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Sealed in a Mountain Cave by An Avalanche, Three Hikers Tunnel Their Way to Freedom
Peterson, 22, a day-care worker, had a more ambitious side trip in mind for his other hiking partners: Vaughn Rodewald, 23, a delivery-truck driver, and Mike Kichline, 21, a recent college graduate. With them, Peterson planned to sneak a peek inside an ice cave at the base of 6,135-foot Big Four Mountain. Formed by the buildup of snow from frequent avalanches over the past five years, the cave is popular with day hikers, despite posted warnings of extreme danger. "It's almost too tempting," says Fred Harnisch, a district ranger for the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
Arriving at the gaping mouth of the cave after a relaxed 45-minute walk, Robin stayed outside while David and his buddies, armed with a headlamp and two flashlights, went exploring. Awed by the size of the cavern, the men were 15 minutes into their expedition when they heard a thunderous rumble. "It was deafening," Peterson recalls. The trio sensed immediately that they had been trapped by an avalanche. "We knew we were in deep," says Rodewald. "We just didn't know how deep." In fact, some 40 tons of packed snow had blocked the entrance. Quickly, Rodewald began scooping out a two-foot-wide tunnel with his gloved hands. Then, to make the job go quicker, he reached for Peterson's three-inch camping knife and started cutting away huge chunks of snow. Behind him, Kichline and Peterson waited. "I couldn't stop thinking about Robin," Peterson says. "Was she alive? Was the baby OK?"
Outside, Robin lay dazed after being carried some 200 feet in a tumbling cloud of snow. "I had this feeling of being thrown around like a helpless rag doll," she says. Barely able to see because her glasses had been torn from her face, Robin stumbled to her feet and clutched her belly as she started walking away from the mountain. She was crying hysterically. "I don't remember any pain, just complete confusion," she says. "All I could think about was David and that I had to get help."
Back in the cave, after Rodewald had tunneled for 20 minutes, David Peterson offered to take his turn. "I started to chip away at the snow," he says. "But being in that tiny space, with not an inch to spare anywhere, terrified me." Peterson, who suffers from claustrophobia, suddenly began reliving an experience of seven years before when he was trapped in an elevator for three hours. "By the time they found me, there was blood everywhere," he says. "I had been using my face and hands to push back the walls. [Now] I felt the terror of that again and had to quit." Taking Peterson aside, Rodewald traded jokes with him to help keep his mind off his confinement and his pregnant wife.
Kichline took over the job of digging the tunnel. "I concentrated on where to cut next," Kichline says. "If I let my mind wander and questioned whether I had five feet left or 100 feet, my stomach would turn." Working on adrenaline, Kichline kept digging for more than two hours. The tunnel stretched some 30 feet when the snow in front of him turned from black to blue. "I yelled to turn out the lights," Kichline says, "so I could see if it was really the surface."
In the forest Robin had continued to trudge through the snow, muttering anxiously to herself. As darkness began to envelop her, she heard voices and yelled out for help. A man and two teenage boys greeted her on the trail. "I still don't know who they were," she says. One of the boys helped her walk to the trail head and radioed for an ambulance. En route to the hospital, Robin learned from an emergency radio dispatch that a rescue team had been sent to the ice cave, only to discover they weren't needed. Her husband and his friends had dug themselves out.
Feeling her baby kick inside her, Robin smiled. But after a 45-minute ride to Everett General Hospital, outside Seattle, she began feeling contractions and was rushed to an emergency room to stop premature labor. Moments later David Peterson arrived. He collapsed in tears in his wife's arms. "I didn't want to let him go," says Robin. She was released from the hospital the next day.
On his return home, Rodewald found a message waiting for him from the local search-and-rescue team, asking him to respond as a weekend volunteer for an emergency at the Big Four Caves. "I still don't think they know it was me in there," he says. "I hope they never find out."
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Skip to comments.To MBA or not to MBA, that is MY question to YOU. (VANITY)
Posted on 02/07/2010 9:42:15 AM PST by TSgt
I believe FR is comprised of a large body of intelligent and successful people from various walks of life and educational backrounds. That said, I propose the following question for your guidance and would appreciate your feedback.
I'm 33, have Associates and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science, 15 years of experience in my field, several premium industry certifications and 10 years of military service. I am currently an IT manager for a large pharmaceutical corporation and have a nice commensurate salary. All of my academic endeavors have been successful and I enjoy learning new things though I'm not a 4.0 student usually due to my professional workload. I have a variety of work experience in various industries including, government, transportation, energy and biotech. I have always received impeccable reviews and rapid promotions based on my work performance.
That said, my goal is to leave corporate America by the time I'm 40 and own my own business. I am currently pursuing my MBA at an AACSB accredited college at the behest of my current manager. The problem is, I hate it. I would rather spend time investigating business opportunities than writing papers for a managerial communication class. Most of my classmates are clueless 20 somethings who have never held a manager position or real job.
Should I stick with the MBA or stop now and use the next several years to learn how to be a successful entrepreneur?
Law degree is even better, if you want to be part of the ruling class.
Do what you love and enjoy what you are doing. If that leads you down the path of continuing your MBA, great. A MBA used to mean a lot but these days, it is so common it doesn't have the prestige it used to have. I completed mine in 2001 and found that things like PMP certifications and professional reputation take you a lot further.
I too worked in government, transportation, and biotech; difficult to transition [internal or external]- based soley on IT background and experience. MBA = Business + technology background is a good combination [still].
There are MBA programs with concentrations in Entrepreneurship. I've seen them offered af different universities (AACSB) around the country. Maybe the curriculum in that concentration would be more useful to you.
An MBA will further enhance your success as a business man, and will affect your ability to attract top notch people. Investors are more confident in a company lead by a hands on, experienced, leader with an MBA, as well.
My hat's off to you for your achievements. Don't stop.
The MBA will teach you bad habits, especially if you want to own your own business.
Instead, take finance and investment courses. They will teach you tax laws, banking, investing, economics, accounting, etc. Those are the tools of business.
An MBA is how to get along within a corporation. I have never seen anyone use anything they learned from an MBA. An MBA is an extremely lightweight introduction to business. All flash, no substance; hence the term Mediocre But Arrogant.
Thank you!
I have my PMP. :)
Abolutely get your MBA. Be very grateful that your boss is not only supportive but is encouraging you.
There is a huge difference in opportunities and credibility (in the corporate world or if you start your business) if you have a Master's degree vs only a 4 yr one. By the time you might realize this on your own, it will probably much more difficult for you to go back to school.
Now is the time to get your MBA. It's hard to work and go to school, but it will be worth it.
Change your attitude, realizing that this is an important means to an end.
You sound like a hardworking, energetic person, so you can do it!
Good luck!
" Investors are more confident in a company lead by a hands on, experienced, leader with an MBA, as well."
As a consultant, I've worked with a number of very large investment houses and none could care less about an MBA. Many people coming to venture firms usually went out of their to get an MBA thinking it would make them look educated, only to find they would be asked exactly what did the MBA provide. There was never an answer. Your personal education means nothing. They want to see accomplishments and capabilities in your ideas: Cash flow, market share, potential dominance, contracts, not MBA or PhD. Many in the investment business have little or no formal education. Want to impress a venture firm? Show some intelligence and a sound idea completely thought through and not some half baked, lame-brained idea with your MBA stapled to it. Those are a dime a dozen.
Hi Mike. Listen, the best advise depends on a lot of variables. How far are you into the program? If you only have 2 or 3 classes to go, it's a moot point - do it. I am a 46 year old in financial services. I have a BS in Economics, MBA in Finance. I earned the MBA in 1992 when I was 29 years old. That being said, an MBA is really more of ticket to be considered for higher managerial positions. What you stated is that you want to quit your job and work for yourself. In that regard, the only real use of the MBA would be for marketing your services (people like to see initials after a name like J.D., MBA, CPA, etc when hiring your company to do whatever it is you will do).
In grad school it was told to me (mind you I had a managerial job while I was going to grad school) that I wouldn't use anything learned from the MBA until 10 years down the road. Now that may have been only in my industry (finance) but I think it's pretty applicable across the board.
So, continue if you only have a little time left, or as a security net in case you need to re-enter the work world, or if you think it will enhance the marketing of your endeavors after you quit and start your own company. Otherwise, save your money and time!
Slodge through the MBA; because if you don't, you will invariably look back with regret and second guess your decision whenever one of your business ventures invariably throws you a curve-ball.
100% correct. I have an MBA and it is just another bit of evidence for the current crop of kid managers to allege that you are over qualified so that they can discriminate on your age.
If you are approaching 40, then you are going to be about 10 years older than most of the current corporate employees and you pose a distinct threat to them. Once you leave corporate, you had better have your own gig going, because that MBA and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry institution in this country has been pumping out MBA programs the last 10 years. It used to be valuable, any more, there are tens of thousands of peachy faced grads coming out with MBA's that they can hire for 1/3 of what you would need. Calculate that into your objective function.
I work for a Graduate School and am the dean's assistant on all academic matters. If you were a friend/student asking what I thought, this is what I would say.
One - Sit down with your supervisor and find out what exactly the benefits are to the company and you long term. Your supervisor may think you would be a great employee to pull/push up the ladder but you need the 3 magic letters on your resume. It may have to do with selling your company to prospective clients. Self-motivation is a huge part of Graduate School and it looks like you need a bigger picture.
No one should EVER go to Graduate School for the sake of going to Graduate School.
Two - Talk to the school you are attending and look at any other AACSB programs around to see if there are professional/executive cohorts. These groups tend to be older, have business experience, and may be a better fit. Graduate School is as much about your classmates as it is the materials.
Three - As goofy as it sounds, take your emotions out of it as much as possible. You seem frustrated with the kids' ignorance. I was in this boat in a couple of classes when I finished up my master's. At the end of my degree I ended up saving papers as things like "Two to go" "This is It" "One semester after this one." It reminded be that if I focused I'd be done and I wouldn't have to put up with the silliness much longer. That eased my frustration.
Good Luck with your decision.
Thanks Ray for your reply and advice!
I'm only on class #3 of many towards my MBA. My wife has her PharmD and we are both financially conservative DINKS so we aren't hurting for money (thankfully in this economy).
We come from humble backgrounds and are far from lazy but don't want to waste time and money if we could invest it elsewhere.
Do a cost analysis. How much longer do you intend to work and how much will you make in that time? Divide that by how much will the MBA cost, not just tuition but incidental and peripheral/ misc costs/ opportunity costs. Sit down with a calculator, I've been thinking about the same thing. I'm 46 and thought about an MBA but I'm still not sure.
... I'm an old guy (76), been tracking Free Republic since 1996, mechanical engineer from Rice, Harvard MBA, first 10 years in industry, then mgmt consultant as hk ball and associates from 1968 until now ...
... I'd finish your MBA because you will learn things there that you can't learn any other way, but ...
... the most important thing I learned had to do with how phoney those professors were ... it took me ten years to fully realize it, but much of what they taught are the very things we are fighting here on Free Republic today ...
... in short, get an MBA, know thine enemy ...
... of course, you'll learn alot of good stuff too, but your Freep buddies will provide you with the filters you need with which to discern the right from the wrong ...
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Absolutely complete youe MBA.
Talk to the MBA Advisor at your school, see if there is a way to get into classes with more grownups. They may have an "Execcutive" program that are weekend intesive.
The MBA is valuable if you look to change jobs before you start your own firm. It also makes it easier to rise within your current company. It will also make your bussiness plan look stornger when you look for bankfinancing or investors.
Seek out the grown-ups in class, you will learn as much from them (and they fromyou) as you will from the professor.
Also pay close attention to the HR/subordinate management classes as this will land in your lap when you become an small bizman
Good Luck
Will you buy businesses and turn them around or are you someone better suited at building them up from scratch?
Or are you a good hands-on manager who is better suited at maintaining stability?
The question about the MBA is really secondary to those questions. Running a business is usually more of a hands-on endeavor, but an MBA degree can be valuable in helping you get to such a position.
As you know, some entrepreneurs first rise to management inside a larger company (an MBA would certainly help there) and others are wild-catters who start or buy something small and grow it either internally or by acquisition.
BTW, I am an MBA (top of my class at a top state school) and, as an investment banker, worked with many entrepreneurial sorts who grew by acquisition. I have also done a goodly amount of venture capital financing and have had the opportunity to study good and bad start-ups as well as mezzanine ventures.
As a final note, your personality type plays a big part in the path you will take. Turnaround specialists are usually not good at (nor interested in) day-to-day management. And start-up guys usually leave their companies once a certain size is reached.
Bottom line: what kind of entrepreneur are you?
An MBA has traditionally been a ticket to upper management. The MBA scene has changed much in the last 10 to 15 years with so many schools offering MBAs. If you were looking for a new corporate opportunity, an MBA in a prestigious school provides many contacts. In your current position, an MBA seems like it would be helpful to move higher in your organization. If you are not aspiring to a higher corporate position in your current or next organization, an MBA may not be particularly beneficial. A number of MBA programs have entrepreneurship tracks but I am not sure about the benefit of these tracks. In my university, entrepreneurship education can be taken outside of a degree program so you do not need to be part of an MBA program.
Part of your decision depends on the cost to finish your program. If you are close to the finish line, the cost is relatively low so you should finish. If you are not close, you should think about your aspirations to higher level management.
My personal opinion is, unless you're going to a top 20 school (Darden, Duke, etc.), you're wasting your time. However, if your company is paying for it, you may as well finish up.
Personally as a manager, I'm unimpressed with an MBA if it's from a school like Strayer, DeVry, etc. I'm also unimpressed when I see a person goes straight from undergrad to graduate school.
Do both - finish the MBA courses and look into business opportunities. If the business opportunities don't work out, you will be well served by having an MBA on your resume - employers love that sort of stuff although in a lot of cases it's worthless in the real world and only valuable if one has inherent abilities beyond the class room environment.
In my 35 year career with my old employer, I only had one MBA manager who was smart and I respected. All the others I worked for were nothing but self serving idiots who rose thru the ranks via the "buddy system".......
A very smart guy once advised me that, in choosing your path, choose what you love.
If you are doing what you love, you will pour your enthusiasm into it (and anyone who pours his heart and soul into something is going to be much smarter, luckier, and happier in doing it than those who are only moderately interested).
Think of this as if you ALREADY HAD an MBA. Do a cost/benefit analysis.
This is what we did with our son when he entered Wharton.
Calculate what it will cost you do to this. Calculate what you will be expecting to increase in earnings over a 5 year period AFTER you graduate (you can get data from a variety of sources including the schools themselves and other MBA candidates). Decide whether there is somebody out there who will pay for you to get your MBA in exchange for some well-paid indentured servitude.
Then, you come up with the best option. Part of that option is your own personality and your goals. YOU are the biggest factor in this. Do you have an idea of what you want to DO with an MBA? Do you have a plan already? Are you doing this just as a resume enhancement or because 'it's the next thing to do'?
And an MBA from a place with a specific reputation makes a big, big, big difference in what kind of job you get offered. If you are starting your second year in an MBA program and you aren't already getting offers, something is wrong.
In our own case, our son had an offer to pay for a Harvard MBA with a 3 yr contract at $125K. Despite the $150K price, he decided to go to Wharton and become a free agent. He not only matched his salary at a bigger company (not Wall Street, which is a $$$$$ only decision), stock options and a future of advancement in something interesting. And within 5 years he will have paid back his entire MBA costs and still be at those high end salary ranges.
It's equal parts calculation and ambition/planning. Decide WHAT you want this for and that will rule out the bad options right away.
Hope this helps. This is a very exciting point in life. But be prepared for a whole lot of math....
You need to find yourself an "Executive MBA" program. These require years of job experience to get into, and have a much higher maturity level.
I own and run my business without having an MBA. Both my father and stepmother did the same for 30+ years each. They had 2 or 4 years of votech training. ANd, sure, they made good money; they did not live marginally.
I've always questioned the need for an MBA and what it teaches or what you get out of it.
I've also worked corporate for 14 years. I was considering the MBA after receiving my MSEE. So, I talked to colleagues who actually went through it, and they typically responded that they really didn't find it was worth the money and effort. It was more of a ticket in certain corporate situations.
Regarding my own business, I haven't found yet that any bank/investor or company I contracted with ever asked if I had an MBA or even cared about my educational background nor did they even check. What I see they care about is how much money you're going to make for them and previous successes.'What have you done?' is what gets you the business. As a starting point, they were interested in the fact that I had long experience in factory management and productivity improvements, both in technical fields and personnel management.
And, since we're talking anonymously, I'll tell you that payoffs are part of the negotiations. There will be plenty of folks on here unapproving of payoffs in business, but they do occur and you may encounter it. When I first encountered this, I asked my parents about it and to my surprise they told me that they encountered this also.
Working in corporate, I never saw this. But, I now see it occurs maybe not internally, but definitely externally between companies and really between individuals. Example,
'you want that contract approved internally in 30 days instead of 120 days? $10k will do it.'
HK - it took you 10 years to figure out many of the profs were phoneys especially at Harvard? I would go back to Harvard and demand my money back (just kidding - sarcasm).
I have one from a state school. A lot of my finance professors had been engineers so they generally were not full of ***t.
To other posters - take a look at this educated man's post. Please note he never uses the term "that being said."
Somebody please tell me where the h*ll did that come from? I usually hear financial guys on the radio and other people posting on golfer web sites using the "that being said."
It is the stupidest phrase. Another management or corporate buzz phrase is "circle back." Thank God I do not have to hear c*ap like this each day except on a few phone calls.
If you want to climb a corporate ladder, get an MBA. Pointy haired bosses are impressed with shiny pieces of paper with lots of extra letters after your name.
If you want to really learn how business is done, take that money and buy a small kiosk in a shopping mall and run it for 2 years. You'll learn more in that 2 years of small business ownership than you would in 20 years of MBA courses.
This is harsh, but unless you are going to a top 20 school (USNews), there is little economic reason to get a MBA. If your employer pays for a non-top 20 MBA, go ahead and take it if you want to stay at that company for an additional 10 years or until retirement.
I have a BSME, several patents at big name IT companies, and a MBA from the #7 school at the time. When I interviewed to go to Wall Street as a high-tech analyst, the following question was asked more than once:
"If you are so smart, why didn't you go to HBS? (Harvard Business School)" It was a serious question.
I ended up getting a great job for 5 years that really propelled my career, but I sure do remember the sting of that question.
BTW, the reason that a HBS, Wharton or Stanford MBA is so valued is not the course material, but rather the tight screen on the admission side. It is evidence that you have made some very difficult cuts and are less likely to fail in your job-to-be. And, before I get flamed, there are many HBS graduates that have served prison sentences. Milken was a Wharton grad, BTW.
Yeah, get your MBA. I picked mine up 30 years ago when corporate America really didn't know what an MBA was. I never really used it in an organization, but it did help me as an entrepreneur, and it other areas that I would never have expected. I was remarkably clever, and managed to graduate from both of my degree programs directly into recessions. Genius!
Well, since it appeared I was going to poor no matter what my educational qualifications, I decided to drive airliners around. I was absolutely amazed at the number of cockpit jobs (yes, it was the start of deregulation), that were thrown at me. It wasn't because of my aeronautical credentials, which were minimal. It was that MBA that got me into the cockpits, and it kept happening through my whole career. Go figure!
One of the great benefits to that MBA degree is that I ordered my fiscal affairs far differently than the rest of my aeronautical brethren (generally a profligate lot). Even after I retired, I was left in a financially comfortable condition. This is the exception for most airline pilots these days. As you are obviously aware, corporate America is no longer what it once was. When I graduated, MBA's wouldn't touch being on their own with a ten foot pole. No more. Entrepreneurialism is the wave of the immediate future. No more broken promises from an corporate organization that you really can't control anyway.
I've always been an entrepreneur on the side, and I'm full time now. My children are being raised in that tribe as well, but that is another story. :-)
Finish your MBA. You will learn a lot about finance and marketing that will help you later on when you own your own business.
Failing that, I'll sell you mine. I'm 60 years-old and won't need it much anymore.
Finance: cash flow, the life-blood of business
Marketing: how to create and manage brands and demand
Cost accounting: What is your break-even volume?
Financial accounting: matching revenues and expenses
Business Law: UCC and contract law basics
Quantitative analysis for business, including statistics
I was continually amazed, as I completed the equivalent of an MBA in finance and a master of accounting degree all at night school, at how much of my course work I was able to apply directly to my day job in corporate financial analysis at a Fortune 50 company.
Most of the students were younger than I was and I ran circles around them and got the most out of the professor (who had a day job) by reading ahead and doing all assignment in advance of class. I got out of it what I put into it, which was a lot!
I survived 120,000 layoffs over 10 years at one company due, in part, to having both my CPA and masters degree and being able to draw on a wide range of skills to adapt to what was needed at the time.
Totally agree with you comments. Ever clown college out there has an MBA program and every 27 year old graduate will work far cheaper than a 40 year old.
I always say, "College is what you did when you were 20, so what have you done since?"
If I were to put out a req for a project manager right now I would probably get back not less than 1,000 resumes, of which 250 will have an MBA or other worthless Master's degree and 750 will have a PMP, also known as a 12 week wonder course.
Inspiring story!
Have you tried this?
In view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to Godthis is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will ishis good, pleasing and perfect will.
Non-Sequitur MBA, PMP, PMI-RMP
"As a PMP I can tell you that you have underestimated the difficulty of obtaining this accreditation."
I have it, too, so I know, and it was pathetically easy to earn. The PMI is about making money and it shows. It seems many who have a PMP consider it a major accomplishment...which tells a lot about those who covet it. It is a wimpy certification for underachievers. I was a director over a $5 million/year PMO consulting office and found it to be a complete joke. You cant even put 10 PMPs in a room and get the same answer twice, and just because a person has a PMP does not mean they actually understand project management much less the engineering principles of which they are managing. I found the average PMP to be a non-engineer that wanted to be a manager, hence the 12-week wonder comment. Try getting an engineering degree and being a professional engineer of at least 10 years experience before becoming a project manager and that PMP will look like a useless joke designed for non-engineers that want to be project managers right out of college. Of course, to executive managers the PMI has sold them on the idea that the PMP is a great certification of major proportions. Hell, I sold execs on it as a consultant; made a ton of money with it, too. There is nothing more dangerous to an organization than an otherwise unqualified and inexperienced individual with a PMP that now feels empowered to enforce their bad decisions.
"Non-Sequitur MBA, PMP, PMI-RMP
Well that explains your extreme ignorance and arrogance not to mention your far left-wing tendencies.
And your reply says a lot about you as well.
A credential doesn't make a good project manager however at the very least it identifies that you have a fundamental understanding of a specific body of knowledge. That said, I've hired 3 project managers over the past year and only one of them had their PMP.
The PMI has done a great job marketing the accreditation however one still has to put forth the effort to obtain it and must back it up with experience that is auditable.
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Rusko | BrostepJanuary 28th by John-Michael Tags: Brostep, Datsik, Datsik Interview, Rusko, Rusko Interview, Splatinum
I have been known to be quite the advocate of anti-Brostep. Recently I was interviewed by a local music blog here in Dallas and was asked if I were to ever play Rusko and my thoughts on the whole brostep thing. The response in the online text clearly says No I'll never play it. I want to clear things up on that. I'll never play Rusko because it generally is music most people have heard. Why play a Rusko track if everyone in the crowd has probably heard it and every other DJ rinse the crap out of the tune. If Rusko wants to send me some dubs then sure I'll consider it when I do want to take it to a hype level.
I never had anything against the guy more so that I had something against the DJ and people who would play Brostep ALL through their set. It's as if going out was a competition to see who could play the dirtiest set in the night. Yeah sure crowds love to get wild and go crazy. He even describes that the music isn't really heavy metal which I referenced in my interview as well yet there are guys like Borgore who are saying fuck it why not throw some metal into a set and break the club out into a pit. Yeah sure it's fun but please when every DJ is doing that all night it's a bit aggravating.
When I do actually go out to a bar/club it's for the music and there use to be a time where dubstep didn't mean brostep and their wasn't such an emphasis on melting peoples faces off. I cringe every time I hear "melt face" in some sort of way. Variety is key. My only concern is how this take on playing more melodic stuff is a major trend. It's as if melodic is the word of the time now just as deep was for awhile. Even in a recent interview I saw Datsik do with the homies in Seattle, Splatinum, said how he is starting to do a lot more stuff with melodies and making it more 'melodic'. Don't be a cop out now and only play melodic stuff or deep stuff. Give the journey of music different landscapes. Hell throw in a little ghetto crunk in there sometimes to ha.
Much respect to Rusko for this even though it seems like it's a bit overdue haha but we all knew that even one of the Brostep kings couldn't possibly be that bro. Despite being one of the kings of Brostep the issue is what he and the sound has amassed in the American DJs who do this all the time.
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I have an application that communicates with a series of devices on a
gigabit LAN network (64 or more devices) using UDP. It is constantly
streaming data to these devices. The data is organized into "frames"
and each device frame is a single UDP packet. The current
implementation creates a separate SOCK_DGRAM socket for each device,
then calls connect() and sends packets with send() (rather than using
sendto() with no connect()).
I am now at a point where I have to modify this application to send
additional data to the devices, with some slightly different
information in the data packets. The application must now send more
than one UDP packet per frame to each device.
I basically have two options:
1. Create a new socket for each of these new pieces of data. This
means more than one UDP socket is "connected" to the same network
device. If I have to send 3 UDP packets per frame to a device, I have
3 sockets "connected" to that device, and I serially send a packet
over each of those sockets.
2. Share one socket per device. Only one UDP socket is "connected"
to a given device. If I have to send 3 UDP packets per frame to a
device, I have a single socket "connected" to it and I send 3 packets
using that one socket.
Without going into too much detail, because of the way the application
is designed it is *far* easier to implement number 1 than number 2
(option 1 requires little additional code, option 2 requires nearly a
complete rewrite of the hardware interface portion of the
In the current situation, there are 60 devices each which require 16
UDP packets per frame of data. Therefore option 1 requires 60*16 = 960
sockets and option 2 requires only 60. This machine and LAN is
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for network resources.
My question is, is it worth the trouble to rewrite a lot of the
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a second -- so about 22 mbps on average, and we'd like to keep each
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Skip to comments.The Homosexual Mafia attacks the "Door to the Right"
Posted on 10/19/2004 5:17:28 PM PDT by TaxRelief
History has shown that the neutral position is the most dangerous position to take. Unfortunately for Bill O'Reilly, the host of Fox News' O'Reilly Factor and the target of sexual harassment lawsuit, his attempts at reasonableness are neither liberal enough for the hard left nor conservative enough for the solid right.
Conservatives bite the hand that feeds them when they fail to recognize that O'Reilly, in his position as an independent moderate, provides the perfect doorway through which a maturing, political aficionado can pass as he discovers the dangerous liberal slant of the mainstream media. (Certainly, a budding neo-con does not wake up one morning to the sudden discovery that he is ready for conservatism "al Sean Hannity.")
O'Reilly's political positions--his support of abortion, homosexual adoption, homosexual marriage, fiscal conservatism and limited government; and his opposition to animal rights activists, "feminazis" and environmental whackos-- parallel very closely the interim stage that many moderates pass through on their journey from the young, brainwashed me-generation to the more logical realm of adult conservatism.
O'Reilly practices Catholicism exactly the way John Kerry does; He professes a distaste for abortion, but implies that abortion, other than partial-birth abortion, should not be limited by law. (If this logic was carried out to its conclusion with any existing law, we'd be in total disarray--I don't believe in euthanizing disloyal spouses, but who am I to interfere with your household?) Because Bill O'Reilly has only babies in his home, he has not yet experienced the introspection that parents are forced to encounter sooner or later as they help their children grow in faith within the church.
The political stance of O'Reilly, and others moving away from the left, has not slipped past the attention of the Homosexual Mafia or past the strategists in the Democrat Party. By way of example, John Kerry's stated position about the deficit is that it can be blamed solely on "big Republican" spending. Kerry obviously believes that the wider he makes the stated definition of liberalism, the more people who might otherwise be attracted to conservatism, he will be able to keep in the camp. Unfortunately for all of the left, however, more and more adults are doing their homework and recognizing the inconsistencies between liberal promises and the reality after a liberal is elected.
An exploration of the social history of America and the MSM (mainstream media) reveals overwhelming evidence that the Homosexual Mafia, more than forty years ago, rested on a strategy to control public opinion by infiltrating the media and moving into powers of position within newspaper publishing houses, TV production studios and Public Radio. For the first twenty of these years, it was not openly obvious that they had positioned themselves so well.
Eventually conservatives in positions of power began to recognize that the right was well behind the social engineering curve, so they rose up and attempted to fight back with reason and competition. But they were too late. The social control of the "civil rights" crowd , the monopolies of small city publications and the power of "political correctness" in the schools were too strong, and forced them to turn to new venues, the "new media"--talk radio, cable news, conservative publications, the internet and finally bloggers --was born.
As a key member of this New Media, Bill O'Reilly is now a serious threat to the radical leftists' civil-rights agenda, and apparently is more than the Homosexual Mafia can control. Al Franken, in his position not only as a spokesman for the Homosexual Agenda, but also as a general in his political army, went on a blatant attack of O'Reilly with his book and, more subtly, by naming his competing radio show The O'Franken Factor. Given that these latest strategies have not worked--they didn't even dent O'Reilly's ratings--Franken, according to the manager of a restaurant patronized by the liberal media, is in cohorts with Andrea Mackris, O'Reilly's staff member known for her "sexual rants and drunken propositions." Mackris hopes to publish a tome that paints O'Reilly as anything but conservative, Franken-style, in an attempt to break any remaining ties between O'Reilly and his semi-conservative followers.
Perhaps O'Reilly's recent iteration of his softened stance on the integration of homosexuals into normal society occurred because he recognized the impending threat from the Homosexual Mafia.
Unfortunately, O'Reilly has not realized that he is making a serious mistake by supporting a left social agenda. Other than people in transition from one political position to another, there is no established middle ground in the media. There is no established group of followers and their are no supporters of the "middle ground." Indeed, by definition, the moderates are transitional and wishy-washy, and they are therefore not in a position to rise up and defend Bill O'Reilly.
So, Bill O'Reilly is all alone.
It is up to the supporters of the New Media to rise to the occasion. Allowing the Homosexual Mafia and the MSM to win this battle will give the leftists the courage to continue their attacks, and next time they may take on one of the better known heroes of freedom such as Ann Coulter or Neal Boortz.
Conservatives and libertarians must get off their high horses and recognize that which those who wish to dictate the social agenda of America recognize:
If Bill O'Reilly is taken down, a "Door to the Right" will, for at least a while, be closed in the faces of those who are ready to begin a journey towards truth and the conservative, comfort zone of the New Media.
Allowing the Homosexual Mafia and the MSM to win this battle will give the leftists the courage to continue their attacks, and next time they may take on one of the better known heroes of freedom such as Ann Coulter or Neal Boortz.
An expansion of our previous discussion...
Why can't you have this level of passion towards getting rid of coruption in government, like getting rid of the IRS or other parts government that are directly invasive and are a danger to us and our freedoms instead of focusing on lesser matters like homosexuality.
The fundamental issue is judicial tyranny. Without that this marrige amendment would not even be an issue.
If the fundamental issue is judicial tyranny than you are attacking a symtom, homosexuality, and not the problem, which is judicial tyranny.
You need to understand cultural marxism. One of the goals according to Antonio Gramsci is to undermine the Family unit.
First, please read 1963 communist goals:
"Political Correctness: The Scourge of Our Times "
Origins of Political Correctness
III.Antonio Gramschi, 1891-1937
A.The New Order (L'Ordine Nuovo)
1.Italian Communist newspaper, founded 1919
2.Co-founder of Italian Communist Party, 1921
3.Pre-Prison Writings, ed. Richard Bellamy (Cambridge, 1994)
4.Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Intl. Publishers, 1971)
B.Lenin was wrong, and the Leninist revolution will fail
1.The workers will see the revolutionary government as a new boss
2.When the revolution fails, the west will re-import Capitalism
C.Gradual revolution: infiltrate, Co-opt, Subvert
1.Infiltrate the State: elective & appointed office; judgeships
2.Infiltrate the military: enlist & subvert from within
3.Infiltrate justice: undermine and discredit state constitutions
4.Infiltrate education: professors & administrators
5.Infiltrate & discredit religion: scoundrels as clergymen
6.Register, then license, then confiscate all privately held weapons
D.Form or infiltrate international organizations to promote goals such as
"global understanding," "economic development," "transfer of resources"
E.Both Capitalism and Judaeo-Christian culture must be destroyed before a
Communist revolution can succeed
1.Religious sentiment cannot be destroyed through legislation, as
Lenin believed, but must be redirected from the divine to the state
a.Terror will only drive Religion underground
b.Religion will then reemerge when Leninism fails
c.So Religion must be destroyed in the minds of men
2.Infiltrate religious academies and become priests and clergymen
a.Subtly promote heresy within religious organizations
b.Infiltrators must act so as to discredit the church
(1)Cause financial and sexual scandals
(2)See that this is given a high profile in the news
(3)Like-minded infiltrators in the media will cooperate
3.Once religion is discredited from within, continuously promote the
idea that only the state can solve the problems that have been
traditionally brought before the church
F.When propagating revolutionary ideas, cloak them in polite terms
1.National Consensus
2.Popular Mandate
3.National Pacification
5.Global Community
6.Economic Justice
7.Economic Democracy
8.Liberation Theology
9.Direct Action
G.Marxists "must enter into every civil, cultural, and political activity
in every nation, leavening them as yeast leavens bread."
H. Subvert the existing hegemonic culture and replace it with
a "counter-hegemony" that is based on the revolutionary
culture of the oppressed masses
IV. Herbert Marcuse, 1898-1979
A. Bourgeois Capitalist civilization must be overthrown by
discrediting existing beliefs and replacing them with
revolutionary or proto-revolutionary beliefs.
B. Founding Father of Political Correctness
1. "Free Expression" is actually repressive, because it permits
the bourgeois capitalists and other counter-revolutionary
or anti-revolutionary individuals and groups to express their
beliefs and values - values that must be overthrown.
2. Advocates "the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly"
for conservative or Christian individuals and groups
a. Denounce them as hate groups, atavistic, fascist,
or intolerant.
b. Denounce conservative or Christian speech as hate speech
d. Do not allow colleges or universities to become "forums"
for politically incorrect speech
3. Advocates "Liberating Tolerance"
a. "intolerance against movements from the Right,
and toleration of movements from the Left."
b. "new and rigid restrictions on teaching and practices in
the educational institution" to indoctrinate students in
"progressive" values
c. Speech Codes on campuses
d. Reject the values of Western Civilization as "regressive"
e. Reject the "Western Canon" of literature as "regressive"
f. Promote Marxism as "progressive"
g. Denounce and discredit those who resist this "progressive"
agenda as "reactionary" or "fascist" or "racist" or
"the extreme right" etc.
IV. Herbert Marcuse, 1898-1979
A. Bourgeois Capitalist civilization must be overthrown by
discrediting existing beliefs and replacing them with
revolutionary or proto-revolutionary beliefs.
B. Founding Father of Political Correctness
1. "Free Expression" is actually repressive, because it permits
the bourgeois capitalists and other counter-revolutionary
or anti-revolutionary individuals and groups to express their
beliefs and values - values that must be overthrown.
2. Advocates "the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly"
for conservative or Christian individuals and groups
a. Denounce them as hate groups, atavistic, fascist,
or intolerant.
b. Denounce conservative or Christian speech as hate speech
d. Do not allow colleges or universities to become "forums"
for politically incorrect speech
3. Advocates "Liberating Tolerance"
a. "intolerance against movements from the Right,
and toleration of movements from the Left."
b. "new and rigid restrictions on teaching and practices in
the educational institution" to indoctrinate students in
"progressive" values
c. Speech Codes on campuses
d. Reject the values of Western Civilization as "regressive"
e. Reject the "Western Canon" of literature as "regressive"
f. Promote Marxism as "progressive"
g. Denounce and discredit those who resist this "progressive"
agenda as "reactionary" or "fascist" or "racist" or
"the extreme right" etc.
Flame? No no no (no); flames never solve anything, and often result in spin-off web sites (ewwww!).
Instead, I will tremulously hold out a little teeny tiny candle whose glimmery shimmery light doth inquire:
Shouldn't we deport the mafia at the borders, before they savage our culture and use bad language?
Please be kind . . .
O'Reilly is not a supporter of abortion, he's pro-life and anti death penalty
I'm not attacking anything. I don't think they should have an amendment to the constitution to punish judicial tyranny. But that's the reaction and, of course, it wont get through because a lot of conservatives see the error in changing the constitution to fight this problem.
I understand 'cultural marxism', and unlike you I know the socialists in the country consider the homosexual movement to be no more than a tool and that when the socialists no long need them, the socialists with do their own version of 'the night of the long knifes' against homosexuals in this country.
If we can make homosexuals in this country understand this, then we could cut the socialists power base at their knees. But you and others are too short sighted to realize this.
Also, if you actually studied history, beyond the bible, you would see that rejection of homosexuality by christians in ancient Rome was because homosexuality was part of the pagan Roman culture and that the rejection of homosexuality by the christians of that time was part of their rejection of the pagan Roman culture as a whole.
It is a matter of principle. Same sex "marriage" is not about freedom. People can shack up with whomever they want to. What the gay activists and the liberals want more than anything is to have the government affirm and legitimize homosexual activity. That is what is so illegitimate about civil same sex "marriage". People in a free country have the right to have differing views on the morality of homosexual activity. The government should at most remain neutral, not promote homosexual activity and demonize those who believe otherwise.
You're missing the point, the problem, as previously pointed out is 'judicial tyranny', your efforts are misdirected.
TaxRelief's latest, and it's a good one!
As with the Iraq War, there are multiple reasons why there should be a Federal Marriage Amendment.
Alright, list the reasons. Several people say it is a good idea, but no one has yet to state any concrete reasons for it.
"I understand 'cultural marxism', and unlike you ...."
"Also, if you actually studied history, beyond the bible"
LOL, your reply is dripping with arrogance!!! I am pleased that I rarely encounter individuals with your attitude on FR.
I'm not religious and do not read the bible.
However, I fully support religious freedom, unless they are Islamofascits. I sense that you have a deep resentment for the bible and christianity in general, that's too bad.
I do understand the need to protect the family unit, and one of the ways to undermine it is Homosexual Marraige. Other ways include (from the Communist Goals of 1963):
24) Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25) Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography, and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV.
26) Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, and healthy."
40) Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
How is this done?
17) Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism, and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in text books.
20) Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21) Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.
I've just stated one, i.e., the government should not promote homosexual activity, which many citizens believe and have a right to believe is immoral. And you just stated another -- unelected judges should not conduct this sort of radical social change without a clear and firm basis in the Constitution.
Third, it paves the way for civil polygamy, polyandry, marrying of beasts and inanimate objects, and otherwise destroys the institution of marriage, which does serve a public purpose since it provides for stable families for children.
Like I said, you're short sighted. You didn't even take the time to fully read my previous post to you. You missed the part where I stated how you could hurt the socialist agenda.
Oh really, here is the last part of your previous statement.
The government should at most remain neutral, not promote homosexual activity and demonize those who believe otherwise.
How can government remain 'neutral' with a marriage amendment that denies one group rights that another group enjoys. There is a level of hypocrisy that cannot be ignored.
Now could you please state some positive reasons from a marriage amendment.
It's a waste of your time to address that guy.
I don't quite get this, in the context of O'Reilly's being pro-abortion (which someone disputed above, but I don't know, because as you know, we don't have cable).
In my opinion, a man who can be pro-abortion, when he's seen his own babies, is barely human.
Considering the polygamy issue has been brought up by the Mormons, who are heterosexuals, that is a strawman arguement.
I don't even know what 'polyandry' is, or even if it is a word. How you can compare savage beasts too two consenting, intelligent adults is beyond me. And I don't even know what you got the idea of marriage to 'inanimate objects' from.
I don't think that he personally believes in abortion as a choice that he would ever make for his own family, but he may believe that reasonable people might disagree on such points as when life begins, etc. Frankly, I think that he is mushy on this, although somewhat on the right side of mushy.
Meant to include you earlier. Powerful stuff from TR...
Pish-tosh! (And I know you're describing another person's beliefs, not your own, so that's not aimed at you personally :-)
"Reasonable people" of that type might decide their convenience or economic interest or whatever justifies the death of an unborn child ... but there's no scientific question that a unique human person exists from the moment of conception. And people who pretend otherwise are being disingenuous.
What rights are Homosexuals denied?
I asked first for positive reasons to the marriage amendment. All I have gotten so far is strawman arguements and silence.
Amy Nicholls, from Mansfield, Louisiana: "Mr. O'Reilly, I am extremely disappointed that you referred to the fetus as 'a potential human being.' They are in fact already human."
O'Reilly: "Ms. Nicholls, I respect your BELIEF, but that is not how the SUPREME COURT does it, and I have to deal with the law here. The abortion discussion will never be advanced until people find common ground. I used the term 'potential human being' BECAUSE THAT IS INDISPUTABLE. I hope you understand what I'm trying to do here."
He's always been alone as far as I'm concerned...another a-lone talking head with a big fat wet finger in the wind.
James is 9 months old today. The difference between James today and James at birth is the result of time and food. The difference between James at birth and James at conception is the result of time and food. End of argument, for *reasonable* people.
People whose reason is clouded by free-sex ideology are a different story.
Ya gotta start somewhere, dont'cha?
I have updated my FMCDH (From My Cold Dead Hands) sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the Marxist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government and the enormous tax burden placed upon the average American to support unconstitutional programs put forth by Marxist ideology.
The government doesn't belong in the legislation of human relationships. The only justification for government involvement in marriage was for the protection of children. Making marriage a special, coveted institution benefits society as a whole.
Marriage ensures, in 99.9% of the cases, that two parents, who are blood relatives, are mutually committed to the care and nuturing of their progeny.
Agreed, however there are still well meaning people who see disingenuousness as a tool that can be used positively to diffuse conflict in order to allow constructive engagement and ultimately allow reason to filter through. Like you, I don't buy it, but I'm convinced that the Bill O'Reillys of the world may!
The IRS is not run by an army of social militants intent on destroying the fabric of society.
I agree that government intrusion is a serious problem, but most of these intrusions are a direct result of rules legislated by SCOTUS.
Welcome to the Judicial Oligarchy of America!
So, given that, as you say, there is a written agenda to which all the arms of Marxism subscribe, why do you suppose the Homosexual Mafia was the easiest group to activate?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at your statement. But I will tell you this, the IRS has been the MOST TYRANNICAL tool the socialists have used in this nation to destroy this society and our freedoms.
The federal income tax code is written to be a catch-22 to where it is impossible to follow all the regulations and where if one regualtion does not work, the socialists can use the opposing regulation to destroy and imprison their enemies, E.I. us.
People who have a position that approximates their agenda that disguises their position that distances their beliefs confuse me. Now I have a headache, and I'll have to go watch a John Wayne movie to clear my mind.
It's not the first time I've considered that other people are better suited to realpolitik, while I should limit my efforts to reproduction ...
I haven't come up with an answer for that. Do you have any ideas?
You know that and I know that, but does a person raised by liberal parents, who attended public schools, who reads the MSM, who received a degree from an American college and who has little religious education have any hope of knowing that?
Bill O'Reilly provides the perfect portal for getting "the brainwashed" into the real world. He helps them to begin the process of questioning the premises that buttress their liberal bastions.
You may be right ... but it's like the people who "believe" in the minimum wage, when every bit of empirical evidence shows that it hurts the poor and minorities most ... or people who "believe" in higher tax rates, when every bit of empirical evidence shows that lower tax rates produce more revenue.
How ignorant are adults allowed to be, before we can conclude that they're deliberately rejecting reality?
You may have asked that , but you haven't answered my question; What rights are homosexuals denied?
If O'Reilly goes down in flames, I'll be the first to arrive with a bag of marshmallows. The way he's treated John O'Neill and the SwiftVets/POWs is only the latest in a long string of outrages.
Agreed. The IRS is an overt institution that enforces the subjugation of citizens, but there are many less obvious government departments that are possible even more controlling. Child Protective Services, for instance--in libertarian lingo--has the power not just to confiscate your property, but to steal your kids as well.
I don't know enough about Bill O'Reilly to judge this point, but I agree with the premise. There is a place for "transitional conservatives." I was always a Republican, but not always conservative. I went through a number of stages (all of which are not clear, in retrospect :-), before arriving at my current positions.
O'Reilly just seems too OLD to be lingering in "Maybe-land."
He has been extremely dismissive of John O'Neill, to the point of inconsistency with many of his own positions.
But that is a recent situation, since this whole thing began to brew. How much of it was a human reaction to FEAR of the liberal attack machine? How much of it was just a stupid attempt to stave of the inevitable?
If we make the mistake of turning our backs on Bill O'Reilly, this will be a huge victory for John Kerry, Al Franken and the rest of their ilk.
You answer my question and I will answer yours.
I liked the guy for about 5 months in the beginning, then got sick of him and turned him off.
I have no clue how he gets the ratings he has at all. It seems to be a greater mystery than the pyramids.
I don't think moral progress is related to age. In my experience, it is more closely related to the ages of one's children and/or serious life tragedies.
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When I went on an assignment to do a story about a K-9 training class in Oconee County on Tuesday, I never thought I'd experience a dog attack. But after some prodding by a couple of deputies, I put on the "bite suit" dog handlers use to protect their bodies while training their K-9 partners.
Actually, I was helped into the thick, stiff garment. At best, my attempts at walking seemed like the stiff movements of a robot from a 1950s movie. Our photographer, A.J. Reynolds, donned one as well and he actually seemed upbeat for the opportunity to face one of the dogs.
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By Wayne firstname.lastname@example.com I was driving along Georgia Highway 72 going through Madison and Elbert counties as I've done so many times on my way to South Carolina. A railroad track parallels much of the route and it seems like every time I travel this old highway dotted with the skeletons of crumbling country stores that I see a train traveling east or west. This stretch of rail track is heavily used, even more so with the new feed mill outside Comer.
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By Wayne firstname.lastname@example.com grave stone epitaph reads "Gone but Not Forgotten."The marker had already fallen from its base, but someone had propped it back from where it had fallen into the sinking grave. On Feb. 2, 1919, Cleveland Cosby died just two months shy of his 33rd birthday. I wonder how many people showed up for his burial on what may have been a cold February day.Does anyone ever visit Cleveland Cosby's grave? Do any of his relatives even know where he was buried some 94 years ago?
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Often while hiking the forests I come across man's waste. A cigarette pack here, a bottle there and a can there. These are often left by hunters. The reason I know is that they are discarded during hunting season.
Most hunters don't trash the woods, otherwise, there would be a lot more trash scattered about. But some leave trash at their campsites and along their trails. Last week I found something else just as disrespectful of the environment.
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On an early recent morning I hiked along a ridge in a vast forest. On both sides of the trail, the tree-covered land dropped steeply. The bottom of one side harbored a small creek, while on the opposite flank a dry ravine anchored the bottom as a catch basin for the gift of rain. Walking this ridge I came up on a hog wallow.
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Folks out in Madison County are trying to raise money to help RaeAnah Eidson and her mom Marcia Colvin when they head to Ohio in June for surgery that could change the little girl's life in a positive way.
I spoke with the family pastor, Rev. Joe Wood at Riverside Baptist in Colbert, today and they are accepting donations to help with their traveling expenses.
If anyone would like to help they can send a check to Riverside Baptist Church, P.O. Box 39, Colbert, Ga. 30628.
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Dorian Bell Named NEC Defensive Player of the Week
Sept. 24, 2012
PITTSBURGH - Duquesne junior linebacker Dorian Bell (Monroeville, Pa./Gateway) earned Northeast Conference Football Defensive Player of the Week honors for his performance in Duquesne's 35-21 win at Bryant on Saturday.
The second-year Ohio State transfer posted a career-high 14 tackles (10 solo) including 1.5 tackles for loss to help the Dukes rally from a 21-17 fourth quarter deficit.
With DU down four and Bryant facing 1st-and-goal at the 4-yard line, Bell met BU preseason All-American running back Jordan Brown, stripped the ball and recovered it at the three. The Dukes rode the momentum-changing play to 18 unanswered points to up their conference win streak to six.
Six of Bell's tackles held Bryant ballcarriers to one or fewer yards.
It is the second career Defensive Player of the Week for Bell who earned the honor once last season. He is the second Duke to be honored this year, joining running back Larry McCoy who was named co-Offensive Player of the Week last week.
Bell ranks third on the team with 27 tackles, including a team-high 18 solo stops. His 9.0 tackles per game and 4.5 tackles for loss are a team-best. He also leads the Dukes with two fumbles forced on the young season.
Duquesne (3-1, 1-0) will be looking to extend both its NEC win streak and home win streak (currently at eight) when it hosts NEC rival Saint Francis, Pa. (2-2, 1-0) for Homecoming on Saturday, Sept. 29 at 1:10 p.m.


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Quite a few classic board games have made the move from your table to the computer or iPad, but it's not often we see things move the other way. So, leave it to CD Projekt RED to defy convention and—in cooperation with Fantasy Flight Games—release The Witcher Adventure Game, based on the popular books and (soon to be) trilogy of RPGs for consoles and Mac/PC.
Ignacy Trzewiczek's The Witcher Adventure Game takes players on a journey across the world of The Witcher as they assume the roles of four beloved characters from the books and computer games: Geralt of Rivia, monster slayer; Dandelion, roguish bard; Triss Merigold, cunning sorceress; and Yarpen Zigrin, dwarven warrior. A variety of quests invite players to hunt monsters, earn gold on dangerous missions, and interact with the characters they meet in a web of alliances and treachery.
As you'd expect from CD Projekt Red, the board game is being developing with meticulous care, with over 350 premium components designed by some of the industry's most acclaimed artists.
But if you're afraid of the cat knocking said components under the oven, you could always go for the iPad/Android version, which is also in development. Either way, expect plenty of this:
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Halle Berry got a total makeover, including blonde hair and shiny gold teeth, to play a designer-name-dropping supershopper in director Robert Townsend's new comedy, B.A.P.S. (short for Black American Princesses). But the actress and Revlon model required no research for the role. "First of all, I love to shop—love it," says Berry, 30, who will cohost the Essence Awards in New York City on April 4. "If I'm in a down mood, I look for a shoe sale. Frankly, I don't think women can have enough shoes. Or makeup." But unlike most models, Berry doesn't fuel up on salads. "I have a weakness for McDonald's Arch Deluxe burgers," says Berry. "I try to hide the McDonald's bag in the backseat of my car, but then I'll see a few other wrappers in there too. Then I have to say, 'Halle, better cool it.' "
Last December, shortly after he wrapped Double Team, his action adventure due April 4, Jean-Claude Van Damme checked into a substance-abuse program at the Daniel Freeman Marina Hospital in Marina del Rey, Calif. "It's better to go in yourself than to crash your car on the freeway and hurt somebody," says Van Damme, 36, who had developed an addiction to sleeping pills. "I was sleeping two or three hours a night. When you train four or five hours [a day], you need your sleep. I became a machine, you know?" Now, says Van Damme, who has reunited with his fourth wife, Darcy LaPier, after filing for divorce in December, "I'm back into a healthy life. I'm a lucky man." But there's one addiction he can't kick. "If I don't train for two or three days, I become crazy," he says. "I need to train. It's my drug."
Former Batbabe Val Kilmer plays another action hero, Simon Templar, in The Saint, a thriller opening April 4, adapted from the TV series (1967-69) that was originally inspired by Leslie Charteris's mystery novels. But off-camera, Kilmer says, he's always fighting his reputation for being difficult. "On the Saint set there was this rumor going around that I demanded to know the astrological sign of all the crew members [before] they could stay on the shoot. It was nonsense," says Kilmer, 37. "One crew member handed me a note that said, 'I'm a Virgo. Can I stay?' " The Saint's multiple disguises came easily to him, though. "I goof around doing voices with my kids," says Kilmer, who has two children with his ex-wife, actress Joanne Whalley. "My son [Jack] has memorized the first 50 words of Hamlet, and he babbles the lines to me, which is really funny, because he's only 21 months old."
In the thriller Smilla's Sense of Snow, Julia Ormond plays a woman wise in the ways of the white stuff. But it took the British actress time to catch the drift. "We're a nation that prays for a white Christmas and never really gets one," says Ormond, 32, who, having grown up in England, had not seen a whole lot of powder until she went to Greenland, where much of Smilla's snowy scenes were filmed last spring. "One day, Bille August [the director] and I were on a dogsled ride," she says. "We had come over the brow of a hill and were headed straight into this lake. There was a bit of shrieking on the sled. They didn't tell us there was six inches of ice below the surface." So what's next for Ormond, currently enjoying the cold comforts of Moscow and Siberia, where she's filming The Barber of Siberia? "Anything with Caribbean in the title would be good," she says.
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John Dudley: Gannon, Mercyhurst hit road for rematch in NCAAs
On Tuesday, the night before his team was scheduled to travel to New Hampshire for today's third round of the NCAA men's soccer playoffs, Gannon men's soccer coach Rob van Rheenen went to the Hammermill Center to watch women's volleyball.
He saw Gannon sweep crosstown rival Mercyhurst in a PSAC playoff match, and he took note of the noise, the crowd and the excitement.
"The atmosphere was fantastic," van Rheenen said. "I don't think we'll see anything like that today."
Not likely.
Although it still will be Gannon-Mercyhurst, today's Division II Atlantic Region championship game between the two teams will play out a long way from home.
A quirk in the bracket has the top-seeded Knights and third-seeded Lakers meeting on the campus of Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H., with the winner moving into the Elite Eight and the loser making a quick turnaround back to Erie.
Although van Rheenen said he joked to Mercyhurst coach Dale White that, as the higher seed, Gannon would have been happy to host the game, the two instead will fly some 578 miles -- on the NCAA's dime -- for a rematch of their regular-season meeting, won by Mercyhurst 4-2.
"It is kind of ironic that we're going halfway across the East Coast to play a team that's nine minutes away on a good run with the lights on," White said.
But whether here or there, it's the playoffs, and the stakes could hardly be higher, a fact not lost on either team.
The Knights (13-5) managed to right themselves following a late-season swoon that saw them lose three straight, including their PSAC playoff opener against Slippery Rock in overtime.
They rebounded Sunday to knock off Davis & Elkins 2-1 at home, and van Rheenen said his team never panicked and didn't let questions from outside about how it retained the region's top seed despite a rough finish affect its preparations.
"There really was never any adversity as far as we were concerned," said van Rheenen, whose 165 victories in 16 seasons put him 30th among active Division II coaches. "I told them to forget what everyone might be saying and enjoy the moment. This doesn't happen all the time. You have to be able to have fun when it does."
That's also what the Lakers have been doing, White said, even though the NCAA sent them to Charleston, W.Va., last weekend for a tense 1-0 victory over the host Golden Eagles that was scoreless until the 87th minute.
Mercyhurst (15-5-1) is nothing if not battle-tested in its fourth consecutive playoff appearance, although this is the program's deepest run in the tournament since 2002.
White, who was named conference coach of the year this week after leading the Lakers to their first PSAC title, said he's not sure what, if anything, his team's win over Gannon on Oct. 27 means today.
In that match, the Lakers trailed 2-1 early in the second half before closing with unanswered goals from Ryan Lund, Sten Marcson and Alex Manea.
"It was tight and essentially we won a free kick which leveled it up, and we were able to finish after that," White said. "We know their strengths and weaknesses and they know ours."
Even so far from Erie, van Rheenen said he's sure the rivalry won't lose any of its edge out on the pitch. It just might be a lot quieter in the stands.
"No matter where Gannon and Mercyhurst play it's a big deal," van Rheenen said. "But I think there will be less pressure for both of us playing where we're playing. It's going to be a little different than if we were back (in Erie)."
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TAMPA — Firefighters battled several unrelated fires that erupted overnight at three different homes.
Tampa Fire Rescue responded to a fire just before 3 a.m. at 1408 23rd St. N at a single family home. The fire was contained to the kitchen.
Investigators determined the fire was caused by cooking left unattended.
At the Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, firefighters received reports of two fires about 11 p.m.
At 4007 Highgate Drive in Valrico, three people ran out of a single family home after hearing a loud bang outside, only to discover the garage engulfed in flames.
In Tampa, firefighters worked another house fire at 7221 Cortez St N., where two residents were awaken by the smell of smoke.
Both fires remained under investigation early Wednesday.
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I'm so in love with everything from renown letterpress design studio Dauphine Press that I spent WAY too much time trying to narrow down which of their products to post for you! I finally had to pull myself away and get back to work! So here's a hint of the great stuff available at their online store – and you can visit their site to check everything out!
Dauphine Press is widely celebrated for their amazing custom letterpress work – like this truly unique "Venetian Journal" save-the-date design… gorgeous!
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I now have my feet to deal with for excersise and camp food to deal with while away at work. I try to eat as natural as possible with what work provides ie: salads, veggies and fruit but, all the curries and sauce covered meats do make it difficult. Can't wait to have a good read here and get started on a healthier lifestyle and get this extra 4.5kg (10lb) off and be back to my 35-36yr old body and be more active with my kids.
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Jason Bateman Owes Film Career to Blackmail
Regis Philbin and Jeff Garlin, plus: Cate Blanchett talks breasts!
Regis Philbin and Jeff Garlin, plus: Cate Blanchett talks breasts!
Even Tay Zonday is laughing at this.
Daryl from the warehouse on the joys of budget movie-making.
Led Zep are set to reform, with John Bonham's son Jason playing drums. Too bad it'll be awful!
Tough shit, Reese Witherspoon!
The store-brand salsa of action movies.
The 'Observer' notices all those wangs everywhere.
Isabel Berglund's cuddly City of Stitches should be the avant-garde mascot for environmentalist types the world over (though we suspect they'd oppose to the cotton medium — is there such a thing as soy yarn?), and pretty much the only tree we'd ever actually hug.
The French actor on being evil, David Cronenberg, and French hip-hop.
"Highly amusing," he called it.
Seth Green on being sort of famous and Phil Collins on why he's such a crappy drummer.
The White Stripes canceled their fall tour this morning citing Meg White's "acute anxiety" and inability to travel. What's to blame for her breakdown?
And our ideas come in handy chart form!
Here at Vulture, we'll pretty much get onboard with anything and everything that Dave Grohl does — he's funny, he's talented, and he's handsome enough to make us forget that the last Foo Fighters single we liked was "Monkey Wrench" ten years ago.
It's obviously too early to call, but we'd like to go on record as predicting that Kanye will definitely, absolutely have the No. 1 album in the country next Wednesday (if we're wrong, Vulture promises to stop recording rap albums).
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Claude Giroux Impresses Canada's Executive Director
Philadelphia Flyers captain Claude Giroux picked the right night to have a strong game.
Giroux, hoping for a spot on Canada's roster for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, had a goal and an assist, four shots on goal and won 16 of 25 faceoffs -- including eight of 11 in the defensive zone -- in the Flyers' 6-3 defeat of the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday.
Watching in person was Canada executive director Steve Yzerman, as well as Detroit coach Mike Babcock, who will reprise his role as Canada's Olympic coach.
Giroux was invited to Hockey Canada's summer evaluation camp but had to skip it while recovering from surgery to repair severed tendons in his index finger sustained in a summer golf outing. However, Yzerman told the Philadelphia Daily News on Wednesday that Giroux's absence from the summer camp wasn't being held against him.
"We would have liked him to come," Yzerman said. "But he was busy rehabbing. That's fine. That doesn't make a difference."
Source: NHL.com Staff