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The LEGO games' genius is in its dual appeal. Adults love the parody of their favourite childhood movies, and kids love just playing as Batman, Indiana Jones or R2-D2. But the real magic happens when the two come together; when adults play cooperatively with kids - father and son, uncle and nephew, brothers, that sort of thing. Really, the LEGO games are the Toy Storys, Finding Nemos and Ups of the video game world, and developer Traveller's Tales is our very own Pixar.
So you can see why J.K. Rowling's phenomenally successful Harry Potter is such a perfect fit for TT's famous LEGO treatment. Young people love it because middle class kids go to boarding school to learn magic, and adults love it because, well… we're not sure why, but we know they do because we can see them reading the books on the tube and they don't look at all embarrassed. You know the type: they sigh and roll their eyes as they tell you they're taking their kids to see the new Harry Potter movie, but really they're just as excited to discover who Harry and Hermione get their magic on with as the next sugar-crazed kid.
This is what LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 hopes to emulate: adult and child bonding over LEGO blocks built to look like Harry, Hermione and Ron, in a game world built from the brick up to be broken down, then built up again. It is co-op gaming in perfect harmony; pure, unhindered, unadulterated, unified fun for all the family.
So, what you'd expect to see in a LEGO Harry Potter game based on the first four years of Harry's adventures (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), will be in the LEGO Harry Potter game based on the first four years of Harry's adventures. You'll be able to unlock over 100 characters for use in the classic floaty, two-player co-op, combat/puzzling LEGO style. You'll be able to explore iconic locations from the books and films, such as Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest, the village of Hogsmeade and the twisting and turning school of Hogwarts - the biggest single area ever created for a LEGO game and the undisputed jewel in TT's Harry Potter crown. And, of course, the famous Harry Potter story will be told across scores of LEGO-fied cutscenes, packed full of the kind of slapstick, voiceless humour TT is known for.
But - and this is a "but" long-term LEGO fans will consider BIG - what's new? What makes LEGO Harry Potter more than just LEGO Batman, or LEGO Indiana Jones, re-skinned? Appropriately, it's all to do with magic. As you play the game, each of the many characters will learn magic spells, from bog standard zaps that cause LEGO to fall apart in the way LEGO has a habit of doing, to classics like "Wingardium Leviosa", which, as any budding wizard worth his salt knows, is a levitation charm.
At the start of the game, when Harry's just a wee wizard with a weird lightning scar on his forehead, he can't cast any spells. All he can do is walk and jump about like a frog in a boarding school uniform. But bearded behemoth Hagrid - Harry's companion throughout the early part of the game - can do some magic (despite not being allowed to). So, early puzzles involve moving Harry on to a platform, switching to Hagrid, then casting Wingardium Leviosa to raise the platform, and therefore Harry, to new areas.
Spells are selected via a Mass Effect-style radial wheel. Once it's brought on screen, all you have to do is select the one you want with the thumb stick and away you go. At the beginning of the game all the spells are blacked out. Unlocking them - and filling in the spell silhouettes - as you progress through the story, is one of Harry and co's chief goals.


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OAKLAND, Calif. -- On Wedneday, Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland confirmed that Jhonny Peralta would be in the starting lineup for Game 5 of the American League Division Series. On Thursday, Leyland put Peralta in the lineup.
At shortstop.
Peralta will start at shortstop and Don Kelly in left field Thursday night when the Tigers and Oakland Athletics play a winner-takes-all Game 5 of the ALDS.
"He'll take his ground balls," Leyland said. "It should be like riding a bike, but he's not going to get to something that Jose (Iglesias) might have got to. If somebody wants to make a big deal about that, make a big deal about it. Knock on wood, I doubt -- it could -- but I doubt that'll end up being the difference in the game. It could.
"But if it does, so be it. This is on me. I thought about this lineup. I actually thought about possibly playing Jhonny at short in an earlier game. That's just the way it is. You make a decision. I thought long and hard about it."
The starting pitcher in Game 5 had something to do with the decision as well. Justin Verlander struck out 11 in Game 2. The A's made no outs on the ground in Game 2 against Verlander, though Iglesias did record an out on a pop-up to foul territory, which is expansive at the O.co Coliseum.
"(Justin) Verlander's basically a fly ball, strikeout pitcher," Leyland said. "Jhonny's played shortstop for a long time in the big leagues. He made the All-Star team twice. I don't think it's any big deal. People will make a big deal about it. It's no big deal to me at all. I was trying to get a bat in there."
Peralta hit a three-run home run in Game 4, an 8-6 win for the Tigers, and leads the Tigers in RBIs in the postseason with five. He appeared as a pinch hitter in Game 1 in Oakland and started in left field in both games played in Detroit.
Kelly, who gives the Tigers another left-handed bat in the lineup, went 2-for-3 off Sonny Gray in Game 2 of the ALDS, which meant he was responsible for half his team's hits in that game.
Both Kelly's hits were infield singles.
"One was hit hard off the pitcher," Leyland said. "He swung the bat pretty decent."
Iglesias could appear in the game as a pinch runner or as a defensive replacement for Peralta.
In the end, Leyland just felt like having Peralta start at shortstop and Kelly in left field gives the Tigers the best chance to win the game.
"All I know is we were here the same time last year," Leyland said, "and Jhonny Peralta was our shortstop."
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What are you most proud of? QUILTED LAYERS I pinned together 2 layers of light brown boucle, then free motion quilted, to produce 1 rectangle RESULTING in the nubby texture on the front and back. Then I marked 1.5 inch diagonal chalk lines and sewed a decorative diamond stitch on the lines. I was frugal cutting up the small remnant of evergreen tartan plaid--cutting 2 squares for lined pockets (front and interior), and strips to decorate the margins of the purse and the shoulder strap. In my stash--I had one leftover felted penny medallion I made from another project and used it to decorate the tartan front pocket. Pockets were lined with black Kona cotton. Black Zipper for front closure.
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He's since appeared in films like "Think Like a Man,'' "Identity Thief'' and "Ladder 49,'' and on TV shows such as "V,'' "American Horror Story'' and "Nurse Jackie.'' But he still fights for roles.
"It's a never-ending story,'' said Chestnut, who admires the talent of "Best Man'' co-star Howard.
"He's a different cat,'' Chestnut said of the Oscar-nominated actor. "We call Terrence the beautiful mind because sometimes a person can be so brilliant that it is hard for them to stay focused. ... When you say `action' he is so phenomenally present, but when you say 'cut,' he is phenomenally detached.''
As Lance, the devoted football star in "The Best Man Holiday,'' Chestnut "had to have his poker face on and cracks in the armor,'' said Lee. "He played all of that beautifully. He was extremely serious.''
Yet he couldn't evade his hunky habits. The 44-year-old, who lost 30 pounds for the part, goes shirtless in the film.
"We didn't shoot that scene until the second to last week of production!'' said Chestnut. "Maintaining a diet and exercise routine at my age is a lot. I couldn't cheat.''
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Mike Caro: Today's word is... CATCHAugust 19, 2013 - 11:12am
Often you can know with almost absolute certainty when a poker opponent is bluffing. Few players understand how that's possible.
So, they fold—failing to catch the bluff—when they could have won huge pots by calling.
Obviously, knowing the secret will add significantly to your bankroll. And today, I'm going to share it with you.
First, we need to talk about Jack. In the 1970s, he was a hostile and intimidating force — a barroom brawler that people avoided. And he brought his menacing disposition to the poker tables in Gardena, California.
Mike Caro: Today's word is... SCRATCHAugust 5, 2013 - 11:52am
It was a tiny scratch on my neighbor's new car. And that childhood memory relates to poker in an important way. I'll tell you about it in today's selfinterview.
Question 1: What color and make of car was it?
It was a black Pontiac, but what difference does it make?
Question 2: None, I guess. But you're the one who brought it up. What am I supposed to ask?
Don't look at me that way! Stop staring, really. Okay, I think I know what you want me to ask now. How did the scratch happen?
It doesn't matter.
Question 3: Well, what does it have to do with poker?
Finally! Let me answer this way...
Mike Caro: Today's word is... WHATEVERJuly 22, 2013 - 11:49am
This is another one of those days when I've instructed my interviewer to ask non-specific questions. I'm not in the mood to be pinned down.
You might argue that, since this is the latest in my series of self-interviews, I'm actually instructing myself to ask only nebulous questions. Well, you can complain and quibble all you want, but that's the way it's going to be.
Question 1: What would you like to talk about first? And please explain what it means.
Excellent question.
Let me answer it this way. The question, as I understand it, is when should you quit a poker game? There are several reasons to quit, and solid reasons to keep playing, even when many players think they should quit. Here's the deal. The trick is to find games where you can make the most money possible at reasonable risk. Notice that I said, "the most money possible." That means you shouldn't always remain in a game that's profitable. There may be more profit in switching to another game. And if the profit is too thin to justify the time you'll invest, you're probably better off not playing. So, quit.
One thing you shouldn't do is quit in order to preserve a win. That's never a good reason. Dividing your playing time into artificial days or sessions is silly. The only reality is how you do overall. It's much better to win $500 once and lose $50 three times than to win $50 three times and lose $500 once. In fact, in the first case, you net a $350 profit and in the second you suffer a $350 loss—so it's a $700 difference.
Yet, somehow, some players feel better about amassing many wins, even if small. Winning many days in a row shouldn't be your goal. Only your longterm results matter.
Specifically, you shouldn't quit a game because you might lose your profit. That profit is potentially fleeting, and you're just as likely to lose it tomorrow as today. It should be considered only a small part of the big poker game—one that lasts forever.
Mentally breaking it up into segments doesn't change this simple reality: The more hours you play under profitable circumstances, the more money you're likely to win. If conditions are favorable and you're not tired or impaired, physically or emotionally, stick with it. If you quit now, you'll only be playing fewer profitable hours—whether you end up winning or losing this time.
But, if you've been losing and opponents are inspired and playing better against you, because they perceive you as a target, that's often a time to quit. You don't have psychological control of the table.
Question 2: Thank you. Could you answer my second non-specific question now?
Mike Caro: Today's word is... GEARSJuly 8, 2013 - 11:23am
Poker is built on deception. If you want to extract the most money possible from opponents, sometimes you need to temporarily switch your strategy. This is known as shifting gears.
But wait! The problem with shifting gears is that most players do it at the wrong times or for the wrong reasons. They would be better off not shifting at all. In this self-interview, I'll show you how to shift correctly.
Question 1: So, why do you need to shift gears?
Ideally, you shouldn't shift. You should have one single most-profitable gear. But in practice, you can earn more money sometimes by shifting in order to appear less predictable. You shift because there's always a lag between when you do it and when astute opponents realize it. They'll be responding to your previous gear, and that gives you time to profit. But confusing your opponents isn't the only reason to shift. Sometimes you do it to adjust to game conditions. Remember, if your opponents play way too many hands, you can stray from the standards that are profitable on paper and play more often. That's because the average opposing hands will be weaker than usual, leaving you the opportunity to liberalize and still make more money.
So the two main reasons to shift gears are to confuse and to adapt.
Question 2: What methods of shifting do you recommend?
Mike Caro: Today's word is... POSITIONJune 24, 2013 - 11:45am
In poker, position is profit. Today's self-interview explains what you need to know to get the most from where you're seated, relative to your opponents. First question, please…
Question 1: How much does position really matter in poker?
Well, how about this: The majority of the best poker players in the world–and possibly all of them–lose money for their lifetimes to opponents on their left. There! I said it, and I'm proud.
That's a statement of fact that will probably shock most readers. Almost all the profit you'll ever make playing poker will come from players to your right–players who usually act before you do. I said usually, not always, because sometimes players to your right act after you.
That happens on the first betting round when you enter a pot from an early seat and the opponents to your right are in the blinds. However, you regain positional advantage on all subsequent betting rounds, when they'll act first. You also temporarily lose your positional advantage of acting last when you're "under the gun"–meaning first to act–in a non-blind, ante-only game. But you'll regain the advantage quickly on future deals.
Overall, you'll be acting after players to your right most of the time. And, in poker, getting to see what opponents do before you act is a huge advantage. In fact, you can't overcome the positional advantage of an opponent sitting immediately to your left in a full-handed game–unless your level of skill is monumentally better. The best you can do is play good enough that you diminish your disadvantage.
And, in fact, averaged over years of play, you'll lose money to players on your left and make money from players on your right. This effect is so powerful that if you looked down at a poker table from a weather satellite in space, you'd see a phenomenal and continuous poker storm. The money would be swirling around the table in a clockwise direction, because that's the way the action flows. Money would blow from players acting earlier to players acting later.
Of course, there would be some cross currents, too–currents that went against the direction of the storm. That's because short-term luck would cause gusty distortions in the dominant direction. But, averaged over time, the money flows clockwise.
So, your mission in poker is to win as much money as you can from players on your right and lose as little as you can to players on your left. Your goal is just that simple.
Question 2: So, how do you go about maximizing profit from players on your right and decreasing your losses to the left?
Mike Caro: Today's word is... SURVIVALJune 10, 2013 - 11:47am
To succeed at poker, you need to survive. Today's self-interview deals with bankroll survival, with tournament survival, and with the powerful truth that survival isn't a factor at all when making decisions in regular non-tournament games.
I'll explain it all. So, let's get started.
Question 1: What does survival have to do with making poker decisions?
In everyday poker games, outside the tournament arena, you should never be thinking about survival when you make decisions. If you're playing for uncomfortably high-stakes and worried about surviving a large pot, then you're competing in a game too large for your bankroll. You shouldn't be there. You see, the nature of a winning poker strategy dictates that you must invite risk, not avoid it. If your personality is such that you crave reduced risk, poker probably isn't the right game for you.
A primary goal of poker should be to put your money at risk. You should be eager to do that, as long as that risk offers a long-term advantage. You could play more safely by declining to exploit small advantages and waiting for really big edges before risking your money. But, then you'd be surrendering the sum of the profit from all those small edges. And those small edges added together often comprise the largest portion of your profit.
So, you should want to take risks. You should be looking for opportunities to put your chips in jeopardy. I know that sounds strange, but that's really what successful poker strategy is about – finding ways to increase risk at an advantage.
Question 2: Can you give an example of how poker players make a mistake when playing to survive?
Mike Caro: Today's word is... STABILIZEMay 28, 2013 - 4:39pm
Over decades, I've identified one of the main reasons that the majority of skillful poker players fail to win. It's surprising, and it isn't what you think.
It has to do with their inability to "stabilize." And in today's self-interview, I'll explain what I mean.
Question 1: What does the word "stabilize" have to do with poker?
A lot. Like I said, it describes one of the primary reasons that poker players lose.
Question 2: Before we get to that, you said it was "one of the primary reasons" for failure to win. What are some of the other reasons?
Besides an inability to stabilize, which I'll discuss shortly, presuming that you ask relevant questions, there are several reasons for failure.
Going on tilt is one. Competing against too strong a group of opponents is another. Being cheated is one, also. Not treating poker as a business, playing too large for their bankrolls, playing too creatively, entering too many pots, not choosing the right seats, and poor game selection are others.
Question 3: Wow! Interesting list. Is going on tilt really that common a reason for losing money at poker?
Mike Caro: Today's Word is... PROTECTIONMay 13, 2013 - 11:23am
Time to go public. My behind the- scenes campaign to protect Internet poker has failed.
Mike Caro: Today's word is... TIMINGApril 29, 2013 - 11:27am
Timing is crucial to maximizing poker profit – but probably not in ways that come immediately to mind. Let's discuss that in today's selfinterview.
Question 1: What does timing have to do with poker?
When players say, "Bad timing," or "Your timing was off," they're often responding politely to an opponent's failed bluff, after calling with strong hands. They either mean to make that opponent feel better or they're using a psychological ploy. It's one intended to suggest that they wouldn't have called, had their hand not been so powerful, thus inviting the foe to bluff again in the future. When you hear similar words when you're caught bluffing, you should back away from bluffing that opponent.
You also hear someone talk about their own bad timing – or yours – in the context of having a strong second-best hand or having made a flush on the river that loses. And there are other ways that the word "timing" is commonly used in poker.
However, I'm not talking about that today. Let's explore what I am talking about. Next question.
Question 2: I get it, you're talking about the flow of the game, getting in sync with the action. You need timing there, right?
Mike Caro: Today's word is... IMPORTANTApril 15, 2013 - 11:49am
In order to make quality decisions in poker and in life, you need to understand the word "important." And I'm not talking about its definition.
You already know that. Exactly what am I talking about, then? Well, that's the topic of today's selfinterview.
Question 1: So, what is it about the word "important" that you think I don't understand?
Let me answer by throwing a couple of questions right back at you. Let's say I told you to walk to the end of a hallway. Then you must turn either left and enter a room or right and exit to the patio. Waiting for you – in the room and on the patio – will be a poker hand. If you choose the higher-ranking hand, you win a billion dollars. If you choose the lower ranking one, you win nothing.
So, your questions are: If I give you 10 hours to make a decision, how much time will you spend deciding; and how important is this decision?
Question 2: Clearly you're giving me an extreme example of decision making. Let's see. Well, I'd probably take the whole 10 hours. And, obviously, the decision would be incredibly important – the most important one of my life. So, how did I do?


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Preseason Thunder testing at Daytona International Speedway ended a day early for about a third of 35 teams after a Friday crash involved 12 cars in a pack.
Marcos Ambrose spun into the field after a push from Dale Earnhardt Jr., precipitating the crash. He collected Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski, Jamie McMurray, Kasey Kahne, Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Regan Smith, Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards and Aric Almirola.
Earnhardt's car made it through unscathed, but all the other drivers except for Edwards, Biffle and Busch began packing for home because they had no backup.
Edwards has a backup and the damage on the cars of Biffle and Busch wasn't significant.
Because parts and pieces have taken longer than expected to get NASCAR's approval, many teams are behind on production of the new "Gen 6" car. Hendrick Motorsports had only four approved decklids needed for cars to test at Daytona.
Some team officials were wondering if they would be able to field a car for the Jan. 17-18 test at Charlotte Motor Speedway, but their immediate concern was time lost preparing for next month's Daytona 500.
"We definitely had a list of things we were wanting to accomplish tomorrow," Gordon said, referring to Saturday's third and final day of testing. "So that's unfortunate."
However NASCAR vice president of competition Robin Pemberton isn't concerned that some teams won't have enough cars to test at Charlotte or be ready for Speedweeks at Daytona in mid-February.
He said 100 deck lids -- the only common piece for the entire season -- already have been distributed and NASCAR will begin issuing 50 each week beginning on the 18th.
Pemberton said part of NASCAR's focus that led to the wreck was to eliminate pushing with bumpers and encourage pushing with air as was the case before the COT.
"We haven't seen anything that didn't look like it wasn't in our favor to put on the grid,'' he said.
Earnhardt said the crash was the result of less downforce and the front bumper of his Chevrolet not matching up with the back bumper of Ambrose's Ford.
Earnhardt and most of the other drivers agreed the crash marked the end of the two-car draft that NASCAR worked so hard to eliminate with the old car at this test a year ago.
"I felt like Marcus was backing up on me in [turns] 1 and 2 to get a run down the back," Earnhardt said as he explained what happened. "I was going to give him a push down the back straightaway to get the lead. Our cars didn't match up very well. I got him hooked into the fence.
"The roll bar was just at the right place where his car sat right up on top of that. I sort of had him going down the back straightaway like a forklift. It was a big mess."
Earnhardt and others said drafting will return to the way it was prior to the old car -- introduced in 2007 -- in which the bumpers matched perfectly for pushing all the way around the track.
Gordon said drivers really shouldn't consider pushing with the new package, especially in the corners.
"Unfortunately, that's kind of the last bit of momentum that you need to sometimes make a pass or make a lane move," the four-time champion said. "It's something that's going to have to be dealt with very carefully.
"Most of the time, you need to stay away from it."
Earnhardt and Edwards said it ultimately will make for better racing because it will put the control back in the hands of the drivers.
Unfortunately, many of the teams lost a much-needed day of practice discovering that.
"The sport is rewinding," Keselowski said. "That is the important thing to say. The sport advanced to the two-car tandem three or four years ago and there were certain things you could do then that you couldn't do in the past without wrecking. Now the rules package is back to where we were in the early 2000's, when the fans enjoyed the racing better."


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With the Florida Gators' 37-24 victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions in the Outback Bowl, the Urban Meyer Era in Gainesville officially came to an end on New Year's Day.
Six years, 65 wins and two national championships later, Meyer will leave the Gator Nation to spend more time with his family and to take a well-deserved break from the daily grind of coaching.
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Vikings RB Adrian Peterson is sitting out of practice to give his injured ankle time to heal.
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Adrian Peterson said his sore left ankle is worse this week after playing through pain last weekend, but the Minnesota Vikings' star running back is expecting to be ready for Sunday's game.
Peterson, who twisted the ankle on the second play against the Tennessee Titans on Oct. 7, missed Wednesday's practice and said he would miss Thursday's practice, too, while getting treatment on the ankle. He hasn't missed any game time since hurting the ankle and finished with 88 rushing yards against the Titans and 79 last week against the Redskins.
But playing through the pain has caused the joint more soreness, and Peterson is trying to take care of his ankle with two games scheduled in five days beginning with Sunday's home game against the Arizona Cardinals.
"It was a little worse waking up that Monday and just feeling the beating you put on it the previous day," Peterson said. "It wasn't already healed 100 percent going into the game, so when you've got a nagging injury like that, you've just got to stay on top of it, get the rest, continue strengthening and doing the necessary things to get you through and ready for Sunday."
Peterson, who is sixth in the league with 499 yards rushing this season on 113 carries, said the ankle has been "hurting consistently" since the injury. Taking time off midweek seemed like the best way to combat that.
"This week, coming off the previous injury it was more sore, so rest will be better than going out and beating it up with the short week coming," Peterson said. "So, just being smart and pushing through Sunday and then this next Thursday night game."
The Vikings will host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday night, which means less recovery time for Peterson, who went through intensive rehabilitation to return for the start of this season from major knee surgery. Peterson said he's working to regain strength in the ankle and to alleviate the soreness.
"Just extra rest and making sure we're taking care of the body, doing contrast, cold tub, whatever treatment that you have to do," he said. "But most importantly, mentally, you have to make sure your mind is ready for it because your body might not be ready for it fully, but mentally you can push your body to get through it."
Peterson hopes to quickly get back the explosiveness he had before the ankle injury.
"It wasn't anything that kept me from breaking loose from someone," Peterson said of last week's game. "It was more like cutting and like on the downhill, power plays really being as explosive as I wanted to be up top to the hole. I kind of figured it would be like that, but I was able to play through it."
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Most of the information on my site is either public information or personal observations, which I have consolidated in one place.
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I would appreciate any comments, questions, critiques, etc.
The web site is http://www.geocities.com/bandimal/kcle-hopkins.html Unfortunately yesterday (July 10, 2000) this site was inaccessible but it should be up again today.
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I'm torn w/how to rate this recipe. As written, it would be inedible, due to extreme saltiness. I used about 1/2 lb of shrimp, and adjusted the salt/powder to 1 TBSP each, knowing it was still...
As the other reviewers, by using teaspoons instead of tablespoons, this recipe is Awesome.
I left the salt and garlic powder out entirely. I use two tablespoons of minced garlic and have served it many times with rave reviews.
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Susan Davis reports on the transition.
President-elect Barack Obama made an unscheduled stop this evening to attend a dinner party at the Washington, D.C. area home of conservative columnist George Will.
A press pool photographer also spied fellow conservatives William Kristol of The Weekly Standard and David Brooks of the New York Times. A spokesman for Obama was also in attendance; a full guest list was not made public.
"This is for real, folks. The bloggers are going to love this one," the pool report read. Obama stayed for nearly three hours at Will's home before returning to the Hay Adams Hotel.
While some on the left may find Obama's choice of dinner companions unsettling, these conservative writers have shown warmth towards the president-elect in their columns.
"But I also have to admit that I look forward to Obama's inauguration with a surprising degree of hope and good cheer," Kristol wrote in a Dec. 28 New York Times column.
"And right now I'm dreaming of the successful presidency this country needs. I'm dreaming of an administration led by Barack Obama, but which stretches beyond the normal Democratic base. It makes time for moderate voters, suburban voters, rural voters and even people who voted for the other guy," opined Brooks in a Nov. 7 column shortly after Obama defeated Republican rival John McCain.
And tonight Will might have dusted off a Dec. 14 2006 column in which he–correctly–foretold that 2008 was Obama's time.
"Because he is young, is just two years distant from a brief career as a state legislator and has negligible national security experience, an Obama presidential candidacy could have a porcelain brittleness," Will wrote then, "But if he wants to be president — it will not be a moral failing if he decides that he does not, at least not now — this is the time for him to reach for the brass ring."


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A full beer. Used when you have finished a beer and want to replace an empty with a full beer
Hey, get rid of all these empties and bring me a fullie
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Generally a school gang where there cock smoking reaches a point of no returns. Mainly consists of wogs, bogans and retards. Fullies tend to embrace all that is stupid, smoke in between classes, and have mullets hair styles to justify their existance.
Plural is fullies.
Plural is fullies.
Matt Caraffa is the leader of the fullie gang.
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A fullie, known also as a full beard, is a majestic mane, or a glorious face beaver of a fine gentleman. Such a wondrous beard causes people to stare in amazement and gaze upon it. Some have been known to cry when seeing one.
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With fiancée Katie Holmes close to giving birth, expectant dad Tom Cruise still found time on Saturday to sit for a brief interview on German TV to promote his movie Mission: Impossible 3, set for worldwide release next month.
Speaking on the program Wetten, dass ..? (loosely translated: "Wanna Bet?"), Cruise said he arrived directly from the airport but worried he would have to head right back again "because Katie could be having our baby at any minute."
In fact, he said that two pilots were at the ready to fly him home should Holmes go into labor. "If Katie calls, I'm gone."
He also assured his interviewer that Katie was feeling good.
As for marriage, he said they would tie the knot over the summer. "First the baby, then the film," he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press. "Then, in summer, we want to get married. I won't let this woman get away."
Mostly Cruise discussed M:I3 and how arduous the stunts were, though as he was saying goodbye, his hosts managed to sneak in one last question about the impending arrival.
Have the parents-to-be picked out a name? Yes, Tom answered, though he wouldn't reveal it.
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Letting your charitable nature be your guide can help you find opportunities to make a positive impact on the lives of others. Often, we push our philanthropic impulses aside because we feel we have too much to do or too few resources to contribute. The desire to give, however, can be the springboard from which you can begin to recognize situations where you can realize your dream of being a force of change. You'll often see occasions to give others aid among the people you encounter every day and on a grander scale. Your doubts as to your ability to make a difference will vanish as you see the wonderful results your actions have wrought. When you honor your charitable impulses today, you'll see that there are many beneficial ways you can be of service to others.
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The coolest fucker ever. Often seen with bitches and a cane.
Everyone including you wishes they were Chase
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My brother is a total Chase
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A man of passion, a passion that burns like fire, fire in his ass and pants. You don't know whether to love or hate him, but he could be your father.
Chase has slept with over 25,341 women, most of them in the U.S. and Pacific Ocean.
Yes... I know Chase. I'm his bastard child. One of them, anyway.
Yes... I know Chase. I'm his bastard child. One of them, anyway.
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Someone who has an acceptionally large penis.
"Did you see that Chase!?"
"Yes, omgsh it was HUGE!"
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1. The name you use when referring to someone who can give amazing hugs and make anyone laugh.
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I met this amazing amazing guy and I swear he was a Chase.
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the guy everyone wants to see naked.
ted is so hot from the back,side,front,and exspecially.....the lower waist
ya, he is such a CHASE!
ya, he is such a CHASE!
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I wouldnt think quite in terms of a "SNMP proxy" what you should think
is a UDP proxy. i.e. something like this:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...a/8155/uproxy/, that is for
windows but you get the idea. There might also be a solution with some
fancy *nix connection tricks but I would not know what they are off the
top of my head. When you say "our" agent do you mean your company
coded it? If so why dont you have somebody redevlop it and add the
ability to listen on another port? From a coding perspective this in
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email@example.com wrote:
> Hello SNMP-newsgrouper,
> We are currently faced to the following problem. We have two (master)
> agents: a standard agent delivered with Tru64, and our own agent
> (starting at .enterprises.16455). Both agents are working on a set of
> disjunct OIDs. For some reason I won't detail here, we would need to
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> both agents at port 161 simultaneously...
> I have the following idea: we could be to have a kind of "proxy" (I
> don't know if the term is appropriate) running at port 161. The
> standard agent would run for instance at port 1161, and our agent at
> port 2161. When a request is received for .enterprises.16455, the
> would forward the request to our agent (running at port 2161), and
> forward its answer back to the issuer of the snmp command. Otherwise,
> it would forward the request to the standard agent (running at port
> 1161), and forward its answer back.
> Before I re-invent the (possibly broken) wheel, are such kind of
> proxy" already available?
> Or perhaps, there are simpler solutions to the problem?
> regards,
> Loic.


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We love this piece in the Rainbow Fish line. It sits right by our sink. It is both pretty & functional. The pump works very well in this soap dispenser. You can't go wrong with this line!
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Excellent quality. I love the way it looks in my seascape style bath. The way it is made makes the fish look like they are in water.
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STMicroelectronics has added a high-performance standalone 3-axis magnetometer to its MEMS sensor portfolio – [via]
By introducing the 2 x 2 x 1mm LIS3MDL magnetometer, ST now offers unique flexibility for designers to implement movement and position detection in space-constrained products such as smartphones and personal navigation devices. The device can also be combined with other discrete sensors from ST such as 3-axis MEMS accelerometer or 3-axis MEMS gyroscope, to build sensors with as many as 9 degrees of freedom (DOF).
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To hit someone, typically female, around the head with a Vietnamese dictionary in each hand. In the UK generally with En->Vi in one hand and Vi->En in the other.
"The barmaid at the pub was slow with my pint...so I gave her a barnes sandwich!"
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SHELBY COUNTY, Alabama --- A Shelby County corrections officer who is the subject of an ongoing investigation has resigned, the sheriff's office said today.
In a news release, the sheriff's office said that in early February, it received a complaint from an inmate alleging misconduct of a corrections officer.
It said that correctional administrators and investigators conducted an investigation and found that the correction officer had indeed violated established policies and procedures.
Twinica Newton, who had been a Shelby County corrections officer for seven years, resigned Feb. 15 after being questioned about the complaint, the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff's office said it has completed its internal investigation into the matter.
In following standard procedure, Sheriff Chris Curry has formally requested that the Alabama Bureau of Investigation review this matter for possible criminal violations, the news release states.
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Monday, August 19, 2013
It was really rough. I guess that's a typical word in my life right now - "rough." I dont really think I can find a better word to use these days. I emailed my PCM on Friday to find out about getting a referral to the mental health clinic on base to talk to a counselor, and also to get blood work done for a physical assessment - amazing we dont really get medical physicals in the military on any sort of regular basis - you'd think theyd want to know if you are medically healthy, so I figured it was a good time to just get some blood work done to make sure everything is alright. My mom had it done recently so I thought I might as well do it, too. Anyway, I have an appointment to discuss a physical in mid-September (gotta love those super fast government medical care appointments!) and was told I can just call the mental health clinic on my own and get an appointment. I didnt get around to it on Friday, though.
Instead, I spent a good hour arguing with a lawyer at the Air Force Academy, and then was in such a horrible mood, I had to physically leave my office to calm down. That helped a bit. I kind of spent the rest of the day in a daze. I know I left early and had planned to go to the gym, but I felt so lethargic that I just went home instead. I spent the afternoon/evening working on my cross-stitch project, and then J came over later in the evening.
I barely slept at all on Friday night, so when my alarm went off at 4:15am, it wasnt agonizing to really get out of bed since I was pretty much already awake. I left my house by 5am to drive up to the Aurora Reservoir and I was really looking forward to my 16 mile run. Unfortuantely, after driving an hour and 15 minutes, I arrived to find out everything was closed because there was a triathlon taking place there that weekend (both Saturday and Sunday). Major bummer. So I turned around and drove home. I got home a little after 7:30, but couldnt bring myself to run then. It was going to take about 3.5 hours to run 16 miles, and if I started then, it would be 80 degrees by the half way point, and I didnt want to run in the heat. The last few times I've run in 80 degree weather I've gotten a bit sick. Plus, I was now exhausted from like no sleep and having driven 2.5ish hours round trip. I ended up bursting into tears minutes after I got home and had a mini-breakdown because of work. I couldnt stop crying. I felt so completely out of control. J just kind of stood there shocked, I think. I pretty much blurted out all of the emotional difficulties I am having with my job, and he was supportive, but told me I need to talk to a professional to get help for everything that I am going through, which I know. He ran out to the store, bought me two different kinds of over the counter sleep aids and a sleep mask so that I would hopefully get some sleep. I took a short nap, and then met up with him at the Academy. He was giving a friend and her daughter a tour of the cadet area, so he asked if I wanted to tag along. It was a nice distraction, even though I still felt completely out of it. Afterwards, I went home and slept for about 2 hours before getting ready for our dinner plans.
Earlier in the week I had made dinner reservations at the Mona Lisa Fondue Restaurant in Manitou Springs - we really enjoy going there, but its so expensive, so we can only go if we have a voucher or coupon! We had yummy strawberry salads, a new world cheese fondue, and a traditional protein platter - beef, chicken, salmon, and shrimp (I dont eat shrimp - more for J)! We also got a milk chocolate dessert fondue and split a bottle of Pinot Noir. It was a really nice dinner. And after dinner we drove out to our old base to spend time with J's old neighbors in housing. They were having a potluck street party. We had a good time and I know J was really happy to see his friends. But we didnt get home until 11pm, so yes, I was ridiculously exhausted. The thought of waking up at 5am to run made me want to cry. So, I took the sleep aid that J bought me and didnt set my alarm. I felt like I really needed to catch up on sleep, and if I woke up early enough to run, then ok, but I wasnt forcing myself.
And I didnt wake up early enough to run. By the time we got up it was 9am. (Side note: we never sleep past 7am on a weekend, ever). Guess we both really needed sleep. So, I missed out on my run. It was in the high 80s by 10am. We lounged around the house for a while and then went to Red Robin for lunch. I went grocery shopping, picked up dog food for Buffy, and then spent the day cross-stitching. With the amount of time I put into this cross-stitching project, you'd think I'd be done by now, but this one is seriously complicated. It's 8"x10" but the entire size is completely cross-stitched. Its going to take forever! I also got some reading in last night before going to sleep. I took the sleep aid again last night so that I could ensure a good night sleep before work this week.
So now I have missed 2 weeks of running (and 2 long runs). At this point, I'm 2 weeks behind on my training plan, and while I could rework my training plan to just barely make it for the marathon, I would do so risking injury. I've trained poorly and gotten injured before, and its not worth it - especially for a first marathon. I'm a bit bummed, but I'd rather play it safe. So I am not going to run the Nike Women's Marathon this year. They dont allow you switch down to the half marathon. I'm out $200 for the race registration, but the trip itself was going to cost around $1300 between airfare and hotels (how is San Francisco more expensive than Disney World?!). I'd rather not spend that much money and not get injured. The Rock & Roll Denver Marathon & Half Marathon is the same weekend so I am thinking about registering for the half marathon in Denver instead. Also the weekend before that is the Atlantic City Half Marathon which I had wanted to run so I might register for that one instead. Either way, I am going to keep running, but I'm not going to try to increase my distances when I know I'm not prepared for it. In fact, I even registered to run a 5k while I am home in NJ next weekend!
This morning when I got to work I called the mental health clinic and after speaking with a very nice intake women, I was able to get an appointment to see someone tomorrow morning. I am fairly certain that I am experiencing vicarious trauma, which I know is a huge risk-factor for my job. I just didnt expect that I would personally experience it. I like to think that I am stronger than that. And I told J I was just completely embarrassed, but he said there was no reason to be embarrassed and I listen to horrible things everyday. I understand that. it's hard to admit that you need help sometimes... So hopefully this appointment tomorrow will help.
I am definitely feeling stressed again this week - I have a bunch of stuff to get done before I go on leave on Friday, and I want to get it all done so that hopefully no one will bother me while I am gone. I will probably not get that lucky, but I can at least try to minimize it! I finally have all of my vacation plans finalized, though. I booked a hotel for this weekend in Orlando for my friend's wedding. I decided on a different hotel than the one that has the wedding guest rate, because I wanted to stay somewhere nicer. Military discounts help with that! I also booked a hotel for my friends wedding in NJ, and got J's travel to NJ taken care of, also. And my mom booked rooms in Atlantic City for us next week for two nights. My leave schedule basically looks like this:
Friday, 23 August - fly to Orlando
Saturday, 23 August - wedding
Sunday, 24 August - fly back to Colorado
Monday, 25 August - fly to NJ
Tuesday-Thursday - Atlantic City
Friday, 30 August - Yankees baseball game in NY
Saturday, 31 August - 5k in the morning, pick up at J at airport; possibly Six Flags at night
Sunday, 1 September - wedding
Monday, 2 September - fly back to Colorado
Very excited! Now if only Friday would get here sooner!
Planning to get in a run after work today, and then visit the quilting shop again to pick up some additional fabric for some projects - I have patterns for making an ipad/kindle sleeve, and a laptop sleeve - perfect for travelling, if I can get them done before its time to leave!
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I glad to hear you are listening to your body and not pushing it to hard to cause injury etc. and super glad to hear you made arrangements to talk to someone. I don't know how in the world you do what you do. You are a super strong person! So happy to hear you and J got to spend some time together and enjoy it. sounds like you have great plans for the upcoming weeks! Hope you find time to relax and enjoy it!
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You've been busy, busy, busy. I am happy you are going to see someone to help you deal with the stress from your job. I am a firm believer in emotional therapy / social work. It's also nice that J seems to understand and be there to fully support you
With all of the stress of your job I am glad you are taking it easy on yourself with the running. Training for a marathon takes so much time and effort and I wonder if it is all worth it. I LOVE the half marathon distance and think it is such a better length of race to run. You are still getting in great exercise but can have and enjoy your life while training.
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Photographs have for long been central to discourses of human rights, humanitarian activism, pacifism, political mobilization, revolutionary struggle, social reform and warfare. Thanks to their intimate and necessary relationship to the material world -- their 'having-been-there' quality – photographs bear tremendous emotional and affective power in these discursive contexts. Disseminated as they are across an evolving range of media, and spanning geographical distances, historical periods, and cultural and linguistic divides, photographs call on us to recognize our fellow human beings in moments of crisis and duress. As they circulate in the global public sphere, such images invite patterns of identification; they mobilize shame; incite outrage, hatred, fear, disgust, compassion, etc. Offering visual knowledge of suffering and injustice (embodied in the starving child, the destitute earthquake survivor, the victim of torture) photographs expose these conditions to public scrutiny, provoking a reaction in their viewers, impelling them to action, to 'do something'. Indeed, the very fact that they continue to circulate testifies to the on-going belief in their power to communicate affect transnationally and ultimately to effect change.
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The aim of the 'Doing Photography' workshop is to bring together a range of participants from different backgrounds –photographers, archivists, picture editors, NGO activists, academics, etc. – who are committed to exploring questions not so much of whether photographs work, rather of how they do the work they do. We are looking for tightly-focussed interventions on the theme that might engage with some of the following indicative questions:
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For those who have asked, I most likely won't share my NaNo novel on my blog. At least not right now. I am one of those people who is harder on myself than anyone else so I'll want to edit my novel A LOT once November is actually over.
Yesterday was a HUGE day for me. I had the day off and I was committed to starting off this year with a bang. And did I ever. My goal for the day was 1,667 words. And by the end of yesterday I was up to 5,024 words. That's more than triple what I needed.
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The BSOG reform process
The reforms are being carried out in 2 stages.
Stage 1 reforms
The outcome of stage 1 reforms was published in July 2014; under this, changes were introduced which included BSOG being paid:
- to Transport for London (TfL) rather than bus companies operating services in London from October 2013, resulting in some £93 million being paid to to TfL each year
- to local councils (some £39.5 million) from January 2014, where bus companies operate services outside London under tender to those councils
- to local councils (some £2.9 million) from January 2013, where community transport services are operated inhouse by those local councils
Alongside this, as of October 2013, certain types of service no longer qualify for BSOG, including rail replacement services.
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Wireless earphones were once large and power consuming, but now with Bluetooth 4.0 LE, and some clever design they're finally worth owning. Beats has thrown its set out there with the Powerbeats2 Wireless. The Powerbeats2 Wireless earphones offer the... >>
Beats puts Apple deal aside for a minute, launches Solo2 headphones range
The Apple Beats acquisition may now be confirmed, but the deal still has a few hoops to jump through before it is ratified and the company is a bone fide Apple concern. Until then, it is business as usual for Beats Electronics and it has followed up the... >>