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6 Video Game Urban Legends That Are Actually Hoaxes
It might not seem that way now, with all of our Crackeds and JDates and forums dedicated to bodybuilding, but once upon a time the Internet used to be filled with huge nerds. Much of the earliest traffic on the Internet was in fact dedicated to these nerds' favorite pastimes, two of the most popular being "video games" and "fucking with other nerds." And when these two passions inevitably combined, a spectacular amount of disinformation was soon spread about video games around the Internet: fantastic hoaxes, artfully constructed of lies, built on a foundation of doctored screenshots.
Here are some of the most famous examples.
#6. Sheng Long (Street Fighter II)
In the game Street Fighter II, after your character wins a fight, you get to deliver a short speech to your bloodied opponent in which you reflect on the causes for his failure and just generally act like a dick. In the original Japanese game, the character Ryu delivered a particularly dickish wisdom-nugget that would eventually set up this hoax: "If you cannot overcome the Rising Dragon Punch, you cannot win!" This is of course a reference to Ryu's Rising Dragon Punch, a really impractical-looking leaping uppercut that everyone who watches UFC is secretly hoping to actually witness one day.
Within the game, it's actually quite practical, although this is also a game where you can kick a car to shreds.
But when translating this into English, the developers decided to first translate it into Chinese, because that's evidently closer, and by the time the quote reached Western arcades, it read: "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance."
Poor Guile. First the haircut, then the ass-kicking, and now the lecture. He's having a serious case of the Mondays.
"Well then who the fuck is Sheng Long?" a chorus of 11-year-old voices shrieked, only to be answered when the SNES version of the game came out. Its instruction manual claimed that Sheng Long -- which, I cannot stress enough, at that point was a mistranslated gibberish name that came out of fucking nowhere -- was Ryu's former martial arts master.
Into this clusterfuck of miscommunication stepped Electronic Gaming Monthly, a video games magazine best known for its mastery of clusterfucked miscommunication. In their April 1992 issue, EGM printed a claim that the player could fight Sheng Long by undertaking a ridiculously difficult sequence of events, essentially using Ryu for half a day without taking any damage. It was later revealed that this was an April Fool's joke (which EGM cleverly disguised by publishing in mid-February), but that didn't stop other magazines from reprinting the trick. Without checking it, because obviously this is just video games journalism we're talking about. Before long, there wasn't a Street Fighter player in the world who wasn't convinced that you could fight Sheng Long if you only tried hard enough.
How Gullible You'd Have to Be to Buy It
Not too gullible. As mentioned, "Sheng Long" had been hinted at in both the arcade and SNES versions of the game. And there was no reason to distrust the video games magazines; in this era, to an 11-year-old, they had about the same authority as the Bible.
And we know that in all things, the path forward shall be lit by up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start.
And because the steps were so difficult to do that they could never be verified, and there was no way to definitively prove the hoax wrong, this one drove kids mad for a long, long time.
They did probably get pretty freaking good at using Ryu, though.
#5. Mew (Pokemon Red/Blue)
Mew was the 151st Pokemon in the original Pokemon Red/Blue games, and was by design always going to be the hardest to get. The legal way to get Mew was to attend a real-world Nintendo event, where a Nintendo employee with a tired smile would plug your Game Boy into his and upload Mew. This was the only way to actually get Mew in the game, so for anyone with the sense to stay far, far away from other Pokemon players, the 151st Pokemon was completely inaccessible.
Telling a group of players that they can't collect something, after relentlessly badgering them about the importance of collecting everything, is one of the biggest dick moves in all of video gaming, and as you can expect, it broke many young players' brains. The Internet soon filled with rumors of how to get Mew, the most famous of which can be summarized thusly: Mew is under the truck.
No, that's to the left of the truck.
The truck in question was in a normally inaccessible area of the game, but by following a (fairly easy) series of steps, the player could get there and wander around. Most discovered that the area was inaccessible for a reason; there was basically nothing there at all. Except for a truck. A purely decorative, not remarkable in any way truck.
But because of some dink on the Internet who claimed that the secretest of all Pokemon was hidden under the truck, players would spend hours pushing, pulling and pleading with it. All for nothing.
How Gullible You'd Have to Be to Buy It
There was little shame in trying this once and failing. It wasn't too dissimilar a technique from those used for finding other Pokemon, and it was certainly easy enough to do. What made this so insidious was the relatively young age of Pokemon players and the correspondingly high levels of gullibility, which meant that once they'd tried and failed, they kept trying. Again and again and again, convinced that they'd done something wrong, ruining their Gameboys with salty tears, pleading for the 151st Pokemon to arrive, the one that would surely become their real friend.
#4. Finding the Triforce (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)
The Triforce is a kind of powerful triangle thing in the Legend of Zelda games. It's never been explained very clearly what the hell it is, but getting your hands on it is usually a Pretty Big Deal. So when players completed the Ocarina of Time, the Nintendo 64 installment of the franchise, and found no Triforce at all, they got a little concerned. A Zelda game with no sign of the Triforce?
Well, almost no sign of it.
That right there is one of the inventory screens in the game, and right there in the middle is an indentation in the exact shape of the Triforce. It could just be decorative, and in fact it was completely decorative. BUT WHAT IF IT WASN'T?????
Then there was the screenshot that showed Link standing before the Triforce, getting ready to grab it or maybe grind up on it. Even in an age when Photoshopped images were becoming common, this was pretty convincing-looking. And indeed it was real, although pulled from a preview video Nintendo released before the game came to market. The Triforce was removed from the game after the video was released ...
Naturally, a slew of Internet trolls claimed that yes, there was a way to get the Triforce, and for people who really liked triangle things, that was all they needed.
How Gullible You'd Have to Be to Buy It
A little gullible, but not overly so. By the time this one came around, the concept of video game hoaxes had been pretty well-established -- the Sheng Long incident being the most famous. So anyone who proposed a solution that involved completing dozens of awkward, time-consuming steps should have been looked at pretty skeptically.
Still, that sure looked like a place for a Triforce to hang out in your inventory, didn't it? And it's not like hanging around in Hyrule wasn't fun. This game was freaking rad. Playing through that a dozen times looking for something that wasn't there was hardly punishment.
Just keep saying that; the only one you have to convince is yourself.


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Understanding how diet, high blood pressure and high cholesterol relate to heart health can help you make healthier lifestyle choices.
Those three seemingly unrelated circumstances can work separately or in tandem to spell trouble for your heart.
High Blood Pressure and Heart Health
High blood pressure that goes undetected or is improperly treated can lead to a host of problems within the body.
Blood pressure measures the force of the blood flowing through your arteries. The higher number, systolic pressure, represents the blood flow during the pumping action of the heart. The lower number, or diastolic pressure, represents the pressure of the blood flow when the heart in between beats.
An elevated blood pressure over time decreases the elasticity of the inner walls of the blood vessels by causing the linings to become thicker and stiff, according to MayoClinic.com. This change is called "hardening of the arteries," or arteriosclerosis.
Because the heart itself also receives its blood supply through the coronary arteries, these vessels are subject to the same process of arteriosclerosis as in the rest of the body. The lumen, or opening of the vessels, are normally small. Add to this the thickening and stiffening that takes places in arteriosclerosis and you have a recipe for an unhealthy heart. When this occurs, a person is diagnosed with coronary artery disease.
Coronary artery disease can result in decreased blood flow, or even blocked blood flow, which is a type of heart attack known as myocardial infarction, where a section of the heart's muscle ceases to receive blood. Decreased blood flow can result in chest pain and an irregular heartbeat.
"People with high blood pressure who have a heart attack are more likely to die of that heart attack than are people who don't have high blood pressure," warns MayoClinic.com.
Continued high blood pressure can also cause the left side of the heart to enlarge because the heart has to work harder to push the needed blood throughout the body. This left-sided heart enlargement, the MayoClinic.com relates, "increases your risk of heart attack, heart failure and sudden cardiac death."
Finally, the strain of pumping blood at such high pressures can cause the heart muscle to weaken and to pump less efficiently. This results in the heart becoming worn out and failing, a condition known as congestive heart failure, according to MayoClinic.com.
The National Institutes of Health advise that, in general, the accepted blood pressure for an adult is around 120 systolic and 80 diastolic.
Fatty Foods And Heart Health
Many of the fats in the foods that are typical of the American diet contribute to a higher cholesterol level, according to the American Heart Association. The fats responsible for raising cholesterol levels are saturated fats, trans fats and dietary fats.
MayoClinic.com explains that fat eaten in the diet enters the bloodstream, passes through damaged cells and collects on the inner walls of the blood vessels in a condition called atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis can occur throughout the body, blocking blood flow to one or more organs, including the brain and the heart. According to MayoClinic.com, this damage can cause chest pain, heart attack and heart failure.
Picture the vessels of the body as tubes. What once was a clear channel for the flow of blood has become stiffened and the inside diameter, or lumen, of the tube has decreased. If these tubes were pipes in the house, a reasonable person would know to call a plumber right away; in the body, these are silent processes that often give little warning.
High Cholesterol
The American Heart Association defines cholesterol as "a soft, fat-like, waxy substance found in the bloodstream and all your body's cells." The function of cholesterol in a healthy body is to help "produce cell membranes and some hormones and serves other needed bodily functions."
Problems occur when the levels of cholesterol within the body become too high; it is then that the high cholesterol level becomes "a major risk," as the AHA states, of coronary heart disease.
According to MayoClinic.com, cholesterol is a contributing factor in the fatty deposits collecting within the blood vessels, which can be a precursor to heart attack and heart failure.
Cholesterol comes from two sources: food and the body. The AHA explains that the liver and other body cells are responsible for making 75 percent of the total cholesterol in the body, while the other 25 percent comes from food.
LDL cholesterol is commonly referred to as the "bad" cholesterol. When too much of it is circulating in the blood, it can cause atherosclerosis. LDL cholesterol is manufactured naturally by the body, but due to genetics, some people produce excess amounts of it. Eating saturated fats, trans fats and dietary fats can increase the LDL cholesterol levels, too. If a person has inherited this tendency to produce additional LDL cholesterol, lifestyle modifications might not be enough to offset the increased risks.
The American Heart Association recommends that every person over the age of 20 should have a fasting lipoprotein profile done every five years.
Healthy LDL cholesterol readings are from less than 100mgm/dL to 129mgm/dL.
But knowing whether you have a cholesterol or triglyceride reading that requires treatment is about more than knowing about a single level, such as the LDL cholesterol. Your physician understands this, which is why a lipoprotein profile, which measures cholesterols and triglycerides, is the recommended blood test.
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The new superintendent of the troubled El Paso Independent School district wants an outside auditor to help restore trust in the district after state investigators failed to uncover a widespread cheating scheme.
"Certainly that was a big part of it," said Juan Cabrera, Superintendent of EPISD.
"Other districts in Texas have potentially had problems and we're going to have to have some outside oversight. And I want that in this district as well," said Cabrera.
The Texas Education Agency cleared the El Paso school district of any wrongdoing—twice after it looked into complaints but the federal government then stepped in and uncovered a cheating scheme.
An investigation by the Department of Education and FBI found the El Paso district kept low performing students from taking the TAKS test so struggling schools could meet academic standards used for accreditation and funding.
Some students were held back a year. Others advanced a grade without doing the course work so they could avoid taking the 10th grade TAKS test.
Immigrant students from Mexico who did not speak English well or others students who had poor grades were singled out. Some were prevented from enrolling altogether.
"They pushed us away. They're like you're not in this school and we live here in front," said Guadalupe Guerrero, a 9th grader.
On a rainy morning she walked past Bowie High School with another student on the way to catch a bus to another campus.
Guerrero said she wanted to attend the school that is walking distance to her home. But she said instead of "missing school" she enrolled in Sunset High, a non-traditional school.
"After looking into her situation, we found that she was directed to Sunset High School because it could best serve her needs," said Renee de Santos, Assistant Director of Public Relations for EPISD .
The student is in 9th grade now bit 20 years old.
"She also is the mother of two young children and faces circumstances that make Sunset the optimal educational setting for her to complete her graduation requirements," said de Santos.
Sunset High School helps non-traditional students like Guerrero get a high school diploma.
But the federal investigation also found EPISD diverted some students to that alternative high school to help inflate test scores at other struggling schools.
The TEA is supposed to provide oversight. But a recent independent audit of the agency found schools were allowed schools to police themselves.
That federal investigation led to a guilty plea from El Paso school superintendent Lorenzo Garcia who is now serving a 3 year prison sentence for his role in the cheating scandal.
Cabrera was hired in August and began work this week. Previously he was the chief legal adviser and an executive cabinet member at Eanes Independent School District.
He says he welcomes extra scrutiny as he tries to restore confidence in EPISD.
"We're facilitating the operation of a district that's completely funded with taxpayer dollars and everyone has a right to look at the way we operate and to make sure we're doing it legally, fairly, justly," said Cabrera.
He also wants to start a coalition for Border School Districts who face similar challenges so as a group the superintendents can take their concerns to Austin and Washington.
The students affected by the scandal, including those who dropped out, are now the focus of a new outreach campaign that includes billboards and door to door visits.
"Please understand that we are working really hard to find students that might have been affected by the previous actions of the superintendent, said De Santos.
"It's embarrassing for them," said Manuel Garcia, a freshman at Bowie High School. He hopes things will change.
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|Ultrafast Core-Hole Induced Dynamics in Water
A thorough understanding of the chemical processes that are initiated when radiation interacts with aqueous systems is essential for many diverse fields, from condensed matter physics to medicine to environmental science. An incoming photon with enough energy to produce a core hole in a water molecule sets off motions that can affect bonding configurations, which in turn affect subsequent chemical-reaction pathways. However, it is a fundamental challenge for the radiation chemistry community to unravel the early time dynamics of electronically excited states in water because their short (femtosecond) time scales are difficult to access directly with pump–probe measurements. Using a combination of isotope substitution experiments and molecular dynamics simulations, researchers from Sweden, Germany, and the U.S. have shown that the ultrafast (0- to 10-fs) dissociation dynamics of liquid water can be successfully probed with x-ray emission spectroscopy.
X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) is an element-specific tool capable of probing the local electronic structure of the occupied electronic states in complex systems. In the XES of water, the fluorescence from an electron reoccupying the oxygen 1s core level is measured. For hydrogen-bonded systems such as liquid water, ultrafast dynamics that occur during the lifetime of the core-excited state complicate the interpretation of the XES in terms of molecular structures but open a unique opportunity to study femtosecond reaction dynamics. This primary event of excitation or ionization of a water molecule in the radiolysis of aqueous systems governs all the subsequent steps in the radiolytic process.
The molecular dynamics are strongly dependent on the nature of the electronic core-excited state, and by scanning through the x-ray absorption excitation energy, from preedge through postedge, different reaction dynamics can be probed. In addition, by performing the same measurements using molecules of different nuclear masses, any differences in the dynamics will become apparent, and an observed isotope effect in the XES would provide direct evidence of the importance of such processes.
High-brightness radiation from ALS Beamline 8.0.1 was used to excite both normal and deuterated liquid water in a custom-designed copper liquid cell with a 100-nm-thick silicon nitride membrane that enables the study of liquid water under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. The subsequent x-ray emission was recorded in the beamline's soft x-ray fluorescence endstation with a high-resolution Rowland-circle spectrograph. The temperature of the copper liquid cell was kept slightly above the freezing point of water to minimize temperature-induced effects.
The researchers found both an isotope effect and significant differences between the preedge and postedge XES. The preedge and postedge differences were explained in terms of the localization of the (lower-energy) preedge excitations, possible anisotropy in direction of the emitted x rays, and differing hydrogen-bond arrangements between the preedge and postedge cases. The researchers then used ab initio molecular dynamics simulations to model the effects of the finite lifetime of the core hole. In these simulations, the isotope effect due to the inertia difference between hydrogen and deuterium is apparent, with an especially striking difference in dynamics for the two different excited states: the postedge excitation results in dissociation of the hydrogen-bonded OH group(s), whereas for the preedge excitation the uncoordinated OH group dissociates.
In summary, experimental XES for normal and deuterated liquid water was analyzed against the background of ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The excitation energy dependence in the XES data is explained in terms of differences in excited-state dynamics. Because of the inertia difference between hydrogen and deuterium, excited-state dynamics on the same time scale as the decay of the core-excited state will result in an isotope effect in the XES. The experimentally observed isotope effect is the key to unravelling the excited-state dynamics, but theoretical simulations were essential for proving the feasibility of the proposed mechanism.
Research conducted by M. Odelius, D. Nordlund, and L.G.M. Pettersson (Stockholm University); H. Ogasawara (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory); O. Fuchs, L. Weinhardt, F. Maier, and E. Umbach (Würzburg University); C. Heske (University of Nevada, Las Vegas); Y. Zubavichus and M. Grunze (Heidelberg University); J.D. Denlinger (Advanced Light Source); and A. Nilsson (Stockholm University and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory).
Research funding: Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, Swedish Research Council, Swedish National Supercomputer Center, Center for Parallel Computers (Sweden), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Operation of the ALS and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publication about this research: M. Odelius, H. Ogasawara, D. Nordlund, O. Fuchs, L. Weinhardt, F. Maier, E. Umbach, C. Heske, Y. Zubavichus, M. Grunze, J.D. Denlinger, L.G.M. Pettersson, and A. Nilsson, "Ultrafast core-hole-induced dynamics in water probed by x-ray emission spectroscopy," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 227401 (2005).


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American Experience, TV's most-watched history series, brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
The story of nine young men from Washington who captured gold at the 1936 Olympic Games.
The United States Air Force brought men up 19 miles, testing the limits of human endurance
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Go inside the coal miners' bitter battle for dignity at the dawn of the 20th century.
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Tuberculosis was once the deadliest killer in human history.
The complete biography of Walt Disney, premiering September 2015 on American Experience.
Approximately 5,000 Americans remained with roughly 24 hours to get out.
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Firefighters responded to an unscheduled sugar cane fire Sunday afternoon that witnesses said was "raging" along Hana Highway across from Mama's Fish House Restaurant in Paia.
"I was at Hookipa and was going to Paia to see some friends when I saw the fire starting up the road," said Haiku resident Tara Lee Murphy, who was driving westbound on the highway. "The fire was just coming straight up the highway, it was coming really close to the road. . . . I didn't want to drive through. It was scary."
Fire crews from Kahului, Paia and Makawao, along with the Air One helicopter, responded to the fire with the first crews arriving at 12:49 p.m. near Holomua Road, Fire Services Chief Lee Mainaga said. He said that the fire was under control about an hour later and extinguished at 3:15 p.m.
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Hana Highway, between Holomua Road and Kaimao Street, was closed for about one hour due to heavy smoke conditions, he said.
"I just watched it crawl across," Murphy said of the approximately 26-acre cane fire. "It engulfed the whole sugar cane field, all the way down to Mama's Fish House."
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Firefighters responded to an unscheduled sugar cane fire Sunday afternoon at Holomua Road and Hana Highway. The approximately 26-acre fire was extinguished after about 2¢ hours and losses were estimated at $100,000. No injuries were reported.
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A crew using the Maui Fire Department's Air One helicopter responded to an unscheduled sugar cane fire Sunday afternoon at Holomua Road and Hana Highway.
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David Baker, floor manager at the Paia restaurant, said that workers started to see and smell smoke around 12:30 p.m. One of the executive chefs ran out toward the highway to see from where the smoke was coming.
"He said it's getting closer and closer, so we decided to evacuate the building," Baker said. "We had to evacuate all the guests down to the beach."
Fellow Mama's manager Jackie Greene also went out to the road and was standing about 20 yards away from the fire, where she could "definitely feel the heat."
"The wind was really blowing too, and for a period of time, smoke was blowing right into the restaurant, as well as the ash," she said. "We were evacuated and couldn't open for the rest of lunch."
Although the fire was burning across the street from the restaurant and parallel to the highway, Greene said it was only about 100 feet away. She was worried that it might "jump the street" through a nearby maintenance building.
"It singed the coconut trees on the mauka side of our property," Baker said. "It was really crackling and blazing away. . . . I've experienced a cane fire that got pretty close before but nothing this close."
Greene said that the restaurant was holding a Father's Day lunch special and was completely booked with 365 reservations.
"We had to think of the safety," she said. "A lot of local families came to celebrate Father's Day here and weren't able to completely enjoy their lunch, but they certainly understood the situation."
The restaurant had 550 reservations for Sunday night, and Greene said that the restaurant would be ready to service its customers.
"We got the whole staff stripping the restaurant down, getting everything cleaned, vacuumed and washed to get ready to take care of all the dads tonight," she said. "Luckily, we had a lot of staff so we had a lot of hands to clean up."
Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. reported losses of $100,000 from the fire, Mainaga said.
He said the cause of the fire is undetermined.
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The Greenest (Virtual) House in Miami!
The Digital WAVE students have learned a lot this summer – building their own circuits powered by wind, water, and the Sun… following through the Energy Tracker exhibits at the Museum… meeting Martin Keeley, Education Director of the Mangrove Action Project via a virtual world… going on a field trip with Fernando Bretos of the Museum's Reclamation Project to plant mangrove seedlings… researching energy efficient and environmentally friendly technologies. All of this helped inform student projects, with the big goal to create a 3D virtual exhibit of the "greenest house in Miami." In the virtual world, students built virtual wind turbines, attenuator buoys to harness wave energy, and solar panels, and they built a virtual house with energy efficient appliances, a green roof, and water recycling abilities. On the last day of the program, students presented their projects to family and friends at the Family Event, held at the Museum. They shared what they had created and what they had learned, and left inspired to suggest or make whatever changes they could in their homes, schools, and lives. Take a tour of our virtual house below!


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Family: Is Mom or Dad more important?
Does it take one or two parents to create a happy child? Is Mom or Dad more important?
According to a new study by University of Iowa researchers, being attached to Dad is just as helpful as being close to Mom.
The study also revealed what families have known forever: Bond with your children when they are infants to make sure they will be happy and socially well-adjusted.
Researchers said that infants who have a close, intimate relationship with a parent are less likely to be troubled, aggressive or experience other emotional and behavioral problems when they reach school age.
They were surprised, however, to discover that infants who felt attached to both parents did not enjoy additional mental and emotional advantages into childhood, compared to those who had been close to just one parent.


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HILTON HEAD ISLAND — In their last joust before today's GOP runoff election, Curtis Bostic and Mark Sanford exchanged barbs as well as compliments in a joint appearance Monday.
The Republican 1st Congressional District hopefuls spent 90 minutes making their case at a luncheon meeting of about 100 likely voters.
Bostic, a former Charleston County councilman, quoted from Sanford's 13-year-old book, "The Trust Committed to Me," about the value of sending amateurs, not career politicians, to Washington, D.C. Bostic noted he is the fresher face in the race.
But Sanford's deep roots in the Beaufort area were clear. State Sen. Tom Davis, who served as chief of staff when Sanford was governor, was front and center in the audience. Sanford's family has had a farm for decades in northern Beaufort County.
Bostic, who is a lawyer, was asked pointed questions about his stance on tort reform and why he has not filed his financial disclosure form outlining his economic interests.
Bostic said that form should be filed within a few days, and he said the tort reform that South Carolina passed under Sanford was not perfect because it protected only 22 different professional classes.
Sanford agreed with Bostic's critique but also said politics is "the art of the possible," adding, "I would grant Curtis' point that it wasn't a perfect bill, but I would say it was a whole lot better than doing nothing."
Bostic praised Sanford for the way he has campaigned like "a Southern gentleman," and Bostic said he agreed with many of Sanford's previous votes. Sanford also agreed with Bostic's answers at several points.
Beaufort County is at the southern tip of the 1st District and the only county that didn't give Sanford the most votes during the original March 19 primary.
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MUNCIE, Ind. - Senior middle hitter Matt Leske has been selected to the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association's Preseason All-Conference team as voted on by the league's eight head coaches. Ball State was selected to finish fifth in the conference.
Loyola-Chicago was picked to finish first, earning seven first-place votes. Loyola-Chicago finished five points ahead of Lewis and 15 points ahead of Ohio State. Grand Canyon was picked to finish fourth followed by Ball State and IPFW who tied for fifth. Lindenwood and Quincy rounded out the preseason standings.
Loyola-Chicago's Joseph Smalzer was selected as the Preseason Player of the Year while the Ramblers' Peter Jasaitis earned Preseason Libero of the Year.
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Short Selling and the Price Discovery Process
Ekkehart Boehmer
Singapore Management University - Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Juan (Julie) Wu
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
July 16, 2012
Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
We show that stock prices are more accurate when short sellers are more active. First, in a large panel of NYSE-listed stocks, intraday informational efficiency of prices improves with greater shorting flow. Second, at monthly and annual horizons, more shorting flow accelerates the incorporation of public information into prices. Third, greater shorting flow reduces post-earnings announcement drift for negative earnings surprises. Fourth, short sellers change their trading around extreme return events in a way that aids price discovery and reduces divergence from fundamental values. These results are robust to various econometric specifications and their magnitude is economically meaningful.
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Keywords: Informational efficiency of prices, short selling, post-earnings announcement drift, arbitrage
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Josiah Kent Olsen was born to Mark and Valerie (Slyter) Olsen of Schaller, Iowa on Dec. 26, 2012. He was welcomed by his big sister, Eliana, and his big brother, Titus. Tom and Marty Olsen of Newell, Iowa, and Kent and Cynthia Slyter of Cortez are the proud grandparents.
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Kudos to Walt Frank (Williamsburg class of 1968) for his insightful, and well written story featuring Tyrone resident and Williamsburg native Don Wagner Sr., who is truly a basketball legend in his hometown.
To learn that Don is still playing the game well into his 70s and at a very high level is amazing as well as inspiring.
Frank's article couldn't help but bring to mind those glorious days at Williamsburg High School, beginning in the mid-1950s and continuing deep into the 1960s when the Blue Pirates pieced together a veritable "golden age" in the history of Pennsylvania hoops.
Over 14 seasons starting in 1953-54 and culminating in 1967-68, Williamsburg won 12 Juniata Valley League titles, nine District 6 titles and six western regional championships. The proverbial icing on the cake was our area's first state championship (1958) with coach Bill Casper at the helm. Then in the '60s, coach Dick Buckley directed the Blue Pirates to a second PIAA title (1966).
During the 1950s, it was Ron Robeson, Wagner, Galen Hall, Jack Campbell, Dick Dibert, Ken Flaig, Jim Hancuff and Eldon "Shorty" Lower, among others, that made up the core of Casper's dominating squads.
From 1954-1958, they posted a combined record of 100 wins against eight defeats while reaching the state title game in three consecutive seasons. The 1958 state crown was especially sweet since Williamsburg edged Jenkintown, which had beaten the Blue Pirates in 1958.
Both games were played at Juniata College.
Williamsburg excelled in other sports too, going undefeated in football in 1955 and 1957 and adding a Blair County baseball title in 1958. Coaches Bill Rhodes and Sam Fonzi led those outstanding squads.
Buckley followed Casper and during an incomparable run from 1963 to 1968, his charges rolled up a record of 124 wins with only six losses. This spectacular stretch included a 67-game regular season winning streak, a team (1964-65) that averaged 100 pints per game, five consecutive District 6 titles and one undefeated squad at 25-0 (1965-66).
It's hard to imagine that any other school of comparable size, anywhere, could match these unparalleled achievements. No doubt Robeson, Wagner, Hall and company launched a tradition that has endured for many decades.
The successes of the 1950s and '60s were matched with the Lady Pirate powerhouses of the 1990s, including another state championship in 1997, and Williamsburg still ranks in the top 10 in PIAA basketball history for state championship appearances with a total of eight trips to the title game.
Not bad for a school that is currently the smallest in the state that is still sponsoring a football squad each fall.
Don Appleman, Williamsburg
Outlook bleak for PSU
The ghost of coach Joe Paterno visited the Scott Stadium in Virginia last week in a sun-drenched, humid atmosphere in the body of Virginia quarterback Michael Rocco.
In 2010, Paterno recruited high school quarterbacks Rob Bolden and Paul Jones. He didn't recruit Rocco, son of former Penn State quarterback Frank Rocco Jr. and grandson of former assistant PSU coach and administrator Frank Rocco Sr.
What a major mistake.
Michael Rocco took advantage of finding major holes in Penn State's secondary when his own team didn't seem to want to win at times.
Penn State is now 0-2 with winnable games against Navy and Temple in non-conference play and Indiana in conference play.
Emotions can carry a team only so far before things unravel.
Coach Bill O'Brien is still making excuses for his team, but that is becoming very tiresome.
My assessment is that the Nittany Lions will go 0-12 at worst or 3-9 at best. But that isn't enough to hold undergraduate players from leaving after this season. To exacerbate the problem, members of the 2013 class are starting to have major doubts and with losses mounting will also contemplate moving on.
O'Brien is in a learning mode in dealing with these young kids.
He is searching for answers. Professional players can fit an O'Brien style of offense more easily than even good college players.
There is a long, long way to go for O'Brien and his staff to get these young folks not only to buy into the offensive and defensive game plan but to actually have the right talent to execute what is to be done.
This is a long, long haul even for the Penn State fans to continue to be patient.
Les Hart
Blame NCAA, not Ficken
I was disappointed in the Mirror's headline last Sunday, which I thought blamed Sam Ficken for Penn State's loss to Virginia.
Football is a team sport, and the team wins or loses as a team. The kicker only played five plays. His extra point was blocked.
Blame the NCAA for slowly killing the PSU football program. They have more power than God. It is a disgrace to punish the innocent for the sins of the guilty.
This team will be remembered not for the wins or losses but for their great courage off the field. It's a great team of honor.
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October 26, 2013
For more than a decade, Project ChildSafe has been partnering with law enforcement agencies throughout the country to distribute free firearm safety kits that include gun locks and educational......
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Aw****...a radical lefty doesn't like the NRA or our freedoms under the constitution. What a shocker.
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The NRA themselves provide such firearms safety programs; therefore I think gun owners in America would "prefer" the gun banning govt agencies stay out of this effort as they are not 'for' gun safety; they are obviously for destroying that right! I wouldn't attend any safety program funded by our govt. They would 'only' do it with 'ulterior' motives and not for the safety of the gun owners.
Look at the healthcare website for an example. It intentionally keeps folks on the site "long enough to spy around your personal info on your computer system." THAT clarifies my position!!!
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A 74-year-old man who was reported missing by South Lake Tahoe police June 9 had been arrested by Reno-Tahoe International Airport police on suspicion of trespassing that same day, according to a Wednesday statement from police.
Norman Lambert was booked into Washoe County Jail for allegedly trespassing at the airport, according to the statement.
Details of his arrest were not reported to South Lake Tahoe police by Reno police and it is unknown why Lambert was at the airport, according to the statement.
On June 7, police responded to Lambert's apartment on the 3400 block of Spruce Avenue in South Lake Tahoe following a call in reference to Lambert, but he was gone when police arrived. Witnesses reported he appeared confused and disoriented. Police believe Lambert may be suffering from Alzheimer's disease or dementia.


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Like a powerful magnet, the multibillion-dollar app market attracts millions of developers – and even more customers. In 2012 alone, Apple's store for iOS apps notched nearly 20 billion downloads. App analytics company Flurry predicts that sometime during the fourth quarter of 2013, iOS and Android app downloads will combine to hit 2 billion a week.
Most apps are created by solo operators or small companies. Of course, many of these developers dream of making big bucks from their apps. Yet for a large swath of app developers, those dreams fail to materialize.
A 2012 study by GigaOM Pro found that more than half of the app developers surveyed pulled in less than $500 a month from paid apps; one-third of developers of ad-supported apps made less than $100 a month in ad revenue. Only about 5 percent of app developers in the study earned more than $20,000 a month, and those developers tended to work for big companies.
So, given the many hurdles – notably the financial ones – how can an app developer achieve success? Several app developers who were showcasing their technology at the recent Macworld/iWorld conference in San Francisco said it takes a solid concept along with passion and commitment.
"Ideas are cheap; ideas are really worth nothing," said Joe Bruzda, whose startup, Kijome Software LLC, has developed the BigDay Reminder app, which reminds you of special occasions and offers a gift-buying tool. "It's the execution of the idea that matters."
Bruzda and his wife, Kim Peterson, had to be persistent in order to execute their idea. Since they don't have technical expertise, Bruzda and Peterson hired a programming company to build the BigDay app. But six weeks into the project that company dropped Kijome Software as a customer. Fortunately, Bruzda and Peterson got all of their money back, as well as the blueprints for the app.
That setback may have defeated some app developers, but not Bruzda and Peterson. "We decided to make lemonade out of lemons," Bruzda said.
The lemonade, if you will, came in the form of tapping another programming company to build the app, which became available in late 2012. Bruzda and Peterson have promoted the BigDay app through public relations efforts and old-fashioned, on-the-ground marketing initiatives, such as attending Macworld/iWorld. A mobile advertising campaign is on the drawing board.
Like many other app developers, Bruzda and his wife are "trying to live the dream," he said.
"Living the dream means (working) 10 hours a day, seven days a week," Bruzda said with a laugh.
Michael Chen, cofounder and CEO of QuikIO, said that for app developers to realize their dreams, they must offer a product that people want and need. "You have to convince them why they need it," Chen said, "and you really need to have people endorse it."
QuikIO's iOS app allows users to access documents, photos, videos and music from their Macs and PCs. During Macworld/iWorld, QuikIO introduced a new feature – the ability to transfer files from one mobile device to another. The startup unveiled its app in November 2012.
According to Chen, flexibility is key in app development.
"Your first idea may not be the best idea. You may be very narrow-sighted in certain aspects; maybe you think you're unique enough, but your consumers don't think that way," he said.
Chen added: "You've got to make sure that people you see you as a valid business, see that you have a valid product and that you're really dedicated to it."
Oleksandr Kosovan definitely has a valid business and a valid product. At Macworld/iWorld, his Ukrainian app development company, MacPaw Inc., rolled out an updated version of its popular CleanMyMac app. The app cleans up your computer system, making it run more smoothly.
Kosovan, founder and CEO of MacPaw, said his company has grown from one person – himself – to more than 40 employees since he came out with his debut app, CleanMyMac. He never envisioned his business becoming so big. "I was just solving a simple problem and had a simple solution," Kosovan said.
Today, MacPaw offers six other utility apps: Gemini, MacHider, CleanMyDrive, CleanMyPC, Ensoul Contacts and Ensoul Wallpapers.
What advice does Kosovan have for developers hoping to come up with an app – or, in his case, seven apps – capable of hitting it big?
"You've got to be passionate about what you do," he said. "At the beginning, don't think about how you will sell it in the future. You need to concentrate on what you do and try to do it best. Everything else comes afterward."
For more of Allvoices' coverage of Macworld/iWorld 2013, the Ultimate iFan Event, check out allvoices.com/macworld.


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Baseball Sweeps Kent State with 9-8 Senior Day Win
For the second straight day, Ball State's baseball team used ninth-inning heroics to defeat the Kent State Golden Flashes and remain in the top spot in the Mid-American Conference.
Alex Maloney's single to center field with two outs in the ninth inning scored pinch runner Elbert Devarie to give the Cardinals a 9-8 win in a game they trailed 8-5 heading into their final at-bat.
With the victory, Ball State improved to 35-16 overall and 19-4 in the MAC, while Kent State fell to 30-20 overall and 14-10 in league play.
"Great series for our boys," Ball State head coach Rich Maloney said. "It was a total team effort. The comeback wins against an outstanding reliever was nothing short of incredible. Anyone who watched this series had to leave the park exhausted from the level of intensity that could be felt by all who were there. Two excellent teams pouring their heart into competing against each other. We feel very fortunate to sweep such a quality team."
With the MAC's top closer, Eric Dorsch, taking the mound with a three-run lead in the ninth, Ball State's offense responded with a four-run rally to secure the victory.
Caleb Stayton led off the ninth with a pinch-hit single and was followed by an Alex Call single to left. With one out, Sean Godfrey was hit by a pitch to load the bases, and Jarett Rindfleisch responded with a double to center to score two runs and pull the Cardinals within 8-7.
With runners on first and third and one out, Sean Kennedy smacked a single right back to the mound that bounced off Dorsch's thigh and scored Godfrey to tie the game at 8-8. Then with two outs and runners on the corners, Maloney's single scored the game winner and gave Ball State a sweep of Kent State in the weekend three-game series.
Ball State scored four earned runs in one-third of an inning off Dorsch, who entered the game with a MAC-best 10 saves but could not close out the Cardinals in the Saturday or Sunday game of the weekend series.
Matt Johnsen was credited with the win Sunday after pitching the final two-thirds of the ninth and allowing no runs. Clay Manering started for the Cardinals, while Nestor Bautista pitched 3.1 frames and limited the Flashes to one earned run on two hits.
Call was 2-for-4 with three runs scored, while Spaulding was 2-for-4 with three runs-batted-in and one run scored. Rindfleisch was 3-for-5 with three RBI, while Kennedy was 2-for-5 with two RBI. Maloney's game-winning hit was his second base hit of the game and completed his day with a 2-for-5 showing from the plate and the game-winning RBI.
Sunday's win marked the second straight come-from-behind ninth-inning victory for Ball State, which tallied a 5-4 Saturday win after entering the ninth trailing 4-3.
The Cardinals will complete the regular season with a three-game series at Northern Illinois Thursday through Saturday. Ball State and the Huskies will play at 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday before the regular season finale at 1 p.m. Saturday. The Cardinals enter the final weekend of MAC play with a 2.5 game lead over Central Michigan for the MAC West Division title and the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament.


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EAST LIVERPOOL - The resignations of two longtime employees of the city school district were approved Monday night by the school board, along with several other personnel matters.
Accepted with regrets were the resignations for retirement purposes of Linda Henderson, principal and director of federal/state programs at Westgate, and bus driver Jo Ann Robinson.
Both women have worked for the school district 39 years, and board members expressed their thanks for their years of service, as well as sharing a few personal anecdotes.
Board President Janice Martin commended Henderson for having raised scores at Westgate during her time there, and member Larry Walton said she was a "woman who made education a real art in this community."
Walton also commended Robinson, saying, "We tend to look at those yellow buses going up and down and not see the caliber of people (driving them)."
Other personnel contracts approved included that of Richard Prescott as varsity football coach and equipment manager/fall; David Dozier, assistant varsity football coach; Charles Payne II, assistant varsity boys soccer coach; Robert Shansky, varsity volleyball coach; Lori Adkins, varsity cheerleading adviser; and Kim Daugherty, assistant varsity cheerleading advisor.
The board returned from an executive session of nearly two hours to approve the personnel matters as well as vote to affirm a student expulsion. Superintendent James Herring said he could not discuss the reason for the expulsion when asked after the meeting.
Henderson offered a presentation on Westgate's activities, including reward programs for students, assemblies to enrich education, classroom work and teacher team work.
She said teacher teams are "the most powerful thing we've done to improve student learning," and predicted that "more and more we're going to see technology (in the classroom) instead of pencil and paper."
Board members discussed at length the need to either repair or replace boilers at Westgate, with a motion made to have Herring secure some prices to hire a boiler engineer for a consultation to determine just what needs done.
Walton emphasized the need to speak with the Ohio School Facilities Commission about the district's desire to keep the Westgate facility open, saying, "We need this building."
Treasurer Todd Puster said he has spoken recently with an OSFC representative and said he has been told the agency is "willing to work with us," but that no time frame has been presented.
Westgate was slated for demolition under the original OSFC plan, but an increased enrollment has made district officials deem the building necessary. It currently houses 300 students as well as preschool students.
In other matters, the board:
- Learned that senior Nick Harris has earned his Eagle Scout badge
- Was advised that Jeff Kreefer has completed a display at Potters Fieldhouse showcasing former student and U.S. Olympics contender Aric Long
- Heard from member Richard Wolf about his concern with the condition of River Road, with Wolf suggesting all bus traffic be suspended until it is "reasonably passable." Herring will speak with the transportation supervisor to see if buses need to travel on the road.


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Enjoy this creamy, sweet treat with a campfire twist from chef Stephen Harman of the Coastal Cupboard in Mount Pleasant. See the video at postandcourier.com/food.
Smoked Olive Oil Ice Cream
2 cups heavy cream
2 cups whole milk
1 cup sugar, divided use
¼ cup olive oil
Pinch of salt
1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste
5 egg yolks
Smoking Gun wood chips (see cook's note)
Cook's note: The Smoking Gun is a handheld smoking device used with its own brand of wood chips.
In a heavy-bottomed pot, bring cream, milk, ¾ cup sugar, olive oil, salt and vanilla bean paste to a simmer. Steep for 10 minutes. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together egg yolks and remaining sugar. Very slowly, whisk milk mixture into the egg mixture. Pour into a 13x9-inch pan and cover with plastic wrap. Add wood chips to your Smoking Gun. Place the tube of the gun under the plastic wrap. Turn gun on and light the wood chips to fill the dish with smoke. Cover for 3 to 5 minutes. Take plastic off and chill completely. Then follow the manufacturer's instructions of your ice-cream maker.
Stephen Harman is the in-house chef at the The Coastal Cupboard in Mount Pleasant. A graduate of the College of Charleston, he has been sous chef at The Mustard Seed locally and at J. Alexander's in Chicago. He was executive chef at Huck's Lowcountry Table on the Isle of Palms.


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on March 19, 2013 - 12:08 AM
An 18-year-old Alden man was arrested in the parking lot of D'Arcy McGee's on Franklin Street on false personation charges after Buffalo police found him trying to open the handle of a parked car just after midnight Sunday. He was arrested for having false identification documents. Eric Roth of Bonnie Lake Drive was charged with having three false identification cards belonging to persons over 21. He told police he was using them to buy beer.


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Move over, Ben Affleck! John Krasinski wants to be Matt Damon's new best friend.
"Matt is one of the coolest guys I know, and I'm totally in love with the guy, but he doesn't even know my name," Krasinski joked to PEOPLE at the New York premiere of his new movie Promised Land on Tuesday.
"I would love to have a bromance with him," he continues, "but I don't even know if I could even use the word 'bromance' because he and Ben are so tight and like a married couple that I'll never get in there."
The Office star, 33, first met Damon through his wife Emily Blunt when she starred in 2011's The Adjustment Bureau with him.
Soon, he got the opportunity to work with Damon himself in Promised Land (out in theaters Dec. 28), a new film the pair wrote and star in together. Although Krasinski spent multiple weekends at Damon's house to write the script, he is not satisfied with their strictly working relationship.
"I must be the bromance mistress," he said. "I'm on the outside of the relationship, only working with him on the side while really he's supposed to be with Ben. I'm clearly the mistress and this has got to change!"
John Krasinski: I'm 'Totally in Love' with Matt Damon
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With a large land mass that receives among the highest solar irradiation in the world and a long coastline with consistent high wind velocities, India has great potential for renewable energy. Recognizing the importance of developing renewable energy resources, the Indian government has set two ambitious targets with its National Action Plan on Climate Change:
- To achieve ~55 GW of Renewable Energy (RE) by 2017
- To increase the share of RE in electricity mix to 15% by 2020 (currently 5.5%)
In order to meet the goals of the National Action Plan and effectively double RE capacity over the next five years from the 2012 level of 28 GW, The Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has formulated an energy roadmap to install an additional 30 GW of RE capacity by 2017.
India has played a key role in supporting the global renewable energy industry and fostering dialogue between nations. Delhi was the host of the Delhi International Renewable Energy Conference (DIREC) in 2010, which brought together government delegations, business leaders, NGOs, and international organizations from around the globe.
As for energy relations between the United States and India, the future is bright. The two nations continue to engage through forums such as the U.S.-India Energy Dialogue and the Clean Energy Ministerial, which was held in Delhi this year, and negotiations on a Bilateral Investment Treaty are proceeding smoothly. Additionally, joint research programs between the two nations are making progress toward a clean energy future.
ACORE is participating in the PACE-D Technical Assistance Program of USAID, for creating and supporting a non-profit all-renewables industry platform in India. This platform will assist in catalyzing finances, developing appropriate policies and deploying renewable energy widely. PACE-D has special focus on distributed generation, off grid deployment, micro-grids and demand response technologies.
ACORE is also working with the newly established Indian Renewable Energy Federation (IREF) and The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI) to build a network of governmental, corporate and non-profit entities in India with the common goal of expanding renewable energy capacity.
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A well-known onetime giant freezer building near the First Niagara Center and Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino will become apartments, offices and a restaurant with a banquet room, under a proposal by Ellicott Development Co. that will come before city planners next month.
Ellicott wants to convert the eight-story Coffee Rich building at 199 Scott St. into a project that could be half-filled with tenants before it is even completed.
The now-empty structure is perhaps best-known now for the words "Coffee Rich" painted on the top edge of its facade facing the Niagara Thruway, as well as a political billboard put up by Ellicott Development owner Carl Paladino.
The $14 million investment calls for about 20 market-rate units, with a mixture of one- and two-bedroom apartments, and possibly others depending on market demand, said Ellicott CEO Bill Paladino. Those units may only take up a few floors, or the residential space could be expanded to three or four floors if needed.
Much of the rest of the 115,000-square-foot building would be occupied by offices for several tenants. Paladino said the company has "a particular tenant in mind" that he would not name, and the rest would be speculative space.
"Everything's still being planned, but we have conceptually what we want to do," he said. "There's a lot of market demand out there, or we wouldn't be spending that much money on starting the project. The building needs to be cleaned up before people find it as attractive as we see it can be. The building's very ornate."
Additionally, the building would feature a 3,000-square-foot restaurant, with a small attached banquet facility to handle small meetings, conferences and luncheons. Paladino said there are "a few different parties" looking into that space, but the type of restaurant would depend on which one is selected.
"We hope to have up to half the building spoken for with what we're looking at," he said. "It's a very speculative project, but we feel that if we get the project going, the building cleaned up, landscaped, the parking lot all done, it'll be much more attractive to potential new users."
On the outside, the developer plans to clean up the facade, including removing the Coffee Rich words. The billboard will stay.
"It's totally cleaned out right now," he said, emphasizing that the building is "structurally sound" and "very solid."
The warehouse was originally the home of the Fairmont Creamery Co., a wholesale dairy distributor that opened there in the 1920s, across from Booth Fisheries, another distributor. Both were located near the former Elk Street Market, which dated back to 1845. Later, the space was shared by Arctic Freezer Co. and Rich Products Co., maker of Coffee Rich nondairy creamers. "It's one big freezer," Paladino said.
If approved by the city, Paladino said work would start in the summer, with the first tenants moving in by late summer or early fall. The project would be done in phases over five years, as different tenants or uses are found, but Paladino expects it will include a mix of restaurant, residential and office regardless. "The question is to what extent," he said. "The market will dictate that."
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5 Ways We Know Nintendo Has Lost Its Mind
I don't get as worked up about video games these days, now that I can afford to simply pay a real Italian man to fight a gorilla in my yard. And I honestly didn't want to write another gaming article, because I've done two in the past three weeks. But just as I was all set to bust out a 3,000-word Adventure Time erotic fanfic, Nintendo showed up at E3 and cock-punched the entire planet with stupid.
I don't have anything at stake here -- the odds were low I was ever going to buy their next game console. But I am mesmerized by ridiculous disasters, and this is a company that, with the release of their Wii U system, is orchestrating one of the all-time greats.
#5. They're About to Make Dick History
Take a good long look at the following screenshot from their presentation. Take your time and really savor it, taking in every pixel as if each represented a single bite of a home-cooked meal before a five-year prison sentence:
That is the last time you will ever see that screen without it being covered in dicks. I'm not speaking metaphorically, and I'm not using "dicks" as another way of saying "rude people." I'm talking about penises.
Nintendo has decided that their console not only has to be a social tool, but also auto logs you the second you turn on the machine. And even though that's not what I'm looking for in a gaming system, I can handle that to a certain extent. It will have your family, friends and gaming acquaintances all in one group so you can see who's online and what game they're playing. But it also adds complete strangers who have the ability to not only text you, but also draw pictures. For a quick example of how that turns out, find any drawing game anywhere online and join any group of people from any culture or socioeconomic class you can think of for just 10 minutes.
How it turns out is dicks. Lots and lots of dicks. And you will see them with 100 percent certainty. But with this new system, we have finally encountered, for the first time in human history, a situation in which a lack of dicks on your welcome screen represents something far worse than being saturated by them:
Dick admins. Since the Nintendo U will be automatically social, it means that your screen will be auto-populated by little kids and those who are easily offended. So in order to curb the massive volume of cartoon anal sex floating around in text balloons, it means they're going to have to include a "Report Player" button. And just like in every other social game on the planet, it will be some poor bastard's job to moderate and ban players who dick-bomb people's living rooms, unless Nintendo has invented some sort of high-tech dick recognition software to help automate the process.
That's bad news for people like me who looked forward to drawing massive erections in my text bubble and then positioning it over my friend's head so it looks like he's dreaming of dicks. Because now if I do that, some 6-year-old kid from Idaho is going to see it, and I'll risk losing my account. On the machine that I just bought -- that I have no intention of ever playing with a random stranger as long as I live.
I touched on this in my Diablo III article, but that means that for the first time in gaming history, the people who make the games are controlling how you play them. Even on single-player titles. And I'm not fucking OK with that.
But maybe I'm just overreacting. Surely the people who created this system know what they're doing:
Wait, what? Did that motherfucker just say, "The purpose of Miiverse is to add ... a new level of empathy between players"? Have these people ever played an online game in their lives? It could be that the word "empathy" is just one of those words that gets mixed up in translation from Japanese to English. Maybe they meant "racism." Because that's far more seated in reality than the bullshit they're just making up as they go along. Which actually brings me to the point I hate the most ...
#4. They've Decided Games Should Be Facebook
When did the marketing departments from every technology company in existence get together and decide that we as a society want constant communication, every second of the day, from every device we own? Was it the same people who decided that we wanted everything that ran on electricity to play MP3s?
The problem is that marketing people are like that old cartoon gag where one fisherman catches a fish, and then 50 other guys swarm in and cast their lines exactly where he was fishing. How goddamn insane or codependent do you have to be to demand that everything you own gives you the ability to communicate with others?
This isn't a matter of personal preference here, and it has almost nothing to do with the fact that I barely tolerate mortals. I mean "people." Because I am mortal just like the rest of you. But the reason that matters is because Nintendo looked at Facebook and Twitter and thought, "People are really into this whole social networking thing. Let's make our video game console do that."
And then they did. They integrated it into the console itself, forcing you to constantly interact with others, but they also made it so that you can (and motherfucking will) receive texts in the game that you're trying to concentrate on. Even the single-player ones. Now, I totally understand and respect the fact that there are loads of people out there who would love this feature. And even I, to a certain extent, could find rare, occasional uses for them. But to those people who don't understand why this is such a big deal to a very large portion of the gaming audience, let me explain this to you as gently and succinctly as I can: We just want you to shut the fuck up so we can concentrate. When you talk to most of us while we're trying to play a game, we're picturing ourselves shooting you in your goddamn face.
"OK, dude, don't you pussy out. You do this in CoD all the time. Just squeeze."
I'm not letting the other game companies off the hook here -- I don't doubt that their new systems will have even more of this shit (only with Kinect, you'll have real-time video of strangers' cocks popping up on your screen). What all of them are failing to realize is the reason why texting became so popular in the first place: It decreases the amount of interaction you have with people. It eliminated long, boring conversations, loaded with filler and rambling. It allowed the recipient to respond whenever they had time, or to not respond at all, no harm done. Now we have a perfect setup for what every Wii U owner is destined to hear: "Why are you ignoring me? I know you can answer. I know you're not doing anything important because I can see you playing a game."
Let's face it, this system is set up for a very lonely, friendless type of person. Because if you do have friends, and you're choosing to play a game instead of hanging out with them, it means you want some uninterrupted alone time. So the only personality this system appeals to is people who typically make most of their friends online, through games.
Not that there's anything wrong with that -- hell, almost all of my friends are online.
And if you think I'm exaggerating that social point, here's a quote from the man himself: "It's a real-time social window that opens up right as you're playing." Fuck every last second of that.
#3. They Think People Love Buying Worse Versions of Shit They Already Have
When the following image showed up on my screen, I had to pause the video and spin a top to make sure my actual body wasn't on a transatlantic passenger jet:
Oh, snap! That's fucking Batman: Arkham City, baby! One of the most beloved games that ... has been out for every other system for so long that you can now find it in the bargain bin for less than $40. Keep in mind that the Wii U is projected to come out "around the holidays," as stated at the presentation. Which means that if Arkham City is ready to go on the day the console is released, the game will be over a year old.
But it's not enough that they're releasing a title that everyone in the free world has already played. They had to do this to it:
That's not the game. The actual game is still happening up on your TV. This is just how you switch weapons. By taking your eyes off of the action and fumbling around with a touch screen embedded in your gigantic controller. Because goddamnit, they made that touch screen controller, and you are goddamn well going to use it. But, hey, at least you can steer your batarang, which I'm sure will make it totally worth the money.
"Quick! Tilt your controller slightly to the right! See, you're having fun!"
I probably shouldn't pick on just Batman. I'll admit, I'm as biased as any person on that subject because I'm one of like three people on the entire site who couldn't give a fraction of a fuck about Batman or that whole universe.
Luckily, they gave us plenty of other already-released titles to make fun of. Like Tank! Tank! Tank! -- an arcade game that's been around since 2009 and looks like it was constructed out of chewed candy. Or Mass Effect 3:
"Ha! My plan of not buying any popular titles in the hopes that Nintendo would release their version is finally paying off!"
"But that game just came out in March -- it's not that old," some of you are saying with your stupid, unthinking heads. That's true, and in that month alone, it sold 3.5 million copies. When the Wii U comes out, the game will be about 8 months old, meaning that it's already made the rounds, putting it balls deep into the category of "Buy it used for $30" or "Rent it for the weekend." Not "Buy it new for full price."


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Web developers have long used jQuery to add new functionality to the browser and mask cross-browser incompatibilities. Now, eCSStender does the same for CSS, allowing you to mask cross-browser incompatibilities in CSS and prototype new CSS properties. Aaron Gustafson, developer of eCSStender, explains how eCSStender works and how you can build your own plugins. Check out the funky physics demo, and a demo showing how you can use standard W3C CSS properties without vendor prefixes on Safari and other browsers. In addition to his work on eCSStender, Aaron is Group Manager at WaSP and Principal at Easy Designs.
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Very cool, nice job guys.
I like this idea, nice work!
It also reminds me a little of the Internet Explorer-specific CSS expressions or behaviors but it's a different animal.
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Great video. I've been putting off trying out eCSStender. It's pretty exciting what it is able to do. jQuery changed how I think about JS -- maybe this will do the same for CSS.
Awesome! Definitely using it in my next project.
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The forums will help develop an initiative called One Region Forward, which will assess all the regional, municipal and special purpose plans for things including economic development, recreation, transportation, neighborhood revitalization, water resources and food access, then put them together in a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development.
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A WESH 2 viewer captured images of the wandering bear in Longwood.
Neighbors looked on as the bear moseyed down the middle of Ledbury Drive and Bilsdale Court.
Residents in the area say they see bears strolling down their streets all the time.
The bears apparently use the roadway like a permanent path.