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With training guns drawn, close to a dozen deputy U.S. Marshals quietly moved into a training facility in West Sacramento.
Several times a year, the marshals practice what's called tactical entry.
"It's naturally repetitive, but important -- because it's what they do every day," U.S. Marshal Albert Najera said Tuesday.
The marshals move from room to room in the training facility methodically, but quickly, and speaking only when necessary.
Since the marshals are a non-prosecutorial agency, they are not responsible for gathering evidence or building a case.
That is done by other agencies that then contact the marshals for help.
The marshals only focus on arresting violent fugitives.
"Once we enter this first room, we want to dominate the room," Deputy Marshal Charlie Brown said. "Get as many bodies as we can to the first room."
Their goal is to flood the home of a suspect with marshals, find the fugitive, then get out.
"If things don't go right every time, then one of our officers gets hurt, or the suspect gets hurt," Najera said. "Or worse yet, an innocent civilian gets hurt."
Even though they are not often in the news, the marshals have made a big difference in Northern California.
So far this year, the marshals have arrested about 120 fugitives in Stockton -- 20 of whom were homicide suspects.
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When most anyone sees or hears the words "Wild West Show," they likely think of William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his traveling brand of entertainment that brought the American Old West to the rest of the world over a century ago.
It was so popular that at one point in 1899, Cody's "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" covered over 11,000 miles in 200 days, giving 341 performances in 132 cities and towns across the United States. In most places, there would be a parade and two 2-hour performances. Then the whole show would be struck, loaded, and moved overnight to the next town.
With more than 100 years of history and heritage associated with that Wild West show, it seems fitting the historic National Western Stock Show would carry on the tradition by entertaining and educating thousands of people every year with a modern version of Buffalo Bill Cody's brainstorm.
And just like it was more than a century ago, the effort behind the scenes to bring western entertainment to the public is an intensive labor of love.
While the NWSS doesn't have the logistics issues of taking the show overseas or even on the road here in the U.S., the planning stage of the ticketed event still lasts most of the year.
"We start working on (the Wild West show) in June, to come up with the concepts and ideas and come up with different acts," revealed Lora Richards, NWSS director of Horse Show Operations, as she discussed the Wild West show before its first performance in 2014. "We kind of scour the country and every event we go to (in order to) see an act or get an idea. As you get closer (to the NWSS), you solidify it," Richards added. "We spent the last couple of weeks working real hard on the story line itself, scripting. We have technical meetings beforehand and do a full dress rehearsal. It's a year round process. The Wild West Show is part of my weekly itinerary."
With shows selling out or close to selling out for many years, it could be easy to assume the NWSS just lets the format coast on its wave of popularity, but quite the opposite is true. All its past success at the historic location only adds pressure to keep making it better.
"You want to keep doing better than you did last year, but you have to define what better is," said Richards about planning the show throughout the year. "You want to build on what you've done, but you want to keep it fresh. That's the hardest part."
Keeping it fresh means bringing in big-name popular entertainment such as horseman Bobby Kerr and his Mustang Act or finding people like Texas resident Gary Trichter to come in and personify Buffalo Bill himself.
"Buffalo Bill was all about America and waving the flag and doing the right thing," said Trichter as he readied his 17-year-old horse a few hours before the start of the first performance on Saturday, Jan. 18. "I'm kind of happy to be in those boots."
Speaking of boots, the Texan looked the part from head to toe, sporting the trademark William Cody mustache and goatee and decked out in clothing the Western icon no doubt would have included in his own wardrobe.
"I'm 168 years old today," described Trichter of his mindset and how he prepares to carry on the tradition Buffalo Bill brought to the world. "For purposes of this show, I'm him. I would like to warn everybody that is up on Lookout Mountain today not to fall in the hole, because I'm not up there, I'm here," he added with a smile. "I'm here in the body of this person and in the spirit of this person and I intend to have everybody have a good time."
While new acts are brought in to add fresh energy, veteran NWSS Wild West performers maintain their passion for entertaining the public.
"It's just fun being together and working together," said Max Reynolds about working with other professionals in the show. Reynolds is a 17-year fixture at the NWSS and does everything in the show from trick roping, portraying western icons and trick riding to jumping horses through a ring of flame.
"We like to see everyone do good and put on a good show," he offered with conviction as he talked near a stall housing an immaculate white horse he would ride later in the show. "That's the main thing. The people sitting in the stands are our main priority."
Although the NWSS scours the country looking for acts to entertain their capacity crowds, they don't overlook Colorado talent like cowboy mounted shooting competitor Elizabeth Clavette.
"Two years ago during the freestyle reining competition, (the NWSS) asked me to do a rifle demonstration," she described of her path to being a part of the Wild West Show. "So I did a rifle demonstration during the intermission and I did it again this year."
Asked what her reaction was when they offered her a chance to shoot and be Annie Oakley in the Wild West Show, Clavette flashed an infectious smile.
"I said I'd love to, thanks," she revealed with a laugh. "It is so much fun. I love the people (in the show) and the whole experience of being able to compete and do your thing in front of so many people."
As evidenced by their enthusiasm, the yearlong process of putting together a Wild West Show to please the public is a passion for performers and NWSS organizers alike.
"It's personal to all of us," offered Richards on behalf of everyone involved. "We want it to be the best it can be. It's a big group of us that have a lot of vested interest in making this the best it can be."
From the vantage point of Lookout Mountain, it's easy to imagine Buffalo Bill Cody hearing those words and giving his hearty approval. ❖


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5 Things Nobody Tells You About Adopting a Dog
I'm a dog person. I don't have a problem with cats, and I get along with most of them, but I'm just not a cat person, because I'm a dog person. If you're not sure if you're a dog person or a cat person, there's an easy way to find out. Watch this heartstring-tugging ASPCA commercial about animal rescue. The commercial plays some sad Sarah McLachlan song and shows us slow-motion zooms and pans on adorable animals that need rescuing.
The text on the screen assures us that all of the animals in their shelters have been violently abused (usually in pretty horrific ways). Whenever I saw a sad-looking dog, my heart ached, and I thought, How could anyone hurt that guy? How could anyone EVER dare harm a sweet, innocent, wonderful dog? The monsters! But when I saw them parade some mangy-ass cat that they assured me had been abused ...
... I thought, Well, yeah. Obviously.
And that's how I found out I was a dog person. And that's why, when I was financially and emotionally prepared for the responsibility, I decided to go out and get a dog. And that's when the gods that govern dog laws decided "Hey, not so fast. You still have to learn some terrible, terrible lessons first."
#5. If You Don't Rescue, YOU'RE A MONSTER
I don't know what things are like where you live (it would be pretty weird if I did), but here in LA, if you buy a dog from a store instead of rescuing one, everyone will know about it. It's a weird sixth sense that all Los Angelenos have; they'll know that you bought a dog from some "puppy mill," and they will hate you for it.
"He's cute, but he's CLEARLY from a store at the mall, so go fuck yourself."
When I started telling people I was looking for a dog, they would grab my shoulders and say, "Whatever you do, rescue one. Go to a shelter instead of a puppy mill. Promise me. PROMISE ME YOU WILL DO THIS!"
They're right, by the way. I don't usually publicly get behind causes of any kind because I don't want to ever come off as preachy, and I don't think anyone is "better" than anyone else, but rescuing a dog from a shelter is better than buying one from a store, and doing so will make you a better person. Shelters are where lost or abandoned dogs end up, and those are the dogs that need a home the most. They're not puppy mill dogs (usually adorable puppies that have been strictly trained and bred for adorableness), they're the dogs that are found wandering in the middle of the street, the dogs that are found in parking lots after they've been thrown out of moving cars (I learned from shelter owners that this is a shockingly common occurrence). It's easy for puppies to get purchased and difficult for dogs to get a second chance, which is why, as a result of over-dog-population, shelters are forced to put down unrescued dogs every single year (about 4 million annually).
So I decided I'd rescue a dog, because I wouldn't be paying some breeder or some puppy store at my local mall; I would be saving a dog that, without my enormous, gracious heart, would be tragically put down. "Rescuing" made me feel like a hero.
Also, I had it in my head that, since over-dog-population ("overpupulation?") was such a problem, my new dog would be free. Buying a dog from a dog seller is expensive because you're getting a brand new dog from a trusted breeder, and you'll accept the high price tag (some purebred Corgis can cost up to $1,000) because you're paying for the guarantee that your dog won't have any baggage or mange or weirdness. Your dog would have no skeletons in its closet; it would be perfect (despite being, you know, a Corgi).
So expensive, yet so ridiculous-looking.
But a shelter? Well, they've got more dogs than they know what to do with, so they should just be giving the things away, right?
#4. Rescuing Still Means Paying Money
Grocery stores could make a whole lot more money off of me if they changed up their language and assured me that I was "rescuing" Cheez-Its instead of buying them. Dog shelters have this figured out. They have fees and expenses attached to their dogs, but they know that, as long as they call it "rescuing," I'm much more inclined to go along with it. I'm always eager to pull out my wallet if someone can convince me that I'm doing some rescuing, the kind of work usually reserved for firemen or knights or Spider-men.
"After this, I'm going to find this baby's mother and rescue her butt from her pants! Spider-fucking!"
While firemen can rescue people all the time without getting charged, getting a dog from a shelter is "rescuing" in name only. You still have to pay (out here it's between $250 and $450, depending on the shelter and the age of the dog), so don't think you're just going to be able to grab a dog out of a cage and run home (like I did).
Still, I'm not against paying for things. I pay for things all the time -- this is America. I don't care about spending money, I just want to be able to walk into a place and take a dog.
#3. You Can't Just Walk into a Place and Take a Dog
The first time my family got a dog, when I was very young, we walked into a shelter, pointed to one, said, "That one" and then took it home. That's it. I don't want to say that everything is worse in the future, but it's certainly not better. Because here in the future, I was all set to get my dog. I read books about dog training. I got my finances in order. I made my apartment dog-friendly. I bought some toys and food and a crate and anything else a dog might need. I went online to Petfinder and checked out a bunch of dogs that met my criteria (fearless, strong, decisive, cuddly) and were in my area. I found a shelter that had a lot of the dogs I'd liked on Petfinder and I drove out to pay them a visit.
I met a great dog, you guys. An energetic yet independent fella who liked to play and was notorious in that shelter for his policy on taking any shit from anybody (he was against it). On this we bonded.
When I'd decided that the other dogs were nowhere near as interesting as this dog (whom I'd secretly named in my head), I pulled out a pile of money, handed it to a lady and said, "This one. Bye forever!"
"Off to go on the cutest adventures!"
But that's not how it works. If you want to rescue a dog in Los Angeles, you have to fill out more forms than I filled out to apply for college. You need to tell them what your job is like and how much money you make, and you need to provide a number of references who aren't members of your family. Which is weird, because I don't know how any of my friends would know if I'm good at not killing dogs. None of them are qualified to vouch for me as a dog raiser, but I provided them as references anyway, hoping they knew that, if someone called and asked if I seemed like the kind of guy who would murder dogs, the answer was "No" and not "I'm not with him 24 hours a day, so I can't be sure."
Once I filled out all of the forms and did a character interview with the person who runs the shelter ("What kind of person do you think you are?" "The kind who is still holding a sweaty fistful of money and desperately wants the dog you're carrying."), I was sent home, dogless. I had to wait a week while they processed my forms and then wait another week for a representative to come to my apartment and make sure it was safe for dogs.
The only thing the apartment-checker told me, by the way, was "Good, there's no poison lying around." Sort of seems like the kind of thing that should have come up during the character interview, but fine.
I passed all of their tests, but didn't get this dog, because ...


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Casey Anthony will finally come out of hiding Monday after a federal judge ordered her to appear in court.
Anthony will attend a bankruptcy hearing with her creditors Monday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. in Tampa.
Last week, the judge denied a request to move the bankruptcy case to Orlando.
Attorneys for Zenaida Gonzalez and former meter reader Roy Kronk are both suing Anthony and asked for the move.
Anthony's bankruptcy filing effectively blocks the two lawsuits from moving forward.
WESH 2 News will be live in Tampa starting on WESH 2 News Sunrise and we'll have the latest updates on WESH.com.


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I'm just curious and would like to see the opinions of people here if this scenario were to arise.
We know about Jimmy's contract, two year "try out" sorta deal, this is his last year of it. At any point if another team offers us the elite forward or defenseman we've been coveting so badly, yet ask for Jimmy in return, would you give him up? Knowing we have Gustavsson, who has started and did alright considering how poor Toronto was, and Mrazek, who looks a lot like he could not only start but succeed in the NHL.
I'm not a huge fan of sending away players like trading cards especially after grooming them for so long but for the right deal I may be OK. I'm interested to see what others think.
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[Retired] Official Lockout Thread
Posted 23 November 2012 - 08:09 AM
"Mess up tomorrow, don't mess up now".
- Harry James Benson, CBE.
Posted 23 November 2012 - 12:11 PM
I don't think so, as I think that's a big part of what the lawsuit is. If the union decertifies they declare the lockout illegal and say that the owners are basically colluding to not honor existing contracts.
Decertification is certainly an option for the players to put pressure on the owners.
However it is brings a huge risk with it...either the owners will cave and offer something better or they will fight in court, which means the season is gone.
The question is...will the players want to go that road over $180M over the next 5 years?
I also think that decertification opens the ability for the owners to bring in replacement players...although I am not sure of it.
If that is good thing...is another discussion.
Also wondering if someone who currently has a contract with the NHL (via the expired CBA) can sign a contract with the NHL as a 'replacement' player???
I'm not totally sure though. Decertification is so complicated and convoluted.
Posted 23 November 2012 - 01:59 PM
Just look at how he hangs his sunglasses from his banana hammock in that last pic. This guyf****** rules. --kipwinger
RIP MidMichSteve. Save us all a dram.
Posted 23 November 2012 - 03:12 PM
At this point I'm so sick of it all I almost want them to just run the whole league into the ground instead of just crippling it every 7 to 10 years. Hopefully it'll get rid of Bettman, likely Fehr too. Then try and repair the damage with a new commissioner and try to get back the greatness of the NHL.
Why wouldn't they try mediation before going the decertification route? I'm so tired of all the d!ck swinging! Please someone just make it stop...
Posted 23 November 2012 - 03:20 PM
The National Hockey League announced today the cancellation of the 2012-13 regular-season schedule through December 14. The NHL also announced the cancellation of the 2013 NHL All-Star Weekend scheduled for Jan. 26-27 in Columbus, Ohio. The cancellations are necessary due to the absence of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NHL Players' Association and the NHL.
A total of 422 regular-season games -- 34.3 percent of the season -- were scheduled for Oct. 11 through Dec. 14.
"The reality of losing more regular-season games as well as the 2013 NHL All-Star Weekend in Columbus is extremely disappointing," said NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly. "We feel badly for NHL fans and particularly those in Columbus, and we intend to work closely with the Blue Jackets organization to return the NHL All-Star events to Columbus and their fans as quickly as possible."
Add 422 games to Bettman's total.
Posted 23 November 2012 - 03:23 PM
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Posted 23 November 2012 - 03:45 PM
Oh and by the way, the league cancelled more games and the All-Star game.
Add 422 games to Bettman's total.
Yawn...couldn'tf****** care less...the only thing that would be appealing about a settlement is the thought of seeing half empty arenas and empty spaces on the boards because sponsors have bailed...but too many of the fans are as stupid as the two parties involved so we'll continue to see the same s*** repeated...
Posted 23 November 2012 - 05:43 PM
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"Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Refuses to Work Hard"
Posted 23 November 2012 - 05:50 PM
Does anyone feel like I do at this point and would rather them just cancel the whole season than force a deal and we get stuck with some mid rate 50 game season? Ask NBA fans what the quality of games were like in a 66 game season last year.
I feel confident saying that there won't be a season.
Hope I'm wrong, but the two sides don't see like they care anymore.
Posted 23 November 2012 - 06:13 PM
Hope I'm wrong, but the two sides don't see like they care anymore.
I don't care really anymore.. f*** the NHL right now.
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Posted 23 November 2012 - 07:14 PM
Yawn...couldn'tf****** care less...the only thing that would be appealing about a settlement is the thought of seeing half empty arenas and empty spaces on the boards because sponsors have bailed...but too many of the fans are as stupid as the two parties involved so we'll continue to see the same s*** repeated...
This stupid fan, can wait as long as it takes and will be first in line to get tickets to see the Wings.
The lockout may very well be a good thing for this team, we could end up with a higher draft pick then we would have normally, including a 1 in 30 shot of the #1 pick.
I love how you think that both sides are stupid, aswell as anyone who attends a game after this, yet you are on a fan site posting about hockey instead of doing everything else in the world.
Patience grasshoppa.
The Griffins game is on!
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::A tribute to my friend Steve Shoen:: - I'm going to miss you forever.
Posted 23 November 2012 - 09:05 PM
So just to clarify, Israel and Hamas can agree on a ceasefire, but the NHL and NHLPA can't figure out how to share $3 billion?
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You're a wizard Dylan!
Posted 23 November 2012 - 09:15 PM
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Posted 23 November 2012 - 10:19 PM
No more NHL Center Ice
No more buying tickets to NHL games
No more buying NHL merchandise
The NHL, players and owners, can go f*** themselves.
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My Domain
Posted 23 November 2012 - 10:37 PM
Edited by Detroit # 1 Fan, 23 November 2012 - 10:39 PM.
Posted 23 November 2012 - 11:03 PM
Posted 24 November 2012 - 12:03 AM
Want your posts to live in this thread? Stay on topic and discuss the lockout.
Want them to disappear? Keep making personal accusations about each other.
If you haven't noticed, the rules are being enforced tightly in this thread because of all the crap that's gone on and multiple warnings being ignored.
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Posted 24 November 2012 - 07:47 AM
Maybe Roman Hamrlik should start his own union. But, he shouldn't count on Erik Cole and Troy Brouwer joining.
Edited by cusimano_brothers, 24 November 2012 - 07:49 AM.
"Mess up tomorrow, don't mess up now".
- Harry James Benson, CBE.
Posted 24 November 2012 - 07:49 AM
Fair to say the next games cancelled will spell the cancellation of the season? I've said from the start I didn't think Fehr and Bettman could iron a deal out. Plus now with the in player fighting on the PA's side and rumors of desertification and all that, I just think they'll call it a day, lose all corporate sponsors, some fans who'll never go back and then be back to square one where we were 8 years ago. Unbelievable, I don't think hockey will overcome this lockout for quite a while going forward. The canadian teams will be there, the original six teams will be there, but the weaker markets will struggle to survive this. Some glad Lidstrom didn't re-sign for one more year just to have it wiped out like Selanne and Alfredsson have.
The only good thing coming out of this whole fiasco will be seeing how the most overpaid, undersized Bettman will finally be getting the boot, because his failed franchises are going to have a hard time without the NHLPA, no RS and on top of that less sponsors job well done....
Original 6 + Canadian teams are going to be fine, I am sure teams like the Sabres with their new owner are going to be fine too, so there will be more than enough teams coming out of this.
I always liked Miller, his comments are spot on.
Edited by frankgrimes, 24 November 2012 - 07:50 AM.
Posted 24 November 2012 - 11:16 AM
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Millitary slang for someone scared of confronting the enemy. Like saying coward, only it's not irrational to be scared of red hot tumbling bullets that hit you before you even see the muzzle flash.
"Christ's sake Sarge, don't team me up with Billy, he's Gun Shy! Last time we saw an Iraqi he wet himself, and it was only a woman putting out her washing!"
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afraid of the consequences of an error during and attempt to re-do something
He's been gun shy ever since his son burned his hand on the stove. He has been refusing to attempt to show him the ropes of cooking again.
av The Return of Light Joker 7 maj 2009
When you can't go to the bathroom because someone else is around.
Dude, move two urinals over. You're making me gunshy.
av Kleptobizmol 17 juni 2009
Reluctant to become involved in a relationship, especially a sexual one
After finding out that his girlfriend had been engaging in sodomy with the patients of the retirement home that she worked at, Frank was gunshy for almost a decade.
av Sam DP 8 oktober 2005
A mental state usually affecting virgins where the complexity of a sexual situation makes it hard to have or hold and erection.
He didn't lose his virginity that night because he was gun shy.
av It's Miller Time 28 juni 2006
slow to react sexually
Lupita is a freak now that she is older, but was very gunshy at first.
av LHL 10 april 2004
A man's fear of urinating or showering in public
"Dude, just hurry up and pee!"
"I can't, man, I'm just feeling gun shy."
"I can't, man, I'm just feeling gun shy."
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WELLSVILLE - All municipalities must endure their share of crime, but the theft of Christmas decorations from a public space in Wellsville has caused a minor uproar among village residents.
Wooden figures of a gingerbread man and woman were among the decorations set up in the median of Broadway Avenue on Nov. 17. By the morning of Black Friday, a twin set posted at the fountain on Broadway at Fifth Street was gone.
"It just makes me mad," said Wellsville councilwoman Rosie Goss, who chairs the Christmas Beautification Committee. She says the thieves who stole the decorations also took away the joy that village residents, especially children and the elderly, experienced when seeing those figures on Broadway. "I don't understand," she added. "Why would you want to take that?"
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A gingerbread man and woman Christmas decorations still stand at the fountain on Broadway Avenue at Ninth Street in Wellsville. A twin set that had been posted at the fountain on Broadway at Fifth, however, has been missing since the morning of Nov. 23. (Photo by Richard Sberna)
The missing pair of decorations were part of a six-piece set that Goss' committee commissioned this past spring that included two gingerbread men and women, along with a pair of candy canes. They were constructed by students at the Columbiana County Career and Technical Center in Lisbon at a cost of $200 each.
Goss said it took months of fundraising from numerous individuals and businesses to obtain the money necessary to have them completed. She also emphasized how hard the students at CCCTC worked to get the six-foot-tall figures completed for the village and for the help from instructor Chance Bricker in setting them up on Broadway.
Those responsible for the theft are being offered a chance to return the decorations anonymously and without penalty. "If it was a prank...get them back to us, no questions asked," Wellsville Mayor Susan Haugh wrote in a Facebook post. Bob Sell, owner of Sell's Auction Service, has offered to take them back on behalf of the village at his Sellabration Hall location at 409 Broadway Ave., where they may be left in the parking lot.
Goss said that her committee is also prepared to offer a cash reward for the safe return of the decorations or for information that leads to the conviction of those responsible. She added that she would vigorously pursue prosecution against the thieves.
On a lighter note, Goss mentioned that the village Light-up Night is scheduled for the evening of Dec. 6. The event will include the lighting of the village Christmas tree at the Fourth Street Gazebo and the crowning of the Snowflake King and Snowman King. The Christmas Parade will be held Saturday, Dec. 8.


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The Canadian version of a Roman Face Mask.
"When Gordo passed out after his 15th Molson, Maurice gave him a goalie mask."
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Jizzing on a womans face in such a way that the ropes of jizz mimic the pattern of a goalie mask
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The sales numbers released by research firm NPD Group for June
continue to highlight Nintendo's current strength in the market. Both the
Nintendo DS and Wii lead all of its competitors in terms of software and
hardware sales.
The Nintendo DS collected even more sales than during May, moving
an amazing 561,900 units. The Wii followed closely behind with 381,800, also
slightly up from the previous month.
Nintendo's near-obsolete Game Boy Advance sold a surprising 109,400
consoles, despite there being no new software released for the handheld.
Sony took sat next in the ladder, with the PSP selling 290,100
and the undying PlayStation 2 at 270,700 units. The PlayStation 3, which was
once again the lowest-selling, current-market console, only managed to sell 98,500
Microsoft's Xbox 360 sold 198,400 units, also up from May's
Overall, video game hardware sales were up 34 percent for
the month as compared to the same period last year – accumulating $398.6
quote: How many households have an HD set? 10-15%
quote: In my mind, 'the next gen' gaming console has to satisfy at least these three technical criteria:- fully support HDTV resolution- fully support Online gaming for all 'next-gen' releases- provide full range of Home Media Center functionality
quote: I don't get you. What's not specific about the criteria I named?
quote: Do I have to spell out HDTV resolution to you? Were there any consoles in the market before Xbox 360 and later PS3 that support it? Have you played real HDTV game on a big screen before lashing out here?
quote: Or how about full support for online gaming.
quote: And Home Media Center is IMO becoming most crucial feature.
quote: And their lack of HDTV, online and Media center functionality will make them an afterthought once initial admiration with novelty will fade.


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5 Ways 'Borderlands 2' Is a Remorseless Addiction Machine
We all know gaming is addictive: It seems like there's a death toll of about six Koreans for every new RTS released to remind us of the fact. And this very site has previously discussed how game designers can actively tailor gameplay to exploit your sad, addictive personality. But those seem like exceptions, not rules. For the most part, when we refer to a game's "addictiveness," we mean it as a positive thing. We're implying that the game is fun or rewarding, or that we can't stop playing it because we don't want to, and the only people who suffer for it are lonely girlfriends and the goons we mow down (their fault, though; shouldn't have gotten into goonery in the first place if they couldn't take the heat). Somewhere in the middle of these two definitions, building a slipshod base in the badlands between soulless exploitation and amusing addiction, there lies Borderlands 2.
#5. Down the OCD Rabbit Hole
There's a variety of ways a game can capitalize on the gamer's otherwise dormant obsessive-compulsive disorder: The attache case in Resident Evil 4 that forces you to stop mid zombie rampage to calculate the optimal ratio of grenade launchers to marijuana plants; the Western RPG that gives you a house to meticulously decorate between dragon battles; the Japanese RPG that gives you a tree of crystals to arrange between large-breasted cosmo-schoolgirl battles.
I first realized how dangerous this practice was while playing a game called Suikoden II -- it was a fairly obscure JRPG in the late '90s whose main draw was the whopping 108 different characters to collect, level, build up and equip. That aspect alone is already dangerously close to triggering a bloody organization frenzy down in the nerd pool, but the second game also gave you a whole damn castle to customize, evaluate, audit and meticulously categorize.
"You're killing me! I'm 19! I have things to do! Weed to smoke! Girls to not talk to!"
To this day, I could not tell you a thing about the story or gameplay, but I bet I could still navigate those equipment menus in my sleep. The realization that I was no longer actually having fun in my off-time came after I loaded up the game, spent two hours swapping the best equipment between characters and then shut down the PlayStation to head into class. Only hours later did I realize that I had spent my entire morning actively not playing a video game, opting instead to do some interior decorating and light accounting. And all this as I sat in my own filthy, neglected room, idly wondering what happened to that sandwich I lost in the closet last week.
Borderlands 2 is a similar machine: The second installment has not only drastically upped the already staggering amount of items to equip, compare, store and shuffle, but given you several new ways to do it. There are banks, storage vaults, character swap caches and dozens of constantly updating vending machines, in addition to the ceaseless stream of items popping from the exploding torsos of literally every living thing you see. Because the loot is random, quality varies wildly, and every other find might necessitate a complete inventory and reevaluation of the items you already have. That is not a light affair. Those JRPGs, famous for their fanatic micromanagement, mostly have items with one or two variables: A piece of armor might have a defense rating and an elemental property, for example. Or a sword might have attack damage and a varying amount of octo-spirits it could hold in its soul-ocean (which is actually expandable if you can conquer the externalization of your main character's lust, which has manifested itself as a giant robot penguin with tits and a switchblade who only emerges if you win a set number of cockfights).
Borderlands 2 has a half-dozen stats for every single one of their millions of items. You'll spend most of your given game time carefully running the numbers on the fire-rate-to-damage ratio of seven different submachine guns, only to finally exit the menu and be immediately shot in the face by Skin-Tube, the Duke of Rape, whom you have long since forgotten you were fighting.
#4. The Loot Machine
There's a strange kind of sub-genre of video game that is entirely based on loot -- the digital "prizes" you get from quests and fallen enemies. The appeal of these games usually isn't in the story or the characters, but in the amount of new weapons, armor, shields, magical artifacts or silly hats that spray out of an enemy's skull cavity when you bash it in. They're like giant bloody pinata simulators, hurling wave after wave of screaming sentient candy containers after you until your character drowns, choking and wailing in the veritable sea of booty. These games aren't exploiting some new mechanic -- to some extent, this has been around since the inception of gaming. But they're really coming into their own now. In the last several months, we've had Torchlight II, Diablo III and Borderlands 2 all release -- every one of which is a top-shelf game that is almost exclusively loot-based.
It's almost the same concept as a casino, but if the roulette wheel could also harness the addictive power of murder. Like if the balls in your local pachinko parlor screamed obscenities and exploded in a shower of skull fragments whenever they hit the bottom of the machine -- then you'd have a pretty good analogue version of Borderlands 2.
Bam! You just got an extra pachinko! (I don't know how pachinko works.)
If the appeal of the digital loot-casino is in the prizes, Borderlands 2 is the floor manager sending a steady stream of free drinks and flirtatious waitresses to your table. The game hurls an objectively insane amount of crap at you: They bragged of "87 bazillion guns," and they're not really kidding. Guns pop out of goddamn everything: enemies, friends, cars, toilets -- powerful new god-items explode out of the faces of lizard-dogs and giant flies so frequently that the reward center of your brain simply runs out of dopamine and just starts firing whatever chemicals are left into your brain. Some guns will make you inexplicably sad: "This one is objectively better, but I really liked my last one. I can't stand to see it go ..." While some guns will just piss you off: "I spent all my money buying the best gun in the game five minutes ago, and now I find something better in a frozen pile of alien ape-shit?"
"Surely this is a metaphor for something, but I'm way too angry to figure out what."
The risk/reward ratio is so skewed that simply existing will net you awesome new loot. My character's current primary weapon came from a bandit that walked up to me while I was standing at a vending machine comparison-shopping new grenades. He took a swing at me, hit my acid shield and disintegrated into an assault rifle. I then unpaused the game, collected the reward I had earned for pausing it, and repaused the game to continue browsing other rewards.
#3. The Hidden Prizes
Nothing holds more enigmatic appeal to humanity than the promise of a mystery prize. It's like a glitch in the species: Give us any container that may or may not contain something valuable, and we'll sell everything we own for a chance to open it, even though deep down, we know it's almost certainly just a washer/dryer set. In video games, this practice can again be tracked back to old school RPGs: How many times have you followed a corridor to its end just to confirm that it's the right path, at which point you turned back and headed directly away from the right choice, just in case there was a chest or something at the end of one of the wrong ones? Even if there is a chest, there's still the chance that it's nothing -- just another elixir we will never use (in case we really need it later). It's stupid, but there it is: Even if we know it's probably nothing, gamers are still willing to slog through hours of random, repetitive battles just for the sheer potentiality of a chest.
And then there's Borderlands 2, whose extremely large game maps consist of roughly 92 percent chests. Everything is a container -- lockers, boxes, cases, the trunks of cars, piles of literal crap -- everything.
Seriously, though, most of it is in, on or otherwise inundated with poop. The game does not put on airs.
The only reason you head out on most missions in the first place is for the promise of items, which the game shows you right below the story text. That's your incentive for being out there in the badlands: The whole map is just a giant chest that you have to run across to open, and littered all around it are smaller chests that explode in showers of even tinier chests, all of which you open only to receive bullets for a gun you don't have. But it doesn't matter, because every once in a while, that random washing machine will contain a rare weapon, or a piece of Eridium (by far the game's most valuable and rare currency, almost exclusively found in bullshit penny-ante containers). And so you will open every single one. The promise of what might be and the risk of missing it are two of the most compelling motivations for humanity, and Borderlands 2 spends every single second beating you in the face with both of them. The game makes you run so many gauntlets of worthless promises that I half suspect it's all just some pretentious art student's cutting metaphor for the broken American political system.
"And like, the toilet is voter apathy, man. We are all guns in the toilet."
It's not like Borderlands 2 doesn't know what it's doing: Occasionally you'll walk into a room and there will be 10 chests, all lined up next to each other. Why do that? Why not just put more items in the one chest, like every single other game in history? Because Borderlands 2 knows: It knows that most of the satisfaction is in the actual opening of the chest. Opening a chest is waiting for the call after a killer job interview; it's the last box on a scratch-off lottery ticket with two matches; it's that moment right after you ask out a pretty girl, but before she starts hollering for the police. Chest-opening is a zero-day exploit in human psychology, and Borderlands 2 is like a gleeful hacker, running rampant with the problem just to prove to you that it's there.


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The Malayalam slang term for a beggar, or a mooch. You can call anyone that is annoying or useless this name. Malayalam is a South Indian language.
Yo check it, Rob is comin here for money I'm sick of that thendy!
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The 8 Most Violent Falls Ever Survived on YouTube
#4. Casey Heynes: Bully Buster
SETI: 68 percent
Sometimes the more abstract scientific concepts like to get in on the action. In this case, Natural Selection saw a twerpy kid try to bully someone twice his size and said, "Ha ha, I'm going to remind everyone that I'm still around." There are two important lessons viewers can take from this video. One, when you punch someone in the face as hard as you can and it doesn't bother them, don't hang around and work the body. Stop being a bully and run home to double check your genitals -- there's a good chance you've just been a confused ugly girl this whole time. Two, when you hear the voice of Odin whisper to pick up your tiny attacker and hurl him into the ground like so much unstrung puppet, answer his call!
H- How!?
Every time someone is a dick for no reason, that creates a negative energy that gets passed from grumpy asshole to grumpy asshole until it suddenly ends up in the glowing hands of a young boy when he needs it most. Seeing that idiot bully try to walk after Casey knocks his entire nervous system out of place is such a satisfying demonstration of karma. The joy of watching a villain get destroyed is exactly why the body slam was invented and why lethal injection chambers have spectator seats. SETI Fact: Despite its anger management issues, Physics is the good guy in every single one of these videos.
#3. Playground Face Plant
SETI: 71 percent
The moral of this video is that if you're perched on the top of something, it's best to jump off right away. Don't hang out indecisively and let the forces of nature surrounding you know you're a pussy. This kid is on a playground designed for children half his age, and he's whining about falling off a ledge 6 inches higher than a normal human's vertical leap. Gravity took one look at this and said, "They're filming a 3-foot drop? Why would they even do that if they weren't expecting me to do something arcane and liquify this little boy? Well, I'm not going to let them down. Let's multiply me by 1,000 and see what happens."
H- How!?
This is an inconceivable impact. This fat kid's mouth hit the ground so hard that a pie disappeared on the other side of the planet.
#2. Grape-Stomping Lady
SETI: 91 percent
This may be the most shit anyone has ever eaten from so tiny a fall. She hit the ground like God was spiking a football. She also managed to land directly on her lungs, causing her to feel a pain she could only describe with her impression of a sea lion removing anal beads. I know some of you have hearts, and may be starting to feel bad about laughing at the misfortune of the falling unfortunate. Don't worry, though. In order to make you feel better, I'm happy to prove why this woman cosmically deserved it.
H- How!?
Does anyone truly deserve to be betrayed by the laws of our universe and left in a moaning heap? Of course. If failure had no consequences, then whose daughters would strip for us? Look, this woman's job is to interview people for the news, and here are the three questions she asked:
"What kind of grapes are these?"
If you ask a question like that and expect an interesting answer, you're already taunting reality as we know it. Strike One.
"How do you measure how much juice people stomp?"
I could see being curious about this if we lived in a universe without measuring cups where people measured juice by shouting at it and listening for the echoes. Since we don't, Strike Two.
"So, like ... what else you got goin' on?"
This dingbat has sloppier broadcast skills than Janet Jackson's titty. Strike Three.
Then, after an interview that would get you fired from a middle school newspaper, she cheated in a gentleman's grape-stomping competition for no reason other than poor impulse control. That was Strike Four, and Physics had seen enough. It decided that if she was going to cheat, then so would Gravity. There's no other explanation for how she managed to fall from one bucket and still hit terminal velocity.
#1. Man Opens Automatic Door With Head
SETI: 98 percent
Imagine seeing an automated door for the first time, only you have the full deductive intelligence of a grown adult. You'd have to assume there was some kind of sensor that caused it to open, right? Maybe if you were more creative or more stupid, you'd assume there was a man with a terrible job watching from a security monitor and opening the door anytime someone got close. Either way, your first plan would be to approach it cautiously and see what happens. However, if you were awesome, you would take a full minute to make sure your documents were in order before charging into the unexplainable monstrosity with your head. This man was awesome.
H- How!?
Let's look at what we know. The man is already inside. So either someone is in the back of this building putting goat brains inside reanimated Punjabi corpses and unleashing them or this is at least the second time this dumbass has seen an automatic door. And we know he doesn't have a goat brain, because goats don't rearrange their Trapper Keepers to trick doors into thinking they're doing paperwork. This is a man intelligent enough to feel shame but stupid enough to run into a door faster and harder than any door technician could have anticipated. Where I'm from, we call that impossible. SETI Fact: If you're impossible, Science is going to try to kill you.
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But the show's contestants, who will compete for another chance at onscreen love in Tulum, Mexico, are in for a few surprises – including a new twist that will shake things up at the start of every episode.
To kick the show off, 14 former Bachelor stars will arrive at the tropical destination to spend time getting to know each other, but at the end of the night only six men will hand out roses – leaving two women flowerless and on a flight back home.
Contestants shouldn't get too comfortable playing matchmakers! After the first night, each episode brings two new Bachelor alum members into the mix, alternating between men and women for seven weeks, as viewers watch old romances being rekindled and new sparks being ignited.
See who will be vying for love – and roses! – during the series premiere of Bachelor in Paradise below.
Cody Sattler
After weeks of group dates – and a sweet prank pulled by Andi Dorfman – the Chicago native, 28, finally scored a one-on-one date ... only to be sent home at the end of the night.
Christy Hansen
Sparks didn't fly between Juan Pablo Galavis and Hansen, 25, who packed her bags and headed home after she didn't receive a rose during the third week.
Brooks Forester
Fans were shocked when the season 9 frontrunner, 29, pulled the plug on his romantic relationship with Desiree Hartsock, right before many were expecting her to hand him the final rose.
Danielle Ronco
Ronco, 26, got very little screen time with Galavis before ultimately being sent home during the rose ceremony in Da Nang, Vietnam.
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Jackie Parr
Her sweet demeanor didn't do it for Sean Lowe, who said goodbye to Parr, 26, on a two-on-one date.
Dylan Petit
He started off as a shy guy from Boston, but during a one-on-one date with Dorfman, Petit, 26, brought the Bachelorette to tears when he opened up about his past. He was ultimately sent home just a week before hometowns.
Lucy Aragon
Her free spirit kept things interesting as Aragon, 25, tried to win Galavis's heart. But in the end, the happy-go-lucky hippie from Los Angeles was sent packing.
Marcus Grodd
After confessing his love – and admitting he almost bowed out of the competition early – Grodd, 26, was crushed when Dorfman decided to send him home after meeting his family.
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After taking Emily Maynard to meet his family, Bukowski, 27, was devastated when he didn't make it to the final three. But his second chance at love wasn't any better when he showed up during Dorfman's cocktail party, only to be stopped by security.
Kalon McMahon
The Houston native, 29, took some heat when he made an offensive comment about Maynard's daughter, earning him a one-way ticket back to Texas.
Zack Kalter
His sweet smile and quirky style sense – sneakers and a tuxedo for the first night! – weren't enough to win over Hartsock, who sent Kalter, 29, home in the fourth week.
Tasos Hernandez
After flying under the radar, Hernandez, 30, started to feel a spark for Dorfman, but the feelings weren't mutual and he headed home after four weeks on the show.
As previously reported, AshLee Frazier, Ben Scott, Clare Crawley, Daniella McBride, Elise Mosca, Graham Bunn, Lacy Faddoul, Michelle Kujawa, Robert Graham, Sarah Herron, Martin and Money will join Petit and Grodd as part of the initial arrivals. Then Forester, Bukowski, Hansen, Sattler, Ronco, Parr, McMahon, Aragon, Hernandez and Kalter, along with Jesse Kovacs, will be making surprise appearances throughout the show.


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The hang glider pilot who crossed the Bosphorus with a mosquito NRG in August 2006.
Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi (Turkish: Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi) (1609 – 1640), who lived in the 17th century in Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire, is believed to have been one of the first aviators to have succeeded in flying with artificial wings. Caner Atilgan is the second person who flew over Boshphorus after almost 370 years.
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Accordinig to the Mount Pleasant Police Department on Oct. 21 at approximately 7:11 a.m. Mount Pleasant Police Officers responded to the area of 1060 Grove Manor Court in reference to a Burglary in Progress call. Police Department spokesman Maj. Stan Gragg said that upon officers arrival it was discovered the victim had observed a subject in their garage in the process of burglarizing their home. "The suspect fled the area and patrolling officers were able to locate John Toler of 1162 Shoreside Way, Mount Pleasant and John Joseph Haeger of 1735 Walpole Way, Johns Island," a statement said. Toler fit the description of the alleged burglar, according to Gragg's statement
"The witness was able to positively identify Toler as the suspect she observed in her garage," according to Gragg. Items recovered from Toler and Haeger along with the subsequent investigation linked the two along with Allison Marie Mast of 1162 Shoreside Way, Mount Pleasant and Bryan Earls of 1541 N. Pinebark Ln., Charleston to multiple crimes in the following neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant:
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Planters Pointe Subdivision
Old Village
The investigation is continuing, Gragg said.
Mast, born May 7, 1994 is charged with Breaking and Entering Auto (12 counts), Drug Possession (one count) and Larceny (one count).
Toler, born Sept. 1, 1992 is charged with Breaking and Entering Auto (12 counts), Drug Possession (one count), Larceny (one count), and Possession of a Handgun (one count).
Haeger, born April 16, 1970 is charged with Breaking and Entering Auto (12 counts), Drug Possession (one count) and Larceny (one count).
Earls, born July 21, 1982 is charged with Breaking and Entering (five counts) and Larceny (one count).
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Boyd names ex-Frontier Airlines chief as president and CEO
Boyd Group International, the consulting firm founded by Michael and Marian Boyd, has named a non-Boyd as president and chief executive officer, and the name is a familiar one.
Jeff Potter, former president and CEO of Frontier Airlines, will join the consultancy on July 9, BGI announced Monday.
Here's how the announcement defines the split of duties between Jeff and Mike:
"Working from Boyd Group International offices in Evergreen, Colorado, Jeff will be responsible for the planning, direction and management of the firm's worldwide transportation consulting and research efforts," the announcement said.
"With the arrival of Mr. Potter, Michael Boyd assumes the position of Chairman, and will continue to direct international, strategic planning and global forecasting activities of the firm," it stated.
Potter was vice president of marketing for Frontier between 1995 and 2000, and left briefly to be CEO of Vanguard Airlines. He returned in 2001 to Frontier as chief operating officer, was named president in August of that year and then added the CEO title in early 2002. He left in September 2007 to run Exclusive Resorts and then joined Intrawest as COO of Intrawest.
One of Potter's first public appearances in his new job will come Sept. 16-18 in North Texas when the Boyd Group holds its annual aviation forecast summit at the InterContinental Dallas in far North Dallas.


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NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WGRZ) -- An underground boxing operation in the City of Niagara Falls is being promoted, but there's a problem, it's illegal.
Several weeks ago, we learned that female boxing was being held at a club.
This led to action by the state to stop the Amnesia Nightclub, which is located at 1414 Main Street from hosting the events.
The building was the site for the matches for about a month, until just last week when the state sent the club a letter saying its operation was illegal. This forced the club to stop holding fights there. But, promoters for the events are still advertising online that the boxing is legitimate.
City Mayor Paul Dyster said, "if they're trying to drawn a crowd to a future event using the internet, they'll likely get caught."
The fighting is raw, with untrained fighters in a ring and dozens of people surrounding it. Club Amnesia hosted the fighting on Monday nights without a boxing license and improper code requirements. Spectators would pay five or ten bucks to get in and the fighters got paid.
"I talked to the operator of the bar and he told me he was going to cease and desist using that as a sporting event and keep it as a bar," said Dennis Virtuoso, the code enforcement officer for Niagara Falls.
But, several ads still show that people are being allowed to go to the club to see fighting. One shows that Monday's at Club Amnesia is the place to be and another says that fights were being scheduled as recently as Christmas Eve. When we went to Club Amnesia, the owner said that he's not hosting boxing there anymore, but is showing videos of the boxing on television. He also says the ads will be taken down from the web.
Kristen Grandinetti, a councilmember with Niagara Falls City Council said, "it is so degrading, but it's pretty difficult when you're in a desperate situation and you're trying to make some extra money, or you're trying to get attention, however you can, to say 'no' to a situation like that."
The state penalty for holding an illegal boxing match is a misdemeanor. The only time things really got out of hand at the club was two and a half weeks ago when a brawl erupted and chairs and bottles were thrown.
Grandinetti adds that the boxing shows that many young women need jobs and more guidance during adolescence.
As for the owner of the Amnesia Nightclub, he tells me he wants to turn the facility into a restaurant-bar. And that he'll continue to show boxing there.
Niagara Falls police say they are monitoring the club to make sure no boxing actually happens.


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Kentucky is one of the recent states to pass an oral anticancer treatment bill and patients and nurses are excited about the changes to coverage. The IMF spearheaded the bill and was excited by the fast track in Kentucky. Senator Tom Buford was also surprised, "'I didn't realize it could get moving so fast,' Buford said. 'It had a tremendous amount of wings.' Anticipating efforts by the insurance companies to slow the bill, Buford said he was surprised when, instead, those companies got behind the bill." Check out the full article here
New Team Member: Advocacy Associate Ray Wezik
Ray Wezik has joined the IMF's advocacy team in 2014 as Advocacy Associate. In his role, Ray will help expand the IMF's U.S. state policy initiatives and grassroots network with a focus on prevention, innovation, access and approval of treatments for people living with multiple myeloma. Prior to joining the IMF, Ray advocated for homeowners affected by the mortgage crisis as an attorney, using his skills to negotiate alternatives to foreclosure and eventually establishing his own law firm. "The IMF is very happy to add Ray to the team," says Director of US Advocacy, Meghan Buzby. "His law background and negotiation skills will serve instrumental in helping to expand our state program."
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On Algorithms for Two and Three Dimensional High Throughput Light Microscopy
Selinummi, Jyrki Juhani
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2008-12-19
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University: Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering
Department: Department of Signal Processing
In biomedical research, it is often necessary to study cell population characteristics, and quantify changes in cell phenotypes on a cell-by-cell basis. Traditionally, this work has been performed by interactive manual use of a microscope. In disciplines like systems biology, studying topologies and dynamics of complex functional networks of cells, massive systematical screens for phenotypic changes in cell populations are required. Also in drug discovery, effects of pharmacological agents on the populations must be tested automatically in a high throughput fashion. The development of robotic arrayers and automated microscopes, together with increasing computing power and storage space have enabled the automated screening of cell populations, resulting in a revolution of microscopy imaging. Currently, imaging of hundreds of populations in parallel is common practice in a single experiment. During the screen, images of each of the cell populations are stored for subsequent analysis. The amount of image data renders manual visual analysis impossible, requiring automated image analysis systems, and software. Current procedures of automated analysis in high throughput microscopy, however, have several drawbacks. Standard practices exist for a number of analysis approaches, but especially three dimensional studies are generally performed manually, or semi-automatically. Furthermore, greater care must be taken on practical issues, such as low computational cost and easy implementation to advance routine high throughput screening studies by bioscientist. This thesis considers fully automated methods ranging from cell enumeration, to subcellular analysis in two and three dimensions, concentrating on the applicability of the algorithms for high throughput microscopy.
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Funny because when I would wear it, it was totally NOT my hubby's favorite LOL.
Today was a super dark, rainy day and I was thankful to hole up indoors with my knitting (I'm making something fun for the playroom!) and I even did yoga and popped popcorn and watched movie trailers for a really long time.
Here's the movies I think look interesting:
Breaking Upwards
Despicable Me
Eat Pray Love
The Exploding Girl
The Greatest
Letters To God
Letters To Juliet
Mother and Child
Please Give
The Switch
Tomorrow night (or tonight, whenever you're reading this) I am going to a VIP party for Real Simple magazine's 10th anniversary. And I have nothing to wear. And you know, NO PRESSURE because it's just Real Simple magazine.
But I've decided that whatever I do end up wearing, I'm going to own it, and I'll look awesome.
(If you're free on Friday, you should totally come out to Real Simple's big free event at Union Station in Chicago - I'll be there, too!)


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A very distinct and separate layer of fat, below the stomach and above the vagina.
Denise has put on a lot of weight since high school, she totally has a vagabdomen now.
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The area above your vagina and below your abdomen in which menstrual cramps occur.
Ugh, my vagabdomen is really cramping, I must be about to ride the cotten camel. Yay red belt season!
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When a fat ladys swollen abdomen & puffy vagina meet in one large overhanging mass.
Sorry Joe, but i cannot see that ladys cameltoe to which you refer as her Vagabdomen is hanging in the way.
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NIAGARA FALLS – Two new hotel plans for downtown Niagara Falls have tourism officials smiling.
But proposals to build a new hotel at the city's main entrance and renovate another at the edge of Niagara Falls State Park are only the most recent signs of tourism progress downtown.
Slowly but surely, the hotel stock in the downtown tourism district – once outdated and shabby – has been coming back to life, spurred by state incentives and continued investment around the Old Falls Street strip.
"I think people are seeing continued investment, public and private, and a continued upward trajectory of the city's tourism district, and I think people want to take part in that, to be part of something bigger and better," said Christopher J. Schoepflin, president of USA Niagara Development. "That's where we're headed."
The most recent step was Niagara Falls hotel owner B.F. Patel's plans to transform a former office building on John B. Daly Boulevard into a Courtyard by Marriott Hotel.
Patel, who owns a hotel on Niagara Falls Boulevard, has yet to complete a hotel project of such stature. But in his application for county tax breaks earlier this month, he said he is optimistic about the $6.6 million project.
That was welcome news to government leaders who long to change the entryway to the city off the Robert Moses Parkway, where tourists are greeted by crumbling houses and a large swath of vacant land.
"We have a continued focus on upgrading all parts of downtown, but the entryway into the city is really our front door," Schoepflin said. "So we want to convey that it's a waterfront city, that it's a city in a park, that we take care of our assets, and that it's warm and welcoming."
Another key area lies on the outer edge of the state park, where tourists are greeted by vacant or outdated souvenir shops and a Comfort Inn – The Pointe hotel that is in need of upgrading.
Owned by the Glynn family, the hotel will receive a $4 million upgrade to prevent Choice Hotels from revoking the Comfort Inn flag.
While some say the project doesn't constitute a major investment, it could be the first sign that the Glynns – who own the Maid of the Mist – are ready to invest in the Old Falls Street area after a few years spent fighting to keep their boat tours afloat.
Tourism officials say that both projects are a welcome addition to the downtown tourism corridor, which for years has featured an abundance of budget hotels and a lack of higher-end offerings.
The hotel boom, by many accounts, started a decade ago with the Seneca Niagara Casino and its four-diamond, 26-story hotel dominating the skyline.
Officials say the casino helped spur a $34 million upgrade to the city's main conference hotel, the Holiday Inn Select on Third Street. The hotel, which sits directly across Third Street from the casino, was converted into a Crowne Plaza in 2006.
Five years later, the hotel was further upgraded into a Sheraton, with some much-needed street-level retail along Old Falls Street, including a Starbucks Coffee and T.G.I. Friday's restaurant.
Millions more have been spent since then to upgrade other surrounding hotels downtown, including:
• A complete renovation of the former United Office Building, once vacant and slated for demolition, into the boutique Giacomo Hotel & Residences.
State officials call the 40-room upscale hotel – which also features rental apartments, office space and ground-level drinking and dining – "a symbolic project that hearkened a new attitude downtown."
• Two projects by Canadian developer Faisal Merani, whose family successfully developed many of the high-rise hotels on the Canadian side of the border.
A few years ago, Merani turned the former Inn on the River near the North Grand Island bridges into a Four Points by Sheraton.
The renovation included a ground-level Italian restaurant and a deck with a view of the upper Niagara River.
Merani has also completed a $5 million renovation of the Holiday Inn on Rainbow Boulevard near Centennial Circle.
He plans to add a ground-level restaurant to the area but has not yet found a suitor.
• A small expansion of the popular Red Coach Inn, which sits on Buffalo Avenue just 1,500 feet from the American Falls.
Nearly $1 million was spent to create 12 new boutique hotel rooms in a former office building adjacent to the inn, which was featured on the NBC hit television show "The Office."
• A two-story addition, façade improvements and a street-level Italian restaurant at the Super 8 Motel on Rainbow Boulevard. The motel sits at the entrance to the city of the Robert Moses Parkway, across Rainbow Boulevard from the Courtyard proposed by Patel.
The incremental upgrades have given way to larger hotel plans – currently in the works – that officials see as potential game-changers for the downtown tourism product, including:
• A proposed renovation of the former Hotel Niagara by Harry Stinson, who has gained a reputation as the "condo king" of Toronto with an unconventional development style and a few successful big-time projects north of the border.
Stinson said he plans to restore the Hotel Niagara to its original grandeur while expanding the size of its hotel rooms. He is aiming to open the hotel this summer, though the building shows few outward signs of repair.
• A planned Hilton Garden Inn across First Street from the new Culinary Institute Niagara Falls. The upscale hotel would feature ground-level retail along Old Falls Street on prime land that was the site of a hot-air balloon ride.
Buffalo's Mark E. Hamister was selected as the preferred developer more than a year ago but has yet to sign a development agreement for the property. Officials say they expect the deal to be cemented later this month, and Hamister expects to break ground later this year.
• A planned upgrade of the Days Inn near the Rainbow Bridge into a Courtyard by Marriott. The highly visible hotel has not been significantly upgraded since it became a Days Inn more than three decades ago.
Development officials say the city still has a need for upscale hotels, and officials will pursue three to five new brands, some in the Hyatt and Hilton families.
They say the market calls for up to 1,000 additional rooms in the next four years.
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Firstly, well done to the Mods for moving the comments that started this discussion out of the "I/K split" thread and into this new thread.
However, I was just wondering if you realised that those original comments are also still in the other thread...
Funnily enough, Jonathon's surname is one of the names I do not struggle with. But, there again, being a fan of motorbike racing, I am used to seeing Spanish names on a regular basis! The ones I struggle the most with are Tatjana V (which way round do the "z" and the "s" go?), Elena I (which way around do the "i" and the "y" go?) and the Lithuanian guy who we are currently discussing (which is ironic, given that my middle name is "David", the English version of his first name!)
For me, Stagniunas / Tobias had the potential to go on and get into the Top 10 in the World, which would be a great achievement for a small country like Lithuania. So, I am surprised that Deividas did not share that belief.
Oh well! His loss.


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on February 6, 2013 - 1:00 AM
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Maybe it's the sense of danger that reels you in at first. The crazy name, the wild picture slapped on the bottle. Before you know it, you're on for the ride, and the best ones leave you reduced to a sweaty and speechless mess. When it's finally over, you can't help but want more.
I'm talking about hot sauce, a virtual thrill ride for the taste buds. And for fans, nothing beats the feeling.
So what makes hot sauce so attractive? Blame it on the capsaicin, the chemical behind a chili's heat. When you eat hot sauce, or any chili-spiced foods, your mouth reacts to the capsaicin as if it's in pain, signaling the brain. Your body responds by releasing endorphins, much like it does with laughter, chocolate, stress and sex.
Pleasure and pain, conveniently packaged in a bottle. All I know is I can't get enough of the stuff. I have a collection at home and drizzle at least one sauce – more often two – over everything. A sure sign of a junkie, lately I've even taken to making my own.
It's amazingly simple. A puree of chilies and salt, thinned perhaps with vinegar or water, maybe a secret ingredient or blend of spices thrown in for good measure. Voila.
The variations are endless. Probably the hardest part to a great homemade hot sauce is giving your wonderfully potent creation a fitting name. I simply call mine "Shock in a Bottle."
Sriracha-Style Hot Sauce
1 pound mixed fresh red chilies (such as red Fresnos or jalapenos), stemmed and chopped
2-4 cloves garlic
¼ cup cane or rice vinegar
1½ teaspoons sea salt, more if desired
2 tablespoons palm or light brown sugar, more if desired
In the bowl of a food processor, pulse together the chilies, garlic, vinegar, salt and sugar to form a coarse paste.
Transfer the mixture to a nonreactive saucepan and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the aroma softens or mellows a bit, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
Blend the sauce again to form a smooth paste, thinning as desired with water.
Strain the sauce, pressing the solids through a fine mesh strainer with a rubber spatula or wooden spoon. Taste the sauce, and tweak the flavors as desired with additional salt, sugar or vinegar. Remove the sauce to a glass jar or bottle and cool completely. Refrigerate until needed.
Makes about 1½ cups.
Note: This sauce should be prepared in a well-ventilated area and is best prepared at least 1 to 2 days before using. Cane vinegar and palm sugar can be found at select well-stocked cooking stores, as well as Asian markets.
Four-Pepper Hot Sauce
3 ounces dried New Mexico chilies
1½ ounces dried ancho chilies
1 ounce dried arbol chilies
½ ounce dried pequin chilies
8-12 cloves garlic
¼-½ teaspoon ground cloves
2 teaspoons dried oregano
2 teaspoons toasted whole cumin seeds, ground
2 teaspoons salt, more as desired
1 cup cider vinegar
¼ cup olive oil
Bring a kettle or large saucepan of water to boil.
Meanwhile, heat a large comal or skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Place a few chiles on the comal at a time, gently pressing to flatten. Leave the chilies just until aromatic, a few seconds, then turn them over and heat again until aromatic, careful not to burn (burning the chilies will make them bitter). Repeat until all of the chilies are heated; for the smaller chilies, shake them briefly in the comal to warm.
Stem the chilies and place them in a large bowl. Pour over boiling water to cover. Weight the chilies with a plate to keep them submerged, and set aside for 15 minutes until they are softened.
Remove the chilies from the soaking water (reserve the water) and place them in a blender. Add the garlic, cloves, oregano, cumin seeds and salt, along with the cider vinegar, 2 cups soaking water (taste the soaking water before using, and if it tastes bitter, use plain water) and the oil.
Puree the sauce until it is completely smooth, adding water as needed to thin. Taste the sauce – the flavors will vary with each batch of chilies – and adjust the flavorings and seasonings to taste (sweeten if desired with a little sugar).
Using a very fine mesh strainer or chinois, strain the sauce into a large heavy-bottomed saucepan. Whisk in additional water to thin as desired. Bring the sauce to a simmer and stir frequently for 3 to 5 minutes to marry the flavors, then remove from heat. Pour the sauce into a glass jar or bottle, cover and refrigerate.
Makes about 1 quart.
Note: This sauce should be prepared in a well-ventilated area.
Caribbean Jerk-Style Hot Sauce
1½ teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
¾ teaspoon grated nutmeg
1½ teaspoons ground allspice
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
2 tablespoons salt
¼ cup muscovado or dark brown sugar
6-9 Scotch bonnet or habanero peppers, stemmed and chopped
4 teaspoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon minced ginger
2 bunches scallions, chopped (green and white parts)
Zest and juice of 4 limes
¼ cup distilled white vinegar
¼ cup dark rum
¼ cup oil
½ to 1 cup water
In the bowl of a food processor, combine the pepper, nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, salt, sugar, peppers, garlic, ginger, scallions, lime zest and juice, vinegar, rum and oil. Pulse a few times to form a coarse paste.
Transfer the mixture to a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan and simmer for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring frequently, to marry the flavors.
Remove from heat. Place the mixture back in a food processor or blender and blend to form a smooth sauce, thinning as desired with one-half to 1 cup water. Strain if desired. To store, refrigerate the sauce in a covered glass bottle or jar.
Makes about 3 cups.
Note: The sauce should be prepared in a well-ventilated area. Muscovado sugar can be found at most cooking and baking supply stores. Wear gloves while chopping the peppers because the heat in the oils can sting your hands. Wash your hands thoroughly after handling the peppers.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Stetson men's basketball team will play as the eight seed in next week's Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament, but first up is the regular season finale. The Hatters will wake up early to play at Lipscomb on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. ET/10:00 a.m. local on ESPN3.
The Hatters (7-22, 5-12) are coming off of a difficult 96-58 road loss at Northern Kentucky on Thursday night. Stetson has dropped its last five games and lost eight of its last nine. They will look to gain some momentum with a win on Saturday before preparing for Tuesday's A-Sun Quarterfinal contest.
Senior Hunter Miller led the Hatters in scoring on Thursday, totaling 11 points on 3-of-6 shooting in 33 minutes of action. Junior Kyle Sikora added a career high 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting from the floor, and finished the night with seven rebounds.
Lipscomb (14-14, 9-8) comes into Saturday morning's contest on a high note after defeating defending A-Sun Champion Florida Gulf Coast 92-71 on Thursday. The Bisons knocked down 15 three-pointers on 30 attempts from beyond the arc, and received 21-point efforts by both J.C. Hampton and Martin Smith.
The last time Stetson and Lipscomb did battle, the Hatters came away with a 65-63 home victory in the A-Sun opener back on Dec. 30. Senior Raymone Andrews led Stetson with 27 points, including 12-for-14 from the free throw line in that contest. Hampton and Khion Sankey each scored 14 to pace the Bisons back in the final game of 2013.
Saturday's early morning contest can be watched on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app. It can also be heard on WSBB AM 1230, WTJV AM 1490, and online at MyAM1230.com. Live Stats, the @StetsonMBB Twitter feed, and Hat-Alerts will also be available for in-game updates.


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on November 17, 2012 - 5:44 PM
NIAGARA FALLS – A Falls Street man arrested Friday night is accused of driving drunk and leaving the scene of two crashes.
William B. Bell, 66, is charged with driving while intoxicated, consuming alcohol in a motor vehicle, two counts of leaving the scene of a property damage accident, speeding and other counts. Police went to the 2200 block of 13th Street just before 8 p.m. to investigate the report of a car hitting a fence and a utility pole followed a trail of leaking fluids to the 1700 block of Falls Street, where they found a heavily damaged car parked behind a home.
Bell, who answered the door of the home, said he hit something with his car but believed no damage was done, police said. Meanwhile, an officer investigating another hit-and-run crash in the 2700 block of Highland Avenue arrived at the home and linked the same car to that crash, police added.


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This week I had a bunch of icing left over from last week's "summer extravaganza". So yesterday morning I decided to make a large batch of cookies to quickly decorate with all those wonderful colors. However, my crazie-ness kicked into high gear......and suddenly I was headed full steam into decorating an extraordinary number of different fruit cookies. But boy, did I have fun.
And I used a lot of the old icing making the fruit and these simple, but cute smileys. (But I might add, that I made 4-5 more colors of NEW icing to make sure the fruit was more authentic.......My daughter was laughing at me for making new icing when I'm trying to get rid of the old stuff. =))
So here is evidence of my my "fruitful" day yesterday. ;)
First you have your citrus fruit......
then a bunch of fruit that grows on trees.....
add in some berries and cherries (yum!).....
and just a few more.......lol
and suddenly you have a fruit explosion......maybe this would be called the fruit salad. :)
I still have a batch of cookies to do tomorrow for an order.....so I'm not done yet this week.
Tired of my crazie-ness yet??? I hope not....because I sure enjoy having all of you here on my blog..... (Thanks for visiting, by the way.)


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The IMF and Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of Cambridge, MA, the developer of VELCADE™ (bortezomib) for Injection, (a novel agent approved in the United States on May 13, 2003 by the FDA) have agreed to collaborate on a medical education initiative for oncology nurses nationally which will also benefit multiple myeloma patients in their care. For the full prescribing information go to www.mlnm.com/products/velcade/index.asp.
Through an unrestricted educational grant provided by Millennium, the IMF will work with oncology nurses to develop a series of accredited continuing education (CE) initiatives of interest to oncology nurses. A number of States require nurses to accumulate a minimum number of CE credits each year, enabling them to stay current on the latest and most up to date treatments within their field. This series of CE accredited initiatives will help oncology nurses nationally achieve this goal as well as assist them in the care and treatment of their patients with multiple myeloma.
As part of this collaboration, the IMF will use nurses from the Millennium AdvoCare Speakers Bureau. AdvoCare is sponsored by Millennium and is comprised of nurses and other medical professionals who have experience in working with VELCADE™ to treat multiple myeloma patients.
"We are very excited about this collaboration with Millennium," said Brian G.M. Durie, M.D., IMF Chairman of the Board. "Through this collaboration, oncology nurses can access valuable medical education resources to assist them in caring for multiple myeloma patients."
A listing of these initiatives will be featured on a web-hosted portal accessible through the IMF website. These medical education initiatives will initially include the following:
Local Support Groups will also have the opportunity to work with the Advocare nurses as speakers at their local meetings by contacting the IMF and requesting a nurse. In addition, IMF Patient & Family Interactive Seminars held throughout the country will also be able to utilize the AdvoCare nurses as speakers during their sessions. For a current listing of upcoming events, please visit the IMF website at www.myeloma.org. Through a phone call, an oncology nurse experienced in the care and treatment of multiple myeloma patients can be identified, selected, and arrangements made for the nurse to be a part of a local or regional activity. Please contact the IMF for additional information.
Millennium and the IMF are also exploring the possibility of conducting an Oncology Nurse CE session at each Regional Patient & Family Interactive session.
"The IMF is proud to be involved in this collaborative effort with Millennium," said Susie Novis, IMF President. Improving the quality of life of myeloma patients and helping them in their struggle against their disease is the main mission of our organization. This partnership with Millennium will enable oncology nurses from across the country to become more educated about appropriate multiple myeloma patient management, which will directly translate into better patient care."
VELCADE™ is indicated for the treatment of multiple myeloma patients who have received at least two prior therapies and have demonstrated disease progression on the last therapy. The effectiveness of VELCADE is based on response rates. There are no controlled trials demonstrating a clinical benefit, such as an improvement in survival.