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The 5 Greatest Unscripted Scenes in Video Game History
I've got kind of a love/hate relationship with video games. On the one hand, I'm slightly embarrassed by the amount of time I've spent playing them, feeling far, far prouder of the times in my life when I've been making things, rather than just consuming them. On the other hand, I've spent a cumulative 700 years of my life playing video games, so there must be something there.
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It couldn't just be that I'm a colossal loser. Could it?
And when I think back on it, I can recall a few perfect, totally pure moments of gaming pleasure, moments that couldn't possibly be found in non-interactive media, moments that make gaming special. And note that I'm not speaking of tightly scripted moments, events, and experiences that were programmed specifically into a game. Not that those aren't worthwhile; a lot of scripted moments are really, really good. Think of the delight in seeing the moon in Portal 2, getting scared shitless by the window dogs from Resident Evil, or Samus Aran revealing that girls can do things too in Metroid.
"But if a girl could do all that, maybe I'm wrong about the cooties thing too?"
No, what I'm thinking of are those unscripted moments that come up organically, moments when the game is just trying to be a game, and only by accident does it convey something more. These are obviously going to be highly personal and subjective; you'll have played the same games and have similar stories, but all of our little moments are going to be unique. Here's my top five.
#5. Rocket Geometry in the Mine Tunnels of Half-Life
Half-Life is a superb first-person shooter filled with great moments, both scripted and organic. Most of the organic ones are based on the extremely good level design, which provides both a great sense of place and an incredible environment for shooting baddies.
Except for the mine tunnels. The mine tunnels sucked.
Long, tedious, and painful, the video game equivalent of a root canal being performed rectally.
Yet that's where one of my favorite gaming moments took place. In one of those tedious passageways, something appeared in front of me. It was a tiny little white and red something, like a bug, or maybe a torch, and it was getting a bit bigger, and oh shit, duck.
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It's coming right at us!
What I was seeing was a rocket that had been shot at me by some asshole at the other end of this miles-long hallway. I moved to the side, and the rocket sailed past me, but another puff soon appeared. The video-game literate among you will recognize that, as I was now pressed up against a wall, if this next rocket missed, it would still hit the wall behind me, hurting me with splash damage. In short, this was a spectacularly bad environment for dodging rockets, and I think I was supposed to retreat at this point and loop around to catch this guy from behind or something.
Instead, I charged him, moving toward the rocket but away from where it would strike, watching it miss by a few inches and hit the tunnel walls well behind me. I opened fire with my submachine gun, which had an effective range much less than the mile I really needed for this situation. Another rocket sailed past. I reloaded. Four more rockets. I kept shooting and reloading, and when that gun was empty, I switched to another. Twelve more rockets came by. It was a long fucking hallway.
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Somewhere a mighty oak sprang from a tiny acorn.
Recall that this was an era of FPS when health kits and ammo were a little rarer than they are now, and it wasn't unheard of for a player to beat a section of the game, only to reload an earlier save and try to do it again more efficiently, to save ammo. And what I was doing was just about the least efficient way possible of dealing with this situation, dumping every bullet I had into a single enemy. This was dumb, and there was a better way, and yet, when I reached the end of the tunnel, dry-firing an empty gun at what was now just a bloody smear, I knew something special had happened. Two men, 20 rockets, 7,000 bullets, and the principles of splash damage and geometry had combined into something beautiful. I didn't retry that shit.
Even if it meant spending the next half hour getting slaughtered while lamely flailing my crowbar at people.
#4. Making Powerful Enemies in Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas is an open-world game that by design is going to throw up a lot of great gaming moments. Mine occurred relatively early on when I entered a small town. I found that all of its residents had been killed or enslaved by some jerks from Caesar's Legion, which is an army of assholes that dress like Roman legionaries for ... there must have been some reason.
"Have you guys seen those 'pants' things everyone else wears?"
"Yeah. They look dumb."
"Right. I was going to say they looked dumb, too. I just wanted to know if you thought the same."
Anyways, the intent of this scripted moment was to introduce these assholes and a semi-important NPC to me, and also to underline just how harsh this particular world was. Although it's an open-world game where I could potentially do whatever I wanted, I wasn't expected to do much more than watch here; the townspeople present were beyond saving, and the Legion members vastly outnumbered and outarmed me. Attacking them would have been foolish.
So I attacked them foolishly.
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Mainly by shooting and then scampering away in terror several times, just like the professionals.
This had a couple of interesting side effects. For one, I now felt really proud of myself, unusually so for someone playing video games in a smelly, darkened room. I was now the badass vigilante justice dealer of the desert, and all would tremble before me.
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Much as they do when smelling my video game room.
But this also turned the most powerful faction in the game completely and irrevocably against me, to the point that they started sending squads of assassins after me every half hour or so. That early in the game, I was in no way prepared to face twice-hourly squads of assassins, and I spent basically the rest of the game limping and scurrying from town to town trying to avoid them in a decidedly ignoble manner for a badass vigilante justice dealer.
No regrets, though. Fuck those guys.
#3. Ramming Crooks into the Water in Grand Theft Auto III
The Grand Theft Auto games are also open-world sandbox games, jam-packed with the toys to make organic gaming moments. Everyone who's played them probably has their own favorites. But the one that always sticks out in my mind is from GTA III's vigilante mode, where you're given a very tight time limit to race across town and murder a criminal.
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I've just realized a lot of these are about killing. Sorry, Mom. Sorry, Dad. On the plus side,
at least my rage issues are no longer undiagnosed.
The GTA games are packed with ways to murder people, but these missions were still a little tricky, simply because the bad guy was almost always in a car and the player had limited means of both keeping up with and stopping a car. A typical vigilante mission soon devolved into a clumsy sequence of ramming and randomly sprayed bullets.
And thus lacked much of the formal elegance that has given GTA a reputation as the "chess of video games."
On this particular mission, however, I simply didn't have the necessary time for clumsy ramming and spraying. I only just managed to catch up to the guy with a few seconds left on my timer (after which murdering him would have been illegal). So, with the usual tactics ruled out, I used the powerful lateral thinking skills that all gamers have (for murdering) and noticed the large patch of blue to our right -- the ocean, filled with the curiously fatal water of early GTA games. By that point I had never seen anyone but me die in the water, but with little time to do anything else, I gave it the old college try, and I rammed the guy toward the side of the elevated highway we were driving on.
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What am I going to do? Not try to murder him?
It worked, spectacularly well. That poor bastard Dukes of Hazzarded off the edge and into the water, a glorious THREAT ELIMINATED splaying across the screen as my clock reached zero. That I received $2,000 for this seemed almost an insult for a murder so creative and well-executed.
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Really the game should have stopped for the mayor to give me a medal.


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The 4 Ballsiest Career Moves by Famous Musicians
#2. Scott Walker Rejects Pop Stardom for the Avant-Garde
Hey, ever heard of the Walker Brothers? Yeah, me either, until my buddy Blind Boy from the Rubber Bandits turned me on to them and, more importantly, their frontman, Scott Walker. Apparently, for a moment in the mid-'60s, they were on the receiving end of accolades reserved for the likes of the Beatles. They were wildly successful and known for their dreamy frontman's distinctive baritone vocals.
Anyway, instead of being part of a wildly successful pop group, Scott Walker decided to make incredibly obscure avant-garde soundscapes, a transformation so unexpected and extreme, one critic described it as "Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen." To put that in perspective for younger readers: going from being Justin Bieber to ... I don't know, someone complex and important you've never heard of because you don't listen to stuff like that because I just had to patronize you with a Justin Bieber reference.
Walker's music is obtuse, dramatic, and extreme, and I could link clips like this, but on one listen it wouldn't make much of an impression. And if it did, it probably wouldn't be a very good one. At the end of the day, perhaps the best proof of what an important musician Walker is would be this audio clip from 1995 in which he calls in to a radio show to wish David Bowie a happy birthday. Even from the mere audio, you can hear David Bowie -- already regarded as his generation's pre-eminent musical provocateur -- utterly lose his shit and his mind that Scott Walker is even talking to him:
#1. John Lennon Has the Guts to Do What He'd Slammed Paul McCartney for Doing
It's slowly changing, but John Lennon gets a lot of praise for the Beatles, and Paul McCartney seems to take a lot of shit. History remembers Lennon as the more earnest poet, writing music like "Strawberry Fields Forever," and McCartney as the more fluffy songsmith of things like "Yellow Submarine." For the most part, those classifications are crap, and true Beatles fans don't think in those terms. McCartney wrote some of the Beatles' raunchiest songs, like "Helter Skelter" and "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" while Lennon certainly wrote his share of fluff, like "Good Night." Both men enjoyed rock and blues and pure pop. And some of Lennon's greatest compositions benefited greatly from McCartney (check out McCartney's bass and drums on "Dear Prudence." Yeah, he plays the drums on that.)
Lots of factors have led to this characterization: Paul was more conventionally cute and boyish-looking, Paul had a smoother, higher tenor voice, and Paul lived longer and produced a lot more incredibly mediocre solo material. But some of the biggest blame for the McCartney slander belongs to John Lennon himself, who said some very not nice things about Paul in the press and got George Harrison to play on the acerbic and vicious "How Do You Sleep?" which paints Paul as a sellout.
Paul's response was to write a massive No. 1 hit called "Silly Love Songs," in which he sings:
"Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know, because here I go again
I love you"
Yep, a massive hit with a chorus that's was merely "I love you." The most brilliantly passive-aggressive fuck you ever.
And it's pretty hard to beat up on McCartney for writing love songs when he spent the '70s in a blissful marriage to Linda McCartney, whereas Lennon's decade was more tumultuous, with a rocky relationship with Yoko and some heroin problems. But by 1980, Lennon's life had sorted out. He was back together with Yoko, spending time with his baby, Sean, and getting back to recording. In short, his life was more closely resembling that of McCartney, who had already thrown himself into a stable family life. The result is Lennon's great work on his final album, Double Fantasy. Now, don't get me wrong: I love the album, but basically it's a bunch of silly love songs. Take a listen to "(Just Like) Starting Over" or "Woman."
Basically, after spending the '70s perfecting an image as the true troubled artist, responsible for the most "legit" Beatles and solo music, John Lennon seemed to remember that, much like his friend Paul McCartney, he liked pop music and love songs. Double Fantasy would be deemed saccharine if it weren't so sincere and catchy. Still, it took tremendous balls to release such a simply romantic album after spending 10 years talking politics and publicly dumping on his former partner for writing pop songs. Clearly, Lennon was aware of the public's perception. I remember listening to "The Lost Lennon Tapes" as a boy and hearing him mock "Woman" during the recording by comparing it to his earlier Beatles composition "Girl." (YouTube has failed me though ...) But he was brave enough to pursue a simple, honest, romantic album, and due to that sincerity, his change of heart reads more like maturity than hypocrisy.
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HREE SPRINGS - Angela (Hamman) Cook, 32, of 21630 Shore Valley Rd., Three Springs, died on Thursday morning, Sept. 20, 2012, at home surrounded by her family.
Mrs. Cook was born on Aug. 5, 1980, in Huntingdon, a daughter of Edsel and Vicki (McKinney) Hamman, of Three Springs.
She married Joseph L. Cook on April 22, 2006, at Singer's Gap Methodist Church, Hill Valley. He survives at their home along with three children, Tristan Hamman, Alex Cook, and Emma Cook.
Also surviving are: siblings,Jeremy Hamman Sr., of Mount Union, and Alicia Hamman, of Three Springs; maternal grandparents, Carole Hazlett, of Allensville, and Wayne and Dora McKinney, of Mapleton; father and mother-in-law, Jerry and Virginia Holmes, of Magnolia, Miss.; brother-in-law, James Cook, of Cassville; sister-in-law Angela Holmes, of Magnolia, Miss.; and niece and nephew, Jeremy Hamman Jr. and and Lilliana Hamman.
Mrs. Cook had been employed for several years at Bonney Forge, Mount Union.
She graduated from Southern Huntingdon Area High School and Dubois Business College, Huntingdon.
She was very active in 4-H, including raising show animals and being a show leader for the Pork Pizzazz 4-H club. She was also actively involved in the Relay for Life, at both Southern Huntingdon and Mount Union relays. She enjoyed cake decorating and scrap-booking.
The funeral service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, at the Robert D. Heath Funeral Home, Mount Union, with Pastors Dave Purdy and Sean Moon officiating. Interment will be in Bowman's Chapel Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday evening from 6 to 9 p.m., and after 9 a.m. on Monday, until the hour of the service.
Memorial contributions can be made to the American Cancer Society, 123 S Sparks St, State College, PA 16801.


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5 Things That Have Almost Destroyed Halloween
#2. Rob Zombie's Halloween
OK, so this isn't explicitly about the holiday Halloween, but it's the same word, and I'm writing this, so I win. Rob Zombie's Halloween remake is an abomination. It just is.
The original John Carpenter Halloween is a decent movie. If I never see it again, I won't lose sleep or spend nights weeping softly, but I liked it well enough. It obviously struck a chord with horror fans and has endured for decades. Then Rob Zombie stepped in and said, "Look at me, I was in a horrorish metal band and my last name is Zombie and I made this other awful horror movie that literally had a character named Dr. Satan in it, let me remake this," and nobody said no, even though they knew he was going to cast his wife in it, and even though we'd all seen her in House of 1000 Corpses and there was no humanly possible way that her acting had improved enough to allow her to be put on film again. Physics is still trying to work out the equations to calculate how much she sucks, but the variable of how her maniacal, brain-shattering laughter throws how much she sucks into wacky, atom-destroying levels is a real kicker, mathematically speaking.
So Sheri Moon aside, the only reason Carpenter's Halloween was a standout -- and you can argue that I'm wrong, but I need you to be comfortable knowing that, to everyone with sense, I am not wrong, and you may have fallen asleep inside a plastic bag at some point to get you to the point where you disagree with me -- the only reason Halloween worked so well was because of the Michael Myers character. Nothing else in the movie, aside from a catchy score, was really a standout. Was Donald Pleasance good? Sure, but not remarkably so. Did people like Jamie Lee Curtis? I guess so, but you didn't see her boobs until Trading Places, years later. But Myers was meant to be evil personified. He wasn't a killer who had been wronged, he wasn't seeking vengeance or profit, he wasn't trying to prove a Saw-like point or haunting the place where he'd been abandoned by negligent teens. He was literally just a big, psychotic prick who defied sense. It was brilliant. It was.
Then Rob Zombie said, "Nah, let's try to figure out why he kills people." And right there he ruined it, and may as well have made literally every other masked killer movie that ever existed. How a horror fan could look at Halloween and not understand why it was different from every other movie and then decide to change that one thing is mind-boggling. The only reason I can come up with is that, when Zombie was writing the screenplay, his wife wouldn't shut up the entire time, and like some kind of crazy sci-fi sonic weapon, the shrill sound nearly liquefied his brain, and by the time he regained his senses, months had passed and he was already half-done shooting the film, with no memory whatsoever of what stupid shit he had already done.
#1. Raisins, Apples and Toothbrushes
What are you, fuckin' new here? No one has ever in the history of all time wanted a box of raisins, and that isn't even limited to Halloween -- it's ever. Do you like raisins? Ironically, even if you answer yes, it's not true. You really don't. Raisins are the food version of sex with someone you're sort of attracted to but not crazy about, and also they have herpes. It's just not a thing with which you want to be involved.
In the exact same despicable bag as raisins are apples and toothbrushes, but at least those have real-world uses beyond Halloween. But on Halloween, an apple is about as generous a treat as spreading your scrotum skin (or labia, for you ladies) out flat on the edge of a table and having a good whack at it with a rubber mallet.
If you're not sure if kids want fruit on Halloween, feel free to find a kid right now and offer him a choice between a chocolate bar and a pear. The kid who picks the pear probably also has a small shrine of animal heads in his closet and holds hugs way longer than is appropriate.
Your toothbrush is just as thoughtless, and the reason should be obvious -- that kid already has a toothbrush. And if he doesn't, then that's really fucked up, and I don't think he's going to use the one you just gave him. But either way, you don't need strangers giving you oral hygiene tools. How does that kid know that you didn't have that brush up your ass all day before you gave it to him? How do you know that I won't do that to your toothbrush if you invite me over? You need one toothbrush at a time, and they last like six months or so, don't they? At least? Fun-sized Kit Kats last three seconds and then you need another one because that shit isn't fun. Give kids candy, don't be a twat.
And that's the end of that, kids. And, on a more personal note, that's the end of Fortey Days and Fortey Nights, at least for now. Ian isn't dead, though; you can follow him on Twitter @IanFortey and find out what he's doing, maybe invite him over for a sandwich. Hide your toothbrush.


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CHANDLER, AZ – Have you ever had a prank go wrong? Have you wondered how bad it could really be? This man found out the hard way.
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For Four Retailers, Do or Die
The New Year Has New Urgency for Best Buy, RadioShack, J.C. Penney and Sears
While 2013 will be a tough year for retailers due to the tepid economic recovery, a few in particular face a critical 12 months. Their experiences highlight the challenges facing store chains, from increasingly cautious consumers to fierce online competition.
These unlucky retailers are going into the New Year with extra woes: slipping sales, questionable strategies and tight finances—which is why they are the ones to watch, and not in a good way.
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Best Buy Co. BBY -1.49 % has been plagued by the retail phenomenon called "showrooming," where shoppers examine products in its stores but buy online through rivals. A quarter of shoppers who said they had showroomed had done so at Best Buy, according to a recent Harris Poll, so analysts will be watching to see if it can capture more of those sales on its own website.
J.C. Penney Co. JCP 0.00 % has been trying to ditch its image as an old-fashioned department store where Middle America went seeking bargains. But its rapid and radical makeover has left it burning through cash and struggling to attract shoppers, leading to questions about how long the company can afford to stick to its new strategy.
RadioShack Corp.'s bet on mobile phones and tablets has backfired. It has sold more of these low-margin devices but is making less money than it did retailing old standards like cameras and computers. Though it staved off a cash crunch earlier this year by suspending its dividend, mounting losses cloud its future.
Sears Holdings Corp.'s SHLD -1.70 % sales and profits continue to slide. The 124-year-old department store chain has been shoring up its liquidity by selling itself off in pieces—but some of its remaining assets might be tough to unload when retailing is under pressure.
A closer look at these four companies:
Hubert Joly, who took the helm of Best Buy in September, has his work cut out for him.
The company is still the largest consumer-electronics seller in the world, with $50 billion in annual revenue. But sales have dropped in eight of the last nine quarters at stores open at least 14 months—and the decline is accelerating.
Best Buy's same-store sales fell more than 4% for the first nine months of 2012, after slipping 2.1% in all of 2011.
The chain's founder, Richard Schulze, is expected to make an offer to take the company private by Feb. 1. The stock has lost 50% of its value in the past year, making a buyout less costly—and perhaps more palatable to shareholders.
But neither Mr. Joly nor Mr. Schulze has articulated a viable strategic fix, analysts say. In a meeting with them in November, Mr. Joly talked in broad outlines about reducing costs, improving staffing levels on weekends, shrinking stores and improving the website.
Fitch Ratings was unimpressed, downgrading the chain's long-term credit default rating to BB- from BB+ with a negative outlook, reflecting the rating agency's skepticism that the company's plan will curb market-share losses and stem profit declines.
One possible bright spot: Best Buy was one of the top three most-visited websites over the Thanksgiving weekend, according to comScore Inc. Best Buy wouldn't comment on whether that traffic turned into sales. That will become clear when the company releases holiday sales results Jan. 11.
As J.C. Penney heads into its second year of a drastic makeover under Ron Johnson, a former Apple Inc. AAPL 0.76 % retail executive, analysts will be watching whether the company can hang on to enough cash to fund the expensive turnaround.
Last February, the new chief executive ended the department-store chain's practice of heavily discounting products through sales and coupons. He also laid out a plan to build 100 boutiques—from Martha Stewart Home to Izod—inside the chain's 1,100 department stores.
But during the first nine months of the fiscal year, Penney's sales fell by $2.7 billion, down 23% to $9.1 billion. More than half of its cash evaporated, to $525 million, as the department store chain racked up $433 million in losses.
Penney said early on that it expected sales to drop while it weaned customers off sales and coupons. But the drop was far steeper than the chain's new managers expected, people familiar with the matter say.
Stopping that sales decline will be crucial to head off a situation in which cash becomes tight. In the year ahead, Penney's sales will be benchmarked against the 20%-plus drop seen this year, so the company will have easier comparisons.
While analysts have expressed concerns about Penney's ability to execute its plan, Oppenheimer analysts said this week that Penney's increasingly promotional strategy is showing evidence of success, lifting the stock Monday.
Named after a shipboard communication cabin, 91-year-old RadioShack appears rudderless as it heads into the new year. Chief Executive James F. Gooch resigned in September after barely a year in the job; the company only recently filled two senior store operations and marketing posts that had been vacant since spring.
In recent years, RadioShack has focused its growth strategy on selling tablets and smartphones, a category that benefits from stronger demand yet faces competition from online retailers and the wireless carriers RadioShack relies on as partners.
Mobile devices accounted for 51% of $4.38 billion in sales last year, up from 44% the year before. But the company's gross margins continue to shrink, falling 8 percentage points, to 36%, in the 12 months ended Sept. 30.
It racked up big losses in the last three quarters as well, reflecting the smaller profit margins smartphones carry compared with cameras, MP3 players and electronic accessories.
Analysts will be watching to see whether the company can renegotiate a massively unprofitable partnership with Target Corp. TGT -0.69 % Operating the mobile phone business in 1,400 Target stores resulted in a $38 million loss for RadioShack in the first three quarters of 20012.
The biggest sale at Sears Holdings next year may be on pieces of its empire.
In recent years, Sears, run by hedge fund billionaire Edward S. Lampert, has made a habit of spinning off its holdings to raise cash and ease investor concerns over liquidity.
With revenue on a downward slope for the past half decade and the company posting a $500 million net loss in its most recent quarter, many wonder what assets the company may unload next.
Last December, Sears completed the spinoff of its Orchard Supply Hardware Stores chain. This year, it separated its Hometown Stores and its Outlet business, netting $446.5 million. In November, the company completed a partial spinoff of its Canadian unit. Also this year, Sears sold 11 of its stores to mall operator General Growth Properties GGP -0.46 % for $270 million.
As part of a turnaround, the company has been working to better integrate its online channel and retail stores, and to leverage the millions of customers in its loyalty program. It's started to see some progress, with over 50% of sales coming from members of the program, which Sears launched just two years ago.
Mr. Lampert has suggested that the company may divest itself of Lands' End, a higher-end apparel brand and e-commerce outlet that the company acquired in 2002, if it fails to hit previous earnings levels.
Other possibilities for sales, analysts say, are parts of its large portfolios of retail real estate or proprietary brands such as Kenmore and Craftsman.
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Richard Rener and Joan Rener to Patricia Duffy, Michael Duffy and Bonnie Duffy, $180,000, Hedgesville
Barron Homes of West Virginia Inc. to Richard Zinn, $116,000, Arden
Judy Russell to Shawn Coffey Jr., $109,900, Mill Creek
U.S. Bank National Association to Randall Leonard Sr. and Brenda Leonard, $179,900, Mill Creek
Debora Iacovacci Tr., Debora A. Iacovacci Sole Proprietor Defined Benefit to Edward Banes, $193,900, Hedgesville
Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. to Craig Shipley and Tammy Shipley, $215,000, Mill Creek
Seneca Trustees Inc. Sub Tr., Charles Summers Jr. to Wells Fargo Bank NA, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc., $188,269, Opequon
Connie Kesner Sub Tr., Michael Graves to Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., $80,750, Gerrardstown
Seneca Trustees Inc. Sub Tr., Timothy Hafer and Mary Hafer to Deutsche Bank National Trust Co., $187,000, Martinsburg
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Who are your favorite naruto and inuyasha characters? Please reply to my question thanx peoples Tenshi934
"Me?... Evil?...Never"~ Hell UserOtaku God
"Thats my nindo... my ninja way"
Naruto: Shikamaru Inuyasha: That little demon kid child thing with dog/cat/wolf/fox ears or what ever... he's the coolest! =D
Hinata and Sesshoumaru are my favorites.
Naruto:Sasuke Kakashia Inuyasha: Inuyasha (lol)Moroku ( the priest) Kagome ...well actually that whole group lol! and yes I must say alsoLord Sheshoumuru (spelling?) Dewa Mata,Niji-Hana OTAKU ELITE"Innoscence Activate!"
Personally my favorite manga character would have to be Sasuke, Kakashi or Naruto this is just out of naruto.But i do have a personally favorite manga series called Yu Yu Hakusho, I also have a favorite character out of thereBut i cannot always spell his name so im not going to bother.
"Shinso slay them all"
I hope that I don't have to only have one favorite....I also like....Allen from D. Gray Man (the reason for my avatar)Ban from The Get Backers ( Ooooh those Eyes! Those Gorgeous Eyes!)Gin, Ichigo, & Renji from Bleach Sauske from Naruto Dewa Mata,Niji-Hana"Innoscence Activate" http://view.playlist.com/13500951819
in inuyasha i of course like the gang...inuyasha, kagome, shippo, miroku, sango, kirara. i like the demon whose fang makes tokijin, sesshomaru, rykoutseui (the dragon), i also like those 2 priestess' who fell for tsubakes trick and the youngest thunder "bro."inuyasha is a awesome series. i haven't seen naurto but i want to learn more about the demon fox. that sounds cool. "You know what you have to admire? A Catholic hit man who blesses himself just before he strangles someone."-George Carlin
Goshinki, Sesshomaru, Sango. Hinata, Zabuza, Temari, Kakashi.


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This two-semester sequence explores the Classical tradition and its legacy through the development of Western culture and civilization. The use and analysis of primary sources, such as Homer's Odyssey, Plato's Republic, Dante's Inferno, Descartes' "Meditations," Shelley's Frankenstein, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil will be emphasized.
Political Economy of Conflict
Covers a variety of perspectives in the study of political economy and ideology. Concentration is on methodologies that illustrate the differences and similarities among the various approaches to the study of economics and politics.
The Arts in Performance
Covers the development and appreciation of the arts, primarily through exploring the relationship between the theory and practice of artistic performance.
History and Philosophy of Science
This is the first semester of a two-semester sequence. This first course traces the contributions to modern science of non-Western cultures like China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and the Islamic world in areas of astronomy and cosmology, mathematics, natural history and natural philosophy. It considers the development of scientific knowledge and technology from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia through the 19 th century, and shows how the concepts and ideas developed by these cultures help establish the foundation for Western science.
Science, Power, and Diversity
This is the second semester of a two-semester sequence. This second course explores the social construction of the science-power relationships that influence discovery and applications of technology, especially in terms of how scientific discovery is transmitted and received by media and society, respectively. It will emphasize seminal scientific issues of the twentieth century and the present, such as the language of science, the exclusion of women and minorities from scientific discourse, genetic predisposition to disease, gender issues in scientific research, and ethnicity bioethics in studies and treatment of HIV, among others. Prerequisite: HON 221 is a prerequisite for HON 222, except with permission from the Honors director and the instructors.
Human Culture and Behavior
Topics include a number of conceptual subject matters pertinent to the disciplines of psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Focus may include topics such as conflict, war, aggression, communication, or conflict management. Subjects are studied through the simultaneous application of several different social science methodologies.
Special Topics
These seminar topics vary from year to year. They primarily focus on specific general topics raised in the interdisciplinary Honors LE courses, e.g., The Concept of Scientific Change, but which are explored at length in these seminars. May be taken more than once for credit. Special topics courses offered by History, English, and Philosophy may be crosslisted as an Honors 300 seminar. Offered Fall, Spring and May Term.
These Senior-level seminar topics vary from year to year. They primarily focus on very particular combinations of topics raised in the Honors LE courses, e.g., The Music of Mozart on the Eve of Revolution, but which receive a more in-depth analysis than that provided in the Honors LE courses.
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A Buffalo man was shot in the knee while talking with friends outside of a Rodney Avenue home Saturday evening.
Roosevelt Appleton Jr., no age provided, was taken by Rural Metro Ambulance to Erie County Medical Center.
Appleton told Buffalo police a newer model white or gray four-door Cadillac with tinted windows approached eastbound on Rodney from Fillmore Avenue and stopped,
Shots were then fired from the car, possibly from a semiautomatic handgun, according to a police report. The incident happened about 6:20 p.m.
Other witnesses described hearing multiple shots and seeing a Cadillac head eastbound on Rodney toward Holden Avenue occupied by two men.
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John Vernon Lord
'The Ant and the Grasshopper'
Illustration from wood-engravings
From Aesop's Fables, retold in verse by James Mitchie
Published by Jonathan Cape, London
National Art Library Pressmark: 60.HH.46.
John Vernon Lord (born 1939) used the area around his home in Ditchling, Sussex, as setting for his Aesop's Fables illustrations. His pen and ink drawings are painstaking in their detail and resemble wood engravings. Lord used mapping and Rotring pens and sometimes a blunted ruler for parallel lines. Wax was sometimes added to the paper to resist the ink, giving a luminescence to some of the backgrounds. In an essay on 'Hatching', Lord wrote; "The editing and selection of gap-making is fundamental to drawing… A picture is made up of a balancing between the making, the removing, and the not-making of marks."
Lord has been a prolific illustrator for nearly fifty years as well as teaching illustration at Brighton Art College. His past work includes an album cover for Deep Purple's 'The Book of Taliesyn' in 1968 and book illustrations to 'The Giant Jam Sandwich' in 1972 and 'The Nonsense Verse' by Edward Lear in 1984, both published by Jonathan Cape. He still illustrates, working now with the Inky Parrott Press on Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland'.


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February 27, 2008
Wordless Wednesday: You Caption It
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Ice cream AND balloons. It's a great day!ReplyDelete
He looks excited about that sundae! Happy ww!ReplyDelete
I don't really have a good caption but man he looks a lot like you! Hope you are feeling better!ReplyDelete
he really does look a lot like you! Same beautiful eyes :)ReplyDelete
"Hey mom, look, Chinese chopsticks for desert!"ReplyDelete
I would be just as excited if one was in front of me.LOL....very cute.ReplyDelete
Looks like possibly a happy birthday?ReplyDelete
Hurry with that photo the whipped cream is gonna fall off!ReplyDelete
They are so cute and oh how I'd love a bite or 12 of that Sunday!ReplyDelete
Ice cream, balloons, good friends and PARTY - so THAT'S what's with the grin. lolReplyDelete
What a happy picture!
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I'm sorry, my earpiece is shorting out on me again. Could you repeat? Someone is about to steal a bite of my . . . Hyundai? I'm sorry, I'm losing you, and . . . hey, this thing tickles!ReplyDelete
That ice cream sure looks good!ReplyDelete
Happy WW!
Noah looks so angelic and so happy to be turning 7. Carter's look cracks me up, like he is saying "I am going to dive right into you, mr. Sundae, if Noah doesn't hurry and eat you".ReplyDelete
That is so CUTE!!!ReplyDelete
I don't have a good caption but WHAT a cute photo! How much does Noah look like you?!! WOW!ReplyDelete
- Your Friend, NellFebruary 27, 2008 6:39 AM
Oh Ice Cream Sunday...where have you been all my life? LOLReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, Steph, I never realized just how much Noah looks like you!!! He's like your twin!! Love the look on Carter's face. :)ReplyDelete
Jane, Pinks & Blues
You can just see her thinking - hey, where's mine! About 2 seconds from bursting into tears, I would think... Too cute!ReplyDelete
Look what I pulled from my ear!ReplyDelete
I'm so gonna swipe that cherry!
Eyeballing the Sundae.ReplyDelete
Too cute!
Mine is up"
Happy Birthday To ME!!!!!ReplyDelete
looks like a fun time.
Happy WW
Here comes trouble.ReplyDelete
awe so nice to see a photo from you! they look like balloon strings 2 me. i just cant help but notice the sundae stare in the background :-)ReplyDelete
I think Carter is saying, "WHERE'S MINE?" That look is priceless!ReplyDelete
And I have to agree - Noah really does look so much like you!
Ice cream and balloons - does it get any better? He sure looks happy.ReplyDelete
You're not looking!!!ReplyDelete
How cute. Is that friendly's? Now I want some ice cream!
Somebody looks like Mommy@ReplyDelete
Wow- Noah does look so much like you there- his hair looks really dark. This pictures is so cute. Caption...ReplyDelete
Carter: Will someone please tell them that it's MY birthday too?
Ha! The look of longing on the brother's face and the look of excitement on his...too cute!ReplyDelete
"Hurry up with the picture so I can keep Carter away from my sundae."ReplyDelete
It looks like he's ready for his balloons to pop.
"That's way more than the alloted amount of acceptable dessert. I think we need to give some back. Or maybe I could just eat it. The point is, there will be no having of any fun until this problem is fixed."ReplyDelete
Is that too long? :)
How about "Uber cuteness!"ReplyDelete
Or the ever favored
"Don't I look just like my Mommy?!!"
Birthday boy! He is SO grown up!ReplyDelete
NOAH: Look at my gi-gunda chopsticks!ReplyDelete
CARTER: Can I fit in the picture?
=) Lori
I think Adam won this round... too funny!ReplyDelete
so cute! and i love carter peeking out from behind, eying that yummy sundae. :)ReplyDelete
I'm not reading anyone else's suggestions! Here's mine:ReplyDelete
"Uhhhhhh boy. How'mah gunna get through allllll that whipped topping and ice cream to get to that fudge at the bottom?"


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CHICAGO — Ubaldo Jimenez may or may not be beyond repair, but shouldn't there be one Indians infielder who can catch a popup?
Jimenez delivered another hard-to-watch start Tuesday night as the Indians lost to Chicago, 7-2, at U.S. Cellular Field in a game delayed by rain for 56 minutes. The victory moved the White Sox into a first-place tie with the Tribe in the AL Central.
It wasn't just rain that fell on Chicago's south side. Popups fell in front of and behind Indians infielders, particularly in a four-run third inning. When the Indians take the field tonight, perhaps they should wear batting helmets so no one gets hurt.
Jimenez (2-2, 4.91) allowed seven runs, four earned, on eight hits in 4 2/3 innings.
He walked six, struck out one and threw only 51 percent of his 105 pitches for strikes.
This season Jimenez has walked 20 and allowed 30 hits compared to 14 strikeouts in 29 1/3 innings. Tuesday's start was his shortest of the season.
Jimenez is 1-2 with a 4.91 ERA in five career starts against Chicago.
The White Sox are 3-0 against the Indians this year after going 11-7 against them last year.
Left-hander Chris Sale (3-1, 2.81) beat the Indians for the second time this season. He held them to one run on three hits in six innings. The Indians have scored two runs in 12 innings against Sale this season.
This is Sale's first season in the starting rotation. Over the past three years, he has 32 strikeouts in 261/3 innings against the Indians.
"Once again, we couldn't handle Sale," Tribe manager Manny Acta said. "He's pitched very well against us."
The only satisfaction the Indians derived from Tuesday's game was the end of their homerless streak. Shelley Duncan homered in the seventh off Will Ohman. It was the Tribe's first homer in 11 games, their longest dry spell since a 14-game drought in 1983.
The Indians' problems with pop-ups ended in the seventh when Carlos Santana, making his first start at first base, let Alex Rios' pop-up fall behind him. Unfortunately, what came before ruined any chance for an Indians' victory.
The game turned in the third in an ugly performance by Jimenez and his defense.
Gordon Beckman, hitting .153 through Chicago's first 22 games, opened the inning with a homer for a 2-1 lead. He hit Jimenez's 3-1 pitch into the left-field bleachers. Fireworks followed, and the smoke from the explosions helped undo the Indians.
A thick blanket of smoke drifted over the infield when Alejandro De Aza hit a pop-up to the third-base side of the mound. Jason Donald couldn't find the ball in the smoke. He dived for it at the last moment but came up empty as De Aza slid into second ahead of Asdrubal Cabrera's throw to the bag for an infield double.
Donald said he lost the ball in the smoke. Acta said he saw the ball all the way from the dugout, but added, "Maybe Donald had a different angle on it because of the smoke."
Alexei Ramirez followed with a routine grounder to short that Cabrera dropped for an error as De Aza went to third. Jimenez walked Adam Dunn and Paul Konerko to force home a run and make it 3-1. A.J. Pierzynski, with the bases still loaded, skied a pitch above the mound. The infield fly rule was in effect, and Pierzynski was called out even though Cabrera dropped the ball as he climbed the mound to try and catch it.
Rios sent a grounder to third. Donald threw to Jason Kipnis for the force at second as Ramirez scored to make it 4-1. Dayan Viciedo's single to center made it 5-1 before Brett Morel hit into a force play at second to end the inning.
The White Sox sent nine men to the plate, and only two of them hit balls out of the infield. Three of the four runs were unearned as the Indians gave Chicago five outs.
"We didn't catch the ball up in the air, we didn't catch the ball down on the ground," Acta said. "We didn't cover the bases. . . . We cannot afford to play that kind of defense with the type of offense we have."
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Chicago stretched the lead to 7-1 with runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Morel hit a two-out single in the fifth, stole second and scored on Beckham's single to right. It was Beckham's third hit.
Ramirez singled home De Aza in the fourth.
The Indians gave Jimenez a 1-0 lead in the second on consecutive two-out doubles by Duncan and Kipnis off Sale.
Pierzynski made it 1-1 with a 418-foot homer to center with one out in the second. He hit an 0-2 pitch from Jimenez for his
fifth homer, three of them coming against Indians pitching.
"Ubaldo is trying to make some mechanical adjustments, but he still didn't throw enough strikes," Acta said. "We didn't help him at all with the kind of defense we played and we cost him a ton of pitches in the third inning."
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Kenmore 30" Freestanding Electric Range - Stainless Look
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Kenmore — trusted in the homes of more than 100 million Americans. The Kenmore electric range 90128 has an upswept cooktop with two 8-in. and two 6-in. coil elements; the elements' removable chrome drip bowls are easy to clean. The large 5.3 cu. ft. self-cleaning oven has plenty of space for two trays of brownies, several side dishes, or a beautifully roasted bird. The stainless-look Kenmore 9012 electric range features Easy Set 205 electronic oven controls so you can preheat and clean your oven on your own schedule. Use the Select Clean option to choose from three levels of cleaning. The glass door with an extra large windows lets you keep an eye on cookies and quiches, and the bottom drawer provides storage. Read what Consumer Reports says about this Kenmore range and other coil ranges.
- Cook a complete meal at one time in the extra-large 5.3 cubic-foot-capacity self-clean oven with two oven racks
- The handy storage drawer provides storage space for all kinds of cookware
- Two 8-inch 2,600 watt coil elements bring water to a boil, while two 6-inch 1,500 watt coil elements are good for simmering
- The extra-large door window lets you check on progress without opening the door
- Removable chrome drip bowls protect the cooktop surface and easily wash up with soap and water
- Easy Set™ 205 electronic oven controls provide easy operation of the clock and timer
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5 Reasons 'The Walking Dead' Has to Get Better
#2. No More Burdens
"We love nature hikes and have no sense of direction; save us!"
First they ran out of Red Shirts, and now the writers of The Walking Dead are fresh out of Convenient Burdens, too. Don't mistake the two: Red Shirts are entirely different from Convenient Burdens. Red Shirts are just disposable cannon fodder, while Convenient Burdens usually aren't even killed -- they're just perpetually on the verge of it. And they make for bad storytelling because they're usually painfully transparent: The Convenient Burdens only exist as easy plot devices to put the group in trouble when shit gets boring. But now Sophia is dead, they've finally hardened Andrea the fuck up and not only has Carl learned his Spider-man lesson and made his first kill, but they finally gave him his own gun (something that happened way earlier in the comics, and in the rational minds of every single audience member). So that should be the end of the "helpless child lost in the woods" plot lines. No more Lori sprinting out onto the lawn screaming "CARL ISN'T IN THE HOUSE!" Because now she'd have to follow it up with: "AND ALL HE HAS IS A FIREARM AND BOTH THE TRAINING AND THE WILL TO USE IT JUST LIKE THE REST OF US!"
So there's really just Carol and Lori left to helplessly flail around in the background of the zombie apocalypse while the adults manage the hard stuff like story and character and oh yeah: zombies. But Lori's role was never to get in trouble (she just causes it). So that only leaves Carol to account for, and you know what? That's fine. It's actually beneficial to have one Convenient Burden in the show.
Remember the escort missions from Resident Evil 4?
"Oh. God. Dammit, Ashley. How did you even get up there? Do I have to get you a leash?!"
My wife watched me play through that entire game, and no matter how annoying Ashley was to actually deal with, nothing was more intense to watch than her missions. It infuriated me at the time, because I was responsible for the dizzy bitch, but sometimes a helpless foil serves a good purpose, in that it gives the main character something at stake. It's just that Convenient Burdens are a lot like Kool-Aid: There's only so much you can fuck with the ratio before you end up with colored water. Up until now, The Walking Dead didn't work because they had two Leons and like 18 fucking Ashleys.
Now there's only one, and maybe they can get Carol a nice red ball to play with somewhere. Keep her occupied.
#1. At Least They're Not on a Goddamn Farm Anymore
"The entire world is yours for the exploring. Come, dwell on me."
Seriously, that is the absolute worst location for any show not explicitly about farming. And you know what? Even farming shows would be better served with more interesting set pieces. Volcano farmers. Moon farmers. Freeway farmers. Fuck, I don't know -- literally anything is more interesting than a plain old ordinary farmstead. When The Walking Dead hit Hershel's farm, the whole show decided that it needed a nice rest in the country, set aside all the stress of this "zombie" business and got down to doing some serious farm work. They spent roughly four hours this season showing the characters cleaning wells, fixing windmills, patching up fences and protecting cattle -- it's like two interns collided on the street, papers flying everywhere, and each came back to the set with half the pages from a zombie show and half the pages from a remake of Little House on the Prairie.
I know that's my joke analogy, but I'm pretty sure that would still somehow make for better watching than The Walking Dead so far.
And you can tell that the writers finally understand what they did wrong: They made sure to clearly tease the prison at the end of the finale, just so the fans wouldn't go fleeing off aimlessly into the woods like a bunch of little Halfwit Carls. Relocating to the prison means the group is probably going to encounter prisoners and the new dilemmas that come with them; it means the group is going to start thinking strategically and actually acknowledge on some level that there is a zombie apocalypse and that maybe it trumps the birth control debate just a little; it means we're about to explore the governor's township and how other, less moral groups are dealing with the same scenarios as our survivors; it means something will goddamn happen, anyway. Even if it's just a new color of wall to stare at while Rick and Lori fight about whose turn it is to take out the garbage.
Pictured: Not a fucking barn.
I think it's finally time: I think The Walking Dead is finally going to pull it together. Not because I like what they've done so far, or have become convinced of the writers' abilities, or even see potential in their ideas. But because, by the time Season 2's finale wrapped, the group has made every unrealistically idiotic mistake possible and learned some retardedly obvious lessons -- like that burning zombies just makes burning zombies, that gentle fields of grass aren't a great zombie deterrent and that you never trust the guy who suddenly and dramatically shaves his head in the bathroom. So though it took two full seasons of boredom and idiocy to get there, they're finally there: The Walking Dead has a solid premise, an interesting location, an impending conflict and characters with the beginnings of genuine arcs instead of repetitive dribbles. In short, it may have taken them 18 painful hours to do it, but The Walking Dead has finally caught up with the first 10 minutes of an ordinary zombie movie.
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On this one-hour Alpine medicinal plant excursion, you'll learn about typical native medicinal herbs as well as their background and interesting details about their preparation as healing agents. You also have the option of following this up by mixing your own herbal tea or aroma spray. You may then extend your knowledge in the pharmacy herb (and weed) garden and also sample a strong herbal tea. The Metzger Herbalist Pharmacy has all you need to create a quite unique souvenir of your visit.
Requirements: Good shoes, sun and rain protection
Time: Approx. 2 hours Cost: CHF 25 per person including a herbal tea or a drink of Dragon Tea. Cost of materials per 100ml spray CHF 10


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UNAIDS and Italian football team up against AIDS30 November 2012
(UNAIDS) – To mark World AIDS Day, the Italian football league 'Serie A' will dedicate 2 days to UNAIDS. As part of the Together We Will End AIDS initiative, ten football matches on the 2nd and 3rd of December will call attention to and promote action toward the UNAIDS goal of zero new infections, zero discrimination, and zero AIDS-related deaths.
Accompanying the players, young supporters will carry Together We Will End AIDS banners onto the fields, and the club managers will wear red ribbons symbolising solidarity towards people living with HIV. Renowned players such as Robinho from AC Milan, Cavani from Napoli, and Zanetti from Inter will release interviews and photos in support of the initiative. The campaign aims to utilize the influence and outreach of football to raise awareness about AIDS and mobilize resources towards UNAIDS' response to the epidemic.
On Saturday 24 November, UNAIDS collaborated with the Italian Rugby Federation during a rugby match between Italy and Australia. The match, which ended with a 19-22 victory for Australia, took place at the Franchi stadium in Florence, and was aimed at mobilizing Italian civil society and the general public to support the work of UNAIDS in achieving its target of Getting to Zero.
Sport can be a powerful force for change, and can play a key role in the response to AIDS, especially when it comes to educating people on HIV prevention and campaigning against stigma and discrimination.
UNAIDS has used football in many occasions to create a greater public awareness of the AIDS epidemic. German football star Michael Ballack and Korean football coach Myong-Bo Hong both support UNAIDS as International Goodwill Ambassadors. In February 2012, Brazilian football legend Pelé and others joined Gabon's CAN without AIDS campaign. Another Brazilian football star, Ronaldinho, made a commitment last year to use his influence to promote AIDS awareness. A campaign entitled Give AIDS the Red Card was launched at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. It saw the players and teams come together in a commitment to eliminate new HIV infections in children and keep their mothers alive by the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.


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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The "Chucktown Throwdown Corn Hole Tournament," presented by the Mount Pleasant Exchange Club, raised more than $3,300, which will bolster the club's scholarships fund. The event included 16 sponsors, 48 teams, about 150 people and a live band. It was held April 7.
"(The) weather was perfect, barbeque was delicious and the band was awesome," Sheryl Bidwell, Exchange Club public relations coordinator, said.
Bidwell added that scholarship funds announcements and "several charity donations" will be presented during the organization's annual banquet. According to its Facebook page, the club gives scholarships to deserving high school seniors, "providing over $5,000 over four years to assist them with their college tuition."
The fund is called the Johnnie Dodds Exchange Club Scholarship in memory of the former Mount Pleasant mayor and honorary member of the club. "Johnnie believed every child deserved an education, and he worked tirelessly to raise monies to help local children further their education," the page noted.
The Exchange Club hosts a spring fundraiser every year, but this was the first time it was a corn hole tournament.
"Due to its success, we will be hosting another one next eyear even bigger and better," Bidwell said. The winning team, which earned $250, was made up of Alex Armstrong and Simba Tuppil.
The Exchange Club was formed in 1946 with a primary mission to prevent child abuse and assist local agencies serving victims after abuse.
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A term used to mock the hairstyles of two characters from the anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn!. Mukuro Rukudo and Chrome Dukuro's hair have spikey point in the back heads, and therefore they look like pineapples. Fans of the show tend to draw and doodle Mukuro and Chrome with pineapples.
Check it out. I just drew the pineapple heads on my history homework.
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Someone who is really really smart but at the same time really really dumb. They suffer from severe confusion when encountering two people with the same name. A Pineapple Head loves video games and eating pineapples. He/She is not rude, but will occasionally make a poorly timed comment. Overall good guy, just suffers from being from Hawaii.
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Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson. Used in a sentence "Hey Copernicus, why don't you take your Pineapple Head and your parachute pants and navigate to the back of the line, standing there in your bowling shirt and your plantar fasciitis"
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one who wears their hair in a high pony tail on their head (some times in a bun).
Often of the "popular crowd"
Often of the "popular crowd"
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Nickname for Hugo Chavez, the dictator Venezuela, because he has a big ugly head that resembles a pineapple.
Ol' pineapple head denounced the US for the millionth time yesterday.
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someone with an abnormally enlarged head who is stupid.
that kid has a frickin pineapple head.
kit is a pinapple head
dude, spongebob could live in there
kit is a pinapple head
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Molecular diagnostics are well-established in clinical medicine. Nonetheless, the markets for these tests remain one of the most attractive growth opportunities in the in vitro diagnostics industry. Approximately 600 hospital laboratories and 200 independent laboratories perform high-volume testing that necessitates both automated molecular diagnostic testing platforms and systems that simplify and accelerate sample preparation. Additionally, new molecular diagnostic tests are regularly introduced to the market for screening or diagnosing a wide range of patient types for numerous diseases.
Revenues from worldwide sales of molecular diagnostics were estimated to total $4,079.7 million in 2010 and are expected to reach $6,209.8 million by 2014 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 11%.
Historically, the use of molecular methods was constrained by their cost and labor-intensive nature, stemming from the fact that they are error-prone and their operation requires skilled laboratory personnel. However, costs-per-sample and manual requirements have fallen with the adoption of novel genomics technologies and improvements in automation.
In addition to logistical benefits, new technologies and assays have expanded the areas where testing can be applied. To successfully leverage this testing expansion, manufacturers are employing targeted strategies for particular testing use. The two most common applications for molecular diagnostics are for identification and profiling of causative agents of infection and to quantify pathogens to monitor durability of therapy. Beyond these, molecular diagnostics are quickly expanding for genetic testing, prenatal diagnostics, cancer diagnostics, and near-patient applications.
More than 75% of the molecular diagnostics market is controlled by nine companies: Roche Diagnostics, Qiagen, Gen-Probe, Abbott Diagnostics, Siemens, Becton Dickinson, Cepheid, bioMérieux, and Beckman Coulter. Roche is the undisputed market leader with almost 30% share and an unparalleled product portfolio, which includes molecular diagnostic tests for oncology, virology, microbiology, and blood screening.
Qiagen's growth rate has outpaced competitors over the past three years, with a CAGR in excess of 21.3%. Emerging from primarily a sample-preparation technology and PCR reagent vendor, the company has aggressively expanded its business to the extent that now approximately half of its sales come from molecular diagnostics. Similarly, Gen-Probe's growth rate has outpaced the industry average given the company's global market leadership in chlamydia and gonorrhea (CT/NG) testing.
Sales of molecular diagnostic tests for infectious diseases generate approximately 60% of overall molecular diagnostics market revenues. Fittingly, market participants largely focus on developing and marketing infectious disease molecular diagnostics, which primarily include tests for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), HPV, hepatitis B and C (HBV/HCV), and CT/NG. With the exception of the HPV molecular diagnostics market, most of these testing areas are very mature with growth rates settling around 5%.
HPV testing, however, remains an enormous market opportunity with growth rates expected to remain as high as 20% through 2014. In 2010, approximately 16 million HPV molecular diagnostic tests were conducted worldwide, generating close to $400 million in revenues. Even though the cost-per-test is expected to decline as testing volume increases, this market is forecasted to be as large as an $800 million market by 2014.
While growth of the HIV, HBV/HCV, and CT/NG molecular diagnostics markets are low in comparison to HPV, clinical trials are under way that could significantly influence market dynamics. For example, studies are being conducted to demonstrate the value of using molecular diagnostics instead of immunoassays for HIV screening. Although such guideline changes are likely to be deemed unfeasible due to the high costs associated with molecular testing, any changes in screening practices could positively influence the market.
Beyond HIV, HPV, HBV/HCV, and CT/NG, companies are quickly introducing molecular diagnostic tests for many other infectious disease indications. For example, some of the infectious disease molecular diagnostics relatively new to the market include those for West Nile Virus, Clostridium difficile (C-diff), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, pneumonia, Trichomonas vaginalis, genital mycoplasma, herpes simplex virus, norovirus, rotavirus, tuberculosis, and meningitis.
Among these, the two tests for diagnosing nosocomial infections, or healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs)—C. Diff and MRSA—have witnessed the greatest level of adoption. With direct medical costs attributable to HAI totaling as much as $34 billion in the U.S., molecular diagnostic-based screens are proving to be necessary for risk mitigation. By promoting infection prevention and control, U.S.-based molecular diagnostic testing for C. Diff and MRSA generated $140 million in 2010.
Congressional leaders have also been trying to do their part to fortify diagnostic development. Despite four prior attempts not making it past committees, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) is working to introduce a revised Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act while the current 112th Congress is in session. The Personalized Medicine Coalition has been helping Rep. Eshoo put together the new legislation, and has identified six priorities for advancing the measure further than past versions. Click here for details.
Jonathan Witonsky ([email protected]) is a principal analyst in the life sciences research group of Frost & Sullivan.
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A State Supreme Court decision today reaffirmed the Erie County Board of Elections decision to throw nine-year Buffalo School Board veteran Ralph Hernandez off the ballot in Tuesday's election because he had too many invalid petition signatures.
That means Hernandez will be waging a write-in campaign against opponent James Sampson in what is likely to be his most difficult election fight to date.
State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski heard arguments Tuesday on whether to restore the incumbent to the ballot as a candidate for the West District seat.
He informed the two lawyers in the case of his decision by phone today.
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Hernandez, a former Board of Education president, was tossed off the ballot by the Erie County Board of Elections last week for not having enough valid petition signatures. Hernandez submitted 1,084 signatures with his petitions and needed only 500 to appear on the ballot.
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Hey, Toni. Has Michelle tweeted you anything yet, thanking you for your support?
Hey, Toni. Has Michelle tweeted you anything yet, thanking you for your support?
I just followed her and tweeted her! I know she's been retired since 2006, but part of me still misses her.
Michelle blogs about athletes with disabilities for the State Department.
Between her work in the diplomacy office and her upcoming work for Fox Sports for the Olympics, I'm not surprised the MK would need to establish a presence in social media.
Is she still working for the diplomacy department? My understanding is that after her husband resigned from his job they moved to Rhode Island, as he considers a run for governor of that state. What is her brother Ron doing these days?
^ I am pretty sure that Michelle still holds her job with the State Department. She is still featured in various activities reported on the State Department web site. Her husband already owned a home in Rhode Island, which she moved into when they got married.
I don't know what brother Ron is up to these days, but Michelle posted this picture of her and Ron Christmas shopping yesterday.
At the Boston airport she happened to run into a little girls' synchro team returning from a competition, and stopped to take a picture with them.
I know this is off topic, but I don't want to start a whole thread just to ask a question.
Is anyone else having problems getting to The Michelle Kwan Forum? I have tried and I get redirected to yahoo site or some x rated site??
I love that Michelle is on twitter, this is an exciting season and it will be fun to share it with Michelle.
There seem to be four "Michelle Kwan" accounts on twitter. Our gal is MichelleW.I love that Michelle is on twitter, this is an exciting season and it will be fun to share it with Michelle.
It will be odd if the MKFan Forum finally goes down never to return. I may not be a fan of MK, but that forum's been through a lot since message boards became the big deal that they are... it'd just be weird if it stays dormant.
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Son of the Sun has been busy huddling in the recording studio for the past several months recording the follow-up to last year's "Almost Not There." Anyone who has been involved in such an activity knows full well that sometimes, you've just got to get up, get out and go play a gig. That's exactly what the band – vocalist/guitarist Zak Ward, guitarist/keyboardist Joseph Stocker, drummer Brandon Delmont, guitarist Jeremy Franklin and bassist Steve Matthews – will do with a show that kicks off at 10 p.m. Saturday in Nietzsche's (248 Allen St.).
Son of the Sun will be joined by friends the Andrew J. Reimers Country Punk Extravaganza and Aircraft. Admission is $5. Son of the Sun would like you to know that holiday sweaters are optional, not required, garb. Take that however you like.
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