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A YOUTHFUL Heworth ARLC side pushed high-flying Underbank Rangers all the way in a 24-6 defeat in National Conference League division three.
The Villagers, who fielded seven youngsters, belied their lowly league position to provide a stiff test for second-placed Rangers.
The visitors were only 12-6 in arrears at the break and the final outcome would have been closer but for loose forward Jonny Payne being held up over the line once in each half without being able to get the ball down.
It looked ominous for the visitors when Underbank registered two tries in the opening ten minutes for second rower Sam Rochford and scrum-half Richard Pogson, with the latter adding both conversions.
After Payne's first disallowed effort on 23 minutes, Heworth were rewarded 11 minutes later when full-back Christian Pollock picked up a loose pass close to his own line and raced the full length of the field to cross under the posts for stand-off Danny Allan to add the extras.
The hosts, with the wind and slope in their favour, started the second period strongly and loose forward Nick Briggs went over after only three minutes and Pogson goaled.
The Black and Whites once again rallied and some tremendous scrambling defence frustrated their opponents.
The resistance was finally broken in the the 66th-minute when stand-off Michael Murphy nipped over under the sticks and Pogson kicked his fourth conversion to seal the match for the home side.
Allan gained the man of the match for the Villagers.
Meanwhile, York Acorn were 24-17 winners over Saddleworth Rangers in division one.


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Welcome to Wednesday's The Crap We Missed, filling your Hump Day hole with random celeb buffoonery and 'Who's that?' boobies. Today we've got Courtney Love either going method as Bradley Cooper's understudy or drugs, Pamela Anderson who either really loves that song or drugs, Chloe Sevigny pacing around in front of this job site until the cat calls start and that's a promise fellas
or drugs, and finally, the 'patient zero' moment scientists will have to retrace to when racing to find a cure for a deadly pandemic.
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In 2004, a group of educators, parents, community leaders and corporate partners, led by the One Hundred Black Men, Inc. opened the first Eagle Academy for Young Men in the South Bronx, NY. The Eagle Model, featuring parental involvement, academic rigor, mentoring, combined with extended day and summer programming was put into practice.
The Eagle Academy for Young Men in the Bronx was the first single sex boys public school to open in New York City in approximately thirty years. David C. Banks, current President and CEO of the Eagle Academy Foundation, was the founding Eagle Academy principal.
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PASADENA, Texas - A man has been accused of forcing his way into a home with the intention to rape a woman.
Sergio Lopez, 21, has been charged with burglary of a habitation.
Pasadena police said Lopez knocked on a door in the 2200 block of East Harris on Sept. 19. A woman answered the door and Lopez pushed her onto a sofa and tried to remove his and the woman's clothing, investigators said.
The woman fought Lopez and he eventually left, police said.
"You barely see her walk out here unless she's with her husband and kids," neighbor Emanuel Maya said about the woman. "She just doesn't seem like the same person anymore. Who would after something like that happens?"
Police said Lopez's tattoo helped them crack the case. He has the word "Mexico" tattooed on his stomach, and the victim mentioned that in her description of her attacker. The woman also picked him out of a photo lineup, investigators said.
Lopez has not been arrested. Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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Channel 4 subscribes to Lovefilm VoD service
Channel 4 has signed a digital content distribution deal with Lovefilm that will see a raft of shows including Peep Show and Father Ted added to the VoD service.
The deal will see a bespoke 4oD area created in the Lovefilm Instant service, which will feature the archive of C4 content.
Among the shows featured will be seven series of Shameless, every episode of The IT Crowd and classic C4 shows such as Drop The Dead Donkey, Queer As Folk and Teachers.
C4 director of commercial and business development Sarah Rose said the shows would complement Lovefilm's existing offering.
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This article was published 3/10/2012 (1784 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Here's a bulletin for you.
Winnipeg has a crime problem.
I mean a new kind of crime problem, or maybe it's just an old one we didn't know we had.
You might remember my column from last summer about the 19-year-old University of Manitoba student who was taking Transit home from work when another young passenger asked if he could borrow her cellphone to make a call -- then he bolted from the bus, with her suddenly hot iPhone 4 in his own hot little hand.
At the time, I asked police if this kind of cellphone theft on buses was a trend and police said not that they knew of.
Then a month later, there was a Winnipeg police release about a young man who asked another young man if he could borrow his cellular phone. And when he refused, the other guy stabbed him. About the same time, a middle-aged woman who read my initial column emailed to say she was nearly robbed of her cellphone on a Transit bus.
And this week, the father of a 16-year-old south St. Vital girl said she was riding home on the bus late last month when she had her iPhone ripped right out of her hands by another girl. The young robbery victim tried to get it back, but the other girl ended up pulling her right off the bus before getting away with the cellphone.
His teenage daughter is still traumatized nearly two weeks later.
"She won't ride that bus anymore," he said.
How bad is this so-called iCrime getting? Actually, I can't tell you how serious a problem it is in Winnipeg because police don't keep stats on it and apparently,Transit doesn't track it either.
I can tell you this, though.
It's really bad elsewhere. And getting worse.
So much so that this week the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission demanded the wireless industry set up a national registry of stolen smartphones and tablets so the pricey technology can be deactivated after a robbery, a move that would make iCrime less attractive.
And if the industry doesn't comply?
The CRTC said it would look at using its regulatory muscle to force the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association to do the right thing for consumers. That's how concerned the CRTC is about the wireless industry's apparent lack of concern.
So how concerned should we be in Winnipeg?
First, let me point you to Toronto and Vancouver.
The Globe and Mail this week quoted a Toronto city councillor who said there were 1,800 cellphone robberies in that city last year and estimates from Vancouver that cellphone theft there was up as much as 37 per cent between 2010 and 2011.
It appears to be even worse in the United States. The Globe referred to estimates from the Federal Communications Commission that suggest one in every three robberies in the U.S. involves the theft of a mobile phone.
Even the Wall Street Journal has warned about the explosive growth in iCrime, pointing to public transit riders as being the prime targets. New York City's police commissioner, Ray Kelly, told CNN last summer 40 per cent of thefts there involve Apple gadgets.
But we were wondering about Winnipeg, weren't we?
Wednesday, I asked Winnipeg police if they have ever issued a warning about cellphone robbery. I inquired because I had asked police before if there was a trend of that kind of crime on Transit buses here, without getting a definitive response. But also because of a sentence in this week's Globe and Mail story on the subject.
"Police have been increasingly warning about a surge of violent robberies involving cellphones in cities such as Toronto and Vancouver."
What I'm wondering is, if other police services are warning their citizens, why haven't I heard from Winnipeg's? Even if our police don't keep specific stats on cellphone and tablet robbery, one would think they would at least alert us about a North American trend.
So far as I know, there has been no such alert or advisory issued, and even if there has been, obviously it wasn't loud enough. So please permit me to do it for the police and more importantly, for you.
Use your built-in warning system about people around you when you pull out your cellphone. Don't loan your phone to a stranger and try not to sit near exits on buses that make you and your phone an easier target.
Or think of it this way: Don't let some dummy steal your smartphone.
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It is fairly well established, as various people have pointed out over the past few days, that poor children in the UK are more likely to be overweight than their richer peers. This is often seen as a curious reversal of older norms: poor children used to be lean.
But one aspect of modern poverty is the same as ever. Inner city school leaders sometimes talk about children looking poorer than others. What they are referring to is not weight, but height. Poor kids are usually shorter (especially ex-refugees). Read more


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Clitics are unaccented particles that attach themselves to words at the beginning (proclitics) or end of phrases (enclitics) very much like the way affixes attach themselves to words.
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Looks to me as if The Good Doctor just found a possible GWOTD: clitic.
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I like Michael Bay, really I do. Loved Armageddon, Bad Boys and really loved Transformers.
But when it comes to WWII movies, I want spielberg involved somehow.
pearl harbor was entertaining to me, but done in Bay's fashion which does not translate well to historical pieces such as the bombing of Pearl harbor.
Madness is like gravity....all it needs is a little push.
Why so serious?
Dumbest scene ever in a movie... the elephant humping scene in The Love Guru.
In fact, just put every scene from The Love Guru in this category.
That Joey Votto is some kind of Man Candy!
"For them to boo me like that, it lets me know they dream about me at night. -- Brandon Phillips on Cards fans.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
That Joey Votto is some kind of Man Candy!
"For them to boo me like that, it lets me know they dream about me at night. -- Brandon Phillips on Cards fans.
I can't stand Pearl Harbor, but for different reasons than most here. When it came out, my wife and I were still dating, and we dated long distance. She lived in Manhattan, KS and I lived in Cincinnati. We would make trips back and forth as often as we could and we called and emailed every day as well. She had just come to Cincinnati for a weekend. I had just been in Kansas the previous weekend and had proposed out there. So we had been engaged for about a week at the time and seeing her off at the airport wasn't easy. At least then (before 9/11) you could go to the gate without a ticket to see people onto the plane. So we're at the gate, newly engaged lovebirds that can't let go of one another, and then she has to get on the plane at the last minute. The plane takes off and I head back to the parking lot at CVG, suddenly feeling very lonely because I realize I can't talk to her until she gets off the plane in KC.
I figure that a movie is just the answer to get my mind off romantic topics for a few hours and I look in the paper for the listings. Wow, Pearl Harbor is showing in an hour. A war movie will be just the thing, a guy movie with action and violence to get the testosterone flowing. (I hadn't read the review.) Well, needless to say, the film did not do what I wanted it to do. The last thing I needed was all the romantic stuff in there. I left the theater disappointed because I had different expectations going in and I haven't watched it since.
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I love the movie Bull Durham but there were a couple of scenes - really not scenes but bits of scenes - that seemed uncomfortable. One was where Crash and Nuke went over to Annie's to "try out" and I just thought the scene where she gave nuke his nickname seemed forced. Before that exchange and Crash's "I believe in the soul..." speech were fine but they all seemed like they were fake laughing. I also found the scene where Crash reported to the Bulls forced. Just the part where he said he was going to quit and tossed out several profanities. Not that I care about that but Costner's delivery seemed forced.
I agree about Pearl Harbor. I thought it was a pretty good yarn for a while until FDR stands up during his meeting. That blew the whole movie for me. I'm not necessarily a stickler for historical accuracy but that scene was awful.
I don't know about you guys, but the flying bus from "Speed" always just kinda threw me for a loop!
Or the girl in Jurassic Park just suddenly being able to work and restart that computer system "Oh this is Unix" and can totally access a system that earlier had locked out the more experienced ones in the group.
In those things which we commit to practice we can master, and with mastery we have the freedom to use these skills whenever we desire, without this practice we are slaves to our inability.
Jurassic Park 2, the little girl doing a gymnastics routine and taking down a raptor.
I was SO wanting her to become that Dino's lunch.
Go Gators!
Like "Major League," you had the main plot, but they were also able, thoughout the course of the movie, to build the Yankees up into second-level antagonists without slowing down the pace. What's more satisfying: Paying off 90 minutes of the Yankees being the Indian's own personal El Guapo? Or tacking on additional games against teams with no "personality" and having to count on cut-aways to the owner's box in order to have an on-screen villian?
And also: "Miracle" was an awesome movie and all, but it's also 2 and a half hours long as it stands.... you're really telling me it would have benefitted from ANOTHER 20 minutes, just to chronicle an extra game against Luxemborg or whichever fifth-rate world power we had to beat AFTER the Russians? Never was there a wiser execution of the "gloss over the final tidbits and just go with the Animal-House-style freeze-frame captions" at the end of a movie, if you ask me....
PS: Worst Scene Ever is when the chick from "Saved by the Bell" suddenly busts out kung fu moves in "Showgirls" to beat up a bad guy and prove her toughness. A bunch of us armed with fake IDs showed up the see that dreck its opening weekend, and quickly became appaled at how unthinkably terrible it was. When we burst out laughing at the allegedly-dramatic turning point Kung Fu scene, we got "shushed" by most of the other people in the theatre, and decided to make "Showgirls" the only movie I have ever actually walked out on.
I am not sure if it was intentional, but I laughed out loud when Sheen hit the pavement in The Departed. Visually, it was actually rather comical.
Almost any scene with a kid in any movie. RedsFan75 mentioned Jurassic Park - there were so many awkward scenes with kids in that movie, especially the boy and Neill.
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How about Con Air when the guys go after Nick Cages character in the alley. He's a Green Beret, and they go after him. Real smart fellas.
Variatio delectat - Cicero
Another thing i could add is almost ALL car chase scenes. What a waste of time, IMO.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - If your New Year's resolution is to quit smoking, then keep reading. And if you're a nonsmoker, you should do the same and be concerned with how much money smokers are costing the state.
There is free help for people trying to kick the habit, all paid for by the forced hand of the tobacco industry.
Many have seen the ads and heard the branding that say, "Find three ways to quit at TobaccoFreeFlorida.com." It's all part of a multimillion dollar, multi-decade campaign to help Floridians stop smoking.
But it's more than just scare tactics and clever messaging. There's real help available.
Tobacco Free Florida offers classes on ditching the habit, a 24-hour hotline for quitters who feel their willpower fading. There are even nicotine patches available, all free of charge.
"They would get two weeks of nicotine replacement therapy, and it is free of charge," said Shannon Hughes, the bureau chief of Tobacco Free Florida.
The program is operated through the Florida Department of Health and funded by the 1997 tobacco settlement.
"We receive 15 percent of tobacco settlement funds," Hughes said.
This year the budget is $64 million, which is small compared to the toll smoking takes on Florida's economy.
According to the Department of Health, smoking costs $20 billion a year in lost productivity and early deaths. There's $1.2 billion in Medicaid expenses alone.
"Tobacco illness and death takes a tremendous toll on our state's economy and the health of people, and so it works in favor of all of us to decrease to reduce smoking as much as possible," Hughes said.
Smokers flood the Tobacco Free Florida website and hotline every January looking for help with their New Year's resolution. But statistics show for first time quitters, they'll fail between eight and 11 times before they finally kick the habit.
To get started with stopping smoking, visit TobaccoFreeFlorida.com or call the hotline at 1-877-U-CAN-NOW (822-6669). Since the program's inception, smoking is on the decline. Currently, about 20 percent, or one in five Floridians, is a smoker.
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Affordable retail space a problem in St. Albert
Wednesday, Jun 25, 2014 06:00 am
As St. Albert continues to ponder plans for the original downtown area, I would like to see some original thinking.
Encouraging unique and local small business is futile unless affordable space can be available. And that is complicated in a market driven economy. Only so much space is available.
Civic buildings, elected government individuals, a business development complex and other non-retail uses abound. I honestly think the only way you will attract genuine small retail enterprises is to have the big box stores partner with such enterprises. Why would a big business network or get financially involved in a smaller business?
Because it would be in their self-interest to do so. The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker are destination-based stores. As an Edmonton city councillor recently said, "people don't drive to a neighboring town to check out their big box stores".
Genuine "customer over the counter by owner" businesses will not survive or thrive unless original solutions surface. They don't fail due to a lack of customers. They fail due to a lack of affordable space.
I challenge St. Albert to put on their famous thinking caps.
As an aside, Westlock is responding well to our Daisy Dollhouse Saturday only store. If we are patient, our finding affordable space will be rewarded.
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If the Mets were looking for some late-inning relief from an expensive off-season acquisition, they won't get it from Kelvim Escobar. The New York Post reported that he is out the rest of the season for shoulder surgery. He's getting $1.5 million before he even throws a single pitch. Pretty nice deal if you can get it.
Despite some lackluster production from the bench, The Daily News is reporting that the Mets aren't looking to call up Chris Carter just yet. He's been tearing it up in AAA with four home runs and a .348 batting average. The way the bench is currently constructed has them sitting in 11th place in terms of the bench batting average, according to Metsblog.com.
The folks at SILive.com ponder the question of who's better for the Mets: Rod Barajas or Bengie Molina. Barajas sure has helped the Mets with clutch home runs as he's now the leader of the team. His batting average isn't as good as Molina's, but he's provided a lot more offense than last season's catching duo.


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Memorial Health University Medical Center operates a minor illness clinic specifically for SCAD students. The SCAD Center for Health is staffed by a nurse practitioner. Currently enrolled students are treated and tested at a minimal cost for a variety of common ailments such as colds, earaches, asthma, sinus infections, minor gynecological complaints and small abrasions. More severe cases are referred to a physician or an emergency room, and transportation is arranged.


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"Give Sharks a Break" Shout Finn and Finley
Meet Finn and Finley, Project AWARE Sharks on Tour
They have a hammer-like shape head, a trendy Hawaiian look, and they are on a mission to spread the word that sharks need urgent protection!
Since World Oceans Day June 2011, Finn and Finley have been touring the world to rally support for shark conservation! After visiting dive centers and PADI Professionals in the Dominican Republic, Australia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, Florida and Sweden, Finn and Finley are now calling on divers around the world to sign two critical shark petitions during Big Shark Shout Out Week Oct 15 - 23: "Make the Push for Europe's Sharks" calling on fisheries ministers to close loopholes in the EU shark finning ban and "Give Sharks a Fighting Chance" calling on decision makers to give vulnerable shark species the trade protection sharks deserve.
Shout Out for Sharks with Finn and Finley:
- Sign the petitions
- Like them on Facebook
- Read their blog
- Check out their "Sharks on Tour" photo album on Flickr
- Donate to support Finn and Finley outreach and advocacy work for shark protection
Finn and Finley are worried about the fate of their shark friends. Why? Nearly one out of five shark species is classified by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) as Threatened with extinction. That doesn't even include hundreds of species (almost half of all sharks) whose population status cannot be assessed because of lack of information. Scientists warn that, in actuality, a third of sharks might already be threatened.
Finn and Finley deeply miss the time when in some cultures sharks were considered to be gods of the sea, also protectors of humans, and cleaners of excessive ocean life.
In Hawaiian culture Hammerhead sharks are considered to be one of the most respected sharks of the ocean, an "aumakua" . Many Maui (the second-largest Hawaiian Island) natives believe that when the hammerhead sharks pass by, it is a sign that the gods are watching over the families, and the oceans are clean and balanced. So if Finn and Finley are passing by your local dive center show them your love and respect and help them make people understand the critical role sharks play in our oceans.
It's not all doom and gloom!
There have been some great news for sharks this year. In the United States - Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Guam and the Marshall Islands have banned sales of shark fin. The Californian Senate passed a ban on Sept 6th, which was signed by Governor Jerry Brown last Friday. In Canada, a number of cities are considering a ban including Toronto, and a nationwide ban was recently proposed. Shark fishing bans have been passed in Palau and the Bahamas, and one is pending in Fiji.
So let's keep the pressure on!
Follow Finn and Finley on Facebook, read their blog to keep up to date with the latest news on the EU shark finning ban and what's happening for sharks around the world, and most importantly take action to protect sharks before they become extinct.
Finn and Finley's touring adventures will end on World Oceans Day June 08, 2012 so make sure you don't miss out on this great opportunity to learn more about sharks and help support shark conservation.


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I want to get a reseller account with but was wondering what you guys charge your clients per monthly/yearly basic? I have already given my clients free hosting for a full year but plan on charging them as soon as the first year is up.
I'm not sure what to charge the client. Frankly, I feel a bit guilty charging them 20-30 euros per month as i'm sure some of them will have some knowledge of the costs for hosting a website.Just wondering how much do you guys charge your clients? Do you guys use reseller accounts or do you make your clients pay for their own hosting?
I was thinking it might be a good idea to charge at least 30 euros which includes maintenence of their site, updating and backing up their scripts incase it gets hacked.
I would suggest you look around to see what prices other hosts are offering for the same thing, and either charge a bit less (if you want to keep the customers with you) or charge a little more if you are offering something extra. 30 euros per month sounds pretty steep when you can get hosting for a few dollars a month elsewhere, so you need to make sure you are offering value.
I generally agree with ralph.m. I don't think offering web hosting is worth the hassle unless, of course, it is the main purpose of your business.
You are competing against hosting providers like awardspace which offer hosting plans ranging from free to just about all bells and whistles with chocolate icing on top for just under USD6 per month. And they offer 24/7 technical support, backups etc etc etc. I have a reseller account with awardspace and so get a few dollars for each new subscriber that comes from my link on any of my web pages. If a client asks me to provide hosting as well, I normally offer to set them up an awardspace account at cost, since it takes only a few minutes. I've been using awardspace for my website for a few years now and am very happy with them.
If you're going to charge 20-30 euros then that is way over the odds imo when compared to what is available elsewhere.
Yes, I would be expecting 20-30 euros to be the cost you might be paying to have the reseller account—which allows you to host lots of websites. You'd only need 10 sites on your account paying 2-3 euros per month to make all that back, and any further sites would be profit.
I'm not being charged anything at all for my reseller account and why should I be? Wherever I have my link on a web page I am essentially advertising awardspace for free (using one of their logo images) and I only get paid if someone actually creates an account after clicking my link.
Sure, it depends on what system you are using. I was really speaking to the OP, based on some reseller accounts I was looking at recently which were all around $30 per month.
Frankly speaking, we charge $10/YEAR and provide quality hosting and qualified support.
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I did not say i was going to chage 20-30 euros for hosting, i mean that as well as charging a few euros for maintaining the clients website, updating and backing up their scripts incase it gets hacked which is inluding in the monthly hosting fee. Also wasjust wondering how do you guys find the time to manage your clients websites if some don't use a CMS and how much do youcharge them for updating there site whenever they need changes done?
Normally the host from which you receive the reseller package does that. If you are talking about updating the client's website (which may mean updating the CMS etc.), you should quote for each job or work out an hourly rate that suits you and the market you are in.
we do not charge anything.
how do you guys find the time to manage your clients websites if some don't use a CMSOur system is automated and our support ticket ratio is as less as one ticket a month because we keep our system and servicesin perfect order and how much do youcharge them for updating there site whenever they need changes done?Updating is free. Upgradation (moving from lower package to higher) is charges as per prevailing package rates - we have an exclusive website for support and billing, so no problems at all. We devote only 10-15 minutes in the morning to check our support site for tickets, if any (90% no ticket), check invoices paid - if any payment issue, resolve it. That's it.
What other hosts charge doesn't matter. Your time is in finite supply so make sure you charge what it's worth, and charge for the clients expected level of performance, resilience and service. I've never found it worthwhile to charge pocket money, because for every 'hands free' client that might go years without needing any hosting intervention, there'll be another that'll need a constant stream of assistance setting up email, losing ftp passwords, mangling databases. Make sure you're making worthwhile profit on the time and resources you're likely to expend.
Also worth considering is that if a client is only willing to pay bus-fare amounts for hosting, and has little concept of the value of time and support, then I'd generally feel it's better to have them phoning somebody else on the rare occasion something goes wrong.
If you are talking about updating the client's website (which may mean updating the CMS etc.), you should quote for each job or work out an hourly rate that suits you and the market you are in.
I don't think there's any requirement of him doing so. If he prefers to charge a fixed monthly sum, and he's confident that will cover his costs while providing good service for all customers, there's not problem with that. It may be wise for him to specify a certain limit of working hours that a customer is entitled to in a month.
includes maintenence of their site, updating and backing up their scripts incase it gets hacked.
That should give you an edge over regular hosting, where the site's management is the customer's problem. Be careful with the terms regarding those backups though. Backups can go missing themselves, or turn out to be corrupted. Data can be very valuable, which is why hosts generally don't assume any responsibility regarding its availability.
Well rather than keep a fixed charge of Euro 20-30 you should really be transparent and give a breakup to the client between fixed charges and recurring charges
Like Euro 3-5 / month for hosting would be a recurring charge every month
Other Charges (if services utilized - hence would be one time charges as and when the client asks for these services)Updating scripts - Euro XBackup of files - Euro XUpdating site would have different functionslike adding new content / post etc would be - Euro Xmodification to design / functions would be - - Euro X / hour
Hence my suggestion would be to provide a realistic pricing to the client because sooner or later in the open market they will know the real prices and they might feel cheated even though you are not 100% wrong charging a fixed rate for hosting + maintenance.
I always advise resellers to look at their closest 5 competitors. Who are you competing with? Set your prices around what they are charging. If you want to undercut their pricing, lower your pricing and increase client intake. If you want to charge higher, realize you won't have a lot of clients.
At our design studio, we do not get involved with hosting. There is too much risk involved. If the website is down and your client lost potential revenue, they can sue you. We develop and design websites, we can make a "personal" suggestion on what hosts we've used and what we prefer, but we do not make legal claims as to what is the best choice. We can't - because: 1) we don't have a networking specialist working with us, 2) because we do not run our own servers, 3) because it's not our speciality.
The client must provide their own hosting and then we go ahead and setup their website. If the host goes down, it's not our fault, and we don't owe them any free consultation to get that website back up. If the host gets hacked and our client losses data (happened just a month ago), it's not our fault - we weren't responsible for securing the server. In those instances, the client will come to you asking for free support to remedy the situation because "you took on the legal responsibility of suggesting a reliable host". And we say "as we pointed out from the beginning, and as-is stated in our contract, we are not responsible for hosting".
And also, if you are going to provide the hosting, everytime the client has a hosting problem they will contact you for help. They will expect it to be covered in the cost of the hosting. So if you're going to be setting a price, ask yourself - how much support can you include in your package, what is it guaranteed to cover (back-ups, monitoring, security, etc), and how much is that time spent talking to clients worth to you? Once you see how much you are liable for in risk, you will charge at least $120/mo.
Hosting is such a saturated market - you need to keep the shared hosting prices pretty reasonable unless you have something unique to offer along the side of your products.


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Tiburon home with fireplaces, wine cellar
Updated 9:17 pm, Thursday, February 14, 2013
Twice a week, The Chronicle features a home on the Bay Area market that caught our eye for its architecture, history or character. More photos at www.sfgate.com/columns/walkthrough.
Address: 185 Rancho Drive, Tiburon.
Asking price: $2.195 million.
Description: Maple hardwood floors line both levels of this contemporary five-bedroom home, which features three fireplaces and a three-car garage. A level lawn in the backyard offers abundant space for play and entertaining, while a side patio made of crushed granite provides an additional seating area and fire pit.
Inside, the foyer serves as a good area to display art, and a wine cellar caters to an epicurean's palate. Family and guests can pull up seats at the granite-topped banquet island in the kitchen, where a walk-in pantry provides additional storage. The 4 1/2-bathroom home also has a laundry room with a sink.
Don't miss: The master suite, with fireplaces in the bedroom and bathroom, along with a walk-in closet.
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Built: 1995.
Size: 3,742 square feet.
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Infants exposed to their parents' marital discord may be more likely to experience sleep issues during toddlerhood.
That's the conclusion to a new study published in the journal Child Development. Specifically, the study found that marital instability when an infant was 9 months old predicted whether the child would have issues falling asleep and staying asleep at 18 months of age.
"It's important to be aware of how the quality of the marital relationship might influence a child's functioning," says Anne M. Mannering, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and an instructor at Oregon State University. "It may be important earlier in [a child's] development than people may think."
Mannering and her team followed 357 families, all of whom had adopted infants during the first three months of the child's life. None of the infants followed in the study were genetically related to their parents or had any major medical conditions.
"We only looked at adoptive families ... to rule out the possibility that any relationship that we see between sleep issues and marital problems are due to shared genes," explains Mannering.
Each family's parents were interviewed when their infant was 9 months old. To measure what, if any, degree of marital instability each couple was experiencing at the time, they were asked "fairly serious" questions about their union, including whether either partner had considered divorce or separation. The parents then independently answered a questionnaire about their child's ability to fall asleep and stay asleep during the night.
Mannering and her team then conducted follow-up interviews when each child was a year and a half. Both parents were asked to answer the same questions from their first interview about their marriage and their child's sleeping patterns.
"We found that marital instability when infants are 9 months of age can predict sleep issues when at 18 months of age but we didn't find the opposite," says Mannering. So a child's sleep difficulties didn't predict the parents' marital disharmony.
"Sleep patterns did not predict marital instability later on," she said.
While Mannering's study does not explain what biological mechanism is behind the association between marital strife and sleeping patterns, she hypothesizes that stress in the child's environment could play a role.
"There's previous evidence that young infants' experiences can definitely shape brain systems that respond to stress very early on," says Mannering.
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Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) is a programming language suitable for implementation tasks ranging from scripting to application development, including GUIs, Web services, etc. It includes the DrRacket programming environment, a virtual machine with a just-in-time compiler, tools for creating stand-alone executables, the Racket Web server, extensive libraries, documentation for both beginners and experts, and more. It supports the creation of new programming languages through a rich, expressive syntax system. Example languages include Typed Racket, ACL2, FrTime, and Lazy Racket.
e4Graph is a C++ library that allows programs to store graph-like data persistently and to access and manipulate that data efficiently. With e4Graph, you can arrange your data in the most natural form that reflects the relationships between its parts, rather than having to force it into a table-like format. The e4Graph library also allows you to concentrate on the relationships you want to represent, and not on how to store them in a database. You can modify data items, and add and remove connections and relationships between pieces of data on the fly. e4Graph allows you to represent an unlimited number of different connections between pieces of data, and your program can selectively manipulate the data according to the relationships it cares about, not having to know about other connections represented in the data set.
Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording, and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. It supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs, and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console-mode user interface is included in the package.
Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDEE) is an Emacs-based integrated development environment (IDE) for developing Java applications and applets. Features include multiple code browsers, a JPDA-based debugger, method and field completion, template-based and procedure-based code generation, Java source code interpreter, context-sensitive help, and more.
The ESP Package Manager (EPM) is a simple tool that generates software and patch distributions in various formats, including AT&T software packages ("pkg") used by Solaris, Debian ("dpkg"), HP-UX software packages ("swinstall" or "depot"), IRIX Software Manager ("inst" or "tardist"), portable (installation and removal scripts with tar files), and Red Hat Package Manager ("RPM").
A two-factor authentication server.
A note-taking app.


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If you have installed Reader/Acrobat and are having problems starting it, you may receive the following error message:
"Acrobat fail to load it's Core DLL"
Acrobat/Reader 6 or 7:
This error occurs if you are installing Acrobat/Reader to a Windows NT platform. There is a BIOS setting "limit CPUID Function" that should be enabled for NT machines and disabled for Windows XP/2000 machines.
Later Acrobat/Reader versions
This error has also been reported with later Acrobat/Reader versions when computers were infected with malware. The virus/malware can usually be detected and removed with the use of Kaspersky TDSSKiller tool. We would strongly recommend that you clean any infected systems immediately as this malware could be used to steal personal data from your computer.
Acrobat/Reader 6 or 7:
With this setting enabled on Windows NT in the BIOS the problem does not occur.
Later Acrobat/Reader versions:
If you are facing this issue, we recommend running the Kaspersky TDSSKiller tool on your system. For installation and usage instructions, please refer to "How to disinfect a compromised system" on http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
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Dior Addict Fluid Stick boasts flawless application in a single sweep: the high-impact colour and long wear of a classic lipstick, combined with the shine of a gloss, all in a thin film that delivers sensational comfort.
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Use the tip of the applicator to draw a perfect contour, then colour in the lips with the beveled edge. Perfect makeup results in a single sweep.
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Gear up for holiday baking with Cooking Channel. Your favorite chefs & Food People have opened their kitchens to share their best cookie recipes. From mini Red Velvet Whoopie Pies to Chuck's Maple-Pecan Shortbread, we'll keep you baking all season. Visit our All-Star Cookie Swap, then head over to FoodNetwork.com for great takes on holiday baking from Food Network chefs.
As we gear up for the holiday madness — visiting in-laws, parking-lot musical chairs, office parties, endless gift-buying, spending days (or weeks) making and packaging homemade gifts — one thought continually rolls through our heads: "We need a drink."
Since it's rather frowned upon to be seen with flask in hand on a regular basis, it is best to devise incognito ways to sneak in a little nip here and there. (This keeps us calm and ensures that the holidays are, in fact, merry.) There are already several holiday classics intent on serving this purpose: rum balls, trifles, and of course, the ever-popular eggnog. Well, let's add another treat to the list of holiday stress remedies: a delicate butter cookie with a brandy-laced eggnog icing.
Though innocent in appearance, these high-spirited cookies will bring a twinkle to your eyes (and some rose to your cheeks). You can always play around with your liquor of choice (dark rum, cognac, bourbon or Kahlua are some fun options) and then box up mixed batches as gifts. The holidays are happy once again!
Butter Cookies with Eggnog Cream Cheese Icing
Active Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 3 hours, 25 minutes
Yields: About 3 1/2 dozen cookies
Butter Cookie:
2 sticks (1 cup or 225g) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup (100g) sugar
1/2 teaspoon (3g) kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon (3ml) pure vanilla extract
2 large egg yolks
1/2 teaspoon finely grated fresh lemon zest
2 1/4 cups (280g) unbleached all-purpose flour
Eggnog Icing:
2 ounces (56g) cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 stick (1/4 cup or 56g) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 tablespoons (30ml) eggnog
1 1/2 teaspoons brandy, cognac, or dark rum, optional
Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
1 cup (250g) confectioners' sugar
Ground cinnamon, for dusting top of cookies
Butter Cookies
Beat the butter, sugar, salt, and vanilla extract, using an electric mixer, until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Beat in the egg yolks, one at a time, until combined and then add the lemon zest.
Turn mixer down to its slowest setting. Gradually add flour and mix until incorporated, stopping once or twice to scrape bottom of the bowl.
Divide dough into two portions and roll each into a log 2 inches in diameter. Wrap each in plastic wrap and chill at least 2 hours up to overnight.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line 3 baking sheets with parchment paper. Slice cookies 3/8-inch thick and place on the lined baking sheets giving 1-inch spacing between cookies. Bake, 2 trays at a time, for 14 minutes or until light golden brown, rotating the pans halfway through baking time. Keep the unbaked cookies chilled until ready to bake. Cool the cookies on the baking sheets.
Eggnog Icing
Beat the cream cheese and butter until completely smooth, using an electric mixer on medium speed. Mix in eggnog, alcohol, and nutmeg. Turn mixer down to its lowest setting and gradually mix in confectioners' sugar until completely incorporated.
After the cookies have completely cooled, ice cookies and dust with cinnamon.
Get the printable recipe here.
Todd Porter and Diane Cu are professional food and travel photographers who publish the popular food blog White on Rice. Their lives have always been about love, family, friends, sharing, exploring and food.
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Mariana Hogan
As Mariana Hogan remembers, she ended up in law school after college because a career that relied on words and analysis seemed like a good bet for someone who had "always been very verbal."
But somewhat to her surprise, it turned out to be the human element—listening to people's stories and helping solve their problems—that held the most appeal.
During her first year at Georgetown University Law Center, courses in criminal procedure and torts were her favorites, and a Criminal Defense Clinic, which she took as a visiting student at NYU Law School, proved to be the experience that led to a career in criminal law.
As a new lawyer, Professor Hogan worked for four years as a staff attorney in the Legal Aid Society's Criminal Defense Division in the South Bronx on a caseload that included everything but homicide. She then worked as a staff attorney in Legal Aid's Federal Defender Services Unit in Brooklyn.
Professor Hogan started teaching when she moved with her husband to Detroit, where he had been transferred. A new mother, she had taken a leave of absence from Legal Aid, expecting to return in a year. Instead, she fell in love with teaching while working as an adjunct professor at Wayne State University Law School in Michigan.
Returning to New York in 1987, Professor Hogan looked for a way to combine the challenge and interest of teaching with the rewards of client representation. She found the perfect mix in clinical teaching, first for five years at Pace Law School and then at New York Law School since 1992.
"I can still remember each of the clients I had in my Criminal Defense Clinic in Manhattan Criminal Court over 30 years ago," Professor Hogan says. "Representing clients who were relying on me was a formative experience, and it impressed upon me standards of practice that I have tried to maintain ever since." She and Professor Frank Bress started a Criminal Law Clinic designed to give Law School students a similar experience.
Professor Hogan never lost her commitment to defending the poor. As a member, and then as cochair, of the New York County Lawyers' Association Task Force on the Representation of the Indigent, she was instrumental in the creation of a monitoring program to ensure competent representation for defendants who could not afford counsel, the Indigent Defense Organization Oversight Committee (IDOOC). In 2006, Professor Hogan was appointed to IDOOC by the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division Court in the First Department. The Task Force also issued a major report on assigned counsel pay rates that spurred the New York County Lawyers' Association (NYCLA) to file a lawsuit, that led to a raise in the pay for private lawyers contracted by the city to represent indigent clients.
Professor Hogan has also been cosponsor of the Annual Federal Criminal Practice Institute, which seeks to diversify the panel of attorneys available to represent indigent clients in the federal courts by training women and minority lawyers for federal practice.
For more than a decade, Professor Hogan has directed the Law School's Externship Program, which provides approximately 30 percent of second- and third-year law students with the opportunity to intern with judges or with lawyers in government, public interest organizations, corporations, or law firms. She sees these externships as invaluable opportunities for students to apply classroom learning to real situations and to evaluate possible career choices. Professor Hogan is the co-author of a chapter on judicial externships in Learning From Practice: A Professional Development Text for Legal Externs.
One of Professor Hogan's favorite activities is sharing her knowledge of advocacy skills. She regularly teaches Trial Advocacy, Advocacy of Criminal Cases, and Deposition Skills at New York Law School, and she is a frequent lecturer and faculty member at programs for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA).
As an active member of the legal community in New York City, Professor Hogan serves on the Board of NYCLA and has recently completed a term on the Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary.
"Jails and Prisons – Reservoirs of TB Disease: Should Defendants with HIV Infection (Who Cannot Swim) Be Thrown Into the Reservoir?" 20 Fordham Urban Law Journal 467 (1993) (with Faith Colangelo).
"Blame the Lawyers, Not the Witness." New York Law School In Brief 10 (Spring/Summer 1999).
"New York Law School's Externship Program: Out of the Classroom and into the Field." 14 New York Law School In Brief 16 (Spring 1996).


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"Roger LaPointe to the store front desk, please."
I loved to hear that request echo from the tinny, feedback filled York Barbell intercom. It was ALWAYS going to lead to something interesting.
That day was no exception. Twenty years after I first encountered him on the big screen, I met Darth Vader, I mean Dave Prowse. Yes, I instantly became that shocked six year old in a movie theater seeing a light saber for the first time. It was 1997 and Dave Prowse wanted to meet "the lifter" at York Barbell. Fortunately for me, Dave had dealt with plenty of star struck fans. It didn't take long before we were talking about weightlifting, gyms and the fun of a real Highland games. We genuinely had interests in common.
Dave has a really outstanding sense of humor and loves the strength sports. He also has a great voice to top off his commanding presence. The photo above shows Dave choking me in the York Barbell Weightlifting Hall of Fame.
Years before, Dr. Bob Suchyta had told me that if I take my lifting seriously, it will take me to amazing places. The beauty of weightlifting is that it is just you and a barbell. The barbell is an inanimate object. If you don't do anything, then it will also do nothing. The same can be said of stone lifting, or throwing a caber. The lessons of the iron are great.
Dave Prowse told me the same thing as Dr. Bob. In their humility, just meeting each of them was already something great. Look up Dave's biography. It reads like Charles Atlas. He really was the sickly kid who went on to lift the unliftable stones. Little did I know, my lifting would take me to the stars, to battle with the most notorious villain of all time, or at least the actor who played him.
All the best,
Roger LaPointe
"Today is a good day to lift."
P.S. My, now seven year old, son tells me that it's obviously not Darth Vader choking me in the photo, after all, "where is his cape and helmet?" (Raspy breathing sound effect: "Jackson, I am your father.")


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Collinson FX market Commentary: January 17, 2013
European markets were steady after the IMF released a further tranche of bailout funds to Greece despite some faltering growth prospects. The World Bank has reviewed Global growth forecasts back to 2.4% with emerging markets struggling and Europe in recession.
Draghi had boosted European prospects last week but Germany reviewed their growth prospects lower in line with World Bank forecasts. In the US markets were also steady after the Fed's Biege Book considered a moderate growth in the economy. The Fed was bullish on Consumer Spending but reticent on Jobs growth. Flagging a drag on Companies reliant on European markets and exposed to the Defence Department with huge cuts in the pipeline. Banks continued to prosper funded by the Fed and taking full advantage of cheap money. Goldman Sachs tripled their profits and JP Morgan also beat expectations. Home Builder Sentiment fell, dampening the ever growing sea of bulls in this sector.
The recovery, telegraphed by the Fed, may see a hands-off approach to this year with planning in motion to remove QE in an effort to stabilise inflationary pressures. The EUR held 1.3280 while the GBP slipped under 1.6000.
Improving global demand has supported the high flying commodity currencies with the AUD 1.560 and the KIWI breaking back above 0.8400. Politicians preoccupied with gun control in Washington will soon turn to the 'Debt Ceiling' debate which will drive uncertainty in markets!
Collinson FX market Commentary: January 16, 2013
Markets continued the quiet, non-reactionary trade, experienced since the fiscal cliff was postponed and participants remained unattached. The EUR came back to trade 1.3285 and the GBP 1.6050.
There was little happening on the European front with the German CPI remaining static and the Trade Balance floating along. German GDP was also anemic, rising 0.3%, revealing the Engine-room of the EU has hit a flat spot. In the US, Retail Sales rose 0.5% giving some hope, but the http://www.newyorkfed.org/survey/empire/empiresurvey_overview.html!Empire_State_Manufacturing report showed a big retrenchment in Manufacturing.
Fitch has been the first rating agency to warn the US over the 'Debt Ceiling' debate, which will dominate markets over the next month or so. Commodities continued to hold current high levels, giving support to the AUD at 1.0550 and the KIWI at just under 0.8400.
Look for US political manifestations to drive an insipid market with any surprise economic numbers likely to impact day-to-day moves.
Collinson FX market Commentary: January 15, 2013
Markets were steady to begin the week with little news out on the economic front. US markets were digesting various Fed leaders speeches over the country with Bernanke reiterating his stance on prolonged low rates as long as Unemployment remains stubbornly high and inflation is controlled.
Concerns are surfacing about inflationary pressures and this is any central bankers nightmare and a box Pandora does not want to open! There are open questions over Apple which has now dropped below US$500. The longer their gadgets remain on the market the more profitable they are and we are seeing a shortening lifespan on refreshed products. Post-Jobs may not see the innovation and thus the fallout will grow as innovative companies overtake them.
Commodities remain well bid and the EUR held 1.3350 and the GBP 1.6075 despite Industrial Production falling 0.3%. The AUD traded 1.0550 with Home Loans falling and Job Advertisements dropping 3.8%. Storm clouds seem to be gathering over the Australian economy in an all-important election year.
The KIWI is trading just under 0.8400 but will be impacted by further economic developments in Europe and the US. Plenty of data to determine daily directions this week and look to Political leaders for disruptive messaging.
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Barnard magazine summer issue 2012
The search for an absolute often leads to ambiguity
New and Upcoming Releases
On a particularly dreary day at the end of February, I was trying to get word about my younger son... When the phone rang, I leaped, positive that it was the emergency room calling with the final diagnosis. Instead, it was my office, informing me that President Obama wanted to give the commencement address at Barnard. What does one say? "Oh wow," I mumbled. "Sure. I have to get off the phone now."
Alumnae reconnected and socialized with old friends and new, in addition to attending discussions, workshops, lectures, and other events during this year's reunion weekend.
Anticipating a new decade prompted Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen to look both back and forward as she contemplated aging, the launch of three children from the nest, and her new ability to do a headstand.
Katherine Boo has made a name for herself—and won a Pulitzer Prize—writing about the lives of the poor and neglected in society. In her recent book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, she portrays the hopes and hardships of the residents of a makeshift slum.
When Barnard's extraordinary women come together during Reunion, the Alumnae Association recognizes a few especially accomplished graduates for professional achievements or exceptional volunteer contributions to the College
Five Barnard feminists share their stories from the ever-evolving movement
What you need to know to burnish your golden years


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I did miss the origin stories, and I think with a bit of work seperate ones for Fighter/Mage/Rogue Hawkes could have been included in the game and referenced throughout without a major increase in writing/acting required.
Started playing Red Faction 1 for the first time since I owned it way back when.
Got 2 hours into it before I died. Restart. From the start. Curse you modern video games and your lack of a fail state!"Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""
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For example: first playthrough I actively romanced Merill - being nice to her, letting her fix the mirror etc to max out the friendship meter, and the relationship progressed to the full extent. Next time I was an antagonistic prick to everyone but especially her, hitting full rivalry in no time. Then, after she declares she "never wants to see me again", she appears at the mansion to apologise and I jokingly pick the '♥' option that was offered just because it seemed kind of out-of-place. Some more talking, no more conversation options given, and banging ensues with option to be in romance after. So either DA2, rather progressively, allows for hatefucking or there is something seriously wrong with its systems and hates closing anything off in case the player gets bitchy.
Whereas if you picked the wrong thing to do with Viconia, Jaheira or Aerie then there was no elf loving for you lad.
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That's definitely odd (though I'd say that that's kind of an issue with most video game relationship systems, which like to keep every option open for the player constantly without regard for whether or not it makes sense). I think that the inevitability worked really well from a plot standpoint, but maybe less when it came to smaller, individual choices and relationships. Granted, the strength of the characters made up for that for me, but I can see why people get upset.
DA2 was a piss-poor game with a pretty good and interesting story. DA:O was a great game with a piss-poor and bland story.
So DA3 is either gonna be amazing or the crap that gets ME to start saying "Yeah... Bioware's best days are behind them".Steam: Gundato
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If you want me on either service, I suggest PMing me here first to let me know who you are.
Lately I've been trying to pretend Borderlands 2 doesn't exist as I've just hit 450 hours. This has led to:
- Thirty Flights of Loving (and Gravity Bone) which I loved,
- Dear Esther which I enjoyed after I realised I had the filtering set to Trilinear (I wondered how a game built on the Source engine could look that bad),
- Hitman: Absolutely which isn't as bad as I had been led to believe; it's certainly no Blood Money but there's plenty to do and I was actually replaying the story missions after I finished them to find alternate approaches. Ok, so I haven't found one of the A-B missions with no assassinations yet, but the controls are good, the production is solid and as I said there's stuff to do to keep you replaying, which is more than can be said for a number of other games.
- I also finished Spec Ops: The Line, man that was dark. I 'enjoyed' it, though.
- The Walking Dead was also great, not as well put together as I had hoped but you can't have everything.
- Closure seems ok but I'm pretty sick of indie 2D sidescrollers with a unique puzzle twist, I don't think I can bring myself to finish it.
- Also: GTA San Andreas. I might see if I can stick with it but the keyboard controls are total arse and using a 360 pad doesn't let you map the triggers or right stick. Why even bother if you can't have accelerate and brake on the triggers and camera on the right stick? It's madness gone crazy.:emofdr:
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http://www.hard-light.net/ or http://www.fsoinstaller.com/ - the hardlight forums have the latest versions of the upgraded files. So your best bet is to download everything you want with the fsoinstaller and then check the forums for the latest mediavps.
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Sure. Although Freespace 1+2 is an oddity in that I much prefer mouse + kb as it makes precision aiming with your primary weapon easier. Enemy AI in FS2 in particular is very good at dealing with missiles.
If you prefer the joystick however; obviously all weapons should be fired from there. Countermeasures as well. And if you have enough spare buttons then feel free to add bank left (instant hard rotate left) and bank right (instant hard rotate right) to them as well.
Switch your HUD colour to amber in the game options. Its the most non-intrusive personally and looks great against the background of space. Green is too distracting and blue is way too soft.
Oh yes, if there's a Sun/Star in the far off distance in your current mission, try and avoid flying into it's line of sight if at all possible. Instant blindness!
Alt+H to toggle on/off auto target the nearest hostile target. Be warned though that your radar waits till your current target actually blows up. I prefer pressing H to immediately move to the next target when I see 0% hp on my current target.
Alt+M to toggle match speed with your target on/off. I almost never turn this off. Unless i'm playing chicken with capital ships where you need to manage your speed more. Against fighters, keep this on at all times. When you have access to the Persesus fighter (its the fastest fighter in your fleet) it can keep pace with anything.
Tab for afterburner. Excellent for both offensive and defensive moves. Limited but recharges depending on how much energy you have in your engine banks. Do note that your afterburners take you beyond your maximum speed but for a brief period only so its usually the best option for an instant start/evasive manouevre/closing distance to target.
Backspace to switch off your engines instantly. FS2 does have a physics system so you'll roll to a stop.
Backslash for setting your engines to max speed. Or whatever the key is below the backspace one depending on your region. As above, your ship will gradually move to top speed.
A/Z to increase and decrease speed respectively. With alt+m enabled this gives you the most efficient speed management. Its not a permanent increase/decrease so you need to do some tapping. Example: you have someone in your sights and as you have match speed enabled you're flying at roughly half your maximum speed. But missiles lock on you from behind; hold A to increase speed to full for evasive tactics or hold down Tab to engage afterburners for an instant speed boost.
Period/fullstop to toggle between your primary weapons banks and single/dual fire mode. I prefer to almost always have both weapon banks selected for dual fire. Only exception is if my second primary bank has a disabling weapon (Or the Keyser) which are usually energy suckers.
Forward slash to toggle between secondary weapon banks. On bombers you will typically have two to three types of missiles and bombs. Fighters normally have anti-fighter missiles. Shift+forward slash to enable dual fire mode. So if you have say the Hornet or Tornado missiles - swarm missiles, they fire in packs of four - watch EIGHT of them go off at once with one of my favourite sounds in all of gaming. THWOOSH THWOOSH THWOOSH THWOOSH THWOOSH THWOOSH THWOOSH THWOOSH
X for countermeasures. You know how submarines beep when a torpedo approaches them? Exact same process here. Wait till the beeping terrifies you and spam ideally between 2-5 countermeasures. I prefer switching this to one of the spare joystick buttons.
You do have a support ship that will reload all your missile banks, countermeasures AND repair your subsystems. It will NOT repair your hull.
C to bring up your command screen for wingmen. There's a specific tutorial mission just for this and you can replay them anytime.
I really should just make a proper guide. That should cover most basics for the time being.
Freespace 2 does have EXCELLENT tutorial missions. Follow them closely. And they gradually become more advanced the further you go into the game. I'd say the first quarter of the game is a gradual introduction to all the systems and the relevant tutorial missions so make sure you play them all.
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VVVVV was perhaps the best at getting me back in. Terry Cavanaugh has a direct line to the lizard part of my brain. Braid is still fun if you ignore the text. Cave Story will still drag me in. It's possible that something in the game, rather than the genre, is missing.
I can play Super Metroid any time and still love it. It's the illusion of openness in linearity, or smashing that linearity to a pulp by sequence breaking. And eventually, the enemy respawns don't matter.
18-04-2013, 09:26 AM #14276Steam | Origin: xRavelle | Skype: TheRavelle | PSN: Voltburn | Watch me struggle through my backlog
I've been sucked into Crusader Kings 2 once again, playing as the fiercely loyal dukes of Moray (Scotland). An oath is an oath, and if I've sworn my allegiance to the King then by God I'm going to stand by him! Well, you know, unless something exceptional happens, but what's the likelihood of that? Like, kinda small, right?
So, I stood by my kings, in sickness and in health, peace and wartime. Mostly wartime, since the Scots seem incapable of not hating each other. In the early 1200s there was a quite massive civil war. Several factions, almost everyone were actively involved, etc. The king was weak and only controlled his one province (Powys in Wales), but I managed to keep the situation under a modicum of control. Enter the duke of Hereford.
The duke's father had had the audacity of taking advantage of a previous civil war and invading Dyfed. Using mercenaries, I turned him back and had him killed for his insolence. Now his son wanted Powys. No biggie, I have enough cash for some mercenaries. It'll be like a nice family tradition for them.
What's that? The king already surrendered to them? But they just got there! Where did the king go? He... WHAT!? He revoked Caithness? Why didn't he take Clydesdale or the frickin' duchy of Lothian? That clubfooted little ingrate! I was his regent and mentor and have protected his domain for his entire life, and this is how he repays me? Oh, hell no! I never liked him anyway. OFF WITH HIS HEAD!
For the first time in history, the Buchanan clan was in revolt. A quick one. The king fielded a fearsome army of some 40 men, that have not been heard of since. The king himself died during the siege (in bed like a bitch), but the die had been cast and I wanted my county back. So I kept at it, and soon I deposed his succesor and the war was over. Apparently, however, once the king had fallen, there was nowhere for the crown to go. Scotland, along with the majority of Ireland and Wales, found itself divided among a collection of independent clans. I broke my country! A country that my entire family had devoted their lives to preserve!
So what now? The crown was vacant, but noone was strong enough to claim it. I was the strongest of the clans, but I had no desire of such things. My family was the right hand and sword of Scotland, not the head and crown. Furthermore, the shame over what I had done left me unsuitable for such an honour. I wanted to start over, make amends to the nation by restoring Scotland to glory under a new king. But there was noone to swear fealty to. I had to look elsewhere, but where would I go? Deposing my liege and king, destroying my nation, would not sit well with the courts of Europe. The Arabs? No, my great grandfather had fought in the Crusade to retake Jerusalem, and would turn in his grave if I sought refuge with the Muslims. There was only one place left to go. Only one place where my history would not burden me. Only one nation that allows for a clean slate. In the chaos that follows the horde from the east, I shall start over and redeem myself and my family name! Their banners shall fly over the old kingdom as the tidal wave washes over Britannia!
Long live the Khagan.
P.S. Funnily, had I not murdered the old duke of Hereford, the peace treaty would have prevented all this from happening.
@ Fanbuoy
If I was feeling industrious I'd link the "how do I enjoy Grand Strategy games" thread to this post. OK granted, this sort of story is something that seems to be fairly unique to CKII but it's awesome. I might just have to fire it up again, I just haven't given it the time it deserves yet (only 31 hours according to Steam).
I have no idea how to link posts between threads, but you have my blessing if the industrious...ness(?) finds you.
Oh I really enjoyed my time with it, alas I just don't have the time to spend on it! I've had to get brutal with games that end up with me finding myself still awake at silly o' clock in the morning (one day I'll have the time to get a bit further in Spacechem!) and just cut myself off and play something less time intensive and oh so distracting!


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Some things I missed in my last post: how do you write the medial four consonant clusters of Spanish? Abstracción, construcción.
I'd write 앖뜨찪툥느 (or 압스뜨찪툥느) and 꼰스뜨춖툥느, if only there was a way to write ᄄ in the coda...
Extraer, explotar, etc. also follow this pattern: 엨슽자엦, 엨슾로탖. For your system it's not an issue since you already have a different letter for /ks/-sounding <x>. I guess they would be 엤뜨차엧, 엤쁘로땇 (please confirm this).
Yep, you're right, they'd be 엤뜨차엧 y 엤쁘로땇.


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Did you know?
The symbol of the Midlands Meander is the Butler butterfly, found only in the Karkloof region.
The Midlands Meander is a route situated between the city of Pietermaritzburg and the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site.
The Midlands Meander extends over 80km between Pietermaritzburg and Mooi River with stunning sites and scenery along the way. The expansive countyside vistas and fresh air replenish body and soul, while the mind is intrigued by the rich history of the region, which dates back to the 1800s.
The Midlands Meander began in 1985 when several potters and weavers came together to create an arts and crafts route through the region. Today more than 150 talented and creative individuals welcome visitors to their rural environs to view furniture, rugs, pottery, stained glass, leatherwork, kites, quilts, hammocks, ceramics, decor, wind chimes, weavers, bistros, restaurants, B&Bs, lodges, guest houses and much more.
For the active visitor the Midlands Meander is ideal for horse riding, hiking, tubing, swimming, biking, canopy tours, quad biking and fishing.
A visit to the Midlands should include a relaxing stroll through the areas beautiful forests and picturesque villages, sampling home-made cheeses and locally brewed beer and wine. Art lovers will enjoy watching locals creating uniquely African pieces and relish the opportunity to buy a few art works to take back home.
The Midlands Meander is one of the largest arts and crafts tourism route in South Africa and one of the most successful with bustling businesses belonging to the arts and crafts, hospitality, heritage and eco-tourism sectors.
The Midmar Dam hosts various events such as the annual Midmar Mile swim in February and includes activities such as windsurfing, sailing, boating and canoeing. The Midlands route is an hour's drive from Durban and about 4.5 hours from Johannesburg.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Midlands Meander office
Tel: +27 (0)33 330-2355
Email: email@example.com
How to get here
From Johannesburg – 4.5 hours drive on the N3. Turn off anywhere from Mooi River onwards. From Durban, N3 towards Pietermaritzburg (PMB). Only one hour to Howick and then the Meander starts. Can fly directly into PMB airport; then only 25 minutes up to the Meander.
Best time to visit
All year round – a wide variety of weather changes which brings awesome landscape changes – from rich autumn reds, to wintry, snow capped mountains, to fresh dew tipped spider webs in spring and summer brings luscious greens, meandering mist and bright blue skies.
Around the area
Arts, crafts and cuisine, plus activities including hiking, fishing, horse-riding, health spas, golf, tubing, mountain biking, canoeing, zip-lining across forest top.
Tours to do
Day trips to 5-day overnighters.
Get around
Self-drive or through tour operators and pre-arranged transport. Some of the hotels also offer day trips.
Length of stay
Nothing less than 2 days to even begin to give the area justice, with 5 days even better.
Where to stay
Anything from a backpackers to a 5 star hotel or world-class health spas, self-catering, B&B's, lodges.
Best buys
The highly talented arts and crafts in the area including the renowned Craft Guild offerings.


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WASHINGTON — A group of organizations has launched a nationwide competitive outreach project to enlist students studying to become healthcare professionals to find new ways to raise awareness about medication adherence as a public health issue.
Wednesday marked the launch of the second annual Medication Adherence Team Challenge, which will last for a month, coordinated by the National Consumers League and sponsored by the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the National Community Pharmacists Association, the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American Medical Association. The NCL is also the lead organization on the national Script Your Future campaign, for which the NCL and other partners have committed to a three-year program to promote medication adherence. It is estimated that three-quarters of Americans don't take their medications as directed, resulting in serious health consequences, according to the NCL.
"The success of the first Script Your Future Adherence Challenge in October 2011 demonstrated the power of student pharmacists to reach out to their communities and engage patients and caregivers to improve health through better adherence," AACP EVP and CEO Lucinda Maine said. "This year's challenge will emphasize the interprofessional healthcare team and what each member of that team needs to do to move the needle on medication adherence."
This year's challenge will take place through February and engage interdisciplinary teams from pharmacy, medicine, nursing and other health professionals to address the problem of poor adherence.
"Innovative medication adherence initiatives, such as the challenge, ultimately help raise patient awareness of the importance of taking medication as prescribed," NACDS Foundation president Kathleen Jaeger said. "This kind of initiative can help prevent potential adverse events and unnecessary hospitalizations and ultimately improve health outcomes."
In October 2011, more than 40,000 student pharmacists educated more than 250,000 individuals nationwide that month to raise public awareness of the importance of adherence.
"Greater medication adherence improves patients' well-being and ultimately helps to drive down the costs of health care," NCPA CEO B. Douglas Hoey said. "Independent community pharmacists are committed to proactively identifying solutions to improve patient adherence in their communities, and the challenge is a terrific way to raise awareness among the next generation of pharmacists."
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GALVESTON, Texas - Coast Guard crews said they rescued one person, but are still searching for four more people who went missing after their fishing boat sank off the Galveston Coast.
Officials said the boat sank about 115 miles southeast of Galveston early Friday morning. Coast Guard officials said around 3:30 a.m., they received an alert from the boat's emergency beacon.
An aircrew was sent out to the area to search for the boat, and found a man waiving his arms aboard an orange raft, officials said.
Once the man was rescued, he told authorities there were four other crew members aboard the vessel before it sank.
Officials said the man was taken to a nearby oil rig to address any medical concerns so the helicopter crew could resume their search.
"We're currently responding to an EPIRB hit that has quickly become a major search-and-rescue operation," said Kevin Robb, a watchstander with the 8th District command center. "We have crews from all over the Gulf region descending on the general area where the boat went down to search for these remaining crew members."
So far, no names have been released.
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THE leader of the Green Party is set to visit to Hyndburn and Accrington today in the run up to May's Euro elections.
Natalie Bennett will visit Whalley Community Hydro at 11am and will be talked through the project by the organisers. Around £750,000 is currently being raised before building work can start which organisers hope will be in April.
The power house, which will generate electricity from the River Calder, will use the movement of the river's water to create electricity. The power will then be fed into the National Grid and generate money for other local renewable energy projects.
She will then move on the Prospects Environment Centre and One Planet shop in Accrington in the afternoon.


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Team Bobby Falls to Threeby Sara Levine in Food Network Star, June 5, 2012
When it came down to Eric Lee and Ippy Aiona in the Producers' Challenge, Bob and Susie said it was one of the toughest decisions they'd ever faced in eight seasons of Star. Both talented chefs consistently impressed everyone with their food, but struggled to find a sweet spot on camera. In the end, Team Bobby's Eric was the one to say goodbye.
Eric left the pitch room with the same humble, gracious attitude he maintained throughout the competition. "I just want to thank you for the opportunity to work with Bobby," he told the judges. "It is just incredible how great of a mentor he is." Bobby, in turn, had high praise for his mentee: "Eric may be the best cook in the entire competition."
Hear more from Bobby, Susie and Eric in his exclusive exit interview. Do you think Eric deserved to go home?
Flip through Eric's Star Scrapbook and more behind-the-scenes photos from Episode Four.


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It's no secret that I'm a big fan of accessories. My general rule is, if you can pile it on, go for it. I've always loved seeing an armful of bangles or one major bracelet, a quick solution to go from blah to bling.
How I Would Style It: When the cameras are rolling, anchors need to deliver the news without a lot of distraction or noise. So while I love the metal bangles on Kathie Lee, we eighty-sixed them so you won't spend an hour listening to the sound of banging pans.
I love this Reem Acra coat, a cross between a dalmatian and a Jackson Pollock—and when paired with a colorful dress, it helps contrast the pattern even more.
How I Would Style It: Unfortunately, covering yourself in black-and-white shapes can be taboo on the tube, unless you want to look like a TV test pattern. On the screen, a print could—and this is both a TV and fashion term—moiré and blur, making it too distracting for a viewer. Also, Hoda looks dynamite in the sleeveless purple sheath alone
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There is new debate surrounding the death penalty in Tennessee, with the focus shifting to how much the public should now.
This weekend, the Tennessean published an article about a bill passed in 2013 exempting certain information about lethal injection drug from the state's Open Records Act.
Many states, including Tennessee, are struggling to obtain the drugs used in lethal injections because drug companies are distancing themselves from the practice and the often negative publicity.
The exemption lawmakers approved last year would allow those providing the drugs to remain confidential.
"Executions are a highly controversial topic in our country, so anytime the state moves to make certain information about this secret - including the source of the drug - it only creates suspicion and question," said Deborah Fisher, Executive Director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government (TCOG).
"Transparency is really the best path to make sure citizens are informed and knowledgeable about decisions like this."
Fisher joins the voices arguing against the secrecy. She wonders how, if the drug source remains confidential, Tennesseans will know if the injection chemicals meet constitutional requirements for carrying out the death penalty.
"It's already clear that none of the normal drug manufacturers are providing the legal injection drug, based on moral grounds," she said. "So the question is -- where are they getting it?"
10News contacted the offices of all three state senators who sponsored last year's bill. None were available for interviews Monday.
Details about who performs the executions is also exempt from the Tennessee Open Records Act.
Dwight Aarons with the University of Tennessee Law school notes with interest the shift in focus from capital punishment to government transparency.
"It's not directly challenging whether or not we have the death penalty. It's not challenging whether there will be lethal injection, but it's challenging the drugs that are used for lethal injection," Aarons said.
He guesses this push for transparency might represent a new argument from those who oppose the death penalty.
"For the last 30 years, challenges to the death penalty have been unsuccessful... I don't want to say its the last ditch effort, but I think it's where the movement against the death penalty is right now."
Aarons argued, keeping the information secret -- only temporarily -- would be a better option than keeping it confidential forever. That way, outside groups could later assess how well the process is working, review costs, etc.
He called it a "phenomenon" of the 21st century, that a grass roots movement could so successfully discourage drug companies from participating in capital punishment - which is legal.
"It's not simply about the death penalty, its strikes me as much more about social media, and the 21st century and how we communicate and what we think about ourselves and the power individuals may have by getting together..." he said.


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"But many Black women like Angela Davis bought the communist/feminist line about male oppression.For Black girls the chance to sit next to Blond women who they've worshiped since they've gotten their first doll was a chance many could not resist.Am I making some of you uncomfortable?Good the truth always do.So to is the myth about the strong Black woman.This myth is designed to humiliate Black men and boys.Black men are still running most of the successful Black households,not women.It is Black men who are building businesses at the highest rate among any other group in America."
The reason that WOC identified with feminism is that they realized that they were/are subject to sexism. It is not about admiring white women. Many WOC have been very critical of white women in the feminist movement, therefore your declaration that our desire to identify with feminism due to our innate love of white womanhood is patently false. Perhaps you should read the work of an anti-racist feminist like bell hooks before making such wild declarations.
The strong black woman was not designed to emasculate black men as you contend. It is a social construction to encourage the belief that black female body did not constitute womanhood. In times of slavery black women worked side by side with the men in the fields simply because their femininity was not acknowledge while conversely white femininity was perceived as delicate and fragile. Creating the myth of the strong black female was based on a desire to to ensure a super exploitable workforce.
Finally, if black men are more successful in business (and I say if, because your assertion has not been proven by reliable data) it is because of the systemic nature of sexism. According to bell hooks, "black women are in an unusual position in this society, for not only are we collectively at the bottom of the occupational ladder, but our status is lower than that of any other group. Occupying such a position we bear the brunt of sexist, racist, and classist oppression. At the same time, we are the group that has not been socialized to assume the role of exploiter/oppressor in that we are allowed no institutionalized "other" that we can exploit or oppress."
It is Black men who are building businesses at the highest rate among any other group in America.Most African American organizations,churches,charities,businesses are run by Black men.This is in spite of opposition from a racist White America.Black females are helped by the government.After 1968 White feminist convinced the proleteriate Black women that being'independent' was the key and the result is every thug mama's boys,gangsta rapper you see.Get rid of strong men and the young bucks will rule.Now a solution to all of this is to mentor young men in your community.Lets fight these entertainers who are encouraging the thug criminal life just to peddle a few clown records.
In what ways are black females helped by the government? I do recall Reagan referring to black women as "welfare queens". Since women have always borne the brunt of child rearing I find your assertion that the rise of the single mother has anything to do with increased prison rate. In your analysis you fail to consider the war on drugs, the exploitative capitalist economy, and systemic racism. Oh no, it is far easier to blame the black woman. We, who hold the least power in society are responsible for societies ills. I would suggest to you, that issues are two fold, capitalism and patriarchy. The so-called young bucks will not rule if they are raised to respect women, society and given an equal opportunity. Men are currently ruling this world and what is the result: Famine, disease, hate crimes, wars, systemic rape, child abuse, pollution coupled with environmental degradation and the list goes on and on. You want change, advocate for a systems change, advocate for gender equality. Until those two things are achieved you can expect the state of the world to remain stationary. Blaming women for that which we neither consented to, or had any part in, is nothing but a sexist cop out to explain the status of the world.


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San Francisco's senior senator has apparently taken a sad psychiatric turn. Always questionably progressive, she's now also apparently starting to suffer the effects of some sort of degenerative mental condition. Why else would the old girl say something like this?
The time has come, America, to step up and ban these weapons. The other very important part of this bill is to ban large capacity ammunition feeding devices, those that hold more than 10 rounds. We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines.
Perhaps the poor dear is misremembering the Richard Connell short story she read in Collier's Weekly in early 1924. This was apparently part of the same rant when she claimed George W. Bush created PTSD and asserted that all veterans were dangerously mentally ill, so maybe she was just in the middle of having a dissociative episode.
I remember being very sad when I first heard about President Reagan's battle with Alzheimer's, so I feel very sympathetic to the supporters of Senator Feinstein. Of course, that assumes they have the capacity to discern progressive political thought from dementia.
Perhaps they find her "inspiring."