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Many of the costumes had political themes, such as Enron or how King George Bush II was corrupt. (When it comes to booty, I much prefer the mermaid variety.)
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Los Angeles was also used as a filming location for Predator 2, with much of the movie's exterior shooting taking place around the city.
In Predator 2, Los Angeles in 1997 is portrayed as ravaged by almost urban warfare levels of armed crime, with particularly fierce conflict taking place between the Colombian Scorpions and the Jamaican Voodoo Posse for control of the city's drug trade. During this time, the city was visited by a Predator seeking to hunt humans, motivated by the Jungle Hunter's recordings made in Val Verde ten years previously.
- ↑ Paul Monette. Predator, p. 7 (1987), Jove Books.


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The wind energy credit: A shafting grows
The "fiscal cliff" deal shafts all taxpayers — not just "the rich" — by not just renewing the wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC) for another year but expanding eligibility, too.
Formerly available only to projects completed during a particular year, the PTC now is available to projects begun by 2013's end, in keeping with industry claims that windmill construction usually takes more than a year.
Thus, even more will be squandered this year than the nearly $12 billion that the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated a simple one-year PTC extension — without expanded eligibility — would have cost. But as former U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, wrote in The Wall Street Journal, "the cost to taxpayers is only part of the problem."
Subsidies are so high that producers who pay utilities to take their windmills' electricity still can profit. Coal-, gas- and nuclear-fired plants still have to meet demand when winds don't blow. And the Department of Energy says average wind-power costs in 2009 still were higher than in 1994, two years after the PTC began.
"Like all subsidies, these distort markets and make the country poorer — all in order to enrich a handful of politically influential businesses by shielding these privileged firms from the realities of the marketplace," says Donald J. Boudreaux, a George Mason University economist and regular Trib columnist.
As the PTC's ill wind blows harder than ever, its cost chills taxpayers even more.


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a review from the Illinois Entertainer, Apr. 2000
Beloved Chicago pop-rock outfit The Bad Examples was together as a band for just over 5000 days. Make that 5002 days.
Bad Examples Farewell by Michael C. Harris
After 14 road-hard years, Chicago's Ralph Covert & The Bad Examples are calling it a career. Nothing acrimonious, no juicy band-fight tidbits - just time for new challenges, says Ralph Covert. Given the volatility and short life of most rock bands, The Bad Examples' 14-year haul is quite the impressive feat, if not an inspiration to aspiring bands (as in, yes, you can make a living playing without doing the major label dance). Covert will continue making music, as will the rest of The Bad Examples (consummate pros these guys), and fans shouldn't rule out the occasional reunion gig. But at least for now, April 15 at Fitzgerald's will be the band's swan song, with just about every Bad Example band member contributing to what's planned as a chronological set.


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Mississippi's Hugh Freeze takes aggressive recruiting approach
OXFORD, Miss. – Thirteen quarterbacks. Thirty-one wide receivers. Thirty-nine defensive ends. And that's just the start of Ole Miss' coast-to-coast football recruiting offer sheet.
Coach Hugh Freeze will readily acknowledge that his staff has offered scholarships to a lot of players in the class of 2013. He just doesn't have a clue what that total is.
"Heck no," Freeze said. "I haven't even looked at that list."
There's 246 (and counting) offers from Ole Miss out to prospective recruits, according to Rivals.com. The vast majority are to "national" recruits - those beyond a five-hour drive from Oxford - and of that group most are considered four- and five-star prospects, the cream of the recruiting crop.
The approach is like City Grocery chef John Currence at Sam's Club - shop in bulk, buy select.
"You have to recruit nationally," said Freeze, who was hired in December. "I think you can do that at Ole Miss, but in order to do that you got to get into the game with them."
Getting in the game has created that large number of offers, one that is enough to make those who follow recruiting take notice.
"That is a very high number," said Rivals.com recruiting analyst Keith Niebuhr. "Forget what conference you're in, that's a high number."
It's a part of Freeze's recruiting plan, one borrowed quite liberally from the three years he spent as part of former coach Ed Orgeron's staff at Ole Miss.
The reason why Freeze does not know the overall number is that he's not directly involved with every offer that goes out. The offensive and defensive staffs meet and if everyone is in agreement on a player, they have the freedom to start the process.
"I have great trust in Dave (Wommack) and Matt Luke and Dan Werner and those guys," Freeze said. "They talk through it and if it's a split room and they're not sure, then I get called in. … If he's got Alabama and Ohio State (offers) and we like him on tape, pull the trigger."
The rules are different, though, for prospects within a five-hour drive of Oxford (which includes Memphis, Alabama and Louisiana). They are more likely to jump at an Ole Miss offer, and SEC rules limit schools to 25 signees a year. Having to then turn down those players could upset the delicate nature of building and maintaining long and fruitful relationships with high school coaching staffs.
"You're more careful here, localized, to not just throw offers out," Freeze said. "Because it's not as easy. These relationships here, they are so vital to us. One in California, not that they're not important, but it's a different dynamic."
That's why Ole Miss has offered 13 in-state players for the class of 2013, along with 15 in Louisiana and nine in Alabama. On the flip side, there's 37 in Texas, 40 in Georgia and 57 in Florida.
"I don't see it necessarily as a bad thing," Niebuhr said. "You're fishing. You're casting a wide net and hoping for a nibble here or there.
"You see what the initial reaction is. They are in a unique situation with a lot of turnover there. It seems like there's an opportunity for playing time and it's a new staff, and they determined that this is for them. I don't really disagree with them."
Of the nine verbal commits for the class that can sign in December (junior college prospects) and February (high schools), eight come from traditional recruiting areas.
The strategy, though, has already paid off with one verbal commitment from outside Ole Miss' normal recruiting boundaries - four-star safety Antonio Allen is from Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis. There's not a Hoosier on the current roster, though linebackers coach Tom Allen was head coach at Ben Davis from 2004-06.
Allen was offered in early March, visited campus on April 14 and committed 12 days later.
"I think we're in the top five for 10 or so kids that are national guys," Freeze said. "Now what does top five mean? Probably nothing in of itself, other than we got a shot at getting a trip. If we get a trip, you got a chance. We have to do well here locally, but certainly if you can get a guy that can impact your program you really don't care where he comes from."
That 246 number is misleading, though, in the sense that it doesn't mean that Freeze and his staff are actively pursuing that many players at once. That's impossible - "We can't chase rabbits," Freeze said.
The scholarship offer is often a tool to vet a player's interest. If the love isn't mutual, you move on. If the player is at least intrigued, proceed accordingly.
"We really heat it up with the social media part that you can do legally and all those things," Freeze said. "Before you know it, you've kinda found out. … We've probably already found out 200 of these kids, they have no interest. So we're not spinning our wheels, wasting time on those guys."
The traditional powers, Niebuhr said, can afford to be more selective than Ole Miss, which had a 2-10 record last season and is in the midst of a school-record 15-game Southeastern Conference losing streak. That's where the so-called negative recruiting comes in - Alabama can promote the exclusivitity of a Crimson Tide offer over one from the Rebels. Ole Miss' biggest rival, though, probably won't - Mississippi State's Dan Mullen and his staff are also aggressive on the recruiting trail and with offers.
Opening yourself up to a bit of negative recruiting is worth it to Freeze if it also means bringing in a handful of impact players who can accelerate the rebuilding process.
"If you're not in the game, you got no chance at hitting a home run," Freeze said. "You have to get up to the plate."


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Raffi Torres' OT winner has Canucks reeling
By RANDY SPORTAK, QMI Agency
Ryan Kesler was The Beast.
Roberto Luongo made all kinds of great saves.
The Vancouver Canucks pretty much played as well as they can.
It still wasn't enough.
Even with all those elements in place, the Canucks are left reeling in their opening-round Stanley Cup playoff series with the San Jose Sharks.
Just when it appeared Vancouver was about to even the best-of-seven affair, Patrick Marleau scored in the final minute of regulation and Raffi Torres netted the winner to give the Sharks a 3-2 overtime victory Friday at Rogers Arena, giving the Sharks a two-games-to-none stranglehold in the series.


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I am currently still in an apprenticeship as an IT technician, this is my 4th and last year. My project since the last summer was to find out, how safe wireless networks currently are - So that's the way I got into touch with Backrack 5 Mainly used the aircrack-ng packet plus some other tools to test this stuff out. I'm very interested in network security.
Last week I just got my new HP 8570p with 256G SSD; After the installation of Windows 7 the next thing was the BT virtual machine. I must say, it works great, just like the "native" operating system! Only downpoint is, that the internal wifi-adapter cannot be used in the VM (maybe it is, but I just don't know how ). Might get into more of the tools in the future, but at the moment I don't have much spare time - The finishing tests for completing my education are upcoming in a few days.
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A NEW training suite for care professionals between York and Selby has been opened by a local MP.
Riccall Carers operate a homecare agency which provides support workers across the area, and the courses at their training facility are now being offered to other professional care staff.
Owners Gill and Tony Conroy welcomed Selby and Ainsty MP Nigel Adams and representatives from the care and training sectors to view their facilities in Escrick and find out more about the courses. The business now boasts four care homes, more than 200 domiciliary carers and a day centre for the elderly in Strensall.
Geri Walker, the firm's training and improvements manager, said: "Projected figures show the UK will require an additional 1.25 million care workers by 2025 and there is concern there may be a significant shortfall, so we are putting effort into recruitment and training now."
Mr Adams praised Riccall Carers for their "vision, passion and continued efforts to boost the profile of the profession".


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Apartment tour: 2BR in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn
Vintage-clothing buyer Keira Chatman fills her cheerful, nature-inflected abode with street finds and Craigslist treasures.
As the owner and founder of online vintage retailer bklynQueens (shop.bklynqueens.com), Keira Chatman spends her days scouring thrift stores and Craigslist for hidden treasures. Her converted two-bedroom rental on the first floor of a brownstone, packed with antique knickknacks and furniture salvaged from the street, is proof of her keen eye. The Ohio native moved into the 800-square-foot space three years ago and was so excited to decorate, she knocked it out in one month. "The apartment is so me," says Chatman. "That's why I never want to leave this place."
A frequent cook, Chatman jazzed up her kitchen cabinets with a floral stencil she purchased on eBay (ebay.com). "It was pretty easy," she says of hand-painting the climbing vine designs. "It took me about an hour [to do them all]." Nabbing a six-seat dining set turned out to be just as effortless: Chatman scored the table on clearance at Ikea (1 Beard St at Otsego St, Red Hook, Brooklyn; 718-246-4532, ikea.com) and discovered all of the chairs on her street—four of them right in front of her doorstep. To hang the Ikea print over her nonfunctional fireplace, Chatman had to drill a hole in the brick wall—a task she calls "not easy."
With a small budget and a long list of items she needed to furnish her new place, Chatman sought out bargains on Craigslist, where she found her living room couch and salmon-colored chair. She then added vivid accessories, such as a color-blocked pillow from Bed Bath & Beyond (locations throughout the city; visit bedbathandbeyond.com) and a bright knit throw picked up at Ohio Thrift (ohiothriftinc.com) in her hometown. "I really prefer vintage furniture and I dislike orchestrated living room sets," says Chatman of her decorating approach. "I like to buy individual pieces and make them fit."
Chatman mounted Ikea shelves to display her barware and vintage decanters from Unique Thrift. Cheeky retro housewife prints purchased from a Soho street vendor are propped up behind the glasses for a whimsical touch, while a wall transformed by Rust-Oleum Specialty Chalk Board paint (rustoleum.com) serves as a canvas for doodles.
To liven up her living room walls, Chatman applied the same stencil she used on her kitchen cabinets. An Ikea vase filled with faux flowers, a turquoise trinket box from Belize and an owl-shaped one from Urban Outfitters (locations throughout the city; urbanoutfitters.com) provide further decorative flair. Chatman discovered the side table on the curb and gave it a makeover with sleek white paint. "I always have my eyes open," she says of her street-scavenging success. "If I see something, I get inspired and think of what I can do to make it my own."
Chatman filled a living room nook with her two biggest splurges: a flatscreen TV and a deep-red cabinet from Furnish Green (1261 Broadway between 31st and 32nd Sts, suite 505; 917-583-9051, furnishgreen.com). The Craigslist-sourced yellow filing cabinet, chosen for its bright hue and industrial feel, stores spare towels and sheets.
One of Chatman's favorite street finds is this nonfunctioning, old-school boom box. "I just picked it up and kept on moving," she says with a laugh. The surrounding chalkboard surface also provides ever-changing decor: "Every time somebody comes over, they sign the wall," she notes.
Chatman found this dress form at a garage sale in her native Ohio and gave it a fresh coat of white paint. "There's always some sort of craft going on here," she says. "It always smells like paint!" Nowadays, she uses the mannequin to display various highlights from her costume collection, including beads from a college Mardi Gras party, leopard ears she once used on a photo shoot and a wig that was part of a '70s getup she donned a few years back. "My friends always play dress-up with those things when they come over," she says.
A pre-owned chessboard shot-glass set, nabbed for $5 at a Brooklyn Goodwill (258 Livingston St between Bond St and Elm Pl, Downtown Brooklyn; 718-923-9037, goodwill.org), is as functional as it is eye-catching. "There's a lot of pregaming that goes on here, so my friends and I use it all the time," she says. "We've played chess [with it] a couple of times, but it of course involves alcohol."
"That's the actual phone I use," admits Chatman of the vintage model she bought for $3 at an Ohio flea market.
The lip prints on Chatman's Ikea mirror are a perfect example of the sort of spontaneous, DIY decoration she likes best. "I put on a bunch of lipsticks one day and went to town," she explains. "I'm always looking for empty wall space and saying, 'Okay, what can I do here?' "
"Yellow just makes me happy," enthuses Chatman, who chose to coat her bedroom walls in Benjamin Moore's Jasper Yellow paint. "I feel like even if it's not sunny, it feels sunny—and the sun really motivates me to get up and move!" Her Ikea rose-print bedding was also selected for its cheerful hue. "Since I work from home, I really wanted to make the house colorful and visually stimulating," she explains.
One of the first projects Chatman undertook after moving in was transforming a bare bedroom wall into a grove of hand-painted trees. "I thought that bringing in nature would make the space [feel] more cozy," she says. The abstract artwork above the bed, composed of aluminum foil and wood chips salvaged from the street, is another one of her creations.
A branch-style jewelry hook from Urban Outfitters displays some of Chatman's vintage necklaces.
To make up for the lack of storage space, Chatman stalked Craigslist for an open shelving system to display her shoes and a 1920s locker for her burgeoning vintage-clothes collection. "Everybody always says my bedroom feels like a store," she says.
Since a balcony off of her bedroom provides ample natural light, Chatman does most of her work in her sleeping quarters. But the desk, which a former tenant had left behind, wasn't in such sunny shape when Chatman discovered it. "It was a big eyesore, but I needed a desk," she explains. "So I tore out pages from a spread in WWD and covered the top with photos, using clear packing tape to secure them down."
A vintage dress form that Chatman spotted on the street now serves as a mannequin for her online boutique's product shots. She decorates it with Girl Scout patches she earned as a child; a medal from her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, for making the dean's list at the University of Akron; and various images of pinup girls.
"I just really like pinup girls," says Chatman, referring to the illustrations she tore out of the book The Great American Pin-Up and mounted above her desk. "They're vintage and go along with my whole style." She purchased the "Please don't handle" sign at Brownstone Treasures (220 Court St between Baltic and Warren Sts, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn; 718-237-1838, brownstonetreasures.com).
For her bedroom sitting area, Chatman refinished a coffee table she found on the street with the same flower stencil she used on her kitchen cabinets. The design matches perfectly with a Craigslist-procured midcentury chair, adorned with a leaf-print pillow from Bed Bath & Beyond and a color-blocked knit throw purchased at Ohio Thrift. A linear Ikea rug, which extends to the sewing workspace where Chatman reworks vintage garments, echoes the recurring nature motif.
Although Chatman normally repaints her street finds to make them look more modern, she liked this eclectic chair—part of a set in her room—just the way she found it. "I'm pretty sure someone hand-painted these and just left them out," she says. "There was no way I was passing these up." Ikea firefly drapes and a dream catcher that Chatman, who has "a lot of Native American roots," found in an Ohio thrift store after years of searching for the right one surround the seat.
A butterfly-bedecked Ikea shower curtain and an Urban Outfitters owl print in Chatman's bathroom are further evidence of her self-described "vintage meets nature" style.
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"This store is much better than it sounds," promises Chatman of the secondhand shop. "I find a lot of midcentury decor, old records, and amazing vintage artwork and photographs there."
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"It has the best bric-a-brac pieces," says Chatman of the Brooklyn branch of this national thrift chain, where all merchandise is 25 percent off on Mondays and Thursdays. "I've found everything from a full set of vintage amber-glass dinnerware to never-used holiday decor."
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Chatman hits up this budget-friendly antique store for cool vintage signage and industrial furniture. "It has everything your antique heart desires, and at very reasonable prices," she says.


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The $US50 million cash and stock purchase of Nasdaq-listed
To get full approval, Mesoblast needs to show regulators it can safely manufacture commercial volumes of the therapy – a less complex hurdle than clinical trials.
Mr Itescu said he hoped the first sales of Prochymal would occur within 18 months, which is 18 months sooner than any of Mesoblast's therapies were expected to reach the market. Canada and New Zealand could lead to "accelerated approval in the US", he said.
Lodge Partners analyst Marc Sinatra said the deal made Mesoblast the leader in adult stem cell development. Mesoblast had "swooped" at a time when Osiris was low on cash and credibility, having recently responded poorly to some clinical trial results, he said.
Some analysts questioned why Mesoblast would acquire a competitor with technology that is perceived to be inferior. Mesoblast's therapies are based on mesenchymal "precursor" cells, which are yet to mature into specific, differentiated cell types and so are expected to be effective at lower doses. But Mr Itescu said getting to market with Prochymal would prove Mesoblast's ability to US regulators.
"It will demonstrate for the fist time that we can get a stem cell product into a mature market," he said. "That proof of concept will have multiple flow-on effects to the rest of our pipeline."
Osiris could earn a further $US50 million if regulatory and clinical trial milestones are met. Mesoblast shares rose 4 per cent to close at $5.70 on Friday, down from a 12-month high of $7.49 in February.
Mr Itescu said in 2014 the company would have phase-three clinical trials in four key disease areas: congestive heart failure, Crohn's disease, back pain and oncology.
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Citi has upgraded
For 2012, the company also guided towards production of 7.5 million barrels of oil equivalent, prompting Citi to raise its production forecast by 4 per cent to 7.4 million barrels of oil equivalent.
Expectations for higher production has resulted in upgrades to earnings forecasts over the next three years of 17 per cent, 13 per cent and 13 per cent respectively.
The broker raised its 12-month target price to $1.10 from 88¢.
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The recent meeting of the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG) has seen the launch of a new Focus Group to hasten standards development in the key area of Smart Water Management.
The formation of the Focus Group on Smart Water Management (FG-SWM) responds to the Luxor Call to Action emanating from a workshop held in Luxor, Egypt, 14-15 April 2013.
The event highlighted the necessity of a multi-stakeholder approach to the development of 'smart' water-management systems; one that incorporates the views of irrigation, agriculture, environment and communications ministries as well as those of the ICT industry and relevant intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations.
FG-SWM is expected to carry out the following specific tasks:
The new Focus Group will work in close collaboration with the Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities (FG-SSC) established in February 2013 (read an earlier newslog article on the formation of FG-SSC here).
Learn more about ITU-T's work on ICTs, the environment and climate change here.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) There was a lot of yardwork left undone in the Buckeye state on Saturday.
A national spring game record crowd of 95,722 came out to enjoy the high temperatures and watch Terrelle Pryor throw two long touchdown passes in 30 seconds, leading the Gray over the Scarlet 23-3 at sun-drenched Ohio Stadium.
"It's crazy — CRAZY," tight end Jake Ballard said. "With the heat out there and they were out there sitting through it."
The 80-degree weather played a big role in the attendance, which topped the 92,138 Alabama drew for Nick Saban's coaching debut in 2007.
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"First, kudos go out to our fans," coach Jim Tressel said. "It was a beautiful day, and gives you a little bit of electricity and a little energy and a little reminder of how much interest there is in Ohio State football."
Ohio fans paid $5 per ticket, with the bulk of the money going to local charities. Many showed up in tank tops and shorts to soak up the sun on the warmest day of the year while watching Pryor strut his stuff.
He broke open a close scrimmage with touchdown passes of 44 yards to Taurian Washington and 42 yards to Ray Small late in the second half. Pryor started as a freshman for last year's 10-3 Buckeyes team.
It has grated on him that doubters have questioned his ability to throw the ball accurately on medium and longer pass routes.
"We don't care about the critics and the analysts and people saying stuff about me," said Pryor, who retired after three quarters after completing 13-of-18 passes for 191 yards and the two scores. "That's not a big deal to me. I came out and showed I can throw the ball and that's what I wanted to do today."
Pryor, who a year ago was the nation's top quarterback recruit, completed 100 of his 165 passing attempts for 1,311 yards and 12 touchdowns with only four interceptions in his freshman season. But he seldom completed a pass of more than 10 or 15 yards, despite having a veteran group of receivers.
He has been motivated by those who question his arm strength.
"Terrelle wants to be a quarterback," tailback Dan "Boom" Herron said. "He doesn't want everybody to look at him as a runner or a scrambler. He wants to be a quarterback. He's been working really hard all spring just throwing and doing all the little things right."
Pryor took over the game in the final two minutes of the first half. He completed medium-length crossing patterns to Washington for 15 and 16 yards, then with 31 seconds remaining unloaded a 44-yard scoring toss to Washington n the left corner of the end zone.
After Aaron Pettrey kicked the extra point, Pettrey pulled off the biggest surprise of the day.
He kicked onside, recovering it himself. Pryor then connected with Washington for a 17-yard gain. On third-and-10 and with time running out, Pryor stepped up in the pocket to deliver a strike to Ray Small at the right sideline. Small, who had gotten behind a defender, sidestepped Rocco Pentello and zipped into the end zone to complete the 42-yard play — with 1 second left on the clock.
"You saw it today. The world saw it today. I can throw the ball," Pryor said. "I'm a quarterback that can run. That's how we're doing it."
The rest of the scrimmage was dominated by kickers. Pettrey kicked field goals of 31, 41 and 23 yards. Devin Barclay provided the only points for the Scarlet with a 43-yard kick.
One of the few other offensive highlights was Marcus Williams' 94-yard run that set up a Pettrey field goal.
Tressel said his squad had good workouts in their 15 spring practice sessions.
"The one thing we believe (is) you can't win the national championship in the spring, but you can lose it by not progressing enough," he said. "We've progressed, and we know we've got a lot more we've got to get better at."
The Buckeyes are looking for replacements for seven departed starters on offense including leading rusher Chris "Beanie" Wells, both kickers and five front-line defensive players.
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I'm looking at Cal under Holmoe's record in 1998, 5-6 overall and 3-5 conference. Last year we were 5-7. This year we might not win 3 conference games.
Yes, I know that I am comparing the best Holmoe year to the worst couple of Tedford's years.....BUT STILL!!!!
We used to beat USC under Holmoe, now we never beat them. I remember a game against SC in the late 90's when we were down 30 pts, then came back and WON. A Tedford team will never be able to do that.
I don't know if it's selective memory or what...but despite a lot of losing back then, I seem to remember fewer blowout loses under Holmoe vs. Tedford.
Yes, under Tedford in the beginning we beat Stanfurd and Washington for a few years, but now that capability is gone too. Oregon, Stan, Washington, and USC are guaranteed loses now.


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So here's a brief intro to what's going on:
I have a job that moved me out of state for 2 years. My wife moved with me and found employment out here at a large online college (a physical campus position, that can't be moved to online). My time out here is up in the next few months so we decided to look into buying a house in our home state for when we move back. We've been preapproved for our price range (our preapproval is far above what we're willing to pay), but here's the catch:
My wife is interested in transferring to an office in our home state, but because of the volatile nature of today's employment she is afraid that asking might get her sent packing immediately. Her boss was fired within the past few weeks and they are threatening anyone who tries to take a long vacation/medical leave with termination.
I thought of maybe sending her home soon to try to find new employment and I have a lot of contacts that would hire her at a decent salary, but I was told by the mortgage broker and my real estate agent that getting a new job is the equivalent of not having one unless it is a clean transfer with her current company that shows continuous employment or she works at her new employer for 6-12 months.
So basically I'm at the question of when does she have her bring this to her boss, or should she try to find someone higher up to contact? Right now the mortgage broker says as long as she has this job, we're approved and they could care less (exaggerating slightly) what happens after closing. I am completely confident that we would still live comfortably if she lost her job the day after closing, because she would quickly find suitable employment and even if she didn't i could carry the mortgage by myself for a while. obviously the bank is not going to agree with me because underwriters aren't people anymore, they're computer programs with risk aversion as the #1 priority.
Now I know that just renting for a year or two sounds like a decent choice, but where we're moving it is not such a good option. Safety is #1 for me and we're paying probably $200-$500 a month over what our mortgage would be to accomplish this. Number 2 is my dog, who is not going into an apartment. I don't need to really explain that getting rid of my dog is a worst case scenario. Number 3 is this would set our plans back a couple years and maybe more because it would open me up to being moved again, which is a 2 year minimum proposition. We would also like to start a family soon and that would be delayed for years and begin pushing us towards becoming older parents, which with health and other circumstances is not desirable.
so i appologize if i mislead you with the promise of a short story at the beginning, but this whole situation is kind of stressing me and i'm trying not to worry my wife. It's just that basically if she loses her job, we don't get a house and at some point a mortgage company is going to call her work to verify her employment and i believe it is going to cause a conversation whether she likes it or not. She does not want to appear dishonest by not talking to her boss early on, but as I said her old boss was recently fired so she has no relationship with the new boss and therefore can't guess what response she will get.
My stance is she should not say anything unless approached by her boss because of a call checking her employment.
So I'll just stop here and respond to any questions instead of continuing to ramble. Thank you in advance for your opinions and advice on this.
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I had a friend who bought a house and signed for it the day after his first paycheck form the company in the town he relocated to. The real estate agent does not know what they are talking about and the broker does not care. Find a new broker.
As to moving but not renting. What about downsizing for a year or two then up-sizing. Small house with a yard close to a dog park. Look at micro housing That will let you buy a small house in the area, and make the move.
As to lousing her job, if they are firing anyone who asks for long leave, she needs to find another.
She should get a job back home via your contacts and make the move. Down sizing is a good way to
After she is employed a year or at least 6 months you can go for the child and she will have mandatory leave options so she can keep her job. It is a big help.
None of these suggestion delay what you want to do but you might have to find someone interested in the loan & possibly go small for 2-3 years before getting the house you want. You can still start your family.
Thank you for your response. I have read about situations where as long as you have a paycheck then you're good to go, and hopefully steady employment over the past 5 years (job changes, but only maybe a few months of total time unemployed) would be enough.
Part of the reason for my concern is my friend at the brokerage tried to give his notice and was immediately fired. Luckily i got my preapproval, but it's a rough time out there.
i know, i just feel like employers have more power now with such a bad market. why pay you if they could bring in your replacement cheaper and not waste another dime on you? luckily my employer is the polar opposite, and hopefully her next one will be too.
Yep as a security precaution people are terminated when they give notice. Some places feel this is better then to let someone work for another 2 weeks and possibly hurt the operations.
I can't really follow with all the run-on sentences. But, does your wife's employer have more than 50 employees? It's against the law to fire people for taking medical leave.
Is there a human resources department that's not part of her chain of command? If so, she can ask them for advice, both about the transfer and about any repercussions when a bank in another state calls to verify employment. The bank with call HR, not her immediate supervisor, anyway. [And the bank might not call. They might accept up-to-date pay stubs as sufficient.]
Yes they have over 50 employees, but a guy that works there was going to have surgery on his leg and they told him if he took the time off for it they would fire him. I don't know all the circumstances so I won't comment on the legality of it because it's probably not illegal.
I recommended HR to her as a first step, that way she can have something to fall back on and still possibly transfer, even if fired. Speaking to HR would show that she really wanted to make a transfer work to a possible new job within the same company, even if her boss want's to be vindictive.
Honestly this could all be for naught if the bank doesn't even bother to call or speaks to someone who does not send word down the grapevine about the employment verification, but murphy's law would have us believe otherwise.
There are all sorts of employer safeguards in terms of firing people who take medical leave. They only apply to larger employers; the employee has to be there for a certain amount of time; the employee needs to make good-faith efforts that the timing not be disruptive, etc. But what you're describing are huge red flags not just to lawyers and HR professionals, but to ordinary people who have vague understanding of the law.
Among HR's duties is to deal with situations like this. Since you 2 are very nervous and distrust the employer, you can take things slowly. She can start by asking for generic written policies that might deal with your issues. "I was clearing out my desk and realized I misplaced my employee handbook. Could I get a new one?" She may not have to talk to anyone. My favorite excuse right now are the tax changes. "I've been reading about these changes in the Tax Code and what they mean for take-home pay and employee benefits. I'm confused about what benefits are available." Sure, policies about transfers don't directly relate to taxes, but it provides from cover in case HR is lousy and the conversation gets back to her supervisors.
I don't know what notes HR has to keep or what HR will keep. It's possible that if she talks to HR about transfer procedures, no record will be kept until she's asking for a transfer.
Also, is the bank national, regional, or local? Remember it's a routine call for the person verifying employment. He's not going to want to (and may be legally prohibited from) go into a long explanation about where he is geographically, where the loan will be, how much it is, etc. Actually, have you signed something saying the bank is authorized to contact your employers? In California, it takes 2 court orders to release salary information without employee authorization.
i was going to have her create a new email account and contact Corporate HR asking questions without anything specific involved. I would just talk to the bank directly and ask that they not specify where the house we're looking at is located, but I am concerned that would raise a red flag with them. I might just ask them how they approach an employer and say that i prefer my financial matters to be private, so please do not go into detail about my pending home.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Across the board, drivers marveled at the speed of NASCARâs Generation-6 cars during qualifying for Sundayâs Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
None more than Kyle Busch, the fastest of nine drivers to break the 15-second mark on their qualifying lap. Prior to Friday, only three drivers (Ryan Newman, Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon) had turned a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying lap in less than 15 seconds.
''I like driving it,'' said Busch, whose 11th career pole marked his first Coors Light Pole Award at Bristol and the first time heâd qualified higher than ninth on the .533-mile oval. ''You can drive it a lot more like the older car we had years ago where you can abuse it a little bit.
''The previous (Generation-5) car was all about being smooth and precise. (With) this one, you can make a little more speed by driving it a little harder.''
Busch, no stranger to victory lane at Bristol, captured the pole with a lap 129.535 mph (14.813 seconds) in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Newmanâs track record, set in 2003, had been 128.709 mph.
Each of Fridayâs top three qualifiers -- Busch, Kasey Kahne and Denny Hamlin -- shattered Newmanâs mark. Hamlin looked like he might join his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate on the front row until Kahne knocked him down a peg .
Brian Vickers , Paul Menard , Jamie McMurray, Brad Keselowski, Tony Stewart and Martin Truex Jr. also eclipsed 15 seconds, with Joey Logano rounding out the top 10.
''The car felt great during that lap,'' said Busch, who has come from off the pace to win five times (including four of the last eight Cup races) at Bristol . ''Weâve never really worried too much about qualifying runs. We unloaded with a really good race car and we just kept fine-tuning to make it a little bit better -- and we were able to get it where it was pretty quick in practice.''
For Hamlin, if even for just a couple laps, it was felt good to get back to all-out racing. Hamlin had spent recent days embroiled in controversy, refusing to pay a NASCAR-issued fine after critical comments regarding the Gen-6 car at Phoenix.
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''Iâm pretty happy with what weâve got,'' said Hamlin, who earlier in the day said he had ''bigger fish to fry'' than worrying about the $25,000 fine. ''For my teamâs sake, we need to focus on running as good as we can and trying to make this Chase. Any distraction is something that you donât need -- especially when the competition is so close. You just canât afford anything that hampers your ability to go win, so this is going to be a step in the right direction for us.''
Kahne, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, thought he might have challenged Busch had he not been a little tight between Turns 1 and 2.
''I felt like I may have given up a little bit in 1 and 2, which would have made it really close for the pole,'' Kahne said. ''But still we were very good in 3 and 4. The car was balanced really nice.''
How fast can cars go at Bristol? Maybe closer to 14 seconds than 15, according to Busch.
''I think a lot of it is probably (about the) tire,'' he said. ''You could certainly put a softer tire on here and go lights-out. Youâd have trouble making it very much longer after that, but I betcha you could run somewhere it the low 14s.''
Cup Series points leader Jimmie Johnson qualified 13th. Keselowski, who trails by five points, rolls off seventh, but Dale Earnhardt Jr., 10 points back in points, qualified 32nd.
Scott Riggs was the lone driver failing to qualify on Friday. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was forced to change an engine during practice and will start at the rear of the field despite qualifying with the 28th fastest time.
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He was at the top of his game, having led the NFL in rushing in eight of his nine seasons, including the last three. Just two years before, in 1963, he had reached the Mt. Everest of rushing totals at the time, the staggering mark of 1,863 yards.
So why give it all up?
Brown simply had other things he wanted to do with his life, such as make movies. He had gotten out of the game what he wanted individually – he finished as the NFL's all-time leading rusher by a mile – and collectively – the Browns won the league championship in 1964 with an improbable victory over the Baltimore Colts. Plus he was healthy. And unless he wanted to try out for the part of the limping Grandpa (Walter Brennan) in "The Real McCoys," the fact Brown had all his faculties about him enabled him to become one of the first African American action stars.
So many other sports icons, including many boxers such as Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali, and also some in baseball such as Willie Mays and even Babe Ruth, have tarnished their legend by hanging on for too long, looking feeble and mortal at the end.
With that in mind, then, we look at the retirement on Wednesday of running back Jamal Lewis. In his third year with the Browns after seven seasons with the Baltimore Ravens, he announced recently that he would be retiring at the end of the 2009 campaign. But that got moved up by five games when Lewis came down with what was described by the Browns as post-concussion syndrome. Head coach Eric Mangini refuses to disclose any specifics.
So be it. But the fact of the matter is that Lewis was just a shadow of himself this season anyway with 143 carries for 500 yards (a 3.5 yards-per-carry average) and no touchdowns. His longest run was just 18 yards.
He had indeed lost a couple of steps, and the second gear he always had when he got through the front seven and broke into the secondary, now had a governor on the accelerator.
But part of it, too, is that he was playing for a team that may be the worst in Browns history, standing just 1-10 and with a six-game losing streak. The offense is on pace to set not only some team records for futility, but maybe even some NFL marks as well. The passing attack has been especially bad, and without a consistent downfield threat to open up the defense, the box has been filled with so many defenders that it looks like a human chain, thus making it almost impossible to find room to run.
Whatever you want to point the finger at – and how much – as the cause, this is not the way Lewis wanted to go out, playing on a team headed nowhere fast and on his way himself to the lowest rushing total of his 10-year career.
But when evaluating Lewis' worthiness for the Hall of Fame, you can throw out much of this season. It was clear from the start that he and Mangini – and maybe even offensive coordinator Brian Daboll as well – weren't on the same page on a variety of issues, and as a result Lewis didn't want to be in Cleveland.
After being cut by the Ravens in a salary cap move in the winter of 2007, he had signed a one-year get-to-know-you contract with the Browns at the request of then general manager Phil Savage, whom he had known at Baltimore. Savage wanted him to be the power back the Browns so desperately needed to compete in the AFC North. When Savage re-signed Lewis to a three-year deal after that season, the GM thought the back might really help what everybody thought was going to be a great team in 2008, get over the hump and maybe – just maybe – make it into the franchise's first Super Bowl.
What Lewis did not sign up for, though, is what happened in the 2008 season and immediately after, when Savage and head coach Romeo Crennel were both fired following a shockingly disappointing 4-12 finish, signaling the hiring of Mangini, who didn't bring Lewis in and thus had no ties to him since the University of Tennessee product wasn't his guy.
Still, what needs to be pointed out about that 2008 season and Lewis' performance, is that he rushed for 1,002 yards. That might not sound like much – and maybe it isn't, especially since he averaged a … well, very average 3.6 yards per carry – but that Browns team struggled to score points, too, not getting an offensive touchdown in the final six games. After their first three quarterbacks, Derek Anderson, Brady Quinn and Ken Dorsey, all were lost for the season due to injuries, the Browns were signing passers – and players at other positions on offense – off the street just to finish the season.
|Before joining them, Lewis dominated the Browns as a member of the Ravens
Combined, Browns quarterbacks that year completed just 48.8 percent of their passes, one of the worst marks in team history, for but 11 TDs with 20 interceptions for a miserable 54.6 passer rating. So as much as defenders have crowded the box this season, they did it even more so in 2008 when Browns quarterbacks at the very end of the year had to wear name tags so their teammates would know who they were.
With Bruce Gradkowski, playing nothing like he is for the Oakland Raiders this year, completing just 5-of-16 passes for 18 yards and two interceptions for a 1.0 rating, the Browns lost 31-0 to the eventual Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers in the finale. Yet Lewis managed to rush for 94 yards in 23 carries, a 4.1 average, against the top-ranked defense in the NFL to edge over the 1,000-yard mark.
In terms of his HOF candidacy, that says it all, as does the fact that Lewis played without a real productive quarterback for all but two of the nine seasons he was on the field (he missed all of 2001 with a knee injury). He wasn't just part of the offense in those passing-less years. He was the offense, excelling despite the fact he had no passing game to support him.
In his rookie season with the Ravens in 2000 after they drafted Lewis at No. 5 overall, Tony Banks and Trent Dilfer combined to throw for 20 TDs with 19 interceptions for a 72.7 rating. They went five weeks in a row without scoring a TD. Yet Lewis rushed for 1,364 yards and, along with one of the best defenses in the history of the league, carried the transplanted Browns franchise to its first Super Bowl appearance – and a resounding 34-7 victory over the New York Giants
In 2002, the combined numbers of Jeff Blake and Chris Redman were a little better – 20 TDs with 14 picks for a 76.5 rating – but they weren't making anyone in Baltimore forget John Unitas. As such, the Ravens were just 7-9, but Lewis sparkled again with 1,327 yards.
In 2003, the passing game slipped back, as Kyle Boller, Anthony Wright and Redman had 16 TDs with 19 interceptions for a 64.7 rating. But the Ravens went 10-6 and won the AFC North crown as Lewis had a season for the ages, rushing for 2,066 yards, the second-most in league history. He set an NFL mark (since broken) with 295 yards against Browns, and later in the year got 205 against them. The 500 combined yards are the most ever in the NFL by any back against a team in a single season. He also rushed for 14 scores.
In 2004, Boller had 13 TDs with 11 picks for a 70.7 rating. With teams doing everything they could to stop him at all costs, he went over the 1,000-yard mark again at 1,006 and rushed for seven TDs. The Ravens used that to go 9-7.
In 2005, Boller and Wright threw for 17 TDs with 21 picks for a 71.3 rating. Lewis failed to hit 1,000 for the only time in his career over a full season with 906 yards. With Lewis down and the passing game not there to pick them up, the Ravens staggered to a 6-10 finish, their worst when the back was with them.
In 2006, the Ravens had their best season passing-wise with Lewis on the team when the late Steve McNair, with Boller doing some cameo work, threw for 21 scores with 14 picks for an 84.6 rating. They completed 62.6 percent of their passes and had 3,535 passing yards, the second-largest total in Ravens history. Lewis got back up to 1,132 yards and the Ravens went 13-3.
The only other season in which Lewis had good help from the passing game, was 2007 when he arrived in Cleveland. Anderson came out of absolutely nowhere to be the first Browns quarterback in 20 years to make the Pro Bowl when he threw for 29 TDs, tied for the second-most in team history, and 3,787 yards, the fifth-most in club annals, with 19 interceptions for an 82.5 rating. The Browns failed to make the playoffs, losing out on a tie-breaker to the Tennessee Titans for the final wild-card spot, but they went 10-6, their best mark since 1994, and Lewis, with 1,304 yards, had the seventh-best total in Browns history and the most for anyone not named Jim Brown.
Then last year, when he added the 1,002, he became the first Browns runner in over a quarter-century – since Mike Pruitt did it three times in a row from 1979-81 -- to put together consecutive 1,000-yard seasons.
For the most part, this season notwithstanding, Lewis wasn't dissuaded during his career by being stuck on bad teams overall, or teams that looked at the passing game with the same disdain as stubborn single-wing clubs 60 years ago when the T-formation was introduced. He played like a winner, even if those squads didn't.
And when he was on good clubs, especially ones that passed the ball as well as he ran it, he elevated his game and made those teams even better.
Thus, Lewis was consistent. In a tough, hard-nosed, division, first the AFC Central and then its successor, the AFC North, Lewis was a tough, hard-nosed runner who brought his lunch pail each and every day.
Certainly, the way he tailed off statistically this year – going out with a whimper and not a roar -- will hurt him, as will the fact he threw barbs at Mangini twice, one time saying the club lacks chemistry and an overall plan, and later claiming that the Browns practice too long and hard and have nothing left for the games.
An even bigger black mark against him will be the four months he spent in prison on drug-related charges while with the Ravens. That's worse than aging legs, or criticizing the coach.
But the HOF is all about a candidate's full body of work, not just bits and pieces, like selecting what you want, and ignoring what you don't want, as you work your way down a cafeteria line.
In that way, then, Jamal Lewis served up enough palatable items for HOF voters to chew on, and is deserving to be enshrined in Canton, Ohio, probably not on the first ballot after waiting the mandatory five years following his retirement, but definitely soon thereafter.
And, by the way, we should have known long ago – way before he announced it -- that the end was coming for Lewis this season, for on Aug. 26, he turned 30, that magical age at which running backs begin to age in dog years and their skills erode correspondingly.
So in avoiding all that, like he did would-be tacklers for nine seasons, Jim Brown really knew what he was doing back in the day, being way ahead of the curve – again – when it came to knowing the game and how he fit in, didn't he?


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Taylor Swift was gleaming as she arrived at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards. The tall blonde looked flawless in a white halter, Marilyn Monroe-inspired Rafael Cennamo dress, Neil Lane jewels and some bangin' Fendi footwear. She wore her hair back in a straight ponytail.
Tonight, she'll be receiving the Ultimate Choice Award in recognition of her "extraordinary contributions to the entertainment industry." Congrats, Taylor!
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Ads try to placate Pakistan
Published: September 22 2012 - 3:00AM
THE US government paid $US70,000 ($67,000) to buy ads on Pakistani television to disavow a YouTube video that mocks the prophet Muhammad.
The ads, featuring President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were airing on seven networks even as angry crowds tried to rush the diplomatic enclave in Islamabad that houses the US embassy and other embassies on Thursday. Police kept about 2000 protesters at bay.
Anti-American sentiment runs high in Pakistan, and suspicion of US motives runs deep.
''The sense was that this particular aspect of the President and the Secretary's message needed to be heard by more Pakistanis than had heard it, and that this was an effective way to get that message out,'' State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. The TV messages resemble political ads. The seven Pakistani networks have a potential audience of 90 million people.
Pakistan declared yesterday a public holiday dedicated to the ''love of the prophet'' in what senior Pakistani officials said was an attempt to defuse protests that often follow Friday prayers.
The US ad includes footage of Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton making statements just after last week's attack on a US diplomatic post in Libya, which killed four Americans. Neither one mentions the attack.
''Since our founding, the United States has been a nation of respect, that respects all faiths,'' Mr Obama says. ''We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.'' Mrs Clinton then adds a categorical denial of any official involvement in producing the Innocence of Muslims video. ''We absolutely reject its contents,'' she says.
The US embassy in Pakistan also distributed a link to a video of ordinary Americans and religious leaders condemning the clip.
■Cindy Lee Garcia, an American actor who appeared in Innocence of Muslims, has failed in an attempt to have it removed from YouTube.
A judge rejected this request partly because the man thought to be behind the clip, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, is in hiding.
Garcia said she had responded to an advert for a ''historical Arabian Desert adventure film'' and that the script she saw mentioned neither Muslims nor Muhammad. The film was later altered with anti-Islamic voiceovers. WASHINGTON POST, GUARDIAN
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Free Beer & Hot Wings Show Rev Up Laughs at RightWay Auto
The Free Beer & Hot Wings Show did their third live-on-location broadcast in Grand Rapids, this time at RightWay Auto in Wyoming today (November 9). GRD listeners braved the cold as they waited outside before doors opened at 5am. Look through our photo gallery from this morning's Free Beer & Hot Wings Live Show.
The audience in RightWay Auto needed a little time to warm up and get the energy going, but once they did there was no turning back. The crowd participation was outstanding during "Women's Panel," "Name That Blank" and more segments during the show. We even learned one audience member's definition of being "single-ish" during the "Women's Panel" – while her male friend was in the crowd trying to break out of the dreaded "friend zone."
Kalamazoo Vapor Shop, who were one of our great sponsors for the Live Show, helped Producer Joe out with a "Joe Stunt" using one of their e-cigs. E-cigs are an alternative to cigarettes and are usually filled with pleasant tasting e-juice. However, Producer Joe and Wayland bassist Dean Pizzazz agreed to "smoke" a couple of e-cigs that intentionally weren't so tasty. Pizzazz had to make a stop by a nearby garbage can to collect himself.
GRD wants to thank RightWay Auto for letting us literally take over their establishment, Kalamazoo Vapor Shop, Time Out GR for providing the food, Coors Light and Blue Moon, and Thin Blue Line of Michigan. We especially want to thank everyone who came out and spent their morning with us at the Free Beer & Hot Wings Live Show!


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The Hudson Valley Community College men's lacrosse team (12-3) earned the No. 2 seed in the NJCAA Region III Tournament. The Vikings, who are ranked No. 6 in the latest NJCAA poll, will host the No. 7 seed Mohawk Valley Community College Tuesday afternoon at 4 p.m. The winner advances to the tournament semifinals hosted by Herkimer Community College.


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The Monteverdi Choir, specializing in Early Music, is one of the most prestigious choirs in the world.
The 1950s had seen a sudden growth of interest in Baroque and earlier music. To many, one of the characteristics of this wave of the early music movement was a careful, academic quality to performances, which therefore tended to be dry and ascetic.
In March 1964 John Eliot Gardiner, then an undergraduate at Cambridge University, formed the Monteverdi Choir for a performance of Monteverdi's Vespers at King's College Chapel at Cambridge. His aim was to bring out the passion and color of Italian music within the solid British choral tradition. The choir debuted in London in a 1966 appearance in Wigmore Hall.
Since then the Monteverdi Choir has expanded its repertory in both directions from its base in the Baroque Era, achieving a large and broad repertory. Often appearing with the English Baroque Soloists (a period instruments orchestra founded by Gardiner), the choir is famous for rich, committed performances with a strongly vital rhythmic sense and mastery of style of various eras.
It has performed and recorded Renaissance and early Baroque music (by composers such as Schütz, Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Carissimi, Campra and Leclair), more familiar Baroque music (all of Bach's major choral works, most of Purcell's semi-operas, several Handel oratorios), Classical Era masterworks (Mozart's Requiem and C minor Mass, Haydn's Seasons, Mozart's Thamos King of Egypt, Beethoven's Leonore and Missa Solemnis), the Romantic (Berlioz's Roméo et Juliet, the Choral Music of Schubert, Verdi's Requiem and Falstaff, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem (two recordings), Léhar's Merry Widow) and the 20th Century era (Britten's Spring Symphony, Kurtág's Songs of Despair, and music of Percy Grainger).
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Deathfire - Guido Henkel Interview
Incase you missed the Deathfire update here is the interview Guido Henkel did on a site called ForeverGeek. He talks about RPGs from the past, and compares them to modern RPGs.
Role-playing saw a real heyday during the 80s, when games like "The Bard's Tale," "Phantasie," "Ultima," "Wasteland" and the "Wizardry" games allowed fans to explore fantasy worlds in a way they had never seen before. During the 90s, the horizon of role-playing games expanded dramatically, as new technologies evolved and technical advances allowed for bigger and more feature-rich games. During this period, games like the "Might&Magic" series, the second wave of "Wizardry" games and SSI's "Dungeons & Dragons" adaptations, as well as our own "Realms of Arkania" games, created role-playing experiences that oftentimes tried to capture the essence of pen&paper games, but without the inherent limitations. Many of these game succeeded and went on to become timeless classics.
The result of that era was a series of games, each of which was incredibly imaginative, colorful and bold. Some games pushed the storytelling side of role-playing, while others were decidedly more technology-driven. But they all had one thing in common. They were created by people who loved the genre, most of which were intimately familiar with the way pen&paper games were played, and who had the idealism to weather whatever obstacles lay before them, in order to bring their visions to life. I know, because I've been there, and the "Realms of Arkania" games are testament to that.
But there was trouble on the horizon and it had been looming there for years. Throughout the 90s, role-playing games were becoming more and more niche products. While action games, simulations and certain strategy franchises raked in the millions of dollars, RPGs have always had less commercial success, despite their acclaim and were generally smiled at. "Oh, you are the guys who pretend to be wizards and stuff, right?" was something you'd hear all too often. Sales of RPGs were significantly lower than those of comparable action titles and as the industry consolidated by the mid to late-90s, many publishers – who by that time controlled and owned many of the RPG developers – decided that role-playing games were no longer a viable market. Too much risk with too little payoff. Overnight, the genre as it were literally died.
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SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC, Mac, Linux
Release: Canceled