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From: Bette Nelson <>
Subject: [VAGRAYSO] Jerald C. Hash's obit
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:41:29 -0400
Jerald C. (Jerry) Hash
43, of 805 Glendale Rd., Galax, died Tuesday, June 11, 1985 in
Rockingham, N.C. from injuries received in a tractor-trailer accident.
He was born March 13, 1942 in Bel Air, Md., to Cecil Hash and Allene
Vaught Hash. He was employed as a truck driver with Sawyers Furniture
Company in Galax and was a member of Jerusalem United Methodist Church.
Surivivng are his wife, Mrs. Kate Kash; eight daughters, Sabrina Hash
and Sena Hash, both of the home;Starlina Sue Patton, Sharon Caldwell and
Rhonda Kaye Patton, all of Salem; Jerry Lynn Hash and Pattie Sue Hash,
both of Galax, and Michelle Hash, Rockville, Md.; two sons, Teddy Ray
Patton, Salem, and Todd Hash, Galax; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil
Hash, Elk Creek; two brothers, Tommy Hash, Independence and Daniel Hash,
Elk Creek; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Beliesa Vaught, Elk Creek; and
eight grandchildren.
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for context, see daily account for 3/31 at Pack Forest. we saw a dried burdock plant- no leaves, no flowers, only the spiky remains. i don't recall seeing this recurring further along the trail. the spikes make it easy to cling/be carried away by passing animals.
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The warning was contained within the company's March quarter production report, which showed production for the quarter was down 18 per cent compared with the previous quarter as a result of wet weather and pit sequence changes.
However, production was 10 per cent higher than the corresponding quarter in 2010.
Production at the company's Hunter Valley operations was down 20 per cent compared with the previous quarter.
"The decrease can be attributed primarily to pit sequence changes in the fourth quarter of 2010 to deliver increased coal production in that quarter and delayed prime overburden movement due to above average rainfall resulting in low blasted inventory in early 2011," the company said in a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
Production at the company's Mount Thorley Warkworth operations was 18 per cent lower than the previous quarter and 25 per cent higher than the corresponding quarter in 2010.
"Production was lower this quarter due to the carryover impact of reduced prime overburden movement in late 2010 as a result of wet weather, combined with water issues," the company said.
Coal & Allied has stuck to its full-year production guidance and is looking to increase production by 5 to 10 per cent on 2010 levels.
The company said Japanese customers had been affected by the devastating March earthquake and tsunami.
"The devastating impacts of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have impacted coal-fired power stations and general industry north of Tokyo and on the country's east coast," the company said.
There would be some reduction overall in demand from Japan over the next six to 12 months, but Coal & Allied said this was likely to be offset by increased demand in other regions in Asia.
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We're travelling from London to Sydney for the first time in June 2013, spending some time there then heading to Canberra then up to the Gold Coast before going back down to Melbourne then home again. We're going to be there for a few weeks getting info ready for the following year when we're planning on spending a year travelling.
Looking for recommendations on back packer hostels and travel between the places we want to go in Aus - train or bus?
We're a girl and guy, best mates for years, both 20 both at uni but need some summer fun before we start the final year.
Does anyone know anything about lay overs? I have family in Singapore and wanted to lay over but not sure how it works.
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MARLOW RFC shrugged off their cloak of under-achievement on Saturday to record a result that puts their entire season into perspective.
They were at home to Oxford Harlequins, a side that had won 21 of their 23 games and scored nearly 1,000 points in the process.
By contrast, Marlow were second from bottom in South West 1 East, 11 points adrift of the side just above them and their last match was a 47-5 drubbing against fellow strugglers Newbury Blues.
As bankers go, this was up there with the best of them.
But sport is nothing if not surprising and Marlow's 19-15 victory over the champions-elect was one of those results that appeared at first like a misprint.
Head coach Richard Kinsey said: "They played brilliantly. In the last three weeks they showed ability and showed that they've got rugby inside them.
"But Saturday was the first time they all managed to play well at the same time and they were on a high after the match. After a few weeks of ordinary rugby it was a huge relief."
Marlow had been dismantled 62-3 in the away fixture in December but Saturday's turnaround represented not just their best result since Kinsey came in, but their best result of the season.
He said: "It's about the guys starting to become a team and you don't necessarily get that overnight.
"I think after Newbury there was a lot of soul searching and a lot of honesty.
"They had a look at it and decided that performance wasn't acceptable and against Oxford they were an entirely different team.
"I said to them at half time that I didn't know where this side had been last week.
"The thing that made the difference was they played as a team and played for each other.
"Oxford Harlequins really tried to pull it back in the last five minutes, they were really trying, but we kept tracking back and making the tackles."
To cap a fine Saturday for the club, Buckingham and Cheltenham were both beaten at home, meaning the gap between Marlow and safety is down to eight points.
But with two games left, time could well run out.
Kinsey said: "There is no point looking at the last three games and saying, what if?
"We haven't played well enough all season and we haven't won enough games.
"Mathematically it's still possible, but it's out of our control. If we play like that again in our last two games will we win them? Yes.
"But it's down to other teams."
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"Donkey Love" Is The Bestiality Documentary You Never Wanted To See
I just watched the trailer for "Donkey Love," a documentary about remote parts of Colombia where the deep, dark secret is that lots of men have sex with donkeys. Then I watched three more times in a row just to make sure I was understanding it correctly. Julie is of the opinion that this film is a hoax as evidenced by how flippant filmmaker, Daryl Stoneage, comes off in the trailer. He's does have a real, "Hey bro, let me watch while you abuse your animals and laugh about it," kind of a vibe. Um, why is he laughing? But I'd have to see the entire film to more of a sense of its veracity.
Assuming for the moment that this film is real, the most disturbing moment of the trailer for me was when a man featured in the film says, "I don't have to buy her clothes. I don't have to buy her shoes." Meaning … having a donkey is cheaper than having a girlfriend or a wife? WHAT? I'm getting ahead of myself here. I am just having trouble wrapping my head around this film.
And so is the theater hosting this year's Okanagan Film Festival International, slated to start today. When Landmark Cinemas, the company that was set to host the festival, caught wind of the topic of this film they pulled out of the event, refusing to host a "film of that nature." The festival is currently in search of a new venue.
Thoughts? I know you have some. Is this real? If so, what do you think of it? And finally, was it right for the theater to refuse to screen it?
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Spectator Magazine - November 15, 1996
(c) David Steinberg
By the Time You Read This Everything Will Have Changed: Some Happy Thoughts on Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Anne Rice and Where We Seem to Be Headed
Behold the Naked War Hero
"I have seen corporate America naked and it is not pretty." -- Lily Braindrop Burana on being a sex worker, September, 1993.
It's been unusual the past few weeks: I actually look forward to groping my way down the front porch each morning, digging the paper out of the bushes, and unfolding it to see what the world has done to itself since I last checked.
It's been fun, day after day, to see what mistake Bob Dole has made in the past 24 hours, to watch him self-destruct in increasingly intense, increasingly self-absorbed little spasms of geriatric confusion. This man with his traditional values, his traditional mindsets, and his almost stereotypically traditional electoral rhetoric really doesn't have the first clue about what really matters these days. Now there's nothing new about old-style pols being patently absurd, but this time the gap between the old way and the new reality is showing, and that hasn't happened so clearly since the days before Ronald Reagan. I have to say it does brighten my days.
The emperor has no clothes! Lots of us having been saying that for years and years and decades and years. Now, all of a sudden, everyone's saying it and seeing it: The man in the gray suit and the gray mood is utterly, unquestionably, stupidly, archaically, unimaginatively, hollowly, pathetically, and totally asexually naked in his inability to get real or get effective. Stalled in neutral and cursing the mud.
It's positively inspiring to see guys like Bob Dole spout their simpleminded, mean-spirited, red herring, antisexual, reality-free foolishness and -- for once -- be properly and profoundly ignored by hundreds of millions of people paying attention to the more important things in their lives.
Last I noticed Dole was frantically using newspapers and television to implore people not to read newspapers or watch tv. Seems he wants people to quarantine themselves away from all that infectious liberalspeak that must be to blame for why no one is rallying around his impassioned slogans. Dole proposes that people cut themselves off from media input and simply make up their own, information-free minds. "Why won't anyone listen to me?" fumes Bitter Bob at the top of his lungs, but across the land -- not just here in the ultra-liberal, hippie, anarchist, godforsaken, sexually perverted anomaly known as the Bay Area -- people have clicked their mute buttons and see nothing more than a pathetic old man, lost in the past, ranting silently into the void.
Ranting to millions of people who don't seem to care about what we have to say is a feeling a lot of us know intimately well, and it's just so satisfying to watch those smug, righteous bastards who are so used to having everything their way be the ones who are spasming in frustration for a change. It's enough to make a nascent populist like myself begin to have some real faith in the bottom-line sensibility of the American people again.
A Word About Planned Obsolescence...
I am aware, in case that's not clear, that I'm writing this column through a time warp. This is always the case. Because of production and distribution technicalities, it's two and a half weeks from the time any of us turns in our copy until any of you read what we write.
That's publishing, although Spectator's lag is somewhat longer than other papers. Usually it's just a curious reality tweak, but this time it's a little more significant. As I sit here taping away at my keyboard, my calendar says it's October 28th. Election fever is everywhere. The newspapers are full of it; television is full of it; my mailbox is full of it. By the time you read this it will be November 15th (assuming you buy and read your Spectator at the first possible opportunity because you can't wait to see what I or Carol Queen or Dave Clark have to say, or because you can't wait to scan the latest photo layout or because you can't wait to get laid or telelaid) and the election will not only have happened, it will already have atrophied into old news. But, over here in the land of October 28th I have to write about the election because that's what's more important than anything else, sexwise as well as non-sexwise.
So at the risk of being hopelessly obsolete, I am going to continue. I just wanted you all to know that I'm being obsolete on purpose....
Crystal Ball Gazing
I'm going to go ahead and assume that by the time you read this Bitter Bob will have been roundly and soundly trounced everywhere from California to Michigan to New Jersey to Florida. If that doesn't happen I'm going to look a little stupid and smug myself, but that's the chance I take when I let myself get going, so what the hell.
Let me take a guess: By the time you read this, Clinton will have been elected in a coast-to-coast landslide, with Dole getting less than 100 Electoral College votes and less than 40% of the popular vote. The Democrats will have made gains in the House of Representatives, maybe even enough to take control of the House away from the Gingrich Gang. The Senate is hard to call, but that could go over to the Dems as well. Even if the Republicans mange to retain control of both houses they will have been sufficiently humbled to have to drop all their big mouth bravado for the foreseeable future.
The California Assembly will have tilted over to the Dems and probably also the state Senate. Maybe not, but it feels so good just to predict it. With a little luck, Bill Baker will be history, and Margo St. James will have a steady paycheck and the responsibility for keeping municipal politics interesting for the next few years. The sudden sensibility of the electorate will be enough of a comeuppance to make Dan Lungren wonder if he might just be better off leaving Spectator (no to mention Garry Trudeau) alone. On the other hand, knowing the strength of Lungren's ego, any slap to the right wing is more likely to make him decide to save political/sexual/morally righteousness face by steadfastly harassing Spectator all the way to the Supreme Court.
Cadillac: A Good Car to Drive After a War
By the time you read this there will also have been an endless orgy of journalistic whooping and hollering and interpreting. Hundreds of dead horses will have been beaten thoroughly into the ground so many times that nobody will be able to stand it any more, like opening the refrigerator door and staring at turkey yet again two weeks after Thanksgiving. (Anyone want a turkey salad sandwich?) Lots and lots of Republicans will be peeking with glazed eyes out from their various fallout shelters, deciding whether it's safe to come out and claim early salvage rights to the hulk of a wreck, once known as the Grand Old Party, that lies, ugly and smoldering, right in the middle of the mall, threatening to bring down property values. First, of course, they will have to decide if they even want to save the old bird -- the thought of cleaning her up to fly again will be more than just about anyone can bear. But after a short pause they will, of course, decide to do just that -- a battered and bleeding political party apparatus with a century and a half of tradition being better than no political party at all. Besides, it would simply be too embarrassing to leave the carcass around smelling up the landscape just as the Christmas shopping blitz is getting under way.
But who's going to help the drunken old geezer home to sleep this one off and come out smiling? Who's going to inherit the estate and who's going to get the blame for its downfall? That's been the real question driving the strategies of various GOP hotshots for the last month or two. Arlen Specter will be saying "told you so" about the issue of abortion rights. Ralph Reed and the Christian Coalition will be saying exactly the same thing. Colin Powell will be thanking his lucky stars he wasn't tempted into the cauldron and won't say one mumbling public word about anything for a very long time. Newt will say more than he should and much less than he wants to and every word will come back into his face like spitting into the wind. Jack Kemp will sit back with a satisfied smile on his face, mission accomplished, biding his time, needling Newt from time to time and enjoying every time he takes the bait.
Bringing the 70's into the 90's
You see -- I'm going to say this one more time -- the old order really is rapidly fading, and if that particular literary reference goes by you it just proves my point. The language Dole speaks isn't getting any traction because the people who speak that language are dying and the newer souls who have come along in their place to populate the purple mountains' majesty with the fruitiest of plains have brains that are wired completely differently from the dearly beloved departing. The kids of the 60's and 70's have grown up now, and they/we are voting and dancing and (yes) -- despite the abstinence pleas, despite the AIDS hysteria -- fucking their parents straight out of office.
Clinton played this one just right: mobilize the new against the old, the women against the patriarchs, the compassionate against the grouches, the vibrant against the decaying, the believers in imagination against the staid, the visionaries against the cynics. We all know how disappointing and how just plain bad Clinton can be. I've got no need or desire to apologize for his wrongs. He's a compromiser on issues that many of us don't want to compromise on at all. And beyond questions of tactics, he's also just wrong on some big issues, most importantly about welfare and the whole bogus bootstrap thing.
But Clinton really is a product of the radical 60's and 70's. He did protest that dirty, nasty war in Southeast Asia. He did inhale. He did fuck around and party during that window between the arrival of cheap and available birth control and the arrival of AIDS. The image he projects -- both visually and politically, embodies much of the spirit of that era, even as that spirit gets mixed into the political realities of the contracting American empire.
Photos of Bill and Hillary are lively, vibrant, even sexy. One photo I saw the other day on a greeting card struck me particularly strongly. It shows Bill and Hillary in 1979 -- gawky, playful, curious, alive, hopeful -- and very young. I'm told that this particular greeting card is tremendously popular now in all the stores. It reminds me of how we all were then, and that in the division during those times between Us and Them, Bill and Hillary were among Us. I believe that they truly embraced (and still embrace) -- as so many of us did and do -- the basic promise of those times: the possibility of making a difference, of making the world a better, fairer, and more humane place -- big time.
Sure Clinton is a conniver and a manipulator. (Those of us who don't have the stomach for such garbage don't get to play electoral politics on the national stage, in case you hadn't noticed.) But he still seems to hold himself to the standard of serving the public good from a humane and generally power-balancing perspective. He is, basically, still on our side in the Great Cultural War. He may not be willing to be thrown out of office for Joycelyn Elders or for gay marriages, and he may protect his political ass more than some of us like. But the result is that his political ass is going to be around for another four years and I'm predicting that we're all going to be glad it's there.
What Anne Rice Could Have Told Bob Dole
Now that I've got my rose-colored glasses in full bloom, I want to say a little something about Anne Rice who turns out to be a devoted sexual optimist herself. If you won't take it from me, take it from her: things really are gradually tilting in the direction of sexual openness and tolerance, doom-and-gloomers notwithstanding.
I went to hear Anne Rice speak at the Herbst Theater a week or two ago, part of the City Arts and Lectures series. She is, of course, riding high -- an eclectic pornographer and gothic novelist, obsessed with the dark, obsessive, and romantic sides of human nature who finds herself embraced and popularized by a culture that would be expected to despise and vilify her. Speaking of the response she and her work have received from the American mainstream, she makes a strong case for how far this country has come with regard to tolerance for and acceptance of sexual expression outside the sweet and lovely mainstream.
Rice notes delightedly that her richly sadomasochistic Sleeping Beauty trilogy -- The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, and Beauty's Release, published beginning in 1983 under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure and now proudly embraced as her own -- is tremendously popular, accepted, and adored throughout the country, most particularly in the Bible Belt. What's more, she notes from her book signing travels into the hinterlands, just about everyone seems to fully embrace the rich eroticism that suffuses her Vampire Lestat novels. That Lestat is turned on to men, and young men at that, she notes with a grin, doesn't seem to bother anyone, even when she calls it to their attention. Ten years earlier, Rice accurately observes, nothing like that would have been possible.
Now, I have long been an admiring fan of Anne Rice -- the woman as much as her writing -- so I was especially delighted to hear her echo my own hopefulness about these things, and to know that she proclaims such views to more people in a week than I have the ability to reach in a year. I was also pleased to hear her use her immense popularity as a foundation from which to advocate quite directly for sexual tolerance and diversity, and for the unfettered depiction of sexual desire and fantasy in all their arcane forms. When asked by a member of the audience to do the erotica vs. pornography saw, Rice emphatically declined to make the separation. "I see no difference," she said. "What I write is pornography, plain and simple. I simply have chosen to write the pornography I wanted to read, but couldn't find in bookstores."
In an "only in America" sort of way, Anne Rice is now probably the most popular and influential writer of, and advocate for, s/m and pornography in the country. She has been a powerfully significant factor in mainstream culture's embracing of s/m -- more significant, sadly, than brilliant commentators from within the s/m subculture like Pat Califia, more significant even than Madonna. She has also become a leading advocate for the primacy of sex itself, and for women's right to define and express their own sexual preferences and fantasies.
"We don't really know very much," she said in a 1990 National Public Radio interview, "about what women want [sexually] because women have been told so often what they should want." As for sex in general, she said she was most interested "in the idea that sex is really good, that we in the 20th century have achieved something wonderful in divorcing sex from superstition and approaching it from a psychological and ethical point of view."
According to Rice, the important thing about sadomasochism is that "many, many millions of people have those fantasies.... Men enjoy those fantasies, and I think that is often true of women as well. I myself am a rather strong woman. I am not easily dominated by anyone, but I enjoy the fantasies.... There is no direct logical connection [between fantasies of being dominated and wanting to be dominated in real life]. Women the world over apparently buy bodice ripper romances that are filled with s/m."
Her closest friend and inspiration, she said proudly, was gay pornographer John Preston, who recently died of AIDS. "It was not his writing that most inspired me," she told the exceptionally regular, proper, and mostly female audience at Herbst with tears in her eyes, "it was his honesty, his courage, and his integrity."
Into the Sunset as the Music Swells....
And so we speed toward the Millennium with a generational changing of the guard in national politics, and a respected literary figure like Anne Rice touring the Bible Belt, praising gay pornographers for having the courage to stand behind and document their unconventional passions while she does just that herself -- not only surviving, but also becoming gloriously successful and adored by millions of fans for publicly and artistically being her unconventional sexual self. This is what Bob Dole failed to understand about the American people: Something there is that likes a person who has the courage to speak unpopular truths about themselves, straightforwardly, with dignity, with pride, without apology.
Back in the days of hope, when Bill Clinton's perspectives on life and politics were being forged, a guy named Martin Luther King was wandering around the backwaters of the politically disenfranchised, exhorting people to haul themselves up from despair. His slogan for getting people to believe in the possibility of change was "the truth shall make you free." Maybe, just maybe, he was right after all.
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You like games? Got diabetes? Then you are going to love this: A small Massachusetts-based startup company called Glymetrix has created an online game that aims to help you improve your diabetes management, but without all the boring and preachy "diabetes stuff."
Seriously, the game is modeled after Trivial Pursuit, Jeopardy and similar games you've probably played before or watched on TV. Only about 20% of the total content is diabetes-related. (Categories include Sports, Television, Olympics, and "All at Sea" {sailing stuff}, as well as tracts like "Living Well.")
What they've done is "sprinkled in reminders to test your blood sugar," and are working to offer tangible rewards that give people an immediate motivation to change their health-related behaviors.
"The core problem with diabetes management is that you need to do something difficult and/or onerous now for rewards much later. That makes it tough for people to get motivated. We thought it would help if there was a way to make it more immediate — so if you check blood glucose today or go for a walk today, you get a bonus now! The games offer a software-based environment where we can do that quickly and efficiently," says Glymetrix CEO Tom Hunter, whom I talked to on the phone late last week.
The first reward on the docket is a $50 check for a determined high-point score.
Developed over the last year, the game is still in the beta testing phase, and the company is looking for user feedback. So feel free to register and give it a try HERE (Glymetrix actually encourages you not to use your real name, "for privacy purposes," see Nitty Gritty, below.) Game questions are developed in-house by the company's small team. For validity, all diabetes-related content is ADA-referenced, and anything related to food or diet is cross-checked with the USDA food database.
Although it's still a work in progress, the Glymetrix trivia game is scheduled to be rolled out as a feature of the new Healthy Outcomes diabetes education-rewards site (announced here recently) some time this week. Healthy Outcome users who click on the game link will get a "quick round trip" through a 20-question cycle of the game.
"The game-based environment offers competition, entertainment, and multi-player interaction. People pay to participate in online environments like this, so why not play a game for free that could also help your health?" Hunter says.
With the likes of Dr. Graham McMahon of Harvard as Medical Advisor, a specialist in diabetes and behavior change, Glymetrix seriously believes that its game can help people lower their A1c, possibly by a full percentage point or more. Early testers have reported as much.
Thus the company is applying for a grant to set up a clinical trial at its local hospital in Salem, MA, in which they hope to prove the medical benefits. They'll keep improving the game features as more and patients get on board, too, Hunter says, in part because his development team believes that the state of current online tools for diabetes is "pretty dismal."
"There are better tools out there to help you design your Disneyworld vacation," he says.
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For the endlessly curious: The Nitty Gritty on Glymetrix
Of course I asked more questions than even the gaming experts knew what to do with. So if you're still truly intrigued, then read on:
DBMine) How did the idea for the game come about?
Hunter) "The inspiration came in Canada, at a training company some of us were working at for oil rigs. They were also known for creating games. A group of doctors came forward and asked for a diabetes game. So we started doing research into how to build a game to change behaviors (there is a fair amount of literature on gaming and behavior change)."
So what's your business model? How will you make money if people play for free?
"We got a round of funding from investors in 2007. We envision the game as a component in other people's online solutions, like healthcare providers or other health maintenance companies. The most interesting business model for us would be a per user subscription fee from those partners.
"Part of the plan is also to package and sell the patient data. That is, anonymous data will be rolled up into reports for Pharma companies, providers, and other interested parties. There won't be any details on individual users, but rather POPULATION data about behaviors, such as 'Do people who eat Italian food regularly tend to have worse outcomes?'"
Doesn't the game get repetitive after a while?
"Actually, the content adjusts based on what each user does, and it will get more sophisticated as you go. We've built that into the architecture. Customization for each user is important, because you might have a player with a high school education versus college-level, master's or post doc, so if the content is not adjustable, some people will lose interest, and others will keep losing when they play. If they lose the game, their self-efficacy goes down, which is exactly the opposite of what we want to achieve. Of course it's rigged so that you win! That's what we want.
"And of course it's not just all about diabetes, or it wouldn't be fun anymore. Right now, we want more people playing for feedback on whether or not we got the balance right."
Besides the voice-over, will the game also integrate multimedia, like photos and video?
"We plan to build out community aspects like leader boards that show who scored the most points, text chat, voice chat, and message boards. We also want to allow uploading of pictures as part of the quiz game, so maybe people could upload their vacation photos for points, for example. Currently we're testing photos in the "All at Sea" category — and that's just because a friend of mine is a photographer and had a lot of photos of ships and boats and stuff. We're working on utilizing photos of foods, showing portion sizes, as part of the health content."
What about a mobile app?
"That would be interesting, certainly. It's just a matter of developing various protocols for cell phone standards. That all depends on funding, of course (chuckles)"
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Rockstar: Max Payne 3 360 to come in two discs
Max Payne 3 on Xbox 360 will push two DVD discs, Rockstar has confirmed in a tweet.
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Share the Payne: Max Payne 3's multiplayer debut
Stace Harman discovers how Rockstar is helping one of gaming's most troubled protagonists play nicely with others, as Max Payne 3's multiplayer makes it grand debut. New shots inside.
Hard Boiled: Rockstar shows off Max Payne 3
Stace Harman channels his inner-Payne and takes a look at what's next for Rockstar's most put-upon of leading men. New screens inside.


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By Laura Bramon
The first time I saw her, I made up a story about her, and it was all wrong.
This was in the autumn several years ago, when, in my third-time's-a-charm attempt at entering the Catholic Church, I stumbled into Adoration each evening at my Capitol Hill parish. Here, in the cool of the day, God's body gazed like a gentle eye from the altar while our priest heard confessions in the back, and the usual suspects—the older woman on whom I fixed a story, and an older gentleman in a bright blue windbreaker—beheld and snoozed, respectively.
Who was this older woman?
Seated in the shadow of a pillar, wearing a gray coat and a little gray cap, she was nearly invisible. I would have missed her entirely had I not glanced back on my way to my own perch, where I knelt on the floor near the altar. Her countenance glowed in an intangible way, as if she had swallowed a lit candle. Her eyes held an expression of unfurling desire and relief.
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Here's some of what you might have missed last week on Damn I Like That!
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The Kav's official list for SantaTuesday, December 24th, 2013
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house…Peter Kavanagh was making a ruckus because this is what he wants from Santa.
Dear Santa,
I've been a really good boy; I even won the Irish Baseball B League and didn't punch anyone all season. I was respectful of all my opponents and tolerant of umpires. I think I deserve a present, so I've put together a short list of what I want.
I want an Irish soccer team to take Europe seriously, but not to bank on it.
Thanks for giving Liam Buckley the title. He was a really good boy all year and deserved an early gift. It couldn't have happened to a better team than St. Pat's this year. Giving Ger O'Brien the captaincy for next year is a lovely Christmas present too, Santa; not since Beckham got a buzz cut has a soccer player inspired so many fans to start sentences with "I'm not gay, but…".
Sligo Rovers were proper champions, and will be delighted that you let them have the cup in one of the all-time great finals. There couldn't be two more fitting representatives for the League of Ireland in European competition next year, and hopefully the new Rod Squad up in Derry will give it a decent rattle too. I hope at least one of these teams can emulate Shamrock Rovers and qualify for the group stage of one of the competitions, but that they learn from where Rovers fell down and that they don't release their big players half-way through a good campaign. Summer football and nine-month contracts do not European heavyweights make, though, so I hope they don't do what Shelbourne did and budget for the same success every year, leading to inevitable collapse.
I want an O'Byrne Cup for the Dubs.
It's the only piece of tin Jim "Pep Guardiola" Gavin didn't win last year. Surely he deserves it. He's awful good.
I want an All-Ireland for the Dublin Hurlers.
Kilkenny are a spent force, even if you can never write them off, and Cork's inexperience can be used against them. I know you can't just give Anthony Daly the win, but maybe you could see fit to give him a favourable draw in 2014. He did awful well, getting past Galway and Kilkenny last year. Scoring 2-21 from play in a provincial final is something else. Do me a favour, Santa, and put Kilkenny, Galway, Cork and Clare on the other side of the draw. Or slash their tyres on the way to Croke Park or something.
I want an Irish Greig Laidlaw.
Hear me out, Santa, as I'm sure you probably let out a big "Ho Ho Ho" when you read that. I want Irish Rugby to stop viewing the halfbacks as separate entities, incompatible yet co-dependent. It killed us in the Six Nations when we ran out of backs and had to deploy Peter O'Mahony on the wing. Someone who can play both halfback positions would give us more options among the replacements in the five toughest games of the year. I don't think we need a Morgan Parra or a Freddy Michalak, but even a Greig Laidlaw on the bench would mean we could reinforce more back positions. Maybe Ian Madigan could take passing lessons from Isaac Boss. Maybe Conor Murray could take kicking classes with Ian Keatley…wait, scratch that last one.
I want something nice, anything, for the Irish Cricket Team.
Seriously Santa, you saw how good they were this year. They won every competition they entered and cemented their position as the top associate nation in the world. I know you can't deliver Test status next year, but they didn't even get close to winning any of the annual "Team of the Year" gongs – even though there was literally nothing more they could do.
I want a vocally atheist athlete to become an American hero.
Controversial, I know. I dislike it when anyone proselytises, whether for or against religion. I just want some balance in athlete interviews. It'd be nice to have someone say that a Judeo-Christian deity was absolutely not responsible for their touchdown pass or grand slam home run. I have nothing against Jesus. We get presents when he's born and chocolate when he dies, and that's cool. To suggest that he's influencing results, or dare I say match-fixing, is a bit much, though.
I want Borussia Dortmund to have a successful 2014.
Ich liebe Kloppo, and so should you, Santa.
I want a sunny summer.
2013 was a lovely year Santa. You spoiled us. I don't think I can play baseball in torrential rain in July again Santa. Please don't make me.
That's it Santa. Hopefully you can fit all those in your sleigh. I'll leave out a Gatorade for you and a protein bar for Rudolph.
Yours in sport,
Peter Kavanagh
Aged 29 and a half.
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5 Responses to "The Kav's official list for Santa"
The only impossible one on that list is the demand for a sunny summer in 2014. We only get one a decade this century witness 2003 and nothing until 2013. You've had your allocation until 2020 I am afraid.
Everything else is possible albeit highly unlikely in some cases.
Have you ever considered about adding a little bit
more than just your articles? I mean, what you say is important and all.
However just imagine if you added some great photos or videos to give your posts more, "pop"!
Your content is excellent but with images and videos, this blog could definitely be one of
the most beneficial in its field. Fantastic blog!
It would be helpful if you could pviorde an email address so that candidates declaring can be notified to you. Parties and candidates could then contact you directly and give you the details.
I was drawn by the honesty of what you write
This is both street smart and intelligent.


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Southern whites had to blame someone for their misery, and the former Rebels blamed the Northerners. They said that everything that went wrong after the war was the Northerners' fault. And as for the Civil War itself, all they had tried to do, they said, was form their own nation. How could they forgive the North for stopping them? Many Northerners were angry too. After all, the South had started the war. And it had been more terrible than anyone could have imagined. Should the South be punished? Some said that since the Rebel leaders were traitors, they should be hanged . But President Lincoln had felt differently. He had said, "Enough lives have been sacrificed. We must extinguish our resentments if we expect harmony and union."
The fierce northern General William T. Sherman had once visited Abraham Lincoln in the White House. He remembered it this way: "I inquired of the President if he was all ready for the end of the war. He said he was all ready; all he wanted of us was to defeat the opposing armies, and to get the men composing the Confederate armies back to their homes, at work on their farms, and in their shops. I was more than ever impressed by his kindly nature and his deep and earnest sympathy with the afflictions of the whole people. His earnest desire seemed to [be to] end the war speedily, and to restore the men of both sections to their homes ."
What of the four million black Southerners who were now freed men and freed women ? What were they to do now? Where were they to go ? Should they be paid for all their years of work ? Should the government give them land of their own and mules, as General Sherman himself once promised ? Millie Freeman was a former slave. She wrote: "It seemed like it took a long time for freedom to come. Everything just kept on like it was. We heard that lots of slaves was getting land and some mules to set up for theirselves. I never knowed any what got land or mules nor nothing ."


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Have you ever heard someone say, "I'm so lucky?" Have you ever said it yourself? The truth is, there is no such thing as luck. Whenever something good comes your way, it's not luck; it's a gift from God.
God delights to give His children good gifts. What kind of good gifts has the Lord given you? A warm house? A spot on the basketball team? A family vacation or a trip to camp? I'm sure you can think of many good gifts that God has given you, but maybe you hadn't thought about the fact that those things came from Him.
When you are playing outside on a sunny day, it may seem to you that the sun is changing its position throughout the day, because your shadow will fall in different directions at different times. But it hasn't the earth is what's moving, not the sun.
God, the "Father of lights," doesn't move or change, either. He's always the same. He's constant, and we can depend on Him not on good luck to gives us many good gifts.
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By Jason Hart | Watchdog.org
Ohio Gov. John Kasich's defense of Obamacare at an exclusive New York City event last week has left-wing pundits singing Kasich's praises.
At a closed dinner hosted by the conservative Committee to Unleash Prosperity, the Republican governor on Wednesday reiterated his support for Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid to able-bodied, working-age childless adults.
Responding to questions from Manhattan Institute senior fellow and Forbes opinion editor Avik Roy, Kasich stuck to his insistence Medicaid expansion is both conservative and biblical, prompting negative coverage from Newsmax and National Review.
Kasich "showed his prickly side during a testy back-and-forth" with Roy, National Review's Eliana Johnson reported.
Huffington Post's Jonathan Cohn and Slate's Jamelle Bouie complimented Kasich for standing in defense of the Obamacare expansion.
The grief John Kasich is getting over Medicaid — see here http://t.co/8VNSn7vvte — speaks well of his character. And his values.
— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) March 27, 2015
Supply-siders apparently think John Kasich is a monster for thinking poor people deserve health insurance. http://t.co/oVHsjPdVEp
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) March 27, 2015
Salon published a Joan Walsh column on Kasich's exchange with Roy, headlined, "The rich's Scott Walker bungle: Why plutocrats fell for the wrong GOP governor."
"Kasich is what Scott Walker pretends to be: A practical Midwestern governor of a hugely important swing state with a track record of governing," Walsh wrote.
Kasich's "refusal to apologize for expanding Medicaid or participate in bashing the poor makes him unacceptable to many in the donor class," she opined.
Watchdog.org emailed Walsh for comment on how Medicaid expansion support from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, glowing coverage of Kasich from center-right Fox News and Republican electoral success running against Obamacare fit with her premise.
"Actually, you pretty much know what I think," she replied. "You know more than I do, so what do you think?"
At The New Republic, Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig asserted, "unlike his Republican competitors, Kasich takes Christian politics very seriously."
Kasich isn't going to win, but he should run so rightwingers have to reckon with his pro-poor Christianity http://t.co/AL4GS1M93c
— Elizabeth S. Bruenig (@ebruenig) March 27, 2015
Bruenig, who slammed the "sham Christianity" of Roy and other Obamacare critics in a Salon column last October, noted "it seems that Kasich has kept the free-market right rankled enough to retain their censure to this day."
After expressing her opinion Kasich would have no chance in a Republican presidential primary, Bruenig concluded, "Kasich should still run."
"His sturdy brand of Christian politics belongs in a nation that has, for the greater part of the last century, drowned in rhetoric that paints Christianity and capitalism as natural allies, despite all evidence to the contrary," she said.
In an email to Watchdog, Roy confirmed that Newsmax accurately described his exchange with Kasich at the event.
Kasich, who contends he is against President Obama's 2010 health insurance law, replied in the affirmative when Roy asked, "Is it fair to say you support repealing Obamacare except for the Medicaid expansion?"
More than two-thirds of the Ohioans insured under Obamacare are enrolled in Kasich's Medicaid expansion, which has cost federal taxpayers more than $2.7 billion and added 510,544 Ohioans to the Medicaid rolls in just 14 months.
"Maybe you think we should put them in prison," Kasich told Roy after further questioning. The governor is accustomed to a supportive media reporting his Obamacare talking points without skepticism.
Asked for his thoughts on Kasich's responses to his questions, Roy said a National Review Online post he wrote in November still applies.
"John Kasich believes that critics of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion are not sincere but 'really either political or ideological,' and that Medicaid expansion opponents will literally rot in hell," Roy wrote.
"The chances of John Kasich marrying Kate Upton are higher than the chances of John Kasich contending for the GOP nomination," he said.
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- HBO's John Oliver popularizes debunked Obamacare spin
- Kasich promotes Obamacare expansion in Florida, South Carolina
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- Arkansas governor calls rolling back Medicaid expansion 'unbiblical'
- Town hall voters challenge Kasich's Medicaid expansion story
- Gov. Kasich talks up Obamacare during State of the State speech
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I don't smoke or drink or do drugs. 20 yrs old. Independent in most aspects and works hard at all things.
I'm a little obsessed with cooking and making lemonade. All from scratch.
Im a lover and feel really responsible with someone elses life. I was a lifeguard for three years and it is one of my passions.
I have really interesting quirks.
I find smoking a turn off. I sometimes think I talk to much. That's for you to decide.
I work at a restaraunt and have an idea of what kind of a career I am going to pursue.
I'm not the type of girl to think about my perfect wedding or things like that.
I believe honesty is the best policy and am a very open person most of the time.
I am a Christian. Love to laugh. Can't do drama. Can speak Spanish somewhat and English fluently.
I always want to do spontaneous things and maybe you will notice it.
I want to do the most random things at the most random times for almost no reason
I do not cuss unless im extremely angry or on a roller coaster
Im short
Movies-anything scary, ten things I hate about you, lady and the tramp, nightmare before christmas, fox n the hound
Music- basically all types
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Uncyclopedia:Pee Review/Wikipedia Chase! (resubmit)
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
edit Wikipedia Chase!
I fixed up almost all of the article that was suggested by the previous reviewer. Now i just want a second oppinion, now that it's probably better then before...
- Yes, it is much better than before. You want a second opinion, so I'll let someone else cast their beadies over it, but it's good that you took action on the review Asahatter (annoy) 14:28, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Any bad or good reviews are helpful, as they could help me improve my article writting skills (it's all trial and error!). Thank you.
The Italian Stallion 07:13, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
|Its just not funny. For one, it borders on vanity, or at least what looks like vanity, in some places. I'd get rid of references to "Nicholas W." and "Stephano M." because the just look like vanity.
Second, random name dropping is not funny, especially internet/uncyclopedia memes like Chuck Norris and Oscar Wilde. Its too "listy" in places also. As a general rule, random lists are not funny, and nonrandom lists normally aren't that good either.
I know this contradicts what was said in your last review, but I think he was wrong. You can not save unfunniness by an insertion of random nonsense, filibustering, and lists.
Also, as a rule, you should avoid absurd hyperbole, overkill, and contradiction in your article.
|The concept is appropriate, but can it be made funny?
|Prose and formatting:
|Looks decent overall, but you have too much white space. Try moving images around and remove extra blank lines in order to decrease the amount of extra white space. The white space also makes it look rambling, by making it longer. Also, you might want to get rid of the dead link. Red links make your article look ugly, even if there are only one or two.
|I'd put a caption on Image:Wikipediachaser.jpg by making it a thumb nail. I can see that there are custom made images on the page, so you get some points for that.
|Improvability score. I don't know how you would go about improving this article, there doesn't seem to be much humor hiding in it. However, you might be able to make it work. If you get writer's block on this one, try working on another article. Everybody has written some bad articles, and what looked good as a concept might not turn out to be a good article.
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|--Mnbvcxz 01:52, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
For what it's worth, in my review of the article, I wasn't advocating the insertion of random or non-random lists in this article. The changes made, whilst by no means perfect, do represent an overall improvement, but I don't disagree with your overall assessment of the article. What I was suggesting, and continue to suggest, is that any vanity is removed, and the activity should be treated in the same way as any other well know sport or activity, such as chess or Monopoly. I can't say that this would create comedy gold, but it might, with some trial and error, produce something better than was there before. Asahatter (annoy) 02:04, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
- It depends what you read "bizarre world records and practices", "introduce fictional competitors" to mean. One person's "bizarre" is another's "dry wit". Overall, I agree with your review. I think I reading some of the author's bad practices into your review the first time I looked at it.--Mnbvcxz 02:24, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
- Point taken. I can see potential here, but would like to have seen more in the way of turning this into a real competitive sport without resorting to the old staples of Wilde and Norris. As you say, "bizarre" in my review is probably better stated as "arcane", to avoid confusion with "random".


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Democrats made it clear who they wanted.
Whether picking a prosecutor or a Council member, Salt Lake County Democrats decided by large margins during a standing-room-only convention Saturday at West High who should represent them in the biggest county races of the year.
They nominated Salt Lake City Prosecutor Sim Gill to challenge Republican incumbent Lohra Miller -- again -- for District Attorney.
Likewise, they overwhelmingly favored former journalist Holly Mullen, to chase the countywide Council seat that her stepdaughter, Jenny Wilson, will vacate at the end of the year.
Where there was doubt was in the Salt Lake City-centered District 1 race for the County Council. After two rounds of balloting, delegates found themselves unable to pick between Cal Noyce, president of the Central Utah Federation of Labor, and Arlyn Bradshaw, a former executive director to the Utah Democratic Party.
After three rounds of balloting, Noyce garnered 54 percent of the vote to Bradshaw's 46 percent. The separation between the two: 18 votes.
So the two candidates will face a primary election runoff June 22. The winner will challenge former County Councilman Steve Harmsen for a Democratic-leaning seat now occupied by retiring Councilman Joe Hatch.
The nominations came during an unusually crowded Democratic convention, where delegates crammed shoulder-to-shoulder into an auditorium that fits about 1,100 people.
Democrats hope to preserve -- and perhaps strengthen -- their 5-4 majority on the County Council.
"We have a great chance to not just have a majority," exclaimed County Councilman Randy Horiuchi, "but to have a pre-eminent majority in Salt Lake County."
Of course, Republicans are just as hopeful that they can steal away the majority that Democrats gained just one year ago. All eyes are on the countywide seat that Democrats are entrusting to Mullen.
Mullen, a former columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune and editor of City Weekly , won a lopsided victory Saturday over Christian Burridge, a one-time congressional candidate and former county party boss.
"I'm absolutely thrilled," she said simply.
Although she's a newcomer to politics, Mullen said she's made her political positions abundantly clear in more than 700 newspaper columns that will help people know how she'll represent them on the County Council.
Mullen will face either Winston Wilkinson or Richard Snelgrove in the November elections -- both Republicans face a primary election.
Gill's victory came over defense attorney Greg Skordas. He now will run against Miller, a Republican who beat him four years ago. Gill hopes for a different outcome in November.
"We have a community of citizens out there who are hungry for change," said Gill, who personally contacted more than 1,000 delegates. "They know something is broken at the District Attorney's office and they want it fixed."
As for Gill's campaign strategy? "Hard work, hard work and hard work."
Picking the Democratic players:
District Attorney
Sim Gill » 73 percent
Greg Skordas » 27 percent
Countywide council seat
Holly Mullen » 77 percent
Christian Burridge 23 percent
*District 1 council seat
Cal Noyce » 54 percent
Arlyn Bradshaw » 46 percent
Michael Fife (Eliminated in the first round of balloting)
State Senate District 9
Tyler Ayres 65 percent
C.B. Stirling 35 percent
State House
District 24
Rebecca Chavez-Houck (unanimous)
Richard Nahum Goldberger (absent)
District 51
Paul Recanzone (unanimous)
Jesse Christensen (withdrew)
Source: Salt Lake County Democratic Party


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Lululemon Maybe Loses $20 Million On Extra Slutty Batch Of Too-Thin Yoga Pants
Oh noes! Bad news out of Yoga Pants Land! Lululemon, purveyors of unnecessarily expensive workout gear, has supposedly had to chuck an entire batch of their yoga pants, known mostly for giving men uncontrollable boners, because a manufacturing glitch made them too thin. As if the super tight fabric wasn't skankasaurus enough, this particular batch of yoga pants were see-through. Lululemon began pulling the pants from shelves this weekend, releasing the following press release about the disaster:
"We have determined that certain shipments of product received from our factories and available in store from March 1, 2013 do not meet our technical specifications. The items affected are certain styles of women's bottoms in our signature black Luon fabric. The ingredients, weight and longevity qualities of the pants remain the same but the coverage does not, resulting in a level of sheerness in some of our women's black Luon bottoms that falls short of our very high standards.
Over the past weekend we pulled all of the affected black Luon women's bottoms from our stores, showrooms and e-commerce site and are working with our supplier to replace the fabric and our other manufacturers to replace these key items as quickly as possible. We believe the affected items represented approximately 17% of all women's bottoms in our stores and for the near term there will be a shortage of these styles available to our guests."
In the interim, until the company can produce a replacement batch and get them on shelves, there will be a shortage of yoga pants, which means there will almost certainly be a shortage of boners in men's pants as well. Bummer. [The Atlantic]