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LINCOLN, Neb.-- This time of year hundreds of youth baseball and softball teams are playing around Lincoln. For many it's a question of where to play in a city with 70 select teams and only seven fields to choose from. But, the City Council is now considering a development that would give those teams an extra option.
"I'm a very big advocate on practicing, I think it's very important. That is a thing we lack most here in Lincoln," said youth baseball coach Brian Woolsey.
In the meantime, developer, Scott Sandquist is hoping by next season teams will have more fields to use.
"Tournaments routinely a Friday, Saturday, Sunday affair so Monday through Thursday we envision this being a facility for local leagues or local teams to use for games, tournaments or practices," he said.
More ball fields were included in the 2008 Lincoln Vision 2015 plan. The City Council said it's great that a private company is taking on something the City would have to facilitate. The one concern they have is the alcohol issue.
Sandquist said selling alcohol is a business decision, but already has limits in mind.
"We're going to have entirely youth events or entirely adult events. That is our intent," he said.
The Council said the concern isn't limited to that complex, it's also how allowing alcohol there would impact other developments. Sandquist said eventually they'd like the space to also include commercial facilities, like hotels and restaurants.
City documents show developers are applying for 1.2 million dollars in an occupation tax and 2.1 million dollars in tax increment financing.
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"That's the value of a brand. They've got the domain name."
Like MP3.com's Michael Robertson, James Gambale runs a San Diego-based Internet music-distribution company. But unlike Robertson, Gambale has a much harder task to bring attention to his website called CableMusic.com. A former engineer with General Dynamics, Gambale and four others man the Sorrento Valley company. He cofounded Cablemusic.com without — what he claims is MP3.com's huge advantage — its name.
"That domain name is extremely valuable. CableMusic.com is a good name, but it's not MP3.com. When you think of bidding on the Internet, what do you think of? eBay.com. There are seven other sites, but you tend to just think of eBay. Everybody associates the technology of putting CDs on the Web with MP3.com. They have the mind share of the masses. We don't have the brand, but what we do have is insights into the technology.… We launched virtually the same thing as MyMP3 months before he did. It's frustrating we didn't get credit for it, but it's great to see validation of the idea."
Gambale said he beat MP3.com to the punch with JACK, which preceded MyMP3.com.
"We were the first company to deliver it to the Web, in October of last year. [MyMP3.com was introduced in January.] But the big difference is when we deployed that technology, we left the instant upload out because we knew it was problematic from the licensing point of view. We want to take our time with the labels and figure out what the licensing issues are."
Gambale maintains that the instant upload feature is what helped trigger the lawsuit against MP3.com by the Recording Industry Association of America. He suggests that his company may win in the long run because he has worked with the record companies, not against them.
"We are very respectful of the industry that has invested in their product. More than $400,000 was spent on Sarah McLachlan when she was 19 or 20 when she first started out. I can think of no other business except for maybe the oil business where you would gamble so much money on an unproven commodity."
It is Gambale's contention that music distribution on the Web is inevitable but that record companies and artists have to be both protected and involved.
"We obtained a license from the RIAA to do Internet radio. We know of two other larger sites that have done the same thing. We took the slower, conservative, cautious approach. We want to create incredible convenience without trampling the rights of copyright owners. I'm not implying that MP3.com is trying to trample rights."
In fact, Gambale said he hopes MP3.com, which has 10 million registered clients worldwide, will survive. "They have a huge bully pulpit to do the whole industry a lot of good by clarifying issues. If they continue to vilify and fight the labels, that's bad. It does a disservice to the consumer. If MP3.com goes down, if their stock goes to nothing, and they sell off their assets, that would be terrible. All the people who were loyal MP3.com listeners would be left hanging."
One challenge to both CableMusic.com and MP3.com might come from the music labels. Last week it was announced that Sony Music and Universal Music, two of the big five conglomerates, would join forces to launch their own subscription-based digital music service.
"It's going to be in the interest of the labels to have a third party involved. When people buy CDs, they don't go to a Sony Records store. Why would that be any different on the Internet?"
Gambale said he's been in discussions with major labels. "I don't want to comment directly on who we're talking to and who we're not talking to.… I don't think it's bad for the consumer that the copyright issues are being flushed out. The consumer needs to understand that the music isn't free."
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"St. Cecilia's is sacred to me because I met my wife at a Chinchilla show there over five years ago," says Eric Neilsen, Maquiladora's guitar player. St. Cecilia's Church, an old funeral chapel that has been home to Sledgehammer Theater since 1992, has also been a recording space for Maquiladora.
"The sound is fantastic. The stained glass windows shine rays of purple and…adds to the ambience. There's even a camera obscura from a hole in the front door. If you make the area a little bit smaller [lessen the focal length] with a piece of paper, you can see all the action on Sixth Avenue, upside down, people walking and cars flying by on the walls of the lobby.… We are mainly using the space to inspire our performances. It's thrilling to be singing at full volume or overdubbing a dirty guitar and have it fill up that space."
Maquiladora's Lost Works of Eunice Phelps, an album about a friend's "encounter" with a dead country singer, got the band a gig on KPBS. "It was a lot of fun playing live…but the interview was fairly torturous."
The band's new release, White Sands, is now out on Lotushouse Records.
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The Ships and Salsa excursion is just the latest local radio promotion that didn't turn out as planned.
"One time we had six brand-new Yugos that we were giving away," said one former employee of 91X. "We had them in a parade. I think it was St. Patrick's Day. During the parade three of them broke down. [The station manager] made us push them for the rest of the parade."
There were other promotions that went bad. The second Mission Beach roller-coaster promotion staged by Star 100.7 in 1998 backfired as many blamed the station for exploiting its listeners. Then there was the time [a local station] took two buses full of skiers to Big Bear. "One of the buses crashed into the other," said one who was on the bus. "The listeners were stranded for hours waiting for a ride down the hill. Then there was the time we had the Expose the X contest." The listener who displayed a 91X logo in the most conspicuous way won $25,000. "One guy painted his house with the logo. The only problem is he was a renter and he didn't have permission from his landlord. He was fined by the city for violating a sign ordinance.


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More rambling from "Primetime in No Time" host Frank Nicotero:
"The Golden Globe Awards": Ricky Gervais was invited back, and let me tell you, he was...so-so. And as always, his best moments were the ones that I can't really regale here in a blog. But let's just say it had to do with Jodie Foster and the title of her movie from 2011. No, not "Carnage"; the OTHER one (see, that's funny!). And while Rob Lowe had a mini-meltdown when the teleprompter went down, it was nowhere near as bad as his 1989 "Snow White" song at the Oscars. "Yahoo! Search" it if you don't know what I'm talking about.
"Undercover Boss": I know that I should look past it because it really has nothing to do with the show, but I just can't get over how terrible the "disguises" are on this show. This CEO just got done telling us how many millions he is worth, and then puts on a wig that I could find at a 99 Cent Store! If I was the boss, I would immediately fire anyone that didn't call me out on wearing an awful wig.
"Napoleon Dynamite": There are tons of movies that you would think would make good animated shows. "Napoleon Dynamite" isn't one of those movies, and this show is proof. The movie was successful because it was different than any other movie, but as an animated show it's just like all the rest...only not as funny. Plus, I didn't see any of Napoleon's sweet dance moves in the first episode, gosh!
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Does Ubuntu have any quality control?
Finally made phppgadmin work with the help of LQ and a lot of other sites. Wanted to use phpmyadmin for remote management of psql databases. What a challenge. I think I changed every spec in as many files. Went through every log known to man (or at least most admins). had to make the port specs agree. Made sure the port was open with nmap. The real kicker was I had to go into a couple of php files and update the code because some of the code was deprecated. I made sure and use pdfit (a firefox plug in) to save all the pages in pdf format for future reference. I do not want to look up all that stuff again. Definitely do not see a novice user doing all that or have to do that. What amazes me that phppgadmin is a major web app. Did not ubuntu check it out to make sure it worked? Enough about that.
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Sometimes you have to choose an older version of one thing to make it work with what's installed. Also, if you have 50+ people all submitting packages at different times, one person's package may be based on and old version of another person's. But really, if that's the case, all you can do is submit bug reports.
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You are definitely right. I can understand why Linus was so picky about who or what became part of linux. But if you can not even just log into a program at the very beginning, to me that sends out issues. Obviously even minimal testing was not done. If it were a hidden bug, I might be more flexible in my opinion. You can not catch everything.
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My First Visit to Bangkok – Thailand
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what is faster to render? loading a textured cube from 3ds or drawing a cube and texturizing it?
Well, if they both use the same number of vertices, normals, textures, etc..it would be the same since they use the same number of resources (if you are drawing them the same way of course). It just ends up drawing vertices anyway...so there's really no difference.
however you have the initial overhead of loading the 3ds.
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The 57 Varieties: Heinz Pure Foods And What They Are [1925 (ca.)]
The front cover has a yellow panel between two panels of drawn fruits and vegetables. The title is within the center, yellow panel. The back shows 9 Heinz products. "57" is superimposed on a globe below the Heinz products. All 57 products are illustrated and described within. No page numbers.View this piece: jpg pdf
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Heinz
Publisher: H.J. Heinz Co. (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
1925 (ca.)
15.6 x 8.9 cm
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Citation: The 57 Varieties: Heinz Pure Foods And What They Are [1925 (ca.)]. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=1423


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Augusta Arsenal (1)
Augusta Arsenal (1) (1816-1826, 1827-1861, 1861-1865, 1865-1955) - A U.S. Army arsenal established in 1816 after the War of 1812 in Richmond County, Georgia. The original site was abandoned because of unhealthy conditions and a new site was established 1827. The Federal arsenal was seized by Confederate forces in 1861 and held until the end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865. Restored as a Federal arsenal in 1865 and operated until abandoned in 1955.
Augusta Arsenal (1) History
The U.S. Army arsenal at Augusta was established in 1816 after the War of 1812. The original site near King Mill was abandoned after a Black fever epidemic killed many in the garrison. A new 70‑acre site was established 1827 and completed in 1828. The site had two sets of officer's quarters, a barracks and a storehouse all enclosed inside a loopholed wall. The first garrison was Company C, 2nd U.S. Artillery.
The Federal arsenal was seized by Confederate forces on 24 Jan 1861, five days after Georgia seceded from the Union. Captain Arnold Elzey (Cullum 923) and his garrison of 80 men surrendered the arsenal. The arsenal was held by the Confederates until May 1865 at the end of the U.S. Civil War.
Restored as a Federal arsenal in 1865 and operated until abandoned in 1955. During World War II the arsenal greatly expanded to include some fifty buildings and a thousand workers producing weapons and ammunition.
The arsenal was abandoned in 1955 and the property was transferred to the Board of Education. It eventually became the Junior College of Augusta in 1957.
Current Status
Located on the campus of present day Georgia Regents University (formerly Augusta State University), Richmond County, Georgia. Some remaining original buildings including officer's quarters.
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A New Economic Analysis of the American Revolution
We offer an analysis of the American Revolution in which actors are modeled as choosing the sovereign organization that maximizes their net expected benefits. Benefits of secession derive from satisfaction of greed and settlement of grievance. Costs derive from the cost of civil war and lost benefit of Empire membership. When expected net benefits are positive for both secessionists and the Empire civil war ensues, otherwise it is settled or never begins in the first place. The novelty of our discussion is to show how diverse economic and non-economic factors (such as pamphleteering by Thomas Paine and the morale of the Revolutionary forces) can be integrated into a single economic model.
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About NDF
The Network Diagnostics Framework (NDF) reduces the involvement of network administrators and computer users by handling common network issues as they occur. By using NDF's diagnostic and repair capabilities, users and administrators do not need additional tools in order to handle some relatively common problems. NDF ships as part of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and later. It is available whenever a system is booted (but cannot run in Safe Mode).
NDF Helper Classes
NDF includes helper classes that diagnose networking issues as they occur. Each of these helper classes contains the logic required to troubleshoot at least one component or application.
Individual NDF helper classes perform the primary tasks of the diagnostics session. Each helper class is a unit of code designed to evaluate one health aspect of its respective network component. The helper class also understands what possible repair options are available to restore the health of the component, as well as the cost and risk of any particular repair option.
Each helper class plugs into the overall Network Diagnostics Framework. If a third-party network component includes an NDF helper class, problems with that component can be resolved by other applications using NDF, without requiring them to have any specific knowledge of that component.
The helper classes developed by Microsoft provide software developers with the primary diagnostic and repair functionality. There is also a small set of APIs that developers can use to diagnose network problems using NDF. For more information, see NDF Functions and NDF Diagnostics Example.
Extensible Helper Classes
In some cases, more specific diagnostic and repair functionality can be provided by application developers.
Some of Microsoft's NDF helper classes are designed to be extended to provide additional diagnostic and repair capabilities. This means that developers can include functionality to use NDF diagnostic and repair capabilities to troubleshoot issues specific to their software or hardware.
For example, the wireless team at Microsoft provides an extensible helper class that allows any third party wireless vendors to add specific troubleshooting logic for their specific hardware and/or software. They can do this by developing an NDF helper class extension. For more information, see 802.11 Wireless Diagnostics Extensible Helper Classes.
An NDF helper class extension, by definition, extends the functionality of an existing extensible helper class. If a helper class is not extensible, no one can write an extension for that helper class.
Benefits of Helper Class Extensions
NDF offers several distinct advantages to encourage its use by network component developers. At the top of the list is that customers of vendor software will free up some of their own troubleshooting resources and reduce the total cost of ownership. A well-written helper class extension also provides the following benefits:
- Allows a team to determine when their component is not the cause of a connectivity issue. For example, networking is often blamed for connectivity problems that are not actually the result of a networking component failure. By writing a helper class extension, a team can more easily rule out a particular component as the cause of a connectivity failure.
- Allows a team to quickly diagnose and debug a problem within the component. Time spent debugging and troubleshooting can be eliminated if a helper class is written to perform all of the standard diagnostic steps that would be required anyway.
- Eliminates the need to write and support one-off tools to diagnose problems. A helper class can be the central repository for a component's diagnostic capabilities and information gathering techniques.
- Makes component-specific diagnostics available to applications, without requiring them to have any direct knowledge about the component.


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My First Milestones Frame
- Overview
Capture your child's firsts forever. The soft, gentle lines of our oval frame lend an extra touch of sweetness to each moment.
- 14.75" wide x 17.5" high
- Crafted of MDF.
- Hangs from a white grosgrain ribbon.
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- Built to last of MDF, an engineered wood that lends exceptional strength and ensures structural integrity over time.
- Overall: 14.75" wide x 17.5" high
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LITTLE ROCK, AR--(Marketwire - July 27, 2009) -
Kelyniam successfully machined 2 cranial implants, a Femur and a Hip Joint
Socket which proves our abilities to match the rotating cup with the Femur
Ball. All the prototypes were inspected by the use of our advanced laser
scanners, and verified by comparing the scan of the host bone as a check
gage and the fit of the replacement piece as described in an earlier press
Mr. James Ketner, President/CEO, added: "We now have the ability to
receive Computerized Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonating Imagery (MRI)
data and produce an artificial bone implant with the exactness of about
half the thickness of a business card and we posses the ability to receive
the CT or MRI data by 8:00 a.m. and have the replacement pieces on the
doctor's desk the next Fed-Ex a.m. delivery.
Kelyniam announced in a press release dated April 28, 2009 that the company
will be a source supplier of artificial bone replacements using FDA
approved advanced polymers. The company now has the ability to use the FDA
approved polymers and this type of production method in all aspects of
artificial bone replacements throughout the human body. The company created
approximately 350 cranial implant models in 9 months of 2008 using an
inferior production method and is anticipating greatly increasing this
number of the course of the lifecycle of the company's new production
Kelyniam Global, Inc. recently posted a video which explains more about the
company's new and exciting medical process utilizing CADCAM technology.
Please take in consideration that the process discussed in the video has
now changed somewhat, and Kelyniam now produces the end product. The video
can be watched by going to the company website, and selecting the "Watch
our New Medical Video" on Kelyniam's home page, or by following the link
About Kelyniam Global, Incorporated:
Kelyniam Global, Inc. is a balanced vertically-integrated company that
services a vast array of clients across numerous fields and industries
encompassing, but not limited to, medical, automotive, aerospace, jewelry,
nautical and consumer products. The company specializes in the use of
CADCAM technology with recent developments in the production of high
precision replication of artificial bone implants for medical applications.


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For younger fashion-conscious party goers – sophisticated and feminine evening wear.
For the modern woman who likes casual elegance and top quality.
The collection where it makes sense to match designs: chic and ladylike. And for the woman who expresses herself in what she wears – trendy and eye-catching.
For the younger, fashion-conscious woman aiming for a festive, feminine look.
For the woman who wears the trousers – and knows how they should feel.
For the woman with a sure sense of style. Neat, elegant, and designed for the mature woman.
For women who know what is in fashion. Confident styles and refined, top-class evening wear.
For the sensual woman. Classically seductive iconic style.
For the adult woman who wants to combine a simple and practical design with supreme comfort.
For the younger plus girl: Trendy styles in unique designs with a feminine silhouette.
Plus size fashion – styles for every occasion.
For the quality-conscious woman. Trendy and stylish knits and jersey – smart in big sizes too.
Extends from classic fashion to smart outdoor wear in lots of exciting colours and models.
The Group's 12 brands encompass collections for leisure, office, evening and formal use. All of the 12 brands have distinct styles and uses, but have two common denominators that have been an essential part of the Godske brand since the first dress left the factory in 1970: excellent fit and excellent quality. And this is why for more than 40 years, women all over Europe have been able to trust that once they have found one Godske product that suits their style and figure, this will also be the case in the next collection


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My Blood, Your Blood
A few years ago, Bloodworks Northwest and America's Blood Centers created a video program and teacher's guide that makes it both fun and easy to learn more about blood, blood biology, the human circulatory system and the important role blood plays in sustaining life.
Introduction to Hematology
Blood is the only tissue that flows throughout your body. This red liquid carries oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body and waste products back to your lungs, kidneys and liver for disposal. It is also an essential part of your immune system, crucial to fluid and temperature balance, a hydraulic fluid for certain functions and a highway for hormonal messages.


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Real estate watchers see slight progress
It may be a new year but the story remains the same as it was in 2011 for Mesa County's real estate market: more homes selling for less.
In January, 158 homes were sold in the county, according to a Bray Real Estate report.
That's a 30 percent increase from the 122 local homes that sold in January 2011, a 60 percent bump from the 99 homes that sold in the county in January 2010 and a 132 percent jump from the 68 local homes sold in January 2009.
Home sales may be headed up, but they still have some catching up to do to return to pre-recession levels. Thirty more homes were sold in January 2008 in Mesa County than were sold in January 2012.
And the median price for those home sales four years ago was $221,296, according to the Colorado Association of Realtors. January 2012's median home sale price in Mesa County was nearly two-thirds that amount, $148,600, according to the Bray report.
Bray Real Estate President Robert Bray said he was a little surprised to see so much more activity this January than last January, especially since he said late October through early March usually is the slowest time in the real estate market.
He wasn't surprised to see sale prices drop, but he predicts that trend will ease this summer or fall as fewer foreclosed homes enter the market and give other sellers competition through their lower sales prices.
Foreclosure filings fell 28.9 percent in 2011 compared to 2010 in Mesa County, and completed foreclosures dropped nearly 13 percent year-over-year, according to the Colorado Division of Housing.
"It may mean we're headed toward stabilization, but we're not stabilized yet," Bray said.
Even with fewer foreclosures, Bray said he expects foreclosed homes to have a higher-than-normal presence in the local real estate market for at least another two years.
Homes still take a bit of time to get from the end of the foreclosure process to the end of a sale, and foreclosures remain more prominent now than they were three years ago.
Metro Brokers owner and broker Jan Garber said she is optimistic more homes will sell in 2012 because she had more success in 2011 than in 2010. But she doesn't expect a speedy return to pre-recession sales figures.
"I just know this crunch is worse than '82, and that took five years to stabilize," Garber said, referring to the localized economic collapse of 1982. She said she expects a slower turnaround this time "because this is worldwide."
Mike Miller, a real estate agent with Century 21 Homestead Realty, said January's real estate activity was "kind of mixed." He said there was more activity, but demand for lower-priced homes has led to fewer homes available in that price range.
"It would be a good time for sellers to get in, especially if the demand is there," Miller said.
There were 502 fewer homes on the market in Mesa County in January 2012 than in January 2011, according to the Bray report, leaving 858 active listings last month.
Bray said low-priced homes are entering the market, but not in numbers as high as he expected.
Because 76 percent of sales in January were for homes priced at $200,000 or less, Bray said the median sale price may rise by the end of this year simply because buyers may have fewer options.


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I don't know what to make out of Illinois this year.
The pieces are there for continued growth, especially on offense, but a dearth of playmakers in the passing game could offset any strides that the running game makes. At the same time Tim Beckman needs to revitalize a defense that returns a lot of experience, if not a lot of star power.
In the end there are few scenarios that would surprise me about Illinois at the end of the season. I could see them making it back to a bowl game if they take care of business at home, but I could also see them bottoming out and taking another step backward.
Recruiting Footprint
Personally I'm glad that the Badgers are playing Northwestern and Illinois back-to-back, if only because that makes it easier to compare the two teams' recruiting efforts in this series.
For the most part the two teams have established a similar turf: both teams emphasize their home state, albeit in different ways. By sheer numbers Illinois offered twice as many home grown prospects, but the Wildcats beat Illinois in their home-state success rate by more than 20 percent.
You can certainly attribute some of that to Northwestern being a little more selective about who they offer- when you're trying to rebuild a program like Tim Beckman is, sometime you have to cast a wider recruiting net.
You shouldn't be surprised by now that Illinois has invested a lot of time and effort in a few major states: Florida, Ohio, Texas, and California. Of the four the Illini have had the most success in California. A 10.9 percent success rate isn't phenomenal, but Beckman has ramped up his program's involvement in the Golden State, so more success could be on the way.
Their performance in their top two states (percentage-wise) is a little underwhelming, though. Only 28 Florida and Ohio natives have signed with Illinois over the last four years. In that time the Illini offered 334 prospects from those states, which works out to an 8.3 success rate.
Team Schemes
Illinois found a bit of traction in Tim Beckman's second year as head coach: they doubled their previous year's win total and saw some major growth on offense under a new offensive coordinator.
But there was basically nowhere to go but up after their train wreck of a season in 2012, and some defensive regression offset some of the strides the Illini made with Bill Cubit running the show on offense.
Offensively the Illini are set to bring back six starters from a unit that finished No. 37 in Football Outsiders' S&P+ rankings, but I'm not sure whether we should expect to see more growth under Cubit or some natural regression to the mean. After all the Illini are losing a four-year starter at quarterback and four of their top five receiving threats, which could pose problems for Cubit's pass-first system.
But the potential is there for Illinois to finish as a stronger unit. Nathan Scheelhaase is gone, but former Oklahoma State quarterback Wes Lunt is poised to take over in his second year with Illinois. Lunt completed 61.8 percent of his passes for the Cowboys in 2012, so Illinois' passing game might not suffer very much if Cubit can identify some useful receivers.
The Illini also get running back Josh Ferguson back for another year, along with four of five starters on the offensive line. Ferguson finished last year with 811 rushing yards on 141 carries (5.5 yards per carry), and was also Illinois' second-leading receiver with 535 yards through the air. I'm excited to see what he can do with a larger workload, and if Illinois' passing game is struggling that's probably just what he'll see.
Defensively it's easier to see the evidence for a rebound, in large part because last year's unit was pretty bad. Illinois brings back eight starters from 2013, including the vast majority of their secondary. They're also working with some experienced players at linebacker, which could offset losing two edge rushers up front.
In the end I think it's better to work with experienced players than talented but raw new ones, so we'll see what Tim Beckman can do with this unit. He cut his teeth as a defensive coordinator before Illinois hired him, and having another low-ranked defense in year three could eat up a lot of the coaching capital Beckman bought for himself last year.
John Veldhuis covers Wisconsin football, basketball and recruiting for BadgerBlitz.com on the Rivals.com network. Follow him on Twitter at @JohnVeldhuis.


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Press and media & UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Been watching some footage this morning that the BBC have gotten hold, of with Khmer soldiers pointing out damage to the temple to a cameraman. Here's the BBC website article, (though can't find the footage itself on-line), and whilst various fresh bullet holes could be clearly seen there was fortunately no sign of major damage or the 'collapsed wing' the Khmer govt mentioned earlier. Good news, though ANY damage at all to the UNESCO World Heritage Site is very unfortunate!
As we mentioned earlier the 11th century temple is not a great defensive position if you're being attacked from the north, though the shear escarpment on the southern side meant that it was a very stubborn Khmer Rouge base during fighting with Cambodian govt forces approaching from that direction during the 80's and early 90s'. Anyway damage looks to have been either incurred during exchanges of small arms fire or perhaps a vindictive Thai soldier letting of a bit of steam, but not a concerted effort by Thai artillery to demolish the temple! That would have been very bad PR for the Thai forces!
Not heard any reports of fighting today so far so let's hope both sides have come to their senses! Here's a view to the south from the temple and it's easy to see why the Khmer Rouge troops stationed up there help out for so long against the govt. forces below!


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A recent Chairman of that private corporation in control of the finances – perhaps even, the destiny – of the USA for the past 100 years, famously referred to the yellow metal as "a barbarous relic". Although this Ph'd prophet of policy-managed markets has hardly been a fount of wisdom in the course of his career… in this case he stumbled upon a truth.
Yes. Bernake got it right! Gold has all the attributes of a primitive thing – and as such belongs in essence to a different cycle in humankinds' journey. In fact, it's the very primitive nature of gold [& silver] which renders it a potentially deadly kryptonite to the modern financialized world.


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An annual holiday favorite, Dance Theatre in Westchester performs its family-friendly, full-length version of Tchaikovsky's ballet set in wintry colonial Yorktown, complete with a red-coated mouse army, an enchanted nutcracker prince, and simultaneous narration to help young audience members enjoy this timeless classic.
Running Time: 2 hours and 10 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission
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Slam the Big Door (Paperback)
Random House Trade, 9780812985252, 277pp.
Publication Date: February 11, 2014
Introduction by Dean Koontz
When Mike Rodenska, a former journalist still grieving the loss of his wife, pays his old war buddy Troy Jamison a long overdue visit in Florida, he's shocked at what he finds. Behind the indulgent exterior of Troy's lush beach life the parties, the year-round suntans, the shapely women, the infectious devil-may-care attitude of Troy and his friends Mike senses inevitable disaster.
Troy surrendered his life to drink once before. But now his second marriage is failing, his career is in shambles, his stepdaughter is making passes at him, and he seems to be losing his mind. The only question is: Why? His old friend's downfall is one story that Mike feels compelled to investigate for Troy's sake, and for his own.
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"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen."—Kurt Vonnegut
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Organic Broccoli Produced to Meet a Growing Need for Locally Grown Foods
Organic Broccoli Produced to Meet a Growing Need for Locally Grown Foods
Chris Blanchard raises about 15 acres of certified organic vegetables and fresh herbs for community supported agriculture operations (CSAs) and wholesale customers in the Twin Cities, Rochester, and Decorah on his Rock Spring Farm on the Iowa-Minnesota state line. His farm has been recognized as a model for food safety, post-harvest handling, and good business.
Although broccoli is a popular staple vegetable that can be harvested for 20 weeks in the upper Midwest, the Twin Cities was experiencing a shortage of locally grown produce every summer. Local farmers found it difficult to scale up production to take advantage of demand.
A group of farms including Rock Spring Farm was able to attain a two-year agreement to guarantee the purchase of 100 percent of the satellite farms' broccoli crop at an agreed-upon minimum price if production acreage, production schedule, and quality standards were met. Throughout the project, data were collected about yields, economic performance, labor inputs, product quality, and more.
The project was hampered by severe weather conditions — in 2011, cold and wet conditions in the spring and spikes in temperatures in May and June, followed by drought; and in 2012, extreme drought. Therefore, demand for organic broccoli was not met even with the addition of three farms producing the vegetable. All participating farms had reduced yields but, given the weather, Blanchard said it has been difficult to determine whether a better-than-average yield by participating farms would meet local demand.
He said it also has been difficult to determine whether scaling up to grow broccoli for wholesale in this area would be economically viable for producers. Other challenges included transportation, training, unclear planting schedule instructions, and transplanting.
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Effects of EGCG-Enhanced Extra Virgin Olive Oil on Endothelial Function
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An evening that started at a Jason Aldean concert with openers Jake Owen and Thomas Rhett turned fatal for one fan. 33-year-old Michael Sanders of Dunmore, PA was killed Sunday night (Aug. 25) after leaving the concert at Montage Mountain.
The Scranton Times-Tribune learned Michael Sanders was hit by a suspected drunk driver in a Jeep at approximately 9:50 pm ET. He was transported to a local hospital where he passed away approximately forty minutes later.
The exact circumstances surrounding this tragedy will require a thorough investigation, which began late last night and blocked traffic for several hours around the concert venue. Police arrested the suspected drunk driver of the Jeep, 23-year-old Ivy Giordano. Her blood test results to determine if alcohol was in her system are pending at this time. See a photo of her here.
It's also unknown if Jason Aldean, Jake Owen or Thomas Rhett have learned of this news. All three have yet to comment publicly.
-Ashley Quadros, KNCI/Sacramento


text: After giving two blockbuster films in 2012, Nanban and Thuppaki, Vijay has been awarded the Cosmopolitan People's Choice Award 2013 for the Best Actor in Tamil. The Best Actress Award in Tamil has been bagged by Kajal Aggarwal for her performance in Thuppaki. In Telugu, Pawan Kalyan and Shruthi Haasan have bagged the respective awards for Gabbar Singh, while Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor have won the respective awards in Hindi. Shahrukh Khan has been awarded the Cosmopolitan International Best Icon. Vijay is currently busy working on director Vijay's Thalaivaa, which is going on in full swing. Amala Paul has been cast alongside Vijay in this film.


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Raleigh, N.C. — Democrats picked former state Rep. Deborah Ross to face off against Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr in this fall's Senate election.
Ross topped the four-way Democratic primary, besting Spring Lake Mayor Chris Rey, Durham businessman Kevin Griffin and Ernest Reeves of Greenville for the nomination.
March 2016 primary results Ross will take on Burr, a former U.S. House member who is running for a third term as senator, and she lost little time targeting the incumbent.
"After 20 years in Washington, Richard Burr has lost sight of our values," Ross said in prepared remarks. "Now, it's time for a change. As your Senator, I will work every day to make sure – no matter who you are, or where you're from – if you work hard and play by the rules, then you'll have the security and the opportunity to find a job that pays a fair wage, go to college, afford housing, and save for retirement."
Burr easily led the Republican primary vote, outdistancing by a wide margin his closest rival, Dr. Greg Branon, a Cary obstetrician who also challenged U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis in 2014.
He opted to remain in Washington, D.C. this week rather than return to the state for primary celebrations.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee welcomed Ross to the campaign by lambasting her record as a lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Deborah Ross was no one's first choice for this job," committee spokeswoman Alleigh Marré said. "In the coming months her radical record will be exposed for the danger it is to North Carolina families."
Brannon addressed his supporters in Cary, still taking aim at Burr's legislative record and warning supporters to be critical of those who ask for help in the General Election campaign.
"I'm begging you not to be used by any campaign, by any special interest, by any lobbyist," he said.
In addition to Ross and Burr, Libertarian Sean Haugh will also be on the U.S. Senate ballot in the fall.
The fall campaign sets up as a contest between Burr, a stalwart conservative who has already run television ads playing up his national security credentials, against Ross, who was known as an advocate for liberal viewpoints during her time in the legislature. She has focused on economic issues during the primary campaign.


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Greco won't run for Tampa mayor again
Former Tampa Mayor Dick Greco, 73, announced today he will not run for mayor this year. Greco was Tampa's 50th and 56th mayor, having first won in 1967 and again in 1995.
Greco said he loves politics but is enjoying life in the private sector and the ability to take two-week vacations. "I'm doing what's best for me and my family," he said.


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Infiniti celebrated their 20 year anniversary in 2009 with the announcement of the Inifinit Essence concept car. Yesterday, Infiniti announced the "Sculpture Essence," numbered to 300 units to further celebrate the vehicle. The sculpture is made from resin and designed by the vehicle's original Infiniti designer, and supervised by Senior Vice President and Chief Creative Officer, Shiro Nakamura.
Louis Vuitton is also involved again with the brand. "For this special order, Louis Vuitton craftsmen have designed an original Louis Vuitton Damier Graphite design case to serve as a high quality, transport and presentation case for the first Essence Sculpture that will be on display at the global Headquarters of Infiniti in Japan. This case has been handcrafted in Louis Vuitton's historical workshop in Asnières (France)."
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A Red Bluff man reportedly stole a vehicle and later struck his domestic partner with that vehicle on Mina Avenue early Wednesday.
Police responded to a report a woman was struck by a vehicle near Walgreens around 7 a.m. Wednesday.
They learned that Corey Allen Casey, 37, was involved in a domestic dispute with the woman, after which he drove the victim from Mina Avenue to Walgreens against her will.
It was reported that Casey intentionally struck the victim with the vehicle he was driving. The vehicle was located a short distance away.
It was discovered that the vehicle had been stolen from an elderly Red Bluff resident. Casey fled the area on foot and his whereabouts are unknown.
The victim was transported to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital via ambulance, treatment and released a short time later.
Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of Corey Casey or anyone who witnessed this incident is urged to call the Red Bluff Police Department at (530) 527-3131.


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B-town's latest favourites Shushant Singh Rajput and Parineeti Chopra are paired for the first time in Shuddh Desi Romance and the trailer is as interesting as the title. The trailer looks desi alright, but shuddh in no way. The two cuties look so like 'aaj ke premi!'
The trailer opens on Shushant Singh Rajput, Raghu, saying 'friendship nahi karni hai tumse, aur na hi bhai banna hai. Jo hai saaf bata raha hun, attraction hai, aur bahut teez waala attraction hai control ke bahar…' Wow! What an opening! With a 'desi' bubbly background music, Parineeti as Gyatri is seen sitting in bathroom in a dulhan ka joda and lighting up a cigarette and the screen splits into her saying dialogues whose crux is love is bullshit for her, followed by introducing the third wheel of the film Vaani Kapoor as Tara. The trailer continues showcasing the not a love affair between the desi boy and two not exactly our model Bhartiya nari.
The clips are interlude with quirky graphics resembling the style of writing behind out Indian trucks and walls, and the words, 'it's not about love… it's not about commitment… it's about what comes… after love… and before commitment!'
It's impossible to describe such a whacky trailer. You have to watch this trailer from the film Shuddh Desi Romance from the makers of Chak De India and Band Baaja Baaraat.
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The major airlines have taken a big hit on high-yield premium fares during the economic downturn, and German flag carrier Lufthansa has removed first-class seats from some of its airliners to accommodate more passengers in economy class; nonetheless, the airline claims its Private Jet executive charter operation has continued to perform well as it passes its fifth anniversary.
According to a Lufthansa spokesman, Private Jet achieved 20-percent growth during 2009 and is operating an average of 10 flights per day.
Like other forms of charter, pricing is all-inclusive and based on distance flown rather than the number of seats occupied. What makes Lufthansa Private Jet different is passengers can book flights directly through the airline with a credit card, as if it were a scheduled flight. This avoids the need to deal with brokers and have complex contracts for each flight.
Importantly for passengers who don't want to draw attention to the fact that they are flying in a private jet, the charge appears on the credit card statement as that for a normal scheduled flight. Customers are issued standard first-class airline tickets and even earn frequent-flier benefits through Lufthansa's Miles and More program.
According to Lufthansa, the economic crisis is playing into its hands because travelers who might previously have been in the market to buy a business aircraft or a fractional share are coming to the airline. As with other forms of charter, no capital outlay is required to use the aircraft, but unlike mainstream charter, the connection with the airline sector provides a more seamless mode of service. Many Private Jet customers are connecting to or from scheduled airline flights operated by Lufthansa and its subsidiary Swiss through their hubs in Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich.
When Private Jet began operations in March 2005, Lufthansa became the first international carrier to offer a private jet service alongside its portfolio of scheduled flights. Nine new jets were then earmarked for the operation including two reconfigured 12-seat Bombardier CRJ200s that now are returning to the manufacturer following a change of strategy. Initially, it had operated the services through an alliance with fractional ownership provider NetJets Europe but this came to an end after the two operators could not agree on how to provide the flights.
Today's all-Cessna Citation fleet comprises three four-passenger CJ1s, two six-seat CJ3s and a pair of seven-passenger XLS+ jets. Lufthansa is the European launch customer for the new XLS+ model.
Additional capacity is available from two partners, the Cirrus Group subsidiary DC Aviation and JetAlliance. Lufthansa says it is continuing to enjoy steady growth with the program but has no plans to add aircraft or other operating partners. The aircraft provided by DC Aviation and JetAlliance operate in Lufthansa colors with cabin furnishing bearing a strong resemblance to the décor in the airlines first class lounge in Frankfurt.
Each customer's itinerary is organized by a dedicated event manager and a personal service team is available for support around the clock. Catering and in-flight entertainment are tailored to passenger preferences, and they also can use the airport lounges of Lufthansa and its partner carriers.
At the service's launch five years ago Lufthansa expected that around 70 percent of its private jet passengers would fly from one of its hubs to an onward location and 30 percent from point-to-point without a long-haul airline connection. In fact, the ratio has now reversed with 70 percent of customers flying point-to-point in Europe.
Many of the direct point-to-point flights are now being made to destinations in Russia, Italy, France and Austria. Lufthansa expects further growth to come from Russia and the neighboring Commonwealth of Independent States, as well as parts of the Middle East.
Before the end of this month, Lufthansa (Booth No, 650) is due to take delivery of its first Airbus A380 double-deck airliner. It will use this as a springboard to announce a new first class service that it claims will be the most modern in the airline industry. Under a five-year plan begun in 2008, the airline is investing more than $200 million in new airport lounges in New York, Paris, Bombay, Hamburg, Munich and London Heathrow.


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By Lisa Collinson
'Few etymologies are perfect. Neither is this one. Yet it may be right.'
So wrote the eminent scholar Anatoly Liberman in 2007, in a beautifully-crafted OUPblog post entitled 'Hamlet and Other Lads and Lasses: Or, From Rags to Riches'. That post explored the origins of the name of Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark, and – with wonderful spark and spirit – revived an old theory that 'Am-lothi … is the correct division [of the name], with Am– and loth– being related to Engl. em(ber), and lad respectively (-i is an ending).' The name 'ember boy' as a whole was, Liberman noted, suggestive of 'a despised third son of fairy tales, known in British folklore as Boots.'
This wholly Germanic etymology may, indeed, be right. But, in an article published online last week in the OUP journal Review of English Studies, I have set out my own – no doubt even less perfect – theory, which I hope will be of as much interest to artists of various kinds as to scholarly specialists.
In this new article, I conclude that Hamlet probably came ultimately from Gaelic Admlithi: a name attached to a player (or 'mocker') in a strange and violent medieval Irish tale known in English as 'The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel'. If I'm right, this means that some version of the Hamlet-name was associated with players hundreds of years before Shakespeare lived or wrote.
What does Admlithi mean? It has proved tough to translate – particularly for me, as a specialist in Old Norse, rather than Gaelic. But once I'd found the name (sent to me years ago by a friend who knew I had an interest in medieval player-figures), it was impossible to let go. Partly, this had to do with the fact that it clearly had something to do with the concept of grinding, which I knew was a key element in two important early Nordic 'Hamlet' texts; but which also seemed to have plenty of powerful cultural potential of its own. (Just think of the range of its contemporary connotations!) In the end, I plumped for not one but three weird-yet-interesting interpretations of Admlithi: Great Grindings; Greatly Ground (plural); Due-To-Be-Greatly Ground.
But what did these really mean, in the Middle Ages? To Gaelic-speakers? To Norse-speakers? To people who spoke bits of both languages?
Once I started asking these questions in earnest, one of the answers I found was that yes, Gaelic words connected with grinding probably did (as we might guess) suggest violence, or sexual activity. But they could also imply low or ambiguous social status: sometimes linked to gender, sometimes to categorization as a 'fool' of some kind. In other words, use of the peculiar name Admlithi – grammatically hazy, yet bursting with meaning – could probably have said more about the character tagged with it than lines and lines of straightforward description. Just as well, in fact, for Admlithi has scarcely been mentioned in surviving versions of 'Da Derga's Hostel' before he's gone – out of the picture entirely.
So … Was this Irish player, Admlithi, Hamlet?
Hamlet is Hamlet!
But, as I discuss in the RES article, I do think there is a fair possibility that Gaelic Admlithi was known as a player-name in medieval Scandinavia, and that this somehow contributed to the development of a riddling figure called Amlethus, long identified as an early version of the character created by Shakespeare.
Perhaps more disturbingly, I've argued that another element feeding into the Amlethus-character may have been an alternative identity for 'grinding' Admlithi: as a dangerous sea-feature, such as a whirlpool, described in veiled language by anxious sailors. It's unlikely that the creator of Amlethus could have fully understood this – but such use seems to me to have left faint traces in our medieval sources, just the same.
In the end, of course, faint traces are all we ever really have to work with, when we attempt to understand old, old names, and long-faded figures.
As Liberman so wisely pointed out in 2007: 'Few etymologies are perfect. Neither is this one. Yet it may be right.' And that's why we keep trying – in the hope that somehow, with enough effort and sheer good luck, we'll at last begin to 'remember' the secret names which seem so hopelessly opaque to us, but which we believe someone, somewhere must once have understood.
Lisa Collinson is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Aberdeen. Her doctorate (University of Cambridge) was on representation of royal play and players in Old Norse history-writing. She is currently coordinating the Leverhulme Trust-funded Medieval Nordic Laws project (headed by Stefan Brink). You can read the full text of Dr Collinson's Review of English Studies paper here.


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MOKPO, South Korea (AP) -- Koo Bon-hee could see the exit. For half an hour, as the doomed ferry filled with water and listed severely on its side, the crew told passengers to wait for rescuers.
With their breathing room disappearing, the 36-year-old businessman and some of the other passengers floated to an exit and swam to a nearby fishing boat. But 290 of the 475 people aboard -- many of them high school students on a class trip -- were still missing after the ferry sank Wednesday off the southern coast of South Korea. Six were confirmed dead and 55 were injured.
Early today, divers, helicopters and boats continued to search for survivors from the ferry, which slipped beneath the surface until only the blue-tipped, forward edge of the keel was visible. The high number of people unaccounted for -- possibly trapped in the ship or floating in the chilly water nearby -- raised fears that the death toll could increase drastically.
It was still unknown why the ferry sank, and the coast guard was interviewing the captain and crew. The Sewol, a 480-foot vessel that can hold more than 900 people, set sail Tuesday from Incheon, in northwestern South Korea, on an overnight, 14-hour journey to the tourist island of Jeju.
About 9 a.m. Wednesday, when it was three hours from Jeju, the ferry sent a distress call after it began listing to one side, according to the Ministry of Security and Public Administration.
Dozens of coast guard and navy divers searched for survivors around the Sewol's wreckage, a little north of Byeongpung Island, which is not far from the mainland and about 290 miles from Seoul.
Coast guard spokesman Cho Man-yong said 16 divers could not get inside the ferry Wednesday night because the current was too strong. The water was muddy and visibility was poor, he said, but divers would try again this morning.


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High school is often portrayed as being "the best time of a person's life". I beg to differ. High school is but a exceedingly small part of person's life. Does anyone feel like high school made out to be better than it actually is?
High school highly overrated?
|by Anonymous
|reply 48
Absolutely agree. I neither hated nor loved it. Just tried to maximize the opportunities it afforded and get on with things.
|by Anonymous
|reply 1
I grew up with the John Hughes movie depiction of high school, which didn't exactly glorify high school but certainly made it a hell of a lot more interesting than it actually was. I never smoked pot and danced around the library during detention. I just remember being really bored most of the time, it was in Brooklyn and all we wanted to do was go into Manhattan and get into trouble. I got sent to the principle's office once for saying I thought religion was stupid in class.
|by Anonymous
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[quote] I got sent to the principle's office once for saying I thought religion was stupid in class.
Shame. They'd have done better to give you more time in English.
|by Anonymous
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Very few people think of high school as the best time of their lives, and quite a lot think of it as the worst.
I thought the cliche was that college is the best time of your life. I mean, you're partially out from under your parents' thumbs, and you get to drink.
|by Anonymous
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The principal is your P-A-L.
|by Anonymous
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I love r5
|by Anonymous
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I agree with R4. College was the best time of my life. High school had its ups and downs. My freshman year was fun. Sophomore year first half was ok, second half sucked. Junior year kind of sucked for the most part. My senior year I started to realize not to take it all so seriously and it was better than the prior two years. College was fun the whole time.
|by Anonymous
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I liked graduating from college, getting a job, my first apartment, and a car. I liked being on my own and felt truly free for the first time -- in those years, work only wanted your work, it didn't demand your whole soul.
There are no pre-fabricated cultural expectations laid on those early years. No one then ever made films about how it is the best time of your life. It was free to be as it was, and it was a free and happy time for me.
|by Anonymous
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[quote]I grew up with the John Hughes movie depiction of high school,
Weird. I was about to say the same thing.
It didn't seem like culturally people thought of it as "the best time of their life." It seemed pretty much understood that it was something to suffer through until it was over, which is how I thought of it. At the very least, people understood it was ostensibly preparing you for college and adult life.
And it was kind of tacitly understood, at least among my crowd, that those having a good time--the cheerleaders and football players etc--were at a high point, which was actually kind of SAD.
The culture's youth and high school fetish came later imho, and has something to do with the culture of social media, helicopter parenting, and reality tv. It almost seems like every high school kid is now a golden quasi-celebrity, things like prom are a huge industry, and yeah, that time is supposed to be 'the best in your life.'
|by Anonymous
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It's the best time of a STRAIGHT person's life. It only goes downhill for them after high school. Just take a look at your hetero classmates on Facebook. Fat, bald & pregnant...all of them.
For gays, life doesn't begin until after H.S.
|by Anonymous
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High school was four years of hell for me. Students were physically and verbally abusive to me every day for years.
I flipped when the teachers and principals joined in the game, and I tried to kill myself. Luckily my family helped me through that and I managed to graduate.
Agree with R10. Not sure if it's gotten any better, but at least when I graduated over a decade ago, life didn't start for me until college.
|by Anonymous
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High School was often the worst time of many LGBTs persons life. College was the better.
|by Anonymous
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People who say high school was the best time of their life makes me sad. It's like they peaked at 17 and never accomplished anything since then. For myself, whatever present I am in is the best time of my life.
|by Anonymous
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Many of those "High School Cool" movies are made by the people who had as bad a time as we did, but still can't face the truth of this.
|by Anonymous
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[quote]High school is often portrayed as being "the best time of a person's life".
I have NEVER heard that.
|by Anonymous
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I once heard that nobody decent had a good time in High School. With a few exceptions, it holds for me.
|by Anonymous
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When I was a freshman in high school, I couldn't understand why my mom used to tell me she would never want to go back to her high school years. By the middle of my junior year, I began to understand that statement more. By my senior year, I completely understood what she meant.
|by Anonymous
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When I went to a small private school I thought it would be better in a big public school. It was worse
|by Anonymous
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HS was just...boring. I grew up in NJ. We couldn't even drive until we were 17, the oldest age in the country. So most of us were still being chaperoned by our parents until senior year. Made it kind of hard to do anything particularly fun. And even then it was just chain restaurants, the movies, and people's houses.
|by Anonymous
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Yes always. Great fun, but not the end all and be all. It's what you go on from to better things.
|by Anonymous
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[quote]When I went to a small private school I thought it would be better in a big public school. It was worse
|by Anonymous
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I hated high school
|by Anonymous
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It was the time of my life when I was most unhappy. But that was at least as much the conditions at home with my family as it was at school.
|by Anonymous
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I went to both a private Catholic school and public school, so I got both experiences. The private school was smaller by about a third. Both had their issues. I felt like I had way more freedom at the public school. I had never skipped school in my life until I went to the public high school. Surprisingly, though, money and status seemed to matter more at the public school. It was very stratified along those lines. At the private school, different economic groups mixed a bit more.
|by Anonymous
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Some people think high school is supposed to be the best time of your life. Some people think college is supposed to be the best time of your life. It's really sad to think that people believe that; what are they going to do when high school or college is over? Wait to die? When the "best time of your life" is over, what's left?
I knew a girl who was very popular all through high school, valedictorian and all that. She had her little clique of friends and they were oh so happy and had so much fun together. And then...it was OVER. Her friends went their separate ways for the most part; her charmed life had ended. Despite being valedictorian she only got an Associate degree from a community college and got a piddly job as a secretary. She was sharing an apartment with a friend from her beautiful school days; I went there and it was a bleak place, two not very happy women in a nondescript dwelling. She seemed postively lost. It was like her world had disappeared and she didn't know what to do. Later I heard she got married; she and her husband have no children. It always seemed to me that she always longed for those halcyon days of high school and after they were over everything went downhill from there.
|by Anonymous
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When I graduated high school in 1972 it was like being liberated from slavery or some concentration camp. College was generally a little better but am glad that is way behind me as well. Life began in 1980 when I started going to gay bars, after age 40 life got better, I moved away from the retarded hick town I grew up in and never looked back. The more time that separates me and high school the better.
|by Anonymous
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I ran into the high school prom king recently. He runs a bar now where all of the local high schoolers go to drink. He basically hangs out with 17 and 18 year olds even though he is MUCH older. I think he enjoys living vicariously through them.
He was scorchingly hot in high school - six pack, curly jet black hair, 6'3, square jaw. Teachers and students alike were in awe of him. He drove a Lexus SUV and people would fall over each other trying to get invited to his parties.
He's fat now, his face looks like a round dinner plate, and he's still stuck in the old neighborhood. He's chained to his HS girlfriend (who was the Queen Bee of the school) and she looks like a premature hag - smoking and bulimia have really aged her.
On the other hand, I went from being an ugly geek (glasses, braces, horrible clothes and hair, cystic acne) who weighed 110 lbs to an amateur bodybuilder (195 lbs) with a personal and professional life that is incredibly fulfilling. I rarely give high school a second thought. When I do think about HS it's only to reflect on how far I've come as a person, and how much richer my life is now.
|by Anonymous
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At a Catholic school graduation in Canada, over half of students made a statement in support of their school's gay-straight alliance, by wearing rainbow socks.
Students at the Vanier Catholic Secondary School wore the socks at the ceremony to support the newly-formed alliance.
The school was subjected to controversy over several months as the policy of the church diocese policy which states that homosexuality as "intrinsically disordered", and said homosexual acts were a "grave depravity".
Following the Yukon Department of Education's assertion that the school needed to adopt a more inclusive policy, and eventually the school did so, allowing the gay-straight alliance to be formed.
The newly formed group has around 30 members.
At the graduation ceremony, about 45 out of 81 students wore rainbow socks.
|by Anonymous
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There were only about 100 kids in my HS graduation class, and we all started kindergarten together. By the time we graduated, we knew each kid in the class. I felt relief to get away from all of that, but now look back on my school days with mostly fond memories. My 30th reunion is this year and I plan to go. I went to the 25th and surprisingly enjoyed it very much.
My 20s were the time of my life! I was free, living in NYC, ambitious and career-driven. Poor as anything, but never seemed to worry about money. It was easier to do without, plus my living expenses were much less back then. I guess I always knew I had a safety net with my parents, but never needed it.
My parents' generation though, lots of kids got married right after high school. This was in the 50s and 60s. Colleges used to have married housing for couples. Maybe this is when people thought high school was the best time in their life, they had to grow up quickly.
|by Anonymous
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[quote]Does anyone feel like high school made out to be better than it actually is?
OP, you're going to get a chorus of "nos" on this thread, seeing as most DLers were the kids endlessly picked on in high school for being "fags." However, for a certain group of straights -- the ones who don't go on to college and get married and/or pregnant young, after having been a football or cheerleading star back in HS -- high school certainly *is* the best part of their lives. I think this was more common decades ago when far fewer kids went to college, but you still see it around.
Btw one of my all-time favorite movies, "Dazed and Confused," is largely about this idea, viewed from various vantage points. Here's a quote from the film's lead character, a popular jock who nonetheless hates HS: "If I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life - remind me to kill myself."
|by Anonymous
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Best years of my life were my final 2 years of undergrad.
Bought my first car, moved off-campus into a nice apartment, just had a blast...
I had a full-time job while in grad school so it was not nearly as enjoyable.
|by Anonymous
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I didn't mind being a teenager but high school was just something to get through. I had no romantic notions about how it was supposed to be. I was obviously gay and I was picked on a bit, but I had a nice group of friends and for the most part people were nice to me.
When it ended I didn't miss it. I was ready to get on with college.
I remember how carefree those years were overall. The summers in particular. My parents didn't make me get a summer job so I had lots of freedom to just hang out.
It was the early 80s and I was really into the punk and New Wave thing. That also made me stick out in school, but it was an exciting time, discovering new bands and scouring the thrift stores for cool clothes.
|by Anonymous
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I think that's true only for kids who were popular in high school, and never went on to college.
|by Anonymous
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I think it's made out to be better and worse.
Popular culture presents high school as (1) the best time of person's life (as OP states), and/or (2) a horrible period that either is the start of an overall horrible life and is the reason for an adult's problems, or is something that is overcome and the person who overcame it has that fact at the forefront of their identity - thus they still talk about it.
I think there's a silent majority of people for whom high school was neither. It was mandatory by law and by parents, and it just existed. There was some good and some bad, but overall, just meh. It was a required job.
Yet, pop culture markets high school as the end all be all, either positively or negatively.
|by Anonymous
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I think it was probably in the post-war 1950s when popular culture, particularly TV and pop music, discovered The Teenager. Suddenly there were TV shows and movies and music all about being a teenager and all the innocent drama and romance that involved.
So of course it idealized and romanticized the idea of high school.
|by Anonymous
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[quote]Does anyone feel like high school made out to be better than it actually is?
No, at least not where I'm from. Everyone thinks that high school was a horrible experience. Doesn't matter if you were popular or not or just an average student, it was horrible for everyone. That's what we thought at the time and that's what we've thought since then.
|by Anonymous
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Some people have fond memories of high school. And I guess there are some people who consider it the highlight of their lives, especially if they were a part of the social elite, the "popular" kids. I actually did hear one popular girl I knew in high school say that those years were supposed to be the best years of her life (I don't know if they actually were). But it's pretty sad that some people look back at high school and consider it the best time of their lives. High school is over when you're about 18...and everything is downhill from there? That's pretty sad.
As for me, high school (well, actually ALL of school) was hell. I was a fish out of water. I grew up in a rural, backward area and my classmates were by and large dullards with no imagination or sensitivity or intelligence. I liked to READ; that was considered very weird.
I don't think high school is an especially great time for most people. It is overrated.
|by Anonymous
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[quote]High school is often portrayed as being "the best time of a person's life".
It is? By whom? I haven't heard that since I left high school, and I'm pretty sure it was just the guidance counselors and the prom kings and queens who actually believed that. My stoner buddies and I didn't exactly express our love for high school while we were smoking up before homeroom. I don't recall thinking "these are the best days of my life!" when I lunkhead football player would knock my books out of my hands in the hallway. While struggling with my sexuality and trying to fit in despite being a raging cockmonster in private, I don't recall musing "someday I'll look back on my current shame and self-loathing with rose-colored nostalgia".
Are you aware that not everyone has the same high school experiences?
Most people I know would say that statement applies to college more than high school, but if you just ask open endedly "what was the best time of your life" most people would probably cite their 20s, not their teenaged years.
Unless you're asking actual teenagers, which would be stupid.
[quote]Does anyone feel like high school made out to be better than it actually is?
Again, what perspective are we coming at this from? I'm 45 and haven't thought about high school in years. Very few people sugar-coat it these days, with so much awareness of bullying and teen suicide.
R4 had it right. I don't know anyone who's all "rah rah!" over their high school days. People like that are generally mocked and avoided in my social circles.
What are you basing this all on, OP? Can I ask how old you are and what kind of environment you live in?
|by Anonymous
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I hated high school. Even on Facebook I'm friends with people from elementary school, jr high, and college...but not a single person from high school.
|by Anonymous
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I've actually heard that too, but always from the jocks who peaked as the football hero in HS and the prom queens who peaked then too. Small Texas town, and so many of them married right out of high school and still live in that same stupid little town. Late 70's. I hated high school, so, no...wouldn't say they were awful but happily I didn't peak in my teens.
|by Anonymous
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People have been brainwashed by all those stupid movies that make high school seem like a fucking blast.
"Sixteen Candles" is a good example. The geeky sophomore girl is in love with "the most popular kid in the school" Jake Ryan. He's rich and handsome and has a hot cheerleader girlfriend. But all the most popular guy in the school wants is a girlfriend who will REALLY love him, who he can REALLY love.
After much idiocy, the poor little geeky sophomore girl, ignored by her parents (they forget her birthday) and resigned to never getting what she wants, she finds him waiting to whisk her away in his Porsche to a quiet place where a birthday cake all aglow with candles awaits. They kiss, sealing their love. What hooey! But movies like that made high school out to be a wacky, wonderful time. Even the repulsive geek gets some! He bangs the dead drunk cheerleader girlfriend, (Jake Ryan hands her over to him). Technically it's date rape, but when she comes to the next day she admits she "liked it." Yep, high school is the greatest...if you believe dopey movies. And a lot of people do!
|by Anonymous
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High school is a waste of time.
|by Anonymous
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I think it gets overstated as being the wort of times too. It's a small, not especially eventful part.
I was a geeky weirdo (and somewhat out) in high school yet kind of enjoyed it.
|by Anonymous
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I've not heard HS are the best years since I was in HS, and I didn't buy it then. High school had its ups and downs but my memory is mostly coloured by my lack of self-acceptance at the time. I denied my sexuality and genuinely hated myself until after high school, and then the penny dropped and the fun began. I started becoming the person I am after high school - I moved away and had a blast.
|by Anonymous
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I can honestly say I haven't given much thought to High School since graduating from it 37 (!) years ago. The best years of my life are now. Good job, a partner I love to pieces, travel, family, friends, good health, memories.
|by Anonymous
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I enjoyed what I was doing, and some people were nice, but mostly I was glad to depart from much of the company I felt forced to keep.
|by Anonymous
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High school has never been described as the best time of anyone's life. College has been described that way although that turned out to be true mostly for people who never went on to accomplish anything substantial in their professional lives.
|by Anonymous
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We don't all use our jobs as the basis for gauging the happiness of our lives, r47. I'm wary of anyone who does. I love my job but it's still only the means by which I pay for the things I really enjoy in life.
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The Legend of Dragoon
Review by Dicebag
"Good beginning, better middle, bad end."
I bought this game when it first came out and got to the fourth disc but never finished. So this week I decided to pick up an old classic. I choose the Legend of Dragoon, which took me 35 hours to complete. Since I just finished it today I thought it the best and freshest opportunity to compose a fair and balanced review.
Presentation - 4/10
Pros: Very nice and imaginative character designs and a concept that obviously didn't try to copy other games of its era TOO too much..
Cons: This game smells an awful lot like Final Fantasy VII which was released before this title. However it's missing many elements that made FFVII the masterpiece it is. Very archaic menu design and visible errors. Many however only a careful eye could discover. The story is poorly translated (and if it's a good translation the story is just extremely boring). Many of the scenes in the game could have been removed, and it's noticeable how Sony added many scenes just to lengthen the game. I love stories in RPGs, but this one is base, unoriginal, and downright boring. Treasure in dungeons.. oh boy, at the end of the game you'll want to skip them all cause they're all filled with useless crap.
Graphics - 8/10
Pros: Graphics and designs ahead of its time. Nice battle scenes, and a noticeable improvement on FFVII's out of battle models.
Cons: Poor design on many pre-rendered backgrounds. By the end, many battle animations may bore the player.
Music and sound - 7/10
Pros: Not exactly a soundtrack you may find yourself humming when you're not playing the game, but some very nice tunes nonetheless. Sound effects are adequate.
Cons: English dub when it's present is extremely poor and laughable. Movie scenes and dragoon magic are annoyingly louder than the rest of the game. I frequently had to manually lower my volume during these occurances.
Gameplay - 6/10
Pros: In the beginning of the game, the concept of the addition and dragoon systems are fun and fresh. Very welcome at their introductions.
Cons: The addition system becomes burdensome and you'll say to yourself... why do I have to do this every fight...? The dragoon system slowly becomes a resort when you need more defense. Dungeons are annoying, frequent random encounters, and many forced locations that are downright pointless to the main plot. Just wait until you have to have an active role in sorting out everyone's story at the end of the game. I wanted to pull my hair out.
Replay value - 4/10
Toward the end I remembered why I quit it when it came out. The end of this game is so poor and boring, I just wanted to finish it just to finish it and be done with it. The game will entertain you for a week or less, then bore you for the rest. If you're asking yourself... "Why am I bothering to proceed?" Welcome to the club.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.0 - Fair
Originally Posted: 10/15/07
Game Release: The Legend of Dragoon (US, 06/13/00)
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