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2014: Army Spc. Ivan Lopez, a 34-year-old Iraq War veteran, shoots and kills three people and wounds 16 more at the Fort Hood Army Base near Killeen, Texas, before taking his own life. The base was previously the scene of a mass shooting in 2009, in which 13 people were killed and more than 30 wounded.
2009: Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is indicted on federal corruption charges for allegedly trying to trade the U.S. senate seat once held by President Barack Obama for financial and political gain. After two trials, Blagojevich would ultimately be found guilty on most of the charges and sentenced to 14 years in federal prison.
2006: More than 60 tornadoes break out across seven states in the central United States, killing 29 people. The hardest hit state was Tennessee, where 24 people were killed by the storms. Four more people were killed in Missouri and one in Illinois.
2005: Pope John Paul II, one of the most influential leaders of the 20th and early 21st centuries, dies of heart failure at the age of 84 at the Vatican City. The pope, who was born Karol Józef Wojtyla on May 18, 1920, in Wadowice, Poland, had suffered from Parkinson's disease for years and his death was the culmination of a series of medical setbacks going back to early February 2005 with influenza that left him hospitalized.
2003: Soul singer Edwin Starr, most famous for Motown singles of the 1970s, including the No. 1 hit "War," dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in Bramcote, Nottinghamshire, England.
1998: Rob Pilatus (left), one half of the pop music duo Milli Vanilli, is found dead at the age of 33 from a suspected alcohol and prescription pill overdose in a Frankfurt, Germany, hotel room. His death was later ruled accidental. Pilatus, along with Fabrice Morvan (right), achieved international success as Milli Vanilli with their 1989 debut album "Girl You Know It's True," winning a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. However, their success was short lived and their Grammy was revoked after it was revealed in 1990 that neither had sung lead vocals on their record and that they lip-synched when performing in concert.
1995: The costliest strike in professional sports history ends when Major League Baseball owners agree to let players play without a contract. The strike, which had begun on Aug. 12, 1994, led to the cancellation of more than 900 games and the entire 1994 postseason and World Series, making the MLB the first professional sport to lose its entire postseason due to a labor dispute. The 1995 season, which was revised to 144 games instead of the normal 162, began on April 24 under the conditions of the expired contract.
1992: In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of five murders, conspiracy to commit murder, racketeering, obstruction of justice, illegal gambling, extortion, tax evasion and loansharking. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole and ultimately died of throat cancer on June 10, 2002, at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. Seen here is the last photo of Gotti, taken by the Bureau of Prisons on Oct. 17, 2001.
1987: Jazz drummer and bandleader Buddy Rich, billed as the world's greatest drummer, dies at age 69 in Los Angeles, California, of heart failure following surgery for a malignant brain tumor.
1984: John Thompson becomes the first black coach to lead his team to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, with his Georgetown Hoyas beating the University of Houston 84-75.
1982: The Falklands War begins with Argentine forces invading and occupying the Falkland Islands and South Georgia, two British overseas territories in the South Atlantic. The British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force, and retake the islands by amphibious assault. The resulting conflict lasted 74 days and ended with the Argentine surrender on June 14, 1982, which returned the islands to British control.
1978: The primetime soap opera drama "Dallas" premieres with the first episode of a planned five-episode miniseries. Originally no more additional episodes were planned, but the show's popularity led to it becoming a regular series, with a total of 357 episodes over 14 seasons through May 3, 1991.
1978: Velcro, the hook-and-loop fastener, first goes on the market. The material was developed by Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral, who was inspired when he noticed how thistle burrs clung to his clothing during a hike in the mountains. The trademarked name Velcro comes from "vel" for velvet and "cro" from the French word crochet, which means hook.
1977: Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes to No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart for the first time. It would end up spending a total of 31 non-consecutive weeks on top of the chart over four separate stints, before falling out of the No. 1 spot for good on Jan. 21, 1978, in favor of the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack.
1977: Actor Michael Fassbender, best known for movies such as "Inglorious Basterds," "X-Men: First Class" and "12 Years a Slave," is born in Heidelberg, Germany.
1974: Tatum O'Neal becomes the youngest Academy Award winner ever, winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the movie "Paper Moon" at the age of 10.
1971: The sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost five-year run. While the show didn't originally include any supernatural elements, it broke new ground when ghosts were introduced about six months into its run. The series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins, played by Jonathan Frid, appeared a year into its run. "Dark Shadows" also featured werewolves, zombies, monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel and a parallel universe.
1968: Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" premieres in Washington, D.C. After its release it garnered a cult following and slowly became a box office hit. Some years after its initial release, it eventually became the highest grossing picture from 1968 in North America.
1966: English author C. S. Forester, best known for the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series and the novel "The African Queen," dies at the age of 66 in Fullerton, California.
1965: Rodney King, who became nationally known after being beaten with excessive force by Los Angeles police officers following a high-speed car chase on March 3, 1991, is born in Sacramento, California.
1961: Actor Christopher Meloni, best known for his roles on the TV series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Oz," is born in Washington, D.C.
1957: Elvis Presley appears for the first time outside the United States, performing at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada. This concert and a show the following day in Ottawa would be the only concerts Presley ever gave outside the U.S.
1956: The soap operas "As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night" premiere on television. The two shows become the first daytime dramas to debut in the 30-minute format. Prior to that date, all serials had been 15 minutes in length.
1951: U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the supreme commander of NATO-Europe.
1949: Actor Ron Palillo, best known for playing Arnold Horshack on the sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," is born in New Haven, Connecticut. He died from a heart attack at age 63 on Aug. 14, 2012.
1947: Country music singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris, a 12-time Grammy winner known for songs such as "If I Could Only Win Your Love," "Two More Bottles of Wine," "To Daddy" and "Heaven Only Knows," is born in Birmingham, Alabama.
1945: Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton, who compiled 324 wins and 3,574 strikeouts in a 23-year MLB career, is born in Clio, Alabama. Sutton played most of his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and also played for the Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels.
1945: Actress Linda Hunt, best known for roles in the movies such as "The Year of Living Dangerously," "Dune," "Silverado" and "Kindergarten Cop" and TV shows like "The Practice" and "NCIS: Los Angeles," is born Lydia Susanna Hunter in Morristown, New Jersey. Hunt won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1984 for "The Year of Living Dangerously."
1942: Rock musician Leon Russell, best known for his hit songs "Tight Rope" and "Lady Blue," is born Claude Russell Bridges in Lawton, Oklahoma. Russell, who has also played with artists such as George Harrison, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Elton John, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson and The Rolling Stones as a session musician, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
1941: Radio personality Dr. Demento, known for his long-running radio show highlighting novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings, is born Barret Eugene Hansen in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1939: Soul and R&B singer-songwriter Marvin Gaye, best known for songs such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)," "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "What's Going On," "Let's Get it On" and "Sexual Healing," is born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. in Washington, D.C. A day before his 45th birthday, on April 1, 1984, Gaye was shot dead by his father after intervening in an argument between his parents over misplaced business documents.
1920: Actor, director and producer Jack Webb, most famous for his role as Sergeant Joe Friday in the radio and television series "Dragnet," is born in Santa Monica, California. He died of a heart attack at age 62 on Dec. 22, 1982.
1917: After the sinking of seven U.S. merchant ships by German submarines and the publication of a telegram from Germany's foreign minister inviting Mexico to join World War I as an ally against the United States, President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany. Congress would declare war four days later.
1914: Actor Alec Guinness, best known for his roles in movies such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago," "A Passage to India" and "Star Wars," is born in London, England. Guinness won an Academy Award for Best Actor for "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and was also nominated for Oscars his acting roles in "The Lavender Hill Mob," "Star Wars" and "Little Dorrit" as well as for the screenplay for 1958's "The Horse's Mouth." He died of liver cancer at age 86 on Aug. 5, 2000.
1908: Actor and dancer Buddy Ebsen, best known for playing Jed Clampett in the sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies," is born Christian Rudolph Ebsen Jr., in Belleville, Illinois. Ebsen also played the title character in the 1970s detective series "Barnaby Jones" and was Fess Parker's sidekick in Walt Disney's "Davy Crockett" miniseries. He also appeared in movies such as "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Born to Dance" and was cast as the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" until he fell ill from an allergy to aluminum dust in the makeup required to play the character. He died of pneumonia at age 95 on July 6, 2003.
1875: Walter Chrysler, the automobile pioneer who founded the Chrysler Corporation, is born in Wamego, Kansas.
1872: Samuel F. B. Morse, the American painter better known as the inventor of the telegraph and the co-inventor of Morse code, dies at the age of 80 in New York City.
1865: During the American Civil War, Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to order the evacuation of both Petersburg and the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
1840: Novelist and critic Émile Zola, a major figure in the political liberalization of France, is born in Paris, France. Zola is most often associated with the renowned 1898 newspaper headline "J'Accuse," in which he addressed French President Félix Faure and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army officer sentenced to penal servitude for life for espionage.
1805: Writer Hans Christian Andersen, best remembered for his fairy tales, including "The Princess and the Pea," "Thumbelina," "The Little Mermaid" and "The Emperor's New Clothes," is born in Odense, Denmark.
1800: Ludwig van Beethoven leads the premiere of his First Symphony in Vienna, Austria.
1792: The Coinage Act is passed, establishing the United States Mint. The act also established the silver dollar as the unit of money in the United States, declared it to be lawful tender, and created a decimal system for U.S. currency.
1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sights Florida, which he believes is an island. He named it La Florida because of the lush landscape and because it was the Easter season, which the Spaniards called Pascua Florida (Festival of Flowers). The following day he and his crew came ashore to seek information and take possession of this new land.
A.D. 742: Charlemagne, the founder of the first empire in western Europe after the fall of Rome, is born near Liège, Frankish Kingdom, in what today is Belgium. Charlemagne (seen here to the right, mounted on a horse and wearing a crown) became king of the Franks, a Germanic tribe in present-day Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and western Germany, in A.D. 771 and worked to unite all Germanic people into one kingdom and to convert his subjects to Christianity. After Pope Leo III crowned him emperor of the Romans in A.D. 800, he encouraged the Carolingian Renaissance, a cultural and intellectual revival in Europe. During his 13-year reign as emperor, Charlemagne expanded his kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of western and central Europe, earning the nickname "Father of Europe."
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So I must be on my way/And face another day – George Harrison, "All Things Must Pass"
REFUGIO – Roland and Mary Patino found it hard to face customers Thursday morning, July 3, although most of them had heard the news.
One student who usually ordered one taco ordered two, saying he wanted to remember how good they tasted.
Another customer said he was going to order 100 tacos and freeze them.
Other customers made El Taco Riendo part of their morning routine.
But with more than 25 years in the restaurant business, the couple who has been married 37 years, said they want to retire.
Roland said he will be 67 years old in October. Mary is 63.
"It's time to retire," he said.
Eventually, the couple plans to move to Austin.
Roland, who is a 1968-69 Vietnam veteran, said he has a great chance at getting a VA home loan, and he would use that to secure a residence in Austin.
Mary said she has a personal reason for moving to Austin.
"My daughter is going to have her second child. This is my last chapter. I just simply want to be a grandmother," she said.
"That's going to be my reward. The baby is coming in November, and it's going to be a blessing," she said.
Roland, too, has his personal reasons, in addition to all of their children living in Austin.
He said he is just plain tired of getting up at 1:30 a.m. every morning, going to the cafe and getting everything ready for the day's business.
"It's a heavy load. It gets hot, and I want to take care. There's no AC in the back," he said.
And that's where the oven and grill are, and "it gets hotter back there."
Roland and Mary have lived in Refugio for 16 years. Roland was originally from Woodsboro, Mary from Donna in the Rio Grande Valley.
The couple started in Woodsboro serving plates instead of tacos.
"We were there about two years," Roland said.
"When they shut down the Country Kitchen, we kept the name and had a little buffet there for three years," Roland said.
Roland cousin kept telling Roland to go into the taco business.
"He was right. I should have listened to him a long time ago," Roland said.
Then, the couple started selling tacos from across Alamo street from H-E-B. That lasted about 11 years, which is when the building slipped into bad shape.
"We shut it down and moved here (404 N. Alamo St. in the Refugio Shopping Center). We've been here about six years," Roland said.
The couple said they were very appreciative from the support they got from the oil and gas crews and from other companies.
"They would order 40 tacos at least – the owners and workers," Mary said.
Mary became a second mom to many of the students who came to El Taco Riendo.
"I had them so spoiled. I knew how they wanted the taco," she said. Mary has an uncanny memory of each customer's specifications for his or her taco.
"We had a guy from Canada come back after a long time. I knew what he wanted," Mary said.
"It was not just a business for me, it was like a relationship. Everybody was so special," she said.
Roland noted that a man who worked on Gov. Perry's campaign gave him his business card and was trying to get Roland to do a taco business in Austin.
So that may become a reality once the couple moves.
Mary gives credit to love for their success.
"Love for me is the best medicine. Love conquers everything," she said.
Meanwhile, the students visited El Taco Riendo like zombies.
No more Bobcats tacos or Eagle tacos, as they were named.
"What are we going to do?" They asked with lost looks on their faces.
Mary said Refugio, Woodsoboro and Austwell-Tivoli kids loved to come in the restaurant and have tacos.
"God is my witness. Some kids didn't have the money, and I'd say that's OK," she said.
Roland said the people of Refugio have been supportive.
"We are very grateful to this town," he said.
He added that customers would come from all over, including Houston, the Valley, Corpus Christi, Austin and Mexico.
"They'd first come to us, and then they always came back," he said.
"That made us feel really good.

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The Hunger Task Force says the brake line in the truck delivering free milk was frozen this morning, so the truck is delayed. It is expected to arrive at about 12:30 p.m.
An unfortunate situation with a large dairy closing in eastern Wisconsin is being turned into an event to help out the entire state.
When Golden Guernsey unexpectedly shut-down earlier this month there was a warehouse full of perfectly good milk left sitting.
Instead of going to waste that milk is being given to food pantries across the state.
In our area Hunger Task Force officials estimate the organization received nearly 4,000 gallons of milk.
On Tuesday, the organization is giving all that milk away.
"This is not only for low-income people. Our agencies that we're serving, 60 local food programs, are going to get their chance first to get their milk. The low-income people will be taken care of first and foremost. But this is an issue of not letting good product go to waste. So if we can move this rather than put it in a landfill somewhere, it's just going to be better for everybody," says Shelly Krause, Executive Director of the Hunger Task Force.
The milk give-away is going to be a drive-up service. Watch for traffic cones which are being donated by a local business.
The drive thru distribution is going on at Bridgeview Plaza on La Crosse's northside from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22. The address is 2330 Rose Street in La Crosse.
Simply drive-up to the truck, and the milk is yours at no cost, while supplies last.


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Suspect makes first appearance in ricin letter case
FBI confirms ricin was found in letters
Matthew Buquet, the suspect in the Ricin letter case, pleaded not guilty to a single charge of mailing a letter threatening to kill Federal Judge Fred Van Sickle in federal court Wednesday afternoon.
During his first appearance, Buquet was assigned a federal public defender and his bail hearing was set for next Tuesday at 2 p.m.
If convicted on the charge of sending a threatening letter, Buquet faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The American Postal Workers Union first alerted its employees about the Ricin letters a week ago Wednesday. Two letters, addressed to the Spokane Post Office and Federal Judge Fred Van Sickle, were mailed May 14, arrived at the post office May 17 and preliminarily tested positive for Ricin, a highly toxic substance made from castor beans for which there is no known antidote.
This discovery prompted the deployment of a National Guard team to Spokane to investigate and help confirm whether or not Ricin was present on the letters.
At the time of the discovery, the APWU told its employees there was no reason to believe any employees were at risk from handling the suspect letters.
The FBI joined the investigation and, on Saturday, participated in a search of the Osmun Apartment at 1st and Oak in Browne's Addition. During that search a man was taken from the building by FBI agents.
A picture of Buquet matches the description of the man neighbors in a Browne's Addition apartment complex say was escorted from the building.
"He just seemed resigned, he wasn't handcuffed or anything. I don't know if he was a suspect or not but he was the only one wearing Bermuda shorts and everyone else was dressed. Who is to say who he is," said Carl Vincent, who lives across the street from where the search warrant was executed Saturday.
On his Facebook page, Buquet, 37, says he's from Bogota, Colombia, studied at electronics engineering at ITT Technical Institute in Spokane Valley and works in maintenance for ABM Industries. A representative from ABM Industries said that Buquet had not worked for that company for more than a month. A representative from ITT Technical Institute said Buquet never went to school there.
It's not known yet what connection Buquet has with Van Sickle that prompted him to allegedly send a threatening letter to him in the mail. Judge Van Sickle has presided over several high profile cases in recent years, including the Kevin Harpham case and the trial of former Spokane Police Officer Karl Thompson.
In those cases, Harpham entered a guilty plea in Sept. 2011 for planting an improvised explosive device along the Martin Luther King Jr. Unity March route in early 2011 while Thompson was convicted and sentenced to 51 months in prison for excessive force and lying to investigators in the Otto Zehm death investigation.
This isn't the first time he has run afoul of the law. Buquet is a registered Level II Sex Offender, having pleaded guilty to child molestation and convicted on an indecent liberties charge in 1998.
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Everything I have been pumping- the twins have been eating and then some. I can't seem to keep up with them and I desperately want to meet their needs and build up a stash. I rented a hospital pump that I should have until Jan 22 (about to renew it for a month) but its way too expensive to keep renting and I'd love to have a stash by then to help until the twins are home and 100% on the boob.
Any advice. I'm having a hard time staying awake to pump at night and sleeping through the alarm but pump every two hours while awake with one breastfeeding session at NICU. I make about 21-24oz a day now to take in to the twins.


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Jefferson County groups build community garden
Some say it takes a village to raise a child. In the case of Jefferson County Community Ministries, it has taken a community to plant a garden.
Faced with the realization that many low-income families who come into the food pantry at JCCM felt as though they could not afford to provide healthy meals to their families, volunteer Dee Taylor and food pantry coordinator Jan Dougherty set out to find a way to incorporate more healthy options to their clients.
"Jan and I are very thankful for the goods donated, but the vast majority of is pre-packaged, canned food, which is very high in sodium and preservatives," Taylor said. "So, we are trying to find a way to create a more balanced meal for people."
The solution to the problem was threefold, and the end result led many individuals and businesses in the community together in helping to provide the solution.
First, in order to produce the fresh fruits and vegetables, there has been a community garden planted along West Third Avenue in Ranson. Volunteer and retired ecologist Bill Gregg was out one recent morning caring for the plants.
"We have tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, string beans, basil and parsley," Gregg said. "We haven't done all of the summer plants like squash and cucumbers, but those will drape over the sides of the raised beds. It's amazing the partnerships that have happened for this."
Those partnerships for the garden project range from the leasing of the three-quarter-of-an-acre garden lot, just four blocks from JCCM, by the city of Ranson to the Ranson branch of BB&T donating volunteer time and funding to build the raised garden beds, which are made from cinder blocks.
And to put it all together, students from the U.S. Forest Service Harpers Ferry Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center built the raised beds.
The second problem was what to do with the food once it's available.
In order to instruct clients on what to do with healthy options and how to make those valuable nutrients last, Karin Kozlowski, food outreach instructor for the West Virginia University Extension Service, designed a series of four cooking classes for food pantry clients.
Held just over the railroad track in Charles Town, Asbury United Methodist Church provided a kitchen space for the program, while Jefferson Medical Center also sponsored the classes, bringing more elements of the community into play.
"The people who come to class get the ingredients to take back home," Taylor said.
The last element is menu planning, which Kozlowski said is the most intricate part of saving money.
"We developed a 30-day menu plan based on a very low-income budget to demonstrate that you can eat healthy on a low income, but it takes some planning to do that," Taylor said. "(Kozlowski) is going to do a session on meal planning and we have recipes to share with people."
Kozlowski recently was teaching the second of her four courses, which covered the topic of whole grains. Other topics in the course are fruits and vegetables and using inexpensive protein sources such as eggs and beans.
For information on how to help the healthy living initiatives of JCCM, call 304-724-3186 or email info(at)jccm.us.
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OMG 2 minutes in and I'm already excited... STAT playing D! Everyone trying to play basketball! We made a set play immediately off the tip! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! *girly scream*
LOL STAT was just telling Tyson to get back and pointing the defense what the hell is going on?!
Why do Clide keep metioning Fieds two misses....this is no longer a single-players game its a team-game wid....Woodson
Fields would be such a great player for us if he could shoot this season...
I haven't seen STAT put in this much effort on D before...he wants to play D...
Wow! Our team looks great!
Sig made by Sons of Thunder
Woodson took Tyson out early to get STAT going a bit at C. Good move. Obviously Chandler will still get his minutes but when STAT is playing D playing him at C is great for his offense.
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"All heretics wish to be styled Catholic, yet if anyone asks them where is the Catholic place of worship none would venture to point out his own."
~ Augustine of Hippo, convert, bishop, theologian, Doctor of the Church; using the early Christian consensus on the name of the Catholic Church to show how even heretics know the true church (from the article Catholic)


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The world today could use an efficiency expert like Harvey Mehlhouse. When the U.S. Treasury wanted to improve operations at the Philadelphia Mint in 1971, Mehlhouse was called in to help. At the time, he was president of Western Electric Company, which had a reputation for running a tight ship. Mehlhouse checked out the Mint's operations, and the Treasury immediately adopted his recommendations for improving production planning, scheduling, quality control and materials handling.
In addition to being the 13th President of Western Electric Company, Mehlhouse was a director of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Sandia Corporation and Uniroyal, Inc. You would think with his impressive resume as an executive that Mehlhouse would have majored in business. But he earned his bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics at a liberal arts school, North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.


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Rage ReviewBy Adam Sessler - Posted Oct 03, 2011
At its heart, Rage is a single-player game and, given Id's historical status in multiplayer design, a daring one. The accomplishments in Rage are manifold but just don't carry through to the game's conclusion.
The Pros
- Outstanding visuals and art direction
- Exceptionally composed combat
- Fascinating sense of place
The Cons
- Pacing fails in second act
- Final mission is abysmal
- No sense of resolution
Rage Review:
Having no new game since 2004's Doom 3 and no new franchise since 1996's Quake, Id Software may have earned the dubious honor of being the Terence Malick of videogames: such sporadic output brings with each release expectation and skepticism.
With this baggage, Rage, both a new game and new franchise from Id, arrives in a distinctly different landscape for the first-person shooter, the very genre Id Software invented. True to form, they have delivered a game with astonishing technical prowess. What is even more satisfying is how the technology works in the service of the game to provide an experience that is decidedly ambitious, contemporary, and distinct. While it's not perfect, it is exceedingly fun.
How The Dinosaurs Felt
Rage takes place in a post-apocalyptic Earth that has been decimated by an asteroid. Anticipating the end of the world, governments sequestered certain citizens deep under the earth in Arks: cryogenic time capsules set to re-emerge at a later date with the hopes that society can be rebuilt.
You play as one of these chosen ones and start the game with your Ark resurfacing. All of your ark-mates are dead except for yourself, as you emerge to an earth that is by no means uninhabited, but a far cry from civilized. Bandits, mutants, and a technologically advanced autocratic force called the Authority, have laid their claim to a wasteland affectionately called. . .the Wasteland.
Quickly, you find yourself in the service of various human groups that have not allied themselves with any of the factions and expect you, with your novel background, to assist them in their survival and eventually, to help foment revolution.
While much has been commented about the similarities between Rage and recent games such as Borderlands and Fallout 3, the game, as the others do, taps into the greater cultural tradition of the Post-Apocalypse as the reinvention of the western (as is typified by the Mad Max films), detailing an untamed, amoral landscape where a loner attempts to make his existential mark. Rage is in lock step with the tradition; however, Id more than manages to distinguish the game as its own through a unique visual and game design.
Wasteland Nightmare
At its heart, Rage is a shooter in an open environment. The Wasteland -- with its two major hubs Wellspring and Subwaytown -- is where missions and sidequests are initiated, and you get opportunities to trade for weapons and supplies, and to race the cars you acquire throughout the game.
The open world alludes to the RPGs or GTAs of gaming, with vast expanses to explore however you may, but in Rage, the open world primarily serves to create a sense of place, and the benefit to the game is significant. The wasteland is a nightmare version of a Roadrunner cartoon with rocky mesas and destroyed highways lying obsolete under oppressive sunlight; tucked away in a corner is the one natural pool of water which assumes a distressing novelty amidst the blight.
The hubs, especially Wellspring, are even better demonstrations of not only the game's visual fidelity, but also its fully articulated art direction. Modeled after a western trading post fit for Gary Cooper, the residents of this dusty dirty form a miasma of styles: old west, Asiatic fantasy warrior, survivalist, huckster, grease monkey and bald thug. All of this, against a backdrop of richly detailed grime and detritus that, coupled with the stunningly elegant and fluid animations, create a visual palette that is almost too much to absorb initially and continues to amaze long into the experience.
The End of The World Never Looked So Good
Making the end of the world so alluring is Rage's signature accomplishment. The game creates a cohesive whole, which gives the action a grounding that many shooters eschew in favor of pell-mell pacing. Rage allows the player to settle into the environment; you discover its oddities and slowly invest in understanding the curious logic that governs this alien world. Such languid unveiling of Rage's mysteries carries the game through most of its considerable length, until the narrative loses interest in reconciliation, showing its structure to be elliptical rather than organic.
Until Rage's unfortunate conclusion, the game treats the player to a host of action set pieces that maintain variety, invention, and excitement throughout. Typically, you will be sent to the lair of one of the numerous factions that inhabit the world to retrieve the item, or just to run the nasties out of the place, which means combat -- solid, satisfying head-splooshing combat.
Your Arsenal Awaits
Throughout Rage, you acquire numerous weapons, none of which fall too far outside of the typical implements of death. Many of these weapons have alternate ammo types -- electrical arrows for the crossbow, armor piercing bullets for the assault rifle and so on -- which become increasingly important as the enemy types become more varied and specific in their behavior. More importantly, the weapons feel hefty and important and the combat controls beautifully: aiming is rock solid and hitting your target leaves you feeling like you're saying something.
In addition, Rage allows the player to create numerous devices and ammo types once a schematic has been acquired and with sufficient ingredients found throughout the game. These range from turrets and sentry bots (with strong AI) to bandages and wingsticks, the 4-pronged boomerangs that can make all the difference in close combat. Of particular note is that these devices can be constructed at any point during the game.
This variety in offensive maneuvering is matched with the enemy types found throughout, which can be classified into three groups: mutant, bandit and Authority. Each plays very differently from one another. The mutants rush in numbers and the Authority plays the most defensively, but within these three types -- especially among the bandits -- are a wide diversity of behaviors that keep every encounter (not just the outfits) fresh. The ghosts are a frighteningly acrobatic group that will swing and leap from bars, Gearheads are armored to the hilt and are more than happy to use advanced devices like the sentry bots, and Jackals have barbaric ingenuity and knowledge of their home base. The AI of these enemies can be remarkably responsive to the environment, not just with their use of cover, but by using alternate routes to flank and group tactics that keep individual moments in the combat sequences vital and invigorating.
Mutant Drama Club
What adds the greatest drama to the combat are the animations that sublimate these tableaus of carnage into something exquisite. The loping ferocity of some mutants or the scramble of bandits to favorable positions once you've been discovered adds an immediate excitement and focus on the moment. Enemies, when shot, can drag themselves desperately behind cover or raise their torso to fire off dying rounds. These small touches, despite becoming familiar as the game progresses, lift the innate repetitiveness of shooting beyond the rote and into something special and exceptional like few other games.
The level design for the various combat scenarios is similarly detailed and thoughtful, lending each instance its own sensibility and significance. Underground lairs can feel cramped, cluttered, and paranoid; an entirely destroyed city looms with abandoned menace and informs the fighting with an odd sense of hopelessness.
In the game's most inspired set piece, cliffs and canyons connected by ziplines and rope-bridges convey a primal degradation that compose the game's most harrowing sequence. As with most of the game, inside these backdrops are carefully composed combat spaces that keep each engagement from feeling like the ones preceding it, maintaining a compulsive momentum that drives the game forward.
The aggregate effect of the meticulously designed components that comprise the action sequences – with the exception of the game's final level – is not only elegant but distinguishes Rage from contemporary shooters, while incorporating all the aspects that define the current generation. The lasting effect champions fun over endurance and, somehow among the geographic misery, a boyish enthusiasm in the creative. It isn't very often that I find myself reloading a save because I could have obliterated my foes with far more invention.
Driving For Fun and Profit
Shooting is not the sole activity in Rage. The game has a substantial and satisfying automotive component. Driving gets you from a hub to a mission point, but there are bandits along the way who need to die in their dune buggies and in town, there are races in which you compete. This could have become a tiresome imposition on the player, but Rage avoids the common pitfalls with two simple designs: strong and reliable driving controls and never having to be in a car for too long. The controls are as strong in driving as they are in shooting, and only improve in satisfaction as you earn upgrades for your vehicles. Being behind the wheel provides strong visceral satisfaction that offers a nice respite from the on-foot combat.
Car combat in the Wasteland is simple and fun and over quickly, never proving an obstruction to getting to the good stuff. Racing is equally satisfying and plays like an adult version of Mario Kart. Although diligent upgrades ensures that some races become quite easy in short order, the rally races, where you attempt to continuously collect spawning points on the map, prove more challenging, especially in the later events.
We'll Be Better Together
Car combat is the sole competitive multiplayer mode in Rage, where up to 4 players can engage in deathmatch or three variants on the Rally format. Due to the strong controls, the car combat is decidedly fun, but will probably be best appreciated when playing with friends. The emergent chaos in the matches should elicit more free-spirited competition than determined success, and the requisite leveling system that opens up new weapons and cars can keep things dynamic while the core gameplay remains relatively simple.
Two-player cooperative, on-foot multiplayer is also available and is most reminiscent of Uncharted 2's offering. You and another player take on side-stories to the single player campaign, each with certain objectives that prevent the missions from devolving into repetitive slaughter fests. The level design doesn't approach the complexity of single player but the controls and tone are consistent and make a nice addition to the package.
Things Fall Apart
At its heart, Rage is a single-player game and, given Id's historical status in multiplayer design, a daring one. The accomplishments in Rage are manifold but just don't carry through to the game's conclusion. The second act of the game, centered in the Eastern Wasteland with the hub of Subwaytown, comprises far less of the game than one would expect (I'd guess a 70/30 split). Instead of building on the awe from the first act, the game narrows in both scope and geography. The stunning vista of a Babel-inspired city, built precariously on top of itself, viewed when first arriving in the region is acknowledged and never visited.
While you have the option to revisit Wellspring (which requires swapping discs on the 360), the game seems to all but abandon story elements and characters, to say nothing of the geography, that have comprised so much of the players attention and investment up to this point. The luxurious indulgence of getting lost in this remarkable gamespace is quickly supplanted with a nagging sense that the game wants to hurry you to its conclusion and be done with it.
The action sequences are as good as preceding ones – in fact, they're among the best – but are now contextualized in a narrative space that feels fragmented and unsure of itself, which diminish their resonance in the overall experience. The unsavory "Mayor" of Subwaytown is ripe with potential, but is unceremoniously removed from the game not long after his introduction, never to reappear. Ambient dialogue hints at potential missions in the strange city above that never manifest and in short order the residents of the town are pushing you out the door to your inevitable expiration in the game.
When that expiration comes in the final level of the game, the life and energy that defined the Rage is sucked out of the screen. Short, uninspired, and slipshod, in its final moments, Rage runs away from denouement into an incoherent mess lacking in narrative, challenge or any sense of finality.
No boss battle, no challenge . . .just identical hallways and elevators, pressing buttons and shooting monsters that jump from shiny closets. The shock of how Rage concludes almost reaches the absurd, as it articulates the criticisms that plagued Doom 3. The game ends on a cliffhanger, but after the final 20 minutes, I was numb to any sense of anticipation or curiosity.
Is This A Satisfactory Ending?
I have played and loved many games with undeserved endings, but Rage moves past letdown to a violation of the player's trust, reframing the mystery and excitement so beautifully unfurled in the preceding hours into something lesser; the carnival barker finally lets you behind the curtain to only belie his bluster.
Rage is an exceptional gaming experience . . . unfortunately, it's a little too memorable.


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The Des Moines Register reports that the survey by the Realtors Land Institute says prices have risen nearly 18 percent since March 2012, to nearly $8,700 an acre. The institute figure was a little more than $4,200 in 2008.
The March figure of nearly $8,700 compares with the Iowa State University farmland price survey through November that showed an average of nearly $8,300 an acre.
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- Parkinson's, employment & quality of life
- Author(s)
- Cooper, Mary-Louise
- Abstract
- Parkinson's is a progressive, neurological condition generally viewed as a disease of the elderly although a large proportion are of working age when diagnosed (15% diagnosed before age 50). Scant attention has been given to employment concerns in the Parkinson's psychosocial literature. The aim of this research was to explore the work experience of people with Parkinson's using qualitative and quantitative approaches. The first study comprised interviews with six individuals with Parkinson's who were working full-time, part-time, or had recently left the workforce. Using a grounded theory approach, the role of work emerged as extremely important in maintaining social participation, a daily routine and sense of purpose. Fatigue, job demands, control, self efficacy and social support (both positive and negative) were identified as the factors most influencing the experience of people with Parkinson's at work. The second study tested the application of the Job Strain Model (Karasek,1979) to people with Parkinson's and incorporated these factors as work and personal characteristics specific to this population. One hundred and sixteen working Australians with Parkinson's (age M = 53.61 years) completed an online survey in relation to their employment subsequent to diagnosis. As predicted, job demands, job control, social support from family and friends, negative social support and self-efficacy were associated with depression. It was hypothesised that, after controlling for age, disease severity and fatigue, the constructs of job demands, job control, self-efficacy and social support (both positive and negative) would predict quality of life and depression. The hypothesis was only partially supported with job demands and self-efficacy emerging as predictors of depression. Self-efficacy buffered the effects of job demands on depression but, contrary to the second and third hypotheses, no other interactive effects were evident. This version of the Job Strain Model adapted to people with Parkinson's did not fully explain the employment experience of this population but emerged as a valuable tool for future research. The occurrence of depression in people with Parkinson's who were working was much lower than that found generally in Parkinson's populations. It was concluded that interventions to improve and maintain employment for people with Parkinson's need to be targeted at increasing self-efficacy rather than decreasing job demands.
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- 2011
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- Chronic disease; Chronic illness; Depression; Employment; Parkinson's disease; Rehabilitation; Self-efficacy; Work
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Kevin Crossett of Guitar Sam and Mary Kay Blouin of Athena's clear the sidewalk outside their stores on Main Street in Montpelier during Friday's storm.
While the rest of New England was coping with a nor'easter, central Vermont was dealing with a storm of its own.
Meteorologist Jessica Neiles with the National Weather Service said the storm that started dumping snow across Vermont early Friday is from a low pressure system that came from the Great Lakes region. The winter storm hitting states like Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire had made its way up the East Coast.
Postal officials report that all post offices in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will be closed today due to dangerous weather conditions forecast throughout the region. There will be no mail delivery as a result. Normal post office hours of operation are expected to resume Monday.
Even though central Vermont's storm wasn't projected to drop several feet of snow, as the nor'easter was, it still left its mark.
Neiles said the first recorded snowfall from the storm came at around 4 a.m. Friday, and by 1 p.m. Barre was reporting 5.8 inches. By noon, Waterbury had 7 inches of snow, and later reported 10. Neiles said the storm should end by noon today and was projected to drop as much as a foot of snow.
Neiles said it was unusual to have two storms so close together, and she did expect them to combine sometime Friday night, but they would be mostly past Vermont by then.
Around central Vermont, emergency crews were certainly feeling the effects of the storm.
In North Danville, a chimney fire broke out at a residence on Wheelock Road before noon Friday. Danville's fire chief, Troy Cochran, said the snow meant that fire crews were slower in getting to the blaze.
"It's pretty typical around this area to deal with snow. It just slows you down, that's all. We just take it in stride," he said.
Cochran said the fire was knocked down within eight to 10 minutes with little damage and no injuries.
Vermont State Police also had their hands full with the storm. Around 7:30 a.m. Friday, state police reported a four-vehicle crash on Interstate 89 in Bolton.
State police said Waterbury resident Briana L. Aylward, 20, was northbound when she lost control of her vehicle, veered to the left and drove through the median. Aylward then struck the driver's side of a vehicle driven by Richmond resident Gregory S. Nagurney Jr., 34, and collided head on with a vehicle driven by Alan J. Andress, 29, of Cape Charles, Va.
Jordan M. Maynard, 27, of St. Albans, was driving behind Andress and rear-ended him when he was unable to stop.
State police say Aylward was taken to Fletcher Allen Health Care with injuries to her right arm and chest that were not considered life-threatening. A passenger in Andress' vehicle, Linda Nolasco, 28, of Richboro, Pa., was also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening chest, abdomen and back injuries.
Everyone involved was said to be wearing their seat belt.
State police reported another multi-vehicle crash near Exit 13 on I-89 in South Burlington shortly after 1 p.m. One southbound lane was blocked, and state police said both northbound lanes had substantial backups.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick issued an order closing all roads to traffic with the exception of public utility, safety and emergency vehicles. Mark Bosma of Vermont Emergency Management said there was no state of emergency in Vermont, despite an erroneous report.
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The summer blockbuster that just came out in movie theaters about the kids and the aliens doesn't make much sense. I went to a matinee last Sunday. It was playing every hour, the way those big movies do. I left feeling a little let down and overall disappointed.
It just wasn't... believable.
Don't you find that the "Summer blockbuster that just came out in theaters" can't quite live up to it's own hype? You've seen the posters everywhere; you've caught those vague TV spots. The pull quotes. That buzz. Spoilers.
It's the alien parts that don't do it for me, you know? I've seen that before and it was done way better that other time. Actually seeing the aliens always lets you off the hook a little. Much scarier when the extraterrestrial is around the corner and you just hear it getting closer. You hear the many feet on the ground, the breathing, the chewing. In your mind it's terrifying. Like accidentally dropping an air conditioner on someone's head.
Last week I found myself up on the east side of Harlem scouting a location for an upcoming shoot. The sun was blisteringly hot. I wore shorts and shoes with no socks. I pulled strongly on the straw of my iced coffee and took a gulp. It was officially summer in NYC. Gershwin was stuck in my head.
"Summertime, and the living is easy."
I'd never been up to East Harlem before. It's a whole different city up there. I stuck out like a sore thumb. But no one seemed to care.
There was a fire hydrant open and kids were playing in it. There was a distinct feeling of community as people hung out on the streets. Besides the current summer beat thumping from a passing car, this it could have been a time warp. The kids laughing and splashing around form a mental timeless summer photograph.
Stuff with kids is always great, even in that summer blockbuster that just came out. Kids always have heart, and watching them (be it on screen or in person) usually reminds me of my own nostalgic adventures through Narrowsburg. I have vivid early '90s images of walking on the train tracks down to Peck's, lazy days on the river, solving imaginary mysteries. But alas, no alien invasions.
Back at home, a fan spins back and forth. Back and forth. Oscillating just sounds hot compared to the cool whoosh of an air conditioner. Ours hasn't been installed yet. It exists; it's right there in the box by the door. But the dimensions don't match the new window and the professional is coming the week after next.
It could just be the laziness talking but, as I mentioned earlier, I have fears of installing the air conditioner myself and then killing someone below on the street accidentally a few weeks later. That would ruin both of our summers.
There's a valuable lesson there: if you wait until the last minute, the air conditioning professionals will be booked and you'll have to wait longer for them to safely install your AC. Also, steer clear of "The summer blockbuster that just came out in movie theaters" unless you want to treat yourself to a trip down memory lane. That's just about all they are good for.
But oh, to be a kid during the summer time, those really were the good old days.
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My 7 month old has had a really bad cold for the past week and although he ate less frequently for the first few days, he is back on his normal schedule. Unfortunately, my right breast is barely making milk now. It doesn't really fill up anymore, it feels kind of limp like it has already been emptied out even though DS still gets some milk out... I've been nursing him longer on my right and when he will, i try to have him nurse on it when he's not hungry, also bought some fenugreek today. I am really concerned that i am partially drying up which would break my heart! I dont have a regular pump because i never really leave where i would need to use it, I only have a handheld electric pump and manual one as well, neither of which has ever rendered as much milk as my son gets when he nurses. I have been trying to use that a little to get my right one workin!
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The graphics are taken from a simulation astronomers created to determine how long it takes for galaxies to complete a merger. By understanding the time it takes for two merging systems to become one normal-looking galaxy, astronomers can calculate how many galaxy encounters happen over time. This information yields important clues about how galaxies have changed throughout the universe's history.
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Short or long flight - the ambience must be just right
Thanks to the cabin interior, which was created by internationally renowned designers, you will feel even more comfortable on your Lufthansa flights within Germany and the rest of Europe. Using high-quality materials and a contemporary colour scheme, carpets, curtains, wall coverings and seats have been perfectly coordinated with the design of the Lufthansa lounges and the cabins in our long-haul fleet.
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The Recaro seat - the centrepiece of the Lufthansa European Comfort - will delight you: its slimline, elegant design provides a surprising amount of room for your knees - considerably more than previously. Plus, in future you will always have easy access to the seat's magazine pocket, as well as to your jacket, even when the table is down. The seat cover also ensures greater comfort as the leather on the seat back is perforated, allowing it to 'breathe'. In Lufthansa Business Class you will also enjoy that little bit more privacy, as the seat next to you is always kept free.
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Bachmann: Name Minn. post office for slain officer
A congressional effort is under way to rename the Cold Spring post office in honor of slain police officer Tom Decker.
Rep. Michele Bachmann says she'll push to formally rename the U.S. post office the "Officer Tommy Decker Memorial Post Office." A spokesman for the Republican told the St. Cloud Times (http://on.sctimes.com/Yh4R0G ) the bill will be cosponsored by every member of the state's congressional delegation.
Decker was killed on duty while responding to call in November. The investigation into his death remains active and there is no suspect in custody.
Bachmann took to the House floor on Tuesday to speak about Decker, calling his life an "example of courage and unparalleled compassion."
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While professionals in supply chain and operations management have been talking about traceability for some time, it seems the general public now is also paying attention. Last Friday, Slate published "Where Does it Come From?" The article set out to tell the typical Slate reader "why traceability is the next great challenge in manufacturing." There's no doubt this is a challenge with which you are familiar.
The article describes a recent recall of 600,000 Mr. Coffee single-cup brewing machines. Unfortunately, the water reservoir on certain models can open unexpectedly, potentially spraying the user with very hot water and coffee grounds. This leaves Mr. Coffee's leaders looking for answers to some important questions, such as: "Is the flaw with the design or the implementation? Where and when were the faulty machines produced? Was it a mistake, or did a supply chain partner skip necessary steps? What's the fastest way to pull these faulty machines out of inventories?"
"But in 2012, finding out exactly how, where, and when something was made is more complicated than it has ever been because the production line is increasingly international and decentralized," Ben Johnson writes. "Most of the things we make and use come cheaper, faster, and farther than ever."
Johnson defines traceability as accurate accounting in manufacturing. The APICS Dictionary, 13th edition, goes further: "1) The attribute allowing the ongoing location of a shipment to be determined. 2) The registering and tracking of parts, processes, and materials used in production, by lot or serial number."
The article connects traceability and radio frequency identification (RFID). "RFID technology could be like putting the bar code on informational steroids. It would give us an almost limitless ability to connect data to a given item we can scan with ease," Johnson writes. "And most importantly, the technology allows that data can be added to or accessed at any time."
Identifying the next revolution
Sanjay Sarma, co-founder of MIT's Auto-ID Labs, is quoted in the article. Sarma thinks that a third industrial revolution will include multinational companies with complicated supply chains, all using a universal standard and technology for logging large amounts of information in enterprise systems and the products themselves. It's no secret that Sarma believes this standard should be RFID.
And, now we see how a simple Slate article moves from traceability and RFID to the concept of big data. While RFID and traceability have been on your radars for years, big data might not have made it there, yet.
At APICS, we're examining what big data means to supply chain and operations management professionals. For survey purposes, big data is unofficially defined as follows: "a collection of data and technology that accesses, integrates, and reports all available data by filtering, correlating, and reporting insights not attainable with past data technologies."
The results of the survey, APICS 2012 Big Data Insights and Innovations, will be available next week exclusively to APICS members. You can visit apics.org to get your free report. In addition, APICS is hosting a panel discussion on the topic at the 2012 APICS International Conference & Expo later this month in Denver, Colorado. Attendees will hear insights from leaders in the industry from Oracle and IFS, and Jonathan Thatcher, APICS director of research, will talk more about the APICS survey on the topic.
If you aren't up to speed on big data, it's time to start paying attention to this critical area of your business. APICS can help you follow the threads and make essential connections to enhance your industry knowledge.
Continue the discussion on the APICS Supply Chain Channel.
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Now that NBA free agency is in full swing, there are rumors running rampant. Last season Jeremy Lin was the center of those rumors and this offseason he finds himself in the middle of trade rumors. The Houston Rockets are currently heavily pursuing Dwight Howard, but according to reports, Howard will only sign with the Rockets if they are willing to bring in a third superstar to go along with himself and James Harden. The only way that could happen would be if the Rockets trade away Jeremy Lin.
As good as Lin is on the basketball court, he really is no better than a bench player. Lin's value is more important when it comes to marketing, putting butts in the seats and selling jerseys. He is more of a celebrity than a basketball player.
In case you have been living under a rock, Lin first became famous as a member of the New York Knicks. When Carmelo Anthony missed a chunk of time last year, Lin stepped in and led the Knicks to several victories. However, he decided to take the most money and sign with the Rockets last offseason.
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As stated previously, Lin brings a lot of attention with him wherever he goes and the Knicks have never been a team to shy away from the spotlight. If Lin would be willing to take a role on the bench, we do believe that New York would welcome him back with open arms.
Regardless of what happens with the Houston Rockets, it is hard to imaging Lin finding himself without a team. There are a ton of places that would love to give him a contract just because of his die-hard fans. As a basketball player in the NBA, as long as you can sell jerseys, you'll have a job.
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I wouldnt watch a game this season.
No!!! His big payday is the year we have a all that cap space
He'd make a great backup PG but not for 14 million!!!
"I'd Rather Melo shoot with 3 men on him than Jefferies shotting wide open"
-Jeff Van Gundy
We've been through so much together as an online community, can we just not do this to ourselves? Seriously, Jeremy Lin offseason Knicks' thread in 2013? I can't do it, I just can't.
Anyway, he's definitely regressed while in Rockets and he clearly doesn't fit there as they just make him a spot-up shooter. That being said, I would prefer us to try to go for CP3 instead since Melo is a good friend of his. Lin is better than Felton, but we need a superstar PG and CP3 would definitely make us contenders even with our currrent broken roster
Favorite Team: Knicks
Favorite Player: D. Rose
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Cp3 just signed a 5 year deal with the Clippers man, what are you talking about? I had to go back and read the date of that post cause I didn't realize people still thought there was a chance we could still get cp3
Fu^k Lin. Letting him go is the only reason I got faith grunnie getting bargs wasn't a bad move. Lin was overrated and is overpaid. Come 2015,I don't want his bum contract being the one thing holding the Knicks back from signing kyrie, hibbert, or kwahi.
When is Lin's contract at 15 million? Stupid Rockets stole him away from us and then want to dump him a year later.
Maybe we can have a Lin/Felton back court LOL! The irony
Would anybody here trade Felton's 3 mil a year deal for Lin who will get a humongous pay day at 15 million in 2014-2015 season
"The Knicks are back" - Amare
As far as I know, Jeremy Lin's hit on the cap will be $8.3 million these two upcoming seasons, not $5 million and then $15 million had the Knicks matched the Rockets' offer.
I think the wacky thing about all this is that Rox GM Daryl Morey is grabbing just about any attractive player he can find, but there is a disconnect between the players he's acquiring and compatibility with the Rox offensive system, which is maybe the most unorthodox in the league. Lin's strength is his midrange game, and Morey grabbed him to play in a "layups and threes" offensive system. When he then acquired James Harden, Lin's assignment was mainly shooting spot-up 3s, which was never a strength of his. Lin's midrange plays were all but muzzled in the Rockets offense.
The big negative with Lin, as I now see it, is while he's talked about improving his jump shot and left hand, the games simply don't bear this out. Lin's weaknesses haven't improved at all since joining the Rox. So either his ceiling is lower than first thought or his work ethic isn't as great as first thought. (If Lin were to stay on the Rockets, he MUST improve his 3pt shot.)
Lin also has developed some bad habits this past season. His jump shot release was a lot slower than it was with the Knicks, and defensively, Lin slacked off the latter part of the season. Although he'd never say it publicly, I really believe Lin was really uncomfortable playing under Coach Kevin McHale. (If you remember all those alley-oops Lin executed with the Knicks, he executed only one all season with the Rox. McHale really dislikes Lin trying "home run" plays.)
If you go to the Rockets forums, fans there want Lin gone. Coach McHale has benched him in the 4th quarter in games for playing poorly in the first three..... (I guess McHale never watched the Knicks-Sixers game on 3/21/2012.) And Ray Felton has made Knicks fans say "Jeremy who?" ..... I think Lin would be best off on a different team, but not necessarily the Knicks.
Summing up, Lin's "poison pill" contract might ultimately end up being poison for Lin himself.
the reason the KNiocks didnt sign Lin is because that 3rd year at 14 million we werent going to pay.. So what makes u think a year later, after a season of Lin playing average or below average, the Knicks want to change their minds now?? Lin's value is down and MSG doesnt need butts in the seats or else they wouldve signed him last season.. His value went down since last off-season.. i swear whoever writes these articles are retarded
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With both of us having a day off after my extended birthday weekend in Edinburgh, I dragged The Writer to the local stables and cajoled him into joining me for a riding less – his first ever.
Despite his protestations that he was almost certainly going to fall off and die, he was actually rather proficient considering it was his first time in the saddle. Instead, considering his complete novice status, there was some excellent progression with the rising trot and a generally thoroughly successful lesson (give or take an incident with the descent from rising trot and the pommel. Ouch). There were even a few strides of canter that didn't shift him. All of which was executed remarkably well given it must be rather harder when one's so tall one's lower legs dangle rather below the belly of one's 15hh steed.
"It was fun," TW said afterwards, a lingering note of surprise in his voice. "I think the horse and I were friends by the end of it." Half a packet of Polos will do that, of course, but I didn't have the heart to tell him that ponies are easily bribed. There has even been some talk of "next time", which I'm taking as the best sign possible that there is the potential for TW to become as addicted as I am.
Of course, that's when the expense kicks in. I'm now fully committed to the equine project, with my next outing being a long hack on the morning of Christmas Eve at the stables where I spent many formative childhood years. Of course, if Monday's ride is anything like the experiences of my childhood, it'll see me haring across the countryside, Thelwell fashion, yelling "He's bolted! I can't stop him!" (Of course, back then, the reality was usually that I'd dug in my teeny heels and relished the surprisingly swift top speed of Fred, Welsh Section B cross and approximately 13hh).
Which necessitates proper get up.
Best Mate has recently put me onto "full seat" breeches, which come complete with synthetic material over the bum which adds friction and, I quote, "helps you stick on in a crisis". Snapped up a pair of those prontissimo, I can tell you. And rather than riding in ancient old boots that have seen a few Edinburgh winters and more than one hike up Arthur's Seat which don't give too much flexibility, I'm going to be investing in a proper pair of riding boots too.
And, given the possibility of a crisis across the flat Home County countryside, a new hat is most certainly in order, given that mine is somewhere in the region of an aeon old and would probably do as much to protect me if I fell off as a tea cosy. "Oh, don't worry too much," The Equestrienne said over lunch when I told her. "They'll only do a quarter of mile flat out before they stop, so you won't go too far."
So actually, maybe horses are less like crack than they are Walter White-style blue meth. Make you feel brilliant; expensive; addictive. Comes with the faintest possibility of a violent death.
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For Immediate Release
February 4, 2009
Number of students taking AP exams in Illinois going up; Increasing number of minority students meeting benchmark for college success
Chicago's Whitney Young High School top in nation for African American students scoring 3 or higher on the AP English Language Exam
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education today announced the number of Illinois students taking and passing AP exams increased in 2008. Illinois also ranked in the upper half of the nation for number of high school seniors – 15.2 percent – who scored 3 or higher on an AP exam in 2008 according to the 5th Annual AP Report to the Nation. In addition, participation among all categories – by gender, ethnicity and class – increased in Illinois.
"We know that a rigorous academic curriculum builds the foundation both for success in the classroom and following graduation,'' said State Superintendent of Education Christopher A. Koch. "We're pleased to see our AP results improve and expect to see the trend continue as we review and revise our Illinois Learning Standards and continue our work with the American Diploma Project.''
Illinois ranked 18th in the nation for having the greatest percent of seniors posting a 3 or higher which studies have shown is predictive of college success and college graduation. The percentage of Illinois students reaching that benchmark has increased since 2003 when 13 percent of students scored a 3 or higher.
Illinois joined the American Diploma Project last October to better prepare students for college and the workforce. Illinois will be among the first states to not only use national benchmarks, but also look at what other countries require of their students. Once the 18-24-month process is completed, it is expected that Illinois Learning Standards will be more focused, easier to understand and more rigorous.
Chicago's Whitney M. Young Magnet High School was singled out in the AP Report to the Nation for having the greatest number of African American students from the class of 2008 scoring 3 or higher on the AP English Language exam. Across the state, increasing numbers of African American and Latino students are participating in AP.
- In Illinois, Hispanic or Latino high school seniors in 2008 represent 13.4 percent of the AP examinee population, up from 9.5 percent in 2003. The number of Hispanic students from all grade levels taking the test in 2008 grew by 19.4 percent since last year and the percent of Hispanic students who scored a 3 or higher on the exam also increased by 19 percent.
- Nationally, Black or African American high school seniors represent 7.8 percent of the AP examinee population. In Illinois, Black or African American seniors in 2008 represent 11.1 percent of the AP examinee population, up from 7.1 percent in 2003. The percentage of Black students from all grade levels taking the test in 2008 grew by 9.3 percent since last year.
- American Indian high school seniors represent less than one percent of AP test takers but the number of American Indian students from all grade levels taking the test in 2008 grew by 7.7 percent since last year and 8 percent more scored a 3 or higher on the exam.
- More than 56 percent of students from all grade levels who took the test in 2008 were females, a 9.6 percent increase over the previous year. Females posting a score of 3 or higher grew by 7.4 percent since last year.
- More low-income students are participating and experiencing success in AP than ever before. Nationally, 17 percent of seniors taking the test in 2008 were low-income students, up from 11.6 percent in the class of 2003. In Illinois, 19 percent of seniors taking the test in 2008 were low-income students, up from 12.3 percent in the class of 2003.
Other highlights of the 5th Annual AP Report to the Nation:
- Across the state, 14.2 percent of the graduating class of 2008 took at least one social science AP exam – more than in any other subject area.
- The most popular AP exam in Illinois for the graduating class of 2008 was U.S. History with 11,150 tests taken compared to the least popular, European History with 3,655 tests taken.
- Across the country, White students represent 64.1 percent of the public school graduating class of 2008 and 60.2 percent of the AP examinee examination


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