, the Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program (MCB). For more than 20 years, MCB has combined the strengths of the Fred Hutch and the UW to foster an innovative and flexible graduate training program. Joined by the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and the Center for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR, formerly Seattle Biomed), MCB offers a broad range of opportunities for research in all areas of biomedical science.
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The opening lines of Liz Moore's book, "Heft," immediately immerse readers in the world of Arthur Opp, a brilliant and isolated man.
The first thing you must know about me is that I am colossally fat. When I knew you I was what one might call plump but I am no longer plump. I eat what I want & furthermore I eat whenever I want. For years I have made very little effort to reduce the amount that I eat for I have seen no cause to. Despite this I am neither immobile nor bedridden but I do feel winded when I walk more than six or seven steps, & I do feel very shy and sort of encased in something as if I were a cello or an expensive violin.
Arthur tells his as-yet-unknown correspondent that he has lied in referring to colleagues, because "I have not worked as a professor for eighteen years."
Last & most important: I no longer go out of my house. Fortunately it is a very nice house & largely I am proud of it. I did not purchase it; it was bestowed upon me. It is 25 feet wide. Very wide for this block, & once it was very lovely inside and out, decorated very nicely, O this when I was a small boy. But now I fear I have allowed it to fall into a sort of haunted disrepair.
It was the house that was the starting point for Moore to write "Heft," which is the Buffalo News Book Club selection of the month for January. The house is important as both a real refuge and a symbol.
"I was aware of townhouses in Brooklyn like the one Arthur Opp lives in," says Moore in a telephone interview from her home in Philadelphia. She teaches creative writing and composition full-time at Holy Family University, in addition to her own writing. "I began to wonder about someone who was holed up in one without leaving. Well, what would make that happen? I came up with obesity and lack of relationships."
But Moore says Arthur had been alive in her mind well before she started "Heft."
"He was a character in short story that I had written," she says. "He had a different last name, but he was exactly that character. The problem was that that character was unsustainable in a longer work, such as a novel, because nothing really happens in his life – he's so successfully isolated himself. But I never forgot that character, and I knew that I would one day revisit that character.
"In order to do that in novel form, I knew that I would have to introduce a host of other characters who would complicate his life in various ways, which is where the rest of the cast came in."
The "rest of the cast" includes the woman to whom Arthur's letter is addressed, a quiet, socially awkward former student of his named Charlene Turner, who has stayed in touch with Arthur, mostly through letters, since she completed his college night school class.
Here is Charlene Turner: Walking into my classroom two decades ago, her cheeks as pink as a tulip, her face as round as a penny. Short and small, rabbitish, the youngest in the room by a decade. I too am young. The class is a seminar & we sit at a long oval table & as teacher I am at the head of it. Her lips do not gracefully close over her teeth. The frames of her glasses are too wide & they give her a look of being mildly cross-eyed. Her bangs are worked into an astonishing arc at the top of her head. One can tell she has put thought into her outfit. Her shoulder pads threaten to eclipse her. She has turned up the cuffs of her blazer. She wears red and green and yellow. Accordingly she looks like a stoplight.
After the class ends, the two begin to exchange letters, talk on the phone, and eventually spend time together innocently. Both their situations change, and they miss some essential truths about each other along the way. Arthur first finds out that Charlene has a teenage son when she sends him a photo of the athletic-looking boy, with "my son Kel" written on the back.
"I would consider Kel the other main character, and I thought he might be interesting," says Moore. "Kel was interesting to me in the context of Arthur, in that he is both very different from Arthur and very similar to Arthur. That made him a good foil, and I was able to see that they felt familial in a way."
When Charlene asks Arthur if he would help Kel prepare his college applications, and offers to bring the boy to Arthur's home, Arthur must admit his situation to Charlene. He hires a cleaning woman, Yolanda, who will become the first person who has stepped foot into his home in seven years.
The delightful Yolanda, a literal and figurative breath of fresh air in Arthur's life, is 19, hardworking and so tiny that as she sits on a couch waiting for her ride home, "her feet stuck straight out in front of her and did not touch the floor. Her little pink sneakers pointed at the ceiling." She is also unflappable, once she gets past spotting a mouse in Arthur's cluttered kitchen.
As Arthur begins to prepare himself and his home to see Charlene again and meet her mysterious son, Kel becomes the focus. A gifted baseball player, the 17-year-old from working-class Yonkers is struggling to fit in at a rich suburban high school.
I am a senior now and have acquired invaluable knowledge of how to do things over the years. But on my first day of freshman year I had no idea. I showed up wearing red glossy basketball shorts past my knees, a plain white T-shirt that hung off my shoulders, and Nikes. As soon as we arrived I knew I'd gotten it wrong. ... "What's wrong, Kelly?" my mother said, and I said Nothing. God, but everything was wrong. Who I was meant something different here than it did at home. ... That night I went home and begged my mother for new clothes. I begged her not to make me go back to school without good clothes. She was actually happy. She never liked the stuff I wore, the baggy stuff. It was a nice night with her. We went to the mall and I used the money I had saved from mowing lawns.
"A lot of the plot came out just learning the characters as much as I could and then asking myself how they might be connected, or what a likely scenario was," says Moore. "There were a lot of scenarios that I tried to kind of enforce upon them, and they didn't work, so the book took a long time to write" – three years for a draft, then two more years editing, working with an agent, then working with an editor at W.W. Norton.
What she has crafted is a poignant and touching story of possibilities and hope. As the plot progresses, relationship mysteries are solved, more satisfyingly in the way of messy reality than neat fiction. The characters grow and learn the importance of connections and opening their hearts to love, despite the vulnerability that brings.
Moore says it's difficult for her to pick a favorite character.
"Arthur has always been the driving force behind this book; he's who I started with and who I end with," she says. "I won't call him my favorite, but I'll call him the center of the book. Certainly the book wouldn't have happened without Arthur."
Moore says she does not know anybody like Arthur, despite her evocative descriptions of his use of food to soothe himself. Waiting for Yolanda to arrive for the first time, Arthur "began having a dream of Chinese food: the greased and glowing kind, unnaturally orange chicken with sesame seeds nestled in its crevices; white rice in buttery clumps that come apart wonderfully in the mouth; potstickers, ridged and hard at the seam and soft at the belly; crab rangoons, a crunch followed by lush bland creaminess; chocolate cake – nothing Chinese about it, but the best dessert for a meal of this kind, the sweet bitterness an antidote to & a complement to all that salt."
Moore says, "I have spoken to a lot of women who, even if it's not a central part of their biography, have had various issues when it comes to food, dieting and weight. Even though Arthur is a man, I think he came in part out of the experience of being a woman today in the United States. A lot of women I know have had some sadness or compulsions when it comes to food."
The book, which has drawn rave reviews since it was published a year ago, has moved many readers to email Moore through her website.
"A lot of them are people who feel lonely or isolated and have responded in some way to the book because of that," she says. "I try my best to write back to all of the readers who write to me, although it can take a while. I feel responsible for replying, and also it's a privilege to reply to them."
Moore is also a singer-songwriter whose music has been described as "alt-country," she says. However, "I find that I am physically able to handle only two of my three interests – writing, teaching and music – at one time. So writing and teaching are taking precedence, although I miss music."
She is working on a third book. "It's the story of a theoretical physicist and his daughter, and my inspiration for it in part is that my own father is a physicist, though not a theoretical physicist, and I am very much not a scientist. I always sort of wished when I was a kid that I could magically be good at science, so the daughter in this is very gifted in science. That's been fun to play with, maybe revisiting my own history."
However, Moore adds, "I should include the caveat that I know from writing 'Heft' that all of that might change by the time the book is published. I am about a year into my work on this book, and if I had shown you 'Heft' a year into it, you wouldn't have recognized it."
More from Moore
Liz Moore's publisher has provided 10 autographed copies of "Heft" to be given away to Buffalo News readers. To be eligible to receive one, send a note to Book Club, The Buffalo News, One News Plaza, Buffalo, NY 14240, or an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, explaining why you would like to win one.
Read a Book Club chat with "Heft" author Liz Moore here.
December Book Club: (classics month) Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
November Book Club: "The Tiger" by John Vaillant.
October Book Club: Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken."
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Bootstrap wrote:Thought experiment:
The dairy farmers in your area ask you to take over the local dairy coop, imposing whatever structure you want. Several of the local farmers are in your local congregation, but most are not Menno, and some are not even Christian.
How would you set it up, and why? How would decisions be made? How would profits be distributed - or do you simply keep all the coop's profits for yourself, and ask the farmers to be content with the price you pay them for their milk?
sullymusic wrote:This response is strictly related to the dairy co-ops. If I started dairying today, a co-op would be the last thing I would join. I have watched all of them across America and in my opinion are no longer true co-ops. With CEOs earning huge salaries and watching heavy handed decisions made that has not benefited the little dairyman, I would reject them. WE still have a half dozen private owned enterprises who were able to stave off the threats of co-ops trying to overcome them by maintaining a strong financial position. Everyone of these private enterprises pays better prices to their producers and they have a waiting list from dairymen in the co-ops who would like top get out under the hands of the co-op bosses. I work for a dairy equipment company and my recommendation to a young dairyman starting up is to search diligently for a private milk processor if he can find one.
In 2009 or so, I started hearing that wholesale milk prices were so low that many independent dairies were struggling to make ends meet. My understanding was that prices were being driven down by large, consolidated corporations who had the purchasing power to dictate the price of milk and it was starting to seriously hurt the farmers. The reason that I learned of this in 2009 was because a seminary friend of mine grew up on a dairy farm and the Obama justice department had announced that they were looking into anti-trust action to break up "Big Agriculture" monopolies.
I haven't heard anything about this story since then. What's the current status? Since moving to a rural area, I've become more aware of the tenuous financial situation that many farmers face. For example -- the Listeria outbreak last summer with Rocky Ford/ SE Colorado cantaloupe will likely cause some farmers to lose their farms.


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An extended explanation usually regarding a social injustice, corporate incompetence/arrogance, or technical folly. The argument is well formed, logical and rational but delivered with staggeringly quick pace and heightened emotion often leaving the ranter breathless and agitated.
Did you hear that, my mom totally went on a molly rant about her mp3 player not playing her songs due to crappy DRM!
by Derrick451 October 03, 2007
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(noun) {molEE^rant} An indigant, sanctimonious and opinionated diatribe on the the stupiddity of an individual, corporation or organization. Mollyrant implies commentary of extended length and vitriputition which is often lengthy, seriallized or recuring in nature.
Whatever you do, don't mention the iPhone price cut in front of her; she'll just go on a total mollyrant.
by LoTek October 05, 2007
A tirade in which the listener or other participates of the conversation are effectively silenced until the ranter run out of steam. Coined for Molly Wood, CNET podcaster and infamous ranter.
Any Molly rant on her CNET podcasts like Buzz Out Loud.
by morphined October 03, 2007
A long brethless upsetting rant usually containing references to technology such as copyright protection, electronic privacy, or idiotic companies.
"And you know who's not going to labor under those restrictions? You know who's not even going to notice? The mass-production piracy operations, that's who. You know it, and I know it. So why are you engaged in this nickel-and-dime, small-time thrust-and-parry with me and my friends? Trust me, you're not going to make back the money by dropping viruses onto my PC, because my almighty dollar and I are going elsewhere--and you're probably not going to like where I end up."
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Damn, did you just here that Molly Rant?
by David Ron October 16, 2007
a Mollyrant is a rant about a certain corporation, product, or company of Molly Wood, from CNET.com.
My friend was so into ranting about that new Zune that he was almpost on a Mollyrant!
by JohnMcKenna October 13, 2007
attributed to Molly Wood from the "Buzz Out Loud Podcast" on cnet, a daily technology podcast co-hosted with Tom Merritt. An official Molly rant is a long statement (Molly rants pl. are known to last over a minute) delivered at a fast pace and often pause-less, where Molly Wood would give her opinion(s) on a particular article relating to or arising from a story in the podcast. The speed and length of the statement is often proportional to the amount of displeasure cause to Molly Wood by the Story. Now, a Molly rant is often used to describe any rant delievered in the form of Molly Wood.
She totally did a Molly Rant
by Brian. BOL listener from Hong Kong October 05, 2007
An emotional, self-righteous diatribe against something, usually without much of a factual foundation. Named after Molly Wood of CNET's Buzz Report and Buzz Out Loud.
Today's Molly rant was that the iPhone sucks because she couldn't slide the slider or press the letter P.
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An anti-bullying allegory writ on the largest possible scale, "Ender's Game" frames an interstellar battle between mankind and pushy ant-like aliens, called Formics, in which Earth's fate hinges on a tiny group of military cadets, most of whom haven't even hit puberty yet.
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3 1/2 (out of five stars)
Director: Gavin Hood
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis
Rated: PG-13 for some violence, sci-fi action and thematic material
Running time: 1 hour, 54 minutes
At face value, the film presents an electrifying star-wars scenario while at the same time managing to deliver a higher pedagogical message about tolerance, empathy and coping under pressure.
Against considerable odds, this Orson Scott Card adaptation actually works, as director Gavin Hood pulls off the sort of teen-targeted franchise starter Summit was hoping for.
Card's novel assumes a situation where, in the wake of a massive Formic attack, the world's children are somehow best suited to protect their planet from an imminent second strike.
The most promising young recruits train on elaborate videogame-like simulators while a pair of officers, Col. Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and Major Gwen Anderson (Viola Davis), monitor their techniques in search of a child with the instincts to save his species.
The leading candidate is Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a runt-like outsider whose behavior toward his aggressive classmates reveals his true potential.
Like "The Hunger Games," the pic peddles the unseemly idea of watching kids thrust into life-and-death situations.
Between the officers, Graff's agenda is more complicated than he lets on, while Anderson represents the voice of reason.
Butterfield, who has grown into his big blue eyes, if not the rest of his body, since "Hugo," makes ideal casting for Ender: He's scrawny and physically unimposing, yet there's an intensity to his stare that suggests he might indeed be masking deeper (or darker) gifts.
It's nothing so powerful as the Force, or Neo's Matrix-bending abilities, though "Ender's Game" dedicates nearly its entire run time to Battle School, where our hero and his fellow recruits practice various drills, including an anti-gravity game that looks like the next best thing to Quidditch.
"Ender's Game" manages to make these training sequences compelling without veering into pro-military propaganda, doing so by focusing on the interpersonal dynamics between the various squad members.
Ben Kingsley pops up for a late cameo, sporting an elaborate Maori tribal tattoo on his face.
It might not seem fair to compare what Hood has created to someone as visionary in all things sci-fi as George Lucas, and yet, considering the sizable budget expended on "Ender's Game," one could have hoped for something a bit more groundbreaking.


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Paul E. "Buddy" Kirby Jr., 40, Ashville, died Wednesday at the Cleveland Clinic.
He was born in Altoona, son of Paul E. Sr. and Barbara (Beck) Kirby. He married Mary Sutton on Aug. 12, 1995, in Ashville.
Surviving are his wife; four children: Tia, Paul III, Seth and Julia, all at home; his parents of Cresson; a brother, Daniel (Amy Yob) of North Hampton; a niece and goddaughter, Gracie; his maternal grandmother, Jane Beck of Medina, Ohio; his mother-in-law, Gertrude Sutton of Ashville; and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Buddy earned an associate's degree from Penn State Altoona and a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He was employed and was a partner with Keller Engineers, Hollidaysburg, for 20 years. He attended St. Monica Catholic Church, Chest Springs, and was a member of Leadership Blair County.
Buddy enjoyed spending time with his family.
Friends will be received from 2 to 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012, at Gibbons Funeral Home, Ashville, where a vigil service will be held Sunday afternoon. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, at St. Monica Catholic Church, Chest Springs, the Rev. Joseph Fleming as celebrant. Committal will be at St. Thomas Cemetery, Ashville.
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This is the best FA signing period the Wings have had in years.
The Alfredsson signing is a great one, espeically with it being only 1 year with the potential to give the Wings 2 million in extra space next season should he not hit his performance bonuses.
He gives us a top 6 forward with a RH shot who can also help out our struggling PP.
I like Flip and I think he'll probably put up more pts next season than Weiss, but Weiss is a better center and fits the Wings needs better.
Brunner leaving hurts a little, but someone had to go to free up a roster spots for Tatar and Nyquist, either of whom I think can provide his offence, while hopefully upgrading on him defensively.
Now with a glut of forwards I fully expect a trade for a defenceman hopefully someone capable of playing on the 2nd pair at worst or 1st pairing at best.


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VIENNA, 5 October 2012 – The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC) are teaming up to promote sustainable energy, energy efficiency and renewable energy, and to develop sustainable energy policies and regional partnerships.
An agreement was signed in Vienna today by Kandeh K. Yumkella, the Director-General of UNIDO, and Werner Stuflesser, President of EURAC.
"We are convinced that this partnership can bring very concrete results, in particular through research activities, projects, and policy advice to governments and decision makers. This is also a starting point of a very fruitful and long term cooperation process especially in the framework of the Sustainable Energy for All initiative," said President Stuflesser.
The European Academy of Bolzano is a private centre for research and further education with headquarters in Bolzano, the capital of the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. The Academy has developed expertise in the field of sustainable development and sustainable energy solutions, such as solar energy applications, energy potential estimations and energy efficiency measures.
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text: I am writing this letter to voice my opinion. I would like to know how people can continue to coach children who will cheat to win a ball game. How can you play fourth-graders all season and then you bring in sixth-graders at the last game just so you can win? Are you serious? What are you teaching these young children? I guess you can cheat just so you can win. How sad if that is all that it means to you. How about sportsmanship? Oh, wait, I don't think you know what that means, let alone teach your young boys. Shame on you. The other team that did not cheat to win, showed so much sportsmanship and dignity that you will never get. Their coaches showed so much class and the boys were awesome. They have nothing to be ashamed about. They played with so much heart and dignity that it outshone your win. So go ahead and gloat, but just remember how you showed your team how to cheat just to get a win. So proud of you boys. Hold your head up high, Browns. What an awesome season. Your coaches should be proud and you should be proud of your coaches. Good job.


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The paradox is both familiar and bizarre. How can it be that in a Congress whose approval rating is in the teens, the vast majority of seats being contested in the upcoming election will be retained by incumbents, most by wide margins?
An examination of West Virginia's second congressional district offers an explanation.
Someone unschooled in West Virginia politics might expect incumbent Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito to be under assault from both left and right and fighting for her political life.
Capito, a Republican, represents a district in which Democrats have a 3 to 2 advantage in registrations. She's running on the Romney/Ryan economic plan that will take far more money from West Virginia in budget cuts than it will return in tax cuts. And, at a time when many hope the administration and Congress will compromise on budget and tax issues so the nation can avoid plunging from the "fiscal cliff," Capito's signature on Grover Norquist's Taxpayer Protection Pledge makes her a contributor to gridlock.
Capito's current boosterism for coal and her opposition to the Environmental Protection Agency and same-sex marriage are popular in West Virginia. But, her position on abortion is ambiguous. And, when she was elected to Congress in 2000, Capito was a moderate who joined the Republican Main Street Partnership whose members were pro-choice, concerned about global warming and supported elevating the EPA to cabinet level. Like many RMSP members, Capito sometimes crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats.
Other RMSP members of the time were denounced by conservatives as "Republicans in Name Only,". These included senators Arlen Specter (Pa.), Jim Jeffords (Vt.), John Chaffee (R.I.) and Gordon Smith (Ore.), all of whom are now gone. And many conservatives would like to dispose of remaining members such as Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine) and John McCain Ariz.
Capito, though, has flown beneath the radar, becoming an influential member of the House Financial Services committee, where she is a favorite of credit card companies and banks for supporting efforts to make it more difficult for consumers to receive bankruptcy protection while opposing regulatory efforts to rein in abuses that helped lead to the 2008 economic meltdown.
In short, Capito offers would-be opponents from both the left and right much to criticize. Yet, she faces no significant primary challengers. And, after surviving well-funded Democratic opponents early in her career, she faces only nominal opposition in this election, as she did in 2010.
Capito has been aided by having as opponents in her last two elections self-immolating Democrats who, as a matter of principle, refuse to accept contributions from political action committees - not that they would have received much in PAC contributions in any case.
The reason is that neither Virginia Graf in 2010, nor Howard Swint this year, has the kind of name recognition or personal wealth that would automatically make them credible challengers. And these days the parties, like the PACs, concentrate their resources almost exclusively on the few races that polling indicates are competitive and on which the balance of power in the House may turn.
Like an infectious disease, this disinterest in most races has spread to institutions whose missions ostensibly include facilitating public awareness and debate.
Since last May's primary elections, daily newspapers in Wheeling and Martinsburg, representing West Virginia's first and second congressional districts, have devoted only a couple of articles to describing the positions of congressional challengers. And, neither of them, along with West Virginia Metro News and West Virginia Public Broadcasting, is sponsoring a debate. Even the League of Women Voters has given up trying to host debates "primarily because," a League official explained, "the incumbent does not agree to debate."
What's left is an electoral information vacuum in which Capito has no incentive to engage her opponent or even acknowledge his existence. And Swint, unable to lure Capito into a debate or the press into covering his campaign, has resorted to rhetorical bomb-throwing by calling for investigations of Capito's personal finances, alleging that she may have been involved in insider stock trading and may also have been the recipient of preferential terms for home mortgages.
This is all terrible for voters because Swint, like Graf before him, is a serious person who should be heard on the issues, if only because he would force Capito to confront and address the more negative consequences of her positions and perhaps cause her to moderate the extremes to which she has been gravitating - a trend largely unnoticed by her constituents.
And Capito isn't alone. Many underchallenged incumbents are gravitating to extremes, resulting in an unwillingness to compromise and legislative gridlock.
It's an enigma that, while the presidential race receives suffocating coverage, congressional races, which address the same issues and represent local voices on those issues, are ignored. But, to understand why, we have only to follow the money.
Congressional races that are deemed competitive are thoroughly nationalized by the parties and PACs and are followed by the press. But, races that aren't competitive are forgotten by all. In this way, the former are corrupted and the latter are starved, and both leave voters cheated of honest discussion of the issues.
The Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision declared that money in the form of political donations is a form of free speech. But, in this case, money has gone beyond that to become the only form of speech. As a result, our democracy is poorer.
- Sean O'Leary can be contacted at email@example.com or at his blog, the-state-of-my-state.com.


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See the list here. And then I thought it would be interesting... the whole six degrees of separation thing- how many you might know that I know, too.
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See the list here. And then I thought it would be interesting... the whole six degrees of separation thing- how many you might know that I know, too.
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I didn't see Jo-Lynne. I know her. IRL that is... :DReplyDelete
Ah! Thank you! Poor Jo-Lynne! I thought I'd transferred her over from my main blogroll...ReplyDelete
Love that book!ReplyDelete
bloggy meets are fun!ReplyDelete
I think we are all long over due for one again.
That is quite a collection you've got there! Mine isn't nearly as long, but got bigger with Camp Baby of course. :) Can't wait until we can add each other to our lists!ReplyDelete
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Wow, you know a lot! lolReplyDelete
I know 8 from what you listed, of course they're mostly our tribe. I think outside of that I've only met 1 other?? Is that right?ReplyDelete
Wow. That's quite a list!ReplyDelete
Good book!! If you want another inspirational book... you should read Donny Duetch's new book out here. So good!ReplyDelete
I know 2 on your list. Capri By the Lake and To Think Is to Create. Love them both madly!ReplyDelete
Let's see....ReplyDelete
I've known Berger Buzz since high school.
Your mom, of course!
Plus the several I've met thru blogger gatherings.
A few are from the old church we used to attend and I love that we are all still connected.
The Whole Family has an in-law I know well (Beth F.).
I sure hope I didn't forget anyone!
Wow, I know 15. Is it crazy that some of them I was like "oh I know her" and then realized I've actually never met that person? :)ReplyDelete
Wow. You know a lot of bloggers!ReplyDelete
I've met Cooper and Emily from Been There, but that is the only one in common we have! =)
I like The Tipping Point too. Such a thoughtful commentary on why things happen.ReplyDelete
I just checked out the list! How fun that you've met all of those amazing women IRL!ReplyDelete
Okay, Arizona bloggers...where are you? I so want to plan a bloggy meet-up.
We are planning a trip back to the midwest this summer. My brother and his wife are having their first child!!! Perhaps, when we are there I can look you up ad get on that list. Hmmm...ReplyDelete
Your list is so much longer than mine. You are such a good blogger.
I know a few people (like 2) who blog, but none of them "run" in these circles. I would so love a bloggy meet up!ReplyDelete
Anyone wanna come to the beach?
Hmm, I've never met a single blogger. :( I feel so alone. Brrr, it's cold out here, open the door. :) I hope to eventually meet some of ya'll on that list. However, I do speak with quite a few on a weekly basis.ReplyDelete
Wow .. it is amazing really at how something like blogging can enrich your life so much. You have an amazing list Steph and I am sure that it will only grow longer as you branch out in your endeavours.ReplyDelete
Let me know if you are ever in Western Canada :)
Wow, that's a huge list of bloggers! And I've always wanted to read that book..ReplyDelete


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From Idiot Nation:
New contest alert! Emily's Army releases their second album 'Lost at Seventeen' on Rise Records today.
Emily's Army is comprised of brothers Cole and Max Becker (who split vocal duties and play guitar and bass, respectively), guitarist Travis Neumann and drummer Joey Armstrong (son of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, who also produced the LP). They showcase their knack for ragged So Cal pop-punk with a bleeding heart and a healthy sense of humor. Tracks like "Part Time Bum" and "Gubermensch" are rollicking, infectious kiss-offs, while "On the Roof," "If Our Music Plays Again" and the blistering closer "Lost at 17" exude just the right amount of earnest preciousness needed for adolescent anthems.
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quote: It won't really "boost" the speed over your regular chemical rockets
quote: For the entire 43,000 hours of continuous operation, NEXT only consumed 770 kg of xenon propellant. The engine would offer 30 million-newton-seconds of total impulse to a spacecraft.