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Real-time log statistics server.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tail-Stat/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/p5-Tail-Stat/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install p5-Tail-Stat
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/p5-Tail-Stat/ && make install clean
pkg install p5-Tail-Stat
PKGNAME: p5-Tail-Stat
SHA256 (Tail-Stat-0.26.tar.gz) = 077a5943c94dc892f72b30e4db6b06e49d9f5d7c43748c9f40e2ac85168dfa24
SIZE (Tail-Stat-0.26.tar.gz) = 139451
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 24
Fix license information for portgs that use "the same license as Perl".
Sponsored by: Absolight
- Update to 0.26
- While I'm here, fix *_DEPENDS: Sys::Syslog 0.16+ is already in all supported
Perl releases
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tail-Stat/Changes
Submitted by: Oleg A. Mamontov <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories r, s, t, and u.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
- Update to 0.25
Submitted by: firstname.lastname@example.com (maintainer)
- Update to 0.24
Submitted by: maintainer
Approved by: mat (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4401
Upgrade to 0.23.
Submitted by: maintainer
Make it so that the default Perl is always called perl5.
- Move Perl's man1 files along with its man3 files.
- Move where Perl installs its modules man1 pages.
- Convert the ports installing man1 pages.
- Make different Perl versions installable at the same time.
Though you should note that only the default version can be used to
install Perl modules, and the non default Perl versions cannot use the
modules installed via ports if they contain .so as they are installed
in a version specific directory.
Reviewed by: bapt (the Mk bits)
Exp-run by: antoine
Sponsored by: Absolight
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3542
- Add NO_ARCH
- Modernize /var subdirectories handling
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Change the way Perl modules are installed, update the default Perl to 5.18.
Before, we had:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18
site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3
Now we have:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
- Update to 0.22 [1]
- clean plist
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tail-Stat/Changes
PR: ports/194480 [1]
Submitted by: Oleg A. Mamontov <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
Support stage
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- convert to the new perl5 framework
Approved by: portmgr (bapt@, blanket)
- Update to 0.21
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tail-Stat/Changes
PR: ports/180592
Submitted by: Oleg A. Mamontov <email@example.com> (maintainer)
- Update to 0.20 [1]
- Pet portlint(1) by moving TEST_DEPENDS up
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tail-Stat/Changes
PR: ports/173068 [1]
Submitted by: Oleg A. Mamontov <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
Feature safe: yes
In the rc.d scripts, change assignments to rcvar to use the
literal name_enable wherever possible, and ${name}_enable
when it's not, to prepare for the demise of set_rcvar().
In cases where I had to hand-edit unusual instances also
modify formatting slightly to be more uniform (and in
some cases, correct). This includes adding some $FreeBSD$
tags, and most importantly moving rcvar= to right after
name= so it's clear that one is derived from the other.
- Update to 0.19
- Pet portlint
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tail-Stat/Changes
PR: ports/162869
Submitted by: sunpoet (myself)
Approved by: Oleg A. Mamontov <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
Feature safe: yes
- Update to 0.18 [1]
- Add LICENSE
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tail-Stat/Changes
PR: ports/157945 [1]
Submitted by: Oleg A. Mamontov <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
Remove painful examples of foo="", with particular prejudice against
constructions that parse out to [ -z "$foo" ] && foo=""
These are bad examples that get copied and pasted into new code, so the
hope is that with less bad examples there will be less need for me to
bring this up in review.
In a few of these files all that were changed were comments so that next
time I search for these patterns I won't trip on the file for no reason.
In a few places, add $FreeBSD$
No functional changes, so no PORTREVISION bumps
- Update to 0.17 [1]
- Make use of CPAN:USER macro
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tail-Stat/Changes
PR: ports/156028 [1]
Submitted by: Oleg A. Mamontov <oleg AT mamontov.net> (maintainer)
- Update to 0.10
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tail-Stat/Changes
PR: ports/155127
Submitted by: Oleg A. Mamontov <oleg AT mamontov.net> (maintainer)
- Update to 0.09
Submitted by: maintainer
Fix WWW in pkg-descr to http://search.cpan.org/dist/<MODULE> for unification.
No functional changes.
Sponsored by: p5 namespace
Real-time log statistics server
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/~LONERR/Tail-Stat/
PR: ports/152041
Submitted by: Oleg A. Mamontov <oleg at mamontov.net>
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, SuperNews, and RootBSD
No vulnerabilities have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
All vulnerabilities


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London, Aug 11 (IANS) Indian-origin councillor Varinder Singh Bola has been appointed the animal welfare ambassador of the Redbridge London Borough council, a media report said.
He will help the local authority with disseminating its animal welfare policy to all the stakeholders.
Bola will receive training from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) to become an expert on animal-related welfare issues, the Ilford Recorder reported on Tuesday.
"I will be looking into the animal welfare policy and give residents any animal related guidance and advice that is needed," Bola was quoted as saying.
The Redbridge council has established a "Gold Footprint" award to improve animal welfare and tackle the issue of stray dogs.
Failing to provide for the needs of any animal or causing an animal unnecessary suffering is an offence.
"Anyone found guilty of this offence may be banned from owning animals, face a large fine or imprisonment," Bola said.

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Managing financial risks due to natural catastrophes
this paper was prepared for the First Journées d'Economie et Econométrie de l'Asssurance, in Rennes, October 22nd and 23rd, 2009. It's a melting pot of several papers that I have written with my co-authors, plus a very short summary of Graciella Chichilnisky enlightening results. But, before proposing partial answers to the problem of modelling catastrophes in such a way as to be able to propose how to manage them, I try and grasp what we mean by catastrophe and what are the main problems, in the introduction.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- In a rare sight, two of NASA's space shuttle orbiters were together as their decommissioning continued at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
The retired shuttles Discovery and Endeavour presented a rare photo opportunity Thursday as they passed each other while swapping buildings in the ongoing process of being prepared for their eventual homes in museums, Florida Today reported.
Discovery was moved from temporary storage in the Vehicle Assembly Building to Orbiter Processing Facility Bay No. 1, while Endeavour made the reverse move, NASA said.
Discovery will be displayed at the National Air & Space Museum Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, while Endeavour will head to the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
Atlantis, which will remain at the Kennedy Space Center for display, currently is in Orbiter Processing Facility Bay No. 2.


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Basic SEO Techniques Galleywood :
A few basic SEO techniques:
- View Google's cache to see your page the way a search engine sees it. If you can't see an element of the page in the cache, the search engines can't see it either! This means that content isn't gaining you any search traffic.
- Be sure your page is reachable. Crawlers don't perform searches, they travel by links. This means your page has to be viewable by clicking on a link on another page or crawlers won't see it and it won't be searchable.
- Be sure you don't have metaframes preventing your page from being crawled. Many Galleywood webmasters use metaframes to prevent rogue bots from crawling their page and don't realize that these metaframes will also prevent search bots from crawling their pages!
- Don't let your links get lost in a sea of links. Pages with hundreds or thousands of links may not get crawled thoroughly in order to prevent spam and skewed rankings.
- Use specific keywords. General keywords will have lots of competition. By using more specific keywords, a webmaster can reduce competition and increase rankings.
- Don't abuse keywords. Use your keywords in natural speech. Optimize your page for one or two specific keywords that searchers might use when looking for information available on your page. Be sure your keywords are relevant to your content.
- Don't use keywords in link anchor text pointing to other pages on your site. (This is known as commiting keyword cannibalization.)
- Be sure your keywords are plain text HTML. Add ALT text for images, transcripts for videos and audio clips, and put captions with java or flash plugins or images. Although crawlers are improving, many are unable to process anything besides plain text.
Be Aware of User Experience
Increasing the usability, accuracy, and visual design of the website will also increase your search metrics. Search engines use search metrics and backlinks to determine the popularity and user-friendliness of your page. These factors play an important role in SEO. Always seek to create content that is pleasing for your reader.
Search Engines use Engagement Metrics to determine user satisfaction. Time spent on a search result means the user found the result much more helpful than a user who immediately hits the back button to look for another search.
The Panda update allows google to use machine learning to rank websites on quality and user friendliness. In 2011, human evaluators ranked thousands of websites based on quality and then implemented machine learning that mimicked those evaluators. This update changed more than 20% of search results.
Selecting Keywords:
Things to consider when selecting keywords:
- The Keyword's relevance to your page. Will the people using that keyword in searches be satisfied with the content on your page?
- The Keyword's specificity. Would a narrower keyword or keyphrase attract an audience that is more interested in your content than the audience of the broader term? On the other hand, is your keyword so specific it won't be searched?
- The Competition on that keyword. Can you compete with the current top ranked websites for your keyword?
Where to Put Keywords:
- In the Title: as close to the beginning as you can put it
- At the Top of the Page
- Several times throughout the body of the page
- At least once in the ALT text
- In the URL
- In the Summary or Meta description tag
Optimizing Title Tags:
- Titles should be between 45 and 55 characters long. Titles that exceed 55 characters in length may not show properly in google searches.
- Keywords should be placed near the beginning of the title
- Consider putting your brandname at the end of the title
- Don't sacrifice readability and emotional impact for keyword optimization
Visit https://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag to see how the title and summary of your page would show up in a google search.
Constructing URLS:
- Keep them short
- Be sure your reader has an idea of what he will find on the page when reads the URL
- Use plain text links
- Use hyphens to separate words
- Use keywords
How Links to your Page Effect your SEO
- Are a wide variety of websites created by a wide variety of webmasters on a wide variety of topics linking to your site?
- Are many sites on similar topics linking to your site?
- Are the ranking sites for your keywords linking to your site?
- Are sites linking to your page using your keywords in anchor text to link to your site? (Anchor text is the blue text that shows on a webpage instead of the URL to the link)
- Are you getting links from trusted sources?
- Have you refrained from linking to spammy or poor quality websites and websites that link to your page?
- Have you been accruing new links?
- Is your page being shared on social media?
If you can answer yes to the eight questions above, links to your content are doing their job and helping increase your rankings. If you can't answer yes to each question, devise strategies to remedy your answer.
Creating good, quality content that related pages will naturally link to is one of the best ways to get links. Another great way, is through Manual Outreach. Don't under estimate the traffic that a well placed link can generate itself. Target specific websites who cater to similar audiences, preferably websites with few links, high credibility and high rankings for your keywords, and invite them to link to your page. Be sure to explain how linking to your page is a benefit for them, and not just an act of charity for you. You may also use this tool to see your competitors' backlinks. Finding sites who have linked to the top ranked sites for your keyword gives you a list of sites that whose links would be of value to you. Avoid self-created links on lower quality websites. While they may help rankings a little bit, they may also hurt your rankings. If you pursue this option, proceed with caution.
Search Engine Webmaster SEO advice
SEO advice from the major search engine webmasters includes:
- Be sure all pages can be reached by static, plain-text links. (Links of the form: , as opposed to links buried in images, java or flash.) These links are easier for crawlers to find.
- Don't "cloak" your work, or try to present different content to the search engine than you present to the user. Make sure your page is optimized to be found by a search engine when a user searches a relevant query. Don't try to cheat the crawler's and their index.
- Use accurate, descriptive, clear language with appropriate keywords in your titles, subtitles and ALT text. (ALT text is text that appears when an image cannot be displayed.) On hubpages, photo captions are ALT text and are therefore an extremely important part of search engine optimization.
- Create content filled with relevant keywords.
Check for Errors
To check for crawl errors see Google's Webmaster Tools.
5 Ways to Get People to Read Your Blog
Is your business trying to reach potential customers who search for information online? Of course it is.
But be sure not to neglect those who use mobile phones -- used by more than 90 percent of U.S. households today, according to CTIA, the wireless industry association. That compares to home Internet usage estimated at about 74 percent, according to Nielsen Online.
The CTIA also says data usage on mobile phones has surpassed the amount of voice data in the U.S. for the first time last year. Along with using mobile versions of Web browsers, on-the-go Internet users are increasingly turning to social media and specialized apps to help them find what they're looking for.
In the era of mobile Internet commerce, businesses need to re-evaluate their search engine optimization strategies. Here are some tips on taking advantage of this shifting trend from computer to smartphone from experts in the field.
Drop .mobi, but limit Flash
"The recent and continued advancement in smartphone technology has brought mobile browsing and search engine optimization (SEO) much closer to standard web SEO practices," says Dustin Ruge with the SEO Consultant Firm, based in New York City. "Previously, companies would pursue the creation of mobile sites (.mobi), with much lighter content and faster load times to support first generation mobile browsers, but today, mobile browsers are becoming much more 'normalized' in nature and tend to perform similar in results to standard Web browsers."
That said, Ruge still suggests to utilize XHTML formats, limit excessive load times (i.e. Adobe Flash) and make sure critical information -- such as phone numbers and addresses -- is prominently displayed and readable in mobile applications.
Test is best, click to call
Amber MacArthur, a new media strategist and author of Power Friending: Demystifying Social Media to Grow Your Business (2010 Portfolio), agrees with Ruge's last point.
"To ensure that consumers get what they want when searching on a mobile phone, companies need to ensure they have mobile-friendly websites," says MacArthur. "Businesses don't simply have to check their sites on one device, they should test across multiple smartphone platforms, such as the BlackBerry, iPhone, and Android."
Smartphones with these three dominant operating systems allow users to call phone numbers listed in their Web browsers with a single tap or click, which then launches the phone function of the device. You'll know if a phone number or email address can be used as such if they're underlined in the browser.
App attack
The most significant change to how consumers are using smartphones to find companies is the widespread popularity of mobile apps."To put this into context, Steve Jobs recently said that there are now more than 200,000 Apple mobile apps," says MacArthur. "In other words, individuals are no longer going through a browser get information, such as restaurant reviews and product recommendations -- this means that traditional SEO placement tactics are less effective."
Ruge acknowledges mobile apps are "exploding in use," but he feels it might be too early to develop any concrete conclusions about its effectiveness in user search. "Based on learned user behavior, I suspect that standard browsing practices through the traditional search engine interfaces will not be threatened anytime soon," says Ruge.
Social networks, too
Customers are also relying on their social networks to find what they're looking for, reminds MacArthur, who says she uses Google less and Twitter and Facebook more."The tipping point for me was a couple of years ago when I went online to Twitter to ask my network where I should stay in the D.C. area. Within minutes, I had dozens of recommendations and links, which was a lot easier than sifting through pages and pages of random search results on Google."
According to MacArthur, about three quarters of cellphone users are using mobile phones to frequent social networking sites. "With such a high penetration of users on Facebook, Twitter and in other online hangouts, it's key that small and mid-sized businesses put time and effort into social networking strategies."
MacArthur suggests businesses consider a free Web service called HootSuite. "Not only will this tool allow companies to post to multiple accounts at the same time within an easy-to-use dashboard, it makes networking with the people on these sites easy and it also makes it a cinch to monitor your brand's reputation (and respond when necessary)," adds MacArthur.
As for the future
Both Ruge and MacArthur were asked about location-based services.
"This is a very difficult issue to address at this point since there are ongoing privacy related issues dealing with mobile browsing and GPS," says Ruge. "Recent privacy issues dealing with Facebook should be a shot across the bow to any unauthorized future use of personal online browsing coordinated with GPS data; the technology is certainly there for some amazing capabilities but Americans are very particular when it comes to privacy issues," he adds.
MacArthur is more optimistic about its immediate future. "Location-based services are exploding as a key marketing platform for many businesses." "For starters, setting your company up on a site like Foursquare won't cost you a cent, giving businesses an opportunity to bring their online relationships with customers offline."
MacArthur also says "augmented reality" tools that add informational layers on top of what you see through your smartphone's camera, "is about to change the way most of us get information." "For example, imagine walking down the street, pointing your phone's lens at a restaurant, and then seeing live links to menu item reviews online."
Although augmented reality is a hot trend, "it's somewhat more complicated to develop, compared to location-based apps and GPS tools, so companies are a slow to jump onboard," says MacArthur.
Quotes About Search Engine Optimization
If you've ever tried to deal with search engine optimization, you most likely have, at some point or another, wanted to bundle your whole site up and toss it into the nearest virtual trash can. Particularly if you felt compelled to focus on keywords, or any other technique calculated to artificially pique someone's mouse clicks.
You should be delighted to hear then, if you haven't heard yet, that the old-fashioned concept of SEO is deader than last week's sandwich. Google pretty much pounded the crap out of keyword stuffing and other absurdities with the search algorithm changes it's made over the last couple of years. And then Google made search secure, which means you can't even see what keywords someone used to get to your site.
It's about time, because all the minutiae blinded entrepreneurs to what is really important: making a connection with an audience. The term--not exactly new--that seems to be displacing SEO is OAO, online audience optimization. Before getting too squirrelly about another Three Letter Acronym, let's get grounded and think about what's important.
Really Know Your Audience
Over on the Marketingland blog, Brian Clark quoted great old-time advertising copyrighter Eugene Schwartz:
One hour a day, read. Read everything in the world except your business. Read junk. Very much junk. Read so that anything that interests you will stick in your memory. Just read, just read, just read... There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use.
Clark takes this to mean that you have to understand the language and words people use so you know how to talk to them. I'll take it a step further. Not only do you need to know how they talk, which lets you better guess how they might specifically look for what you offer, but you also need to understand what they find funny. What scares them. What is important to them. How they think. Until you do, they're only marks and you do nothing more than run calculated cons. After you do understand them, they're real people and you might find yourself caring a bit about them. Good--care more.
Translate Caring Into Specific Actions
Do you care about your significant other, family members, or friends? If so, then there are plenty of times that you'll do specific things that you know make them happy. Emotion isn't an abstract concept, but something that drives behavior. Let the same thing happen in your marketing after you start to care about the audience. For example, Linda Ruth lists nine steps for OAO, including be consistent and clear about strategy and purpose, encourage audience participation, and employ engagement metrics and gamification techniques. Maybe you'll find that your list is the same. Maybe it will be somewhat different. Just make sure it comes with a focus on customers and how you can provide what they need.
It's like going into a shop you like where the people recognize you and get your interests and tastes. That's all you're trying to do. When the technology, any technology, gets in the way, drop it out back and return to the basics.


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Deep Silver to distribute InXile's Wasteland 2
Dead Island and Saints Row 4 publisher Deep Silver will handle distribution for inXile Entertainment's crowdfunded RPG Wasteland 2.
The distribution deal, announced today, "allows inXile to focus on all creative aspects of developing the game, while Deep Silver handles the retail release of the game and the physical good fulfillment for the Kickstarter backers." Deep Silver will also assist inXile in "QA testing of the localized international versions of the game."
"This is a perfect opportunity for inXile: it allows us to continue to focus all of our energy and money into the creative aspects of the game while letting Deep Silver take our game outside of the pure digital space. This has the added bonus of allowing us to spend more of the Kickstarter funds on development while continue to retain all ownership and control", said Brian Fargo, CEO inXile Entertainment. "I've known the people at Deep Silver for many years and they have always been a first rate organization to deal with."
InXile first began to raise funds for the sequel to the popular 1988 RPG, Wasteland, on Kickstarter back in March 2012. 30 days later, the company had over $3 million pledged. Now, development of the top-down tactical RPG is fully underway and the game is expected to release in October 2013.


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Rhodes, Anna Jean
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Rhodes, Anna Jean
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Collection Membership(s)
Additional Information
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- found: Her Benjamin West, 1989: CIP t.p. (Anna Jean Rhodes)
- found: Rhodes, P. Memory, art, time, form [SR] 1997: insert (Anna Jean Rhodes; b. 1966; daughter of Phillip Rhodes; author of poetry used in Visions of remembrance)
- found: Phone call to P. Rhodes, Oct. 12, 1999 (Anna Jean Rhodes; author of Benjamin West, is his daughter; graduate of Swarthmore (1988) and the University of Delaware)
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- 1989-06-01: new
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NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) - KCG Holdings Inc, the trading firm formed in July through Getco Holding Co's $1.4 billion takeover of Knight Capital Group, said on Wednesday three managers were exiting its exchange-traded funds team.
The managers leaving are Reggie Browne, Eric Lichtenstein and Darren Taube, a company spokeswoman said. All three came from the Knight side of the business, and were unable to agree on terms of new contracts, a person familiar with the situation said.
KCG first disclosed the information in a regulatory filing that did not name the individuals.
Severance costs related to the layoffs, expected to be effective Sept. 13, 2013, will total $15 million, and will be recognized in the third quarter, the company said in the filing.
Joe Mazzella, and John Dibacco will be overseeing the ETF group on an interim basis, which KCG plans to further develop, the source said.
KCG is one of the biggest U.S. market makers in ETFs.
In August last year, a software problem at Knight led to millions of unintentional orders flooding into the market, leaving the firm with a huge position it had to unload at a loss of $461.1 million. Knight secured $400 million in rescue financing - in exchange for a more than 70 percent stake in the company - from a group of investors that included Chicago-based Getco and was led by Jefferies Group Inc. Jefferies later helped finance Getco's proposed acquisition of Knight.


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In a nation where anybody can become President, what would happen if somebody gave a nobody the keys to the Oval Office?
Academy Award-winner Kevin Kline stars as Dave Kovic, a mild-mannered office manager who looks exactly like the President of The United States - whom he is hired to impersonate. But when a sudden illness waylays the President, Dave's one-night job doesn't end, and he must deal with the hilarious complications of fooling an entire country, as well as an increasingly suspicious First Lady.
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The Americans made it out of the so-called "Group of Death", finishing level on four points with Portugal but ahead on goal differential.
US coach Jurgen Klinsmann said: "It's huge for us getting out of this group after everybody said we had no chance."
The US side has now gone through to the round of 16 for a second straight World Cup - a first for the Americans.
US goalkeeper Tim Howard told ESPN: "It shows how far we've come, that we're not just happy getting there. We still got a lot left in us."
Germany did not make it easy for its former star Klinsmann and his squad, pressuring the US early and often.
Howard and USA defender Omar Gonzalez stepped up on multiple occasions to keep the Germans at bay until Thomas Mueller finally broke through to put his side up 1-0 on 55 minutes.
But as torrential rain fell on the pitch at Arena Pernambuco, the US men hunkered down to keep the Germans from expanding their lead.
As the minutes ticked away, millions of American supporters who had packed city streets, parks and pubs kept one anxious eye on the Portugal-Ghana match.
But Portugal's 2-1 victory was not enough to overcome the four goals it conceded to Germany in the group opener, and the US fans erupted in joy as the final whistle blew and America's spot in the next round was secure.
President Barack Obama congratulated the US side during a speech in Minnesota.
He said: "We could not be prouder of them. They are defying the odds and earning a lot of believers in the process."
The Americans will next play the winner of Group H on Tuesday.
Belgium currently leads the group with six points, with Algeria seen as having an outside shot of taking the top spot following Thursday's group stage finales.
Klinsmann said: "Once the group is done, another tournament starts. Whoever it is, we'll be prepared."


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I am a Human Biology and Spanish double major hoping to attend medical school post graduation. Some of my favorite courses during my career at NC State have been the Jefferson Classes as well as Literature and Culture of Spain, Medicine in Literature, and an Emergency Medical Technician-Basic Class. In addition to my coursework I'm involved in the University Scholars Program, the CALS honors program, volunteer at the Wake County Open Door Clinic and am the president of the Spanish Club at NC State. When not in class, attending meetings, or volunteering, I enjoy reading a variety of novels, essays and blogs, running, rock climbing, watching TV and, when I feel really ambition, even manage to get 7+ hours of sleep.


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The 2010 Census has finished its data collection phase. Its next newsworthy milestone is the release of state-level population counts to Congress (December 31, 2010). This will tell us the winners and losers in the apportionment of power in Congress. Some analysts have already made predictions of the winners and losers based on the Census Bureau's most recent population estimates.
The predictions using an apportionment calculator and July 1, 2009 estimates seem reasonable:
3 seats (Texas)
1 seat (Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, Washington)
2 seats (Ohio)
1 seat (Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania)
Links to just missed out and just made it states.
But, how well did the Census Bureau's population estimates work in predicting the 2000 apportionment results?
While most of the above projections will hold, one should recall that there were unexpected discrepancies in the projections based on the July 1, 1999 postcensal estimates and the final apportionment results based on the 2000 Census. And the deviations were not really foreseeable, e.g., they did not just involve the states who were projected to barely retain or lose a seat. Montana was the only state really on the brink in a published projection based on 1999 data; it ended up not getting the seat. Michigan ended up losing a seat and yet had a seemingly safe margin of approximately 200,000. Likewise, North Carolina was supposed to be well out of the running needing almost 150,000 more in population and in 447th place and yet ended up with the 435th seat.
Below is a quick summary of projections made on the basis of July 1, 1999 data and the actual apportionment results for 2000. Links to the data for all states is provided below.
2 seats (Arizona, Texas)
1 seat (California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Montana, Nevada)
2 seats (New York, Pennsylvania)
1 seat (Connecticut, Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Wisconsin)
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One obvious weakness in using the 2009 or 1999 Population Estimates to project apportionment for 2010 or 2000 is that states vary in their population growth. The 2009 Population Estimates are leaving out the last 9 months of growth (July 1, 2009 – April 1, 2010). Is this how a seemingly safe state loses a seat (Michigan) or how a state vaults over many other states to gain a seat (North Carolina)? Or was there something more fundamental that led to the surprises in 2000?
While projecting the July 1 estimates forward to April 1, 2010 might improve our apportionment projections - particularly for the states on the bubble, one can still be left with surprises if the underlying estimates have any problems with them. It might help to review how these numbers are generated. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates program uses demographic methods to calculate state-based estimates of the US population. The weakest part of the equation is its migration estimates. The United States does not have a population registry that allows the federal government to keep track of interstate moves and international moves, so the Census Bureau has to make its best approximation of population movement based on proxies. It should be noted that the proxies have changed over the past decade with the advent of the American Community Survey. This source did not exist in the 1990s. The methodology for the postcensal estimates were very much the same back in 1999; it just used different proxies.
There has been a dramatic slowdown in both international and internal migration with the economic downturn and housing collapse. [Frey, 2010; Silver, 2009]. This could have a positive benefit to states that have been donor states (e.g., the Northeast and Midwest) and a negative affect on the Sunbelt or the West. Likewise, according to a study from Pew Hispanic, the undocumented population coming to the US has declined in the past year - mostly related to the collapse of the economy and the construction industry in particular. This has hit selected states - Florida, Virginia, and Nevada the most. Will this help Ohio, which is projected to lose 2 seats?
Related to the collapse in the housing market is an increase in foreclosures. Census residence rules are quite clear on how families (or individuals) living temporarily with others should be enumerated. However, most respondents filling out the census are not familiar with these rules, skipped the instructions, or did not answer the screening question (Question 2) on the census form, which might have prompted a follow-up by the Census Bureau. So, states with high foreclosure rates (Arizona, Nevada, Florida, and Michigan) could be adversely affected if doubled-up households were left out of the count. An indication of how serious an issue this might be is recent results from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The most recent poverty release (September 2010) showed that there has been an 11.6 percent increase in the number of doubled up families. The CPS is a survey that uses professional interviewers. It is more likely that the CPS will pick up doubled-up families than the self-enumerated census will.
The Hispanic population is roughly 15 percent of the U.S. population. The Hispanic population is a more difficult population to estimate using demographic methods than other groups partly because of the undocumented population. See [Passel] for a description of issues. This throws a wrench into all apportionment projections because a shift in the population of one state can have an impact on another state. And, there is reason to think that the Census Population Estimates could be off a bit for Hispanics.
Is the Hispanic population larger than the Census Estimates? Just a tiny bit larger (100,000) or substantially larger (1,000,000)?
The political posturing of whether or not to include non-citizens in the 2010 Census in the fall of 2009 and the new Arizona immigration law [SB 1070] might have an affect on the participation rate of Hispanics. This could hurt states with high proportion Hispanic - particularly a state like Arizona, which was at the center of the latter controversy. On the other hand, a Pew Hispanic study found that foreign born Hispanics were more positive and knowledgeable than their native born counterparts about the 2010 Census. So maybe, the distribution of states' by their nativity profile is critical to the final count of Hispanics. For instance, the Hispanic population is Texas is more native than foreign whereas the reverse is true for Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina.
What will the final count of Hispanics look like in the 2010 Census? There were many reasons for Hispanics to avoid the census. In the end, the effects could cancel each other out and have no net impact on the apportionment.
Finally, there may be some lingering affects of disasters: Hurricane Katrina residents moving back to Louisiana (or not) and Haitians coming to the US on the heels of the January 2010 earthquake. In the current projections, if Louisiana's population ends up being ~70,000 larger than the Census estimates, it will not lose its 7th Congressional seat. That is a fairly substantial population for a state of 4,000,000, but within reason considering the population loss Louisiana experienced from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Haitian refugees have been settling in two very populous states (New York and Florida). Their numbers are unlikely to have an impact on apportionment for these states. In the end, the more interesting numbers will be the final counts and demographic characteristics for the population in Orleans parish (New Orleans).
Expect the unexpected. There should be some discrepancy in the projections based on the July 2009 Population Estimates data.2
Table Comparing Census 2000 results with July 1, 1999 Projections
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1 Postcensal population estimates are calculated for the years following a census and before the next census is taken. These are based on demographic components of change (births, deaths, and migration). Here is a link to the source for the July 1, 1999 postcensal estimates.
2 The estimates by Kimball Brace at Election Data Services do more than just use the July 1, 2009 estimates. They have many variations - mostly based on previous patterns of growth for states. Likewise, Frey has several scenarios based on the abrupt drop in population movements (e.g., migration) in the latter part of this decade. His mid-decade projection was also heavily influenced by migration patterns.
Brace, Kimball. 1999. Congressional District Reapportionment Program. Election Data Services.
Benson, Clarke. 2009. Mid-Recession Migration in 2010: Apportionment in 2010. Polidata.
Census Bureau. 2010a. Residence Rules and Residence Situations for the 2010 Census. Census Bureau Web site: http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2010/resid_rules/resid_rules.html.
Census Bureau. 2010b. 2010 Census Questionnaire (sample). Census Bureau website: http://2010.census.gov/2010census/pdf/2010_Questionnaire_Info.pdf.
Census Bureau. 2009. Methodology for the State and County Total Resident Population Estimates (Vintage 2009): April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2009.
Census Bureau. 1997. Methodology for U.S. Population Estimates by Age, Sex, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1990 to 1996.
Frey, William. 2010. A Demographic Lull at Census Time.The Brookings Institution.
Frey, William. 2009. A Rollercoaster Decade for Migration. The Brookings Institution.
Frey, William. 2005. The Electoral College Moves to the Sunbelt. The Brookings Institution.
Johnson, David. 2010. Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage Online News Conference. Census Bureau.
Lopez, Mark and Paul Taylor. 2010. Latinos and the 2010 Census: The Foreign Born are More Positive.
Passel, Jeffrey. 2007. Unauthorized Migrants in the United States: Estimates, Methods, and Characteristics. OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers.
Passel, Jeffrey and D'Vera Cohn. 2010. U.S. Unauthorized Immigration Flows are Down Sharply Since Mid-Decade. Pew Hispanic Center.
Ramirez, Andres. 2009. The New Contituents: How Latino Population Grown Will Shape Congressional Apportionment after the 2010 Census. American's Voice Education Fund.
Silver, Nate. 2009. Red States Gaining Ground, But Migration Slowing Down. FiveThirtyEight.com.


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The 2009 season was a leap in the right direction, but ultimately it was once again punctuated by a lack of goals for TFC as they fell at the final hurdle to make the MLS playoffs. That said, Dwayne De Rosario had an outstanding year, scoring 14 goals in all competitions as the Canadian international helped the Reds to a fifth placed finish in the East and 12th overall.
It wasn't all bad news though, as the Reds captured the Canadian Championship for the first time in their history under the stewardship of English boss Chris Cummins.
However the main story to come from the year was the monumental collapse that occurred on the final day of the regular season. Knowing a win would put them in the playoffs, TFC had a firm goal in sight against the New York Red Bulls on Oct. 24. Yet their goal would not been to have lost 5-0, which they ultimately did after being undone by some superb attacking play from New York.
Despite this disappointment, De Rosario an Amado Guevara added much needed creativity and panache, as they ease TFC's former Achilles heel in the goal-scoring charts. Goalkeeper Stefan Frei also rose to stardom as he proved that what he lacked in experience, he certainly made up for in talent as he posted an impressive 1.49 goals against average.
TFC certainly started the season off in great form, however especially as games wore on they became more and more vulnerable. They scored just two goals in the final 15 minutes of games all season long, which was last in MLS. Coincidentally they also gave up 16 goals in the last 15 minutes as they threw several points away.
Yet their first Canadian Championship was an extremely positive note compared to the disappointment of missing the playoffs. Going into their final game against the Montreal Impact, TFC knew nothing less than a 4-0 win would secure them the trophy. They did so in emphatic fashion, winning 6-1 courtesy of a Dwayne De Rosario hat-trick and Guevara grabbing two goals. Subsequently Toronto participated in the 2009-10 CONCACAF Champions League, but lost in the preliminary round to the Puerto Rico Islanders.


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The US birthrate is at a record low and the poor state of the economy is to blame as people put off parenting. Money is certainly a huge factor in child rearing. But is there really such a thing as the "perfect time" to have a baby?
As USA TODAY reported, the birthrate in the US has dropped to its lowest point in 25 years (1.87) and it's not expected to rebound anytime soon. As more and more couples face money problems and unemployment, the question of whether to start a family has become harder to answer. Money is certainly something to consider when deciding to have a baby, but is waiting for financial security really ideal?
My husband and I considered a lot of factors when we decided to take the big leap into parenthood, but to be honest the economy was not at the top of the list. In today's unstable world, where job security seems to be a fantasy, waiting for the perfect climate to have a child means you could be waiting long past your childbearing years and I knew I didn't want to miss the window. There is also the sibling factor to consider, as Stephanie Coontz, director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families explained, "The more you delay it, the more you delay the possibility of a second or third child."
Parenting on a budget can be difficult, but it's not impossible. There are many ways to save money and plan for your family's future. We all want the best for our children, but growing up financially well-off doesn't always equate with a perfect childhood. There can be positives to deciding to have a baby regardless of having a less than ideal financial situation. Living on a budget can teach your child important life lessons about money, living frugally, and the value of hard work.
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March 9th, 2017 by Zack Schlemmer
The adidas NMD is definitely thinking pink this spring, as today we preview another pink-accented colorway. Just yesterday we saw a new "Pink Rose" look for the shoe with a vibrant pink "glitch camo" Primeknit upper, and now you can get a good preview of an upcoming version with pronounced rear "bumpers" in the same bright shade. Obviously toning the pink down a few notches for the glitch camo colorway, these features a black and dark grey Primeknit upper with light grey front midsole inserts and a splash of pink in the larger heel bumpers on both the lateral and medial sides.
No exact release date for this "Essential Pink" colorway of the NMD R1 is available yet, but you can expect them to release sometime in April. Stay tuned to Sneaker News for further updates.
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The first-ever UFC flyweight championship fight last month was booed at times by fans in Toronto, though others found the fast-paced battle between two of the smallest guys in the company riveting.
Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz blames "ignorance" for the negative reaction.
"I'm not surpised that people were booing it," Cruz told The Post. "I think that the sport is still fairly new to fans. It's the fastest growing sport in the world."
Cruz, who will be a guest analyst Saturday for UFC on Fuel TV's pre- and post-fight shows, thinks that as UFC's popularity becomes more widespread fans will become more knowledgable about in-cage strategy. Right now, though, that doesn't seem to be the case.
Smaller fighters provide less knockouts, but also a lot more cardiovascular energy – they can fight faster and longer than bigger man. You just won't see as much blood or finishes. Flyweights weigh 125 pounds, while Cruz fights one class above at 135.
"People will start understanding you can't throw haymakers for 25 minutes and get out of the cage in one piece or have a career," Cruz said. "These guys are going through eight-week camps of hell and putting their brains, souls and hearts on the line for fans."
Following that fight at UFC 152, won by Demetrious Johnson over Joseph Benavidez, UFC president Dana White angrily told anyone booing during the bout not to buy another company pay per view. Interestingly, he's pegged Johnson's first title defense against John Dodson as the main event for UFC on Fox 6 in January in Chicago.
"Every time we put people on Fox it's to showcase them," White told The Post. "I don't know how the [expletive] you can boo John Dodson. The guy is so [expletive] exciting. The great thing that I love about [Johnson] is that he's so fast nobody can keep up with him. Dodson might be faster."
Cruz is currently out rehabbing a torn ACL. He plans to defend his title sometime in the first half of 2013 against interim champion Renan Barao. In the meantime, he's getting a leg up on a post-fight career in broadcasting. Cruz is pumped up about breaking down the UFC on Fuel main event Saturday in Macau between exciting veterans Rich Franklin and Cung Le.
It's the UFC's first trip to China and will air on Fuel live at 9 a.m. The replay is on at 7 p.m. with the pre-fight show beginning an hour earlier.
You gotta look at the style and you just say, man this fight is gonna be awesome," Cruz said of Franklin-Le. "This fight is going to be a crazy fight to watch."
He was saying the same things about Johnson-Benavidez even though some were not.
"You can't let it hurt you," Cruz said. "It's somewhat ignorance on some people's views of the sport. I don't take it offensively, because I know people don't understand what I'm doing in there. They don't see that I just threw a three-punch combination to setup the takedown that I just landed."


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A California U.S. District Court has thrown out a class action lawsuit filed against Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar Games due to a delay in the launch of GTA Online.
The case was filed against Take-Two by Bruce McMahon and Christopher Bengston. The pair claimed that Rockstar and Take-Two had engaged in "unlawful" and "fraudulent" practices because the company had effectively advertised and marketed Grand Theft Auto V as having an online component, which was not actually available until a couple weeks after the game was released.
Judge Virginia A. Phillips granted Take-Two's motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the game's packaging did not specifically say that the online component would be available immediately. She also cited a disclaimer on the package which stated that the online features "may not be available to all users."
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Our Take:I'm glad Judge Phillips had the good judgment to see this for what it was: a crass attempt as shaking down Take-Two and Rockstar for money based on a minor inconvenience. I'm all for holding companies accountable for their failings, but I don't believe that video game gripes need to settled in federal court. Plus, Grand Theft Auto V's single-player component alone gave gamers more content than most games. It would have been a great deal even if there wasn't any online mode.


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Packing for a trip is always a bit of a challenge for me, especially when I'm going from one temperature zone to another, so when I was packing for my trip to Las Vegas I decided this would be the right time to sport a new look.
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Little did I know wearing sandals and tights would cause such a stir on the City Chic Facebook page. Overnight there were quiet a few messages from people who loved it and hated it. I felt just fine, and love the look myself, because fashion is for everyone not just for models on the catwalk.
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Australian comic obliterates opponents to gay marriage
Aussie comic Craig Ruecassel leaves people against gay marriage lost for words as he tears their reasons for opposing it apart
An Australian comic has hilariously blasted the arguments of people who oppose gay marriage.
On his show The Hamster Wheel, comic Craig Reucassel leaves politicians, athletes and religious people eating their words when he challenges them on their reasons for being against gay marriage.
Hilarity ensues when Reucassel goes to a Australian National Marriage Day rally to ask some 'serious' questions about opposition to gay marriage.
When asked if women should submit to their husbands as if they were lords, as the Bible says, Father Chris Hefferman can barely get his words out and goes on to stutter and stumble his way through an awkward reply.
He then moves onto annihilate veteran politician Fred Nile, who has opposed gay rights for decades and repeatedly refers to the Australian Prime Minister Julie Gillard as a man.
Nile also believes giving gay people rights will promote the 'homosexual lifestyle' and said Australian Senator Penny Wong having a baby would 'promote lesbianism'.
Reucassel asks him if he considered becoming a lesbian after the birth of Wong's baby.
The Aussie also jokingly says he can prove allowing gay people to marry will lead the way to legalizing bestiality, as far-right-wing Australian politicians have claimed in the past.
Funny man Reucassel also got down on one knee and popped the question to politician Malcolm Turnbull who voted against gay marriage in the country's parliament.
Turnbull turned down the offer by telling him if he accepted the comic would start 'looking favourably at small animals' and he wanted to 'spare both him and the animal kingdom.'
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Leicester's Mahrez in £100k contract talks: Ranieri assured as Arsenal have no agreement
Arsenal are ready to offer £37million for the PFA Player of the Year, but Leicester have prepared to up his £40,000-a-week deal, which has two years to run, to £100,000. That will bring him in line with the increase England striker Jamie Vardy got this summer after the title win.
Ranieri, who has already lost midfielder N'Golo Kante to Chelsea this summer, said: "Riyad will stay with us. He is very happy. I see him every day and he has never talked to me about anything strange.
"I am confident about him. This comes from experience. Champions have a lot of rumours and speculation about them, and you have to be focused on your job. The speculation is not real.
"If he wants to sign a new contract it is okay with me. It is important he stays with us. Riyad wants to stay, because he wants to continue with us to keep having the experience. Everything else is just speculation."


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Well kids it's that time of the month again; MSRT Tuesday!
Continuing the trend on from last month, the target du jour is password stealers that target online games (we like to do these things in groups you see).
Our motif for this month is a lovely shade of grey I call 'password stealer', with juxtapositions of process injection, with a penchant for passwords of the online game variety; but of course we are referring to PWS:Win32/Magania, mon ami.
Win32/Magania is another delivery mechanism used by various online game password stealers. Unfortunately, this probably means that if you're infected with it, it's brought a few malicious friends along for the ride. It also means that you should be changing your online passwords as soon as you can, once you're sure the machine is no longer infected, of course.
If you haven't already, one way to help ensure you're not infected is to download and install our available-at-no-charge antivirus product Microsoft Security Essentials. I know, I'm relentless with the shameless plugs, but I'm a nice person despite that.
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I need to vent, My ex is more concerned that his relationship is over then leaving the kids with a sexual predator
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I have 2 girls with my ex, they are 8 and almost 11. I have what's called right of first refusal in the court order, basically, it means that if for any amount of time, he is not going to be with the girls he has to call me and ask if I can take them before having someone else watch them or leave them alone. I have told him that if he wants to send them with his parents, let me know, just so I know where they are, but I would not enforce it with them, if he wants to give up his time to his parents, fine, they are better cared for with them anyway.
But last night, I got a call from my DDs saying that dad had left them with his fiance's parents and brother and they were spending the night there (the brother is in his 20s and lives with them). I don't know these people and I was not OK with this and as I said, I have right of first refusal. I checked the CPS on her phone and got the address, me and DH came right away to get them (thankfully, my mom lives down the street so she came over to sit without other two who were in bed).
We got there and knocked on the door. Her dad answered, I explained who I was, the fact that I have ROFR and that I want my chldren, I had the court order in had. He said no and slammed the door in my face. I knocked again and said that if my girls were not sent out to me in 60 seconds, would call the police. I put 60 seconds on my timer, that time came and went so I called the police.
The police got there but there were very rushed, like they were there in 2 or 3 minutes and came running to the door, before they got to the door another cop car showed up and before long, there were 6 cars, 10 cops in the yard. I started panicking, I didn't know what was going on but I KNEW something was going on that I didn't know about.
Well the parents said they weren't sending the girls out because their dad left them with them. The police broke the door down and seconds later came out with my girls then another two with a younger man who turned out to be the fiance's brother in handcuffs.
It was explained to me and DH that the brother was a child predator and with him living in the house, the girls shouldn't have even been allowed in, let alone to spend the night. The parents said they thought that since it's not his house, it's theirs it was fine, that it would only be if it was legally his house.
My girls are fine, they were not touch in any way but if they had spent the night, that might have been a different story, thank God they had the sense to call me.
The police told me that my ex will probably face a child endangerment charges. I called my attorney (at 9 pm but he said if something serious happens call him day or night on his cell) and he is going to the Clerk of Court today to file a motion to have visitation suspended, a motion to find him in contempt of court and a couple other things.
My ex called me last night, we had just gotten home and I guess they had just gotten to his parents house as we left. He wasn't concerned about our girls or the danger he put them in, he was calling to bitch me out because I ruined his life. His fiance' called off their engagement because her brother will probably have to do another few years of jail time. He also found out that he is going to be arrested and charged with child endangerment (the cops had left by then but they know where he lives and where he works so it won't be long) and so he is freaking out
I am just so mad that this happened and that on top of that, my ex doesn't even care about the girls and what could have happened to them..
glad you got them out of there just in case. He may have had no interest in your children whatsoever (do you know who he attacked? I think you can look up the age/gender somewhere) but better safe then sorry...
Wow! I'm so sorry you are going through all of this. I sure hope you nail ex's balls to the wall, as he put your children in serious danger, it's due to your DD's quick thinking that you were able to get them out of there safely. As for the ex....I say, he gets what he gets....next time (if ever there IS a next time) perhaps he will think about his children first, and himself last....as it should be!
I don't know if he knew BUT it is public record so if he didn't, he should have. He did knew that the brother lived there.
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Im so sorry your ex is a selfish cock. Did he know the brother was a sex predator? That mau be something the fiance kept from him and if it is, that would have been a deal breaker right there for me having kids.
There were 3 different girls, the youngest was 6 and the oldest was 12, my girls fit right in there. He may not have done anything but he shouldn't have even been in the home with them there and he knew it. That was a condition of his parole.
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glad you got them out of there just in case. He may have had no interest in your children whatsoever (do you know who he attacked? I think you can look up the age/gender somewhere) but better safe then sorry...


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Calder Race Course will induct four individuals into its Hall of Fame this year on Sunday, Sept. 3: Shocker T. (horse), Eddie Plesa, Jr. (trainer), Herb and Ione Elkins (owner/breeder), and Rosemary Homeister, Jr. (jockey). The Calder Hall of Fame committee made its selections early this year.Created in 1995, the Calder Hall of Fame honors those who are an important part of the history of the Thoroughbred racing facility in south Florida. Calder was first opened in 1971. A winner's circle ceremony will be held on Sunday, Sept. 3 to introduce this year's inductees.Following is a glimpse of each:Shocker T.
A versatile filly owned by Thomasina Caporella and trained by George Gianos, Shocker T. won stakes on both turf and dirt at ages three and four in 1985 and 1986. Her scorecard includes victories in the Office Queen Stakes, Sweet Tooth, Grassland, Coral Gables, and My Charmer handicaps at age three. At four, Shocker T. won the Black Helen at Hialeah, the Delaware Handicap, and the J.A. Morris Handicap at Saratoga.Eddie Plesa, Jr.
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Discussion in 'Smash Brothers' started by brawldude, Feb 8, 2008.
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Wow.. Just Wow... Stupid Reasons If You Ask Me.
^i thought some of them were
#1 is okay, the others are weak.
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Yep yep.
most ofthese things were online-related, which doesn't really concern me, seeing as I won't be playing online much. The whole article is weak to me, I'm pretty sure Sakurai knows what he's doing.
No online rankings thats the one i hate the most
Exactly. The major points were online related, but this wasn't meant to be an online game. People are gonna buy this game for fun with friends and family, unlike MOHH2.
Yea most reasons really aren't that good or dont have a supporting argument backing it up. I mean yea no online rankings but who is to say they wont make any? You never know. As for the online connectivity, I think it will be a little problematic. Seeing other problems in the past with different companies may teach them somethings but there is always a new problem to arise with anything and SSBB is no different. And I'm sure they know the unbelievable popularity of SSBB so they had to of prepared unless they are out of their minds. Most of the other reasons make no sense.
true, but u can also have fun with friends and family online and not necessary with random people. Just exchange codes, and u don't need 2 go 2 each other house 2 play.
I know. I was trying to point out that online ranking type stuff isn't that important.
His points on online stuff are worth noting, but its a little far to say the game will suck cause of that. For me his points are rather poignant though cause my friends are spread out and I'll most likely be playing online mostly. I'm still debating getting the game.
a couple are good reasons, but not game-breakers.
whats 2 debate, ssbb is the game that every wii owner will have and that every wii owner will NEED. Also some people that dont have a wii will get one just 4 this game.
yea pretty much
this article should be renamed "The bad things in the godly game, SSBB"
that title is so awkward *Shrugs*
no online ranks? the big problem with random games and no ranks is that some people might start to decide that if they arent winning 1/3 into a match theyll leave with nothing to lose and join another one possibly ruining that one also.
no voice chat? i think thats a GOOD thing. id rather be playing the game then talking and playing.
online problems? thats gonna be a wait and see.
3 guys having the same FS? wtf were they thinking that made this important enough to list. its stupid enough to mention but how much are people going to be using FSs anyways...
button mashing? if they find me one pro button masher for any game ill give them props. LOL
EDIT: besides #1 i could do a better top 5.
stupid reasons.
5) button masher? wth? I've seen button mashers play this game and they fall quicker than lead. The beauty about this game is finding a balance between all the moves of the character, and sure, some stages deal quite a beating, but that's why we have some like final destination and the stage editor.
4) yea...because a lot of people NEVER used the clones...and Wolf is soo similar to the other two. But wait, what really makes it worse...they have the same FSA!!! *runs to nuclear shelter*...oh yea, I'm being sarcastic.
3) This is the only good one, imo...it's Nintendo, and if your connection is not up to date, expect delays. But it's not like the game revolves around wi-fi...there's so many more things to do it's ridiculous. And there's such a thing as playing with friends in the same room!!!!
2) What is so much fun about hearing a 30 year-old fatso with no life tell me I suck in life because he KO'd me? another thing: of those who have played pokemon pearl/diamond wi-fi, you'll know most battles had voice chat disabled, because people just don't want to hear your commentary. It's about playing, not making yourself feel better by bashing.
1) BS. There's no fun in being the best player in your community to later see you're at ranking 3478 because you actually have a life and do something besides playing....and if there was a ranking system...wouldn't americans be already screwed by the fact Japan has it already? it'd be a hopeless case, getting to #1...and that person at #1 would stop sleeping to make sure not to lose the rank. It's like turning a wonderful game into a high school by adding excessive competition.
Plus, Sakurai is intelligent...why add all that online ranking crap and complicate life, when players are going to do it themselves? people organize tournaments themselves, people thus rank themselves, so there's no need to waste budget to have an online ranking system.
Those are my reasons why whoever wrote that article is full of s***. I'd like to see him when he gets the game.
edit: I just noticed my numbering was messed up...whoops
well whos to say we arent limited to our region for online games. it could be to the average players advantage so that when playing random games you get people around your rank rather then someone who might wipe the floor with you.