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Octomom has enough kids for a choir…so go figure…she's "supposedly" the Mater of Exploitation right; so why not exploit the kids!!!!!!? Done! Check out Octomom's kids…renamed for this event… "The Roctuplets"! OMG!
…also watch Octomom's interview on Oprah where she breaks down and tells the world how she really feels about being Octomom…it's REAL TALK!!! I feel sorry for the lady…it probably wasn't her idea to expolit her children in the 1st place.
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Everyone who chose to tune into the Philadelphia 76ers at the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday night, received full payment on their viewing investment, as these two, young, exciting teams went out and did battle in Cleveland. The game exploded into a double-overtime battle for the ages, as Kyrie Irving and rookie Michael Carter-Williams went head-to-head.
This block by Thaddeus Young may have been the play of the game, despite plenty of highlights.
Dion Waiters gets the ball in the corner with about six minutes to go in the third quarter. The Sixers were ahead 59-52, and Waiters appears to have an easy dunk to cut the lead to just five. That's before Thaddeus Young comes flying in from the perimeter to meet Waiters with a viscous rejection. Oh my!
Young sniffs out the play early and uses his quickness to get inside and stop the easy bucket. That's a grown-man block right there. Thaddeus Young finished the night with 29 points, but the Cavs, led by Kyrie Irving, proved to be too much for this young Sixers' club, as they eked out a much needed win at home.

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The Companies (Amendment) Act, 2002
THE COMPANIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2002 ACT NO. 1 OF 2003[31st December, 2002.]An Act further to amend the Companies Act, 1956.BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-third Year of the Republic of India as follows:-1.Short title and commencement.1. Short title and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2002.(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.2.Insertion of new Part IXA.2. Insertion of new Part IXA.-In the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), after Part IX, the following Part shall be inserted, namely:-'PART IXACHAPTER IPRODUCER COMPANIES581A. Definitions.-In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,-(a) "active Member" means a member who fulfils the quantum and period of patronage of the Producer Company as may be required by the articles;(b) "Chief Executive" means an individual appointed as such under sub-section (1) of section 581W;(c) "limited return" means the maximum dividend as may be specified by the articles;(d) "Member" means a person or Producer institution (whether incorporated or not) admitted as a Member of a Producer Company and who retains the qualifications necessary for continuance as such;(e) "inter-State co-operative society" means a multi-State co-operative society as defined in clause (p) of section 3 of the Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002 (39 of 2002) and includes any co-operative society registered under any other law fo the time being in force, which has, subsequent to its formation, extended any of its objects to more than one State by enlisting the participation of persons or by extending any of its activities outside the State, whether directly or indirectly or thro gh an institution of which it is a constituent;(f) "mutual assistance principles" means the principles set out in sub-section (2) of section 581G;(g) "officer" includes any director or Chief Executive or Secretary or any person in accordance with whose directions or instructions part or whole of the business of the Producer Company is carried on;(h) "patronage" means the use of services offered by the Producer Company to its Members by participation in its business activities;(i) "patronage bonus" means payments made by a Producer Company out of its surplus income to the Members in proportion to their respective patronage;(j) "primary produce" means-(i) produce of farmers, arising from agriculture (including animal husbandry, horticulture, floriculture, pisciculture, viticulture, forestry, forest products, re-vegetation, bee raising and farming plantation products), or from any other primary activit or service which promotes the interest of the farmers or consumers; or (ii) produce of persons engaged in handloom, handicraft and other cottage industries;(iii) any product resulting from any of the above activities, including by-products of such products;(iv) any product resulting from an ancillary activity that would assist or promote any of the aforesaid activities or anything ancillary thereto;(v) any activity which is intended to increase the production of anything referred to in sub-clauses (i) to (iv) or improve the quality thereof;(k) "producer" means any person engaged in any activity connected with or relatable to any primary produce;(l) "Producer Company" means a body corporate having objects or activities specified in section 581B and registered as Producer Company under this Act;(m) "Producer institution" means a Producer Company or any other institution having only producer or producers or Producer Company or Producer Companies as its member whether incorporated or not having any of the objects referred to in section 581B and w ich agrees to make use of the services of the Producer Company or Producer Companies as provided in its articles.(n) "withheld price" means part of the price due and payable for goods supplied by any Member to the Producer Company; and as withheld by the Producer Company for payment on a subsequent date.CHAPTER IIINCORPORATION OF PRODUCER COMPANIES AND OTHER MATTERS581B. Objects of Producer Company.-(1) The objects of the Producer Company shall relate to all or any of the following matters, namely:-(a) production, harvesting, procurement, grading, pooling, handling, marketing, selling, export of primary produce of the Members or import of goods or services for their benefit:Provided that the Producer Company may carry on any of the activities specified in this clause either by itself or through other institution;(b) processing including preserving, drying, distilling, brewing, vinting, canning and packaging of produce of its Members;(c) manufacture, sale or supply of machinery, equipment or consumables mainly to its Members;(d) providing education on the mutual assistance principles to its Members and others;(e) rendering technical services, consultancy services, training, research and development and all other activities for the promotion of the interests of its Members;(f) generation, transmission and distribution of power, revitalisation of land and water resources, their use, conservation and communication relatable to primary produce;(g) insurance of producers or their primary produce;(h) promoting techniques of mutuality and mutual assistance;(i) welfare measures or facilities for the benefit of Members as may be decided by the Board;(j) any other activity, ancillary or incidental to any of the activities referred to in clauses (a) to (i) or other activities which may promote the principles of mutuality and mutual assistance amongst the Members in any other manner;(k) financing of procurement, processing, marketing or other activities specified in clauses (a) to (j) which include extending of credit facilities or any other financial services to its Members.(2) Every Producer Company shall deal primarily with the produce of its active Members for carrying out any of its objects specified in this section.581C. Formation of Producer Company and its registration.-(1) Any ten or more individuals, each of them being a producer or any two or more Producer institutions, or a combination of ten or more individuals and Producer institutions, desirous of forming a Producer Company having its objects specified in section 581B and otherwise complying with the requirements of this Part and the provisions of this Act in respect of registration, may form an incorporated Company as a Producer Company under this Act.(2) If the Registrar is satisfied that all the requirements of this Act have been complied with in respect of registration and matters precedent and incidental thereto, he shall, within thirty days of the memorandum, the articles and other documents, if any, and issue a certificate of incorporation under this Act. receipt of the documents required for registratio , register the (3) A Producer Company so formed shall have the liability of its Members limited by the memorandum to the amount, if any, unpaid on the shares respectively held by them and be termed a company limited by shares.(4) The Producer Company may reimburse to its promoters all other direct costs associated with the promotion and registration of the company including registration, legal fees, printing of a memorandum and articles and the payment thereof shall be subje t to the approval at its first general meeting of the Members.(5) On registration under sub-section (1), the Producer Company shall become a body corporate as if it is a private limited company to which the provisions contained in this Part apply, without, however, any limit to the number of Members thereof, and t e Producer Company shall not, under any circumstance, whatsoever, become or be deemed to become a public limited company under this Act.581D. Membership and voting rights of Members of Producer Company.-(1) (a) In a case where the membership consists solely of individual members, the voting rights shall be based on a single vote for every Member, irrespective of his shareholding or patro age of the Producer Company.(b) In a case where the membership consists of Producer institutions only, the voting rights of such Producer institutions shall be determined on the basis of their participation in the business of the Producer Company in the previous year, as may be sp cified by articles:Provided that during the first year of registration of a Producer Company, the voting rights shall be determined on the basis of the shareholding by such Producer institutions.(c) In a case where the membership consists of individuals and Producer institutions, the voting rights shall be computed on the basis of a single vote for every Member.(2) The articles of any Producer Company may provide for the conditions, subject to which a Member may continue to retain his membership, and the manner in which voting rights shall be exercised by the Members.(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), any Producer Company may, if so authorised by its articles, restrict the voting rights to active Members, in any special or general meeting.(4) No person, who has any business interest which is in conflict with business of the Producer Company, shall become a Member of that Company.(5) A Member, who acquires any business interest which is in conflict with the business of the Producer Company, shall cease to be a Member of that Company and be removed as a Member in accordance with articles.581E. Benefits to Members.-(1) Subject to the provisions made in articles, every Member shall initially receive only such value for the produce or products pooled and supplied as the Board of Producer Company may determine, and the withheld price may be disbursed later in cash or in kind or by allotment of equity shares, in proportion to the produce supplied to the Producer Company during the financial year to such extent and in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be decided by the Board.(2) Every Member shall, on...
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Your drawing style as well as your use of color is excellent. The girl is intriguing and looking at your art inspires my imagination, so well done. However, I think the white vine-things on either side of the girl actually detract from the girl becoming the very strong focal point (which I believe she should be). To me, this piece would be perfect if the white vine-things were more subdued and less "in your face".
Thank you so much for such a detailed critique, I really appreciate it!
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And these white things (whatever they are), just a creation of my fantasy, but I really needed to know how to place them correctly! c:
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hey, can i make a 3D model of the scythe? i gonna make it blue instead red, but its for DOTA 2 workshop, i will DEFINITELY give credit for the concept.
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Pardon me while i think 'Little Red Riding Reaper'.
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Uses of a Drone
Posted on November 03 2015
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, offer a variety of applications. A controversial tool in regards to surveillance and military applications, drones nevertheless provide a number of commercial and personal uses. Let's check a few of these uses out to determine if purchasing a quadcopter is worth it for you:
Real Estate
Quadcopters are excellent tools for real estate agents. Many agents provide virtual tours of listings, and drones make it easy to capture otherwise-impossible, stunning aerial shots. Even the dullest listings look great when aerial footage is used! Agents will often buy a drone which will allow agents to capture footage of the surrounding neighborhood, therefore showcasing nearby schools, parks, shopping districts, restaurants, etc.
Wildlife Protection
Another cool use for drones is their ability to help protect wildlife. Drones show where animals are living and in what numbers, which helps tasks such as nest spot mapping. Quadcopters also aid in the fight against poaching, as they give rangers and animal rights' activists the chance to capture footage of poachers without putting themselves in the line of fire.
Sports Photography
Drones make capturing unbelievable shots of sporting events easy and fun. From aerial shots of basketball players making the winning basket to footage of extreme sports that involve a lot of jumping, drones are a fantastic sports photography tool. Their uses also extend to surfing, as obtaining footage of a surfer on a breaking wave is pretty darn cool.
Farmers make good use of quadcopters, as they give them the opportunity to survey their acres without breaking a sweat. Drones identify which areas require more water, more fertilizer, etc. in a very short amount of time.
Highway Monitoring
Drones could be used to monitor the many highways that make up the U.S.
"Drones could keep workers safer because they won't be going into traffic or hanging off a bridge," said Javier Irizarry, director of the CONECTech Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, as quoted by TechNewsDaily. "It would help with physical limitations of the human when doing this kind of work."
These are just some of the many uses drones offer. If you are interested in drones for sale check out our wide selection of drone models.


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Carbon Nanotubes
Nanoengineering has made great progress since the first Bucky balls (soccer ball-shaped spheres). We now have nanofibers, hollow nanocages and molecule-thick sheets of graphene, all built on a billionth-of-a-meter scale. This honorable mention in the illustration category shows carbon nanotubes whose diameters can be manipulated from one end of the tube to the other.


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Texas Instruments rolls out its Nspired Learning solution with the introduction of the new color-display TI-Nspire™ CX handheld. With the Nspired Learning solution, teachers are able to build their own interactive and engaging math and science classrooms.
The TI-Nspire CX handheld offers a set of fully-integrated tools that allow dynamic links among multiple representations of a problem. With the TI-Nspire CX and TI-Nspire CAS handhelds' new 3D graphing capabilities, students can explore concepts from multiple points of view to develop deeper conceptual understanding. The TI-Nspire CX and TI-Nspire CX CAS handhelds deliver a 16-bit, 320 x 240 pixel high-resolution color display for clear, crisp viewing. With this display, teachers and students can see sharp, full-color images and animations.


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No, it's not the number of empty beer cans fans will throw at Kyle Busch if he wins at Atlanta on Sunday.
Or Ryan Newman's qualifying speed (though he did set a track record of 194.690 mph in 2005).
After this weekend's Emory Healthcare 500, any driver 196 points ahead of 13th place in the points standings will earn a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. So far, only two drivers — points leader Kevin Harvick and second-place Jeff Gordon — have secured Chase berths.
Busch, currently third in the standings, enters Sunday' race 350 points ahead of the 13th spot. Coming off his historic sweep two weeks ago at Bristol, Busch should lock up a spot in the Chase at Atlanta, where he has an average finish of 18.3 in 12 Cup races.
Next in line are Carl Edwards (293 points ahead of 13th), Denny Hamlin (288), Tony Stewart (287), Jeff Burton (281), Matt Kenseth (275), Jimmie Johnson (257), Kurt Busch (253) and Greg Biffle (235).
On the bubble
Clint Bowyer currently holds the 12th and final spot with 2,920 points, 100 points ahead of 13th place Jamie McMurray. Mark Martin is 14th, one point behind McMurray.
Bowyer seems like a lock with a 100-point lead. However, in his last two races at Atlanta, Bowyer hasn't finished better than 23rd. Still, McMurray or Martin would likely have to win out to overtake Bowyer. McMurray finished 29th and Martin 33rd at Atlanta in March.
Considering Martin is winless this season and McMurray has never cracked the top five at Atlanta, it looks like smooth sailing for Bowyer.


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Master Chef David Burke, one of America's most accomplished chef restaurateurs, provided guests with a cooking demonstration on Seabourn Quest. Assisted by Seabourn chefs and waiters, he prepared a simple but elegant tuna tartar parfait, as well as tuna tartar tacos in crisp taco shells he had carefully transported from the States.
At the end of the demonstration, Seabourn waiters distributed a sample of the tasty dish to each member of the audience.
Seabourn Quest Sommelier Johannes Kahrer and Assistant Sommelier Melinda Hegyi conducted a wine tasting on board during the three day preview voyage. Wine tastings are a popular and regular feature on Seabourn's ships, and all dining service staff members receive ongoing training from the sommeliers in wine appreciation and wine and food pairing.
Seabourn Quest makes a stop at Le Lavandou, France, where the ship opened up the marina for guests to enjoy.
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British officials did not identify him by name, but the French president, Francois Hollande, referred to the victim as "a soldier" in expressing France's sympathy to the visiting British prime minister, David Cameron, who was in Paris when the attack took place.
The two suspects were shot and wounded by armed police, officials said, and were in the hospital under police guard. One suspect was described as being in serious condition. One of the men shouted "Allahu akbar," or "God is great," as the attack proceeded, government officials said.
Cameron, who interrupted a European tour to return to London on Wednesday night, said at a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris that the killing was "an appalling murder" and "absolutely sickening."
"There are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident," Cameron said.
ITV News showed a video clip taken with a cellphone in which a man who appeared to be in his 20s or early 30s, holding a cleaver and knife with bloodied hands, offered what appeared to be a political message before the police arrived.
"I am sorry that women and children should have to see this," the man said. He then referred to what appeared to be a motive for the attack, saying that it had been carried out "because of what's going on in our own countries." That phrase has been used by militants to refer to conflicts in countries including Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia.
The assault took place on a busy suburban street in Woolwich, the site of one of the main military barracks in London. A neighborhood primary school is nearby, and witnesses said that some of those who saw the attack were parents and children returning home from the school. (Read: Woman confronted attackers to deflect danger)
A small blue car involved in the ramming of the victim appeared to have collided with a telephone pole afterward. It was visible in photographs and television coverage of the scene, with extensive damage to its hood and front window.
Witnesses said they saw two men standing with blades over a man lying prone on the sidewalk, beside a wall. Shortly after the attack, these witnesses said, a man with a handgun leapt from an unmarked car and trained his gun on the assailants, shouting to passers-by to clear the area.
With Cameron in France, the home secretary, Theresa May, called an emergency meeting of the Cobra committee, a group of cabinet ministers and high-level security officials that oversees the operations of police and security agencies at times of high security alerts. Officials said that the group had ordered a tightening of security around all military barracks and other security facilities in Britain, including police stations. (Read: Protests over attack in London)
May described what had happened as a "sickening and barbaric attack."
"It has been confirmed to me that a man has been brutally murdered," she said after a meeting with the chief of Scotland Yard, Bernard Hogan-Howe, and Andrew Parker, the director general of MI5, the domestic security service. "Two other men were shot by armed police, and they are currently receiving treatment for their injuries."
In a Twitter post, the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said the attack was a "sickening deluded and unforgivable act of violence." (See: Top websites, newspapers on London attack)
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Located 1.3 km from Hungarospa Bath Complex in Hajdúszoboszló, this holiday home features a garden with a barbecue and a terrace. The property is 1.6 km from Greek Catholic Church and free private parking is available. Free WiFi is offered throughout the property.
The kitchen features an oven, a microwave and a toaster, as well as a coffee machine. A TV is provided. There is a private bathroom with a bath.
Hajdúszoboszló Folk House and Museum is 800 metres from Mery lak, while Bell House is 80...0 metres from the property. The nearest airport is Debrecen International Airport, 15 km from Mery lak.
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These technologies include genetically engineered mice designed to develop cancers similar to those in humans; state-of-the-art genomics and imaging technologies to predict cancer biomarkers and therapeutic responses; and laboratory mice into which human tumors have been transplanted. NCI brings expertise in engineered models, and Jackson in human transplant models.
The agreement focuses on lung cancer, but will reach much farther. Materials and data will be shared with the general scientific community to improve clinical trial design and to develop more effective treatments.
"There is an urgent need for more predictive models of human cancer for drug discovery," said Rick Woychik, Ph.D., Jackson president and CEO. "Unfortunately, nine out of 10 cancer drugs entering preclinical testing fail to gain FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval. This comes at great cost to the pharmaceutical industry and to patients."
"Knowledge of the genetic basis of human cancers can be combined with genetic engineering techniques to produce lab animals that mimic the diseases in humans more accurately than existing laboratory mice," said Terry Van Dyke, Ph.D., director of NCI's Center for Advanced Preclinical Research. "Transplantation of human tissue into lab animals provides another feasible preclinical model.
"The ability to transplant tumor tissue from a human patient into a laboratory animal, target a drug to that particular tumor, and then see if it works -- this will give us a true picture of whether a drug holds promise and should enter human clinical trials," she said.
The agreement is part of NCI's Advanced Technology Partnerships Initiative, which aims to speed up the translation of laboratory research into effective technologies and treatments for patients with cancer and AIDS.
Under the collaboration, researchers will evaluate candidate lung cancer therapies that target multiple signaling pathways involved in the tumors. The scientists will also explore methods to collect tumor specimens from lung cancer patients, rapidly obtain genetic profiles from the specimens, and cryopreserve them for ongoing studies. Medical specimens such as these are vital for next-generation, personalized cancer therapies.
The partners will validate these mouse models for use in screening a broad range of new therapies for lung tumors. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and the partners will start with the most prevalent form, non-small cell type.
As the research progresses, Jackson will develop tumor libraries to make malignant tissue and tumor-bearing mice that were developed under the agreement widely available to researchers. These resources will be scaled up at Jackson's JAX--West facility in Sacramento, Calif., under the direction of Neal Goodwin, Ph.D., program director of JAX Cancer Services, for use by the pharmaceutical industry.
NCI's work under the agreement will be conducted at the Center for Advanced Preclinical Research in Frederick, Md. NCI-Frederick is a government-owned, contract-operated national laboratory with SAIC-Frederick, Inc., as prime contractor.
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Score one for the bloggers. In the face of an instant, last-minute, blog-fueled burst of attention, the Utah Department of Oil, Gas & Mines has extended the public comment period until Feb. 13 for Application to Permit Drilling #08-8853, which seeks to conduct test drilling for oil in the West Rozel Field, an underwater oil deposit in Great Salt Lake.
The proposed drill sites are a couple of miles away from Rozel Point, the site of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. After a heads up from the Friends of The Great Salt Lake, Smithson's widow and the executor of his estate, Nancy Holt, fired off email alerts to the art and media worlds, urging them to act "to save the beautiful, natural Utah environment around the Spiral Jetty from oil drilling."
I dutifully fired off my letter, expressing my grave concern for the fate of "the single most important work of art in the state." Apparently, at least a thousand other people around the world did, too, and in one day.
But something seems odd to me. What's the actual threat, where does it come from, what's the logical--and realistic--solution, and what do we know about what the artist himself would think about oil production nearby his masterpiece? Holt's calling for protection of the Jetty's "beautiful, natural" surroundings doesn't exactly reflect the reality of the work. Likewise, Lynne deFreitag, the FOGSL chairwoman who raises the specter of "offshore equipment [that] could cause noise and visual impairment in a relatively pristine area."
Now the National Trust of Historical Preservation has weighed in, calling the Spiral Jetty "a significant cultural site from the recent past, merging art, the environment, and the landscape."
Rozel Point may be beautiful, but it is not pristine, and it's not natural. And oil drilling is no stranger to the area, either. By ignoring the specific industrial history of the Spiral Jetty and its site, these defenses, however well-meaning or much-needed, are incomplete and inaccurate at best, and misleading at worst.
According to Smithson's own accounts of the project, oil and oil production are inextricably linked to the Spiral Jettyand the reasons Smithson chose to build it at Rozel Point. A choice based on, among other resources, his consultation of his copy of the 1963 Utah Geological & Mineral Survey map titled, "Oil Seeps of Rozel Point." [image: via Ron Graziani's 2004 book, Robert Smithson and the American Landscape]
As he explained in a 1972 interview with Paul Cummings:
You might say my early preoccupation with the early civilizations of the West was a kind of a fascination with the coming and going of things.... And I became interested in kind of low profile landscapes, the quarry or the mining area which we call an entropic landscape, a kind of backwater or fringe area...He continued, rather romantically, explaining the landscape of debris from decades of failed oil expeditions:
An expanse of salt flats bordered the lake, and caught in its sediment were countless bits of wreckage. The mere sight of the trapped fragments of junk and waste transported one into a world of modern pre-history...[In 2005, the state decided to clear out all these ruins and debris using money from the Division of Oil, Gas & Mining's "orphan well" fund. "Within 16 days," brags the Utah Geological Survey website, "a total of eighteen 40- cubic-yard dumpsters full of junk were hauled away! Only some old wood pilings and historic stone building foundations were left behind...So, if you have ventured to the area before, either to see Rozel Point or Spiral Jetty, you may not recognize it when you return!" [emphasis added]
Two dilapidated shacks looked over a tired group of oil rigs. A series of seeps of heavy black oil more like asphalt occur just south or Rozel Point. For forty or more years people have tried to get oil out of this natural tar pool. Pumps coated with black stickiness ruted in the corrosive salt air. A hut mounted on pilings could have been the habitation of "the missing link." A great pleasure arose from seeing all those incoherent structures. This site gave evidence of a succession of man-made systems mired in abandoned hopes.
About one mile north of the oil seeps I selected my site.
Interesting that to the state, wood pilings and stone foundations are "historic," but the metal/industrial elements were "junk." It's a diametrically opposite view from the artist's own.
Even though the "Diluvian" ruins of failed oil drilling were central to the choice of Rozel Point, and even though he built his own Jetty right next to an abandoned oil drilling jetty, the industrial nature of the site was largely omitted from critical discussion of the Spiral Jetty for decades while it lay submerged and unvisited.
During the 2004 retrospective at the Whitney, Todd Gibson noticed how Smithson largely excluded the surroundings from the Spiral Jetty film:
This is interesting because Smithson could just as easily have chosen to place Spiral Jetty within the context of the industrial landscape in which he built it. At two points during the film, viewers get a passing, background glimpse of the oil-drilling jetty situated less than half a mile to the east. You have to be watching for it to see it, the shots are so quick. (See the satellite photo at right for an indication of how close these two jetties are--and by how much the industrial jetty dwarfs Smithson's work.)It's too late, and this is too long already, so I'll have to look into the questions of the current oil drilling situation in another post. Meanwhile, don't forget to write your letter of support for the Jetty! Demand that the state restore the 18 trailerloads of pumps and junk immediately!
I was surprised by these two shots in the film because they both show not just the oil drilling jetty that remains at the site today, but they also clearly show a giant drilling derrick at the end of the jetty that is no longer there. The site was even more clearly a working industrial landscape at the time Smithson built his piece than it is today, but Smithson chose not to highlight that fact in the film--even though his Non-site works had explored the concept of the industrial, entropic landscape a few years before.
It's only been in the last few years, since Spiral Jetty reemerged from the water and people started visiting the site again, that discussion of this aspect of the work has arisen.


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San Diegans got the terribly sad news Monday that Tony Gwynn — the greatest and most beloved Padre of all — had died of cancer at the horribly young age of 54. Our deepest condolences go to his wife, Alicia, and children Tony Jr. and Anisha, to his other family members and to all those who had grown close to him.
But in remembering Gwynn, our sadness should at some point give way to the emotion much more typically associated with Gwynn. That emotion was joy.
The joy he gave San Diego State fans who got to see this unlikely kid from Long Beach emerge as both a star basketball and baseball player — still the only Aztec athlete to be all-conference in two sports.
The joy he gave Padres fans who got to watch him steadily build a global reputation as baseball's best hitter since another San Diegan — Ted Williams — and do so like a magician at the plate, conjuring up singles and doubles.
The joy he gave normal folks by showing that a guy who didn't look like an athlete — who looked, at least after his early Padres years, like a paunchy clerk at a convenience store — could be a superstar.
But that was what might be called the macro level of joy that Gwynn provided.
There was also the micro level of joy that Gwynn gave so many thousands of people — the lucky ones who got to have a conversation with him after running into him at one of his son's baseball games in Poway or in the lobby of a radio station or at an airport. They met a genuinely friendly, empathetic, humble human being who didn't put on airs and who liked being nice to other people — someone who loved the San Diego community and never chased the bigger money and fame available to him with teams in larger cities.
People who knew Gwynn well say it wasn't enough for him to be happy. He wanted everyone to be happy. Day after day, year after year, Gwynn would encounter adoring kids — and adoring adults — who were tongue-tied to be in the presence of their hero. And he would leave them feeling appreciated and respected and ... happy.
Even as Gwynn's health faltered in recent years while he coached the San Diego State baseball team, his essential goodness kept showing through. That's Tony Gwynn. That's who he was, and cancer wasn't going to change him.
San Diego is full of tributes to Gwynn. San Diego State's baseball stadium is named after him. There's also Tony Gwynn Way next to Petco Park, where there's been a statue of him since 2007, when he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
But what will most endure is how Gwynn made so many normal people feel so special when their paths crossed. Tony Gwynn wasn't just a batting champ. He was a life champ.


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Translating calculations into ration formulation can be challenging, and a new tool from Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition is taking the guessing game out of Dietary Cation-Anion Difference (DCAD) balancing. The DCAD calculator—a Web-based tool hosted on AHDairy.com—is helping nutritionists and producers translate their feed and forage analyses into useable, on-farm knowledge.
"While the actual DCAD equation can be easy to solve, taking the information and putting it into practice can be more difficult for dairy nutritionists and their producer clients," explains Elliot Block, PhD, Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition. "The new DCAD calculator helps to turn a feed analysis into applicable information to help make accurate ration formulation decisions."
The DCAD calculator allows users to input the levels of four macrominerals—sodium, potassium, chloride and sulfur—which are commonly found in feeds and used to calculate ration DCAD.
"The purpose of the DCAD calculator is to help identify current ration DCAD levels and provide a better understanding of why certain levels are critical during each stage of lactation," explains Block. "Since the nutrients of feeds and forages can change from one load of feed to the next, routinely calculating ration DCAD can help ensure cows remain healthy and perform to their potential."
The practice of balancing rations for DCAD is backed by extensive university trials and on-farm research1. Feeding BIO-CHLOR® Rumen Fermentation Enhancer to safely lower DCAD levels to -8 to -12 meq/100g ration dry matter prior to calving can help maintain dry matter intake, reduce metabolic disorders and boost early lactation milk production. Once a cow calves, boosting DCAD levels with DCAD Plus® Feed Grade Potassium Carbonate to +35 to +45 meq/100g ration dry matter helps to increase intake, leading to greater milk and component production.
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YS Jagan's speech in Visakha Yuvabheri - Sakshi
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YSR Congress party chief and the leader of opposition YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has participated in Yuvabheri programme in Visakha. Addressing on the occasion,YSRCP chief alleged that in the name of Special Status, Chandrababu has been cheating and misleading people. YS Jagan alleged that most of the ministers in AP do not know about Special Status. He has castigated Chandrababu on issues like students scholarship and less availability of Teachers in schools.


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Around the county in 30 days
A daily spring preview of every football program in Pinellas County.
Coach: John Davis (seventh season, 48-18)
Last season: 7-3
District: Class 5A-9 (Clearwater, Dunedin, East Lake, Palm Harbor
Key losses: WR Martavious Jones, DL Alex Miller, DL/TE Chris Ramsey, RB/DB Maurice Threatts
Who's back: QB Jimbo Chmelik, OL Joe Crews, K William Griswold, P Pete Kontodiakos, RB Dawrence Roberts, LB Richard Shockley, WR Todd Shorter, DB Aaron Tam, DL Derek Wolfinbarger
What's new: Davis will have to rebuild a Countryside defense that returns just three starters. The Cougars graduated their defensive line and most of their linebackers. Shockley moves from the offensive side of the ball to defense, where Davis feels he can be a game-changing player. The offensive line, with just one returning starter, also is a concern but has good size. Roberts, whom Davis feels is as good as any running back in the county, will be the Cougars' go-to guy on offense. Davis said four players are competing at quarterback. Chmelik started last season but is being challenged by Ryan Dailey and Ryan Singer. All three will be juniors next year. East Lake transfer Blake Robles is in the mix but will miss spring drills after suffering an ACL injury in the Eagles' playoff loss to Largo. Shorter moves over to wide receiver after playing in the secondary last season.
Audibles: "I really like our attitude right now. We had a great offseason. The kids really worked hard. If we can have a good summer, we could be in the thick of things." — Davis
Did you know?: Davis' personal streak of 11 straight playoff appearances — six at CCC, five at Countryside — was snapped last season.
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Spoilers ahead for last Sunday's episode of "The Walking Dead"! Stop reading now if you're not up to date with the series!
After months of buildup, Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal) put a plan in motion to kill Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and steal Rick's family for himself. To that end, Shane faked an escape by Randall (Michael Zegen) before executing him and leading Rick into a deadly trap. However, Rick saw through the ruse and confronted his former friend about his intentions. Rick even got Shane to let down his guard long enough for Rick to fatally stab him.
Unfortunately for Rick, his young son, Carl (Chandler Riggs) soon stumbled across the scene and seemingly blamed Rick for murdering Shane. Moments later, Shane came back as a walker himself before Carl shot him through the head to save his father.
In this week's preview scene, Rick realizes that Carl has misinterpreted what he saw and now Rick has to decide whether to tell Carl the truth about how Shane died. But first, they've got bigger problems to deal with.
To follow that up, the trailer for this Sunday's second season finale shows us that the farm is under attack by the largest horde of zombies since Rick's trip to Atlanta. And it doesn't look like everyone is going to make it out alive.
This week's preview pictures from AMC may reveal a little more than usual. For starters, we see Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) riding off the safety with Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride).
And in the second picture, Rick and his family seem to have survived as well, but there are a few people missing noticeably missing from their group.
The synopsis for the season finale also suggests that the survivors may be split up in the aftermath of the new attack.
Episode 2.13 – Beside the Dying Fire
Rick and Carl find the farm in jeopardy; the group is split up in the chaos; Rick's leadership is questioned
AMC has also released a behind-the-scenes video from episode 12, "Better Angels;" which deals with Shane's demise and other developments from the previous episode.
Don't miss the second season finale of "The Walking Dead," this Sunday night at 9pm on AMC!


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Deceived by the forces of evil into prematurely bringing about the end of the world, War – the first Horseman of the Apocalypse – stands accused of breaking the sacred law by inciting a war between Heaven and Hell.Read full description
"...excellent combat and challenging puzzles make Darksiders a brutal blast." - gamespot.com
"Definitely a fantastic action/adventure game, an exercise in game design that can't leave you indifferent." - multiplayer.it
Darksiders Warmastered Edition Features:
• Support for up to 4k video output resolution
• Doubled all the texture resolutions
• Re-rendered all cutscenes in high quality
• Rendering improvements and rework
• Better shadow rendering quality
• Post processing effects
• Optimized framerate
• Wide Variety of Graphic Options (FOV, Postprocessing effects, Anti-Aliasing, Texture Filtering, Windowed/Fullscreen, etc.)
• Steam Trading Cards
• Native Steam Controller Support
Deceived by the forces of evil into prematurely bringing about the end of the world, War – the first Horseman of the Apocalypse – stands accused of breaking the sacred law by inciting a war between Heaven and Hell. In the slaughter that ensued, the demonic forces defeated the heavenly hosts and laid claim to the Earth.
Brought before the sacred Charred Council, War is indicted for his crimes and stripped of his powers. Dishonored and facing his own death, War is given the opportunity to return to Earth to search for the truth and punish those responsible.
Hunted by a vengeful group of Angels, War must take on the forces of Hell, forge uneasy alliances with the very demons he hunts, and journey across the ravaged remains of the Earth on his quest for vengeance and vindication.
Key features:
Apocalyptic Power – Unleash the wrath of War, combining brutal attacks and supernatural abilities to decimate all who stand in your way.
Extreme Arsenal – Wield a devastating arsenal of angelic, demonic and Earthly weapons; and blaze a trail of destruction atop Ruin, War's fiery phantom steed.
Epic Quest – Battle across the wastelands and demon-infested dungeons of the decimated Earth in your quest for vengeance and redemption.
Character Progression – Uncover powerful ancient relics, upgrade your weapons, unlock new abilities, and customize your gameplay style.
Battle Heaven and Hell – Battle against all who stand in your way - from war-weary angelic forces to Hell's hideous demon hordes.
© 2010 THQ Inc. Developed by Vigil Games. Darksiders, Vigil Games, THQ and their respective logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of THQ Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks, logos and copyrights are property of their respective owners.
Eh, it's ok if you didn't get the reference. If curious, check out Piers Anthony and his books. Anywho, on with the game review. Darksiders is a really fun game for those who like paranormal stuff and all of that. A lot of interesting visuals and good gameplay, it is a hard game to pass up when on sale, as it is now for $4 which is a steal for all that you get for a few dollars. Hours of enjoyment roughing up denizens of the dark to get vengeance as well as clear his name.
Darksiders was incredibly good game, a perfect mix of Legend of Zelda puzzles, platforming sections straight from excellent Prince of Persia games and reliable and responsive fighting system just like in God of War. Explosive concoction that actually works. And as a cherry on this incredible sundae is art direction envisioned by Joe Madureira, creator (writer and penciler) of Battle Chasers. Soundtrack is also great and gameplay really works. Only thing bad in this game is backtracking in the end, other than that it's great. Remastered could've used some polish, because there are some problems, but it's not as bad as some recent games are. If you never played Darksiders, you definitely must pick this up, especially if you love the games I previously mentioned, because it is a perfect mix of those franchises, with nice story to top it off.
This game combines the dungeon exploration mechanics of Zelda (where you must find the weapon/ability that is required to solve the puzzles in said dungeon) with the combat system of God of War. Given that both are popular franchises, it seems like a good idea on paper. Since neither of those two franchises are available on Steam, Darksiders is the best available alternative for those that do not own any consoles. However, playing Darksiders simply made me compare it with the games in those two franchises and how they did everything better. To make things worse, the original aspects of Darksiders are mediocre at best in my opinion. I would recommend it only to those that has never played a Zelda or God of War game before.
I will say it right away, graphic fidelity in these titles is not all that great. But graphic style and aesthetics? breathtaking! The combat is very fun, with elements of hack and slash but also a lot of skill involved. The boss fights are very satisfying and not routine. The second instalment has much better boss fights but these are very challenging themselves. progression is also great and it will take you a long time to find all of the collectibles. It is however worth your time because each collectable adds another benefit for your character such as life steal or increased damage. I found the life steal to be useful later down the line where things got tough Great graphical aesthetics, very satisfying combat, interesting story line, very long campaign, and a great price will make this a very good buy, especially on a hefty sale!
Este juego es la hostia.Sin mas. Si te gustan los juegos del estill God of War este es perfecto. Lo jugu? en ps3 y no pude evitar querer rejugarlo en el pc y la verdad es que sigo disfrutando de este juego como una ni?a con un juguete, uno de mis favoritos sin duda. En cuesti?n de graficos mi pc es un portatil con una gtx 720 m y no he tenido problemas con el juego en ningun momento. No es que pueda jugar con graficazos pero con este si. Por ultimo lo unico con lo que he tenido problema al principio es con una estabilidad mala de un par de cinematicas y el audio que parece ser que siempre ha pasado en alg?n momento, por lo dem?s genial
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Rome, Italy, 2015/12/15 - Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the Copernicus Sentinel-1C and 1D environmental monitoring satellites, as part of Europe's Copernicus program - ThalesAleniaSpace.com. Euronext: HO
Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to build the Copernicus Sentinel-1C and 1D environmental monitoring satellites, as part of Europe's Copernicus program.
Thales Alenia Space Italy was once again named prime contractor for these new satellites, as for Sentinel-1A and 1B. It is responsible for the design, development and integration of Copernicus the Sentinel-1C and 1D satellites, which will feature a C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), as well as advanced data management and transmission systems and onboard computer. Thales Alenia Space will supply the transmission/reception (T/R) modules and the front-end electronics, the heart of the C-band SAR antenna, which will be manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space to Thales Alenia Space's specifications.
The Copernicus Sentinel-1C and 1D satellites, to be launched as from 2021, are part of the vast Copernicus environmental monitoring and management program coordinated by the European Commission, with ESA in charge of the space segment. The Copernicus program is designed to guarantee European independence in the collection and management of data on our planet, and to support Europe's public environmental policies.
The Copernicus Sentinel-1C and D satellites will be built on the Prima platform developed by Thales Alenia Space on behalf of the Italian space agency. They will each weigh about 2,300 kilograms at launch, and will be positioned at an altitude of 700 kilometers, offering a ground resolution of 5 to 25 meters, depending on the operating mode selected.
"We are very proud to have won this major contract, since it confirms Thales Alenia Space Italys long-standing expertise in the construction of Earth observation satellites based on radar technology," said Donato Amoroso, Managing Director of Thales Alenia Space Italy and Deputy CEO of Thales Alenia Space. Our selection also shows that we have the capabilities needed to meet this program's technological challenges, while contributing to Europe's environmental strategy now and in the future."
Italy plays a major role in the Copernicus program, largely through the Italian space agency ASI. The country's role reflects the excellent performance of the COSMO-SkyMed program, which demonstrated the Italian space agencys vision and the Italian space industry's cutting-edge expertise.
The main goals of the Sentinel-1 mission are: mapping of urban areas and environmental impacts, monitoring of risks caused by movements of the Earths surface, surveillance of the marine environment, maritime security, monitoring of sea ice, forests and climate change, fast response to emergency services.
ESA's Sentinel program include six families of satellites, each equipped with instruments dedicated to their specific remote sensing mission. Sentinel-1 will ensure continuity with data gathered by the ERS and Envisat radar satellites. The Sentinel-1A satellite, launched in April 2014, is now fully operational, while its twin, Sentinel-1B, scheduled for launch in the spring of 2016, is undergoing final testing at the Thales Alenia Space plant in Cannes.
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Emulating Mac OS 9.2.2
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Posted 27 March 2006 - 03:57 AM
Ever since 2003, Apple changed the firmware on their PowerPC machines so that they would no longer be able to boot the included Mac OS 9.2.2 naively. However, I recall that Mac OS Classic supposedly can be copied entirely to another hard drive by copying the System and Applications folders. If the System and Applications folders of a non-bootable version of Classic were placed in a disc image and used in a PowerMac emulator, would the image be able to successfully boot OS 9 on the emulator?
You must be talking about SheepShaver. However, I would strongly recommend you stick with Apple's Classic mode, as it has much better compatibility, and integrates (almost) seamlessly with OS X. Only problem is a PPC-based Mac is a requirement. For whatever reason, Apple decided to kill the Classic mode on Intel-based Macs. It's kinda weird that PPC Macs can run 22 year-old apps while the Intel Macs are limited to 5 years, but that's progress I guess. Anyway, for your Intel Mac, SheepShaver is your only option so be thankful for Gwenole Beauchesne.
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Posted 30 March 2006 - 05:53 AM
Not quite. Im asking if it's possible to emulate the entire OS 9 operating system using a PowerPC emulator and the preinstalled Classic folders. The reason I ask is because I was always under the impression that the OS needs to be installed within the emulator onto a blank image or loaded from a preexisting image.
On a PPC-based Mac, you can use an emulator called Mac On Mac to emulate a 9.2.2 system. Hypothetically, you should be able to copy your existing 9.2.2 System Folder to an HFS+ formatted disk image (with OS 9 drivers installed), and boot with Mac On Mac. As I recall, however, Mac On Mac doesn't work with Tiger. On an Intel-based Mac, your only option is SheepShaver, which can emulate up to OS 9.0.4, thus your existing 9.2.2 System Folder will not work with SheepShaver.
Posted 01 April 2006 - 01:00 AM
Granted, I didn't install OS 9 "Drivers." Where would I find these, since I don't have an OS 9 install CD?
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Posted 25 April 2006 - 06:27 PM
It's kinda weird that PPC Macs can run 22 year-old apps while the Intel Macs are limited to 5 years, but that's progress I guess.
Yes, because why run Word 2004 when you can run MacWrite!
Posted 26 December 2008 - 04:07 PM
I wish they would have kept classic, it would have been so easy to incorporate, i mean, basilisk II would fly on osx86
It's too expensive to emulate Mac OS 9.x It would be so SLOOOOWWWW, because what Classic really did was, use an existing PPC processor's type then lie about it (either saying G3 or G4) to emulate Mac OS.
Easy peasy
Posted 16 February 2009 - 03:45 PM
If you have an earlier version of OS 9, then you can do it, but otherwise, not at all.
And as said earlier, Sheep relies on .hfv or .img files for emulating it, so as long as it is in a .img file (.dmg images don't work in Sheep and .hfv can't be mounted in Finder), you can access the files in the emulated copy of Mac through the Finder. And, as said earlier as well, you need to go to one of the configuraion tabs in SheepGUI and enable the guest to access your drives via networking. Also, you need to use slirp ethernet configuration for being able to access the internet.
And, if you don't already know, you need a ROM file. The newworld86 ROM is probably the best for this install, but you can use any other compatible ROM file.
And just one note about emulation speed, on a single-core 3.2 GHz Intel PC running XP, the OS 9 speed will be about 100 MHz.
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Germans call it Teufelsdreck; the Swedish, Dyvelstrack. In English? Devil's dung.
Known for its pungent smell in its raw resin form, asafetida is used widely in India by those forbidden from eating onions and garlic for religious reasons. When cooked, the odor breaks down and adds a smooth, garlicky flavor to dishes. Try it in the powdered form for easier (albeit more fragrant) storage.
Not convinced? Have a look at the accompanying recipe for Sundal, and you might be. There's a reason asafetida also goes by "food of the gods."
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Standing out above other antivirus/anti-malware vendors, Kaspersky Lab ranks first for overall performance and product-specific features
Woburn, MA – March 15, 2012–Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, is proud to announce the results of InformationWeek's 2012 Antivirus and Anti-malware Vendor Evaluation Survey (available at NewtorkComputing.com).
Among the nine vendors rated, Kaspersky Lab tied for the highest ranking for overall performance and took the top spot for AV/anti-malware features with a ranking of 83 percent (from a possible score of 100 percent).
The InformationWeek 2012 Antivirus and Anti-malware Vendor Evaluation Survey asked 386 IT professionals to gauge their impressions of AV/anti-malware vendors. Respondents only ranked vendors they used or evaluated within the past 12 months. The core of the survey asked two sets of questions: one focused on overall vendor performance, including price, general performance and product reliability, and the other focused on product-specific features such as virus and malware detection and removal.
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By claytown
From: Boulder, CO
Mar 13, 2010
|Link it all into P2 of Center Route for a great 185' pitch with a few 5.10 cruxes.
By Dustin B
From: Steamboat
Apr 3, 2011
rating: 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
|+1 Clayton, contender for the best pitch I've climbed in Eldo.
By Ken Trout
From: Golden, CO
Oct 28, 2014
rating: 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b PG13
Concentric @ Rincon @ Eldo
Using the bolt anchor for Camouflage is a great way to set up a top rope for Rincon's finger crack. Although, continuing to the top via Center Route or On the Crest is why I think this is a four star route. Concentric climbs Rincon's central wall without having to do 5.11.
PG-13 because the red Alien will not save the leader from hitting the Camouflage slab if the anchor is not successfully clipped.
By mountainhick
From: Black Hawk, CO
Jun 30, 2015
rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13
|Fun, little traverse. The crux pro placement is not the most awe inspiring, the rock there is coarse grained, and the placement is flared and angled.


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PORTSMOUTH — One of a kind.
Chris Hall, the commissioner of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League, stopped the conversation to look across the room at Bill Lee, who was signing a ball for a fan prior to the 2nd annual Seacoast Mavericks Hot Stove Dinner on Friday.
"You don't see too many guys actually pick up the ball and smell it still," said Hall. "This guy eats it, sleeps, walks it, breathes it. He's playing baseball every day he possibly can. I don't think there's another guy in this world that loves baseball as much as this guy."
A bitterly cold night was warmed up at the Harbor Events Center downtown, as hundreds of baseball fans packed the main room to talk baseball with local-boys-made-good Sam Fuld and Mike Fransoso, plus Lee, the iconic Red Sox Hall of Famer who touched on everything from PEDs to ESPN to Pease Air Force Base.
"A strikeout," he said, in his opening remarks, "is a fascist weapon. Throw more ground balls. They're more Democratic." A pause. "What's that from?"
"Bull Durham," replied a few members of the audience.
"It's from my book," corrected Lee. "('Bull Durham' director) Ron Sheldon stole it."
It may be nearly five months until the Mavericks take the field for their fourth FCBL summer collegiate season — their second using downtown Leary Field as their home base — but there were no shortage of humor, or baseball storylines.
Fuld, who's played the last six seasons in the big leagues with the Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago Cubs, is still a free agent as the start of spring training camps loom just weeks away and had nothing to report on that front.
"No, nothing to announce tonight," he said, prior to the program. "I feel like I'm getting closer. We're less than a month away from spring training. I know I do have to make a decision real soon."
The Durham native said he's had offers from a "handful of teams," but is trying to wait as long as he can to see how the landscape shakes out and put himself in the best possible position to make a major league team out of spring training.
Friday was a four-hour celebration of baseball in the city. Emcee and WEEI sports radio personality Mike Mutnansky wove in details about the success of Portsmouth teams in Little League, Babe Ruth and American Legion, as well as citing the national-record, 89-game win streak set by Portsmouth High School.
Former Mavericks pitcher Dennis Torres, who is now in the Baltimore Orioles farm system, received the Jayson Whitehouse Fighter Award for perseverance. Torres was cut four times from his high school team before being converted to a pitcher at UMass.
The Mavs unveiled the roster for the coming summer season, one that features a pair of local products in outfielder Aidan O'Leary of Greenland and infielder Ethan Joyce of Exeter. Both saw time with the Mavs last summer.
Shortstop Mike Mastroberti, catcher Tyler Fortanascio and pitcher Hunter Carey were on hand to represent this year's team. So was former big-leaguer Benny Ayala and the "Mad Fisherman," Charlie Moore, who served as auctioneer and delivered a profanity-laced routine to close the night.
Fransoso, who reports to Pittsburgh Pirates minor-league spring training on March 2, kept his remarks brief. "I probably found out from (Mavericks owner) Dave Hoyt that I was talking about 20 minutes before this happened," he said. "I'm kind of winging it."
But it meant a lot for him to be honored here, he said.
"Especially in my hometown of Portsmouth," he said. "Baseball has a rich tradition here and it's only getting stronger."
The stage was ultimately set for Lee, who railed on:
* Instant replay. "If they can't get it right, it's part of the game. Baseball's a game of mistakes. It's a game of overcoming mistakes. … I have one rule in my senior league. If you slide, get up."
* An offer to be part of the creation of an all-sports network in Bristol, Conn., a generation ago. "I said, 'You've got to be (kidding) me. Who's going to watch sports 24 hours a day?"
* Portsmouth. "It's come a long way since the (Jack Nicholson) movie 'The Last Detail.' Then they closed down Pease Air Force Base and now you have a baseball mecca."
* Playing ball across North America. "I've hit a home run and thrown a complete game in every province in Canada. Think I can get into the Canadian Hall of Fame? No. Because the guys that vote are from Ontario. … I hate Ontario."
* Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) in baseball: "There's no such thing as performance-enhancing drugs. Only performance-dehancing drugs. That's what we used in the '70s."
But his love of the sport, and why he's still playing it at age 67, was evident.
Hall was the GM of the independent Nashua Pride a few years go when Lee and another recognizable name from Red Sox past, Oil Can Boyd, were going to lead their teams in an exhibition game.
"Bill was there early and on time," said Hall. "We had a little issue with the guy on the other side. … Bill was there and ready to go and ready to pitch. We had a lot of fun that night."
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- This is what you're calling a "crap ending"?
Are you f****ing kidding me?
This is what counts for a crap ending nowadays? It was a bit rushed I admit, but no less rushed than Dead Space 2's ending, that's for sure. Not to mention this is taken entirely out of context, where we know pretty much nothing about the plot.
I've seriously begun to think that gamers like to whinge for the sake of whinging. F***'s sake, why do we have to act like such petulant babies? Why do I never see movie or TV fans acting this childish?
demonfire922010 4 years ago#2
Duderinoo posted...
Go watch the ME3 destroy ending breath scene and tell me that the ending doesn't seem a little to close to being the same.
SandalFury 4 years ago#3
Serious question: Is "whinge" a real word, or can people just not spell anymore?
Headshot. Apply THAT directly to the forehead.
demonfire922010 4 years ago#4
SandalFury posted...
Serious question: Is "whinge" a real word, or can people just not spell anymore?
Pretty sure it's the latter of the two.
NYguard4life 4 years ago#5
I agree I enjoy the ending, well as much as I can without "the context" of playing the whole game. I feel you get just enough closure but at the same time still leaving the possibility of Isaac's survival in a future installment. Again I still need to play the whole game to give a definitive answer but so far not bad.
ZombiDeadZombi 4 years ago#6
SandalFury posted...
Serious question: Is "whinge" a real word, or can people just not spell anymore?
It's a real word, and it's a form of whining.
Well it IS whining, but it's done in a certain way.
It's a cliche crap ending, you can tell they just didn't care.
Making a good ending, the full, conclusive and you know, not a kick in the genitals lazy, is very hard, it takes time and effort, but if you don't at least try and make an effort out of it, then you get backlash from it.
Stories in games are nowadays finding it way to easy to justify these lazy endings, and they are becoming insanely cliche, in fact endings are now becoming ranked into 3 types.
The Disney Blue birds crapping rainbows, they lived happily ever after ending.
The Cliche heroic, Bitter sweet ending, which in general goes against almost everything of the characters, the lore, the story, and how it should have ended.
and THE END ending, this is also becoming common. HEY we beat the last guy, HEY,, *Say a few lines of dialogue that mean little* THE END roll credits.
These are becoming far to common in a product that talks about having such genius writers nowadays, I find it amazing that none of them can come up with a conclusion that fits, and leaves people feeling complete and good about the destination or the journey.
And please don't do that whole it's not about the destination it's about the journey crap, cause it's a failed logic, and needs to die horribly There would not be a journey without it, and it would not have been made without the destination being worth it. It's a crock to think otherwise, and it's just an excuse for developers and storywriters to be lazy.
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Doubleglock18 4 years ago#8
i didn't really read your post TC for the sake of avoiding specific spoilers of any kind, but what would you rate the ending out of 10 (10 being perfect, 0 being terrible) no spoilers plz.
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N7Spectre707 4 years ago#9
demonfire922010 posted...
Duderinoo posted...http://slumz.boxden.com/f13/spoilers-full-dead-space-3-ending-1876935/
If you really think that scene had anything to do with why the ME3 ending was horrible, you weren't paying attention at all during that entire scenario.
These "after-the-credits- scenes are almost standard now. They are cliche, and they were in plenty of games before Dead Space 3 and ME3, and will be in plenty more afterwards.
That being said, this ending doesn't seem to even remotely resemble the narrative mess that was the ending from ME3. Of course, like was brought up earlier, this leak is completely taken out of context. We don't know anything about the build up to this point, and that can have an influence on the narrative impact of the ending.
I'm gonna say the ending seems cliche overall, but nothing to get worked up about.
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Drizzy_Drizake 4 years ago#10
I understand that with games like Dead Space and Mass Effect where you've created a pretty massive world it can be very difficult to wrap things up in a way that will really feel satisfying. So I can forgive if the ending isn't all that great, but only if it actually feels like they genuinely tried to make a great ending and failed. These kind of endings don't feel like that at all. It feels like the writers got really bored and just gave up at the end/
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The majority of Iraqi people oppose the presence of US/UK occupation forces in their country and do not believe that the
51.2% of Iraqis oppose the presence of the US/UK occupation forces (31.3% strongly). Only 39.5% support them.
66.3% of people do not have confidence in the
Only 7.4% of Iraqis think the occupation forces/the US should hold the elections for a new Iraqi national government. 8.7% think the Governing Council should do it. 23.9% think it should be the Iraqi people; 18.2% go for 'the Iraqi government'.
What kind of regime does
Asked whether they supported or opposed the presence of US/UK occupation forces ('Coalition Forces') in
But, as we pointed out in JNV Briefing 50, there is a great deal of ambivalence in the Iraqi attitude to the US/UK forces. The vast majority of the Iraqi people do not want immediate withdrawal. Asked how long the occupation forces should stay, Iraqis gave these responses: 'leave now' (15.1%); 'a few months' (8.3%); 'six months to a year' (6.1%); 'more than one year' (4.3%). 18.3% said 'They should remain until security is restored'. The bulk of people, however, said, 'They should remain until an Iraqi government is in place' (35.8%). (Only 1.5% said, 'They should never leave', and 10.6% didn't know.)
Two opinion polls last summer also found that immediate withdrawal was favoured only by a minority of Iraqis. A poll in
Then a US-conducted poll conducted outside
It is hard to know whether there is greater impatience now than last summer because it is not clear from the latest opinion poll what is meant by 'until an Iraqi government is in place'. Does this mean an interim government, or does it mean a directly-elected government? On the
THE SECURITY PROBLEM If the Iraqi people are so strongly opposed to the occupation, why would they support its retention? In JNV Briefing 49 six months ago, we argued that 'the Iraqi people seem to want some outside military presence, for security reasons'. This still seems to be the reason.
Asked 'the single biggest problem' in their lives, the most popular answer (named by twice as many people as the next option) was 'lack of security/stability' (22.1%). Next were 'no job' (11.8%) and 'rising prices' (9.5%). Then came 'poor electricity supply' (4.2%), 'housing problems' (4.1%), 'poor public services (water, roads, etc.)' (3.7%), and 'poor living standard' (3.8%). 'The occupation' was named by only 1.1% of people.
However, asked about the security situation in their own neighbourhood, while 50.1% said it was bad, 48.9% said it was good.
Nevertheless, asked what was the top priority for the next year, 64.4% of people said 'regaining public security', and no other option received more than 8.1% (holding elections for national government).
Incidentally, the overwhelming second priority was economic: 'rebuilding the infrastructure' at 28.6%, then 'reviving the economy' at 14.7%. The top two choices for the third national priority were 'rebuilding the infrastructure (19.2%) and 'holding elections for national government' at 13.5%.
So it seems that the reluctant acceptance of the occupation forces is based on the continuing fear of social chaos. Anecdotal reports in the mainstream media confirm this analysis.
Given that the anti-war movement wants to bring an end to the occupation as soon as possible, there are only two demands that could be made which would be consistent with Iraqi public opinion: establish an Iraqi government and then get the troops out; or get the troops out as soon as possible to be replaced by another international security force uncontaminated by Washington or London.
The problem with the first route, which is what the British and US governments would say is their actual policy (except that they do not intend to withdraw fully), is that a government which is formed under occupation cannot be independent.
Therefore, if the anti-war movement is to pay heed to the expressed wishes of the Iraqi people (as determined in several polls), we should abandon the demand for 'troops out now' and call instead for the rapid replacement of US/UK occupation forces, and the withdrawal of US/UK political and economic 'advisers'.
JNV believes there should be a UN transitional administration in
Admittedly, the UN option is not popular in Iraq: only 0.6% of people think they should be involved in regaining security; and only 3.5% think they should be involved in helping Iraqis regain control over their country; and only 6% think they should be involved in holding national elections – but the Iraqi Governing Council only gets the support of 8.7% of people, the US 5.3% and the CPA only 0.3%!
But if people in Iraq were presented with the choice between a US/UK occupation, a UN transitional authority free from US domination, or simple US/UK withdrawal, it is hard to believe they would not opt for the UN in those circumstances, given the poll results on withdrawal and security.
Finally, needless to say, BBC/mainstream reports of the ORI poll did not highlight massive Iraqi opposition to the occupation, focusing on the fact that most Iraqi people feel the situation is going to improve over the next year (eg 'Survey finds hope in occupied Iraq', BBC News Online, 16 Mar.; Simon Tisdall, Guardian, 19 Mar.).
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BARCELONA, Spain -- Atletico Madrid slumped to a stunning 3-0 loss at Osasuna on Sunday, leaving Real Madrid as the sole leader of the Spanish league for the first time since May 2012.
Osasuna beat Atletico at its own game, both in its tough, physical approach and its set piece strategy to take a three-goal lead at the break after one of Atletico's worst first halves in three years under coach Diego Simeone.
Alvaro Cejudo opened the scoring from a corner kick in the sixth minute before fellow forwards Emiliano Armenteros and Roberto Torres added goals in the 21st and 42nd.
Atletico's loss came one day after Barcelona lost 3-1 at Real Sociedad, with both the former front-runners looking weary after their Champions League trips in midweek.
Atletico fullback Filipe Luis, who returned from injury, said that their win at AC Milan on Wednesday had nothing to do with this defeat.
"Osasuna played a great game," said Filipe Luis. "You can't take anything away from them. They beat us in every facet of the match."
Atletico and Barcelona have both dropped 10 points over the last seven rounds, allowing Madrid to turn a five-point deficit into a three-point lead despite playing without Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo during a three-game suspension. Madrid hadn't topped the standings since winning the title in 2011-12.
Simeone quickly needs to restore both his team's fitness and confidence before it hosts Madrid next weekend after its crosstown rivals travel to German side Schalke 04 on Wednesday.
Also on Sunday, Athletic Bilbao strengthened its hold on fourth place by winning 2-0 at Real Betis after the bottom side had two players dismissed, while Valencia and Sevilla won to move to within five points of sixth place and Spain's last Europa League spot.
Osasuna had already earned draws against Barcelona and Madrid at El Reyno de Navarra Stadium this season, and Javi Gracia's side lived up to its reputation as being one of the toughest hosts in the Liga.
"I think the fact that those three teams haven't won here says a lot," said Cejudo, who credited his team's fans for their vocal support that he said "pushes" the team forward.
Osasuna used a bit of well-executed trickery to strike first when it sent several players to the near post to draw in Atletico's defense before Torres crossed to the far post, where Cejudo had charged in late to drive the ball home.
Osasuna was a step faster to almost every ball and Armenteros beat Gabi Fernandez to a loose ball before he unleashed a blistering left-footed strike from outside the area that went in off the post.
Diego Costa mustered a shot that sailed wide in the 21st, but Atletico never responded to Osasuna's surge and a collective breakdown in defense cost it a third goal. David Villa first failed to fight for a ball in midfield, and then two defenders left Torres unmarked to nod Damia Abella's cross under goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
"It was a day to remember," said Gracia. "It's a big step for us as we try to stay up."
Bilbao's first victory in four rounds lifted it four points clear of Real Sociedad and kept it in command of Spain's last Champions League berth for next season.
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