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In Oklahoma City these days, the words "luxury tax" have become a brand name. It's almost as Oklahoman as saying Boomer Sooner or Orange Power or doing something stupid. Here's how far it's gone: My mom breathlessly used "luxury tax" in sentence the other day, and used it properly.
It's gone so far that I really don't feel it necessary at all to explain what it is in this intro. Because you already know. And if you don't, you also probably don't know who James Harden is and you also are probably looking for this website, not here.
With the conversation about whether or not the Thunder can or will pay up to keep their core dominating our lives right now as we sit and wait, a little history might be relevant. As in, how much precedent is there for small market teams paying the NBA's penalty for breaking over the salary cap?
You might be surprised — quite a bit.
Via Mark Deeks of Sham Sports who did serious work researching team payroll histories, since 2002 when the luxury tax system was implemented, seven teams have gone without ever paying it. One being, you guessed it, the Thunder/Sonics. (The other six: the Wizards, the Bobcats, the Bulls, the Warriors, the Clippers and the Hornets.)
The most any team has ever paid in a season might surprise you. It was the 2002-03 Trail Blazers who had a $51,971,000 tax bill. The highest amounts teams have paid over that time is the Knicks ($195,288,145 total), the Mavericks ($150,530,433), the Blazers ($89,052,474) and the Lakers ($84,417,253).
Of note: Portland is technically considered a small market being the 22nd largest TV market in the U.S. and the 22nd largest in the NBA. Oklahoma City is the 45th largest overall, and the 28th largest in the league. Memphis and New Orleans are the two cities behind OKC, with Memphis having paid the luxury tax in 2003 and 2006.
Other small markets (I'm determining small market on teams outside the top 15 in market size) that have paid the tax: Miami (four times, $22,667,988 total), Denver (three times, $21,157,439 total), Cleveland (three times, $43,126,121 total), Orlando (three times, $38,951,508 total), Sacramento (twice, $30,518,745 total), Portland (four times, $89,052,474 total), Indiana (three times, $8,809,087 total), Utah (twice, $8,103,619 total), Milwaukee (once, $4,734,000 total), San Antonio (five times, $12,597,554 total) and Memphis (twice, $11,297,452 total).
The teams that have paid it the most are the Mavs (every year, nine times), the Lakers (seven times), the Knicks (seven times), the Celtics (six times) and wait for it, the Spurs (five times).
Again, there's a precedent for smaller market teams paying the bill. However, there's a different catch this time around that makes things different for OKC: The tax is much more punitive than its ever been. Starting in 2013-14, instead of dollar-for-dollar like it was with all of these previous payments, it's an escalating tax depending on what you're over. For the Thunder if they sign Harden, it'll likely be $1.50 for every dollar over the threshold or potentially $1.75 depending on how Harden's deal was done.
It's obvious though that the playing field has never been level in the NBA. Outside of the Bulls and Clippers, all the big markets have broken into the tax, with most of the smaller ones keeping the bill low or nonexistent. But teams in OKC's position have almost always ponied up and paid it. It's why Paul Allen broke the bank in 2003. He had a contending team and wanted to chase a title. Same goes for the Spurs, the Cavs with LeBron, the Pacers in 2006 and Sacramento in the first part of the decade with Chris Webber. I'm not sure there's an example of a team being in a title contending position that didn't in order to continue the run.
Will the Thunder fall in line with that? I think so. While the tax is harsh, you don't abandon a title chase like that. At least other teams haven't. Plus, it's not like the Thunder are committing to paying the tax for the next 20 years. It could be for only a season, maybe two. With options with Kendrick Perkins and the amnesty clause or other moves, OKC could dive right back under the tax line if necessary. And then when Durant, Westbrook, Ibaka and Harden are up again in five years, you reassess and plan for the next course.
We still have to wait and see though. This may not be decided until next summer. Which would be awesome, because that means we can continue to talk about it nonstop for another year.

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What are the Eight Bones of the Canium
Frontal, Temporal, Occipital, Ethmoid, Sphenoid, Parietal, Mandible, and Maxillae
What are the divisions of the spine
Cervical (7) Thoracic (12) Lumbar (5)
The Sacrum (fused 5) and the Coccyx (Fused 4)
On which vertebra are facets located and what is their function?
They are located on the traverse process of the Thoracic Vertebra; their function is articulation
What are the components of the Intervertebral Disc? What is it composed of?
Annulus fibrosis and Nucleus Pulposus
What makes up the thoracic cage? (Rib Cage)
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A small U shaped bone in the neck where many muscles of the tongue attach. The jointless wonder
What are two possible functions for Sinuses?
To Lighten the facial bones & they may act as resonance chambers for speech
Which bones contribute to the formation of the orbit?
Frontal Bone, Sphenoid, Lacrimal, Maxilla, Zygomatic, and Ethmoid
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Thoracic Vertebra (T1-T12)
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Cervical - When the baby begins holding its head own its own
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As I was driving to work this afternoon, I was behind a DART bus downtown — and who should I see on the poster in the back but new Dallas Theater Center artistic director Kevin Moriarty? I've been seeing so many posters of new Dallas Symphony conductor Jaap van Zweden that I was wondering when Kevin was going to get his turn.
But the slogan on the poster got to me. (I may have rearranged the words…I saw it several hours ago.) "Together We Can Be Brave" (or be courageous or take courage, don't hold me to it)
Huh? Certainly Mr. Moriarty's upcoming season is a courageous one, filled as it is with new works. But that strikes me as an odd way to lure people into the theater, to suggest that buying a ticket is liking enlisting in the army or fighting terrorism. If satire is what closes on Saturday night, a need for bravery is what warns people to stay home — or so I would have thought.
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Anyway, Hong Kong's airport (no domestic airport on that patch of turf) has been voted the world's best - by the annual Skytrax travel survey. More than 8 million passengers voted on 40 different aspects of airports to give HKIA it's seventh title as the world's best out of 190 airports around the globe. Passengers rated factors like shopping, dining, staff courtesy, baggage delivery and wait-times at security.
Interestingly, Asian airports did well in the survey:
Hong Kong, with its reputation for efficiency and comfort, beat Singapore's Changi Airport and Seoul's Incheon Airport in South Korea, which were ranked second and third respectively.
And the guy from Skytrax said basically HKIA gets a good rating because you don't have to spend too long there.
"In recent years, the whole air travel experience has become much more focused on the time customers spend in the airport environment, and Hong Kong has established itself as a clear passenger favorite in this respect," said Skytrax CEO Edward Plaisted in a statement.
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Munich in Germany was voted the top European airport, ranked fifth in the world, while Copenhagen in Denmark, Zurich, Switzerland, and Helsinki, Finland also made the top 10. Cape Town, South Africa rounded out the list at No. 10.
There were no North American airports in the top 10 list. San Francisco did best, ranked 11th, followed by Vancouver in Canada and Dallas/Forth Worth.
In the Middle East, passengers ranked the best airport for the region as Tel Aviv, followed by Bahrain.
Plaisted said waiting times at security checkpoints was a major cause of passenger discontent.
"Easy transportation, quick check-in, good shopping and dining facilities, clean terminal areas - all the positives can easily be undone when confronted by a 20 minutes security queue, especially if one also finds that only half the security facilities are operational," he said.
Plaisted said total customer satisfaction for many airports had improved in the past year but the financial crisis ahead would impact the airline industry and bring on a rash of operational difficulties, cancelled and consolidated flights and more airlines going under.
"In turn, this will put pressure on airports being able to react to and cope with the pressure points as they arise," he said.


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EASTHAMPTON -- The City Council continued a hearing on proposed changes to the city's bicycle ordinance until its Aug. 1 meeting because the chairman of the subcommittee reviewing the ordinance was absent.
City Clerk Barbara LaBombard said three spoke about the proposal but the hearing will resume with more testimony.
The committee has been looking at updating the ordinance for several months. Councilor Salem Derby, chairman of the Ordinance Subcommittee, has said that some sections haven't been updated since 1967. Some are redundant and some don't match up with state law.
Among the proposals is one that would allow cyclists to ride on sidewalks "outside business districts when necessary in the interest of safety." Those districts include Cottage Street, Park Street between Main Street and Payson Avenue, Union Street, and Main Street between Northampton and Center streets.
The council also had to delay a vote on whether to support awarding $300,000 in Community Preservation Act money to Riverside Industries to help the non-profit replace windows in the Cottage Street building it owns.
By the time the vote was to be taken, two council members were absent, LaBombard said, another said voting would be a conflict of interest and two others recused themselves leaving just four to vote. At least five councilors have to vote to support the spending. That public hearing was also continued until Aug. 1.


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A former Lycoming County commissioner who served on its board from 2000 to 2011 said the county doesn't need a new prison and can make due with what it now has or even build a regional facility that could serve multiple counties while saving costs.
Rebecca A. Burke said she believes the Lycoming County Prison at 277 W. Third St. still is a viable facility.
"I don't believe it is at the end of its useful life. I don't think it's functionally obsolete," she said of the county prison that was opened in 1986. "And I don't support building a new one."
Burke said the prison - along with the county's court system - has been doing things the right way, as evidenced by several County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania awards honoring Lycoming County for best practices in handling its prison housing needs.
"I think you have to look at what has changed. Obviously something has changed at the state level that perhaps is requiring incarceration," she said, referring to mandatory minimum sentences.
Burke warned that building a new prison with a $40 million price tag would be "penny wise and pound foolish."
She added that "$40 million goes a long way in housing inmates elsewhere when surrounding counties have built existing facilities with additional beds."
Lycoming County has budgeted $600,000 this year to house prisoners in other facilities because of a lack of space. If that number remained consistent, the county could continue to house inmates elsewhere for more than 66 years, she said.
Another option could be to build a regional facility south of the existing prison along Route 15 across from the county landfill. Including other counties that have prison housing needs in a regional approach has the potential to save money, Burke said.
"The county owns land to do that," she said.
A regional prison also could include county and district judges on site, she added.
"It certainly should not be discounted as a non-viable site," Burke said of the county-owned land on Route 15. "There's only so much the taxpayers can swallow."
Jeff C. Wheeland, present chairman of the board of commissioners, said that housing county inmates at other facilities such as the Clinton County Correctional Facility - which is experiencing lower inmate populations - still is a possibility.
"Absolutely, it's an option," he said.
But with that comes an additional set of responsibilities including costs for fuel and sheriff department personnel.
"There's other expenses in there, and of course, there's other risks when you're transporting prisoners. It's literally a chess game," Wheeland said about moving inmates between facilities to control population numbers.
"The balance between safety and the taxpayers' dollar is going to rest on the county government. We, meaning the courts and the district attorney, must continue to seek alternatives to incarceration," Wheeland said.
The commissioner said that proper parenting is the "ultimate solution."
"Government is not the alternative to a set of loving parents," he said. "It's a rare occurrence to find one of our citizens caught up in the legal system or faced with incarceration that has had a set of dedicated parents and exposure to organized religion."
Commissioner Tony Mussare said he would not vote for a new prison if the decision came up today. That's because he disagrees on why some people are being sentenced to prison.
"I believe there is going to be a trend where the courts ... need to put the bad people behind bars, not the people who cannot pay child support," Mussare said. "I think it will happen, and it will happen soon."


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Gov. Rick Perry appointed Amarillo Mayor Debra McCartt to the Texas Department of Information Resources, the governor's office announced Wednesday.
The department is charged with improving technology decisions and ensuring appropriate use of information resources, according to the City of Amarillo. The appointment is subject to senate confirmation. McCartt's term would end Feb. 1, 2011, according to the city.
McCartt is a member of the League of Women Voters, an alumna of Leadership Texas, and an alumna and current board member of Leadership Amarillo. She is a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and serves on the boards of the Harrington Regional Medical Center, the United Way and the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce.
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In 1907, a foundry in Chicago moved production to Tiffin. Today that company looks much different than it did even 25 years ago.
But that change has kept the business thriving in tough economic times.
A year ago, Andrew Felter took over as president and chief operating officer of Webster Industries, which celebrates its 135th anniversary this year.
Felter said it has been a smooth transition thanks to the foundation set by former president Fred Spurck and the company's continued effort to expand markets it serves.
"Being diversified and getting into other industries has really allowed us to move the company forward in the last few years, both in growing our sales and profitability," Felter said.
Webster specializes in producing engineering class chain for the forestry and automotive fields, and has expanded to include agriculture, aggregate, asphalt and cement, construction, recycling and wastewater treatment fields, as well. It was a shift made during the 1980s which has led Webster to be ranked as top in its field since 2006 by the Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association.
"It was a strategic move, but a move in the right direction," said Spurck, who is now chairman and CEO.
When he took over in 1983 as president, Spurck said Webster was facing growing competition as a systems manufacturer. Instead of continuing down that path, Spurck said they decided to take one of the smaller aspects of the business - engineering class chain - and expand on it to become the company's top focus.
Dean Bogner, vice president of sales and marketing, said that focus has grown and the company now produces highest quality engineering class chain available.
Felter said Webster controls the entire manufacturing process at Webster.
"We feel like by being able to control that here within these walls, we do a better job of that than our competition does," he said. "By focusing on internal quality, we've been able to remain successful, keep moving with that particular product."
Another change at Webster came in 1986, when the former owners were looking to sell the company. Spurck said a decision was made to shift ownership to employees to form an Employee Share Ownership Plan.
"It was a win-win, and made a lot of sense at the time," Spurck said of the ESOP.
Today, management says the shift has given employees greater pride than they may have had otherwise.
"When we have customers come in to visit our plant, there is a theme that every time they walk out of there they say, 'Man, your guys are really proud of what they do.' That comes from the culture," Bogner said.
Other new faces in the management team include Nick Spurck, vice president of operations; Chris English, chief financial officer; and Steve Rhode, vice president of engineering.
"It's a bit of a new generation, but we're looking forward to taking the ball and running with it," Bogner said. "It's an exciting time for us."
And for a company founded in 1876, that excitement is just as much about what is to come, as it as a reflection of their past success.
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The Clarence Town Board expects to hold a public hearing next month on proposed guidelines for new apartment developments.
The Town Board expects to schedule the hearing Feb. 27; it will officially set the date when it meets in early February.
New multiple-family housing complexes and their potential impact have become a prominent issue in the town, with a number of those projects either proposed or discussed. Prospective developers of one such project, a 106-unit town home pitch for 8080 Wehrle Drive, recently submitted a revised version of its plan.
The Planning Board has recommended the town implement a multiple-family residential housing "overlay zone." The zone would establish guidelines for building new apartment complexes, based on a property's size, access to sewers, zoning classification and the project's unit density.
The Town Board last month informally agreed to make some changes in the plan. The public hearing would represent a formal step toward acting on the proposal.
Supervisor David C. Hartzell Jr. on Wednesday said he felt the time was right to move toward voting on an overlay zone.
Developers should know one way or another what the final rules and regulations are, he said.
"It's really not fair to keep them waiting," Hartzell said. "A lot of them have a substantial investment in lawyers and planning, and it's best for us to move it along and decide one way or another."
In other news from Wednesday's Town Board meeting:
• The town issued 112 single-family home permits in 2012, the most since 2006, said Councilman Peter DiCostanzo.
• The town is preparing to issue a townwide satisfaction survey of residents. Hartzell said the survey will be published at a cost of $167 as an insert in the weekly Clarence Bee later this month, inviting residents to comment on what they like and don't like about the town, and what they would change.
Copies of the survey also will be available at Town Hall and via a link on the town's website, clarence.ny.us. The town's website version will also give respondents an option to fill out a more-extensive survey.
Hartzell said the last such survey, in 2009, had a response rate of 34 percent, and he hopes for greater participation this time. Responses will be collected in February and the results released in March.
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XDebug with PHPStorm can do step-debugging on remote sessions started from the command line on a remote machine. You just have to set up a couple of environment variables, map the remote code to the local code that PHPStorm has at its disposal, and tunnel the xdebug connection to your workstation.
Note: If you just want to debug a PHP script (or drush command) on the local machine, that's much easier. Just enter PHPStorm's Run/Debug configuration and create a new "PHP Script" configuration.
Step-debugging is one of the key skills for any developer, and it can be baffling. When you start trying to control a remote webserver with an IDE running on your local workstation though, it gets even more complicated with the network problems. This article will deal directly with Xdebug as the debugging engine on the PHP end and Jetbrains PHPStorm 7.x as the IDE on the workstation side, but these techniques will work for other IDEs like Eclipse or Komodo, and they'll work for the Zend debugging engine as well.
The first thing that you absolutely must understand is the sequence of events and how they're initiated. If you have xdebug configured in your PHP configuration (I'll show how later), then when PHP starts executing:
Summary: This post provides a way to develop/debug in a web environment where you don't have control of the calling party and your environment must be available on the global internet.
It can be difficult to debug/develop a handler for an incoming web service when you don't have control of the caller. For example, I was developing a handler for Mandrill's inbound webhooks, where Mandrill calls your site when an email comes in. So in this case
There are a couple of ways to approach this:
I've been a rabid supporter of Drupal; Of course anybody who knows me has watched my enthusiasm wear thin for various reasons, including simple burnout mostly, but also a number of frustrations with lack of progress in the community, especially with simple things like solving the support vacuum. However, I do not have an agenda against Drupal in any way, and as a professional programmer, I wouldn't be surprised if the core changes being introduced in Drupal 8 are a step in the right direction for future maintainability and sustainability. (Disclaimer: I have mostly ignored all of the changes and have only a rudimentary understanding of them. I wore myself out on Drupal 7 and swore off Drupal 8.)
Note that this documentation has been moved to http://drupal.org/node/1748596 and will be maintained there.
Since the Drupal.org testbots run on the OSUOSL Infrastructure you have to get through an authenticated proxy to access them. This article explains how to do that. The information will land on drupal.org when I can figure out a place for it.
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Thanks to all of you for your enthusiastic and thoughtful participation in the Future of Drupal Governance core conversation at Drupalcon Denver. This post will provide resources for the conversation and attempt to summarize the ideas raised and actions taken at the core conversation, as well as to provide a path forward for us.
It's time to re-evaluate the strategy and goals of the Examples Project on Drupal.org.
The project had its origin as documentation examples, but they were buried in an obscure place in the CVS tree and had no executable format. During the D7 cycle we dusted them off, added tests, and put them into a maintainable place where they'd be automatically tested and were maintainable. Loads and loads of examples were added, and lots of things were improved. Lots of people put hundreds of hours into this, and the entire community appreciates it.
However, I think it's time to re-evaluate the maintenance of this project, and to talk about how it should be structured long-term. I personally am not committed to maintaining the new 8.x examples and changes that need to be made, and other maintainers have not been able to keep up either. The result is that testing on the 8.x branch has been broken (theming and render, contextual links) for nearly six months. And all that is before the real changes in 8.x core kick in.
This is the third in a series on governance and Drupal in preparation for the Drupalcon Denver Core Conversation on The Future of Drupal Governance. The first article discussed What is Governance and the second How Do Open Source Communities Govern Themselves?. Read all, Governance project on drupal.org, Drupalcon presentation video.
Drupal's governance structure is so lightly defined that when I searched for Drupal governance the primary article I found was this one on drupalmyths.com denying that Drupal's governance is poorly defined. Certainly nothing showed up on drupal.org. Of course, these things can use words other than the formal word "governance", but there really isn't much written about this topic.
This is the second in a series on governance and Drupal in preparation for the Drupalcon Denver Core Conversation on The Future of Drupal Governance. The initial article started off with What is Governance; Read all, Governance project on drupal.org, Drupalcon presentation video.
Just over a year ago I wrote a blog post explaining how to use git clone --reference to speed up git clones. That technique then went on to become a drush option (if $options['cache'] = TRUE and you're using git for drush downloads)
Well, I repent. git clone --reference should not be used IMO unless you really really understand three things:
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Unless you actually know #2 and #3, you can be really hurt. I know, I've done it to myself several times now.
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Am curious as to what they "prescribed"? At least there is some recognition that food IS INDEED MEDICINE! lol that surely is a step (albeit small one) in the right direction no?? :-)
So, in the UK we have a new TV series thats started a few weeks ago, called 'The Food Hospital'. It's showing on Channel 4, one of our main terrestrial channels. On the show a team of medics + dietician work with people with chronic and enduring health conditions where conventional medicine has failed them.
Me, being interested in this kind of stuff thought I'd take a peek. I've had to watch from behind my hands, or even sofa (almost as scary as Dr. Who!!!) as the prescribing of 'healthy whole grains' to people with PCOS and alopecia, psoriasis etc. There has been some pretty scary (to me anyway) advice. Despite that - people have made good recoveries. It's interesting watching. I'd love to know what other people think. If you watch then let me know.
They are also running a number of 'food as medicine trials' and there are a few online surveys. I know some of you guys might be interested in contributing, so here's the link to the website:
Food Hospital - Channel 4
You need to register to take part in the trials, but not the surveys. I don't think you have to be a UK resident to register (I did it so long ago, I've forgotten).
Do let me know what you think of the messages being given in such main stream media. I can't decide whether there is 'enough' good stuff, or if it's just Conventional Wisdom on repeat...
Tonight's episode is on Eczema, depression, gout and obesity. I have personal experience of all of those and know that a particular way of eating has helped!! I wonder if it will be the way of eating prescribed to tonight's patients....
I'm off to watch.
Will report back!
Am curious as to what they "prescribed"? At least there is some recognition that food IS INDEED MEDICINE! lol that surely is a step (albeit small one) in the right direction no?? :-)
They've been 'prescribing' food for decades now, to disastrous effect. If only they were capable of a child's level of introspection, they might see that doing the same thing and expecting different results is insanity.
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
Ah, my parents have been watching this and mentioned the PCOS episode when I spoke to them at the weekend.
They've been primal since the start of the year, but my dad's really stumped on breakfasts. He just can't get past the "if I can't pour milk on it, it's not brekkie", so mum's been making him a 'cereal' out of roasted nuts and seeds, but he's getting bored of it now and probably shouldn't be eating as many nuts as he does anyway.
After watching this show and the results the 'patients' get (maybe they only show the successful ones...) he's talking about going back to porridge or other cereals for breakfast and carrying on eating primally for the rest of the day. My concern with this is that it'll end up sucking him back into eating all the crap that he was before and that he'll end up back on the statins again.
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^ I think I will make that my new signature.
As for extreme YuNa fans, or extreme fans of any other skater, I don't like to blame the skater for the excesses of fans. I look at YuNa's accomplishments, and that's what matters to me. (It might help that I don't read either Korean or Japanese.) Why should we let other fans spoil our fun? They're not on TV, and they're not in the room with us. Go, YuNa!
Topic 1: I'm afraid that I have already chosen the premier "Old Guy tag line" for my Custom Title, but you are all welcome to contend for the silver medal.
Topic 2: I don't get the whole "uber-fan" thing. I wandered into one of the Fan Fest forum threads on a whim, and it was awful... the posts alternated between pre-teen fantasy musing about someone's beautiful eyes and venomous lashings-out at any one who dared to speculate that the favorite wasn't the most awesome thing ever!
I don't know if that's the exclusive home for desperate housewives and 13 year old girls, but I certainly will not take any risks by going back to find out.
To be specific(since you don't seem to understand why I have the grudge-if I really have one- on them), all I wanted there was only a freedom to post a thread (or at least post it on my own blog) saying 'I love jeffrey buttle so I went to see Super Match Ice show(in which Yuna didn't participate)' without being cyber attacked.
Do you really think that this was too much of me to ask for Korean fan community?
No matter why, I think I shouldn't have brought it up here. So I promise that I won't do it again
I find them valuable, if sometimes OTT...
It's fun to uber a skater or team occasionally. I am an old-time Torvill & Dean and Pakhomova & Gorshkov uber myself And I fear I am developing a strong tendency to be a real Jason Brown uber-his stuff is just such fun. Not to mention Zhiganshina & Gaszi And our two stunning North American dance teams, Davis & White and Virtue & Moir!
It is not necessary for me for my favorites to win; I just want to see them perform their programs to the best of their abilities, andI I like to see them happy with their scores. I like to see them grow & develop year over year.
Is it the judges's responsibility to make figure skating popular?
It's the judges' and technical panel's responsibility to pick the correct winnter, given the rules.
It's the ISU's and the separate federations' responsibility to make the sport popular. One way to do that is to change the rules around to make the sport more popular.
Nascar did this. When ratings sagged of late, after they introduced the so-called Car Of Tomorrow (COT), they listened to the fans, and found that fans liked rooting for teams that used their favorite car manufacturer's car. The 2012 season rules had cars that looked alike, except for the paint schemes & the numbers. The new cars this year are now more individual by associated manufacturer. We'll see whether this strategy is successful, but at least there was an attempt to make fans happy.
Nascar also suffered with a 5 time champion who was not a particularly engaging personality (Jimmie Johnson). Unlike Patrick, Jimmy does not shoot his mouth off, but he is not an interesting interview. There is nothing to be done about this in racing. The guy that wins, wins. No one asks him, "Do you think your win was warranted?" The ISU or Canadian federation sets up the press conferences. They could publish guidelines for reporters if they don't want questions that challenge the judging system.
So I'm going to turn this around: What should skating do to make you more happy? Tell them! The ISU, USFS (at icenetwork), and I believe also Skate Canada, have forums attached to their websites.
A Nascar driver (Denny Hamlin) was fined $25,000 for saying that he didn't like the new Sprint Cup car.
Skaters, if you don't like th judging system, you better keep quiet.
I worry about Korea's immediate future as a skating power, but I think the lag will be temporary. As the generation directly inspired by YuNa grows older, these skaters will begin to have an impact on international competitions.
OTOH, IIRC, Korea has officially passed the 50 million mark, maybe in the last year.
No one is saying that Korea by itself is going to save skating, either economically or in terms of talent. But it can make a meaningful contribution (and there is a discussion of Yuna's ongoing influence on skaters worldwide in another thread). Medium-sized but substantial countries like Korea add up. Five or six such nations, for a example, let's say a group that includes France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Korea and Spain, would be represent a viewing market and pool of advertising dollars comparable to the US.
The World According To Jenaj is the old and conventional dinosaur model relevant to a time when there were only 3 VHF channels on TV, and you walked to your set to change them by physically turning the dial on your Trinitron. Even within the US, with the explosion in the number of channels and choices, success is about successfully targeting more finely defined segments ("niches", if you will) of viewers, across time slots and regional viewerships, among other things, and to a great extent this is true even for the three traditional broadcasters.
On a similar principle, while it would certainly be a huge bonus for skating to capture a larger slice of the US market, I would think that it is actually more critical for its survival that it be able to string together shares from a larger group of substantial markets at least the minimum numbers required for its economic viability. In fact, I would argue that this model is probably not only more realistic, but more robust (diversification of exposure and avoidance of customer concentration are cardinal rules of business strategy, but I'll let jenaj explain why, given the breathtaking insight and expertise she has already displayed on the subject).
I can only write anecdotally on this, but a lot of people who I know who follow figure skating in Toronto and who are Chan fans were really put off and embarrassed by the results.
The CBC and the newspapers went out of their way to give coverage and, when everyone is watching, the judges "cack". When that happens repeatedly, the popularity gets set back, if not a little, by a lot. Do it twice (it happened in Nice as well), and what should have been a wake-up call has turned into a pattern and an entrenched position.
In respect of Mr. Chan's inability to ever say the right thing and his propensity for saying the wrong thing in interviews, that is probably a minor factor. The reason why he is not as popular as Kurt Browning was (or still is) is a personal issue, and although it does not help the sport, it is not the causal factor that is totally killing the sport in Canada (IMO). There was a comment earlier, correct in the context that it was made, about the public wanting reality tv with "crap and controversy". Just borrowing the language, and putting it into another unrelated context, what happened this year certainly might qualify in both the category of "crap" and "controversy". We can't and don't want that in skating, and when we get it (and I think we got it), the popularity of the sport will and should plummet. But the critical factor isn't the symptom, it is the cause. The cause is the people who run it and put skates like the ones Chan does (at Worlds) as the ones that they award the highest scores to. And if those are their values, they are out of sync with what is either right or appropriate for the sport, and everyone, except for them and a few of the winning skater's willfully blind fans, knows it.
CBC and sponsors are only going to stick with the sport (and they are trying so hard) in the long run if there is a chance that ISU makes the scoring so that people who watch it, seriously and casually, consider it ethical. Right now, that is not the case and, althought people are willing to give second chances, ISU is already at the stage where it has two strikes against it. Three strikes and perhaps it belongs next to dressage on the popularity grid.
We have upcoming some of the best skaters ever. I am not totally sure that ISU corrects the scoring situation that the sport will make a recovery, but I think that everyone should be pretty sure that it has no chance if ISU does not correct the scoring situation.
There is and always has been a belief that skating skills should be rewarded, and that falls should be penalized. I think everyone agrees with that. The question is how to balance them out, along with all the other positive and negative factors in the performances.
The current scoring system is designed to build in specific rewards for each different kind of skill and specific penalties for errors.
The penalty that's built in for falling is the same at all levels of competition. I think when the fall deduction was introduced ca. 2005, the designers were thinking that they had to guarantee some additional penalty for falls beyond the negative GOE for falls on elements. And they chose to use 1.0 per fall, which was equivalent to what was then the value of one more minus on a triple jump.
That choice meant that each fall was very costly at lower-scoring levels of competition, and not very costly at higher scoring levels.
When you get a skater who deservedly racks up points for difficult elements, most of them well performed, and for program components, than subtracting 1.0 per fall isn't going to make much difference in their placements.
At most levels of competition, if a skater is far enough ahead on other skills that points lost to a few mistakes plus 1.0 off for each fall don't drop them behind a lower-scoring skater who didn't fall, it's because the skater who stayed ahead was that much better.
That can also be true at the highest, most high-profile events as well. But in choosing top-level champions, as opposed to choosing who's good enough to move on from a qualifying competition, it's more emotionally satisfying to see cleaner performances win.
But even if the judges lower scores PCS for the better skater with falls from what they would have given for a clean program, and even if they raise PCS for a less superior skater with a cleaner performance further than they would have if everybody had skated clean, they can't force the cleaner skater to win. They don't have control over all the pieces in the system -- e.g., base values of the technical content completed, second-half bonuses, lead carried over from the short program -- when assigning GOEs and PCS in the long program. If they mark each element and each component the way they see it, they may still be surprised and perhaps disappointed in the final result produced.
This is a bigger problem at the highest levels because 1) when the PCS values are high at the top there's more room for variation between the best, good, average, and weak skaters within that event, and 2) high-value elements rack up a lot of points when completed well, and the very highest-value elements (difficult triples and quads) rack up points even when they're failed.
When that happens a couple of 1.0 deductions for falls make a negligible dent in the lead that the stronger skater can build up with all the other elements and components -- and short program.
At lower levels, on the other hand, where the elements are worth less and the PCS range is narrower, even one fall can be a killer because the next-best skater is more likely to be closer behind.
So if we want falls to be similarly costly at the highest levels, where the most people are watching and the most people care strongly, then the system needs to be redesigned to make the penalties larger at levels where the overall scores are highest.
I don't know whether the ISU technical committees or whoever else is responsible for designing the system is already working on this problem. They probably do realize there is a problem but they may not have yet conceptualized a good way to solve it. The solution they tried to add ca. 2005 by formalizing a fall deduction in place of the original recommendation to judges to lower the Performance/Execution score was some improvement, but they didn't foresee at that time some of the ways in which it has more recently proven to be inadequate.
I propose making the fall deduction a percentage of the total segment score. But even if I had the power to wish a new rule into effect immediately, I would want to run simulations and shadow scoring of many competitions at different levels to figure out the best percentages to use.
Meanwhile, all the judges can do is call each element and each component as they see it. Unless you want them to ignore all the other criteria and manipulate numbers to make sure, as much as they can, that the cleanest programs will win.


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Rep. John Conyers Apologizes for Louis Farrakhan's Antisemitic Remarks
Last Friday night, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, in a speech he gave at a Detroit Baptist church, attacked what he called "Satanic Jews" and the "Synagogue of Satan," claiming Jewish people control the news media, the Detroit Free Press reported. Farrakhan also said President Barack Obama "surrounded himself with Satan … members of the Jewish community."
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Detroit Democrat, who was sitting in the audience, on Thursday apologized for Farrakhan's antisemitic comments.
Conyers issued a strong statement distancing himself from those vile remarks, which had been blasted earlier this week by the ADL.
"Farrakhan made unacceptable racist, antisemitic and homophobic statements, which I condemn in the strongest possible terms," Conyers said. "It was my expectation that Minister Farrakhan's speech would focus on the many challenges facing the city of Detroit. In previous days, he had discussed efforts to revitalize our city by purchasing property and investing in blighted neighborhoods. Regrettably, he used this opportunity to promote views that have no place in civilized discourse."
I must say I share Rep. Conyers' frustration at the fact that the same man who is capable of giving such inspiring speeches like the one he gave before Detroit's elected officials—it was a thrilling discussion of community empowerment, it was realistic and optimistic, and very much respectful of members of other faiths—that the same man would then turn around and sound, once again, like a racist thug, only a few hours later.
Frankly, Rep. Conyers, 84, who's been serving in Congress seemingly since it opened (actually, only since 1965—this is his 25th term) didn't need more excitement in his life. A series of scandals and family problems have taken their toll on the second-longest-serving member of the House of Representatives. His wife, Monica, former president of the Detroit City Council, is serving a 37-month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to bribery conspiracy charges.
Some suggested that Conyers connected to his wife's scandal, and it—and his newly drawn (by the Republican governor) district—made his most recent reelection bid very difficult, especially for a politician so used to running unopposed.
Conyers is considered an anti-Israel voice in Congress. He has been against Iran sanctions and against to U.S. funding of the "Iron Dome" anti-missile system. But I don't think he's so much an antisemite as he is a typical left wing Democrat who prefers to see the government concentrate on fixing things at home.
Conservative websites on Wednesday gave it good to Conyers for even attending Farrakhan's speech. Drudge attacked him, and the ADA urged Conyers and other Detroit leaders to condemn Farrakhan's remarks at the church ceremony, which is led by the head of the Detroit Branch NAACP, Rev. Wendell Anthony.
Conyers said in his statement: "The fact that Minister Farrakhan has engaged in important charitable work aimed at expanding economic opportunities for under-served communities does not excuse these statements. I sincerely offer my apologies to my constituents and others who also may have been offended by the minister's words."Yori Yanover
About the Author: Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.
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EDL founder Tommy Robinson jailed
The 31-year-old admitted two counts of mortgage fraud
The 31-year-old admitted two counts of mortgage fraud
Latest estimates show house prices up 1.6% over the last three months
Policy-makers had already pledged to keep rates at their record low until the unemployment rate falls to 7 per cent
Surveyors expect the number of transactions and house prices to continue rising
George Osborne's £12bn scheme to help first-time buyers could backfire by creating a housing bubble and distorting the economic recovery, MPs warned the Chancellor last night.
Grown up children are increasingly less likely to fly the nest says new research
Rise represents the seventh consecutive monthly increase
If your partner takes more than their share of the cash there is little you can do about it
Dirty tricks are being employed to maximise sale commissions
Tiny Elmbridge shows growing disparity between London and rest of the country
Investigation finds lenders ignore guidelines and don't publish true APRs for some customers
We're being sucked into a world of superficially friendly exchanges
Godalming sparked interest in sedate south-west Surrey in 1881 when its townsfolk became the first in the world to benefit from a public supply of electricity.
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The bill for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) at taxpayer-backed Lloyds Banking Group smashed through the £5 billion barrier today as claims against the bank continue to pile up.
House prices continued to edge lower last month and the market is expected to remain subdued but stable into 2013, the Halifax said today.
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Lift something heavy once in a while.
Move slowly if you can by walking or biking.
You may be able to do sprints in a bike if that does not hurt your foot.
Lift something heavy once in a while.
Move slowly if you can by walking or biking.
You may be able to do sprints in a bike if that does not hurt your foot.
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If I didn't do yoga regularly I couldn't lift heavy things due to shoulder issues. Yoga keeps my shoulder strong!
If you are able to definitely add SOME FORM of 'sprinting' - i.e. it does not have to be "Run like a maniac as fast as you can for X seconds" - jumping jacks, mountain climbers, biking, spinning, whatever works - just push it hard and fast for some nice bursts.
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I adore yoga (as is obvious from my avatar pose )! It makes me feel amazing and does awesome things for my body. I definitely thrive on lifting and sprinting too, but I could never give up my yoga. I think it fits in beautifully with a Primal lifestyle (body weight exercise and moving slowly).
You could try sprints on a stationary bike. I do that often during the winter.
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I heart yoga, and found bikram hot yoga about a year ago. Love it. Extremely challenging, but you go through 26 poses slowly, and two amazing breathing exercises. I swore up and down I'd NEVER do hot yoga again after one bad experience (years ago), but bikram turned me right around.
I really want to go back, but since my car accident, I'm afraid my back will freak out with inflammation, what with holding poses, and a hot room and all :-\
Yoga is amazing for finding your stillness. All you can do it shut the f*ck up, hold that pose, and stare at yourself intensely in the mirror. You lose yourself. The stillness of Being you feel after is indescribable.
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I enjoy yoga. I only do a couple short sessions each week right now. In my dream world I would have a private place in a tropical locale to practice yoga in peace with no interruptions from the kiddos or the husband. Or my cats who seem to love joining in. I think yoga is totally Primal, especially if it is something you love. It is great for strength and for stress-reduction.
You got some great recommendations for sprints; I would add rowing as a way to keep off your foot. Plus rowing works nearly every muscle in your body. I love my indoor rower, perhaps a bit too much. Heck, even my kids love to use it. Buying it was one of the best investments I've ever made for myself.
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Motherhood: When changing from pj pants to yoga pants qualifies as 'getting dressed'.
Used to LOVE Yoga back when I could do it. No more...
If II ever can again I definitely WILL. Yoga is good stuff... I always did basic beginners yoga, not sure how "fit" it made me but it was good for the soul.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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I think Yoga qualifies as "lift heavy things" as much or more than just about anything. Even if you're a female, 90 lbs soaking wet, you're lifting heavy when you do many of the advanced poses. I think anyone who says Yoga is just relaxation, not a work out, has never done it and would have their ass kicked by anything beyond the most basic class.
One of my childhood friends is a yoga instructor, and there's NO female here who wouldn't kill for her body. Well, except maybe those that like bodybuilding. But if long and lean with an incredible core is what you're after, Yoga 5 days a week will do it for you.
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Grand Slam Tennis 2 will feature all four Grand Slam championships and is the only game to feature Wimbledon. In addition, the game features a roster of elite past and present players.
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UK Video Game Chart: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning dethrones Final Fantasy XIII-2
EA and 39 Studios' RPG the first new IP RPG to take the top spot since Pokemon in 2000.
Heads-up: New games out this week (February 10)
A look ahead to this week's new releases, which include Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning and The Darkness 2.
Asura's Wrath and EA Sports Tennis 2 demos out now
Two new demos have arrived on Xbox LIVE Marketplace today, and they couldn't be more different.
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SEGA and 2K might have some competition when this Move-enabled sim launches next year.
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Letters to the editor: Waterford roundabout not welcome
I wonder about the thought that went into the roundabout currently under construction in Waterford. I wonder why a $2 million project is needed when a traffic light similar to that at Old French and Route 505 seems to be an acceptable solution.
I understand traffic flow seems to be a concern, but the traffic signal in Waterford itself clogs up traffic horribly when drivers wish to make left turns. I simply can't understand the justification with current deficit issues.
Independent research revealed $80,000 to $300,000 is the initial cost of traffic light installation (Arizona Department of Transportation; city of Woodbury, Minn., websites). Of course, there are maintenance and electric costs -- $1,400 per year, according to the Arizona DOT website. How long until that hits an additional million dollars, 700 years?
Additionally, did anyone think about winter? As we all know, this area tends to get a lot of snow in the winter. Most people can tell you that plowing in the rural parts of the county does not seem to be a top priority for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
I can already see in my mind the large hazardous humps of packed-down ice and snow in the road and large visibility-obstructing piles at the edges of the roundabout. It seems government just loves to spend without thinking a problem through completely and simply.
Richard GalbraithWaterford
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dinner opposed
As a free American and fully supporting the capitalistic principles on which our country was founded, I disapprove of the center that will be used to hold the Republican Party spring dinner.
Are you people Republicans or are you socialists? By having the dinner at the Sheraton Erie Bayfront Hotel, you are saying that you support Erie County Council agreeing that the Erie County Convention Center Authority should not pay taxes for a new hotel.
I know that some understand that, but the rest who have never run a successful business or ever had to make sure you got a paycheck other than by tax revenue or having your friends and children supported by tax dollars don't really have a clue as to why an independent business owner should not be paid a few dollars more.
The people who picked this place need to resign or apologize to our independent business owners. Shame on you, Erie County Republican Party Chairman Verel Salmon, for letting this happen.
Know that I will be supporting my fellow business associates by not attending this year's spring dinner and I suggest all business owners not attend if you feel the same way. I am surprised that U.S. Reps. Mike Kelly and Glenn Thompson approve. But I understand why they said nothing. It's voting season again.
Dennis D. Rieck
Millcreek Township
List longer for
war supporters
Letter writer Milo Maxon mesmerized me with his truncated list of Iraq War hawks ("Anti-Obama fervor undermines U.S.," Erie Times-News, April 21).
Why cut the list short? There is a long list of not only most European allies, but also our own homegrown Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levin and many more Democratic all-stars all documented as screeching for action against Saddam Hussein.
Google it and read all their individual comments. Come on, spread the kudos around. Without their support, that madman might still be on the planet.
As far as anti-Obama fervor goes, possibly lying, failure to uphold the Constitution and failing to uphold the laws of our land could all be contributing factors.
Daniel J. DeCoursey
Millcreek Township
Parent praises
Montessori program
I am a 1995 graduate of McDowell High School and now have a daughter in first grade in the Montessori program in the Millcreek Township School District. I was also planning to enroll my son in the Montessori class next school year.
I chose Montessori for my daughter in 2013 to challenge her, as she was reading at age 4 at South Hills preschool. The regular classrooms in Millcreek do a fine job with teaching children, but are they fostering a love for learning?
Montessori embraces teamwork, self-initiation, leadership and creativity, which are frankly lacking in the oversized, crowded, regular education classrooms in Millcreek. I could have chosen the charter school for my children, but value the culture in Millcreek and the importance of the transition in fourth grade to a traditional classroom before the challenging adolescent grades of when the charter schools currently transition.
Forming a peer group and maintaining peer support throughout a child's academic journey is an important psychosocial aspect of development.
The parents of these Millcreek Montessori children are educated and influential people who have given the Millcreek School Board a multitude of options to consider aside from closing an exceptional education program in a now questionable school district. The success and potential growth of the Millcreek Montessori program is far greater than the financial hardship the district is faced with currently.
Look at Montessori Grandview and Belle Valley's high achievement test scores and collective academic strengths, and strongly reconsider removing these programs.
These students are our future for thinking outside the box, as it is time for the Millcreek district to do the same. Let's not make cutting or closing Millcreek Montessori programs the solution to the problem. Let's keep putting quality education first. Let's put the kids first.
J. HawkinsMillcreek Township
Primary options
are too few
A recent online poll question on GoErie.com was incomplete. The poll question asked: Will you vote in the primary May 20?
The options were: I'm registered but I'm not sure; no; and yes.
But you are ignoring the fact that some of us registered voters are not permitted to vote in the primary because we aren't members of the Republican or Democratic parties. That is, you cannot vote unless you ignore your principles and join one of the two wings of the political powers in control of the election process.
If you happen to believe in the principles of any of the third-party political groups, your answer could be either.
No. I would love to be able to vote in the primary, but the Democrats and Republicans have made the laws such that I cannot legally participate.
Or your answer could be: My values and opinions are intentionally disallowed by the present political ruling class.
Joe PyrdekConneaut Lake


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CD Projekt Red announced today that their hotly anticipated RPG The Witcher 3 has been delayed to February 2015. The game was originally scheduled to release later in 2014.
The open letter from the company regarding this delay is after the break.
Release Date of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – An Open Letter Ever since we started working on the third installment in The Witcher franchise, it has been our aim to produce a title that would take our 11 years of experience in creating RPGS and distill them into a quintessence, into a game that would effectively crown those years. At the same time, we have wanted The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to expand creative boundaries, set new benchmarks, develop the genre as a whole. Ultimately, you, the players, must get an unforgettable adventure to experience in a vast, open world – and that's most important. We've created a story that flows naturally, cinematically, rendered it in amazing sound and visuals, while preserving full freedom of choice – all for you. We knew this to be an ambitious plan, but believed we could achieve it by bringing together our team with its creative energies and current gaming platforms with their technical capabilities. A project this vast and complex would inevitably require special care in its final stages, manual fine-tuning of many details, thorough testing time and again.
We recently reexamined what we had achieved thus far, and faced a choice about the game's final release date. The decision we made was difficult, thoroughly considered, and ultimately clear and obvious. We could have released the game towards the end of this year as we had initially planned. Yet we concluded that a few additional months will let us achieve the quality that will satisfy us, the quality gamers expect from us. Consequently, we have set the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for February 2015.
Dear gamers - we know many of you would have liked to play The Witcher 3 sooner, as soon as possible, even. We're sorry to make you wait longer than you, or we, initially assumed you would. At the same time, we believe the game will prove to be worth the wait and meet the expectations you have of us. We believe The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be an exceptional RPG, one of the best, providing many hours of wonderful entertainment.
Dear shareholders – we are aware of the responsibility that rests with us and thank you for the trust you have granted us thus far. We firmly believe that quality – more than any other factor – determines a game's success, and that the decision we have made is thus equally valid in business terms.
The Board of CD PROJEKT S.A.
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I completely forgot about GTA V. It might not launch to PC and if it does (which will be somewhere at the end of the year) they will make a decent port this time.
| Cheddar: Why do you think it would be a decent port? Nothing …
im_stardust: They have large fan base on PC. I don't think they th…
Cheddar: But they HAVE neglected it, man. They've been doing …
im_stardust: The Red Dead franchise never was intended for PC and …
Cheddar: I really don't think Rockstar intrinsically identifie…
im_stardust: I don't know what's the actual thinking, behind choos…
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| Cheddar: lol!
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Alternatively: They certainly see the issue, or they would not have moved the release date... can anyone imagine that it's not warranted?
| Rafal: The game is Polish enough imo.
Marku5K: HAH!


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Teens, young adults confronted by more TV ads for e-cigarettes
LOS ANGELES -- Commercials for electronic cigarettes have become so ubiquitous that millions of American teens have seen them since 2012, a new study says.
About 4 out of 5 of the TV ads seen by these young viewers were for Blu eCigs, a brand that was purchased by tobacco giant Lorillard Inc. in April 2012. Though the ads are ostensibly aimed at adults, they employ language that makes e-cigarettes seem desirable to teens, researchers write in a study published Monday by the journal Pediatrics.
Electronic cigarettes are battery-powered devices that allow users to inhale nicotine vapor. The devices have generated billions of dollars in sales but remain controversial. Advocates for e-cigarettes like that the vapor contains fewer toxins than the smoke from traditional cigarettes, and some studies suggest they can help smokers kick the habit. But public health advocates contend that e-cigarettes get young people hooked on nicotine, increasing the risk that they will become regular smokers. The devices also undermine efforts to make smoking seem taboo and may make it harder for smokers to quit by keeping them hooked on nicotine, they say.
Though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced its intention to prohibit sales of e-cigarettes to minors, the agency has not taken steps to limit advertising aimed at kids. The authors of the new report wanted to quantify how often teens and young adults saw e-cigarette ads on TV.
To do so, they turned to data from Nielsen, the company that keeps track of what Americans are watching. The data reported in the study was in the form of "target rating points," or TRPs, a measurement that combines the proportion of viewers exposed to an ad and the number of times it may be seen.
The researchers found that nationally televised e-cigarette commercials were not particularly common through the first half of 2012. But in the second half of 2012 and the first nine months of 2013 -- the period after Lorillard entered the industry -- such advertising increased dramatically.
Between 2011 and 2013, the TRPs for viewers between the ages of 12 and 17 rose by 256 percent, according to the study.
In the year that ended Sept. 30, 2013, those TRPs were high enough that 80 percent of teens could have seen 13 e-cigarette commercials, on average. Those TRPs also could work out to half of all teens viewing an average of 21 e-cigarette ads over the course of a year, or 10 percent of viewers watching an average of 105 commercials over a year.
The researchers also calculated the exposure for young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 and found that it increased by 321 percent between 2011 and 2013. The TRPs for this group were high enough to allow half of these young adults to see 35 e-cigarette commercials, on average, over the course of a year.
About 75 percent of these commercials aired on cable TV channels, including AMC (which aired 8 percent of them), Country Music Television (6.1 percent), Comedy Central (5.9 percent), WGN America (5.4 percent) TV Land and VH1 (both 5.3 percent), the study authors found. The commercials also ran during network shows that are popular among teens, including "The Bachelor," "Big Brother" and "Survivor," according to the study.
Among the nationally televised ads seen by teens, 82 percent were for Blu eCigs, the data show. For young adult viewers, ads for Blu eCigs accounted for 80 percent of the total.
The most widely aired Blu eCig commercials featured actor Stephen Dorff. In one, he is seen smoking in restaurants, a taxi, a subway, at a rock concert, on a hike and even while riding his bike.


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Just because cell-phone photos are free doesn't mean they can't be costly.
Ask Mark Henderson, a 26-year-old Wilmington man who learned that the five shots he took in a Philadelphia courtroom on Tuesday morning will cost him five months and 29 days in jail.
Henderson protested his innocence. He said he merely wanted a photo to remember pal Kevin Weaver, who was about to leave on a 221/2-to-52-year stay in prison for murder.
"The gray hairs I have mean that I wasn't born yesterday," replied Common Pleas Court Judge Renee Cardwell Hughes, citing Henderson for contempt of court for witness intimidation.


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Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in 1809 in Cambridge, Mass., beyond famous Harvard Yard, the present site of the Littauer School of Public Administration. His father, a minister and a childless widower, was 46 and his mother 41 when the future physician was born.1 The volumes of good literature on the family shelves—Dryden, Pope, Goldsmith, Milton, and many others—exerted sound influences on young Holmes and probably attracted him to verse and poesy at an early age. Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, initial incumbent of the Professorship of the Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard, and the introducer of smallpox vaccination in America, was a neighbor and a frequent visitor. He vaccinated the young man. In grammar school, Holmes was moderately studious and especially fond of reading. One year of schooling at Andover Academy was followed by Harvard College, which he entered at the age of 16. The daily routine at
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A fat, lazy slob, that is always late with what he is trying to accomplish, whether it be for a friend or himself
That fucking chern, that cracka hasn't come up with his rent money, always cherning around like a fuckin goon.
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Chern: Providing maximum overkill on one's vehicle. i.e. the best of the best.
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