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The potential of treating or preventing disease by modifying the expression of one's genes has captured the imagination of the scientific community ever since the discovery of DNA.
This therapeutic concept, called gene therapy, emerged as a very literal clinical application of modern day molecular biology. While the concept may seem simple, its translation into effective therapies has been challenging. After three decades of scientific development and many failed clinical trials, the field of gene therapy is emerging as a viable approach for treating a broad spectrum of acquired and inherited diseases.
The events that led up to this impending revolution are summarized below.
The initial concept of gene therapy was to introduce into the cells of a patient a therapeutic gene in an approach called gene replacement. This intervention simply added an additional gene without directly perturbing the structure of an endogenous nonfunctioning or pathogenic gene.
The technical challenge was one of drug delivery, in which the drug is DNA expressing a new gene. The challenge was delivering these very large and highly charged molecules to a very specific population of cells in a way that the genes migrate into the nucleus. The concept that made the field of gene therapy an experimental reality was the notion of using viruses as delivery vehicles for therapeutic genes.
The first virus used to develop a vector for gene therapy was from the family of murine retroviruses. It was possible to create replication-defective versions of these viruses that could be engineered to contain therapeutic transgenes. The transfer and expression of these transgenes, in a process called transduction, was impressively high if the cells were replicating in culture when exposed to the vector. The vector genome persisted in the cells and their progeny within chromosomes as randomly integrated proviruses.
The initial clinical applications of gene therapy focused on an approach called ex vivo gene therapy in which cells from the patient are harvested and cultivated with retroviral vectors in vitro prior to re-implantation into the person from which they were derived. The ex vivo approach, which made the most sense to pursue as a proof-of-concept, was based on the transplantation of genetically modified autologous bone marrow-derived hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).
Target diseases were genetic in nature and involved the hematopoietic lineages, including erythroid-based diseases such as sickle cell or thalassemia or lymphoid- based disorders such as severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) caused by a defect in the enzyme adenosine deaminase (ADA). Experiments in mice confirmed the feasibility of this approach, although demonstrating transduction of human HSCs ex vivo proved to be difficult.
The first human applications of gene therapy focused on ex vivo gene therapy using autologous lymphocytes, which were easier to transduce and characterize than HSCs. The problem with this approach is that lymphocytes were not capable of self renewal so the genetic graft would be temporary. Nevertheless, clinical trials proceeded with ADA deficiency using lymphocytes as targets although immune reconstitution was incomplete and transient.1
The real importance of this trial was not its outcome but rather the fact that it signaled the birth of the field of gene therapy.
James M. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., skypes with John Sterling, GEN's editor in chief, and talks about:
The introduction of gene therapy into the clinic ignited a firestorm of interest by many stakeholders, including the scientific community. The application of gene therapy was envisioned for a broad range of disorders. The limiting step was, and still remains, technologies capable of safely and effectively transferring genes into a wider array of target cells beyond those of bone marrow.
Gene transfer in an ex vivo setting was demonstrated using murine retroviruses in a number of relevant target cells of epithelial and endothelial lineages. Quick translation into the clinic was promised with hopes of early success. Desperation often evoked expectations since many diseases being considered for early clinical trials of gene therapy were disabling and lethal with no available treatments.
It became clear, however, that the only viable way of approaching many of these diseases was to directly deliver the gene to the patient rather than via a transplanted cell in an approach called in vivo gene therapy. The disease that surfaced as an early candidate for in vivo gene therapy was cystic fibrosis (CF), which is caused by a defect in a chloride channel expressed in a variety of epithelial cells, the most important being those of the lung.
Gene therapy for CF would require direct delivery of the normal version of the gene into the lung airways. Unfortunately, vectors based on murine retroviruses were not up to the task for in vivo gene therapy. Vectors were made based on a virus, called the adenovirus, that is normally tropic for the lung.
Direct delivery of this vector into the airway of various animal models did efficiently transduce lung epithelial cells, setting the stage for several clinical trials of in vivo gene therapy in patients with CF.2,3,4
Similarly high levels of transduction were observed with adenoviral vectors in other target organs such as liver, heart and brain to name a few. These preclinical successes with the initiation of the CF trials fueled enthusiasm and expectation far in excess of the reality of the science.
The incredible efficiency with which adenoviral vectors transduce genes in vivo was corroborated in many laboratories. However, a disturbing trend of associated inflammatory type toxicities was being observed. The basis for these toxicities was the activation of adaptive and innate immune responses to the vector and the transduced cells.5 Attempts by us and others to circumvent these immune responses by vector engineering or co–administration of immune modulatory drugs were not successful.
Efforts were directed to develop vector systems that may be less immunogenic with the prime contender being those based on adeno-associated viruses (AAV). This obscure family of viruses was discovered in the 1960–1970s as contaminants in laboratory stocks of adenoviruses.6
Of the six different serotypes discovered, AAV serotype 2 was developed as a vector. It has limited cargo capacity (i.e., <4.8 KB) although it has the remarkable ability of transferring genes in vivo with minimal inflammation or activation of T and B cells against the transgene product. The vector genome persists in a nonintegrated form and continues to express the transgene for the life of the target cell.
However, the genome is destabilized if the target cell divides indicating that the optimal targets are those that are post-mitotic and long lived such as neurons, muscle fibers, photoreceptors, and hepatocytes. Despite these favorable properties, vectors based on AAV serotype 2 have had limited success in the clinic due to low transduction efficiencies and the presence of antibodies in humans as a result of natural AAV infections that inhibit the vector.7,8
Problems with the first-generation vector technologies described in this article led to delays and repeated failures. Stakeholders grew impatient and support for the field waned. A number of research programs endured despite the erosion of support for gene therapy, several of which eventually were tested in the clinic with remarkable success.
Studies of gene therapy for SCID that launched the field in the mid 1980s continued for several decades using the ex vivo bone marrow approach with murine retroviruses as the vectors. The key was to find a disease in which the transduced HSC and/or its progeny had a selective advantage over nontransduced cells.
Incremental advances in the biology of HSCs and techniques of retroviral transduction also helped progress these programs. If successful in these kinds of diseases, the therapy would allow complete repopulation of the treated patient with genetically corrected progeny cells without the need to ablate the endogenous marrow with radiation and chemotherapy, which carries substantial risks of mortality.
One form of SCID caused by a defect in a cytokine signaling receptor was the test case. The results were spectacular in that virtually all who were treated regained substantial immune function.9 Unfortunately, many of these patients eventually developed T-cell leukemias due to integration of the vector genome into a site that activated a tumor-promoting gene.10 Most of these leukemias have been treated and the cohort of patients treated with gene therapy clearly is much better off than they would have been without gene therapy.
The development of cancer is a consequence of the biology of murine retroviral vectors and may not be easily overcome, indicating the need for second-generation technology.
The other widely celebrated clinical success using first-generation technology was in the treatment of children with an inherited form of blindness called Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA). The form of this disorder targeted for gene therapy is defective in an enzyme involved in sensing light and is found in a cell located in the back of the retina.
Studies in dogs with this same disease showed reconstitution of sight following injection of an AAV2 vector into the retina.11 Three independent groups demonstrated reconstitution of visual function in LCA patients treated with AAV2-based gene therapy.12,13,14 The remarkable success of this program was due to unwavering persistence of the scientists and a careful selection of the target disease in an application that was able to succeed despite limitations of the technology.
The ability of gene correction to reconstitute function that can be quantitatively measured noninvasively was critical to the early assessment of efficacy in LCA. The localized delivery of a vector at high concentrations and long dwell times in the back of the retina helped overcome the inherent inefficiency of AAV2.
The clinical successes described here set the stage for a remarkable resurgence in support for gene therapy. The question is how can we leverage these successes into a broader array of applications with the goal of delivering commercial products? These seminal clinical trials established the feasibility of gene therapy in humans and helped overcome a variety of political and regulatory barriers that had surfaced.
James M. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., ([email protected]) is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the gene therapy program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is also editor in chief of Human Gene Therapy, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Dr. Wilson is a consultant to ReGenX Holdings, and is a founder of, holds equity in, and receives a grant from affiliates of ReGenX Holdings; in addition, he is an inventor on patents licensed to various biopharmaceutical companies, including affiliates of ReGenX Holdings.
James M. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D., ([email protected]) is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine in the gene therapy program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is also editor in chief of Human Gene Therapy, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Dr. Wilson is a consultant to ReGenX Holdings, and is a founder of, holds equity in, and receives a grant from affiliates of ReGenX Holdings; in addition, he is an inventor on patents licensed to various biopharmaceutical companies, including affiliates of ReGenX Holdings.
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Hi all
since the latest updates my 360 elite has developed some rather annoying traits.
Im getting randomly dicsonnected sometimes after a few minutes sometimes after an hour.
Im in orange uk broadband service running a download speed of around 800kb/s and has never done this before. I have no other connection issues with either my hard wired desktop, laptop or the 3 different mobiles in the house. Before you ask no they are not all on at once, usually just the laptop and one of the phones. Its not my connection because it signs straight back in with no issues.
The xbox is hard wired in to my netgear wireless n router and as i said has worked fine before.
Also my xbox is slooowww. It takes ages to sign in when it used to be quick as a flash and it takes forever to load up everything on the dashboard (thanks to all the crappy ads on my windows phone sorrry xbox that i now have to put up with) and everything just takes forever. ive cleared memory etc etc and nothing works.
Am i just doomed with this new crappy dashboard that doesnt update my friends (shows they are online when they have been off for hours!!!) or is there some sort of light at the end of the tunnel.
Really not at all happy with microsoft right now and seriously considering getting a ps3 instead.
p.s did i mention the new dashboard sux bum
So come on xbox lets get a solution cos i know im not the only one with these problems!
A lot of people are having similar disconnection problems. The only thing I can suggest is the things I've already tried:
1. Clear your System Cache
2. Delete (Profile-Only) and redownload your Xbox Profile
3. Reset your Network settings
4. Add your Xbox's IP/MAC address to your router's DMZ setting (this puts it outside the routers firewall and exposes all ports)
Make sure your xbox is not over heating, this can somtimes cause connection problems. It did for me so I moved my xbox and now it works fine.
Hey there dragon - thank you for your post. One thing I'm curious about in your post is the laggy performance you say you experience on the Dashboard itself. Do you notice anything like this when your connection disabled? Also, in order for us to best help you, can you review the Start Here sticky (forums.xbox.com/.../155724.aspx) and let us know the information it requests in the bolded section? Thanks! :)
Emily - Program Manager @ Xbox, Xbox One Preview Program
What Country/State/Province do you live in?-- Pembrokeshire, south wales, uk
Modem brand & model number: elite 120gb
Router brand & model number: netgear wireless n
If Wireless, are you using a white or black external adapter, or an internal (Xbox 360S) adapter? n/a
Things you have tried: everything
Is UPnP Enabled? Yes/no/Unknown - yes
Do you have a NAT error? If so, what is your NAT? n/a
Any Error Codes you encounter: n/a
Who is your ISP(Internet Service Provider)? orange uk
After you run "Test Xbox LIVE connection" press "Y" for "More Info". In the pop-up that appears, what are the following values, if shown? (If a value below does not appear for you, just leave it blank.) n/a
There is nothing wrong with my internet connection at all, all my other devices wired or wireless work fine. Im trying to watch a show on crackle and it lasts about 5 mins before i get disconnected. I immidiately run a network connection test and no issues goes straight through. It takes forever to load anything either signed in to my account or not. And its all got worse since the last update. You lot actually gonna tell us whats wrong or are you going to do the usual and blame everything else but you! I know im not the only one with these issues and we are all on different networks & consoles all over the world there is one common denominator and its you. Seriously getting miffed with microsoft now very high chance im not renewing my subscription because its steadily getting worse.
Oh and p.s my brother is in the same county running a 360s on bt broadband homehub 2 and having exactly the same problem.
Hey Dragon - I can certainly understand your frustration. However, we do need those codes that you would see when pressing "Y" at the completion of the network connection test. Can you provide those results? That will help us see what your console is seeing, connection wise. Thanks :)
I did the network test straight after i disconnected, i was in a game it disconnected, i went back to dash board it reconnected on its own, on the way to the test page it disconnected again before i got to the having to sign out point this is the test result.
Internet - connected
Xboxlive - connected
Service - up
Marketplace- up
Accounts - up
Matchmaking -up
6 days and no response??
Hello Dragon - I do apologize, it looks like this post was missed! :( I'm not seeing anything in particular with the status codes that you've provided that would indicate a problem. I would be interested in seeing what would occur if you set your console's DNS settings to other public DNS servers. Can you manually set both of those settings to any of these addresses? 22.214.171.124, 184.108.40.206, 188.8.131.52, 220.127.116.11 . Just make sure you use two different ones. Let us know if this helps!
been testing for a few days still the same now what?
Greetings, xX dragon666 Xx. Sorry to hear you're still experiencing this issue. Have you noticed whether the dashboard behaves slowly when disconnected? Does this issue occur when wired directly to the modem? You may also want to try re-downloading your profile like nef suggested by following the steps listed here: support.xbox.com/.../profile-move-delete.
I also noticed that your upload speed is about a third of a mbs. I would recommend having at least 1mbs. It seems like you didn't have this issue previously. Did you happen to connection speed previous to this issue? If so, was the upload speed about the same?
Thanks in advance! Let me know if you have any further questions. :)
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Hi xX dragon666 Xx, if you have the setting available to change in your router have you tried disabling UPnP? I had a similar issue and since disabling UPnP have had no random disconnections since.
@mr darcy internet connection has changed speed as far as im aware.
will retry profile download, xbox permanently wired to modem always.
@digitalburnout have disabled upnp will let u know
Sounds good - we'll look for that update. :)
sorry meant to say internet speed hasnt changed.
Disabled upnp seems to have made matters worse it was disconnecting once or twice but now is doing a lot more.
Will re enable see if that makes a difference again. Then will try full system clear out and see what happens
ok cache cleared, profile redownloaded, xbox seems to be running a tad faster but not what it was before. Disconnect issue still present


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A Lintner Model of Payout and Managerial Rents
Bart M. Lambrecht
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Stewart C. Myers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
July 5, 2011
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
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We develop a dynamic agency model where payout, investment and financing decisions are made by managers who attempt to maximize the rents they take from the firm, subject to a capital market constraint. Managers smooth payout in order to smooth their flow of rents. Total payout (dividends plus net repurchases) follows Lintner's (1956) target-adjustment model. Payout smooths out transitory shocks to current income and adjusts gradually to changes in permanent income. Smoothing is accomplished by borrowing or lending. Payout is not cut back to finance capital investment. Risk aversion causes managers to underinvest, but habit formation mitigates the degree of underinvestment.
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Football reigns supreme in the South, and a disagreement involving the next pigskin coach for James Island Charter High apparently has landed the principal in an off-the-field showdown with his board of directors.
The charter school's board agreed 5-1 Monday night to put Principal Bob Bohnstengel on paid administrative leave for an unspecified period of time, and it told Assistant Principal Rich Gordon to run the school in the meantime.
Board member Paul Schwartz was opposed to the majority, and board member Rusty Thomas wasn't present.
Bohnstengel hired attorney Nancy Bloodgood to represent him, and she said Wednesday that this controversy comes down to who will choose the school's next football coach.
"They don't like that he's not going to let them pick the football coach," she said. "That's all I can figure out. There are other reasons they don't like him ... but they think (the board) should be in charge."
Randy Hilyer resigned as coach of the school football team on Nov. 5, four days after the Trojans finished their second consecutive losing season under Hilyer. The team ended the 2013 season with a 2-8 record.
Hilyer's job isn't the only one causing friction between Bohnstengel and the board. Earlier this month, the board directed Bohnstengel to advertise for a new football coach and athletic director. Keith Bolus, who heads the school's board, said the board hasn't made any decision about the future employment of Tom Hatley, the athletic director. Bohnstengel's position is that the board can't make those kinds of hiring decisions.
Although football might have triggered Monday's board action, a broader issue appears to be the board's role and what its members perceive their roles to be.
The same struggle between the school board and its top employee has been a point of contention in Charleston County School District for years. Some board members have said they have an obligation to be more hands-on in running the district, but others say the board should stick to policy-making and budgeting.
Until Wednesday, James Island Charter High School's board had been silent about its decision regarding Bohnstengel. Bloodgood said she was angry about that, and she had heard crazy, false rumors being spread. That's one of the reasons she decided to speak publicly.
"They're being reckless and intentional in their attempt to harm him in their silence," she said.
She said she still was waiting on official communication from the school's board on why he was put on administrative leave.
Bolus spoke Wednesday to The Post and Courier about the situation for the first time. Bohnstengel hasn't been fired, but he said he couldn't say more.
It's a personnel matter, and he said he's prohibited from discussing it in detail.
Bolus said there weren't any allegations of criminal doings or financial impropriety involving Bohnstengel.
Because this drama is playing out in a charter school, it will be handled in a different way than it would if it were happening at a traditional neighborhood school.
Charter schools are public schools that operate independently from the school district in which they reside. Parents elect boards to govern the school, and those boards run the school's budget and set policy.
Bloodgood pointed out that Bohnstengel's contract is signed by the county superintendent and not the school's governing board. She said it would be up to the superintendent to make a decision about his employment. It wasn't immediately clear on Wednesday who had that power.
The problems between the school's board and principal apparently started when parents elected a new board in October. Four of its seven members changed, and some of those new board members don't like Bohnstengel, Bloodgood said.
"They're mad because he won't let them micromanage the school," she said.
"There are no performance issues. It's really just personal issues between him and the board."
Bolus said the board doesn't want to micromanage, and the operations of the school are best left to its administration. Still, he said, the board does want to fulfill its obligations and duties as defined by its charter.
Bolus wanted parents and the community to know that the school is in capable hands under Gordon, and that the board has faith in him. The school has good teachers, and the board wasn't looking to make any significant changes to the faculty, he said.
"I know the teachers are frustrated with the lack of information," but, he said, he couldn't give any more specifics. "It's an excellent school and the mission continues."
He also said he wanted to apologize to the parents who came to Monday's board meeting and expected a time for public comment. It wasn't an appropriate time for public discussion, he said.
The board has retained Caroline Cleveland in this matter. In an e-mail to The Post and Courier, Cleveland said she was out of town for Thanksgiving and would set a time to talk Monday.
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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. - With what everyone in the Truckee-Tahoe Community hopes to be a snowy winter, it is extremely important to be physically prepared. Ryan Egan and the trainers at Rebel Fitness Academy in Truckee understand the importance of winter sports preparation and will host an "8-Week Kettlebell Conditioning Program" starting Tuesday, Oct. 16 (excluding Thanksgiving week). Classes will meet each week at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursdays, addressing cardio, strength and athleticism - areas to help with explosiveness, endurance and injury prevention.
-"Used properly, kettlebells are the fastest way to tone, tighten and strengthen. We are dedicated to unlocking the explosive athletic potential in every individual through precision functional training," said Rebel Fitness Academy owner Ryan Egan, a winter sports athlete who has suffered numerous injuries and through kettlebell conditionin appropriately trains for winter.
The Rebel Fitness 8-Week Winter Conditioning Program will be capped off with a "Kettlebell Swing-a-Thon" on Dec. 15. Only trained individuals and participants in the "8-Week Kettlebell Conditioning Program" will be eligible to compete in the "Kettlebell Swing-a-Thon" as proper technique is a prerequisite to promote safety. The event will be 12 hours, and participants will gather pledges on a "per swing" basis, or as a flat donation with proceeds going to the High Fives Non-Profit Foundation. Great prizes will be awarded to participants who raise the most funds, and to those who end up with the most swings in the 12-hour period.
"Nothing brings me more joy than working with a like-minded organization focused on regaining the passion for individuals who have had it taken away as the cause of a tragic event," said Egan. "I believe Rebel Fitness Academy can teach preventative methods, ultimately cutting down on injuries, while promoting High Fives Foundation's mission."
Cost is $149 for the eight-week program (two classes per week, 16 total classes). To schedule, contact Rebel Fitness Academy at info@rebelfitnessacademy or 530-550-7777.
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Located at 10775 Pioneer Trail, Ste. 108 in Truckee, the CR Johnson Healing Center is a program service of the High Fives Non-Profit Foundation that provides resources for athletes in recovery from sport related injuries. Resources include: physical therapy, acupuncture, massage, personal training and more, www.crjohnson.org.
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High Fives Foundation is a Tahoe-based 501.c.3 non-profit organization dedicated to raising money and awareness for athletes who have suffered a life-altering injury while pursuing their dream in the winter action sports community, www.highfivesfoundation.org.
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ALBANY – Legislation that backers say will dissolve the Peace Bridge Authority moved along in the state legislative process Tuesday, though one lawmaker warned the timing of the bill could slow negotiations with Canadian officials to resolve the increasingly testy dispute over construction improvements on the span.
The bill sailed through Senate and Assembly committees and lawmakers, with what they privately say is the quiet backing of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, expect it to be approved by the two houses before the 2013 session ends June 30. Canadian officials say the bill would effectively halt major construction work.
The ranking Republican on the Assembly corporations and authorities committee, Jane Corwin, R-Clarence, said she supported the concept of the bill, but said its timing is wrong given the crucial stage of negotiations between New York and Canadian officials to resolve the bridge dispute.
"I'm very concerned this is going to lead to lawsuits and create a mess,'' Corwin said. "I look at this as throwing a rock through the window of Canada.''
Canadian bridge officials say the legislation will stop all major construction work, valued at more than $100 million, including a new U.S. plaza and a redecking project.
But Assemblyman Sean Ryan, a Buffalo Democrat and sponsor of the bill, said his legislation gives the authority one year – until July 2014 – to "see if they can act as a responsible authority.''
If no further bonds are issued by the authority before then and current disputes are not resolved, the agency would go out of business under New York law. He dismissed Canadian claims that dissolving the authority would still need approval by Congress in Washington and Parliament in Ottawa.
"They've been promising us a plaza and now they're telling us to wait until 2019 for a plaza,'' he said of plans to expand the Buffalo span's footprint to ease truck congestion and traffic going through nearby residential streets. "To me, that's grounds for termination.''
But bridge authority chairman Anthony Annunziata, a Canadian, said the legislation's intent to dissolve the agency "undermines'' the authority's ability to borrow. That then halts major construction projects, including work on the Buffalo side, he said.
Annunziata is scheduled to hold another negotiating session with Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy on Thursday.
New York officials have said the Canadians are pushing a plan to redeck the span before doing work on the Buffalo plaza, which will effectively make an already congested entry point to the United States even worse during the redecking work.
But Annunziata said that characterization is flawed. "The reality is that was the plan. The plan is to do the U.S. plaza first so we can create the environment so we can begin the redecking. That's the physical order of the projects. The problem is if you don't give us the ability to borrow, then we have to pay off the [outstanding] bonds. If we pay off the bonds, we won't have enough cash in reserves to redeck so there is no point in doing the U.S. plaza,'' he said.
In a Buffalo News editorial board meeting Tuesday, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman, who appoints one of the five New York members serving on the bridge authority, sought the peacemaker role.
"I certainly favor peace," he said. "It is in our interest to work out a deal so we can get inspections on the Canadian side of the border."
Such a deal would ease traffic and pollution concerns on the U.S. side of the border, he said.
He predicted officials would eventually work out a solution.
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quote: I'm just thinking about things like the US Civil War, and the differing views on why it happened.
quote: I'd wager 90% of Americans don't know much at all behind the actual political motivations, or the gathering of Federal power away from the states.
quote: Did you just compare the democratically elected president of the US to a middle eastern dictator? Did you just compare people fighting to gain their freedom with people fighting to keep people enslaved?
quote: Did you just compare the democratically elected president of the US to a middle eastern dictator?
quote: You are entitled to your opinion. The facts say the first shots were fired by the south and when the opportunity arose the south did invade the north.
quote: Why Lee didn't attack the capitol after the battle of Bull Run? Maybe
quote: What I do dispute is the fallacy of the "war of northern aggression" on an innocent, peace loving, southern people fighting for states rights.
quote: If things had gone differently, we likely would have had several wars between the north and south which would both be much weaker on their own.
quote: We should just spend our efforts trying to change what roles the government plays in current day politics. Bring back state rights and pass laws legally, rather than by lobby.


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Why doesn't O'Brien keep PSU's starting QB secret?
August 20, 2013 - Cory Giger
UNIVERSITY PARK -- Why should Bill O'Brien name a starting quarterback at all? Pick one, sure, but why not just keep it secret until Penn State actually takes the field against Syracuse?
O'Brien said Tuesday he's not going to name a starter until the end of the week, giving Christian Hackenberg and Tyler Ferguson a few more days to, as he said, "earn their stripes."
So we'll know soon enough who's going to start.
But really, why should we know? Why do football coaches give away a competitive edge of publicly naming a starter at any position, let alone the most important position on the field?
Depth charts aren't required in college football, yet basically every team in the country releases one before the season. Why not keep that secret, which is an option, and force opponents to guess and do extra homework preparing to face you in an opener?
That's exactly what Syracuse coach Scott Shafer has decided to do. The Orange will have a new starting quarterback against the Nittany Lions, and Shafer has said he won't announce if the starter will be Drew Allen or Terrel Hunt until the day of the game.
Penn State's practices are closed to the media, so O'Brien could keep the starting quarterback under wraps, to some degree anyway. It probably would leak from a player or some practice observer, but in a situation like the Nittany Lions face with two young guys who are neck and neck in the competition, there wouldn't seem to be a benefit to publicly naming the top guy.
"I don't have to do anything you guys want me to do," O'Brien said with a laugh when I asked him if it's really necessary to tell the world who's starting.
"I will name somebody," the coach added. "I'll tell you guys, there will be a guy that runs out there and starts the first game, and the guy that's the starter is going to play the majority of the snaps."
It's a much different situation than last year for O'Brien, who had an easy choice in naming Matt McGloin the starter. Revealing at the beginning of June that McGloin was his guy made it clear to the entire team who would lead the offense, plus it gave McGloin extra confidence.
"In this situation, where you have two young guys who neither of them have been here very long, I think it's important for each guy to continue to earn their stripes and continue to gain the respect of their teammates," O'Brien said.
A starter will be named later this week, and by the sound of things, O'Brien has a very tough choice and will have a lot of confidence in whoever he picks.
"These are two of the best young quarterbacks I've ever coached," O'Brien said. "Tyler is 19 years old and Christian is 18. I'd say by the end of the week, we'll make a decision on who will start the Syracuse game. I would say that both guys will play this year."
Notice how he said specifically "the Syracuse game." That seems to indicate the competition will continue beyond the opener and that both players will continue to get chances to showcase their skills.
"Whoever the backup is is a young guy that needs to get his feet wet a little bit," O'Brien said. "So why not play him a series here or there, just to get him into a major college football game and let him get his feet wet?"
Whoever he decides and whatever criteria he uses, O'Brien will be a better head coach for having gone through this process. It's the first time in his career that he's had to have a true quarterback competition, and it certainly won't be the last.
O'Brien noted how at Georgia Tech he had a clear starter in George Godsey, and it was the same at Duke with Thaddeus Lewis. There certainly was no issue at quarterback during his time with the Patriots and Tom Brady, and last year McGloin was head and shoulders above everyone else.
"This is the first situation [for me], and it's a really good situation for our football team," O'Brien said.
One thing to keep in mind is that whoever starts the opener might or might not be the quarterback of the future for the Lions. Ferguson might give PSU a better chance to beat Syracuse if he's still slightly ahead of Hackenberg in terms of grasping the entire offense. But if Hackenberg already is this close in the competition, it's conceivable he could catch up in just a few more weeks, or by the start of Big Ten play.
That's probably why every time O'Brien is asked about the starting quarterback he makes sure to downplay the decision.
"I think people put too much stock into the naming of a quarterback," he said.
Well, it is the most important decision in all of sports. And this particular decision could shape the Penn State program and O'Brien's head coaching career for years to come.
It's surprising that O'Brien, who's shown a tendency to be very decisive, hasn't already made up his mind. Or maybe he has and he's merely letting things play out a few more days just to be sure.
Whatever the case, we'll know by the end of the week who will be starting. For the first game at least.
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JAOO 2007: Joe Armstrong - On Erlang, OO, Concurrency, Shared State and the Future, Part 2
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Often, after the camera is turned off, the conversation continues and, on occasion is truly interesting. Of course, as you could image, Joe, Erik and I continued to chat about concurrent programming, functional languages, the future of hardware-software
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part 1 of this interview with the creator of Erlang, Joe Armstrong.
Rather than let the conversation evaporate into the ether of time and space, I decided to turn the camera back on and record a second part. I am sure glad I did!
This time around, Erik Meijer sits down in the other hot seat and we embark on a fascinating conversation about the future of programming in an increasingly, from a modern hardware + software perspective, concurrent world.
Joe is outspoken on the topic of objects and mutable shared state, as you know from part 1 of this interview (and if you understand Erlang, obviously). He's also got some really interesting ideas on programmable hardware...
In this interview, you will also learn what got the great Erik Meijer interested in programming and languages. It's a really interesting story.
Tune in. This is another compelling conversation with some of the industry's most innovative thinkers. Enjoy!
Joe Armstrong is the principle inventor of the Erlang programming Language and coined the term "Concurrency Oriented Programming". He has worked for Ericsson where he developed Erlang and was chief architect of the Erlang/OTP system.
In 1998 he left Ericsson to form Bluetail, a company which developed all its products in Erlang. In 2003 he obtain his PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. The title of his thesis was "Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors." Today he works for Ericsson.
He is author of the book Software for a concurrent world: (Pragmatic Bookshelf - July 15, 2007). He is married with 2 children, 2 cats and 4 motorcycles and would very much like to sell his Royal Enfield Bullet and replace it with a Norton Commando.
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FPGAs.. they sound alot like a 3d accelerator to me so in that way, most of us already has them
id just like to point that out..
perhaps thats the way things will be.. i doubt strongly that we'll be writing everything in erlang/ml/f#, after all not everything can be parallelized to 20 tasks, but perheps we'll use functional constructs in a library to witch be pass a task (aka ccr /plinq)
thats what i think anyway
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FPGAs.. they sound alot like a 3d accelerator to me so in that way, most of us already has them
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WAILUKU - A 20-year-old Kihei man was sentenced to a six-month jail term for assaulting a woman who was trying to stop a fight at Kalama Park last year.
"She was just trying to be the peacemaker," 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo told Wyatt Sorenson. "You're the one that went ahead and punched her."
The woman fell to the ground and was in a sitting position when Sorenson hit her on the side of the head with an alcohol bottle the evening of July 8, 2011, Loo said.
"You're lucky you didn't take out an eye or leave a huge disfiguring scar," the judge told Sorenson. "She's still afraid of you."
Deputy Prosecutor Kim Whitworth said the woman was "an innocent bystander" who tried to intervene when her boyfriend and Sorenson got into an altercation.
Sorenson reported being a caregiver for his mother when he was released on supervision following his arrest. But he tested positive for drug use, Whitworth said, and on May 1 police were called to his mother's house because he "became angry and combative when he was told to do chores."
Sorenson also didn't show up to court for his original sentencing date, when he apparently was in Lahaina, Whitworth said. He was later arrested for violating requirements of his release.
In court Oct. 3, Sorenson said he wanted to continue classes to obtain the equivalent of his high school diploma and eventually enroll in college.
As part of his sentence, Sorenson was placed on five years' probation. He was ordered not to consume alcohol or illegal drugs and to complete an anger management program. He was ordered to have no contact with the victim.
In other cases:
* A 21-year-old Kahului man was sentenced to a 45-day jail term and ordered to help pay $29,562 in restitution for designer bags and jewelry stolen in the burglary of a Kahului home last year.
Kevin Saguid was allowed to serve the jail term on his days off from work starting Nov. 30, after the birth of his child.
Saguid had pleaded no contest to first-degree burglary and second-degree theft in the Nov. 4 break-in at a house on Hina Street. A relative of co-defendant Edward Kaluau lived at the home.
While his attorney said Saguid had acted recklessly, 2nd Circuit Judge Richard Bissen said Saguid's conduct was "absolutely intentional."
"Frankly, he comes across as a spoiled young man," Bissen said, noting that Saguid lived with his parents, who both work two jobs.
"You pay more money for your phone than for food," Bissen told Saguid. "That's his priority."
Family heirlooms that can't be replaced were taken in the burglary, with Saguid receiving $400 for the stolen possessions, Bissen said. "You bought a bodyboard and some shorts," the judge told Saguid.
A few months before the burglary, Saguid was convicted of drunken driving, inattention to driving and third-degree promotion of a detrimental drug, the judge said. In June, while the burglary case was pending, he was arrested and convicted of another drunken driving case, for which he is serving a 10-day jail sentence on weekends.
"What are you thinking?" Bissen asked Saguid.
He was given a chance to keep the latest convictions off his record if he follows court requirements for the next five years. Saguid also was ordered to write a letter apologizing to the victims and to have no contact with them.
Kaluau, 21, was ordered to serve a 45-day jail term and was given a chance to keep convictions off his record when he was sentenced in July.
* A 23-year-old Kahului man was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine after being arrested as part of an investigation into thefts two years ago from the Sears warehouse.
Patrick Gray-Soliben was given a chance to keep a reduced third-degree theft conviction off his record if he follows court requirements for one year.
Gray-Soliben has no criminal record and works full time, said Deputy Public Defender Adriel Menor.
Deputy Prosecutor Kenton Werk said Gray-Soliben was seen receiving two flatscreen televisions from Gregery Au, who was a Sears employee at the time, on April 29, 2010. Gray-Soliben didn't pay for the televisions, Werk said.
"He was caught up in this ongoing series of thefts at the Sears warehouse," Werk said.
Au and Gray-Soliben were among a dozen people charged in the investigation of theft of merchandise from the Sears warehouse between May 26, 2009, and May 26, 2010. Sears began an investigation after finding a $500,000 discrepancy in its merchandise inventory at the warehouse in February and March 2010, according to court records.
Although the value of the stolen merchandise, including appliances and televisions, was estimated at about $900,000, 2nd Circuit Judge Joseph Cardoza questioned why no restitution has been requested by Sears.
Werk said his inquiries to Sears had gone unanswered.
In sentencing Gray-Soliben on Oct. 2, Cardoza said the defendant's role was "wrong, but very limited."
Gray-Soliben was ordered not to enter Sears locations and parking lots on Maui.
Au was ordered to pay $8,260 in restitution and placed on five years' probation when he was sentenced last month.
* A 34-year-old Kailua man was placed on five years' probation Oct. 2 for a crash in 2008 that badly injured a couple on their honeymoon.
Rodney Orta was driving a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder in the Paia direction on Hana Highway at Mile Marker 2 when the vehicle rear-ended a 2008 Jeep Wrangler that was stopped to turn left into the Twin Falls parking lot in Haiku, according to court records.
An investigation showed Orta was driving 57 to 61 mph in the 35-mph zone, said Deputy Prosecutor Mark Simonds. He said Orta had marijuana in his system that wasn't from recent use.
Menor said Orta, who was already on probation for drug charges, has been clean and sober for about three years.
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I live in Houston, and have made numerous trips to Charleston to be treated time after time to the most pleasant, lovely, historically fascinating, gentle and delightful city in America. I have lodged in hotels downtown, in private homes, and at Middleton Place, and dined in many of your fine restaurants. I cannot say enough about the attractiveness of Charleston.
You are about to ruin this idyllic city with cruise ships. You have a sophisticated city with much appeal to thoughtful travelers who don't care to jostle on crowded sidewalks with hordes of tourists whose main interest is buying another trinket or a beer.
For the sake of Charleston, don't let cruise ships make your city a tawdry place. Keep it what it has been for centuries, an historical magnet for the discerning visitor who comes to Charleston for several days, and sometimes weeks.
We spend real money in your fine hotels and restaurants, and some of us may eventually choose to live in Charleston. Don't spoil it with cruise ships. If you do, we won't come back, and a treasure will be lost.
Christian N. Seger
Ivanhoe Street
Houston, Texas
Just 'embarrassing'
If anyone is surprised that Charleston County Council Chairman Teddie Pryor would tap dance away from the commitment of County Council to make a "good faith commitment" to compensate property owners injured by the completion of I-526 across James and John's Island, I'd be surprised.
Like so many other aspects of the embarrassing process by which this ill-conceived project still has legs, the compromise offered to Councilwoman Anna Johnson to get her vote was done with the same disingenuousness that has been the hallmark of this project from the end of the public comment period.
Councilwoman Johnson, needs to end this embarrassing attempt to hijack money that is desperately needed for legitimate projects by changing her vote.
The public comment on this project was overwhelmingly negative, every federal or state agency that has commented on this project has recommended denial or major changes, the $136 million currently projected shortfall, while promised by the State Infrastructure Bank, cannot be truly obligated by its present membership as the money won't be available until 2020.
The environmental impact statement on this project is still not complete, the overall state maintenance shortfall for road and bridge maintenance is currently at $500 million, and not one permit has been issued. Charleston County has never had the responsibility for a project this large.
Last but not least, the $11 million that supposedly got us on this current path is a very small amount that can partially be made up by the sale of the assets that the rights of way represent.
Everyone realizes that speaking truth to power is very difficult and painful, but if Councilwoman Johnson could find the strength to end this episode in the politics of ego, the state and the majority of the residents of Johns and James islands would be most appreciative.
Richard L. Beck
E. Ashley Avenue
Mr. Beck is a former mayor of Folly Beach.
Welcome addition
What a shame that restaurant reviewer Hanna Raskin feels exactly the opposite of the loyal following Chef Toan has built at his hole-in-the-wall restaurant in an area of Mount Pleasant that needs to encourage and support such entrepreneurs.
I, for one, have never had anything less than friendly service at the restaurant and more than once the chef has sat down with us to tell us about the food, its origin, culture, etc.
Check out Yelp and Facebook to read what people think of this welcome addition to the neighborhood. Ever seen a good movie the critics panned? Well, just give this place one try and you'll know what I mean.
Hanna does get it right when she states, "Yet for many diners, Mi Xao is a weekly habit." Yes, that's because the food is fresh, healthy, and reasonably priced. What a concept.
Rick Hall
Bergenfield Road
Mount Pleasant
Black quarterbacks
In reference to the Sept. 18 letter "Thrown for a loss" about black quarterbacks for the USC Gamecocks: The writer must not be a Gamecock fan because he forgot to mention two black quarterbacks that played for USC, Dondrial Pinkins and Syvelle Newton. He also failed to mention that they are recruiting a black QB from Dillon High School, Avery McCall.
Perhaps the writer should do his homework before he attempts to make a point.
Charles Hartzog
Dorchester Street
All bad
So let me get this straight. Obama negotiates with Syria and avoids killing people — bad thing. Obama refuses to negotiate over shutting the government down or the full faith and credit of the U.S. — also bad thing.
So basically whatever he does is bad in your opinion. I get it.
Rick Stringer
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Is your Samsung Galaxy S4 screen giving you the scrolling blur and purple/pink inversion treatment? You are not alone
0. phoneArena 02 May 2013, 08:24 posted on
We are experiencing some of those with our own Galaxy S4, and dismissed screen issues with the phone as isolated incident, but we got sent link to a whole XDA thread, then we saw another one, which are now dedicated to various blips with the touted 5" Full HD AMOLED display from Samsung...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. babyk (Posts: 308; Member since: 03 Nov 2011)
And then they all talk about HTC
10. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13096; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Build quality issues plagued the GS3. You'd think with the billions Sammy made they'd have better quality control.
I like how PA was trying to play it off as an isolated incident until a nice thread on XDA proves that wrong.
11. gustavoace (Posts: 180; Member since: 13 Nov 2012)
Unless they flash a AOSP rom and show that this is still happening, this could be a problem with the custom UI/custom ROM and not about the screen.
26. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13096; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
I don't buy that.
42. sharks (Posts: 236; Member since: 16 Feb 2013)
LOL! Open your eyes! PhoneArena has S4 ads plastered all over it... See the article how short it is! They didn't really want to post it, but had to do it for the sake of reporting all tech news. For a site such as a PhoneArena which favors Samsung so much, it must be believed with all heart when they post something negative about Samsung's latest flagship phone. On top of that, they did say that they have tested on their own devices and were able to confirm the reported flaws.
44. joey_sfb (Posts: 5754; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)
So.. what you are saying is Samsung is more generous and willing to spend on Advertising. Good!!!
Unlike the cheapo fruit that too cheap to spend on anything, keep trying to get free product placement.
Life is too short to be cheap!!!
49. sharks (Posts: 236; Member since: 16 Feb 2013)
What i'm saying is that the editors of this site are obviously Samsung fanboys and/or getting money to promote Samsung in the reviews/exposure/etc, so anything negative about Samsung's products must ultimately be true! And any reviews about non-Samsung devices, such as the lower score given to the clearly superior HTC One, should always be taken with a grain of salt. There is absolutely nothing about the top contender HTC One at the top of the main page for this website and likewise for their youtube channel main page.
104. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
So, what you're saying is anything that you believe must be true, anything you don't must be false. Got it.
142. ThePhoneJunkie (Posts: 3; Member since: 26 Apr 2013)
Well there is at least TWO thing that makes the S4 better than the HTC One. The camera quality and the storage space. At least in my observation.
But then again, who am I to speak for the S4? I LOVE Samsung and have always trusted their products. But I'm also open-minded when it comes to a good phone or bad phone.
153. Jonathan41 (Posts: 532; Member since: 22 Mar 2012)
Advertising has absolutely nothing to do with generosity and Apple spends tons on Ads.
13. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4839; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Ok you are definitely taking this to an extreme. The GS3 being "plagued" is an exaggeration at its best.
When you mass produce ANYTHING in high quantities some hic-ups happen it's the nature of the whole process.
The same can be said of the Samsung Galaxy S IV. You need to just chill with that & take it one step back.
If Samsung was crap as you are alluding to then why is it consistently one of the best phones in the world, also why does it sell so well to the mass public?
20. mishpillado (Posts: 6; Member since: 01 Apr 2013)
You are right, actually de iPhone it's a great example, recently there was a report for over 8 million defective iPhones that had to be sent back.
33. jacko1977 (Posts: 428; Member since: 11 Feb 2012)
+ phil said its normal cant forget that
27. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13096; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
I'm not taking anything to the extreme. It is what it is and you know it.
The GS3 was plagued with issues when it was released. There several PA articles about them.
28. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
So obviously you'll admit the iPhone 4 was plagued with antenna issues. Right?
39. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13096; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Obviously that has nothing to do with this discussion.
46. joey_sfb (Posts: 5754; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)
Everything you have ever said is about Apple vs Samsung!
You are like the virgin mxyzptik (read no social life!) in the Apple Cult. Every time you open your gap is how Samsung has taken the form of prime evil. How Apple has made you whole. Please bow to your Apple shrine.
61. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4839; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Why avoid the question? By your logic if it's good for Samsung THEN it must be good for Apple right?
Or are we biased here? lol
70. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13096; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
I'm not avoiding the question. It has nothing to do with the article or the discussion.
80. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
But it does have a lot to do with your motivations for posting about fictitious "plagues" of build issues on the GS3. We just don't want any passersby to read your words and mistakenly think you are unbiased or knowledgeable.
83. Ninetysix (Posts: 2387; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
Is your search engine broken?
86. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Cracks in the rear cover? Then clearly bending of the cheap aluminum frame of the iPhone 5 would also make your list of build problems.
88. Ninetysix (Posts: 2387; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
Yes clearly. Now what? It's fine for Samsung to have these issues because you can somehow point a flaw of another device?
it's okay for me to beat my kids because my neighbor does the same.
97. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4839; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Hey you beat your kids because you want to. lol
107. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
If you read my initial statement in this article, I clearly said it was unacceptable and that Samsung had better come up with a quick fix or a full refund.
Mxy said the S3 was "plagued with build quality issues," but as always had no facts to back it up. Mxy has agenda - to badmouth anything Android or Samsung, and to praise anything Apple. My question about the iPhone 4 antenna issue was simply to expose his hypocrisy to all. IIRC, at the time he denied there was any issue.
95. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4839; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Ok so then answer the question. We all know it has nothing to do with the article, YET it is a valid question.
Again or is it that we are biased here?
135. xfire99 (Posts: 833; Member since: 14 Mar 2012)
U r just pathetic, w8 for chance to qq on Samsung and like others companys dont have problems with theirs phones releases.
U God Apple have made more billions then Samsung, still have antennagate problem and IP5 with dents on the sides. Worst, Jobs denys the problems and blame peoples holding it wrong. Also u are avoding to answer others questions, coz u have nothing to counter it with.
85. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
It has to do with your definition of a build quality issue, and whether you will admit to one an Apple product clearly (and scientifically proven by Anandtech and CR) had. You won't, because your only mission here was to spread lies about the S3.
77. ecmedic4 (Posts: 335; Member since: 02 May 2013)
Ill admit the iPhone 4 had antenna issues, i had one with ATT. The GS3 did have issues with the back cover cracking around the camera. Also i think there was some issues with getting high yields of the blue one for awhile, or something like that. BTW im new here.
59. SuperAndroidEvo (Posts: 4839; Member since: 15 Apr 2011)
Nah you are just taking this to the utter most extreme. Name me anything that is mass produced that is 100% perfect without any defects what so ever.
Let me answer for you.... there are none. Why? Because there is always some faulty units that get out because of the mass production process.
Again just take it easy with your crazy talk there.
32. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
And what exactly were these build quality issues that plagued the S3? I mean out here in the real world, not inside your little RDF encompassed universe.
36. Ninetysix (Posts: 2387; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
Here's one of the major ones. It's only 500+ pages and the S3 dying with no reason whatsoever is not a big deal right?
56. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Those were specifically the European versions of the GS3 and the Note 2. Also, Samsung fixed it via software update. NOT BUILD. They ALSO replaced any phone that bricked for free even if it was rooted!
Id give up before spewing anything else you dont know anything about. Everything was covered HERE by Phonearena on how well Samsung took care of its customers when the time came.
84. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
That's one, it only affected one variant of the S3, was a software issue (not build quality). Doesn't sound like plagues.
124. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
40. teerex42 (Posts: 211; Member since: 14 Jun 2012)
ur an idiot there was no build quality issues you moron. I've had my S3 for a year and have had no issues EVER!!! The hundreds of people I know who have the phone did not have any issues either. Get a clue htc fanboy
43. androiddownsouth (Posts: 598; Member since: 02 May 2012)
You must be new here. Mxy is an iPhone fanboy, not HTC lol.
57. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 13096; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Someone forgot their morning prune juice.
81. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Someone also forgot to list these supposed build quality issues that plagued the S3.
100. ecmedic4 (Posts: 335; Member since: 02 May 2013)
the S3 did suffer from some build issues, one being the cracking of the back cover around the camera, and if i remember correctly there was an issue with high yields of the blue color or something like that. No phone is perfect though and build issues are just a fact of manufacture, its gonna happen. Its happened with Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG, etc.
102. tedkord (Posts: 11712; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
That doesn't equate to being "plagued with build quality issues." Yields on the blue back doesn't even count as a build quality issue, so all we have is some cracks in the $5 battery cover.
120. ecmedic4 (Posts: 335; Member since: 02 May 2013)
Well no i wouldnt consider it "plagued" with issues, but there were some widespread issues, or at least from all the articles , it did seem that way. Every manufacturer has had some quality control issues though, its just a fact of manufacturing, i dont consider any issue too big a deal long as the company stands up and admits to it and fixes it promptly enough.
121. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1116; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)
Are you forgetting the cracks on the faux metal border? I saw 3 S3s with this issue and phones that couldn't even be droped to the ground because they were attached to an anti-theft system. I found it rather ironic because Samsung fanboys were dissing the One X for production issues and never really look at the phone they had. Every phone has build quality issues be it HTC, Samsung, LG, Sony, Apple and Motorola.
117. Commentator (Posts: 3692; Member since: 16 Aug 2011)
Harsh words from someone who's only owned one of the millions of SGSIII's sold. When you've had hundreds of thousands of SGSIII's, then you can make the claim that "there was (sic) no build quality issues." Until then, you have to realize that your single SGSIII doesn't necessarily represent the majority (or even the very small minority of units that do have problems) of SGSIII's out there.
15. EXkurogane (Posts: 863; Member since: 07 Mar 2013)
Well, Nokia's "PureMotion" tech would have meant none of this kind of stuff happening. No motion blurs.
Samsung's screens may be awesome but having all kinds of issues like this one isnt new. Screen-related issues also happened on the S3 and S2.
31. Emily1985 (Posts: 127; Member since: 08 Nov 2012)
Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC One have the best screen on the market.
53. chocolaking (Posts: 494; Member since: 22 May 2012)
Samsung fan boys believe the superamoled and S4 screen are the best ever made in smartphone history. LOl..
64. kclgphilsbsa (Posts: 765; Member since: 21 Jan 2013)
I dont know how to react coz im a fan of samsung but im not into the thought of Samoled being d best screen ever made, dont know abt others, ijust love Samoled for its vibrancy and punchy colors but not telling that sAmoled is perfct, evrything can have problems, but this issue wudnt take away from me the deep interest and bliss whenever im looking at Samoled..
113. Aeires (unregistered)
So. People can believe whatever they want, doesn't make it true, and sometimes not even bad.
133. Irakli (banned) (Posts: 5; Member since: 30 Apr 2013)
sorry but the HTC one has the best screen on the market and then comes nokia they can believe what they like and they can be happy with ere defect cheap garbage Samsung s4 and the screen that you can't see nothing out side in the sun on.they can be happy with the samesung cheapest toy that you buy in china town.
69. edgabimbam (unregistered)
i remember first samsung hd screen amoled on their smartphone- note1. Black color clipping was hardware issue and no action from samsung
94. Igneel (unregistered)
Black clipping was present until the Note 2. I don't know about the S4 though.
50. som (Posts: 768; Member since: 10 Nov 2009)
I hope this screen problems will go away in the next batch of production. My Galaxy S4 is fine no problem like that.
51. chocolaking (Posts: 494; Member since: 22 May 2012)
You don't have a S4, it's an Sfall.
65. kclgphilsbsa (Posts: 765; Member since: 21 Jan 2013)
And why such? U seemd to be worse than trolls
54. Xtasy (Posts: 284; Member since: 13 Jan 2013)
Samsung sucks and so does Android period...Blackberry Z10 #1
82. haney.alsaaidy (Posts: 18; Member since: 29 Jan 2013)
despite that, super amoled screen is the best display technology out there, see:
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147. ecmedic4 (Posts: 335; Member since: 02 May 2013)
I think thats a matter of personal opinion/preference. Not everyone cares for amoled screens, some prefer LCD's for specific reasons and others like amoled for specific reasons, no display is the best, cause not everyone shares that same opinion.
154. romulo (Posts: 1; Member since: 31 May 2013)
it is partly wrong, what is true is that amoled is a very young tecnology and have a lot to improve, like light, so itis a better tecnology in truth... But your true to say wide gamut colors are a question of preference in a normal use...
I've bought a S4, I take on hand some top celphones to compare before choice and analized a lot, i used from IPS to AMOLED and CRT for a long time with some digital works and color criteria...
Im a drawer and painter too, what I noticed... Peoples that are color lovers would really love S4, i tested all the color settings on the store before buying and it goes from giant color gamut to practically perfect sRGB, you can obtain an controlled color with movie settings that is perfectly adjusted with sRGB with some flutuation in green only, in fact it is the most near pure white display I have seen... DisplayMate did a review of it... You would like to read, it teachs a lot about digital color, isnt only a review at all...
Samsung displays have drawnbacks and strong points obviously... its normal... you will not go much away from sRGB in normal displays, will not have perfect black or pure white at nearly 6500K, but will have more light and unfortunately in sun light your colors with less saturation will be washed, its just preference, actually amoled consumption its bigger and for example turning on black pixels is slow and can lead to what we see in specific cases like the configuration bars...
Displaymate talk about amoled S4 efects on text and with this density they just say they did nor noticed any aberration compared to normal IPS.
I point displaymate because its a absurdly professional review of the point of view of displays.
I say by myself that I only noticed the strange ghost effect on settings and menus that are black with some color bars, did not noticed ghost on text.
So it did not bother me because in normal use its unseen by everyone around me, and obviously by me...
At all its a lot less superficial fact with many points...
115. PhoneArenaUser (Posts: 5498; Member since: 05 Aug 2011)
I think that regular PhoneArena.com visitors already know how I don't like OLED based displays (at least for today's OLED evolution stage). So this time I even won't bother and won't put any effort to say something related to OLED. ;) :P


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This surely has to be a mistake: "Tomahawk's Sidney Peterson, 18, joined the Army National Guard after graduating from Tomahawk School. Her father, Rick, 28, soon followed in her footsteps."
When I was in the Navy I had a recruit whose mother had him at age 11. But a father at age 10?


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Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Keyed by a six-RBI night that inluded a walkoff grand slam by senior Kyle Garrick, the Berkeley Stags advanced to the District VIII finals with a 13-1 switch-whipping of Marlboro County Monday, May 5 at Jim Bradley Field in Moncks Corner.
The Stags have outscored their playoff opponents 22-2 in two games and will take on the losers bracket winner on Friday, May 9. They need just one win to claim their second district title in three years.
Berkeley gave Coastal Carolina prospect Connor Tate something of a rude welcome to town, scoring on the lanky righthander at will and sending his near 90-mph fastball back up the middle a little faster than it came to the plate.
We are a team that refuses to lose, especially at home, said Coach Landy Cox of his 21-3 Stags.
Berkeleys only home loss this season came during the HIT tournament, an 11-inning war with Hartsville.
Garricks sixth-inning grand slam was one of two hits for the plus-.400 hitting catcher. The drive curled inside the foul pole and landed in Lake Berkeley, far beyond the left field fence.
Garrick wasnt the only Berkeley hitter to rough up Pate.
Chase Ganey had two hits and scored twice and Dillon Salisbury got the game rolling with a run-scoring double, one of two RBIs on the night.
Josh Simmons also had a pair of big hits on the night and scored a run.
The Stags have three players hitting over .400 in Ganey (.419), Garrick (.414) and Salisbury (.400).
Simmons is inching closer to the .400 mark at .391.
Simmons and Teague are getting hot at the right time where Ganey, Garrick and Salisbury have been blistering the cover off the ball all season long.
The Stags are hitting .338 as a team and have outscored their opponents 180-32 on the season.
On the hill, Joe Glauser pitched into the fourth inning before giving way to Jeffrey Stone, who threw two-plus innings for the win to improve to 6-1 on the season.
The Stags moundstaff boasts a microscopic 0.80 ERA and have allowed just 18 earned runs.
We play simple baseball, Cox said. We hit the ball, catch the ball and throw the ball where its supposed to go.
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Silverlight TV 73: What's New in MVVM Light
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Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine appears on the show to discuss his latest additions to the MVVM Light toolkit for both Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone. Laurent covers several new features, including IoC (Inversion of Control) containers, new ways to implement INotifyPropertyChanged using lambdas and/or reflection, and changes to the Messenger class.
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New wow new, i dont understand why you do not provides the templates for vb what is the core reason behind it is there any future plan..........................
Templates and snippets for VB will be included in V4.
Laurent - what's funny is never use your templates I guess I like it the hard way.
For a moment I was like "Wow! They're already talking about MIX 12"
Thanks for the ep and looking forward to MVVM Light v4...
However, I was wondering:
Thank you guys. Keep it up!!!
Vraiment super Laurent!
Thank's and keep on your good work with MVVMLight
it's deeply appreciated.
BTW... Have I eard it right? New book... Hmmmm... that sure sounds interesting...
Nice tool. Thanks guys.
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The Henry and Stark County Health Department announces that members of
its staff recently attended a Public Healthcare - Media Relations Training
sponsored by the IDPH (Illinois Department of Public Health) Learning
Management Systems. RaeAnn Tucker-Marshall, Health Department Director of
Public Information; Betty McNaught, RN Department Director of Emergency
Services; and Naomi Stahl, Department Administrative Assistant-Human
Resources attended the training held recently in Galesburg.
The training's goal was to give participants strategies and tactics for
handling a variety of media contacts; including the gathering and
verification of information, and the coordination and dissemination of
information to mainstream news reporters during a major incident, including
the use of the Joint Information System and Joint Information Center.
Tucker-Marshall notes, "Through this class we gained insights into the
culture of news media: Who they are, What they do, and Why they do it. The
knowledge we took away from this training covered real-world practical
skills and techniques that will dramatically increase our effectiveness in
dealing with the media."
Tucker-Marshall adds, "Participants attending the media relations
training included: public health professionals; hospital preparedness
program staff; subject matter experts, and public information professionals
and staff."
For more information on the Emergency Preparedness Program through the
Henry and Stark County Health Departments call the Department at (309)
852-0197 or visit our website at www.henrystarkhealth.com or find us on
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on November 18, 2012 - 12:50 AM
, updated November 18, 2012 at 1:09 AM
By Mike Harrington
The epic Blue Jays-Marlins trade has been widely discussed for days but we entered the weekend with no official announcement of the deal from MLB or the teams because the physicals weren't done and Bud Selig had not weighed on with his review.
When it does, it completely changes the landscape of the American League East. The Red Sox are clearly in transition and you wonder how much longer the Yankees can last with an aging team. The Orioles built last season on pixie dust – they're not winning 16 straight extra-inning games again – and you wonder if they were a one-hit wonder. The Rays continue to be strong on the mound but questions about their eroding fan base and stadium make you wonder when the distraction level will get too high.
It's clearly time for the Blue Jays to strike. On the day they signed with the Bisons in September, I talked to Jays president and CEO Paul Beeston about the franchise's incredible playoff drought that stretches to Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run in 1993. I asked him what it was like to live with going from 11 straight years of contention to being in "Pirates-Royals territory."
Beeston nodded, looked straight at me and said, "We have to turn that around. It's not fun, not fun at all."
And while the Jays' farm system has plenty of talent, it was clear that an all-in approach was needed right now. You want to take advantage of peak years from the likes of Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion, among others, and not let them go to waste. Hence, the deal with the Marlins and the signing of Melky Cabrera.
An entire generation doesn't remember but the Blue Jays once had the highest payroll in the game (around $47 million in 1993). Future Hall of Famers like Dave Winfield and Paul Molitor signed as free agents and so did superstar pitchers like Jack Morris and Dave Stewart. There were far from full houses at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium but you couldn't get a ticket in the then-SkyDome.
We're never going back to that kind of disparity but there's no question the Jays have a fan base that will respond to a winning team. Fans in Toronto are starved for it. The Raptors and Maple Leafs are terrible and the Leafs, of course, aren't even on the ice. The CFL Argonauts are pushing to make the Grey Cup but remain a heavily regional niche sport.
A quick look at some of the key parties in the deal:
Selig: He didn't stop the Red Sox salary dump to the Dodgers last season because he know Boston was clearly opening up room to retool. He has to send a stern message to Miami owner Jeffrey Loria not to simply pocket revenue sharing money. The Marlins got plenty of good prospects but this deal is a PR scandal in Florida in the wake of the $600 million the Marlins got to build their new ballpark.
Jose Reyes: He was reportedly vacationing in Dubai, which held up the physicals that needed to be done to complete the deal. You wonder how he feels about spending half his season on artificial turf with his balky hamstrings. Wish the Jays could go natural grass in the Rogers Centre. Simply too many other events there, especially football. Can't see how it would work.
Mark Buehrle: FoxSports.com reported Friday that his wife furiously confronted Marlins president David Samson over the trade. Miami wouldn't give no-trade clauses (one reason Albert Pujols didn't sign last winter) but reportedly told Reyes and Buehrle they would not be dealt. Another issue: Buehrle has a pit bull named Slater and didn't live in Dade County, which includes Miami, because they're banned there. So he lived in neighboring Broward County and commuted. What's he going to do now? Pit bulls are banned in Ontario.
More on Buehrle: Joel Sherman of the New York Post was quick to point out last week that Buehrle is just 1-8 with a 6.38 ERA in 12 career starts against the Yankees, a team he will likely a few starts a season against now. Among pitchers with at least 300 plate appearances against the Yankees since 1974, Buehrle's .333 batting average against is the worst.
Josh Johnson: One year left on his deal. Can the Jays keep him? Hard to say. At the worst, they can get a big walk year out of him and then hope some of their numerous starting pitching prospects will be ready to fill a spot by 2014.
Marlins fans: Are there any left? Talk about class-action lawsuit. Hope they had not put in their season-ticket deposits yet for 2013. I realize the Marlins won 69 games last year with their star-studded lineup but that was as much about Heath Bell's bullpen blowups and Ozzie Guillen's Castro rantings more than anything else. Now Giancarlo Stanton ranted on Twitter and is likely out the door sooner rather than later too. Who's paying big money to see a Triple-A lineup?
The Bisons: Speaking of Triple-A, the trade might hurt the Herd short-term with the loss of shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria and outfielder Jake Marsinick, who would have started the season here. But the Cabrera signing likely means speedy Anthony Gose and Moises Sierra, who both got big-league time last year, start the season in Buffalo now. The Jays may need to sign an extra minor-league free agent or two but ultimately, it's far better for the parent club to be relative on the national scale. Which was a better experience: Being aligned with World Series and division-winning Cleveland teams or the Mets of 2009-2012? Next case.
Award chatter
• A lot of silly crabbing in my eyes about the American League MVP vote. Twenty-seven of the twenty-eight ballots cast had Mike Trout either first or second! Sure, Miguel Cabrera had 22 firsts and Trout only had six but it's not like people voted Trout fifth or sixth.
All the statheads who say the vote was wrong are acting like people voted Trout eighth. Clam up. Everyone voting recognized his value. All the intangibles were taken into consideration. How many rookies ever finish second in an MVP vote anyway? All this indignation you read all over the Internet is absurd.
The first Triple Crown winner in 45 years on a division champion means something. Period. I'm tired of hearing Cabrera played in the AL Central and that diminished what he did. Does the NFL discredit Tom Brady's MVP awards because he's played the Bills twice a year? Please.
The same stat geeks who try to say wins don't mean anything for starting pitchers (see Felix Hernandez, 2010) are now trying to say batting average and RBIs don't mean something too? Who suddenly made all of them keepers of baseball history after about, oh, 100 years?
• I like how baseball does its postseason awards and things really took a step up this year with the collaboration of the Baseball Writers' Association of America and MLB Network doing a daily live telecast. There were no leaks of winners like in the past and it was a first-rate presentation all around.
Best of all, baseball talk was frontburner stuff for four straight days in mid-November. Simply excellent.
• There are few athletes in any sport like R.A. Dickey. When I asked him on his national conference call Wednesday night upon when he first realized he might be a Cy Young contender, he dropped the phrase "organic manifestation" into his answer. Amazing guy, amazing story.
Around the horn
• Veteran infielder Bobby Scales, who batted .413 for the Bisons in April and then left to play in Japan, has retired and agreed to become director of player development for the Angels.
• When Red Sox lefty Jon Lester tweeted, "Welcome back John!! Can't wait to get back to work!!" upon the return of John Farrell to Boston, it was pretty easy to see why. The Boston Globe calculated that Lester was 54-23 with a 3.40 earned-run average when Farrell was pitching coach and has gone 23-23, 4.17 since he left to manage in Toronto.
• Johnny Damon spent the week playing in Thailand, his mother's homeland, in a World Baseball Classic qualifier. Unsigned after being released by the Indians, Damon is still 231 hits shy of 3,000. BaseballAnalytics.org and Baseball-Reference.com point out that Damon is one five players all-time with at least 500 doubles, 100 triples, and 400 steals in his career (the others are Honus Wagner, Tris Speaker, Paul Molitor and Ty Cobb).
• Damon and Molitor are the only players in history with at least 100 triples, 200 homers, 400 steals, and 500 doubles. If Damon is done, based on all the winning he did with the Yankees and Red Sox, it's going to be interesting where he lands in Hall of Fame voting in a few years.
• The Mets have hired St. Joe's grad and former Bisons strength coach Jim Malone as their conditioning coordinator. Malone, 45, spent the past seven seasons in that role with San Diego. He was also with the Mets in 2002 under Bobby Valentine.
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Larry the Cable Guy goes on Wild American Flavor Tour
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Off to its best start in 10 years, the Stetson softball team debuted at no. 35 in the first NCAA Softball RPI ranking of 2014, which was released on Monday.
Stetson boasts the third-highest RPI ranking among teams from the state of Florida, behind Florida (no. 3) and Florida State (no. 4). The Hatters also own the third highest ranking among Atlantic Sun schools, behind USC Upstate (no. 25) and Lipscomb (no. 30).
The RPI, or Ratings Percentage Index, is a mathematical formula used by the NCAA to rank teams based on their won-loss percentage and strength of schedule.
Stetson will carry a 21-5 record and a six-game winning streak into Wednesday night's home game against Bethune-Cookman. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m.


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4 Unintentionally Hilarious Guides for Depressing Situations
Dr. Culley Carson and Diana Wiley, M.A., 1993
I know what you're thinking: sex over 40 isn't depressing! That's because you're thinking about milfy 41-year-olds. There aren't any of those in this video. Before I begin, I want to qualify that I like older ladies. I've dated women in their 40s since I was in my 20s, I will continue to do so when I'm in my 70s. Here's what I like about them: you've probably heard that women know whether or not they're going to sleep with a guy within the first five minutes. And while that's usually true, I've seen a lot of women in their 20s and 30s change their minds after six beers and a finger. Women over 40 have already seen themselves do that enough times to take that into account; they operate like they've just had six beers and a finger at all times. They still might not want to sleep with you, but you'll know that quickly and with unwavering certainty.
So what I'm saying is that I was really looking forward to The Couples Guide to Great Sex Over 40. But five minutes in, I realized I was going to be doing a lot of terrified shrieking. For example, these two have included a "fur mitt" in their lovemaking. Because when the lights are off, every guy wearing only a potholder is Chewbacca, am I right, ladies?
Most of the couples in the video are "Over 40" in the same way an abortion is "Almost a Baby." And before these 60-year-olds begin their sexing, they are interviewed about sex "after 40." This is their chance to educate the world about the wonders of mummy sexuality, but all they do is go down the list and verify every single stereotype there has ever been about old people boning. I learned so much from the aged: genitals don't work on either person, their pee is as untrustworthy as coloreds, they throw their backs out, ear hair ... by the time they start their actual sex I was half expecting them to ram into each other on their scooters and complain that all this damp weather is making their knee act up.
Oh, but the sex is much more explicit than a scooter accident. It is full in-and-out elderly pornography. And there's something so extra dirty about watching people have sex when they're doing it for education and true love. My favorite couple is 50ish Ruth & Nick, who came ready to make a show out of it. They're each a few classifications deep into a BMI chart and, at least for a second or two, they're dressed in glittery underpants. I imagine that long ago there was a seamstress making a pair of satin panties for men in XXL and thinking, "No good can come of this." She was wrong. Nick makes them work.
Nick and Ruth's sex scene comes right after an informative section on pubococcygeus muscles. The video let me know that at a certain age, women replace these muscles to make room for bridge score sheets. One happy side effect of this is that when women over 40 go swimming, sea creatures are able to both visit and escape their pelvic floor.
Nick and Ruth hate all the cleanup of Ruth's pubococcygeus muscles dropping constant waste where she stands, so they incorporate a kegel exerciser into their lovemaking. It's like a dumbbell for your vagina, and with truly amazing porno acting skills, Nick pretends to give it to Ruth as a present. She is excited and fascinated by it like a caveman seeing a cigarette lighter, but no one seems to care that her bra somehow vanishes mid-conversation. Then, in glittery underpants, Nick insists on reading the instructions. "And then you put ... you insert it up... uhh... insert it up to the first knob." Ruth responds, "Eww, it's cold." I seriously cannot wait for geriatric sex -- it is going to be hilarious.
Wheelchair Workout with beginning Karate
featuring Patrick Horgan with Sensei Gregory Aldred, 1996
Learning wheelchair karate is like learning how to improvise a dental dam out of a rubber glove. It's fun to practice and think about, but if you ever need to use it, it's only after some very bad personal decisions. Although say you do wheel into the kind of neighborhood that attacks people in wheelchairs, this video will still do nothing to help you. It's horrible. Even if it's for inspirational purposes only, it fails at that because its existence implies that there's an exploitable consumer market that is both disabled and stupid.
Before the workout, someone named Paul Southwick interviews handicapped athlete Patrick Horgan in a TV studio. Literally everything about these circumstances terrifies young Paul, and he's so damn nervous that he keeps reading Patrick's answers to the setup questions. Here, I'll show you an example. This is a word-for-word transcription:
So it's a little inspirational that Patrick didn't call him a dumbass and roll away. And it doesn't get any better when the karate starts. The instructor, unwheelchaired Sensei Gregory Aldred, seems to have learned karate from a video about wheelchair karate, which as far as I'm concerned, is now the very worst place a person can learn about karate. Oh, and don't think that Patrick is some long time student of Sensei Greg and together they've developed a special wheeled version of the ancient Oriental fighting arts. Sensei Greg saw Patrick come into his dojo yesterday and his eyeballs turned into dollar signs.
Sensei Greg begins the workout by sitting so close that Patrick can't move his right arm. It doesn't matter because by any standards, Sensei Greg isn't very good at karate. In fact, I've never actually seen anyone be so bad at anything and not die from it. Patrick follows along fine with only one hand since Sensei Greg's style of karate is mostly kegels.
When someone is more douchebag than warrior, they tend to embrace the "spiritual" aspects of martial arts. Sensei Greg is all over that stuff. Every fruity pantomime he does has some dubious cultural symbolism and he throws punches like he's mending a dress. But the worst thing about this video is that it retailed for over $20, lasts less than 10 minutes, and teaches you nothing. Three minutes of finger stretching, three minutes of arm-waving, and three minutes of watching Patrick throw punches for the first time is not a workout, and if anything will only make the viewer more handicapped. It's so fucking short that the video in its entirety fits on one YouTube clip. And speaking of, please enjoy:
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