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Swim Team Management
The most popular platform for managing swim teams
Proven Swim Team Management Success
See what 3,000+ swim teams have already discovered; TeamUnify delivers results. Not to mention the peace of mind that comes with knowing that so many swim teams trust TeamUnify to effectively manage their success stories.
Low Cost, Low Risk Management System
Say goodbye to complexity. With no software or hardware to install, you don't have to wait to get going. You're up and running - seeing an astounding impact on your swim team's management abilities - in a fraction of the time.
Complete Swim Team Management
Every feature within the Teamunify platform has been specifically tuned to speak the language of swimming, guiding you to be a better swim team. At 14 generations, our software has proven itself over and over again. Delivering unrivaled performance managing the complex tasks that your swim team faces. All with unprecedented ease.
Completely Eliminate the Islands of Chaos
Today, your team is managed by islands of process and information that are largely disconnected. When information and process are disconnected, so are your team management results.
TeamUnify brings the entire management process under one platform to deliver super-charged management performance. All in a fraction of the time you currently spend.
OnDeck Coaching Performance Defined
Extracting maximum efficiency from your teams most valuable asset, your coaches, is crucial to a team's performance. With this in mind, TeamUnify set out to define a coaching tool so revolutionary that coaches are empowered to coach more by administrating less. OnDeck is a mobile powerhouse that delivers new found coaching productivity, right in the palm of a coach's hand. If that weren't enough, OnDeck is included FREE for every TeamUnify team.
Website Management
You'll find lots of companies that provide software to create a web site. More accurately, a less-than-stellar, non-swim specific web site. A web site built from TeamUnify's SwimOffice site builder technology helps you look like you know what you are doing and influences new member growth.
Create and edit your team web site with point and click ease. Point and click control enables any team administrator the ability to deliver instant changes to your team web site. Change templates, menus, color themes, backdrops, and more for that unique look. No HTML skills required!
It's time to leverage the power of TeamUnify to create and maintain a far better team web site that understands the language of swimming.
Why? Because we know your team is run by volunteers and all you want is to represent your team in the best light, with the least amount of effort. We also know that we have a track record of making swim teams look great.
Account Management
Centralize and manage all of your past and current members. Run rosters and attendance worksheets. Grant private 24x7 access for your families to view their billing information, meet declarations, times histories, job sign ups, fund-raising obligations and much more.
Your team will now run from the same database of membership. One Island of information. Gone are the days of administrators using outdated lists for their respective roles on the team.
The efficiencies created from centralizing this information are massive. Then enabling as many contributors access as needed, helps your administrators become more aware and effective.
From this improved awareness, confidence increases and your team is equipped to make far better management decisions. Decisions that help your team profit and grow.
Attendance Tracking
Most swim teams never track attendance because it's a completely manual process that takes hours and hours of a coach's time every month.
Introducing Attendance Tracking the TeamUnify way. Coaches will never again lift a pen to paper to track attendance.
SwimOffice Attendance Tracking is powered in conjunction with TeamUnify's OnDeck Coaching Tool for the iPhone or iPod Touch from Apple and Android powered devices.
Administration is a snap. Coaches select the swimmer or roster they want to track from within OnDeck and tap if they are in or out of the water. That's all it takes! Then, tap the Sync button and the attendance data is instantly uploaded to SwimOffice.
Need reports? OnDeck has integrated reports that allow you to see weekly, monthly or seasonal attendance reports. Plus we let you compare roster group attendance performance.
Need printed reports? Sign into SwimOffice and view individual swimmer attendance or download a full report to Microsoft Excel.
Intelligent color coding in SwimOffice's reporting shows if a swimmer has not been in the water for given billing period. Helping coaches and administrators see potential billing problems before they happen.
Email Communication
Sending emails is not hard to do. However, sending an email to one or many recipients from a centralized swim team management platform for team communication, automated event reminders, invoices, delivering auto generated team rosters, and then to see who has and has not read the e-mail, is nothing short of a technilogical marvel.
We call it Email Center and think you'll like it too.
Better yet, Email Center is extremely easy to use. Basically, we've developed an enterprise class e-mail communication and reporting platform without complexity, then seamlessly integrated it into everything else that you do to manage your swim team.
Job Signups
Ever feel like your're herding cats when it comes time to get your families to help out at events and swim meets? Not any more!
TeamUnify's Job Sign-up & Obligation Tracking system simplifies the entire process for both the administrators and families.
Click a button to send a templated e-mail to your entire team that invites them to visit the job sign-up page. From there, families will commit to the jobs they desire, on a first come, first serve basis. Never easier!
Your team administrator responsible for getting families to their jobs will eliminate hours of wasted time, enabling far greater family participation. Most of all, you will wipe away the frustration of getting volunteers to participate at your events.
Does your team requires parent involvement? Charge those that don't participate? If so, simply set the rules and SwimOffice will take care of the rest. Automatically calculating the financial penalties and charging the families for the exact amount required when you want.
The power and speed is unrivaled and like everything else, is seamlessly integrated into SwimOffice.
Sponsor Fundraising
The average TeamUnfy Team that leverages the Sponsor Fund Raising Platform generates $600 per year with little effort. Many generate thousands of sponsor dollars with a bit more effort.
The process is nearly effortless. Everything you need is at your fingertips; from the promotional / sales information, to the robust campaign management system that enables you to easily promote to potential sponsors.
All content has been created. There's no invention on your part. Simply create a campaign, then e-mail an invitation to prospect sponsors and / or your active families. The interested sponsor selects one of the three ad plans, pays for it via credit card, then designs their "coupon style" ads, with point and click ease, and publishes the ad to your web site. It's effortless!
Like everything else we deliver, the Sponsor Fundraising system is integrated directly into your team web site. It's easy money!
Account Registration
New and returning swimmer registrations are a snap and completely eliminate the paperwork nightmare your current registration process requires. Team administrators set up an online registration in a matter of minutes.
Simply establish a registration title, set different open dates for new and returning members, set limits for how many can register, set fees including multi-swimmer discounts, and more.
Create a promotional landing page, select 1, 2 or 3 of the templated waiver forms, all with "Click Wrap" digital signature tracking, customize the success page, and even create and / or edit the templated registration e-mail.
Send the e-mail announcement to unlimited contacts within TeamUnify's E-mail Center and watch the registrations and money pour in from the registration tracking system.
Both the set-up and registration interfaces are seamlessly integrated into the entire TeamUnify Platform.
Payment Processing
Billing and collecting money is your team's lifeline. We also know that it's one of the toughest tasks that any team faces.
TeamUnify's deep understanding of your billing needs has produced a billing and collections system that takes the suffering of the billing process away with an impressive amount of automation. As important, create dramatic improvements in cash-flow, and do it all with unmatched ease and automation.
The system is time tested and bullet-proof with 800+ teams having invoiced hundreds of millions of dollars. Your team can count on and trust the system to deliver on its promise to make your billing and collections process easier and more accurate than it is today.
Add to this the optional fully automated ability for your families to pay via credit card and / or ACH direct bank debits. The effort of collecting money becomes effortless.
To improve to your team's billing and collection process and make it happen with FAR less effort. Enable your families private access to their billing information, and do it more accurately by making the move to TeamUnify.
PCI DDS 3.1 Compliant
TeamUnify's software solutions are PCI DSS 3.1 compliant. TeamUnify has met and surpassed all standards required by the PCI Security Standards council. To achieve this standard, we have invested heavily in state-of-the-art network security software, security management policies, network architecture, and software design. Our policies are constantly evaluated and upgraded - focused on protecting cardholder data.
What is PCI Compliance?
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a proprietary information security standard for organizations that handle branded credit cards from the major card brands including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and JCB. The standard covers everything related to accepting payment cards, and to storing, processing, and/or transmitting cardholder data. The PCI standard was created to increase controls around cardholder data to reduce credit card fraud via data exposure.
How Did TeamUnify Become PCI Compliant?
TeamUnify has partnered with CompliancePoint to counsel, guide, and continuously monitor our company in establishing corporate security policies and provisioning technical infrastructure to ensure that we meet all PCI data security standards. These standards include strict requirements for businesses that store, process, or transmit payment cardholder data for online payments.
What Does This Mean for You?
Because TeamUnify maintains a secure network for all of our customers, you, your team, your families, and your customers can feel safe utilizing the TeamUnify software to process electronic payments. We automatically, at no additional cost, provide you with the tools you need to prove that your site is PCI Compliant, and handle this entire process for you on a regular, and on-going basis, for your team.
Meet Declaration
Revolutionize the way your team and coaches gather swim meet commitments with TeamUnify's Meet Declaration system.
No more sign-up sheets, random e-mails, conversations on deck, and phone calls to find out who's attending the upcoming swim meets. This painful and inefficient process takes hours of your coaches valuable time for every meet.
Coaches send a templated email to one group or many, inviting your families and swimmers to declare their participation, or not, in the upcoming meet. The swimmer declarations automatically drop into the TeamUnify Meet Entry system. No more transferring paper based commitments into a meet entry system, saving time and improving the meet declaration process for families and team administrators.
Coaches set how your families declare based on days and sessions or indicate which events they would like to swim. Your families and swimmers will love the system and coaches spend far less time managing this process.
Meet Entry Management
TeamUnify's Meet Entry creation system is seamlessly linked to the Meet Declaration system, enabling coaches to enter their swimmers into events far faster than ever before.
Coaches quickly build meet entries by swimmer or event, plus create relays with the powerful QuickEntries feature.
Multiple coaches can enter swimmers in the same meet at the same time, from different locations, dramatically speeding up the entire meet creation process.
Once the meet entries are created and approved, families and swimmers can sign-in and see which events they will swim. Billing families for meet fees is a snap with the seamless connection to the TeamUnify Billing system.
Everything needed to create and administer your meet is built right into the system. Combine this with the Meet Declaration system, the meets you attend will have far more swimmers attending and will reduce the time coaches spend entering meet information. This enables coaches to spend more time coaching and less time administrating.
Tracking & Reporting
The meet is over and you've uploaded the meet results. Now, let TeamUnify's Time Tracking system enable your families to sign-in to their private accounts to interactively view their swimmer's times, even compare their times to LSC and National Time Standards to see their best times in each individual event. You can also view and search the entire meet result for one or more swimmers, for all teams, who were at the meet and print reports.
As administrators, the system maintains your entire team's time histories. You can run and export tons of reports including top X reports, improvements time reporting, and many more.
Then, publish the reports with a few simple clicks directly to your team's web site. We've even included the ability to quickly build searchable team records for your team.
There's no need to worry about backing up your data! TeamUnify's fast, secure, and reliable infrastructure ensures all of your times data will be there when you need it.
Take your team branding to the next level
When it comes to standing out and branding your team, visual design has a huge impact on your teams online image. TeamUnify's team of skilled graphic designers are ready to get your team and website looking its best.
From a custom website template to a new custom team logo, the entire process is fun, inexpensive, and best of all you're going to love your new look!
- Website Templates
- Logo Design
Custom Template Design
Let TeamUnify's design professionals customize your team website. Our designers will handle all of the details, respond to your feedback, and deliver a stunning new team website that will help you to stand out from the field. It's an unbeatable value that will improve how your team is perceived by current families and those looking to join your team. Investing in your online image is a proven solution for increasing athlete retention and providing new member growth!
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Custom Logo Design
Your team logo is your calling card. From your website, banners and bumper stickers to your team apparel and swim-caps. A logo that delivers maximum impact is a critical component to your teams image. Letting the TeamUnify designers create a masterpiece will be one of the best investments your team will make. Do it today!
What's included in your Logo Redesign:
- Full color and black/white logo design
- Allows for two client reviews and modifications
- Design formatted for the web (bitmap)
- Integrated into current or custom web template
- Design formatted for all print graphics (eps, jpeg and pdf)


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Small Haskell program compiled with GHC into huge binary
Recently I noticed how large Haskell executables are. Everything below was compiled on GHC 7.4.1 with
-O2 on Linux.
Hello World (
main = putStrLn "Hello World!") is over 800 KiB. Running
stripover it reduces the filesize to 500 KiB; even adding
-dynamicto the compilation doesn't help much, leaving me with a stripped executable around 400 KiB.
Compiling a very primitive example involving Parsec yields a 1.7 MiB file.
-- File: test.hs import qualified Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec as P import Data.Either (either) -- Parses a string of type "x y" to the tuple (x,y). testParser :: P.Parser (Char, Char) testParser = do a <- P.anyChar P.char ' ' b <- P.anyChar return (a, b) -- Parse, print result. str = "1 2" main = print $ either (error . show) id . P.parse testParser "" $ str -- Output: ('1','2')
Parsec may be a larger library, but I'm only using a tiny subset of it, and indeed the optimized core code generated by the above is dramatically smaller than the executable:
$ ghc -O2 -ddump-simpl -fforce-recomp test.hs | wc -c 49190 (bytes)
Therefore, it's not the case that a huge amount of Parsec is actually found in the program, which was my initial assumption.
Why are the executables of such an enormous size? Is there something I can do about it (except dynamic linking)?

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Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature
Slojka, Ewa, The Catholic Historical Review
Truth and the Heretic: Crises of Knowledge in Medieval French Literature. By Karen Sullivan. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 281. $35.00.)
In Truth and the Heretic, Karen Sullivan sheds much light on the process of constructing medieval heresy as a social threat. On the basis of a wide selection of historical records and literary texts, she persuasively argues that the heterodox believer was perceived as destabilizing the status of truth, certainty, authority, law, testimony, and evidence in Christian society. She juxtaposes competitive portrayals of heresy in didactic and literary writings to suggest that literature could express the truths about religious and social dissidence that were inaccessible elsewhere.
The book draws its strength from associating heterodoxy with the epistemological anxieties of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The need to reestablish or revisit truth as a religious, social, and linguistic category lies at the heart of a large body of contemporary didactic, polemical, courtly, and popular works. As Sullivan demonstrates, the secretive and duplicitous heretics, concealing their errors with lies and ambiguities, left their imprint on much Catholic writing, troubadour lyric, Arthurian romance, and comic tale. Because the Cathars and the Waldensians defied their orthodox adversaries through secrecy and dissimulation, and while they denied and circumvented accusations of heresy, persecution of religious dissidence was hampered by a need to redefine what constituted evidence of error and what served as a basis for condemnation. Literature did not remain indifferent to the epistemological challenges posed by groups embracing heterodox interpretations of Christianity. Sullivan justly relates this negotiation of evidence in clerical writings to the celebration of ambiguity and indeterminacy as a source of pleasure in literary works.
However, while it is compelling for both historical and literary analysis to position heresy within the contemporary debate about the nature of truth, I think that the author misjudges how the two phenomena are related in suggesting that the appearance of heresy brought about the epistemological crisis recorded in didactic and fictional literature. …


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Our very own Blog Assistant Kohaku will be at New York Comic Con all weekend. We will be checking out all of the awesome things the convention has to offer and searching for the ways that Lego has left its mark at the convention. Join us for a fun filled weekend of Lego, cosplay, comics, games and more!
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Intel's truce with Nvidia shows industry's shifts
SAN FRANCISCO Intel Corp.'s decision to pay Nvidia Corp. $1.5 billion for the right to its patents highlights the seismic shifts the semiconductor industry is undergoing.
The licensing deal announced Monday comes as both companies are adapting to the new rules of the consumer electronics world, as mobile devices are changing the way chips are made.
Intel, dominant in PCs, wants in to smart phones and tablets, and needs better graphics technologies as high-definition video proliferates across the devices. Nvidia, a leader in graphics, wants to challenge Intel on its home turf: the processors that act as the "brains" of computers.
The rise of the new class of mobile computers has set Intel and Nvidia on a collision course, the results of which were on display in the terms of the settlement between the two companies.
Intel will pay the $1.5 billion over the next five years. Nvidia said the settlement is expected to increase its annual net income by 29 cents per share for the life of the contract. The companies' existing contract was set to expire March 31.
Intel is essentially paying to end a fight it started.
When it sued Nvidia in 2009, the fight was over "chipsets" - specifically, whether Nvidia had the right to keep making the type of chip, which uses an Intel design, without buying a new license from Intel. Nvidia countersued, claiming it was covered by a deal the companies struck in 2004.
Chipsets help a computer's processor talk to the rest of the machine, and at one point both Intel and Nvidia made them.
The prospect of not being able to use Intel's technology took such a toll that Nvidia left the chipset business in 2009. Yet the lawsuits lingered.
That set the stage for Monday's settlement, which shows how far from chipsets the argument extended.
On the surface, the deal highlights how important Intel thinks Nvidia's graphics technologies are going to be. Several analysts interviewed by The Associated Press said they were surprised by the amount of money Intel was willing to pay.
But the subtext of what wasn't part of the deal is also compelling.
Most notably, Nvidia won't get the right to Intel's main technology - its processors and other technologies built on the so-called x86 design, the usual design for PC processors.
That exclusion is significant because it reinforces that Nvidia's plans to enter the processor market won't involve a pact with Intel. Technology companies, even and especially rivals, often license each others' technologies to expand their overall markets or to avoid antitrust troubles.
Nvidia has long been rumored to be trying to dip its toes in the processor market. The fact that Nvidia didn't get the rights to Intel's processor designs reinforces that Nvidia plans to take a different path to take on Intel. That path involves licensing a different design that is already popular for phones and other mobile devices.
Intel's earlier mobile chips have been criticized as too power-hungry for phones and tablets, but its latest models appear to address those complaints.
The design Nvidia will use instead comes from a UK-based company called ARM Holdings, which has emerged as a dangerous opponent for Intel and its smaller rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., in mobile devices.
In a separate announcement, AMD on Monday ousted its CEO of two-and-a-half years, Dirk Meyer, in a surprising resignation driven by the belief on AMD's board that the company's growth prospects would be better under a new leader.
The widespread adoption of ARM designs, which are now being embraced by Microsoft Corp. for future versions of its Windows software, is changing the landscape of the computing industry, straining old relationships and forcing chip makers to forge new paths.


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Howard and Virginia (Walker) Prescott were married on Feb. 20, 1953, in the United Methodist Church, Oak Grove.
They have one daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Mike Cravens-Sikeston; three grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
We have been blessed with a loving family and many friends, making for lots of happy memories over the years.


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A student enrolled in a degree program at MSOE may also earn a Minor in Psychology. Upon completion of this course of study, students will have a broad knowledge of many areas of psychology, along with a strong understanding of the research methodology that plays an integral role in the field of psychology. Understanding of human behavior and thought processes is beneficial for students navigating the diverse workplaces of the 21st century.
24 Credit Hours
Required Courses:
SS-460 Foundations of Psychology
TC-261 Research Methods
One Statistics course:
MA-315 Introduction to Applied Statistics OR
MA-3610 Biostatistics OR
MA-340 Business Statistics OR
MA-262 Probability and Statistics OR
MA 3620-Random Variables and Statistics
Three other Psychology courses from the following choices:
SS 461 Organizational Psychology
SS-462 Developmental Psychology
SS-464 Human Factors in Engineering and Design
SS-466 Abnormal Psychology
SS-467 Social Psychology
Two Social Science or Humanities courses from the following:
HU-4200 Linguistics
SS-474 The Family
SS-476 Death & Dying
SS-475 Addictions & Compulsions
It would be ideal for students to take Foundations of Psychology before other psychology courses, but not necessary. Statistics will be utilized in the Research Methods course.
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Fitness for the festive season
BY Damien Kelly
Counteract festive indulgences with this speedy but super-effective routine
It's bad timing, isn't it? Holidays, being away from our fitness routine, lots and lots of scrumptious tucker that's a little heavier than usual, and possibly a little more beer and bubbly than normal, too. And all this during summer, when we want to look our best. Bugger! But don't worry, we have a solution.
This high-tempo workout can be done in less than 30 minutes but really packs a metabolic punch to help you counteract the silly season silliness. Don't give up on your fitness!
The workout
Your first step is to choose the appropriate challenge. Option A is advanced and Option C the easiest, but not easy, while Option B is somewhere in the middle. If you're not sure, start with Option A and see how you fare.
Your next step is to do the workout! You don't need to do all of the reps for an exercise in one go. That's not the idea. Instead, do a comfortable amount of an exercise (about 10-15 reps) and then move on to another. Have a notepad handy so you know where you are up to for each exercise. Keep whittling away the reps until you've finished them all.
To keep yourself honest, time how long the workout takes so you can challenge yourself to do better next time.
One-armed row
See our video on how to do bent over rows.
See our video on how to do sit-ups.
See our video on how to do push-ups.
See our skipping workout.
Silly Season Tips
I'm sure you're a busy Lizzie this time of year, so you need to make sure there is still an element of balance in your life.
- Try to stick to three to five alcohol-free days a week.
- If there are energy-heavy foods on offer at functions, make sure you carefully watch your portions.
- If you are consuming more heavy and energy-dense foods than usual you may need some highly metabolic workouts. Increase the intensity of your workouts so you can stay looking and feeling good during this time of year.
- If you're going away on holidays think about what exercise gear you can take. Your trainers, workout clothes and a skipping rope are a good start.
- Sleep is something our bodies and minds crave, so if you are having later nights, look at when you can do some catch-up. Try not to have a consecutive run of short sleeps.
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Kate Johnson, 28, is a model and graphic designer. She likes walking her dogs and strength training in her home gym.
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Vinay is an engineer in London . His father's demise brings him to Chennai. He feels if one has to reach his goal in life it is better to win over your enemies and take them along. He finds out that his late father had another family, and that his step sister wants to seel his home. With the money that he has sent home and saved so far from his earnings, he plans to make it big in the construction business. After clashes with his sister, another tragedy occurs with a rowdy, who wants to make vendetta with the family and rest of the story how they sort out the house issue.
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CHILLICOTHE, Ohio - Less than 24 hours earlier, Tom Sliva's St. Clairsville Red Devils had the look of a state tournament qualifier. The Saints had just ridden another superlative masterpiece from ace southpaw Sammy Vincenzo who shut out a formidable Frankfort Adena club on three hits.
In Friday's Division-III regional championship, a worse-case scenario developed and try as they might, the Red Devils' postseason date with destiny had come to a shattering, bitter end. There was far too much adversity to overcome though St. C. came reasonably close to pulling off another improbable comeback.
Wheelersburg (27-2) came off an early deficit to mount a 9-4 lead, then held off a late Red Devils rally for a 10-9 triumph at VA Memorial Stadium.
Three St. C. pitchers combined to walk four batters and hit two more. As fate would have it, all six Pirates baserunners came in to score. Furthermore, Wheelersburg displayed an uncanny knack for collecting clutch hits. Eight Pirates touched home as a result of two-out base knocks.
''Obviously, those things can't happen in any game, much less in a game of this caliber,'' Sliva said. ''In four innings, we get two outs, then can't get the third one. Totally frustrating.''
Sliva preferred to distribute postgame accolades to his team, particularly the Red Devils' six seniors.
''You have to believe you can succeed and our kids did that with regularity,'' Sliva said. ''Sure, it hurts to come up a run short with a chance (to get to Columbus) but our guys gave everything they had and what more can you ask?''
That sentiment was echoed by senior D.J. Busby whose superb career came to an end.
''(Our seventh-inning comeback) showed what we were all about,'' he said.
After Wheelersburg junior designated hitter Ben Arnold lined a two-run, inside-the-park home run in the first, St. C. roared back against Pirates starter Austin Boyer.
With Vincenzo, Matt Kinnick and Busby on base, left fielder Cory Kotopka clubbed a bases-clearing double to the fence in center field. Moments later, Kotopka raced home on a wild pitch and it was 4-2.
But Pirates skipper Mike Estep brought on reliever Wade Martin who immediately restored order, retiring 10 Red Devils in order.
Meanwhile, the Bucs battled back, eventually mounting a five-run lead. Both Arnold and Martin led the charge, teaming for four hits and five RBI.
Martin's final blow, a seventh-inning, run-scoring triple, came with two out and proved to be the game-winner when St. C. staged a last-gasp rally.
Busby's two-out double came off Pirates ace Derek Moore who had shut out Piketon the day before.
Kotopka followed with an RBI single and after third baseman Luke Smith doubled to deep left, catcher Riley Carlton dumped a two-run single into shallow center for a 10-9 score.
Sophomore Joel Giffin came on to pinch-hit but was retired on a game-ending ground ball to third base.
Wheelersburg's Arnold contributed three singles in addition to his inside-the-park round tripper. Martin singled, doubled and tripled for five RBI.
Kotopka's double and two singles also resulted in a five-RBI afternoon. Starter Chris Milhoan, frosh 'Zupe' Arnold and Kinnick teamed for five Ks and four walks.
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Vendors Command Big Crowds Under Clouds at Red Hook Park
Between thunderstorms, long lines at new trucks.
Not even a looming thunderstorm yesterday could keep away the hundreds who came to express their ardor and devotion to the Red Hook vendors. Lines snaked up and down the sidewalks of Bay and Clinton streets, as a half-dozen trucks vied for the attention of the crowd. The lines were wildly, and inexplicably, uneven: The huarache truck had a solid half-hour wait, while just a few hundred feet away two ladies selling fantastic empanadas laden with warm chopped onions, chunks of stew beef, and whole olives had no line at all. Likewise with a vendor of ice-cold seviche next door. The crowd generally agreed that the quality of the food was pretty much in line with previous years but found the experience of waiting on a sidewalk for catering trucks was nothing like the homey, ramshackle bliss of yore. This thought cast a subtle but palpable pall over the experience, comparable in its way to the clouds hovering above. More images of Sunday at Red Hook park, after the jump.
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Earlier this week we presented a photograph and asked our readers to see if they could identify two "creatures" side by side hidden in this rock formation near Pinnacle Peak Park.
We were deliberately sketchy in describing what to look for, because we didn't want to give it away. Our only hint was that one of the creatures most definitely was not common to the Arizona desert.
Today, we present the photos with the two images highlighted — the face of an adult gorilla on the left, and what appears to be a human baby on the right — as observed by Illinois visitor Amanda Houk, who took the photo, and her friend John McGovern, who submitted it to us.
OK, so it isn't about to reach the same status as say, Camelback Mountain, but we figured it was worth sharing and letting you decide for yourself.


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NHL 11 - ReviewAlex St-Amour, posted on 01 October 2010 / 3,957 Views
Growing up in Canada, autumn was always my absolute favourite time of year. The crisp fresh air and leaves changing colors were nice distractions from the tedious task of igloo construction, but the real draw of fall was that it meant hockey season was just around the corner. Soon, skates would be sharpened, sticks taped and rinks frozen, so that young and old alike could partake in our national pastime. However in recent years autumn has taken on a whole new meaning, as it also heralds the arrival of EA Sports' annual contribution to the best sport on virtual ice.
Gamers familiar with the formula established in previous NHL titles will feel right at home with NHL 11. Most of what the latest edition offers in terms of new content consists of either new modes or gameplay tweaks. They don't change the experience dramatically, but do add a serious layer of depth that sometimes makes NHL 11 feel more like a simulation then a fast paced, no holds barred hockey contest. This is made perfectly clear with some of the new additions, like broken sticks (because that's every hockey fans favourite part of the game) and video reviews of iffy goals where the game will either call no goal or award you (or more often the computer) with the score. These are both welcomed, albeit slightly unbalanced additions; they always seem to favour the computer in their rulings, making you feel 'cheated' more often than not.
The designers also made some changes to the game's pacing, ramping up the default game speed to slightly unrealistic levels, which might irk some of the more 'realism' driven fans, but in fact this makes the games feel more action packed and fast paced then they would under NHL 10's speed settings. Also, passing has been slightly touched upon, now requiring the player to hold the pass button a fraction of a second longer to make an accurate pass. This is a big deal to many gamers out there who are complaining that their passes are no longer making it to their intended target, however the change was made to add a bit of 'hockey sense' to the experience so that gamers have to start thinking a few moves ahead just like the real hockey players.
The controls also remain unchanged from the previous instalments; you move your player with the left control stick, while the right stick is used to both shoot and aim your passes as well as to deliver hits when you don't have the puck. Passing is handled with the right shoulder buttons and the 'Y'/▲ button is used for pressing your opponent against the boards. The game does feature some new deeks and advanced stick handling, all controlled via a combination of rocking the right stick sideways and various button presses. Just as in NHL 10 you can fully customize your control and gameplay settings, allowing you to play the game the way you want to.
In terms of gameplay modes, franchise staples such as 'Be A GM' mode and 'Be A Pro' (franchise and solo careers respectively) make their expected returns; however, they remain largely unchanged from NHL 10. Instead, the developers decided to focus their efforts on the new EAUHL (or EA Sports Ultimate Hockey League) mode, which allows gamers to get serious about their hockey experience. As you collect trading cards you can build your perfect team right down to the minutest of details. However it can quickly become overwhelming for some gamers, as the EAUHL expects you to already have very deep knowledge of hockey and the players involved, not just from the NHL but juniors and international leagues as well. In other words, the game expects you to be Canadian.
Naturally the game features a plethora of multiplayer modes, ranging from the humble 2 player shootout to an epic online EAUHL competition. In this year's edition the online navigation has been smoothed out somewhat with fewer dropped matches and a quicker, stronger feeling connection. This translates well in-game as well, as the more matches I played the less lag I noticed. Of course, teaming up with real life friends for some 'on the couch' multiplayer action is just as fun and frantic as ever, and with more available teams to choose from than ever you can bet that NHL 11 will be a popular choice for multiplayer matches.
NHL 10 suffered in the presentation department by being a near carbon-copy of NHL 09. Well, number 11 fully atones for this with stellar, brighter visuals that actually add to the realism of the experience, with dynamic camera angles during the cutscenes that show the impeccable level of detail that went into something as important as the players, to something as mundane as the ice conditions. You will actually feel as if you are in the building right along with the 20,000 other fans. Speaking of the fans, the game atmosphere - especially during the playoffs - reaches a fever pitch, with people waving towels, more intense goal celebrations and louder music. I actually had to turn down my TV volume at one point during a playoff game because the sound had just become too intense.
One of the biggest changes to the classic NHL formula that EA Canada have implemented is the swapping of the old animation-based hits for physics-based collisions. This makes every single hit feel unique and much more painful than before. Now this might sound like some clichéd, exaggerated PR crap, but trust me, it truly does make the experience feel closer to the real thing, not to mention that you can now see where a player might have been injured on a hit instead of just taking the game's word for it. The changes don't stop there, however, as player faces animate more realistically (I swear I just saw Crosby cuss) and goal celebrations can now be controlled for some really over-the-top cheers.
The music is once again rock and metal oriented, however the selection seems a bit poorer this time around than in NHL 10, with many songs just not being 'intense' enough for the action. Furthermore, many of the tracks sound muffled and are drowned out by sound effects and menu navigations. During matches the tracks are near muted and it seems like the same ones repeat over and over (there's only so many times I can hear Europe's 'The Final Countdown' without losing a bit of my sanity). Reprising their roles as play-by-play announcers are Gary Thorn and Bill Clement, who address an issue of mine from last year's game by having diverse lines that rarely repeat, and in-game trivia that is actually interesting, clever and sometimes even funny.
I have always criticised game series that pump out sequels on an annual basis for lacking in value. I mean, the day you buy it you basically have a year to enjoy it before it completely depreciates in value and gets cast aside for the new and improved version. While NHL 11 will eventually succumb to this same fate, it does feature enough modes and replayability (especially in the very deep EAUHL) that for the one year that this game is relevant you will find it hard to put down. Add to this the frequent updates and tournaments that you can find online and you will find yourself playing long after the Stanley Cup has been awarded.
Last year in my review of NHL 10 (feeling nostalgic, read it here), I mentioned that if NHL 11 doesn't raise the bar you should look elsewhere to satisfy your cravings for virtual hockey. Well, it's been a year now and I can safely say that NHL 11 does in fact deliver the goods. It's a much deeper, prettier, louder, harder and more enjoyable game than its predecessor and is without a doubt the best hockey video game currently available across all systems. EA Sports has crafted a game that everybody (not just puck obsessed Canadians) can enjoy, so you should definitely tape that stick and lace up those skates.
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I have been doing a lot of soul searching these past few years into the the cyclic nature of the market, I first found AGNC when Ben and a few others were regulars here talking about the runs to EX div and how this was such a great stock to trade.
I had found AGNC because I determined that folks wanted yield and that they would be drawn most to the highest yielding securities around the time that security paid up. Well I looked and noted a distinct payday for those buying one month out to EX and selling on or about the EX date minus one day(DBEX). In fact that method of trading usually made as much as the 1.40 dividend at the time and more often much more.
In all of the roughly 20 quarters of AGNC's life I believe we fizzled on only one quarter doing exactly that. One out of 20...those are odds!! So I have enjoyed the rewards of AGNC and a bunch of us starting with Ben, I believe, branched off into the MLPs between the AGNC runs. It was a convenient distraction to fight boredom. The MLPs were not as consistent as AGNC(who is?), and offered hit and miss rewards. They often had lower volume on options and much wider spreads which made for less return on investment.
The cyclic pattern was there also, though, and those who played consistently, quarter after quarter, were rewarded for their efforts. The trouble was consistency, money management(bet consistency), and the will to continue in the face of losses which were often devastating when risk was not well managed. I remember swearing I would nhever trade the hated HTS or NLY or KMP or LINE again. On many of those I haven't. Not that there is not money to be made but I got mad at the companies for not giving me what I felt I deserved. Wrong!!
The market is neutral and owes me nothing. It is an ATM teaming with lots of card holders and cash for the taking. And here we are swiping our cards trying to get the ATM to pay. Why do some card holders receive nice green 50's and 100's dropping into the ATM tray, ..more
The only way you can be sure of a successful strategy is to correct for the stock price changes that have occurred in AGNC during the 20 quarters over which you did your analysis. Since AGNC has had a return to shareholders of over 30% per year for the last four years, many trading strategies are likely to look successful.
The trading strategy of GLAD/3% is not for AGNC. I should have placed an OT before my Title. This strategy is for the select stocks I "said" to place in the model. If you re-read my posts you will find the securities. These stocks have shown 80-90 % success over 24-35 time periods.
nice one Doc. but before any readers take a flyer in AGNC probability trading, they need to remember a few things.
1) the dice CAN come up snake eyes more times than you have the cash to stand the losses. so don't bet the entire farm every roll.
2) if losing even one time is more than you can stand, don't do it.
3) transaction costs are going to be higher
4) since you can't hover over the keyboard constantly, get used to using limit orders.
5) don't second guess yourself. stick with the plan unless you have a real reason to abort it
6) a long run of wins is just as likely as a long run of losses. don't get cocky and throw the whole farm in there.
""85% of 24 cycles is 19 wins and 5 losses""
Should read "80% of..."".
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should follow the pattern of the past. Oh, the company can go BK, or the board found fraudulent, then yes, the terms change(look at AT and the misfeasance claimed this past few weeks). That is why I selected in the SS, stocks which have a history of consistency, good management, high volume(200k+), etc.
My earlier gum ball lottery analogy with red and blue balls might be better explained to illustrate this point I am belaboring re historical cyclic probability with GLAD/3%. The securities(all of them) have a 80+% historic win rate using GLAD/3%. Most over 24 months, since the inception of some's monthly dividend. 85% of 24 cycles is 19 wins and 5 losses. Float those in the Lotto mixer and a blue ball(loss) shows up two times in a row. What do you have left? One might say an 80% chance of a blue ball turning up again. NO!! This is not a coin flip. Based on historical probability the two blue balls are removed from the mix and NOW(this is key) you have a probability based upon GLAD/3% and historical probability of 3 losses and 19 wins or 86.4% chance of a red(win) turning up next time.
The current event is totally random and anything can happen but those are the odds. If two more blue balls turn up in a row, you are getting happy while your fellow trader is quitting. Now your odds for the next cycle are 19 out of 20 or 95% odds of a red(win) ball turning up .
So that was a lengthy answer to this statement of yours, "" a long run of wins is just as likely as a long run of losses""". You voiced exactly what most people think. It is a fallacy. As I have shown, GLAD/3% and the SS is antithetical to "Long run of losses" and "likely" being bed-mates.
Excellent advice Mrwizard,
If I may comment on several points. On your points as numbered:
1) Money management is key. 10% of risk capital should be the limit in this model for any trade
2) Exactly, which is why most will not make the attempt
3)True, but moot, as a round trip/month on each security is at most $16.00(for one round trip)
4) There is a specific time to enter a trade with GLAD/3% and a specific time out. No need for hovering, hence less stress and uncertainty
5) absolutely and again a second major reason why most will not be successful. They will want to tweak the rules, get in or out early or late and abandon the method's rules, not trade the same stock "next" time, just to see it zoom forward with themselves on the sidelines, etc.
6) Disagree. This idea abrogates or disavows probability theory and its reality in being a predictor of future events. The words "likely" and "long" should not be used in the same context when speaking about future probability when we have gamed the system for the future outcome
This is a common mistake and why, again, traders will not see the 'forest for the trees'. We look back at the certainty of the past.. There are those reading this at this moment, who take pause at that statement because they assume the past is uncertain. It is not. We can look at the historical record and "see" how a specific stock performed. There is no uncertainty how it performed. It is recorded for all to see...it is certain.
We can devise a mathematical model which I have done which takes advantage of that past certainty, which if it had been employed over the two to three year look back would have produced 80+% wins. The sample size needs to be large. (the larger the more probable of repeat-ability in the future). Now you are thinking yes, but that was the past, and this is the present and the present is uncertain. Agreed. That is why anything can happen on the current trade. Given a years worth of trades(12 cycles) your results (cont)...
Thumbs up! Very well said.
While others keep depositing money into the machine, with no return? It is , IMO, the lack of four things:
1) The cognitive recognition that there is money to be made in the market. The realization that the market is neutral and owes me nothing, nor is it evil and want to ruin me. It is a blind machine hoisted or lowered on the backs of all the card holders depositing and removing their monies. The same card holders never trade the same at any separate moment. There is a continual stream of new card holders depositing and removing their money each moment. Hence the uncertainty of the moment as new and old players enter their card swipes on a tic by tic basis throughout the day, week, month and years.
2) The lack of a consistent plan. The mechanics. I smile as I see the different posters here suggest this stock or that stock that they got a tip on from a friend of a friend of a friend. Often they are right, like Ray85's NTI(Thanks Ray..I made a little money on that). But this "tip" business while fine, is not a mechanical consistent, reliable source of income on a monthly basis. It relies on "others" to supply you with another bone, to last maybe a while or not. We need a trading paradigm. You can buy these for as much as you want to spend or get them free from lugs like me...;-) The point is you need "RULES". Mechanical entry and exit points.
3) You need securities to plug into your mechanical machine in order to benefit from what the machine was created to produce. It won't do you much good to plug any old stock into most mechanical trading systems, because most machines were created to take advantage of an edge. That edge might be found in energy, or utilities or precious metals and interest rates, ad infinitum. I sought out a machine that would take advantage of predicting buy points for cyclic securities. Cyclic securities I have found often surround the feeding of the fish. The fish get fed at EX div time. The higher the...more...
So can you do it? Can you tell yourself that you are tired of staring at the ATM, teaming with money while everyone else is getting theirs and you are more often than not buying high and selling low. I just responded to a SA article, where some genius was stating that these Mopays(monthly paying dividends), were not good to trade, because of the measly(his word) change to be made. I told him I will be GLAD(sorry) to take my 20 measly cents/month times the SS, which equals 1.20 x 10,000 shares/month. What a maroon...;-)
So do you have the will to trade each month even in the face of draw downs in order to reap eventual reward? Do you think that a year of trading these stocks which I have shown to produce winners 80-90% of the time are all of a sudden going to produce winners only 10% of the time?? Only 60% of the time?? NO!!! Can it happen? Yes!! Look at it this way..this example is a little lame(I'll tell you later why) buy it hopefully will cement my point in those teetering doubtful minds. We have one of those Lotto ball gum machines with 9 Red balls and one blue ball, all randomly blowing around inside.
The machine stops when you exit CLM, red you win(93% this past 15 months), and blue you lose(7% this past 15 months). Now there is a chance, since each drop is random, that the blue ball will turn up every single time. Why our model is different than this random drop is that we skew the ball by tilting it with our GLAD/3% Rules, so that we are forcing 9 drops out of ten to turn up red even though we know that blue might show up, and it does 7% of the time.
So this was the final point...get your mind right and trade without fear. Read Mark Douglas's book Trading in the Zone. I am reading back through it a second time. He is a kindred spirit and states much more eloquently these simple themes I have been discussing. I am away on the road so I wish you all well while I am in Sunny FL this next week...;-)
Much happiness and success!!
yield, the more the food. The more the food the more fish gather. the more the fish gather the higher the price goes. Very simple. So lets select high yielding stocks that have consistent low to high(EX) runs on a consistent greater than 80% historical probability basis. Lets get paid every month(I like that). If a trade is going against us we only have a few days before we exit as we stay in the market the fewest number of days as possible.
That is why I don't like buying early for KMP, LINE or any security. Randomness and uncertainty. You have your balls hanging out in the air waiting to get home(EX div date) and there is more opportunity to get them chopped off. Very simple. I will take small consistent meals each month than wait for a possible meal every two to three months(think MTGE...wait for the meal a few weeks B4 EX or at the spo), or on these monthly SS.
OK so you need the right stocks.
4) Finally, the most important and the one that 98% of traders will fail to employ is mental discipline. You have the knowledge that there is money to be made. You have a mechanical method to enter and exit the market(GLAD/3%). You have the food(securities) to feed the model(SS). Now all you have to do is simple, but, trust me, it is the most difficult. It is the resolute gut determination to trade without fear and to obey the rules. There is no fear when you have probability on your side. You see the stock go down. You rejoice and buy more with 3% Rule. You know you will be exiting the trade in a few days to weeks. What is the worse case scenario. You lose 20 cents, so what..you are that much closer to a win as probability tells you that.
If you have a 90% probability of winning and you lost once, its not like flipping a coin where each flip is a new 50/50 probability, You have dramatically moved the odds of a win in your favor on the next month. Sure each month is random and you can have another loss but the odds (80-90%) argue way against that outcome. more..


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I've upgraded many parts on my 05 Rockhopper, but havn't changed the cranks. I've been watching ebay, considering which cranks to buy when I picked up an older Trek MTB that just had a new set of Shimano Deore Hollowtech cranks installed. I know these aren't XT cranks, but are they enough of an upgrade that I should make the swap or is this basically an even swap and not worth the effort. BTW, both use a square taper BB. The Truvativ is 172.5mm and the Shimano is 170mm.
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Local economic expansion in 2012 fell far behind the national urban average.
Gross domestic product in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metro area grew by 0.7 percent, according to recent U.S. Department of Labor data. The average metro rate nationally advanced by 2.5 percent.
GDP counts the total market value of goods and services.
The area's GDP advanced to $17.51 billion, up from $17.39 billion the previous year, government data indicate. The $120 million expansion in the economy ranked the region's growth rate 287th among the nation's 381 largest metro areas.
GDP declined in 76 metro areas nationally.
The tepid 2012 movement followed a GDP advance of 1.1 percent in 2011, which placed the region's growth rate at 234th among 366 metro areas.
In both years, the area's economy performed in or near the bottom third among U.S. metro areas.
"Real GDP is rising and that's not a bad thing," said Satyajit Ghosh, Ph.D., a University of Scranton economist. "We are on the right side of the picture, however sluggish it was."
As the local service economy expands, the goods-producing sector continued to drop, from 28 percent of GDP in 2008 to 20 percent in 2012, said Teri Ooms, director of the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Development, a local research and analysis organization.
"The private-sector industry grew more than the public side in the last five years, and that is positive," she said. "We are on the right path."
But the relatively flat economic expansion also reflects an ongoing jobless crisis in the region. The area has held the state's highest unemployment rate since April 2010 and the jobless rate at the end of 2011 and 2012 was above 9 percent.
In February, the region's jobless rate dipped to 7.7 percent, the lowest since January 2009. But much of the recent decrease in regional unemployment resulted from a decreasing labor force rather than a burst of hiring.
"It is a jobless economic recovery," Dr. Ghosh said.
The region's 2012 GDP growth compared unfavorably with most similarly sized Pennsylvania metro areas.
Allentown, Harrisburg and Lancaster all experienced economic growth of at least 2 percent and Reading's GDP advanced by 1.3 percent. Among urban areas in the state with similar populations, only York trailed the region, with a 0.4 percent gain.
"There was growth," Dr. Ghosh said. "But it was way less than most other metropolitan areas."
The expansion in the area's economy was driven by natural resources and mining, services, and leisure and hospitality, government data indicate. Financial activity had the largest retreat as a contributor to GDP, followed by decreases in the information and construction sectors.
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Monday, August 30, 2010
FASHION FIX: Monfils makes it five in his K-Swiss catastrophe
Gael Monfils was taken to the distance today but escaped a first round ousting at the US Open edging out homeboy Robert Kendrick 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-4. The match was not without controversy and I'm not just talking about his K-Swiss (more on that in a bit.)
With La Monf serving 4-all at deuce, a return by Robert appeared to clip the 17th seed's racquet before going long. The call went against the American who proceeded to complain to the chair with no success. The Frenchie managed to hold then break for the win. If anyone has a clip of the incident feel free to leave the link in the DtL Peanut Gallery.
Now, about this K-Swiss get up. If there was an early candidate for worst outfit of the US Open THIS would be it. I mean, talk about full-on FUG. Are those claw marks around his neck? Was this evil clown-inspired? Even the fit looks a bit tight. I can live with the shorts but that's really about it.
I do like this photo from his match today, though:
Yeah, let's just leave this post with a good feeling, shall we?
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Regrets that are Okay to HaveSeptember 5, 2008 | reegsta | 7 Comments
"In order to survive, gotta learn to live with regrets" – Jay-Z
While most of us including myself have a no regrets mantra, sometimes we need to swallow our pride to admit that there are a few we might possess. True if a few things worked out differently, it might have tipped the delicate balance of your life. Had the domino fell another way, then who knows what position you would currently be in. You could be in a better or worse situation, but you'll never really know. You shouldn't always look back and lament these, so it's best to chalk up the L and keep it moving and attribute it to experience.
So ignoring all chain reactions and eastern Asian religious beliefs, here are a few regrets that are really okay to have:
Having a significant other in college – One year is fine, and maybe even two. Having guaranteed vag is always a little easier. However if you were single, your game potentially would've been sharper and possibly your college experience would've been much more fun, unless you currently have an STD.
Not seeing your favorite athlete or musician live – One day I'll be able to tell my future kids that I saw Michael Jordan play basketball, but I'll leave out the detail that he was in a Wizards jersey. Athletes have a shorter shelf life in their prime, and you really don't appreciate them until after they retire. Do yourself a favor and find out when your favorite artist comes in town next and buy tickets if you haven't seen them perform.
The One that got away – This isn't necessarily the One who you'd think you would marry, but it can also be interpreted as that one girl you could have had. Blame it on timing, on lack of balls, on another girl or on the weather, but guys will always fish for an excuse to make themselves feel better about this situation. It's really okay though, since most of us do have that one girl in mind.
Buying an MP3 player that's not an iPod – While I'm no Apple fanboy, these other gadgets are just glorified bootlegs of the original. You may just say Apple has a superior marketability, but they also have a superior product. Even Bill Gates would rather have an iPod over a Zune.
Accepting that first job offer – Once you see that starting salary on your offer letter outweighing your career earnings, you tend to sign the dotted line right away. Generally speaking, your first job dictates your career path unless you plan to go back to school and start over. So make sure you're passionate about what you accept.
Moving out the nest right away – It is definitely hard to depend on your parents after not living with them for the past 4 or 5 years. But it's also harder living paycheck to paycheck those first couple of years into the workforce. Maybe it would've been better to eliminate your debt and build your savings before trying to make it out on your own.
That tattoo you got that you no longer like – Whether it's the tribal band on your bicep, misspelled Chinese characters on your chest, or what's her name on your arm, you're reminded everyday of your decision. Maybe you should have tried those temporary tattoos for a while first, but take solace in knowing that there are now more and more ways to get rid of an unwanted tattoo.
Listening to non-investment people about investment advice – Unless you have financial savvy, it is pretty difficult to make sound economic decisions. You should never invest in anything just because everyone else is. Make sure your risk-taking is always calculated. Who wouldn't regret losing money anyway?
Hooking up with that one girl – Unless she gave you that aforementioned STD or you inadvertently impregnated her or is she was your homie's ex, then you shouldn't have this regret.
Buying the extended warranty on electronics –It probably wasn't the best move, but you shelled out the extra $349 for a 3-year extended warranty on a $1,999 HDTV you bought a few years back. Extended warranties are a huge cash cow for all retailers, but the rule of thumb when purchasing these warranties is that you shouldn't be insuring what you can afford to buy again, but what you can't. The rationale being that to replace a $99 DVD player is easy, but having to buy another $1,999 HDTV would suck.
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7 Responses to "Regrets that are Okay to Have"
Harry Cox on
September 5th, 2008 3:44 pm
Is it possible to be regretful that I didn't do more regretful things in the past?
LC on
September 5th, 2008 4:14 pm
That is so true about extended warranties! I always use to buy them (so stupid) and never used it. After awhile,and after some great advice from my brother, I stopped throwing money to these retailers! We bought a TV for about 1400 and had an extended warranty; it broke and I found out that the warranty we bought didn't even apply – we got screwed and that was the last time!
kram on
September 6th, 2008 11:09 am
its ok to regret not making that 3 pointer at Madison Square Garden to potentially win $10,000 on Christmas Day right in front of the LA Lakers bench which included the likes of Kobe Bryant. I dont regret that at all.
I link therefore I am. « God'll get you for that, AKCB. on
September 7th, 2008 6:57 pm
[...] Ploomy.com lists some regrets that it's ok to have. [...]
Mike Calimbas on
September 8th, 2008 11:23 am
And here I am kicking myself in the head for buying the XBOX 360 extended warranty. It's a double-edged sword. I got the red-ring the first time when I passed on the warranty. Now that I purchased it, the xbox will be alive for 30 years.
Ben on
September 8th, 2008 12:30 pm
Regrets, I've had a few…
That which don't kill me, only makes me stronger.
LC on
September 8th, 2008 3:15 pm
ah Mike – the red ring of death! we had that happen to us twice. Just like you, once without the warranty and once with. Im sure that warranty will be worth it! i also heard you get the ring when its overheated too much. who knows!


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I hope they improved the clothing textures. In AC:R, there were some cutscenes that zoomed in on the clothing and it was all 'fuzzy'.
Even if the graphics were not changed, we PC gamers get more tessellation + other DX11 options .
I also hope they do the animation justice. In AC:R, I feel as if they just added masks to the Assassins and moved the camera angles to behind characters so they did not have to animate the facial features.


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The Queens Last Warriorby Caitlin Hackett
Throw Pillow made from 100% spun polyester poplin fabric, a stylish statement that will liven up any room. Individually cut and sewn by hand, each pillow features a double-sided print and is finished with a concealed zipper for ease of care. Sold with or without faux down pillow insert.
a little bee piece just 6.5" tall, done in micron pen and water color, with the honey on his legs in metallic gold acrylic.
Really gorgeous.. Congrats!
thank you!
Great work!
Brilliant! Saint Sebastian (although the bee's a she).
Amazing! I love the fact that there's almost a narrative going on already.
Good call, Geoffrey! Caitlin, this piece is gorgeous and haunting and deliriously suggestive of another war-torn world of wonder. Just love it.
thank you everyone, I've been fascinated by the situation with the vanishing honey bees, and the idea of war on a minute level, this idea of how the loss of even the tiniest of lives can have a profound and devastating effect on the world, especially in the case of bees and other pollinators. @Geoffrey, I love the relation to St. Sebastian, it's odd I didn't see it until you pointed it out, it may be time to look back to my book of Saints again
Oh my, so lovely.
Caitlin, I found your last comment fascinating. Thank you for sharing some of the subtext with us!
Such a great little work!
I LoOooOOoOoOOve it!
its amazing!!
Wonderful work!
Yes I understand now. The affects on this little world allows you to draw: filling you with energy from all living creatures. Even the smallest of small have an affect on you, and the way you draw. That's very powerful to have, and I draw the same way, too. That's why your work is so amazing, and inspirational!
this one's my favorite!
This applies to everything I've see on your profile:
Your work is extraordinary!
Your work is extraordinary!
this is lovely!
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I Promise Myself to Return to London
Jake Thomas 09 - Last full day in London. My shin splits make it difficult for me to walk. The blisters on my feet are nothing short of repulsive and hideous. Still, none of it really affects my attitude. Dr. Herzog and the class has traversed through ridiculous amounts of the glorious city as well as the English countryside. The love and respect I feel for city reminds me a lot of how I feel to my home town of Chicago. I have never felt as comfortable.
The first half of the day, Dr. Herzog took the group on a short tour of famous post modern architecture. Above all else, 30 St. Mary Axe left a very strong impression on me. Amidst 18th century churches and modern architecture of the mid 1970s, 30 St. Mary Axe (lovingly referred to as "the Gherkin") towered over the city of London. To me, it was the financial district's crowning achievement. I could not help compare the piece to Chicago's Sears Tower. Whereas the Sears Tower fixes itself with the rest of the Chicago skyline as typically modern architecture, the post modern elements of the Gherkin seems to show signs of flexibility in the historic city. It was amazing.
The group ended our walk facing London's Tower Bridge. Upon looking at the bridge, I could not help think about how the bridge's architecture instills a sense of classic beauty that leads the city of London. When people think of London architecture, it is the first thing that comes to mind (not London bridge...which is in Arizona...apparently). In a sense, the old mixes with the new. With the post modern Gherkin, there is also the Victorian Tower Bridge. Both wonders of our world.
I am going to miss this city. I learned so much from Dr. Herzog, as well as so much from personally experiencing the culture. Was the experience life changing? I cannot say. Nonetheless, I will return to London one day. I can only promise myself that.


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|MPAA Rating: R
|Genre: Documentary
Jane Fonda
Donald Sutherland
Pamela Donegan
Len Chandler
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Summary:In 1971, Jane Fonda and fellow anti-Vietnam war activists Donald Sutherland, Holly Near, and Paul Mooney began performing a satirical revue in coffeehouses and parks near army bases to entertain soldiers who opposed the war. The show featured political sketches, protest songs, humor, and appearances by G.I.s and veterans. This film is a documentation of the group's "Pacific Tour" which included performances in Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, and Okinawa.


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Editor's Note: This article is part of an occasional series on the Civil War sesquicentennial provided by members of the Wheeling Civil War 150 Committee.
Abraham Lincoln signed two documents of interest to the people of Wheeling over the New Year's holiday of 1862-63.
On New Year's Eve, he signed the West Virginia statehood bill, and less than 24 hours later on New Year's Day, he signed the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Despite the mythology attached to them over subsequent decades, at the time, both measures were viewed by the president as "expedient" means by which to advance the Union's war effort.
Introduced on Sept. 22, 1862 after the Union "victory" at Antietam, the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation promised that on Jan. 1, 1863, "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, henceforward, and forever free..."
The morning of the day in question found the president shaking hundreds of hands at a New Year's Day "levee." He worried aloud that if his signature on the final Emancipation Proclamation showed any signs of a trembling hand, people might conclude that he harbored "compunctions." He signed boldly, reportedly declaring, "I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper."
But Lincoln knew it was not enough. In his popular new film about the 16th president, Stephen Spielberg presents an Abraham Lincoln deeply concerned about the ratification of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, because it "... settles the fate for all coming time, not only of the millions in bondage but of unborn millions to come ... We must cure ourselves of slavery. This amendment is that cure." Spielberg's Lincoln clearly views the amendment as the curative, moral step untaken by his Emancipation Proclamation (merely "a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing [the] rebellion") to link the end of slavery with the unfulfilled Founders' proposition that "all men are created equal."
In reality, the Emancipation Proclamation was just an unadorned step in an expedient direction, but on Jan. 3, 1863, the Wheeling Daily Intelligencer expressed its support: "True to the moral instincts of his nature, true to his solemn oath to preserve the Government, Abraham Lincoln has issued his proclamation ... a very plain and easily understood document ... momentous in its import and destined yet to be so conspicuous in everlasting history..."
Yet, what was to become the new state of West Virginia was specifically exempted. Emancipation would apply only in the states in rebellion, including "Virginia, (except the 48 counties designated as West Virginia ... and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.)" Despite Lincoln's signature on the statehood bill only hours before, the final admission of West Virginia would require a compromise on slavery known as the "Willey Amendment," which featured gradual emancipation. Of course, the 1865 ratification of the 13th Amendment would render the entire issue moot.
Spotting a golden marketing opportunity, Wheeling merchants took full advantage of the attention paid to the emancipation saga. Augustus Pollack, for example, began running a regular advertisement under the heading, "Another Proclamation" in which he offered "at less than New York prices" hoop skirts, portfolios for the army, children's carriages, undershirts and drawers, among other items.
Like the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln's decision to sign the West Virginia statehood bill was also motivated by expediency. Another military defeat at Fredericksburg convinced Lincoln of the timeliness of statehood, a move sure to weaken the Old Dominion while strengthening the Union.
On Jan. 3, the pro-statehood Intelligencer thanked the president profusely for "Our Greatest New Year's Gift. New Year's Day was made truly and perpetually memorable to the people of West Virginia by the act of the President ... signing their New State bill ... People gathered in the streets and the word passed like electricity from mouth to mouth ... The old cannon was again brought out ... and again the hills and dells of our grand old river valley were made to wake the echoes that told the joy of a people made free ... The president's name will henceforth be canonized by the people of West Virginia as the redeemer of their country and themselves ... 'God bless Abraham Lincoln!'"
Elsewhere in the city, New Year's Day passed with "a good deal of drunkenness - a fact attributable not so much to the quantity of the liquor consumed as to it execrable quality."
In contrast to Wheeling's celebratory mood, most of the nation would remember that New Year's holiday for the bloody Battle of Stones River (second Murfreesboro), where troops under Gen. Rosecrans held their ground against a Confederate assault led by Gen. Braxton Bragg. More than 3,000 men were killed, among them Henry Sharp, a Wheeling boy serving in the 2nd Ohio Regiment. An additional 16,000 men were wounded, among them Lt. Col. Frank Askew, a St. Clairsville resident serving in the 15th Ohio Regiment, who "distinguished himself by deeds of heroism and punished the enemy severely."
By Jan. 8, "the first train from Baltimore over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, since the last destruction by the rebels," arrived in Wheeling. "If Stonewall Jackson and his crowd will only manage to mind their own business," The Intelligencer observed, "the road will soon be in as good condition as ever."
By mid-month, Wheeling's weather turned foul with "three inches of slush upon the sidewalks, which soaked through the heaviest cowhide boots." A cold spell gripped the city, closing up "Wheeling Creek with ice." Despite the foul weather, Wheeling's legendary lawlessness continued unabated. The Intelligencer published a series of reports concerning a "ghastly and horrible ghost ... perambulating around East Wheeling" near the Hempfield Railroad depot. It wore a cowl and "heavy skins" presenting an "outre appearance." Armed ghost hunters began scouring the alleys in search of the phantom. The East Wheeling ghost created a sensation and spawned imitators. "There is scarcely a section of the city now but can boast of its ghost," The Intelligencer reported.
Gangs of "garrotters," who choked and robbed their victims, joined the apparitions in terrorizing the city. When one of them garroted a printer who worked for The Intelligencer, the editors could not resist observing that "the individual must have been insane or drunk for certainly no sober person with anything like a decent supply of the commonest horse sense would attempt to rob a printer."
Later in January, the "notorious ruffian" John Brady of Wheeling was stabbed three times and killed by a man named Lockwood aboard the steamer St. Patrick. Brady had been "cutting, slashing and beating people about this city for a number of years," and was known along the rivers as a "wrecker and pirate ... a very violent man, particularly when under the influence of liquor."
On a more positive note, Capt. Downing established a horse hospital on Wheeling Island for "dilapidated and indigent horses," employing a revolutionary "hydropathic" system to rehabilitate the animals. Most reportedly emerged "like new horses," which did not escape the notice of Secretary of War Stanton, who authorized Capt. Downing to rehabilitate all of the "superannuated horses in Western Virginia."
Despite Downing's success, the residents of Wheeling Island attempted to "secede" from the city. A petition signed by "nearly all of the property owners" on Wheeling Island was submitted to the House of Delegates to "exclude the Island from the limits of the city." The petitioners claimed they had to submit to "burdensome taxation" while being unable to "enjoy any of the benefit of city improvements (such as water, gas, etc.)."
Business remained brisk for Provost Marshal Major Joseph Darr at Wheeling's military prison, the Athenaeum. Thirty-three prisoners captured near Winchester arrived from Cumberland on Jan. 3, and 10 more from Braxton County on Jan. 8. The notorious female prisoner, Harry Fitsalleu (Marion McKinsey), refused to wear women's clothing purchased for her by Major Darr, "but clings to the cavalry pea-jacket and pantaloons in which she soldiered through the Kanawha Valley. The reason assigned is that she is not provided with hoops." A second female prisoner, Mary Jane Green, who was jailed for cutting down federal telegraph wires and handling rebel mail, soon joined Fitsalleu. Both women were said to be "very rebellious." A 17-year-old cavalry soldier, Mary Jane Prater, joined the group on Jan. 23. "In view of the late mutiny upon this account among the female prisoners," Major Darr prudently asked her if she would wear female clothing without hoops. She said she would "see how she looked first." Darr promptly sent her to the city jail for "safe keeping."
Ellen Brady, a pastry cook at the McLure House, was accused of "handling rebel mail matter ... and suspicious conversation with prominent rebels who appear to be making a tool of her." She was arrested but released after taking the oath of allegiance.
Near the end of January, in a speech about the new state, Gov. Pierpont made an appeal to Wheeling's working class: "I wish I could speak to the heart of every Irishman and German in this community. I would ... try to help them see what their interests were and their duty as patriots and American citizens. These men [the statehood opponents] were running around telling their tales. They have worked these Germans and Irishmen till they have made fortunes out of them and if ever an opportunity offered they would deprive them of their rights and franchises of citizens."
Though their reaction was not noted in the January 1863 Intelligencer, Wheeling's African American community continued to celebrate "Emancipation Day" well into the 20th century, usually on or near the anniversary of the Sept. 22, 1862 preliminary proclamation. The 1896 observance was typical. After a parade of various black fraternal societies over the Suspension Bridge, the festivities took place at the state fairgrounds on the Island, and featured speeches by dignitaries, horse racing, bicycle racing, sack racing, wheelbarrow racing and baseball games. An evening banquet and dance featuring the music of the opera house band was held at Turner's hall. Lincoln School principal J. McHenry Jones served as master of ceremonies.


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It's prizefighting, man. An ickle bit of cheating happens each round, much less each fight. The referee is there to reign it in, penalize a guy who gets excessive, or end a fight if a fight, in essence, refuses to fight fair.
Even Mills Lane let a bout go on after a huge bite. Referee discretion IS a rule. I have a problem with the whole "Shoulda been DQed" mindset. "Coulda been DQed" is valid, but should isn't really on the balance of the thing. It's on tthe ref.
Cheating is cheating , it isnt" gamesmanship",its taking a dishonest advantage and its been in boxing for ever and in most other sports too. Matt Franklin as was ,had his cut stopped by a Monsels solution type substance, he was in danger of losing by tko , his corner cheated simple.
Conteh came up against this versus Matte Parlov who entered the ring with a ridiculous coating of plastic skin on his eyebrows and was allowed to fight with it.
Conteh himself would stick the nut on you given the smallest chance, but imo, he was robbed in both those fights.
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