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It's been so long that I've been wanting to write this weblog entry that I almost don't even know what to say anymore. So I'll be blunt: earlier this year, Behavior was fortunate enough to have been selected to redesign the online edition of The Onion. Our assignment: a major overhaul of the satirical newspaper's online presence from top to bottom, and to help their Web team open up the entirety of their online archives — previously subscription-only, now freely available to everyone, gratis. A huge undertaking.
That wasn't the whole of it though, as we were also enlisted to perform a comprehensive overhaul of The Onion's pop-culture review section, The A.V. Club, including a complete rethinking of the way that publication expresses itself online. It's never garnered the attention that the satirical content has, but the A.V. Club is sometimes my favorite part of the paper — in any given week, they run some of the most intelligent and engaging reviews you're likely to read on any new movie, album, book or video game.
We actually launched the A.V. Club several weeks ago — you can see it now at — AVClub.com — but wanting to keep things hush hush until both redesigns went public, we kept it mum. The Onion, by its nature, was more complex and more involved, and we've spent the intervening weeks working with their Web team to make the new site a reality at a pretty intense rate. And now, tonight, it's finally done; it launched earlier this evening and you can go see it at TheOnion.com.
The editorial staff told us that The Onion was at its funniest when it was deadpan and straight-faced; as a longtime reader, I concurred wholeheartedly. The design challenge, then, became somewhat more complex than creating a Web site for a weekly newspaper with a fairly low page count, but rather how to create a site that might pass for a legitimate news organization on the level of The New York Times or The Washington Post.
So an enormous amount of thought and energy went into determining a look and feel that was unflinchingly "newsy." The writers run jokes that make perfect sense in the context of the The Onion's print edition, but online, they threatened to compromise the pretense of The Onion as an almost plausible Internet news source — unless we treated them with just the right care. A lot of my original ideas of what an online news source should be were rightly shot down by the editorial staff — it was probably one of the toughest design challenges I've ever taken on because it was a first, furious exposure to satirical information design. None of my prior experience was quite like it.
If the results look suspiciously like a green version of The New York Times Online, it's because we spent a lot of time studying how the Gray Lady delivers news — but I like to think we were conscientious enough not to steal crassly. The entire design approach was built from scratch, including a fairly intense grid system at the heart of every page that is a direct response to the myriad requirements unique to The Onion: a singular mix of content types, past, present and future, and an influx of advertising inventory that finances the newly opened archives. (There's lots to say about the mechanics of this grid, and I'll write more about it in a forthcoming weblog post.)
All in all, it's a solution tailored expressly for the delivery of The Onion's particular kind of content — fake news — but I like to think that it would also make for a credible delivery platform for the delivery of any kind of news. Our design team at Behavior worked long hours and hard nights basically building an online news operation in miniature, and a lot of what we learned in the process would translate smoothly into "real" news organizations, I'm confident. In the end though, the litmus test of whether we did a good job will be whether or not the always hilarious articles that The Onion publishes continue to be hilarious — if we got out of the way of the writing, then we did a good job.
The redesign is fabulous! I've been drooling over the AV Club design since it went live, especially since it no longer looks like the ugly step-sibling of The Onion proper. Both are also far more useable than the previous incarnations. I'm green with envy.
Excellent! If only the NYT and WaPo did look like this.
However, I think I speak for the entire web standards community when I say I am disappointed in the lack of "streaming video that cannot be turned off".
Wow—I might have to start reading The Onion again; I don't know of a better compliment than that. Great job all-around, Khoi.
With the new professional look, lies are even more believable now. Great design for a superb site.
Thanks for doing an excellent job with one of my favorite sites…As a frequent reader, I can definitely say it's a HUGE improvement.
However, I do miss the font they previously used for the title of articles—to me that typeface is strongly associated with their identity. With all the sIFR already being done, why not on the article titles?
Thanks everyone! The Onion is so well-liked, I literally had knots in my stomach prior to launch, fearful of pissing people off with the redesign. So it's nice to get some positive feedback.
Michael B.: We originally wanted to use the Franklin Gothic Compressed that's so clearly identified with The Onion, because, unlike the A.V. Club where we were trying to reinvent a brand, here we wanted to be as true to the brand as we could. But the editors are actually trying to evolve the brand subtly and moving away from that font—this is a first baby step in that process.
Great work on the redesign, but it would have been cool if you mentioned that you are using Drupal (http://drupal.org) as your content management system.
Page fall down go boom! http://www.theonion.com/content/harvey/blog
The ads on that page are currently spitting out this error:
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I should clarify: Behavior did the front-end design and client-side code, and The Onion's very capable technical team implemented the redesign of the site. And yes, they went with Drupal and did a fantastic and incredibly fast job of bringing online years and years' worth of archived content in a very stable manner. So, hats off to them.
Very smart indeed Khoi. If there's one team who can produce such elegant grid design for such a wealth of content, then it's you and the team at Behavior. Congratulations.
congrats on the redesign!! i knew that this was a long time and coming so it's great to see the final outcome. you all did stellar work once again. i'll definitely have to read it more often!
Great work, Khoi. It's really nice!
I'll be curious to see what kind of response you get to the width of the layout. I thought ALA was able to pull off the 1024px-based layout because of it's target audience, but The Onion presumably has a much more general group of readers. I wonder how many people will required to scroll horizontally and how they'll react to that.
Again, great work! :)
Nice work, Khoi! This redesign efficiently organizes a ton of information and succeeds in emulating a legitimate online news source.
My one complaint is that the section heads on the homepage don't really stand out, and their use of sIFR seems arbitrary and unnecessary. At that size (8px), the nondescript sans-serif you used can barely be distinguished from Arial, and sIFR prohibits the browser from resizing the text, obscuring the distinction that much more. Also, for some reason, the subheads under Daily Updates in the right column (QuickPoll, Onion Radio News, etc.) aren't selectable. Under these circumstances, I just thought the use of sIFR was kind of a head-scratcher.
It's just disappointing that the sites you had to emulate are so poorly designed; crowded navigation, confusing hierarchies, unnecessary pagination…I understand the motivation to make this look "normal", but just like the Daily Show, I've always expected the Onion to be a little bit "better"...both design and content.
Rob: The subheads in the right column aren't selectable, you're right. We're using background-images to get the same effect as sIFR there, partly because those labels won't change nearly as often as the ones rendered with sIFR. But they're still semantically correct—take away the style sheet and they'll show up as regular H3s.
The sIFR can be construed as a bit superfluous, I agree, but I think it serves a small and important part in making the page look a bit customized. Especially for users whose screens don't anti-alias the typography, it adds a nice extra bit of high-touch to the design at relatively little cost.
Still, one of the truly great things about sIFR is that, if it really does start to look more and more superfluous as the site grows, it's very easily removed. SIFR's impact on the XHTML markup is truly minimal—we can get rid of it with very little effort if it becomes a problem. For now, though, I quite like it.
The new site is way more professional-looking. I am really impressed with it. I especially like the decisions to tease the horoscopes and american voices, and to make the quick-graphic headlines at the bottom clickable/enlargeable.
I read it at 800x600, and the grid actually does a good job of making the rightmost column cut off okay and the info architecture doesn't have me h-scrolling back to the left once I'm done with that part and moved onto the cutoff part.
Khoi, did you work with the team in Madison, WI? A few years ago, I was a web intern there and I moved a bunch of the archived content into their home-grown CMS.
Great job! Now if only real news sites would get on the ball.
Bless you.
I've loved the Onion ever since living in Chicago, we've been reading it for free, for years—and one of my huge complaints was the poor look of their website, and blocking their archives.
Congratulations to Khoi, the Behavior team, and the Onion—it's a fantastic redesigned, highly welcomed.
Great job, though for some reason those charming Big Flash Ad's don't render in Firefox-"Deer Park".
AVClub is awesome.
Wow, Khoi, nice work. And I can imagine the effort involved, you should be very happy with it. I really like what you did with A.V. Club also, very clean and well organized.
VERY impressive redesign. I want to make clear that I like what you've done very, very much.
But I'm curious about the seemingly random validation errors that occur throughout the source—primarily capitalized tags and unquoted attributes. They really do seem out of place because it looks like you're really shooting for standards compliance in other places.
Okay, just ignore my second paragraph above. Somehow I missed your mention of these issues in your post. Duh…
Warren: Yeah, it's a little complicated. As I should have mentioned in the body of the post (rather than in a comment, as I did above) is that The Onion's technical team were responsible for the back-end.
They're a talented and very capable staff… Web standards just aren't their number one priority. I mean, they literally moved a mountain to get this work done, so it's easy to forgive them for not properly capitalizing some tags. We hope to work with them to get the situation rectified, though.
There is just way too much stuff on those pages
The sIFR and the site in general are great! Excellent work. Don't listen to Rob. He's the one who held Meatspace Stan against his will and forced him to become part of that Virtual Stan abomination.
Oh yeah, and he kills puppies too.
Listen, those puppies had it coming. And Mike D. is just jealous because his attempted spin-off Virtual Mike was universally panned.
I can breathe again!
Zeratsky: Yeah, the Madison team did the Drupal work, etc.
Warren: Rest assured, when the pages left Behavior's offices… there were no validation errors! ;) I can prove that too! hehe.
I'm happy that it came out of the CMS in one piece… complete validity would of just been icing on the cake ;)
This is hot. I'm not sure I can handle any more of these great redesigns in the near future.
I think it's amazing that so much information could be presented in such a readable way.
Great job, Khoi, and congrats on (once again) being a part of some of the best media on the planet.
Have you looked at the site in Firefox with Adblock enabled? Why are all the headlines popping up with adblock tags? Makes the whole page look junky. Everyone (and I do mean everyone) I know that uses Firefox uses adblock. If you have not seen what the page looks like, I strongly suggest you do.
My personal opinion is that the entire page (and site) should be blank if you are trying to circumvent the economics of providing free content, but that's another discussion for another day.
I just checked out the site with AdBlock enabled, and yeah, there are a few weird AdBlock tags but it's not really hindering the look too much. Combine that with the fact that probably about 1% of the Onion's audience uses a combination of Firefox and AdBlock (just a guess), and it just doesn't seem like a huge deal to me. By the way, we worked with the FlashBlock people to gracefully degrade sIFR to plain text… we also talked to the AdBlock people but I think I neglected to follow up with them. Perhaps I should do that, just for kicks.
In the meantime, perhaps you communists should think of why it is that you're getting The Onion for free and then maybe choose to whitelist the list in AdBlock and support their great work… I kid, I kid. No flames necessary.
Chet: just wait and see what the next year or two have in store for you on the Web! It's gonna be awesome!
Worked nicely earlier today, but now am getting a "403 Forbidden" when I point browser to http://www.theonion.com/
Growing pains?
It looks very nice—I don't recall ever seeing the previous incarnation of it, so I don't have previous experience. A link to theonion.com/ doesn't work, but adding on content/index fixes it all.
Heh.. heh.. I knew I was passing that complaint off to the right man!
I remember when I stumbled across the Onion a year or two ago—thought it was a legit news source for a while. I was pondering why the mainstream wasn't reporting the same content as the Onion did. Censoring Corporate News fools! I laughed my arse off when I finally realized the truth.
What happened to the Onion in History? That was some of the best stuff.
Great work, also-four-letter-first-name friend.
i am wondering how you all feel sIFR compares to dynamic text replacement using PHP. pros? cons?
Was it this redesign that broke the A.V. Club for AvantGo downloads recently?
This part of The Onion no longer works. It shows only a few headlines, and when you click on the only remaining link to a column, you get a MySQL "invalid query" error.
Good work kids. I had recently unsubsribed you from my rss because it was becoming trite. I am now resubsribed.
Just a factual correction, but the Onion archives were for years open to all. Until a year or so ago when some genius decided people would pay $29 for content you could get for free before or from a $9.99 book at Borders. Great to see that someone at The Onion pulled their head out of their butts and peeled away this premium stuff.
If you force links to be underlined (because, yes, fancy designers know that the best sites make it hard to find links), the front page looks GODAWFUL. Truly a terrible design.
I'm just going to try and be polite here and say that I certainly respect anyone's opinion to deem our work "God awful" and "truly terrible." And I have no trouble with you voicing your opinion here on this blog. But please, have the courage to include your real name and your real email address.
Don't worry about the flamers, Khoi. I learned long ago that the world is made up of many different kinds of people. It is impossible to create a web site that will satisfy the visual design needs and information design needs of 100% of the users out there.
I think the new design is fantastic and was happy to play a smal role in helping the team choose Drupal as the CMS platform. My only complaint about the new site is the choice of using SIFR for headlines. It seesm extraneous and unnecessary, especially since the font you're rendering in SIFR is very much like a standard Helvetica or common sans-serif font. I think using CSS to render these (with the system's version of Helvetica; san-serif) would be a lot less cumbersome and solve the problem of those users who have Flash disabled in their browsers (a growing number).
I think SIFR is a fantastic technology, but like every other technology available there are times when it should be used and should not be used.
I was immediately delighted to see the new layout, which I find superior to most online newspapers. When I sit down with an offline newspaper that I love (the WSJ for instance) I find it convenient to browse the entire newspaper looking for items of interest. While there is an obvious hierarchy of elements, the individual elements aren't each screaming to distract my attention from every other element. Many online newspapers treat me like an MTV refugee and I despise them for it. Your new Onion (and indeed, the NYT) treat me with respect, and I'll return the compliment by returning again and again.
Great looking site. Congratulations. Unfortunately I'm also an Adblock user and it does look pretty bad with all the blocking and sifr/adblock tags (and yes, I do have the onion whitelisted).
But I'd really caution against concerning yourself too much with an ever changing and in some ways questionable extension. Having some sites broken is a small price to pay for getting rid of so much other clutter; for me that is.
Also, I wouldn't get tempted to view all us adblock folks as representative of the larger audience. Most people will see it as it's supposed to be, which is really nice BTW.
PS. The AV club looks great with or without adblock. Thank god that site was finally redone.
Mike: If you have The Onion whitelisted, you should be seeing no AdBlock tabs. You can also turn off AdBlock tabs pretty easily as well. I have been in contact with the AdBlock developers recently and in the next release of the extension, the tabs will be turned off by default. Apparently they can cause other problems unrelated to sIFR.
Oops. I keep confusing FlashBlock with AdBlock. I don't believe the current release of AdBlock allows whitelisting.
The simple solution is to pull up your AdBlock preferences and just block "*sifr.js". As I said in the previous comment though, the next release will have the tabs off by default so this issue will continue to shrink.
On AVClub's article detail pages for Features and Interviews, why does the 'Recent Reviews' list display links to a seemingly random group of articles from other sections? Outside of Features and Interviews, it seems you got it right and the 'Recent Reviews' list is composed of links to articles within that section.
This is probably just another case of OnionTech being overwhelmed and not getting their q-q-queries right—a thankless job.
Both sites do indeed look great.
Broken JavaScript bleeding through.
So, after taking the time to learn how to actually use the Adblock extension (turned off obj-tabs in the settings and figured out how to correctly whitelist sites) I can see the site the way it was intended. An important lesson in RTFM I guess. I feel dumb…
in theory the site looks very nice, but the (over) use of flash seems insane to me. besides adBlock making the site look ugly there are issues of accessibility, which to your credit seems to be largely taken care of.
as for the ethics of adBlock, I'd turn around and pose the question of whether people should be forced to watch annoying flashy ads to view *any* content. I could go much further on the subject but it doesn't seem appropriate.
the point is lots of people I know use adBlock and a good number of people i know hate flash, so I think you are underestimating the number of people who will be turned off by this design, one that could have been done just as nicely without flash.
Is it just me or is everyone getting link errors when clicking on the text links in the Sponsor box towards the bottom of the page?
I'm a long time reader, and I don't care for the redesign. Problems:
-The width. It is too wide; way, way too wide. Four columns is insane, and I see this trend becoming more pervasive on the web. Why? What's the benefit of such wide sites? It forces users to scroll more, or expand their browser to see it all.
-The content is too densely packed; there's no focus on the primary stories, as each blurb fights for attention. The overall effect is of a vat page of words..not content.
I understand the motivaton was to make it more "newspaper-like", but the fact is, web content is NOT the same as print. Our eyes can quickly scan printed material laterally, but in a browser its more tedious. You should have emulated ONLINE news sites, not print. Take CNN.com for example, it has a clear hierarchy of news, and is a comfortable width.
I realize my opinion here is meaningless (I can't imagine you'll go back and make the site narrower, or at least make some columns variable), but I had to vent. I really disklike reading the onion now; it doesn't feel fun anymore, for some reason.
I've been wondering, although apologies if this has been answered somewhere in the comments, just how did all the archives become freely available? How did they manage?
I've found that printing out articles in Safari, Firefox and Netscape 7.01 doesn't retain the formatting on the printed page i.e. one page will become two because the text doesn't wrap around the first image correctly.
A pity and it'd make the site perfect if it could be solved.
Way, way too busy. I'm overwhelmed by the site. The NYT site is great because it's much simpler. Bigger fonts, less info! please!
The redesign is great - well thought out and consistent. The site looks really inviting, it feels like reading more and more, every single article. Good job!
In general the redesign is great, but propably it will look more attractive if you change the colours. But this is only my point of view.


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A noted pacifist, Dickinson protested Britain's involvement in World War I. His essay on the Covenant from the Treaty of Versailles (The Future of the Covenant, London: League of Nations Union, 1920) helped shape public opinion towards the League of Nations.
His schooling included attendance at a day school in Somerset Street, Portman Square, when he was 10 or 11. At about age 12 he was sent to Beomonds boarding school in Chertsey. His teenage years from 14 to 19 were spent at Charterhouse School in Godalming where his brother, Arthur, preceded him. He was unhappy at the school, although he enjoyed seeing plays put on by visiting actors, and he played violin in the school orchestra. While he was at Charterhouse, his family moved from Hanwell to a house behind All Souls Church in Langham Place.
In 1881 he went to King's College, Cambridge as an exhibitioner (scholarship student), where his brother, Arthur, had again preceded him. Near the end of his first year he received a telegram informing him that his mother had died from asthma. During his college years, his tutor, Oscar Browning, was a strong influence, and Dickinson became a close friend of fellow King's College student C.R. Ashbee. Dickinson won the chancellor's English medal in 1884 for a poem on Savonarola, and in graduating that summer he was awarded a first class Classical Tripos.
After traveling in the Netherlands and Germany, he returned to Cambridge late that year and was elected to the Cambridge Conversazione Society, better known as the Society of Apostles. In a year or two he was part of the circle that included Roger Fry, J. M. E. McTaggart, and Nathaniel Wedd.
With financial help from his father, Dickinson then began studies for a medical degree, beginning in October 1886 at Cambridge. Although he became dissatisfied with his studies and nearly decided to drop out, he persevered and passed his M.B. examinations in 1887 and 1888. Yet he finally decided he wasn't interested in a career in medicine.
In March 1887 a dissertation on Plotinus helped elect him to a fellowship at King's College. During Roger Fry's last year at Cambridge (1887-1888), Dickinson, a homosexual, fell in love with him. After an initially intense relationship (that according to Dickinson's biography didn't include sex with Fry, a heterosexual), the two maintained a long friendship. Through Fry, Dickinson soon met Jack McTaggart and Ferdinand Schiller.
Dickinson then settled down at Cambridge, although he again lectured through the University Extension Scheme, travelling to Newcastle, Leicester, and Norwich. His fellowship at King's College (as an historian) was permanently renewed in 1896. That year his book, The Greek View of Life was published. He later wrote a number of dialogues in the Socratic tradition.
But we must not think that Dickinson lived the detached life of a stereotypical Cambridge professor. When G. K. Chesterton chose contemporary thinkers he disagreed with for his 1905 book, Heretics, the focus of Chapter 12 was "Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson." There he notes:
Chesterton goes on to suggest that Christianity has so altered our civilization, that we can never return to Paganism:
Finally, Chesterton closes with a suggestion:
Dickinson was a lecturer in history from 1886 to his retirement in 1920, and the college librarian from 1893 to 1896. Dickinson helped establish the Economics and Politics Tripos and taught political science within the University. For 15 years he also lectured at the London School of Economics.
In 1897 he made his first trip to Greece, travelling with Nathaniel Wedd, Robin Mayor, and A. M. Daniel.
He joined the Society of Psychical Research in 1890, and served on its Council from 1904 to 1920.
In 1903 he helped to found the Independent Review. Edward Jenks was editor, and members of its editorial board included Dickinson, F. W. Hirst, C. F. G. Masterman, G. M. Trevelyan, and Nathaniel Wedd. Fry designed the front cover. Over the years Dickinson contributed a number of articles to it, some later reprinted in Religion: A Criticism and a Forecast, (1905) and Religion and Immortality, (1911).
In 1929, the Talks Department of the BBC invited him to give the first and last lectures in a series called "Points of View". He went on to give several series of BBC talks on various topics including Goethe and Plato.
E.M. Forster, by then a good friend who had been influenced by Dickinson's books, became his literary executor. Dickinson's sisters then asked Forster to write the dead man's biography, which was published as Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson in 1934. Forster has been criticized for refraining from publishing details of Dickinson's sexual proclivities, including his foot fetishism and unrequited love for young men.


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Expensive Government Study Confirms Sixth Estate's F-35 Cost Estimate
You read it here first, on Sixth Estate: the F-35 jet fighter will cost $48.7 billion. Well, almost, anyways. The government spent a great deal more than Sixth Estate earns from this blog (presently zilch) getting a world-class accounting firm to estimate the cost for them. It turns out that the cost will be $45.8 billion. The difference is probably something to do with estimating the costs of weapons and upgrades.
Basically, we can buy the F-35, or we can put a colony on the Moon. Obviously the first is more important.
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December 8th, 2012 at 9:46 am
Too bad they didn't listen to you or a lot of other people a little earlier.
However, I guess they thought they could just "tough it out" and if when the jets finally arrived and they were "a wee bit" over projected cost, that could easily be slipped under the carpet. One wonders, however, why the Defense Department didn't start developing some alternatives as this problem grew?
And an amusing article in the G&M that manages to completely ignore the whole "accountability" issue:
December 8th, 2012 at 4:00 pm
It's Steve Harper's own Avro Arrow fiasco and damn but doesn't it look good on him. We'll probably be saving a good many pilots' lives by ditching this single-engine sub-performer in any case.
The nonsense about this being a 50-year warplane was the biggest con of them all. It will probably be obsolete before it reaches peak production in 2019.
I'm pretty sure the Chinese and the Russians are hoping everybody gets saddled with the F-35. It would make their long-term planning a whole lot easier.
December 8th, 2012 at 5:16 pm
I guess we're going to rehash our discussion from my last post on this.
You make a fair point, but if the official plan calls for using the plane for 40 years, then it's deceitful to publish a costing plan that assumes you're only using it for 20. It's got to be consistent, one way or the other.
December 8th, 2012 at 11:03 pm
drone wars have begun they have.And you want to buy f35.?haha
December 9th, 2012 at 7:44 am
Things can be reviewed at this post at the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute's "3Ds Blog", note last link:
"F-35: The Canadian Conservative Government's Lost Crusade"
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December 9th, 2012 at 8:59 am
Thanks, Mark.
December 10th, 2012 at 12:04 am
I'd like to nominate Harper for the honour of being put on the Moon. One way, obviously.
December 10th, 2012 at 8:40 am
Actually I've been thinking he would be a good leader for this:
Maybe we can convince him to join up.
December 11th, 2012 at 10:09 am
All the ongoing B.S. about the cost is it 9 bil, 20 bil, 40 bil, or even 50 bil is beside the point. The main thing is that it is useless for Canada's needs. It can't patrol and protect our longest coastline on the planet and IS NOT a fighter or interceptor. It is an under-performing Edsel that lacks speed, maneuverability. self-contained navigation and is lacking in defensive or offensive armament except for the ability to carry a bomb or two.
Mainly, indeed only, it is a manned short range missile useless for anything other than US/NATO foreign legion attacks on reasonably protected airspace and vulnerable even at that because once the fuel tankers and AWACs are taken out, and they are both easy targets, the JSF-35 can't even return to base, though maybe the invaded target city would let them land to utilize the scrap metal!
December 13th, 2012 at 9:30 am
[...] life on the airframes would be miraculously free of charge. That was the main rationale behind the official Sixth Estate estimate for the fighters, which had $48 billion looked almost dead on relative to the newest [...]


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Cards clip Generals; Lions roar again
MANILA, Philippines - Mapua shut down Cameroonian double-double machine Noube Happi as it walloped Emilio Aguinaldo, 80-55, to resuscitate its dying Final Four hopes in the 88th NCAA basketball tournament at The Arena in San Juan.
In the featured match, reigning champion San Beda hung tough enough in the stretch as it turned back archrival Letran, 68-62, to cling on to the solo lead.
Arthur Dela Cruz and Baser Amer fired 14 and 12 points, respectively, to seal the Lions 10th win against two losses while sending the Knights to their sixth defeat against the same number of wins.
Rookie Mark Brana came through with 15 points, Kenneth Ighalo, Mike Parala and birthday boy Gab Banal scattered 12, 10 and 10 points, respectively, while Josan Nimes did everything in a near triple-double performance of nine points, nine rebounds and seven assists to help the Cardinals move to sixth spot with a 5-7 (win-loss) slate.
It was, however, Mapua's rock-solid interior defense centered on the 6-7 Happi that proved critical as the Cameroonian big man was held to just nine points (three-of-19 shooting), just eight boards and his season worst eight turnovers.
Going into this game, Happi averaged 18 points and 14 caroms.
"We had a defensive game plan on Happi and I'm happy it worked," said Mapua coach Chito Victolero.
With the defensive screws tightened, the Cardinals dominated the Generals early on and led 18-9 at the end of the first quarter and 43-22 at the end of the first half.
And it was garbage time from there.
Sophomore Remy Morada, a former Energen Pilipinas standout, tried to carry the fight for EAC as he led the team with 16 points but Happi, playing his worst of the season, could not provide the backup power the team needed.
The scores:
First Game (Srs)
Mapua 80 – Brana 16, Ighalo 12, Parala 10, G. Banal 10, Nimes 9, J. Banal 6, Eriobu 6, Saitanan 6, Cantos 2, Chien 2, Magsigay 2, Stevens 0, Abad 0
EAC 55 – Morada 16, King 11, Happi 9, Paguia 5, Yaya 4, Munsayac 4, Monteclaro 3, Pillas 2, Jamon 1, Tayongtong 0, Chiong 0, Sanchez 0, Acerbon 0
Quarterscores: 18-9; 43-22; 59-32; 80-55
Second Game (srs)
San Beda 68 – Dela Cruz 14, Adeogun 12, Amer 11, Dela Rosa 11, K. Pascual 8, Caram 8, Villaruz 2, J. Pascual 2, Ludovice 0, Koga 0, Lim 0
Letran 62 – Racal 14, K. Alas 14, Cruz 11, Cortes 10, Kr. Alas 6, Luib 3, Belorio 2, Almazan 2, Lituania 0, Gabawan 0
Quarterscores: 17-21; 43-32; 57-51; 68-62


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Harvard-Westlake's doubles play, led by Harrison Kalt and Dylan Eisner, was strong enough Thursday to hold off an impressive effort from Viewpoint's singles lineup in a nonleague boys tennis showdown at Valley College.
Eisner and Kalt swept their sets, with George Noonan and Josh Rubin winning twice, along with Jaird Meyer and Jason Vranek, lifting Harvard-Westlake to a 73-69 victory on games after the teams played to a 9-9 result.
Darius Mackenzie swept his sets for the Patriots (2-3), who received two singles wins apiece from Julian Gordy and Jonathan Star. Sam Hummel captured two singles sets for the Wolverines (5-5).
Jeremy Wacker and Charlie Werman won twice in doubles for Viewpoint.
In other boys tennis matches
Campbell Hall 10, West Ranch 8: Gilbert Chung won three sets to remain unbeaten this season for the Vikings (4-0), who also received a sweep from Jacob Gerzenshtein.
Oaks Christian 15, Carpinteria 3: Gibson Parker swept his singles sets to lead the Lions to a Tri-Valley League victory.
Phillip Morton and Andrew Tennant, along with Bryan Lee and Nicholas Gazzera swept their doubles sets for Oaks Christian (3-1, 2-0).
Saugus 7, Los Lunas (N.M.) 1: Brandi Burgin struck out nine and allowed three hits for the Centurions at the Mohave Tournament of Champions in Arizona.
Maddy Jelenicki homered, Rachel Shotzbarger scored twice and had two RBIs, Taylor Kister added a hit and drove in two runs, with Ty Cueva collecting a hit and an RBI for Saugus (3-1).
Chatsworth 10, Heritage Christian 0 (5 inn.): Elexa Hernandez pitched a no-hitter to lead the Chancellors to a victory at the Lincoln tournament.
Kaitlin Ryder was 3 for 3 with two doubles and two RBIs for Chatsworth (6-0). Jenna Koziol was 3 for 3 with a double and three runs scored for the Chancellors.
Valencia 8, Mohave 0 (5 inn.): Sydney Mundell threw a no-hitter with 10 strikeouts to lead the Vikings (4-2) at the Mohave Tournament of Champions in Arizona. Wendy Cardinali went 3 for 3 with a home run and Ally Johnson added two hits and two runs scored.
West Ranch 7, Granada Hills 0: Lexi Sorensen pitched a one-hitter, striking out nine to lead the Wildcats. Miranda Escalera was 3 for 4 with a triple for West Ranch. Charlotte Romero also was 3 for 4 with an RBI and one run scored for the Wildcats.
Canoga Park 7, SOCES 0: Holly Johnson threw a one-hitter with 10 strikeouts to lead the visiting Hunters in a season-opening win.
Sidney Winstanley hit a two-run homer in the second inning and Savannah Wiles had a two-run triple in the sixth for Canoga Park, which got two hits and an RBI from Sandra Hernandez.
Boys volleyball
Verdugo Hills 3, Poly 0: Joe Arechiga had 23 kills to lead the Dons to a 25-11, 25-17, 25-17 East Valley League victory.
Carl A. Hernandez had 11 digs and Marc Cuyugan contributed 37 assists for Verdugo Hills (1-0, 1-0).
Campbell Hall 3, Bosco Tech 1: Jake Howard had 17 kills and Hunter Rudnai had 13 digs to lead the Vikings to the 10-25, 25-17, 30-28, 25-21 nonleague win.
Taylor Maxfield added 23 assists for Campbell Hall (2-1).
Oak Park 3, Carpinteria 0: Woody Cook had 10 kills to lead the Eagles to a 25-14, 25-11, 25-6 Tri-Valley League victory.
Craig Lamb had six digs and Brendan Parks added 26 assists for Oak Park (4-0).
Taft 3, Carson 0: Alfred Corrales had 12 kills for the Toreadors in a 25-23, 25-23, 25-18 season -opening victory.
Steven Shneir added eight digs and Shahriar Tahvilian recorded 26 assists and four blocks for Taft.
Cleveland 7-3, Crespi 2-2: Steven Perez pitched a three-hitter, striking 13 to lead the Cavaliers. Matt Del Mundo walked, sacrificed to second base and stole third. Del Mundo scored on a error by the shortstop to scored the winning run in the top of the seventh for Cleveland (4-3).
In the opener, Jack Hartman pitched a four-hitter, striking out 10 and Del Mundo was 2 for 4 with three stolen bases for Cleveland.
Quartz Hill 16, Desert Christian 1: Konner Arnold pitched four shutout innings in addition to hitting a grand slam for the host Rebels (4-2) in a tournament victory.
Jagger Ruffins was 3 for 4 with a double and a pair of runs for Quartz Hill, which plays Paraclete at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Antelope Valley College.
Heritage Christian 7, New Community Jewish 1: Tanner Marcoe was 2 for 3 with two triples and two RBIs to lead the Warriors. Adam Jelloian was 1 for 3 with a double for Heritage Christian (6-2). Zach Miller was 2 for 3 with a double and one RBI for the Jaguars (1-1).
Palisades 5, Taft 3: Sophomore Matthew Parent pitched a complete game for the Toreadors in the loss.
Jayson Newman and Stone Hanson both drove in runs Taft (1-5).
Village Christian 8, Arleta 6: Jesse Hanckel was 2 for 3 with a double and an RBI to lead the Crusaders at the Royal tournament.
Brad Wetherby was 1 for 3 with an RBI and two runs scored for Village Christian (2-2-1). Carlos Desantiago was 3 for 4 with a double and two RBIs for Arleta (2-3).
St. Francis 5, Pasadena 4: Anders Schraer went 2 for 3 and had two RBIs and Andres Kim had a single, a double and scored twice for the Golden Knights (2-2) in the Arcadia Elks tournament.
Concordia 11, Pilgrim 0: Matt Jardim was 3 for 4 with a triple, double and three RBIs to lead the Cougars to a Omega League victory. Jason Apodaca was 2 for 4 with a run scored for Concordia (1-1). Jardim, Daniel Roldan and Apodaca combined to pitch a one-hitter, striking out 16.
Boys golf
Harvard-Westlake 194, St. Francis 197: Bakari Bolden shot 1-under 36 for the host Wolverines in the Mission League win at Balboa Golf Course.
Adrian Burger and Jeffery Aronson carded 39s for Harvard-Westlake (2-0).
Oaks Christian 409, Hart 433: Peter Griffith shot a 1-over 73 for the Lions at Valencia Country Club.
Tim Weaver had an 80 and Matt Walling recorded an 82 for Oaks Christian (3-1). Paul Schneider and Kyle Del Valle had 85s to lead Hart (1-4-1).
Girls swimming
Louisville 98, Harvard-Westlake 69: Toni Corbin won two events to lead the Royals (2-1, 1-0) to a Mission League victory.
Corbin won the 200-yard freestyle in 2:04.34 and the 500 freestyle in 5:28.69. Brittany Donowho won the 200 IM in 2:28.95 and the 100 breaststroke in 1:14.48 for Louisville.
Boys track and field
Alemany 84, Harvard-Westlake 42: Dominic Davis won the 200 meters in 23.03 seconds and the 400 in 52.87 to lead the Warriors (1-1) to a Mission League victory.
David Manahan won the 800 in 2:03.49 and the 1,600 in 4:35.53 for Harvard-Westlake (0-2).
Girls track and field
Harvard-Westlake 72, Alemany 55: Lizzy Thomas won the 800 in 2:30.54 and the 1,600 in 5:26.65.to lead the Wolverines (2-0) to a Mission League victory.
Skylin Harbin won the 100 high hurdles in 15.06 and the 300 low hurdles in 46.00 for Alemany (0-2).


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Information Centre Manager
Employer:Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
Published:Thu 02/08/2012 23:59 PM
Closing date:Thu 23/08/2012 23:59 PM
Working pattern:Full Time, Permanent position
Salary:£20,858 - £27,849 per annum
DBS check:No
Joseph Leckie Academy, Walstead Road, West, Walsall, WS5 4PG
Tel: 01922 721071 Fax: 01922 641497 Principal: Mr Keith Whittlestone
Required for September 2012 (or as soon as possible thereafter); a dedicated and customer-focused individual for the position of Information Centre Manager. This position has a particular emphasis on customer service and will include:
- Connecting students with library, local, community and national information, resources and services
- Use of automated information systems, databases and other technology for a range of processing and service tasks
- Use of the Library Management System
- Maintain collections using established procedures and systems
- Promote the development of reading and literacy skills for information and recreation and take a lead in creating a whole-school environment which encourages reading for pleasure
- Manage a study environment for both curriculum-based and independent learning. This involves the management and integration of both physical areas and virtual learning environments to create positive learning spaces
- Manage and promote a wide range of resources in a variety of formats, traditional and electronic, and where appropriate, the equipment to access them
- The ability to provide direct services to students and staff from the Academy as well as from external agencies
- Assist with other Academy activities and promotion
Applicants must have relevant customer service experience; although a library qualification is not essential. They will have a good general knowledge with an interest in teaching and learning, study skills, reading and current affairs. You will have:
- The ability to motivate and inspire students and stimulate curiosity, interest and enjoyment in studying, information retrieval and reading
- Creative problem solving skills and a professional approach
- High expectations of students and the determination to help raise student achievement
- Team skills and a desire to make a difference for all users of the Information Centre
We can offer you excellent resources, excellent support and professional development opportunities and friendly staff.
Joseph Leckie Academy is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of students and candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced CRB check.
Further details available from the college website: www.josephleckieacademy.co.uk
Applications forms to be received by 12.00 noon on AUGUST 24TH 2012 via
Interviews will take place week commencing: SEPTEMBER 3RD 2012
Other Attributes
- Keywords: centre, information, manager
- Sector: Education/Academic
- Occupations: Educational Services, IT/Telecoms, Educational Services
- Location: Walsall


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ONCE UPON A TIME - "Heart of the Truest Believer" - Series star Michael Raymond-James (Neal) reacts pretty happily to having an arrow so close to his face.
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Chennai, Nov 5: A Harley Davidson motorbike worth Rs.20 lakh has been specially designed for actor Balakrishna for his upcoming Telugu political drama tentatively titled "Legend".
"Balakrishna will be seen riding a Harley Davidson bike in one of the songs. It has been custom-made especially for the song and it cost the producers Rs.20 lakh. He (Balakrishna) also chose the colour of the bike as yellow for personal reasons," a source from the film's unit told IANS.
Directed by Boyapati Srinu, "Legend" also features Radhika Apte and Sonal Chauhan in important roles.
The film, being produced by Anil Sunkara, Ram Achanta and Gopichand Achanta, is currently being shot in Vishakhapatnam and is likely to release during Sankranti next year.
This is Boyapati and Balakrishna's second film after Telugu blockbuster "Simha".


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Realty agency's FUNDay benefits public education
Allen Tate Realtors have raised $1.25 million for public education through their annual FUNDay fundraisers over the past 15 years. Since 1999, agents have paid to participate in FUNDay activities like tennis, tailgate competitions, cake walks and silent auctions, among others.
For the past two years, Allen Tate has held two regional fundraisers that nearly 400 agents have participated in to raise more than $80,000. All proceeds benefit public education in Allen Tate communities.
In a statement, Allen Tate President and Chief Operating Officer Pat Riley said schools are integral to a community's quality of life. "For 15 years, our realtors have come together in the spirit of giving back to protect and preserve public education, so every child has an opportunity to be prepared and learn, and every teacher has the skills and equipment they need to help those children succeed."
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beside the naked guy(haha), dresswise, aum looks good. i've seen others who are sexy but i guess they don't get much attention. hmm, about aum, i think she's working really hard right now. i don't think it's wrong. if she has the opportunity and many people are asking her to do photo shoots, she should do it. it's her chance. u don't stay famous forever. but i agree sometimes she doesn't look that good in pics but she looks great in lakorns. the only pic i didn't like of her is the one where she's touching her breast.Originally posted by dingnoy
I don't know if u guys think the sam eas me, but lately i think Um is really degrading her image, she keep selling her sexy image, sometimes it looks bad. Heres some pic's tell me what u guys think!
kob and aum, they really have something going on huh? u see them everywhere. but for fans, i don't think they get tired of that. honestly, i cannot watch kob lakorns anymore (well just waiting for DD). don't want to offend u guys if like her, but i think she's overrated. her acting is not that great even though she's been acting for a long time. she's stiff; whenever i watch her lakorns she doesn't give me the feeling that it's real and not acting. and the fake kisses really bother me too like when they just show the heads moving! a quick peck on the lip is not that bad. i just don't understand how she's been in the ET business for awhile now and still don't get what professional do. it's just acting. she's not convincing enough to me; i need real hugs and real action. plus her lakorns are really boring now. my fave one was the reincarnation with saranyu. that was great. hmm u know i think b/c when i was watching her lakorns in the past, i was still young so i don't really notice all those stuff but now that i'm all grown up, i understand more what adults do.


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The brain, using a computer analogy, is our processor. It plays a huge role in determining how we think, how well we think, and how well our bodies function. Without the brain, we are nothing. So, it is important that we take good care of it and the essential fatty acids are one of the types of nutrients that we must get to ensure optimal brain function.
Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) and the Body
It's a well-known fact that the human body cannot synthesize EFAs on its own, and therefore, it has to be ingested. This is done via eating foods containing EFAs or taking supplements. Fish, shellfish and other meaty seafood have a lot of EFA goodness to offer. Parts of the brain are made up of EFAs and they can have impeded development or increased degradation without them.
Omega-3 and Omega-6 EFAs and Brain Development
One of the best ways to get Omega EFAs is through the consumption of fish and shellfish. Seafood is packed with them and while there is some concern over mercury contamination, the benefits far outweigh potential harm. It is assumed that it is absolutely safe for humans to eat seafood at least three times per week and it should be done.
One paper, published in 2000, even suggested that the essential fatty acids found in fish are so important to infant brain development that pregnant women should be encouraged to eat fish in the third trimester so that the infant gets the needed amounts. Another paper, published in 2005, indicated that infants born of mothers who ingested enough EFAs during pregnancy had "higher mental processing scores, psychomotor development, hand-eye coordination and stereo acuity at 4 years of age." The same paper also stated that kids who ingested enough EFAs between infancy and the age of 5 (a.k.a. the "formative years") may have a defense against forming ADHD while enjoying increased success in learning and academics.
Good for Kids, but What about Adults?
Adults can benefit greatly from foods containing EFAs. Just because adult brains are no longer in a critical stage of development, it doesn't mean that it's not important to maintain the brain and feed it. Not eating EFAs as an adult may cause faster brain degradation or an increase in those days we feel like we can't focus very well. It's been shown that eating seafood on those days may help repair focus issues. As far as the brain degrading more quickly, there is some evidence that ensuring EFA intake can help stave off and possibly treat dementia, Alzheimer's, and other brain-affected diseases.
Because EFAs help increase brain function in terms of neurotransmission (synaptic function) and prostaglandin (fatty acids that can act like important hormones) development, they are very important in any diet and it looks like they may be critical in future treatments of brain diseases under development. Because the best dietary sources of EFAs are fish like salmon, it is good to know which cooking techniques maximize the benefits.
The more a fish is cooked and the higher the heat, the more fish benefits degrade. Eating fish raw, such as sushi or sashimi, ensures that the highest possible amounts of EFAs are ingested. However, this isn't always ideal for people. The next best way to cook it is with lemon or lime juice, as in a ceviche. That, too, is not preferable for many people. Steaming and oven cooking are the best ways for most to cook it. Avoid frying or deep frying as these methods destroy the EFAs enough that it's close to not ingesting them at all. If eating seafood isn't preferable, then consider taking supplements in order to ensure the body gets enough of them.
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giveitupliberals writes:
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It's always been my thought that if the cops would go away, there would be no standoff, the bad guys would get bored with no press coverage and give it up in a matter of hours. I think they feed off of the attention.
Thank god some people have more common sense then you do....
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