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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- There probably will be a time when Aaron Rowand wants to get back into Major League Baseball as a coach at some level.
Presently, the one-time White Sox center fielder, who represented the franchise's famous "Grinder Rules" with his all-out style of play and made a major contribution to the 2005 World Series championship, is thoroughly enjoying life as a father to his two kids and as a husband. Rowand brought the Las Vegas Aces, his 10-and-under baseball team that includes his son, to Camelback Ranch on Friday between their weekend contests near Chandler.
As his young charges shagged fly balls deep in the outfield, Rowand had the chance to connect with old friends and talk for a few minutes about one new addition in particular. Adam Eaton has not played a single regular-season game for the White Sox, but flashes of his high energy already have drawn comparisons to Rowand and, in turn, earned Rowand's seal of approval.
"He goes about his business the right way, works hard and, obviously, there's a ton of talent," said Rowand. "White Sox fans are going to be excited about watching him play every day. He's going to be one of their own."
That hard-nosed, run-through-the-wall effort exhibited by Rowand and Eaton plays very well on the South Side. Rowand understands the reasoning behind that favorite status.
"It's a hard-working fan base," Rowand said. "I wouldn't expect them to think any different or want to see the guys that they pay good money to go out and watch not go out and play the game the right way.
"That's one of the things that I always loved most about playing in Chicago, is the fans and the city itself. So you know they are going to enjoy watching [Eaton] out there playing."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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OAKLAND — The A's had the pitching and defense to win Tuesday night.
Now they have hope.
Buoyed by a terrific outing from left-hander Brett Anderson, the A's blanked the Detroit Tigers 2-0 in Game 3 of the American League Divisional Series. They staved off elimination and now trail 2-1 in the
best-of-five series, with Game 4 set for Wednesday night at the Oakland Coliseum.
"It's good to go home and enjoy this one game," A's catcher Derek Norris said. "For a lot of us, it is our first playoff win. But once your head hits the pillow, you gotta wake up and come back with the same mentality."
It's hard to say that one victory swings the advantage into the A's favor. They send rookie A.J. Griffin to the hill Wednesday, and he has been shaky over his past four starts.
But if there was a blueprint for victory the A's could have drawn up, Tuesday's game followed it to the 'T' in front of a sold-out crowd of 37,090 gold towel-waving fans.
Anderson, making his first start in nearly three weeks after straining his oblique, delivered six shutout innings, snapping off a wicked curve ball and allowing not a single ball out of the infield after the second.
The A's scored a run early, added to the lead with Seth Smith's homer in the fifth and then turned things over to its bullpen. Ryan Cook, Sean Doolittle and Grant Balfour rebounded from Sunday's poor display to shut the Tigers down over the final three innings.
"Their bullpen is really nasty," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "Cook, Doolittle, Balfour - they're really good. And their starter tonight gave them what they needed. It set up perfect for them tonight.
They took advantage of that and they earned it."
If Anderson earned top billing, the defense behind him certainly deserves credit, too.
Center fielder Coco Crisp, whose drop of a catchable fly ball led to two runs in Sunday's loss, stole a home run from Prince Fielder in the second. He leapt high to snatch Fielder's drive that would have cleared the wall.
Leyland cited that play as a true momentum turner, and Anderson agreed.
"You see him hit it and you kinda put your head down a little bit," Anderson said. "You feel like you just gave up a homer. Then you see him fly through the air and catch the ball. It kickstarts you to go out and make pitches."
It just wasn't Fielder's night. He was also robbed on a liner to left in the seventh, when Yoenis Cespedes made an excellent tumbling catch. Representing the tying run in the ninth against Balfour, Fielder grounded into a game-ending double play.
There was question over how effective Anderson would be after his prolonged layoff, or whether he would even make it through the outing healthy.
But he was dialed in from the get-go, allowing just two hits and walking two in six innings.
"You could just see it from the first inning, some of the swings they were taking," Norris said. "They weren't taking good swings at all. He's just so deceptive."
Anderson was pulled at exactly 80 pitches, which is what manager Bob Melvin said his limit was. Though he didn't tell the lefty that beforehand.
"As he's sitting over there now, he probably still doesn't know there was a pitch count," Melvin said, motioning to Andreson in the interview room. "He tends to argue some during the course of the game."
Smith's homer in the fifth off Anibal Sanchez added important cushion. Smith came in 6 for 13 with two homers in his career against Sanchez.
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Gov. Jerry Brown is under the gun to meet a court-ordered prison population cap by the end of the year, and he's come up with a bevy of potentially dangerous ideas to comply with federal law, including deploying violent inmates as firefighters.
It's all part of a plan the governor filed "under protest" late Thursday to meet a federal deadline. He concedes public safety could be undermined, and vows a new appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which already has upheld the original order.
This mess is of Brown's own making. He should have taken lawsuits and federal court rulings, which date back years, more seriously instead of alternating between open defiance and hemming-and-hawing.
But the mandate to reduce the population in California's 33 adult prisons to about 110,000 inmates by year's end is unreasonable and unworkable.
So we hope the U.S. Supreme Court — for the sake of the people of California, not Jerry Brown's — extends the Dec. 31 deadline to give the state more time to line up more jails and hire supervisory officers to deal with the newly released inmates.


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Includes extensive correspondence with his friends and family members, including his sons and daughters-in-law: Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr. and Anne Gates Miller; Basil Dixwell Miller and June Miller; William DeYough and Bertha F.W. Field; Alfred G. and Daisy Lewis; Edward B. and Lorna Watson; James D'Wolf and Alice Lovett; Hattie Lovett Brooks; Esther B. Owen; Arria D. Owen; Jacob G. Smith (Cornell University Class of 1903); Edith Hamilton White; and many others, which documents his family and social life, as well as his active support of the Piney Woods Country Life School, Livingstone College and Industrial School for Colored Young Men and Women, Tuskegee Institute, and the George Junior Republic. Also, correspondence with Charles H. Baldwin, Frank N. Decker, M.S. Prescott, Jared Van Wagenen, Stanton D. Wicks, and others which documents his varied business interests, mainly his
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NEW YORK — The social media savvy that helped Occupy Wall Street protesters create a grassroots global movement last year is proving to be a strength in the wake of Hurricane Sandy as members and organizers of the group fan out across New York to deliver aid such as hot meals, medicine and blankets.
They're the ones who took food and water to Glenn Nisall, a 53-year-old resident of Queens' hard-hit and isolated Rockaway section who lost power and lives alone, with no family nearby.
"I said: 'Occupy? You mean Occupy Wall Street?' " he said. "I said: 'Awesome, man. I'm one of the 99 percent, you know?' "
Occupy Wall Street was born in late 2011 in a lower Manhattan plaza called Zuccotti Park, with a handful of protesters pitching tents and vowing to stay put until world leaders offered a fair share to the "99 percent" who don't control the globe's wealth.
The world heard the cry as that camp grew and inspired other ones around the globe. Ultimately, though, the movement collapsed under its leaderless format, and Occupy became largely forgotten. But core members, and a spirit, have persisted and found a new cause in Occupy Sandy.
It started at St. Jacobi Church in Brooklyn the day after the storm, where Occupiers set up a base of operations and used social media such as Twitter and Facebook to spread the word.
There is a sense of camaraderie reminiscent of Zuccotti, as young people with scruffy beards and walkie-talkies plan the day's activities. Donations come in by the truckload and are sorted in the basement, which looks like a clearinghouse for every household product imaginable, from canned soup and dog food to duvet covers.
"This is young people making history," said Mark Naison, a professor at Fordham University who has been studying Occupy Wall Street. "Young people who are refusing to let people suffer without putting themselves on the line to do something about it."
Now the group has dozens of relief centers across the city and a stream of volunteers who are shuttled out to the most desperate areas. It is partnering with local community and volunteer organizations.
A recent post on Occupy Sandy's Facebook page said: "Attention! If anyone in Rockaway needs to have their basement pumped, please contact Suzanne Hamalak at email@example.com. Her family wants to help and have industrial pumps ... they will do it for free ..."
Is this Occupy Wall Street's finest hour? In the church basement, Carrie Morris paused from folding blankets into garbage bags and smiled at the idea.
"We always had mutual aid going on," she said. "It's a big part of what we do. That's the idea, to help each other. And we want to serve as a model for the larger society that, you know, everybody should be doing this."


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We didn't quite get the fast start we were hoping for from the Flyers, but they sure made up for it. They were booed off the ice after a lousy first period saw them down 2-0, and in the dressing room, Peter Laviolette probably gave it to them much worse. They responded with four unanswered goals in the second, headed off to a standing ovation, then came back out and continued to pile on.
Max Talbot played a huge role in turning the game around, and he has two more goals to add to his career high. Same goes for Wayne Simmonds, who also tallied a pair to give him 20 on the season. And they weren't even the Flyers' high scorers. With a small army of injured forwards, the Flyers scoring depth was on display.
Let's get a look at why so many Flyers will remember this one for years to come.
Already without Jaromir Jagr (flu) and JVR (concussion), the Flyers got a scare when Simmonds' face was cut during warmups. Simmonds don the full face shield, seemingly with no ill effects. But the Flyers looked to be in some serious trouble early, conceding the game's first two goals. Jason Pominville was as open as it gets on the back door when he slammed home a Tyler Myers pass that went through the crease. Thomas Vanek made Ilya Bryzgalov look shaky on a blazing slapshot, and the fans began to prepare the torches and pitchforks.
Even after having seen it all shake out, it's still kinda nuts to look back to that first period and think the Sabres wouldn't score again, while the Flyers scored at will and probably pushed Buffalo a little further into the "Sellers" column.
A lot of Flyers are going to remember this one, with some clear career highlights mixed into a seven-goal surge.
The top line was sans Jagr, and, nothing against the 40-year-old surgeon, but his linemates seemed to do OK without him. Claude Giroux was a silent killer, putting FIVE POINTS on the board, all on assists, getting him within two points of Evgeni Malkin's league-best 69. G's linemate Scott Hartnell also had a big night, scoring a goal and assisting three others. Talbot did some time with them, as did Jake Voracek, both of whom also scored.
Durrrty Second
Talbot reminded me of Mike Richards in some old games when the Flyers got off to a bad start. He got loud with his play, scoring, scrapping, and drawing ire. Every shift he took in the second period, you knew where he was on the ice. His deflection of a Braydon Coburn shot was very nice, and opened the scoring floodgates for the Flyers.
Simmonds got the next two, both on the power play and nearly mirror images of each other. You might think wearing the full face shield would mess with his ability to play puck at his feet, but both of Simmer's goals came from in tight, putting home juicy rebounds off the pads of Jhonas Enroth. He now has 20 goals, nine of which came on the man advantage. Kind of amazing that in 49 games as a King, Richards has six fewer goals than Simmonds does in 56.
Erik Gustafsson gets a puck with a ring of tape and some marker on it after potting his first NHL goal to close out the scoring in a four-goal Flyers second.
Give some props to Tom Sestito for kickstarting the second period with a nice fight against Zack Kassian. Sestito appeared to have the better of Kassian most of the way, but got turned around and popped a few times before they both fell to the ice. Something went wrong there for Tito, who left the game with a lower-body injury and would not return.
Murderous Third
Talbot scored again in the second, giving him 16 on the season. The goal looked a bit like the Sabres' first tally, with Eric Wellwood sending a long pass across the slot to a wide open shooter. Talbot went to one knee and buried the one-timer.
Jake Voracek became the 10th Flyer in double digits for goals, and Hartnell closed the night's account with his 27th, putting home an amazing saucer pass from Matt Read. Seven to freaking two.
In the teams' first meeting, Ryan Miller gave up three goals on 11 shots and was pulled for Enroth. Miller would give up five goals in the next meeting. Tonight, Enroth got the start, and despite none of the goals allowed really being on him (a deflection and two rebounds—all screened by the eventual scorer), was pulled for Miller. Who proceeded to give up four goals of his own…
In the first period, everyone's favorite Buffalo Sabre (Patrick Kaleta) smeared Danny Briere along the boards and into the stanchion. Briere didn't seem terribly affected by it, taking a slashing penalty as revenge. But, after serving that out, Briere skated off the ice and would not return with a currently undisclosed upper-body injury. With his concussion earlier this season, gotta be a bit worried there. [video]
It's just one game after a handful of crappy ones, but the Flyers showed almost exactly what we needed to see. There was the lousy start, but really, who cares about that right now. No goals against on the penalty kill. Two power play goals. Career highs.
Just can't rest on any of those feelings. Huge game against Pittsburgh this Saturday.


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Hey all,
In the spirit of Skaut's message, I'll try to be one of the new owners bringing energy to the league. Just have some small housecleaning trades I want to make.
1) Anyone need Udonis Haslem? He played 78 games last year at a decent 0.83 FPPM, and his minutes are likely to increase in Miami's new, weaker front line. My young team has no need for him, but he could be a decent minutes stop-gap for a better team. Looking for draft picks this year or next.
2) Willing to trade my draft picks for young prospects already in the league, just send me an offer and we'll chat.
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Rana Ottallah, whose 7-year-old daughter Dalia has a hearing impairment, said Louisiana's method for aiding special education students is broken.
"If something is not done to help her and all the other kids to do better, she is unlikely to graduate from high school with a diploma," said Ottallah, who lives in Metairie.
But a plan to overhaul the system, driven largely by the state's 29 percent high school graduation rate for special education students, is sparking questions and resistance.
State Superintendent of Education John White, the chief advocate of the overhaul, wants to set up a system where state aid is based in part on a child's disability, such as a speech or language impairment, mental disability or autism.
Critics contend that linking aid to specific disabilities can lead to students getting labels that draw the most dollars.
"Are we putting kids in special education just to get money?" asked St. Bernard Parish School District Superintendent Doris Voitier during a briefing on White's plan last week.
The proposal has put a spotlight on the state's roughly 82,000 public special education students, who draw $313 million per year in state aid; what, if any, changes are launched, including a three-year phase-in for a new system, may be decided by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on March 7-8.
Under current rules, all students with that classification get 150 percent of what the state spends on rank-and-file students.
White wants to replace that with a funding method in which one third of aid is based on disabilities, one third on what setting is used to educate the student and one third on academic performance. He said the fact that Louisiana has the second lowest graduation rate in the nation for special education students cries out for attention.
"I do think that we need fundamental change," White told the Superintendents Advisory Council on Thursday.
Ottallah agreed.
"Whatever has been happening so far is not working," she said.
But Susan Vaughn, director of special education for the Ascension Parish school system, said how a student is labeled does not always fit the services needed.
Under White's proposal, a student with autism would qualify for the highest level of state aid under the disability part of the proposed formula.
"We may have a child who is classified as autistic in regular education who needs very little support," Vaughn said. "Or we may have one with autism that needs a teacher one on one.
"So the cost differential between those two is very, very different. That is part of the concern."
Vaughn and Ottallah are both members of the Special Education Advisory Panel, a 17-member group that advises BESE.
After hearing White's plans to revamp the system, the panel decided to delay action on any makeover.
Superintendents say they want to see the impact of any overhaul on their districts, which they may learn this week.
Officials of the state Department of Education released figures that show 12 states use multiple measures, which Louisiana is considering, to fund special education.
That list includes Texas, which has a 77 percent special education graduation rate; Iowa, 70 percent; and Ohio, 67 percent.
Elizabeth Marcell, a member of the Special Education Advisory Panel, said in an email that she largely favors White's plan "and its emphasis on outcomes rather than inputs."
However, Marcell said she has concerns about basing funding in part on the disability attached to the student.
That approach "can be problematic," she said.
Marcell is executive director of intervention services for ReNEW Schools, a charter management organization in New Orleans.
How much funding weight-specific individual disabilities would get under the new funding method has already been changed once.
State education officials said that, after getting feedback from interested groups, the money formula was changed to one that also includes how the student is educated — such as school, home or hospital — and academic results.
Even experts disagree on how much state funding should be linked to specific disabilities.
Tom Parrish, deputy director of the Center for Special Education Finance at the American Institutes for Research, was consulted by state officials during preparation of the superintendent's plan.
AIR is a social science research firm in Washington, D.C., that does work for the federal government and state and local entities.
"I think it is a positive way to go," Parrish said of White's plan.
He said he likes linking part of the aid to academic results.
Parrish said it is next to impossible to devise a funding method that avoids financial incentives to label students.
But Lou Danielson, managing director at the American Institutes for Research, said even well-meaning special education funding systems can include financial incentives for certain classifications of students.
If you fund autistic students at a higher rate "then you will see a hike" in the numbers with that label, he said.
"States are fully cognizant of that," Danielson said. "For the most part, they have tended to move away from funding formulas like that."


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Matheny mindful of Cardinals' spring record
Though results less meaningful, skipper wants to maintain winning culture
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Winning games in March certainly is not as important as in April, September or any month in between, but Cardinals manager Mike Matheny would like to see his team post more W's than it has so far this spring.
The Cardinals exited Wednesday's game against the Mets at Tradition Field with a 3-7-2 record. Only the Reds (4-11) and Phillies (3-10) have worse records this spring. Before Wednesday, St. Louis' last win had been last Wednesday against the Red Sox.
"We've had conversations about the habits of winning and losing, too," Matheny said before Wednesday's game.
The Cardinals' last losing Spring Training record was in 2011, when they broke camp 14-16-1, but they did reach the postseason that year.
Matheny pointed out that the Cardinals have "a lot of young players out there," and that some of the young pitchers have had their struggles this spring.
"That's to be somewhat expected," Matheny said. "I think the last couple of years, that hasn't been the case. We've had a lot of young prospects come [to camp] and make a splash in [Spring Training]."
The Cardinals have allowed 37 runs in their past three losses, while producing just 14 runs.
"We're throwing kids out there who have barely pitched above Double-A, and [they're] going out in big situations in the game because we need them to fill in so we don't beat up our guys," Matheny said. "That's the purpose of Spring. But we're conscious of the fact that we want to make winning a tradition even in these games."
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We are auctioning off 9 of the sold-out Airbus A340 model aircraft bearing the distinctive San Francisco livery. These models will be signed by our CEO Harry Hohmeister, with all proceeds going to SOS Children's Villages.
The final lowest bid was 250 CHF.
Dear passengers, fans and readers
To celebrate the launch of our Zurich-San Francisco route in 2010 we had one of our Airbus A340 aircraft painted with a special livery. A model version (scale 1:200) of the same aircraft was also created. In recent months we have repeatedly been asked where this model aircraft can be ordered. Unfortunately, it has been sold out for quite some time. We have now asked our employees if they would be willing to donate their models for a good cause. Thanks to their goodwill we now have nine such models to offer for purchase at auction. All proceeds generated by the sale of these aircraft will go to our partner SOS Children's Villages. In all likelihood, this will be the last opportunity to obtain one of these special model airplanes. Don't miss this opportunity to acquire something special for yourself and benefit a worthy charity at the same time.
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The children of today will shape the world of tomorrow. This was the principle on which the founder of SOS Kinderdorf, Hermann Gmeiner, based his life's work – and which we have adopted as our vision.
SWISS gives passengers on its flights donation envelopes in which they can deposit small change in any currency. The proceeds go to the international aid organisation SOS Children's Villages. In 2010 SWISS passengers gave more than CHF 130,872 on board our airlines and at our airports. We donated this to finance a family house in the new SOS Children's Village in Cartagena, Colombia. SOS Kinderdorf and SWISS would like to thank all passengers for their generous donations.
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Waves GTR Solo on Drums, Synths & Vocals. from wiretotheear on Vimeo.
My friend Tal Shoshani at Waves asked me to take a closer look at GTR Solo and their large metal hardware unit GTR Ground. In the video above I discover I like GTR quite a lot. I run GTR through a few Roland TR-606 patterns, a synth line and my voice. Next week I will bring the GTR Ground to Mark Ephraim's studio and let some real guitarist's at it.
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Anode|ION|JOKERi|MD2|FD|TD|PD|LEGENDaParks wrote:If the posts on this forum are any indication, the PD is like a Teebird with sunshine coming out of its butthole so hard that it flies faster.
logjammin wrote:The good- played Southern Community park (or dogwood or whatever it's called) in Chapel Hill, NC and had, overall, the best round I've ever played there. My drives were mostly accurate, I didn't hit every single tree in the park this time, my approach shots were laying up under the basket, a couple of drives left easy birdie shots. My drive on #1 (I played the back 9 first this time) was excellent. It's a wide-open, slightly downhill, 300 footer. I hardly ever get a good tee shot on that one, maybe side winds, or not warmed up yet, or just trying too hard to kill it. But I threw a Champ Roadrunner RHFH, and it was very level, turned slightly, then went into the fade and I thought it was going to hit the bottom of the pole. I ended up with about a 7 foot birdie putt, which I made (I don't take those for granted).
The bad- had a double bogie early, and a bogie late. Several shots hit the chains, or top, and bounced out. Hit a few trees (almost inevitable at that course). Still, I started the last hole 3 strokes better than I've ever done on that course. That is hole 9, par 4. about a 30-yard field goal to get out of the woods and then a whole football field with a pond on the left sideline. I missed the gap, wide left, and hit a tree hard.
The ugly- My lie wasn't that bad, except for a small tree directly in front of me. I tried a backhand with a vulcan, and subconsciously gave it some hyzer, trying to avoid the sapling. It faded hard to the left, and seemed to be heading for the pond. I'm still not sure where it is. There are tall weeds and some brush around the pond, and it was dusk. I looked for a few minutes, gave up and decided to abandon the last hole, and headed for my car. I promptly stepped in dog shit.
Frank Delicious wrote:Hey I played out there like a week and a half ago for the first time in a while. The teepads are nice and some of the alt pins look like they could be fun. Holes 15-18 still need a lot of work but overall that course has really improved (and gotten easier, I think I shot like 7 strokes better than I did last summer out there) since they have cleaned up some fairways and trimmed up some trees in the rough.
Was 9 still in the short pin close to the pond? If so, that hole is actually only a par 3 in that location since it reduces the distance from about 420' to 350' or so.
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Public Ghost Hunt at the Historic Ohio State Reformatory
Friday, April 25, 2014
7:00 pm - 5:00 am
Ohio State Reformatory
100 Reformatory Road
Mansfield, OH 44905
Presented By: Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society
Ghost Hunts® are serious, yet informal attempts to document paranormal activity at the castle-like, former prison. Ghost Hunts® provide an unusual, first-hand experience to search other realms. Ghost Hunts® at OSR are the first of their kind in the United States.
Public Hunt admission is $70 per person and includes access to the building from 8:00pm until 5:00am and a late dinner of pizza and soda. Complimentary water, soda, coffee and hot chocolate available throughout the evening. Register here
Gates open 7pm
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Guided tour of facility 8:30-9:30
Independent investigating 10pm-5am
Must be 18 and over to participate
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First off : I know that i am almost off screen. Can you see anything where you can help, at all ? Or should i take another clip ?
Anyway, about me : I played Ultimate since 1996, getting old now, started discgolf Still need to change my throwing style from the ultimate disc. While both sports use frisbees and the ultimate certainly helps my overhead and sidearm rescue shots, the drives are nothing at all like in Ultimate. I play for 11 months now.
I use valkyri and orion LS for understable drives, and avengers, destroyers and a brand new crazy ass stable Boss for overstable stuff. I reach 400 foot with a good throw, but i want more The thing is, i can even throw my buzz 300 - 320 feet, so i figure that drivers should go much much further...


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AMBULANCE chiefs are urging cyclists to take simple steps to avoid trouble on the roads this summer.
West Midlands Ambulance Service is reminding people heading out for a bike ride to ensure they wear a helmet to reduce the risk of a head injury in the event of an accident.
Nick Crombie, medical lead for Midlands Air Ambulance, said: "I can't see any reason why someone wouldn't want to wear a cycle helmet, it just makes perfect sense to me doing this job, but whether people do or not is entirely an individual decision."
Parents, however, should be more diligent about ensuring their children wear a helmet – he said, adding: "Children are not as aware of traffic, they're not aware of the rules of the road and the highway code as well as adults are, and they end up disproportionately having more cycling accidents than any other age group."
Cyclists are also encouraged to make sure they keep their bike well-maintained, to always adopt a good position on the roads, wear high visibility closing, have working lights fitted if heading out at night, and respect the rules of the road.


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I would like to sugest that a guideline for discussion in the samatha forum be added. This guideline would instruct people that object to the kind of jhana that is being discussed to either create a new topic or redirect the original poster to "the great jhana debate" for clarification. I lost count of the number of concrete, pratical questions that are asked about practice, either on the sutta jhana frame or in the visuddhimagga jhana frame, that are derrailed into "what is jhana?" discussion.
There's benefit to both aproaches. What is certainly not beneficial is for topics to be derrailed over this debate.


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That theory is really being tested this year. In April, they broke a 1,207-game streak of not using a starting pitcher signed as a major-league free agent when they needed to go scraping for Roberto Hernandez to replace James Shields.
And now, the thing no Rays fan wanted to hear and no baseball fan should have wanted to hear: David Price is hurt. There was no real grimace, nothing shocking, just a shake or two of the left arm and a couple of squeezes of the left hand. That he threw no pitches to test it was a bad sign.
The diagnosis was a pretty generic "triceps tendinitis," which can be anything from skipping a turn through the rotation to major surgery on the horizon with plenty of Josh Johnson-style middle ground, so it's a little soon to speculate. But the Rays have already been struggling in the rotation, and this would be an enormous blow.
Most of the concerns, even after trading Shields and Wade Davis, remained on offense, but that's where the Rays have been fine. Evan Longoria has been great, and James Loney has risen from nowhere to provide an extremely capable six weeks, though one is ever sure how predictive that is.
It's been on the mound where they have uncharacteristically struggled. With their 9-2 loss to Boston Wednesday night, the Rays have now allowed 4.51 runs per game, putting them 10th out of 15 American League clubs in raw run prevention. (Their typical ballpark factors actually help the staff, so they've done worse than it appears.)
So now it's back to Durham, where Jake Odorizzi, acquired in the Shields/Davis trade, is on the same rotation cycle as Price and would be good to make the next start. Odorizzi has been very difficult to hit, with 28 allowed in 44 2/3 innings and part of a combined no-hitter. He has endured sporadic walk problems but has good overall numbers in that department, with 15 walks and 47 strikeouts in 45 2/3 Triple-A innings. The issue is whether Tampa wants to pile on the service time early, as Odorizzi's Super Two cutoff comes a couple weeks before the usual one because of his brief stint with the Royals in late 2012. To avoid that, they could cap his innings and send him down at year's end or when Price comes back.
Or they could call up Chris Archer, another high-strikeout minor leaguer, albeit a year-and-a-half older and a little more seasoned at the major-league level; he had a decent six-game run in St. Pete last year.
The big story will eventually be what becomes of Price and his long-term future. An extension always seemed like a longer shot than what the other top pitching prospects like Felix Hernandez and Justin Verlander have done, and one Clayton Kershaw might agree to. Now any thought of that is on hold, as Tampa Bay nervously waits for some medical good news.
Matchup of the Day
Wait, you mean Miguel Cabrera, right? Or Prince Fielder? Or Torii Hunter?
No, the matchup that could prove the most fun in this titanic matchup of Darvish and Verlander is the American League leader in strikeouts vs. one of the hardest players in the league to strike out. Infante entered Tuesday's action third in the American League with strikeouts in 8.8 percent of his plate appearances.
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So it's not the best list in terms of overall production, but Infante should be a fascinating matchup for Darvish. The right-hander is particularly tough on righties like Infante, whom teams go to great lengths to avoid using against him. Righties have struck out in 40 of 89 plate appearances vs. Darvish (44.9 percent), while for lefties, it's 40 of 116 (34.4 percent).
Historically, Infante has not been much of a first-pitch swinger—24 percent lifetime and lower this year, according to Baseball-Reference, vs. a 28 percent major-league average over that time—so that might not work out in his favor. But Darvish is just brutal on hitters late in counts with his breaking ball, and Infante is awfully hard to finish off, which will make these meetings fascinating chess matches.
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Ifixit finished their official teardown of the new iMacs and their findings do not bode well for the tinkerers out there.
Ifixit described the teardown process as an excercise in disappointment, due to the new hurdles created by Apple" in terms of the ease of repair. In order to achieve the incredibly slim design the LCD and glass are glued directly to the devices frame, and gaining access to the RAM, CPU and hard disk requires removing the entire logic board.
The late 2012 iMac 21.5″ code-named EMC 2544 is an exercise in disappointment for us. We were quite worried when we saw that super-thin bezel during Apples keynote, and unfortunately we were correct: the glass and LCD are now glued to the iMacs frame with incredibly strong adhesive. Gone are the lovely magnets that held the glass in place in iMacs of yesteryear. iFixit
Apples philosophy on the future of their devices is clear and unfortunately those who enjoy tinkering with their devices have lost another product line to Apples walled-garden.
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The Visitors were awarded third place in the finale of the Tri-C High School Rock Off, which took place Feb. 1 at the House of Blues.
The band members include Jim Washabaugh 17, Joey Maggard 18, and Matt Rogucki, 18. They received $100 cash as a prize.
The winner and second-place bands were Backstage Politics from Beachwood, Hathaway Brown, Lake Catholic, University School; and STEVE from Glenoak, St. Ignatius, Westlake, respectively.
The Final Exam involved 15 bands which were selected from a series of semi-final rounds staged in January.
"This was the most diverse collection of bands I've seen in 18 years," said Frank Imhoff, executive director. "There's also a youth movement in progress. We're seeing younger musicians coming from northern Ohio and western Pennsylvania."
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text: Steelhammer: A tale of a fateful trip By Rick Steelhammer November 24, 2012 Story Share If you're looking for the perfect tropical island on which to get away from it all, you can do no better than Sandy Island in the Coral Sea, about midway between Australia and the French-administered island of New Caledonia.Though listed on Google Earth, along with a number of nautical charts and weather maps, as a 16-mile long, 3-mile wide island, Sandy Island does not in fact exist, and never has.The crew of the Australian research vessel Southern Explorer proved Sandy Island's non-existence last week, while on a research expedition studying plate tectonics in the area. Puzzled by the presence of an island in a 4,600-foot-deep expanse of sea, the Southern Explorer's crew decided to approach its charted location and investigate.While the ship's nautical map did not indicate the presence of an island at the location, Google Earth did, as did one of the Southern Explorer's weather maps, along with several scientific charts."So, who do we trust, Google Earth or the navigation charts?" recalled crewmember Steven Micklethwaite in an interview following the island's un-discovery. "We decided to sail through the island. We all had a good giggle at Google as we sailed through. It was one of those happy circumstances in science. You come across something no one has noticed before."Sandy Island is not the first fictional location to adorn a map during the past few decades. In 1978, Michigan's official state highway included two make-believe towns on the Ohio side of the border south of Ann Arbor. The towns of "Goblu" and "Beatosu" were ordered to be depicted in the suburbs of Toledo by University of Michigan alumnus and then-state highway commissioner Peter Fletcher, to memorialize his desire for his alma mater's football team to defeat Ohio State.In the case of Sandy Island, one theory holds that its fictional presence was created long ago by one map-making company as a "copyright trap," an attempt to prove that another cartographic concern was stealing its data. Early in my newspaper career, I played a role in a bush league journalism version of the copyright trap.In 1976, Welch Daily News publisher Rollo Taylor was convinced that a newspaper in an adjacent county was routinely lifting stories from his paper and reprinting them without attribution or permission. To trap the offender, he concocted a colorful yarn about a McDowell County woman who shot at a whitetail buck she had seen attempting to mate with a plywood reindeer Christmas decoration in her yard, accidentally wounding a neighbor woman in a nearby outhouse, where she was stuck to the seat due to the recent application of fast-drying paint.Sure, in Southern West Virginia, nearly anything's possible, but it seemed a bit farfetched, even to a relative rookie like me, who knew that while the rest of the story may have been true, deer were very rare in McDowell County in that era.I called up the deputy allegedly quoted in his story, who led me to believe the story was fiction. Then I called up Taylor, who filled me in on the hoax and the reason behind it.While the Gazette chose not to pursue the story, others did, including a reporter with the state Associated Press bureau in Charleston, who rewrote and boiled down the tale and distributed it statewide. Among the many newspapers picking up the story was the rival paper Taylor sought to trap.The AP scribe who ran with the phantasmagoric story after failing to check its veracity with anyone went on to a long and storied career at a series of large metropolitan bureaus. My career is stuck, like the fast-drying paint in the McDowell County outhouse, in pretty much the same place it's been since 1976.And it looks like a retirement community awaits me on Sandy Island.In a return to the shameless self-promotion department, allow me to extend this invitation to join me in taking in the triple-harmony folk-rock sounds of The BrotherSisters (whose members include Gazette colleague Doug Imbrogno) in a $5 per person benefit concert for the West Virginia Institute for Spirituality, whose board of directors includes the likes of me. The show starts at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, in Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1600 Kanawha Blvd. E. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Charleston restaurant 2 Innerviews: Dual-identity surgeon riding high in horse racing world 3 Gazette editorial: Capito has second chance to do the right thing 4 WVU seeking improvements during off week 5 Doug Smock: AAC not ready for Power 6 quite yet Steelhammer: A hearty helping of squirrel and Onion Next Story


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The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) sent a notice of violation to oil companies and fuel supplier Avfuel, as well as to more than two dozen companies at 25 California airports, notifying them that they have been violating the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65). The warning serves 60-day notice that the CEH plans to file a lawsuit against each company unless it warns people near airports about the lead in avgas, stops using leaded avgas and pays a civil penalty for violating the California health and safety code. The CEH is a non-profit organization that earns revenue by filing actions against purported Proposition 65 violators. When civil penalties are assessed in these actions, an organization such as the CEH earns 25 percent of the penalty as well as attorney fees and money from consent agreements reached with the accused parties. One of the CEH's efforts resulted in tire companies switching to non-lead-based balance weights for automobile tires.
"It's not too far from extortion," said Jim Coyne, president of the National Air Transportation Association (NATA), which is mounting a campaign to fight the CEH notice and potential lawsuits. "There are hundreds of law firms that exist to try to reach settlements out of court with businesses of all stripes," he said. "It's one of the great shortcomings of our American system." As far as the potential harm from lead in avgas, he added, "There's little evidence that anyone's been able to produce, [showing] that the quantities of lead emissions by general aviation aircraft ever injured anybody."
Coyne, a former congressman, pointed out that the purpose of the Proposition 65 violation clause is to allow someone who is aware of something being done contrary to the law to notify the government about that violation. "It's intended to uncover actions that have been undisclosed or that the government is unaware of. There's nobody in the government of California who is not fully aware of the fact that general aviation airplanes fly across their state and that small concentrations of lead in avgas have been subject to a host of analysis and research. The whole intent of the law is being turned upside down by this group. We've never been an industry hidden from the government. We're upset that this process has been abused and it's going to cost our industry to defend this. But we're prepared to take those steps."
Avgas Data Questioned
The CEH is basing its action on a 2008 report prepared for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), which measured emission levels during two phases in 2005 and 2006 at Santa Monica and Van Nuys airports. "There is data showing elevated lead concentrations in the air around both those airports," said CEH research director Caroline Cox.
The AQMD report found that total suspended particulate lead concentrations at the two airports were "mostly below the new national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) of 150 ng/m3," although they were two to nine times higher than the corresponding levels in the South Coast Basin during the testing periods. The AQMD did find concentrations close to or above the national standard at Santa Monica "near the tarmac on more than one occasion and during both phases of the study." The sensors that detected the elevated lead concentrations were on the airport itself, not in the neighborhood surrounding the airport.
In October 2008, the EPA tightened the NAAQS lead standard to the current 150 ng/m3 from the previous standard of 1,500 ng/m3. "In this respect," the AQMD reported, "none of the concentrations measured at the Van Nuys Airport between November 2005 and September 2006 were close to or above the current NAAQS."
While Cox acknowledged that she knows of no evidence of harm caused by tetraethyl lead used in avgas, she said, "Our goal is to remove this one particular chemical from the fuel used to power that fleet. We feel like there's good data from the studies that shows it's a health hazard that needs to be addressed." One study that she cited claimed that 300,000 cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the U.S. were the result of excess lead exposure.
"What the 60-day notice says is we think that people in California are being exposed to this toxic chemical," she told AIN, "and we don't know of any data that says the exposure is insignificant or below lawful levels. If a company wants to present data, that's part of the process." She conceded, however, "There isn't a way that we could ground the fleet even if we wanted to. It's not an option."
Cox is aware that it's not a simple matter to replace leaded avgas. "We're at the very beginning of this process," she said. "There haven't been discussions with the companies to see what's feasible or not." She pointed out that a violation of Proposition 65 doesn't have to lead to a lawsuit. "If we have good discussions with the companies, it might be a while before we file a complaint, depending on how things are moving along."
The General Aviation Avgas Coalition, which includes most aviation associations, said that it is "exploring all options" to support the accused violators. "Because the National Airspace System belongs to the people of the United States and benefits the entire country, Congress has reserved to the federal government, through the FAA, the right and responsibility to regulate all aviation activities in the U.S. The threatened CEH lawsuit in California raises the specter of a patchwork of state regulations governing fuels pilots may or may not use in their piston-powered aircraft."
"Any environmental concerns arising from the sale and use of aviation gasoline belong under the purview of the EPA and FAA," NATA stated. "Currently, both of these agencies, along with numerous industry stakeholders, are engaged in a collaborative process to address the issues arising from the use of leaded aviation gasoline."
Coyne added, "The people behind this legal action have an agenda and they're going to pursue it. We're going to respond as quickly as we can to show that this is an improper exercise of abuse of the legal system. Preserving general aviation is as honorable a goal as any, and we're going to do our best to keep our airplanes flying until there are alternatives." NATA is seeking a variety of operators to join the battle, including public agencies such as police and fire departments and agricultural operators that rely on piston-powered aircraft.
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This is a youtube video of supposedly the youngest mae chee to ordain in Thailand. According to my Thai friend, this girl is 5 years old and after hearing about Vishaka's story, she pestered her parents to let her ordain for a day. That one day ended being 2 weeks!! She disrobed reluctantly as she had to start school. The little mae chee ordained in Mae Chee Sasanee's temple and she will re-ordain as a mae chee during her school break in April. Her story has inspired a new program to ordain little mae chees in Thailand.
Although they are only mae chees and not novices or nuns, this (ordination program in April) is a marked progress in Thailand. Many already know the status that mae chees have in Thailand. Hopefully, this will help females in Thailand gain better access to the Dhamma training that is readily available for the males.


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A MAN has been taken to hospital after a crash on a busy Winchester road.
Police were called to the scene on Stoney Lane, Weeke, at 3.35pm today, after reports of a collision between a Renault Grand Scenic and a white scooter.
It is believed it happened near Weeke Primary School.
The rider, whose age and name is currently unknown, was taken to hospital.


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11 comments:
Lovely couple! Trent is all grown up. How did that happen?? Seems like he was a little boy yesterday. Looks like a lovely ceremony. Debbie Achtenberg
- June 29, 2010 at 7:23 AM
- Barbara said...
Lovely photo. Thanks Carol for listening.
- June 29, 2010 at 8:03 AM
- Lisa Wallen Logsdon said...
I especially love the photo of the twin's hair! Nice shot!
- June 29, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- TennLady said...
I love your outfit. Those colors are my fave!
- June 29, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- Amy Coffin, MLIS said...
Lovely! I enjoy wedding photos so much. Thank you for sharing yours.
- June 29, 2010 at 5:54 PM
- lindalee said...
Beautiful bride and her dress is just lovely. Your hair grows very fast....didn't you just have it cut in Feb or March??? Thanks for sharing your family with us Carol.
- June 29, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- Michelle Goodrum said...
I've loved the wedding photos (and flora too). Looks like it turned out to be a fine day for a wedding.
- June 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM
- Greta Koehl said...
How beautiful everyone and everything looks - a perfect day. Thanks for showing these!
- June 29, 2010 at 11:44 PM
- Nancy said...
What beautiful wedding photos - from all three posts. Best wishes to the beautiful bride and congratulations to the handsome groom. (I love the bride's veil!) Thanks for sharing your special event with us.
- June 30, 2010 at 11:29 PM
- Carol said...
Thank you all, Bride's veil was made by her mother for her sister's wedding, so both sisters wore it.
- July 3, 2010 at 1:58 PM
- Renate said...
Very, very nice!
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DAVE Clayton is hoping his players are hurting as much as he is after their 'embarrassing' defeat at the hands of Cadbury Heath on Wednesday night.
The hosts, who beat Melksham Town to the Toolstation League First Division title last season moved top of the Premier Division as they took Clayton's side to pieces.
"It was painful," said the Melksham manager.
"We were in the game in the first half, but let in two sloppy goals just before half-time. I said to the boys to go for it in the second half, but they scored again quickly and heads went down.
"Cadbury Heath are good at what they do and they virtually play with four up front, but it was still a real shock.
"Young Will Jacomb came on for the last 20 minutes and was our best player – he's only 17-years-old but if they'd all played with his enthusiasm, the score wouldn't have been as embarrassing as it was.
"It's up to the lads now to show me how much they're hurting and prove that it's as much as I am. We need a reaction."
Mark Reynolds netted a hat-trick for Heath, with Matt Huxley scoring twice while Nick Dyer, George Boon, Chris Astley and Craig Parsons were all also on target.
Ash Barnett levelled the scores a 1-1 in the first half while Jacomb got Melksham's second late on.
Chippenham Town's Luke Ballinger also made a cameo appearance for his former side.
On Saturday, Dan Griffiths' strike gave Clay-ton's men the lead against Odd Down before Dan Kovacs' shot narrowly crossed the line.
Sean Benison pounced to score Melksham's third as they ran out 3-1 winners.
Kovacs is unavailable for tomorrow's Les Phillips Cup trip to First Division Chard Town, while fellow star striker Gary Higdon is a doubt as he continues his recovery from injury.


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Bettis misses Triple-A start with sore shoulder
DENVER -- When right-hander Chad Bettis was scratched from his scheduled start with Triple-A Colorado Springs on Monday, most assumed he was on his way to join the Rockies on the day rosters expanded. As it turns out, Bettis' unavailability was injury-related.
"He's got a tender shoulder," manager Walt Weiss said. "It's not out of the question that he could still show up here, but he's not making the start because he's got a sore shoulder."
Weiss didn't elaborate on how serious Bettis' injury was, but he hasn't been too sharp in either of his most recent outings.
When the Rockies optioned him to Triple-A in late July, the team began stretching him out to resume a starting role. But after he pitched eight innings of shutout baseball Aug. 16, it's been all downhill from there.
In his last two starts (8 2/3 innings), Bettis surrendered a combined 11 runs on 18 hits and six walks.
If the injury is minor, Bettis remains one of the top candidates to be called up in September for the Rockies. In 24 2/3 relief innings for the Rockies this season, he owns a 9.12 ERA and 13-to-10 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
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After missing most of 2012, Ramos feeling good
VIERA, Fla. -- Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos was behind the plate for three innings in a 16-10 loss to the Cardinals on Friday afternoon, catching starter Jordan Zimmermann. Including Friday's action, Ramos is 3-for-7 this spring, and manager Davey Johnson is satisfied with what he has seen from his catcher.
It also helped that Ramos was able to safely slide into third base on Cards starter Shelby Miller's wild pitch on Friday. Sliding was the final obstacle for Ramos before he was able to get into a game.
"I thought it was a good slide. I thought [Ramos] was going to be out by a mile," Johnson said. "I was pleased with how he looked back there. It looked like he caught for six innings in that one inning."
Ramos said he is mentally feeling better now that he is catching. Ramos had missed most of last season because of a devastating knee injury suffered against the Reds in May.
"For me, I've been out the game for a long time," Ramos said. "I know everyone says I recovered quickly. To me, it was too long. I'm excited for this moment. I enjoy playing."
Right now, Ramos is focused on his game-calling skills. He wants to be on the same page as his pitchers when he is behind the plate.
"I love when I call the game and the pitcher feels good," Ramos said. "So I concentrate more behind the plate, concentrate on calling the game and being on the same page as the pitcher."
For the rest of Spring Training, Johnson plans to have Ramos and Kurt Suzuki split time.
"I want to give them at-bats, build them up to nine innings," Johnson said. "Suzuki is fine, but with Wilson, I want to see if he could do it."
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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It's always interesting and a bit funny when people go at it in public. Apparently Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance thought Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) wasted his time regarding an ill-fated tour they were planning together.
"The truth of the matter is that PM [Peter Murphy] wasted months of my time, energy and effort. It was he, after all, who invited me to tour with him and then reneged on our agreement not once, not twice but three times… can you imagine my frustration? … I would not have minded so much if he had shown some remorse by way of an apology, this would have been the very least I could expect from such an honorable and 'spiritual' man. Right? Well wrong… When I last wrote to him to enquire how he was and what the problem was, he basically told me to mind my own business… Cuckoo!" "The guy has too many albeit mysterious health issues to deal with and, to be honest, he's a sandwich short of a picnic." – Brendan Perry
And the response…
This reminds me a little of when techno legends Frankie Bones and Joey Beltram fought it out on various forums for a few months. Here's my Wire to the Ear tip: keep your musician mystery alive by keeping these types of matters a private conversation.
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I've decided to create a horror video game, but I'm unsure what to do next. I have a game engine chosen, i understand C++ but im unsure what to do next. I can model and script to a degree so please point me in the right direction
Game design document!
Read an introduction on game development!
Google for "example game design document". The first one from Runaway Studios is fine.
By the time you finish writing it, you will be pretty sure what to do next, who to hire, what story and content to create, when to start coding, and what.
If you have good command in c++ then try to find out the example game format in c++ in google. And based on that start the work. But before that understand the method of the starting the game.
If this is a single project, I would just get started using the engine, going through tutorials, loading and experimenting with models, etc. It's very common to pick too large of a project to start, so you should weigh that up considerably. It almost sounds like you haven't written a game yet, so it would be better to start with a simpler game like asteroids and get a feel for everything like moving objects around, making a menu, making levels, collision detection and interaction, particle engine use, etc, etc. Once you've written a small game, a larger game is just an expanded version of everything, so you will have a much better idea of how to design it and what you are actually capable of completing. Once you move into character type games, you have to probably consider AI and path finding before designing your game, so there is a lot to learn before you need to worry about something like a design document. That's a much more high level type of thing and isn't really necessary unless you are in a team as far as I'm concerned. You can just as easily work off an outline if you are a single developer. A survival horror would probably be done by a team, so you would have to take that into account, probably changing to smaller worlds with other type of game play because modeling large worlds is too much for one person; or finding a team to work with, but teams can be a major headache if they are not commercial.
Bucking the initial trend with fireside: Forget the game design document, start building your game. Get to know how to build a game by making those mistakes early and fast. If you've never designed a game, your first shot will likely be abandoned as your refine your skills. And, it's not a negative thing; there's nothing wrong with that at all.
BDUF (Big Design Up Front) is debatable, and it is really only potentially useful for large teams and/or large productions.
For an individual, or a small indie team, build up your docs as you go along. Start a wiki where you document all decisions.
When a person has no idea what he's going to make, the courage will fade long before anything playable is produced. Also design document can be just a notepad TXT file, having 5-10 lines of ideas. Looking at it more ideas will come.
When a person has no idea what he's going to make, the courage will fade long before anything playable is produced.
(no GDD upfront != no ideas) & (no GDD upfront != no documentation at any time)
And, I think most people can keep "5-10 lines of specification" in their head instead of Notepad, while learning game development. (If not, get out of the game now before you hurt yourself. )
When it gets to be "100+ lines combined in your head and your colleague's head", a real-time wiki would be my first step.


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The only thing I want, and what I think is the original idea behind this proposal, is a money back guarantee, if you find the software doesn't do what you wanted it to do.
Currently, software vendors hide behind a "no promise of fitness for any particular purpose" clause in the EULA, and I'd like to see this clause wiped out of existence.
That might be enough to satisfy me. However, what's to stop someone from buying the software, installing it, then returning it for a money-back guarantee and still using it? That would be problematic, I think. Still, this would go a long way towards mitigating some of the issues involved.
Free software is one thing, but what about open source? If someone releases free software that has a nasty security hole exposing your credit card data to others, then I would argue that there's a liability issue. If it's also open source, I think that would be a mitigating factor in liability.


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It's not just awards panels who've been impressed by Idris Elba's portrayal of Nelson Mandela in the new big-screen biopic - Mandela's family, and even the late statesman himself, gave it the thumbs up. The Luther star tells Shereen Low why it was a dream role.
It was an ironic twist of fate.
Hours after Idris Elba walked up the red carpet for the UK premiere of Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, it was announced that Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela had died.
Elba, who portrays the late South African President in the film, issued a statement saying: "I am stunned at this very moment. We have lost one of the greatest human beings to have walked this earth, I only feel honoured to be associated with him."
Ironic timing aside, taking on the lead role in Justin Chadwick's drama was always set to be huge for the actor.
Already known for playing troubled detective DCI John Luther in the BBC series and drug kingpin 'Stringer' Bell in US show The Wire, 41-year-old Elba's now making his mark on the world stage and his performance has met with awards buzz - so far, he's up for a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award. He's also hotly tipped for a Best Actor nod at the Oscars (nominations are unveiled on January 10).
But, he says, this wasn't on his mind when he signed on.
"If I'm really honest, every role I make, I feel like I put my work in. It's on someone else to say this is career-defining, and I take that as a compliment, but ultimately I try and work hard in every role I do.
"But would I like an Oscar? Yeah man!" he adds, with a deep laugh.
Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, adapted from the late statesman's autobiography of the same name, spans Mandela's journey from his early years as a herd boy in rural Transkei to a lawyer in post-war Johannesburg, through to his 27-year-long imprisonment and inauguration as the South Africa's first democratically elected and black President.
It also focuses on the changing relationship between Mandela and his second wife Winnie, played by Naomie Harris.
Elba admits he didn't take Chadwick seriously when he was initially approached for the role, which Denzel Washington was originally earmarked for.
"I didn't really believe him to be honest. I thought it was a joke. I thought, 'What? Who? No! Really?'" he recalls.
Then, the reality of who he was about to play sunk in.
"It is very daunting. It was a massive undertaking, but it was a gift of a part. I don't look anything like Mandela. To play someone who is great, and to have the whole 52-year span to play the character is a gift, so I really enjoyed that," he says.
"South Africans weren't allowing me to lie and pretend or mock this role. That was what made my challenge even harder. Ultimately, it gave me a real benchmark to work towards."
But Elba never had any doubts about whether he could do it.
"I had the conviction of Mandela behind me. His story is so amazing. If he could live that life, then I could make his life on film."
While he never actually met Mandela, Elba won over the former President and his family, including his ex-wife Winnie and two of his daughters, Zindzi and Zenani, who gave their backing to the film.
"Winnie's amazing. She calls me 'Husband'," says the London-born actor with a smile. "Winnie, Zindzi and Zenani have been really helpful from day one. Winnie's very insightful about how she wanted to see this film come to life. She had seen loads of films about Mandela and she wanted the real Mandela, the real depiction of her family on screen."
So what's their verdict?
"They love it," Elba says. "I've seen it with them twice now. They are very moved by it, it's very personal to them and there are some high emotions."
Mandela even saw a few clips before he died. ("I think he had been very complimentary about parts of the film he saw.")
Elba, who wore prosthetics and spent four hours a day in make-up being transformed into the older Mandela, admits portraying him at different ages was more challenging than nailing Mandela's unique accent.
"The accent is a continuous progression for me, but mapping out who he was as a young man and who he became as an old man was definitely harder. Justin and I really paid attention to what that looks like, feels like, the age, the incremental moments in his life."
As a father himself, the twice-married actor reveals the prison scenes in Robben Island were particularly harrowing.
"One of the scenes I will never forget is when Mandela is in prison and he finds out his son Thembi has died in a car crash and he's not allowed to go to the funeral. It broke my heart," he recalls. "I've got a daughter myself [Isan, 11] and if anything was to happen and I couldn't get there, I'd be heartbroken, so that was one of the toughest scenes for me."
With further accolades heading his way, Elba's taking the attention in his stride.
"For the last five years, the level of attention on my life has been like, 'Woah'. I didn't expect it. So I can't imagine it getting any worse or more," he says.
"People know my story, they know who I am. I really want this film to get as much attention as possible because it's a legacy that we should all pay attention to, and there's a lesson within it.
"To be honest, I'm just honoured to have the opportunity to be asked to play such a great man," he adds.
Aside from Luther and The Wire, Elba's appeared in the two Thor films, Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim and Ridley Scott's Prometheus.
Often considered one of the world's sexiest men, does he fancy taking on some lighter fare next?
"I'd love to do a romcom. Get me in now! I could do my best Hugh Grant," he says, laughing.
"I'm one of these actors who's not afraid of trying anything and I don't want to be pigeonholed. So romcom, bring it on, let's do it!"
Extra time - models of Mandela
:: Sidney Poitier (1997) - Poitier was nominated for an Emmy for his performance opposite Michael Caine as Mandela in TV film Mandela And De Klerk.
:: Morgan Freeman (2009) - The Oscar-nominated actor portrayed Mandela in Clint Eastwood's sports biopic Invictus about the 1995 Rugby World Cup after the dismantling of apartheid.
:: David Harewood (2010) - The Homeland star portrayed Mandela in TV drama Mrs Mandela, with Sophie Okonedo as Winnie.
:: Terrence Howard (2011) - Howard played a young version of the late statesman in Winnie Mandela, which starred Jennifer Hudson in the title role.
:: Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom opens in cinemas on Friday, January 3 2014


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