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Has Daylight Saving Time messed with your bedtime? Or perhaps the tumbling stock market has you tossing and turning past lights-out. Or maybe, just maybe, you can't sleep because of that "decaf" you ordered at dinner.
A long-standing debate among the caffeine-wary is whether decaf served in restaurants is actually what it's billed to be—or is really a cup of the high-octane stuff? Are you among the wide-eyed skeptics? Read on.
Do-it-yourself caffeine detectors called D+caf Test Strips will tell you if your beverage is—or isn't—the real thing. Just stick one of the tiny strips into a spoonful of coffee or tea (sans any milk or sugar, which eliminates drinks like lattes and sodas) and you'll have your answer in less than a minute, according to Discover Testing, which makes the strips. If the line above "D" (decaf) on the strip is darker, you're good to go; if it's darker above the "C" (caffeine), beware—your drink probably contains more caf than you'd like.
All decaf tea and coffee contain a sprinkling of caffeine (less than a milligram per ounce), but these strips purport to alert drinkers if there are more than 20 mg in a six-ounce serving. For some perspective, a Starbucks "tall" (12-ounce) decaf coffee contains about 20 milligrams of caffeine; its full-caf equivalent contains closer to 260 mg, according to the coffee purveyor's Web site. Discover Testing says that as many as a third of supposed decafs are phonies.
So how much will it cost you to sip in confidence? A box of 20 test strips will set you back $9.95 or just under 50 cents a cup.
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There's good reason to be concerned about consuming too much caffeine. Today almost no one knows just how much caffeine they actually consume every day. Why not? Because caffeine is in EVERYTHING! Beverage, food and pharmaceutical products have higher and higher concentrations of caffeine -- even chewing gum and potato chips! There's one energy drink that claims to have 1200 mgs of caffeine. Compare that to the 30 to 100 mg found in an average cup of coffee.
As a result, caffeine intoxication is a serious problem. The nation's poison contro centers and hospital emergency rooms are seeing increasing numbers of people sick with coffee intoxication. More than half are under 18 years old.
Ask an emergency room physician about it. They'll tell you that a symptom of caffeine intoxication is is nauseau, and then vomiting. Uncontrollable vomiting.The docs will also tell you that although hospitals have medication to stop symptoms of peopoe who overdose on other drugs, they do NOT have anty meds to stop vomiting due to caffeine. THERE IS NONE. And what happens to peoople who can't stop vomiting? They get really dehydrated -- not good -- and the following constant dry-heaves do no't help your blood pressure, your heart, etc.
You just gotta stay aware. The Ethic Soup blog has a good series of concise, informative articles on caffeine at:
Then share the information and stay away from energy drinks in particular.
Sharon McEachern
It is true that there's no definite way of knowing how much caffeine you consume everyday. You can only be aware of how much you "think" you know you're taking. Decaf Tea, unlike most people think, is not zero in caffeine. Although it has caffeine but not that much. One can only hope to regulate his caffeine intake and not eliminate it.
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November 15, 2012, 12:27 AM
By Tom Junod
Dan Winters
Published in the December 2012 issue, on sale any day now
"There will probably be a lot of people that die," says Elon Musk.
He is sitting at his desk, at the headquarters of his company of one of his companies SpaceX. He is eating. He is eating a plate of food that his personal assistant gave him. It is late, and he is eating to stay on schedule. He is a man of scrupulously developed politesse, and he worries that eating his scheduled dinner while completing his scheduled interview might give offense. It does not, because although he eats hungrily, he never succeeds in making his food look appetizing. On his white plate is a turkey leg, a sad bouquet of broccoli, a mound of black beans, and he eats them like an astronaut might eat his rations, with an air of hurried functionality, while talking about going to Mars.
Of course Elon Musk talks about going to Mars. He is famous for it. He has been talking about going to Mars for eleven years, and his desire to go to Mars preceded his desire to mass-produce electric cars at the other company he runs, Tesla. In 2012, SpaceX succeeded in twice sending a rocket of its own manufacture into orbit and twice linking a capsule of its own manufacture to the International Space Station, and Elon Musk succeeded in convincing some of those who have regarded him as a con man dependent on government largesse that he may yet become what one of his admirers calls the "Steve Jobs of heavy industry," if not the "Henry Ford of rockets."
Certainly, he has some of Jobs's instincts for both controlling every aspect of the companies he runs and for subjecting even his own need for control to the discipline of taste. It is impossible to sit behind the wheel of his Tesla Model S alongside one of the company's representatives without hearing that Musk designed the car's ingotlike rearview mirror himself and insisted that its dashboard have no buttons and an audio system with a volume control that "goes to 11." It is impossible to visit SpaceX's earbud-white headquarters in the featureless aerospace-dominated outskirts of Los Angeles without hearing that Musk also designed it that he picked the colors and the furniture, including the trash cans suggestive of rocket ships. He is even wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans as he eats dinner, and has just concluded a meeting in which all his engineers were wearing the same. What separates Jobs from Musk, however, is a matter of scale and stakes:
Steve Jobs made gadgets; Elon Musk is making cars and rockets. And though Jobs might have relished inspiring people to wait on long lines to avail themselves of his vision, he never dared speak of inspiring them to die.
Musk does. He has to; Mars is far away. Mars is tens of millions of miles away from Earth at its closest orbit and hundreds of millions of miles away at its most distant. It exists to the human eye not as a sphere but as a colored star, as part of the endless outnumbering firmament, as the nightly whispered message that we may not reach what awe inspires us to grasp. And so although Musk, as he eats, repeats the mantra that has won him not only investors and employees but followers he says that his goal is to "make humanity interplanetary" as a way of increasing the odds that human consciousness survives in the universe he has to admit the possibility that just as a lot of people had to die in order to settle the New World, a lot would have to die in order to settle the red one.
It is neither a decree nor a warning; it is, instead, a kind of invitation, stated with cool certainty. Musk is forty-one years old, with the face of a schoolboy and the manners the scrubbed affect of a surgeon. He has brown hair, reddish lips, and nearly hairless arms. He talks about working eighty to a hundred hours a week as often as he talks about going to Mars, but he is thick-legged and broad-shouldered and exudes physical health and power. He is often referred to as a "rock star" but maintains a studied sanity. If he is a rock star, he is one of the reasonable ones, like, say, Coldplay's Chris Martin. He laughs readily at his own most obscure jokes, smiles faintly in equal parts amusement and disappointment, and indeed acts as though only he can see the membrane that separates him from the rest of the world. Although it would be an exaggeration to say that there is something alien about him, it would be no surprise if he lifted his shirt and revealed that he had no navel.
Ever since he made his first fortune developing and then selling the Internet businesses Zip2 and PayPal, he has been capturing people's imaginations by presenting himself as a mythic figure by saying things like "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur." But he wants more than wonder. He is a man grounded not in fancy but in a sense of his own strength, and his unlikely dream of going to Mars has allowed him to realize practical ambitions much closer to home.
"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost," he says. "Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly." It is, in his words, entirely manageable "if America has the will."
And that is the key to Elon Musk. He has the will. "Elon is not afraid of breaking things he will break himself if he has to," says Justine Musk, his first wife and the mother of his five children.
He was not born in America, and yet when he was a very young man, he gave up everything to become an American. Now he wants Americans to be willing to give up everything in order to reclaim the one essential thing we've lost. He wants to make us once again "a nation of explorers" but first he has to find out what price we're willing to pay.
He grew up in South Africa without ever really considering himself South African. Like the rest of his family, he was just passing through. The Musks were a race nearly as much as they were a family, with a specialized awareness of themselves as wanderers and adventurers. Every Musk is able to tell the story of forebears whose accomplishments serve as an inspiration and whose energy endures as an inheritance a grandfather who won a race from Cape Town to Algiers; a great-grandmother who was the first female chiropractor in Canada; grandparents who were the first to fly from South Africa to Australia in a single-engine plane. "Without sounding patronizing, it does seem that our family is different from other people," says Elon's sister, Tosca Musk. "We risk more."
If the Musks had arisen from literature, they would come off as an unlikely combination of Salinger's Glasses and Faulkner's Snopeses a combination of insular giftedness and rude commercial energy.
"I have two brilliant children, but Elon's a genius," says his mother, Maye Musk. "I can explain Tosca and [Elon's brother] Kimbal pretty well. I can't explain Elon."
She was a dietitian and a fashion model; her husband, Errol, was an engineer and what a family member described as a "serial entrepreneur." According to Maye, they knew their oldest child was "advanced from the very beginning." He read continually, read not simply to amuse himself but to acquire knowledge, so they sent him to school early in Pretoria. "Elon was the youngest and smallest guy in his school," Maye says, and soon he found himself in conflict not just with other children but with what seemed like South Africa itself.
"It's pretty rough in South Africa," Kimbal Musk says. "It's a rough culture. Imagine rough well, it's rougher than that. Kids gave Elon a very hard time, and it had a huge impact on his life." Huge, Tosca says, "because there was no recourse. In South Africa, if you're getting bullied, you still have to go to school. You just have to get up in the morning and go. He hated it so much."
It turned out he had two recourses. The first was his family and his ability to think of himself as a Musk, and therefore as a kind of transcendent citizen rather than as a South African. The second was the advent of the personal computer. "He was on computers as soon as they were available to us," Tosca says. What distinguished him from the legions of other brainy put-upon children who found refuge in the digital universe, however, was his ability to put his digital identity at the service of his familial one. He had not only seen his father start businesses, after all; he had accompanied his father to Zambia, where Errol Musk had an interest in an emerald mine. "They'd go in a plane stocked with chocolate bars, because that's what the customs agents wanted," Kimbal Musk says. "You basically would give them chocolate bars, and they'd allow you to do business."
When he was sixteen, he tried opening a video arcade near his high school with Kimbal, who was a year younger. "We had a lease, we had suppliers, but we were actually stopped," Kimbal says. "We got stopped by the city. We couldn't get a variance. Our parents had no idea. They flipped out when they found out, especially my father."
Errol Musk was South African. He left his wife and his children when Elon was eight or they fled him and Elon to this day has what his brother says is "not the greatest relationship" with him. But he'd given them the curious gift of other places, taking them on annual trips intended to give them perspective on where they lived, and then the most curious gift of all: "My father was very strict," Tosca remembers. "So while everybody in South Africa had maids and servants, he'd have us play this game. It was called America, America, and when we played it, we'd have to do everything an American child would do. We'd have to clean the house, mow the lawn, do all sorts of American chores...."
Elon made his move after he graduated high school. Though he already felt like an American, he'd done research and concluded that it would be easier to obtain American citizenship as a Canadian immigrant rather than as a South African one. His mother was from Canada. Most of her family still lived there. "Elon went to visit my family and he never came back," Maye says. Kimbal and Tosca remained in high school in Pretoria, where they were not like their brother they were popular. But Elon used to practice hypnosis on them when he was a boy, Tosca says. "He wasn't very good at it. I'd be like, 'No, Elon, I'm not going to eat raw bacon.' But he kept on trying."
Now his beckoning the exercise of his will worked. One by one they followed him, first Tosca (who was then fifteen) and Maye, then Kimbal, then even his cousins on his mother's side. He robbed South Africa of all his family members with the exception of his father; as his cousin Lyndon Rive puts it, "They stayed in South Africa one generation, and then they left."
He handled getting them their citizenship between attending university in Ontario and sleeping on the pullout couch at Maye and Tosca's sublet apartment in Toronto. Then he moved to the U.S. to attend the University of Pennsylvania, and they followed him across that border as well. Ten years ago ten years after his arrival in the New World Elon Musk took the oath of American citizenship with thirty-five hundred other immigrants at the Pomona Fairplex, in a ceremony he calls "actually very moving." Tosca is the last of the family still an alien, and as she studies to become an American citizen, she has come to believe in Elon's ability to make her a Martian citizen, too. They all have. They are a family that has formed an unshakable consensus around one of its members. Tosca says, "Elon has already gone to the future and come back to tell us what he's found."
And what's most important is that before he had his fortune, before he even had many friends, he had he was born with his first followers.
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12:58 PM EST Fri. Oct. 19, 2012At channel conferences, vendor partner shows and here in the pages of CRN, we all espouse the characteristics of a good channel program: consistency, predictability, transparency and support from the very top.
A lot of vendors talk the talk, but few walk the walk. The one exception is Cisco.
Cisco has been selling predominantly through the channel for close to three decades. Eighty percent of its business goes through the channel, and it has always been a leader when it comes to forward-thinking and innovative programs. It was the first vendor to push technical specializations and, as VARs moved into these specializations, Cisco then evolved its programs and organized them around architectures. Remember, it was Cisco talking about cloud builders and cloud providers three years ago and, more recently, the company has been advocating for packaged solutions. Specifically, Cisco had the first major channel program for converged infrastructures and has been offering training and best practices around building professional services arms.
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In fact, within the past year Cisco has regained significant market share in switching/routing, wireless and security. As a reflection of channel confidence, Cisco had a particularly strong showing in our Annual Report Card awards this year. It proved the naysayers wrong and took the Midrange Servers win away from the traditional hardware manufacturers as its UCS offering swept the category. In all, Cisco earned 14 awards with other sweeps in Unified Communications and Enterprise Networking Infrastructure, and awards in SMB Networking Hardware and Network Security Appliances.
So it comes as no surprise that when we met with Chambers for an hour earlier this month, he was confident and more aggressive than in previous interviews. He touched on the competition, which he said is remarkably weaker now than it was two years ago. He mentioned Juniper's recent layoff announcement and seemed less concerned about Huawei as a threat to Cisco's hold on the switching and routing market.
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The bank has the largest market share in terms of deposits and loans, and in an environment of excess liquidity and low interest rates profited from increases in credit demand.
Assets at the bank have risen to about $47 billion, from approximately $46 billion in 2010, and net profit after taxes of $1.2 billion is up from approximately $1.1 billion in 2010. Its return on average assets climbed to 2.51% from 2.43% while its return on average equity stands at 16.0%, compared to 15.3% in 2010.
Growth has come from its real estate and vehicle market lending as well as credit card-related technology developments. Banks able to improve their informational systems and curb operational costs can make up for revenues from private operations, says Moody¹s analyst Alexandre Albuquerque a fact that¹s also positive for margins.
Mortgage lending continues to thrive, he says , and is the only market segment where the outlook remains solid. The credit system grew 3.1% nationally to March, driven by the real estate market, which went up by 9.8% first quarter. Business lending, by contrast, was 5.7% in June, and was down to 5.1% in July.
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³Most of the concern over the economy is due to the fact that prices in the energy sector are still going down,² says Albuquerque. Trinidad and Tobago is seeking to expand its oil and gas output to take advantage of strong demand for gas in South America, Europe and Asia.
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Quote:Originally posted by BYTEMITE: But Joss is probably going to change that, because River relationships sell.
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Quote:Originally posted by BYTEMITE: Unfortunately, money is all the bean counters understand. So I'll keep buying the Serenity comics in the hopes that eventually something I like may be produced, until they become truly offensive or nauseating.
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Quote:Originally posted by BYTEMITE: You know, normally I don't like easy fixes like "Earth is still okay and they can just leave the Alliance behind and be happy." But it occurs to me that there is a potential here for a tragically cruel scenario where the cryogenics fail and the crew have to decide which of them should remain awake to manage the equipment while the rest sleep, thus that person will be gone by the time they reach earth. It'd be like Out of Gas, exponential. In fact, I'd go with Mal just so Out of Gas can be foreshadowing.
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Quote:Originally posted by BYTEMITE: ...You realize we're talkin' Joss here? At best all we can hope for is bittersweet. But, it's not really his role, but I guess Jayne can save them. I'd be willing to compromise on that maybe, seeing how this is a hypothetical scenario.
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Quote:Originally posted by MarKomi: Okay... Now a part of me's glad the series ended where it did.
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Quote:Originally posted by two: I'm would not send Serenity comics to Earth until the comics are over, finished, ended at issue #120. That would be ten years, which is more than enough. Between now and then, Mal needs a direction or he meanders and the comics follow him. Earth is a direction. River was a direction, before the movie. The comics haven't been going anywhere for years because Mal doesn't have anything to do except eat, sleep and fight. That isn't enough purpose for a middle-age adult and his comics.
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Quote:Originally posted by m52nickerson: . . . Firefly was basicly the story of Mal and the crew just making a living. I think that aspect is what made the show standout.
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Quote:Originally posted by two: When I watched Firefly, "just making a living" did not describe what I saw. The Train Job was about sociopath Niska, Bushwhacked was Reavers, Shindig was dueling, Safe was zealots burning at the stake, Our Mrs Reynolds was sociopath Saffron, Jaynestown was sociopath Jayne, Out of Gas was the hallucinations of dying Mal, etc. I liked watching Mal steer his ship around crazy people. Not one of those stories was about making a living, but "just making a living" reminds me of what the writers are doing with the recent comics. Those comics are lacking ambitions to get ahead in the world.
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[edit] Accessories[edit] Nintendo GameCube ControllerThe Nintendo GameCube Controller is the standard controller for the Nintendo GameCube. It consists of several buttons, of many types. The Nintendo GameCube gets shipped with controllers capable of rumble effect. It also has a wireless controller called Wavebird Wireless Controller which uses two AA batteries and lacks the rumble function. These controllers can be used to play some Virtual Console games on the Wii, and is also one of the four controller types available in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii. [edit] ButtonsThe GameCube regained the and buttons from the SNES that the Nintendo 64 didn't have.
[edit] GameCube Action PadThe Nintendo GameCube Action Pad is a special controller for the Nintendo GameCube. The only Mario game it is used for is Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix. It has some, but not all, of the Nintendo GameCube Controller's buttons. [edit] Buttons
[edit] Nintendo GameCube MicrophoneThe Nintendo GameCube Microphone is a special accessory used for Nintendo GameCube games on the GameCube or a backwards-compatible Wii. It is unusual in that it is plugged into the Memory Card slot rather than the controller slot. It has been used in Mario Party 6 and Mario Party 7 as a tool for playing mic minigames and making Mic Spaces functional. As the mic was intended to be used specifically with the GameCube, it has not been compatible with any Wii games to date. [edit] Mario Party 6[edit] Mic modes[edit] Mic minigames[edit] Mario Party 7[edit] 1-player mic minigames
[edit] 4-player mic minigames[edit] 1-vs-3 mic minigames[edit] DK BongosDK Bongos are bongo-like controllers for the Nintendo GameCube, primarily for use with the Donkey Kong(a) series. Each side of the controller is shaped like a classic Donkey Kong barrel with a rubber drum skin fastened on top. It also has a built-in microphone to detect clapping (although hitting the sides of it also functions well). In the Donkey Kong(a) series, the DK Bongos detect left and right hits, and clapping. In Japan, the controller is called the TaruKonga (or "TaruConga") controller. The name is a multilayered pun, combining "Taru" (the Japanese word for "barrel"), "Kon", or "Con" (a suffix used by Namco when naming their original peripherals, such as the "GunCon", or the "TaTaCon"), and Konga (or Conga). The DK Bongos are also confirmed to be compatible with the Wii.[1] [edit] Games that use the DK Bongos
[edit] Appearances in Mario games[edit] Super Smash Bros. MeleeA GameCube is a trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee. The only platform in Luigi's Target Test is a GameCube. [edit] Mario Party seriesThough a GameCube doesn't actually appear in Mario Party 4, the Party Cube is a reference to the GameCube, and the rumble machine in the options screen is clearly based on the GameCube. Additionally, a GameCube can be seen inside the shops of Mario Party 6 and Mario Party 7, though not on the counter. [edit] Wario WorldOne of Wario's Treasures in Wario World is a Nintendo GameCube, found in a pink chest in Pecan Sands. [edit] Mario Kart: Double Dash!!The Nintendo GameCube battle course in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is just a GameCube. This Nintendo GameCube logo can also appear at the bottom of the word "Mario Kart" on the five pointed star in Mario Circuit and Sherbet Land. The logo can also be seen on the billboards at Mushroom City. [edit] Paper Mario seriesIn Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Lucky, the brown Bulky Bob-omb) that runs the lottery in the west side of Rogueport, will mention the GameCube's time when talking to him. In Super Paper Mario, Francis owns a GameCube which he keeps in his room with several other game systems. [edit] Super Mario 64 DSIn Super Mario 64 DS, the GameCube logo appears in the map of the castle garden. [edit] WarioWare: Touched!In WarioWare: Touched!, one of the falling objects during the credit reel is a GameCube logo. In the microgame Game On, a Nintendo GameCube, its controller cable and a game disc can be seen. [edit] Hardware Specifications
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ATLANTA -- On the fifth floor of the Fulton County jail, an intriguing experiment is underway.
"We want to provide ample evidence that this solution will work," said Chief Jailer Mark Adger.
He brought in 18 inmates with a history of popping cell locks to see if they could defeat a new high-tech design.
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I'm an utter sports nut. Well, a football, rugby and cricket man. Liverpool FC, Lamontville Golden Arrows, The Sharks, The KZN Dolphins and, on the international front, Bafana Bafana, the Springboks and the Proteas. Non-negotiable. Arguing with me about my choice of teams is like arguing with the ref after he's made his decision. And like Grand Prix racing, the Tour de France and that WWF malarkey – totally pointless.
So, we're talking sport this morning. Especially some not altogether widely-known trivia to do with South African sport. Fascinating stuff…
"When Vincent Tshabalala won the French Open in 1976, he became the first black golfer to win a major tournament on the European Circuit."
"Bob Hewitt and Frew McMillan won 57 career doubles titles, including three Wimbledon crowns. After teaming up, they played 45 matches before being beaten."
"Grant Khomo captained the National Soccer XI, won the SA singles and doubles tennis titles, represented Transvaal at cricket and rugby and captained the SA Bantu Rugby Board first team."
"Ernie Els was the first non-US golfer in 90 years to win the US Open twice, a feat repeated two years later by another South African, Retief Goosen."
"More than 50% of the world's paragliding records have been set in South Africa."
"Football (soccer) is South Africa's most popular sport and is followed by 78% of South African adults, according to an SABC Markinor survey in 2004. Rugby is next most popular at 47%, followed by cricket (39%)." Er, followed by wrestling (25%). Eish.
* Source material taken from Awesome SA\'s insanely interesting Awesome South Africa book.
* If you scroll up to your right on this page, you'll see a big fat badge saying something about the 2010 South African Blog Awards. I've entered your "diagnosed SA-positive" blog into three categories: Best New Blog, Best Personal Blog and The Kulula Best Travel Blog. I wouldn't be at all offended if you clicked on that there badge and nominated http://www.fredhatman.co.za in any of these categories (be sure to type in your e-mail address on the blog awards site for your nomination to be registered). In fact, were I to amaze all of us by winning something, the Birkenhead is on me down the Stanford Arms! Cheers!


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FnaticRC out of The Defense
29/06/2012: After a long and exciting game, FnaticRC have lost to mTw. Stay up to date with our team's progress, right here at this topic, the next match will be announced soon.
23/06/2012: The first official game against mTw has been postponed. The exact date is yet to be announced. However, we will now play Storm Games Clan on Monday at 21:45 CET.
25/06/2012: FnaticRC lost their first group match against the Slovakians in a best-of-one format. Our next match will be against the World Champions, Natus Vincere, on June 30, 2012 at 20:30 CET.
29/06/2012: Prior to the face-off against Natus Vincere, the much delayed match between FnaticRC and mTw will be played tonight at 21:45 CET. The asserting dominance of mTw, as seen lately and the uprising talent in FnaticRC will be worth watching. However, our home team will be playing without Jascha "NoVa" Markuse, who earlier announced his sudden departure from the organization.
FnaticRC take a fall against mTw in a nerve wrecking match-up, commended by both; players and community alike.
30/06/2012: FnaticRC take a fall against Na'Vi after taking an early lead into the game. Now we are up against NEXT.kz on July 5, 2012.
05/07/2012: FnaticRC register their first win against NEXT.kz in an interesting match-up. We face Team Empire in our last match of The Defense groupstage on July 8, 2012.
06/07/2012: The match against Team Empire has been postponed and will be played on July 9, 2012 at 19:00 CET.
07/07/2012: FnaticRC lose against Team Empire in the final groupstage match. This is the end of journey for FnaticRC in The Defense.
Fresh off from victory at DreamHack Summer 2012, our boys are gearing up once again to switch back their focus to Dota 2. The team has already given us enough reasons to be proud of them by lifting the coveted crown and winning DreamHoN for a consecutive fourth time.
Constantly juggling between Heroes of Newerth and Dota 2, we can now expect the team to resume their training in Dota 2 on a complete basis. Playing their first official match after DreamHack, FnaticRaidCall will go up against the DreamHack Dota 2 Champions, mTw in The Defense.
Teams | Played | Won | Lost |
Storm Games Clan | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Natus Vincere | 4 | 3 | 1 |
mTw | 2 | 2 | 0 |
NEXT.kz | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Empire | 5 | 2 | 3 |
FnaticRaidCall | 5 | 1 | 3 |
The Defense - Group 3 |
Be sure to check back for FnaticRC's results against other teams in Group 3.
Date | Time | Opponent | Winner |
June 29 | 21:45 | mTw | mTw |
June 25 | 21:45 | Storm Games Clan | SGC |
June 30 | 20:30 | Natus Vincere | Natus Vincere |
July 5 | 18:00 | NEXT.kz | FnaticRC |
July 9 | 19:00 | Team Empire | |
All times are in CET |
Stay tuned as we bring you upto date information of our team at The Defense.
Dota 2 roster:
Kai "H4nn1" Hanbueckers
Adrian "Era" Kryeziu
Johan "N0tail" Sundstein
Tal "Fly" Aizik
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Posted Jun 21, 2012 at 18:38
HH, Storm Game Club from my country, I don't even know that they're playin' DOTA 2 :D GL Guys !
Posted Jun 21, 2012 at 22:17
Team Empire to top, gl Fnatic
Posted Jun 29, 2012 at 06:24
good luck boys!
Posted Jul 06, 2012 at 12:40
So, so awesome seeing Trixi (perma pick up please) back with you boys! Keep it up!!
Posted Jul 08, 2012 at 00:05
You may be out of The Defense, but don't give up! You guys showed massive improvement with Trixi, so I'd like you guys to keep practicing. With enough dedication, I'm sure you'll be able to become a top team in Dota 2!
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I am little confused right now? Was the match against Team Empire postponed? I guess not then. Where I can see VOD's for that match?
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My Word: As long as there are humble MKs working to ensure a better quality of life for our children and protecting the environment for future generations, the Knesset can feel a moment of pride on its birthday, this Tu Bishvat.
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There should be double reason to celebrate in the Israeli parliament next week. The general elections are scheduled for January 22, and the Hebrew date of Tu Bishvat, which this year falls on January 26, marks not only the Jewish New Year for Trees but also the Knesset's birthday.
If the political maneuvering by the country's politicians is frequently embarrassing, the fact that this is the only parliament in the world that marks its anniversary according to the Hebrew calendar is a cause for pride.
It's hard to predict the composition of the next Knesset, although I doubt "pride" will be the first word I'll use when writing about it. Even the weather could have an impact. A rainy day might be good for the trees, but it plays hell with voter turnout. And this is Israel. It's not only the weather that swings from snow to sunshine within hours.
For instance, the massive missile attacks that preceded Operation Pillar of Defense in November – not to mention the missiles from Gaza aimed at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv during the mini-war – shot down the socioeconomic agenda. Try as she might, Labor leader Shelly Yacimovich can't get it back to where it was before the latest conflict. Tzipi Livni and Meretz leader Zahava Gal-On, meanwhile, are having a hard time telling Israelis that the top priority is to immediately kickstart negotiations with the Palestinians.
If there's one thing to keep in mind when it comes to Israeli elections it is that it ain't over until it's over. Following the elections, the real work begins – the political trading to try to create a broad and stable government.
In 1996, most of the country went to sleep on election night convinced that Shimon Peres would be the next prime minister and woke up to find that Binyamin Netanyahu had more votes. In the last elections, due either to wishful thinking or to political naivete, Livni gave a premature victory address.
Part of the problem is the system in which the president has to ask the party leader most likely to create a stable, viable coalition to form the next government. Another obstacle is that previous attempts at holding direct elections for prime minister only weakened the system.
Although the direct election system was rescinded in 2001, it remains in the minds of many voters who feel free to support the smaller parties on the assumption that the leaders of the bigger parties don't need their votes.
IF ANYTHING marks the Israeli elections this year it is the lack of ideology, the lack of leadership and, strangely, the lack of sectors. The Likud-Yisrael Beytenu merge symbolizes the end of a "Russian" vote; Bayit Yehudi incorporates National Religious Party motifs but does not see its main task as helping build more ritual baths and local synagogues; and Shas's poor showing in the political surveys also suggests it has lost its sectoral appeal.
The main exceptions seem to be the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox parties and the Arab parties.
Perhaps the move away from a sectoral approach marks a certain measure of maturity.
Eventually, we might even end up with something like two main political blocs.
The composition of the next government will be clearly influenced by the different needs of the various party leaders. Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid, for instance, more than anything else needs to gain ministerial experience. I wasn't surprised to hear him this week promising that he wouldn't accept the job of minister without portfolio: Apart from the very obvious (and unpopular) financial waste involved in maintaining an office and staff for a minister without a clear job, Lapid – a political novice – needs a ministry he can put on his CV.
Yacimovich has also been criticized for never having been a minister, but were she to be the official leader of the opposition, she would at least have a respectable position.
I have long felt that Israeli politics could benefit from having a British-style "shadow government."
Many opposition MKs, especially former ministers, find it frustrating not to be in power, and having a shadow government could provide them with a greater sense of purpose. When former Labor finance minister Avraham Shochat carried on monitoring the work of the Finance Ministry after he was no longer in office he seemed much more satisfied than most of his title-less peers.
Somebody like Livni would be far more productive were she to have a defined role. But whereas Yacimovich found her niche in social welfare and labor issues, Livni seems driven by the need to have a second chance at either leading the country or at least again being foreign minister. Yacimovich has her name on a host of legislation; Livni lost enthusiasm as a parliamentarian the minute she lost a ministerial office.
After every election, there is talk of passing the so-called "Norwegian Law," which would require MKs to leave their Knesset seats upon joining the government. This would mean ministers could concentrate on their cabinet-level responsibilities and it would bring more people on coalition party lists into the House.
In the current political environment, however, it is unlikely that ministers and MKs will vote on a measure that would so endanger their professional lives. When party leaders don't bat an eyelid as they announce at press conferences that they themselves are switching from one party to another, those under them know their ministerial jobs and fortunes can quickly change.
It wasn't that long ago that Defense Minister Ehud Barak quit the Labor Party he led to establish the Independence list – a list that didn't even survive to these elections. And it's worth recalling that the date of the elections was influenced by Kadima head Shaul Mofaz's 70-day stint in the coalition.
In May, the country nearly went to early elections over the Tal Law and calls to end the mass exemption from IDF service for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students. Mofaz's maneuver stalled those polls, but in October Netanyahu announced he was bringing the elections forward because of failure to agree on the 2013 budget.
If the last government couldn't agree on the budget it's hard to imagine how the next one will fare, especially following news of the unexpectedly large deficit. But politics, as they say, makes strange bedfellows. To put it crudely, it's not about love between partners but about the price one side is willing to pay and what the other side is willing to do.
Unfortunately, the most memorable moments of the last Knesset were rarely its loftiest: The image of Israel Beytenu MK Anastasia Michaeli throwing a glass of water at Israeli-Arab MK Ghaleb Majadle springs uncomfortably to mind and seems determined to linger there. Nonetheless, there are hardworking parliamentarians across the political spectrum and we shouldn't throw cold water on their achievements. Orly Levy-Abecassis, another Israel Beytenu MK (and, it's almost obligatory to note, like Michaeli, a former model) quietly and relentlessly worked on children's welfare issues, while on the far Left, Hadash MK Dov Henin also worked on children's rights and gained a name for his environmentally friendly laws.
As long as there are humble MKs in committees working to ensure a better quality of life for our children and protecting the environment for future generations, the Knesset can feel a moment of pride on its birthday, this Tu Bishvat.
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