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Associated Bank raises dividend, to buy back shares
The parent company of Associated Bank said Tuesday it has raised its quarterly cash dividend to 8 cents a share, a boost of 3 cents.
The increase in the dividend follows a consistent return to profitability for Green Bay-based Associated Banc-Corp.
The company's dividend was 32 cents in 2008, before the economic downturn forced many banks to slash their dividends in an effort to preserve capital. Capital at a bank serves as a cushion against loan losses. »Read Full Article(1)
R. Kelly makes it all about the 'Ladies'
So often in music the name of a tour has little to nothing to do with the tour itself. But leave it to R. Kelly, the most dedicated man in R&B (his "Trapped in the Closet" hip-hopera, 22 chapters and counting, will never end) to really commit when it comes to a concept.
For his latest venture on the road - dubbed the "Single Ladies Tour" - R. Kelly transformed the Milwaukee Theatre on Saturday into a wild party for his shrieking, dancing female fans and some of the dressed-to-impress fellas scattered throughout the approximately two-thirds-full theater.
The stark white stage was pretty much the only pristine thing about Saturday's unapologetically raunchy show. In hindsight, the presence of two bars on either side of the stage (complete with bartenders and female patrons plucked from the crowd), and the sight of Kelly's unfastened, blinged-out belt buckle at the start of the set, were but foreshadowing for how loose things were going to get. »Read Full Article(4)
Final push not enough for Bucks
A tight defensive struggle seemed destined to go to the wire, and it did.
But the Boston Celtics caught fire at the right time, riding Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to a hard-fought 96-92 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night.
A BMO Harris Bradley Center crowd of 14,589 watched as Boston (3-3) held off one last push by the Bucks (3-2) in the final minute. »Read Full Article(29)
Badgers set rushing record, clinch Big Ten title game spot
Bloomington, Ind. - Bolstered by consecutive Big Ten Conference victories, a rising Indiana team embraced the pregame hype before welcoming two-time defending league champion Wisconsin to Memorial Stadium.
Minutes after seeing UW set a school-record for rushing yards in a game with 564 to crush the Hoosiers' postseason hopes, Badgers coach Bret Bielema embraced athletic director Barry Alvarez on the sideline to put an exclamation point on a performance that sends the Badgers to the Big Ten title game next month in Indianapolis.
"I didn't let our guys talk about it during the week," Bielema said after UW's 62-14 demolition job Saturday afternoon in front of a crowd of 43,240. "But I said today: 'Embrace it. You win today, and you're punching your ticket to Indy.' " »Read Full Article(107)
Two dead, three wounded in overnight shootings
Three overnight shootings left two people dead and three wounded, including a 12-year-old girl, Milwaukee police reported.
The violence began around 10 p.m. in the 5600 block of N. 35th St. The girl and a 21-year-old man were shot inside a residence during what appeared to be a robbery. Both victims required surgery and were in serious condition early Saturday, police said.
About an hour later in the 5200 block of N. Sherman Blvd., a second double shooting took the life of a 23-year-old man and wounded a 22-year-old man. The incident occurred as the men were leaving a large house party where an argument had broken out, according to police. The surviving victim was shot in the leg. »Read Full Article
Wisconsin motorist drives 15 miles in wrong direction
For at least the 30th time this year, authorities say a disoriented driver took a wrong-way trip on a Milwaukee freeway.
This time, it lasted 15 miles - but luckily injured no one - before the driver was arrested.
Joshua Klawikowski, 21, of Waukesha was southbound in the northbound lanes of I-94/43 about 2:20 a.m. Saturday, according to the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office. He apparently had entered the freeway in the Marquette Interchange. »Read Full Article(81)
UW researcher charged for pot growing operation
Madison - A former plant researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is accused of growing marijuana in a university lab.
A Wisconsin State Journal report says 45-year-old Christopher J. Schwartz was charged Friday with two felony counts of marijuana manufacturing and possession.
Prosecutors say someone discovered 12 marijuana plants being grown inside a growth chamber in the biochemistry building last month. The criminal complaint says the chamber was used by Schwartz and locked with a padlock. »Read Full Article
Funeral services set for victims of Racine fire
Funeral services will be Friday for the three children who died last week in a fire at their home in Racine.
A fourth child, who was pulled with the others from the bedroom of the family home in the 1900 block of Linden Avenue, remains at Children's Hospital in Milwaukee.
Luther Patterson, 5, is in "very serious" condition, the boy's uncle, William Scott Jr., said Saturday. »Read Full Article(3)
Homestead cruises past Marshfield
Oshkosh – Homestead roared to a 42-0 halftime lead and coasted to a 49-8 victory over Marshfield in a
WIAA Division 2 semifinal game Saturday afternoon at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
The Highlanders (10-1) will face Waunakee (12-0) for the state title Friday at Camp Randall Stadium.
Senior quarterback Jake Laihinen scored three touchdowns and senior running back Shaquille Cole had
two touchdowns as the Highlanders built their insurmountable lead in the first half.
Two arrested in Grafton bomb incident
Grafton police have arrested two men accused of throwing a bomb into an occupied car at Lime Kiln Park on Friday.
According a news release from Grafton police:
The incident began with an argument between two groups at the park, and one threw what police called a "bottle bomb," into a car, but the occupants threw it back out before it exploded. No one was hurt. »Read Full Article(2)
Relaxing mining rules tops state lawmakers' agenda
Madison - Loosening mining regulations is at the top of state lawmakers' agenda in the upcoming two-year session, a goal that eluded Republicans even though they controlled both houses for most of the last session.
Republicans appear to have wider margins in both houses for the upcoming session, which should make it easier for them to pass a bill to their liking. But what form the measure will take, particularly in the Senate, remains unclear.
With a huge GOP majority, the Assembly in January easily passed a bill written with heavy involvement by a Florida company that wanted to develop a massive open pit iron ore mine in Ashland and Iron counties that it says promises to create thousands of jobs. »Read Full Article(246)
Whitefish Bay falls to Waunakee in overtime
Wauwatosa - Whitefish Bay was just one play away from becoming a part of state football history Saturday.
The Blue Dukes scored a miraculous last-minute touchdown to force overtime, but Waunakee scored first, then intercepted a pass in the end zone, to win, 35-28, in the Division 2 state semifinals at Wisconsin Lutheran College.
Waunakee (12-0) will face Homestead in Friday's state championship game, but Whitefish Bay (10-2) nearly ended the Warriors' state record 48-game win streak. (1)
New Berlin WWII veteran gets medal after 65 years
Kenosha - A Wisconsin man who left the U.S. Air Force 65 years ago couldn't keep away the tears when he finally received his World War II Victory Medal this week.
George Michel of New Berlin thought the local school celebration Friday was just like all the other Veterans Day events he'd attended in previous years. But when he noticed family members from out of state in the audience he realized something was afoot.
Then a teacher stepped forward and announced to the audience that Michel was about to receive his Victory Medal. He says when he heard that, "I just about melted."
Michel was with an Air Force squadron in England. A Kenosha News report says his first air mission was days after the D-Day invasion in June 1944. (1)
Man rescued from Caledonia pond by neighbors, police after minutes underwater
A Caledonia man operating a riding lawn mower rolled into a pond Saturday and was unconscious underwater for several minutes before neighbors and police were able to rescue him, police reported.
Louis Glede, 60, was trapped under the mower and sinking into the mucky bottom of the pond as rescuers struggled for footing, Caledonia police reported in a news release.
They were in about four feet of water, several feet from the shoreline near 6105 St. Charles St. »Read Full Article(1)
Man shot by Madison police identified
The man shot and killed by a Madison police officer on Friday has been identified as 30-year-old Paul H. Heenan of Madison.
The announcement came from the Dane County Medical Examiner's office, which said an autopsy confirmed Heenan died from "firearm related trauma."
Police responded to a burglary report early Friday and a 15-year veteran officer wound up shooting Heenan during a physical confrontation, according to Madison police. Investigators have not indicated whether or not Heenan was armed. »Read Full Article
Appleton North ousts Marquette in state volleyball, will face Burlington for title
Milwaukee Marquette got 19 kills and 10 digs from Joe Coplan and 36 assists from Will Cotter, but it wasn't enough to help the defending state champion get past Appleton North in the semifinals of the WIAA boys volleyball tournament at Wisconsin Lutheran College Saturday afternoon.
North improved to 33-0 with a 25-20, 25-13, 22-25, 25-19 victory and will face Burlington in the championship match at 5:30 p.m. Saturday evening.
Unseeded Burlington, meanwhile, beat Kettle Moraine, which was also unseeded, 25-21, 25-22, 22-25, 25-20, to reach its first final. Nolan Rueter had 18 kills and 11 digs for Burlington (25-3). Setter Zach Gesteland had 34 assists and Carson Biedrzycki added 13 kills in the victory.
The box scores can be found here.
Harassing emails led to FBI probe of Petraeus, officials say
Washington - The scandal that brought down CIA Director David Petraeus started with harassing emails sent by his biographer and paramour, Paula Broadwell, to another woman, and eventually led the FBI to discover the affair, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Petraeus quit Friday after acknowledging an extramarital relationship.
The official said the FBI investigation began several months ago with a complaint against Broadwell, a 40-year-old graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and an Army Reserve officer. That probe led agents to her email account, which uncovered the relationship with the 60-year-old retired four-star general, who earned acclaim for his leadership of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. »Read Full Article(67)
Acacia finds power in heroic 'Irena's Vow'
On the 74th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Acacia Theatre Company opened its new season by commemorating a brave soul who said "no" to the ensuing madness.
Irena Gut was barely 20 when she risked her life by hiding one dozen Jews in the basement of a German officer's house, where she worked as a housekeeper in wartime Poland. In playwright Dan Gordon's "Irena's Vow," she tells us what happened, through a testimonial that morphs into a re-creation of the events she lived through.
"God placed me at a crossroads," she tell us, at which she was forced to choose between "death" and "life." Lighting and scenic designer Dan Hummel frames Irena's choice in equally stark terms; he spotlights Mary Atwood as the elderly Irena, standing before a photo of the young and beautiful Gut. Both are completely surrounded by the dark. »Read Full Article(1)
Wisconsin hunter dies after possible heart attack
Town of Tomahawk - Authorities in northern Wisconsin say a hunter whose body was found beneath his tree stand may have died after a heart attack.
The sheriff's office has identified the man as 54-year-old Nicholas L. Asmondy Sr. of Lakewood Township in Oconto County.
Asmondy had gone hunting in a wooded area near the city of Tomahawk. His son went to check on him Thursday evening and found him unresponsive on the ground. »Read Full Article
Tattoo = terrorist threat? Cops, ACLU disagree
Based on what you see in booking photos, and the descriptions that accompany them, no one should be surprised that criminal suspects frequently sport some pretty lousy tattoos.
But police in Minneapolis say one guy's skin was so offensive it amounted to a crime in and of itself, a terrorist threat no less. The ACLU begs to differ.
The Star Tribune has the story. (2)
Thursday is deadline for Milwaukee residents to rake leaves into streets
City of Milwaukee residents have until Thursday to rake leaves into the curb on city streets.
For information on when the city's leaf collection equipment will be in a particular neighborhood, go to http://mpw.milwaukee.gov/services/garbage_day
After Thursday, residents can take their leaves to a city self-help station. The two are located at 3879 W. Lincoln Ave. and 6660 N. Industrial Road. »Read Full Article(1)
Live blog: Wisconsin at Indiana
Hello and welcome to our live gameday blog between Wisconsin and Indiana.
You can access the blog here, whether you are on a desktop, notebook, tablet or mobile device.
You can find our updating box score on our live scoreboard page.
After the game, stick around the blog for a post-game chat. (7)
Richland County couple killed in head-on crash
A Richland County couple died Friday in a head-on crash just north of Richland Center, authorities report.
Stephen Rowland, 70, and Nina Rowland, 57, of the Town of Orion died at the scene, according to the Richland County Sheriff's Department.
A department news release indicates the crash happened Friday afternoon near the intersection of highways 80 and AA. »Read Full Article
Madison to require IDs for bus riders with passes
Madison - Riders who have an unlimited pass on Madison Metro buses will now have to show identification.
University of Wisconsin students and employees have unlimited ride passes. There are concerns the bus passes are being used fraudulently. So, beginning Monday, an employment or school photo ID will be required.
UW-Madison employee and student bus passes are non-transferable. So, if the users don't have their IDs, the passes will be confiscated and a 1-day pass will be offered. »Read Full Article(151)
Wisconsin-Indiana pregame notes
While you wait for kickoff of today's big - yes, I said big - Badgers-Hoosiers game, here are some notes to chew on.
I'll be back with our gameday blog later.
- Wisconsin leads the all-time series against Indiana, 37-19-2. In Bloomington, the Badgers are 16-9-1.
- Wisconsin is 4-1 after bye weeks under Bret Bielema. The only loss was in 2008 (at Michigan). UW had two bye weeks in 2009 and no byes in '06 or '07. The Badgers have beaten Indiana, Purdue (twice) and Hawaii after byes.
- Wisconsin has a seven-game winning streak over Indiana, winning by an average of 33.6 points.
- Under Bret Bielema, Wisconsin is 17-3 in November games, including 9-3 on the road.
- Under Bielema, Wisconsin is: 47-10 (2-2 this season) when scoring first; 19-12 (4-1) when opponent scores first; 38-5 (2-1) when leading after the first quarter; 13-10 (2-0) when trailing after one quarter; 50-7 (4-2) when leading at the half; 12-13 (1-1) when trailing at the half; 58-4 when leading after the third quarter (6-1); 6-14 (0-1) when trailing after the third quarter.
- Indiana has allowed 30+ points five times this season. Under Bielema, Wisconsin is 50-3 (4-0 this season) when scoring 30 or more points. The Badgers have scored at least 30 points against the Hoosiers in 10 of the last 11 matchups, including scoring 50+ points in four of the last six meetings.
- Indiana is 3-1 against FBS teams with non-winning records and 0-4 vs. FBS teams with winning records
- Indiana is allowing opponents to convert 41.01% of third downs; that rises to 44.30% in conference games and 52.46% vs. FBS winning teams
- Every team but one has completed at least 60% of its passes against Indiana. Ohio State was at 56%, but did have three TD passes.
- Indiana is allowing 4.85 yards/rush vs. conference teams and 5.68 yards/rush vs. FBS teams with winning records.
- Wisconsin has had nine 100-yard receivers vs. Indiana, three of those at Bloomington – Nick Toon, 2009; Paul Hubbard, 2006 and Lee DeRamus, 1993
- Wisconsin has had just five 200-yard passers vs. Indiana and two of those were by John Stocco, who was also the last to do it in 2006.
- Wisconsin is 21-2-1 vs. Indiana when having a 100-yard rusher. Losses came in 2002 & 1982. Tie was in 1975.
- In the last four games against Indiana, Wisconsin has had eight 100-yard rushers. (Yes, those numbers are not transposed.)
- Curt Phillips has 7 completions to five different players - three of those are in the NFL (Garrett Graham, Lance Kendricks and David Gilreath). The other two who have caught passes from Phillips entering Saturday are Mickey Turner and Kraig Appleton. James White caught a pass from Phillips earlier this season, but it was taken away due to a penalty.
- The last four quarterbacks making their starting debut for Wisconsin have thrown for over 200 yards. Overall, seven QBs have thrown for 200+ yards in their starting debut.
- Wisconsin has had three QBs make their starting Badgers debut in a season two times - 1975 (2-1) and 1956 (1-1-2). One of those 1956 games includes Ronald Carlson going 0-for-3 with 2 INTs in a 6-6 tie against Purdue. His passing rating: -133.33.
- Montee Ball can become the second Wisconsin RB to have four 100-yard rush games vs. the same opponent and the first to do it in all wins (Ron Dayne vs. Purdue, but 3-1).
- Ball needs one touchdown to tie and two to pass Ricky Williams for second place and four TDs to tie Travis Prentice for first place on the NCAA's all-time list.
- Ball needs four rushing touchdowns to tie Ricky Williams for second place on the NCAA's all-time list.
- Ball needs six points to tie Ricky Williams for second place and 22 points to tie Travis Prentice for first place on the NCAA's all-time list.
- Ball needs three rushing touchdowns to tie Ron Dayne for first place on the Big Ten's and UW's all-time list (note: The NCAA does not include Dayne's bowl touchdowns in its records). His next rushing TD breaks a tie with Anthony Thompson for second place.
- Jared Abbrederis needs 78 receiving yards to pass Lee DeRamus for eighth place, 95 yards to pass Tony Simmons for seventh place and 102 yards to pass Chris Chambers for sixth place on UW's all-time list.
- Abbrederis needs two receiving touchdowns to tie Nick Toon for fifth place on UW's all-time list.
- Abbrederis needs 2 receptions to pass Mel Reddick for 10th place, 8 to pass Lee DeRamus for ninth place and 10 to pass Pat Richter and Garrett Graham for seventh place on UW's all-time list.
- Abbrederis needs two punt returns to pass Jim Miller for ninth place and six to pass Keith Jackson for eighth place on UW's all-time list.
- Mike Taylor needs two tackles to pass Donnell Thompson for 10th place and 14 to pass Greg Thomas for ninth place on UW's all-time list.
- Chris Borland needs two tackles to pass 24th David Wingo for 24th place, four tackles to pass Dave Ahrens for 23rd place, five to pass Jim Leonhard for 22nd place and seven to pass Dennis Stejskal for 21st place on UW's all-time list.
- Borland needs one forced fumble to tie James Looney for fourth place on the Big Ten's all-time list.
Sprinkles to start then clearing and warmer!
As a warm front continues to scoot to our north there is a chance for a few light morning showers and drizzle with some patchy fog possible. As the day continues, skies will start to clear and temperatures will bump up into the 60s thanks to a southerly wind. Overnight lows will be mild, in the 50s with partly cloudy skies and an increasing wind from the south.
Veterans Day will start out dry, warm and windy but the cloud cover will increase as a cold front approaches from the west. That front will bring rain showers and a few thunderstorms are possible, most locations will pick up a quarter of an inch of rain. A bit of snow may mix in with the rain Sunday night but no lasting accumulation is expected.
We'll be dry but much colder on Monday with highs only in the upper 30s behind the cold front. It will be another chilly one on Tuesday before 40s return to the forecast on Wednesday.
TODAY: Scattered morning drizzle & fog then clearing and warmer.
High: 64.
Wind: S 5-15 mph.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy, breezy.
Low: 54.
Wind: S 10-15 mph.
SUNDAY: Increasing clouds, windy and warm with PM showers likely.
High: 62.
Wind: S 10-20 mph, gusting to 30 mph.
SUN NIGHT: Cloudy, breezy, rain & T'storms with some snow mixing in, no accumulation expected.
Low: 34.
Wind: SW 10-20 mph.
MONDAY: Decreasing clouds, still breezy, much colder.
High: 37.
Wind: W 10-15 mph.


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- Kollisionen schwerer Ionen (9)
- heavy ion collisions (7)
- Kollisionen schwerer Ionen (6)
- UrQMD (6)
- heavy ion collisions (6)
- Quark Gluon Plasma (4)
- Quark-Gluon-Plasma (4)
- Drell-Yan (3)
- Molekulare Dynamik (2)
- The origin of transverse flow at the SPS (1998)
- We study the transverse expansion in central Pb+Pb collisions at the CERN SPS. Strong collective motion of hadrons can be created. This flow is mainly due to meson baryon rescattering. It allows to study the angular distribution of intermediate mass meson baryon interactions.
- Azimuthal correlations of pions in relativistic heavy ion collisions at 1 GeV/nucl. (1995)
- Triple differential cross sections of pions in heavy ion collisions at 1 GeV/nucl. are studied with the IQMD model. After discussing general properties of resonance and pion production we focus on azimuthal correlations: At projectile- and target-rapidities we observe an anticorrelation in the in-plane transverse momentum between pions and protons. At c.m.-rapidity, however, we find that high pt pions are being preferentially emitted perpendicular to the event-plane. We investigate the causes of those correlations and their sensitivity on the density and momentum dependence of the real and imaginary part of the nucleon and pion optical potential.
- Nucleus-nucleus collisions at highest energies (1996)
- The microscopic phasespace approach URQMD is used to investigate the stopping power and particle production in heavy systems at SPS and RHIC energies. We find no gap in the baryon rapidity distribution even at RHIC. For CERN energies URQMD shows a pile up of baryons and a supression of multi-nucleon clusters at midrapidity.
- Neural networks for impact parameter determination (1996)
- Abstract: An accurate impact parameter determination in a heavy ion collision is crucial for almost all further analysis. The capabilities of an artificial neural network are investigated to that respect. A novel input generation for the network is proposed, namely the transverse and longitudinal momentum distribution of all outgoing (or actually detectable) particles. The neural network approach yields an improvement in performance of a factor of two as compared to classical techniques. To achieve this improvement simple network architectures and a 5 × 5 input grid in (pt, pz) space are suffcient.
- Modelling the many-body dynamics of heavy ion collisions (1997)
- Basic problems of the semiclassical microscopic modelling of strongly interacting systems are discussed within the framework of Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD). This model allows to study the influence of several types of nucleonic interactions on a large variety of observables and phenomena occur- ring in heavy ion collisions at relativistic energies. It is shown that the same predictions can be obtained with several numerically completely di erent and independently written programs as far as the same model parameters are employed and the same basic approximations are made. Many observ- ables are robust against variations of the details of the model assumptions used. Some of the physical results, however, depend also on rather technical parameters like the preparation of the initial configuration in phase space. This crucial problem is connected with the description of the ground state of single nuclei, which di ers among the various approaches. An outlook to an improved molecular dynamics scheme for heavy ion collisions is given.
- A Microscopic calculation of secondary Drell-Yan production in heavy ion collisions (1997)
- A study of secondary Drell-Yan production in nuclear collisions is presented for SPS energies. In addition to the lepton pairs produced in the initial collisions of the projectile and target nucleons, we consider the potentially high dilepton yield from hard valence antiquarks in produced mesons and antibaryons. We calculate the secondary Drell-Yan contributions taking the collision spectrum of hadrons from the microscopic model URQMD. The con- tributions from meson-baryon interactions, small in hadron-nucleus interac- tions, are found to be substantial in nucleus-nucleus collisions at low dilepton masses. Preresonance collisions of partons may further increase the yields.
- Intermediate mass dileptons from secondary Drell-Yan processes (1998)
- Recent reports on enhancements of intermediate and hight mass muon pairs producedin heavy ion collisions have attracted much attention.
- Fluctuations and inhomogenities of energy density and isospin in Pb + Pb at the SPS (1998)
- The main goal of heavy ion physics in the last fifteen years has been the search for the quark-gluon-plasma(QGP). Until now, unambigous experimental evidence for the QGP is missing.
- Intermediate mass excess of dilepton production in heavy ion collisions at BEVALAC energies (1998)
- Dielectron mass spectra are examined for various nuclear reactions recently measured by the DLS collaboration. A detailed description is given of all dilepton channels included in the transport model UrQMD 1.0, i.e. Dalitz decays of π, η, ω, ή mesons and of the (1232) resonance, direct decays of vector mesons and pn bremsstrahlung. The microscopic calculations reproduce data for light systems fairly well, but tend to underestimate the data in pp at high energies and in pd at low energies. These conventional sources, however, cannot explain the recently reported enhancement for nucleus-nucleus collisions in the mass region 0.15GeV ≤ Me+e- ≤ 0.6GeV. Chiral scaling and ω meson broadening in the medium are investigated as a source of this mass excess. They also cannot explain the recent DLS data.
- Direct photons in Pb+Pb at CERN-SPS from microscopic transport theory (1997)
- Direct photon production in central Pb+Pb collisions at CERN-SPS energy is calculated within the relativistic microscopic transport model UrQMD, and within distinctly di erent versions of relativistic hydrodynamics. We find that in UrQMD the local momentum distributions of the secondaries are strongly elongated along the beam axis initially. Therefore, the preequilibrium contribution dominates the photon spectrum at transverse momenta above H 1.5 GeV. The hydrodynamics prediction of a strong correlation between the temperature and radial expansion velocities on the one hand and the slope of the transverse momentum distribution of direct photons on the other hand thus is not recovered in UrQMD. The rapidity distribution of direct photons in UrQMD reveals that the initial conditions for the longitudinal expansion of the photon source (the meson fluid ) resemble rather boostinvariance than Landau-like flow.

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Vitor Belfort has been asking for a title shot or at least a top level opponent since winning his last two fights in dramatic fashion. He recently turned down a bout with Tim Kennedy, but today challenged Chael Sonnen, who was quick to respond:
While Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight contender Vitor Belfort is unwilling to fight Tim Kennedy or anyone else at 185 pounds unless its the champion (read explanation here), there is one fight "The Phenom" is down to accept.
And that would be against none other than longtime rival Chael Sonnen.
According to a report from Ariel Helwani on Tuesdays (July 30, 2013) edition of FUEL TVs "UFC Tonight," Belfort would "love to fight" Sonnen next, just as long as its not a Middleweight bout. Sonnen, who was on hand as one of the hosts of "UFC Tonight," said a fight against Belfort interests him immensely for UFC 168 on Dec. 28, 2013; however, theres a catch to the situation.


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****'s sake Uruguay.
****'s sake Uruguay.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Ooooo. Offside, IMHO.
RvP's played at that.
Cricket Web's 2013/14 Premier League Tipping Champion
- As featured in The Independent.
"The PFA does not represent players when they have broken the law and been convicted on non-football matters."
- Gordon Taylor in 2009 following Marlon King's release after a prison sentence for sexual assault & ABH
Wonderfully worked goal. And that, barring an implosion of classically Dutch proportions, should be that.
Yeah, that's it then. Quality header.
Something like justice.
No arguments with that one anyway. Teams conceeding headers from Sneijder and Robben in the knockout stages. lol.
Robben's 6foot tbf. Taller than I gave him credit for, still not exactly known for his aerial prowess.
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That should seal the win....Robben
sneijder WAG.
Why sub off Forlan considering Uruguay need goals?
That'll give Holland a mini-scare
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Track & Field
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Karli Johonnot
Honors: Indoor Second Team All-America Honors (High Jump - 2014)...NCAA Indoor Participant (High Jump - 2014)...NCAA East First Round Participant (High Jump - 2013, 2014)...Indoor ACC Champion (Pentathlon - 2012)...Indoor All-ACC (Pentathalon - 2012, 2014)...Outdoor All-ACC (Heptathlon - 2013)...Indoor School Record Holder (Pentathlon - 2014; High Jump - 2014)...Outdoor School Record Holder (Heptathlon - 2014)...Indoor All-ACC Academic (2012, 2014)..Outdoor All-ACC Academic (2013, 2014)...ACC Academic Honor Roll (2012-14)
2013-14: Carried over the success of a redshirt freshman season into her redshirt sophomore campaign...Indoors, opened the season by setting a school record point total of 4,038 in the pentathlon at the Dick Taylor Challenge (1/23), winning the event and helping Duke's multi's win the Tobacco Road Cup…acted as Duke's top performer in the high jump during the indoor season, setting the school record in the event with a clearance of 5-11.50 (1.82) at the Dick Taylor Challenge…reached the NCAA Championships (3/14) in the high jump, placing 14th overall with a clearance of 5-10.00 (1.78)…qualified for the ACC Indoor Championships (2/27) in the pentathlon, accumulating 4,003 points…also competed in the open high jump at the indoor conference championships, placing seventh with a height of 5-9.75 (1.77)…Outdoors, once again acted as Duke's top-performer in the multi-event competition, setting a school record point total of 5,342 at the Texas Relays (3/27)…qualified for the ACC Outdoor Championships (4/17) heptathlon, placing seventh in the event…competed in the high jump at the outdoor conference championships, as well, placing sixth overall with a season-best clearance of 5-10.00 (1.78)…qualified for the NCAA Preliminary Round meet (5/30) in the high jump, placing 25th overall with a clearance of 5-7.75 (1.72)…opened the outdoor season by leaping 18-7.00 (5.66) in the long jump, the second-farthest distance in school history.
2012-13: Did not compete during the indoor season due to injury…Outdoors, the multi-event specialist finished third at her first ACC Outdoor Championships with a point total of 5,016 to rank second on Duke's all-time list…improved her point total at the Virginia Challenge where she collected 5,033 points in the two-day competition…excelled in the high jump throughout the season, qualifying for the NCAA East First Round in the event by clearing a personal best 5-10.5 (1.79) in the heptathlon at the ACC Outdoor Championships…finished 28th in the event at the NCAA East First Round with a clearance of 5-7.75 (1.72)…excelled in the classroom and garnered Outdoor All-ACC Academic honors.
2011-12: Started her Duke career strong by winning the pentathlon at the ACC Indoor Track and Field Championships...earned a school record 3,964 points on her way to the crown with first-place finishes in the high jump after clearing 5-10.5 (1.79) and the 800m, posting a time of 2:16.93...earlier in the season, finished first at the Penn State Nationals with a final score of 3,802...tore her achilles tendon during the open high jump at the ACC Championships and did not compete for the remainder of the indoor and outdoor season...named to the Indoor All-ACC Academic team as well as the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to Duke: Four-year letterwinner at Centennial...led Centennial to the state championship as a senior and four-straight regional championships...finished 10th in the heptathlon at the 2010 Junior World Nationals...placed second in the heptathlon at the 2011 Great Southwest Heptathlon and third in the same event at the Junior Championships in Eugene, Ore...tabbed the Nevada Female Track & Field Gatorade Athlete of the Year as a junior...also named Female Athlete of the Year by the Las Vegas Review in 2010...won state titles in the high jump and 300m hurdles her junior year, in addition to finishing second in the 100m hurdles and fourth in the pole vault at the state meet...was a silver medalist in multi-events at the Junior Olympics in 2009...tied the all-time high jump heptathlon record at 5-8 at the 2009 Great Southwest Track & Field Classic...valedictorian of her graduating class...earned an advanced honors diploma...graduated with high honors...four-time recipient of the Nevada Scholar Athlete Award.
Personal: Daughter of Jerry and Cheryl Johonnot...born Aug. 21, 1993...has one sister, Madison.
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Hi everybody, so nice to finally have the chance to fellowship with believers who dont believe in eternal damnation.
i once had a wise assistant pastor tell me, "I'd rather be wrong on the side of God's grace, than on the side of the law".
I was a bit nervous as to where you were going with this, but then I can see where you are coming from.That a church denomination would monopolize UR to an extent and lay down other doctrines with it.For one I can see that a UR belief often attracts newbies (I mean those who think, No hell, great I'm off the hook, I can now also be a satanist at the same time etc) and that would often gather together a bunch of believers who would like to change certain aspects of the scripture, such as Gods justice, and perhaps change Noahs flood and Sodom and gomorah into something else.
Of course there are great ministries like tentmaker that have not denied the authority of scriptures to accommodate UR and proclaim Jesus as the Son of God and messiah, but I get the feeling that this UR belief, kind of lend itself to a mixture of religions and knowing mankind, I would not be surprised, as it has already been done with the various Universalist movements that Garry talks about.
I can also see that a UR doctrine had a weakness and that it lends itself to sloppiness in a unrepentant heart, I am talking about a heart that lives in bondage and subjection to Fear of everlasting hell, without which that heart has no impetus to obey the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES At the Meadows we drifted in clear water with Alameda Rattling Floats and live shrimp. We caught mostly drum and trout with a nice redfish.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES The pace was brisk during most of the three hours spent catching black drum near Yarborough, with several doubles landed simultaneously.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Most of the drum we caught were between 16 and 22 inches this past week south of Baffin Bay.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES The fish we caught appeared healthy inside and out, which is welcomed news following a recent spell of emaciated drum.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Noe Garza scoops another drum from the waters of Yarborough for Joe Gallegos of Alice.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Joe Gallegos prepares to box another black drum during a recent fishing trip south of Baffin Bay.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES We took home 20 drum, along with a few redfish and trout, last Monday on a conservation trip with Noe Garza, who is bent on reducing the drum population so they don't starve.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Chano Alaniz catches another nice drum with the help of Noe Garza this past week near the old Yarborough Pass area.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Brown pelicans last Monday had few opportunities for handouts. They looked eager when we showed up at Billing's to clean fish.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Chano Alaniz of San Diego caught the biggest redfish of the day, along with the most hardheads, while fishing south of Baffin Bay this past week with Noe Garza.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Chano Alaniz caught the biggest redfish of the day while drifting the Meadows.
Rory Hastings of Stockdale reels in another black drum from the stern of Noe Garza's Stoner Skiff.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Rory Hastings enjoys a relaxing break from the Eagle Ford Shale oil patch. Fishing was good and the weather was fair for January.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Sunrise over Padre Island as seen from the Upper Laguna Madre this past week.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Rory Hastings caught the biggest trout of the day. It was a healthy one at nearly 20 inches.
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES The white pelicans at Billing's Marina outnumbered the brown. They're bigger too. And equally lazy when it comes to handouts at fish-cleaning stations.


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Mr. Branch was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for "his evocative narrative about skiers killed in an avalanche and the science that explains such disasters, a project enhanced by its deft integration of multimedia elements."
Mr. Branch's 2011 series "Punched Out," about Derek Boogaard, a professional hockey player valued for his brawling, shed light on the sport's embrace of potentially brain-damaging violence. The series won several awards, including a Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, and was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing.
Born in Redondo Beach, Calif., Mr. Branch earned a Bachelor of Science in business from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1989 and a Master of Arts in journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1996.
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Can we all just finally admit that the MMO Consumers are POWERLESS in the market?
I dont know the proper business term for it, but
just look over the past and present.
Developers get tons of money monthly, and even daily in some cases, from the MMO consumers,
Yet the MMO Consumer's voice is meaningless and powerless.
Developers hype up games, and sell boxes like nothing. no matter how much consumers try to speak out against it, they are silenced. what kind of Consumer Power is that?
With all the money, the Developers cant even add features that the Consumers ask for. Come on...
And why is it the consumers get charged a standard 15$ a month sub fee for all forms of quality?
its like Comcast/Verizon,,, their prices seem to keep going up and up and up, yet the quality stay the same,,,, but nothing the Consumer can do about it, no matter how much they cry about it.
Look at Darkfall for example. Why is this 15$ a month, aka the same Sub fee of MMO like World of Warcraft and Rift, which acutally gets content updates and full of quality.... ridiculous...
charging the MMO consumers the same price for less quality... come on... You- the MMO Consumer- are so powerless!!!
You ask for MMO that arent so WoW Like, yet what they keep giving you? lol You voice is powerless and meaningless!!!
Just accept this reality!! nothing you do/say will change the mindset of Developers that only see things their way and no other way. Developer's Ego has more power than you... You money doesnt say a damn thing, because look at the current genre!!!
lol Powerless!!!
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MMO market is just wierd. It's one of the few markets were we expect more but want to pay less. This has led to wierd state where MMO players anrt ingored as a whole but devs one really listen to people praising them and if we are lucky bug complaints. Lately any comments against the direction they are going or complaint about lack of this or that is just ingored as the "minority" view.
So imo, devs are listening to the consumers just to what they want to hear.
I will not play a game with a cash shop ever again. A dev job should be to make the game better not make me pay so it sucks less.
I refuse to be a victim. *I* have the power of where *my* money goes. Others also have that same power. I just figure that games offer them what they want and they pay the piper. To each their own :)
C'mon now... *we* cannot even agree on what exactly is "fun" to all of us. How could we possibly agree on what a good, or even great game is? We can say what that is to each of us, individually, but not as a consensus for everyone.
Game companies do what they do. The majority of players agree with them. All one can do is control where their money goes. *I* cannot worry about what others do with their own money :)
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Joined: 10/24/09
This is completely not true. Capitalism puts a bit of power in our hands. Maybe not individually, but dollar votes count more than any silly forum thread on some random website ever will.
OH and Darkfall is $10 a month. Just fyi.
MMO genre is the only one of it's kind I have personally seen in my long life.
It riots daily, fed by trolls or valid greivances.
It loves even harder, spending like drunk sailors.
It will destroy a company's bottom line if made to feel abused, no matter who it is.
It can also make you king of the world in a matter of days.
It's a herd of a billion cats, that if you can capture their energy and attention for any amount of time, you have done very well for yourself. Lightning in a bottle = handle with care.
So no, I don't agree in any way with the OP.
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Joined: 10/29/07
They will make it as long as players are paying for it.
However does it seems that many players are getting tired of paying for the same thing in different package (finally) and you can actually notice a slow change with the games in development right now.
Already released TSW and soon to be released GW2 differs in more way from the Wow model than any other AAA games we seen in a long time and things will change even more when games like Class 4, WoDO, AA and a bunch of other games are comming out.
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"No path is darker then when your eyes are shut." -Flemeth
"Do not despise the snake for having no horns, for who is to say it will not become a dragon? So may one just man become an army.".
- Ancient Sage of the Water Margin
" Notice the waves, each moving in its own order. Predictable...unchanging. But drop in a single stone and see how the pattern changes. Everything around it is altered."
- Delenn, Babylon 5
"Only by such small things, from such small spots, the universe and it's masses can be moved… therefore you must always be cautious, in every of your decisions."
- Kreia, KOTOR II
And, long, but my personal fav:
"There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot. "
- V for Vendetta (best movie ever!)
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People can decide for themselves which duck they decide to feed their money. If people are willing to pay for the wow-genre, then I guess it's what the people want.
To Caesar what is Caesar's.
You're only looking at the several hundreds of people that say: I'm fed up with XXX genre, bleh another wow-clone and stuff like that, but you're forgetting there are millions of other people who apparently are willing to pay for that certain game. Developers aren't stupid(well there are exceptions).
We can only hope developers learn and progress.
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You wish you could influence which games other MMO Consumers enjoy playing. You cannot.
Joined: 12/09/03
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The consumers do hold the ultimate power as to whether they want to purchase the latest MMO or not. Obviously people have bought millions of copies of these MMO's because they want to, and no one is forcing them to. It's mostly the vocal minority that come and complain on the forums about it, and as to MMO's withering and dieing over time. Well I'd imagine the average player gets there month or two worth of enjoyment and moves on with out so much as a peep from them.
Comparing MMO companies to phone companies isn't really a fair analogy. Communication is a necessity in modern day life, and having only a few options here in the US is not condusive to healthy competition. That's why you see our cell phone rates jacked up beyond belief compared to the rest of the world. MMO's have plenty of competition and that's why you see games with the 15 dollar a month asking price crash and burn all the time. There is just a lot of competition, and the players will go where they want to go.
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How about coustomers just don't buy what they don't like and thus cut off the hand the that feeds the companies?
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Originally posted by AlBQuirky
Playing GW2..
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1) Video games had always been a disappointment. I'm older than most of you, before the Internet you had to go to the store and read the back of the box. The back of the box would show a few cool snap shots and a small exciting feature list, but when you play them you find broken crap. 90% of the games would be broken and unplayable shortly into them....This for some reason was acceptable.
2) MMOs are to be first about community. This is for some reason not the case for the last few years. Vanilla WoW was the last we had seen of that. Developers took that away on their own. So yes we have no say.
3) And this is MOST IMPORTANT- Since Blizzard introduced the ' Dungeon Finder " and " easy play " to make there mmo less of a community and more solo or un spoken grouping. Other mmo developers think because WoW is so popular it's what players like.............Without a community, friends, and Guilds there is no reason to play an mmo MORE THAN 30 DAYS no matter how good it is.
What other developers don't see is that Dungeon finders are very negative aspects in World of Warcraft. Blizzard's WoW is very much established. It had the market cornered for so long that many are over looking this mistake.
Understand that I'm making up figures to make my point : Blizzard had 10 million players, now down to 9 million, but should be 12 million if they did not screw with the game.....They made it less of a community and players are leaving. More would leave if we had something better.
Something better ?.... Well we don't have one, because other mmo developers are following WoW's lead....Developers are taking this direction on there own without players feedback.
Will Guild Wars 2 be that mmo to break away from WoW's mold....I hope so....Because I'm getting tired of loading older mmos back into my computer to play with a community !!!!!!
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"If you can''t laugh at yourself there''s always someone around to show you how it''s done!"
If YOU personally feel powerless then it's an issue with you as a person.
Perhaps you took the time & effort to craft a well written suggestion or criticism & got no feedback so feel your personal voice is not heard.
But you do have power, the money in your wallet - of course if you never spend any money in games then you have less power you are a freeloader so only your forums posts & any ingame feedback methods give you any voice & that may not be in line with the developers goals anyway.
I think that you simply have a defeatist attitude, or perhaps you are under the misguided assumption that this forum & others like it are in any way representative of the wider gaming public, they simply are not, these little communities are cliques & many are very different to each other, but the thing they have in common is they contain the opinions & thoughts of a very thin slice of the overall gamesplaying public, it's a minority voice.
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Originally posted by MMOExposed
So these Developers, they wouldnt give 2 cents if we all just stopped buying mmos? They'd just keep on producing these games laughing at how silly we all are for not buying them.
Yeh powerless... really what you wanna say is stupid. we have these issues with these games yet we buy and play them.
Consumer power comes from using our money to influence companies. We can yell all we want but if we still hand over that $15 every month they will ignore us.
If you continue to make sweeping statements like you know what everyone everywhere thinks about a certain topic then I am going to shout at you.
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Joined: 6/29/06
You as a 'person' are not that powerful since you are a single individual.
Lots of people are powerful.
This isn't rocket science.
Gdemami -
No, we are not powerless. We drive the market. The problem is lack of vision by studios. There are three philosophies when it comes to releasing an MMO:
1. The Popular Method: Let's look at what's popular and copy it. (SWTOR?) Zzzzzzz
2. The Polling Method: Let's listen to what are gamers asking for and make it. (RIFT) The problem is, we know what we want we just aren't always good at articulating it.
3. The Perceptive Method: Let's look at what we know gamers would love and let's make that. Steve Jobs said that if Henry Ford gave people what they asked for, he would have given them faster horses. What they WANTED was faster transportation. A good studio knows what gamers want, even if gamers don't know how to ask for it.
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I think with my heart and move with my head.-Kongos
When it costs a minimum of $10 Million to get a game out the door, Vision = Lost All Your Money.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
Originally posted by lizardbones
This is why "Big Business" and "Good Games" seldom mix.
OP, when I look over a game, I do so with an assumption that the development team was not stupid and had a valid reason in deciding what to include and what not to. "Sometimes," I am even correct in this thought. However, I am having to admit that perhaps I am not part of the general target audience for new MMORPG releases anymore. I see features "I want" being left out all to often now. This does not mean I am powerless. It means I spend my money elsewhere. I do not feel that I am alone in this practice as the market seems filled with new one month wonders being released as of late and nothing that has staying power. My fear is that rather than adjusting what they do and provide content for, most developers and publishers are liable to assume they did right to begin with, consider the fan base too hard to please, and give up on producing products for the genre as a dry market they can't tap when they could just make a console shooter with co-op play for a third of the cost and an easy return.


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As noted by my colleague Joann Muller, electric car maker Tesla is experiencing some road rage over a review in the New York Times that faulted its model S's performance in cold weather. Reports Muller:
In a series of tweets and then in a phone call to CNBC, [CEO Elon] Musk blasted reporter John Broder's damaging review of the plug-in sedan in last Friday's New York Times, saying the car died because the reporter didn't follow the company's test-drive instructions. And Musk claims he has proof: "Vehicle logs tell true story that he didn't actually charge to max & took a long detour," according to one tweet. Musk told CNBC that Broder took "an extended tour through Manhattan" and at times drove "10 miles or above the speed limit."
The most interesting tweet to me was the one captured above, where Musk refers to Tesla's ability to monitor everything that a driver does in one of its cars — at least when it comes to the car's operation. "Tesla data logging is only turned on with explicit written permission from customers," tweeted Musk. "But after Top Gear BS, we always keep it on for media."
("Top Gear BS" refers to a 2008 BBC review of a Tesla car that the company also disputed and eventually sued over.)
Thanks to more and more of our belongings being "smart" — or "tethered" as Jonathan Zittrain calls them — they're constantly capturing data about us and in some cases reporting back to the companies that made them how we're using them. It means your car might keep a log of how you drove it or that your Xbox might be tracking every person in the room and watching their facial expressions to decide which ads to show them.
Tesla says it always asks for customers' permission before doing this –even if that's not made clear in the owner's manual — but journalists taking a car for a free spin don't get that same courtesy. While journos are recording their impression of the car's performance, it's doing the same thing to them.
Tesla says it's planning a blog post about the Times piece for Tuesday or Wednesday but would not say whether it will include the log of Broder's drive.
Update (Feb. 14): Tesla has released the logs along with what my colleague Joann Muller calls a "spectacular, blow-by-blow critique of Broder's test drive." Data as defense.


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"We have been working with the project for the last year and a half," said Kay Rasmussen, the Okaloosa County Economic Development Council's interim president, during Monday's city council meeting. "We're not released from the non-disclosure law. But there will be a public announcement next week. We have been working with the state of Florida on this."
State confidentiality laws protect businesses' identities during sensitive negotiations with municipalities. While Rasmussen couldn't reveal the business' name, the EDC's efforts assured 80 existing jobs will be retained, and more will be added.
"Through this expansion, they are creating over 300 new jobs and they will hire over the next two years," Rasmussen said, adding the average salary of the new positions is above average for the area. "As you can tell just by the job count alone, this is a high-wage company and a huge investment in the community."
The official announcement will come from Gov. Rick Scott's office, which has worked with the Okaloosa EDC on a package of incentives to retain the company and allow it to grow.
The unnamed tenant's expansion follows a recent expansion announcement by another airport business. L3 Crestview Aerospace will begin construction of an administration building this month and will build an 80,000-square-foot hangar next year.
Rasmussen also distributed a list of 12 projects the EDC is working on in the Crestview area, including four within the city limits and most of the rest at the airport or its neighboring Industrial Air Park. Among them is a possible expansion of Qwest Air Parts, which would add approximately 100 jobs.
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DOBSON — A 20-year-old woman remains in critical condition today, and a Mount Airy man has been charged with driving while impaired, after a wreck Wednesday night that claimed the life of an unborn child.
Mariah Hughes, of Union Grove, and her husband Steve Hughes, 20, were traveling on Zephyr Road near its intersection with Willow Grove Road in a Mitsubishi Eclipse when they were struck head-on by a Honda Civic, according to Surry County Emergency Services Director John Shelton. It was operated by Dennis Angel Jr., 25, of Turner Mountain Road in Mount Airy, according to authorities
The accident occurred at 9:25 p.m., Shelton said.
Police say Angel allegedly had Xanax and other prescription drugs in his system.
Shelton said Hughes, who was pregnant at the time, was pinned in the vehicle and had to be extricated by emergency responders.
"It took us about 20 minutes to get her out, and we immediately put her in a helicopter and airlifted her from the scene to the trauma center at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital," he said.
Hughes' unborn child was killed in the accident.
According to the N.C. Highway Patrol, the two vehicles, who were traveling in opposite directions, collided at a combined 100 miles per hour.
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Now in its 15th year, the Carroll Christmas Fund is once again kicking the Holiday Spirit into overdrive to help the less fortunate in our area.
Donations of food, coats, toys, bikes and money continue to come in, but more is always needed with the current state of the economy. In fact, Carroll Christmas Fund President Dennis Ward said the organization delivered food boxes to 500 families last year, a record number since the tax-exempt, non-profit organization began helping needy families locally in 1997.
"We don't have a count yet on this year, but with the lack of jobs and the economy we anticipate it being about the same as last year," Ward said. "Unfortunately it keeps going up instead of down. Ideally it would go down. Certainly, there is a lot of need."
Ward expresses his gratitude to the hundreds of volunteers, businesses, churches and organizations that help the Carroll Christmas Fund "do its thing" each year. Already there have been many calls for people in need.
"And thank the Lord we are already getting donations," Ward said. "We're excited and donations have already started coming in and we have started picking up canned food from the schools."
But like so many in the area, the Carroll Christmas Fund is in need as well, particularly in regards to bread. Over the years, Ward said the organization has always gotten its bread from the Merita Bread Company. Merita was owned by Hostess Brands, however, which closed down its operations earlier this month.
"They are closed now so we have to find another bread source because that is one of the staples we put in every food box," Ward said.
DeAnn Smith, who serves as secretary and treasurer of the Carroll Christmas Fund, said she's been amazed by the amount of coats brought in this year. Several churches in the area have done coat drives this year, she said, resulting in approximately 600 coats taken to Social Services for families in need.
The Gideons are once again furnishing Bibles for each box and a local volunteer helped bring in over 60 bicycles for the Fund last year. Smith believes there will be even more bikes this year. Individuals are also great to donate toys throughout the year to add to food boxes for families with children.
Food boxes typically consist of staples such as ham, oranges, apples, flour, cornmeal, potatoes, canned vegetables, mixed nuts, old-fashioned candies, peanut butter, and bread. The National Wild Turkey Federation has also been good to provide the Carroll Christmas Fund with turkeys for some of the bigger families, Smith said.
Canned or non-perishable food donations can be made up until boxing day Dec. 20. Donations of toys need to be made by Dec. 14 to be included with this year's boxes, while monetary donations can be taken anytime.
"Monetary donations and anything that comes in after Dec. 22 will be put toward the next year," Smith said. "There are no administration costs. Every dollar goes straight to doing the boxes or buying toys."
Donations can be dropped off at the The Dawn Auction office in Hillsville or mailed to The Dawn Auction Company at 235 West Stuart Drive, Hillsville, Va., 24343. Smith said anyone from the community may volunteer to help with sorting and boxing at the VFW building in Hillsville beginning at 6 p.m. on Dec. 20, or to help with deliveries beginning at 8 a.m. on Dec. 22. Call the Dawn Auction office at 728-9181 if you have any questions.
"It's wonderful. It is the greatest lesson you can receive in Christmas," Smith said of the Carroll Christmas Fund. "That is the greatest lesson to see you are helping others in your community because everything we do stays here in Carroll County because we have that much need in Carroll County."


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The Everpurse has arrived on Kickstarter and it is a really interesting project that may well have huge potential. The Everpurse is a wirelessly rechargeable purse that can power your iPhone just by slipping it into a pocket inside of the purse. The confusing part is to how it actually charges the iPhone. It appears that it is doing it wirelessly however it is more likely that the pocket inside of the purse has a dock connector at the bottom that the iPhone slots into easily due to the size of the pocket.
Ever notice that your smartphone dies JUST when you need it most? We set out to build something so powerful and easy to use, it would make charging your phone an afterthought. To charge, all you have to do is slip your phone into the Everpurse pocket! Whether you're at work or out on the town, your Everpurse will keep your phone charged all day long. You can carry your Everpurse inside a bigger bag, or by itself. When you get home, simply drop your Everpurse on the white charging mat for wireless charging!
My husband (a serial technology entrepreneur and prototyping enthusiast) and I (a social worker) started building Everpurse for fun over a year ago. It began as a quest to make the perfect purse. One that would let me go through the whole day without ever thinking about charging my phone. It also had to look gorgeous. I was tired of awful charging solutions that were bulky, ugly, and simply a pain to use. Many prototypes and iterations later, we've gotten it down to a beautiful science! Everpurse is now patent-pending and ready to manufacture.
The Everpurse is fully rechargeable and comes with a white charging mat that you just drop it on when you get home. It is then fully charged and ready for the next time you leave the house. The Everpurse will be available in three different colors and in fabric or leather varieties. The most interesting part of this project is the fact that no modifications have to be made to the iPhone and it doesn't need to have any special case either. There is no explanation as to how this actually works but it can't be a wireless charging solution without the need for some sort of case; it must have some sort of physical connection within the purse. If it does work in any other way then this could be a very significant development and one that is sure to take off with massive interest. Shame it is only suitable for those that carry a purse on a regular basis but I am sure other solutions could be brought to market that could utilize this technology in other ways too.
If you like the idea of the Everpurse, you can become an early adopter with a pledge of $99 which will secure one fabric purse complete with white charging mat; should they make it into production. The Everpurse currently has 34 pledges amounting to $4282 and still has a long way to go before it reaches it funding goal of $100,000; it still has 33 days to go and I would not bet against it reaching that target either.
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You don't.
Watch the video, and you can see that when they put the iPhone in the bag, they only put it into a specific spot in the bag, connector-downward, and as they insert it, it's being guided into a locked position.
It's just a clever mounting bracket that guides the iPhone into mating with a dock connector (as the article author suggests). The only induction part is for charging the bag itself.
Not that it's not useful- but they try to create the impression that this is some kind of wireless solution ("Magically Charges Your iPhone"!). They say, "all you have to do is slip your phone into the Everpurse pocket," which is patently (ha!) false. You have to insert your phone connector-side down (plus it has to face in the right direction, front/back) into the pocket section of the purse, and push it hard enough to dock.
And when they say, "slip your phone into the Everpurse pocket," they're exploiting the superficial ambiguity of "Everpurse" vs. "Everpurse pocket" (i.e. a special area within the purse) to convey the impression that your iPhone only has to be placed into the purse overall. Sleazy.
This is misleading advertising, bordering on fraud.
I think its more likely that the purse has a dock connector in the pocket, its not wirelessly charging the iPhone.
Hey guys! I'm the engineer behind the Everpurse.
Thanks iEd, people seem to be loving it so far. We have several dozen prototypes out in the world and have received nothing short of signs of product addiction when we ask for them back!
As for the docking mechanism. You are all correct, its a cleverly built docking mechanism inside one of the pockets. To get it right, we had to create new manufacturing processes to ensure a perfect fit every single time. Thats the more visual aspect of the purse, the other technical aspects are hidden and are all surrounding magnets, polarity, etc.
Congrats on a good idea (which is actually good enough to stand on its own merits) - but too bad about your deceptive claims. If only you'd been honest in your marketing as well as in these blog comments... As it is, your company appears untrustworthy.
PS- I notice now that you altered your mktg text at some point today to make it less misleading. Too bad it required shining some light on your claims to get to that point. iMore has edited/improved their description here as well, since my original post this morning. Your Kickstarter page still says, "all you have to do is slip your phone into the special charging pocket," which is still less than straightforward, given its context.
Well, you weren't "explicit" in the beginning, which is why I called this out — and apparently why you've made edits. And the edits were not just in the title, as you're now trying to suggest.
I don't have the orig. page, but there's at least one major change in the text I quoted here yesterday (see above): "all you have to do is slip your phone into the Everpurse pocket" — it's now changed to: "all you have to do is slip your phone into the special charging pocket inside the purse." This is a major change in your first Kickstarter paragraph. I'm almost positive that you changed your FAQ, too, although I don't have the original. It's sad that you're *still* spinning — pretending that all you did was "switch out 'magical' to 'seamless'" in the title.
Looking at your "News coverage" page today (http://everpurse.com/blog/post/news-coverage-everpurse), I see *four* references to "wireless" iPhone charging, when in fact, your product does not charge the iPhone wirelessly.
The irony here is that, as I said, this product looks like a good idea, and it doesn't require your serial obfuscation & dishonesty to promote it.
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MILWAUKEE---The Chicago Wolves surrendered three straight goals after an early 1-1 tie and fell 4-2 to the Milwaukee Admirals in an Amtrak rivalry matchup at the Bradley Centre Friday night.
Forwards Ryan Garbutt and Spencer Machacek tallied goals for Chicago. Despite the loss, the Wolves won the Amtrak Rivalry trophy by winning the season-series against Milwaukee, six victories to four. Machacek was named the Amtrak Rivalry MVP after posting nine points (2G, 7A) in nine games against the Admirals this year.
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The Admirals pulled ahead to 2-1, 12:34 into the opening frame when left wing Dylan Hunter took a feed in the left faceoff circle and fired the puck beating Pasquale, glove side.
Milwaukee left wing Kelsey Wilson brought the score to 3-1 for the Admirals 8:35 into the second period. The forward took a feed in the slot from center Mark Van Guilder and shot a blast into the back of the net.
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Pasquale (9-8-1) thwarted 17 shots before being replaced by Peter Mannino who stopped the only shot he faced in 10:37 of relief duty.
Chicago brought the score to 4-2 when forward Michael Davies fed the puck to Machacek allowing the right winger to pop it behind Smith 11:40 into the third frame.
Smith (13-6-2) blocked 21 shots for Milwaukee.
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Second Period---4, Milwaukee, Wilson 10 (Van Guilder, Thuresson), 8:35. Penalties---Garbutt, Chicago (interference), 6:14; Flynn, Milwaukee (interference), 11:17.
Third Period---5, Milwaukee, Bourque 16 (Thang, Mueller), 9:02; 6, Chicago, Machacek 19 (Davies, Krog), 11:40. Penalties---None.
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When Clive arrived just before the 3 pm signing, he was greeted by die-hard Barker fans, some of whom arrived at the crack of dawn. The throng, which included people from all over the country, stood three deep around the block and down the street at the Sunset Blvd. store nestled between tattoo parlors and music stores.
Clive signed for more than four hours and autographed everything from the figures to movie posters and even a fan's leg. The fan then headed out to a tattoo parlor to have the autograph tattooed on!
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BOONE, N.C.---Senior Z. Mason (Nashville, Tenn.) led the Chattanooga Mocs to their seventh win a row running away from Appalachian State 80-70 in the Holmes Center. Mason had a game-high 22 points with 12 rebounds a career-high-tying six blocks as Chattanooga won its first game in Boone since the 2005-06 season.
The Mocs are now 5-0 in the Southern Conference and lead the league by a full game over Western Carolina which is also undefeated at 3-0.
"One thing that we've been good with during the streak has been playing as a team," Head Coach Will Wade said. "It's in never knowing who is going to score or how we are going to. It hasn't been pretty, but we've had a lot of guys step up and tonight was no different.
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"We were able to get stops – string them together – and that helped us lead to our transition offense," Wade stated. It all started with stops. I think we got something like 16 of 18 stops at one point near the half, so we always talk about getting three stops in a row.
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Chattanooga led by as many as 16 in the second half on a Casey Jones (New Orleans, La.) layup, 51-35, with 14:41 remaining. The Mountaineers made runs, but the Mocs had answers. The hosts could not get closer than eight the rest of the way.
Bareika had 16 points, his best result in a SoCon contest. Jones added 14 points and 11 rebounds, while Ronrico White (Knoxville, Tenn.) came off the bench to chip in 13 points.
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Chattanooga had a 39-32 advantage on the glass. Its work on the offensive glass late was key with seven of its 10 for the game coming in the second 20 minutes, with four coming on two possessions setting up scores when ASU cut the lead to eight.
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Russell Scott Hardee, age 49, of Pawleys Island died Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Hardee was born in Georgetown on August 2, 1964, a son of Robert Earl Hardee and Patricia Harrelson Hardee.
He grew up in Georgetown and graduated from Winyah High School and Johnson and Wales Culinary College.
Mr. Hardee managed the restaurant 82 Queen and the Omni Hotel in Charleston, and later managed 82 Queen in Pawleys Island.
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Officiating will be the Rev. Lonnie Brazell.
The family will receive friends from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 20, 2013, at Island Café & Deli.
Sign a guestbook at www.mayerfuneralhome.com.
Memorials are suggested to the church or charity of one's choice.
Cynthia Parker
Cynthia Parker, age 87, of the Choppee Community of Georgetown died on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2013 at her residence.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013 at Nazareth A.M.E. Church, conducted by Rev. Joe Knowlin.
Burial will follow at the church's cemetery
Mrs. Parker was born on April 7, 1926 to the marital union of Albert Lawrence and Mrs. Rachel Ladson Lawrence.
She was a member of Nazareth African Methodist Episcopal Church and was active on the Senior Choir, the Steward Board, the Missionary Society and Freedom Six.
Her marriage to Ervin Parker Sr. was blessed with the births and rearing of nine children. Her husband and a daughter predeceased her.
Surviving are eight children, Julie A. Cordray, Jason P. Parker, Mary Ann Brown, Dr. Carrie B. Brown, Martha Cobb, Eliza Linen, Rosa Lee Hazel, and Ervin Parker.
Funeral services arrangements are entrusted to Wilds Funeral Home, LLC.
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