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Today is the birthday of one of my oldest close friends, Mikayla (oldest as in I have been friends with her since the eighth grade!). In her honor, this post is about the time we hopped in my car this October, and went on a weekend trip to Philadelphia.
We were only there for one night, but we packed a bunch of fun activities, sightseeing and eating into the short time we had.
For dinner, we went to The Continental, since one of Mik's coworkers told her about it. It was so fun and the food was delicious.
The atmosphere of the multi-floored Continental is what I would describe as modern 60's retro. The martini bar, which opens out to a heated open-air deck, felt like something out of an old James Bond movie, and the decor was decidedly 60's inspired (a shag rug hung from the ceiling near another bar).
However, it didn't feel nostalgic, kitschy or outdated. The lighting and the rest of the decor made for a hip atmosphere and the place was bustling the whole time we were there.
Some of the tables in the restaurant have swinging basket chairs, which we were excited to experience.
They were really fun!
We began with a few of their delicious cocktails. We had their cosmopolitan, which contained just the slightest amount of cranberry juice and was shaken and served in a martini glass, with the extra provided in the small silver shaker. I don't remember what the other cocktails were but I enjoyed them all; most of them were very light and refreshing.
For dinner, we split and bunch of items, such as the bruschetta made with goat cheese and arugula. I loved this dish, since I have always loved bruschetta; plus, goat cheese and arugula pair well with almost anything in my book, and the bread was extremely soft. We also shared French onion soup dumplings with gruyere cheese. The dish looked like a huge bowl of soup…
but was actually six individual dumplings! The soup was delicious, and putting it into dumplings and smothering it with cheese was genius.
We also shared the Greek-inspired quinoa salad, with red onion, cucumbers, feta cheese, spinach and kalamata olives. Mikayla doesn't like olives, so she picked them out of her portion and I gladly ate them for her.
Mikayla and I both truly appreciate spinach, so lastly we had the spinach ravioli with toasted pine nuts, classic tomato sauce, ricotta and fresh basil. All around, I had no complaints. The atmosphere was upbeat, the prices fair, the food irresistible and the location convenient. If there are more weekend trips to Philadelphia in my future (I hope there are) I will definitely be back.
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Dr. Keith Price, a criminology professor at West Texas A&M, teaches a course on capital punishment to 30 students. Most are law-and-order criminal justice majors.
The course has given them ample reason to examine the death penalty critically. Two are completely against it, two are completely in favor and the other 26? They fall into a segment of society that seems to be growing all the time.
"They are for it, but they think the death penalty has lots and lots of problems," Price said. "Capital punishment, if you look at it hard enough, you find a lot of things wrong with it. The more you look at it, the more uncomfortable it makes you."
Price is not some stereotypical left-leaning bleeding heart professor. He's been at WT since 2003. Before that, he worked for 30 years in the Texas prison system, his last four years as the warden of the nearby William P. Clements Jr. Unit.
"I've known thousands of criminals in the prison system," Price said. "A lot of people are walking the prison yards of Texas who did worse things than (Henry) Skinner did and won't be ever be executed. How could the system allow that, but that's the way it works, isn't it?"
Convicted murderer Hank Skinner on Monday received his fourth reprieve, this one from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, to consider how changes to state law affect his request for new DNA tests that he said will exonerate him.
Skinner, 49, was scheduled for execution Wednesday after his conviction in 1995 for the 1993 murders of Twila Busby of Pampa and her two adult sons.
Skinner, in what could be seen as the last ploy of a desperate man, contends crime scene evidence that was not tested for DNA would prove it was not him who committed the murders.
Skinner's attorney had decided not to test the evidence at trial, the thought being it was not worth the risk that testing would only hurt Skinner's case.
"The DNA test will cost something, but haven't we already spent a fortune on this case? Why wouldn't they want to DNA test to conclusively prove this is in fact the right guy?" Price said.
"The prosecution has done a good job in my opinion. I don't think the new DNA would exonerate him or present compelling evidence that someone else did it. But what I don't understand is why not let scientific evidence speak for itself? Why not let one last test remove any lingering doubt? And what if the test proved his innocence? Wouldn't you want to know you didn't execute an innocent man?"
Price believes capital punishment should be constitutional as retribution of the most heinous of crimes, for mass murderers and serial killers. Those like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and notorious Texas serial killer Kenneth McDuff were executed because their actions demanded such.
But Price can go at length on the problems of the death penalty, that it's arbitrary, political and expensive. For the ultimate punishment, there's too much gray area as to who lives and who spends the rest of his or her life in prison.
Much of it is political, he said, starting with the district attorney. An almost identical capital crime committed in one jurisdiction can result in a death sentence, and 75 years in another. The reason is often a crusading politically minded prosecutor.
"Tell me how in three almost identical crimes one gets death, one gets life, and the other 50 years," Price said. "But it happens a lot."
He cites the cost of $1 million to $5 million to the state from beginning of trial through the appeals process to execution. But wouldn't it cost as much to house a prisoner for life?
"All the research I've seen says it's less expensive, about three times," he said.
He rhetorically asks if it matters whether the defendant is rich or poor, the color of the defendant, the color of the victim, the quality of legal defense and, the answer, Price said, is yes, it does matter.
"In my mind, one of the biggest things wrong with capital punishment is there's just too much politics involved," he said.
Price isn't soft on crime, but warns to tread carefully when it's the death penalty. The end is the same for a prisoner who gets a capital life sentence, without parole, and one who gets capital death.
"He's leaving in a body bag either way," he said. "Spending the rest of your life in a Texas prison is not easy. It's a dangerous place. They usually don't live that long."
The average person doesn't spend too much time weighing the pros and cons of capital punishment, especially in Texas where 476 people have been executed since the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door for states to reinstitute the death penalty in 1976 after a four-year moratorium.
"For most people, it's 'The bad guy killed someone, well, kill the b------,'" Price said. "That's about all the attention given to it. But for someone who really studies that public policy, the deeper you look into it, the more questions you have.
"You have to ask yourself, is this the best a democracy can do? With all the issues that go with it, is this the best our society can do?"
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text: Home > Medical > Malaria > All about treatment 25 February 2009 The cherry on top Bitter malaria medication has just gone cherry-flavoured and 700 000 kids are grateful. Marcus Low reports from Dar es Salaam. 0 Assess Life expectancy » Quiz Would you survive disaster? » Join Body Talk » Ask EnviroHealth Expert » Five facts you need to know about malaria Malaria, an African story One of the biggest challenges facing doctors, is getting patients to stick to their course of treatment. The bitter pill of malaria medication has just gone cherry-flavoured. A fragile 2-year-old girl with malaria was sitting on the bed. The gathered journalists watched as she was given a watery pink liquid to drink. We stood about as the photographer from Time tried to get his perfect shot. Outside, the Tanzanian air was sweltering. A foul smell hung between the old German buildings which now house the Ifakara Health Institute. The Indian Ocean lay dead, quiet, and inviting in the heat. It was a day like any other. And the girl in the ward was just a toddler like any other… just a child who happened to have been bitten by a mosquito carrying the plasmodium parasite. Earlier that day, at the launch of a new cherry-flavoured malaria medicine called Coartem Dispersible (Coartem D) in the lush surroundings of the Moevenpick Royal Palm hotel in Dar es Salaam, the talk was abstract and political. It took the visit to the hospital in Bagamoyo to put it all in perspective. As with all public health issues, the boardroom discussions, theoretical models, and all the wheeling and dealing eventually has its outcome on the bodies of actual human beings. In this case, it was about a girl drinking a cherry-lavoured drink – it tastes a bit like cherry tea – instead of fighting off the bitter adult formulations that children used to be given. And, as with the adult formulations, the odds are more than 97% that the artemisinin-based combination therapy contained in this drink would kill the malaria parasite in her blood and liver. Coartem D is essentially a reformulation of the widely used malaria drug Coartem. The difference is that the original Coartem was bitter-tasting and tablets had to be broken or crushed before children could take them. Stories abound of parents forcing their children to swallow the bitter powder, only for the medicine to be vomited up soon after. It is not surprising that parents relented once their children started looking and feeling healthier – even though the parasite was likely still to be lurking in their blood. This is why so many children who can access medication still suffer and die from malaria; and this is why Coartem D is significant: it is likely to mean that many more children will survive. Almost didn't happen This new, better-tasting malaria pill almost didn't happen, and this is where the story gets interesting. For one thing, malaria is a disease of the developing world, not a money-spinner like cholesterol or hypertension. And secondly, drug companies rarely make medicines especially for children, despite being urged to do so by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Pharmaceutical giant Novartis nevertheless did develop Coartem D – and is selling it to the public sector at cost price. Why? Silvio Gabriel, executive vice president and general manager of malaria initiatives at Novartis, claims it is simply part of the company's corporate responsibility programme. In the light of Novartis' bruising battle with activists and Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) in India over the patent rights for the cancer drug Gleevec, I suggested, it might be very necessary PR? Gabriel didn't seem much taken with that interpretation. Still, Novartis certainly had some image problems to deal with, and vigorously courted the press with the launch of Coartem D. They flew in a PR team from New York, conducted launches in Dar es Salaam, Maputo and Dakar, and sponsored journalists from all over the continent. In any case, the children are the winners, so it's a happy ending. Gabriel said Novartis would not have invested in the development of Coartem D had it not been for the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) – a non-profit organisation created "to discover, develop and deliver effective and affordable antimalarial drugs through public-private partnerships". It was MMV which created the necessary conditions for bitter Coartem to be turned into sweet-tasting Coartem-D. In his turn, Chris Hentschel, president and CEO of MMV, says the project was only possible because governments and the world market of philanthropies backed it. Later, in the hotel lobby, he would tell me, with a broad sweep over the crowd waiting for the hotel buses to take us to the residence of the Swiss ambassador, that it is only when Bill Gates' Gates Foundation came on board that other philanthropies and governments started chipping in as well. MMV channelled significant amounts of that money into the project to cover costs external to Novartis – things like the difficult and risky business of conducting clinical trials. In this way, MMV, so to speak, sweetened the deal for Novartis, allowing them to focus on the things they do best: the actual development of the new formulation and setting up production. This saved Novartis a lot of trouble, and a lot of money. As a result, explains Hentschel, the total out-of-pocket cost for Novartis is far below the cost of a normal project. If Bill Gates' goodwill hung over the whole launch event like some kind of divine presence, it was not the only one. On more than one occasion I was told that the malaria project was very close to the heart of Daniel Vasella, the chairman and CEO of Novartis. On both occasions, this was linked to his staunch Catholicism. The Treatment Action Campaign Apart from goodwill from Gates and Vasella, another factor mentioned more than once was the bad press pharmaceutical companies got during the battle between the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim in the early 2000s. That affair ended with a South African Competition Commission ruling in 2003 that the companies had abused their dominant position in their respective anti-retroviral markets. The thinking is that this forced pharmaceutical companies to rethink the ways in which they do business in Africa. Whatever the motivation behind Coartem-D, it is a product that works. A study published In the Lancet found that Coartem D had a cure rate of over 97%, roughly similar to that of the original Coartem. And with a child in Africa dying of malaria every 30 seconds, the need for this kind of product is not trivial. An estimated 700 000 children under the age of five die annually of malaria, and in the worst affected areas, people can receive over 1 000 infectious mosquito bites per year. What Coartem-D cannot do, is prevent reinfection. Particularly the East Africans seem convinced that the battle will turn only with the development of a vaccine, to be used alongside treatments, mosquito nets, and sprays. Expanding the model MMV is already using a similar public private model to explore other possible malaria medicines. And there is a strong suggestion the model might well be viable for other tropical diseases that are being neglected by the big pharmaceutical companies. Spurring the development of new medicines for tropical diseases has been a public health headache. Hentschel suggests that the model that resulted in Coartem-D may be putting donor funds to better use than previous models. "The total out-of-pocket cost to the main donors is way below the cost that would be the case if you simply contracted, lets say, with a pharmaceutical company on a for-profit basis," says Hentschel. But the little girl taking Coartem D at the hospital in Bagamoyo certainly doesn't care about multipronged approaches, the details of public private partnerships and what motivated who to get involved. All she knows is that the drink she's getting for her sickness really doesn't taste that bad. (A study was done to see what flavour kids prefer. Cherry won out over strawberry and orange.) The hope is that the public-private model could yield similarly pleasant health outcomes for other diseases. (Marcus Low, Health24, February 2009) Note: Low's trip to attend the launch of Coartem D in Dar es Salaam was sponsored by Novartis and MMV. 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The 2010 Tennessee Titans had another disappointing season, and it led to Jeff Fisher being let go as their head coach. He had coached the team through 16 seasons, but Mike Munchak will lead the team next season.
Heading into the 2011 NFL Draft, this team is missing an identity. They don't have a franchise quarterback, as Vince Young is supposed to be either traded or released. So the quarterback position is a major concern for the future.
Young was supposed to be the guy, but his ineffective play and constant conflicts with the coaching staff wore out his welcome. Kerry Collins should be back for at least one more season, but he is a free agent and it's possible he could retire.
Elsewhere, Chris Johnson is one of the best running backs in the league and gives the Titans a top rushing attack.
The receiving group is pretty solid overall, with Kenny Britt becoming the top receiver the Titans envisioned when they drafted him. Nate Washington, Justin Gage and Damian Williams give the Titans solid depth.
Jared Cook is another player who is starting to play up to his potential, but the depth at this position could be weak if Bo Scaife isn't brought back. The offensive line struggled last season, but they still have some solid talent. The offensive tackle positions are set with David Stewart and Michael Roos, but the guard and center positions could use some upgrading.
Jason Babin came out of nowhere to have an incredible season last year. He may have priced himself out of Tennessee, however, and Dave Ball and Jacob Ford are also free agents.
Derrick Morgan missed most of last season, but he has a lot of promise as a pass rusher. Jason Jones and Sen'Derrick Marks are adequate players, but the Titans are really lack an impact player in the middle of the line. The Titans could even use their first draft pick on this position.
Stephen Tulloch had a great season at the inside spot last year, but he is a free agent who will also demand a large contract. The Titans would be well served to bring him back, but he may be too expensive. Gerald McRath and Will Witherspoon are both adequate starters, but don't be shocked if the Titans look for an upgrade here as well.
The secondary is the defense's strongest unit, with Cortland Finnegan and Alterraun Verner leading the way at cornerback. Michael Griffin and Chris Hope are both solid starters at safety, but the depth in the secondary is something that needs to improve for next season.


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The last time they were seen alive, the three women, all in their early 20s, were heading out into the desert in a pickup truck near the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juàrez. A few days later, on July 23, the three friends were found murdered, shot through the head execution-style, with the burned-out hulk of the truck near-by. As for suspects, police quickly zeroed in on one victim's husband as the prime suspect; two years earlier he had been implicated, but never charged, in the murder of another woman during a bar brawl.
Savage as those murders may be, they're only part of a larger story of carnage—one that has begun to provoke outrage in the U.S. as well as Mexico. In Juàrez, which lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, at least 310 young women have been killed since 1993. At times it has come to resemble a wholesale slaughter, with victims' bodies often dumped in refuse areas or buried in shallow graves on the outskirts. In February the remains of three teenage girls were discovered together in the desert, followed in the next few months by three other corpses. With all the carnage, rumors are rampant that one or more serial killers may be at work. The situation has become so dire that in July, after the three girls in the pickup were killed, the government in Mexico City announced that 300 federal agents and police had been dispatched to Juàrez to provide security for jittery residents, many of whom have refused to let their daughters walk to school. "It's horrible to go out to the street and not know if you're coming back," says Lluvia Flores. "I'm 20 years old and I can't go out at night."
The plague of homicides has reached such proportions that, in addition to Mexican and U.S. feminist groups, a growing number of American celebrities have taken up the cause. In April an open letter signed by, among others, Meryl Streep, Calista Flockhart, Glenn Close and Anjelica Huston called on the Mexican government to use all its power to "take swift and direct action to find the murderers." At a recent briefing at the Creative Artists Agency in Beverly Hills, which drew Dylan McDermott and his wife, actress Shiva Rose, and 75 activists and journalists, playwright Eve Ensler, who has helped to spearhead efforts in this country to bring attention to the killings, detailed the grim toll. "It makes me insane about Juàrez," said Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues. "It is a free-for-all there against women who are poor."
Even its most ardent boosters acknowledge that Juàrez is a tough, and often violent, place. For one thing roughly half of the population of 2 million are transients, many of them coming from all over Latin America in hopes of slipping across the border into the United States. Typically, though, they exhaust all their money by the time they arrive and are forced into a dead-end existence, living in one of the teeming slums that blight the area. Though 190 of the murders have been solved, the balance continues to baffle police. Authorities are reluctant to discuss specific leads, but it is known that at least 93 of the cases bear some similarities—the victims, who tend to be between 15 and 25, are abducted, raped, murdered, sometimes with signs of torture, and then buried.
The pattern has led to the speculation that a serial killer is at work, or at least a predator with one or more copy-cats. But cops say they're unsure about who or what they're up against. "We do believe that some of the crimes are similar in nature, but I don't have any evidence to say that it was or was not a serial killer," says Stephen Slater, a veteran American law-enforcement official and expatriate who was recently brought in to help special prosecutor Angela Talavera solve the crimes. "There's no limit to the theories."
One thing Juarez residents are quite sure of is that their police force, which like many others in Mexico is widely seen as inept, indifferent and often corrupt, is part of the problem. "I went to the police station over and over again," says Ester Luna, whose 15-year-old daughter, Brenda Alfaro, was found dead on Oct. 13, 1997, three weeks after she was abducted. "I was only ridiculed by the agents, who would suggest my daughter was a runaway or a prostitute." In another instance, according to local newspapers, police picked up several bodies at a crime scene but left human remains behind. Then there was the time mothers combed a site three weeks after their daughters' bodies had been found and managed to turn up shorts and other clothing belonging to the victims that had been overlooked by the police. "At the beginning there wasn't enough importance put on these cases," concedes Oscar Valadez Reyes, the deputy attorney general for Chihuahua State. "Some mistakes were made."
As activists see it, the killings also reflect the culture of machismo in Mexico, in which violence against women is often taken for granted. "There had to be 300 women murdered here for the authorities to start paying attention to this," says Lilia Flores, a social worker at the Casa Amiga shelter for battered and sexually abused women in Juàrez. "It shows we are a people without law, that the life of a woman is worth the same as an animal." In March, on International Women's Day, 300 Mexican marchers were joined by 200 Americans for a protest rally that temporarily shut down the Santa Fe International Bridge, which links Juàrez with El Paso.
After so many years of frustration, the citizens of Juàrez are understandably skeptical about official claims that major progress on the killings is at hand. But there are some grounds for optimism. The addition of the 300 federales, who are generally considered more capable than local cops, will help. And Stephen Slater, whose official title is public safety adviser, is confident that he will be able to bring greater focus to the investigation. A former head of the New Mexico Law-Enforcement Academy, Slater, 59, has lived in Mexico for more than 10 years and is close to the governor of Chihuahua State. Among other things, Slater has helped install, a system in Juàrez similar to the Amber Alerts north of the border, which trigger immediate police action when a girl goes missing. "We're right on the missing-persons reports and aren't waiting three or four months until we find a body," says Slater. In the meantime, says Ester Luna, it is a daily effort to keep up hope that the terror will end soon. "I try hard not to instill fear in my other children," she says, "but fear is what surrounds us."
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Anna Macias Aguayo and Adrienne Bard in Juarez and Vicki Sheff-Cahan in Los Angeles
A Wave of Murders Terrorizes the Women of Ciudad Juàrez
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Dewey Forrester's latest CD,
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A Reader's Choice Award, sponsored by Literary Arts and The Oregonian, will be presented for the first time at the Oregon Book Awards.
The Oregonian and Literary Arts invited readers to choose their favorite book among the finalists for the 2010/11 Oregon Book Awards. The book that received the most votes will receive a special reader's choice award at the ceremony Monday, April 25.
Voting ended April 18,The ceremony is at 7:30 p.m. Monday,
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On 2006.11.15 at 15:47:40 +1000, Simon McMahon wrote:
> Hi,
> Using MSVC++ 6.0
> I followed all the instructions in install.w32 including:[color=green]
> > perl util\mkdef.pl crypto ssl update[/color]
> to get the "things not having numbers assigned" error to go away. Then:[color=green]
> > ms\do_ms[/color]
> worked ok. Then:[color=green]
> > nmake -f ms\ntdll.mak[/color]
> built the .c files but failed on the link:
> rc /fo"tmp32dll\libeay32.res" /d CRYPTO ms\version32.rc
> link /nologo /subsystem:console /opt:ref /dll
> /out:out32dll\libeay32.dll
> /def:ms/LIBEAY32.def @C:\DOCUME~1\simonm\LOCALS~1\Temp\nma02892.
> LIBEAY32.def : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
> out32dll\libeay32.lib : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
> LINK : fatal error LNK1141: failure during build of exports file
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link' : return code '0x475'
> Stop.
> I went back to openssl-0.9.8d and it built OK for me.
> Any suggestions?[/color]
Manually edit libeay.num file after running
mkdef.pl crypto ssl update and just remove line containing
It is not a function, it is a macro, but for some reason I've not found
time to investigate, mkdef consider it a function.
It is not a problem for those who wish just build OpenSSL. It is problem
for people who wish to add new functions and make mkdef.pl see them.
Really, someone who have deep understanding of mkdef.pl work should
check header files, find out what's wrong with IMPLEMENT_ASN1_SET_OF
macro - why mkdef consider it a function, but handles other such macros
(there are lot of them) appropriately, and fix either header or mkdef.pl
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SAT Essay Prompts
Prompt 1
The biggest difference between people who succeed at any difficult undertaking and those who do not is not ability but persistence. Many extremely talented people give up when obstacles arise. After all, who wants to face failure? It is often said about highly successful people that they are just ordinary individuals who kept on trying, who did not give up.
Adapted from Tom Morris, True Success: A New Philosophy of Excellence
Prompt 2
Whether it is a child pouting to get ice cream or a politician using emotionally charged language to influence potential supporters, all people use some form of acting to achieve whatever ends they seek. Public figures of all kinds would have short, unsuccessful careers without the aid of acting. Acting—consciously assuming a role in order to achieve some purpose—is a tool people use to protect their interests and gain advantages in every aspect of life.
Adapted from Marlon Brando, Foreword to The Technique of Acting by Stella Adler
Prompt 3
When people are very enthusiastic—always willing and eager to meet new challenges or give undivided support to ideas or projects—they are likely to be rewarded. They often work harder and enjoy their work more than do those who are more restrained. But there are limits to how enthusiastic people should be. People should always question and doubt, since too much enthusiasm can prevent people from considering better ideas, goals, or courses of action.
Prompt 4
Why do people help others? Many philosophers and psychologists claim that everything people do, no matter how noble and beneficial to others, is really directed toward the ultimate goal of self-benefit. According to this view, helping others is always motivated by the prospect of some benefit to the helper, however small, and not out of genuine concern for the welfare of another.
Adapted from C. Daniel Batson, The Altruism Question
Prompt 5
We are frequently told that compromise is the best way for people to work out their differences. When people compromise, with each side losing a little in order to reach a satisfactory agreement, both sides can continue to live in harmony. However, compromise can work only when the issues at stake are not that important. Compromise does not work when there is a genuine difference of opinion about strongly held principles or ideas.
Prompt 6
People usually assume that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that went into making it. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and then spending as much time as possible analyzing that information. But there are times when making a quick judgment is the best thing to do. Decisions made quickly can be as good as decisions made slowly and cautiously.
Adapted from Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Prompt 7
It is unrealistic to think that any group of people—a family, a committee, a company, a city—can function peacefully and productively without some kind of authority. The needs and interests of the individuals who make up any group are too varied for its members to operate as a unit without having someone to make the final decisions. Somebody has to be in charge; somebody has to be ultimately responsible.
Prompt 8
Most of us are convinced that fame brings happiness. Fame, it seems, is among the things people most desire. We believe that to be famous, for whatever reason, is to prove oneself and confirm that one matters in the world. And yet those who are already famous often complain of the terrible burden of fame. In fact, making the achievement of fame one's life goal involves commitments of time and effort that are usually wasted.
Adapted from Leszek Kolakowski, Freedom, Fame, Lying, and Betrayal: Essays on Everyday Life
Prompt 9
A society composed of men and women who are not bound by convention—in other words, they do not act according to what others say or do—is far more lively than one in which all people behave alike. When each person's character is developed individually and differences of opinion are acceptable, it is beneficial to interact with new people because they are not mere replicas of those whom one has already met.
Adapted from Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Prompt 10
When someone has the same ideas or views as most people do, we tend to believe that the person is reasonable and correct. Often, however, views that are considered reasonable or commonsensical are anything but sensible. Many widely held views regarding current events, science, education, arts and literature, and many other topics ultimately prove to be wrong. The fact that an idea or view is widespread—held by many people—does not make it right.
Prompt 11
Planning lets people impose order on the chaotic processes of making or doing something new. Too much planning, however, can lead people to follow the same predetermined course of action, to do things the same way they were done before. Creative thinking is about breaking free from the way that things have always been. That is why it is vital for people to know the difference between good planning and too much planning.
Adapted from Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit
Prompt 12
Most people underestimate their own abilities. They tend to remember their failures more vividly than their successes, and for this reason they have unrealistically low expectations about what they are capable of. Those individuals who distinguish themselves through great accomplishments are usually no more talented than the average person: they simply set higher standards for themselves, since they have higher expectations about what they can do.
Prompt 13
People are taught that they should not go back on their decisions. In fact, our society supports the notion that to change your mind is evidence of weakness and unreliability, leading many people to say, "Once I decide, I decide!" But why do people make such a statement? If factors, feelings, and ideas change, isn't the ability to make a new decision evidence of flexibility, adaptability, and strength?
Adapted from Theodore I. Rubin, Compassion and Self-Hate
Prompt 14
Many people believe that being honest and honorable limits their options, their opportunities, their very ability to succeed. Unfortunately, in today's me-first culture, ethics may be the only thing people choose to live without! They believe they have only two choices: (1) to win by doing whatever it takes, even if it is wrong, or (2) to be ethical and therefore lose. Few people set out to be dishonest, but nobody wants to lose.
Adapted from John C. Maxwell, There's No Such Thing as "Business" Ethics
Prompt 15
Whatever happened to good manners? Many books and articles have been written about the lack of common courtesy and old-fashioned politeness in today's society. From spoiled children acting out in restaurants to so-called experts yelling at each other on cable news shows, people seem less concerned with good manners and civilized behavior than ever before. On the other hand, if people really want to change the world for the better, they have to risk being seen as impolite or uncivil.
Prompt 16
We define "courage" too loosely. Real courage is conscious self-sacrifice, either for the sake of others or to uphold a value. But we typically identify a single aspect of courage—daring or honesty, for example—as the entire virtue. We even say it takes courage to differ from the mainstream in one's preferences in fashion or music or to speak out about certain wrongs. Such acts, though admirable, are not necessarily courageous.
Adapted from John McCain with Mark Salter, Why Courage Matters
Prompt 17
There are good reasons to pay attention to people who are older or more experienced than we are, even if their opinions on important issues are very different from ours. Of course, not every person older than us is worth learning from, while many young people are. But if the only people we listen to are our age and are likely to see things the same way we do, we will miss out on something important.
Prompt 18
Good decision making generally requires people to think carefully and logically and to pay attention to practical details. However, people who depend on their feelings and emotions to make important decisions are not likely to spend hours gathering information, making lists, considering all possible outcomes, and so forth. When comparing the advantages or disadvantages of one course of action to another, these people ask themselves, "What do my feelings tell me?"
Prompt 19
Thanks to great advancements in technology, we live today in a world in which knowledge is more readily available to greater numbers of people than ever before in history. Having more and better technology, however, has not made people wiser or more understanding. Indeed, people are so overloaded with information today that they have become less, rather than more, able to make sense of the world around them than our ancestors ever were.
Prompt 20
The discovery that someone we admire has done something wrong is always disappointing and disillusioning. Yet even when people we consider heroes have been tarnished by their faults, they are no less valuable than people who appear perfect. When we learn that an admired person, even one who is seemingly perfect, has behaved in less than admirable ways, we discover a complex truth: great ideas and great deeds come from imperfect people like ourselves.
Prompt 21
Some people say you should be content with what you have and accept who you are. But it is possible that too much self-acceptance can turn into self-satisfied lack of ambition. People should always strive to improve themselves and to have more in their lives—friends, things, opportunities. After all, where would we be if great people, both in history and in our own time, did not try to have more and to improve themselves?
Prompt 22
So-called common sense determines what people should wear, whom they should respect, which rules they should follow, and what kind of life they should lead. Common sense is considered obvious and natural, too sensible to question. But people's common sense decisions may turn out to be wrong, even if they are thought to be correct according to the judgment of vast majorities of people.
Adapted from Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy
Prompt 23
Both in society and in our own lives, today's problems are serious and require serious solutions. Increasingly, however, people are taught to laugh at things that aren't usually funny and to cope with difficult situations by using humor. They are even advised to surround themselves with funny people. There is strong evidence that laughter can actually improve health and help fight disease.
Adapted from Marshall Brain, How Laughter Works
Prompt 24
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. You need one because you are human. You didn't come from nowhere. Before you, around you, and, presumably, after you, there are others. Even if you live alone and even if your solitude is by your own choice, you still cannot do without a network or a family.
Adapted from Jane Howard, All Happy Clans Are Alike: In Search of the Good Family
Prompt 25
Thanks to the Internet, the word "friendship" now has a much broader meaning. No longer are the bonds of friendship limited to telephone conversations, shared activities, or speaking face-to-face. In this day and age, very close friendships can be formed without the people ever meeting and by simply typing words on a screen.
Adapted from Sharon Hendricks, A Broader Definition of Friendship
Prompt 26
An Internet phone service is offering unlimited free telephone calls for anyone who signs up. There is only one catch: the company will use software to listen to customers' phone conversations and then send customers advertisements based on what they have been talking about. For example, if they talk about movies with their friends, advertisements for movies will appear on their computer screens. Commentators have voiced concern about customers' giving up their privacy in exchange for phone service.
Prompt 27
People are often criticized for working out their own ideas before learning all that others have discovered about a problem or subject. But those people are right; it is possible to know too much, especially at first. The time for thorough inquiry and extensive research is later, after you have made your own discoveries and come to your own conclusions.
Adapted from Charles Horton Cooley, Life and the Student
Prompt 28
Photographs are very much a part of our daily lives. They show us faraway places, things to buy, important people and happenings, and sometimes just the ordinary. These pictures seem like frozen moments of real life. Cameras do copy what is in front of the lens, and so, in that sense, photographs show us what is real. They are at the same time, however, creations of the artist's intentions and unconscious mind.
Adapted from Leslie Sills, In Real Life: Six Women Photographers
Prompt 29
When we are young, we learn from parents and teachers that we should wait patiently for what we want. Few people would dispute the wisdom or truth of this teaching. Our society, however, with its mad rush and hurry and its insistence on instant gratification and quick responses, encourages and rewards impatience. Experience teaches us that we should not and do not have to wait.
Prompt 30
People today seem to spend most of their free time being passively entertained: they just sit on the couch and watch movies or television or sporting events. This is mainly because they use up all their energy at work or at school. If they had more time and energy to devote to activities outside of work or school, you can be sure they would enjoy more creative and active pursuits during their free time.
Prompt 31
While serious thinking about important matters may disturb people in the short term, it benefits them immeasurably in the long term. Only by confronting unpleasant truths and by weighing both sides of complex issues can people understand the facts—whether in history, politics, literature, or their own lives—and make appropriate decisions. People may find it difficult, or uncomfortable, to think seriously about important matters, but not doing so means that they are leading lives without meaning or purpose.
Prompt 32
Loyalty is a virtue that is encouraged and rewarded in every aspect of our lives. We are, therefore, loyal to our families, our teams, our schools, and our countries. But too often loyalty is blind: by automatically identifying ourselves with a group and accepting its values as our own, we avoid taking responsibility for our own thoughts and actions.
Prompt 33
A requirement for membership in any group is conformity. Members must agree on such vital issues as how decisions will be made, who will serve as leaders, and how much freedom group members will have. The quality of decision making, however, is better when groups encourage nonconformity and disagreement among their members. Although it sometimes creates disorder and conflict, disagreement may prevent powerful majorities from making mistakes.
Prompt 34
"Discipline" is a negative word for many people because it is associated with rigorous training, strict rules, and strong self-control. But we fail to realize that freedom comes only through discipline. Discipline compels us to sacrifice immediate rewards and pleasures, but it also gives our lives structure and prevents us from making costly mistakes. It keeps us from being subject to our impulses and weaknesses and thus frees us to achieve our true goals.
Prompt 35
We are often encouraged to stop worrying about making mistakes and advised not to dwell on those we have already made. But without analyzing mistakes—decisions and actions that made a project fail, for instance—how can anyone be successful? Besides, there are some well-known mistakes others have made that seem worth studying carefully. Perhaps these mistakes could have been prevented if those responsible had been more concerned about making mistakes in the first place.
Prompt 36
The making of illusions—misleading images or ideas that appear to be authentic or true—has become the primary business of our society. Included in this category are not only the false promises made by advertisers and politicians but all of the activities which supposedly inform, comfort, and improve us, such as the work of our best writers and our most influential leaders. These promises and activities only encourage people to have unrealistic expectations and to ignore facts.
Adapted from Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image
Prompt 37
Although most of us do not like being criticized, it is said that we can always benefit from being told what we are doing wrong. We may lose a valuable learning opportunity if we do not listen to the criticisms expressed by others. Yet criticism, even when honest and well-intended, can be more harmful than helpful. We have more to gain by ignoring or shielding ourselves from the criticisms of others.
Prompt 38
It has been said that "All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." This statement suggests that people should do more than merely think about themselves and a few others, that they should feel responsible for issues and concerns that affect the larger society or community. But aren't most people already doing a lot more than "nothing" by taking responsibility for their own well-being and that of their families and friends?
Prompt 39
All communities and groups have reliable rules of right and wrong in the form of laws, values, and social standards. It is therefore generally assumed that most people know the difference between right and wrong and that they usually know the right thing to do. This view is simplistic, however. People often find themselves in complex situations for which no rule provides adequate guidance and the right course of action is unclear.
Prompt 40
When judging ourselves, we tend to consider our motives as well as our actions. If we mean to do something that will benefit others but our actions have hurtful consequences, we may feel that our good intentions are just as important as the effects of our actions. But we give our intentions too much credit. Actions can and should be judged on their own merits, regardless of what motivated someone to take them in the first place.
Prompt 41
It is often observed that some sense of unease or dissatisfaction with oneself or one's circumstances, some self-criticism, is absolutely necessary for people to move forward and make any kind of progress or change. But optimism—a feeling of confidence that one's actions will be successful and will pay off in the future—is even more important. If people are not optimistic, what motivation will they have to change?
Adapted from Richard B. McKenzie, The Paradox of Progress
Prompt 42
Most people tend to trust others too readily. To avoid being taken advantage of, however, it is generally wise to be doubtful and suspicious of others' motives or honesty. Many people would agree that if you find yourself doubting other people's sincerity or questioning their intentions, your instincts are probably correct. You are less likely to regret being cautious than being too trusting.
Prompt 43
People who complain about progress and change expose themselves to criticism. Yet there is always a subtle danger in life's improvements and refinements, a drawback or disadvantage that occurs along with the benefits of progress. It sometimes seems that we devote half of our time to making what we call "improvements"—in our lives, our work, our relationships—but so often the original conditions had some quality that is lost in the process of change.
Adapted from E.B. White, Progress and Change
Prompt 44
Learning and doing are their own rewards. No external rewards are required. Yet when external rewards are introduced—whether attention and praise from parents or prizes from teachers—these rewards exert a substantial influence. Instead of reading books to find out about the world, kids will read to win prizes. Kids will produce for rewards, but the quality of their activity and their interest in it will be dramatically altered.
Adapted from Barry Schwartz, The Costs of Living
Prompt 45
We almost always tend to treat people on the basis of what they have done: the star athlete is recognized and rewarded with a college scholarship, while the lawbreaker is prosecuted and punished. But our past deeds provide only a partial measure of our real worth as human beings. We should be treated according to what we are capable of accomplishing, regardless of what we may or may not have actually done.
Prompt 46
We would like to think that progress causes problems to be solved completely, and sometimes that happens. For example, some diseases that once posed a serious threat are no longer a problem, thanks to modern medicine. Some problems can be solved, and they go away. But as often as not, problems exist in a chain of cause and effect: for each problem solved, a new one develops.
Adapted from Gregg Easterbrook, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
Prompt 47
Too often, people fail to solve problems because they focus only on the problems, thinking that if they study a problem, it will eventually suggest its own solution. Instead, they should remember their past successes and retrace their steps by analyzing what they did or did not do in similar situations in the past. It is often said that there is no formula for success, but if people would only focus on repeating the specific actions that worked for them before, they would surely succeed again.
Prompt 48
The word "uncompromising" is often used as a compliment, especially when it describes someone who is completely dedicated to certain principles and values. Uncompromising people have indeed recorded great achievements. But being uncompromising is not always a virtue. People who are uncompromising tend not to consider other people's views, seeing themselves as right and everyone else as wrong. All in all, it is better to be flexible and make compromises.
Prompt 49
Most people try to be fair to others and respect their opinions. It is sometimes difficult, however, to be open to and accepting of all opinions, especially when the people expressing them are obviously uninformed or mean-spirited. It is more important to point out to others what they are doing and saying wrong than to try to tolerate every opinion.
Prompt 50
There is something good to be said for holding firm opinions, whether in politics, art, business, or daily life. A person who is deeply committed to a certain position on a film, a political candidate, or an idea may have thought long and hard before reaching that position. But too often such opinions are not based on careful thought and may be so rigidly held that those who express them do not consider other viewpoints or positions.
Prompt 51
It seems that we are always ready to justify our own actions and overlook our own errors. Why, then, are we so unwilling to judge others in the same way? We tend to hold others to very high, even unrealistic standards, expecting them to be always right, always honest, or always conscientious. All of us have personal flaws and shortcomings that we are quite willing to excuse. Surely we should be more willing to excuse such shortcomings in others.
Prompt 52
Many people say that money is not the most important thing in life and that being overly concerned about money leads only to unhappiness. Others point out, however, that money and wealth have always been of dramatic significance in society. They argue that there is really nothing more important to one's overall quality of life than money.
Prompt 53
Young people are highly influenced by popular culture. They attempt to define themselves on the basis of what they see on television, in newspapers and magazines, and in the movies. In fact, young people accept the values of popular culture as their own, believing that those values are central to their personal development and social acceptance.
Prompt 54
Many people believe that our behavior should be consistent, that we should always be ourselves. They feel that we should not act one way with some people and another way with others. But is this right? Should our behavior always be consistent, or should we behave differently in different situations? Isn't behaving differently according to the people we are with or the situation we are in simply a matter of politeness and common sense?
Prompt 55
Our cherished notions of what is equal and what is fair frequently conflict. Democracy presumes that we are all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every contest would end in a tie. We talk about a level playing field, but it is difficult to make conditions equal for everyone without being unfair to some.
Adapted from Nancy Gibbs, Cool Running
Prompt 56
Many colleges now offer courses in which students study television programs, comic books, magazines, advertising, and other aspects of popular culture. Critics complain that schools should not replace serious literature and history courses with such fluff. They claim that courses in popular culture present material that is trivial and inconsequential. But the study of popular culture can be just as important, demanding, and instructive as the study of traditional subjects.
Prompt 57
Many voters think that integrity and character are the most important qualifications for political office. I disagree. Integrity—the quality of standing up for the same values in every situation—is not a good qualification for getting people to work together. Strongly held morals may make a candidate too inflexible and incapable of negotiation. And if character were really so important, candidates would be judged by their personal relationships rather than by their ability to deal with a community's or a nation's problems.
Adapted from Stanley Fish, Integrity or Craft: The Leadership Question
Prompt 58
Thanks to the Internet, people have more access to more information than at any other time in history. People can instantly find information on almost any topic in the time it takes to type a couple of words and click a mouse. But we often know so little about the source of this information, including its reliability and the qualifications of the person who wrote it. If we do not know its source, information is not much good to us.
Prompt 59
Being unwilling to change is often seen as a limitation. For example, a common accusation people often make in arguments is that the other person refuses to even consider taking new positions on issues. But being consistent is not always a bad thing. In fact, firmly supporting a position or point of view shows that one is stable and constant and does not change one's position whenever circumstances change. This consistency is far more important than a willingness to adjust one's thinking.
Prompt 60
Getting people to work well in teams is crucial to accomplishing ambitious goals. Teams work a kind of magic in developing important ideas and getting hard work done, and they give us the close human contact and shared purpose that we all need. But there's a dark side to teams too: group identity can be too powerful. The desire to be an accepted member of a group can prevent individuals from forming their own moral judgments.
Adapted from Peter S. Temes, The Power of Purpose
Prompt 61
Modern society values convenience. From disposable napkins to the personal computer, from fast-food restaurants to cell phones, it seems that nearly everything we buy or use has been designed to maximize convenience. Unfortunately, instead of saving time and energy and minimizing frustration, many of the so-called conveniences in our lives turn out to be nuisances or have a negative impact on our health, the environment, or our emotional well-being.
Prompt 62
When we go shopping, most of us do not think about the impact our spending has on other people. However, if we buy products from companies or individuals that mistreat their employees or the environment, or that otherwise do harm, we indirectly approve or even encourage such behavior. On the other hand, it may be unrealistic to assume that anything would prevent people from buying a good product at the right price.
Prompt 63
Frederick Douglass once said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle." He was right. Progress is something that must be fought for; without conflict, progress simply does not occur.
Prompt 64
There are two false assumptions about experts. One is that they see more clearly and think more intelligently than ordinary citizens. Sometimes they do, sometimes not. The other false assumption is that these experts have the same interests as ordinary citizens and hold the same values. In fact, the important decisions of society are within the capability of ordinary citizens. Not only can ordinary people make their own decisions without the help of experts, but they ought to.
Adapted from Howard Zinn, Declarations of Independence
Prompt 65
For many people, the traditional path to success involves graduating from high school and college before working their way up in a particular profession. However, many of society's most successful individuals taught themselves the skills they needed to start their own businesses, invent new technologies, or create works of art. For these individuals, the nontraditional path turned out to be the path to success.
Prompt 66
Some see printed books as dusty remnants from the preelectronic age. They point out that electronic books, or e-books, cost less to produce than printed books and that producing them has a much smaller impact on natural resources such as trees. Yet why should printed books be considered obsolete or outdated just because there is something cheaper and more modern? With books, as with many other things, just because a new version has its merits doesn't mean that the older version should be eliminated.


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The Town Board is considering a new law that would impose fines for property owners whose security systems generate frequent false alarms.
The board will hold a public hearing at 8:15 p.m. Monday in Town Hall, 21 Central Ave., on the regulations proposed by Police Chief Gerald J. Gill Jr.
These are alarm calls generated by a property's security system, not by a call to 911. The system sends a signal to the monitoring alarm company, which notifies the Lancaster Police Department.
Some alarms require the response of a volunteer fire company, or both police and firefighters, Gill said.
The police send two patrol cars to respond to each alarm, Gill said, because the assumption is the officers are responding to an intruder or a burglary in progress. But the vast majority of these calls turn out to be "avoidable" alarms.
For example, the department responded to 1,002 such alarm calls between Nov. 1, 2011, and Nov. 1, 2012, and only three even offered any indication that the alarm was warranted, Gill said. In no case was a burglar caught.
Most are likely cases of someone – a homeowner or a relative – mistakenly entering the wrong code into the alarm system at the home, Gill said.
The police chief said he wants to limit these avoidable alarms because he doesn't want anyone hurt in an accident as police rush to the scene, and he doesn't want his officers lulled into a false sense of complacency as they repeatedly respond to avoidable alarms at the same address.
Under the proposed regulations, property owners still would receive a warning for their first three false alarms that required a police response. They would be fined $50 each for the fourth and fifth false alarm, and $100 per false alarm beginning with the sixth false alarm.
Avoidable calls that prompt a fire company response would receive a warning for the first call, a $50 fine for each of the second, third, fourth and fifth calls and a $100 fine beginning with the sixth call.
Lancaster would join numerous other communities that have put similar laws in place, including Orchard Park, Amherst and Cheektowaga.
The proposed law applies to the town outside the villages of Lancaster and Depew.
The 8 p.m. Town Board meeting is preceded by a work session at 7 p.m. and a joint meeting of the Town Board and Town Planning Board, at 6:30 p.m., to review the environmental impact of an Orville's Home Appliances store planned for the corner of Transit Road and William Street.
Also this week:
•The Village Board holds its organizational meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in the Municipal Building, 5423 Broadway.
Political newcomer Russell W. Sugg joins the board after finishing first among four candidates seeking two four-year trustee seats in the March 19 election. Sugg, 49, a real-property analyst for the state, received 500 votes, while incumbent William C. Schroeder received 489 votes in winning re-election.
Trustee Edward M. Marki is off the board after earning 481 votes, and Jennie E. Smith, formerly the village's special events coordinator, finished fourth with 431 votes.
Marki requested a recanvass of the vote by the Erie County Board of Elections, but the review conducted last Tuesday didn't change the results except to add one vote to Schroeder's total.
Mayor Paul M. Maute and Trustee Dawn M. Robinson, who ran for the last two years of her appointed term, also will be sworn in Monday after winning uncontested re-election campaigns.
•The Town Planning Board meets at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Town Hall.
•The Village Board meets at 8 a.m. Saturday in the Municipal Building for a work session prior to its April 8 meeting.


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Jane M. Erickson of Bellevue, Nebraska, was elected as president-elect of Kiwanis International in June 2015 at the 100th Annual Kiwanis International Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana.
A 24-year Kiwanian, Jane has been a member of the Bellevue-Offutt club the past 18 years. Prior to that, she was a member of the Fort Dodge club in Iowa, serving as distinguished club president in 1994-95. She's been a K-Kids advisor for 16 years and was a Kiwanian of the Year in 2007-08.
A trustee of the Kiwanis International Foundation from 2002-05, she was elected its 2007-08 president. She has served as chair or member of several Kiwanis International Foundation and Kiwanis International committees, including chair of the Women's 25th Anniversary Committee; is a Key Leader facilitator and recipient of Circle K International's McKitrick award; and is a Diamond-level George F. Hixson Fellow, Tablet of Honor recipient, Founders Circle, Kiwanis International Foundation's Heritage Society member, Walter Zeller Fellow and Mother's Day Fellow.
Outside of Kiwanis, Jane is owner of The Wellness & Training Works in Bellevue. She is a member of St. Mary's Catholic parish, the Bellevue Drug and Alcohol Prevention and Education Commission and a mentor with Teammates, a school mentoring program.


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Wow, didn't even think about that. Why not? Ninty could do it, im sure, but seeing ho much trouble they are having with the current vc (or their marketing strategys) they could take a while to get out. But it should be feasable. Great idea!
Why not?
Wow, didn't even think about that. Why not? Ninty could do it, im sure, but seeing ho much trouble they are having with the current vc (or their marketing strategys) they could take a while to get out. But it should be feasable. Great idea!
Thanks ssbb_lover! Still trying to get skillz @ siggy makin
I would vote for GB and GBC but GBA games yet, aren't people still making GBA games that could hurt sales for the actual system. Once the GBA model is retired I would love to see this though.Originally Posted by Calvinhedge
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good point
Yeah Nintendo always have seemed to support playing hand-held games on their console so I'd say the chances are pretty good.
That'd be great. I'd love to play Pokemon Red and Blue on the Wii.
Well do you?
I tould be nice, at least GBC-GBA, I had a GBC myself, I didn't like the fact that it wasn't backlit, but having a color portable gaming system was amazing, for that time, now I expect it, but I always loved playing GEX enter the geko, that was such a sweet game
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i was just thinking that Nintendo should make Game Boy games on the VC. It would be really awsome!
Yeah, remember the Super Gameboy that let you play GB games on your SNES? I can see them doing a similar format for offering GB/GBC games. Though i doubt they'll start bringing over GBA games until that market is completely eclipsed by the DS.
But i wonder what the pricing scheme would be given the games currently offered... 500 points for GB/GBC? or would it be less given the black/white or limited color range of those games and smaller graphics/resolution.
Have you guys ever seen GB/GB color games on a normal TV
They dont work to well
There designed for the small screen
It be better if you can download them onto the wii then transfer them across to the DS and store them on a official gba flash cart
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Brown's importance to American music is a given, the pivotal role he played had plenty to do with both Funk and Rap music. He's defined today by tunes like the hit single "Get On Up," "I Got You," "Sex Machine," "Cold Sweat" and so on.
Early: 1956
When Brown and his band (with Bobby Byrd) started out in 1956 with "Please, Please Please," it was a very different world. The funk would come later, enhanced by pivotal members of the Famous Flames such as guitarist Jimmy Nolen (creator of the "scratch" guitar style), bass player and future funkmaster Bootsy Collins and sax man Maceo Parker.
In those early days, Brown's his music still had elements of the 1940's "jump blues" of Wynonie Harris and Roy Brown were still present. The influence of fellow Maconite Little Richard was also present in these early records like this one: And I have to say it, like a lot of the other records made in King Records' Cincinnati studios, had the one of the fattest drum sounds I ever heard.
"No, No, No, No"
"Chonnie-On-Chon" (1956) The Little Richard flavor (and the fat drums sound) is really obvious.
For those who aren't familiar, Federal was a spinoff label of King Records, the iconic Cincinnati indie label founded by Syd Nathan in 1943 to record "hillbilly" acts. After World War II King branched into blues and R&B in a big way.
What King Records owner Syd Nathan initially thought of "Please, Please Please," (depicted in the film) from interviews with JB and Bobby Byrd (and their bad selves)
The TAMI Show: 1964
Introduced by Jan & Dean, this is James and the Flames' actual presentation re-created (with a bit of license) in the movie. Songs: "Out Of Sight," "Prisoner Of Love," (actually a 1930's pop song), "Please, Please Please" and "Night Train" (an R&B oldie adapted from a Duke Ellington instrumental).
After the Revolution: 1971
TV Concert Bologna, Italy. Bootsy Collins on bass and the ubiquitous Bobby Byrd. Work your way past the verbose commentator...


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> > > that I wanted to implement was a "note thief" process that would
> > > constantly read on a target's /proc/n/note and handle the notes
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> > If proc n needs to know about this design, then could
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I suppose you could do a sort of "note environment"
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We're sure to see gameplay for Assassin's Creed Unity, Far Cry 4, The Crew and The Division, but there's no way Ubisoft will stop there. Ubisoft conference favourite Aisha Tyler will also be on hand to dish out more #girlwood jokes.
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Scoreboarding: Planning to Win! Part 2 (Includes Video)
For this Part 2 blog, I will repeat just a few things from Part 1, but will be sharing something VERY FEW companies have—large or small—regarding PRODUCTIVITY Scoreboards.
PLEASE STAY WITH ME NOW, during this fairly long blog, as I believe this information—and Part 2 video below—will prove most valuable to you!
Let me begin by asking you the same question I asked in the Part 1 blog:
Would you attend a sports event that didn't have a scoreboard to let you know at-a-glance, who was winning and who was losing?
I dare say you would NOT!
In most sports you play to WIN, and a scoreboard quickly lets you know whether you're doing that! It keeps the game interesting and everyone rooting for their team.
People want to know the score—and, simply, that's what SCOREBOARDING is all about!
It's the same way in business. With just a GLANCE, everyone should be able to know if they're winning or losing!
Scoreboards—strategically placed in various departments—are ever-present; thus removing the dilemma of out-of-site, out-of-MIND!
I've found, over years of systemization, that there are two huge areas where companies bleed money:
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Channel operators or "ops" have absolute power over their channel, including the right to decide who gets to come in, who must leave, who may talk, etc. When you first start out, it's best to chat on other people's channels and heed their rules, or else you may find yourself kicked out. If that happens and you cannot settle your differences with the ops, just go to another channel.
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quote: A device like this can be distributed everywhere, affordably! Cheap Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and you have a low cost desktop computer for the masses.
quote: Is there not a Kindle app for Metro?
quote: Self-delusion is a powerful thing.
quote: What you failed to understand, yet again, is that these tablets are running a fully fledged version of Windows; not RT.
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The San Francisco Giants are approaching the halfway point of the season in dire straits. They lost three out of four at home to the lowly Miami Marlins—the worst team in baseball—over the weekend.
The Giants are just 38-37, and they've been outscored by their opponents by 15 runs. Pablo Sandoval is due to come back off the disabled list on Monday to provide a boost to a tepid offense (h/t Alex Pavlovic, San Jose Mercury News). However, the Giants need more than Sandoval's return to get out of their current malaise.
With the trade deadline approaching, the Giants are probably going to have to turn to the farm system to make a deal to improve the big league squad.
Let's take a look at how the Giants' top 10 prospects did last week in advance of the deadline.
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He makes Harrison Ford grin. Grin!By Lindsey Weber
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Great!By Amanda Dobbins
He's the guest of honor at her magic-themed wedding after all.By Caroline Shin
And she looked stunned!By Keertana Sastry
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As recounted in her new documentary.By Kyle Buchanan
What's in the box? What's in the box?!!!By Amos Barshad
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Element: Earth
Timing: Sept 12 – 22. Mercury in Virgo
Numerology: 10 – Ultimate completion, final manifestation, result of true will, recognition, continuation, realisation, endings.
Card Counting Value: 10
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