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CofC Toastmasters Club
You are Invited. College of Charleston Toastmasters Club
Chartered in December, 1995
is open to all faculty, staff, students and the community.
Please feel free to just drop in to to see what happens at our meetings.
Visitors and Drop-ins are welcome at every meeting.
Thursday, 12:15 - 1:15 pm
New Meeting Location -see http://www.cofc5497.org/
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"One of the things you would want to be sure to do is, whether you like it or not, get very comfortable ... with public speaking. That's an asset that will last you 50 or 60 years." Warren Buffett, investor
One of the oddest revelations about the Toastmasters' contest is that many of the best speakers say they are introverts. Tay wouldn't even make eye contact with his teachers in class because he feared being called on. Darren Tay is the 2016 champion of public speaking.
"I walked into a Toastmasters club and what it really gave me was an outlet to speak at a difficult time in my life," he says. "I discovered I was good at something. And the more I grew in confidence, the more I was able to transfer that confidence to other areas." Dananjaya Hettiarachchi, the 2014 world champion.
What can Toastmasters do for me? For my career?
- Will it help me find my Dream Job?
- Start my own business?
- Save the world?
- Put me on the fast track?
Come to our Thurday Meetings at noon and the answers to these questions and more will be provided.
Information and Agenda:
Please email Chloe Singleton at email@example.com or Bob Huddleston at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Why Should You Join Toastmasters?
Everyone has their own personal reasons for joining Toastmasters, but here are a few of the most common:
- Become a Better Public Speaker Members work through a series of educational programs (at their own pace) designed to improve their ability to write speeches, design presentations, and deliver them.
- Overcome Public Speaking Fears The most positive and supportive audience in the world is a Toastmasters club audience. Speaking regularly in front of a group helps you calm your nerves and communicate effectively.
- "Practice" Presentations for Other Audiences Everyone has different motivations for wanting to speak better. Maybe you want to hone your presentation skills for your career. Perhaps you want to be able to speak out in your volunteer organization. Maybe you want to complement your portfolio as an author, manager, or other professional with speaking gigs? Whatever the case, Toastmasters is a wonderful laboratory for you to practice your presentations and gain valuable feedback.
- Gain the Confidence and Courage to Lead Leadership and communication skills are intimately bound. Some might argue that leadership is nothing more than the ability to effectively communicate a vision. As your communication skills improve, your ability to lead will improve as well.
Toastmasters is the Answer
- Rather Die than Give A Speech? Public Speaking Tips
Tame Your Fear! Believe it or not, your chances of dying of stage fright are extremely slim. You might feel as if you are dying on the stage, but chances are good your audience won't even notice your wobbly knees and sweating armpits. Even the best speakers were once terrified novices, feeling the same symptoms as you when facing an audience. Fear no more! Toastmasters is the best place to learn, to build your confidence, and to push yourself outside your comfort zone. It's a safe place where there is no penalty for failure!
- Sometimes Struggles are what we need by Phillip Woody
What happens at a Toastmasters weekly meeting?
- Start Your Journey Every Toastmaster's Journey Starts with a Single Speech.
A Toastmasters meeting is a learn-by-doing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills in a no-pressure atmosphere.There is no instructor in a Toastmasters meeting. Instead, members evaluate one another's presentations. This feedback process is a key part of the program's success.Meeting participants also give impromptu talks on assigned topics, conduct meetings and develop skills related to timekeeping, grammar and parliamentary procedure. Members learn to create and use an effective meeting agenda.Members learn how to accept and present awards. Red, White and Blue ribbons are awarded at each meeting for the best evaluator, table topics speaker (extemporaneous speaker), and prepared speaker.
What is Toastmasters?
Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development. Members improve their speaking, leadership skills and teamwork, as well as, learn how to conduct and participate in meetings. Members learn important skills as Motivational Speech Techniques. Toastmasters teaches both communication and leadership skills. People with good communication skills are more likely to be promoted to leadership positions, and good leaders need communication skills to be effective. If you want to be a leader, you have to learn to speak like a leader.
Toastmasters International is:
- a nonprofit organization,
- comprised of over 250,000 members in over 106 countries,
- represented by over 12,500 clubs, and
- dedicated to excellence in communication and leadership
- Most Toastmasters clubs meet weekly for 1-2 hours, and follow a pretty basic agenda:
- Prepared speeches – Members are given opportunities to prepare, rehearse, and then deliver presentations in front of their fellow members.
- Speech evaluations – Whenever you speak in Toastmasters, you receive helpful and supportive evaluations from your peers.
- Impromptu speaking – Members practice speaking "off the cuff" for one or two minutes by responding to general topics of interest (table topics).
- What can we learn through Toastmasters? Members learn by observing, participating and evaluating. Members learn how to speak like a leader. We have manuals, booklets, online information and each other to learn from. In addition to learning how to speak up in a meeting, and give a short prepared talk, members learn how to evaluate a good speech, provide constructive feedback to a speaker, conduct meetings, participate in meetings through practicing various meeting roles.
- Toastmasters: Who, What, When Where, Why, How? by Andrew Dlugan Updated: Mar 2nd, 2010
Where Do Toastmasters Meet? Everywhere! New Member Experience
- 11,000 Toastmasters clubs meet in over 90 countries.
- Clubs meet within corporations, in community centers, on university and college campuses, in churches and temples, in restaurants, in libraries, in prisons, and many other places.
- The majority of clubs are still in North America, but the organization is growing fastest outside of North America, particularly in Asia.
- Most clubs meet weekly for 1-2 hours.
How to Join Toastmasters?
- Visit CofC Toastmasters club meeting.
- Sign up. Toastmasters dues are inexpensive, particularly compared to other training options.
- Commit yourself to excellence. Toastmasters is a program where you only get out in proportion to what you put in.
Who Joins Toastmasters?
Anyone over the age of 18 can join Toastmasters, provided they have the desire to improve their communication and leadership skills.
Beyond that, Toastmasters members are a diverse group, spanning countries and cultures, and all socio-economic backgrounds.
The Toastmasters International website tells us that:
What industries employ Toastmasters?
- 52% of members are female and 48% are male.
- Average annual household income: $85,000-$99,000.
- 30% earn $100,000+ annually.
- 69% of members are between the ages of 35 and 49.
- 82% have a college degree.
- 36% have an advanced degree.
- 20% Sales, Consulting, Self Employed
- 18% Management
- 15% Finance & Insurance
- 15% Government
- 12% Education
- 20% Other
When Did Toastmasters Start?
The first Toastmasters club was started by Ralph Smedley in Santa Ana, California in 1924 at a local YMCA to meet the need for speech and leadership training for young men. His initial "Ten Lessons in Public Speaking" still forms the core of the Toastmasters educational program as the 10 projects of the Competent Communicator manual. ( It has, of course, been updated and revised many times.) The single club turned into a network of affiliated Toastmasters Clubs as the idea spread throughout southern California. When an affiliated club formed in British Columbia, Toastmasters International was born.


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Fundamentals of Rockabilly
Built of equal parts country, blues, rock 'n roll, and perhaps Romilar, rockabilly music is considered by many to be the punk rock of the 1950's. It came blasting our of garages and sheds across the U.S., much like rock 'n roll did, as a loud and clear response to the sad state of pop music of the time Perry Como, Mantovani, Pat Boone, and their terminally mild ilk. Rockabillys unusual balance of backwoods twang and R&B stomp was the perfect antidote to the distressing condition of the Top 40 charts. With it's frantic rhythmic propulsion and twangy tonal variations, it was and still is a music that is appealing to players and listeners alike. Imminently danceable and a blast to play as well, this stuff is the bomb, as the children like to say. Let's check out a few fundamentals of rockabilly, starting with some typical equipment and settings.
Guitars: Although a lot of the original cats used Gretsch or Gibson hollowbodies (Eddie Cochran, Merle Travis, Scotty Moore, Ersel Hickey) on a lot of the primordial rockabilly sides, you can get a perfectly functional rockabilly tone out of a Strat or Tele, or a Gibson solidbody. The great Paul Burlison of the God-like Rock n Roll Trio used a Telecaster and a little tweed Fender amp and pretty much helped set the standard for the genres sound. What I usually gravitate to is a clear, trebly sort of tone rear pickup turned all the way up, or a combination of both pickups with the front backed off a little, volume on 7 or 8, and both tone controls full up. You're looking for a bright, snappy tone with a bit of thump to it.
Amps and Settings: I might sound like a Fender snob here but, OK, I am. I just don't think you can beat a nice old Deluxe or Super amp for this stuff. Give me 30 watts of nice warm tube tonality any day and I'm happier than a pig in slop, Sonny. A Twin Reverb is terrific for extra clarity; the Ampeg Reverb-O-Jet is great for twangin (and gets extra credit for its spiffy moniker). Anyway, you get the idea. Like I said, I'm generally looking for a clear, trebly tone. And don't panic if you're used to playing through hi-gain, solid-state or hybrid type set-ups I've never met a guitarist who wasn't fairly well delighted with the way a small-to-medium size tube amp breaks up in all the right ways, yet maintains a ringing tone thats just right for High-billy Music. I play through a Fender Blues Deluxe amp. It's a 40 watt tube (6L6) amp with a single 12 speaker, which I replaced with a Celestion 30. I usually run the volume around 3 or 4 and all the tone controls all the way up, except the bass, which I set around 9 or 10 (they go up to 12, which is one better than Spinal Tap). A smidge of reverb is OK, but I don't really drench it out. I set the reverb on 2 or 3. It kinda depends on how strong your reverb tube is, and where your amp is set up. A lot of wood or carpet in the room may make you want to dial up a bit more, but if you're playing in a garage (bless your pointy little head, you'd be right where you should be for this kind of music) then the hard surfaces may give you all the boomy-ness you need and you might not need to use much reverb at all.
Effects: The single most common effect used in rockabilly is without question the tape echo. Scotty Moore actually had one built into the amp that he used on many of the seminal Sun Record sides with Elvis. The most sought-after tape units nowadays are probably the Maestro Echoplex and the Roland Space Echo or Chorus Echo, both of which have a few different features but each use a tape cartridge. Which leads us to a bit of a dilemma: The hardcore, purist cats will say that nothing sounds like a tape echo, and there is some merit in that point of view. But the things are cranky as hell, and kind of high maintenance you need to keep the tape heads clean, and probably keep an extra tape cartridge or two in your gig bag, along with some denatured alcohol and some Q-tips. Luckily, a couple of the current effects manufacturers got hip and made some reasonably priced analog delay pedals. Some even feature a kind of anti-fidelity knob that allows you to roll a bit of the high end off the actual delay, in effect simulating the much desired quality of a gnarly old tape cartridge running across a grimy tape head, which is the quintessential sound for rockabilly. It is also the sound of a tape echo unit about to die a wobbly, undignified death, even as you peel off Tele-triplets mid-Train Kept A Rollin. I use a DOD EchoFX/FX96. It's cheap, sounds great, and is made in the U.S. of A., by God! I set mine up to give a single, quick repeat a few milliseconds after the original signal. Hit a quick single note then mute it immediately while you're searching for the right delay time. You may like 2 or 3 repeats, but it's funny that may sound really authentic while youre sitting around dialing up a sound, but I've found that by the time your drummer and bassist get thumpin, it's a bit too soupy.
Get Rockin': OK, thats the basics, gear-wise. This ain't rocket science, its rock 'n roll. I like to use the same approach to what I play as well. I'm no Chet Atkins or Brian Setzer, but with a basic knowledge of a handful of chords, a couple of boogie and shuffle rhythms, first and second position pentatonic scales and some nifty chord perversions, not to mention a bit of discipline, you should be all hopped up and flat-out gittin it in no time at all. BTW that badass guitar you see at the top of this article was made by our friends over at http://www.alikat.com.au/ - Check em out!


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At 4pm I left the office. At 4.20pm Docklands Light Railway deposited me at Bank Tube. By 4.40pm I had managed to cut across town to Holborn and, after a agonising seven minute wait, at last caught a Piccadilly Line train that would take me the 22 stops (and counting) to Heathrow, terminal 2.
By now I was well aware that I was in trouble. Anyone who has made this trip will know that one hour is enough time to get to Heathrow, just, but add on time to check in, do the passport and security business, and it was obvious that I was up that dark brown creek without the proverbial paddle. And all swishing was definitely off the cards.
I began to time how long it took to go between two stations in an attempt to work out an exact ETA. The problem was that while it took minutes to rattle between some stations (Acton Town to South Ealing calmed me, slightly), others taunted me with endless miles of track (the trip to Boston Manor was interminably long).
As my anxiety grew, I became convinced that people were deliberately taking their time getting on and off the train. And did the tube driver think this was a Sunday drive?
I called David on my mobile phone and broke the news that it looked like a weekend in Tooting was possible but Tuscany was almost certainly off the cards. He seemed calm about my panic but said he would see if there was anything he could do to speed things up when, if, I got to Heathrow.
He called back to say that BA said they could only contemplate letting me on board if I arrived with a full 10 minutes to spare, but that I could check in at the gate. Unfortunately David couldn't check in himself because I had insisted on looking after the tickets.
The last part of the tube journey was the worst: tube plodding along, the hands on my watch spinning out of control. Why oh why did they build the station for terminal 4 before that of terminals 1,2,3? Why are these two stations so far apart?
Finally the tube rattled to a halt. By now I had enlisted the sympathies of several other passengers who all stood back as, at 4.23pm, I jumped from the carriage and started running for the terminal and my honour.
My god it's bloody miles! My mouth dried, I became flat footed, my bag pulled at my shoulders. Meanwhile a la Anneka I tried to talk to David on my mobile as he guided me to where he was waiting.
With exactly one minute to go before cut off time, I found him and a member of BA's ground crew who was waiting to help. She checked us in and phoned the gate to warn them that they had "two runners" and warned us that the plane would not wait. Running Man was off again. If you were in the queue for the X-Ray machine and got hit by two hysterical men with overgrown hand luggage, we beg forgiveness. If you were the immigration official who got told to hurry up, likewise, sorry.
Gate 46 was, of course, at the far end of the terminal. But we arrived wheezing, sweating, and with two minutes to go. We were immediately followed by two more groups of "runners" who were all perspiration and apologies.
All the way to Rome I was convinced that I was about to suffer cardiac arrest. A stiff vodka saved me.
And then just this week someone had the cheek to ask me if we really need the upcoming high-speed Heathrow rail connection. Pah! Do we need Boston Manor, Hounslow Central and Hatton Cross? No, take them off the tube line now.
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Stanford doesn't have much of a history of sprinters. Eastman, Questad and Jeffries were world record holders or Olympians, but that's few and far between. James Lofton was an outstanding 200/400 runner, now in the NFL Hall of Fame. Now and then comes along a Wopamo Osaisai or a Nick Sebes, to name two recent outstanding sprinters. Osaisai is not running Track, but Stanford does have some good incoming frosh who could hold their own during this Track season.
On the Women's side, Stanford has had outstanding sprinters in recent years. Janice Davis returns; Chryste Gaines was an Olympian; and last year's surprise was Chauntae Bayne. Sadly for Stanford, Bayne transferred back home to Texas, a rival at the national level. She moved there with her family to be closer to her parents. Bayne set school records in the 100, 200 and 400 last season and is a tremendous loss.
School Record: Chauntae Bayne, 11.15
Janice Davis SR 11.24
Jackie Bailey SR 11.47
Griffin Matthew FR 11.49w, 11.56
Alana Waller SO 12.41
Davis was ranked at a tie for 16th place in the U.S. last year, a potential NCAA placer. Bailey was about #45 in the U.S. Matthew was one of the top prep sprinters in the country the past several years.
School Record Holder Chauntae Bayne was #13 in the U.S. but is now at the University of Texas.
School Record: 44.18
Jumper Erica McLain or 400 runner Keisha Gaines will join Davis, Bailey and Matthew on a team that could run sub-45 seconds.
School Record: Wopamo Osaisai, 10.39, Larry Questad, 9.3, 100 yards
Ryan Fisicaro FR 10.67
Mark Mueller FR 10.70
Danny Belch FR 10.74
Richard Cairns FR 10.76
An all freshman lineup. No one will threaten Osaisai's school record, but Stanford does have some depth. Getting someone into the 10.50 range would be a goal.
Osaisai is sticking with Football for now, as is freshman Tyrone McGraw.
School Record: 39.71
200/400 freshman Zach Chandy will join three of the frosh.
Interesting to note, the top four times in Stanford history had three footballers on the team. Four of the next five had two, with one team composed of four sprinters who also played football.
School Record: Chauntae Bayne, 22.87
Janice Davis SR 23.09
Griffin Matthew FR 24.00
Jackie Bailey SR 24.01
Alana Walker SO 24.75
Keisha Gaines RS JR 24.79
Davis was #28 in the U.S. last season, with Bailey and Matthew solid runners. Davis placed in the NCAA's last year and could well do so again.
School Record: Larry Questad and James Lofton, 20.74
Zach Chandy FR 21.19
Mark Mueller FR 21.42
Danny Belch FR 21.93
Chandy's PR would place him seventh on Stanford's all-time list. He is one of the best long sprinters ever to enter Stanford. Mueller's best is from his junior year of high school.
School Record: Chauantae Bayne, 52.35
Janice Davis SR 52.93
Keisha Gaines RS JR 53.83
Idara Otu SO 55.29
Davis is third all-time but will concentrate on the shorter sprints. Gaines is sixth on the all-time list, but her best was several years ago.
4X400 Relay-Women
School Record: 3:29.39
Ashley Freeman, an 800 runner, has a best of 53.71 and will drop down to run the relay. Another 800 runner, Laura Mottaz, will also be a solid relay runner.
School Record: Rene Rodriquez, 45.85
Zach Chandy FR 47.29
Elliot Luscombe SO 48.96
Durell Coleman FR 49.08i (2007)
Chris Hadley FR 49.74
Chandy is a tremendous talent and doesn't have far to go to crack Stanford's top 10 list.
School Record: 3:06.6 (anchored by James Lofton)
800 runners Michael Garcia (46.0 on a relay leg) and Justin Reed (47.9 relay) will help quite a bit here. There is a strong potential for sub-3:10.
School Record: Malindi Elmore, 2:04.35
Ashley Freeman JR 2:04.82
Alicia Follmar SO 2:07.59
Arianna Lambie RS JR 2:08.06
Katy Trotter SR 2:08.74
Anne St. Geme FR 2:10.06
Laura Mottaz RS SO 2:10.21
Claire Cormier RS SO 2:10.73
Lauren Centrowitz JR 2:10.83
Mary Liz McCurdy SO 2:10.86
Freeman ranked #28 in the U.S. last season, and several runners here are capable of running close to 2:05. Lots of depth in this event, although some here will concentrate on longer distances. Freeman and maybe others, who concentrate on this event, could be NCAA finalists.
School Record: Michael Stember, 1:46.20
Michael Garcia RS JR 1:48.90
Joaquin Chapa RS JR 1:49.83
Russell Brown RS JR 1:50.16
Lauren Jesperson RS JR 1:51.73
Justin Reed FR 1:52.40
Garrett Heath RS SO 1:52.41
In addition to the above six runners, Stanford has five more in the 1:52 range. Garcia could be an NCAA finalist this year. He has a 46.0 relay leg, so he has the speed. Brown and Heath just ran 3:59 miles, so either could run into the 1:48 range if they drop down. Should make for an excellent 4x800 relay team.
High Hurdles-Women
School Record: Lindsey Johnson, 13.48
Lauren Stewart SO 14.28
Deborah Akinniyi JR 14.30
Nora Miller FR 14.37, 14.10w
This is a very solid group of hurdlers. Stewart and Akinniyi rank ninth and 10th on the all-time Stanford list. Frosh Miller is right there with them. It'll be a solid event, maybe a Pac-10 scorer, but not yet on the national level.
High Hurdles-Men
School Record: John Foster, 13.94, Rick Tipton, 13.7 yards
Myles Bradley SO 14.36
Josh Hustedt JR 14.70, 14.57w
Richard Sherman FR 13.99 (39" HS) c14.60
J.J. Jackson FR 14.57 (39" HS) c15.10
We haven't seen Bradley indoor yet, but last year indoors he tied the school 60m hurdle record. Hustedt is one of America's rising decathlon performers. Sherman was in the California State Meet last year in this event, and two others.
Intermediate Hurdles-Women
School Record: Pam Board, 58.31
Idara Otu So 62.83
Lauren Stewart So 43.01 (HS, 300m)
Getting in the sub-60 second range is the goal, which could make either a Pac-10 qualifier.
Intermediate Hurdles-Men
School Record: Randy White, 50.4
J.J. Johnson FR 38.39 (HS 300m)
Stanford is very thin here with the promising Pickett not returning. Johnson's high school mark indicates he could get into the 54's.
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Clearning an iced up vent
My furnace stopped working last night, of course, because its about 3 degrees outside. However, this is a condo so I'm insulated on 3 sides and have a fireplace. The HVAC is a Payne condenser and is 5 years old. I'm getting error code #31 which is the draft failsafe.
The vent is made of PCV and runs 8 feet out from the external wall to the end of the deck. When I went out to look this morning, sure enough, there was a huge ice cycle dangling from the end. I banged it around with a hammer for a while and a bunch of ice fell out. I reset the furnace and fired it up...no luck. The vent is so loooong that I don't know how to get all of the ice out. The cold snap is going to last another week, so waiting for a thaw is not an option.
Thaw out the PVC exterior vent line frost ice with a hair dryer on High Heat. Start from the outer end. (Do NOT use flame of any kind,,,it will cause a steam explosion.)
If you know anyone with a wet/dry shop vac, that might help clean it out, too, after you begin to thaw it loose.
Heat the outside of the PVC pipe, primarily.
Good Luck!
Mike has the right idea with the hair drier. I would suggest once its thawed out to install a 90 degree elbow in the end of your pipe with the opening facing down to stop the snow or rain from entering the pipe causing the ice buildup.
Hi kristin
Mike is right, for a quick fix use a hair dryer on high heat and get the ice out. Tvlfleming had a good idea on the elbow, however on a concentric you do not have that option. If you restrict the flow of exhaust gas enough with adding things to it, it will not work on the cold nights. The best permanent remedy is to get a self regulating heat tape from your local hardware store and wrap the flue concentric from the inside of the house. You will only have to run the heat tape during the cold winter months. Unplug it in the summer time, hope this helps.
Good luck
What about fireplaces for heat?
I've got an enclosed gas fireplace...vented to the exterior wall. I've been using it almost all day for heat, only turning it off when I leave. I'm using a floor fan for circulation. My concern is can I be putting CO2 into my home?
There are different types of gas log fireplaces. If yours was properly installed and vented per the manufacturers directions, it should be perfectly safe to use.
You should have a CO2 alarm as well as a smoke alarm, especially in any room with a fireplace, in any case.
Any interior fan helps distribute cool and warm air both, and make central HVAC systems more efficient. (We have one that runs 24/7/365 in our master bedroom.) Reversible ceiling fans are great for this, but we just use a regular oscillating fan sitting on a dresser.
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The 8 Ball 04.24.12: Top 8 Overrated Video Games
Welcome to another edition of the 8 ball, I am your host David McGregor. Next week I won't be here as I have law exams next week so I am cramming cases and acts into my brain like crazy. I will try to get a replacement for you, but failing that I won't be back until the 7th of May.
On a random side note, I've been watching YouTube videos a lot and the reason you subscribe is because of their personality that shines through. But when it comes to an article like this I've always wondered why people are here? Is it primarily because lists are easy to read or is there an actual connection with the writer? I say this because there are entertaining writers on this site that don't really get the appreciation they deserve, and also because I have been toying with the idea of doing YouTube videos of my own. I seem to get getting a decent sized audience on here and I think videos along with the weekly article could be a good idea, so tell me what you guys think.
This week we will be looking at the Top 8 Most Overrated Games of all time, and I will be honest I am slightly anxious at this one. I was warned by a poster on the column section that I should never do overrated games as I am generally very nice about games, and this will only lead to me becoming overly negative like the rest of the internet. So stupidly I put it into the choices for the column, but I think this will be my last negative column for the foreseeable future. That's audience participation for you! Anyway, I will be judging this list on games that were overhyped, over praised and generally labelled to a standard I never really thought they deserved.
(94.67% on GameRankings)
I quite enjoyed this game when I first got a hold of it; it's very reminiscent of the old Mario and Sonic games back in the early 90's which makes it instantly playable for that age group that originally played those games. But when I went back to it I think it lost a lot of its allure very quickly. It just seems so repetitive now that I am pretty confused at why I enjoyed the game at all when I first played it, although to be fair my experience with the game didn't last very long. Another thing that loads of people loved was the level design which let you create any sort of level you wished, within reason. But to me that was more of a hindrance than a positive aspect of the game, I don't really care for creating my own game that's what the development team should do. It just seemed like a half finished game that made you design the rest.
But for some reason the gaming world loved this one, getting extremely high ratings and grades. IGN UK rated it a 9.7 which is 0.3 away from the same rating as Ocarina of Time, seriously! And when you put it into that kind of perspective this one is definitely overrated, although if the guys at IGN UK got as much enjoyment out of this as the Nintendo masterpiece then fair play.
(80% and above on GameRankings
This one isn't so much here because of its rating, as the average for the series is around 85% which is reasonable; the series is here mostly because some overrated this as some kind of point in gaming that would change everything. Safe to say it was a fad pure and simple. Don't get me wrong the games are very entertaining but that's it, we weren't looking at a Mario 64 that revolutionised platform gaming or anything like that. I still think the idea was very innovative, but when you look back it is such a novelty game that it can't really be put up there with the best.
Games are just here to primarily entertain, and Guitar Hero did that in abundance. Its impact on gaming may have been blown way out of proportion but at its heart it is a very good game. If it had been mildly successful I think the series would still be alive and well.
(85% on GameRankings)
I was so excited to get this game when it was first released; it seemed like the type of interactive mayhem we hadn't seen for a long time. On a side note, I have always loved games that have an interactive surrounding. There is nothing worse than causing chaos in a game only for it to seem absolutely fine; it can really ruin that thread of realism that you cling onto playing a game. Dead Rising seemed destined for greatness, I mean zombies and a mall full of stuff to take them down with is a recipe made in heaven. And the reviews seem to agree that this was a really fun game, but they were so wrong.
Dead Rising is a really good game, up until about 30 minutes in when you realise that Navi was less annoying than the idiots in the control room. Honestly I think that thing went off about 20 times in the first half an hour I played the game, even when you are being eaten alive by the undead control room moron will not stop ringing you! Navi could be ignored, sometimes, but this bastard just kept going and going.
Then there is the god awful saving system, and I always try and be positive when doing this column but this was absolutely idiotic. The only way to save was in a toilet yet they were spread out so much that when you inevitably died you would go back to square one. This added in with the weird 72 hour game mode, which was the only game mode; it really defies belief that this was even successful. This is 101 of how to ruin a game.
Think I got a little carried away there.
(97% on GameRankings)
Grand Theft Auto IV just seemed to lose its way a little, long gone was the silly chaotic nature that it had become famous for and instead we were treated to a more realistic instalment. People at the time seemed to adore the thing; in fact it got 10 out of 10 on IGN which only a handful of games have been given. But looking back on the game, it really does not deserve to labelled one of the greatest games of all time. It isn't even the greatest GTA game of all time.
I think it just took itself way more seriously than the series was known for, yes there was loads of jokes but they seemed to stray away from the self deprecation we had been used to. They went from San Andreas which is pretty much takes the piss out of itself constantly, to a game in which you end up hunting down someone who killed your brother/girlfriend. It just didn't seem like a genuine GTA game, it felt like a merger between Call of Duty and a GTA game. There were glimpses of silliness but they were overshadowed for more plot detail or dramatic twist in the story.
Without the previous instalments this would be considered a really good game, but can you honestly say that this is better 99.9% of games out there? I can't which is why this is number 5.
(95% on GameRankings)
This is one of those games that people said was amazing and that it is a must have, yet when I got round to playing Halo all I could think was "is that it?" This was built up as a game changers, and sure it was for Microsoft as it saved the Xbox from dying a quick death, but for the first person shooter genre this was really nothing new. Halo was a decent FPS but I still to this day just do not understand why it is praised so highly, especially when there were better games prior to its release. I know I may get a ton of flack for putting this here as many people do like the game, but I just did not get this one at all.
I'm not going to backtrack or anything but I don't like the sci-fi game genre at all, so maybe that is why I never got into this game as much as others. But when I was compiling the list all I could think of was does this deserve to be put into the same class as Mario 64 and Call of Duty 4, and honestly I don't think it does. It's a decent little FPS that got such a rabid fan base that people started to believe the hype.
(93.13% on GameRankings)
I'm not very knowledgeable on the Elder Scrolls series, but the one game I did play was Oblivion which damn bored the balls off of me! Seriously this one of the most boring things I have ever had to sit through, everything about the game was done at the pace of snail on valium. Since I'm not a fan of the series I don't know if that's normal or not, but it certainly wasn't entertaining. The combat system is horrible and the voice acting is about as wooden as you get, I honestly didn't believe I was playing the same game people had been praising to the highest degree.
I'm not a big RPG fan but if it's an essentially good game then I will be interested in it, this is not that game. You just seem to meander through the wilderness with no real objective; this could be streamlined into a decent game if it was reined in a hell of a lot. But no we are forced to imitate the Lord of the Rings movies and walk everywhere, but at least that had Gollum to spice things up this just had endless greenery. People talk a lot about Skyrim and part of me would like to check it out, but then my head screams not to after this marathon.
I don't know if anyone has noticed but this is the first time I have mentioned Final Fantasy in my articles, and that's because I think the series is ridiculously overrated. The voice acting in the more recent editions are so cheesy and embarrassing that it really detracts from the game. I even gave them another try after Kingdom Hearts done so well, but I quickly realised that I only like that game because of the Disney aspect of the game not the Final Fantasy. I just think everything is so ridiculous that you really have to be a fan of the series and genre to enjoy it.
This doesn't stop the series from being insanely popular; I mean I almost constantly get comments about FF to be in one list or another. I just think it takes itself very seriously and it is just so ludicrously campy and cheesy that you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and the series just doesn't.
Tetris is a thing I just do not understand, people adore this utterly simple block game for a reason that completely escapes my mind. I don't understand why blocks' falling on top of each other is somehow fun. I know I will no doubt be slaughtered in the comments for this one, but I have never been able to get this game at all. Maybe I was born too late in that I am accustomed to a bit more excitement, but I love Pong and loads of old school game yet Tetris has always been the one I just never could comprehend.
I don't know what else to say on the matter, there is nothing more to the game than colourful blocks. It is so popular Mario had to get a doctorate and start advertising his own version! Maybe someone below can help me understand this, but to me there will be no more overrated game than Tetris.
Also, even though I don't like it I still understand the significance of Tetris. It is like appreciating a turn your arch nemesis just slipped on, I'm glad it was there but still want nothing to do with it.
Strange. Could've sworn Saints Row 1 & 2 were very popular – except among fake GTA purists (the real GTA purists prefer 1 & 2!), of course, who kept whining about them being a ripoff.
The only underrating of either was caused by envy that SR1 wasn't available on PC and anger at how crappy a port SR2 was. SR3 fixed both of those problems – and turned 11 up to 22 in the process, while being well-regarded (except among the abformentioned false GTA purists) 🙂
Posted By: The Ogre (Guest) on April 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM
I don't think Saints Row got the credit it deserved when it was first released; sure it has a good following now but in the beginning it was seen as a rip off of GTA by a lot of people. Also anyone who prefers the original GTA games over the 3D versions must be insane or a cheap attempt at being a gaming hipster. "My favourite game is GTA 1, you probably haven't played it…" That's the way I see it going anyway.
I am a girl. I wrote that comment last week. Definitely a fanGIRL.
Posted By: Guest#0238 (Guest) on April 17, 2012 at 12:35 AM
Well I do apologies for alluding to the idea you may have male genitalia. I am just happy that I have a fan, whatever gender! If I do create a YouTube channel at least I know I will have one viewer.
"Sabrewolf"…that is all.
Posted By: Franco McNeil (Guest) on April 17, 2012 at 03:05 AM
I know I screwed up with that one, but my point still stands fighting games need more werewolves! McGregor/Werewolf 2012 for President.
Hit And Run was a decent game, and the humor worked, but I lost interest in it pretty quickly and never went too far into it. At the time I was huge for the Grand Theft Auto series, so probably felt might as well be playing the real thing.
Posted By: Earl (Guest) on April 17, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Seriously you should have kept at it, Hit and Run only gets better and better. And it goes full on Halloween Special near the end which is amazing and a treat for any fan.
So what you're saying is that you enjoyed the game when you played it but you later changed your mind and decided it was a terrible sequel because you found out it was based on some obscure Japanese game. Makes sense to me.
Posted By: Guest#9844 (Guest) on April 17, 2012 at 01:44 PM
I never actually played the game until I knew that it was an old game repainted, so it was pretty much tainted from the get go. But my point stands that had it not been a Mario game, which I guess it wasn't, it would have been a good game.


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Posted by Julie Ask on August 24, 2012
I was sitting on a United Airlines flight from PDX to SFO last weekend. The usual "Jeff Smisek" video came on welcoming the passengers, providing us with information about how the transition is going and thanking us for choosing United. For the first time in more than a year, I lifted my head from my printed material (no electronics during taxi, takeoff, and landing) to watch the video and listen. He was talking about United's mobile services AND the feature set. Whoa.
Jeff Smisek has been welcoming passengers on to United flights since just after the acquisition - I think he talked for 6 to 8 months about getting the planes painted with their new logo. Then there was the full merger of the crews and upgrades to the plane interior, etc. I had long ago stopped paying attention . . . like most passengers flying 100x/year, I just want to get where I'm going on time safely, and I bring my own food and entertainment on board.
I just couldn't believe that the CEO of a Fortune 100 company was discussing their mobile services. I have photos from United's jetways that are less than two years old offering push notifications to pagers. Yeah, email and pagers.
Mr. Smisek - I commend you. The vast majority of Fortune 500 companies have senior level buy-in for their mobile strategy. Seldom, however, does a CEO become such an advocate. I was thrilled to see the video and the associated support. Like all frequent travelers, I rely heavily on my mobile phone for updates and information. Your mobile team is outstanding and has a phenomenal vision for how mobile should serve your passengers and staff. I was happy to see the recognition.


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Leading independent schools are poaching top students from Catholic schools, creating growing tensions between the two sectors.
The practice has been brought to the attention of a Senate inquiry by Melbourne University professor Richard Teese, a leading education authority who is developing a new funding system for Victorian schools.
In his submission to the inquiry on school funding, Professor Teese talks about "creaming" the best students.
"It is now a source of growing tension within non-government schooling itself, with more open (non-selective) schools seeing some of their best pupils poached by selective schools," he said.
Professor Teese told The Age Catholic schools were particularly affected. Principals spoke of "losing some of their best students, who are being drawn away through the offer of scholarships or partial remission of fees". He declined to name the poaching schools, but said there were "very aggressive schools with strong marketing strategies".
In Melbourne's southern suburbs, there has been a stand-off between high-profile private school Haileybury College and the Catholic St Bede's College in Mentone. St Bede's has claimed Haileybury has offered scholarships to take some of its top sports performers.
St Bede's principal, Brother Ken Ormerod, declined to comment on past tensions with Haileybury, but said the government push to publish league performance tables of schools was exacerbating the problem faced by some Catholic schools.
If schools seemed to be slipping, "they'll just go out and buy the boys that make them look good again", Brother Ormerod said.
"They've made themselves look good by going out and buying that commodity," he said. "On another level, it's a sad thing to have these young men subject to what becomes a meat market."
The president of the Principals Association of Victorian Catholic Secondary Schools, Rosalie Jones, said she was aware of the problem. Ms Jones has been principal of Star of the Sea, Gardenvale, for almost 14 years. She said that almost every year students had been offered scholarships by local independent schools.
"One of the issues was that there were a couple of schools that would tell parents their daughter had won a scholarship, but in actual fact it would only be a 25 per cent scholarship or 33 per cent scholarship, but that wasn't really made clear," she said.
Enrolment figures also show that, despite the drift away from government schools, Catholic secondary school enrolments have increased only marginally. Most students have gone to independent schools, which claim about 11 per cent of enrolments nationally and more than 12 per cent in Victoria.
Catholic Education Office director Susan Pascoe acknowledged the problem.
"Whether you like it or not, there is . . . a kind of market environment out there, with schools competing for able students," she said.
"The loss of some of your high performers can have a negative impact on the system as a whole, because it gives the overall impression that one system is performing better than others."
The executive director of the Association of Independent Schools of Victoria, Michelle Green, said that independent schools were in a no-win situation.
"We can't seem to do anything right. We're criticised that we're exclusive, and yet when we do offer scholarships to help students get into our schools, then we're criticised," she said.


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The Corporate Responsibility Officers Association (CROA) announced in
October that Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts International, will join the CROA as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
"I have been involved with CROA for a number of years, during which it has matured into a true professional society for CR practitioners, senior executives and c-suite officers," said Elliot Clark, CROA Treasurer and Chairman and CEO, SharedXpertise. "Jim is a natural choice to lead our board, particularly on the heels of his recent recognition by CR Magazine as CEO of the Year. He will be instrumental as we reach out to responsible c-suite officers."
An integral part of the CROA, The Board of Trustees is the governing body of the CROA whose primary objectives are to promote the practice and profession of corporate responsibility as a driver of business and social value. The Board of Trustees helps set the overall direction of the Advisory Board and the Association, ensuring that both act on their mission to provide value to members and society.
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"I'm delighted to join a team of leading CR practitioners, senior executives and c-suite, who are also passionate about improving the role of business in society," said Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts International. "CROA is an extremely important organization with a mission that is significant to professionals who value corporate responsibility and sustainability."


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S&P Says Buy Nokia
Nokia (NOK ): Maintains 5 STARS (buy)
Analyst: Ari Bensinger
Mobile-phone maker Nokia confirmed its 2003 mobile-phone forecast of 460 million units, up about 15% year-to-year, and fourth-quarter earnings per share guidance of 21 euro cents to 23 euro cents. In light of several industry data points indicating fourth-quarter handset sales are off to a strong start, S&P views the confirmation as conservative and sees possible upside to S&P's fourth-quarter earnings per share estimate of 23 euro cents. Given the company's dominant market share and S&P's view of superb execution and strong cash-flow generation, S&P would buy Nokia at a notable discount to the 12-month target price of $22, which is based largely on S&P's discounted cash-flow model.
Campbell Soup (CPB ): Maintains 3 STARS (hold)
Analyst: Richard Joy
Campbell Soup reported October-quarter earnings per share of 51 cents, vs. 47 cents -- 2 cents better than S&P's estimate. Net sales gained 12%, with volume/mix up 2%, prices up 2%, promotions down 2%, currency up 4%, and acquisitions adding 2%. Several businesses posted higher volumes but high-margin condensed soup volumes fell 7%. Despite the earnings per share upside, S&P is reducing the fiscal 2004 (July) earnings per share estimate by 3 cents, to $1.57, reflecting Campbell's increase of promotional spending to combat competitive pressures. S&P believes shares are worth holding at 16 times the calendar 2004 earnings per share estimate of $1.62, in line with peers.
Hot Topic (HOTT ): Downgrades to 3 STARS (hold) from 4 STARS (accumulate)
Analyst: Marie Driscoll
Given Hot Topic's largely under-served retail niche, S&P projects a five-year earnings compound annual growth rate of 22% as the Hot Topic store base expands and the Torrid store concept likely becomes more significant. S&P is raising the January-quarter earnings per share estimate to 42 cents, from 41 cents, and is upping the fiscal 2004 (Jan.) estimate to 94 cents, from 89 cents. Also, S&P is raising the fiscal 2005 estimate to $1.15, from $1.05; these revisions reflect earnings momentum and store productivity. However, S&P believes that, with a price-earnings of 26 (based on S&P's fiscal 2005 earnings per share estimate), Hot Topic shares reflect the aforementioned opportunities and S&P would hold the shares, which have reached S&P's $29 12-month target price.
Time Warner (TWX ): Maintains 4 STARS (accumulate)
Analyst: Tuna Amobi
Time Warner agreed to sell Warner Music Group (WMG ) to an investor group led by Edgar Bronfman for $2.6 billion in cash and other considerations. Pending necessary approvals, the deal is expected to close in 60 days and gives Time Warner the option to buy up to 15% of Warner Music within three years of closing, and up to 19.9% under certain circumstances. S&P sees the planned sale as another right step in the quest to pare Time Warner's debt burden, with ongoing efforts to shed its non-core assets. Based on discounted cash-flow and relative enterprise-value-to-EBITDA analyses, S&P's 12-month target price remains $19.
Delta Air Lines (DAL ): Maintains 3 STARS (hold)
Analyst: James Corridore
Leo Mullin, chairman and CEO, will step down as CEO on Jan. 1 and will give up his position as chairman in April. Gerard Grinstein, who is 71, will take over as CEO, while former General Motors chairman John Smith will become non-executive chairman. Grinstein has experience running Western Airline, and Smith has experience running a major unionized organization. S&P thinks Grinstein and Smith will be able to provide a stopgap until a long-term successor can be found, but doesn't think they will be any more successful than Mullin at getting labor concessions.
Boeing (BA ): Maintains 5 STARS (buy)
Analyst: Robert Friedman
Despite Boeing's recent dismissal of its CFO over the hiring of a Boeing defense official who allegedly possessed insider sales information, S&P thinks chances are low that the latest Boeing crisis will affect the company's long-term free-cash flow growth potential. Although most of Boeing's businesses possess mediocre economics and growth prospects, S&P thinks the company will still post a modest, 6% 10-year free-cash compound annual growth rate and a 12% return on equity. With shares trading at a 20% discount to S&P's discounted cash-flow-based $50 target price, should the shares retreat on this news, S&P would view this as an enhanced buying opportunity.
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ ) and Boston Scientific (BSX ): Reiterates 4 STARS (accumulate)
Analyst: Robert Gold
Late Friday, a U.S. District Court in Delaware denied requests for preliminary injunctions filed by both Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson. Both companies, rivals in the emerging drug-coated coronary stent market, have challenged each other's patents as the battle for U.S. market share approaches. S&P believes this court decision largely reflected an effort to maintain a fully competitive drug-coated stent market. In S&P's view, the decision removes a significant overhand on Boston Scientific shares. S&P is keeping the 12-month targets of $40 on Boston Scientific and $57 on J&J.


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And while we've examined the relative importance of a range of positions from backup quarterback to kickoff returner, no single position battle promises to attract more inquiring eyes and minds than the one we examine today.
Not surprisingly, our countdown concludes with the position most closely associated with Navy's unique triple option offense. It's no secret that fullback has been one of the biggest strengths for Navy's nationally recognized running game over the last six seasons, with hard-nosed runners like Kyle Eckel, Adam Ballard, and Eric Kettani leading the way for an offense which has now racked up three consecutive rushing titles. Yet with no clear heir apparent at the position for the first time in several seasons, head coach Ken Niumatalolo and his staff face the prospect of going into the spring with a vital piece of Navy's offensive puzzle still unsolved. What will April hold for Navy's relatively untested fullbacks? And will the lack of returning star power at the position foreshadow a lack of production in 2009? Find out as we examine the most intriguing offseason position battle for the 2009 Navy Midshipmen.
2008 Recap
Of all the Navy fullbacks in the triple option era, no single player may have possessed as much raw talent as Eric Kettani. Coming into last season the 6'1, 243-lb Ohio native was already known to posses freakish physical talent with a sub 4.6 40-yard dash time and an eye-popping 400 pound max bench press mark, while his production on the field in 2007 made many fans speculate on the possibility of a 1000 yard rushing campaign for 2008. That possibility was only furthered when head coach Ken Niumatalolo told reporters in July that Kettani may have to "carry the load" to a greater degree than past Navy fullbacks such as Adam Ballard or Kyle Eckel, both of whom had the benefit of established backups to spell their efforts when called upon.
Niumatalolo proved to be right going into the year, as Kettani accounted for nearly 88% of all carries by Navy fullbacks during 2008. Boasting an impressive 5.2 yard per carry average, Kettani rumbled, sprinted, and in some cases dove to 982 yards and four touchdowns in 2008, amazingly only losing four yards through 13 games. And while he may have been able to will Navy's offense to game-clinching first downs against the likes of Air Force or Rutgers, his backups did not have nearly as much success.
In fact, Navy's backup situation at fullback was never quite resolved in 2008, with plebe Alex Teich and junior Kevin Campbell splitting the duties for a modest 29 carries on the year. Once more, the majority of the carries came in blowout Navy wins over Towson, SMU, and Army; testifying to the obvious fact that when it came to meaningful game situations, the coaching staff felt there was no substitute for Kettani "totting the rock." Yet with the former Lake Catholic star moving on to a naval career and possible NFL future, the time is now for the staff to find the next great Navy fullback, as well as a suitable backup who'll be able to deliver much needed carries if called upon.
Potential 2009 Candidates
These players almost certainly figure to be in the mix for the job going into the spring. They are listed in alphabetical order.
Kevin Campbell: Long thought to be the heir to Eric Kettani and the burgeoning tradition of Navy fullbacks in the triple option era, Campbell returns for his senior season in 2009 after rushing for 84 yards on 22 carries a season ago. He's currently listed as the backup on the pre-spring depth chart, but finished the 2008 season ahead of Alex Teich at the position. A hair shorter than Teich, Campbell is much more of a traditional 'bruiser' at fullback; lacking no shortage of second effort or the ability to break tackles. Yet he'll likely have to show better ability once he gets to the second level of defenses to beat Teich outright this spring. Regardless of whether or not he wins the job this spring or summer, he'll likely be a part of Navy's offense come September.
Jordan Eddington: A real wildcard, the former backup linebacker is one of the fastest players on the roster, having run a 4.47 40-yard dash during spring practice last season. While he's struggled seeing playing time amidst a crowded outside linebacker unit, he more than impressed Navy fans by running down Army kickoff returner Pat Mealy during the Army-Navy game last December. Because of his clear athleticism the coaching staff has decided to try Eddington at fullback this spring, although there is no guarantee the switch will be permanent.
Vince Murray: A surprisingly fleet-of-foot junior at 6'1, 217 pounds, Murray did not see any carries a season ago but has looked impressive as a backup in both spring practice sessions and summer scrimmages. While not the most athletically gifted or even fundamentally sound fullback on the roster, he runs with a tremendous amount of determination and power, while at the same time showing a good burst to get through arm tackles on the line. He made himself relevant in spring a season ago, and could be the real darkhorse in the position race this spring. While he likely won't win the job, expect Murray to push Teich and Campbell and provide good depth coming out of April.
Alex Teich: A surprise to the coaching staff and fans alike last summer, Teich comes into spring currently listed as the starter on the latest depth chart. While he managed just seven carries for 24 yards in 2008 (second among returning fullbacks) he has nevertheless shown the coveted combination of speed and power that leaves fans drooling. At 6'0, 200-lbs his athleticism is unquestionable, especially considering he saw time as a kickoff returner in 2008. Yet the former high school track athlete is still relatively unproven, and above all will need to show an improved ability to protect the ball while running in-between the tackles. Still, he's a threat to score once he gets to the second level, and should exit the spring no worse than second string on the depth chart.
These players aren't expected to win the job outright, but could move their way up the depth chart with a strong spring showing.
Delvin Diggs- A former standout at NAPS, Diggs has terrific speed and gives the Mids perhaps their biggest "home-run threat" at fullback. Don't be surprised if he earns his way onto the depth chart.
John McCauley- Current plebe with good speed and power. Could move onto the depth chart if the Eddington experiment does not work.
Jack Hatcher- A rising senior who has never worked higher than the third team, Hatcher will provide needed depth to the position.
Torri Preston- Former NAPS player who comes into the year as a relative unknown.
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Looking back at past Navy fullback position battles, this one strikes me as most akin to the one we saw in early 2005 when Adam Ballard and Matt Hall contended for the spot vacated by Kyle Eckel. In quite the same fashion there are two obvious favorites going into this competition (Teich and Campbell), although neither had distinguished himself completely above the other or even shown noticeable potential in the previous season.
That being the case both have their strengths, with Teich providing a little more of the home run hitting and open field explosiveness that characterized Eric Kettani's game in 2007. That's not to say Campbell is your stereotypical plodding fullback, and it does not suggest that either one is as complete a back as Kettani is. This latter notion leads me to believe that at least coming out of the spring the two will have the proverbial "OR" listed between them on the depth chart, and could even be used interchangeably into next season. I don't think there is any doubt that Teich is being groomed to be a full-time starter at some point in his career, but Campbell has shown enough in two seasons of relief work to warrant playing time in 2009, barring any sort of major injury or fumble-laden implosion.
That all being the case, this is not, by any means, a two Mid party. Had it not been for the ascendance of Teich over the course of last summer we could have very well seen his carries go to Vince Murray, who literally came out of nowhere last spring to overtake all but Kevin Campbell at one point on the spring depth chart. Now, with Kettani gone and the return of spring, I expect Murray to once again come on strong, and if nothing else push Teich and Campbell to elevate their own games. Finally, don't overlook Eddington or Diggs. Both have terrific speed, while Diggs has the benefit of being a former NAPS playmaker who knows the ins and outs of the position. There is no telling whether or not Eddington even manages to stay on the offense after the first week of spring ball, but I'd be willing to wager (hypothetically, of course) that if Eddington can pick up the basics he'll stick with the position at least through the remainder of the offseason.
While Navy may not be in possession of another NFL caliber talent like Kyle Eckel or Eric Kettani at the fullback position for 2009, the cupboard is by no means bare for a triple option offense that looks forward to its fourth consecutive rushing title. And with a host of willing candidates to audition for the position this spring, we may just be weeks away to identifying the next great fullback to pass through Annapolis.
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Just as it's been a while since we've seen the Brange, it's also been months since we've seen Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield out together in LA. Emma spent part of the summer working in France on a Woody Allen film and then the two were in England together in late August/early September celebrating his 30th birthday. Full Story
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On the one hand, IN TOUCH Weekly is pretty unreliable. On the other hand, well, celebrities aren't exactly honest all the time. IN TOUCH reported yesterday that Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes are secretly dating. Jamie denied it on Entertainment Tonight: "[The rumors] are 100 percent not true. Full Story
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Katie Holmes and Jamie Foxx are supposedly dating. The Source for this story is IN TOUCH Weekly, so make the sound of a broken horn. The magazine claims that the two are all "Mission: Impossible" about their relationship. In my experience legit sources don't speak like that, but whatever. Full Story
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Love this. Quvenzhane Wallis and Jamie Foxx are in New York shooting the Annie movie. This is your first look at the orphan and her Daddy…not Warbucks but Stacks. Benjamin Stacks. Amazing, right? Stop. Annie does not HAVE to have red hair and freckles to sing Tomorrow. All Annie needs to be is alone. Full Story
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Is it any surprise? It's their second home. Marvel made an impressive showing on Friday in both Hall H for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and in Ballroom 20 for their TV venture, Agents of SHIELD. First up, the Agents of SHIELD panel in Ballroom 20. Agent Coulson himself, Clark Gregg, got a standing ovation when he was introduced—by far the biggest reaction for any Marvel actor except for Tom Hiddleston, and even then it was pretty close. Full Story
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Don't ask me how "blue albino" works, that's just what is in my head as I look at these set photos of Jamie Foxx as Electro, the villain in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which so far has no cutesy subtitle (The Even More Amazing Spider-Man? Spider-Man: Still Amazing?). Did you ever see Cave of Forgotten Dreams? For some reason, Foxx done up as Electro reminds me of the albino crocodiles at the end. Full Story


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Pooch passed away this morning. He was diagnosed with probable metastatized lung cancer after many tests and vet visits and medications... My vet thinks he probably had a pulmonary embolism this morning and that he didn't suffer.
Monday was the last day of my obedience class at "Anything is PAWSible."
Since I recently lost a lot of my hearing, my mom had taken the class with me both as a "brush up" and to train me for more hand signals, since I didn't know hand signals for every cue word she'd taught me (a lot of them I did...)
The graduation day was so much fun! First we went through a lot of the obedience we had learned in class, and I did very well at that.
Then, we played "My Dog Can Do That." (a dog board game where you, the dog, have to do different things to get points.) My mom was a little disappointed at first because our instructor Rendy only had the obedience-related cards... The other times we've played that game, I always do really well at the trick-type cards but there were none in class (it makes sense since it was an obedience class...)
Anyway, I still did really well despite it only being obedience-related. The way we played was whichever dog had the most points at the end of the game would get to pick the first prize from a pile of toys! I did great, I did not miss any of the cards that were for me or any "steal" cards... "Steal" cards are if another dog did not do what the card said, all the other dogs got a chance to do it for 1 point each. In some cases after a dog did the thing on the card, the instructor asked everyone else to try it (just to see if we could do it) and I did miss 1-2 of those, but those were not for any points.
When the game was over, there was a three-way tie for first! I was one of the tie dogs! The tie-breaker was going to be a long down-stay. Whichever dog could stay the longest would win. My mom didn't think I would win because I am a terrier and the concept"stay" is very difficult for us terriers, so I am not usually that good at it... I surprised her though-- I won!! I did the longest down-stay out of the three dogs, and so I got to pick the first toy. I was very happy because I LOVE TOYS! I chose this cool lizard bungee plush thing and I started carrying it around and playing with it right away in class. Maybe I'll take a photo of me with it and post it up here...
After the game, we all got a piece of cake. I didn't like to too much because it was not really cake but actually canned dog food shaped into a dog-bone shape with a biscuit on top, but I ate it anyway.
I got a neat certificate of completion for going through the class, and the instructor said I would be perfect for the advanced class...
This class was a lot of fun, and not just because of the graduation day! I am hoping to go back for the next advanced class. Unfortunately that won't be until mid-June...
This morning I went to a doggie Easter egg hunt at a local park (Horner Park, for all you Chicago doggies!)
They have a couple of things to do. They had vendors giving away free treats, and photos with the Easter bunny, and some dog contests like pet and owner look alike and also a dog easter bonnet parade (I missed that because we got there a little late...) Then the egg hunt is a fenced off area where they have plastic eggs allll over the place with treats in them.
It was sooo much fun!
When I went last year for the first time, and after I "found" a few plastic easter eggs and mom broke them opened and gave me the treats inside, I figured out how to open the eggs myself! I carefully pop them open with my teeth without cracking the plasitc! Last year they had some eggs with candy and some with dog treats and I even knew to leave the human candy and only eat it if it contained a dog treat...
This year we got there after it had already started so a lot of the eggs were already opened, and some had been opened and the treats had been taken out and then they were closed back up. Not only did I pop open the eggs myself, but I could tell by sniffing which eggs had treats in them and which eggs the treats had been removed from, and I only opened the ones with a treat inside. Mom says I have such a good nose I shoulda been a search dog...
Anyway I had lots of fun today... My sister Ginger had fun too, although she waited for mom to open the eggs up for her, she also got a lot of treats.
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They're not afraid of Cobra Commander, but the thought of bad reviews apparently scares the grenades off the Real American Heroes.
Paramount will not screen director Stephen Sommers' G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra for critics, skipping preview screenings and rushing straight toward its Friday opening.
Studio executives say it's to avoid the rough treatment Paramount's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen received from the media. The movie was ravaged by critics (perhaps rightfully so), but it's not like that cost Optimus Prime any box office receipts. The movie was a smash.
G.I. Joe would seem to be just as review-proof — despite CGI that looks only slightly tighter than the 1980s cartoon's animation — as online ticket sales are raging as we speak. Paramount's hypersensitivity would seem to raise flags that didn't need to be saluted.
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The National Security Agency spied on the communications of presidents of Mexico and Brazil, according to a report produced by a Brazilian news program and co-authored by Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke news of President Obama's spying program at the beginning of the summer.
The news is sure to anger leaders of Latin America's two largest nations.
The report published late Sunday by Globo's news program "Fantastico" was based on documents handed to Greenwald by NSA whistle-blower and fugitive Edward Snowden. Fantastico showed images of what it described as an NSA document dated June 2012 displaying messages written by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Nieto was a candidate at the time. The document was said to have contained the names of people he was considering for his presidential cabinet.
Another document showed detailed communications between Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her top advisers, the news program said. The files were reported to be part of an NSA case study showing how data could be "intelligently" filtered.
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By Lauly Li ,The China Post Thursday, May 29, 2014, 12:06 am TWN
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The National Police Agency (NPA) yesterday afternoon denied an opposition lawmaker's accusation of violating the law and human rights with its human face recognition system.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmaker Li Chun-yi (李俊俋) yesterday morning held a press conference at the Legislative Yuan, arguing that the NPA's recently launched human face recognition system of its M-Police Operation System has violated the laws when accessing citizen ID pictures from the nation's household registration system.
The M-Police Operation System is a system that aims to enhance the NPA's capabilities in using mobile devices and advanced technologies. The recently launched human face recognition system is part of the M-Police system.
Li criticized that the NPA's attempt to detect crimes by accessing the household system to compare citizens' photos with criminals' photos not only violates personal privacy but also treats ordinary people like criminals.
The lawmaker further stated that with the NPA's M-Police Operation System, police could take as many photos as possible at any protest and then to spend only 10 seconds to ID a protester.
Lawyer Huang Ti-ying (黃帝穎), who also attended the press conference, said as far as he knows, there is no specific regulation that grants police the right to utilize such a system. Huang said that in the past the Constitutional Court has ruled that forcing people to give their fingerprints violates the R.O.C Constitution; therefore, the government should not take photos of people.
Li said if the NPA deems that it is necessary to access the household registration system for citizens' ID photographs, then the NPA should propose to amend current laws and obtain the Legislature's approval.
In response, the NPA later released a press statement, saying that based on the need to maintain social order and detect crimes, it has set "administrative procedures" for the police to follow and has applied to the Ministry of the Interior to access the database of citizens' ID photographs in accordance with the law.
The NPA said that a police officer needs to have the person of interest's consent and clearance before accessing the database of the household registration system.
This would mean the M-Police Operation System's human face recognition system does not violate the Personal Information Protection Act, the NPA said, noting that it also has management to prevent any police officers from abusing the system.
The NPA said should any police officers break the regulations and harm people's interests and rights, it will probe the case and investigate the police officers in accordance with the Criminal Code.
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The Audi Japan sponsored "FASHION'S NIGHT OUT" hosted by VOGUE JAPAN was held in Omotesando, Shibuya, Tokyo on Saturday, September 08.
The purpose of "FASHION'S NIGHT OUT (FNO)" is to activate via the power of fashion the economic activity in an economy depressed by global recession. This global fashion event for unity began in 2009, the idea of Anna Winter, editor-in-chief of Vogue Magazine (USA).
2012 marks the fourth year for the event, based in the Omotesando Hills. In the opening ceremony, Messrs. love Tominaga familiar guest, Anna, Tsuchiya appeared in the first round. Chris Pepura, served as the MC and also performed live by JUJU. The event was given a further boost when featured DJ FNO sound played.
The day, Audi displayed a total of 14 exhibition vehicles including the R8, A8, A7, A6, Q3 and A1 around the Omotesando area. The Audi Forum Tokyo was also part of the event, with the Audi A1 conducting shuttle service between the Audi Forum Tokyo and the Audi A1 Shop Terrace Tokyo – a temporary exhibition that welcomed visitors.
For Audi, the aim was to increase awareness of the brand. Audi Japan will continue efforts to enhance the brand image in these ways. Coverage of this event will be released October 27 in the pages of Vogue Japan.
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One study involved wiring pairs of subjects up to electrodes and having them sit five feet apart. The researchers found that one person's heart energy waves (electrocardiogram output) were not detectable by the electrodes on the surface of the other person's body at that distance. However, when they were holding hands, each person's heart energy waves were detectable on the surface of the other's body, and even in the other's brain waves.
The researchers then wondered whether what was being picked up was being radiated through the air from the first person's heart, or was being conducted, like a wire conducts electricity, through skin contact. What they found was that when one person touched the other through a latex glove, the signal was still present, but was only one tenth as strong.
They then did another experiment to determine whether heart energy was transferred when the subjects were sitting closely together but not touching at all. Subjects were seated three feet apart and again wired with electrodes. Indeed, their electrocardiogram output was detectable across the space between them on the surface of each other's bodies. Thus, we now know that the heart energy field is both conducted by physical contact and radiated across space between people.
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- October 5th, 2012 the Internationalization Initiative went to Leach Gardens for an all day retreat, our first retreat ever! There we planned what our priorities would be for the year.
- October 15th, Professor Anu Taranath, University of Washington, spoke at Cascade Campus on the importance of reading global literature, or why what goes on "out there" matters to what goes on "here" locally. As part of her talk, she distributed a reading list of suggested literature from around the globe, both well-known and a bit more obscure.
- Thursday November 8th from 3 - 4pm, Professor Muhamad Ali, Professor of Religion at UC, Riveside spent the day at PCC speaking with students, faculty and administrators on Indonesia and Islam. As part of his time at PCC, "Global Crossroads" interviewed him about some key aspects of Islam.
- Dr. Jeffrey Hanes, Director of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at U of O, and Lori O'Hollaren, Assistant Director of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, visited the Asian Studies Committee on November 9, 2012. The center is a Title VI East Asia National Regional Center, and they have started the "Oregon East Asia Network," which connects various institutions in Oregon together. The AS committee meet with them to talk about future collaborations.
Friday, November 16th, 2012, as part of International Week, Seffarine performed a confluence of Arabic, Persian and European music, with short lectures on the origin and methods of both instrument and musical composition.
- Also on November 16th, 2012, a group of faculty and staff racked their brains for the answers at the fourth annual "WorldQuest Trivia Night for Grownups" held at Oaks Amusement Park. This year's PCC participants included: Peggy Attia, Christine Richards, John and Tina Sparks, Bonnie Starkey and Takako Yamaguchi. Congratulations for this group garnering a tie for third place, the highest our PCC team has achieved at this event!
- On November 30, 2012, as part of PCC China Cohort's Title VI Grant obligation, The ASDP Symposium on Chinese Histories held two lectures:
- "The Long Tail of the Chinese Revolution: Why Maoism Still Matters in Politics and Culture" by Shana Brown, Professor of History, University of Hawaii
- "Thinking about Chinese Nationalism" by Cathryn Clayton, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii
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On January 24th, from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m., CIEE Curriculum Workshop, aimed at those individuals who have gone on a CIEE trip (both faculty and administrators), was open to anyone who is interested in learning more about the process of internationalizing one's curriculum.
On Monday, January 28, from 10-11am, Professor Lina Beydoun spoke in the Cascade Morarity Auditorium on key migration patterns in Africa.
- Thursday, February 7, 2013: Matt Shore performed an example of Japanese Rakugo theater. The reception that followed was attended by the Japanese Consulate-General in Oregon, Takamichi Okabe, with his wife, who spoke and answered questions.
- On Wednesday February 20th, from 2:30 - 3:30 pm, the musical group Seffarine performed flamenco music and dancing at Sylvania's Little Theater in the CT Building.
- On Tuesday, March 12th from 3:00 to 4:50 pm, Professor Amina Wadud spoke on Women & Islam, as part of her trip to Portland to be the keynote speaker at the Lewis & Clark Gender Symposium. A dinner followed her talk.
- On Monday, March 18th from 12:00 to 2:00, Dasho Nob Tshering, from Bhutan, visited PCC, answering questions in conjunction with a slide show by faculty member Susanne Christopher, who recently visited Bhutan for the first time. Susanne followed up with another presentation of her trip on May 7th, from 1:00 to 2:00 pm in the CA TLC.
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- Monday, April 15th, 2:00 to 3:30 pm, Jeff Hanes, Professor of Japanese History, University of Oregon, spoke at the Sylvania PAC Lobby on "Modernity and Tradition in Japan".
- Tuesday, April 23rd, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, as part of Earth Day, PCC's own Kim Smith gave a recap of a presentation that she gave at the United Nations' Earth Summit that she attended the summer of 2012.
- Wednesday, April 24th, from 2:00 to 3:00 pm, Sophal Ear, Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval Postgraduate School, will speak on "How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy: Aid Dependence in Cambodia and Beyond".
- As part of the annual Asian Studies Focus Award, on May 15th, 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Yomi Braester, Professor of Cinema, University of Washington, will speak on Chinese Cinema.
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Kodak and Indie Film have joined their strengths to go out in the streets, talk to analogue photographers, and film their passion. Here you have the trailer of the upcoming film.
It will be titled 'Long Live Film' and Indie Film Lab and Kodak are behind it. It is a documentary film about the passion aroused by analogue photography today.
Indie Film Lab used these words when they posted the trailer on their Facebook page: 'Earlier this year, Indie Film Lab partnered up with Kodak to hit the road and talk to photographers about why they still love and shoot film. Here is a trailer for a short documentary all about film, those who shoot it and why they do. Enjoy and keep an eye out for the full length later this year!'
We will be able to enjoy the film this autumn, but why don't we warm up the engines and leave some comments on this article about why we love analogue photography so much?
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Kincaid (A Dog Named Christmas, 2008, etc.), a practicing lawyer, has attracted a popular readership with heartwarming stories and happy endings. This novel finds him extending his approach into the metaphysical realm, exploring some of life's eternal questions and mysteries, though his breezy style and conversation-heavy narrative doesn't require a lot of effort on the reader's part. Much of the interplay is as cute as the novel's title [...]
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Conference focusing on the role of the marketplace and consumers in improving health care quality
As identified in the 2001 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Crossing the Quality Chasm, there is a clear need for consumers to play a more active role in the health care system. For consumers to effectively play this role, they need to be given the necessary information to make informed decisions about their care based on explicit, proven guidelines supported by clinical research. The Center for Information Therapy promotes the availability of evidence-based health information to meet individuals' needs and support decision-making. This grant supported the 2006 Information Therapy conference on September 25-27, 2006, in Park City, Utah. The theme for this year's conference was "Catalysts for Innovation." Conference participants included different stakeholders, such as large health plans, providers, Web technology companies, disease management companies and consumer representatives. The proceedings of this conference will inform the Foundation's strategy by providing it with additional perspectives around consumers' needs for health care information and comparative performance data, and allowing it to determine how consumers should be engaged in improving quality. Deliverables include conference presentations and a conference summary document that will be available on the Center for Information Therapy's Web site (www.ixcenter.org) following the conference.
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