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Feb. 6, 2009 -- The FDA today approved ATryn, the first drug made in genetically engineered animals.
ATryn, which is given by infusion, is for people with a rare condition called hereditary antithrombin deficiency. About 1 in 5,000 people in the U.S. have that condition, according to the FDA.
People with hereditary antithrombin deficiency don't make enough antithrombin, an anticlotting compound. That shortfall of antithrombin puts patients at risk of life-threatening blood clots, especially during pregnancy, childbirth, surgery, or prolonged bed rest.
ATryn comes from goats that were genetically engineered to have human antithrombin, an anticlotting protein found in healthy people, in their milk.
Patients won't drink that goat milk. The human antithrombin is extracted from the goats' milk to make ATryn.
The FDA approved ATryn based on two studies of 31 patients with hereditary antithrombin deficiency to prevent dangerous blood clots before, during, or after surgery or childbirth. All but one of those patients had a history of such clots, which are likely to recur in high-risk situations if left untreated. Only one of the 31 patients had a clot when treated with ATryn.
The most commonly reported adverse reactions to ATryn were hemorrhage and infusion site reactions. Those reactions occurred in about 5% of the patients studied, according to the FDA.
The FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine also found that the genetic engineering process didn't have adverse effects on seven generations of the goats and that GTC Biotherapeutics has adequate procedures in place to ensure that food from those goats doesn't enter the food supply; it also found that the goats won't harm the environment.
The FDA's approval of ATryn is in line with the recommendation made by an FDA advisory committee last month.
GTC Biotherapeutics developed ATryn and granted ATryn's U.S. marketing rights to Ovation Pharmaceuticals. In a joint news release, GTC Biotherapeutics and Ovation Pharmaceuticals note that ATryn is approved for the prevention of clotting events around the time of surgery and childbirth in patients with hereditary antithrombin deficiency, but not to treat clots in those patients.
Other treatment for hereditary antithrombin deficiency involves taking blood thinners and getting infusions of human antithrombin that's been extracted from donated human blood.

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Well Dominic, thanks for all that you did here. Best of luck.Free agent RB Dominic Rhodes reached agreement Friday morning on a two-year, $7.5 million contract with the Oakland Raiders.
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Well Dominic, thanks for all that you did here. Best of luck.Free agent RB Dominic Rhodes reached agreement Friday morning on a two-year, $7.5 million contract with the Oakland Raiders.
Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
ESPN is saying his deal could be worth as much as $7.5 million.
If it is 7.5 million, Oakland overpaid.
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I don't know about that. Whatever Randy Moss makes is way too much for what that does.
RB's of his level are only worth $3mm+ a year? That makes NBA players seem spoiled to me.
Cant say ill really miss him. Addai is our future.
[/center]If you havin' depth problems, I feel bad for you son; I got 99 problems but a bench ain't one! - Hicks
I'm glad for him. I hope he got the most mone he could out of that playoff run he had for us. I don't think he'll consistently be that good, though.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Wonder who will start, Rhodes or Jordan?
PACER FAN ON STRIKE!!!-The moment the Pacers fire Larry Bird I will cheer for them again.
Lamont will start for sure. He's much more talented then Rhodes.
Imagine the chaos in the NBA if players actually had to perform to keep getting paid millions? Or, God forbid, if they had a cap that was actually a cap?
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I really wish the NBA had a similar system as the NFL in regards to contracts as well as salary caps.
Bye Dom, thanks for a great Superbowl Game. Good Luck with dem Raiders.
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Pell Grants
The Federal Pell Grant is gift assistance for undergraduate students; it does not need to be repaid. The U.S. Department of Education determines a student's eligibility for this grant each year after the student completes the FAFSA. The Federal Pell Grant Program provides grants directly from the federal government in amounts ranging from $600 to $5,815 per year, depending upon the financial circumstances of each family.
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FSEOG is gift assistance that does not need to be repaid. Federal regulations mandate that students with exceptional need receive this grant and priority is given to Pell Grant recipients. Award amounts vary from year to year based on federal funding and the number of eligible applicants. Awards range from $200 to $4,000.
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Eligible students may receive state grants from some of the New England states, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., if you file the FAFSA by their home state's deadline (Rhode Island is March 1; others May 1). Check the date for your home state's policy in the FAFSA information. We require students to apply for state funds when available. We will not replace missed state aid with Saint Anselm College grants or scholarships.
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The "folie" continues with the winning team that will build a new "Architectural Folie of the 21st Century" for Montpellier, France. The team -- which includes Sou Fujimoto Architects, Nicolas Laisné Associates, and Manal Rachdi Oxo Architects as the architects -- won the closed competition with their project, "Arbre Blanc" (White Tree), a 10,000 m² mixed-use tower... — bustler.net
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The Treatment Advocacy Program
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The purpose of the study is to test the efficacy of TAP, a behavioral intervention, in improving sexual safety and treatment adherence among gay and bisexual men infected with HIV. It is hypothesized that those who are in the intervention group will report reductions in unprotected sex with HIV-negative and unknown-status partners; and will show stricter adherence to their treatment regimens, compared to the individuals in the standard-of-care, control group.
|Behavioral: TAP: Treatment Advocacy Program
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Primary Outcome Measures:
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The federal government wants all of the money repaid in one year.
UF Health's hospitals in Gainesville and Jacksonville might have to return more than $30 million in Medicaid money after the federal government says Florida hospitals were overpaid for years through a program to help cover the costs of caring for the uninsured poor.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services say an audit shows that, over an eight-year period, the state's safety net hospitals received $267 million more than they were due through the Medicaid Low Income Pool. The federal government wants all of the money repaid in one year.
Shands officials released this statement on the situation:
"The federal government's request asking Florida hospitals to pay back a portion of low-income pool funding will have a multimillion-dollar impact on UF Health in Gainesville and Jacksonville. Though UF Health does not believe it received excess funding, the two campuses combined may be asked to refund more than $30 million sent to us in previous years to help needy patients.
"As safety-net hospitals, we rely on federal and state funding to help offset the expenses associated with helping those with little or no resources, and asking us to pay back money already spent will make that task even more challenging. Our hope is that federal officials will reconsider this decision.
"At the same time, we again urge state legislators to help the citizens of Florida by reconsidering their decision not to expand Medicaid. The federal government has offered to pay all costs associated with expansion for several years, which would bring $50 billion over 10 years into the state while also helping millions of Floridians who are currently uninsured. Our belief is that Medicaid expansion would greatly benefit the health of Floridians and economy of our state."
The federal government is working to phase out the Low Income Pool program with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, which is supposed to increase the availability of health care coverage to the uninsured through tax subsidies and a Medicaid expansion.
In Florida, however, lawmakers rejected the Medicaid expansion. There is now a coverage gap for people who make too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to afford private health insurance. For safety net hospitals, that means uninsured individuals might continue to rely on the emergency room for care.
Florida typically has received $1 billion annually through the Low Income Pool. This year, in a one-year funding extension, the state is receiving about $2.16 billion, said Florida Hospital Association President Bruce Rueben, but that includes funding for ongoing programs that were not previously paid for through the Low Income Pool.
While the White House and Florida lawmakers have been at odds over the rejected Medicaid expansion — the Obama administration released a report in early July saying the move would cost the state 63,000 jobs — Rueben said he does not see politics or retribution at play in the federal request for repayment. Audits to review the amount of money spent on programs and requests for reimbursement are routine, he said.
At the same time, he questioned whether the $267 million figure was accurate and noted it was not yet a final number.
Rueben said the situation does draw attention to the financial issues safety net hospitals face caring for the uninsured. He said he feels the Medicaid expansion could have provided those hospitals some relief instead of the state continuing to rely on the Low Income Pool program the federal government plans to phase out.
"What they're telling Florida is we're not going to pay hospitals more for uncompensated care because we have given you a way to eliminate uncompensated care through the Affordable Care Act … That's how the programs affect one another," Rueben said. "It's just a change in policy, and in Florida, we're going to have to figure out how to deal with it."
The Medicaid expansion increased the income threshold to qualify for the program to 133 percent of the federal poverty level with the federal government picking up all of the costs for three years. By year 10, the federal government would pay 90 percent of the costs and the state 10 percent. In rejecting the expansion, some skeptical state lawmakers said they felt Medicaid was an inefficient program and questioned if the federal government would follow through long term on its pledge to cover the bulk of the costs.


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I found a 174 gram pro tie-dye Innova Starfire the other day. The tye-dye pattern is a rainbow swirled around the disc.
I had never thrown a starfire before, and since this one had a name (HEY CHRIS FLORES in TX., this may be yours) and no phone #, I had to throw it.
One of the things I noticed on my first throw with the disc was that after I got an almost perfect throw. I'm serious, best form, X-step, snap, nose down, it went almost 375+ on 510' hole.
The spin was soooo sloooowwww. I mean it, with the way the tie-dye is laid out on the disc, I can see that the spin I am getting on a disc is slooww.
How can I get it to go faster? farther?


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61676....awesome pics.
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61676....awesome pics.
[~]) ... Cheers! Go Pacers!
It is a shame they are the last post of a page though. So for all those true TCT Counters check em out and see real dedication.
the second one was taken on top of a mountain, a BIG FRIEKEN Mountain that we scaled in a day and well the weather was bleh, all foggy up that high...
Great Day...
Ya Think Ya Used Enough Dynamite there Butch...
A big mountain indeed. It took like 5 or 6 hours to just get to that point. Are you climbing it again?
Yep, sure am, aiming for the 16th of May, Take 2, the Sunny Version...
Ya Think Ya Used Enough Dynamite there Butch...
hahaha Hopefully. So did you get internet at your place and if so how?
great pictures, but seriously - how cool is that second one?
[sappy Full House pivotal learning-experience music]
who would have thought that the counting thread would be bringing people from opposite parts of the world together on top of a freaking mountain?!?
sure, you can say that PD is the medium which has brought us together. but that is certainly devaluing the importance of tct.
for, it is tct which has forged these close relationships - the common pact and sense of uniformity that you share with your counting brethren is difficult to describe. but you are all O.N.E. - in this together.
good people just seem to gravitate towards counting. you get the sense that something special is happening within the thread.
...and then you see that "specialness" transcend into reality.
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The Above statements have been approved my the TCT Creator and Members.
I like the pics. RC said it all, so no reason to add more to it.
today, i am off to hear an interesting defense. what a life!
I am making pizza right now. It will be soooooo good.
I'm ready to get out of here and get this weekend going.
I want to golf.
big bbq act-cheeeee-on
Great picture. And sweabs is correct I would so visit people if I were near them.
61691....9:05 pm.
Yes! I am zeroed in.
[~]) ... Cheers! Go Pacers!
The World Cup has the best commercials.
So Newms.... How much did you have to save up to go on this extended excursion?
Also, on a related note, does anyone live in, or near, Dallas Texas?
61694...Hey. Watermelon, man.
I do not live in Tejas.
[~]) ... Cheers! Go Pacers!
I saved up a good amount and then I had to work on top of that. I am down for doing a tour of The counters and doing some crazy activity with each and ever counter.
Welp, if your ever in Indiana well organize a special meeting of Five Families of PD and the Counters will be the Guests of Honor!
P.S.- is a "Good Amount" over $2,500 or less
Mmmm Watermelon
Substantially over.
I will work something out where the Canadian counters go to Indy and the Counters have a TCT Meeting.
I hope I'm still around... I've been looking into moving to California but that is a ways away.
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California will be happy to have you since many people are moving out. You can get great deals on U-hauls going that way.
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Fresh in from Germany, 1905 Series II Production Number 2812. It appears to have started out as typical Candia Silberiris, but it was given a special treatment. The fins are covered with a heavy, solid green finish, and the body has been washed with a thinned out coating of the same color to give it an ancient look. Photo 4 is from the Series II book. Dr. Lnenickova suggests Marie Kirschner as the designer, but I believe it has more of a Koloman Moser look to it. Regardless of who the designer was, this is the first I have seen in this decor, and a welcome addition to my collection.


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As I am preparing for the launch of the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories as well as digging my own Christmas ornaments out of the closet for my own tree, I realized it was time to deck out my own personal genealogy blog – Destination: Austin Family – for the holidays! Take a look here.
If you are interested in changing your own blog template for the holiday season (and there are a variety including winter themes, Hanukkah themes, Kwanzaa themes and more!), then take a look at our Resources for Holiday Blog Decorating there at GeneaBloggers.
Included in the resources are two "how to" videos – one on how to back up your Blogger template and another on how to change your template for the holidays.
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For fairway drivers, 150 Eagles, Teebirds, and Leopards are available in most plastics.
money 21 wrote:just getting older and want to put less strain on my arm. right now I have a rpro boss 155 and a x destroyer 148. the destroyer is rally flt and almost feels like pro. just wondering what was out there.Monocacy wrote:money 21 wrote:what are the high speed driver in tis weight.
Hero Disc has Star Destroyers ("super stable") and Star or Champ Orcs. DGC has Archons and S PDs < 160. What are you looking for?
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In 1977, 19-year-old Larry Roggasch cracked open a six-pack of beer, pouring three on his little sister's freshly covered grave in their native San Jose, and made a promise: He would see that the man who raped, strangled and dumped her on a Marin County hillside be punished.
Thirty-six years later, judgment day looms for serial killer Joseph Naso, who at age 79 will become the oldest person ever sentenced to death in California when a judge next month pronounces his penalty for the murders of 18-year-old Roxene Roggasch and three other Northern California prostitutes.
But Larry Roggasch doesn't know whether he can bear to watch Naso receive what seems to him a hollow sentence. With an ongoing moratorium on executions in California and hundreds of convicted murderers awaiting capital punishment, there is virtually no chance the state will ever put Naso to death.
"It's a joke; he's never going to be executed," said Roggasch, a 56-year-old commercial fisherman. "He's going to live out the rest of his life safe and comfortable in his own cell on death row.
"That's why I want him to go to mainline prison," Roggasch continued. "He needs to suffer, like them — not just my sister, all of them."
In California, the death penalty appeals process takes so long that men half Naso's age on death row are more likely to die of natural causes or kill themselves than be executed by the state. And while they wait on San Quentin State Prison's death row, they lead a relatively comfortable existence, with single cells and access to the best attorneys fighting for prisoners' rights.
But on the heels of voters narrowly choosing to preserve the death penalty last year, California's district attorneys and peace officers are readying a proposition for the 2014 ballot that they say would expedite executions once the state lifts its moratorium on lethal injection drugs.
Among those spearheading the effort are district attorneys Steve Wagstaffe of San Mateo County, Jeff Rosen of Santa Clara County and Mark Peterson, whose Contra Costa County territory has been the scene of death penalty defendants mocking the threat of capital punishment in recent years.
"Some individuals facing murder charges would prefer the death penalty to life without parole because they believe the conditions on death row are better than among the general population," said Larry Barnes, a private defense attorney and death penalty expert. "They harbor the opinion that with some 720 men on death row, unless they are very young, they don't stand a chance of being executed."
Such was the case with Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza killer Nathan Burris, who practically begged Contra Costa County jurors to give him the death penalty at his trial last year for the jealousy-fueled ambush killing of his ex-girlfriend and her friend.
"If I was in Texas, I'd be terrified," Burris said from the witness stand in 2012. "California is not real. The death penalty means nothing to me but time to hang out and do what I'm going to do."
In the same courtroom three years earlier, Edward Wycoff received the death penalty for the ambush slayings of his sister and brother-in-law in El Cerrito. He told jurors that he deserved an award, not the death penalty, but still wanted the one-to-a-cell status that death row provides.
Between California resuming executions in 1992 and the beginning of the state's judicially imposed moratorium in 2006, just 13 men who exhausted their appeals have been executed. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation counts 722 men and 20 women currently on death row, nearly 300 of whom have had their sentences affirmed by the Supreme Court. Experts say it takes 12 years on average for condemned inmates in California to exhaust their appeals, more than twice the national average for death penalty states.
Meanwhile, the costs mount; by one estimate, the state has spent more than $4 billion on death penalty trials, appeals and incarceration since 1978.
"The death penalty process is broken, there is no dispute about that," said Peterson, who is part of Californians for Death Penalty Reform and Savings, a coalition of district attorneys, law enforcement professionals and victims' rights advocates in the process of raising $1.7 million to get on the November 2014 ballot an initiative they believe would cut the appeal process in half and save the state hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
Among the initiative's proposals is a plan for appeals to be handled first by the state's appellate courts, alleviating the severe backlog in the state Supreme Court. It calls for a revamping of the defense attorney program to shrink the five-year delay for condemned inmates to get representation. It would give the state freedom to double up condemned inmates in cells, and house them in prisons other than San Quentin.
"This would be more fair to everyone involved, more fair to the victims, and more fair to the defendants because their legal issues would be expedited in a timely manner," Peterson said.
But Ana Zamora, senior policy advocate at the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, said Peterson and his coalition face "a serious uphill battle."
"The death penalty system is so broken beyond repair, there is no fixing the system that won't cost millions and millions and won't put at risk executing innocent people," she said.
In the meantime, San Quentin's death row more and more resembles a geriatric ward.
Killer and serial rapist Darryl Kemp currently holds the distinction as the oldest person to be sentenced to death in advance of Naso's Nov. 8 sentencing. Kemp was 73 when he slept through his 2009 trial and sentencing for the rape and murder of a Lafayette mother three decades earlier.
It was the second death sentence for Kemp, who killed just four months after he was released from San Quentin in 1978 after a California Supreme Court ruling that made capital punishment unconstitutional and commuted all death sentences to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Today, at age 77, Kemp is in the preliminary stage of his appeal that will stretch for years.
Naso, acting as his own attorney, fought for an acquittal and then life without parole at his trials for four murders in the 1970s and 1990s. He had escaped prosecution until 2010, when a search of his Reno home produced a diary documenting a half-century of rapes, a kill list and incriminating photographs of women. Prosecutors linked him to two other uncharged murders during the penalty phase of his trial.
Still, the notion of sentencing a 79-year-old to death provoked some controversy.
"Regardless of where one stands on the death penalty, with regard to Mr. Naso, it is clear before his appeals are exhausted, he will be long gone," said retired Santa Clara County judge and death penalty foe LaDoris Cordell. "People want to kill him before he dies. There are those of us who think this is ludicrous, that we are going to rush to kill people before they die."
Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian does not back the proposed ballot initiative to revamp the death penalty because he doesn't believe the appeals process should be sped up. Nevertheless, he defends his prosecution of Naso, the first time his office had sought capital punishment in more than 20 years.
He said Naso's advanced age was considered in reaching his decision, but it was outweighed by the lives Naso had destroyed over his lifetime.
"This is a serial killer," Berberian said, "and with regard to use of the death penalty, if it's a law in this state, which it is, this is a case where a jury needed to make a decision."
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This week's Elder Scrolls mod interview comes from two members of the Nehrim project — a total conversion mod using The Elder Scrolls CS. As a total conversion, its story takes place in a world unrelated to anything in the Elder Scrolls universe, so players can enjoy a new fan-made game from their Oblivion disc. It's still up in the air as to when the project will be complete, but SureAI's Arandor and Lord Dagon stopped by to give us an update …
Can you briefly introduce yourselves?
Arandor: I'm Arandor, in real life Benni, a 17-year-old student from eastern Germany who hopefully will finish school next year. And the other brave interviewee here has the jaunty nickname Lord Dagon, which in reality stands for Johannes. He's also from Germany, but this time from the west side, 20-years-old and in some future an engineer.
We're both members of a German mod team named SureAI, which has been into mod development for five years now.
What's your role on this project?
Lord Dagon: You could say, I'm the handyman. I care about the technical aspects, such as merging the single plug-in data to a masterfile. I also coordinate the work of the team and also do story writing and world building.
Arandor: Well, that's not to be said in a few words… when I came to the project, I especially was involved into world building. Later on, I switched onto quest design and dialogue writing, which is still my main occupation at the moment. Furthermore, I write a lot of emails to voice actors or try to make Nehrim a bit more popular on the internet and within game magazines.
How did you guys get started on Nehrim?
Lord Dagon: When Arktwend and Myar Aranath, our two Morrowind projects, were nearly finished, we asked ourselves why we actually had developed two rather half-baked projects instead of concentrating onto just one. Since Oblivion's release wasn't too far at this time, we decided to start a whole new project that would benefit on the one side from the new up-to-date 3D engine, and on the other side from the experiences we gained during the development of the Morrowind projects.
Our intention on Nehrim was to make it a better game than its two forerunners and at the same time creating something that rises above boring mainstream.
Arandor: I came to the team when Nehrim was already in development, that was about one and a half year ago. I have been making mods since I was 14, but that was the first time I actually developed them in a team of more than two people.
Can you briefly summarize the main plotline of the game?
Arandor: If we briefly could, it wouldn't be a story worthy an RPG. I mean, could you summarize the Morrowind plot and still give consideration to its extent?
Nevertheless, a few words: Basically the plot of Nehrim is very different from most story lines in computer games. You won't save the shining world from the ultimate evil, as you have done so often in RPGs. The player is one of the few people in Nehrim who is able to use magic. But that's everything of what makes him "special", i.e. he is not the "chosen one" from some ancient prophecy. Anyway, since he is a person of magic, a secret order of sorcerers wants to recruit him. This is where everything begins, and the player is thrown into our world of civil war and mistrust — as you see, everything isn't going right in Nehrim…
Lord Dagon: I do think Nehrim's plot is one of the most remarkable features of the project. It isn't about the bad man who wants to rule the world; it's a story about love and hate, loyalty and treason, and above that a story which also has a teaching aspect: Basically, that mankind's nature to treat everything they are not familiar with in a hostile way will eventually their demise.
Since Nehrim doesn't involve Tamriel, Cryodiil, or anything related to the Elder Scrolls, why do you think Elder Scrolls fans should look forward to your project?
Arandor: Because every Elder Scrolls fan treasures a good RPG. Short answer, big message 😉
Lord Dagon: Maybe this is actually the excitement: To meet something new. At a certain point, you have seen just everything of Tamriel.In some degree you can even characterise Nehrim as an entire new game. It has Oblivion's engine, but a new world and a new feeling.
Do you guys still play Oblivion or Morrowind?
Lord Dagon: Yes, I still go around Cyrodiil and Vvardenfell, but not as often as I'd like to. Especially in Morrowind there is still so much to explore, but often you simply have too little time because of your other RL activities.
Arandor: Sometimes I still do. With the Morrowind Graphic Extender it's nearly a complete new feeling to play TES III. This game is also an inspiration for us, as it has this unexplainable magic within which we'd like to have in Nehrim too.
You guys had a chance to show your project last year at the 2007 Game Convention at Leipzig. How was that experience?
Arandor: In one word: instructive, at least for me. We had the chance to learn a lot of things there, i.e. what people most likely want to see, what they want to hear and how to explain them briefly what a mod actually is. Presumably we'll be there this year too and can use our new experiences then.
Do you guys have a goal of when you'd like to wrap the project?
Arandor: When people ask us "When will it be released?" we unfortunately just can say "we don't know", and that's the truth. The only thing we can affirm is that we do our best. 🙂 But it certainly would be great if we'd manage to finish the beta version or even the final this year (the German one at least).
Lord Dagon: We don't want to make the same mistake like many game developers: They are tied to a certain release date, hence don't pay enough attention to every aspect of the game and finally it's out, but buggy and unfinished. So we take all time we need. Although there's still a lot to do on Nehrim, many things are already completed. That motivates us.
When it's complete, would you consider Nehrim expansions? Or would you plan on creating a sequel or something all together new?
Arandor: I think if there is an Oblivion project after Nehrim, it will refer to Nehrim. An expansion would be imaginable. On the other side, we really hope that some modders will create mods for Nehrim like they did for Oblivion; that would be awesome.
Do you guys have any other projects in the pipeline? Any past projects you'd like to discuss?
Arandor: There is a Crysis mod in development by other members on the team, but this is still in the fledgling stages.
The past projects of our team are the two Morrowind Total Conversions. At the time of those projects, I hadn't become a member of the team yet, but I can say that we all learned a lot from mistakes we did in our first mods.
Are you guys interested in pursuing careers in professional game development?
Arandor: We are for sure. My dream is becoming a game designer for action and RPG games. For that I would even leave Germany, as the game industry here is quite restricted by policy and our educational system.
Lord Dagon: Of course that would be cool. But there are only a few games companies in Germany, and most of that few are quite small.


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Enjoy an evening of bluegrass music with the Slack Family Band and the God Fearin' Snake Handlers at 7 p.m. at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, 2880 Mountain Rd. The concert is part of CACGA's 2nd Stage Performance Series, which highlights a different musical genre on the first Friday of each month. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. For details, call 261-ARTS or visit http://www.artsglenallen.com.
The movie "Top Hat" (1935) will play at 7 p.m. Feb. 3 and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Feb. 4 at Henrico Theatre, 305 E. Nine Mile Rd. Tickets are $1 and can be purchased at the door. For details, call 328-4491.
The Richmond Youth Peace Project will commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with the 7th annual Youth Educoncert, Generation Dream 2012. Shows are scheduled for 7 p.m. on Feb. 3 at Richmond Public Library's main branch, 101 E. Franklin St., and for 2 p.m. at the Science Museum of Virginia, 2500 W. Broad St. The Friday show is being presented as part of First Fridays Artwalk; the Saturday performance is presented in conjunction with the museum's exhibit "Race: Are We So Different?" which opened Jan. 28. Both concerts are free; museum admission is required on Feb. 4. For a list of youth performers and for more information, call 232-1002 or visit http://www.rpec.org.
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This is the final weekend for Chamberlayne Actors Theatre's production of "Almighty Bob." A touching show about faith, it features Bob, a senior citizen living in an assisted living home. Bizarre things start to happen and the residents must find out if Bob is delusional or telling the truth. Performance times are 8 p.m. Feb. 3-4 and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 4-5. Tickets are $12 to $23. For details, call 262-9760 or visit http://www.cattheatre.com.
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Back when he was mayor of Indianapolis, Stephen Goldsmith developed what he called the "Yellow Pages" rule.
In the face of tight revenues and calls for lean government, Goldsmith would let his fingers do some walking.
To evaluate whether any city government activity deserved the public's money, he'd look in the phone book to see how many private businesses or nonprofits provided the same kind of service.
If he found a page or more of listings, Goldsmith would begin to question why his City Hall was in that particular business.
Some of us might differ over how broadly to apply Goldsmith's rule. I, for one would argue that various activities – like schools, police, prisons – uphold core public goods. So government should always be active in such areas to protect the common weal, no matter how many corporations claim to provide a similar service.
Still, in this age of deficits and sequesters, the Yellow Pages test remains pertinent. Government may do many things that were good ideas at one time, but no longer make sense.
And these activities may now be stealing dollars from core purposes such as paying teachers, hiring cops, or fixing bridges.
Which brings me to last week's vote by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to privatize the state's liquor store system. Let's put aside the question of whether this particular, complicated bill is the ideal vehicle. Let's not speculate yet on what the Senate will do to it.
Let's just note that Pennsylvania's state store system clearly fails the Yellow Pages test. Well, it does as long as you're looking at listings in any of the 48 other states that don't insist on a wacky state monopoly on the sale of wine and liquor.
Part of the rationale for this state control is to curb alcoholism. But the Centers for Disease Control reports that Pennsylvania ranks seventh among the states in the rate of binge drinking. Not a sign of a strategy that's working.
Democrats who oppose this bill claim to speak for consumers, but it's clear most consumers hate the state stores and the crazy-quilt system for buying beer. The Dems' stance really is driven by a desire to take a stand, any stand, against the national Republican drive to neuter public-sector unions. And those state store employees are unionized.
Let me end with a quote a famous Pennsylvania consumer, whom I'm pretty sure would drip with sarcasm at the state store system.
It was Benjamin Franklin who said, "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." You heard the man. End the state stores. It's God's will.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State quarterback Braxton Miller went home over the bye week and took the opportunity to watch a couple of college games on TV.
Among them was No. 1 Alabama winning big at Kentucky.
Miller believes that the Buckeyes can play with the Crimson Tide, the two-time defending national champions.
''When it gets to that point in the future, it'll be a good game,'' he said. ''It'll be a good matchup.''
Coach Urban Meyer also watched a couple of games on the day off and also feels the Buckeyes could hang with the county's elite.
''I think we are right there,'' he said. ''I think we are a good team, I do.''
But then he reverted to form, more concerned with what's in front of him than any possible future dates in a potential Bowl Championship Series date with the likes of Alabama or Oregon.
''Human nature is, especially when you have time on a weekend of a bye week, to watch a lot of games (to see) how you match up,'' Meyer said. ''I kind of have these mechanisms in place just to stop thinking about (that), refocus on getting first downs and stopping people because that's really not helping the cause at all.''
Linebacker Ryan Shazier went to a teammate's house in Indiana over the weekend.
''I watched a little bit of college football. I saw a lot of good teams play,'' he said. ''I feel that we can play with any of them.''
Daydreaming about playing for national championships and in other big games doesn't mean much if the Buckeyes (6-0, 2-0 Big Ten) don't keep winning.
They've won 18 times in a row - the longest streak in the nation - heading into Saturday's home game with Iowa (4-2, 1-1). But the Buckeyes aren't expecting an easy time of it against the Hawkeyes - or the remaining five unranked teams waiting in the wings.
''Everybody dogs the Big Ten about not having a bunch of ranked teams. And it's the SEC this, and the Pac-12 (that),'' Ohio State center Corey Linsley said. ''But, honest, you look at the history of Iowa and, just to name a couple of other teams, Penn State and Purdue. ... The weeks that we have taken off, we have treated those teams as what the AP treats them as and what the rest of the country treats them as non-ranked opponents, those are the weeks we get beat.
''We're not taking this week lightly and we're not going to take the next seven weeks lightly.''
His coach agrees that the Buckeyes can't waltz through the stretch run.
''We've got to find a way to win this Saturday, and it's not easy,'' Meyer said. ''We've been in here for two weeks trying to figure out how to run the ball against this defense.''
Iowa is eighth in the nation against the run, permitting just 88.5 yards a game. The Hawkeyes are the only major-college team which has yet to give up a touchdown on the ground.
For what it's worth, Iowa is also a member of the mutual admiration society.
''If you look at it, they've got a win streak that's approaching 20 games,'' Hawkeyes coach Kirk Ferentz said. ''You don't do that by accident. That requires good coaching and good players who understand you have to show up every week. They've done a great job of that now for a year-plus.''
Iowa can give a team fits, as has been the case in the last two meetings.
The Buckeyes needed overtime against a backup quarterback who was seeing his first substantial action to win 27-24 in 2009 at Ohio Stadium. They also barely hung on 20-17 in Iowa City in the most recent meeting in 2010, with the Big Ten's rotating schedule keeping the teams away from each other the past two seasons.
Miller concedes that it's hard trying to concentrate on the next opponent all the time - particularly a 17-point underdog like Iowa.
''It's not easy to go out there every Saturday and win a game, especially in the Big Ten,'' he said. ''You've got to put up big points, make big plays and stop their offense.''
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Wabash National Corporation (WNC) stock price tumbled -11.62% to finalize at $20.91 throughout previous buying and selling session. A total of 4.15 million shares exchanged at hands and its average trading volume is standing at 0.82 million shares. Shares of Wabash National Corporation (WNC) are trading -13.45% downward from the 52-week high mark and 94.69% above from the fifty two-week low mark. Important factors to focus when evaluating a stock's present and future value are the 52 week price high and low levels. Taking a glance at past performance, we will examine different up or down moving trends about WNC.
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The Stock has shows volatility of 4.01% in recent 5 days and demonstrated volatility of 3.14% in last 30 days.
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I guess I was wrong about PG24 laying a dud tonight. Oh well I'm happy I was. Hopefully he keeps it going.
Also no Lance again late in the game.
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I guess I was wrong about PG24 laying a dud tonight. Oh well I'm happy I was. Hopefully he keeps it going.
Also no Lance again late in the game.
Lance got hurt early in the game. He played some, but it looked like things were tight-ing up late. He was standing at the end of the pacer bench like Jeff Foster used to when he played. Leg, back something. I couldn't tell.
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One of the things I love most about that box score is the free throw percentage. It's about time.
There was a lot of carrying on in the game thread about putting Lance back in - guess a lot of people missed that he was hurting.
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If Paul's numbers go up he is going to get more than 8mil a year for sure, for example Danny got 5/60 while averaging 19 and 6, I think Paul George can finish the year averaging 17 and 7, he is going to get Batum kind of money in my opinion.
First consecutive 20 point games.
one other thing... Croshere made a good point during the game that I hadn't thought of concerning Paul's inconsistency. Paul's facing the other teams best defender every game now compared to before when Danny drew that assignment. Here's just the last 5 games... Artest/Salmons/Barnes/Deng/Batum. Those guys can play some D.
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I buy into the position revolution that's going on right now, anyway. We have a PG, two wings and two post players.
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I was really looking forward to seeing Lillard play and he did not disappoint. He scored and dished in pretty much every way possible, directing the offense like a veteran. And he looks like he'll be at least an adequate defender. Not the amazing athleticism of a Rose (at least, was...) or an Irving, but certainly another in the line of very promising young point guards.
Ian and Tyler kind of kept us in the game offensively in the first half. Other than a couple of nice passes, Lance looked out of it. Hope he's not too hurt. Without the raggedness on the defensive rebounding, we win this by twenty.
Couple of good Western teams coming up. I'm excited to see if we (and especially Paul against Iggy and KD) can keep this up.
Anyone know where I can find what Paul's numbers look like when he's playing next to Lance?
Danny's contract is done at the same time George hits restricted free agency. Unless Danny plays really, really well the next year and half, I don't think it's likely a 31 year old with potential knee issues will get 14 million per year. You're right though that it will be tight, and the Pacers would have to be very creative with the rest of their bench to make it work and stay under the luxury tax. I think the Pacers believe it will all work, and that cost certainty in future calculations is part of the reason they chose to sign Mahinmi/Green to so long of guaranteed deals in the first place.
They're starting to get on track now
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Yes, they are and the gloom and doom folks have shut up a bit. They had adjustments to make with Granger being out and some new bench players. They will get on a roll now that they know they can beat anyone in the league. They aren't going to be the two or three seed so many over zealous fans thought they would be but they should get to the five or six seeds that some of us more reasonable fans thought they would be. They will have a tough time winning a round in the playoffs seeded that low but you never know. Howard got injured last year and that allowed them to win a series. Something like that could happen again. They are a super star or two from being contenders and they may never be able to sign or trade for one. Such is the lot of a small market team. I saw that only 11,000 plus attended last night's game... I hope they start building that fan base again..... ...
Please let me get too high about PG!!
If he can consistently throw down 18-24 ppg, this team can start thinking about a 3-4 seed.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
How about that pass through three defenders by PG?
I commented on the passing earlier, but after watching the game again when I got home from BLF, I think it's the biggest reason we're playing better. The ball is at least getting inside and passes are made hard with a purpose. Even when the team looks stagnant, they aren't just lobbing the ball around every other trip on offense.
I mean you can, but don't allow yourself to get too disappointed the next time he has a 6-pt, 3-13 lackadaisical type of game


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A's to skip Hammel in rotation against Angels
OAKLAND -- With off-days this week on Monday and Thursday, the A's have decided to skip Jason Hammel's start originally scheduled for Friday against the Angels. Hammel is expected to rejoin the rotation during the following series in Houston.
"With these off-days, we've manipulated a little bit here," said A's manager Bob Melvin before Tuesday's matchup with the Mets. "But we still know that this is a guy that's very important to us and we have to get him going."
Sonny Gray, Jon Lester and Scott Kazmir will each move up a day to face the division-rival Angels on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectively. That still gives Gray and Lester an extra day of rest, while Kazmir gets the typical four days off between starts.
Hammel, meanwhile, will be available out of the bullpen on certain days during this five-game homestand, depending on when he does his side work. The right-hander plans to push "a little bit harder" than he normally would in those sessions, according to Melvin.
In seven starts since being traded from the Cubs, Hammel is 1-5 with a 6.75 ERA. His August began with back-to-back effective outings, but he followed those up with a rough outing in Atlanta on Friday -- five runs and three home runs in three innings.
Hammel has appeared in 57 games as a reliever, including three times for the Orioles last September.
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Editor's Note: What was expected to be necessary at some point is happening. Thailand's government is dumping much of the rice that it has had in storage, which was accumulated under the rice subsidy program for rice farmers. The country ran out of storage warehouses and the quality of the rice in storage was due to start deteriorating badly. Additionally, the government needs money to pay off financing of the subsidies. The country remains politically unstable partly because of the rice scheme. With all this as the backdrop, India is expected to drop from first place in rice export to second place. Thailand is poised to reclaim its top rice exporter position once again, but income into the country will take a hit because of the fire sale on rice.
India's rice exports could slide by nearly a quarter this year and knock the country off its perch as top exporter of the grain due to stiff competition from Southeast Asian rivals that have recently slashed prices, Indian industry executives said.
A drop in Indian exports could help Thailand trim a record inventory chalked up under a controversial rice-buying scheme. Thailand may also be able to reclaim its status as the world's biggest rice exporter, which it lost to India two years ago.
It will also leave more rice in Indian hands at a time when the country's stocks are bulging and it faces the prospect of a record harvest, creating problems of storage.
"We are almost out of the market now. Thailand and Vietnam are selling aggressively and it is difficult for Indian exporters to match those prices," B.V. Krishna Rao, managing director at Pattabhi Agro Foods Pvt Ltd, India's biggest non-basmati rice exporter, told Reuters.
"Thailand will again become the world's biggest rice exporter. Our non-basmati rice exports could drop to 4 million tonnes," Rao said.
India toppled Thailand in 2012 to become the world's biggest rice exporter after the government lifted a four-year-old ban on non-basmati rice shipments in 2011 to trim a growing mountain of the grain following bountiful harvests.
In the 2013/14 financial year that ended on March 31, India's total rice exports stood at a record 10.5 million tonnes, comprising 4 million tonnes aromatic basmati rice and 6.5 million tonnes of the non-basmati variety.
While India's shipments of the basmati variety are likely to remain steady in 2014/15 at around 4 million tonnes, total rice exports could drop to 8 million tonnes due to the slide in exports of non-basmati rice, industry officials said.
Desperate for revenues, Thailand has this year been selling larger quantities of the grain from state warehouses at low prices to private traders. Thailand-origin rice was offered at the lowest price in an international tender from Iraq's state grains buyer to purchase at least 30,000 tonnes, European traders said on Tuesday.
The push could boost Thailand's rice exports to 9 million tonnes in the 2014 calendar year from 6.7 million a year ago, according to a March report issued by a U.S. Department of Agriculture attache in Thailand. India's exports in the 2014 calendar year are expected to be lower than that, industry executives said.
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October 22, 2012
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NLCS Game Seven Preview: Giants vs. Cardinals
Game Six featured the same starting pitchers as Game Two, and the results—with the Giants racing out to an early lead, amplified by defensive miscues, and fending off the Cardinals—were similar, too. Game Seven is a rematch of Game Three, when St. Louis clung to a 3-1 edge to grab a 2-1 series lead. Will the Cardinals prevail again, or will the Giants complete another three-elimination-game comeback? Here are the PECOTA odds and projected starting lineups for tonight's contest:
Cardinals (Kyle Lohse) vs. Giants (Matt Cain) – 8:00 p.m. ET
PECOTA does not like Lohse. It's nothing personal—at least, as far as we can tell—but the system views the Cardinals' Game Seven starter as only slightly better than replacement-level pitcher, and hence, it expects the Giants to ride Cain to the pennant by nearly a 2-to-1 margin.
San Francisco's odds tick up an additional 2.2 percent if Holliday, who was scratched from the Game Six lineup with back spasms and underwent an MRI on Sunday night, is forced to sit out, even though his replacement, Matt Carpenter, accounted for most of St. Louis' Game Three output on a two-run blast off of Cain in the third inning, after replacing an ailing Beltran. Carpenter attributes his peculiar, 5-for-6 line against the right-hander to the small sample size of encounters between them, but the takeaway here is that the 27-year-old rookie offers Mike Matheny a quality reserve, and he certainly won't be an automatic out for Cain.
Neither starter was particularly sharp in Game Three, with the northpaws picking up only two strikeouts apiece. Cain kept the Cardinals off-balance over 6 2/3 frames, and he may have outpitched Lohse from a peripherals perspective, but Lohse allowed only one runner to cross home plate despite letting 12 Giants reach in 5 2/3 innings of work. Bruce Bochy's squad went 0-for-7 with runners in scoring position—falling victim to a trend Lohse showed throughout the regular season, when he held opponents to a .184/.264/.206 triple slash in RISP situations—and stranded 11 during the rain-soaked affair, but Lohse played with fire throughout the afternoon and is likely to get burned if he does so again tonight.
The chart below shows Cain's pitches to right-handed batters in Game Three:
Unlike Ryan Vogelsong, who tamed the Cardinals' most potent threats with a steady diet of two-seam fastballs, Cain threw the kitchen sink at them, using all five offerings in his arsenal. The keys for Cain tonight will be fastball command and a sharp slider—two factors that enabled him to limit the damage five days ago, despite the fact that he wasn't missing many bats. Cain threw first-pitch strikes to 20 of the 27 batters he faced in Game Three, many of them fastballs over the outside corner, and that's a strategy he'll most likely employ again tonight.
Lohse, meanwhile, was uncharacteristically wild, issuing a season-high five walks, though two of them (both to Posey) could be categorized as intentional—one officially so, and another in a pitch-around scenario where he simply refused to give in. The 34-year-old had not walked more than two batters in an outing since Aug. 16, and his two strikeouts marked his lowest total since May 25.
As the above plot shows, Lohse had trouble hitting his spots throughout the afternoon, often missing by more than a foot, and seldom painting the black. The poor command and control forced him to throw 108 pitches to record 17 outs, and though Matheny has a rested stable of power arms ready to carry whatever load Lohse leaves for them, averaging almost 20 pitches per inning isn't usually a recipe for success. Whether the culprit was fatigue, possibly brought on by a career-high innings load that is now up to 229 1/3 over 36 regular- and post-season starts, or nothing more than an off day, Lohse needs to remedy it to avoid testing his RISP luck with the season on the line.
The Matchup of the Game is Jay versus Cain. St. Louis' center fielder and leadoff man is just 4-for-25 with one extra-base hit in the series, and his combined triple-slash line for the playoffs stands at .184/.226/.245. Jay's dormant bat atop the order has been of the most significant reasons for the team-wide slump, evidenced by a .219/.267/.327 aggregate line over the past six games. Primarily a pesky singles hitter, Jay is 5-for-8 lifetime against Cain, including a 3-for-3 effort when they met in August. He went 1-for-2 with a single off of Cain in Game Three, after being hit by a pitch to kick off the contest.
Cain has largely attacked Jay with a two-pitch mix: fastballs and changeups, the former scattered throughout the zone, the latter almost exclusively in the outer half. Jay went 0-for-4 versus Vogelsong and company last night, including a swinging strikeout in a first-inning at-bat where he saw nothing but fastballs, so he'll need to make an adjustment to reemerge as the productive table setter Matheny saw for much of the regular season.
Finally, tonight's home-plate umpire, Gary Darling, has a reputation for stretching the zone, especially the outside corner to left-handed batters. That's something Cain and Lohse, both savvy pitchers with solid command, are well-equipped to take advantage of. And if Darling holds true to form, he'll be their best friend in the do-or-die Game Seven.
Daniel Rathman is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @danielrathman
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Cain loves Darling like a rose loves the rainwater. Nice edge for his gameplan going in.
Oct 22, 2012 04:27 AM
Not to be a brown-noser, but while watching game 6 last night I was like " man, Rathman totally called this shit." Well done sir.
Oct 22, 2012 06:01 AM
2-1 odds seem excessive for any baseball game let alone the top two NL teams. PECOTA must love Cain as much as I do, I wonder if we have the Cain Cain poster over our beds.
Oct 22, 2012 10:01 AM
Lohse's 5 free passes in Game 3 is not only the most he's handed out this year, but his most in a game since May 2008. I like Lohse only marginally more than Pecota, largely b/c of his good control, but I'm not sure this skill is as effective against a team like the Giants, who have a sequence-based lineup that puts the ball in play, has few bombers, but also few (if any) holes.
Oct 22, 2012 13:56 PM
I don't put a lot of stock in PECOTA's prediction of a single game outcome no matter who is pitching, and I suspect Rathman doesn't either. One pitch over the fat part of the plate can be all it takes to dramatically change the number of runs scored. Or, as the Cards have discovered, one ball that isn't fielded cleanly. If the Giants play the Cards 100 games with Cain and Lohse as the starting pitchers, the Giants probably do win 60% of the time. Fortunately, that tells us almost nothing about tonight's game so we'll just have to watch.
Oct 22, 2012 15:23 PM
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DEXTER, Mich. - Police are hoping surveillance pictures will help catch a group of serial church burglars.
The men are on the run after breaking into more than three dozen churches in Michigan and Ohio.
"Obviously they are in a point in their life where they're desperate and have to rob churches," said Karl Meyer, Warden of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Church in Dexter.
Despite an alarm, robbers broke in through the back window of the church last month, ripping open envelopes for charity and stealing the cash.
"They found the box, ripped open the envelopes, left the checks and took the cash. If you had three minutes and heard the alarm going off would you do that?" said Meyer.
St. Vladimir is one of 40 different church robberies across the state.
Police are releasing these photos of possible suspects. In both cases, the robbers were spotted in hooded sweatshirts.
At least a dozen church break-ins have been reported in Lenawee County, nine in Monroe, seven in Washtenaw and two in Hillsdale County.
The men also made their way to Ohio, where nine churches were robbed in Fulton County.
When Local 4 showed Meyer who the police are looking for, he recognized the faces from visiting the church.
"What makes me irritated is I know there were probably at least 10-15 people who introduced themselves and said welcome to our Parrish. And then these guys come back the next night and rip us off," said Meyer.
At one church, several Walmart gift cards were stolen. They were later tracked to a store in Canton where a car stereo and speakers where purchased with them.
If you recognize the men, you are asked to call police.
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I didn't know if we had brought this game up yet. I, for one, can not wait! This is gonna blow Modern Warfare and World at War out of the water! Anyone else big COD fans?
Here's a clip of some of the game play. Looks amazing.
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I didn't know if we had brought this game up yet. I, for one, can not wait! This is gonna blow Modern Warfare and World at War out of the water! Anyone else big COD fans?
Here's a clip of some of the game play. Looks amazing.
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Had a lot of fun with COD4. Skipped WaW.
Definitely picking this one up!
I thought the actual game in COD4 was better than WaW.
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I put a deposit down on a copy 3 months ago
I'm looking fwd to it, hope the online play has less glitches then WaW straight up, should be good tho.... New Guns, New Fun...
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So what do you guys think? I gotta say that at first I was slightly disappointed. There are too many camping spots. It reminded me of a cross between 4 and 5, but after getting into it, it's been alot of fun. A friend of mine drops nukes in about 6 of 10 games. The nukes were cool at first, but they get old after a while when you're not the one using them. The chopper gunner is a beast! If anyone wants to play on PS3, add me. earaik33
It's been pretty sick, in my opinion. I think the Spec. Ops. have really added a new level of gameplay myself.
It's kind of funny how co-op play is almost a necessary with gaming anymore. Just being able to play online with your friends was THE thing about 5 years ago, but now people want to play with their friends and take on special missions in the game.
Anyway, I've really enjoyed it. I struggled (stat-wise) with COD4, but I think have multiple levels to attack from (a number of floors in buildings) and different cover spots has helped me out a lot.
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Well I have to say, overall its decent game, never played a call of duty game before. I came over from Socom series, so I am used to more of a tactical game. This game is not very sniper friendly when you have that damn kill cam, also the levels arent built very well, but I'll stick with it for a while, until something better comes along that is more tactical. I do like all the unlockables though.
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