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April 11, 2013
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Marlins on the Move
Ten years ago today, home became something altogether foreign. Baseball's already bilingual bunch from la belle province, on this date back in 2003, went Caribbean, playing their first of 43 games over a two-year period in a temporary home in Puerto Rico.
A mainlander hit the first home run, if Brian Schneider's birthplace of Florida still counts. A Japanese import got the win, as Tomo Ohka pitched eight innings of the 10-0 slaughter of David Cone and the Mets.
Most importantly, people came to the game. An Expos team that drew 10,025 per game in an 83-79 2002 season got a paid figure of 17,906 for the Hiram Bithorn Stadium debut, and the good crowds continued. Over the 22 games played in three waves that season, Los Expos drew 14,222 per game, while the 59 games in Montreal drew 12,081 per game, up 20.5 percent from a year previous.
The Montreal/San Juan experiment ended for obvious reasons, with the Expos finding a permanent 81-game home in Washington and also an owner with an actual face and not just a silhouette about to get hit by a pitch. But it ended on a bit of a downer. Attendance in Puerto Rico, once the novelty factor was gone, dropped 27.3 percent, attendance at Olympic Stadium cratered, again too, and the lame duck franchise was gone.
When one thinks back 10 years about the experiment, there are a lot of parts of it that would seem in theory to work.
Average attendance should go up in both places if we're thinking about a world where Montrealers are going to x games per year. They have to sell only 59 home dates instead of 81 and can ship off some less attractive matchups if they wanted to. (Why they passed off their lone intra-national series with the Blue Jays on Puerto Rico in 2004 appears beyond reason, but whatever.)
While it has practical implications beyond the gate in a second market for jersey sales and the like, it's also a chance to commit to the less defined activity of "growing the brand" in a bigger way. The Rangers and Astros, for instance, have both tried to do this in something of a passive race for Mexico, with Texas playing Mexico City's Diablos Rojos in some exhibitions and the Astros planning their own spring and perhaps even regular season trips to Mexico City or Monterrey starting in 2014.
The only current incarnation of a regular regular season excursion among major American sports takes place in football. The Buffalo Bills play one regular season game a year (the equivalent of 10 baseball games as a proportion of the season) at the other end of the Horseshoe in much larger Toronto. The annual London efforts are also being concentrated around one team—the Jacksonville Jaguars, who aren't much of a draw at home and will play in the UK annually for four years to give some team continuity to the midseason game.
It's also not a new thing in sports. Teams used to do this all the time. The Green Bay Packers played a portion of their schedule at Milwaukee's County Stadium as recently as 1994 in an appeal to their geographic base. It was more common in the NBA, perhaps understandably because of the relatively confined space needed for a game that keeps more cities in play. The Philadelphia Warriors and 76ers used to play games every year in Hershey, PA., where Wilt Chamberlain scored his record 100 points in a game. The Boston Celtics played a chunk of their schedule at the Hartford Civic Center.
The Brooklyn Dodgers played 15 games in Jersey City, N.J. toward the end of their East Coast lifespan in 1956 and 1957, but that was less a trip of marketing goodwill than a threat to New York City when Walter O'Malley wanted a new ballpark. (There's a fascinating SABR article about that period here.)
The closest thing recently to the Expos' move came when the 2007 and 2008 Devil and non-Devil Rays, respectively, made a pilgrimage to Disney World for one series in each year in a play for exposure. No matter their attendance foibles, it wasn't an attendance grab to play in a 9,000-seat home in Orlando. The Interstate-4 corridor extends far beyond Tampa and St. Petersburg into what is outside of a bad NBA team a sports wasteland in the central part of the state, and the Devil Rays wanted to become Orlando's team too.
But that ended too after their World Series year, and there have been no attempts to replicate it since.
Clearly, San Juan wasn't going to become a great Expos outpost—it was sold as baseball as much as the team. Jacques Doucet wasn't going to become available on the island with a turn of your radio dial.
But 10 years later, it makes me wonder what would have happened if Miami had never approved the House That Postmodernism Built and the Marlins were still doing hard time at the football stadium with seemingly no future.
Would turning the Marlins into a pan-Caribbean team have made any sense, and would it start to again if they stop filling their new house? Sell your season ticket packages (stop laughing) as 50s instead of 81s on the mainland, and also consolidate what little demand there is in Miami into fewer days of turning the lights on. Then play a dozen in San Juan, a handful in Santo Domingo, and maybe go down to Caracas and sell the hell out of those games on more than just a yearly trial.
You'd face some issues, the least important but most annoying of which would be a cultural fight like the one that Chivas USA and the Montreal Canadiens—or to a lesser extent "Los Mets" of the Omar Minaya era—have faced about the ethnic, national, or linguistic identities of their teams.
But the first year would be great, as it was in Puerto Rico with Los Expos. After that, the real work would start.
Zachary Levine is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @zacharylevine
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Bryan Cole
Interesting idea. Three things come to mind:
Apr 11, 2013 06:27 AM
Zachary Levine
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Those are good points, especially No. 2. I think No. 3 has some merit but probably underrates how far a place like Seattle is from most teams. I doubt there would be more effects unless the whole international change has a big effect on time or travel conditions are substandard, which I can't imagine they'd be, given the end of your first point.
Apr 11, 2013 07:07 AM
Zachary Levine
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A theory on my own question about Blue Jays-Expos moving to Puerto Rico in 2004, and I just don't remember if it's true: It gave fans in San Juan a chance to see Carlos Delgado, at the time one of the best Puerto Rican players.
Apr 11, 2013 07:09 AM
This was a very interesting article and one that plays to a lot of my thoughts around MLB expansion. You briefly mentioned the Rangers and Astros passively playing toward expansion of the Mexican market, but I think that appears passive because the real goal is the not-so-passive attempts for one franchise to win the Austin and San Antonio television markets. Mexico is just an extension of that effort.
Apr 11, 2013 11:07 AM
Another thing that I think mitigates against Houston and Texas going whole-hog after Mexico is that they'd also be up against the Diamondbacks. Arizona has access to a pretty healthy population of folks who go back and forth across the border on a daily/weekly basis, and the D'Backs do put some effort into cross-border marketing.
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God bless you, Zach. It proves that nothing can stop you from doing what you want to do when you have your heart and mind set on it. I wish you the best in the future and hope that you have the opportunity to play on a professional team someday. You are more than capable of keeping up with the pros. Good luck in the future.
My man Zack. I also have one hand and played College Ball at Selma University in the early 90's. I never received an offer from a D1 school, so you must be the truth. Well God's speed to you and thanks for showing on a national level that determination and real talent can concur all..... J
There is a lot more to this story. Zack was dismissed from the team at his old school after he and his father assaulted another player on his team.
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A voyage back in time
Museum open house on Sunday will feature reading from journal of Carroll girl's 1912 trip to Germany
By LARRY DEVINE
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Kuemper Catholic Schools extended learning teacher Mary Koester (left) invited Kuemper junior Sosie Gehling to perform the journal Lena Mattes wrote on her trip to Germany in 1912. The program will be part of Carroll County Historical Society's annual open house, which will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. The reading will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room. Admission to the open house is free.
Lena Mattes (bottom, left) kept a journal of her trip from Carroll to Germany in 1912. She's pictured with her younger sister Lucy (bottom right) and older sisters (back, from left) Elizabeth, Mary and Anna. Lena was the second-youngest in Jacob and Luzia (Mayer) Mattes' family of four sons and six daughters.
April 25, 2013
Just two months after the Titanic disaster, a 19-year-old Carroll girl and her family set sail on another cross-Atlantic voyage. And they set sail on a passenger that crossed paths in history with the Titanic.
That trip is bringing some fame to Lena Mattes, who kept a daily journal of her travel and stay with her father's family in his homeland of Germany.
A reading of selections from that journal will be featured at the Carroll County Historical Society's annual museum open house on Sunday, April 28. Open house will be from 2 to 4 p.m. at the museum, located on the northwest corner of Highway 30 and Court Street, and the reading by Kuemper Catholic High School junior Sosie Gehling will begin at 2:30 in the downstairs meeting room. Admission is free.
Mattes titled her journal "Our Trip to Europe" and it begins Tuesday, June 11, 1912: "A crowd of us went to Europe for a trip. Those that went were the following, Mr. Bachus, Donnelson, Greif, Kliengses, Papa, Mother, Lucy and myself."
Lena was the second youngest and Lucy the youngest of Jacob and Luzia (Mayer) Mattes' 10 children. Lena was born Jan. 27, 1893, in Carroll. while Lucy was 41/2 years later. The trip to Germany was her father's third return home but Lena's first and only trip to Germany.
Jacob was born in Ingendorf, Germany, in 1840 and came to the U.S. in 1871. Two years later he returned to Germany and married Luzia Mayer. They settled on a farm near Carroll in 1874, after living in Mendota, Ill., for a year.
In 1902 they retired from farming and moved to a home in Carroll at Adams and First Streets (northwest of the current Southside Park), where he cultivated roses imported from Germany. The 1912 trip to Germany was Jacob's third, following visits made in 1873 and 1891.
About 25 years ago, Ruth Lux of Lidderdale, a great-niece of Lena, received a typed copy of the journal. Lux says she doesn't know who typed the journal and the family has not found the actual journal.
Last year, which marked the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, Lux presented a copy of Lena's journal to the Carroll County Historical Society. Museum director Barb Hackfort says there wasn't sufficient time then to prepare a program or display of the journal, so it will be the showcase for Sunday's open house.
She commented at a recent dress rehearsal for Sunday's program, "It's 101 years later, and she (Lena) still touches our lives."
Lena, her parents, sister and family friends sailed on the SS Lapland. The Lapland was launched in 1908 and took its maiden voyage in 1909 between Antwerp, Belgium, and New York. The Lapland was nearly 607 feet long, could travel at 17 knots and had capacity for 1,500 passengers. The ship was owned and operated by the Red Star Line, and in April 1912 the White Star Line hired the Lapland to carry back surviving members of the RMS Titanic's crew to England after they had been detained in the United States for investigations. The Lapland arrived in England on April 28, 13 days after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, killing more than 1,500 people.
Lena's writing doesn't describe a glamorous trip. It's filled with brief descriptions of what happened every day and frequently her feelings and moods, ranging from excitement to boredom to homesickness. She writes about visiting grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins; taking walks into the woods to pick berries; going to Mass regularly; attending dances; playing cards and dominoes; Germany's cold, wet weather that year; visiting nearby small towns, making many of those trips on foot; and the area's farm life.
Following are samplings:
Train trip to New York begins in Carroll
"We left Carroll, June 11, 1912, at nine fifteen p.m. for our journey. The cars were quite crowded, so we had to ride backwards till Boone. I began to get quite dizzy, but got over that well before long."
Accommodations aboard the ship
"Went to our little room. It's is only 4x8. I didn't believe it isn't any bigger. If one goes to bed the others got to say outside till one is in bed. If more than one go in at a time, you can hardly turn around."
A day aboard the ship, June 23
"Got up early, was on deck before seven o'clock this morning. Saw quite a few ships before breakfast. It was showery this morning, saw some rainbows, ate quite a bit for breakfast, saw some more ships and about 500 sea birds. Ate a big dinner, had ice cream all colors of the rainbow. Saw land after dinner. This is quite a lonesome Sunday. Today we sailed 388 miles. Had a good supper."
Arrival in Brussels on June 25 and traveling to her father's hometown
"We got to Trier at half past eight this evening. Went to a hotel right next to the depot. These trains here are beautiful. By every seat there is a door to get in and out of the car. The seats (I call them benches) are made of wood. They are elegant. The conductors they have here don't call the stations, and in Belgium, you couldn't even talks with them. Could not understand them. All they could do was shake their head."
Arrival at Kyllburg, in western Germany, June 27
"Got here at five o'clock. Are staying at Aunt Ana now. This certainly is a Dickens of a town, nothing but hills."
Attending a local celebration, June 29
"There is a dance in the hall that is the right side of the saloon. Went there about five o'clock. I danced like the Dickens. The way they dance certainly is funny. They just keep turning around as fast as they can go. That is the waltz. I got quite dizzy dancing. The music they have is no good at all. But they thought the music was swell."
Some glimpses at daily life
"The people around here are busy putting up hay. It is fun to watch them work. Had dinner. Went to the woods this afternoon. Only walked up one hill that was about a half a mile high. That is hard on a person's legs if they aren't used to it. There are lots of wild strawberries in the woods. On the way back we stopped at grandmother's awhile. We were glad when we got back as I was quite tired, and my legs hurt like the Dickens."
"We weighed ourselves this afternoon. These pounds are a lot heavier. Papa weighed 174 lbs. Mama 148, Lucy 84, and I weighed 107 lbs. We are going to weigh ourselves before we leave so we can see whether or not we lost any. We went to the woods to pick mulberries, picked quite a few. They taste something like wild grapes. We are quite tired as we aren't used to climbing those mountains."
"Everybody is busy working. They get up at half past three or four in the morning and work till eleven in the evening."
"We went to Kyllburg this afternoon (Aug. 7) and bought some woolen clothes. We are getting pretty tired of Germany and cold weather. We were to Kyllburg and bought some woolen skirts and also Mama a new coat. Gee, but she looks sporty now."
On return voyage, Sept 21
"Did not sleep very much as there was too much racket. About half past one they started to sing the 'Wacht Am Rhein,' 'Bring the News to Mother,' 'My Old Kentucky Home' and 'Home Sweet Home.' Then they went to bed."
Lena wrote that the Lapland, on its return voyage, carried 2,200 passengers: 330 in first class, about 430 in second class and 1,440 in third class. "They are as crowded as herring in a keg," she wrote.
About halfway across the ocean, she wrote, "Wish we were in New York. I tell you I will never cross the ocean again."
In her final entry, on Oct. 2, she wrote, "Well, we finally got home this morning at four o'clock. Slept most of the night. Steve and John were down to the depot to meet us. Went to Bachus for breakfast. Then we went home. Thank the Lord."
In Carroll, Lena worked throughout her career as a seamstress for the Light Department Store and Vogue Dress Shop. Meanwhile, younger sister Lucy did the housekeeping and cooking at home. Neither Lena nor Lucy married.
Family members recall Lena enjoyed playing cards, especially pinochle, and then encouraging an outing to a local restaurant.
Family members say Lena was very opinionated, or just plain blunt. "She wasn't afraid to let you know what she thought about anything," great-niece Ruth Lux recalls.
Lux also recalls that Lena "was devoted to her nieces and nephews, and they were devoted to her." She adds, "She was financially generous to them both before and after her death."
Colette Potthoff, who was Lena's niece and goddaughter, says Lena made and redid a lot of clothes for her. After graduating from St. Angela Academy, Colette stayed home to take care of siblings, since their mother had died at a young age.
Gehling, the Kuemper student who will present the journal, says she enjoyed reading Lena's writing because it reflects a woman who's independent, knew what she wanted from life and made a life for herself.
"It's easy to put myself in her shoes," says Gehling, who received 1 ratings at state speech contest and is considering pursuing a degree in teaching. "It's an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like I'm between the past and the present. Here I am reading this, and I'm dressed in this costume. I feel like I'm back in the early 1900s when she took the trip. But I'm not. I'm in 2013 when Apples rule our world."
Museum director Hackfort comments on the program, "It really helps us get in touch with the past. And there are certain things in life that are the same, no matter how much things change over the years."
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Today In Science Class: Bens Big Bang Brotheration
Author David Millette introduces an apologetics series of books aimed at helping Christian parents overcome this obstacle. Geared toward middle school and young teens, these books offer both students and parents concise answers to the questions kids bring home. The first in the series, Ben's Big Bang Botheration, addresses the issue of Creation and the Big Bang theory.


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Census Will Start in Fairfax County in Mid-March
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The 2010 Census officially began this week in Noorvik, Alaska; and it will start in Fairfax County in mid-March, when forms are mailed to residents. County officials want everyone to be counted because the census brings back millions of dollars for schools, roads and other important local services.
For this reason, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution today to encourage every county resident to answer and return their census form by April 1. Forms will be mailed to every county household starting in mid-March.
"Census data determines whether we get our fair share of federal money for our schools, roads and other important local services and programs," said Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova. "In these days of tight budgets, it's critical that we get every federal dollar we're entitled to receive. To ensure we do, everyone must fill out and mail back their census form by April 1. It doesn't matter whether you are a citizen or not — you count."
Based on census results alone,Fairfax County received more than $359 million in federal funds in Fiscal Year 2008. This money helped to fund the county's schools, roads and social services. As an example, the county received more than $50 million for schools.
It is quick and easy to answer the census form because it is one of the shortest in history. It is only 10 questions that should take about 10 minutes to answer.
By federal law, information from census forms cannot be shared with any local, state or federal government agency, including Fairfax County. Census workers also take an oath for life to keep this information confidential. There are stiff penalties for U.S. Census Bureau employees who disclose this information, including fines of up to $250,000, up to five years in prison or both.
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LISTENING to someone talk about their ill relative for hours on end might not be everyone's idea of fun, after all that is what Christmas dinner with the family is usually for.
But when that someone is campaigning comedian Mark Thomas then people buy tickets in their droves to hear his story performed in his new show Bravo Figaro!
Mark's father, a strong willed working class Tory who was the butt of his jokes earlier in his career, succumbed to degenerative illness progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and Mark recounts his attempt to stage an opera in his dad's Bournemouth bungalow.
Mark said: "I remember cringing when my dad used to play his opera records from the rooftops when I was younger but when he became ill I wanted to bring the happiness back that music gave him.
"All this led to me doing this show which is about my dad, me, love, death and opera."
Bravo Figaro! won two awards at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, is enjoying rave reviews and was first commissioned by the Royal Opera House.
Unlike his previous stand up shows Bravo Figaro! Mark has a creative team working with him giving the show a more theatrical feel.
Though the comedian is used to having people crying with laughter at his shows Bravo Figaro! has touched many an audience member on a human level.
The presenter of Radio 4's The Manifesto said: "We have had people shedding a tear in a few of the shows and I have had a lot of the audience telling me their own experiences.
"There is a humour to be found in a lot of places and a lot of audience members have gone through what I have with a loved one, especially as there now more people dealing with elderly relatives with dementia, but there is no point but being anything but honest."
After walking the wall in the West Bank, breaking the Guinness World Record for political protests and chasing arms dealers the award-winning author is happy with this unexpected return to his roots.
He said: "I never thought I would do a show about family again but this show happened through a series of coincides and I'm glad it did, and some of the stories about him are comedy gold and the fact we have recordings of him and my mother means that he gets to speak for himself."
Bravo Figaro! is at the MAC in Birmingham next week from Monday, December 3 to Wednesday, December 5, Solihull Arts Complex on Tuesday, February 12 and Stourbridge Town Hall on Friday, February 15.
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CUIT provides email service to the Columbia University community of students, faculty and staff. The service includes automatic backups of mail stored on our servers, support for secure protocols for sending and retrieving mail, and extensive spam-filtering.
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11-12-2013, 09:03 PM #2001"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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Disappointing as there is little in the way of sci-fi happening anywhere right now. Person of Interest just jumped the shark in it's mid season finale and while I love Amy Acker (why is she not getting more film roles?) I don't think she can carry the back part of this season on her own (please prove me wrong Amy!).
Aaaaaand while Revolution has always been all kinds of dumb, it managed to lower iq's everyhwere during it's mid season finale.
Maybe the crazy of Sleepy Hollow can tide me over untill Helix airs. Oh and seaon two of Orphan Black. Can't wait. Best show.
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Strike Back, so far starring Thorin Oakenshield and that guy from The Walking Dead. It's a badass military thriller. Reminds me of that Matt Damon flick, Green Zone.
I dunno, I find I can't even enjoy Sleep Hollow ironically. The writing is just way too predictable to surprise, the main character is the only one with a personality (except it's a dreadful, tedious personality) and there's so little wit throughout the whole thing. It just feels like they are weaving this long narrative thread togather and sacrificing everything else - personality, charm, world-building - to do it. I can see others want to see where it goes, but for me that's not enough (especially because what's been shown already has hardly raised an eyebrow).
For all its faults, Almost Human seems to be getting more of the basic stuff right and actually building something.
After a solid start, Almost Human has had a couple of pretty weak episodes which is sad. The show seems to be at its best when it actually explores the impact of crazy future tech (the sexbot episode) and its worst when it simply uses it as a narrative trick to tell a typical story (the latest episode and its use of psychics and cloning). The amount of gadgetry is fine - in fact they could throw more in there and I'd be happier - but some technologies need to be elevated above that and given a serious look.
I don't mind Karl Urban, but Lili Taylor is dreadful. She's the only notably terrible piece of casting in the show, as the latest episode ably demonstrated.
Right now I don't hold out much hope for a second season. Particualrly since it's a FOX show like Sleepy Hollow and I don't imagine they'll keep two expensive shows around. The unfathomable success of Sleepy Hollow will continue to grate me for years to come, I'm sure.
I continue to watch Agents of SHIELD, primarily because of inertia at this point.
This week's episode was also pretty crap. It is continuing to play up Agent Cardboard banging Ming Na and continues to beat us over the head with lab-geek 1 having the hots for lab-geek 2 (NOBODY saw that coming...), and it continues to kill the "Badass professional" aspect of Coulson from the Iron Man movies (he went from being the guy who would joke about tasing Stark and watching TV to the guy who throws all rules out the window to coddle some girl looking for her lost parents and compromising SHIELD security in the process...)
That being said: the return of Gunn was nice, shame they probably can't keep him. And the cliffhanger reminded us of why it is painful to watch a "spy show" if you know anything about military tactics and the like (even The A-Team movie did a better job...). Even Burn Notice would at least lampshade the incredibly stupid crap.
Also, they are milking the "Coulson Lives" thing for all it is worth. Not sure if they are going LMD anymore or a different resurrection technique.
And it is still unclear if "Centipede" is HYDRA or AIM. Their style is definitely AIM, but the beekeepers were already used in Iron Man 3 and were played up as pretty small and ineffectual. And they definitely are evoking the "cut one head off, two appears" that makes HYDRA fun. My prediction is that they are going to just keep it as "Centipede" but are going to treat it as a mixture of/offshoot of HYDRA and AIM. Avoid HYDRA for the nazi-aspect, avoid AIM because Disney already used it.
However, I am optimistic for the second half of the season based off the previews. Looks like Agent Cardboard will still be around (ugh), but it looks like they are working their way from "CIA with superheroes" to "SHIELD" with the introduction of the standard issue onesie (a clip suggested the entire team wears the super suit Gunn wore in this week's ep). And Saffron Burrows as Victoria Hand works really well. I can definitely see her as the well-intentioned director-like character. Also, I am now annoyed that James Spader is Ultron as he would make a GREAT Director Osborne while also making Boston Legal references.
So yeah, currently I am hoping that the plan was to start it off as a shitty teen soap drama then migrate to a proper SHIELD show. Sort of like how the Marvel Movieverse as a whole is evolving from individual superhero movies to a proper intertwined universe.
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Watching the third season of Walking Dead and unlike the first two, it's actually good. Color me surprised.Comrade, Listen! The Glorious Commonwealth's first Airship has been compromised! Who is the saboteur? Who can be saved? Uncover what the passengers are hiding and write the grisly conclusion of its final hours in an open-ended, player-driven adventure. Dziekujemy! -- Karaski: What Goes Up...
Meh. Even if some episodes were nice, there's still so much bullshit here.
Q: You're driving a car through the world filled with danger, there are 3 people with you as passengers, the radio catch up some noise, what are you doing?
a) You're paying attention on the road and let your buddy chceck the radio.
b) You (and all your buddies) are staring at the radio (because it's obvious that radio works like TV, with images and shit) so no one can see huge herd of zombies staying on the road.
If your answer is a), sorry, your character have too much common sense, we can't hire you.
Anyway, why am I still watching TWD? ._.
Arrow had an incredibly awesome midseason finale. Hard to believe the same team was responsible for that shitty Green Lantern movie.
Hopefully The Flash will get a show that's just as good. The way they build up his character in Arrow is great.
I am now completely up to date with Elementary.
Johnny Lee Miller continues to impress as Holmes, and Rhys Ifans is an inspired bit of casting as Mycroft. The first episode of the second season impressed me by not using London Calling over an establishing shot of London, even if the use of an Oasis song instead was almost as on the nose."Men shall never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Diderot
Elementary is very good, actually a toss-up between which sherlock I enjoy more.
Watched the Homeland season finale last night. I sure as fuck didn't think it would end with Brody strung up by a crane. Holy shit.The Medallion of the Imperial Psychopath, a Napoleon: Total War AAR
The Red Blades, a Battle Brothers AAR
Been meaning to get around to Elementary, I've been told by a friend with similar tastes that it's enjoyable.
Watched the finale of this season of Fresh Meat, nicely rounded up the series and looks like they've set things up for another one, which is good as it has continued to be a great show; although there has been a bit of recycling of ideas and I'm a bit worried it'll go the way of Peep Show in that it starts to repeat itself/lose it's edge in later series.
Hopefully they'll do one or two more and wrap things up while still on a high.
I still need to watch this(/next) week's Fresh Meat, but good that it rounds it out. As for length, given that each series seems to be a semester, it'd make sense for them to do six series in total. That doesn't include Josie finishing her course though, so they could presumably do an extra two semesters/series where she finishes her undergrad and they all do masters, although that seems unlikely.
I've now watched that episode. God damn. What a wonderful end to a great series. The entire opening was Vod at her best ("That's why everyone thinks Blair is a cunt." / "I just came in here to have a go.") and just everything else was pitch-perfect. Kimberley Nixon (Josie) and Joe Thomas (Kinglsey), the latter of which did the most acting in his scenes this episode than I think he has done in anything I've seen him in, were just unbelievably heartbreaking and their conversation at the end just showcased that the writing in Fresh Meat is subtly excellent and easily solidifies it as the most consistently well written UK show I watch. The entire power-point sketch, JP's 'friend' the Tory, JP's coming to terms (while high), the awkward but really quite endearing date and then the union leader at the end (confirming what I already thought she thought).
That said, other than the obvious hook for Vod and Oregon, I didn't really see much else, but then I don't really think this is the kind of show that needs plenty of hooks. It being 95% character driven means it's just fun to see them back on TV doing whatever it is that they do.
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I particularly enjoyed Vod's attempts to avoid having to drop the "homophobic rant." The desperate "are you people bloody insane?" look on her face when she said she'd get rid of disabled access ramps to cheers from the crowd was brilliant.
And the mutterings of the Tory candidate too! "Can I vote for her?" And of course, why did Oregon know that would work, other than it being obviously terrible? Well, she got all the hatred aimed at her when she inadvertently got the LGBT magazine shut down back in series 2. I know it's a smaller instance (and definitely an arguable one) but the continuity on the show is fantastic too.


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Elevator Out of OrderSituation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.
Susan arrived at her new job in a 60 story building. When she arrived, she found that the elevator was out of order, and believe me, she did NOT want to walk up 30 flights of stairs. So how did she get to her office?
HintSusan didn't want to walk up all those stairs... But luckily she didn't have to.
AnswerSusan simply walked to her office, which was on the first floor. I never said she had to walk up 30 flights of stairs, just that she didn't want to!
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The 2011 Action Cricket World Cup was played in South Africa.
Action cricket in South Africa is attracting new players every week. Club, provincial and international action cricket tournaments now take place throughout the year. Despite this, it remains a very accessible social sport for both men and women.
Action cricket is generally played between two teams of eight players each, but works just as well with six or four players a side. In an eight-a-side game, teams bat for 16 overs each, with pairs of batters getting four overs each and bowlers getting two overs each. There is no limit to how many times a batter can be dismissed; five runs are deducted from the score for every dismissal.
Some of the venues around South Africa that offer indoor cricket are listed below.
Cape Town:
- The Montague Arena in the northern suburbs of Cape Town has world-class action cricket facilities and has hosted various international fixtures over the years
- Stadium on Main in Claremont is across the road from the popular Cavendish Square shopping centre
- Sandton Action Cricket is consistently rated among the top action cricket venues in South Africa
- The Edenvale Action Arena is situated on the East Rand of Johannesburg
- Action Sports Durban North is one of many venues to consider in the coastal city of Durban
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The great thing about action cricket is that you can play whenever, even late into the night if need be.
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A 70-minute action cricket game in South Africa will usually cost around R400 per team (up to eight players).
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A Criminal in the VillageMystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
There was a village that was controlled by the all powerful Chief. There was a theft in the village which had occurred recently, however no one knew who it was. The police had gathered up 8 suspects and brought them to the Chief. The Chief gave each of them a stick and said, "These are magic sticks. Overnight one stick will grow two inches longer than the rest. The one with the longer stick is the culprit. I want all of you to show up here again tomorrow." The next day, there was one person's stick that was two inches shorter while the other seven were two inches longer. The Chief had the person with the shorter stick arrested. How did he know that he was the culprit?
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TNB: The Coolest Climbing Deal Breaker
Last week, we reprinted a feature from Ascent 2011 titled "Climbing Deal Breakers." The piece is basically a list of idiosyncratic habits of climbers that the author—well known climbing lifer and writer Jonathan Thesenga—feels are utterly pointless and/or lame. Take, for instance, the first deal breaker on the list: Topropes with Extraneous Gear on their Harness.
"You don't need an ATC, belay gloves, nut tool, and/or random single locker for toproping," writes JT. "What the hell are you going to use any of that stuff for? Double-negative if you're in the climbing gym."
I must admit, JT has a point. There is no reason why a climber would need a nut tool in the gym, much less have one swinging from the gear loop of his or her harness while toproping plastic. Yet, many readers took major offense to JT's satirical list. The comments poured in, and most attacked JT for his "judgmental" attitude. One commenter even defended her nut tool toting, writing, "apparently I'm a 'deal breaker'—my nut tool is taped to my harness … I'm sorry I'm not going to take it off just because I'm climbing in the gym … haha!"
I'm still not exactly sure how she uses that nut tool—whether she's in the gym or not. I can only picture awkward scenarios as she fumbles to free the tool and wrestle with a stubborn Stopper. "Just a minute, my nut tool is stuck, too!"
It seems that many climbers took offense if they themselves felt attacked. And though the author, in his introduction, wrote that the piece wasn't intended to be "mean spirited," it's clear that many readers felt that it was a mean-spirited, personal attack.
The point of JT's article, however, seemed to be forgotten in the online hullabaloo. The truth is, we all have climbing deal breakers. The list, compiled by one of the most die-hard, prolific and dedicated climbers I've ever met, was actually meant to be inclusive. Think about it. If you seriously do not or have not made one of these "deal breakers," then you probably aren't climbing enough. The author himself makes the list multiple times. If you don't believe me, then check this out.
So is a deal breaker actually a deal breaker? No. A deal breaker is just an excuse to poke fun at the climbing lifestyle and the colorful characters that make this sport unique. A deal breaker is, in fact, no indication of your ability level and does not correlate to your dedication to the sport.
For example, I recently discovered what I now consider my favorite climbing deal breaker of all time. And although this particular CDB didn't make JT's list, it should have.
The culprit? A 14-year-old 5.14 "crusher" (a CDB word), named Kai Lightner. While researching a story I recently wrote about Lightner sending Lucifer (5.14c) in the Red River Gorge, I stumbled across a video of him climbing his first 5.14c—the Red's steep Southern Smoke. The ascent is astounding to me for multiple reasons. One is because Kai was only 13-years-old. Even more impressive is the fact that a few months after sending Southern Smoke, Kai told Rock and Ice in an interview (Spotlight No. 212) that climbing outside once a year was "a lot."
And that might explain the glaring CDB I noticed hanging on Kai's harness while he slowly and seemingly effortlessly flowed through the moves of the 5.14c. I paused the video, blinked, and sure enough, there it was—a laminated card dangling like a dingleberry from his gear loop.
I immediately e-mailed Kai to confirm what I suspected:
Quick question, what is hanging on your harness in this video?
To which he responded:
It's my Stone Summit lead cert tag. Never thought to take it off.
That's right. Kai Lightner climbed a 5.14c—and made it look piss-easy I might add—with his gym's lead belay certification card swinging around on his harness.
That has to be the Coolest Deal Breaker of all time.
See for yourself.


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I've come to a point where I have to transfer one domain to an existing wordpress domain for the existing one to change to the new transfered one. I have never done it beofre and am a little worried so would just like your thoughts, is it easy? difficult? can cause many issues? and where is the best tutorial to go by? Is it a lot of work involved? I hope to do this today is it feasable?
Usually from what i hear it's pretty quick. If you have any queries speak to your hoster where the domain is registered. Usually takes anything from 10 minutes to a few hours for the changes to take effect.
is it easy to do and do you know of the best tutorial to take me through it, a good step by step guide?
I'm using this tutorial and I'm just confused as it's giving various steps. I just need an easy step by step tutorial does anyone know of one to take me through it?
I'm findin a lot of tutorials on transfering existing site to another wordpress site but I need to tranfer an existing domain ( only ) to an existing wordpress site. I'm a little worried about it so would really appreciate if someone could help me
Here is what I do when i move a website from say a development url to a live production environment.
I've done this multiple times on Rackspace. Where are you hosting the website?
Thanks for your reply, I fimd there's a lot of help for this online but I have a site that is already live and hosted with poweredbypenguins.co.uk
The site url is http://salafiwales.com but they want a new domain instead of it so I need to transfer this new domain ( only ) to the live existing wordpress site
So you want to take the website from the poweredbypenguins.co.uk website and you want to move that website to salafiwales.com?
Are switching webhosts as well?
no I want to take a domain that is registered with fatcow.com ( that domain is http://islamin Cardiff.com )and I want to move that to the existing wordpress site ( salafiwales.co.uk ) that is already with poweredbypenguins.co.uk and put islamincardiff.com in replace of salafiwales.co.uk
So salafiwales is already set up and running, I just need to put this new domain in place so iyt will be called islamincardiff instead of salafiwales.co.uk
Hope that makes sense?
yeah - this is getting confusing. I will PM you. I will help you figure it out.
great thanks
ok what I did yesterday is transferred the domain http://islaminCardiff.com to my host which has gone through so now I need to change the settings in the working existing wordpress site ( http:salafiwales.co.uk ) to get this to point to the new transfered url ( islamincardiff.com )
So I'm using this tutorial http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL but it is confusing to me since it mentions a number of methods and talks about being a fix for if you accidently changed the values.
So which method do I use? Is it the relocate method or do I do the edit wp-config first or the edit.functions or both or all or what? Confused!
Also further down the page it talks about needing to use software to assist in modifying the data once it's been done. What software should I use to do this?
I hope you can point out which steps I need to do from the tutorial and adcise of any software to help with the modifications it mentions too.many thanks for all your help - a big learning curve if I can get through this.
Someone offered to do it for me for £15 but I would be cheating then if I did not make a point of learning how to do this right?


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Children aged eight to 11, from up and down the Wharfe Valley, are invited to join two special new groups for keen young readers and writers being set up in Ilkley by Ilkley Literature Festival.
From February 1, children can join two new Saturday morning activities, led by popular workshop leader, Sandra Flitcroft.
Story Explorers will give children a chance to join an innovative children's book group, with lots of exciting ways to explore a story, while Story Wizards is the opportunity to create their own stories and poems.
Sessions, which cost £1 each week for each activity, will run from 10am to 12.30pm every Saturday in term time, from Saturday, February 1, and take place in the back activities room at the Clarke Foley Centre on Cunliffe Road, LS29 9DZ. Children aged eight and nine are invited to attend from 10am to 10.30am for Story Explorers, a lively, interactive book group especially for children and from 10.40am to 11.10am for Story Wizards, fun ways to write your own stories and poems.
Children aged ten and 11 are invited at 11.25am to 11.55am for Story Explorers and noon to 12.30pm for Story Wizards.
Festival director Rachel Feldberg said: "We've been longing to start our children's book and writing groups for some time. Over the last four years our writing group for 12 to 17-year-olds has been very successful and we've had parents asking if we could offer something for younger children.
"With this new group, we are using a model pioneered by The Grove Bookshop's owner, Kevin Ramage, up in Scotland and it's really inspiring to be starting something like this in the Festival's home town."
Anyone wanting to book a place for their child should call the Festival office on (01943) 601210 or turn up at the appropriate time for their child's' age range on Saturday, February 1.


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Just a few things.
I got to thinking last night that it might have been Game 7 for the Rangers — and wouldn't the discussion today be just a tad different if that had been the case?
But seriously, if they didn't do the snow angels on the Adam Henrique goal to end Game 6 and the ECF, the Rangers might have won that series in Game 7, and then, without doubt, they would have needed to go seven against the L.A. Kings.
And Game 7 would have been last night.
Oh, yeah, and today is the anniversary of you-know-what. Even though some people think we need to stop talking about and thinking about the most important team in the most important year in franchise history. Happy anniversary to those who still enjoy talking about it and thinking about it.
Get over it, for those who don't.
Saw some clips of the Zach Parise "No way" stuff last night. Looked to me like he was clowning around a bit. Looked to me that he hasn't ruled out the Rangers.
Nor should he, even if he doesn't want to come to New York City.
My favorite event in sports, as a spectator anyway, is the U.S. Open. And so this is my favorite week of the year, as a spectator, as the boys tee it up in San Fran today through Sunday (or maybe Monday). The place looks torturous. I can't freakin' wait.


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Absolutely delectable color! I want to eat it. I use to snicker at people's fine china and porcelain collections, but after having gone through Nymphenburg's amazing work I have finally seen the light.
I can't muster up the words to describe how beautiful this cup is. The color is deep, rich and in my opinion, perfect. Irresistible!Added 9 Years Ago from Nymphenburg


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Chiefs' Soler records first four-hit game
Cubs outfield prospect homers, raises batting average to .391
By Robert Emrich / Special to MLB.com | August 18, 2012 8:27 PM ET
The Cubs prospect went 4-for-5 with a homer, two RBIs and two runs scored, falling a triple shy of the cycle, as Class A Peoria routed Wisconsin, 9-2, on Saturday night.
After singling and stealing second base in the second inning, Soler got another base hit in the fourth. He homered leading off the sixth and doubled home another run in the seventh. Soler ended his night by grounding out to third base.
"He had a plan at the plate and made a good adjustment," Chiefs hitting coach Barbaro Garbey said. "He used the whole field today, he was very good. He hit the fastball away, the breaking ball in and the breaking ball away for a homer. He showed he's the type of guy who is going to be a quality hitter and uses the whole field."
After signing with the Cubs on June 11, the Cuban outfielder made his professional debut in the Rookie-level the Arizona League and batted .241 with two homers and 10 RBis in 14 games. In six Midwest League games, he's hitting .391 with two homers and eight RBIs.
"The best thing he's been doing is that he's been paying attention to the pitcher and how they are pitching to him," Garbey said. "And his pitch selection has been good, and that will help him a lot. He shows great discipline at the plate and great patience, and that's why he's been successful.
"He will move up a little faster than expected if he continues to have a good pitch selection and the same approach he's been showing at the plate and using the whole field. That's the most important thing."
For a 20-year-old from a foreign country who signed a multi-million dollar deal, acclimating to life in the Minor Leagues can be daunting. Not so for Soler, according to Garbey.
"In Cuba, it's a different game like we all know," the Cuban-born former Major Leaguer said. "It's a different game from college to pro level and from Cuba, it's very different. So he has to learn the way the organization wants him to play.
"He looks at everybody as a teammate and everyone feels comfortable with him. He's adjusting well with how you're supposed to be in the clubhouse. He's a young guy who is going to get along with everyone with the way he conducts himself in the clubhouse and in the field."
Jacob Rogers had two hits and drove in two runs for the Chiefs, who also got a pair of RBIs from Timothy Saunders.
Peoria starter Michael Jensen earned his 10th win after striking out seven and allowing two runs -- one earned -- on three hits over five innings.
Robert Emrich is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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CNN's Loesch Does Not Want Akin To Appear On CNN After "Legitimate Rape" Comments
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CNN contributor Dana Loesch had a meltdown on Twitter after learning that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) was scheduled to be a guest on CNN to discuss the controversy surrounding his claim that it is "really rare" for victims of "legitimate rape" to become pregnant from the assault, despite this being one of the top news stories of the day.
CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight had announced that Monday's program would be hosting Akin -- "the biggest name of the day" and "the man everyone is talking about" -- following the Missouri Senate candidate's inflammatory comments. Upon hearing that news, Loesch took to Twitter to criticize Rep. Akin's decision to appear on her own network:
Despite Loesch's complaint at the possibility that Akin might appear on CNN, he also appeared on Mike Huckabee's and Sean Hannity's radio programs.
Apparently, Loesch thinks it's out of bounds for a Senate candidate and incumbent congressman to appear on a news network to discuss one of the major political news stories of the day. Loesch has been working to dismiss the ostracized congressman's outrageous comments in order to try and save face for Missouri Republicans.
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Homers come early, often for Phillies in win vs. Mets
PHILADELPHIA -- It's a start.
The Phillies took two of three from the Mets this week following Wednesday's 7-3 victory at Citizens Bank Park. It is a series they needed to win if they expect to keep pace with the Nationals and Braves in the National League East. It is a series that tempered the panic already brewing in Philadelphia following a 2-5 start.
"It's not about how you start; it's about how you finish," said Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard, who has seen his share of slow starts in Philadelphia, including a 4-11 start in 2007, an 8-10 start in 2008 and a 6-8 start in 2009. "I'd rather have a slow start and finish up strong and be in the playoffs and go deep in the playoffs in October and everything. It takes a little bit to get going for us sometimes, but as long as we get going, that's all that matters."
The Phillies, who improved to 4-5, can get even healthier with a strong weekend against the lowly Marlins in Miami. The Nationals and Braves are a combined 6-0 against the 1-8 Marlins, who have had former Phillies infielders Placido Polanco and Greg Dobbs hitting cleanup behind slugger Giancarlo Stanton.
"We're playing good," Phillies right-hander Kyle Kendrick said. "We're scoring a lot of runs. It's nice on the starters. We've just got to keep our team in the game. But heading down to Miami, we're feeling good right now after winning the series."
The Phillies have scored 25 runs in their past four games. Poor pitching from Cole Hamels and Roy Halladay cost them two of those games, but they are encouraged they are swinging the bats well.
They dashed to a 5-0 lead in the first inning against Mets right-hander Jeremy Hefner, who had been haunted by the Phillies before.
Hefner allowed the first six batters to reach base, including a two-run home run to center field from Chase Utley and a three-run home run into the second deck in right field from Domonic Brown. Hefner had experienced this nightmare before. He allowed the only seven batters he faced to reach base in his last start against the Phillies on Sept. 20 at Citi Field, where he allowed six hits, seven runs and one walk in a 16-1 loss. And in his appearance against the Phillies on July 4 at Citi Field, he allowed five hits and three runs in 1 1/3 innings in relief.
Hefner's line from the July 4 relief appearance through the first six batters he faced Wednesday: 1 1/3 innings, 15 hits, 15 runs.
That is a robust 101.25 ERA.
"Obviously a start like that will never leave you, but I had moved past it," said Hefner, referring to his Sept. 20 start. "I know I'm good enough to beat these guys. I just didn't execute my pitches."
"We're just not missing our pitches," Brown said about the offense. "We're preparing the right way, making sure we're having fun and doing the little things when guys get on base."
Kendrick held the lead Wednesday, unlike Friday when he could not hold a four-run lead in a 13-4 loss to the Royals.
Phillies manager Charlie Manuel likes to say Kendrick is at his best when he pitches with a quick tempo. He lacked that tempo early Wednesday but settled and pitched well enough to win. He allowed eight hits, two runs, two walks and two home runs with six strikeouts in six innings for a quality start -- just the fourth in nine games for the Phillies.
"I was just trying to find a tempo and get into a quick rhythm," Kendrick said. "The first couple innings, I threw a lot of pitches. I know that. But I was able to settle down and have some quicker innings and get through six."
The Phillies need Kendrick, who stayed in the game following a 27-minute rain delay in the fourth, to come up big consistently, considering the uncertainty surrounding Halladay. Perhaps he can. He had a 3.62 ERA in 40 starts from 2011-12, which ranked 33rd out of 109 pitchers with 40 or more starts in that stretch.
Laynce Nix provided some insurance runs in the sixth when he knocked a pinch-hit, two-run home run to right-center field. It was the third pinch-hit homer of Nix's career and the Phillies' first of the season.
"We're getting better," third baseman Michael Young said. "The last couple games, we've played the style of baseball we've envisioned playing. We've had a high energy level. We're playing hard. We're forcing the issue out there. That's the main thing. Obviously, you want to get as many wins as you can, but your style of play is the most important thing. That's how you rack up the Ws."
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The travelling hard rock/metal festival Soundwave starts in Brisbane on Saturday, with organisers bracing themselves for a much smaller profit after last year's Metallica-driven success.
Promoter AJ Maddah today confirmed to Fairfax Media that ticket sales in Brisbane, Sydney (Sunday), Melbourne (February 28), Adelaide (March 1) and Perth (March 2) currently total 150,000. But he denied that, to break even, Soundwave needed to sell quite as many as 170,000, as other sources have claimed.
"Soundwave will make a modest profit this year," Maddah insisted.
Last year it was the country's most successful festival with 250,000 tickets sold, thanks in no small part to "an amazing line-up including Metallica ... a $10 million band," Maddah said. "It was always going to be difficult after last year being so big."
This year, Soundwave has been beset with problems ever since American metal group Sevendust announced they were withdrawing from the event in early January. Since then Desaparecidos, Hardcore Superstar, Megadeth, Stone Temple Pilots, Whitechapel and, as recently as Wednesday, Newsted have also left the bill.
Sources have told Fairfax Media that fees for all talent booked for the festival, including these acts, total $16 million.
There were further issues last week when set times were revealed, showing clashes between several popular acts. After negative feedback on social media – and an acknowledgement from Maddah himself that some of the clashes were "unacceptable" – the schedule has since been revised.
Fans will now be able to see both Gwar and Rob Zombie, and both Black Veil Brides and Suicide Silence, while Stage 3 headliners Avenged Sevenfold will have an extra 15 minutes added to their hour-long set.
Maddah has had a horror six months, starting with the cancellation of his boutique festival Harvest in September, continuing with huge financial losses due to poor attendance at Big Day Out festivals in January and early February, and now this weekend's struggling event. He has already said that Soundwave will not take place in Perth next year.
Ironically the promoter will present a "mini keynote" speech entitled Soundwave: An Inside Look Into the Biggest Rock Festival in Australia at the inaugural Global Rock Summit, which takes place in Hollywood, California, on April 4 and 5.
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A scorned woman held a yard sale to get rid of her husband's belongings while he was away for the weekend with his lover, reports the Province.
READ: More women delaying marriage, but not kids
The British Columbia woman placed an ad on Craigslist that read, in part, "Husband left us for a piece of trash, selling everything while he is gone this weekend with his floozie."
The ad went on to read that the woman was selling everything and moving after 10 years of marriage. Featured items for sale included his favorite sofas and "lots of tools which he didn't have a clue how to use."
READ: Senator: confession shows sex claim false
The ad stated that there would be no clothing for sale, "as we will have already burned those in the driveway."
It's unknown how much money the was raised by the yard sale or if the woman will be allowed to keep all the funds since in a typical divorce proceeding, a court requires both sides to account for all assets. This would include funds raised from such a sale.
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Australian stocks are set to start the week in the red, as emerging markets continued to tumble amid fears of a slowdown in China and as the US Federal Reserve considers a further wind-back of its stimulus program.
In contrast to the optimism in financial markets last year, which saw US stocks soared to record levels and Australian shares post their best performance since 2009, analysts warn volatility could become this year's hallmark.
Asian share markets slid to multi-month lows on Monday. Japan's Nikkei 225 plunged more than 2.2 per cent to take this year's falls to more than 7.6 per cent.
South Korea's KOSPI was 1.3 per cent lower in late trade as Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index slipped by 2.1 per cent.
Australia's SPI futures index was down 40 points at 5157 points on Monday.
''The emerging markets have had a pretty savage pull-back, while Chinese equities are looking pretty average,'' Market Matters stockbroker and principal Shawn Hickman said.
''So we get caught up in that downdraft probably a lot more than the US market, which was at all-time highs.''
The wobbles in financial markets saw a further demand for safe haven assets, with gold rallying 2 per cent to reach a two-month high of $US1272.03 an ounce.
The precious metal shed 28.3 per cent of its value last year.
The widespread losses came as the US central bank was tipped to taper its $US75 billion-a-month ($86 billion-a-month) bond-buying program again this week.
Emerging markets and currencies were hit badly in mid-2013 when the prospect of tapering was first raised.
Even so, analysts said the current bearish mood in financial markets was likely to be more heavily driven by concerns about a financial crunch in China, Australia's largest trading partner.
Ongoing local crises in some emerging economies such as Argentina, Turkey and Thailand were also weighing on expectations of a healthy recovery in the global economy this year.
The S&P's 500 Index shed 2.1 per cent on Friday to 1790.31 points, its lowest level since mid-December, as negative sentiment spread following the release of a soft reading of manufacturing activity in China from HSBC and financial data firm Markit on Thursday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average to weakened by 2 per cent to close the week at 15879.11.
''The impression one gets of emerging markets is that they are more vulnerable and jumpy this year,'' RBS senior currency strategist Greg Gibbs said, adding that the weakness in the Australian dollar appeared to be reflecting traders' weariness about China.
The Australian dollar lifted off its Friday low of US86.60¢, but could remain under pressure if the Fed trims its asset purchases for the second-straight month. The stimulus reduction is expected to strengthen the US dollar.
The local currency's struggles could also be extended this week through the sell-off of banking stocks, Mr Hickman said.
''What was hurting us and what will hurt us more is the strong sell-off in the Australian dollar. It will probably lead to more sell-off in the banks,'' Mr Hickman said. The S&P/ASX200 financial sector index fell 1 per cent last week, following a 1.8 per cent loss in the previous week. In contrast, the sector gained 23.6 per cent in 2013.
Further possible gains in the local share market, after last year's strong performance, would have to come from signs of earnings growth and improving economic data, JBWere executive director Mike Kendall said.
''The markets have run pretty hard but I think there's a lot of people out there questioning where's the value,'' Mr Kendall said. ''We'd like to keep pushing forward, but we need a reason. We're probably in for a choppy couple of months as people work out what the economic outlook is like.''
Mr Kendall said investors could calm down if there is a stronger final reading of HSBC/Markit's Chinese manufacturing index on Thursday. Official manufacturing data for January will be released by the Chinese government on Saturday.