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For the Sarahphobics… Who the Heck Else?
posted at 8:36 pm on September 23, 2009 by Dafydd ab Hugh
I've argued before that I don't think Sarah Palin should run for the presidency in 2012: It's too soon, she's too young, she's only an egg. Rather, I believe she should — and I suspect she shall — run for the United States Senate against RINO incrumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK, 58%) — in the Republican primary, of course, not as a third-party candidate. This would accomplish a hat-trick of improvements to her future presidential ambitions, assuming she has any:
- It would keep her in the public eye for the next several years;
- It would give her international "cred" that she currently lacks, having been governor of a small state with little involvement in foreign affairs, compared to the governors of California, Texas, New York, and so forth;
- And it would allow her, even empower her, to barnstorm the country and even foreign venues speechifying, honing her message, getting comfortable upon the world stage, and debating opponents in front of large audiences, each of which is a vital skill for the President of the United States — and of course for a presidential candidate as well.
Such a move would be akin to Reagan's stint as spokesman for General Electric, where he spoke all over the world, working on honing his conservative agenda for America.
But all this talk of career strategy begs the real question: Why do I want her eventually to run for the presidency in the first place? Well, she just gave a speech in what used to be the center for Capitalism in the world — Hong Kong — that very clearly illustrates why Sarah Palin is the most vital and exciting conservative leader to come along since… well, since RR.
On a completely unrelated note, who does this remind you of?
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in what was billed as her first public-speaking engagement outside North America, blamed the world financial crisis on government excesses and called for a new round of deregulation and tax cuts for U.S. businesses.
"We got into this mess because of government interference in the first place," the former Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate said Wednesday at a conference sponsored by investment firm CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. "We're not interested in government fixes, we're interested in freedom," she added.
On the foreign-policy front, she told the room full of bankers and executives of the importance of the global fight against terrorism and of finding ways to engage China as a global power. She said China "rightfully makes a lot of people nervous."
There simply is nobody else on the American political stage who is as clear, as blunt and bold, as realistic, and as morally straightforward as Sarah Louise Palin — not Mitt Romney, not Mike Huckabee, not Michael Steel, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA, 92%), Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, and not even Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, who is rather too compromised by political hucksterism during his time as Chairman of the Republican Party. (Ron Paul is "clear, blunt, and bold," but he fails the "realistic" test.) I very much like each of the above — I even like Ron Paul, just not in public office — and hope for them to continue rising up the ranks; but no one today comes closer to the Reaganite vision than Mrs. Palin.
So what else did she say? It appears to be a bit uncertain, in a Heisenbergian sense…
Wall Street Journal:
On health care, Ms. Palin defended her previous criticisms that the health-care overhaul proposed by Democrats would lead to health-care rationing and what she called "death panels." "It's just common sense that government attempts to solve problems like health care problem will just create new problems." She called for "market friendly" health care reform that gives tax breaks to individuals to buy health insurance.
She did not repeat her attack from last month that the Obama administration's health care proposals would create a "death panel" that would allow federal bureaucrats to decide who is "worthy of health care."
Yes, they're discussing the same speech — except not really, as any post-modernist would argue that a speech comprises both transmission and reception, what the speaker says and what the listener hears; so in a very real sense, the Times listener heard a different speech than did the Journal listener, even though Palin's actual words were the same:
- The speech was not open to media, so every reporter had to get all his information from a recording; it's possible the recording for the Times omitted that section of the speech.
- It's also possible some informant at the speech simply told the Times that she "didn't defend" the death-panels remark… which may be true, depending on what bizarre reimagining the Times writer, Mark McDonald, asked his source about.
Most likely, McDonald has confabulated a memory of Palin's earlier charge that owes more to the idiot misinterpretation of Sen. Johnny Isaksen (R-GA, 76%) than what Palin actually wrote on her Facebook page: McDonald probably thought she had earlier claimed that the "end of life" counselors would interview patients, then say, "We don't like you — so we're going to euthanize you!"
Instead, he heard the very reasonable, but nevertheless damning charge that Journal journalists Jonathan Cheng and Alex Frangos heard (which is exactly what she said the first time)… and then McDonald said to himself, Oho, changing her tune, eh?
Back on the domestic front, Palin put the root cause of our economic woes as succinctly as I've ever seen it put… another ability she shares with Reagan — the pithy summation:
The Fed and the government sent a message to companies that "the bigger that you are, the more problems that you get yourself into, the more likely the government is to bail you out," Palin said in the closed door speech, according to a tape of the event given to Bloomberg News. "Of course the little guys are left out then. We're left holding the bag, all the moms and pops all over America."
Like the 40th president, she comes across like a real person, one of us, while still making clear that she has thought deeply about a number of domestic and foreign-policy issues; and she has core principles that she never compromises, even when she is forced to compromise on policy: The legislative deals she's willing to cut always move us towards the same goals — greater individual liberty, Capitalism, and a secure national defense.
No other GOP leader combines all these virtues; they're either too willing to bargain away vital national principles (such as John McCain throwing free speech under the bus for campaign finance reform, or Bush being willing to accept racial preferences in law-school admissions); or they beep when they talk and just can't connect with ordinary people (Romney); or they're so wrapped up in social conservatism that they're willing to accept out and out socialism, so long as they can get some abortion restrictions in exchange (Huckabee, Buchanan, O'Reilly); or they worship a cranky libertarianism so extreme, they want us to withdraw all our troops home to Fortress America… which is, in my unhumble opinion, utterly insane (Ron Paul, Babar).
She also has a very good eye for the bottom line on China; unlike George W. Bush, she understands that trade and liberty are not two separate issues that can be discussed independently; Capitalism depends upon rule of law, on individual liberty, and on respect for property rights in order to function. From Bloomberg:
"We simply cannot turn a blind eye to China's policies and actions that could undermine international peace and security. China has some 1,000 missiles aimed at Taiwan and no serious observer believes that it poses a military threat to Beijing," she said. "Those same Chinese forces made our friends in Japan and Australia kinda nervous. China provides support for some of the most questionable regimes from Sudan to Burma to Zimbabwe…."
Trade with China will grow, including exports of U.S. high- tech goods, though for that to happen "we need China to improve the rule of law and protect intellectual property," she said. "In the end, though, our economic relationship will truly thrive when Chinese citizens and foreign corporations can hold the Chinese government accountable when their actions are unjust."
(I also love her sense of humor; when she was asked by someone at the talk how she "balanced" her career with her family, she answered, "I have a husband. I could have used a wife.")
There is no question she is a polarizing figure; Breitbart reports that she has the highest negatives of any currently political figure, 55%. But much of that, I am convinced, is because she let the Sarahphobes, Democratic and Republican, define her last year. This speech is her first major attempt to define herself.
And she appears to be angering the right people:
Two US delegates left early, with one saying "it was awful, we couldn't stand it any longer". He declined to be identified….
Several delegates saw the speech as a sign of her ambitions to run as a presidential candidate in 2012 and a useful indication of the potential direction of US politics in the future.
"It was fairly right-wing populist stuff,' one US delegate said….
Another from the United States said: "She frightens me because she strikes a chord with a certain segment of the population and I don't like it."
I bet I can guess the political affiliation of these delegates; the wording of their complaints is a dead giveaway.
Reagan was also a polarizing figure, and there were probably times in his political career when he too would have had very high negatives. But he was nevertheless a commanding presence; and of all the conservative politicians romping about America and the world, Sarah Palin is the only one who has, I think, even a prayer of attaining the stature of a Reagan… if she keeps doing what she is doing and doesn't bury her hegemony in a premature run for the White House.
Let her at least wait until she has the opportunity to give a speech like Reagan gave, introducing Barry Goldwater to the 1964 Republican National Convention. Goldwater lost — but Reagan himself was the big winner that night.
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Month 2: Prototyping
Indie Game Dev Production Prototype Software Engineering
For the first half of July, I was on vacation in northern europe visiting family and friends. As expected, that put a big speed bump into progress. That's okay though, I don't really have a hard due date to hit (yet).
It's always tough to pick up work where I left off after getting back from vacation. I at least had the sense to leave some detailed notes for myself on where I was at and what needed to get done, and just picked a few easy tasks as a way to get back into the code. One thing I'm thankful for is my code commenting and descriptive variable names.
As far as the prototype goes, I've slowed down on progress as I fix a bunch of problems and try to figure out how things should work. I'm a bit unsure on what should and shouldn't go into a prototype. The purpose of a prototype is to quickly test things out to see if they work before spending a lot of time on it in production. My initial thought was that this means you create a quick mock-up of your tentative game design and see how the mechanics work together. But, what about some of the technical challenges I don't quite know how to resolve yet? In my case, I've got up to a few hundred creatures on a battlefield in box formations. Writing the code for the formations isn't as straight forward as it would seem. How does the formation change when members die? How does the formation move from one location to another while maintaining cohesion (cue some flashbacks to bootcamp)? When should a creature attack an enemy creature? If attacking a nearby enemy creature causes the creature to leave formation, how do you determine when its appropriate to break ranks? What about creatures with a ranged attack who can see and target an enemy creature, but doing so requires a change in orientation which is different from the formation orientation. When does a ranged unit reorient themselves from their formation position to attack a nearby enemy? How important is it for a creature to value a command, such as a move order? How much can the creature deviate from that?
Player: "Move over to this position"
Creature: "Okay, got it."
*time passes*
Creature: "Oh hey, there's an enemy creature close to my current position. I'm going to go attack it before returning to my original order!"
Creature: "Hey, that enemy creature is running away and I'm getting pretty far off track. When should I abandon my attack and resume my original orders?"
My principles on prototyping has changed slightly. While the prototype is all going to be thrown away, it's a good way to find these problems and answer them. The exact code/solution discovered by prototyping and play testing can then be copied almost verbatim into the production version of the game and then polished. The uncertainty will always linger though: what is important enough to be included in a prototype vs. what is "just polish" and should be added in during production?
My tentative answer: "If the feature adds significant impacts to how the game is played, it should be included in the prototype."
Example: my creatures reorganize themselves in formation to fill in any gaps when a member dies. It looks pretty and pleases me, but also has tactical significance to the way the game is played because it keeps the front lines unbroken. If a creature dies, its position is filled by the back row, so the fighting continues and it's harder for enemy units to get a "surround" situation.
I ran into a significant challenge earlier this week. I had decided to use my Octree implementation. It was really buggy and causing lots of crashes. That meant that I needed to go back and rethink the code on it. I spent a good day and a half working on trying to get it to work as initially planned -- to update intelligently -- but that was way too complicated. On the train home yesterday, I was reflecting on what a show stopper this challenge was becoming. Once again, I was becoming a victim of premature optimization. Why exactly do I have to be intelligent about what part of the octree I update? It was just a part of an overly engineered wet dream. The whole purpose of an octree is to reduce collision checks to a manageable time, so that when you have hundreds of objects, you're not choking your CPU. I realized that there was no good reason not to just completely trash and rebuild the octree every single frame. The CPU costs of that are negligible and satisfy "prototype quality" code. If I was actually using my octree in production, it would be worth it to get it 100% correct, provided my existing solution is showing performance problems. Again, I know not to optimize prematurely and yet I do it anyways. To avoid that in the future, I need to periodically to a check on myself and think about what I'm doing for at least two minutes. If it costs me two minutes to realize I don't need to do two hours of work, it's worth it.
I have started working on rudimentary artificial intelligence for my creatures. Initially, my approach was very crude (prototype appropriate) but it wasn't robust enough to handle the changes I needed to add. I was creating a few scripted behaviors using if statements and math. If I needed to extend it, I had to dig into this mess of spaghetti code and it was daunting. On many occassions, it got too confusing and complicated and I ended up scraping it and starting over again, only to repeat the same thing. Today, I had a genius idea. Rather than creating a ton of spaghetti code or a large state machine with a massive switch statement, I would create a bunch of "Behavior" functions to handle every possible scenario I could dream up, and then write some code to look for a "situation context" when that behavior should be triggered, and then I use a function pointer which hits the appropriate behavior. It is so much more elegant, much less complicated, and much more extensible.
I also spent a lot of time writing the back end game mechanics infrastructure. To my own surprise, I'm starting to get to the point where all of these detailed game mechanics are coming to life and it is quite thrilling to see it all in action. At this point, my archers use their equipped short bows to shoot arrows at enemy targets which are within their cone of view and in their area of attack. The arrows fly and deal damage to the enemy units, provided they actually hit. Dead units turn into skulls and their positions are filled by surviving members of a unit. I almost have everything done on the tactical battle mechanics front. The last bit is a morale system. Then, it's moving on to letting wizards cast spells on the battlefield, adding additional spells, adding additional units, adding additional weapons, more game mechanics, and trying to keep things balanced and most importantly.... FUN!
If the prototype isn't fun, it's not worth going into production until it is.
I signed my team up to go to a day long game dev conference at Digipen being hosted by Intel. They have some sort of indie game challenge for indie game devs. The top prize is some marketing exposure or something. I certainly am not ready to enter anything into that, but I'm hoping I can get my prototype into a stable, working state by then. If I can, I'll plop it onto my laptop and shop it around informally for some feedback. We'll see. I hope the conference is worth all of the opportunity costs I'll be incurring. I still haven't thought of a game title or company name. That's surprisingly difficult. When people ask me, "Who do you work for? What's you're game called?" I don't really have a good answer. That's going to turn into a problem as time progresses.
Next update in a month! I hope to work hard and bring you something tangible to look at by then!

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My name is Dave. I am a long time gardener and am looking at starting a hive in order to increase pollination rates in our little community garden. Not sure if this is practical or not, which is why I am here. Little bit about me, I am a registered veterinary technician, falconer, and father of a beautiful 18 month old girl.
I am very familiar with the use of forums from my falconry, so hopefully will be able to surf through older threads and find most of my information before I start asking questions. Time to start reading!


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Sunny Room beside 6 tourist attractions! Great value.
מספר אנשים מקסימלי2
חדרי שינה1
גודל7 מטר רבוע
Floor No.3(with elevator)
- מכונת כביסה / מייבש
- גישה לנכים
- מעלית בבניין
- חניה זמינה
- אינטרנט/ אינטרנט אלחוטי
Accommodation summary
|Carrer dels Morabos, 08004 Barcelona, ספרד
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Basic sunny room, sunshine from morning till afternoon. You will be in a tranquil and respectful property sharing with others, so we are not the place stay if you are a party animal.
During your stay with us you will be in one of the greenest parts of Barcelona, where a nearby a TaiChi group of hundreds of people practice from every Sat. & Sun. 9-11am. any level & cost free, if you are interested.
Walking to Las Ramblas, Plaza Catalunya & the beaches within 10-12 mins.
Flats includes ADSL / Wifi with enough room furniture for your stay.
Only deposit for the keys. Require neat person, not party animal. Please give a brief introduction of yourself, thanks.
Free parking available -Walking distance 10-12 mins.
More about the local area, Plaza de España.
One of the city's biggest squares, it is the junction of several major thoroughfares: Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Avinguda del Paral·lel, Carrer de la Creu Coberta and Carrer de Tarragona, and leads to the Palau Nacional through Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, which houses one of Catalonia's finest museums, the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC). It was designed by Josep Amargós. The fountain at the centre of the square was designed by Josep Maria Jujol, a collaborator of Antoni Gaudí, while Miquel Blay designed the statues. The buildings were designed by Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí.
Venetian Towers - they are 47 m (154 ft) tall and lead the way to the MNAC via Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, an avenue commonly used to host trade fairs.
Fira de Barcelona
Parc de Joan Miró - previously known as Parc de l'Escorxador (Abbatoir Park), it is nowadays named after the Catalan painter Joan Miró, whose 22-metre-tall statue Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird) can be seen in one of its corners.
Arenas de Barcelona, a bullring - It was built in 1900 in the Moorish Revival style and has been converted into a shopping center.
כללי הביתRespectful and peaceful apartment shared with others, so not the place for party animals. Please tell us a bit about yourself when booking.
Certain tidiness in the room is required and respect for others in the flat. As a new concept of rental, I ask my guests not too loud in the building or in the flat, not fill the elevator With Other neighbors, you can take our clean & spacious stairs sometimes. A quietness is required after 10:45 pm by spanish law provision. Please close the doors lightly. Be careful When press the door bell, so the neighbors not be "bothered". Try to not fill the elevator with other neighbors, take the next one or use our clean spacious stairs, thank you.
The kitchen is only for breakfast, storing food and heating food in micro-oven. Barcelona have good bread, salami, ham and fruits etc, thanks.(The guests stay here more than 4 days can cook some warm meals)..Do the laundry cost €5 every use.
Try to keep the bathroom floor neat & dry. Ladies do clean up your hair after shower, otherwise your pretty appearance will reduce from 90% to 50%.
Refundable cash deposit against keys due on arrival.
Free parking available -Right beside Palaca Montjuic visitor area, walking to home 5-8 mins, cross a park, or a pay parking, 38€/daily, 18€/9pm.-9am. distance 5 mins.
Supplement applicable for weekends and August stays.
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room only looks nice on the pictures. not very clean, not sunny, loud environment at night, not very clean - even not the bathroom.
The flat is good located ( near the place and station Espanya) and the people at Jen's guest house won't disturb you.
As they don't speak English, you can not chat with them. The flat is good for people who want to be independent.
If a flat very clean is important for you, don't come.
The cleanliness level is very low...
I had a nice stay with a friendly and welcoming host. Room was clean and perfectly located at the Park Montjuic with free parking place nearby. Thank you Jen for all the information.
During our stay, we havn't had the pleasure to meet Jen, but we were welcomed by very nice asian guys. They were very friendly, but neither couldn't really speak english, nor spanish to our surprise. But that was no problem actually. The room itself is quite okay for this price. There is also a fan in the room, which is - although quite dirty - gods gift in hot summer nights. All in all, because of the location and the good price performance ratio, we were quite happy to could stay there for 3 nights ;-)
Very good experience. The place is clean and quiet. Everyone is lovely and makes sure that you enjoy your stay. Highly recommanded.
Jen is very welcoming and gives information very practical on the city: what it is necessary to see and how to move.
Jen does not live in the apartment, but that this is to be shared with the other tenants, that can allow to make of breves knowledge.
- הבטחת איכות מקומות הלינה
- כל מארח מאושר טלפונית
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#FriskyFriday: November 2nd 2012
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Harry Styles is all good with the break up from US country singer and celebrity serial dater Taylor Swift. The One Direction singer and the country star separated in January after dating for several months but Harry is coping well without her in his life. During an interview on London radio station Capital FM, Harry was asked how he's been ...
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Laurent Koscielny says his impressive form this season proves he has adapted to life in the Premier League.
The French defender has the best tackle success rate in the top flight this term - 93 per cent - and has earned a string of plaudits for his displays at the heart of the Arsenal backline.
Koscielny admits that adjusting to English football can be difficult but he is pleased with how he has performed over the course of the season so far.
"I think I've learned at the very top," he told the Official Arsenal Programme.
"This is the most difficult championship for a defender - there are a lot of strikers with different styles so it took me a year to learn and now I think I'm better.
"I know my team-mates, my club and the opposition sides, and feel stronger than before."
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By Scott KacsmarCold Hard Football Facts' Comeback King (@CaptainComeback)
We couldn't even make it two weeks after the Super Bowl before the bizarre off-season storylines came out.
There was the comic-dripping gold of Jeff Garcia training former No. 1 overall pick JaMarcus Russell on his return to the NFL. These training sessions will likely not include any orders of Krispy Kreme donuts; despite the fact Garcia loves them.
But then there was the headline of Vince Young taking out a seven-figure loan to throw himself a $300,000 birthday in 2011 despite the fact he was running low on cash, which comes despite a rookie contract that included $26 million guaranteed. The news came from Ronnie Peoples, a former financial advisor to Young, who of course denies the report.
Though if you have followed Young's career, it would seem to add up with his pattern of odd behavior.
For a man with onion-thick skin off the field and issues on the field, Young did deliver several moments of brilliance to lead his teams to victory. That grace under pressure goes against his normal composure, which would tell us he couldn't do the things he did late in games. But that's part of the allure of Young's rollercoaster career. Timing was everything for him.
Let's take a look back at that career, because this is one story that may have already finished before Young's 30th birthday.
Building hype in college
Young had a fantastic career at Texas, going 30-2 as a starter and winning the Davey O'Brien Award (nation's best quarterback) for his junior year in 2005. In a career with some great comebacks and rushing performances, Young may have saved his best for his final game.
Before the SEC made title games boring, there was an instant classic played in the 2006 Rose Bowl between USC and Texas for the national championship. On a field loaded with future NFL players, Young was named MVP after completing 30 of 40 passes for 267 yards and rushing for 200 yards and three touchdowns.
Down 38-26 with 6:42 left, Young led Texas on consecutive touchdown drives, including the 8-yard game-winning touchdown run on 4th-and-5 with 0:19 left. The comeback ended Pete Carroll's 34-game winning streak at USC.
Even though he completed 65.2 percent of his passes in 2005, Young was very much a running quarterback with 718 passes and 457 rushes at Texas (sacks count as rushes in college). It was not clear how he would translate to the NFL where you need to pass at a much higher ratio to sustain success.
But Young's popularity and success at Texas did make him one of the most-hyped players leading into the 2006 NFL draft.
Five up-and-down years in Tennessee
The draft process was not without incident as Young's infamous Wonderlic score was initially reported to be a six out of a possible 50. His "official" score is a 16, though one has to wonder if he was simply given a do-over.
In the end, it did not hurt his draft stock.
2006: Rookie of the Year
After being passed over by his hometown Houston Texans, Young went No. 3 overall to the Tennessee Titans. He was part of the quarterback class with Matt Leinart (No. 10 to Arizona) and Jay Cutler (No. 11 to Denver). All of these guys have been on multiple teams already.
But Jeff Fisher also brought in veteran Kerry Collins in 2006, and for the next five years the two would alternate the starting quarterback job with injury (to Young) often dictating the choice.
At the end of the five seasons, these were the results:
Same number of losses, twice as many wins for Young despite not a big difference in passing efficiency. Of course Young had the rushing advantage and was much better in the clutch as you will see.
But the "Vince just wins" mantra swung the pendulum from "preposterous crap" to "legitimately carrying the team." After Collins struggled miserably to start the 2006 season, Young took over and led the Titans to an 8-5 record. Seven of the wins were by 1-7 points.
Some of those wins were great performances from Young.
There was a rookie record with a 21-point comeback in the fourth quarter against the Giants. Young passed for 249 yards and two touchdowns, while famously scrambling for a first down after Mathias Kiwanuka gave up on a fourth-down sack. There was a 39-yard rushing touchdown in overtime to beat the Texans in Houston.
Some of the wins were absurd from the quarterback's perspective and more about the team playing at a ridiculous level.
Against Jacksonville, the Titans scored 24 points, and 21 came from interception returns by Pacman Jones and Chris Hope, and a fumble return by Cortland Finnegan. Even on the lone field goal drive by the offense, the drive started at the JAX 14 because of a 70-yard kick return (plus penalty) by Pacman. Young contributed essentially nothing to the win.
In a big win over the 10-1 Colts, Young had two interceptions. But to end the game, Rob Bironas kicked a 60-yard game-winning field goal. Young's 66.7 passer rating ranked 30th in the league in 2006. He did rush for 552 yards and seven touchdowns, which would both be career highs. Young rushed for five touchdowns the rest of his career.
But for his overall effort, Young won Offensive Rookie of the Year and made the Pro Bowl as an alternate. Before the recent rookie explosion in the NFL, these were very rare feats for any rookie quarterback.
Despite the early accolades, Young was quoted as saying he thought about retiring from football after his rookie season. Young would recant those remarks, but the fact it was even a story in the first place is very unusual for a player coming off a successful rookie season.
2007: Lone playoff season
With an improved defense, Young had a bit more success in 2007 with the Titans making the playoffs, but individually he did not have as many flashy plays nor did he lead a single game-winning drive. In fact it was Collins coming off the bench twice in Houston and Indianapolis (Week 17) for an injured Young to deliver wins that pushed the Titans to 10-6 and the postseason. Collins also won his only start of the season.
In the 2007 AFC Wild Card game in San Diego, Young struggled to move the offense, completing 16 of 29 passes for 138 yards and an interception in a 17-6 loss. It would be the only playoff game of Young's career.
2008: Injury and depression
The good times did not last long for Young.
Young injured his knee in the 2008 season opener. Two days later Young disappeared without his cell phone. He was reportedly depressed after the home crowd booed him for an interception. A fear of suicide was linked to the story, though Young's agent said the story was blown out of proportion. This seems to be the common theme with Young's off-field problems. Someone always denies it for him, but how much needs to be out there before a pattern of bad choices is clearly established?
After the team was winning with Collins, Fisher decided to keep Young as the backup for the rest of the season. Tennessee started 10-0 and finished 13-3; the best regular-season record in the league in 2008.
2009: Return to the Pro Bowl
Collins remained the starter in 2009, though with his struggles and the defense regressing – it does not get much worse than a 59-0 loss in New England – the Titans started 0-6. Following the bye week, Young regained his job as starting quarterback and led a second-half rebound: Tennessee finished 8-2 only losing to Indianapolis and San Diego, who were both on long winning streaks.
Young was actually playing at a Pro Bowl-level this time, and again was pulling out improbable close wins. He had six game-winning drives in 10 starts after not having any since his rookie season.
Despite not being one of the first five options, Young made the Pro Bowl as an alternate for the second time in his career. He actually had more Pro Bowl selections until the 2011 season ended than Ben Roethlisberger and Aaron Rodgers did. Young is one of eight quarterbacks to start their careers after 1960, make multiple Pro Bowls, and have more Pro Bowl appearances than postseason starts.
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It was clear Fisher had to keep Young as the starter again, who was a good match with running back Chris Johnson in the backfield. Johnson rushed for 2,006 yards in 2009.
2010: End of Fisher, end of Young in Tennessee
Based on ESPN's QBR, Young did maintain his Pro Bowl-level of play in 2010, with a 70.6 QBR after a 70.3 QBR in 2009. However, Young only threw for more than 175 yards in one game.
After a 4-2 start, Young lost the last three games he played in, including a Week 11 game against Washington he failed to finish because of a thumb injury. Young thought he was going to reenter the game, but never did. Afterwards he had a post-game meltdown on Fisher, cursing and storming out of the room. Young threw his jersey and shoulder pads into the stands.
When Fisher announced Rusty Smith would be the starter, that was the end of Young in Tennessee. Fisher was gone first after the season, but the Titans released Young on July 28, 2011.
And like that, he was gone.
2011-12: After the Titans
It only took a day for Young to get a new job (one-year deal), though that team can only dream they never made the move.
Young went to Philadelphia where Andy Reid has always done a great job with maximizing a quarterback's talent. Michael Vick always gets hurt too, so Young did start three games in the 2011 season.
But before the season Young proclaimed the Eagles as a "dream team" due to all the preseason hype they received for collecting talent. The results were a disappointing 8-8 finish in which the team started 1-4 and 4-8.
At least Young's first Philadelphia start included a brilliant game-winning drive against the Giants on Sunday Night Football. Young had thrown three interceptions on the night, but with the game tied 10-10 in the fourth quarter, he led an 18-play, 80-yard touchdown drive that took 8:51 off the clock. Philadelphia converted six straight third downs, and Young was 7-of-9 for 67 yards and the game-winning touchdown. He also ran twice for four yards.
But any hope of a return to form for Young was squashed after losses of 18 and 17 points against New England and Seattle respectively. Young threw nine interceptions on just 114 passes in 2011 for the Eagles.
Going to the Buffalo Bills last May, Young failed to survive the preseason. Two days after Young finished 12/26 for 103 yards and two bad interceptions against Pittsburgh, the Bills cut him on August 27, 2012.
Since then Young has been out of the NFL, and relatively out of the headlines until this week's news about the embarrassing reasons he took out a loan during the 2011 lockout.
Young needs a comeback in a big way, which is something he used to be good at.
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In his career Young was 7-9 (.438) at fourth-quarter comeback opportunities, which is a very good record. But when you add in the game-winning drive opportunities, then Young's overall record at clutch wins is 13-11 (.542), which is the third-highest documented percentage ever (min. 20 games).
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After you pick up your jaw, consider that virtually all of Young's success came in 2006 and 2009. He had 11 of his 13 game-winning drives in those seasons.
Young's four fourth-quarter comeback wins in 2006 tied the rookie regular-season record held by Ben Roethlisberger (2004), Andy Dalton (2011) and Andrew Luck (2012). He also tied Roethlisberger with the rookie regular-season record for game-winning drives with five, but Luck (7) broke that this season.
Even at 24 games it is still a small sample size, and it is unlikely Young could continue his success. Right now it does not look like he can even continue his career in the NFL.
As mentioned before with the fluky Kiwanuka play and incredible 60-yard field goal to beat the 2006 Colts, some of Young's wins were hardly the stuff of quarterback legend:
10/15/2006 at Washington: After a series of three-and-out drives enabled Washington to tie the game, Young handed the ball off five times in a row as Rob Bironas kicked the 30-yard game-winning field goal with 5:11 left. Mark Brunell threw an interception to seal the win.
12/20/2009 vs. Miami: After Miami erased a 24-9 deficit to force overtime, Chad Henne threw an interception returned to the MIA 27. Chris Johnson ran the ball three times for -1 yard before Bironas kicked the 46-yard game-winning field goal.
10/10/2010 at Dallas: On two go-ahead touchdown drives, the Titans started at the DAL 1 and the DAL 5. Johnson gained all the yards for both scores.
Those were three game-winning drives where Young literally did nothing. Here are the stats on all of Young's drive in clutch opportunities compared to the rest of his career.
Vince Young in the Clutch (Including Playoffs)
Young's stats in clutch situations bolster the fact that he was not overly exceptional in a lot of these moments, at least not with his passing. The only real improvement came in his TD:INT ratio.
But when you look at the full picture of 24 games, you do see a lot of positives and ways the record actually could have been even better. In the 11 losses, Young only finished multiple drive attempts on three of them, and his team had a fourth-quarter lead five times. There were a few losses where he had little-to-nothing to do with the loss:
11/12/2006 vs. Baltimore: Defense blew a 26-17 lead in the fourth quarter. After Steve McNair led a comeback for a 27-26 lead, Young had 1:50 left. He drove the offense to the BAL 31 before the conservative Fisher went with three runs. Bironas' 43-yard field goal was blocked with 0:33 left.
12/9/2007 vs. San Diego: Tennessee led 17-3 in the fourth quarter. San Diego tied the game with 0:09 to play, forcing overtime. The Titans went three-and-out in overtime, with Young only throwing incomplete on 3rd-and-7 at his own 5. The Chargers then scored the game-winning touchdown run.
1/6/2008 at San Diego: Down 10-6 to start the fourth quarter, Bironas missed a 38-yard field goal with 14:03 left. San Diego added a touchdown to take a big 17-6 lead. On their final two drives the Titans went three-and-out and Young threw an interception.
10/3/2010 vs. Denver: Leading 20-16 in the fourth quarter, the defense allows a late go-ahead touchdown. The Titans fumble the ensuing kickoff, allowing Denver to add a field goal (26-20 lead). Young's attempt needed to go 77 yards in 0:23 without a timeout. His Hail Mary fell incomplete to end the game.
10/31/2010 at San Diego: Down 27-19, Young threw a 71-yard touchdown to Nate Washington, but the two-point pass was incomplete. San Diego scored again and botched the extra point, but Young was injured on a scramble and did not return. Collins' comeback attempt ended when Johnson dropped a pass on 4th-and-2 in the red zone.
11/14/2010 at Miami: Down 23-17, Young ran for an 8-yard gain on 3rd-and-10, forcing a punt. Miami added a touchdown, leaving Young 5:09 left to score two touchdowns. He threw an interception on 4th-and-20.
11/13/2011 vs. Arizona: Now with the Eagles, the game was tied 14-14. Vick was injured on a second-down scramble, taking Young off the bench and into the game on third down. He just handed off to LeSean McCoy, and the Eagles kicked a go-ahead field goal. Arizona scored the game-winning touchdown, and Vick returned for the rest of the loss. Hard to say anything about Young here, but it's a failed game-winning drive by rule.
Even if you just go with one 43-yard field goal by Bironas and Vick not leaving the game against Arizona, then Young's record would be 14-9 (.609), moving him ahead of Tom Brady. Wow.
Young's most memorable moments did come late in games, but much like college when he arguably saved his best for a game against Matt Leinart, he did the same thing in the NFL.
In 2009 Young started at home against the Arizona Cardinals, who were starting Leinart in place of the injured Kurt Warner. Leinart led the Cardinals on an 80-yard go-ahead touchdown drive (17-13) with 12:20 left. Young tried to drive the team 98 yards late, but Kenny Britt fumbled at the end of a 51-yard catch.
Getting the ball back with 2:37 left at his own 1, Young led the drive that truly is the stuff of legends. Absolutely needing the touchdown, Young converted three different fourth-down situations, including the game-winning touchdown pass: a 10-yard play to Britt in the end zone on 4th-and-10 with no time left. That is right out of Hollywood.
On the 99-yard drive Young dropped back on all 18 plays and was 9-of-16 for 94 yards, a 6-yard run, and a 1-yard sack. Leinart must hate this guy.
It was easily the most impressive game-winning drive of Young's NFL career, and one of the best on record. But if Young is to make another NFL comeback, it will have to be his biggest one yet. He will have to convince someone he could still play.
A career that came too early?
For better or worse, Young's career was all about timing. He saved some of his best moments for the end of games, which is what his fans will remember him for. You can take away Reggie Bush's Heisman, but you cannot take away Young's Rose Bowl MVP.
But there was also bad timing, even if it was just a moment like going to Tennessee when the team traded Steve McNair to Baltimore. McNair was expected to mentor Young, which could have helped him ease into things. McNair also had his personal demons in life, but he was not the annual bad headline that Young became.
Perhaps if Young was born a few years later he could have thrived in a NFL that was friendlier and more imaginative to athletic quarterbacks. Could you imagine Young lining up in the pistol and using the zone-read option back when Chris Johnson was still great? Fisher's conservative offensive approach was probably never a good fit for Young.
The other thing that has recently changed about being a young NFL quarterback is the job making them more financially responsible. Rookie contracts are now reasonable under the new agreement. Young received $26 million guaranteed as the No. 3 pick in 2006. Andrew Luck's entire contract is worth $22.1 million as the No. 1 pick in 2012.
As his history shows, Young burns (or burned) through money at an embarrassing rate. He was too immature to deal with the money and fame.
Yet the same guy that cannot handle fans booing and throws a temper tantrum on his coach is the same quarterback capable of dynamic game-changing plays to win games. Why that Vince Young could not have taken over more as every-day Vince Young will remain an unsolved mystery.
Bust? Not entirely. See the guy pounding meat* with Garcia for that distinction.
Disappointment? Eternally so.
Young could have had a long career and been a comeback king. Instead he ends up as the biggest clown at his own $300,000 birthday party.
*That was a Rocky reference. Get your mind out of the gutter.
Scott Kacsmar is a football writer/researcher who has contributed large quantities of data to Pro-Football-Reference.com, including the only standardized database of fourth quarter comebacks and game-winning drives. You can visit his blog for a complete writing archive. Please send any questions or comments to Scott at email@example.com, or you can follow him on Twitter at @CaptainComeback.
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(March 23, 2009)--The UTSA College of Education and Human Development's Academy for Teacher Excellence (ATE) will host its first open house from 4 to 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 24 at the Main Building ground floor lobby on the 1604 Campus. Free and open to the public, the event is an opportunity for UTSA students, faculty, staff and community members to learn about ATE programs and services and how they impact students, UTSA and the San Antonio community.
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The Academy for Teacher Excellence was established as hub for school districts, community colleges and UTSA to collaboratively research, design, implement and evaluate educational programs that address emerging, statewide and local educational issues associated with a growing diverse student population.
A major focus of the program is the implementation of a Title V Hispanic-serving-institutions grant utilizing community resources to better prepare teachers. The project will guide the preparation of more than 300 teachers who will demonstrate the attitudes, knowledge and skills of a "culturally efficacious teacher."
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Academic honesty is central to life at Williams. We are governed by an Honor Code system, the details of which you can view at http://committees.williams.edu/honor-system. Because faculty are ultimately in charge of what is permissible in any given class, the system depends on faculty to be as explicit as possible about what is permitted and what is banned; this means providing specific examples as well as general guidelines. This helps us in cases involving students who knowingly handed in work that is not all their own as well as those involving students who were confused about where exactly the bar was. That latter category has grown as faculty increasingly encourage students to work together in some ways but bar them from collaborating in others, or ask students to use some forms of technology but not others. Additionally, the lines that faculty draw in Spanish, philosophy, physics and art history differ, but a given student is likely to be enrolled in all of these departments at once.
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Jerry needs to make this call if Sparano gets fired.
Did wonders for the Jets.
I'd rather have NORV.
I don't understand the fixation with Sparano. Did nothing special in Miami and orchestrated a Jets offense that set the NFL back 50 years.
I vote more Garrett!
The Jets were doomed when they drafted Sanchez,it has nothing to do with Sparano who has shown that he can be a nice fit here.
True, the Jets offense was never a juggernaut, but was efficient enough and Sanchez was better when he was more inexperienced. It dropped to anemic levels this year. Fired in Miami. Likely to be fired in NY. The guy is nothing special. Overrated by a lot of fans at CZ.
He was a good fit then. Don't think he would be now. And until we get a decent offensive line, it doesn't matter who the OC is.
It does matter. Especially with a bad oline.
I'll give you Sparano as OC if you give me Ken Norton Jr. as DC. I'm done with Ryan.
I liked Sparano when he was here, last record was 13-3 with one of the best offenses in the league. But I don't think it will make Dez run routes better or Murray hold onto the ball. Our problems are in execution. I don't think he adds to the equation all that much. But I also think he would mesh well if he is brought on board.
Bill Callahan is our OC.
He's just not calling the plays, Garrett is.
You can have the best coaches in the world. Don't have good players? Doesn't matter. Might have a good run for a year, maybe if everything falls right, but it won't last. Callahan is a great OL coach. There's only so much a coach can.
Agree, and he didn't get along all that well with Garrett when they worked together.. He isn't coming back to Dallas....
Yeah well I've seen Bill Parcells take a far worse team than this and get a 10-6 record into the playoffs.
Coaching makes a big difference, Jerry.
Even with the team we have I believe we could be 2 or 3 games better if we had people that knew what they were doing.
What more does the offense have to be to please you?
Please enlighten me.
It seems like alot of the issues are on the field execution issues.
And what happens if they win Sunday?
Division champs? Is that not good enough from a season like this one?
Do what actually works and that's play with urgency. Also play to our players strengths instead of making them fit the system.
Like I said, you can have a decent season with marginal talent, if enough things go your way, like 2003 did. We played a much weaker schedule that year, and other than QB, the overall talent wasn't much worse. And yes, we made the playoffs, and were soundly beaten in the first game. And oh btw, that same team went 6-10 the following year.
I just don't know what to say sometimes. Unbelievable.


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His great films have been few and far between, but he does have them. From 1994's "Pulp Fiction" to his two collaborations with M. Night Shyamalan, "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable", Willis definitely has some great films in his filmography. He's been super prolific, though, racking up 95 credits on his IMDb page. And certainly, not all of them have been good.
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The American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) has been the nation's premier organization for collegiate non-varsity ice hockey since is inception in 1992. Nearly 200 member teams now compete in three men's divisions and one women's division.
The 2001-2002 season marks the third season of the ACHA Men's Division III. Originally designed to provide a competitive hockey environment for colleges and universities with student bodies in the 5,000 to 10,000 student range, the ACHA Division III has grown to include over 50 collegiate teams from Atlanta to New York City, and from the Chesapeake Bay to the Rocky Mountains.
With the expansion of Division III to include four regions -- East, South, Central, and West -- the national tournament expanded as well, growing from eight to 12 teams. Joining the host team, Georgia Tech, and the defending national champions, the University of Wyoming, will be two additional teams from both the South and West regions and three teams each from the East and Central regions.
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After having a look at the latest MCSA journal & SAM. I just wondered if other climbers read all the international stuff.
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Minimum stay: 3 nights
Stay at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo and enjoy the Menaggio & Cadenabbia Golf Club!
The package includes:
- Three night stay in a Room at your choice.
- Daily Buffet Breakfast in our restaurant La Terrazza
- One a la carte dinner for two (beverage excluded) signed by the Italian Maestro Gualtiero Marchesi in our gourmet restaurant La Terrazza overlooking Bellagio and the blue of the Lake.
- 2 Daily green fees for 2 guests at disposal for the first 2 days of your stay
- 2 Daily transfer for 2 guests from/to Menaggio Cadenabbia Golf Club for the first 2 days
This offer is subject to availability at the time of reservation and may be prolonged at favourable rate. Some restrictions may apply.
For Information and Reservations
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Phone +39 0344 42491
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- Five Buffet Breakfasts, One Lunch, and Daily Afternoon Tea
- Navua Village and Waterfall Tour with Transportation
- Welcome Drink and Lei
- Airline Taxes, Fuel Surcharges, Hotel Fees, and Admissions Included
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Defending the European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights is a victim of its success. In 2011, more than 60,000 people sought its help after exhausting all judicial remedies before national courts. But now, some member states of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe are pushing for reforms of the prestigious institution and are pointing at the number of cases to make their argument. Instead of enhancing the court's capacity to deal with the backlog of cases, their moves would clip the court's prerogatives and undermine a citizen's capacity to defend his most fundamental rights.


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File:Coquette-GTAIV-striped-front.jpg|A Coquette with the white-and-red paint job.
File:Coquette-GTAIV-striped-front.jpg|A Coquette with the white-and-red paint job.
File:Coquette-GTAIV-Stevie-front.jpg|The requested Coquette in [[Stevie's Car Thefts]].
File:Coquette-GTAIV-Stevie-front.jpg|The requested Coquette in [[Stevie's Car Thefts]].
File:Coquette-GTAIV-beta-rear.png|[[Stevie's Car Thefts|Car theft]] shot of an [[Beta Releases|early]] GTA IV Coquette, with no decals on its rear.
File:Coquette-GTAIV-beta-rear.png|[[Stevie's Car Thefts|Car theft]] shot of an [[Beta Releases|early]] GTA IV Coquette, with no decals on its rear.
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A Coquette in GTA IV.
|Vehicle type
|Civilian car
|Body style
|2-door sports car
|2 (driver and passenger)
The Invetero Coquette is a two-door/two-seat, high-powered sports car featured in Grand Theft Auto IV.
The Coquette closely resembles the Chevrolet Corvette C5 (1997-2004), albeit with revealed projector-style headlamps and altered fascias. The front fascia is closely reminiscent of the face-lifted Honda/Acura NSX (2002-2005) which shares the headlamp cluster design (the NSX sports a clear headlamp surround; the Coquette features a black surround), the radiator inlets, and the angular hood lines. The taillamps bear some resemblance to the Corvette where the running lamps overlap the brake lamps, while the reverse lamps and turn repeaters are embedded in the running and brake lamps respectively; the Coquette also has a high-mounted third brake lamp.
The dual exhaust exits overlap to mimic the taillight design (similar to early 2003 Gemballa Porsche models which used overlapping exhaust exits). Unlike the Corvette, the side vents on the Coquette do not extend the length of the door, and are finished with two silver accented strips. The car also features a rod antenna mounted on the roof. The Coquette features five-split-spoke alloy rims wrapped by low-profile sport treys, with brakes consisting of four very large, composite cross-drilled disc rotors also found on GTA IV's Infernus, Comet, and Turismo.
The interior design is closely related to that of the Corvette extended leather package: the bucket sports seats feature two-tone leather upholstery in black and yellow with "Coquette" embroidery and matching leather door finishers and leather-wrapped shifter lever; the car features a fully-carpeted parcel shelf suitable for small luggage.
The Coquette is a front/mid engine, rear wheel drive sportscar with a very powerful eight-cylinder power plant under the hood mated to a 5-speed manual gearbox. Like the Corvette, it is also fairly lightweight which lends the car its nimble and quick nature. The Coquette also reaches an top speed of 175 km/h (110 mph), which is one of the highest maximum speeds behind the Infernus and the Comet. The Sultan RS is the only car that accelerates faster. It has excellent braking and handling, even at high speeds. Combined with the strong engine, these points mean the Coquette is an excellent drifting car. While the Coquette has a fairly solid construction and damage resistance, the front/mid engine layout of the Coquette means it is specifically vulnerable to engine damage in high-speed front-end collisions; more so than mid-engine sports cars like the Turismo and Infernus. Due to its high-power and engine layout (where weight is more balanced than mid-engine cars), the Coquette suffers from excessively poor grip in wet conditions.
The Coquette has a unique white-and-red paint job available, similar to that of the 1984-1996 C4 Corvette featured in the television series The A-Team [1]. This paint job, unlike most other unique paint jobs, can be sprayed onto any Coquette.
A Coquette is also requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, featuring a gray body color. As a new Coquette will spawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another. Stevie's photograph of the car is shown to have no badge or marque on its rear, implying it was not originally added earlier in game development.
The requested Coquette in Stevie's Car Thefts.
- "Coquette" is a term meaning a chatty flirtatious woman.
- While in its prototype stage, the real-life Corvette was originally referred to as the Coquette.
- On rare occasions police radio chatter refer to the car as being a Declasse than an Invetero, hinting that the car may had been intended to be a Declasse in a similar vein to the Chevrolet Corvette (Declasse is by large an in-game representation of the Chevrolet brand).
- In perfect condition, the Coquette can be sold at S&M Auto Sales for $4,100 after completion of Stevie's Car Thefts in GTA IV.
- In GTA IV, the default radio station in the Coquette is Liberty Rock Radio 97.8.
- Outside of S&M Auto Sales, there's stacks of rims, appearing to be off of the Coquette.
- Spawn in traffic during Multiplayer.
- Can be found along the Broker - Dukes Expressway.
- Occasionally can appear often around Westminster, Varsity Heights, The Triangle, The Meat Quarter, Suffolk, Middle Park, Easton (Algonquin), and South Slopes, Rotterdam Hill, Downtown (Broker), Liberty City.
- Has a very good chance of spawning anywhere at night driving another sports car.
- Can be obtained in the mission Payback; in a unique color; black with a gold trim.
- Parked in front of the church in Suffolk, Algonquin for Stevie's Car Thefts.
- Can appear in Brucie's Races, however killing the person and taking the car, will cause you to forefeit, and will lower Brucie's Respect for you by 3%.
- Can appear at Auto Eroticar if already in one.
See also
- The Stinger and Stinger Z29, similar Corvette-based cars in GTA 1 and GTA 2.
- The Banshee, a sports car based on a C4 Corvette in GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories.


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Categories: People
Dr. Headings first came to the Fort Wayne campus as a full-time teaching associate in 1954. He left two years later. In 1964 he returned and remained on the staff until his death February 6, 1982. His areas of research included Greek drama, Dante and T.S. Eliot. He received degrees from Indiana University (B.S., 1950; Ph.D., 1958).
Sources: Article: Intercom (February 1982), p.1; Senate Reference no. 81-2.


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|May 4, 2001
|State Directors of Vocational-Technical Education
|Robert D. Muller
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Office of Vocational and Adult Education
|Distribution of Funds to Secondary School Programs in Fiscal Year 2001
Section 131(b) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 (Perkins III) requires States to allocate funds to secondary school programs using data on the numbers of low-income and total individuals ages 15 through 19 who reside in school districts served by local educational agencies (LEAs) within the State. Thirty percent (30%) of the funds is allocated on the basis of the total number of individuals ages 15 through 19 (section 131(b)(1)). The remaining 70 percent (70%) is allocated on the basis of the number of individuals ages 15 through 19 with incomes below the poverty line (section 131(b)(2)).
In Fiscal Year 2000, data for the age cohort 15 through 19 was not available to any State. For this reason, we identified substitute data elements that we would accept in lieu of the data specified in the statute:
In Program Memorandum OVAE/DVTE--FY 99-8 (March 26, 1999), we indicated that we would accept the use of the Census Bureau's estimate of the relative number of children in poverty ages 5 through 17 who reside in each school district, in lieu of the data specified by section 131(b)(2);
- In Program Memorandum OVAE/DVTE FY 2000-2 (October 15, 1999), we indicated that we would accept, in lieu of the data specified by section 131(b)(1), either enrollment or "membership" data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) or the Census Bureau's estimate of the number of individuals ages 5 through 17 who reside in each school district.
All States proposed to use the alternative data elements that we identified in these program memoranda in the State plans they submitted to us last year. We approved the use of this substitute data until the data elements specified by the statute became available.
Use of Updated Data to Distribute Funds in Fiscal Year 2001
While we had hoped that the Census Bureau would be able to produce the data required by the statute this year, we recently learned that the data will not be available in 2001. All States, therefore, may continue to use the substitute data elements they identified in their approved State plans. As noted in the program memorandum, these databases are updated on a regular basis. You should note that both substitute data sets were updated recently. Thus, you must use the most recent version of these data sets.
The most recent Census Bureau estimates of the numbers of children in poverty and total number of children ages 5 through 17 in each school district are from 1997. You may access and download the data at the following address: http://www.census.gov/
The most recent NCES enrollment data is from 1998. You may access and download the data at the following address: http://www.nces.ed.gov/ccd/pubagency.html
Adjusting Databases to Reflect Changes in Boundaries, Charter Schools, and BIA-Funded Schools
Whichever data set you use, you should adjust the data to reflect any changes in school district boundaries that may have occurred since the data was collected and to include LEAs without geographical boundaries, such as charter schools that are LEAs and secondary schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Under section 131(i), an eligible agency must treat secondary schools funded by the BIA as LEAs for the purposes of distributing the secondary school funds. In addition, under section 133(d), an eligible agency must distribute funds to charter schools in the same manner as to other schools. Your allocation plan must ensure that charter schools receive the appropriate funds for which they are eligible in accordance with the Charter School Expansion Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-278).
Since the Census Bureau data set is also being used for allocations under Title I of Elementary and Secondary Education Act, we encourage you to coordinate efforts to reflect changed LEA boundaries and LEAs without boundaries with your State's Title I personnel.


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Sunny Apartment in a Nice Location
Size70 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Elevator in building
- Balcony/terrace
Accommodation summary
|Avinguda de Madrid, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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|Property ID
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The apartment includes air conditioning and features 3 bedrooms - a double bedroom and 2 single bedrooms. The living room features comfortable seating, a flat-screen TV and a double sofa bed. The apartment contains a spacious kitchen and a dining area giving guests the option to prepare meals.
Plenty of amenities can be found in the streets surrounding the apartment including bakeries, restaurants and bars. Just steps away from the apartment is FC Barcelona's football stadium - home to one of the world's greatest football teams.
Placa del Centre Metro Station offers direct connections to the city's main attractions including the Placa Espanya (a 9-minute journey away) and Placa Catalunya (a 15-minute journey away). Barcelona's central train station, Estacio de Sants, is located just 600 metres from the apartment and offers high speed and long distance connections to other cities in Spain.
House rulesA €200 security deposit is required.
Be respectful of the neighbours.
A €60 fee is required for lost keys.
Tourist tax: € 2.5 per person / night. Maximum 18 € per person / total stay.
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Reviews of this property
The apartment is very good for 4-6 people. To station metro is 5-7 min. In near is very good cafeteria and restaurant.
Everything OK.
Todo OK.
Great apartment, everything nice and clean and good beds, nice balcony with the morning sun! and very much down there is a bakery and a supermarket, and what's really nice that you're within 5 minutes from the metro and all side can. Really a must and I would be going there again.
Geweldig appartement, alles lekker schoon en en goede bedden , lekker balkon met de ochtend zon ! en heel fijn dat er beneden een bakker en een supermarket is , en wat heel fijn is dat je binnen 5 minuten bij de metro bent en alle kant op kan. Echt een aanrader en ik zou er zeker weer naar toe gaan.
L'appartamento ė in un'ottima posizione, la metropolitana si raggiunge in 2 minuti a piedi. Ė comodo e grande, molto luminoso e fresco lasciando le finestre aperte, anche in 6 occupanti non ci si pesta i piedi. Accoglienza eccellente pur arrivando molto tardi. Uniche piccole cose da migliorare a nostro avviso: difficile regolare la temperatura dell'acqua nella doccia e il Wi-Fi non eccezionale. Comunque tutto sommato un ottimo appartamento.
Reviews for this host's other properties
Excellent location, amazing views of Sagrada Familia, metro just around the corner, many restaurants, cafes and shops in the area. The apartment is nice and bright, we really enjoyed watching Sagrada Familia at different times of day and night.
We were 6 friends who stayed at this place. The organisation and communication was great, we got all information we needed in advance and a member of the team welcomed us in the flat on the day of our arrival. The apartment is a 5 minute walk to Sagrada Familia and the metro station. It was clean and the kitchen provided everything we needed. It is modern furnished even though with a few drawbacks. E.g. I wouldn't sleep on the couch as the seat cover is about to unravel. You don't have a proper fresh air supply in at least two of the three sleeping rooms. You can open the windows but then you're looking straight into a narrow and sulky square. Therefore, the apartment provides air conditioning. We didn't mind as we only slept there for a few hours. Altogehter we had a great time and are satisfied with our stay. There'll be always something to beef about. ;-)
This apartment was comfortable and very well situated for the city centre. It could do with some new furniture, but this is a minor complaint. Dani and Inga were very helpful.
This apartment is located at a very popular spot in Barcelona with easy access to taxi, bus and metro. The view is absolutely beautiful. We found everything we needed and the host was super friendly and easy to communicate with. All in all, I highly recommend staying in this place and enjoying your time in Barcelona.
Very nice flat
Apartment was very comfortable. Clean and tidy . Good locations near to metro station, supermarket.
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Squarepeg said "As minimal as is practical?" - That's just it, isn't it? Acebird's "non-intervention" would be too minimal to call it beekeeping, and on the other side of the spectrum, we add so much, and manipulate so much of the bee's environment (food, housing, defense against pests and disease, genetics, etc etc) That we don't know what's been a benefit and what's been a part of the problem.
So we try to find that "practical" breaking point. And that seems to be a different place for everyone.


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Alyssa Cargill prepares for CTC's Summer Theatre Workshops.
Last Modified: Thursday, June 20, 2013 10:49 AM
The Children's Theatre Company begins its 2013 Summer Theatre Workshops with "Wild Things" for children ages 5-8.
The workshop introduces children to theatre through the use of creative drama, theatre games, creative movement, stage makeup, costumes and musical theatre. The workshop is 10-11:15 a.m. July 8-10 and costs $65.
The afternoon workshop session is entitled "Acting for the Camera" for children ages 8-18. This workshop covers auditioning for commercials, reading commercial scripts, exploring different commercial techniques, and beginning improvisational skills. The workshop is noon-1:30 p.m. July 8-10 and costs.
No experience is needed for the workshops. All workshops have limited enrollment and are held at Central School of the Arts and Humanities Center, 809 Kirby St.
For registration information, call 337-433-7323 or visit the website at www.childrenstheatre.cc and click on Summer Workshops.


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Publisher: Konami of America, Inc.
Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
Release Date: March 13, 2001
Platform(s): Sony PlayStation® 2
ESRB Rating: T for teen
Genre: Adventure
Multiplayer: No
This March Konami brings Shadow of Destiny to the PlayStation®2. In this unique adventure game players follow the main character Eike, who is given the ability to travel through time to alter his fate…and prevent his own murder! Travel through changing time periods and use clues from the past to change the dire destiny that awaits. With full character voiceovers, life-like graphics, multiple story paths and a riveting tale of mystery, Shadow of Destiny defines the next generation of adventure games.


text: For two weeks, Channing Tatum has been the Sexiest Man Alive-Elect, but had not been officially named because of a recount in the Accounting department at Kneepads. Apparently there were some issues with some people voting twice and some sticky ballots that were stuck together. All of it has been resolved, and with no natural disasters kicking Channing off the cover this week, he can finally be officially appointed Sexiest Man Alive. As part of the wonders of being given such a title, we learn that Channing is also a huge fan of Edgar Allen Poe; wants to have 3 kids starting now; gives his wife Jenna daily massages; is emotionally deep; spiritually open; hangs out in the woods looking for people to save from bears and lions; once lifted four cars off of someone who was dying; takes classes simultaneously from Harvard and Yale; gets calls from the Pope and Oprah about how to solve world problems; and waxes himself hourly.