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Programmers and Linux administrators appreciate the benefits of event logs. The Glogg tool is the perfect choice for searching even large logfiles.
Linux is a pretty verbose operating system, in that many services generate messages for all kinds of events and write them in logfiles that typically reside in /var/log. When a system is hit by unexpected hiccups and glitches, investigating the logfiles can give you a relatively easy way to find the offending culprit – even if you're not an expert.
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A Man in His Office: Jordan Silver of Silver Lining Opticians
A tour of Jordan Silver's eyewear emporium in New York City
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Jordan Silvers obsession with eyewear began while studying abroad over a decade ago an infatuation that, in a matter of years, turned from hobby to intense passion and now to all-encompassing career. Ive gotten fired from every other job Ive had, he says. I guess I was always meant to be my own boss it just took me a while to figure that out. With a Masters in Urban Planning from New York University, Silver spent some time working for the city government all the while collecting vintage frames before co-founding Silver Lining Opticians, a shop that some have dubbed the best source for original frames (as well as vintage gems) in New York City.

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Street art in St. Etienne, oakoak
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Malcolm Liepke, Woman's Hips, 2013
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The EO1, from Electric Objects
A tablet, purely for the display of art. In the accompanying video, CEO Jake Levine shows us the merits of just looking at art and how, when faced with something so large and ever-changing as the internet, we often do not appreciate what is in front of us.
The EO1 is here - here to stay, with the help of their Kickstarter - to give you time to truly enjoy the amazing work that is available on the web, in real time.
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The gorgeous art of Norah Borges, Jorge Luis Borges's younger sister and an underappreciated female pioneer of modern art
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Trick or Treat: a Happy Halloween, Debbie Lappanen
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Mangan scores on Beef To The Heels
Children from the local Ballymore Eustace Football Club with jockeys at Punchestown
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< Maxim Gorky was the eyecatcher as he cut throught the field into contention coming to the last. Favourite backers must have been confident as the 9/4 favourite partnered by Davy Russell moved past the leader Wrekin Rock.
However, Beef To The Heels also had a say at the last and he got away from it quicker than Maxim Gorky and supplemented his Down Royal winnings by keeping on well under Mangan to win by two and a quarter lengths at 4/1.
Successful trainer Gordon Elliott is at Cheltenham's three-day meeting and said: "Jane gave him a great ride. She was top class.
"I'm not really sure what's next, but its great to get another winner. He's a tough, honest horse.
"We we were lucky we weren't brought down when Saludos came down."
This winner gave amateur Jane Mangan the 15th of her career.
Additional reporting by Alan Magee
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Greenville was founded in 1771 as "Martinsborough," after the Royal Governor Josiah Martin. In 1774 the town was moved to its present location on the south bank of the Tar River, three miles west of its original site. In 1786, the name was changed to Greenesville in honor of General Nathanael Greene, the Revolutionary War hero, and later shortened to Greenville.
During Greenville's early years, the Tar River was a navigable waterway; and by the 1860's there were several established riverboat lines transporting passengers and goods. Cotton was the leading agricultural crop, and Greenville became a major cotton export center. Before the turn of the century, however, tobacco surpassed cotton and became the leading money crop. Greenville became one of the State's leading tobacco marketing and warehouse centers.
For over a century, Greenville was recognized only for being an important tobacco market and the home of a small State-supported college. By the mid 1960's, a new image began to evolve. The small college, East Carolina Teachers College, had become the third largest State-supported college, and enrollment approached 8,000 students--twice the 1960 enrollment figure. In 1967, it became East Carolina University. The ECU Medical School admitted its first four-year class in 1977. At the turn of the century, enrollment at ECU topped the 18,000 mark, and current enrollment is nearly 26,000 students.
Greenville's current economic development began in 1968 when Burroughs Wellcome, a major pharmaceutical research and manufacturing firm, chose Greenville as its home. The site is now owned by DSM Pharmaceuticals, which employs approximately 1,400 people. The City and Pitt County have also become home to many other major industries and businesses including Rubbermaid, NACCO Materials Handling Group, Grady-White Boats, and ASMO. This has added to Greenville's population and the economic growth of the City.
Today, Greenville is a major industrial and economic center for Eastern North Carolina — a center for education, industry, medicine, and culture. The City covers approximately 35 square miles and has a population of 84,554.
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Boynton Beach Art Walk Is Back On
By Alex Rendon
Photos: RedEYE Reboot at ArtServe
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Photos: Caturday Masquerade Ball at Stache
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Boynton Beach Shuts Down Art Walk
By Alex Rendon
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The People of Florida Supercon 2014
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JAPAN: Kingdom of Characters at Young At Art Museum
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Thought Coalition at TATE'S Comics
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By the time you read this, The Spirit of Vietnam may well have fully morphed into its next incarnation, The Spirit of Asia, the new name for this lovely shop on Las Olas Boulevard. It¹s in the process of changing hands from original owner Jonathan Rick to Thad and Lisa Hooker, who formerly ran the Art & Animals Import Collection in Pompano Beach. The Hookers may not yet have realized their dream of visiting Vietnam, but they¹ve landed a shop that specializes in a wide variety of impressive high-end merchandise from that country, including arts and crafts. They intend to keep the store¹s current inventory (and atmosphere) and to add items from other Southeast Asian countries they¹ve visited, such as Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos. There are a few pieces of furniture here and there, including a beautifully weathered yellow armoire with lots of drawers and compartments and sliding doors, but the bulk of the shop¹s space is devoted to such things as urns, baskets, handbags, pillows, chopsticks, incense burners, and boxes. Lamps with silk shades sit on tables and hang from the ceiling and walls throughout the gallery, and just about everywhere there are Buddhas and Buddha heads fashioned from various materials. Two medium-size bronze horses stand side by side near the front of the shop, echoed by a smaller pair farther back, and three-panel folding screens are especially elegant. But easily the most impressive items here are trays, bowls, and coasters hand-glazed with traditional Vietnamese glazes that give them the most exquisite surfaces. Some of them have even been coated with, of all things, tiny fragments of crushed eggshells before the glaze is applied. The Spirit of Vietnam is at 1515 E. Las Olas Blvd. Call 954-763-7590. -- Michael Mills


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The New York City Dyke March is one of the best events ever conceived to combat dyke invisibility, at least for those few brief moments of proudly marching down the streets. At the first Dyke March down Fifth Avenue, Lesbian Avengers carried torches and burnt signs with the names of anti-lesbian and gay propositions blamed for homophobic violence.
Allyson Clarke Denies Appearing In A Video of Her Accosting Me
June 28, 2012
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June 26, 2012
At Common Law, an intentional act by one person that creates an apprehension in another of an imminent harmful or offensive contact.
An assault is carried out by a threat of bodily harm coupled with an apparent, present ability to cause the harm. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may result in either criminal or civil liability. Generally, the common law definition is the same in criminal and Tort Law. There is, however, an additional Criminal Law category of assault consisting of an attempted but unsuccessful Battery.
The following people assaulted me.
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Only in Trans Land does a transwoman harass a dyke at the Dyke March and then have the balls to accuse the dyke of sexually harassing her.
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Shane Watson emphasised Darren Lehmann's endorsement to open in the Investec Ashes by clattering a muscular 90 against Somerset and captain Michael Clarke found touch in his first innings of any kind for three months before rain brought on an early tea at Taunton.
Phillip Hughes and Brad Haddin also eased their way towards useful tallies by tea, the vice-captain lofting George Dockrell down the ground with typical flourish, with the ball bouncing off the scorers' window in the press box. However, a pair of low scores for Ed Cowan and Usman Khawaja did not enhance either left-hander's chances of winning a place in the XI for the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge. As their colleagues were to prove, these were ideal conditions for batting. Read more
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The Toronto Raptors are taking on the Orlando Magic at home. Raptors center Jonas Valanciunas got a pass why coming off the baseline and slammed it home.
The Magic are struggling in this one trailing 15 points at the half. Valanciunas has six points in the game, one of four players on the Raptors with six points. Terrence Ross, Greivis Vasquez, and Steve Novak also have six points.
Raptors guard Kyle Lowry is having a huge game and has 20 points in the first half.
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Yoga Classes in Maryville, Tennessee
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Three medical students were discussing what specialties they were planning to go into when they finished school.
One said, "I want to be a brain surgeon. That's the frontier, the cutting edge of medicine, where so many discoveries are being made."
The second said, "I want to be a heart surgeon. There are so many people who need that kind of help; look at all the good I could do."
The third said he wanted to be a dermatologist. When the others had finished laughing, they asked him why on earth he wanted to be a skin doctor.
"Listen," he replied. "Your patients never die, they never get well, and they never get you up at night."
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The man lay on the couch telling his psychiatrist a sad tale. I see my brother, Doctor, he said. He is walking down a long corridor, walking up fifteen steps in the green door. There are lots of people standing around. Theyre bandaging his eyes ooh Doctor, Doctor what does it mean? Well, said the psychiatrist, if they aint playing blind mans bluff hes in real trouble.
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A man shows up for his doctor's appointment with a piece of celery in each ear and a carrot in each of his nostrils. He says to the doctor, "Doc, I'm not feeling well." Whereupon the doctor replied," Perhaps you're not eating right."
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According to the scholar, an internist knows everything and does nothing, a surgeon does everything and knows nothing, and a psychiatrist knows nothing and does nothing. Only a pathologist knows everything and does everything too late.
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Five years ago today I walked down the aisle to a slow folk song and married the guy who "doesn't really need dessert." It was before Pinterest and vintage photo booths and three videographers. The weather predicted clouds and rain but it was sunny and warm. I wore 45 dollar white flip flops off eBay, a simple white dress, and no bra.
It was a great day.
Five years later and I am fatter and he is thinner and we have two slobbery kids and are much better at marriage.
Of course five years isn't very long to be married or actually know anything about marriage, but if you want my two cents of non-advice, it is this:
1) Let it go.
2) Talk about it.
3) Let it go again.
Obviously this doesn't always work. Alternatives to dealing with spousal irritations include angry cleaning the kitchen, leaving one smelly towel in the bathroom, and drinking all the orange juice.
Dear Austin, there are thirty pairs of your shoes piled by the door and I am going to burn them. I love you so much. Thank you for checking in all day even though you're busy. Thank you for unclogging the shower drain. Thank you for folding your own laundry and making the best egg sandwiches and being the kind of dad who really loves being a dad.
I love your ridiculous tall socks and stupid squid shirt and am glad we got married five years ago because now I don't have to worry about things like oil changes and tax forms.
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Sorry, I can't buy that. Like our lady friend said...it may be best to ignore it.
But I'm a believer in the good writting of the orignal trillogy. Some one forgot that part. Plain N simple.
However there is an explanation...
That she was there for Leia when she infant to 6. Six is the age that most children remeber things like parents and feelings that Leia mentions.
Padme obviously faked her death. The Organa family obviously took her in as her daughter. Leia knew who here real mother was...her face yet she's considered a princes of Alderaan by everyone.
Maybe Padme was there as servant like role under the Organa family but that her child required the immunity of royalty to avoid scrutiny by the Emperor and more importantly her lost love Anakin. Perhaps she also started the Rebellion...
Those are things the Next Clone Wars Cartoons may go into as well as the live action Star Wars series that Lucas said he might put into production.
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Shields: Wars: large planets/needs dual layer of two ypes.
Trek: small object coverage/ defeated by frequency specific
Nor can frequency work on physical objects. Physical objects do not have frequency.
No clear advantage judge as equal according to ship size.
Beams: Wars: Few to noe
Trek: Large vareity of strenght and abiity
Star Wars has blasters, lasers, turbo lasers, super lasers, ion, and disruptor weapons.
Star Trek has disruptors and phasers.
Shielded weapons would be an unknown and a surprise: As well as the Phaser Cannon. This one goes to trek.
Federation tech has a clear variety and superiority in distructive ability
Star Wars ships would scan Star Trek ships and judge where weapons are likely to come from. Only their nature might not be able to be determined before hadn.
Superluminal: War's up to 10's of thousands of times faster than light/ No weapon use
Trek's: Much slower...7,000 x's c max/ no clear disadvantagge
No weapon use, yes, but who needs weapons at 20 million c?
No ability to see outside the cloak for Wars
Trek: Romulan cloaking devices have only gotten better and with other features like phase cloak.
Wars clocks cannot. The only thing that can see through them are Force Sensitives.
After one goes through this list, it becomes clear that the Star War galaxy has several advantages as well as trek...The battle between the two would be much closer than the Star War's fans would have us think. Infact it would be a far more intresting battle with different strategies to be employed by each.
star trek has g0t Daniel fr0m future with technlogy to blow star wars off the charts
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Prince James.[QUOTE]Frequency specific does not defeat weapons of sufficient power.[/QUOTE]
--Don't know what you're talking about.
Star Wars shield weather significantly higher damage.
Shielded weapons would be unknown?
Oh that's another one for Trek...Trek sensors seem vastly more superior.
Um, what?
Star Wars has blasters, lasers, turbo lasers, super lasers, ion, and disruptor weapons.Star Trek has disruptors and phasers.
Not tens of thousands. 20 million.
Can't cloaks be defeated by sensors?
It would take a matter of weeks for Star Wars to bypass every defense Star Trek could muster and annihilate every major population centre. The speed of hyperspace makes this possible.
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--Don't know what you're talking about.
---Sure why not, If you want it to.
Oh that's another one for Trek...Trek sensors seem vastly more superior.
You do realize that Star Wars runs full electric warfare pretty much all the time, yes? That is why many weapons have to be fired manually.
--Yes Trek sensor are more superior like I said above. but No sensors alone can't track cloaked targets. A Tacyon net can. but briefly like a speed trap.
I'm sure you believe so much I won't be able to reason with that kind of faith.
Im sorry, all your arguments are mute. The Ancients from Stargate pwn all.
Are you telling me that a shield would work as effectively against a gigaton blast as it does the megaton?
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Film evidence.
That is why they can't scan when there is any disturbance on the ground?You do realize that Star Wars runs full electric warfare pretty much all the time, yes? That is why many weapons have to be fired manually.
Not uncanon. We have trips in the movies that go across the galaxy in a matter of hours.
The books say weeks.
When do they use a Tachyon Net?
Considering you can't even SPELL "canon" and refute things based off whims...who really has the "faith" here?
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That's and uncanon conclussion.
Lucas uses the term Laser. In essence you're saying that Lucas is wrong because they don't "behave" like lasers on screen. Strangely much of the Art work from Lucas Film shows beam weapons.
Perhasp they were looking for a certain effect. That the laser look didn't look like bullets or rapid enough.
Do you really think he was concerned about the actual term?
You have to make a choice. Either you're going to follow canon or you're not. Did Lucas know what he was talking about or not?
I've already made the choice. Paramount may have they're name on a bunch of literalture and copy rights but they don't care what they're talking about.
Since that's obvious and the contradictions amound higher than Everest. I don't follow cannon with precision?
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Okay let's try this in real comparison and let's for fun sake use the canon statistics.
Star Trek: Shields are Medium Power, ie Galaxy Class Shields are only ~375 gigawatts, Frequency Specific, and Provide some measure of Scanner blocking. They also work on Energy or Solid objects. However there is some amount of leakage as witness by structural damage done even though the shields are still active. Star Trek shields can be reinforced at the expense of Motive and Weaponry power supplies.
Star Wars: Shields are most definately High powered, eg the Millenium Falcon takes mulitple hits that vaporized 100 meter asteroids. The shields come in two forms Particle shielding that strengthens the hull against slow moving (less than half light I imagine) solid objects and Explosions. Then there is Ray Shielding which handles the Energy bassed and fast moving particles. Shielding power regenerate, but not nearly at the rate it can be depleted. Shielding is sensitive to extreme gravity (black holes). Shielding can be reinforced by cahnalling protective energy from other arcs. Shielding can even be boosted with extra power usually at the cost of movement or some weapons fire.
Advantage: Star Wars but only due to the power levels. If the power levels were the same the advantages and disadvantages would cancel each other out.
Beam Weapons
Star Trek:
Phaser: Primary beam weapon of almost every race in Star Trek. As decribed by Star Trek it is a phased enrgy beam that uses a Nadion effect to break apart molecular or atomic bonds. The weapons suffers from slow rate of fire and medium power 10.4 gigawats for the Phaser XII aboard the Sovereign
Phaser Pulse Canon: A new development based on Phasers. Only used in one known vessel class the Defiant class. Sacrifices propagation speed for a 20% increase in lethality and some Shield piercing properties against Star Trek Shields.
Disruptor Cannons: While technically a Heavy weapon this is one based on Energy discharge thus it's entry here. Disrupters are seen as not as powerful as Photon Torpedoes, but definately more powerful than Phasers. However like Torpedoes they do miss more often than phasers.
Star Wars
Turbo Lasers: Immensly powerful beams that seem to be coherent light in some ways, but also act like particle beam and plasma beam. The weapon is extremely powerful as the Heavy model is supposed capable of 12.5 gigaton equivalent and even the light models can vaporize 100 meter asteroids. There rate of fire is one per second making them three taimes as fast as Phaser arrays.
Blaster Cannons: Significantly lower powered than Turbolasers. These are the weapons of fighters and civillian Light freighters. Still impressive becuase of their extremely high rate of fire. 60+ shots a second is entirely feasible.
Laser Cannons: Slightly more powerful that Blaster cannons but suffer from slower rate of fire. They are the weapons seen among the military craft like the X-Wing and A Wing.
Ion Cannons: A speciality weapon designed for the express purpose of disabling a ship and not destroying it. Ion cannons seem to completely ignore shielding and then short out the impacted ship. Size of the Cannon and Size of the effected ship seems realted. The light Ion cannons on a Y-Wing can effect Fighters and Freighters, but even the smallest Corvette can shake it off. Meanwhile Planetary Defense Ion Cannons could even short of a Super Star Destroyer.
Advantage: Star Wars again becuase of power level. If power level were the same another Draw.
FTL Travel
Star Trek: Reality warping drive capable of 7,000 times the speed of light. Advantage Can still fire weapons. Disadvantage: No inertia.
Star Wars: Dimensional Jump drive capable of millions of times the speed of light. Advantage: Jumps to another reality. Disadvatage: Cannot fire weapons.
Advantage: Split. Strategically Star Wars has an unstoppable advantage. They can cross a Galaxy in days and until they drop to sublight are not detectable by conventional means. Tactically Star Trek can use warp strafing or quick formation changes.
Star Trek
Photon Torpedo: The benchmark of Star Trek firepower. Rated at around 21.5 isotons. They normally travel at sublight, but if launched form warp can travel short distances with Warp Sustainer engines. Effects have been mixed, they seem particualrly powerful against ships with active warp drive, but against targets that do not have an active warp drive they lose effectiveness. Ion Torpedoes are pretty much in the same boat.
Quantum Torpedo: A much more powerful speciality weapon. Used only when no other weapon can do the job. On the Federation has them and only in limited quantities. Rated at 60+ isotons they are decidly superior to photn torpedoes. It should be noted that Quantum torpedo performance is not effected by the absence of a warp drive.
Plasma Torpedoes A Gorn and Romulan weapon that is being used less and less. The Torpedo is a warp three ball of specially designed plasma that converts to energy when it strikes it's target. Extremely powerful at short ranges the weapon loses some potency at range as it expend plasma to follow it's target.
Star Wars
Energy Torpedo: An older less refined version of the Proton Torpedo. This is basically a Concussion missile wrapped in an energy coccon when fired. The ports are easily disguised to look like Concussion Missile ports. Energy Torpedoes are not quite as powerful as Proton Torpedoes but are still effective ways for a fighter sized craft to threaten Capital Ships
Proton Torpedoes: A heavy explosive missile wrapped in a Proton field so as to prevent them from detonating on random debris instead of their intended target. These weapons make Fighters a credible threat against smaller capitla ships and a nuissance against the larger ones. There is a slightly heavier model with more power.
Concussion Missiles Concussion missiles are the workhorse projectile Coming in three grades Normal, Heavy and Assault. The normal model are slightly inferior to the Proton Torpedo, but are legal and unless you have good instruments hard to spot as they don't glow. Heavy varieties pack the punch of the Proton Torpedoes, but lack the sheathing. Assault are the Bombardment missles as powerful as Heavy Turbo Lasers, but horribly expensive.
Advantage: Star Wars by power level and launch methods as they is no way a Federation ship can match a Squadron of Fighters for number of tordpedoes launched at once.
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Star Wars ships would scan Star Trek ships and judge where weapons are likely to come from. Only their nature might not be able to be determined before hadn.
---Lasers? Okay Whatever.
--Yes Trek sensor are more superior like I said above. but No sensors alone can't track cloaked targets. A Tacyon net can. but briefly like a speed trap.
I'm sure you believe so much I won't be able to reason with that kind of faith.
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However in your obsession that Paramount doesn't get to decide what is Canon, you are unfortunately screwed. You have NO RIGHTS to decide what is canon or not. Don't like that little fact? Invent your own Trek wankverse and get out of our hair.
Star Wars: Shields are most definately High powered, eg the Millenium Falcon takes mulitple hits that vaporized 100 meter asteroids.
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So again you're being bias.
Immensly powerful beams that seem to be coherent light in some ways, but also act like particle beam and plasma beam
---I'll assume the rest of your post is more of the same: Incabable of objectivity.
Actually he uses the term laser but in describing what it does it is obvious it is not a laser. In fact he never even hints that the effect is a LASER except by name. For what we are allowed to know it could just as easily be a misnomer they put on the weapon that stuck. Happens all the time. In fact the way he describes Turbolasers working is the same way he describes blasters working and he is rather emphatic that is not a laser.
AAHHH!!! Now here's the crux of your dilema! You know everything! I should have figured this out earlier. Everything you say IS cannon and every anyone says, ie George Lucas is uncanon.
--Lets jump in shall we?
Actually he uses the term laser but in describing what it does it is obvious it is not a laser.
In fact he never even hints that the effect is a LASER except by name.
In fact the way he describes Turbolasers working is the same way he describes blasters working and he is rather emphatic that is not a laser.
However in your obsession that Paramount doesn't get to decide what is Canon, you are unfortunately screwed. You have NO RIGHTS to decide what is canon or not. Don't like that little fact? Invent your own Trek wankverse and get out of our hair.
You have taken it upon yourself to draw up calcuations and variables privy to your whim to concock numbers that obviously favor your Most Favorite movie of all time. You have taken the responsibilty of speaking for George Lucas to the point of dictation of what is cannon. You apparently "love" the word cannon like an affair. You're faithfull to the letter of it one moment and the next you're saying it's wrong. Faithfull...then wrong...ALL according to you whims and delights.
Lets leave aside your thinking on Trek which is obviously insufficient to speak in behalf of. You couldn't name a Trek advantage over WARS if you arms were being threaten by a WOOKIE. Your judgements are obviously bias. You tell me
I can't decide what is cannon?
"Leia didn't know what she was talking about?"
"They're not lasers"?
What JANGO FETT's ship magicly lost several Megatons on some freak shortage? : Leia's arm wasn't blown off by a blaster: Hoth saw no such detonations.
Is the cannon wrong? AGAIN?
Did the Empire Forget They had an SSD in orbit of ENDOR?(EASY REBEL KILLER) Does this MEGATON POWER not travel well to planetary surfaces OR WHAT? Are the SPEEDERS' weapons dialed down so as not blow away the AT AT walkers too quickly: WAS Leia FIRING on BOBA's ship just for kicks? DID ANAKIN's fighter also LOSE TORPEDO FIRE POWER in it's POWER LOSS TO on the TRADE FEDERATION SHIP? DID the TRADE FEDERATION think that MEGATON weapons was too RISKY to USE against the GUNGAN's (AGAIN on a planetary surface?) Did the Trade Federation Tank JUST HAPPEN to fire on the NABOO figher before it's shields were up? WHERE was the MEGA TON blast all during the battle of GEONOSIS? DID both sides become afraid that their weapons would simplly be to powerful? The Vong bio tech as well? The whole New Jedi Order decides all that Fire power to save the Galaxy would make it TOO EASY.
I can't decided what's cannon? But you already have...By ignoring all this and more for one scattered asteroid.
I tell you what...as long as you can I can too.
Ladies and Gentleman the sheer amount of evidence against the theory is astounding and found at every part of the 2 Trilogies in EVERY SINGLE movie.
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I am calling you out now.
What do you accept as canon?
"Things that support my argument"?
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I accept your challenge
The evidence of Artoo D 2 says there is no MegaTON fire power.
A blaster hit wounded Leia
A blaster hit damaged Artoo D2
A Fighter hit Damaged Artoo D2.
That is canon....No MEGATON...the same story repeated over and over again.
I'm a reasonable man. But I've scoured these films. The hierarchy of common firepower is simple.
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By Starbuster It wasn't an episode of Enterprise. It was one of the last Star Trek movies. The Enterprise-F had three warp engines and Riker came around from underneath and ripped through the other ship. The enemy ship was attacking another Federation ship at the time. I think it was in the movie Generations.
I was already corrected. It was The Next Generation last episode called "All Good Things.." Thanks though and Hello Starbuster.
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Ok I started reading back at around 135 or so and have a couple things to say. First off I am both a star trek and a star wars fan. At the moment I am more into star wars then I have ever been in star trek. Second although I am sure the empire or star wars galaxy would win in a fight I think a Galaxy class star ship would beat a star destroyer.
In the new enterprise series they mention that the phaser they install has an destructive force of 500 megajoules. Or I would imagine 500 megawatts per second. They route the power differently to run at 5000 megajoules for a couple shots.
The enterprise E is supposed to have 12 type XII phasers with a total output of 85000 terawatts and 5 photon torpedo tubes with 500 photon torpedos and 1 quantom torpedo tupe with 600 wuantum torpedoes. Not to mention the deflector dish. The shield is has a total capacity of 4,950,000 terawatts. I am not sure how close to actual star trek this is since I don't have the manual here and can only go off different websites. Our greatest power usage has been the tsar bomba which was a 50 megaton nuke that produces about 5 Yottawatt (10E24 watt) so as you can see one of our nukes could take down the enterprises shields with stuff to spare, but as seen in one of the episodes a nuke just bounced off the shield.
When voyager hit the bog cube with the interphasic torpedoes whether they hit the surfuce or blew up inside they destroyed the one side of the cube with is about 9 square km. That is a fair amount of destructive force no matter what the ship was made of. The enterprise E also destroys a borg cube completely in first contact with 3 quantum torpedoes. Granted the ship probly blew up due to catasrophic failure but still it was a big explosion (I would imagine close to the siye of 5 sd or 1 small super star destoryer, or there abouts).
The speed factor is a big one as well. In star wars the fighters can see other ships and at full attack speed an x wing can manuver several times across the distance of a star destroyer. Moving at even have the speed of light or half impulse you would be past the star destroyer and around the other side of the planet in the amount of time it would take the star destroyers 'Manned' guns to even see where then enemy would be. And the manuverability of the enterprise I believe is awy moer then the star destroyers. But this one is more of a feeling more then anything since I haven't really measured them to compare, yet anyway.
The shields on the second death star were planetary shields which can stop ships as in when corusant raised its shields against thrawns cloaked asteroids. I don't think regular shield can stop a ship from flying into them but I think that they would absorb a lot of the impact and would be a coating shield like was mentioned before. Where the Star trek shields are bubbled and stop matter from penetrating. One of the things in star trek is computer aimed shots. The hit specific targets such as shield generators or weapons or drive sections. Focusing a beam onto a specific part and overwelming the shields in that area. In star wars the aiming is by hand for the most part and is fairly inaccurate. Even though the Enterprise would be the same size as a star destoryer its head on stance would leave little areas to hit due to shape.
I am positive that Lucas left a lot of the actual information needed to figure out this stuff out on purpose.
But galaxy against galaxy the star trek one would win. There was that guy who could destroy who groups of people with just a thought. Not to mention all the other stuff. Like the Q and all. Not to mention telepaths and other mind users naturally without the force there could be a good fight.
I am positive that Lucas left a lot of the actual information needed to figure out this stuff out on purpose.
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But out of everything you said this has the shining glare of truth. Lucas wasn't concerned with it. I believe he new these issuses for sometime and chose to ignore them...It's not about the ships but the characters.
REcently both fictions have lost site of this.
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The jersey of the future!
I'm sure the anticipation has just been torturous for everybody, but your wait is over! Earlier this week I tinkered with designs for what I would imagine to be cool Cubs jerseys and I will be presenting them below.
The first set is inspired heavily by the classic Braves uniform of the 1970's. Basically it's the modern uniform minus pinstripes and with some blue piping on the sleeves, along with the retro hat on the home squad and the angry bear logo on the sleeves and road hat. Here it is:
And here's this look with a blue alternate thrown in:
That alternate cap has the potential to be either really cool or really ugly looking in person.
Don't get me wrong, I like this look, but I've always had a fondness for the Cubs logo worn by the team briefly in the early 90's. That logo is currently being worn by the Iowa squad. It would look very similar, but like this:
And now let's imagine what this look would be like with the blue alternate thrown in...
Not too bad, eh? I think that trio is perhaps my favorite, but because it would not encorporate what has become the Classic Cubs Logo, there's no way the organization would ever run with it.
Now, how about something a little more traditional?
It's not too different from the current jerseys, except they'd be sleeveless and minus the pinstripes plus those cool, funky retro hats. Lastly, let's imagine this look with one other retro aspect thrown in...
So, honesty. Of these looks, which do you like best? Are any of these designs better than the current look?
If I had the means I'd consider getting one of these jerseys custom-made, but I'm pretty sure that would just make me the lamest Cubs fan in Wrigleyville. But I would welcome a few modest redesigns to the current look. The uniform has been basically unchanged since 1990, and if only for sales reasons the team should consider doing something different.
Me, I'll just be surfing Ebay in search of an Expos Dawson jersey, or a 70's Braves jersey.
I'd say I'm not a huge fan of the angry bear logo on the sleeves. I'd probably use the walking bear logo instead. Other than that, I love the last set of uniforms (the retro ones with blue down the middle).
I'm also a big fan of the white without pin stripes idea, but I don't know if I like it enough to kill off the pinstripes all together. I think I'd like it almost as an alternate home jersey.
I'd say that based on the response (or lack thereof) I've gotten, the series about blogs was actually more popular!
Nobody has love or hate for my proposed redesigns?
Here's a response for you; I don't like them at all. I've had it with the whole "retro" uniforms idea. I can see why people like it to some degree (nostalgia being the main reason, I think)...but I can also easily see why most of those uniforms were ditech to begin with; most of them are heinously ugly. I'm getting a little sick of turning on ESPN or an NBA, NFL, or MLB game and seeing whatever team is competing playing in some God-awful retro uni that never should've been to begin with (the Washington Wizards, Cleveland Cavaliers, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Francisco Giants, New York Jets are some good examples). I appreciate the nod to the great pasts of some of these franchises...but, there's no need to make us watch them play in these horrible-looking duds in order for us to properly appreciate their history.
To me, as others have said before, the home pinstripes are classic and look great as they are. I really don't see the need to update the basic look. If anything they can change the Cub to make it more "modern" or more "angry" (not sure why so many feel the need for this update either...it's not like changing the logo to angry will vastly improve or change the attitude of the team in general)...but even that looks good as is. I say leave 'em as they are.
Like I said, people who like
Like I said, people who like retro LOVE it. People who don't ... don't.
Just don't be like my friend Steve who hated the idea of the Cubs wearing a white cap because it's not their "classic" look, which ignores that the Cubs wore a white hat for decades before they wore a blue one.
Similarly, the Cubs have only worn pinstripes for the past 51 years. As an organization, they are what, in their 130's?
"Classic" does not mean "been around since my dad was a kid." That's just "old."
I understand that. Perhaps
I understand that. Perhaps I should've said "classy" instead of "classic".
I'll just leave it at this; I just flat-out DON'T like them. They're tacky and awful IMO. Sorry...just my opinion.
Interesting. But would you
Interesting. But would you use polyester or cotton, a fabric which breathes more?
You've gotta go with cotton.
You've gotta go with cotton. It would be a HUGE advantage ... all the Cubs opponents would be stiffled in polyester, but cotton BREATHES. They'd stay cooler on the field! It's brilliant, Jerry! Brilliant!
sorry kurt
Let's start with the good: Ummm... having players wear stirrups is nice (they would be better if they were striped though) -- and i love the 1984 logo sleeve patch.
I'm sorry, but I think your uniforms are hideous. To me, baseball is a game of beauty in it's simplicity. The best uniforms are the traditional (or traditional looking) ones -- Yankees, Red Sox, Cubs, Tigers, etc. Although it seems like today's players have little concern for honoring the past and traditions -- I do. Your uniforms, I'm sad to say, look like they were conceived at drunken frat parties. They may look like they have "style" to some, but when in motion during a game, they will look like red, white, and blue carny workers.
Don't get me wrong, I love the "throwback" uniform. When the Cubs wore one against the braves this year it was BEAUTIFUL.
Those look clean, simple, and beautiful. I would be all in favor of doing this again, and maybe even throw in a game where they wear those blue 1981 road unis.
You DO realize that the
You DO realize that the basis for the last design stems from the uniforms of the 1930's/1940's, right?
yes i DO
But you made it look terrible by adding the blue "coat hanger" piping and two tone hat that screams 1970s. Plus, patch logos often look out of place on hats (o's aside). They are hard to read when in motion, and i love the simplicity of the C, just like the B or the NY or the D, etc.
Coat Hanger is directly from
Coat Hanger is directly from like '37, I think ...
The one previous to that is also directly inspired by the early 40's look. The Cubs were the first team in baseball history to wear a vest.
And what exactly is so bad about the two tone hat? If you don't think that hat design is cool, then I've got nothin' for you, hombre.
not all old uni's are created equally.
Just because it's "retro" or "inspired by" doesn't make it classic or good or beautiful. The coat hanger look is sloppy -- but I don't mind vests (so we might agree on that one). If they took the exact jersey from here:
and cut off the sleeves and made a blue vest with the 84 patch, i would be sold.
Two tone hats - again, stylish maybe, but as a baseball team hat it's corny and in bad taste when in regards to the history of the game. Babe Ruth would never wear something as gaudy and ugly as that.
I've got news for you ... if
I've got news for you ... if players will trot out onto the field wearing shorts, then Babe Ruth would wear a two-tone hat. Pay a guy enough and he'll play wearing a dress. You don't have to look to modern day baseball to find hideous jerseys.
I used to try to convince a friend of mine that the Cubs should adopt a white home cap with a blue bill and he tried to convince me that they shouldn't because the blue is "classic." This ignores the fact that the Cubs - like most baseball teams of the early 20th century - wore white hats at home.
pay enough money...
think about it this way, if i paid you a million dollars you'd probably wear a gigantic gorilla suit with a diaper around for a day -- but that doesn't make it stylish or right. and I also agree that you can look around baseball and see hideous jerseys -- again, that doesn't make it right for the Cubs to wear one either. i don't see your argument here. defending your designs by using the shorts uni probably isn't the best way to go. those are still ridiculed today.
two tone hats are tacky. the different colored bill ones are annoying, but not as bad. i think the cubs should ditch their road ones and just use the solid blue one for everything.
I like the idea of white hats, but with a striped uniform it would look off. plus it would show off dirt and sweat and stuff, so it would probably not be pretty. maybe with a solid white jersey it would work, but not with much else.
For just "a day?" I'd wear
For just "a day?" I'd wear it every day for a year. Or more!
Not really sure how I've tried to defend the retro-70's designs in any way, shape or form*, except to point out that anybody who doesn't like the two-tone hat has no taste whatsoever. And, in your case, you initially ignored that the latter two designs were deeply inspired by 1930's-1940's wear.
(*It's just one of those things ... either you like it or you don't. Those who like it love it, those who don't ... don't.)
Anyway, how exactly are two tone hats tacky? How exactly are they "corny" or "in bad taste" in respect to the tradition of baseball? Can you try to explain it to me without another attempt at reading Babe Ruth's mind?
defensive, aren't we?
When one doesn't have an argument, they attack.
Ok here's the thing. Yes, your look was INSPIRED by the great 1940s look that I like, but the stuff you ADDED looked horrible to me. Make sense?
How are two-tone hats tacky? Have you ever seen anyone over the age of 22 wear one? Is there a single team that wears one -- even in the minors where the logos and caps are more outlandish? Hmmm, not that i can think of.
You want to attack me or my taste fine. You want to have a civilized discussion, well, apparently not.
This is why you get 1/400th of the comments and hits of bleedcubbieblue. You don't see Al when he disagrees with a point attack a commenter. Grow up or get thicker skin and learn to take criticism.
Defensive about what,
Defensive about what, exactly? I haven't tried to defend my most liberal designs a single time ... and YOU are attacking MY tastes! I'm just asking you to explain yours.
>>How are two-tone hats tacky? Have you ever seen anyone over the age of 22 wear one?<<
Just out of curiosity, when's the last time you attended a game?
>>Is there a single team that wears one -- even in the minors where the logos and caps are more outlandish? Hmmm, not that i can think of.<<
Actually the Smokies have a two-tone hat, as do the Blue Jays (and those are just the ones off the top of my head). Ignoring that, though, I suppose that using your line of logic every team in baseball today wears GOOD uniforms? You seem to be arguing that because no team is currently using it - aside from the Blue Jays, incidentally - it must be "corny" or "tacky."
I'm not attacking you, I'm asking you to explain to me why a two-tone hat is "corny" or "in bad taste." I'm not calling you names, I'm not insulting your intelligence ... I'm just asking if you can tell me why you feel a way you do. So far the best answer you can give me is "because no other team currently uses it!" (Which, by the by, is not true.)
>>Grow up or get thicker skin and learn to take criticism.<<
Thank you for the reminder that not everybody who comes here actually gets it. I need these every once in a while.
>>This is why you get 1/400th of the comments and hits of bleedcubbieblue. You don't see Al when he disagrees with a point attack a commenter. <<
You're right about that, at least. He just bans them.
oh dear...
the blue jays wear theirs on special occasions (like when the brewers wear their throwbacks on friday night home games) -- you know, every once in a while -- where it belongs. The smokies do not wear one - i just checked.
as far as al banning people, well, something tells me he doesn't just ban someone who he disagrees with -- they probably have committed some sort of offense -- but that's not the point.
when was the last time i went to a ballgame? i go to about 10-15 a year all over the country. i have been to 21 major league ballparks, and probably well over 200 games.
oh, i am sorry my intellect doesn't "get it" and that i take offense to your condescending nature. Oh yeah, fyi, I know by posting i am just playing your game.
Check again:
Check again: http://www.smokiesbaseball.com/merchandise/Default.asp?itemId=486&catego...
>>as far as al banning people, well, something tells me he doesn't just ban someone who he disagrees with -- they probably have committed some sort of offense -- but that's not the point.<<
Did you know that Al banned me once, despite having not posted a comment there in months?
>>when was the last time i went to a ballgame? i go to about 10-15 a year all over the country. i have been to 21 major league ballparks, and probably well over 200 games.<<
And you've never seen anybody wearing the duo-colored hat. Okay.
>>oh, i am sorry my intellect doesn't "get it" and that i take offense to your condescending nature. Oh yeah, fyi, I know by posting i am just playing your game.
What "game" is that, exactly? I just asked you to tell me why you feel the way you do about duo-tone hats. You have responded with relentless hostility. Instead of going on and on about the sanctity of baseball and how duo-tone hats somehow violate that, why not just say "I personally don't like it, it's just not my taste"?
Kind of reminds me of a regular debate I have with my fiancee. She will often tell me that a band sucks. Maybe the band *doesn't* suck ... maybe she just doesn't have a taste for that style of music. You follow what I'm saying?
Anyway, just out of curiosity, since I haven't called you any names directly, what other names have I called you between the lines?
Sorry, I'm done with this argument and this site. I am not interested in this discussion anymore. It seems that we are incapable of having a good civil back and forth without you posting snarky posts about "blogging", and i figured it would be better to just remove my account and look for other blogs to discuss the Cubs with that don't require me to "get it". I used to check your site everyday because I enjoyed the humor and the opinions -- even though they ran counter to just about everything i believe -- but now you've just lost yourself a loyal reader.
And for those of you who
And for those of you who have been following ceepea17's meltdown, I'm sure you noticed that he:
1. Never answered my question as to why he felt that duo-colored hats were offensive to baseball traditions
2. Accused me of vigorously arguing his criticisms of the jerseys I designed when I never contradicted a single point he made about them, except to note that the latter two were not inspired in any way the looks of the 70's, except the hats
3. Accused me of name-calling and being thin-skinned when he was the one who called names and became unbelievably defensive
Sory Kurt
You're banned.
No team likely would be able
No team likely would be able to get white hats as a part of their uniform, as any opposing team would likely gripe about the pitcher wearing a white had contributing to their team not being able to pick up the ball out of his hand.
Random hat link ... in his
Random hat link ... in his 2nd year as a Yankee, Babe Ruth wore this hat: http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/detail_page.... - PINSTRIPED.
Anyway, it's a slippery slope ... to this day they allow the two-tone hats, so I don't know why they wouldn't allow a white hat with a diff. colored brim. Sounds like it's splitting c-hairs.
I don't know that MLB
I don't know that MLB wouldn't allow a team to wear a solid white hat as a fact, that was more of an educated guess on my part.
You very well could be right
You very well could be right about it, tho'.
BTW - that design is
BTW - that design is exceedingly dull. A baseball jersey doesn't need to have bells and whistles, but it needs to have something that makes it unique. Achieving that uniqueness by looking like a bat and glove weilding cloud ... not the way to do it.
Personally, I think the Cubs
Personally, I think the Cubs home unis are the best in the league.
Personally, I think the Cubs
Personally, I think the Cubs home unis are the best in the league. That is, as it stands now.
I like the Cubs look but
I like the Cubs look but it's gone stale. Time for a change, faux-retro or genuine-retro, either way.
I disagree. It's not broke and it's not stale. Best uni's in the league.
Don't make me ban you again.
Honestly I like what you did
Honestly I like what you did with most of the jerseys you put together. I'm a fan of retro jerseys more than anything, with the oldest being the best, in my opinion. I also like solid or striped socks as opposed to stirrups, but that's really just splitting hairs. A team like the cubs have to honor their tradition, so I wouldn't suggest a complete make-over of the home or away jersey. But it wouldn't hurt to maybe consider using a different or additional alternate jersey, and really the idea of having a throwback jersey day weekly or bi-weekly would play right into this. The team is in a situation where the jerseys could use a little variety but they cannot completely abandon their traditional look.
And from their perspective, it would be another nice money maker. I don't think the Cubs should go jersey crazy like the Mets have, but they can do a few things and do it tastefully.
Marketing dollars baby.
Marketing dollars baby. More styles of jerseys=more opportunities for sales. Especially if the team is able to design multiple jerseys that fans can appreciate. Launching 3 new alternate uniform designs to be sold in the stadium and elsewhere could, revenue-wise, be the difference between signing a free agent next season and not.
Just a reminder
I just want to issue a brief reminder to everybody two very important rules about websites, blogs, and message boards.
1. If you write on a blog, you are not allowed to express a strong opinion - or any kind of opinion - and defend it. If anybody has a problem with your opinion, that's tough for you, you need to get some thicker skin. Especially do not ask people to back up their opinions, or explain them, because that just means you are attacking them.
2. If you read a blog, you are permitted to disagree with any opinion VERY STRONGLY and if anybody dares debate you about it, then they need to grow up, get some thicker skin, and be put in their place.
Moving forward
Does anyone know how many games the cubs devote to wearing throwback jerseys in a season? I can remember a few off the top of my head from last season, but i don't think it could have been any more than once per month if I had to guess.
Also has there been any internal talk of making some adjustments to the jerseys the team wears? Especially following a team like the Red Sox making some small changes? In the case of the Red Sox, I wouldn't be surprised to see increased jersey sales as a direct result of the changes they made.
I think the Cubs usually
I think the Cubs usually wear a throw-back one series a year, but I don't think they have an official policy about it.
I can remember the 60 years
I can remember the 60 years on WGN throwback game, where they televised the game in black and white with the original commercials. But I don't remember another specific example outside of that one.
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Good job on putting together some reasonably well thought out designs. While I might not favor these designs over the current one, they are interesting to look at.
I would say that the basic template for the first 2 options is too 1970s Braves - I'd rather see the Cubs borrow elements from their own uniforms than other teams. Not a big fan of the two-tone cap. Looks great as a fan's hat, maybe even as a batting practice cap. But too associated with 70s Braves for my taste. I like those 70s Braves uniforms, but I like them for that franchise.
I don't like the Cubs script across option 2 because it looks too much like the Iowa Cubs uniform. Seems backwards for the major league team to be taking design cues from its minor league team. I know that it briefly appeared on Cubs road uniforms, but now it just seems too associated with the minors.
The alternate jersey shouldn't say 'Chicago' on it if it is going to be worn at home.
For a favorite, I think I'd like made up option 5. It would be home option 4 with sleeves and road option 3 with sleeves.
I can't say for sure, but
I can't say for sure, but the Cubs used the cursive on the road unis around 1992, and I think Iowa adopted it later on. As for the cursive Chicago, I put it on a uniform with gray pants to convey it's a road jersey... if they wore it at home they could have one that was the cursive Cubs, but in red.
Anyway, as for the two-tone/duo-tone cap, it was first made popular by the Expos in '69 and different versions of it were worn by teams including the Braves, Brewers, Padres, Orioles, and Blue Jays up through the early 90's. (I'm relatively certain that no other teams wore it in the majors, but I could be mistaken about that.) When the Blue Jays started wearing it occasionally again in '08, I came to really like the way it looked, and it's not surprising that the Cubs are manufacturing it again as well. I wouldn't expect them in all seriousness to ever wear it as a part of the official garb, but I do think it'd look pretty cool.
I failed to notice the gray pants/alternate as an away combo; I saw the blue jersey and thought that Carlos would be wearing that every time he takes the mound regardless of where he's pitching. Maybe the 'Chicago' on the alternate jersey should be changed to 'Zambrano'.


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Classroom Training
Your two-week classroom training program is based on an ìactive trainingî model. Every opportunity is taken to involve you in the learning process. Group exercises, role-playing and question and answer sessions are just some of the techniques used. We also use computer-aided training, computer tutorials, audiotapes and a comprehensive training manual in the process.
After completion of your classroom work, youíll spend one supervised week in a collection unit simulating life on a collections floor. One-on-one coaching generally occupies several hours a day. Your training staff is always available for support and guidance to help ensure you are educating our borrowers on their rights, responsibilities and entitlements and practicing proper customer service skills.
Continuous On-The-Job Training
Your training doesnít end after the first three weeks. Your supervisor and other team members will provide on-the-job training and ongoing coaching throughout your employment, depending upon your needs. At WMCC, there is always an expert ready to help answer a question or lend a hand.
ACA Certification
WMCC is a member of the American Collectors Association. Because we recognize the value of ACAís certification program, we insist our trainers and training materials are up-to-date with ACA ethics and standards of performance. In turn, every collector is informed and trained according to these standards.
ACA is an international trade organization of credit and collection professionals that provides a variety of accounts receivable management services to more than one million credit grantors. Headquartered in Minneapolis, ACA serves members in the United States, Canada and 55 other countries worldwide.


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The Warm Line is a free, confidential, nonmedical, nonjudgmental peer support service. Trained peer operators answer calls dealing with a wide range of issues including loneliness, sorting out difficult situations, sadness, uncomfortable or intense emotions, and social isolation.
It is available evenings from 5:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.
365 evenings a year
7 evenings a week including holidays!
CornerBridge, Pemi Valley Outreach and Concord Peer Support
offers Peer Support and on site Outreach in the
Lakes Region and Plymouth
to those in need
Need to talk to someone?
call our Warmline
7 days
5-10 pm
Lakes Region Consumer Advisory Board
d/b/a CornerBridge is a non-profit