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MIDDLETOWN -- The Lake County Sheriff's Office Friday obtained a $750,000 arrest warrant for the man investigators believe is responsible for both recent bank robberies in Middletown and at least a half dozen others in the state, Sheriff Frank Rivero said.
The sheriff identified the man as Joshua James Metoxen, 23, whose last known residence was in Napa County.
"Through the efforts of my detectives, this individual has been identified," Rivero said Friday afternoon. "There is a multi-county manhunt under way for this individual."
The arrest warrant applies to the Feb. 27 robbery at the Middletown Westamerica Bank, a crime carried out in a manner similar to the robbery at the town's Tri Counties Bank March 7, Rivero said.
"The sheriff's office is confident that (Metoxen) is also responsible for the Tri Counties Bank robbery," Rivero said. "He is also the prime suspect in six other robberies in Marin County and San Mateo County."
Authorities seek information about Metoxen's whereabouts, but Rivero said people should not attempt to approach or contact the suspect, who is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone who sees Metoxen should contact 9-1-1 immediately, the sheriff added.
Rivero said that without the work of his department's major crimes unit, headed by Lt. Brian Kenner and Det. Sgt. Corey Paulich, "this case would have gone cold and the outside agency cases would have remained cold."


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SAN DIEGO -- Left fielder Carlos Quentin was out of the Padres starting lineup Wednesday after he was hit just above the right wrist with a pitch in Tuesday's victory over the Dodgers.
"He's still a little sore," said Padres manager Bud Black. "Medically, we're working him up. He's going through a number of tests, and we hope to get a better idea of where he's headed."
Quentin was hit by Dodgers pitcher Ronald Belisario in the seventh inning. He immediately clutched his wrist and motioned to the bench.
Quentin was examined on the field by team trainer Todd Hutcheson and Black. After a brief discussion, he then came out of the game. Quentin had an X-ray done after the game that didn't show any damage to the wrist area.
The outfielder wasn't available before Wednesday's game, as he was getting treatment on his wrist.
Black was asked if the injury would be enough to send Quentin to the disabled list.
"I don't think it's going to happen," Black said.
Quentin is hitting .250 this season in 16 at-bats, with three doubles, three walks and three RBIs in seven games.
Chris Denorfia got the start in left field in the second game of a three-game series against the Dodgers.
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The ball came screaming off Seguin senior Jessica Aguilar's bat, directly at Brandeis pitcher Caleigh Cole's face. It glanced off the top of her forehead and well into right field.
Fortunately, Cole was all right and stayed in the game.
Unfortunately for Brandeis, the scary moment was when things unraveled. Seguin rallied for four runs in that sixth inning en route to a 6-3 second-round playoff win at the NEISD Softball Complex on Thursday.
"They told me I could come out, but I knew I needed to be in there for my team to finish it off," said Cole, sporting a small lump on her forehead. "It didn't go how we wanted it to go, but I did my best."
Before the incident, Cole had limited the Matadors (23-9-1) to two runs while working out of several jams as the Broncos' defense shined behind her. In particular, center fielder Melissa Rodriguez threw out a runner at home to end the fourth and preserve the 2-2 tie.
"We were loading the bases but couldn't get the runners in," Seguin senior Vanesa Lerma said. "It was really frustrating."
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Seguin finally found some holes with a two-out rally in the sixth. Aguilar's scary hit scored one. Two batters later, Lerma belted a two-run double over Rodriguez's head. She then scored on an error.
Aguilar and Lerma combined to drive in five runs.
"I just focused on watching the ball all the way in, kept my hands back and drove all the way through," said Aguilar, who went 3 for 3 from the No. 9 spot.
That was plenty of offense for Seguin's 1-2 punch of Kate Bateman and Ciara Luna on the mound.
Bateman started the game, allowing six hits and two earned runs over six innings. Brandeis senior Anna Parnin had an RBI double and scored on an error in the third. The Broncos (12-11-1) added another run on a ground out in the sixth.
Luna came on in the seventh and promptly struck out the side. The jump in velocity from Bateman to Luna was too much for Brandeis to handle.
"That's kind of what we've wanted to do all along," Seguin coach John Garcia said. "This year, they've both bought into it and it works really, really well when they're on."
Seguin will play either Churchill or Holmes in the third round. Those two teams play at 7 p.m. today in a one-game playoff at the SAISD Athletic Complex.
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State Sen. Lois Wolk renewed her efforts this week to provide millions of consumers the opportunity to utilize clean and affordable renewable energy, introducing legislation to allow all Californians to benefit from shared projects.
"Three out of four Californians are currently unable to take advantage of renewable energy through the state's renewable power programs. They pay into programs to support renewable energy, yet can't install their own power generation system for a variety of reasons. SB 43 corrects this inequity," said Wolk, D-Davis.
"My legislation will encourage more investment and create thousands of jobs in an important sector of our state's economy without requiring any state funds or shifting costs to consumers who chose not to participate."
Among those to benefit from the bill would be the state's millions of renters, who are currently unable to install their own on-site energy generation system because they don't own their home or apartment. Business owners who lease stores and/or offices face the same problem.
SB 43 establishes a program that provides all utility customers -- local governments, businesses, schools, homeowners, municipal customers and renters -- the opportunity to buy a portion of the energy generated an an off-site renewable energy facility and get credit for that energy on their utility bill. Wolk said in addition to helping the state achieve its renewable energy goals, consumers can save money without shifting costs to other utility customers -- as it costs less for a larger centralized installation to produce energy than it does for a small private installation.
The bill also removes significant obstacles that deter schools and local governments from pursuing off-site renewable energy opportunities, Wolk said.
Wolk's effort has a broad coalition of support that includes business, labor, education, and environmental groups, as well as affordable housing advocates, the Department of Defense, and many local governments.
"I remain committed to working with the governor and all interested parties to provide all Californians with access to clean and affordable renewable energy," Wolk concluded.


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Instead, opposition in perhaps America's most union-dominated state has become almost a caricature of America's growing entitlement mentality.
"There will be blood," Democratic State Rep. Douglas Geiss predicted just before the GOP-majority Legislature passed the bill and Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed it. Then fighting words turned into outright thuggery: a punch to a reporter's face here, pulling down a conservative group's tent there – with people inside. Two Michigan school districts were forced to close for a day after large numbers of teachers mysteriously failed to show up for work. Many teachers also stayed home in Detroit, where 7 percent of eighth graders are proficient in reading and just 4 percent competent in math.
At least Indiana's Democrat legislators merely fled to Illinois last year when Republicans first proposed "right to work" legislation that now gives workers the choice of whether to join a union. In the name of solidarity, some Michigan teachers have abandoned the very students they have already failed – academic malpractice that may sentence this and future generations to lives of poverty, crime or worse.
Will right-to-work solve all of Michigan's economic and social challenges? Of course not. And it's premature to assess its impact in Indiana, despite Gov. Mitch Daniels' announcement this week that nine companies intent to create 2,552 jobs here over the next several years.
But publications catering to companies looking for places to expand have boosted Indiana's rankings since right-to-work was passed, said Mick McCollum, interim president of the Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance. "It's generally thought to be a good thing (for job creation). It will also make unions more responsive to members," he said.
There are times when true compassion demands real change, not the perpetuation of policies that have for decades failed to deliver positive results. Even so, Detroit City Council member JoAnn Watson no doubt spoke for many Americans earlier this month when she suggested that President Obama owes the city a bailout because more than 75 percent of its residents voted for him last month.
But what good could a bailout do when a city's obligations over the next six months exceed its revenues by $47 million, its employees receive $1.08 in benefits for every $1 in salaries, more than 75 percent of babies are born out of wedlock, 34.5 percent of households are on food stamps, 27 percent of housing units are vacant and 15.3 percent of the 54 percent of the population that is actually working or looking for work have government jobs?
Why does this matter for the rest of us? Because, unless the Mayans were right and the world dies Dec. 21, another kind of apocalypse is looming in less than three weeks.
If left unresolved, the so-called "fiscal cliff" will trigger a $6 trillion across-the-board tax hike and $1.2 trillion in spending cuts. The president says he wants to raise rates only on the rich; Republicans resist that and insist on spending cuts. Both should happen because, just as in Detroit, the nation's $16 trillion debt cannot be eliminated simply by soaking the rich.
In France, actor Gerard Depardieu recently joined the growing roster of wealthy citizens fleeing the country in response to socialist President Francoise "I don't like the rich" Hollande's pledge to increase the maximum income tax rate to 75 percent. Not even Obama is talking about that kind of rate – yet – but successful people will eventually grow weary of being demonized and exploited. Unless matched by real spending reform, higher taxes will simply embolden politicians to tax and waste even more.
Not to solve problems or reduce debt, but to build a power base by encouraging dependency.
McCollum said something else: A lot of companies are talking about expansion but reluctant to do so because of uncertainty created by the election, Obamacare and now the fiscal cliff. "People have to know the rules before they can make money," he said.
But they have to be the right rules. What's happening in Michigan and Europe offer a timely warning of what can happen when the game is rigged to punish victory and reward failure.


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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is now available on Hulu again in both subbed and dubbed format. However, Funimation no longer has the rights to the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime, and as such is no longer available for streaming and was removed from Funimation's website as well as Hulu and Netflix.
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Both Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa are currently available on Crunchyroll, now officially being handled by Aniplex's American Branch.
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On this day, Funimation announced that their license for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Fullmetal Alchemist The Movie – Conqueror of Shamballa would be expiring soon. Funimation licenses these rights for a limited time, after which they revert to the original Japanese license holder.
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Tonight at midnight (11pm CST), Adult Swim's Toonami block will air Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa.
On this day it has been announced on Anime News Network that Ed Blaylock, the english voice actor of Führer King Bradley in both Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood aka the Homunculus Pride (FMA 2003) or Wrath (FMA 2009) has passed away after a battle with cancer at the age of 64.
Besides Fullmetal Alchemist, he was also the voice of Sengoku in the English Dub of One Piece and also worked as a weekday evening announcer for WRR 101 and also appeared in stage plays for children as historical figures as part of a living history program and as a boom operator to create sound effects for films that were made in the United States and Europe.
On this day it has been announced on Anime News Network that the manga distributor "Yen Press" which has been in charge of the release for the Fullmetal Alchemist manga's "digital releases" since 2014, will also allow for the series to be purchased on the comics website "ComiXology" as well which distributes comics from numerous different companies including "Viz Media" which handles the "physical releases" of the FMA Manga.
Michiyoshi Minamisawa, the president of the talent agency 81 Produce, announced on Wednesday that voice actor Iemasa Kayumi passed away on September 30 while undergoing medical treatment. He was 81 and would turn 82 on October 30th.
Kayumi's numerous roles include Paragus in Dragon Ball Z movie 8: The Legendary Super Saiyan, Kurotowa in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Oslo Vislar in Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, Free Planets Alliance High Council Chairman Joan Rebello in Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Lepka in Conan, the Boy in Future, James Black in Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper, Ernst Von Bähbem in RahXephon, Cobra Nefertari in One Piece, Eisuke Hayamizu in Glass Mask (2005), Nanakamado-Hakase in Pocket Monsters: Diamond & Pearl, Father and the Narrator in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and Dr. Schrader in Darker than Black. Most recently, he played Dullan in the final episodes of Space Dandy Season 2. Argurably his best known role in video games was Slayer in the Guilty Gear franchise and recently voiced Khalia Chival VI from Final Fantasy Type-0. In foreign works, he was the voice of Frank Sinatra, Yves Montand, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland in Japanese dubs. He also voiced Bill in the Kill Bill films, Saruman in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and Magneto in the X-Men film franchise.
The Dallas Voice news website is reporting on Thursday that stage actor and voice actor Jerry Russell passed away on Wednesday night surrounded by his family. Russell was 77. Russell's anime voice acting work includes Tim Marcoh in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, General Froi Tiedoll in D.Gray-man, Ohji in Casshern Sins, Papa in Funimation's dub of Initial D, Kogan Iwamoto in Shigurui, Aroldo Eklund in Spice and Wolf II, Saburota Negishi in Princess Jellyfish, and Lamies in Shakugan no Shana III (Final), among others. His latest work with Funimation included Grandpa Nirasaki in Wolf Children, and Chen Guoming in Jormungand.
Russell had checked in to a hospital last week for a surgical procedure, but developed complications after getting pneumonia. Aside from his voice acting work, Russell was also the founder of Fort Worth's Stage West Theatre. Russell is also the father of Texas Senator Wendy Davis.
It is reported that veteran voice actor Kenji Utsumi passed away at 15:01 today (June 13th) due to cancerous peritonitis, age 75. He debuted as a voice actor in 1963 and has appeared in many roles, the most famous being Senbei Norimaki in "Dr. Slump", Raoh in "Hokuto no Ken" and more recently Alex Louis Armstrong from all animes and movies of "Fullmetal Alchemist" franchise. He also served as voice actor in dubbing of foreign movies and as narrator in TV programs. He is survived by his wife, Michiko Nomura, a voice actress.
The Supermodel Mizuki Yamamoto (22 years old) wanted to marry Edward Elric when she was little. Thus, Hiromu Arakawa, author of Fullmetal Alchemist, made a beautiful dedication to the supermodel, who was moved to tears in the show "Meringue no Kimochi".
Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine has announced that Hiromu Arakawa's next title and first weekly manga project "Gin no Saji" (Silver Spoon) will begin circulation in their April 6th issue. It has been revealed that the story will be set in a high school of Japan's Hokkaido prefecture. Read more on ANN here.
Fullmetal Alchemist Bonus Chapter: Another Journey's End released
The September issue of Square Enix's Monthly Shonen Gangan magazine is announcing on Thursday that Hiromu Arakawa is drawing a new special Fullmetal Alchemist side story manga in the next issue on September 11.
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Titans and Young are for real, Jags drop now to 6 losses on the season.
Colts can do no worse than tie for the division now.So they now clinch the division !
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WASHINGTON - Left-hander Gio Gonzalez homered, providing all the offense necessary to back his six scoreless innings, and the Washington Nationals beat the Miami Marlins 3-0 Wednesday night.
Gonzalez (1-0), a 21-game winner in 2012 who finished third in NL Cy Young Award voting, allowed only two hits, along with five strikeouts and two walks.
His solo shot to left field off Kevin Slowey (0-1) came with one out in the fifth. Slowey gave up one run and four hits in 5 1-3 innings.
After hitting two homers in Game 1, Nationals left fielder Bryce Harper went 2 for 4 with a double. The 2012 NL Rookie of the Year scored on Ryan Zimmerman's single in the eighth off reliever A.J. Ramos.
Rafael Soriano got his second save, completing Washington's second straight shutout of the Marlins.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Still steaming over the Super Bowl loss, Colin Kaepernick packed up his belongings in the 49ers locker room and made plans with teammates to work out this offseason.
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Kaepernick said Tuesday that he'll be training in Atlanta within a week, and the strong-armed and fleet-footed quarterback will be bringing some of his receivers along with him. All of it is part of Kaepernick's quick evolution from backup to starter that will continue as he enters training camp as the unquestioned franchise star.
After losing 34-31 to the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans on Sunday, Kaepernick said he'll only be able to remember his breakout season "as not being good enough."
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Make it RAIN: State tells UO, OSU and cities to team up, grow jobs
EUGENE, Ore. - The Oregon Legislature commited $3.75 million to organize business creation at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University in an effort to grow more jobs in the southern Willamette Valley.
The South Willamette Valley Regional Accelerator and Innovation Network, or RAIN, will ally UO and OSU with the cities of Eugene, Springfield, Corvallis and Albany. The goal: to tap into research at the universities to generate private economic growth.
"OSU and the University of Oregon have a combined, 10-year track record of creating more than 45 spinout companies and 600 jobs," said state Sen. Lee Beyer, who represents parts of Linn and Lane counties. "We think that's just a fraction of the potential, and the RAIN initiative will ultimately have a significant impact on the Oregon economy."
Two facilities will be created, in Corvallis and Eugene, to house acceleration programs, startup companies and other support services.
The job goals are pretty lofty, 540 new high tech jobs in the south valley in 5 years. Chuck Williams of UO Innovation Partnership Services says, "We're hopefully going to have new starts in biotech, materials chemistry, the I.T. sector, anything broadly in high tech."
At the same time, hundreds of students from the two universities will gain hands-on experience in accelerator projects, Sen. Beyer said.
The governor applauded passage of the bill.
"An incredible amount of innovation is coming out of our Universities in Eugene and Corvallis," Kitzhaber said. Legislative action to create RAIN "paves the way for harnessing that innovation to create great jobs for Oregonians."
During the next two years, RAIN will focus existing efforts at the two universities into cohesive accelerator programs; increase the capacity to move more business ideas forward; and complete the infrastructure needed to make this concept work.
RAIN will also help coordinate the sharing of university laboratory space, other space made available by communities and signature research centers, and other facilities needed for research, development and ultimately manufacture of new products.
OSU already has in place a recently-formed Venture Accelerator. The University of Oregon also has a number of programs aimed at helping tech and other entrepreneurs. RAIN will help weave these programs together.
"Part of what's unique about RAIN is this powerful collaboration between universities, the communities around them and the private business sector," said Rick Spinrad, vice president for research at OSU. "This is part of a new and exciting approach for university research. We're going to create technology-based companies that provide high wage jobs, and at the same time our students will learn how to become the entrepreneurs of the future. The Oregon legislature has seen this as an investment that should pay off for Oregon."
"Small, innovative technology companies hold great promise for Oregon," said Kimberly Andrews Espy, vice president for research and innovation and dean of the Graduate School at UO. "They tend to grow quickly and create stable, high-wage jobs that attract and keep talent in the state, and on a broader scale, create the products that are changing our world. RAIN represents a new, regional and collaborative approach to nurturing these kinds of businesses here in Oregon. We thank the legislature for this investment and Senator Beyer for his leadership."
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LITTLETON Bowling Club's popular gala was contested by 20 teams from New Zealand, Scotland and many local clubs.
The 20 teams were divided into two sections with the winner of each playing for the overall prize of £200 in sunny conditions.
Section one victors were a group from Aston Somerville, skipped by Brenda Kendry, who lost the final to a side from Barbourne, Worcester, led by Huw Roberts, after 10 ends.
Fred Winter's team, skipped by Littleton's Tony Guy, defeated Pershore's Mike Laight for third place.
Newcomers can play at the South Littleton club on Wednesday evenings or call 01386-830198.
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When Sister Claire Maher was born, Theodore Roosevelt was president, Henry Ford's Model T would not be released for another year and the completion of the Golden Gate Bridge was still three decades away.
After witnessing most of the 20th century and the dawn of the 21st, Maher celebrated her 105th birthday with flowers and cake Thursday at the Our Lady of Lourdes Convent in San Rafael.
"I've just led a normal life," Maher said. "I just don't know how God keeps me and I'm able to come to the meals, come to the prayers."
Maher is the oldest member of the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael and is older than any nun at the other major Catholic sisterhoods in the Bay Area, according to officials.
However, at age 105 she is still years away from becoming the oldest person in the world.
"That's considered a youngster by our group," said L. Stephen Coles, a physician at the University of California at Los Angeles and director of the Gerontology Research Group, which estimates there are several hundred "supercentenarians" ages 110 and older around the world.
Born in Morning Sun, Iowa on Nov. 15, 1907, Maher was the second-oldest of nine children — only one sister, age 90, survives — in a farming family. She attended Catholic school and learned about the church from her uncle, a priest who visited every two years from Oakland.
Inspired to live a life of prayer, Maher joined her uncle in California and took her vows in 1930.
Many parents did not want their daughters to become nuns but Maher's were different.
"My parents sat me down in the living room and told me I had their blessing," she said.
She spent most of her career teaching, beginning with a class of 70 children at St. Mary School in San Leandro. She became the founding principal of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic School in Daly City, which recently named Sr. Claire's Preschool in her honor.
She worked at San Domenico School in San Anselmo and lived in a convent there for more than 25 years until she moved to Our Lady of Lourdes, the Dominican convent for sick and elderly nuns, in 2002.
Although hampered by an injury after she was struck by a golf cart, Maher still walks — with a walker — to the dining room and the chapel.
She remains in touch with former students and has already completed her Christmas cards, which number more than 100.
"I don't know what God wants me to do now — I guess, pray for other people," she said.
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Hi gurus!
i want my engine to support shaders. it is the first time that i get in touch with shaders, and i am not sure what kind of features i will support... how do your shader systems work? can you guys post examples of your shaders?
Here's mine:
# this is just a pseudo-grammar-language...
# comments start with '#' :)
depthvalue ="never"|("none"|"always")|"less"|"lequal"|"equal"|"gequal"|
alphavalue ="never"|("none"|"always")|"less" ref |"lequal" ref|
"equal" ref|"gequal" ref| "greater" ref|"notequal" ref
"shader" name
"cull" = "front"|"back"|"none" # default=front
"fog" = bool # default=0
"type" = "sky"|"water"|"none" # default=none
"layer" level { # level ranges from 0..7
"depthfunc" = depthvalue # default=always
"depthwrite" = bool
"alphafunc" = alphavalue # default=always
"blendfunc" = blendvalue
"texturemap" = name
"shininess" = 0..128
"specular" = 0..255 0..255 0..255 0..255 # default 0 0 0 255
"emissive" = 0..255 0..255 0..255 0..255
"type" = "decal"|"detail"|"none"|"bumpmap"|"envmap" # default=none
a shader can have several layers of textures, each layer with his own material, depth- alpha- and blend-function. it is based on the tutorials at http://www.racer.nl/reference/shadereng.htm.
that's it, comments are welcome!
you know at first glance I though you were talking about vertex and pixel shaders, you know the programmable pipeline stuff that's all the craze these days...
shouldn't your gf4 support shaders that run directly on the hardware ?
ok, sorry i meant... err... shaders! Well, Quake3-shaders, or just look at the link in my first post to find out what i mean. i DONT mean vertex or pixel shaders =)
come to think of it the nebula device from [www.radonlabs.de](www.radonlabs.de) used such a shader system. maybe you should have a look at their implementation. i think it supported about the same featureset as yours
how would you be realizing things like bumbmapping ??? i think i would start out with a much more restricted featureset and expand it from there on. i suppose you will have to solve a few inital problems regarding things like multi-pass situations, etc. after you have built a solid base more effects will become easier to implement
yes, i'll definitely start with the basic features, and then go on to more advanced stuff. i have no idea how to implement bump mapping, but it looks cool, so i added it
However, the multipass thing nearly works...
i will have a look at nebula.
nebula was one of the refferences for me for learning for learning engine architecture


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Carl Sandberg once called Chicago a "city of the big shoulders." At a city council meeting this week, Mill Valley was characterized as a "city with a lot of big egos."
That description came from City Councilwoman Stephanie Moulton-Peters. In Mill Valley, she said, "We want what we want."
Right now, what she and her council colleagues want is an end to hostilities in what David Rand, the outgoing chairman of the planning commission, has called a "turf war" that he says is being waged against him and his fellow commissioners by the city's planning and building staff.
At a council meeting last month, council members and city staff were taken aback when Rand used the commission chairman's normally innocuous annual report to level a stinging public critique of Planning Director Mike Moore, essentially accusing him and his staff of rubber-stamping building projects and causing "significant lapses in communication" that have caused "dysfunction" to plague the planning process.
Rand said planning staff recommended that the commission approve all 21 applications for single-family home projects in the past year. Commissioners approved only eight.
Ironically, the so-called turf war escalated at this week's meeting after a report by City Manager Jim McCann on "planning commission practices" that ostensibly was intended to improve relations between the two camps. If it was intended to soothe egos bruised in the civic contretemps, it fell far short.
During public comments on the report, Rand first took council members to task for accusing him in the press of "blindsiding" them with the pointed charges he made in his report.
"Following my presentation, I read in the IJ that I had been criticized for being inappropriate because I had raised my concerns at a city council meeting without having given the council a heads-up beforehand," he said, denying that was the case. "The report by an outgoing chair should not be limited to the usual model of appreciations and accomplishments. This is not Pleasantville of movie fame, and we should not be afraid of debate."
Reading from a prepared statement, Rand sounded offended by the city manager's recommendation that planning commissioners would benefit from additional training, including instruction on the chair person's duties.
"In my view, the emphasis in the report for more training for commissioners misses the point entirely," he said. "I will never suggest that those of us who volunteer so much of our time know all that we could about our jobs or the subject matter. However, the problem I addressed did not arise from lack of training."
After Rand's complaints, Planning Commissioner John McCauley took issue with a section of the report on "respect and civility" in which McCann wrote that "harsh criticism or dismissive comments and input are inappropriate, not productive and not condoned."
Requesting a simple yes or no reply, McCauley asked the city manager if those comments were aimed at planning commissioners.
"I think some folks have received them in a fashion I didn't intend for them to be received," McCann said. "I apologize for that. My intention is to be as constructive as possible."
Describing the relationship between the planning director and the planning commission as "an awkward partnership," Councilman Ken Wachtel, a former planning commissioner, suggested they go on an annual retreat presided over by an outside moderator, preferably the mayor or vice mayor.
Rand, whose three-year term ends this month, was applauded by council members for his service. At the same time, Mayor Andrew Berman pointed out that the planning director deserves some credit for doing a job that is an easy target for critics.
"There are daggers coming from every side," he said.
At the end of the hearing, the council agreed to see how things are going in six months.
In the meantime, Councilwoman Moulton-Peters urged everyone to "try and get along."
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Who's stopping Kansas State now? TCU tried and failed, losing 23-10 Saturday night.
Collin Klein, his mysterious injury status moot by kickoff, came and he played as he always does—with toughness, discipline and a determination to carry these Wildcats to the promised land.
As much as any team out there, Kansas State played as if it is forcing pollsters to put this team up top; daring them not to, even. Oregon is being just as bullish.
The Ducks toyed with Cal before crushing it, 59-17. Notre Dame, meanwhile, played an uncomfortably close game against Boston College, winning 21-6.
Now the question is which unbeaten team is best positioned to take advantage of Alabama's fall at the hands of Texas A&M?
It may have been K-State. Klein is unstoppable, passing for 145 yards and rushing for another 50.
The Wildcats scored 23 points before TCU scored any, with the Horned Frogs' field goal and touchdown coming in the final 7:41 of the game.
TCU moved the ball but not much more. It delivered hard hits, but didn't really slow Bill Snyder's bunch. It gave its best blow and Kansas State remained sturdy in victory.
Still, Kansas State must face a relentless offensive machine in Baylor, and has the regular-season finale against Texas on Dec. 1.
Notre Dame, meanwhile, led 7-0 after one quarter against lowly Boston College; 14-3 after two. The Irish eventually finished the deal, but if you tuned out after halftime, would you be convinced ND is the best team in the nation?
Afterward, coach Brian Kelly responded to his team's ugly loss and the fact it's unlikely to win anyone over.
"If people don't like us winning, I don't know what to tell you," he said.
Then there's Oregon.
The Ducks lost starting safety Avery Patterson to a knee injury. Running back Kenjon Barner left the game briefly with a hand or wrist injury. Quarterback Marcus Mariota trotted off the field favoring his left shoulder.
It was scary stuff. Barner and Mariota returned to the game, but like any other team, Oregon is subject to setbacks, too.
The biggest would have been a loss to Cal, which stayed in step with the Ducks better than any team has all year for one half. The Bears eventually faded as Oregon made the BCS poll decision tougher.
Pollsters will divvy style points, but which of the three will get the most?
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Wisconsin has faced its share of trials this season. Things took another turn when starting quarterback Joel Stave was lost for the year with a broken collarbone sustained Oct. 27 in a loss to Michigan State.
A quarterback battle between transfer Danny O'Brien and oft-injured fifth-year senior Curt Phillips ensued last week. Phillips got the nod heading into Saturday's game against Indiana and it was as much an emotional lift as anything else for the Badgers.
Three times Phillips has sustained major injuries to his right knee. But on this day, the knee was fine and so, for one of the few times this season, was Wisconsin, which clubbed the Hoosiers, 62-14.
The Badgers clinched a spot in the Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis as winners of the Leaders Division. Wisky's final two opponents—Ohio State next week and Penn State on Nov. 24—are both ineligible for the postseason.
Now, Wisconsin can begin training its eye on a third-consecutive trip to the Rose Bowl. The season that seemed so woeful at the start—a struggle in the opener against Northern Iowa, a loss on the road vs. Oregon State, a fight with Utah State—may finally be coming into shape.
Narrow losses at Nebraska and against the Spartans may have done more to help Wisconsin down the stretch than hurt it. On Saturday, starting left tackle Ricky Wagner was back from injury.
And Montee Ball, who lost his first career fumble and sustained a concussion against UTEP earlier this season, was back to the form that earned him a spot on the front row of last year's Heisman Trophy ceremonies.
Ball scored the first of his three touchdowns early in the first quarter. He passed former Texas great Ricky Williams to move into second place on the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision career touchdown list with 76. Travis Prentice of Miami (Ohio) holds the record with 78 TDs.
So much for perfection.
Louisville blew that with a 45-26 loss to unranked Syracuse in the Carrier Dome Saturday.
The Cardinals were holding hopes of an unbeaten regular-season record that would launch them into the Orange Bowl as Big East champions. Now, things are stickier.
Louisville has a head-to-head victory over Cincinnati, which easily defeated Temple Saturday. But Rutgers remains undefeated in league play, with its only loss of the season coming to Kent State. Rutgers pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat Army, 28-7.
Louisville has Connecticut remaining, then is at Rutgers on Nov. 29.
A win over Syracuse would have made the picture clearer. But the Cardinals' suspect defense finally caught up with them and made waste of quarterback Teddy Bridgewater's 426 passing yards and three touchdowns.
Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long said a few weeks ago that he'd take phone calls from interested coaches. At Kentucky, Joker Phillips has already been relieved of his duties, effective at the end of the season. A report surfaced this week that Auburn's president is gathering members of the Board of Trustees to discuss Gene Chizik's future.
Meanwhile, Tennessee got 404 passing yards and four touchdowns from quarterback Tyler Bray, but still lost 51-48 to Missouri in four overtimes. The Volunteers remain winless in the SEC this season.
It seems only a matter of time before four SEC coaches will be packing their bags, and Derek Dooley is certain to be among them. If he isn't, it's hard to fathom what series of events or circumstances would save Dooley's job.
According to a report last month in The Knoxville News-Sentinel, to fire Dooley and his assistants, the university would have to shell out a buyout of "at least $5.6 million, and perhaps as much as $9.3 million, over the next four years…"
Dooley would be entitled to $5 million through 2016.
So, it may be too expensive to let him go.
But for Volunteers' fans, keeping him may be even more costly for the program.
When Georgia was smoked by South Carolina, it seemed the Bulldogs' aspirations went up in flames, too.
But while everyone discounted Georgia, the pieces continued to fall into place for the team. Now, after a 38-0 shellacking of Auburn, Georgia finds itself back in the SEC championship game as winners of the East division.
Georgia is 9-1 and finishes the year up against Georgia Southern and in-state rival, Georgia Tech.
Despite Alabama's loss to Texas A&M, it's still likely Georgia will face the Tide in the conference title game. Georgia doesn't have a Johnny Manziel on its side of the field, but it does have a solid defense, good running game and momentum.
That means anything can happen.
Aaron Murray passed for 208 yards and three touchdowns, while freshmen tailbacks Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall combined to rush for 221 yards and two TDs.
Texas ran the wishbone for Darrell Royal on the first play vs. Iowa State, a nod to the former Longhorns coach who died this week. Royal found considerable success running that offense, winning two national championships, so the gesture was more than appropriate. But not even the Cyclones saw what was coming next.
The Longhorns had announced their wishbone plan after Royal's death earlier this week, so you'd think that the Longhorns would hand it off, kick up 3 yards and a cloud of dust, and point to the sky. Instead, what we got was a cool—and successful—trick play.
Starting their opening drive at their own 6-yard line, the Longhorns handed the ball off to Jaxon Shipley, who ran right, but then passed the ball back to QB David Ash in the end zone, where Ash delivered a 42-yard strike to tight end Greg Daniels.
Well, Royal was fond of saying that three things can happen when you pass, and two of them were bad. But when that one thing works out, you get goosebumps. And you honor a legend at the same time.
— Arizona RB Ka'Deem Carey ran for a Pac-12 record 366 yards and tied the league record with five touchdowns in a 56-31 win over Colorado.
— Texas Tech QB Seth Doege recorded 476 passing yards and three TDs in a double-overtime, 41-34 win over Kansas.
— USC WR Marqise Lee caught 10 passes for 161 yards and a touchdown in a 38-17 victory over Arizona State.
— Louisiana Tech QB Colby Cameron broke Russell Wilson's NCAA record of 379 passes without an interception. Cameron, after a 62-55 win over Texas State, now has a streak of 419 passes without a pick.
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Teixeira addresses bad habit, encouraged by health
TAMPA, Fla. -- Mark Teixeira said that he had been protecting his surgically repaired right wrist and not taking his most powerful cuts at the plate this spring, but a sit-down with Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long has addressed the problem.
"It was something I didn't know I was doing," Teixeira said. "Kevin and I have, over the last week, we've been really trying to work on me taking my full swing. What I noticed in game film from Spring Training, I was protecting my swing the way I was doing last year when I was hurt. I think it's just bad habits that I got into last year."
Teixeira said that, when batting left-handed, he was taking his left hand off the bat in mid-swing to protect his right wrist -- doing it in games as well as in batting practice.
Long and manager Joe Girardi were encouraged that Teixeira -- who was batting .091 (3-for-33) this spring, heading into Friday night's game against the Marlins -- seemed to start taking better swings on Thursday against the Pirates in Bradenton, Fla.
"We all needed to see that," Long said. "You want these guys going into the season feeling good about their swing and what they're doing, how the ball is coming off the bat. For everybody; Tex certainly, and Joe wanted to see it, I wanted to see it as well. We got positive feedback."
Teixeira said that despite his lackluster spring numbers, he has been encouraged by making it through the spring healthy.
"I've been hitting some nice line drives, but those line drives I need to get under and hit for home runs," Teixeira said. "That'll come with just getting stronger as the season goes on. No one can predict what the season's going to give you, but what I do know is that through six weeks of Spring Training, I'm healthy. And that's a really good sign."
Teixeira also said that he believes his usual target goals of 30 home runs and 100 RBIs can be in play.
"My thing has been, since early in my career, if I'm on the field, that's what I'm going to do," Teixeira said. "So I need to be on the field for 162 games. We talked about my plan this whole spring, it was to get my body in position to play 150-plus games. The way I feel today, I'm confident that I can do that."
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Lackey takes big step forward against Astros
Picks up first win since 2011 with strong six-inning effort
BOSTON -- John Lackey finally had expectations to meet, maybe for the first time since starting the 2010 season after signing his five-year, $82.5 million contract with the Red Sox.
After six strong innings by Lackey in a 6-1 win over the Astros on Sunday afternoon, the first step toward getting him back to being a productive part of the Red Sox's rotation was a success.
"It's been a long time," Lackey said. "There's been a lot of hard work to get back to this point, and hopefully I can keep it rolling forward."
The Red Sox finished off a four-game sweep of the Astros and improved to 18-7, matching their best start since 2002. They own the best record in the Majors, and could set team record for most victories in April with a win on Tuesday against the Blue Jays.
Regardless of the team Lackey was facing -- though the Astros, for all the flak they receive, are actually averaging just over four runs a game, better than 16 other offenses in the Majors this season -- he was able to get his fastball up to 93 mph (about 2 mph slower than his fastest pitch during his first start of the season), get out of jams and consistently locate in the strike zone.
While his arm strength is still not back to 100 percent after a right biceps strain kept him on the 15-day disabled list for 20 days, Lackey was able to test his fastball, cutter, slider and curve throughout an 81-pitch outing.
"I was just hoping I didn't feel anything in the arm," Lackey said. "And [I was] just trying to get back in the groove of things, and hopefully get four or five starts going here and get the arm strength back and get the feel back. It was definitely a good step in the process."
With a fastball that sat around 90-92 mph in the early going, Lackey gave up a quick run in the first. His fastball lost a few ticks in the middle innings, but the 34-year-old then retired 13 men in a row.
The Astros loaded the bases on three singles in the sixth inning, before Lackey turned it back up a notch to face Fernando Martinez.
Martinez fouled off a 90-mph fastball before sending a 90-mph cutter deep to left. But the ball bounced off the Green Monster just a few feet foul to give Lackey a chance to put him away. Martinez struck out on the next pitch, a sharp slider.
"I thought the ball got out of his hand better than expected," said manager John Farrell. "Not only in terms of velocity, but in the action to which some of his pitches showed at the bottom of the strike zone -- whether it was a two-seamer to get a number of ground balls, he had a good cutter, consistent sharpness to his curveball, as we saw in Toronto in his first outing. Honestly, it was better than expected in most ways today."
Stephen Drew had a two-out, two-run triple in the fourth inning to give Lackey an early lead.
"It's always good to deliver," said Drew, who has five RBIs in his last four games. "It's just a matter of timing for me, and it was just a good feeling. We needed it."
David Ortiz continued his torrid spell with an RBI single in the first inning and an RBI single in the seventh, driving in Daniel Nava each time. Ortiz went 2-for-4 at the plate, though it lowered his average to .516. He extended his hitting streak to 20 games dating back to last season, which is a new career high.
Nava reached base three times, marking the 12th game this season that the outfielder has reached safely at least twice. Entering Sunday, his .402 on-base percentage ranked 11th in the American League.
"Our overall offensive approach has been outstanding," Farrell said. "Guys aren't afraid to pass the baton onto the next guy. They'll take their walks in key spots. We've had good situational hitting."
The Red Sox outscored Houston, 28-10, over the four-game series. The Astros have yet to win in seven tries at Fenway Park.
"You look at their pitchers," said Astros manager Bo Porter, "and even when they got in trouble, they were able to make quality pitches to get out of trouble. And a lot of times, those quality pitches were in or breaking stuff down and out of the zone to get us to chase.
"After four games, they played better than us."
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Media-shy Torrance City Manager LeRoy Jackson has marked three decades as the community's top administrator and 46 years of municipal employment.
"LeRoy is to be commended for his patience, diligence and brilliant foresight in preventing and overcoming obstacles," said Mayor Frank Scotto at Tuesday's City Council meeting, adding that Jackson assured him he would remain in his post during his mayoral tenure.
Jackson, who is believed to be the state's longest-serving city manager - a post notorious for its quick turnover - turns 69 years old this year.
He joined the city in 1966 and became Torrance's fourth city manager in 1983.
Jackson, who prefers to stay in the background, made a few brief remarks after receiving a standing ovation from the audience.
He also received a gift to mark his apparent countdown to retirement: a clock.
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Frieda's adds organic limes, sweet spuds
Frieda's Specialty Produce, Los Alamitos, Calif., launched Stokes organic purple sweet potatoes and organic finger limes this year, said Karen Caplan, president and chief executive officer.
The purple sweet potatoes have a high antioxidant value and low glycemic index.
Caplan said the potatoes have been very well received.
The finger limes launched in July. The organic Stokes purple sweet potatoes were released in late October.
These products fall in line with the company's efforts to increase their organic options.
"We are in the process of expanding our organic offerings," Caplan said.
Homegrown Organics offers mandarin bags
Porterville, Calif.-based Homegrown Organic Farms has added a 2-pound mandarin pouch-style bag this year.
"It is a new bag design for us, with new artwork," chief executive officer Scott Mabs said.
The company also released a wrap-around PLU sticker for large items such as pomegranates.
"It's for specific items that are often retailed in bulk but that tend to have a difficult time getting the proper ring-through at the checkout stand," Mabs said.
Also new: a packing shed in Kingsburg, Calif.
"We ran it during the stone fruit season and will be starting the citrus line there in the next few weeks. The company also has a new lemon line in its Riverside location," he said.
"We've seen continued expansion as programs are growing. We're setting ourselves up for the growth coming at us over the next several years due to new acreage and developments," he said.
The company expects to offer pomelos in its organic citrus line for the first time this year, Mabs said.
Lakeside Organics teaches kids farming
Lakeside Organic Gardens, Watsonville, Calif., participated in Monterey County Farm Day on Oct. 24.
Gary Waugaman, food safety manager, brought draft horses to the event and taught students about farming methods before trucks and other modern equipment were used, spokeswoman Lindsey Roberts said.
"The main focus is about teaching children about where their food comes from. Children loved the horses and were shocked to learn that tractors have not always been used to prepare fields," Roberts said.
The event is held three times a year, and 1,800 students were present for the October event day, according to Roberts. About 6,000 Monterey County students attend each year.
"We're proud to participate year after year and plan to continue this type of outreach for years to come," she said.
Nature Fresh to offer organic bell peppers
Nature Fresh Farms Inc., Leamington, Ontario, is prepared to offer organic bell peppers next year, according to Ray Wowryk, director of business development.
"This season we went through a phase of trials and tests to determine the best method to grow organic bell peppers," Wowryk said.
As a result of these efforts, the company is pre-certified for organic production, which means it will be ready for certification when production officially begins next year.
"We're looking at putting in just under five acres of organic pepper production, primarily red and yellow varieties," he said.
Wowryk said organic peppers are one of the more difficult organic items to grow in a greenhouse, and there seems to be a lot of demand for the product.
They've put a lot of research and expertise into the effort, he said.
"We feel quite confident we've come up with the right combination of nutrients and growing medium to successfully produce bell peppers in a greenhouse in Canada," he said.
The Nunes Co. adds chard, kale, herbs
Salinas, Calif.-based vegetable grower-shipper, The Nunes Co., has introduced a new line of organic items, according to Doug Classen, sales manager.
The company released several varieties of organic chard, kale, parsley, collard greens and sweet baby broccoli throughout the summer months.
Most recently, the company launched organic leeks in late October.
"We've seen an excellent response. Our clients are very happy to see these additions made to the items we were already shipping," Classen said.
Classen said the company thinks these products are a good complement to the other organic items they offer.
"With the higher volume items like broccoli, cauliflower and celery, this really enhances the program overall," he said.
Oneonta Starr Ranch offers display bin
Wenatchee, Wash.-based Oneonta Starr Ranch Growers developed an organic display bin for retail.
The bin was designed to provide more point-of-sale support.
"We had a request for additional p.o.s. material from one of our high-end organic apple users," said Paul Newman, organic sales.
Newman said the bin would help support retail sales.
"Display merchandisers have been a great tool," he said.
The bins were shown at PMA's Fresh Summit and are available now, Newman said.
Stemilt sees success with organic piñatas
Stemilt Growers Inc., Wenatchee, Wash., launched organic piñata apples in 2007, and they are now a favorite item.
Marketing director Roger Pepperl said the product is a very popular item for the company.
"It's a big thing, and we're trying to expand the program," he said.
The apples should be available nationwide by January.
Pepperl said the company also has focused on its supply of organic pears.
"It's a tough thing to grow organically, and it's a spotlight item at Stemilt because a lot of people want organic pears," he said.
Viva Tierra renames, marks 20th year
The Sedro-Woolley, Wash.-based Viva Tierra Organic Inc., is enjoying its 20th anniversary.
The company was known as CF Fresh Inc. before changing its name to reflect its main brand earlier this year as part of the anniversary celebration.
In addition to the name change, Viva Tierra has hosted several farm tours in various areas.
"We took customers to Chile in the spring to tour production areas there, see the plant and met growers," said Addie Pobst, coordinator of imports, sustainability, organic integrity and food safety.
The company also has offered tours in Washington and California.
"We've been in business for 20 years because of our relationships with growers, so we've focused on shining the spotlight on our growers as part of the anniversary year," Pobst said.
Most recently, the company hosted a visit in late September in Washington. Additional tours are in the works.


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"We are all surfers on the waves of change, and here at Full Sail the surf's always up! How we deal with the constant changes will define the successes or failures of our students."
Bill Galbreath, program director for the Arts and Design degree programs at Full Sail University, has been involved with the graphic arts since 1975 and digital content creation since 1991, when he started a design firm in Winter Park, Florida. While working with clients ranging from small local businesses to large international firms, he discovered that achievements in the digital arts industry were a function of proficiency in communication. Using available digital tools, he began developing branding for companies by visually chronicling the company's story and not concentrating solely on design.
After being impressed by Full Sail graduates' work and hiring four Full Sail grads for his firm, Galbreath became intrigued with the unique nature of the school. This led to a move to join the faculty there in February 2000. He was honored with an Excellence in Teaching award for his department in 2001 and 2003, winning the prestigious Top Gun award for Excellence in Teaching for Full Sail in 2002. In 2004, while attaining an Education Master's in Instructional Technology, he became the program director for Arts and Design. He is a self-described "curriculum geek" and continues to work creating new programs at Full Sail. Galbreath introduced Macromedia® Breeze® into the school in 2004 and had the first program at Full Sail University to put all the learning materials online for students to access.


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One of the great side effects of Apple's rise and Johnny Ive coming into the spotlight is that more people now know who Dieter Rams is. Sometimes I will jump onto eBay just to look at some of his old Braun products for sale. I almost bought the desk fan several times.
"The unspectacular things are the important things. Especially in the future." – Dieter Rams
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I've been getting a lot out of Ajahn Brahsm youtube channels and writings. I'm thinking of trying one of his retreats out. I live on the east coast of the US, so that would be quite a big and expensive trip.
Has anyone here gone on one of Ajahn Brahms retreats? Opinions, observations?


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The answer may be mostly a matter of perspective, but Tuesday's results indicate that Republicans especially need to re-examine their message, their messengers or both if they hope to regain national dominance any time soon.
If the rest of America were like Allen County, the GOP's glass would be overflowing. As county Chairman Steve Shine told the party's annual post-election luncheon Wednesday, State Superintendent of Education Tony Bennett was the only Republican on the ballot not to carry Allen County. And that included Richard Mourdock, soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate race now held by Republican Richard Lugar.
If the rest of the country mirrored Allen County, a very liberal Democratic president hounded by recent foreign-policy setbacks, a weak economy and other potential millstones would not have won. The GOP would not have lost influence in the U.S. Senate, and several tea party-backed House members would not have lost. Voters in two states would not have legalized recreational marijuana use, and in two others would not have broken a 32-state streak by authorizing same-sex marriage.
But with numerous polls showing that conservatives outnumber liberals by a two-to-one margin nationwide, what explains the GOP's inability to translate supposed philosophical support into votes?
"The party has to do some introspection," said Andy Downs, director of the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics at IPFW. More specifically, Downs said Republicans need to decide whether "conservatism" is primarily defined in economic terms or whether it also – perhaps even primarily – encompasses such divisive social issues as abortion and gay rights.
As Downs noted, Republican Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller – largely perceived as apolitical – handily won re-election while the confrontational, tea party-backed Mourdock did not. Governor-elect Mike Pence is a fiscal and social conservative but largely avoided controversy during his campaign.
The boring, play-it-safe Mitt Romney was hardly a right-winger, however, and lost anyway. Downs suspects Romney was hurt by the long, bitter and expensive Republic primary process and several campaign gaffes, but the Tea Party News Network blamed Romney's demise on his lack of true conservative credentials.
"I eagerly await the day the GOP establishment figures out that the 'safe' candidates are not getting the job done," Director Scott Hughes said in a statement.
The obvious inference from Downs' comments is that the Republican Party would be more successful by downplaying social issues, stressing fiscal conservatism and finding candidates able and willing to articulate those positions in an appealing, non-threatening way. But can the GOP really do that and remain true to its core principles?
Shine isn't convinced such a dramatic makeover will be necessary because, after all, the glass is still nearly half full.
"We are always working to add people to our party: young people, women. We need to educate people (about where we stand)," he said.
But like it or not, support for illegal immigration, the growing welfare state, gay rights and other issues anathema to conservatives appears to be growing. If the GOP cannot "educate" voters into changing their positions, the party will have to evolve – or risk losing influence in all but the "reddest" of areas.
With the notable exception of abortion — the right to life being guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence – Republicans would do well to concentrate on economics, governance and the cultivation of dynamic and appealing candidates and leave the social and moral issues to the church. Mixing the two helped torpedo Mourdock, after all, and some conservatives scare even me when their evangelical zeal seems to confuse the presidency with the papacy.
"It has been sad to see supposed Christian leaders like . . . Billy Graham . . . sell out the faith by telling Biblical Christians that there was nothing wrong with voting for a man whose satanic cult . . . leads souls to hell," wrote Internet evangelist Bill Keller. Keller couldn't bring himself to support Obama or the Mormon Romney, so he urged his flock to write in "Jesus" for president. He claims that more than 2 million people pledged to do just that – votes Romney could have used.
It's been said that people get the government they deserve. That is true today, sadly, for any number of reasons.


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Reshaping Exercise Habits and Beliefs (REHAB) (REHAB)
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Regular exercise has been demonstrated to improve muscle strength, balance, coordination as well as improve cardiovascular fitness levels and overall quality of life in stroke survivors. This study is designed to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a 12-week intervention to education and encourage stroke survivors to exercise following discharge from rehabilitation settings using a walking program and targeted functional activity homework.
|Cerebrovascular Accident Stroke
|Behavioral: Exercise Other: Stroke education
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|Reshaping Exercise Habits and Beliefs (REHAB): Pilot Testing of a Behavioral Intervention to Improve Mobility After Stroke
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MedlinePlus related topics: Exercise and Physical Fitness RehabilitationU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Ambulatory Activity Profile [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
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|Study Start Date:
|October 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Arm 1
Home-based exercise prescriptions with weekly motivational telephone calls.
Behavioral: Exercise
Home-based exercise prescriptions with weekly motivational telephone calls.
Arm 2
Stroke education program with matched attention phone calls
Other: Stroke education
Stroke education program with matched attention phone calls
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|40 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- 40-85 years old ischemic Stroke patients,
- Stroke onset <90 days at enrollment,
- Hemiparetic gait disorder,
- Patients able to walk 30ft with or w/out assistive device,
- Sufficient English comprehension to understand instructions, provide consent, and answer questions,
- Lives within 30 miles of the Greater Baltimore area.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Dementia (extended MMSE <85 or <80 if education level below 9th grade),
- Untreated major clinical depression (CES-D>16) and confirmed with clinical interview,
- Heavy alcohol use (<3 oz liquor, 3, 4-oz glasses of wine, or 3, 12- oz beers daily),
- Active cancer, or any illness with a life expectancy of less than 6 months,
- Any condition in which exercise activity would be contraindicated including, but not limited to: unstable angina, cardiac ischemic event within the past 6 months, congestive heart failure (Stage III or IV), major orthopedic chronic pain or non-stroke neuromuscular disorders restricting exercise, oxygen-dependent COPD or peripheral neuropathy.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00431821
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00431821
|United States, Maryland
|Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
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VA Office of Research and Development
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|Marianne Shaughnessy, RN PhD
|Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD
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|Study First Received:
|February 2, 2007
|Last Updated:
|July 18, 2013
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Cerebrovascular Disorders
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
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Category: Prince Erik
The other day we talked about Princess Names, but what if the royal baby in your family is male? Then you might need one of the Prince Names, and Charming is probably not going to cut it.
There are a handful of appealing names that mean "prince." Brendan is Irish, Mael is Breton, while Vladimir is Slavic for "renowned prince." Armel, the name of a Welsh saint who founded abbeys in Brittany, means "stone prince" in French, while Adhit is an Indonesian name with that meaning.
Prince itself is of course also a name, chosen by Michael Jackson for his son — though if you choose it, you'd have to put up with an awful lot of "formerly known as" jokes. Better bets: King, Duke, or maybe even Earl.
Fictional princes who might prove inspirational include:
Caspian – Prince who is the rightful king in The Chronicles of Narnia.
Edvard "Eddie" – Danish prince posing as Wisconsin exchange student in deathless 2004 classic "The Prince and Me."
Erik – The Prince in The Little Mermaid.
Moses – Biblical baby raised as a prince.


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So, yesterday I took a little trip with a couple other disc'ers down to Smithville, MO to play the Paradise Pointe Courses(Beaver, Blackthorn and Woodhenge). I was greatly disappointed in these courses after hearing how fun they are. Looking at these two pictures, would you say that these are Fairways? When I go to a course that has crap like this, it just takes the fun out of playing. There were a few more holes like this, but didn't take a picture of them.
Can you spot the basket in this one? Only real route to the basket was a big sky high spike hyzer for the most part.
And this was taken from the layup teeshot that pretty much our entire group threw. Too much of a luck factor in my opinion.
I would like to see some pic's and comments from others in terms of what they would consider good/bad course design.


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More frigid weather in February led to another large downward revision to the STEO's end-of-March 2014 projection for working natural gas inventories. Projected inventories now end March at 965 billion cubic feet (Bcf), ending the season below 1,000 Bcf for the first time since 2003. Much colder-than-normal temperatures in February led to large stock withdrawals in response to high demand from the residential, commercial, and electric power sectors. According to data from Bentek Energy, three of the top five months for total natural gas demand over the last eight years have occurred this heating season (December 2013, January 2014, and February 2014).
The stage is now set for a record stock build over the injection season. Projected end-of-October inventories total 3,459 Bcf, a build of almost 2,500 Bcf. This month's STEO raises the outlook for natural gas prices, which will spur additional production. Expectations for lower demand from the electric power sector compared with the past several years should help enable a record-high stock build.
U.S. Natural Gas Consumption
EIA expects total natural gas consumption will average 71.3 Bcf per day (Bcf/d) in 2014, a drop of 0.1 Bcf/d from 2013. The projected year-over-year increases in natural gas prices contribute to declines in natural gas used for electric power generation from 24.9 Bcf/d in 2012 to 22.3 Bcf/d in 2013 and 22.0 Bcf/d in 2014. In 2015, total natural gas consumption falls by 0.3 Bcf/d as a decline in residential and commercial consumption more than offsets consumption growth in the industrial and electric power sectors. EIA expects natural gas consumption in the power sector to increase to 22.6 Bcf/d in 2015 with the retirement of some coal plants.
U.S. Natural Gas Production and Trade
EIA expects natural gas marketed production will grow at an average rate of 2.5% in 2014 and 1.1% in 2015. Rapid natural gas production growth in the Marcellus formation is causing natural gas forward prices in the Northeast to fall even with or below Henry Hub prices outside of peak-demand winter months. Consequently, some drilling activity may move away from the Marcellus back to Gulf Coast plays such as the Haynesville and Barnett, where prices are closer to the Henry Hub spot price.
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports have declined over the past several years because higher prices in Europe and Asia are more attractive to sellers than the relatively low prices in the United States. Several companies are planning to build liquefaction capacity to export LNG from the United States. Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass facility is planned to be the first to liquefy natural gas produced in the Lower 48 states for export. The facility has a total liquefaction capacity of 3 Bcf/d and is scheduled to come online in stages beginning in late 2015.
Growing domestic production over the past several years has displaced some pipeline imports from Canada, while exports to Mexico have increased. EIA expects these trends will continue through 2015. EIA projects net imports of 3.6 Bcf/d in 2014 and 2.6 Bcf/d in 2015, which would be the lowest level since 1987. Over the longer term, the EIA Annual Energy Outlook 2014 projects the United States will be a net exporter of natural gas beginning in 2018.
U.S. Natural Gas Inventories
Natural gas working inventories fell by 152 Bcf to 1,196 Bcf during the week ending February 28, 2014. Colder-than-normal temperatures during the month resulted in increased heating demand, prompting larger-than-normal withdrawals. Stocks are now 908 Bcf less than last year at this time and 758 Bcf less than the five-year (2009-13) average for this time of year. Total stocks, as well as stocks in all three regions, are currently less than their five-year (2009-13) minimums.
U.S. Natural Gas Prices
Natural gas spot prices averaged $6.00/MMBtu at the Henry Hub in February, up $1.29/MMBtu from January, the result of bitterly cold weather during the month. At the end of February, both spot and futures prices declined rapidly, falling below $5/MMBtu. EIA projects that the March spot price will average $4.48/MMBtu, and will continue to decline in the spring. Projected Henry Hub natural gas prices average $4.44/MMBtu in 2014 and $4.14/MMBtu in 2015.
Natural gas futures prices for June 2014 delivery (for the five-day period ending March 6, 2014) averaged $4.55/MMBtu. Current options and futures prices imply that market participants place the lower and upper bounds for the 95% confidence interval for June 2014 contracts at $3.51/MMBtu and $5.90/MMBtu, respectively. At this time last year, the natural gas futures contract for June 2013 averaged $3.61/MMBtu and the corresponding lower and upper limits of the 95% confidence interval were $2.79/MMBtu and $4.67/MMBtu.


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Lance to me I always viewed as the most talented offensive player for his position until we signed West(west with his footwork and ball handling in his prime is elite for a PF offensively). I said a few days after the draft he could be better than George offensively.The reason being was his frame combined with his ablity to keep his dribble alive(critical skill to be an elite scorer IMO). That is why guys like Manu and Harden are impossible to stop they always keep there dribble. The shooting didn't really bother me I am in the camp of you can fix shooting(if they work hard and break it all down and start from scratch. Guys like Rondo played from day 1 and didnt have the chance like Lance to work on that skill all day). I loved how cocky in played in college and not many have that cocky style. It will hurt him at times but watching him at Cinncy I got the feel he loved the game of basketball and that is something that is a must. Buckner says he is a gym rat and that doesn't surprise me watching him at the pro am you can tell the kid really loves what he does. I also though when we drafted him he would be a great post player one day he has the skills if he spends a summer developing them.
However I hated his decision making and he is actually fixing that. I figured he could be like a Jordan Crawford like scorer but hurt his team some nights. But if he keeps up his imprisonments I will be really wrong on that.
I also hated his defense even when he trys he is limited just because he is so big. He moves poor laterally so he has limitations and will always have them. Harden has this same problem. But when you can score like Harden can you will live with it. I felt the same with Lance he will always be average on defense overall but I will live with it especially considering how much he tries. Now when he takes plays off that is when I get mad.
I just find it funny Lance has respect from the refs now that he didnt as a rookie. The play he made the other night as a rookie the refs would of called carry on. But thats part of the NBA as you play you get more respect Phil Jackson atest to that in his book. As he gets more PT this season I expect the TOs to slowy go down game XP is valuable and cant me duplicated in practice so be patient he should still struggle a lot.
My favorite thing about Lance watching him at Lincoln and at Cincy was that kid wants to take the last shot. Now a days that is getting harder to find. He has a mentality that with his tool set could make him a dominate 6th man for years to come.(if I was a coach that would be my role for him I just like that fit for my team best. he is a OW and off the bench that is so nice to have)


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Wael Jassar number one in Tunisia
The Tunisian music industry and record companies have collectively announced that the latest album by Lebanese singer Wael Jassar is witnessing the highest number of record sales and bringing in the most profits exceeding albums by Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram and Egyptian singer Tamer Husni.
According to the internet website MBC.net, Al Sayed Kamal, owner of the largest cassette stores in the Tunisian capital revealed that Wael is currently considered to be the best singer in the country and his latest album "Kul Daqeeqa…Shakhsieh" (Every minute…a personality), which does not reflect on the current condition around the Arab world, is witnessing the highest record sales.
Kamal added that albums for Nancy, Tamer and Lebanese singer Elissa have witnessed a downfall in the recent year.


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Banana Bars with Cream Cheese frosting
These banana bars are my all-time favorite. They're so moist and delicious. The cream cheese frosting on top goes with the banana bars perfectly.
Banana Bars – from my mom (no idea where it came from originally) – makes ~3dozen bars1/2 cup softened butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (about 4 medium)
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch salt
Preheat oven to 350F. In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, bananas, and vanilla.
Combine to flour, baking soda, and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well.
Pour into a greased 15x10x1 inch baking pan. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes or until bars test done. Cool.
1/2 cup softened butter or margarine
4 cups confectioners sugar
1 package (8 ounces) softened cream cheese
2 tsp. vanilla extract
Cream butter and cream cheese in a mixing bowl. Gradually add confectioners' sugar and vanilla; beat well. Spread over bars.
5 Responses to "Banana Bars with Cream Cheese frosting"
I love recipes from family members and this certainly looks great!
My family is all about simple tasty food. Nothing fancy from them. These are so good!
What a great idea for using up bananas…something different from the normal old banana bread! Thanks for posting!
What a neat recipe! I've got some bananas at home that are about to turn brown . . . they may just end up in these bars . . .
These sound really yummy! TFS…


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Umar Akmal and Umar Gul led a superb fightback as Pakistan snatched a two-wicket victory against South Africa in a thrilling opening Group 2 match of the World Twenty20 Super Eights.
Despite chasing a modest 134 for victory, Pakistan looked destined for defeat as they slumped to 76 for seven in the 15th over, needing 58 runs off the final 30 balls.
However, Akmal and Gul joined forces to turn the game on its head in an eighth-wicket partnership worth 49 in just 4.3 overs.
Man of the match Gul, who also picked up a wicket, provided much of the momentum as he smashed three sixes and two fours in a 17-ball 32 before falling to the final ball of the penultimate over.
That left Pakistan needing nine off the last over and Akmal clubbed a Morne Morkel full toss for six off the second ball before Saeed Ajmal sealed the victory with a guided four off the fourth.
Akmal finished unbeaten on 43 off 41 deliveries, having also struck four other boundaries to go with that maximum.
Dale Steyn was the pick of the South African attack, finishing with three for 22.
South Africa were earlier limited to 133 for six after suffering a poor start in Colombo.
They lost Hashim Amla (six), Richard Levi (eight) and Jacques Kallis (12) as they struggled to 28 for three after six overs, before JP Duminy and AB de Villiers led a recovery.
Duminy put on 38 for the fourth wicket with Farhaan Behardien (18) before adding 44 with captain De Villiers to help South Africa into three figures before both fell in the closing overs.