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SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kodiak Networks, a leading mobile solutions innovator, announced today that it has signed a global licensing agreement with Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM)(TSX: RIM) to feature a series of integrated mobile applications including Push-to-Talk (PTT) on BlackBerry® handsets. Kodiak's applications target business and leisure users and are featured on the BlackBerry® Pearl™ available from Cingular Wireless.
"Kodiak Networks is extremely proud to partner with RIM"
The licensing agreement allows RIM to integrate a Java version of the Kodiak handset client with BlackBerry handsets and enables joint development and marketing efforts.
The Kodiak mobile applications capability appeals broadly to all users who need instant communications for personal and professional use. The BlackBerry Pearl from Cingular includes several convenient voice features not available with other PTT systems, such as:
- Availability — Instantly displays the current availability/status of friends, family, and business colleagues to receive a wireless call. Availability states include "Available," "Silent," "Do Not Disturb," and "Unavailable."
- Call Me Alerts — The ability to alert others that a user needs to talk and allows them to call back directly from the PTT button.
- Call Waiting — Allows users to easily accept voice calls and other PTT calls during an existing PTT session.
- Convert to Cellular — Enables BlackBerry Pearl customers to convert an individual or group PTT call instantly to a standard cellular call or instant mobile conference call at the touch of a button.
- Voice Messaging — Easily records and concurrently distributes voice messages to an individual or multiple voicemail boxes without ringing the called parties' telephones. Does not require the caller to remember telephone or PIN numbers.
- Contact List Privacy — Permission-based contact management. Users authorize which contact and group lists they join.
"Kodiak Networks is extremely proud to partner with RIM," said Timothy Hall, vice president of strategic alliances, Kodiak Networks. "We strongly believe that RIM's product innovation combined with market-focused solutions from Kodiak sets a new benchmark for converged, smart devices in the mobile marketplace."
"As a long-standing leader in the smart device market, RIM has an excellent reputation for creating compelling products that address the unique requirements of the mobile professional," said leading analyst Andy Seybold of Outlook4Mobility. "Teaming up with Kodiak to power these devices with unparalleled voice service capabilities is extremely exciting for all segments of the wireless market."
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Kodiak Networks (www.kodiaknetworks.com) provides wireless operators with a comprehensive mobile solutions portfolio that includes a multi-generational IMS platform and the most extensive client offering in the industry. Kodiak Networks offers a variety of integrated mobile applications including Messaging, Conferencing, PTT, and Mobile Presence and Contact Management. The Kodiak solutions portfolio can easily scale from independent operators to multinational carriers utilizing 2G or 3G wireless networks. Kodiak carrier customers include Orange S.A (Europe); Alltel, Amp'd Mobile, Bluegrass Cellular, Cellcom, Cellular South, Cingular Wireless, Carolina West, East Kentucky Network, MTS Allstream and 3Rivers Wireless (North America); Airtel, Idea, and Tata Indicom (India); and IT&E (Guam). Kodiak has licensed its client software to industry leading handset and SIM manufacturers including RIM, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, HTC, Pantech, Palm, Kyocera, Sagem, TCL & Alcatel Mobile Phones, Gemalto and Sagem-Orga.
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Going to be dong a Test E cycle, kicked off with d-bol. I will be on for probably 10 weeks leading up to my meet. (powerlifting)
I have 24 hour weigh ins. should I take d-bol again, after weigh ins the night before and then like 50 mgs before the meet? more? Will this be beneficial for strength the day before and the day of?
Came in to also chime in about the pumps - they might work against you.
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I guess I can see how I feel on the kickstart dose and go from there. The other advantage would be a little bloat to get my gear tighter, not sure if it will do anything in 24 hours though.
Thanks for the replies, ill probably just stick to the original plan, especially if I end up with bad back pumps
Get you some Halo, and pin 1cc suspension 3 hours before the meet!
Or use it 4-5 days before the meet(tne) Then 1.0-1.5 cc 2-3 hours before the meet
I know a PL who takes Anadrol right before the meet and his strength improves as a result. Halo would be another option to consider as well. In addition, there's methyltestosterone and the King of all Kings, Mibolerone - cheque drops. Real Cheque drops are hard to find so I'm told but apparently they will trigger an instant immediate incrdible hulk of strength output like nothing in this world. Halo would be # 2. But the guy I know has success on Anadrol for his meets.
Apparently halo and suspension are your best bets. What about some cheque drops?
hmmm, not sure if i want to go that far out of my way to do something, I was hoping what I have would do something for me. Now that were talking about it though it is very persuasive. What exactly are these cheque drops?
I dont think the cheque drops are what Im looking for.
Thinking of maybe holding my dbol cycle off until 3 weeks before the meet and doing it then. But I would have to see where my body weight was.
You guys think if I use adex during that it will keep water weight down significantly while on it?
Goodluck finding good cheque drops now adays.
eh, not what I need anyway. I dont mind getting fired up, but I need the strength, thinking of doing my d-bol kicker, 8-10 weeks before meet, then doing 3 weeks again leading up to meet on top of the test e
in that short of time halo dosed at 20-30mgs daily would probably give you more strength than the dbol without the water weight added. and you would get some aggro too
Always wondered what the F cheque drops were, sound pretty ridiculous but sweet is busting out some PRs is the goal.
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Seems even halo increases agressiveness. How short of a cycle could I do to gain strength. I deal with customers all day long, and I don't want to choke anyone, seems like I'm already on the verge sometimes. Would just a cooked days be any benefit?


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Saturday, March 24, 2012
Alaska Must Haves
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- Jill, Head Geargal said...
What dates are you coming to AK? that will make a big difference for recommendations. You can hit me up on Twitter too :)
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- March 24, 2012 at 9:14 PM
- A Reel Lady said...
We will be there mid July. Ifmyoumhave restaurant recommendations those are appreciated as well!
- March 25, 2012 at 6:32 AM
- Tom Adair said...
I am very jealous! My wife and I haven't been up there for 6 or 7 years. We rented an RV in Anchorage and spent the next ten driving and camping, it was awesome. Not much to suggest on clothing but don't forget your bear spray or a .454 :) PLENTY of batteries and flash cards for your camera too! Have fun!
- March 25, 2012 at 4:45 PM
- Emily said...
I am jealous also. You are going to have so much fun! I can't wait to hear about it. I'm sure you'll have lots of fun stories to post on your blog. :)
BTW - My blog is no longer found at scentfreelipgloss.com. It is now FromTheDraw.com.
- April 15, 2012 at 3:24 PM
- Tom Adair said...
I saw this post and thought of you. Hope there is something in there of value. http://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2012/04/live-hunt-essential-gear-hunting-fishing-and-trapping-alaska
- April 23, 2012 at 2:57 PM
- Tom Adair said...
I saw this article and thought of your trip. I hope you find it helpful. http://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/2012/04/live-hunt-essential-gear-hunting-fishing-and-trapping-alaska
- April 24, 2012 at 3:22 PM
- Weekend Cowgirl said...
What a great trip! Hope you find all the necessary clothes. Hope you blog about your trip!
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Can't go wrong with camo! Nice rain suit.
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Cardiff School of Biosciences PhD Studentship: The Metabolic Impact of Feeding Patterns - A New Approach to the Obesity Epidemic (PhD Studentship)
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Project Title: The Metabolic Impact of Feeding Patterns. A New Approach to the Obesity Epidemic
Project Description: With the prevalence of adult obesity in the UK projected to reach 60% by 2050, disease prevention has become a top priority. It is remarkable therefore that one potential factor regulating fat deposition, the pattern of feeding, remains poorly understood. Despite evidence that a shift from regular meals to grazing over a 10-year period accounts for an annual rise in daily energy intake of 39kcal, understanding the physiological significance of meal patterns has been hampered by our inability to ensure consistent patterns of feeding in laboratory animals.
We have used a CLAMS-based system to overcome this problem, showing that grazing (eating little and often) increases the efficiency of intra-abdominal fat storage in rats by 27%. This may result from the accompanying sustained rise in circulating ghrelin1, which stimulates feeding behaviour, enhances preference for energy dense foods and promotes fat deposition.
In this project you will test the hypothesis that the pattern of feeding influences the mechanisms underlying obesity. You will use our automated feeding and blood sampling system to establish the effect of grazing and meal feeding on fat deposition and metabolic hormone profiles in rats and mice. You will use single-food acceptance and two food choice tests to establish the effect of these feeding patterns on food preference and palatability as well as feeding pattern effects on the impact of energydense diets on fat deposition. Given our evidence for grazing-induced hyperghrelinaemia, you will quantify the obesogenic effects of feeding patterns in ghrelin- and ghrelin-receptor-null mice and in mice in which the receptor for ghrelin, GHS-R, is only expressed in TH-positive neurones.
Thus, this project, will demonstrate the importance of feeding patterns in the development of obesity and suggest potential therapeutic value of blocking the action of ghrelin.
Supervisors: Dr Tim Wells and Dr D Dwyer
The award includes full UK/EU tuition fees plus a stipend matching the UK Research Council National Minimum (for full-time students in 2012/13 this was £13,590). To be eligible for fees and stipend applicants must be a UK national/ EU national who has been resident in the UK for three years prior to their application/ EU national who has migrant worker status. EU nationals who have not been resident in the UK for three years prior to application/ who do not have migrant worker status are eligible for fees only.
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Larry Doby's route to the major leagues had been mapped by Jackie Robinson three months prior to Doby's July 5, 1947 debut with the Cleveland Indians.But that didn't make Doby's journey any easier – or less important.
Doby was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame 12 years ago this week: March 3, 1998. The Veterans Committee also chose Lee MacPhail, Bullet Joe Rogan and George Davis – and all would be enshrined that summer along with Baseball Writers' Association of America electee Don Sutton.Doby, the first African American player to participate in an American League game, humbly accepted the honor."I knew being accepted (into the major leagues) was going to be hard," Doby said. "But I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks."But Doby was much more than just a social pioneer. The powerful outfielder proved to be one of the American League's most consistent players of the immediate post-World War II era.In 1947, Doby appeared in 29 games – recording just five hits in 32 at-bats. But the next season, Doby won the Indians' starting center fielder job, hitting .301 with 83 runs scored, 14 homers and 66 RBIs while leading the Tribe to the American League pennant. In the World Series, Doby hit .318 to help Cleveland defeat the Boston Braves in six games.Doby was named to his first of seven straight All-Star Games in 1949. He led the AL in home runs in both 1952 and 1954 – hitting 32 each season – and finished second in the AL MVP vote in 1954.Doby retired after the 1959 season. His final career totals: 253 home runs, 970 RBIs and a .283 batting average in 13 big league seasons. He remained active in baseball following his retirement, and in 1978 Doby became the second African-American big league manager when he was hired by the Chicago White Sox.Doby passed away on June 18, 2003.Craig Muder is the director of communications for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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Confidence grows in Craig Bellamy staying with the Melbourne Storm
- From: The Courier-Mail
- January 29, 2013
MELBOURNE are increasingly confident coach Craig Bellamy will shun a big-money offer from the Dragons to accept an estimated $4 million deal with the Storm.
Well-placed sources say Bellamy could formally commit to the Storm in the next fortnight, before the NRL premiers head to England for the World Club Challenge clash against Leeds on February 22.
The former Broncos assistant coach has maintained his silence since fielding a lucrative offer from St George Illawarra in December worth in excess of $5 million over five years.
But the Storm are not letting Bellamy go without a fight.
It is understood the club has discussed a four or five-year arrangement, worth about $1m annually, that will see Bellamy finish his coaching career in Melbourne.
"We are reasonably confident," a Storm insider said last night.
"Craig has kept his cards close to his chest. At the moment it's a 50-50 call but we expect him to stay.
"He wants to get it done before the World Club Challenge, it would be a wrench for him to go."
Storm chief executive Ron Gauci said the club would not put pressure on Bellamy, who said before last year's grand final he had no intention of leaving Melbourne.
"We're being very clear to stay out of it ... we don't want to jeopardise the negotiations with him," Gauci said.
"There's a number of factors he is considering and he deserves time to consider what is best for him."
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Ever Tried Peanuts in Coke?
All kinds of people were doing this in the Midwest in the 60s when I was growing up and in the 70s when I was a teen. I tried it, and, like the earlier poster said, was underwhelmed. Just didn't get what all the fuss was about, but I'm not a huge peanut lover, either. Apparently, people have been doing this for years.
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What about Bobcat Bite in Santa Fe? Their burgers (specifically the green chile cheeseburger) has won a variety of national awards over the years. I had to try it for myself last time I was in SF, and it MOST DEFINITELY should be on this list! Apparently none of your staffers have had it, or it would be!
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What is happening to TALK?
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Dont drink milk if you are eating fish
Food Waste... who's really to blame???
On another level, what bothers me is all the wasted food from buffets. Maybe some places give to the food banks, I don't know, but would be interested to know from the people on here who work as caterers or in restaurants that have buffets.
For instance, we dined at a local Indian restaurant last week and were the last to leave. I looked at the buffet on the way out and there was LOTS of food still left. Also, at the wedding receptions I photograph, since as the photographers, we are always among the last to leave, I see the food left on the buffet tables and 90% of the time there is tons of it, usually high-end foods, i.e., tenderloin, etc. What happens to all this food???? Do these places just constantly over-prepare?
How do I get crispy crust w/ a pizza stone??
@Adam, do you have a link to Kenji's pizza sauce for the above-mentioned pizza? I checked the recipe, but it didn't show the actual sauce part . . . unless somehow I just looked over it.
I ain't eatin' THAT again !!!
Chicken feet. I ate them, but not by choice. I had accidentally ordered them in a Chinese restaurant (the menu was totally in Chinese) and when they placed the plate in front of me, I just dug in, as I certainly wasn't expecting chicken feet. As I was chewing, I figured it out and felt nauseous, they're just not for me. We raised chickens when I was growing up, and I know where those feet have been!
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LOL @dbcurrie! His little smacking sounds were cute : )
11 Burgers That Are Worth the Hype
Glad you included Bobcat Bite . . . I was in NM a couple of weeks ago and made a special effort to go to this out-of-the-way diner. Well worth it--one of the best burgers I've ever had! And the old-style diner atmosphere can't be beat. Be warned, if using your GPS, Google Maps has the location about a mile sooner than it really is. Just keep driving and you'll see it on up the road. I've heard some people have to wait up to an hour or so to get seated, but luckily there was no wait when we went.
Happy Thanksgiving, Serious Eaters
Thankful for the SE crew! You guys do an awesome job and are appreciated. Also thankful for serious eaters out there who contribute comments/recipes/anecdotes and make this site so much fun/interesting/inspiring! Happy T-Day to all : )
Least favorite Thanksgiving dish?
Least favorite? Brussels sprouts. Try as I might, I just can't like 'em.
Grilled Turkey Breast With Cranberry Stuffing
Can this be done in an oven instead?
Dallas: 9 Enchiladas We Love
Every time I go to Dallas I HAVE to eat at El Fenix! They have the best Tex Mex ever!
Chipotle sour cream ideas?
I bought some some of that recently, too, very good stuff! I used mine in some mac & cheese I made from scratch.
The Serious Eats Book: On Sale November 1!
So excited! Will definitely be at my local bookstore on Nov. 1 for this!
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I live in OK and happen to know the Drummond family that Ree married into, and yes, they are the real deal. The Drummond Ranch is a historic ranch in northern OK and is an actual working ranch. I think Ree's recipes and presentation are just as good as anything else out there and the fact that she's created such a successful blog along with everything else she does is just amazing. Just home-schooling 4 kids would do me in! I love it that not only does she feature food on her site, but also photography (along with lots of how-to's), and other things of interest. Quite a multi-tasker, in my opinion.
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Candy-cap mushroom ice cream! Don't knock it till you've tried it.
Taste Test: Ready-to-Drink Lemonade
Count me in for Chick-fil-A lemonade! It is the best, but I think Tropicana is a close 2nd. Just don't get why it got beat out by Minute Maid, which (to me) has an artificial flavor. I also agree with the poster who said Country Time powdered lemonade was good.


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MONTICELLO, NY — The Forestburgh Theatre Arts Center (FTAC) will present three performances of Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" from September 30 to October 2 at the Eugene D. Nesin Theatre, 22 St. John Street. Performances are scheduled for Friday, September 30 and Saturday, October 1 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, October 2 at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $10 for students, $15 for seniors and $20 for general admission.
This 80-minute modernized production has been adapted for the stage by Dana Martin, a director and teaching artist from California who now serves as company manager at Forestburgh Playhouse. Martin said of her re-visioning, "The story of 'The Glass Menagerie' is delicate and painful, as family matters often are. The struggles of these characters are real and startlingly contemporary, so we are letting our own young voices tell this story in a way that this generation of young people can recognize and understand." Visit www.fbplayhouse.org or call 845/794-1194.


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Disposable vs. metal self-feeder
Many asked the question as to whether a metal self-feeder for permanent use would be a better option. Our research revealed that because a metal container becomes dirty and rusts it becomes prone to bacterial growth. Bacterial growth was present in corners of the self-feeder with the infected food. The animal ate the bacterially infected food and became sick. Our self-feeder is disposable and cheap to replace.
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From our research it clearly shows that the self-feeder is a far better option than the normal routine of placing a bowl outside and filling it everyday. Because we are human we tend to feed our dogs at irregular times. The poor animal attacks the bowl and overeats for fear it's human counterpart may forget to feed him tomorrow. Bearing this in mind, animals eat on hunger instincts not for other reasons as we do. Animals do not become obese in nature, it's the human nature that determines our dog's eating habits. Self-feeders are our pet's best choice, it saves us time, money and gives us peace of mind when holidaying.


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|Parishes and Towns
Cross reference to Family History Library microfilm (double-check with the Library)
"Castleinch", or Inchiolaghan, also called Brownstown,
a parish, in the barony of Shillelogher, county of
Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 2 miles (S. W.) from Kilkenny, on the
road to Cork; containing 472 inhabitants. It comprises 3436 statute acres,
and has petty sessions every fortnight. Here is Desart House, the residence
of the Earl of Desart, and the place from which he takes his title. The
mansion is a large and elegant building of hewn stone, in a demesne of more
than 400 plantation acres, which contains some remarkable fine oak timber.
The other principal seats are Castle Bamford, Tinny Park, Bamford glebe.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, united by
act of council, about 1676, to the vicarage of Tullohanbrogue and the
prebend of Outrath, which together form the union of Inchiolaghan and the
corps of the chancellorship of the diocese of Ossory, in the patronage of
the Crown. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 33 acres. The church is
an ancient edifice; it is the burial place of the Cuffe family. In the R.
C. divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of St.
Patrick's, and has a chapel. Here is a public school of about 90 children,
and a private school of about 70.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]
Church Records
Civil Parish: Castleinch (or Incholaghan). RC Parish: St. Patrick's.
Earliest Records: b. Aug 1800; m. Jul 1801.
Civil Roman Catholic Time FHLC
parish parish period number
Castleinch or St Patricks not available
Historical Geography
Townlands (1851)
Edited by Dennis Walsh, last updated 10 Apr 1999
Parish Townland Acres Diocese
Castleinch Aughtanny 171 Ossory
Castleinch Brownstown 209 Ossory
Castleinch Castleinch or Inchyolaghan 447 Ossory
Castleinch Derdimus 129 Ossory
Castleinch Garraun 181 Ossory
Castleinch Glebe 51 Ossory
Castleinch Goslingstown 311 Ossory
Castleinch Grange 25 Ossory
Castleinch Knocklegan 60 Ossory
Castleinch Parkmore 160 Ossory
Castleinch Raheenapisha 212 Ossory
Castleinch Rathaleek 169 Ossory
Castleinch Woodlands 234 Ossory
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
Writer's Block
Writing is not always like this for me though. A couple years ago, I dragged my husband to a poetry reading by Valzhyna Mort. Someone asked her if she planned to publish anymore books in the future, and she answered that she never knows when she's going to receive another poem. She hopes to keep writing, but each poem is a gift, somehow, and they might stop coming.
At the moment, I'm having a hard time. I haven't had one of those joyful epiphanies in awhile, and it starts to make me nervous. Maybe I won't have them anymore. I choke up and stress out over every word I write.
Alternately, I could just clear my throat, let go of vanity and allow the milk to squirt out my nose if necessary, just so I don't die. Seems to be what's happening to me right now. Either I can go fallow, or keep sputtering this stuff out and see what happens.
Just for fun (or not, if you don't like poetry) here's a sample of Mort's poem "Jean-Paul Belmondo" that appeared in the December issue of Poetry Magazine. I rarely return to poems again and again, but this is one of several of Mort's that keeps me coming back:
for you, body and money are the same
as the chicken and the egg.
the metaphor of "a woman's purse"
escapes you.
stealing, you like to mumble:
a purse is a purse is a purse
a real purse in your hand is worth
two metaphorical purses over your mouth.
they tell me
you are a body
anchored to the shore by it's rusting blood.
your wound darkens on your chest like a crow.
i tell them--as agreed--that you are my youth.
an apple that bit into me to forget its own knowledge.
death hands you every new day like a golden coin.
as the bribe grows
it gets harder to turn it down.
your heart of gold gets heavier to carry.
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- Meredith said...
Weaving is a great analogy. I have always been amazed by how deftly you seem to pull those threads together at the end of a post.
It's a rare talent to do that in a flash medium like blogging. Then again, that's the nice thing about blogging--not every post needs to be your masterpiece.
- March 7, 2010 at 9:31 PM
- Dawn Farias said...
Either I can go fallow, or keep sputtering this stuff out and see what happens.
Do you feel you have something to live up to? That would add a lot of pressure, I think.
- March 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM
- Dawn Farias said...
You know, when I first started blogging I was also so excited about it. Going about my day, I would spend so much time thinking of words and phrases. It gave me so much pleasure. Somewhere along the way I lost touch with that.
I've been practicing some detachment from blogging, too, as you've also mentioned. I don't know how to get my excitement about blogging back WITHOUT losing ground in the detachment department.
- March 8, 2010 at 9:01 PM
- BettyDuffy said...
I suppose its not so much that I'm "blocked" or under pressure--except the pressure of my own standards. I'm actually writing as much or more than I ever do. The anxiety comes from writing without direction or end. When I have certainty of reaching a particular outcome, I feel more at ease to take my time on the writing and make it good. When I have no aim, my fear is that the writing itself doesn't have a point.
The upside is that when this happens I'm often surprised by a purpose I didn't know I had, or end up someplace completely unexpected--but revelations take time and are not guaranteed, and I'm often tempted to give up when the clarity doesn't come readily or threatens not to come at all.
I've always rejected the idea of writing with an outline or objective--but as I've gotten older, both spiritually and emotionally, staying on course has taken priority over self-discovery. Nothing beats an outline for staying on course. But I have to consider it a spiritual opportunity when my preconceived outcomes elude me--therefore I need detachment in order to make whatever self-discovery I'm being prompted to make.
- March 9, 2010 at 7:55 AM
- BettyDuffy said...
And thanks, Dawn, for asking the questions, because I'm not sure I would have made it to the above point otherwise. Comments are great.
- March 9, 2010 at 7:58 AM
- Dawn Farias said...
My pleasure.
And I just put my stats back up. For the record. ;)
- March 9, 2010 at 9:28 AM


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|And now, the hardest post I've written for a while.
There's a basic problem with change. It means stuff never stays the same.
Like it or not, evolution is inevitable. That means dinosaurs like me whose brains were programmed back in Vanilla have a stark choice to adapt or unsub. The fact I'm still here, after all this time, makes me believe I must have learnt something in eight years, and not simply about moving out of the crap. I'm not here to talk about what's already been altered in the Hunter class this morning. My job instead is to decide what we don't have that we could benefit from in the future. Herein lies a basic problem with the current evolutionary process.
Hunters are not evolving into more sophisticated creatures. The reality is quite the opposite.
As we discussed a few weeks ago, Blizzard are not happy with increasing the number of abilities classes possess each time we move in to a new expansion. There has been a groundswell of complaint using key phrases like 'ability bloat': the fact that there's TOO MUCH to do. Lots of buttons never get pressed at all, or end up as keybinds, and this means that there is a gulf that appears between those capable of handling the sophistication and those who simply never touch the spells at all. Blizzard's task is to strike a middle ground: to allow two distinct styles of play (PvE/PvP) with the same 'toolkit' of abilities. Oh and before people begin the 'PvE shouldn't get nerfed because of PvP' argument... we're not going to get that kind of revamp, because no class will. What then remains is what we can lose, and how that would affect the class if we did. I have produced a graphic to demonstrate the point.
|Abilities from Wowhead. Wanton destruction from me.
Currently each spec uses a selection of base abilities tied to specialist shots available in each tree. At present Beast Mastery has only two 'specialist' choices (Kill Command/Bestial Wrath) after the last round of PvP 'balancing.' Survival and Marksmanship have 2/3 respectively, which could clearly be reduced. We could happily all survive with two buttons apiece, using the same 'fillers' (Arcane, Cobra) and lose abilities right off the bat. There is an argument for combining Disengage/Deterrence into one ability (because if you're taking damage you'll want to move, and nothing says move more than a giant leap backwards) and losing shots like Concussive, Scatter and Tranquillising altogether, because they could be perceived to be useless in PvE and only valuable in PvP.
As I wrote that last paragraph I could imagine the rage of many, many people reading the words and wondering how I could be so unassumingly brutal with a class I love. The hard fact however is this is what people are suggesting: I just picked the buttons I thought I pressed least in the previous week. The problem for Blizzard right now has absolutely nothing to do with what skills they could conceivably remove, its the reaction to what happens when they do. When you look at a revamp in those terms it is time to grasp the fundamental fact that we can't just take stuff away any more, because someone will get upset. Is the only way forward to throw away the entire template and start again? I don't think we need to be that brutal, I believe a return to a basic set of core values could be the answer.
|From the much missed 35 Yards Out. My tree of choice for many, many many raids.
The basic problem with Hunters is twofold: damage and distinction. Despite Blizzard's best efforts to make each spec comparable to each other, Hunters seem to fixate on the numbers, deferring to the most damage for raiding regardless of abilities given. Of course this isn't true for many who just use the class as relaxation or for farming; for them the issues seem to stem with the identity each spec possesses. Over time basic utility has been sublimated, becoming less and less about the spells and abilities wielded and more about the level of gear you're wearing. Somewhere along the line, the three distinct hunter 'identities' have altered, and if Blizzard simply continue to pare away piecemeal at spells and abilities as they have of late, this may only get worse. What I'd like to see is is a shift back to some 'core' Hunter values:
- More focus on Pet use, specific to each current Spec (not just Exotics for Beast Masters)
- Clear and distinct mechanics for each Spec (using Arcane/Cobra as 'foundation' shots)
- Vanity 'rewards' distinct to each class at Level x 10, plus an emphasis on progressive training.
- Continued investment in abilities not simply during levelling but also at End Game to encourage learning/skill improvement
- Less reliance on gear, move towards a focus on ability
Pets are the cornerstone of the Hunter's toolkit: they allow us to damage without taking it ourselves, they can tank when needed, and currently offer a range of benefits that have been designed to support raiding. I think it is time that every Spec had is own 'speciality' group of pets, not simply the Beast Masters, and those pets could be tailored to augment the basic abilities given to each tree, so that the Hunter could gain benefit not simply in a group environment. I'd also like to see a ground-up rethink of the pet bar and the basic abilities each pet is given. I suspect that there is movement not just for simplification here (do we REALLY need Cower as a standard ability anymore?) but to allow systems similar to Spirit Bond to be created for each Spec. Hunters need to understand from Level 1 that their pet is a part of their gameplay, and so every class should be awarded a benefit from keeping that pet not simply alive but active.
We should fight to maintain a distinct 'mechanic' for each spec, based on the minimum amount of 'basic' shots learnt in the early levels. Giving Hunters Steady Shot at Level 3 is a waste of time, when most will want an instant cast shot like Arcane because it gives the feel of immediate damage. If you are going to teach anything in the first 10 levels let it be that Arcane uses Focus and Cobra will regenerate it, and reinforce that mantra until we reach 100. Build the three specs around those two key pieces of information, so you don't alienate your existing player base and allow the new players to have a clean, simple mechanical basis to your gameplay Most importantly of all, MAKE FOCUS REGEN MATTER at low levels so players do not get lazy and assume you can simply spam one shot until something dies.
When we reach L10, don't give us a ton of spells and abilities to deal with all at once, reward us with something fun instead, and do the same for every 10th level as we go on. Give us coats for our pets to wear that we can pick up in different colours and co-ordinate with our tabards. Consider using the offhand slot we have for something hunter-specific (maybe a net or a whip as was suggested earlier in the week in this column.) Don't just settle for a special Hunter quest at L20 and 50, give us something to keep us going through Outland and Northrend too, that will be usable not simply as we level but when we're done. I'd even argue that the Monk 'Continue Your Training' mechanic would be a great go-to method of making sure people grasp the key abilities and how they come together. Pick three areas across Azeroth not being used, assign a Spec to each 'hub' and let people port there every 10 levels to earn a reward based on understanding what ability does what.
This learning shouldn't stop at Max level either. We have PvP Battlegrounds to help hone skills, how about PvE Training Academies? The 'Proving Grounds' coming in 5.4 will, I know, be a massive success and help players learn how to be better. Let's keep that momentum going with Academies popping up across the Continents. Present a specific 'Hunter Academy' challenge per patch for people to complete, so they can earn a 'badge' to prove how capable a Hunter they are, and at the end of each Expansion be rewarded with something totally unique and hunter-related. It will encourage people not simply to grasp their own spec but the other two, to become a true Master in all senses of the word. The key here is to keep reminding people that being better does require not simply practice, but a basic understanding of the mechanics they need to grasp to make that happen.
Finally, there MUST be a move a way from the reliance on gear as a crutch. The need to allow people to level quickly by simplifying the process with heirlooms and increased regen is a dangerous precedent that needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency. Making players understand that to gain reward requires effort and ability should not be undermined by handing them everything immediately, or by trivialising the entire levelling experience (which is becoming ever more likely with the introduction of XP boosters.) This is a GAME which you need to LEARN TO PLAY. Streamlining the process by removing abilities that confuse or are redundant is all well and good, but only if it is supported by clear instructions on what to do and the consequences that occur if you don't.
In the end, I love my class as it is, but I understand enough about what has happened before to grasp that we need change, and soon. I don't envy Mr Street or his compatriots one bit in the task ahead of them: this will not be easy and people WILL get cross. All I can hope is by stating my case I can encourage more people to do the same, without anger or annoyance, and that all these points can then be heard as the Expansion approaches.


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The library is an underrated place for job seekers to recharge, Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter writes. Libraries sometimes offer classes and other resources for job seekers, but more importantly they offer a much-needed change of scenery. "The simplicity, the order, even the aroma of a library has appeal for some who simply need calm outside of the storm that often swirls around you at your home," she writes.
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"The difference in the game was Falls City's pitching. They shut us down most of the game and we weren't able to string hits together to produce a big offensive inning," said Pettus head coach Anthony Ramirez.
"I told the team that we played well, but Falls City was a little better than we were tonight."
The Beavers broke open a scoreless contest with two runs in the bottom of the second off Eagle starter Aaron Escamilla. A two-out rally that started with a walk, a single and then a bases-clearing triple got the Beavers in front 2-0.
Fall City padded its lead with another two-run outburst in the fourth to make it 4-0.
The Eagles pushed across one run in the fifth as Anthony Camden stroked a leadoff single. Taylor Yeoman moved him to third with another Eagle base hit. Camden then scored on a Falls City passed ball. The Beavers got a double play after Tim Gill walked and then an inning-ending ground ball to stop the Eagle rally.
Robert Hudson went 1-3 at the plate on the night as did Hunter Tomlin, Camden and Yeoman.
Escamilla went the distance on the mound for the Eagles. He gave up three walks and struck out six Beaver batters over his six innings of work.
"We have to keep our heads up because we still have another game to play; we just don't know when and against whom yet. It's now a waiting game for us," Ramirez said.
"A win would've clinched a playoff spot for us but now we have to wait for the outcome of the Runge-Port Aransas game on Monday. A Runge win will give us third place and a first round series with Kingsville Academy. Should Port A win, we would have to have a playoff game for third place Tuesday."
Editors note: The tie for third came about but a tie-breaking rule in the district minutes put the Port Aransas Marlins into the playoffs on points (run differential). The two teams split their season series, but the Marlins defeated the Eagles by six runs in Port Aransas while the Eagles defeated the Marlins by just one run in Pettus.


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Skip to comments.Hillary falls to earth in poll race
Posted on 12/30/2006 6:26:31 PM PST by neverdem
THE first vote is still more than a year away, but the campaign to replace President George W Bush in the White House is already throwing up surprises.
Unfortunately for Senator Hillary Clinton, long the front-runner in the Democratic drive to retake the presidency, most of them are coming at her expense.
A brace of Christmas opinion polls has left Clinton with a political hangover after a year that had appeared to cement her status as the Democrats best-organised, best-financed and best-connected contender for her partys presidential nomination.
Despite winning re-election to the US Senate by a handsome margin in mid-term voting last month, Clinton has had little to celebrate as polls from the presidential primary battlegrounds signalled early trouble for her historic bid to become Americas first woman president.
In Iowa, the Midwestern state that will once again open the primary season with its caucus votes on January 14, 2008, Clinton slumped to fourth place with only 10% of the vote in a survey of 600 likely Democratic voters.
In New Hampshire, which will hold the first full primary eight days later, Clinton had appeared to be cruising comfortably with a 23-point lead over her Democrat rivals until last weekend, when a poll in the Concord Monitor newspaper showed her only one point ahead of Senator Barack Obama, the comparative political newcomer who is considering a similarly historic attempt to become Americas first black president.
Obamas emergence as a charismatic alternative to the Democratic partys veteran leadership and the arrival in the race last week of former Senator John Edwards, the losing vice-presidential candidate in 2004 have electrified Washington and placed Clinton under early pressure to abandon her cautious approach to the presidency and take to the hustings months earlier than she might have planned.
Several Democratic strategists last week urged Clinton to unleash a charisma offensive in the new year to counter the saturated media coverage that has helped propel Obama up the polls.
Clinton has been virtually invisible as first Obama and then Edwards who launched his second presidential bid on Thursday in the back garden of a New Orleans house ruined by Hurricane Katrina have been grabbing campaign headlines.
Last weeks Iowa poll showed Obama and Edwards tied for the primary lead with 22% each.
Clinton supporters argued that their candidates poor showing she was also beaten by Tom Vilsack, the Iowa governor who is considering his own bid for the White House reflected the fact that she was focused on her Senate re-election in New York and did not visit Iowa this year.
Yet Obama hasnt visited Iowa either, and the same poll found that both Obama and Edwards would perform better than Clinton against the likely frontrunners for the Republican nomination former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Senator John McCain of Arizona.
Shes in a quandary right now, acknowledged Ray Strother, a longtime Democratic political consultant.
She doesnt need to start a war of any kind, but I dont think she knows how to handle [Obama], Strother said. I think theyre preoccupied with it right now.
Neither Clinton nor Obama has formally declared that they will be candidates, but Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas, is widely expected to confirm his intentions after spending Christmas in Hawaii discussing the contest with his family.
Before leaving home in Chicago, Obama and his wife Michelle attended a meeting with advisers who presented a campaign simulation complete with mock travel schedules to illustrate the gruelling demands of the race.
Michelle Obama had previously expressed concern that her husband might be vulnerable to a racist assassination attempt, but local reports suggest she has been reassured by secret service briefings on how the 45-year-old senator would be protected.
Clinton, meanwhile, needs no reminder of the perils of the presidency. As the first former first lady to run for the White House, she is not only a battle-hardened campaigner, but she counts among her advisers arguably the shrewdest political strategist in America her husband, former president Bill Clinton.
Few presidents have been as adept as Clinton at charming ordinary voters, but opinion polls have repeatedly indicated that much of America regards Hillary as cold, calculating, strident and ideological.
In one Gallup poll last month 13% said they disliked her 9% said she was riding her husbands coat-tails and 6% called her dishonest.
Both Democrats and Republicans who have worked with the senator in Washington say those negative ratings are unfair, but the challenge for Hillary is to persuade voters especially in Iowa and New Hampshire that she can be as warm and likeable as her husband.
People need to get to know her, said Doug Hattaway, a Washington strategist.
He said he would advise Clinton: Forget the press. Forget the politics. Talk to the voters. Theres no substitute for getting on the ground and interacting with people.
For the other contenders who are hovering at the margins of the race, the main hope is that Democratic voters will prove reluctant to make the unprecedented choice of either a black or a woman in a year when so important an opportunity beckons and Republicans may be vulnerable because of opposition to the war in Iraq. Edwards has already staked out his claim to be the leading white male contender should either Clinton or Obama stumble.
Senator Joseph Biden, who will assume the chairmanship of the Senates foreign affairs committee, may throw in his hat as a possible vice-presidential choice.
There is a vociferous group of liberal Democrats who hope that former vice-president Al Gore can be persuaded to avenge his loss to Bush in 2000.
Even Senator John Kerry, the defeated candidate in 2004, is muttering about a second attempt, although few Democrats appear to be encouraging him.
For now, though, the battle is between Obama and Clinton, neither of whom are likely to wait long before paying their first campaign visits to Iowa.
. . . paranoia, or just a little race-baiting by the reporter?
Gravity meets canckle
Hillary is about as charismatic as a hemorrhoid , and as likeable as a tarantula.
Is this for real....?....
Only thing the clintoon can unleash is an occasional ashtray.
"Charisma Offensive" is code for another face lift.
As Dennis Miller says, Hillery has all the money without the messy trappings of having to earn it.
Why is it the only excitement about Hillery is found at CBS, NBC and CBN?
I can just hear her screeching, strident, atonal voice already...
Even Clinton's lame attempts at charisma are offensive. She just doesn't have it.
the twister sisters
The problem with Obama is he is one of the few candidates out there for who Hillary doesn't posses an FBI file. Fortunately for Hillary, his family history has many nasty skeletons in Africa, and they are also Muslim. Obama himself was a Muslim for 25 years, and likely only converted for the convenience of political ambition.
she's already began the charisma offensive with her appearance on the View a week or two ago. "We need a mother in the White House" schtick.
And probably hasn't had any in decades from what I can see.
She has the "offensive" part alright....it's just the "charisma" she is missing and will never had.
You could use Hillary's "charisma", instead of ice, to keep the beer cold.
Just scares the heck out of me that certain groups of Americans are so obsessed with electing a women president that they would be glomming onto this POS as their candidate!
On this, much of America is right.
But....doesn't that place him in jeopardy from any sword wielding islamic?
The more people get to know Hillary!, the less they like her.
Might as well ask a skunk to emit perfume.
"Instead of just plain old offensive like she is now."
What does it say about women's rights and the whole business of equality, breaking glass ceilings, etc. if..............
if the 1st woman president gets elected only because her husband had been president. If the only way she is a serious candidate is because her husband was president, she's not earning it on her own. In this day and age of equality among the genders, shouldn't a serious female candidate be one who has earned it on her own?
Only trouble with that is, once a Muslim, always a Muslim. You aren't allowed to convert. If you do, they'll kill you, in accordance with the Koran.
Sure, a few Muslims manage to break away, but only by moving to a non-Muslim country and keeping a low profile, or living in secrecy or with armed guards. Can you imagine the reaction when it gets out widely among Muslims around the world that Barack Hussein Obama has betrayed the faith?
Great points!
The rapist enabler is about as charismatic as a jar of leeches.
That's what Colin Powell's wife said when he was considering running; that she doesn't want him to run because 'the white people will kill him.'
"People need to get to know her"??? Like its our job to understand and live with evil? I think there are like, 245 people that once knew Hilary but are now..er..dead.
I've said it many times - she has no charisma and worst of all is not even likable. She cannot win the presidency, therefore not the nomination, and will be out of the race for it early.
Or as they used to say,
"Body by Mack Truck, and legs by Steinway"
(The Billary's first Secret Service moniker was said to be "Lard Butt and Piano Legs".
Obama will settle for 2nd fiddle knowing the top spot is right around the corner
Read his 2nd book
Hopefully Hillary! will sabotage his campaign in good shape.
Iowa is meaningless. She'll announce that she isn't participating, and then ignore the result. Or she'll get a "favorite son" of some kind to get in the race, making the entire exercise meaningless.
Clinton-Obama in 08
Count on it
Is there any other group besides liberal women?
Maybe she knows the name of that park in washington? Hussein needs to find who hired Livingston very quickly. LOL
Hmmmmm . . .
so . . . TWO
Machiavellian, power mongering; greedy, ruthless, evil, satanic tyrants fell today.
How nice.
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Obama, the empty suit has lots of charisma but no beef. Perhaps money will overcome his emptiness. Hil may actually lose to Edwards, the Breck Girl. What a joy!
You both are right on the mark. Clinton and Obama '08 is what they are working on.
There is only one roadblock for Hillary -- http://hillcap.org/default.php?page_id=2
Reporterette: Aren't you worried that your husband is vulnerable to a racist assassination attempt?
Mrs. Obama: I suppose that might be concern. /s
there is no way Queen will be detrhoned ....
My bet is C with O ... with an 51.5% win
Thanks for the link!
A man easily distracted by any blonde with a short skirt...
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RUSH: Okay, we've got the daily Gallup poll. Yesterday it was Obama down by seven. The day before it was Obama down six, likely voters. Today, 51-45 Romney, six points. There's a piece in TheHill.com by A.B. Stoddard. You're starting to see more people write about how Obama's losing it, losing the momentum. Not the election yet, but losing the momentum. The bloom's off the rose. These kinds of stories are being written a little bit more frequently here. In this Gallup poll, this is post-debate now, post-debate number two. They're also learning there wasn't a bounce out of debate two. There was not. Don't doubt me. I'm just telling what the pollsters are saying. No bounce for Obama after the debate.
Why was there was no bounce? It's like I told you he didn't do well. That was my whole point the day after. The only people who thought he won the thing are the inside-the-Beltway eggheads, who are scoring it in ways that the American people don't look at these debates. Points? I'm telling you, Romney is not gonna be penalized for not refuting an Obama lie. Obama telling the lie is the penalty. Romney is not gonna be penalized by voters because he doesn't refute an Obama lie, but these guys score that debate, "Yeah, boy, Romney really blew it. Obama got away with a big whopper there, minus two for Mitt." No, it doesn't work that way. Minus one for Obama for telling the lie, minus one for Obama because Candy Crowley was on his side. The whole next day was about how that whole thing was a lie.
The reason there's no bounce is because he didn't win it, contrary to what the political class thinks. I told you that. Are you asking me this just to irritate me 'cause you like the show when I get irritated? Is that what you're doing in there? You just wanted to hear it? All right. He knew. He knew. You're goading me in there. So the bottom line here is that Obama still 45%; Romney still over 50%.
Let's go to Bob Beckel yesterday on Fox News channel's The Five. The Co-Host Andrea "Tarantula" is speaking to Bob Beckel about the Gallup poll. Yesterday it's seven points. And Andrea Tarantula says, "You have to admit, Bob, there is panic out there. I talked to a senior Democrat in the greenroom a couple of hours ago. I said, 'Shoot straight with me, how much panic is there?' And this Democrat, Bob, told me that there's a lot."
BECKEL: If I were looking at those numbers and I was managing a presidential campaign, I would be upset. If those numbers are correct, it is over. It is over. So, I mean, you're not gonna bring Romney back under 50% from 52. Not a challenger candidate. If that's correct. I have a great deal of admiration for Gallup, but you gotta remember it is outside the margin of error, plus or minus 4%. So it may be 48. I don't know the answer to that.
RUSH: One thing: I don't want anybody going to town yet, because Gallup's the only poll saying this. It's the only one. The others have it either Romney 49-48 or Obama 49-48 or tied 48-48 or 48-47. But in no poll is Obama at 50, and in no poll has he been at 50. His approval isn't at 50. But even if you have a six-point, seven-point spread, there's still Ohio out there. It really... Nothing against those of you live in Ohio, please. It just bugs me that this is gonna come down to one state.
If it came down to Florida, it would bug me. One state? That means the Democrats... If that's what it's gonna come down to is Ohio, they can go everywhere, take every fraudulent cheating resource they've got and put it into Ohio. We shall see. Anyway, Beckel says if it's 52-45 or 51-45, it's over. And he didn't throw Ohio in there. If it's 52-45, that's not quite a landslide, but you're getting there. Here's F. Chuck Todd last night on the NBC Nightly News reporting new polls about the presidential race.
TODD: New NBC News polls in two of those states today show the Obama-Biden ticket still holding a small but significant edge. In Iowa, an eight-point advantage 51-43, and in Wisconsin it's a six point contest: Obama 51, Romney 45. And we saw no real difference in our poll among respondents we talked to before Tuesday's debate compared to those polled last night.
RUSH: See? No debate bounce. And they can't understand that! F. Chuck and his buddies in the media can't understand. They thought Obama cleaned Romney's clock in that debate. Now, the two polls he's talking about here, Wisconsin and Iowa, those are Marist, reported by NBC/Wall Street Journal... I gotta take a break here, but I gotta tell you one interesting fact about these two polls.
RUSH: Nate Silver is the numbers cruncher at the New York Times, and he's pointing everybody to a video at Reuters. "It isn't over! Romney isn't winning anything! Forget the Gallup poll. Romney's not winning anything," and he points to all these other polls out where it's within the margin-of-error tied. I think it's incorrect to say Romney's not winning anything, but the Gallup poll is the only one that's reporting what it's reporting, although Real Clear Politics...
You know, Missouri's in the tank now for Romney. That would put him at 210-and-whatever electoral votes over Obama's 201. Anyway, I want to get some calls, too, in this. This Marist poll of Iowa and Wisconsin with Romney behind in both those polls by five and seven points, six or eight points, whatever it is. The one thing to know about those two state polls: They do not show any change after the first debate. They don't.
Those two state polls, the Marist poll reported by NBC in the Wall Street Journal yesterday... I can't tell you the number of people who sent those polls to me all depressed. "Oh, God, Rush! I knew not to believe Gallup. Oh, God, it's over! Obama's gonna win. Look at this." I looked at it, and I looked at it, and I saw these polls have never changed. They don't change. As far as those two polls were concerned, there wasn't a first debate. So these are the only two polls that don't reflect any difference in their data after the first debate.
RUSH: Here's Scott Rasmussen -- now, I told you there was no Obama bounce after the second debate. Snerdley, insolence. How do you explain that? 'Cause you were here, you heard it. 'Cause he didn't win the debate. That was not an Obama slam dunk, not like the inside-the-Beltway minions think so. Here's Scott Rasmussen. He's on with Megyn Kelly on Fox News, and she said, "What do those numbers tell us about the impact of the presidential debate in Hempstead, Long Island?"
RASMUSSEN: Mitt Romney had a big gain after that first debate. The president had a much better performance in the second debate in Long Island, but it looks like all he managed to do was stop the bleeding. The numbers are not shifting back in his direction; they're holding steady. The fact that Florida and Virginia, Romney increased his lead by a point in each of those states, is really indicative of a very close race. We see the same in some other battleground states.
RUSH: Whoa! Not only did the Bamster not get a bounce, it looked like Romney bumped up a little bit in some battleground states after the second debate. I don't want to sit here and say I told you, but I don't have to. I think you all saw the same debate I did. I'm sure that you thought that Romney could have done better in a couple of points where he coulda slammed Obama into the turf, but in terms of reciting Obama's agenda to him and his economic performance and no rebuttal to it, I'm telling you, it was another very damaging debate for Obama, debate number two was. I don't care what Candy Crowley says. I don't care what people in the establishment say in the way they score the debate. This doesn't surprise me in the slightest.


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