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Hands-On With The Elder Scrolls Online
This past week, I was afforded the immeasurable privilege of visiting the ZeniMax Online studios in Hunt Valley, Maryland to attend a small media event unveiling many of the cornerstone features of The Elder Scrolls Online. Matt Firor, Paul Sage, and the other lead developers of the project personally outlined their vision for the game, and explained the philosophy underlying its design. Not only were some major new features announced for the first time, but we were given several hours with which to actually play the game and experience these tenets of gameplay for ourselves. It was a fantastic event, and to make things even better, I'm allowed to talk about it! What follows is a series of five articles which fully detail my experience. I can guarantee they are worth your time, so click through, and let's get down to it!
This first article is intended to give you a snapshot view of the major talking points which were revealed during the event, while the follow up articles go into a much greater level of detail about various mechanics. Without further ado:
I. The Elder Scrolls Online features responsive, real-time, action combat.
This was one of the most refreshing and surprising announcements of the day, as ZeniMax Online had previously suggested that ESO was going to use a more conventional turn-based hotbar combat system. This was hinted at during the developer interviews surrounding the E3 unveil, as reported in the Development FAQ on this very site:
The Elder Scrolls Online cannot use the same real-time combat model that has been a feature of recent TES games. (Development FAQ)
Despite these initial doubts regarding the action combat mechanism in an MMO setting, the awesome systems team at ZeniMax Online was, in fact, able to create the exact style of action combat that MMO fans have been requesting for years. The combat system in TESO is nearly identical to what players are used to on the PC version of Skyrim. The hotbar still exists and provides players with a variety of spells and abilities to use during combat, but weapon attacks, blocking, and shield bashing all happen real time using familiar mouse controls. I delve much more deeply into the intricacies of this system in my full article Combat in The Elder Scrolls Online.
II. The entire player population of The Elder Scrolls Online plays on one single server.
This was an absolutely huge bombshell, and it's not a joke. Everyone who is playing TESO is connected through ZeniMax' "megaserver" technology, removing the problems associated with separate shards or servers. Matt Firor went into significant detail about the motivations inspiring this decision and the technology ZeniMax Online is using to achieve this.
We want to solve the day one problem of shards […] Day one is probably the worst experience you'll ever have because you don't know where your friends are, you don't know what server they're on, your guild tells you 'everyone get on this server', but by the time you get home from work that night the server is full and doesn't let you create characters there anymore, so you create a character on another shard, but three days later you have to ditch that completely to play where everyone else is.
As a veteran gamer, I can empathize with this experience, and ZOS recognizes the barriers that this mentality imposes towards community formation and interconnectivity.
Everyone plays on one server, and one network, everywhere. So your friends are always available to you […] No shards, just create a character, click play, and get in the game, the game will figure out where to put you. No more 'server full' and no more 'ghosttowns'. We'll never have to close shards because they are empty, and there will never be server queues.
Moreover, the game intelligently places you with your friends, guildmates, and other gamers who have similar interests within the world. Naturally, the entire player population cannot coexist within a single world instance, so the megaserver technology creates multiple copies of zones as required, and groups together similar players in order to naturally create an optimized social gaming experience.
If you are logging into Stonefalls, the game is going to look for instances of Stonefalls where your friends are logged in, or your guildmates are logged in. Over time the game becomes very intelligent about who you like to play with, and it will place you into game spaces with those people. So eventually you will end up playing with the same people, the people you want to play with every night.
This is obviously a huge step forward for social gameplay. Past MMOs have attempted to circumvent the social barriers created by shards by allowing cross server chat and grouping, however the communities of these games are permanently fragmented, and the adoption of a technology that naturally diffuses this problem will herald a new era for MMO gaming. TESO gives players richly featured tools to connect using a single friends list, and the ability to see what all your friends are doing and form groups directly through the friend interface.
Players will fill out a questionnaire that describes their own preferred playstyle to assist the megaserver in allocating similar players to their game space. You can specify preferences for roleplaying, age groups, and degree of socialization. By flagging your character as "I want to meet new people and join a guild" you will be put into spaces with other players who are also interested in meeting new people, and with guilds who are recruiting new members. Alternatively, you could specify "I want to play solo tonight", and the server will place you into a game space with other people who are interested in soloing, so you won't be pestered with frequent group invitations.
III. The Three Faction PvP Campaign System
While the megaserver technology solves a host of problems for PvE connectivity and social gaming, one of the best parts of separate servers is the tight knit community that forms, creating close friendships, rivalries, and competition. In a "best of both worlds" move, ZeniMax Online is able to retain this by segmenting Cyrodiil into multiple parallel "campaigns". Players select into the campaign of their choice, and each campaign pits the same players and guilds against each other in perpetual three faction RvR. Within their campaigns, players will develop a strong affiliation for their own alliance and recognize frequent friends and foes across the battlefield. You can read much, much more about the specific details of the PvP system in my amazing interview with Brian Wheeler, lead PvP designer of The Elder Scrolls Online.
IV. Social Integration and Networking
The team at ZeniMax wants to make sure that MMOs "don't exist in a vacuum anymore". Early MMOs pioneered many of the concepts that we observe in modern social networks, but now these social networks are bigger than any single MMO. By designing a system that allows players to bring their existing social connections into the game with them (if they desire), ZeniMax has created a way to bridge the disconnect between gaming circles, and social circles. When you create an account for The Elder Scrolls Online, players have an option to import their Facebook friends. Any friend who also has an Elder Scrolls Online account will automatically get added to your friends list in-game. The team at ZOS is currently working with Twitter and Google+ to implement similar functionality for those social platforms. This would allow players to create a guild page on Facebook (or as a circle on G+), and import the guild en masse when the game launches. ZOS wants to give players the ability to continue using their existing social network instead of being forced to rebuild and rediscover all your connections when starting a new game.
For similar reasons, players are allowed to join multiple guilds in TESO. Everyone has more than one group of friends they play with; you might be involved with a raiding guild, a PvP team, a roleplaying group, or a bunch of real life friends or coworkers. Forcing players to choose a single guild experience throws up unnecessary barriers to gameplay, so in TESO you can participate in multiple guilds, allowing you to be placed into areas with all your overlapping social circles represented. This allows a player to choose who they want to play with at any given time through being a part of multiple groups.
V. Four Playable Classes Unveiled
We got the first look at four of the playable classes for the Ebonheart Pact, two melee specialized classes and two spellcasters. The Dragonknight is an offensive fighter class, naturally suited towards using either two handed or dual wield weapons, and aided with useful magical abilities that allow them to maneuver across a battlefield and control the opposition. The Templar features a more defensive approach, resembling a classical Paladin using restorative magic to heal himself and allies. Similarly, the Sorcerer is an offensive spellcaster with a versatile array of magical abilities. Lastly, the Warden was not described in detail, but is likely a more defensive mage, specializing in beneficial spells and group healing. You can hear a lot more about my own gameplay experience with a Templar in the follow-up article: Gameplay Impressions of The Elder Scrolls Online.
VI. Fourteen New Screenshots
I'm thrilled to release fourteen brand new screenshots of the game that showcase the beautiful environments and dramatic combat of The Elder Scrolls Online.
While these were the biggest revelations of the day, there was a veritable ton of information that we discovered while talking with the many developers on hand, and actually playing the game ourselves for several hours. The following four articles go into much further detail regarding many aspects of the game.
- Combat in The Elder Scrolls Online
- Gameplay Impressions of The Elder Scrolls Online
- Developer Interview: Matt Firor and Paul Sage
- Developer Interview: Brian Wheeler
Lastly, the comments section of this or any of the articles can be considered as an "ask me anything" opportunity to inquire about any of the thousands of details which I discovered during the presentations, gameplay, and interviews. I encourage you all to check out the articles, and feel free to post your questions or reactions in the comments below!


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2014 Women's Snowboards – New Technology and New Boards
By Chris Gorski
2014 is going to be a good year for the ladies! Women's snowboards have come a long way with technology and design built for a women's specific body shape and boarding style. Here at Snowboards.com we know a lot of women that shred harder than men, heck our snowboard buyer is a hard charging woman, so we understand the importance of stocking great quality women's specific snowboards. Here we will go over some of the highlights in the 2014 women's snowboards including great boards from Rome, Gnu, Burton and Rossignol.
Not going to lie, I kind of wish the Rome Gold was a men's snowboard because the graphics are amazing. The Rome Gold offers great technology for the hard charging woman including a directional shape and rocker which makes this board purr like a kitten in powder but you can still take it all over the mountain. With a fine mixture of the best Rome technology the Gold will not disappoint and will offer the ability for women to progress their riding with a board that will be there for them during the entire process.
What's the Skinny?
The Rome Gold women's snowboard offers Rome's Quickrip sidecut which adds two additional mi-board contact points to give additional grip at high speeds while also engaging the inner contact points at slower speeds. This means the Gold will give phenomenal grip at high speeds yet still remain playful at shorter speeds. For the shape the Gold gives you rocker between the feet and camber in the tip and tail of the board. This technology amply called Rome's MtnPop will engage the board with the response of the positive camber while on the hardpack yet still give ample float while in powder; really the best of both worlds. To get powerful Rome added PressurePop technology which adds Kevlar from under the bindings to the top and tail to increase Ollie power! Oh, and a sintered base makes this board fly and take a waxing like a champ.
Who's this Board for?
This board is going to be for the hard charging woman spending her time all over the mountain. The Rome Gold gets good marks for powder, carving, jumping and jibbing. It's not going to be an absolute park stick as it offers a bit stiffer make up and a directional shape. This board is going to excel in the backcountry and will hold a mean edge on hard pack as well. A great one quiver shred stick for the woman who goes out of bounds in the morning and does some in bounds bombing at night.
The GNU Ladies Pickle may sound a little weird at first but give it some time to let its personality show, trust us, you'll like it. This snowboard offers women a fully fledged park board all dressed nice to look presentable to the parents. The GNU Ladies Pickle is especially proud of its curves as it comes equipped with magne-traction which works almost as a serrated sidecut making icy hardpack conditions a breeze. The Ladies Pickle is a bit of a free spirit and the bases on this board will come in assorted colorways as this is better for the environment by wasting less material in the long run.
What's the Skinny?
The GNU Ladies Pickle is a true twin asymmetric freestyle machine! Built with PBTX which is GNU's all terrain rocker you get a great float in powder and a catch free ride on hardpack and in the park. The Ladies Pickle really excels in the park and will offer a supreme feel jibbing, riding rails, boxes or just playing around as you make it down the mountain. The asymmetrical shape gives you more control and balance on your toe side edge while giving more power to your heelside edge basically giving you the most for your efforts while making you feel super comfortable in all conditions. Oh and we should mention that this GNU board along with all their boards is manufactured in the good ol' US of A by real snowboarders with jobs which is pretty cool.
Who's this Board for?
The GNU Ladies Pickle is going to be ideal for the woman spending a good majority of her time in the park hitting rails, jibbing and getting air off booters. Not out of place when boarding the entire mountain the Ladies Pickle can hold its own in a little backcountry as the rocker will help it float. The pickle will also carve like a Ginsu on the hardpack with the help of magne-traction. So, really this board can be used for multiple things but is most at home in the park so it's recommended for the park minded all mountain boarder.
The Burton Sweet Tooth is here to ensure you have something with a lot of flavor! The Sweet Tooth offers some pretty awesome graphics offering the look of smashed strawberries under your bindings squishing out each side which will make you feel like pulverizing the mountain. Like any good Sweet Tooth this snowboard doesn't know what you will be in the mood for and can adapt to many situations whether you are on the front hard pack or in the park slaying some rails and boxes.
What's the Skinny?
The coolest thing about the Burton Sweet Tooth is the Nug Raduction technology. This technology allows boarders to size the board down 4-5cm which will give the board a light and lively feel and give it a lower swing weight. Nug Raduction will allow you to take this board in a size 148 even if you usually size your board in the 152-153 range and will give you the same if not more performance. The Sweet Tooth also offers a rocker set up in the tip and tail and flat top technology in the middle of the board. The flat top in the middle offers a catch free ride so you can confidently slay the mountain without catching an edge and the rocker in the tip and tail will give you float in the deep stuff and playfulness in the park. All the overall technology put into the Burton Sweet Tooth will give riders a fun and responsive board all over the mountain and will aid in progressing your riding in many facets.
Who's this Board for?
The Burton Sweet Tooth snowboard is going to be for the woman taking on the entire mountain with an emphasis on groomers and park. The twin shape and rocker technology will make this board excel in the park and the medium flex will hold up well on the groomers. The board is only a medium flex so it will not be the best board for someone charging hard down the front face of the mountain but this will be a good all around board for those looking to do a little bit of everything.
The Rossignol Frenemy is more a friend than an enemy and will work well with many different boarders' personalities. The Frenemy is chocked full of technology and offers women the ability to shred so many facets of the mountain including park and powder but will hold its own on hard pack with no issue thanks to the serrated sidecut called MagTek technology. The Frenemy is no one trick pony and can adapt in many conditions in one single day giving it some major attitude compared to single use boards that get sketchy when taken all over the mountain.
What's the Skinny?
The Frenemy is home to a host of technology including MagTek, Rad Cut, Magne Traction and more. The MagTek takes and combines magne traction and Rossi's AmpTek rocker. This combination ensures you have the float needed when boarding through the deeper stuff and you will also have the magne traction to hold an edge on the hard pack and ice. So you now know you will have no problem in all conditions but to ensure you have ample control and a lot of fun the RadCut technology has got your back. RadCut offers a shorter traditional sidecut transition to reverse sidecut before the tip and tail which simply means this board will playful and edge to edge and will be smooth as silk.
Who's this Board for?
The Rossignol Frenemy is going to be best for the all mountain boarder who is looking to spend a little time in the park, a little time in the front and can even take to the deeper stuff when a powder day hits. With good pop and a softer flex this board is going to be great for women that are in the intermediate to advanced range or for a beginner who is looking to progress their riding to the next level. So if you are an all mountain snowboarder looking for a board that will do it all and be playful along the way the Frenemy is going to be great for you!
Have you ever wished you had a twin? Well, with the GNU B-Nice women's snowboard your wishes have been answered. The GNU B-Nice is a true twin snowboard and is built to have a great time all over the mountain. Packed with all the top technology that GNU has to offer you will be enthralled with the performance of this snowboard. With no stone left unturned the B-Nice aims to please in the park or all over the mountain. And the artwork on the B-Nice is top notch getting the business end of the paintbrush from Alicia Tormey who is widely known for her use of unique materials and painting techniques. Trust us, there is not another board like this on the market.
What's the Skinny?
Like we stated above the B-Nice from GNU is a true twin snowboard which means you can ride switch and land switch with ease. The B-Nice is a great park and freestyle board but can also be used all mountain thanks to BTX and magne traction. BTC is GNU's all terrain rocker meaning you get rocker between your feet and camber in the tip and tail giving this board an easy riding feel and making it perform great jibbing or floating in powder. The magne traction will allow you to slice and dice the hard packed snow and ice easily so when you have to cut across the front face you can have a little fun carving hard and going fast.
Who's this Board for?
The GNU B-Nice is for almost everyone! The technology lends the ability for nearly anyone to have a fun time on this snowboard from an expert to beginner. With a rocker design the newbies will find it easy to learn and not catch an edge and the camber in the tip and tail will allow those that want to take it up a notch to take advantage digging deep and going hard. Overall this board is going to be best suited for the freestyle snowboarder looking for something that will take her all over the mountain with ease and keep up in all conditions.

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Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Ware said prior to training camp that, after being held out of OTAs and mini-camp as he recovered from offseason shoulder surgery, he would be ready to go when training camp opened in Oxnard, CA. On Sunday, the first day of camp, Ware was good to his word.
"I feel 100 percent," Ware told reporters, per the Dallas Morning News.
Ware never did miss a game in 2012, but it would have been hard to blame him if he did. Aside from the shoulder injury that would require surgery, Ware played through the home stretch while dealing with a painful, hyperextended elbow.
Even having played from Week 1-17 in 2012, his absence from offseason workouts left Ware eager to get back to work.
"To do everything, go out and play and feel whole again, it feels really good," he said. "Once we put the pads on…there are no holds barred."
For his part, head coach Jason Garrett hinted that he may hold off on putting Ware through a full practice. But this weekend, Garrett seemed confident that the outside linebacker-turned-defensive end was ready to jump back in the mix.
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When millionaire NHL celebrities like Adam Deadmarsh, Brett Hull and John Vanbiesbrouck take the ice this week wearing the colors of the United States, the media glare will be hot and the cheers deafening.
But no U.S. Olympic hockey player will be prouder than an unknown, unpaid defenseman named Merz.
Sue Merz. Late of the Newtonbrook Panthers.
For the first time, you see, women's hockey is an Olympic event at the 1998 Nagano Games.
Women's ice hockey.
So where have you been? There are now two professional women's basketball leagues in America, one pro baseball team, scores of female boxers Charles Barkley wouldn't test in a bar fight and enough lead-footed woman race-car drivers to blow the doors off the highway patrol in thirty states. There's also a Women's National Hockey Team. Been around for eight years--long enough to get an attitude. In summary: They don't like archrival Canada very much, they serve their penalty minutes like troupers, and they're keeping a wary eye on Finland, which seems to improve with every game. The Chinese? "Couple of lucky breaks and they could be right there," one U.S. player says.
"This team didn't just fall out of the sky," head coach Ben Smith said one day last week. "They're pioneers, all right, but they've all been working at this, sacrificing for years. These are the twenty best women hockey players in the country." Indeed: The two goaltenders, Rhode Island's Sara DeCosta and Illinois's Sarah Tueting, are so good that they knocked a legend off the Olympic team. Goalie Erin Whitten, the first woman ever to post a win in a men's professional game--October 30, 1993--didn't survive the U.S. team cut.
The Americans, who flew to Japan last Friday, have their game faces on for the Olympics. Playing Canada in a final warmup game last Wednesday in Colorado Springs, their adrenaline was already flowing fast. You should have seen the sizzle on Sue Merz's slap shot.
"Our whole focus right now is on winning the Olympic gold medal," said team captain Cammi Granato. "We're ready." Actually, Cammi's always been ready. At the age of four she began trading body checks with her brothers on a frozen field near her family's house in Downers Grove, Illinois. Surname sound familiar? One of those brothers, Tony Granato, now plays for the San Jose Sharks.
Given the current fast track of women's sports, no one should be surprised that since the 1970s, women's ice hockey has been quietly developing--in high schools, on college campuses and in rec programs--in the U.S., Sweden, Finland, Japan, China, Korea, Norway, Germany and Switzerland. Of course, hockey-crazed Canada already had a breakaway on everybody. In a photograph long cherished by coed puck folk north of the border, you can see a bundled-up little girl wielding a hockey stick on an ice-caked lawn in Ottawa. The year is 1890, and the girl is Isobel Preston, daughter of Lord Stanley of Preston. Lord Stanley. As in Stanley Cup. The first newspaper account of a game between two women's teams appeared in the Ottawa Citizen of February 11, 1891. The first U.S.-Canada women's game was played in 1916.
Here's something more current most people don't know. Since early September, the U.S. women's team has put together a 22-5-1 record on its international pre-Olympic tour, playing before crowds of up to 15,000. And Canada, the dominant women's team for eight years, split its series with the U.S. at six wins each. Here's something else to show the growth of a game a lot of people are about to discover: In 1990, just 5,800 American girls registered to play youth hockey with teams sanctioned by USA Hockey, the Little League of the game. Last year, 24,000 girls signed up.
"It was bound to happen," Sue Merz said last week. "But it seems like it's taken forever."
The five-time member of the U.S. Women's National Team was talking about the whole thing. The phenomenon in the making. First, the Olympic showcase, which is certain to boost a women's sport most people don't even know exists. Next, the life-giving partnership Chevrolet has just forged with USA Hockey. It's the newest of the carmaker's sponsorships: U.S. skiers and snowboarders, soccer players and figure skaters also get Chevy support. Merz was talking, too, about the girls who will become the next generation of hockey Olympians. And about the day--maybe three weeks from now--when strangers in airports no longer mistake the team for gymnasts or volleyballers or field hockey players.
"We're still a little misunderstood," Merz said. "Women's soccer, basketball and softball all came to the forefront, and that's what we expect the Olympics to do for our sport. Because of television, we'll be seen everywhere, even in the southern countries that don't know much about the game, and great things may come from that."
Because the international talent pool is still thin, the Olympians believe women's professional hockey is five to ten years away. Only six teams will compete in this first Olympics. But acknowledgment and respect are likely just around the corner: CBS Sports (including Denver affiliate KCNC-TV/Channel 4) will cover women's hockey three times (February 7,8 and 14) leading up to the Gold Medal Game on February 17, which will air in the CBS This Morning time slot, from 7 to 9 a.m. MST.
"I think it will really legitimize our sport for people who have no idea that women play," said forward Sandra Whyte, who played four seasons of hockey at Harvard while earning a degree in bio-anthropology. "The biggest thing, I think, is that they'll be surprised how aggressively we play, how intense the game is, how rough." She narrowed her eyes and smiled. "This is a hockey game. Just like the men. The main difference is that we rely a little more on finesse and passing, whereas the guys try to power the puck a little more."
For Merz, Nagano is the pinnacle. Now 25, she first picked up a stick at the age of five in her hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut, tagging along with her brother when he got up a game with neighborhood kids. "I was hooked," she said. At the University of New Hampshire, she amassed 50 goals and 53 assists and was a member of the first-ever U.S. National Team in 1990, at the tender age of eighteen. She's also played for SC Lyss of the Swiss National League. But the Olympics are the ultimate.
"I can't wait to get there," she said. "This is what we've all been waiting for, what our lives have been all about. If professional hockey comes along in the next couple of years, I'd love to be a part of it. But if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. It will be great for the younger girls coming up--something to shoot for."
Is it enough, right now, to play for love?
"Absolutely," said Sue Merz.
"Absolutely," said Sandra Whyte.
Then co-captain Karen Bye told a story. "You can't believe how exciting it is to see all these young girls at our games. Afterward they come and ask us for autographs, and they say, 'Wow, I can't wait until I can wear a USA jersey like you're wearing right now.' And that always reminds me of when I was twelve years old and I wrote a letter to the United States Olympic Committee asking when women's ice hockey was going to be in the Olympics. And they were kind enough to respond. In fact, they sent me a huge packet on field hockey."
She laughed, then said, "Things have changed. The other night we beat Canada 3-1 up in Calgary, in front of 15,000 people. And now we're going to Nagano, representing our country. We've come a long way."
I don't know about you, but I've never seen a luxury box kick a field goal. Or a ladies' room run a punt back for a touchdown.
New stadiums don't win Super Bowls. Good football players do. Is there a blue-chip free agent in the Western Hemisphere who wouldn't right now want to play for the Broncos in supposedly decrepit Mile High Stadium?
Pat Bowlen and his stormtroopers know all of this. So does Paul "The Mouthpiece" Tagliabue. And Wellington Webb. They know better than ever, in the wake of the Broncos' world championship.
That's why Bowlen, his assorted factotums and his shills in the state legislature are so desperate to shove a May stadium election down the voters' throats. Clearly, they're hoping Denver's Super Bowl euphoria will still be so rampant three months from now that citizens here will not only be glad to cough up $225 million worth of corporate welfare to Bowlen, but, if he so desires, build him his own Berchtesgaden on the slope of Mount Evans.
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The pro-stadium forces also know they can win a hurry-up May vote.
November--not May--is the time most people take the trouble to go to the polls. In May, proponents of any questionable issue have a leg up, because it's easier for them to muster their strength from a limited voter pool than it is for opponents. Witness the vote on Denver International Airport: May 1989.
Anyway, before we open our wallets to the fellow in the black leather overcoat, let's cool our heels--and his--long enough for the merits of the Bowlen Bowl to be thoroughly examined.
November will be soon enough. If by then it has been determined that fat cats in skyboxes can also double as all-pro wide receivers, or that Terrell Davis will run faster on some new patch of grass than in what for 38 years has been the loudest, most enjoyable, most visitor-hostile, most consistently sold-out stadium in the NFL, then maybe The Owner should get his way.
Until then, enjoy that championship season. You paid a lot more for it with your decades of sweat and tears than Bowlen did.


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Between all the stuff that's been going on in Boston since this past Monday's horrific attacks, and the terrible fertilizer factory explosion in Waco, Texas, that's claimed upwards of 30 lives, it's been a really bad week, to say the least. So let's try and lighten the mood a bit with a tremendous feel good story from the world of baseball.
The Cincinnati Reds employed a fine young man by the name of Ted Kremer as one of their batboys last season, and this past Thursday Kremer made a return to the Reds dugout for their game against the Marlins. Thing about Ted is, unlike most of the batboys found in the Major Leagues, he has Down's Syndrome.
Despite only serving as batboy for two games, Ted's infectious spirit and bottomless well of enthusiasm has endeared him to the entire ball club. While working the game against Miami, with a smile on his face as always, Ted had two very minor requests—one was for the team to record 11 strikeouts so he could score some free pizza, and for 3rd baseman Todd Frazier to hit a home run.
You can probably guess what happened.
In the bottom of the sixth Frazier parked a John Maine offering over the fence in center field, his fifth of the year, to give Cincy an 11-1 lead, a score that would hold up to the final out. While rounding the bases, Frazier knew what to expect when he finished his home run trot.
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"He's so funny, he said, 'C'mon, hit me a home run, I love you.' I said, 'I love you too, I'll hit you one,'" Frazier recalled after the team's 11-1 victory over the Marlins.
Frazier's 421-foot shot on an 0-1 count in the sixth inning off of John Maine easily cleared the in center field, and even running around the bases, Frazier knew what was awaiting him at the plate.
"It was great how excited — that look," Frazier said. "I started smiling even before I hit home plate because I knew it. They said he forgot to pick the bat up, so the umpire was yelling at him. It was such a great a great guy. You can't get mad — even if you have a terrible day. How can you be mad when you've got a guy like that around?"
Here's the video of Frazier's home run. and subsequent heartwarming moment with Ted, via MLB,com…
There, now doesn't that restore your faith in humanity just a little bit?
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Love, they say is the best medicine, and no one demonstrates that more persuasively than caregivers, who are being honored as part of National Caregivers Month. Janet Raphael of Duncanville is one of those caregivers. A nurse, Janet, 65, has been caring for her husband, Richard Raphael, 84, who has diagnosed late last year for pancreatic cancer. She's the one who asks his physicians important questions, remembers symptoms and side effects and helps administer medicine and manage his diet.
"The holidays are a time to give thanks for those around you, especially if you're facing a challenge," writes Richard, a retired Air Force Colonel. "My wife of 38 years has been my rock throughout my fight against pancreatic cancer. Her unwavering support, positive attitude and true love are worthy of all the thanks in the world. She means everything to me. "
Richard's physician, Dr. Carlos Taboada, a medical oncologist at Texas Oncology-Methodist Charlton Center, says that he and his fellow doctors rely on the help of caregivers like Janet for the sacrifices they make in supporting their loved ones. Nearly a half million Texans provide caregiving support to elderly and ailing loved ones each year, including for the 110,000 Texans who will be diagnosed with cancer this year, according to Texas Oncology.
Because caregivers are at high risk for depression and anxiety, chronic stress-related health problems, and loss of income due to missed work, Texas Oncology offers these tips, plus a downloadable thank you card to show appreciation for caregivers:
Devote at least one hour of time this month to helping a caregiver
Say "thank you"
Give a day off - guilt free
Do something together that you both enjoy
Drop off supplies for a favorite hobby (such as knitting yarn or a new book)
Invite his/her children for a play date
Pick up extra groceries on your next shopping trip
Talk about something other than cancer
Put together a package for writing notes, including stamps, pens, and note cards
Ask for a list and run errands
Organize and schedule other friends to provide dinner
Mow the lawn
Donate house cleaning services or offer your own services
Leave a basket of muffins or cookies by the front door
Provide a favorite movie for the caregiver and patient to enjoy together
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It's been a terrible winter in Michigan. We've had more snow than I care to think about. So let's think summer, and nothing says summer like the Fourth of July!
That being said, it's time for a YouTube throwback! This video went up a few years ago, but it's as funny today as it was when it first went viral! Enjoy!


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It has been two decades since Anita Hill testified at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' Senate confirmation hearing. The 20th anniversary of the Hill/Thomas hearing served as a catalyst for a celebration of feminism and a discussion of the continuing impact of power and gender in the workplace that was attended by 2,000 people.
At 'Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20 Years Later'; a forum hosted by Hunter College in New York City, Hill reaffirmed her pride in her contribution to the hearings. Hill told Saturday's audience that she realized soon after, that she would have to compartmentalize the event in order to move forward with her life. "It was an important event. It has helped to shape my life. But it is just an event…it's not who I am."
Hill's name is still politically charged. Her story continues to be synonymous with sexual harassment in the work place. Sex, Power and Speaking Truth, was actually a follow up to a 1992 symposium, which took place in the wake of Anita Hill's testimony.
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In October of 1991, a sexualized episode of political theater played out in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the world via television. The initial Judiciary Committee hearing for then, Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had concluded. After media reports surfaced which accused Thomas of sexual harassment, the committee was forced to hold a second set of hearings.
Anita Hill, at the time, was a 35-year-old law professor at the University of Oklahoma; told the committee that Thomas had sexually harassed her when she worked as his special assistant at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Education. The all white, and all male senate committee was lead by Vice President Joe Biden, who was a U.S Senator from Delaware at the time. Hill was forced to provide an explicit account of the harassment, which included describing pornography.
According to Melissa Harris-Perry, a panelist at the conference, the treatment that Anita Hill received during her testimony showed that respectability does not protect women from abuse.
"One of the traps we fall into in our politics is to assume that if we straighten up and get a good degree and a good job, that we can protect ourselves from race and gender inequality," said Harris-Perry, a professor at Tulane University and author of Sister Citizen: Shame Stereotypes and Black Women in America. "Those ugly gender bias stereotypes don't exist because we perform them, they exist because they do political work."
On, October 15, 1991 Thomas was confirmed to a lifetime appointment to the U.S Supreme Court by a vote 52 to 48. He remains on the bench today and is by any measure the Supreme Court's most conservative justice. He has voted to strike down central aspects of the Voting Rights Act; he does not believe that teenagers have free speech rights.
When Thomas' image appeared on a large screen during the conferences opening ceremony several people in the predominantly female audience hissed. Over 20 speakers, including Ms. magazine co-founder Gloria Steinem, took to the stage to discuss the intertwined issues of law, politics, race and gender. The conference also included commentary from women that grew up in 'No means No' 90's culture, who credited Hill for inspiring their own activism.
"I really view Anita Hill as one of the trail blazers, even though the situation isn't perfect now there are more people who report sexual harassment," stated Jamia Wilson, Vice President of Programs at the Women's Media Center. Wilson, 31, spoke during a panel entitled 'Witnesses'.
Surrounded by figures like attorney Charles Ogletree who provided legal counsel to Anita Hill during the hearings. Wilson discussed her childhood observations of the proceedings. "He was confirmed…The win was that there were people like me who were touched and driven to act."
Volunteers at the conference wore T-shirts, which stated, "I believe Anita Hill!", a reference to the fact that members of the U.S Senate publicly accused Hill of perjury. Opinion polls taken after Hill's testimony indicated that 70 percent of Americans thought Hill lied during her testimony.
"Seven out of ten people that I saw at the grocery store thought I had perjured myself," said Hill on Saturday, when she was asked to reflect on everyday life following her testimony.
Throughout the day panelists drew comparison between Hill's experience and the public's initial reaction to Nafissatou Diallo. Diallo, the hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then head of the International Monetary Fund of sexual assault in May of this year.
Though, in the end, the Manhattan District Attorney dropped all charges against Strauss-Kahn. The initial reaction to Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, was respect and credibility, versus the skepticism and vitriol that was bestowed upon Hill.
Anita Hill's professional background and contributions to the legal field extend beyond sexual harassment. Hill has written extensively on education policy, commercial and contract law. She is currently a professor at Brandeis University and is the author of two books including the recently released Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race and Finding Home.
When asked how she would advise a young woman entering today's work place in light of her experiences Hill said that everyone should know and understand their strengths while simultaneously seeking out challenges. "Find things that you are challenged by, set goals… go out and try to achieve [them] in your own life and in your own way."


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Twitter was in a tizzy this weekend when R&B croner Chris Brown favorited a tweet Rihanna posted featuring lyrics from her new single "We Found Love." Brown later deleted the tweet that read:
"Sometimes it feels like we found love in the most hopeless place."
The two started following each other again on twitter earlier this summer sparking rumors and backlash for Rihanna. With his latest action, one can't help but wonder if Chris Brown is still pining over the Barbadian singer. And what does his current girlfriend feel about all of this?
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text: U.S. progressive metal icons FATES WARNING are working on material for their next album, which they hope to release before the end of 2012.In a brand new interview with Bulgaria's Tangra Mega Rock, FATES WARNING singer Ray Alder stated about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the new CD, "We're trying as hard as we can. We have these shows [in Europe] and then we go to Brazil in April. And in the meantime we are working as hard as we can to finish the album. Hopefully we'll have it out by the end of this year, If not, the beginning of next year. We're trying our best." He added, "We need to finish writing right now. We finished the first song. The demo version is already done. We'll continue writing as we have a lot of ideas that we need to put together. But the first song is done and I can tell you it's seven minutes long. The recording process itself usually takes about two months and then after that it's another three more months before the album is released. So, we are talking five months out there after the album has been written." You can listen to Tangra Mega Rock's entire interview with Alder using the audio player below. Interview (audio):


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Salvaging a 19th Century building, that once was a stable and a troop hall, in central Stockholm says something about your vision. It speaks to the respect and acknowledgment of the past and how you pursue pushing the envelope by embracing it. Serving as consultants in industrial design, product design, packaging design, art direction, consumer insight and architecture, No Picnic had to unfold a space that allows for creative exploration, diverse prototyping and absolute comfort. Although building an environment within a protected building is no easy task, Swedish duo Elding Oscarson, saw the opportunity to create ingenious ways to occupy and divide the interior envelope.
The program asked for large, open office spaces, prototype rooms, project rooms and a striking customer area. In order to achieve such compartmentalization, the architect used an old trick to divide while making the space seem bigger, a reflective aluminum wall. This division not only makes the space feel bigger but also allows the exterior light to bounce off the interior, washing the entire office with natural light. Carrying this thought of maximizing the space, Elding Oscarson placed a spiral staircase at the intersection of two walls to access the mezzanine and keep an ample open floor plate below.
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Known for rendering Asian motifs—Buddhas, flowers, birds, temples, vessels, blossoming tree limbs—in luscious color combinations using thousands of buttons pinned to monochrome panels, the Korean-born Ran Hwang here introduces an unusually ominous element to her otherwise idyllic scenes. Spiders, in the form of both sculptural creatures and projected video, have invaded several of the works, notably a large installation that could serve as a stage flat for a drama about ephemerality and quiet snake-in-the-garden-style evil.


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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
False Representation of Black Women
Black women have always been the backbone of the black community. It is their strength that has carried us through the most trying times. Lately, there has been an attempt to paint black women with a negative brush. The birth control scheme didn't work so they came up with another conniving scheme to end black births--herpes.
I've been trying to tell people for years that birth control was a scheme to keep the black population low and in the minority. Strength comes in numbers. Although, many black people do not believe it and think that idea borders on some far-fetched notion or is crazy.
However, I have lived long enough to spot the same old tired game that some added adornment has been sewed on to make it look like a different dress. But if you look underneath the hem it is the same old worn dress that has been patched up to look new. No one has to take my word for it. However, I am not taking it back and still stand my ground on what I've been telling folks.
Last month, a report came out saying that half of black women have herpes. What the report failed to mentioned is how they came to that conclusion. Painting black women with a broad brush in a study with only 5,000 people and 893 low income black women that did not include middleclass or wealthy black women and comparing them against middleclass whites was quite a stretch of the truth if you ask me.
"The current herpes statistics were based on a group of 893 African-American women, but the 48 percent number has been misinterpreted in most reports. "These women were only tested for antibodies to the HSV-2 virus," explains Dr. David Malebranche, an assistant professor at Emory whose research focuses on STDs in African Americans. "This means that they have been exposed to the herpes virus, but it does not mean that these women have actually developed the disease or have active herpes. In fact, they may never develop active herpes." ~~Sheree Crute, The ROOT~~
Nevertheless, this isn't the first time a study involving black people has been bias or exaggerated and falsely presented. I suspect it will not be the last, until the real post-racial America comes along.
Black women singled out as a target with one purpose—to denigrate black women's character, which is just another method of ploy to destroy and emasculate the black population.
Nevertheless, that game is as old as me because blacks have always been lumped as one and targeted in a negative way. And the negative indictments against us have always been exaggerated on purpose. They attached negative labels to all of those blacks of Oklahoma's "Black Wall Street" who owned appropriately 800 impressive businesses during that era the same negative way. They were
"My people perish for lack of knowledge."
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- cactusrose said...
My thoughts are that you are right on Granny, as usual.
- April 20, 2010 7:04 PM
- Black Diaspora said...
Granny, as you know, black women are the unsung heroines of black progress in this country.
The likes of Dorothy Height, recently lauded by the president and civil rights groups, aren't the exception, but the norm.
Black women are the foundation of the black church, the glue that holds black families together, and the driving force behind many a successful black man.
It's a shame that many black musical performers have singled the black woman out as the object of so much derision, and hatred.
Each and everyone of them, more often than not, owe their life to the indomitable spirit of some black woman.
Fewer black babies mean fewer black men and women vying for the best jobs this country has to offer.
I agree: the heavy emphasis on abortion, birth control, and the casting of black woman as unfit for procreation, lessens that competition, as well as solve other problems that vex mainstream America.
- April 21, 2010 3:45 PM
- Miranda said...
Preach Granny!
- April 23, 2010 9:24 PM
- GrannyStandingforTruth said...
The CDC says that they are standing by their report. I should posted that picture of the that Bull on the toilet with this post, because that is exactly how I feel about the CDC's report.
- April 23, 2010 9:40 PM
- rikyrah said...
keep on calling them on the carpet, Granny. always look beneath the surface of these ' so-called' reports.
you are on spot about the attack on Black women.
- April 24, 2010 10:59 PM
I don't know what shit you been smoking here Granny but you obviously don't know jack shit about politics or white people. Either that or you're just plain stupid. You put these dumbass banners that say "thug life GOP", "Faux News" and other assorted bullshit. You can't handle the real truth you can only see your own hate and racism. Fox News, the right wing, the Tea Party and most Republicans (not all of them mind you) ARE the good guys and you've got no idea! You make fun of and put down the very people who would pull this country out of the mire that your beloved, lieing, sack of human waste, Obama has gotten us into. You're just a damned old fool! PLEASE educate yourself by not believing anything that ANYBODY on the left says and take your place back in reality.
- February 27, 2012 12:08 PM


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Last month Republican Illinois congressman John Shimkus stood up and walked out of President Obama's health care speech to congress.
Obama plans to exact revenge by dunking all over that fool.
The president invited Shimkus to join in his fall basketball game at the White House, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Shimkus is one of two Republicans invited to the affair, which includes Obama basketball pals Arne Duncan, Tim Geithner, Ken Salazar and others. Arizona Republican Jeff Flake is the other GOPer.
The event is closed to the media, but that won't stop us from speculating about who's swinging elbows and who dunks on whom.
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You guys, 21 days ago our Facebook page hit 20,000 likes!! We got so excited we decided to give away prizes for 20 days in a row! All total, we gave out 20 tickets to LanierWorld, a Beach Access season pass, a $20 Gianni's/Sunset Cove Cafe giftcard, Sister Hazel concert tickets, Georgia Satellites concert tickets, a round of Golf for 2, a dockslip for a Full Moon Party, an Islands Club Membership, a Sunshine Club Membership, a Family Four Pack to LanierWorld, and for our grand finale, we gave out a Family FunTastic Package, which included 4 tickets to LanierWorld!
Here were the contests and winners for each of our 20 days!
Sarah Littlepage LaRocca was the first to correctly guess our number: 1,983!
Alicia Cook was the first person to post a picture including exactly 20 pairs of flip-flops!
We held a bonus competition on the second day, for a chance to do a meet and greet with Sister Hazel!
And Gloria Gomez won with her creative take on it!
Bernadine Grider Martin won our first contest of Day 3, buy giving us her top 20 reasons she was excited about summer! Spoiler alert – She was excited about her grandkids visiting from Oklahoma:1.Grandkids are visiting from Oklahoma2. Our children are visiting from Oklahoma.3. Spending time with family.4. Beach5. Grandchildren6. Summer7. Grandchildren8. Beautiful Georgia summer evenings.9. Grandchildren10. Lake Lanier11. Grandchildren11. Fireworks.12. Grandchildren.13. Flip flops14. Grandchildren.15. Lake16. Grandchildren17. Fresh vegetables and fruit18. Grandchildren.19. Lemonade20. And……our family coming from Oklahoma to Georgia for vacation!!!!!
Shawn Holbrook won two tickets to Sister Hazel at Peachtree Pointe Amphitheater, AND two tickets to meet and greet the band! When we reached 75 "shares" we picked a winner at random!
Our first contest of Day 4 asked contestants to send in the first picture of 20 pool toys!
Which Kimberly Reamer won in no time!
For the second contest of the 4th day, we asked our fans to send in snapshots of their funniest faces, and we picked our favorite to win 2 tickets to LanierWorld!
Drew Leeuwenburg had us falling out of our chairs we were laughing so hard!
Keeping with the "20" theme, next we asked you to send in pictures of yourself from 20 years ago – can you believe that was only 1993??
Heather Merritt Chapman won the prize with this picture! The floral print, the short tie, the white jacket, so 90s!
Granted, this says Day 5, but we meant Day 6, and our followers didn't seem to mind…
In fact, Kenna Lemon was so focused on drawing this amazing dream sand castle that she didn't notice at all!
Brittney Freeman Bowen won our first Zooma! contest by being the first to correctly guess all five images!
Day 8 was a photo caption contest, which Kathy Connor won with this cute quote! These are Lake Lanier's newest Canadian Geese, by the way, and so cute! They're at that awkward teenager stage…
Danielle Chiu Liu really knew her stuff when we asked what the 4 islands that make up Lake Lanier Islands are called! They are Pine, Blue Ridge, Legacy, and Georgia!
Day 10 was one for the dogs. We asked you to dress your pooch up in a swimsuit and post the picture to our wall!
There were a ton of hilarious pooches, but Shelly Jordan's Scruffy here won the day. He just looks like a lake dog, doesn't he?
We gave away 2 shots in our Hole-In-One Challenge on Day 10 – one for posting a picture of yourself on the Legacy on Lanier Golf course, and one for knowing that after Sam Snead, Tiger Woods has the most PGA tour wins!
On Day 11, we asked you to tell us what LanierWorld is greater than, and Nicole Vaughn Grisaffe said "LanierWorld is greater than a water balloon fight with all your friends on a hot hot summer day!" And we were inclined to agree!
Michelle Leigh Cagle won a round of golf for 2 by finding our secret hidden code somewhere on our website! The code was LXJ4R7H1P982XFDL0!
Day 13 was another photo caption contest! Connie Wishon Johnson won with a "Go big or go home!"
On Day 14, we asked you to find Bucky in the crowd at the Peachtree Road Race and tell us what number he was wearing!
See if you can spot him, Tiffany Roddy did!
Day 15 was fun, we set up a jumble and puzzle for you, and Stephanie Crowder Weber solved it first!
We held a race between Bucky the Beaver and the Chick-fil-A cow on the 16th day! We asked you to like the post to vote for the cow, and to comment on the post to vote for Bucky. It was a sad day here at the Lake when the home team lost, but Gail Castleberry went home happy as part of the winning team!
Day 17 fell on Independence Day, and we asked you to show your patriotic pride on our wall!
Andrea Nalley posted the most patriotic person we've ever seen, and came away with one of our big prizes: an Island Club pass!!
On Day 18, we hosted Lake Lanier Idol and asked you to submit performances of your favorite summer songs!
Anna Crumbliss submitted this adorable video of her nephew shakin' it to ZZ Top's "Gimme All Your Lovin'"
We held another Zooma! on Day 19, and this time, Alley Lee Tiller took home a LanierWorld family four pack by correctly guessing the pictures! Fireworks, a cow's nose, a bird's nest, a pirate flag, and an ice cream snack!
Finally, for our grand finale, we asked you if you were ready for vacation! We wanted to see your cars packed to the roof with suitcases, towels, beach totes, pool noodles, inner tubes, and more!!
Susanne Ward won the grand prize of a Family Funtastic Package, which includes an overnight stay at Legacy Lodge, and 4 tickets to LanierWorld!
We had a great time these past 20 days, and we are so very grateful to all of our amazing facebook followers for participating in this extremely fun event!!
Danielle Chiu Liu - July 17, 2013
Hello! I won Day 9 of the giveaways but have not received my tickets or any communication yet. I sent a private message with my mailing address to the Lake Lanier facebook page on June 26th and then again on July 8th, but no one ever responded. How should I go about claiming the tickets? Thank you!
Lake Lanier Islands - July 18, 2013
We will pass this to the correct person. We're so sorry for any inconvenience!


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With the first of the regional bookseller trade shows kicking off later this month, the changes that the associations have been making to their programs in recent years will be scrutinized, as will Random House's decision to experiment this year with opting out of exhibiting on the show floor at the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association while still supporting and attending the show.
"Random House Inc. will be at NCIBA in full force, where we will be doing many traditional and nontraditional things," said Ruth Liebmann, Random's v-p, director, retail field marketing & merchandising. Inspired by the interactions with booksellers at the American Bookseller Association's Winter Institute over the past two years, Liebmann said Random believes it can facilitate more constructive conversations with booksellers in a hotel suite, where it can hold both organized focus groups and more impromptu meetings. Random personnel from the New York office and from the region will be involved in all the other events of the show, including author breakfasts and receptions.
While some question the logic of how having a hotel suite instead of a booth might facilitate more bookseller/publisher interaction, NCIBA executive director Hut Landon said he understood that Random House, and all of the publishers, are looking to create a more effective model of trade show for exhibitors and booksellers. "Random House is still sponsoring the show—in fact, they added to their sponsorship of the educational programs and gave us some great authors," said Landon.
Liebmann said Random chose NCIBA for this experiment because of its healthy mix of independent booksellers of all kinds. The regional trade shows are viewed as a collaborative effort between exhibitors and the association. Wendy Sheanin, senior marketing manager at Simon & Schuster, said the company will continue to support the regionals even as they monitor how their programs change. HarperCollins's v-p for independent bookselling, Carl Lennertz, applauded all of the efforts the associations have made to improve the trade shows in recent years.
Among the changes happening this year are Mountains and Plains' inclusion of editors as speakers; Great Lakes having a movable feast with reps instead of authors; North Atlantic creating a sales conference model; and the Southern region's shift in trade show hours that might allow for one fewer hotel night for attendees. The different initiatives will be reviewed by the regional executive directors and presidents before next year's Winter Institute.
While Liebmann said Random appreciated attempts by the associations to find new ways to make the fall meetings more productive, some booksellers in Northern California were not happy with the publisher's decision to move off the exhibit floor, but sounded resigned to seeing how it works out. "Personally, I think they are making a mistake, but they have their reasons," said NCIBA president Nick Setka from Book Passage. "Of course this is not a popular thing for any publisher to do," said Tom Montan, CEO of Copperfield's Books Inc., which operates six stores north of San Francisco. "I am hopeful that this move is not a major blow to the trade show."
The consensus about the regionals seems to be that they are a work in progress, but still one of the more valuable tools in connecting authors with booksellers. Richard Russo, Lisa See and Lisa Scottoline are a few of the authors who have acknowledged they got their initial boost from booksellers they connected with at the regional meetings.


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Tributes to Jessica Lawson, after France school trip swimming tragedy
Family and friends have paid tribute to 12-year-old Jessica Lawson, who died in a swimming accident on a school trip to France, describing her as "the most beautiful and outgoing girl".
The pupil at the Wolfreton School in Hull was taken to hospital in Limoges after an incident at an activity centre yesterday afternoon but died this morning.
Her parents and a sister have travelled to the activity centre resort near Meymac in the Massif Central region of central France.
Jessica's sister Polly, who is in France, wrote on Facebook: " Just thought I should let everyone who knows me and my family that the girl in this accident was unfortunately my sister Jess.
"We are in France doing everything we can to get her back into the country. All of your thoughts are appreciated at this time.
"Remember who she was not who she could have been, it is important we respect and cherish the memories we had with her. Thanks everyone again."
Hannah Davison, another sister, added: "We are all heartbroken and devastated. Jess was the most beautiful and outgoing girl and I am proud to be her sister.
"I will live my life to the full just like she would have done. I love you angel. Forever."
Jessica was among 24 students and three staff who were on a water sports trip to the adventure centre.
Local media France Bleu reported she had spent several days at the centre and was among a group playing in a lake and jumping from a pontoon.
The pontoon then overturned and some of the children were trapped underneath. A lifeguard dived down twice before finding Jessica, it was reported.
Dave McCready, her head teacher at Wolfreton School, said Jessica's death was a "terrible tragedy" and a "dreadful shock to the whole school community".
Senior members of staff have travelled to the area to help the school party. Pupils have been interviewed by French authorities investigating the incident and are tonight being brought home. Counsellors will also be available to help those affected.
Mr McCready said: "As a parent myself I can only begin to imagine the pain felt by her parents and family at her death at such a young age.
"As you would expect the news of this terrible tragedy has come as a dreadful shock to our whole school community and we will continue to liaise with the appropriate bodies to provide ongoing support to the family and also to other students and staff who will be deeply affected by this tragic news."
He added: "Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go to the family at this very difficult time."
The incident happened at the Club Correze adventure centre in Meymac, on a six-day trip run by the Activ4 tour operator. The pupils had left the UK on Sunday for the holiday, which included chances to kayak, sail, mountain bike and go climbing, and were due to return home tomorrow.
One of the conditions for going on the trip was that pupils had to be able to swim 50 metres unaided, although a letter to parents said they did "not have to be technically sound or regular swimmers".
Activ4 said that it understood the incident occurred while the group was swimming after activities scheduled by Club Correze staff had finished.
Steve Scott, managing director of Activ4, who is in Meymac, said: "We can confirm that a student on one of our trips to the south of France passed away this morning following a swimming incident yesterday afternoon.
"At this stage the exact circumstances surrounding the incident remain unclear.
"The owners of the activity centre and senior management from Activ4 are working closely with the local authority and the school to provide all necessary support and assistance."
The company said the party is being brought home this evening, adding: " We are greatly saddened by the event and our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the girl's family at this difficult time."
Today pupils at Wolfreton left bunches of flowers at the school's gates in memory of Jessica.
Harry Williams, the partner of Jessica's sister Polly, paid tribute to her on Facebook, saying: " Remember Jess for all the beauty she had in her, a caring intelligent girl who had endless understanding and maturity.
"It is a hard time for everybody involved and words are difficult. Jessica was an amazing friend and a sister to me, I love her dearly as I do the rest of the family."
Jessica's death comes just 10 days after a teenager died during a swimming trip while on a school rugby tour to Canada.
Abdul Jamal Ottun, 17, who went to Wallington County Grammar School in the London borough of Sutton, died at Shawnigan Lake School in British Columbia on July 12.


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Do you push on through even when you're exhausted? Find yourself watching binge watching NetFlix rather than hitting the hay? Know you 'should' be eating healthier, but end up grabbing whatever's easiest?
Your amazing body has built-in mechanisms for internal rebalancing, but guess what happens when you constantly override them by running around too much, not eating well and staying up late?
You get sick.
Our bodies aren't designed to live at the same pace all year round. You're meant to be hibernating in winter! Yet now that we can shop, eat, bank and sit in front of a screen 24/7, we've stopped living in tune with the seasons.
If you're determined to crank up your immune system and stay healthy this year read on…..
10 Immunity Boosters for Busy Mothers
1. Get enough zzz's
Listen to your body. If you feel tired, don't watch another TV show, hang out on social media or carry on working – go to bed!!
2. Drink warm lemon water
Take a mug of hot water and add the juice of half a lemon, some sliced fresh ginger and a dash of cayenne pepper. Lemon water flushes out toxins, aids digestion and is high in vitamin C. Ginger improves the absorption and assimilation of essential nutrients in the body. Cayenne pepper stimulates the circulatory system, aids digestion and helps regulate blood sugar. It also increases the temperature of your body and kick-starts your metabolism. (yee haa!)
3. Supercharge your breakfast
Have a nourishing, easily digestible breakfast. Porridge is perfect. Use organic jumbo oats (not the instant microwavable stuff) with half milk and half water. Add nuts, cinnamon, ground linseeds, chia seeds and a swirl of maple syrup. Experiment – grated dark chocolate (a little goes a long way), chopped banana, frozen berries or make it with coconut/almond/soya/rice milk.
4. Nourish yourself
Eat a balanced healthy diet. Focus on warming foods like stews and soups. Add healing herbs and pungent spices to raise your internal temperature – cayenne, turmeric, garlic, ginger, cumin and coriander. Include flora producing foods like live yogurt and miso soup in your diet. Take Echinacea and Vitamin C if you begin to feel low.
5. Mind the mucous
Avoid dairy – it produces snot! (Quite frankly there's enough of that flying around in the winter already.) The only exception is live yogurt. We tend to move around less in the winter which makes our digestion sluggish – refined white foods (white pasta, rice) only make it worse. Cut down on sugar – it seriously saps your immune system.
6. Stay hydrated
Swap caffeine for warming natural teas: honey and lemon; a lemon, ginger and rosemary infusion or drink room temperature water – easier for your body to take on board than cold water.
7. Do yoga
Yoga's great for keeping your immune system fighting fit. A recent study by Harvard Medical School discovered that people who practice yoga and meditation have more active 'disease-fighting genes' than those who don't. Yoga's relaxation effect could be as powerful as medical drugs, but without the harmful side effects.
8. Dry skin body brush
It's a great morning pre-shower habit that gets your blood moving. Use a wooden handled brush with natural bristles (no plastic here sister!). Start at your feet and stroke your way up – brush towards your heart.
9. Slow down
Make decisions based on your values – learn to say no. Read How To Say No With Confidence if you find yourself overcommitting too often.
10. Breathe
Press pause and take 10 deep breaths. More if you have time.
Suzie's Super Easy Root Vegetable Soup
This is my go-to winter soup – quick, healthy and delicious! Use any root veg in any ratio you like, it'll always be yummy.
4 medium carrots
2 sweet potatoes
1 large onion
Half a celeriac (or 2 sticks celery)
3 leeks
Vegetable stock – about 1.5 litres/2.5 pints
To serve
Black and white sesame seeds
Unsweetened desiccated coconut
Mix in equal quantity
Chop all the above into small pieces and pour in the vegetable stock. Bring to the boil them simmer for 30 minutes or until vegetables are soft. Blitz until smooth. Serve with sesame seed and coconut sprinkles.
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You've got be kidding me!
So we were all set to move into our new house this weekend and when dh went to ask the landlord for the keys he told us he's not finished with the work he was doing on the place. The agreement was that it would be done today and we could move in this weekend. Now he's saying he's not sure when it's going to be done. I'm especially annoyed because he could have let us know several days ago or a week ago that it wasn't going to be done on time. Instead he didn't say anything so I assumed everything was a go this weekend and spent the whole week packing and getting ready to move. I'm giving him one more week and if it's not done, I'm looking for another rental. Grrrrrr......I am so annoyed right now!
Yeah that's what we thought too so we decided to look for another place to rent.
Quoting graycalico:
That's terrible, and not a good sign for the future with him as a landlord
*hugs* I know you had told me. This is just not fair. Looking for places to live is so difficult!


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Adoption cost
Puppies (under 6 months) - $80.00 Senior Citizens (over 55) - $40.00 Dogs (over 6 months) - $50.00 Senior Citizens (over 55) - $25.00 Kittens (under 6 months) - $35.00 Cats (over 6 months) - $20.00 Senior Citizens (over 55) - $20.00
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due to the increasing internet usage in the family, looking into ways of improving the bandwidth available to us (being a ruralish.. customer its very well, limited by distance.. RBI not due for a few years still)
so i thought ild look into load balancing using pfsense running on a old box, that bit im pretty clear on and dont have an issue sorting.
however, from reading many posts around here.. it would seem there are some houses with only 1 pair laid, so a second line involves having a whole new line put in.. this wouldn't be possible really considering the length, shape and trees on the driveway. dont think the pipes are big enough that a cable could be blown down the current pipe iver..
would my isp be able to tell how many pairs are actually ran to the house? or am i better off finding a screw drive that will get the ETP open to count them manually? (i figured a big enough flat-head screw driver should do them..)
lastly, it would seem not many isps website will even allow the consideration of naked dsl to our address, is there any way around this? - ild prefer not to be paying for a phone line which will never be used.
for currently connected directly to the WAK exchange..
ADSL Information: ADSL Firmware Version:310801_A
Mode:ADSL2+(G.992.5) State:SHOWTIME TX Block:34268310 RX Block:619823167
Corrected Blocks:0 Uncorrected Blocks:759
UP Speed:824000 Down Speed:2063395 SNR Margin:10 Loop Att.:62
would seem the loop attention is slowly creeping up (recently had the lines cut at the end of the road.. adding more repairs to the already dodgy cable) ..
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Sound — 7
Just call 2010 the year of Fantasy-crude pop with bands like The Constellations emerging from the underground spinning electro-gilded silk rings out of choirs of pureed synths and streaks of sleek house beats. The band's debut album Southern Gothic from Virgin Records has club-rimmed whirlpools emblematic of Shiny Toy Guns interwoven with digital clicks, scintillating flashes, quivering psychedelics, and techno-clad hooks. The trance-infested chambers of Setback produce fountains of shooting sparks and organisms that slosh, wiggle, swirl, and glisten profusely while thatched by jangling tambourine flares. The dance beats that keyster Perfect Day create an electro-pop pumping relatable to the Scissor Sisters while the chill-out vibe of Take A Ride is cobbled in delicately tinseled cascades and soft bobbling beats. Vocalist Elijah Jones has a husky pitch akin to Duncan Sheik as he hovers across the twinkling esplanades of Love Is A Murder provided by keyboardist Jamie Gordon and guitarists Ryan Davis and Trevor Birdsong who shroud Jones' vocals in a cloak of shimmery threads. The rhythm section of bassist Wes Hoffman and drummer Jason Nackers add trickling beats which merge with the swishing psychedelics. There are a few tracks which break away from the prog house complexion that dominates most of the album. This includes the sparsely tiered December with suspensions of soft, glittering effects that have a harpsichord-like texture, and the smoky blues sizzle of On My Way Up. Other tracks have zigzagging shards like the band's remake of Tom Waits' song Step Right Up, and the fluid squiggles and oceanic ringlets driven into What I See. Also joining The Constellations on the recording are backing vocalists Alaina Terry and Shabnam Bashiri, in addition to guest rappers Cee Lo from Gnarls Barkley on sidebar vocals in Love Is A Murder and Asher Roth who enhances the theatrical features of We're Here To Save The Day. Other tracks show a hint of 70 styled funk like Felicia and Weighing Me Down, but for the most part, Southern Gothic is modulated for modern dancehall-pop.
Lyrics — 8
The lyrics speak about human frailty and make observations which put life into prospective. In their song Love Is A Murder, Jones emphasizes, I've got scars up and down from my head to my toes / I've lived a long, hard life / Some say that it shows / From the fist fights, late nights, rock n' roll shows / You've got to take it cause nobody knows If you really want to live, you got to be ready to die. Some lyrics have a tendency to be preachy like in Here To Save The Day when Jones discerns, You sold your soul for something you never will attain / Every syllable you speak is weak, you have nothing to say / So save the folks some time and money / Stick to what you know / Stroke your ego on your own time and let me clear my throat / The sky is full of shining stars along the Milky Way / A living, breathing constellation here to save the day.
Overall Impression — 7
Polished to a glitter-pop sheen, Southern Gothic has a fantasy-bent with a prog house roasting. The Constellations sound like the dozens of dancehall bands which mainstream is presently breeding. That makes them conducive to current music conditions but little to distinguish themselves from their peers. Tracks like December and On My Way Up set The Constellations apart from the run-of-the-mill-electro-pop branding which the industry is pressing. These two songs are worth checking out, but the rest of the album is mainly for fans of dancehall-rimmed trance.


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Johns Hopkins University scientists say they've found Viagra is effective in reducing stress on one's heart by half.
The Baltimore researchers said while Viagra, sildenafil citrate, is more widely known for helping genital blood vessels expand to maintain an erection and, more recently, as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension, it has been thought to have little direct effect on the human heart.
The recent study suggests sildenafil blunts the strengthened heart beat caused by chemically induced stress, thereby lessening the excess amount of blood and force used to pump it to the body, according to study senior author Dr. David Kass, a Johns Hopkins cardiology professor.
The findings, which appear in the online journal Circulation, are believed to be the first confirmation in humans that sildenafil has a direct effect on the heart. Previous research by Kass and his team showed sildenafil had such effects in mice. Related research by the group also showed sildenafil prevents and reverses long-term effects in the heart from chronic high blood pressure.
Kass said his latest study confirms sildenafil helps control heart function only when the heart is under duress, but has little impact under normal conditions.
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Police Officer Alain Schaberger was killed when he was pushed off a stoop by a suspect he was attempting to arrest at a building on St. Marks Place in Brooklyn.
Officer Schaberger and other officers responded to a call of a domestic dispute in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn. When they arrived, they were met by a female victim who told them the suspect had threatened to kill her and that she had an order of protection against him. Additionally, she told them that the suspect had run into his home.
Three officers, including Officer Schaberger, responded to the suspect's home. The father of the suspect initially told officers that his son was not home, but after additional questioning admitted that his son was inside the house. The officers entered the house and located the suspect. They removed him from the house onto a stoop in front, where the victim identified him.
The officers began to place the suspect under arrest and had a handcuff on one wrist when a violent struggle ensued. The suspect pushed Officer Schaberger backwards with both hands over a 21-inch railing, causing him to fall nine feet to the sidewalk below. Officer Schaberger struck his head and fractured his neck.
Officer Schaberger was taken to Lutheran Medical Center where he died from his injuries.
The suspect was arrested at the scene after being tased. The subject was convicted of manslaughter in May 2012 and subsequently sentenced to 28-½ years to life in prison.
Officer Schaberger had served with the New York City Police Department for 10 years and had previously served with the United States Navy. He was assigned to the 84th Precinct.


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Facing the unsustainable cost of its public transportation system, Brooklyn recently slashed several bus routes from its MTA service. Unsatisfied with the gap left in its public services, the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission discretely approved a new partnership with local van operators. Under the pilot plan, so-called "dollar vans" would operate on recently closed routes, picking up commuters at designated stops. While some van operators are skeptical of this requirement, Taxi and Limousine Commissioner David Yassky is confident that businesses will seize the opportunity:
If they can make money transporting people, they will do it. Our market research tells us that there are providers willing and eager to serve the market.
However, community groups are unsatisfied with the cost-saving measure since it would introduce vans in several new neighborhoods. Maria Pagano, President of the Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association, offered a measured response to the plan: "Oh my god, it's insane. . . You'll have guys dive-bombing in and out on Union Street between school buses." However, it's unclear how the "clearly-marked" and city-licensed vehicles would pose any additional risks over large buses and ubiquitous taxis.
Others fear that the van program will spell the doom of traditional MTA services. Roy Sloane, President of the Cobble Hill Association, stated his objection to the public-private partnership: "The government should be providing essential services that don't necessarily make a profit. . . The government and this administration seem to be keen on privatizing all the services that [they] used to provide."
If only the government were so determined. Sloane and others fail to recognize that public-private partnerships can realize savings for cities and citizens. In fact, Brooklyn's dollar van program is expected to save riders over 10 percent on their daily commute, offering more affordable and available transportation. Ultimately, city governments should be less concerned with which sector provides these services and more concerned with the cost, quality, and efficiency of public transportation.
For more information on the MTA's fiscal problems, read CUNY professor and privatization guru E.S. Savas' "Competition's the Key." For more information on transit privatization, see the Transportation Research Board's "Contracting for Bus and Demand-Responsive Transit Services."


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The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday saying she had been "evasive and perhaps misleading" in her testimony before the committee earlier this month.
Administration officials have repeatedly said they're not able to break down enrollees by who has made a payment because they only have access to information about those selecting plans on the HealthCare.gov website, as consumers are expected to pay the insurers directly after enrolling.
"As we have said previously, information about who has paid his or her premium is collected by individual issuers and is not reported to [the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] directly by enrollees," HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters said in a statement.
Republicans have held dozens of hearings on the botched ObamaCare rollout, and this is not the first time they've accused Sebelius of providing misleading testimony.
In January, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) threatened to investigate Sebelius for "false and misleading" testimony to Congress. The administration rebuked Issa for making those charges, and delivered a point-by-point rebuttal of his accusations.
Jonathan Easley at The Hill reports.
Another GOP bill: The Republican author of a bill to dramatically weaken ObamaCare's birth-control mandate hinted Tuesday that the legislation could see a floor vote in the coming months. Rep. Diane BlackDiane Lynn BlackBudget vote raises red flag for GOP on tax reform House adopts Senate budget, takes step toward tax reform This week: Trump, GOP lawmakers look to get on the same page MORE (R-Tenn.), who has positive ties to leadership, said she has personal assurances from party chiefs that they are "committed" to her bill. Elise Viebeck at The Hill reports.
California: The ObamaCare exchange in California has agreed to a settlement with liberal groups requiring it to mail voter registration applications to the estimated 4 million people who have selected an insurance plan or enrolled in Medicaid in the state since the marketplace went live on Oct. 1, 2013. The ACLU of California and two other liberal groups, Demos and Project Vote, had threatened to sue Covered California, saying people who sought coverage under ObamaCare "did not receive an effective offer to register to vote as required by law." Jonathan Easley at The Hill reports.
Supremes: The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Tuesday over an ObamaCare mandate that requires employers to offer birth control in worker health plans, leaving in limbo a key provision of the embattled healthcare law. The case, ObamaCare's second foray before the high court, pits the government against a pair of for-profit companies who claim they should be exempt from parts of the mandate because of religious objections to certain forms of birth control. Ben Goad at The Hill reports.
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Christmas Holiday is celebrated by millions of people all over the world every year. AS you know Since 1843 sending Christmas card has become one of the universal traditions of the holiday. That is why it's really hot time for designers, who creating tons of Christmas greeting cards, Christmas calendars, event posters and flyers. To help create unique X-Mas design faster I'm sharing free vector clip art of Christmas Silhouettes. You can find there: Angels, Christmas balls, Christmas candles, decorations,
You are welcome to use it for any kinds of prints for Christmas Holiday, making t-shirt design, graphic work (logo, business card, website etc), scrapbooking, CD and DVD covers, book Illustrations. Package, fabric or fashion design.