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December 7, 2012, KENNEWICK, WA – The Seattle Thunderbirds came back from a two-goal deficit late in the second period by scoring six unanswered goals to skate past the Tri-City Americans 8-4 Thursday night at the Toyota Center in Kennewick.
The T-Birds have now won three consecutive games. They face the Everett Silvertips Friday night at Comcast Arena in Everett at 7:35pm. They finish out the weekend on Saturday night against the Portland Winterhawks at 7:05pm at ShoWare Center.
Six T-Birds had two or more points in the win.
Seattle (15-13-1-0) took a 1-0 lead at 8:55 of the first period when Seth Swenson scored. Jesse Forsberg moved the puck from the left point to Connor Sanvido in the left corner. Sanvido came up the boards and centered the puck to Swenson in the left circle. Swenson snapped the puck past Tri-City goalie Eric Comrie for his ninth goal of the season.
Tri-City (17-11-1-1) tied the game 1-1 on a goal from Parker Bowles at 12:29 of the first. Brian Williams and Connor Rankin had the assists.
Williams scored unassisted goal at 19:37 of the first to put the Americans in front 2-1.
The Americans outshot the T-Birds 16-5 in the first period.
The T-Birds tied the game 2-2 on a shorthanded goal by Luke Lockhart at 10:06 of the second period. Brendan Rouse fought for the puck with several Americans behind and to the right of the Americans goal. Rouse was able to move the puck towards the slot to a wide open Lockhart. Lockhart leaned into a slap shot and beat Comrie for his 12th goal of the season.
Tri-City jumped out to a two-goal lead on goals from Malte Stromall at 11:41 and Beau McCue at 12:34 of second. Mitch Topping and Comrie had the assists on Stromwall's goal, which came on the power play. Tyson Dallman had the only assist.
The T-Birds came right back when Swenson scored the first of three goals in 2:04 late in the second. Sanvido gained the Americans zone on the left side, cut towards the high slot and put a wrist shot on goal. Comrie made the save but Swenson grabbed the rebound, moved to his right and beat Comrie high for his second of the night.
Tri-City was called for delay of game with just over two minutes left in the period giving Seattle a chance to tie the game on the power play. They did just that when Roberts Lipsbergs scored from the slot at 18:04 of the second. Lockhart had the puck along the right boards when he spotted Lipsbergs in the slot. Lipsbergs beat Comrie over the glove to extend his point streak to 10 games and his goal streak to five games. Lipsbergs has 12 goals and four assists in the point streak.
Sanvido put the T-Birds in front 5-4 at 18:42 of the third. He collected a loose puck in the neutral zone and skated into the Tri-City zone on the right side. He came down the wing and put a hard wrist shot on goal from the bottom of the right circle that beat Comrie over his blocker. It was Sanvido's third point of the game.
The T-Birds outshot the Americans 16-12 in the first period but the Americans had a 28-21 advantage in shots after two periods.
Alexander Delnov gave the T-Birds a two-goal lead when he scored at 2:31 of the third period. Connor Honey moved the puck to Lipsbergs who got it to Delnov breaking in alone against Comrie. Delnov beat the Americans goalie through the legs for his 10th goal of the year.
Seattle went in front 7-4 at 10:43 of the third. Rouse sent the puck from the left point to Forsberg at center ice inside the blue line. Forsberg wristed the puck at Comrie with Riley Sheen in front of the goalie. Sheen tipped Forsberg's shot past Comrie for his seventh goal of the season.
Sanvido scored a shorthanded empty-net goal at 18:41 of the third to get the T-Birds eighth goal. Rouse had an assist on the goal to give him three assists in the game.
Tri-City outshot Seattle 37-34 in the game.
Seattle goalie Brandon Glover stopped 33 of 37 shots and his record improves to 14-10-1-0.
Comrie faced 33 shots and made 26 saves to have his record fall to 15-11-1-.
The T-Birds Holiday Ticket Package is back! 24 ticket voucher and 12 ticket voucher packages for Thunderbirds home games in 2013 are now available online. T-Birds Holiday Ticket Packages can also be purchased by calling the T-Birds office at 253-239-7825.
First period – 1, Seattle, Swenson 9 (Sanvido, Forsberg), 8:55. 2, Tri-City, Bowles 8 (Williams, Rankin), 12:29. 3, Tri-City, Williams , 19:37. Penalties – Bowles, Tri (holding the stick), :53.
Second period – 4, Seattle, Lockhart 12 (Rouse), 10:06 (sh). 5, Tri-City, Stromwall 9 (Topping, Comrie), 11:41 (pp). 6, Tri-City, McCue 8 (Dallman), 12:34. 7, Seattle, Swenson 10 (Sanvido), 16:38. 8, Seattle, Lipsbergs (Lockhart), 18:08 (pp). 9, Seattle, Sanvido 6, 18:48. Penalties – Holub, Sea (major-fighting), 7:51. Gutierrez, Tri (major-fighting), 7:51. Swenson, Sea (slashing), 9:45. Elliot, Sea (major-fighting), 12:18. Walter, Tri (major-fighting), 12:18. Honey, Sea (major-fighting), 13:11. Nickles, Tri-City (major-fighting), 13:11. Green, Sea (major-fighting, 10-minute misconduct), 13:11. Mychan, Tri (major-fighting), 13:11. Yuen, Tri (delay of game), 18:01. Hickman, Sea (major-fighting), 19:15. Chynoweth, Tri (major-fighting), 19:15.
Third period – 10, Seattle, Delnov (Lipsbergs, Honey), 2:31. 11, Seattle, Sheen 7 (Forsberg, Rouse), 10:43. 12, Seattle, Sanvido 7 (Rouse), 18:41 (en/sh). Penalties – Sheen, Sea (delay of game), 15:56. Forsberg, Sea (delay of game), 17:55.
Shots on goal – Seattle 5-16-13 34, Tri-City 16-12-8 37. Goalies – Seattle, Glover 37 shots-33 saves (14-10-1-0); Tri-City, Comrie 33-26 (15-11-1-1). Power plays – Seattle 1-2; Tri-City 1-3. A – 4,518. Referee – Jason Cramer, Jason Nissen. Linesmen – Jason Michelbook, Trevor Shively.


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Just like suckers, a crappy driving game is born every minute. And until GR
gets up the money to buy whatever weapons will destroy the foul beast
that bears such bland offspring, there is only one means of combating such a
deluge of crud – good driving games.
And with that, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Colin McRae Rally
2.0. This sequel improves upon the original and may well be the last great
racing game for the PSX.
For a Playstation game, the graphics are solid. The backgrounds are subtle
and unobtrusive (they looked retarded in the first CMR),
and the lighting on the night-time tracks looks really good, even though it's
a little segmented.
CMR 2.0 does have several minor graphical flaws, like high pixelation,
weak lighting effects and lots of 2D objects. However, were all these flaws
spiffed up and buffed out, the jammin' pace of the game would have to be diminished,
and that'd be like amputating a leg to cure athlete's foot.
The game boasts a bunch of new play modes. The most noticeable new addition
is the Challenge mode, in which players race against 5 other drivers on the
same track at the same time. Though it's frantic, this really cramps your play
and the game's speed since it's kind of hard to fit 6 cars on a tiny, muddy
Most of the other races are variations on the regular rally theme, and involve
racing on a single track without affecting your saved game on the regular rally
The regular rally constitutes the meat of the game. You bound through 8 different
countries, all with varying track conditions and layouts, securing rally points
as you vie to be crowned the rally king.
Your rally quest will take you through many different environments, all of
which were included in the first CMR. However, elements like snow have
been made far more forgiving, making countries like Sweden a pleasure as opposed
to a chore.
The driving itself is simply fantastic. The skills are hard to pick up at first,
but that just makes mastering them all the more rewarding. CMR 2.0's
controls are also way more accessible than the first game, and a lot faster
to boot. Jumps and fast turns also play a bigger role, making the courses quicker
and wilder.
Contributing to the excellent gameplay is the awesome control scheme. CMR's
controls are so intuitive and well-orchestrated that you'll find yourself pulling
off maneuvers and slides before you even think to execute them. I love a game
where my mind doesn't get in the way.
translation of thought to action in this case is nearly seamless, which is,
I suspect, what makes this game so addictive. Couple the amazing controls with
maps that push the limits of your reflexes and you've got a ride that'll make
you question exactly who is being driven.
There's only one thing that bothers me. When driving with manual transmission,
there's no reverse button. You've got to cycle all the way down through the
gears to reverse, costing you several valuable seconds. The actual rally drivers
sure as hell don't shift into every single gear on the way to reverse, and it
doesn't make sense for the player to have to, either.
Navigation in CMR is still a little redundant. You get your directions
from two sources: little symbols that pop up and tell you what's around the
corner, and your dumbass co-driver whose speech is totally garbled by the engine
Instead of a smart, cheeky co-driver (at least he doesn't scream when you screw
up like in the last game), I'd like some music. CMR 2.0 is really intense,
and the only thing it's missing is some decent driving tunes. Where are the
Stones when you need 'em?
There are multi-player options in CMR 2.0, but there don't need to be.
There's no sense in trying a head-to-head race on these maps, as the split screen
is way too blinding. There is a multi-play mode where up to 4 players can compete
one after the other, but such breaks in the action really don't add up to a
great party game.
Still, the top notch gameplay makes you forget about the slight problems. This
is just a smart, well-made racer. Props to Codemasters for putting out the two
best rally games ever. If you like video games and have two opposable thumbs,
I recommend that you buy this game.

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Everyone on your list deserves something special, so why not give them an original creation from one of Virginia's talented artisans? From art galleries and studios to craft shows and bazaars, beautiful baubles, sculptures, stained glass, paintings, jewelry and photography are available for purchase. Let the hunt for your perfect heartfelt gift begin!
At Heartwood in Abingdon shoppers will find a wide selection of handmade gifts – all juried to be the best of the best. Soaps, quilts, instruments, pottery, glass and wood works touch the creative side of things while coffee, tea, wine, jams, jellies, apparel and CDs round out the immense gift selection.
Not far from Breaks Interstate Park and the Virginia/Kentucky border is Haysi, where you'll find Mountain Art Works – a treasure trove of locally made items. Woodwork, paintings, quilts, afghans, candles and even the occasional guitar, mandolin, fiddle or banjo handcrafted by one of the nearby luthiers are all available for purchase. If you're seeking authentic Appalachian gifts, this is your place.
The Artisan Center in Martinsville's Historic Uptown District is the creative hub for the community, offering the works of 66 artists in their retail store as well as workshops for aspiring artisans, all thanks to Patrick Henry Community College. Should your handmade gift search lead you here, you'll find ceramics, paintings, fabric creations, metal, wood and glass works, jewelry, furniture and quite a bit more.
Just off Interstate 81 in the Shenandoah Valley is Crafty Hands, located inside The Shops at Dayton Farmers Market in Dayton. Here you'll find the works of famed artist P. Buckley Moss as well as jewelry, burnt wood pieces, wind chimes and baskets.
For the duck hunter or nature lover on your list, check out Buck Island Bay Decoys in Montebello. Richard Christy's award-winning, authentic waterfowl carvings are known throughout the States and abroad. Each piece is carved from native white cedar and tupelo gum; no two pieces are alike. While you have Mr. Christy's ear, ask him about his time as President Gerald Ford's Chef and maybe even ask if his Rock-N-Creek Cabin is available for the night.
See art in progress when you visit Alexandria and shop the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Eighty-two studios for 165 artisans give artsy shoppers a plethora of gift-buying options.
Take a bit of the water home with you when you shop the Aft Gallery at Skipjack Nautical Wares in Portsmouth – a premier marine art gallery of original works by regional, national and international artists. Expect to find nautical jewelry, seascape paintings, carvings, decoys, ships in bottles, naval and military paintings and prints, and nearly anything else marine-art worthy you can think of. Nearly 30 artists are represented at Aft Gallery.
Specializing in acrylic and pastel landscapes of the Chesapeake Bay, Gayle N. Mandell opens her Moran Creek Studio in Weems to you for shopping Wednesday through Saturday. Commission requests are welcome!
Hidden Treasures Craft Gallery in Parksley on Virginia's Eastern Shore may be the home of Laughing Dog Jewelry, but shoppers will also find homemade soaps, lotions, candles and a bundle more. The artists here are members of the more than 20-strong Eastern Shore Art League. To see more artists' work , visit the ESAL Art Gallery in Onancock.
Which direction will you head for your perfect handcrafted gift? Find more galleries as well as a list of craft shows at Virginia.org/HandmadeHolidays.
LOVE is at the heart of every Virginia vacation. Virginia is for Lovers.


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Aunty has a mis-carriage. Sent her some flowers, well soon.
Life as a carbon-based life form; a journey of building on success and learning from mistakes.
Aunty has a mis-carriage. Sent her some flowers, well soon.
Came to uni to enroll in another subject, closer to completing my degree, to get the parents off my back.
I hate it when my parents are trying to influence my decisions - it just give me more reason to move oversea. I'm at a point in life where my career is the priority; it is impossible to reach my full potential when they're around.
Shes been working 9-10hrs a day trying to get the budget plan out for next financial year. Sweet girl, working so hard.
My first lecture in almost 2 years and its probably be my last. Going to uni on Thursdays, its only because of project group meeting.
Spent 5 hours browsing through Fisher's library research collection. Gathering materials for business ideas with integrating smartcard and supply-chain system.
I was supprise to see Tony in my class, this is awesome, he can be my eyes and ears for assesment deadlines and exam timetable. We'll go riding someday.
Someday I'll take up cooking, it looked fun.
And also for practical reason, most girls my age dont know how to cook.
Shes two years younger than me and yet she has accomplished so much, shes amazing.
Training run at the bay with Mel, Jason, Alan, and Robert. We did 7km in 35mins. Perfect weather. 7 days till the City to Surf run!
Shes going to Europe in late October this year, visiting 11 countries. Sweet girl, she earns it.
See how things goes, see if Europe economic lifestyle is any good; we could live and work there as early as next year.
One thing about being young is, there is no obstacle.
I'm a quater century old today.
Wrote another publication, Broadband Router with Telstra Bigpond Cable.
I didnt want to go clubbing with the boys tonight, I know I'll have accessive drinking. Saving up for the big day tomorrow.
The City to Surf run is a great experience. Completed the 14km in 97:40 and ranked 19927. A day with plenty of smiles, the atmostphere was spectaclar. Thanks Mel and the VADB gang for dragging me into this.
They say, part of being Australian is getting out there and do things.
Visiting Metropolitan Motorcycle Spares, getting some spare parts.
Sometimes I think about Girl 4. I wonder what shes doing right now, is she happy? I'll fly down to Melbourne in October.
I've been offered a 6 months contract job, with Optus. The money is good, a chance for me to try out difference industries.
On the one hand I really like my current position, the projects are very interesting, I have greater responsibilities. As much as I love what I do and the people I work with, the hours is just ridiculous.
Invitation to see a local film, LITTLE FISH, thanks anh Cuong Le. I support local films and theatre because it depicting about authentic characters.
When you people reverse out of your drive way, please do becareful of motorcyclists. I almost slam into a reversing car.
Contributing to the Wikimedia Foundation. They have done an amazing job maintaining information integrity on the Internet.
Jemma Griffiths is hot, a singer-songwriter better known as Jem. I love girl with short-hair.
I stayed back at the office many late nights, putting in the extra efforts to get things done. Sometimes I have doubt whether the company is looking out for my interests. I'm planning to look for another company with better better pays.
More money won't solve my problems. But it'll give me a social status.


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Honorary Board
In 2009 the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress announced the formation of an Honorary Board of Directors to help the organization expand its capabilities and strategic goals.
The Honorary Board of Directors serves in an advisory capacity to the organization's regular Board of Directors.
MDSC Honorary Board Members:
- Mrs. Beverly Beckham and Mr. Bruce Beckham
- Mrs. Louise Borke and Mr. Gerald Brecher
- U.S. Senator Scott Brown
- Mr. Sean Buckley and Mrs. Sandra Buckley
- Mr. Francis Callaghan and Mrs. Gillian Callaghan
- Dr. Brian Cruz
- Mrs. Deborah Gregorio Cruz
- Mrs. Danielle and Mr. Anthony DeCotis
- Mr. Edward DeNoble and Mrs. Allyson DeNoble
- Dr. Jim DeVellis and Ms. Ann Kelly
- Mr. Brian Diercksen and Mrs. Suzanne Diercksen
- Mrs. Nancy Donahue
- Mrs. Lauren Beckham Falcone
- Mr. Oliver Foley and Mrs. Kinnon Foley
- Mr. Charles Gadbois and Mrs. Karen Gadbois
- Mr. Michael Gunter
- Mr. Roger Kafker and Mrs. Dawn Kafker
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The Terminator is a killing machine sent from the future to wear sunglasses and eff shit up. In contrast, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe T3 Tundra is a special edition from one of the turdier of the Terminator movies. Does its price however, still make it a killer deal?
I noted yesterday morning that the Alfa Romeo Milano's styling was an acquired taste. Unfortunately for the seller of our candidate 1988 Verde, his taste in Rhode Island Red interior accents wasn't particularly to anyone's taste. Neither was the car's price as well, and it fell in a 64% Crack Pipe loss. That's too bad because I'll bet it's a sweet car to drive… at night.
You know what else is a sweet car to drive? That's right, the Toyota Tundra truck! Yep, while looking like a truck, working like a truck, and sounding like a truck, the Tundra's reputation is that it drives like a big-'ol Camry. That's not that big a deal if you're just looking for something that can haul the occasional couch or serve your pool cleaning business while offering a modicum of comfort. If however, your whole idea of a truck is that it's a manifestation of your machismo and you want people to know that by the harshness of its ride, its noise, and the play in its wheel, well then these might not be the trucks for you.
On another point, if you are offended by hapless movie sequels that tarnish a hallowed franchise, or just bad movies in general, then perhaps this 2003 Toyota Tundra special edition might also not be your cup of T3. If on the other hand, you're okay with all that, then read on.
Offered for the Canadian market in a limited run of 200, the T3 Tundras celebrated the fact that Arnie or somebody rolled in one in the film Terminator 3. Toyota started with an Access Cab 4x4 that they then gave the full black-out treatment. Underneath that are a set of 17" alloys in silver, while the interior received unique floor mats. T3 badging adorns the grille and rear corners.
You might imagine that a truck honoring a film that was all spectacle and no substance would itself be likewise, but in the case of the T3 Tundra there's also an extra 10 horses emanating from the 4.7-litre iForce V8. That gives it 255-bhp and is claimed owed to a Borla exhaust that also makes it sound meaner than stock.
Despite the movie tie-in bits this is still just a Tundra short bed pickup and when it comes to full size trucks, well Toyota makes one. On either coast no one would bat an eye seeing you driving one, but in the Midwest or in Texas, where Tundras are currently built, I think they still might want you to drive a Chevy, Dodge or - just maybe - a Ford.
None of those however fete a film that features a hot girl Terminator or Arnie's angsty robot that can't decide whether it wants to kill or to love. You'll only get that kind truck with this Toyota, unless of course Skynet has one in the pipeline.
When new, the T3 Tundra went for a cool forty grand- I know, right? This one has come down from those dizzying heights and is presently sitting on this Austin dealer's lot with an asking of $9,995. It's relatively low-mileage, and is offered in its Craigslist ad in the first person, as though the truck itself were sentient or something. That sort of cutesy anthropomorphism is just the dealer's attempt to give personality to a machine, like anyone would ever believe that.
What do you think about this T3 Tundra and its $9,995 price? Is that an amount that should have somebody shouting action!? Or, does that price mean your interest is terminated?
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Yard makeover? Yard transformation in Denver
Surely you've had this fantasy: A crew of dedicated, passionate plant people with mad skills and arcane knowledge descend upon your domicile to wreak style, savvy, and sense upon your landscaping struggles. For free.
Well, the thing with such prizes is, if you don't play, you can't win. This family played.
Meet Donna Curtis, her husband Mike Walker and their 18-month-old son, Evan. They're the first winners in the Denver Botanic Gardens' Neighborhood Front Yard Makeover Contest. And late last week, their front yard got the full botanic treatment: 10 cubic yards of soil. An expert pruning job. An irrigation upgrade. New trees, shrubs, and perennials, all carefully chosen for their deeply shaded yard by a three-member team of DBG experts. Tiny, delicate, purple-and-white spotted toad lilies.
A redbud to provide an elegant backdrop for a garden bench. Oakleaf hydrangeas to set off their 1902 Wash Park Dutch Colonial's tawny-yellow paint. And a bevy of other beautiful plants, all installed in curvaceous, embracing berms, which make the home's off-center placement on the lot seem elegant and deliberate. A strip along the sunnier east wall features culinary herbs and a climbing rose that won't even need a trellis.
"We couldn't believe it," Donna says. "I've never won anything. So I almost didn't enter."


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You know that old saying.
"There is no i in team."
Probably it was a high school coach who first dropped that nugget on me, don't really remember.
But I do remember thinking, "Uh, what?"
Figured it out later.
I'm slow.
Wasn't it an old episode of "The Odd Couple" with the, "Never assume, or you could make and ASS out of U and ME"?
Ahhh whatever.
I'm looking forward to watching this Cubs team play like a team, at least as much as they can.
Baserunning. Hitting the cutoff man.
Will there be less errors?
"Castro goes deep in the hole, FIRES across to LaHair..."
Worried about that one.
But fundamentals are sort of the headline this spring.
Like on Cubs.com right now, they have a story about Alfonso Soriano, but the photo is him not with a bat.
Anyway, "teamwork".
The sum is greater than the whole of all of it's parts together or something.
The whole team is a sum of it's parts?
Here's a whole page of teamwork quotes.
- "T.E.A.M. = Together Everyone Achieves More!"
- "In union there is strength"
- "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link."
- "No man is wise enough by himself."
- "Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable."
Pretty sure that last one is referring to bunting, so Mr. Sveum must be onto something with the bunting bracket thing.
What else?
The Collector!
Ryan Braun had me feeling guilty for making the guilty pee gif the other day when he made his defelctive speech and said something musta happened with his urine in the mysterious 44 hours alone with The Collector.
So yesterday The Collector had to have his say.
How bad do you feel for a guy who has to make a statement about how many times he's carried away somebody's urine?
Guy is a freaking expert!
And I was relieved to read this part:
Laurenzi said in the statement that he stored the samples in a "FedEx Clinic Pack in a Rubbermaid container in my office which is located in my basement. My basement office is sufficiently cool to store urine samples."
Because I was thinking the place cool enough to store the sample might be in the fridge next to the mac and cheese from last night.
Last thing, and the inspiration for this post.
I'm in a cab the other night, a pretty long drive and the driver wanted to talk.
He'd recently moved here from another country, but was pretty opinionated when it came to sports.
I can't remember exactly how the conversation went, but he had a hard time understanding how anyone could be a fan of such a losing team as the Cubs.
"Of all the teams in sports, why the Cubs?"
And I said, "Hey, there is no Y in Cubs."
So, you know, he didn't get it.
But still, kinda cracked me up.


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Nine of the richest individuals in the United States live in Maryland, according to Forbes.
Two of them do business in Baltimore, and quite prominently so (sometimes together): Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti and Under Armour founder Kevin Plank.
There's a third man who is, at the very least, on the cusp of being a billionaire if he is not already. Peter Angelos, owner of one of Baltimore's most prominent law firms and its baseball team, has shrewdly built his fortune for decades. No move figures to net him more gain that his insistence on owning a majority share of MASN, the television network that shows both Orioles and Nationals games. The team is worth about $450 million, according to most estimates. The network is worth more.
That three of this city's wealthiest and most powerful men work in sports partially explains why The Baltimore Sun decided to bring back the business of sports beat. But there's also an IndyCar race that runs through downtown, and a swimmer named Michael Phelps whose future outside the pool will be of interest to the people in this city for decades to come.
Gambling has swept through the state. And with a casino coming to downtown Baltimore and the coming introduction of table games, it is only going to grow. That's part of this beat, too.
So is horse racing, or at least the business side of it. Maryland has a long history in the sport of kings, one that has been endangered in recent years by track owners struggling to keep up with nearby states whose racing operations are subsidized by casino money. Now Maryland has a chance to again emerge as a top state for horse racing, but it must overcome in-fighting to come up with a cohesive plan that benefits track owners and horsemen alike.
Sports pervades life in Baltimore and the surrounding area. You'll see Orioles hats in Towson and Essex, Ravens jerseys in Fed Hill and Carroll County (and Terps football gear safely stored in people's closets until next year). Businesses scramble to be affiliated with success -- like the dentist office that reached a deal with the Ravens -- or to capitalize on the ways our hearts and wallets are influenced by wins -- as was the case when the Orioles made their run.
Already I've written about a Loyola professor who helps the Orioles decide how to build their team, the money Towson received for traveling to play football in one of the toughest places in America, the way Under Armour is trying to influence young basketball players and win the marketing war, the Grand Prix of Baltimore's future and how Michael Phelps might spend his retirement.
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Posted Jan. 30, 2009 – Living in rural upstate New York, I'm very familiar with temperature extremes. Since 1974, I've mostly heated with wood. Sounds romantic, but we all know better. I grab icy logs barehanded and lug `em to the house, where any remaining wrist hairs are burned off as I toss 'em in. En route I peer at the frosty January sky, its stars seemingly detached from the exercise in hot and cold abuse I endure for the sake of economy.
But on second thought, Orion and his friends experience the same thing. For what are we seeing in the winter sky if not an immense display of temperature extremes and fuel economics? Giant blue stars, like Rigel marking Orion's foot, are among the hottest things the eye can see. Rigel emits the same blinding brilliance as 60,000 suns. Such energy output doesn't come cheaply. Look again in just a half billion years and there'll be no sign of Rigel, for it's squandering its resources like a giant Hummer.
More typical stars emit only a sleepy 10% of the sun's light. Using their nuclear fuel sparingly, they'll live almost forever. Many have been shining since soon after the Big Bang, and they'll still be alive ten billion years from now, long after our sun has metamorphosed into a frozen black dwarf.
These red dwarfs are more numerous than all other stellar varieties combined. Of the 100 nearest stars to Earth, 82 are of this type. Yet a glance upward reveals no trace of them. They're just too cool and dim. Even telescopes only detect the nearest examples.
So the night sky fools us with a false picture of the galaxy's stellar citizens. We merely see the lighthouses, the energy abusers. Truly typical suns, the thrifty ones, are utterly invisible, a hidden majority.
But the very coolest stars aren't even those common superfaint ones. For a really cool customer, you want a carbon star. A fine example lurks just below Orion, in the pretty constellation of Lepus the Hare. Its name is R. I'm not protecting its identity. R of the constellation Lepus, or R leporis, changes its brightness, and such unstable stars have letter-names. Cool? R is extraordinary. It's so stingy with its internal fireplace that it appears dramatically coal-red through any small telescope. In fact, finding it is as simple as sweeping a 'scope below Orion, along an extended line from the rightmost belt star through Rigel, until you come to a crimson star. Such stars are cool enough to be surrounded by water vapor. Steam.
Yet we still haven't reached the absolute cosmic extremes. The hottest thing anyone now living has ever seen was Supernova 1987A. I traveled to the equator to view it, a dim pinpoint that dominated its entire parent galaxy, emitting more light than a million suns. This was the only naked-eye supernova in three centuries. Supernovas are so hot that, like an alchemist's lab, lead and iodine are created out of lighter elements, a task even the hottest normal stars can't accomplish.
The other extreme, the absolute coldest stars of the night, are black dwarfs, not to be confused with black holes. But nobody sees them. They emit no light. You could lie on their surface and feel no heat. Staying warm could be a major problem. Imagine trying to light a campfire on the surface of a star? (A wonderful image, but not easy without an atmosphere.)
But we don't even have to go as far as the stars to find unpleasant temperature extremes. Venus, now beautifully dominating the evening twilight, bakes at a steady 900 degrees, hotter than an oven. Neptune's moon Triton, the coldest place in the solar system, shivers at a numbing -400.
And so it goes. No comfort zone. No room temperature anywhere in the known universe. The winter sky gives the appearance of a black frozen expanse punctuated by islands of fiery hell. And that's just how it is. It makes my own little outings into fire and ice seem a little more bearable. They're just a reflection of the larger universe, a momentary step away from the odd oasis of our comfortable Earth.


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Kaweah grew out of the International Workers Association (IWA) in San Francisco, a city that has spawned more utopian movements than any other location in America (especially during the 1960's). The IWA was a Marxist/socialist progressive labor group, largely influenced by Das Kapital, the Communist Manifesto, and Looking Backward, 2000–1899. Although Bellamy distanced himself from Kaweah and, like Marx and Engels, believed that social revolution was only viable on a national level and not through small communes, he did direct his most zealous disciples to Kaweah.
Most of the original members were skilled laborers and trade union representatives. One visitor said of the membership: "They are all perhaps without exception, intelligent, thoughtful, earnest, readers of books and journals, alive to the great economic and social questions of the day."
Kaweahans organized their economy on a time-check system with checks in denominations ranging from ten minutes to 20,000 minutes. They could be exchanged for money: five cents for ten minutes, 100 dollars for 20,000. All work was considered of equal value and healthcare was free.
The members set up a complicated system of government with hundreds of divisions to carefully divide work responsibilities. But it was this meticulous attention to rather inessential detail that proved to be Kaweah's demise. The people of Kaweah spent more time debating the finer points of Marxism then building the buildings and roads that would allow Kaweah to prosper.
The founders of Kaweah, Burnette G. Haskell and James J. Martin, envisioned a commune that supported itself by logging the sequoia forests. But the Kaweah Colony never got a chance to take advantage of this certain capital – in 1890 the United States government declared Kaweah part of the Sequoia National Park in an abrupt eviction of dubious legality.


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Well hello, dear readers, and welcome to your Monday Roundup. It looks like everyone had a pleasant weekend, because there was a lot of funny in the water today. Here are the highlights of that funny.
Favorites and Duds from Today's Commenting
Favorites, in no particular order:
In what was probably the twilight of SavetoFavorites' weekend acid-bender, our resident maniac penned a beautifully introspective scene in the morning's screen-grab. I really admire StF's self-awareness and calm deconstruction of the "amirite?" format into a moment of existential reflection.
Same Sad Echo put his foot down on the sarcasm pedal in the NCAA Football Trophy picture with a comment that Mark Emmert could be proud of.
In the Bumgarner-Posey story, Doc Holliday spun an excellent yarn around the fat Pablo Sandoval spool that yanked a big old cackle out of Your Curator.
RMJ=H demonstrated his attention to detail in the World Cup VIP list picture with this smart jab at LeBron James. ZING!
I liked SimulatedSnowman's simple rejoinder in the Maradona-Messi post, mainly because I also read that quote and thought "Diego is on that good shit."
Also in the Maradona-Messi thing, Milo Minderbinder twisted the same line for a bit darker, but no less funny, angle.
Ley's Götze Boat Boner headline and post are hilarious on their own merits, and I thoroughly enjoyed RogerMexico's photoshop with the WC trophy. Hilarious.
I'd like to imagine Raysism reading I still have a pager's line in the Runner-Hit-By-Lightning story and smiling inwardly to himself. That's some nifty wordplay.
Here's some quality "just asking questions" type of comedy from Madoffs Mets in the Jeter RE2PECT video.
A couple of favorites in the WC Pool post. I'm Dan, He's Casey—who has long had my favorite commenter name—offered up a historical cringer, while Fidrych or die tryin wrote a solid dick-joke.
One of my dad's favorite things to say when confronted with a silver linings type of situation is, "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?" Which was the first thing that ran through my mind after reading Utah Jazz Hands' fictive text messages in the Hernandez-Belichick story. What's so grotesquely funny about this comment is that it totally reads like a Belichick deflection. And the precision in formatting! Just wonderful stuff, UJH. This is your Comment of the Day.
And now we come to the Fake Chicago Shootings Ledes. Like the original Schiano Man or Todd Haley posts, pyramidal joke threads and come-one-come-all situations are where Deadspin's commentariat thrives. Go back and look at all of those! I'll give my favorites, and I implore you to leave your personal preferences in the comments. First up, pkellen2313 invoked one of Your Curator's favorite movie lines for hilarious effect; next, BlindOwl went with a more straightforward, point-and-grunt delivery; rhythm method also chose the ham-fisted route; and finally, Curtis Wenis' submission brought an audible "hooooo boy" out of me. Really great stuff, all around, people. Kudos.
I really love when people leave comments about how they hate the content on Deadspin. Like, for instance, DelBocaVista, who released his bowels all over the afternoon's LeBron Scoop thing.
HUGE day in Commentland. Look at all those favorites! This one was fun to write, y'all. Drop your favorites and complaints below, and enjoy the Homerun Derby.


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October 23, 2007
Something Money Can't Buy
By CLYDE HABERMAN
Like all labor disputes, the one-day strike by taxi drivers yesterday turned on tangible matters, in this case credit card machines, global positioning systems and the like. But it was also about an intangible, something that cabbies often feel they are denied. It is called respect. It is called dignity.
"It's 100 percent about respect," said Jahangir Alam, one of a couple of hundred drivers who rallied in protest yesterday outside the Lower Manhattan offices of the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission. "There's no respect for cab drivers. As a driver, you have no control. It's like I'm a slave."
Mr. Alam's feelings were shared by others at the afternoon rally. Again and again, the two words — dignity and respect — came up in conversations and in labor leaders' speeches.
"They never go to the drivers to ask what we want," John McDonagh said of city officials. Mr. McDonagh said that he has driven a cab on and off since 1977. He gives the job a rest now and again, he said, "to reclaim my humanity."
It will be left to others to decide whether the strike was the unqualified success claimed by its organizers or the dismal bust preferred by City Hall. Either way, New York's technophilic mayor seems unlikely to change his mind about the new gizmos that he wants in taxis.
It was hard to see how effective any work stoppage of preset length could be; most New Yorkers can survive without taxis for 24 hours and not break into cold sweats. The drivers were also not helped by the de facto strikebreaker role that City Hall played.
To help maximize taxi availability, it allowed drivers who worked yesterday to charge special rates that gave them more money than usual. Those rates amounted to "a bribe" for scabs, said Graham Hodges, a history professor at Colgate University who was once a cabby himself and recently wrote "Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver" (Johns Hopkins University Press).
"The people who do this job are desperate," Professor Hodges said. When an incentive like yesterday's special fares comes along, "you don't have to be a Marxist to understand that that will breed strikebreakers."
Obscured by the to-ing and fro-ing over the new machines is a more basic point, namely that many drivers feel like serfs, and maligned serfs at that.
Recent immigrants for the most part, they perform a tough, lonely duty that few native Americans want to do anymore — even those Americans who are perpetually out of work. "These people work like sharecroppers," said Edward G. Rogoff, a Baruch College professor who has studied the taxi industry. "They take the risk. They do all the worst work, and relatively speaking, they don't get much reward for it."
What they get instead is a steady diet of being portrayed in corners of the press as nothing but fare gougers. They are the butt of lame David Letterman jokes. They run into the borderline racism of a tabloid column that referred contemptuously last week to a generic "crazed, Tagalog-speaking cabbie." They put up with slanderous labels like one slapped on them in 1998 by the Giuliani administration, which called them "taxi terrorists" for daring to assert their right to protest city policies.
They endure brain-numbing innovations that only City Hall suits can devise, like those maddening Elmo messages of a few years ago, the ones that screamed at passengers to buckle up and take their belongings.
Now we have a new requirement that drivers accept a credit card system that forces them to pay an unheard-of 5 percent fee on each transaction.
They must also install, at considerable expense, G.P.S. technology that is in no way designed to help them navigate city streets. What it can do, in the spirit of Elmo, is blare enough commercials all day long to make anyone batty. If these devices malfunction, as some inevitably will, drivers must get them fixed fast or find themselves effectively forced off the road.
Granted, some cabbies are their own worst enemies. They could win a lot of friends by paying more attention to passengers and ditching their cellphones, which far too many of them use while driving, in violation of city rules.
But a more fundamental concern yesterday was those two little words. They kept surfacing, as they did in a speech at the rally by Ed Ott, executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council. "This is never about money," he said. For the drivers, he said, "we demand dignity and respect."
I couldn't have said it better myself.


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Emily Badger
Emily Badger is a former staff writer at CityLab. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
Don't lie: Sometimes you're afraid of the bus. Bus route information is pretty uniformly awful. You don't know where the stops are. If you do know where the stops are, you don't know when the bus will come. Or, if a bus does come and you manage to get on it, you're not quite sure where it'll take you. Or – worst of all – you're standing on the corner where you know the bus is supposed to come, it finally appears on the horizon – at last! – and then, for whatever reason, it rumbles past without you. This corner, on this day of the week, heading in this particular direction, is bypassed during express service.
This is basically why the field of Transportation Demand Management exists. Just because a city has extensive transportation options to move everyone around without a car doesn't mean people will use them. Any one of those fears is enough to make you think, "it's easier if I just drive."
"There is that saying 'build it and they will come,'" says Tom Fairchild, who works in the Arlington County Commuter Services office. "And that will only get you so far. There's also a lot to be said for bringing people there."
Arlington County, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., has managed to take 40,000 car trips a day off of the county's roads through its TDM programming (transit hand-holding, you could call it). That doesn't mean that they've reduced car traffic by adding more bus routes or building out more bikeshare stations. They've eliminated these car trips with their existing infrastructure just by making it easier for people to use it.
Since 2010, the office has built up a kind of R&D lab, which Fairchild directs, where a small group of programmers has been trying to figure out how to use technology to close that convenience gap between driving your car and using absolutely any other alternative. Mobility Lab, and its Transit Tech initiative, has a lean start-up philosophy that's almost unrecognizable in a government bureaucracy.
The lab wants to collaborate with unusual suspects outside of government. It's willing to play with ideas that may not pan out. And it's putting its inventions – so far, a kind of live transit-tracking billboard and a motherlode of all transit phone apps – on the street before they're really ready for a ribbon-cutting.
That whole mentality comes naturally to the open-source software developing community, if not a traditional municipal agency.
"Governments and open-source software development have been moving closer together over time," says David Alpert, the lab's product development manager (and, incidentally, the blogger behind the popular local planning site Greater Greater Washington). None of these projects would work if transit agencies weren't freely providing their own internal tracking data. "Agencies are just putting this data out there and being sort of willing to have it there without necessarily knowing or controlling what people do."
The lab has taken some of that data and created a web and mobile app called Transit Near Me that tries to make sense of all that chaotic bus information. Washington's routes, for example, look daunting on a single map:
So how to make that information usable? Mobility Lab has played with the idea of a Spider Map, a geographically distorted image that zooms in on your immediate neighborhood while also illustrating the full reach of relevant bus routes that pass through it. This is what such a map would look like for the H Street neighborhood in Washington:
Courtesy: Peter Dunn, Stone Brown Design
Transit Near Me deploys a similar model, while also layering on top of it real-time data on the next bus or train arrival.
The lab also wanted to create the ultimate dream for wayward bus travelers (who may or may not have a smart phone): a live sign projecting arrival times. Many train systems already do this. But bus stops are outdoors, and it would be prohibitively expensive to run electricity to them and to build electronic displays that could withstand the weather. The lab invented instead a low-cost computer display, built out of cheap consumer-grade hardware, that could be hosted instead in coffee shops, bars and retail. The signs are designed to face the sidewalk from inside a store window, or to serve customers inside the kinds of places people linger anyway.
The sign is programmed for each location and combines live data feeds from local bus, train, and bikeshare systems. Today, you could see a screen displaying something like this at a test coffee shop in Arlington or a bar on H Street:
Eric Fidler, one of the Transit Tech fellows, spent considerable time just trying to figure out the layout on the screen (because even details like that matter when you're trying to help people over their transit phobias).
"Auto companies spend huge amounts of money to hire designers just to design a little volume knob," Fidler says. Local governments don't have that kind of cash, but he thinks good design can help ease people into transit. "It's like, well, we have to compete with Toyota and Ford and GM in their quality of graphic design, so we have to take this very seriously."
Mobility Lab envisions that one day shop owners would be willing to foot the bill for the hardware once they perfect the software, since the idea has a potential downwind economic impact. Wouldn't you buy one more round of drinks if a monitor over the bar could assure you that you still have 20 minutes to spare before the last bus home?
What do we know so far about the types of places that are more susceptible to the spread of Covid-19? In the U.S., density is just the beginning of the story.
The short-term rental market is reeling from the coronavirus-driven tourism collapse. Can the industry's dominant player stage a comeback after lockdowns lift?
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.
Despite Covid-19's spread in New Orleans, police have recently increased arrests for nonviolent crimes. Louisiana's top court could put a stop to that.
Renters in apartments and houses share more than just germs with their roommates: Life under coronavirus lockdown means negotiating new social rules.


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UU-Matter is created in a Mass Fabricator. The more power provided to the Mass Fabricator, the quicker it will produce UU-Matter. Inserting Scrap in the bottom slot of the Mass Fabricator will speed up the process of creating UU-Matter by up to 6 times, as well as decrease the EU cost to 166,666. It takes 1,000,000 EU to generate one UU-Matter without Scrap.
UU-Matter can be used to craft many different vanilla blocks and items, plus many modded/unobtainable blocks and ores, including Iridium Ore, which can be only obtained by crafting it from UU-Matter.
Aside from Iridium Ore, the uses of UU-matter are undermined when used along side of the Equivalent Exchange mod since most blocks made by UU-matter are more easily made in Equivalent Exchange. However, this should in no way discourage players from using UU-matter.
When used with Equivalent Exchange, Glowstone blocks are the most EMC efficient item to craft, granting 2048 EMC per UU-matter. It is possible to create floating Lava lamps and Water decorations since Lava and Water are produced as source blocks and won't flow when placed. However, avoid updating the blocks as they will start flowing.
Recipes (Alphabetical Order)
(Note:If you are making a recipe like grass or sand, it does matter whether or not you use a crafting table. The Crafting Table is needed to make all UU-Matter recipies.)
Coal Worth 2560 EMC, 853.3 per UU-Matter
Copper Ore Worth 850 EMC (if macerated), 283.3 per UU-Matter
Diamond Worth 8192 EMC, 910.2 per UU-Matter
Gold Ore Worth 8192 EMC (if macerated), 1638.4 per UU-Matter
Iridium Ore Is not worth any EMC
Iron Ore Worth 1024 EMC (if macerated), 204.8 per UU-Matter
Lapis Lazuli (Dye) Worth 7776 EMC, 1994 per UU-Matter
Redstone Worth 1536 EMC, 384 per UU-Matter
Tin Ore Worth 2560 EMC (if macerated) 853.3 per UU-Matter
Chiseled Stone Brick Worth 48 EMC, 9.6 per UU-Matter
Clay Worth 768 EMC, 153.6 per UU-Matter
Glass Worth 32 EMC, 8 per UU-Matter
Glowstone Worth 12,288 EMC, 2048 per UU-Matter
Grass Worth 16 EMC, 8 per UU-Matter
Mossy Cobblestone Worth 2304 EMC, 768 per UU-Matter
Mycelium Worth 24 EMC, 4.8 per UU-Matter
Netherrack Worth 16 EMC, 5.3 per UU-Matter
Obsidian Worth 768 EMC, 192 per UU-Matter
Sandstone Worth 64 EMC, 32 per UU-Matter
Snow Worth 4 EMC, 2 per UU-Matter
Stone Worth 16 EMC, 16 per UU-Matter
Wood Worth 256 EMC, 256 per UU-Matter
Wool Worth 576 EMC, 192 per UU-Matter
Misc Items
Bone Worth 4608 EMC, 1152 per UU-Matter (If macerated: 7680 EMC, 1920 per UU-Matter)
Cactus Worth 384 EMC, 64 per UU-Matter
Cocoa Beans Worth 4096 EMC, 819.2 per UU-Matter
Feather Worth 1536 EMC, 384 per UU-Matter
Flint Worth 128 EMC, 25.6 per UU-Matter
Gunpowder Worth 2880 EMC, 411.4 per UU-Matter
Ink Sac Worth 384 EMC, 76.8 per UU-Matter
Snowball Worth 4 EMC (after crafting into blocks), 1.3 per UU-Matter; or 16 EMC if Compressed, 5.333 per UU-Matter
Sticky Resin Worth 504 EMC, 126 per UU-Matter
Sugar Cane Worth 1536 EMC, 256 per UU-Matter
Vines Worth 24 EMC, 8 per UU-Matter
Tips and Tricks
- If you want Diamonds, it is better to use 5 UU-Matter to create Gold Ore. Then macerate them into Gold Dust then smelt them to make 4 Gold Ingots Then use the Philosopher's Stone to make them into a Diamond. Its cheaper than the Glowstone/Condenser trick by 1 UU- Matter.
- Instead of crafting Iron Ore blocks, you can craft tin. After Macerating and smelting the Tin, craft Buckets and then use an Alloy Furnace to convert the Tin back to Iron. This method will yield more Iron than crafting Iron Ore, but is a bit more time consuming. For instance, if you had 150 UU-Matter to spend, you could get 120 Iron Ingots directly (4*150/5, assuming you macerated the ore). You could also get 480 Iron Ingots, even considering the UU-Matter cost of the coal, also assuming that you macerate the tin ore.
- An alternative to the above is to smelt the ores (or macerate, then smelt) then use a Transmutation Tablet or a condenser to turn the tin into iron since they are both worth 256 EMC. This is much faster.
- If you only have a small supply of UU-Matter, use it to create items that are difficult or impossible to obtain normally such as Grass blocks, Mycelium blocks, Lava and Water. Lava and Water differ from buckets because Lava and Water will not 'spread' and will float in midair unless updated (by placing a block next to it). These also stack up to 64. Another advantage to water source blocks is that you can place them in the nether.


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Natural gas storage is a critical component of gas markets worldwide. The accurate valuation and trading of gas storage contracts is a key challenge faced by many organizations who wish to extract maximum value from these facilities and understand their associated market risks.
In this webinar, you will learn how MATLAB can be used to develop valuation and risk assessment strategies for gas storage contracts as well as develop insights into their behavior.
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Ameya Deoras is a senior application engineer at the MathWorks with a focus on the Finance & Energy industries. Prior to joining the MathWorks in 2008, Ameya undertook graduate research in computational gene prediction as well as robust speech recognition, both involving building statistical models for pattern recognition on large datasets using MATLAB. Ameya holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Nokia recently released the much-awaited Symbian Anna update for the Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01 and Nokia E7 smartphones. This update is currently available only in 15 countries, including India. The Symbian Anna update is available via Over-The-Air (OTA). You can also download the update using the latest version of Ovi Suite (version 3.1.1). But, if you don't have a computer or an active internet connection, then you can just head over to your nearest Nokia Care Center or Nokia Priority Partner and get the Symbian Anna update for free.
Nokia's Symbian smartphones are used by millions of people around the world every day, addressing specific consumer needs and providing choices at many price points,said Ilari Nurmi, Vice President at Nokia. India. Symbian Anna represents a significant update to the experience those users have and demonstrates our ongoing commitment to Symbian, which will see up to 10 more phones introduced over the next 12 months, further updates to the user experience and support for the software until at least 2016.
Symbian Anna key features:
- Virtual portrait QWERTY for fast, one handed typing
- Split screen view while typing; so you can see message threads, webpages, contacts or email
- An easier to use and faster browser, delivering quicker page loads and improved navigation
- Refreshed Nokia Maps including simpler search, new public transportation routes and the ability to check-in to Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare or local social networks
- A feature to share your location via email and SMS (even to non-Nokia phones)
Features for business users:
- Instant messaging and presence with Microsoft Communicator Mobile
- E-mail enhancements including full meeting request support
- True business grade security with hardware accelerated encryption
- Easy and secure intranet access for business users who want to access their company intranet
Nokia India finally offered something useful for the Nokia smartphone users. We hope that, the Symbian Belle update will also be available for free in the coming months at the nearest Nokia Care Center and Nokia Priority Partner. To learn more about this update and get the complete list of countries, head over to this page.


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Stand-your-ground the rule in state, courts affirm
The stand-your-ground doctrine, which has vaulted into national prominence with the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, isn't limited to the two dozen states that have passed laws since 2005 expanding the right to use deadly force in confrontations.
It's also the rule in California, by court decree. For more than a century, the state's judges have declared that a person who reasonably believes he or she faces serious injury or death from an assailant does not have to back off - inside or outside the home - and instead can use whatever force is needed to eliminate the danger.
The California Legislature has never enacted one of the National Rifle Association-sponsored laws, pioneered by Florida in 2005, that spell out the rights of a defendant in such confrontations and the procedures for applying them in court. But in California, the judicial rulings had much the same effect. The rulings are binding on state courts and are reflected in judges' instructions to juries in cases involving claims of self-defense.
The instructions say a person under attack is even entitled, "if reasonably necessary, to pursue an assailant until the danger of death or great bodily injury has passed. This is so even if safety could have been achieved by retreating."
Most states had similar rules until 30 or 40 years ago, when some passed laws barring a claim of self-defense outside the home if the person could have fled safely, said Andrea Roth, a UC Berkeley law professor. She said almost all states still allow the use of deadly force against home intruders.
"California's law perpetuates the old frontier rule," she said. "This is not some new brainchild of the NRA."
The Florida law, however, contains a major pro-defense feature absent in California and other states: a pretrial, nonjury hearing in which a judge, after considering the evidence, decides whether it's more likely than not that the defendant acted in self-defense.
If so, the judge must dismiss the charges. In California, such factual disputes must be resolved by a jury.
In the Martin case, a judge will have to decide whether it was more likely than not that George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who fatally shot the unarmed 17-year-old in a gated community in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26, reasonably believed he was in danger from Martin.
"That hearing is the big difference," said Marty Vranicar, assistant chief executive of the California District Attorneys Association and a former Los Angeles prosecutor. "A jury's going to be deciding that in California. ... I have often had more luck presenting my case to 12 fact-finders than to an individual bench officer."
There are also differences in the legal culture of California and a state such as Florida, where self-defense rights have been broadened by the Legislature, said Robert Weisberg, a Stanford law professor.
Passage of such a law is "a signal to the courts that the overall legislative intent is to be extremely deferential to defendants who claim self-defense," he said.
The laws also have a different practical impact, said Adam Winkler, a UCLA law professor, because it's easy for Floridians, including Zimmerman, to get a permit to carry a handgun, but much more difficult in California. That disparity may affect the number of stand-your-ground homicides in states with permissive gun laws, he wrote in a recent article, although studies are conflicting.
But even Californians who illegally carry handguns can invoke the stand-your-ground doctrine, as shown in a 2005 ruling by a state appeals court in Santa Ana. The court overturned the attempted-manslaughter conviction of Lenard Rhodes, who shot and wounded a man who he said had approached his car with a gun.
Although Rhodes could have driven off - and although he was a convicted felon who had no right to possess a gun - the court said he "had the right to defend himself, stand his ground and use the amount of force reasonable under the circumstances." Because the jury was not given those instructions, the court said, Rhodes was entitled to a new trial.
Differences in California, Florida
Differences in the stand-your-ground laws in California and Florida:
-- Florida's 2005 law was passed by the state Legislature. California's legal rules are a product of court decisions dating to the 19th century.
-- Florida entitles the defendant to a pretrial, nonjury hearing at which the judge must dismiss the charges if the evidence shows it was more likely than not that the defendant was acting in self-defense. In California, such factual disputes go to the jury.
-- It is much easier in Florida than in California to get a permit to carry a handgun, which affects the number of cases covered by the law.
Stand-your-ground jury instruction
CALCRIM 3470, the instruction given to juries in California cases involving a defendant who says he or she acted in self-defense because of a reasonable belief that he or she was in danger of death or serious injury:
"He or she is entitled to stand his or her ground and defend himself or herself, and, if reasonably necessary, to pursue an assailant until the danger of death or great bodily injury has passed. This is so even if safety could have been achieved by retreating."
Bob Egelko is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. firstname.lastname@example.com


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Combine Pro-life, anti-environmentalism, and Dominionist Christianity with the idea that every unfertilized egg is a murdered child, and boom, you have the Quiverfull Cult.
Also if you've seen the Duggars, they're Quiverful--they get free healthcare from the government thanks to an arranged term of representation in the government, and they've declared themselves as a church, so they get $66,000 back in taxes every year, and they pay exactly zero taxes in.
On top of that they practice the "blanket method" of training where they beat their infants if they crawl off a blanket, as well as punish children for not appearing happy all the time.
on top of that Jim-Bob and many other quiverfull dads use their sons for free labor in businesses like construction or mechanics, while the daughters are all used for free housework, domestic chores, education, and do everything from cooking to laundry for all the younger children--the mother only cares for the youngest until she has the next baby, and then at about 1 1/2 years old it's handed off to one of the daughters she's already had to be cared for. They're forced to be parents and work full-time jobs so their mother and father can "be debtless".
Also usually families are much worse off than them--the youngest usually sleep on the floor, the oldest on barracks/cots or often more than 6 to a room. Easiest way to grow a cult--don't recruit members, they might leave--raise kids, and when people criticize you, you can just claim that they're being intolerant while you refuse to let your daughters marry anyone but the man you choose for them.
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