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Vitor Belfort shook up the title pictures in two divisions, Michael Bisping fell short in his latest championship eliminator, and Bellator MMA kicked off its Spike TV era with a successful Season 8 debut.
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Call it hypocrisy, call it "in the moment," call it whatever. Vitor Belfort calling out Jon Jones after his TKO victory of Michael Bisping at Saturday's UFC on FX 7 event makes him no better than Chael Sonnen taking a No. 1 light-heavyweight contender's spot after losing to middleweight champion Anderson Silva. If granted a rematch with Jon Jones (which we seriously doubt), then Belfort would become the very thing he just shunned: a "line cutter." Maybe he should realize he just knocked out a Top 10 middleweight and stick with that class. If he wants Jones or Sonnen, win a fight at 205 pounds.
Randal M. Nelson
Iwakuni, Japan
Vitor Belfort's win over the would-be No. 1 contender should make him the new No. 1 contender. Michael Bisping was promised a title shot against Anderson Silva should he get past Vitor Belfort. However, he lost, Belfort won, and Silva remains without an opponent in the middleweight division. Except perhaps, Belfort. How many guys does Belfort need to knock out before he gets another shot at a UFC belt? Sure, he lost decisively to Silva at UFC 126, but he's since racked up three victories, including two "Knockout of the Night" performances. His sole loss in this period was against Jon Jones on two weeks' notice and in a heavier weight class. Belfort has beat every middleweight he has fought with the exception of Silva back in February 2011. A rematch between these two would clearly be a fight between the top two middleweights in the world.
Andrew Ponton
Oslo, Norway
Vitor Belfort looked every bit of his old self at UFC on FX 7 while derailing any short-term title dreams for Michael Bisping. After an impressive victory, Belfort took to calling out Chael Sonnen and Jon Jones. Although Belfort might have been the only opponent to ever have Jon Jones in trouble in a fight, he was eventually submitted via keylock. No to mention he was stopped by Anderson Silva by an amazing front kick in a 185-pound title fight. Two straight title-fight losses (both by stoppage) and going 3-2 in your past five fights does not merit a third title shot in two years. He called out Sonnen for getting a third and called him a clown. I am sure Lyoto Machida and Dan Henderson are thinking the same of Belfort.
Tripp Robbins
Herndon, Va.
Vitor Belfort proved at UFC on FX 7 that he is still a young dinosaur when he kicked the dreams of a title fight right out of Michael Bisping's head and followed up with some hammerfists. Belfort hasn't lost a fight at middleweight besides champ Anderson Silva. Chris Weidman was told by the UFC he needs another win to get a crack at the title before he pulled out of a bout with Tim Boetsch at UFC 155. To me this seems like the only reasonable match up to determine a No. 1 contender at middleweight. Silva can't duck a bout with Weidman if he adds Belfort to his list of victims, and a Belfort win would mean he has four straight victories in the weight class. Planning this bout would also allow for the new Strikeforce imports to find their place in the wish-washy UFC ranking system.
Brenden Hutchens
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
While the expectation was that Michael Bisping would be next in line for a middleweight title shot against champion Anderson Silva, someone forgot to notify Vitor Belfort of the game plan. Now, instead of an international showcase pitting a Brit against the Brazilian champion, the UFC must retool a title match that will lure fans. However, all it not necessarily lost. After all, an England vs. Brazil matchup would be an unlikely pay-per-view draw in the U.S., especially with Bisping being a huge underdog. Enter the undefeated Chris Weidman. Although he is not a household name, he is undefeated and has emerged victorious over formidable challengers with knockout and submission bonuses. Most importantly, he possesses the skill that might be Silva's kryptonite: superior wresting. If Weidman is billed as the second coming of Chael Sonnen, the UFC may have a promotable championship fight on its hands.
Greg Yanke
Chandler, Az.
Michael Bisping is a very good fighter. But as he proved at UFC on FX 7, he is not a great fighter. He makes it to the edge of a title shot and goes home with a loss. Dan Henderson? Highlight KO for the ages. Chael Sonnen? Had a good fight, but lost a close decision. Now, Vitor Belfort sends him packing again. Where do you go from here? What do you do with a fighter in his mid 30s who, even with his best efforts, is not a contender anymore? More than likely, he becomes the Clay Guida of middleweights: a pretty good gatekeeper on your way to the top. Big-money fights are always good, but when you don't have a real rival, and people aren't shouting to see you fight, those fights don't exist. Thanks for all the great fights, Mike. I think the best of Bisping may be in the rearview mirror.
Don Nichols
Terre Haute, Ind.
I am a huge fan of Michael Bisping's, but this is the third time he has come up short for a shot at the title. My heart wanted him to win, but my head told me he wouldn't. This was his last chance, period. He will never be in that top bracket in the UFC. It is evident from his record that when he comes up against a top opponent, he loses. Losses to Rashad Evans, Wanderlei Silva, Dan Henderson, Chael Sonnen and now Vitor Belfort all prove this. He is missing that explosive knockout power or submission game. The only way he can win seems to be on points or gassing out his opponent at this stage of his career. I will continue to support "The Count" as he is the pioneer of British MMA. However, he has had his last chance at securing a title shot. Back to the drawing board.
Ross Woodward
Co. Durham, England
During his post-fight interview at UFC on FX 7, Michael Bisping did something on live network television that shouldn't ever be done: He dropped an "F" bomb that was just as audible as the boos for Pedro Noble during Noble's "acting" earlier in the night. I understand Bisping may have been emotional, but swearing on live TV in front of millions people, potentially with their families, was juvenile and embarrassing to the UFC. With Bisping being as popular as he is, and with him being a potential role model to the younger viewers, you simply cannot let emotions get the best of you in a live setting. Wait until you go backstage and then drop a whirlwind of expletives, take a breath and calm down. You got knocked out, it happens. Smarten up!
Cody Ryan
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Dan Miragliotta has been one of the worst referees since he started working UFC events. How can you forget about when he poked Heath Herring in the eye during the staredown with Brock Lesner? It was the same eye that Lesner smashed at the beginning of the fight. Just when you thought it couldn't get worse than that, during a fight between Matt Hamill and Roger Hollet At UFC 152, he proceeded to shout instructions, not once, but twice, to Hamill to watch the back of the head. Did he think Hamill would hear him? Now we have his most recent bad calls when we disqualified Alessio Sakara at UFC 154, and on Saturday when he ruled a no-contest during the prelim fight with Yuri Alcantara and Pedro Nobre. If Miragliotta can't do the job right, then he shouldn't do it at all.
Tim Kramer
Erie, Penn.
Bellator's debut on Spike TV, which saw almost 1.2 million viewers at one point, has to be considered a huge success. Bellator is now drawing way more viewers than the UFC gets on FUEL TV, and just as many as the UFC gets on FX. While Bellator has a tough test and needs to maintain the numbers during the midseason events, which usually get lower ratings because of less star power, the UFC has to have taken notice. Spike TV knows how to promote MMA events, and Bellator is developing some seriously good talent. While the UFC hasn't really trashed Bellator before like they did with EliteXC and other promotions, it now seems like only a matter of time.
Winston-Salem, N.C.
As a big boy with a job, I had to DVR the first Bellator card on Spike TV. When I heard the lineup, I was confused. I can understand coming out with a great title match up first. "Pitbull" Freire vs. Pat Curran was a good standup battle. The second fight was the return of "Babalu" Sobral. Good placement. But to put Michael Chandler and Rick Hawn next is offensive. Chandler is a star in the making, and you put him below Seth Petruzelli – and some other guy!? With the fight ending by way of a blown-out knee, it sure made for a main event for the ages. Chandler finished impressively and deserved that top spot. I get opening with the title fight, but to not put your top star as the main event is blasphemy. Bellator owes him an apology.
Don Nichols
Terre Haute, Ind.
With Bjorn Rebney announcing a new championship rematch clause to take effect with Bellator's move to Spike TV, it seems like Pat Curran's razor-thin decision over Patricio "Pitbull" Freire would warrant such a rematch. Unfortunately for "Pitbull," there is a line of contenders waiting for their shot at the belt. Season 6 tournament winner Daniel Straus has already waited long enough, and then there's the delayed tournament final between Rad Martinez and Shahbulat Shamhalaev. I don't blame Rebney for his decision to not grant Freire an immediate rematch. "Pitbull" just picked the worst time to drop such a close decision to the champ.
George "Bigshoe" Lannoo
Chesterfield, Mich.
Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney has been patting himself on the back for the last few weeks. He's been bragging about how he's built the No. 2 MMA promotion in a little more than four years. I think he's forgetting that Zuffa's acquisitions of the WEC and Strikeforce is the reason he isn't fourth. Rebney once said, "Bellator isn't for sale!" Why would Zuffa buy a company with such little talent? Granted, fighters such as Michael Chandler and Pat Curran would cut it in the UFC, but the other 90 percent wouldn't make it in pre-Zuffa WEC. There was a bigger talent pool in WFA when Zuffa bought that. Bellator re-signing Eddie Alvarez would kill their wallet, and Rebney will be calling Dana White for a deal by 2014.
Mike Alfonso
Philadelphia, Pa.
UFC President Dana White has been hesitant regarding one-armed XFC champion Nick Newell, and this past week, we learned from Newell that he won a "TUF" tryout fight but was turned away for lacking experience. The real issue here is fighter safety, and it should be taken seriously. One could argue that it is sexist to not let women compete against men, especially since "skill beats strength" and we have fixed weight classes. Yet you would be hard pressed to find an athletic commission that would sanction such a fight, even if there were no valid physical discrepancy, because of a cultural aversion to possibly condoning violence against women by men. It's the same for the disabled and able-bodied. Time may prove that the only requirement should be weight or that we need an Invicta FC for "disabled" athletes, but until we guarantee both fighter safety and viewer interest, Zuffa is wise to approach cautiously.
Ananta Yanamandra
Potomac, Md.
The condemnation of Lance Armstrong and the revelations that he took performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France got me thinking about if MMA could learn from this. If we look at it in its simplest sporting form (ignoring the bullying and leal action), all Armstrong did was take drugs to ride a bike quicker. Now if you contrast that with MMA, fighters are receiving exemptions to fight on TRT and getting busted for PEDs, and they are actually trying to do damage to another person. As the sport gets more mainstream, is this something that more outlets will pick up on and use to hold back the sport? Has MMA seen a glimpse of the future with the Armstrong scandal? If so, the commissions need to act to make sure the Vitor Belforts of tomorrow don't become the Lance Armstrong of today.
Stephen Gleeson
Walsall, England
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The functional equations for Dedekind zeta functions (zeta functions attached to rings of integers in algebraic number fields) come from functional equations of theta functions like $\sum_{n \in \mathbb{Z}} q^{n^2}$, where $q = e^{2 \pi i z}$, which in turn come from the Poisson summation formula for lattices in Euclidean spaces.
The functional equations for zeta functions attached to curves over finite fields come from the Riemann Roch theorem and Serre Duality (see, e.g. Chapter 2 of Sam Raskin's write-up).
Rings of integers of algebraic number fields and curves over finite fields are analogous, (see, e.g. Jordan Ellenberg's discussion of Weil's three columns).
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In the animal kingdom, it's no secret that the most masculine male usually gets the girl; big bodies, large antlers, and low frequency calls tend to drive the ladies wild. But once the guy gets the girl and the girl gets pregnant, high levels of testosterone aren't necessarily a good thing. According to new research in PNAS, males with high testosterone are more likely to become fathers, but once they have children, their testosterone levels fall dramatically.
In animals like birds where paternal care is common, males tend to downregulate their testosterone production once babies are born. Humans, however, are one of the few mammalian species in which males help raise the offspring. Since this is a rare trait among mammals, we don't know much about our reproductive strategies when it comes to testosterone.
This longitudinal study used data from a long-term dataset of males living in Cebu City in the Philippines. The researchers measured morning and evening salivary testosterone levels in 642 21-year old males. Then, when the guys were 26, these measurements were taken again; by that time, many were married and had children.
Not surprisingly, men with higher testosterone levels at 21 years of age were more likely to be married and have children five years later.
It's very common for men to undergo age-related decreases in testosterone, and most of the men in the study did have slightly lower testosterone levels by the time they were 26. However, men who had children by the time the second measurement was taken had much greater decreases than those that were still single and those that had gotten married but not had children.
Dads with newborns were most strongly affected; new fathers whose kids were less than a month old had the largest drops in testosterone production, when compared to their baseline. These hormone changes weren't accounted for by their sleep quality, stress levels, or time budgeting.
Fathers that were more involved in child care and spent more time with their children had lower testosterone levels than those that didn't spend much time caring for their kids and those that were completely uninvolved with their children. Furthermore, the baseline testosterone measurement taken at 21 years of age was completely unrelated to how invested the fathers were in their children's care five years later. Taken together, this strongly suggests that caring for his kids can actually suppress a father's testosterone production.
While testosterone may help attract females, it can be detrimental to a relationship's stability. In previous research, men with high testosterone levels were more likely to have marital problems, and less likely to feel empathy when an infant cries. It's likely that the down-regulation of testosterone production seen here is an evolutionary adaptation to increase reproductive success. A lot of testosterone may help get the girl, but a little less of it may help raise the family.
PNAS, 2011. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105403108 (About DOIs).


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Hockey returns to Boston, Bruins fall to Penguins
Penguins 3, Bruins 2
Hockey returned to Boston after the manhunt following the marathon bombings, and Jarome Iginla scored the tiebreaking goal that gave the Pittsburgh Penguins a 3-2 win over the Bruins on Saturday and home-ice advantage throughout the Eastern Conference playoffs.
The game was pushed back by one day by the manhunt for a suspect, who was captured Friday night.
The postponement was the second of the week for the Bruins. Their game against the Ottawa Senators last Monday night, scheduled to start about four hours after the bombings, was rescheduled for April 28. The Bruins returned to their ice to beat Buffalo in a shootout on Thursday.
Before the game, Penguins coach Dan Bylsma wore a black T-shirt with the words "BOSTON STRONG" over his shirt and tie. During warmups, Bruins players wore baseball caps of the state police and Boston and Watertown police departments. The black cap for Watertown, where the suspect was taken into custody, had the Bruins "Spiked B" logo on the front and the word "STRONG" on the back.
A pregame slideshow on the video board above center ice showed pictures of smiling policemen after the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody. Also shown were individual photos of Lu Lingzi, Krystle Campbell and Martin Richard, who were killed in Monday's bombings, and Sean Collier, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer shot to death by the suspects.
During the game, a fan held up an "MIT" pennant.
Veteran Bruins vocalist Rene Rancourt sang the beginning of the national anthem and then, as he did before Wednesday night's game against the Buffalo Sabres, gestured for the fans to join in and they did for the rest of an emotional "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Bruins coach Claude Julien said before the game, "At least we could all breathe a little easier and sleep a little easier. And now it's, hopefully, time to work ourselves into trying to get things back to normal again, but it will always leave a scar somewhere."
The Penguins took a nine-point lead in the Eastern Conference over Montreal, which could get just eight more points in its remaining four games. The Bruins remained in fourth place with 57 points, 11 behind the Penguins, with five games to go.
Pittsburgh won its sixth straight game despite the continued absence of some top offensive players. NHL scoring leader Sidney Crosby missed his eighth game with a broken jaw, James Neal sat out his fifth with a concussion and last season's NHL MVP Evgeni Malkin was sidelined for his third with a shoulder injury.
With the score 1-1 on goals by Boston's Brad Marchand in the first period and Pittsburgh's Jussi Jokinen in the second, the Penguins got two power-play goals in four minutes. Tyler Seguin scored the final goal for the Bruins with 2.6 seconds remaining.
Iginla, nearly traded to Boston three weeks ago, played his first game against the Bruins since he was dealt by Calgary to Pittsburgh on March 28.
He was booed every time he touched the puck during a third-period power play. The jeers grew louder after he scored on a 50-foot shot from the center of the blue line as Chris Kunitz screened goalie Tuukka Rask.
Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli had been upset when his deal for Iginla fell through. The player had a no-trade clause and waived it to go to Pittsburgh instead of Boston.
Iginla's 12th goal of the season came at 4:43 of the third, and Kris Letang scored on another power play against the NHL's top penalty-killing team at 8:29.
Marchand's opening goal at 10:18 of the first period was his team-leading 17th and also came on a power play. Zdeno Chara carried the puck into center ice and passed to Marchand on the left. Marchand then sped between two Penguins in the left circle and beat goalie Tomas Vokoun from 15 feet at 10:18.
The Penguins tied it on Jokinen's 10th goal at 5:10 of the second period. With the puck loose in front of the net, Rask stretched to his left but Jokinen lifted it above the goalie's glove.
NOTES: Center Carl Soderberg, signed to a three-year contract after leading the Swedish Elite League in goals this season, played his first game for the Bruins. ... The Penguins won their sixth straight game in Boston ... Bruins LW Milan Lucic was a healthy scratch after scoring two goals in 27 games. ... The Bruins had a sellout crowd of 17,565 for the 150th consecutive game, including the postseason. ... Boston began a season-ending stretch of six games in nine days. ... Bylsma said G Marc-Andre Fleury will play three of the remaining four regular-season games.


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Neat post by Dan Strohl over at Hemmings this morning: the Dick Flint roadster – one of the most iconic hot rods in all of hotrodding hotroddom – is hitting the auction block soon. It's dizzying to hear the names associated with one car: Alex Xydias' So-Cal Speed Shop, Neil Emory and Valley Custom, The Rusetta Timing Association, the SCTA, Hot Rod magazine, Dean Batchelor and, more recently, the one and only Don Orosco.
In the light of history, the little track-nose Model A roadster is a near-priceless artifact. And what we love about it, probably more than anything else, is the cover of Hot Rod from 1952 (above): in an age of rigidly conforming popular culture, the magazine dared to let loose with a photo that we can only really describe as the visual equivalent of the Hollywood Wolf Whistle. Hard to find a good example of the main reasons guys built hot rods in post-war America, but the Dick Flint roadster is one of 'em.
Now, on the other hand, RM Auctions and the folks who can afford the paddle on the auction floor are going to do their best to find exactly what the price actually might be for the car. It's estimated that the Pebble Beach winner will bring more than the last post-war roadster with just as much of a pedigree: the famed McMullen '32. Read more about the whole deal right here and let Strohl fill you in on it. What a world, huh?


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Fayette police responded to 16 village ordinance violation reports in the month ending Aug. 24.
Police also responded to one report of a sex offense, two reports of domestic violence, three harassment complaints, three vandalism reports, two breaking-and-entering reports, three civil situations, six thefts, five complaints about juveniles, eight complaints about animals, three suspicious situations, eight reports of disturbing the peace, and one fireworks complaint.
Police gave assists to other departments six times and to citizens five times. Six open doors were investigated, two warrants were delivered, and one welfare check was made.
Police responded to 23 traffic-related incidents. Traffic citations were written for accidents (two), speeding (eight), suspended operators license (three), failure to yield and an unsafe vehicle.
Two criminal citations were written for disorderly conduct.
CARTS—Police chief Jason Simon reminds residents about the new regulations governing the operation of golf carts on village streets. The ordinance took effect Aug. 26.
Any resident who intends to operate a golf cart on streets should contact the police department to schedule an inspection.
Chief Simon said, as of Aug. 24, he had received no requests for an inspection.


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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Petticoat junction? Esmont bank/P.O.'s a gem
ADDRESS: 7514 Esmont Road
NEIGHBORHOOD: Esmont
SIZE: 3,114 square feet
LAND: 0.63 acre
CURB APPEAL: 7 out of 10
LISTED BY: Wes Carr of Bill May Realty Co. 434-978-7355
Unless you happen to live there, driving through Esmont probably does not happen unless by accident. Far enough off the more traveled roads of Albemarle County, Esmont sits like a lost child at the curb. Seemingly invisible to developers who've swarmed the areas north and west of Charlottesville, this little town has retained its old time appeal.
Taking its name from the nearby Esmont estate, the town comprises a half-mile stretch of buildings that sprang up during the late 19th century when the Nelson and Albemarle Railway ran a spur track to the soapstone quarry at Alberene (the largest soapstone quarry in the United States). Quarry workers lived along the line and hopped on board for the three-mile commute. Remnants of several stores remain in various stages of dilapidation except for one, the Esmont National Bank.
Built in 1900, it remained a bank until 1929. Perched right on the edge of Esmont Road, it looks and feels as solid as the day it was built. The four-over-four brick construction shows no obvious signs of damage, destruction, or even decrepitude after its 100-odd years of existence.
Currently housing the Esmont Post Office, the building's front entrance remains a revolving door of neighborly activity. Happily ensconced in the two rooms left of the wide main hall, the United States Postal Service has five years left on its lease. The rooms to the right off the entrance mirror both the size and shape of the post office and have been reconfigured as a two-room apartment. Eleven-foot ceilings, tongue-and-groove pine flooring, working fireplaces with soapstone mantels, hot water radiant heat, solid eight-foot tall mahogany doors, and double hung, counter-balanced windows are all original. A look around for water damage and a few whiffs for mold spores revealed no signs of any hidden problems.
Entering the small kitchen and adjoining bathroom along the back, through two-foot-thick walls and a steel door, it's clear that this used to be the safe. Still used as a safe over on the post office side of the building, one could hunker down in here for Armageddon. Floors of reinforced concrete with steel beams were built to prevent anyone from drilling from below. Safe, indeed!
From the main hallway downstairs, another door leads straight up a staircase into a light-filled, two-bedroom pristine apartment. Incorporating the same four huge rooms as below plus a bathroom, the space is a well-hidden gold mine. Even the kitchen gets one of the large rooms with little change to basic structure. With the same high ceilings, fireplaces in every room, the space seems far grander than just an apartment above a post office. One suggestion from the realtor involved using this space as living quarters and downstairs as a gallery– like a Paris atelier. Maybe that would help put Esmont on the proverbial map.
While converting this structure into a single family home is probably not in the cards, there are many possibilities in such a building for the artistically or maybe atavistically minded owner. There seems little danger that the area will at anytime be overrun with development, but the agents say that the general merchandise building down the street, currently stuffed to the gills with somebody's stuff, is being converted into a recording studio by a new owner.
Sufficiently off the beaten track to be a private haven, and priced to sell at less than $100 a square foot, this bygone gem of Esmont activity is certain to be the perfect space for someone.


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Downtown Nashville Convention Center
Nashvillle, TN
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Welcome to MTAC Devil's Dozen, Tennessee's premiere Anime and Japanese Culture Convention. Entering its 13th year, MTAC explores it's darker side as we return to the Downtown Nashville Convention Center. Come join us for the best of Japanese Culture, Anime, Music, celebrity and artist guests, special events, contests and discussion panels and more.
This years guest line-up includes:
- This years guest line-up includes:
- Celebrity Guests
- Chris Cason
- Jennifer Cihi
- Todd Haberkorn
- Brittney Karbowski
- Jonathan Klein
- Jamie Marchi
- Jamie Marchi
- Monica Rial
- Eric Stuart
- Nao Yazawa
- Bands
- Gelatine
- PowerGlove
- The Slants
- Eric Stuart Band
- Pinn Panelle
- DJ Debonair
- DJ Initial P
- Vocalekt Visions
- Symphonic Anime Orchestra
- Cosplay Guests
- Ana Aesthetic
- Cosplayer Nation
- IBI Of Sixh Fashion
- Lee "Fev" Camara
- For complete bios on all our guests for MTAC Devil's Dozen, please go to the VIP Guest Page on the MTAC website. I am also told there are still a few more guest coming soon! So keep your ears and eyes open. That being said, it takes some time to get the website updated with new guests, so what you see listed is the most up-to-date information I am allowed to release.
- AMV Contest
- Cosplay Contest
- Multiple Fashion Shows (Lolita and Jrock/Pop)
- MTAC Ball: The Grand Galloping Gala
- The Top 10 Ghibli Countdown
- Cosplay Photography 101
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Stories heal. Cameron shares more with us today in Episode 2: NOTICING SIGNS THAT WERE DIFFERENT "Telling and listening to stories is the way we make sense of our lives. That natural tendency may have the potential to alter behavior and improve health." – Dr. Thomas K. Houston
Cameron's Story – Episode 1 "Telling and listening to stories is the way we make sense of our lives. That natural tendency may have the potential to alter behavior and improve health." – Dr. Thomas K. Houston
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The MetLife Insurance Cos. multi-agency agreement on unpaid life and annuity policies and the reporting of unclaimed property is a landmark agreement in both the terms of business reform and in the amount of money to be returned to consumers, according to NAIC President and Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty.
McCarty, who spoke on a conference call yesterday afternoon along with other key members of the investigation team, said the settlement was a "huge milestone" in the settlement of multi-state exams because it was really changing industry practices by making MetLife adopt business reforms whereby they check monthly and as of April 2103, quarterly, against the Social Security Death Master File.
Before, this would have to be settled in court, McCarty noted on the call.
MetLife now has to proactively determine its policyholders status – within 120 days of an insured's' death – and then reach out to policyholders and beneficiaries, he said. If an insured or beneficiary cannot be located, the company must remit its monetary value to the state department of unclaimed property.
Other insurers are expected to follow. McCarty said there are eight more global investigations into unclaimed property underway, where settlements could still be reached. Both Prudential Insurance Company of America and its affiliates, and John Hancock Life Insurance Co. have already reached similar agreements with the Florida Department of Financial Services, the Office of Insurance Regulation, and the Florida Attorney General's office.
During this stage of the regulators' work, the focus has been on the largest 40 insurance groups, which comprise more than 92.4% of the market for life and annuity products nationwide.
McCarty and other state officials on the call from Florida and Illinois estimated the formerly announced $500 million figure to be returned to consumers could actually total than $667 million, with the industrial block of 708,000 policyholders resulting in at least $467 million to policyholders or beneficiaries.
Then, there could be at least another $200 million in the non-industrial, or life and annuity policy/retained asset accounts held by MetLife area, according to Joel Haber, the appointed examiner for the Illinois Department of Insurance and Florida officials. Illinois was the lead negotiating state on the MetLife settlement.
MetLife said that the total in-force for these industrial policyholders is $438 million, and that it expects $188 million, less than half, will be paid out in 2012, with the remainder being paid out of 17 years.
In the first quarter of 2012, MetLife recorded a $52 million post-tax charge related to unclaimed property and MetLife's use of the Death Master File.
Industrial policies were sold in the early 1900s up to 1964, with many of these policies having been sold in Florida.
California, North Dakota, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania also served as lead states for examinations of the largest insurance companies.
The NAIC formed the Investigation of Life/Annuities Claim Settlement Practices Task Force chaired by Commissioner McCarty in early 2011 to guide and coordinate the multistate examination process. Florida and California in May 2011 conducted public hearings on this issue.
MetLife announced yesterday, as well, its new processes for beneficiaries who do not submit a claim to the company within "the normal course of business."
The company said that over 99% of life insurance claims are submitted by beneficiaries and routinely paid in a timely and accurate manner.
For its part, the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI)'s statement appeared to confirm that regulatory pressure, as McCarty noted, changed life insurers business practices, at least with regard to checking the Death Master File. "Many companies are taking proactive measures to locate missing policy holders and the industry is working with regulators and lawmakers on ways to help ensure all beneficiaries get the benefits they are due," the ACLI said.
The ACLI did note that in 2010 alone, life insurance companies paid $58 billion in life insurance benefits.


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Things I Promised Not To Tell
Batting clean-up last night, Micah Hoffpauir of the Cubs
homered to erase Cincinnati's only lead (off his rival Micah, Owings, no
less), walked, then lifted a sacrifice fly to put his team back in front.
"He's going to get 350 at bats this year," Lou Piniella told me as Hoffpauir's
dominant spring training ended. "A little first, a little left, a little
right." Lou being Lou, of course, after Hoffpauir showed what he could do with
those 350 at bats, he was due up with the bases loaded and a lefty reliever on
the mound. So Lou pinch-hit Reed Johnson for him, and Johnson promptly struck
out. Sigh.
Pitching Coach Joe Kerrigan never counts chickens in
advance, certainly not in Pittsburgh, but even in the middle of the spring he was
insistent he had been able to help Jeff Karstens and Ross Ohlendorf –
especially Karstens – with arm slots and release points. Are the last two
nights against Florida indicators that he was right, or just the odds breaking
against the Marlins?
The latest Pedro Martinez story – about some vague interest
by the Angels – is probably overblown, to say the least. A National League
General Manager who was incorrectly rumored to be interested, said a month ago
that people sure were getting hopped up over him handcuffing the Dutch team –
during the first week of spring training – and not hitting 90 on the radar gun
as he did so.
So far this year Daniel Murphy has dropped a fly in left to
cost Johan Santana a game, and, last night, after getting picked off by Yadier
Molina, and then deciding that the only way to get past Molina at the plate was
not to slide but rather enact a dance move, managed to slide out from under a
crucial fly ball in St. Louis. The Mets are in awe of the youngster's plate
discipline but after Murphy's tight night, manager Jerry Manuel suggested he
needed to relax and admitted "I guess I'm a little concerned."
Another Cubs note. If you're wondering how they hope to keep
Rich Harden intact into the second half of the season, yes, they will occasionally
skip his starts or give him extra days off. Kind of like the Chien-Ming Wang
plan. Only without the euphemistic "tune-up in Florida." And replacing him in
the rotation at some point, more likely with Phil Hughes than Ian Kennedy. But
Wang is just fine – there's nothing to see here.
A last question. Does it seem to you like the Angels treat
Brandon Wood as if he owed them money? Like they let him up every once in
awhile so he can breathe, before they stick him back under the water?
By the way, the title of this post is facetious – it comes from an obscure reference in the movie "All About Eve." No actual confidences were violated in the writing of this blog.
Hats off to Ben Erdel. As part of his big night at Yankee Stadium last night, Brett Gardner let one of his Louisville Sluggers fly into the stands. Mr. Erdel and a much younger gentleman both had their hands on the rare souvenir – although only the younger gentleman had just managed to avoid getting hit with the helicoptering bat. Mr. Erdel took the bat, took a few steps, and then thought better of it, and generously did the right thing.
The younger gentleman now has a singular thrill from his first Yankee homestand, exceeding his previous one – being my nephew.
Here is Nephew, Jacob Smith, far left, and his bat, which was not stolen by either Katy Tur or Maegen Carberry.
And here is Mr. Erdel, whose second prize is a blog posting (and a clear conscience, and one happy kid left in his wake). Thank you, Sir.
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Congratulations! I've never caught a bat. I nabbed a towering pop fly, and before giving it to my little brother, had the stitches imprinted in my palms.
As I read about your nephew's "foul bat," I literally said to my girlfriend, "That had to be a Cardinals fan." I scroll down and sure enough, Mr. Erdel is a Cardinals fan. We're classy no matter what ballpark we're in.
I guess you'll be in Baseball Heaven this July for the All-Star Game, so you'll find out (or be reminded) firsthand.
And congratulations to Jacob!
Four quality starts in a row for the Giants (and three QS for Matt Cain; I think this will be a big year for him).
And Keith, when will you be back on Countdown? It ain't Countdown with David Shuster.
Micah Hoffpauir being lifted for Reed Johnson does constitute a sigh, but it reflects the Cub's lefty-batters-for-righty-pitchers ideology this season. Plus, HoffPauir can credibly be lifted in later innings for a defensive dynamo like R. Johnson. Thanks for noticing Keith, These seem like two players who will be catching some attention this year.
Just another Tuesday night in baseball – in April, for Pete's sake! Thanks for capturing the essence of baseball's ever changing detail and congratulations to your nephew. You are a baseball nerd in the finest sense of the word. Thanks for this blog.
Me, I was parked on a street just a Dave Kingman homer away from Wrigley Field, waiting for my daughter who has an internship with the Cubs this season. It's amazing how the ball park breathes when a game is underway. You can hear it, almost see it when you watch from a block away.
You never know what will happen at the ball park when the umpire says, "play ball". Last night, my daughter says a white cat ran on the field, evoking memories of that Shea Stadium black cat some forty years ago. Also, a fan in the Bartman seats reached over the wall and caught a ball that Soriano gave up as foul. You just never know.
How cool is that for Jacob?! Good for him, and I'm glad he didn't get hurt. BTW Keith, if you're ever in "fly over" country & want to go to the Louisville Slugger Museum, look me up! I live just under a couple hours away from Louisville & actually want to take the tour; Hubby & I were there last summer, but he didn't want to do the tour. Remember, Hubby's a Commie UnAmerican baseball hater. ;D So, I want to take the tour with someone who will enjoy it!
So Keith were you really sick or "sick" last night and couldn't be on your show? Must admit, I am jealous of you playing hookie and going to baseball games. Please come back to Countdown. I like Shuster but it does not even come close.
Your nephew was definitely the luckiest person in the park last night! Way cool! Also, way to go Ben Erdel for being a stand-up guy for doing that. Baseball does bring out the good in people. 🙂
And yes Daniel Murphy is total train wreck in left field. It is a problem that is costing the Mets wins. I wish they put Tatis in left…at least he is an outfielder!
According to the graphics on WGN, it was the first time in MLB history that a Micah homered off another Micah. Sweet!
Nice story about Jacob getting that bat. I've seen some adult fans practically knock youngsters over to grab a foul ball. How refreshing to know that there are people like Ben Erdel, who do the right thing. A big congratulations to Jacob, and to Ben as well!
I expect nothing less (re: Erdel) from a St. Louis Cardinal fan. They are the best fans. Also, it was not Murphy who failed to slide at home.
Hats off to the classy gentleman who was kind enough to do the right thing!
First your mom (God rest her soul) gets beaned by Chuck Knoblauch, and now your nephew nearly gets his head taken off by a bat. What is with you Olbermann's? LOL
Keth welcome to MLB.com as one of the writers. I have allways liked your work at NBC and ESPN. I think you will do a fine job for MLB.com. Name:Kenny Hometown: Ohio
Kudos and good karma to Mr. Erdel. Not enough of that going around in today's world.
Funniest part of both pictures is that everybody behind the picture(s) is texting or checking email on their blackberry or Iphone.
I feel that major league baseball may well be onto something; extra fielding percentage points for jumping over bat shards while making a play…kind of like an old atari game. *Pong*
Extra points for any 3rd baseman, as they often times make plays to first in the kneeling position. Officially licensed MLB knee pads will soon be available. The Short stop will need to, at the very least, make a 10″ vertical. Not much to ask. Exempt from the short stop category and bumped to 3rd: Jimmy Rollins.
p.s. keep an eye on Bill Hall. If David Wright doesn't take the NL Gold Glove, Hall should. Tough, though, when the Mets' 3rd Baseman is a ninja.
Rockymountainway – get off the blog, then.
Joe Kerrigan is the man! He might be the best pitching coach the Pirates have had in the last several years, he sure has those guys going out doing great work. The Pirates now lead the NL in ERA and the whole league in RA, as long as being the league leaders (by far) in quality start percentage. That's what I'm talking about! Who doesn't like to see a young, degraded, and hopeless franchise have a hot start and show signs of greatness??
I'm sorry, Jacob, but you have been misled by a cruel uncle desperate for blog filler. You see, THAT is Brett Gardner's bat. Unfortunately, this means you may not claim to have been nearly maimed by an authentic big-league bat. I'm sorry but the truth is that Gardner bats most commonly strike objects other than Major League baseballs. A boy in the stands is just one of a common variety.
leave ur political musings at the door, please. all these comments bout KO are moronic. why r u sullying a true fan's musings about a game we all love or we wouldn't be here?
i read this stuff to learn and share, not get ur political grousing. so if u don't like KO don't read his blog or watch his shows or share ur stupidity. thx now play ball
Mr. Erdel is a class act. Much good karma to him. Btw, here's a nice coincidence, Keith: Brett Gardner wears no.11, Chuck Knoblauch's old number.
Nice move by Mr. Erdel, but chew on this. For the sake of argument, suppose Mr. Erdel has a 7-year old nephew who is a huge Yankees fan. He decides to grab the bat and plans to give it to his nephew, rather than relinquishing it to the youngster at the ballpark. What is the protocol? Does he make it out of Yankee Stadium alive?Russhttp://wight4256.mlblogs.com
Keith, congrats on the new position at MLB.com. While you and I share little common ground on politics, I have always admired your passion (while shouting at you on the TV…) and I look forward to your baseball expertise and to seeing your passion come through on your blog….
Mr. Erdel would appear to be a Cardinals fan, a gentleman and a representative of the the BEST fans in baseball!!
Along those lines, could we please have more coverage of so-called "small-market" clubs?? MLB is more than Mets/Yankees, Cubs/Sox, Angels/Dodgers and Red Sox. Please keep us in mind, and BTW, my 2009 Redbirds have been showing some potent offense… definitely worth a story!! GO CARDINALS!!
LondonCardsFan, London UK
Jacob did not want to give you the bat last night
Attention Single Ladies…Ben Erdel would be a great person to date! His generosity was shown the other night when he passed on the bat to the young fan! Message from his Aunt Kathy
After Countdown went to break, Jacob accidentally hit his famous uncle with a baseball bat knocking him to La-La Land.
#!My apologies go out to Rockymountainway!# When I first came to this discussion board, I did not realize the post names appeared *below* the entry. I'm really sorry I said that stuff about leaving! I don't know where that other entry went. Maybe the person's comment was removed.
Once again, my apologies – This must have been 2 days ago.
That was Beltran that lost the tango contest with Y.Molina,
not Murphy. Murphy did enough. Thanks. GO CARDS!
Hello? Anybody here? Any Red Sox or NYY fans? Entertaining game tonite. 1 down, 17 to go. It's only April so we can't get too up or too down. Long long way to go. And if we haven't figured that out yet, we never will.
Boston.com: Arthur Giddon, a former bat boy for the Boston Braves, will be the honorary bat boy for the Red Sox on Saturday — his 100th birthday . . .
Isn't that something?
Hey Keith, maybe Gardner watches FNC.
Yes, phoenix, Red Sox fan here. Now it is 3 down, 15 to go. Yay sox!
But that is about 12 too many, let's go back to a balanced schedule and forget the inter-leauge crap. At least 7 or 8 too many.
Thanks Mr. Erdel -Cards cap…finding a guy with a Yanks cap doing this might be a bit tougher 😉
Keith keep up the good work here and MSNBC, LOVE IT!
Wondering though when you & Rachel will square off, wearing Yanks / Sox hats, respectively!!!!
(a la Dan Akyroad and Jane Curtain???!!!)
Love you both….so don't try the "Rachel you ignorant sl…. " line, ok!!!!!!!!
Good point, msignore – even Sox/Yankees can get overdone.
And that'd be Aykroyd and Curtin, btw (but still a great idea!).


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Semi-permanent heart pumps like this one are installed in people's hearts all over the world. The problem is that when these software-controlled pumps fail, the blue screen of death is literally killing people. So researchers at Frunhofer-Gesellsschaft Research, who make a popular model of heart pump (or VAD, for ventricular assist device), have invented this model which will serve as a debugger. New software will run on this human simulator, and researchers can see what might go wrong before it stops your heart.
Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture researcher Holger Schlingloff, who helped develop the device, says:
It's a similar development to that of the automobile, where a considerable number of functions now rely on software, such as driver assistance systems. At the same time, the technical requirements for vehicle registration have become more demanding: certain models on sale 15 years ago would not be allowed on the road under today's standards. Exactly the same applies to cardiac support systems.
Adds his colleague Rolf Hänisch:
It is impossible to prove that a system is entirely failure-proof by simply running a test - it could be that certain types of fault have been overlooked. We can eliminate this shortcoming by producing systematized tests based on models, in which we record and simulate all relevant test scenarios.
Of course it's still not foolproof, but it's still a good system for testing software that has to work — or else.
Odd side note: Frunhofer-Gesellsschaft is the same company that patented the MP3 algorithm. I want my VAD to play MP3s, please!
Relief for Diseased Hearts [Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Research via Medgadget]


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If you think that your mouse doesn't matter when searching the web and blogging, think again.
I have bragged about my Internet savvy mouse in my series, Web Browser Guide for Bloggers, in Web Browser Guide: Button, Keyboard, and Mouse Shortcuts, and now I'm trying to function without my mouse and I'm going crazy.
I've been traveling a lot recently, switching between cars, houses, hotels, two trailers, and a motor home, and I've lost my mouse.
Actually, I have my mouse. It's the Bluetooth USB device that's missing.
I use the Logitech Revolution series mouse, a wireless, rechargeable unit with powerful finger and thumb buttons and a multi-speed scrolling wheel and button. It moves like silk under my hand and in an instant I can control what I click, when I click, and how I select. I'm in love.
It has a small rechargeable base and connects to my laptop via the Bluetooth USB device. I lost it, found it, and then put it somewhere safe, and now I can't find that safe place as I've shifted from location to location.
I can't get the darn thing to work with my two other Bluetooth adapters yet, so it must be a proprietary connection. ARGH!
But that's not the point. It will turn up, sooner or later. The point is how dependent I am upon a good browsing and blogging mouse.
I'm using a small portable laptop mouse from Targus, which I bought for use on airplanes since I have to turn off all wireless devices in flight on US airlines (not on some international flights, though). It connects via wire to a USB connection so I have to learn to struggle with a string off my mouse again.
While optical, it isn't very sensitive. I will click my Write Post editor and instead of setting the cursor in place, it will select a whole word, two words, or parts of words, or the whole damn sentence. If I'm not fast enough to catch it, I will start typing, deleting the selecting words instead of inserting my text in between them. ARGH!
I'll click a link to copy it and then move to paste it into my post to find that the selection jumped and instead of the link, I'll paste in some words from the post I want to link to. I have to remove those and then go back and do it again.
Without a back and forward thumb button, I'm constantly swinging my arm around as I move to the back and forward buttons on the browser. The scroll wheel is a ball and it scrolls one line at a time, making speed scrolling impossible. I then have to hunt for the narrow scroll bars on the browser to move up and down a web page. ARGH!
I use the scroll wheel button (center button) to open links in new tabs as I read through referring articles. The scroll ball is so flaky, it moves as I click and who knows what I'm opening or clicking on when I use it. I've opened up some weird stuff, or thought the click had worked to find out later that it didn't. ARGH!
My fingers hurt and are cramped from the tiny size. My wrist and elbow hurt from the added work and exertion. And it takes 5 times longer to do anything that it would if I had my damn mouse.
Have you become dependent upon your mouse? Or do you even have a web savvy power mouse to help you blog? If you don't, you don't know what joy you are missing!
Having the right tool for the right job is critical to doing the job well. And if you are blogging without a good web-friendly mouse, you might not be doing your job as well and efficiently as you think.
Updated: I found the little sucker, the small USB Bluetooth thing. I swear I'm going to clip a mouse trap to it. But at least I'm back to my power mouse browsing after two weeks of agony.
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"Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) can be used for capturing brain signals and translating them into commands that allow humans to control (just by thinking) devices such as computers, robots, rehabilitation technology and virtual reality environments.This experiment goes a step further and was conducted by Dr Christopher James from the University's Institute of Sound and Vibration Research. The aim was to expand the current limits of this technology and show that brain-to-brain (B2B) communication is possible."
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Object storage specialist Cleversafe is after a piece of Big Data analytics action, and has wheeled in MapReduce to make it happen. In the same stroke it rejected HDFS as vulnerable and wasteful of storage capacity.
MapReduce is the analysis part of Hadoop, the flavour-of-the-month open-source data hoarding software. It processes information stored in Hadoop's Distributed Filesystem (HDFS), which employs a single metadata server and makes three copies of files to protect against drive failures and similar upsets.
Object storage systems such as Cleversafe's dsNet are designed to store masses of data on masses of connected nodes. It can self-heal by distributing metadata (and some kind of content hash) around the system of Slicestor nodes. Instead of adding HDFS capabilities alongside dsNet it's adding MapReduce to each Slicestor node.
Cleversafe says it stores only one copy of the MapReduce data instead of three, which is cheaper as capacities grow from terabytes to exabytes and on to petabytes. It isn't vulnerable to a catastrophic loss of data access caused by a metadata server failure because the metadata is distributed and protected - which is better than Hadoop according to Cleversafe.
There is no need for separate MapReduce servers and most Slicestor MapReduce apps will access data in their node rather than going out across the network so the system is more efficient.
Adding Cleversafe nodes adds capacity, both for raw data and metadata, and increases overall performance, the company claimed. The dsNet system can scale up into the petabyte range and beyond that into exabytes, it added.
Lockheed Martin is said to be working with Cleversafe to develop a suitable version of dsNet for US federal government agencies.
The initial MapReduce version of dsNet should be ready by the end of the year in a Cleversafe 3.0 software release. Support for third-party management tools - think Cloudera and HortonWorks - is expected to be added in the first half of 2013 in a 3.1 release. Conveniently, these builds may need Slicestore node hardware upgrades to cope with the added processing, memory and network loads. ®


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Obs.: This post is about the script mod that let you hack and show the custom HUDs, the clothes/models show in video is other mod by other guy, the link is some lines below in the Tips section ;)
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[Portuguese-BR] Instalação do Script: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uirYYLC669E
v1.2.4 Changes
-Fixed issue related to weapon wheel not working correctly with recent ScripthookVDotNet v2.5 update
v1.2.3 Changes
-Fixed issue related to weapon wheel inside vehicles when using controller
-Added feature that will dispatch cops for the dead witness
v1.2.2 Changes
-Fixed melee weapons not appearing in weapon wheel
-Fixed size of current weapon indicator background
-Added Fire Extinguisher weapon icon
-Fixed some missing gun icons (Nightstick and switchblade)
-Fixed bug related to animals behaving as witness ^^
v1.2.1 Changes
-Fixed cover not working with controller
-Fixed cover working in wrong places
-Changed mobile radio hotkey for controller
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-Added control support (hotkeys in blog post)
-Added option to enable/disable wanted level controlled by script
-Added options to trigger the hacks that are only available in the weapon wheel like Blackout and Accelerate all cars around.
-Added option to enable/disable the crosshair
-Fixed blinking weapon icons
Ctrl+N - Show mods menu
Hold Q - Show mobile radio (mouse up/down change station)
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R - Cancel camera/remote control hack
Hold Tab - Show custom Weapons wheel (use mouse to select a weapon and scroll to switch weapons in actual slot)
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Hold Left DPad - Show mobile radio (camera up/down change station)
RB (Right Button) - Hack selected item
UP DPad - Change selected item hack type (when UP+ icon appears)
Y - Cancel camera/remote control hack
Hold LB (Left Button) - Show custom Weapons wheel (use Right Stick to select a weapon and RB to switch weapons in actual slot)
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-explode hydrants
-explode gas bombs
-hack security cam (models on walls +one for each traffic light)
-hack traffic lights (make drivers crash close to the front of the pole)
-rise blocks on streets (one for each traffic light)
-hack ATM to:
-bug the machine to release money and make people around try to pickup
-explode (like the transformer hack)
-Blackout (accessed via the weapon wheel [TAB], only available between 21 and 3 hours)
-Hack cars to:
-Lock, Unlock doors
-Burst engine
-Burnout (driver needed)
-Accelerate (driver needed)
You can perform those car hacks for all cars around using the weapon wheel [TAB]
-Hack trains to:
-Disrupt helicopters making them crash
Other features:
-custom walk style when holding one handed guns
-witness feature, people will report player if they see you with a gun or causing trouble
-custom HUD to show current weapon and "hack battery" amount
-custom weapon wheel
-victim damage indicator
-player damage blood fx
-police search area after witness report
-controlled wanted level (cops only will go after you if a witness succeed calling cops + you stay in search area or if you mess up with cops)
-On high speeds only the road block, car, train, helicopter and traffic lights hacks will be enabled
-Road block may fail when block is far away, game seems to ignore the entities collision :(
ASI Loader + ScripthookV by Alexander blade
ScriptHookVDotNet by Crosire


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After the Crisis, Small Banks Still Owe Taxpayers
Five years after the financial crisis, there are still a handful of smaller banks that owe the government money under the TARP program. Michael Crittenden explains why a short-term lifeline has turned into a long-term source of capital.
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... in ... five years after the financial crisis ... are still a handful of smaller banks owe the government money that our program ... Michael Crittenden explains why the short term like Butler lifeline ... turned into a long-term lease for some companies ... Michael thanks for coming on today spend a few minutes appreciated ... always good to know ... so ... while there's still banks that own roughly three billion dollars to the government five years later ... for some people attrition is probably a great question ... aam I mean that the term Paramus envisioned to potentially last quite long time so it's not ... a oh unusual that these banks are some program I think what's unusual is that ... you know ... everyone thinks about the TARP program is going up again beat Wall Street guys ... when you really does lead to hundreds of ... smaller banks and all of those guys aren't as in good condition is the bigger ... bigger peers and so these guys is first up for a ... cause that there were talk to many names that we would know off hand ... not really allow this to serve smaller TD Bank's local banks ... on you know these guys ... get it it's it's rough going in that interest rates are low they are having trouble landing in awe so full of commercial real estate exposure ... so I mean you're seeing its ... Serb nationalists are financial crisis yet it takes awhile for for banks and obviously consumers to fix their balance sheets and ... you know that these guys you know they have the stigma of having to government funds ... now is that I come from all that the fact that these banks are still in the program ... they try to get them ... the program is earning plan for ending this ... war all are or are they is the soul of the Senate ... voted ... as it has been ... a lot recently in the five year anniversary ... on don't really comparable ... aam if you talk to people of treasure in their very emphatic they don't want the government involved the financial system ... anymore than the financial system once government in the vaults ... on so they're trying to use this as is possible in many cases we're seeing is that ... you know they're auctioning is often not making that ... awful mess that aam ... the goal is to make a profit of one of its bailout for its because im begin ... begun to spin back so quickly in the way they structure the deals ... on some of these deals in the government's losing money because they display get out of the school was asked ... when is the option offer you try not to actually taking the banks under one like the FDIC program ... and selling the bank's or they auction off the bonds will we all get that that the Related's ... Dutch auctions ... of the war and stable the shares they hold ... on to make you a fairly regular every every every week or so you get a release that referees were ... you know ... were auctioned off a ... what treasures that I mean ... a Serbian unit ... they did the best banks in best condition in eleven starts to repay ... aam in over ... a few years ago he said now it's true Gain Downs the folks who were were struggling to serve reach to repay ... him to raise the capital it's hard to they'll have access to capital markets and with that ... in a JPMorgan BankAmerica


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CLEARANCE - Black to Play Classical Defenses and WinProduct Code: CB0071CD
Publisher: Chess Digest
Pages: 152
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You will learn as Black to fight for control of the center on the first move. This covers answering 1.e4 with 1..e5. Ready to fight the Ruy Lopez with the Classical defense, you are given special lines to play against The Ponziani, Scotch, Bishop's Opening, Italian Game, King's Indian, and Vienna. When White plays 1.d4, you will answer with 1..d5 and not give an inch of the center with the Orthodox Defense using 3..Be7!. You as Black will be ready for the Flank Games such as the English, Grob's Attack, Reti, Bird's, King's Indian Attack, and the lesser played openings such as the Sokolsky, Anderrsen's Opening, Saragossa Opening, Clemenz and Van't Kruy's Openings. These classical, old-fashioned defenses have the advantage that they have not been examined in the modern chess laboratories, and they hold many undivulged secrets.
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Just a small amount of footage from our awesome ride today. Watch out, the camera bounces around a ton when we start cantering. This is the first time I've even tried riding with a camera .
iluvk9 wrote:Seth just cracked me up being the "lead horse". He just stays with you the whole time and doesn't stray?
I felt like I was on Cairo! He was so alert with his ears.
Maybe you can strap the camera to your headgear next time.
pitbullmamaliz wrote:I love how elegant Cairo is, even from behind! You can tell her head was up and her nose was down (as opposed to surly horses that stick it straight out) and those ears were pricked. How pretty!
And I could listen to clopping hooves and creaking leather all day.
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Ripple XRP coming to Coinbase
Ripple (XRP) is coming to Coinbase, which will make it easy for most people. Many banks including JBC (Japanese Banking Consortium) are partnering up with Ripple for international transfers since it is instantaneous and it costs less. This also legitimizes cryptocoins for many who never believed it would amount to anything.
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Many good points - never invest more than you can stomach to lose.
I had some Litecoin mining rigs back in 2014 and can see the complexity in mining if we're not doing it early enough for the average person. Of course there are other coins, but mining is not for the beginner unless they're just using a simple CPU or GPU miner like: http://www.energeticforum.com/minerg...minergate.html
@all, with some Bitcoin, it can be traded for other coins that are easier to sell so keep that in mind.
Early on, I had to go to Coinbase also for the reason that many of the exchanges made it almost impossible to do business with if you're in the USA. A lot of the banks/card companies blocked these transactions, etc. and Coinbase was in the early stages of getting some traction.
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I agree, I was an early crypto adopter and have done a lot of business with Coinbase over the years. For a beginner it's the easiest way to get started, at least in the US. If you're just now joining the crypto bandwagon, PLEASE take some time, do some research and educate yourself how cryptocurrency really works. Everyone is piling in right now because of the stunning price gains, but this always happens in the late stages of an unsustainable bubble. I've been around bitcoin long enough that this is my fourth boom/bust bubble, and the bust is most certainly coming, and probably soon. I recommend buying into crypto, but for the right reasons and not just because the price is going up. If it plunges by 50% overnight you will feel very bad if you were the last guy in who bought right at the top. Never invest more than you can afford to lose.
Today is bitcoin's day to get all the news headlines, but I would strongly recommend you understand its limitations. Bitcoin has suffered for the last three years from a capacity problem and right now has a major backlog. It's fun to watch the price go up, but just try actually moving any coins anywhere! I believe the days of classic/legacy/core bitcoin are numbered in spite of the stunning price action, and many long-time hodlers including myself have decided to exit this crazy train for greener and saner pastures with more long-term potential. For me, this is bitcoin cash (BCH). It is everything that made bitcoin great, except that it has hugely more capacity and actually works quickly and cheaply the way bitcoin used to.
Other coins are getting popular too, some with actual reason. Note: Ethereum has no coin cap limit (unlike bitcoin) and new ether will be issued perpetually. Also, Ethereum is beginning to hit its own capacity problems and fees are starting to rise. Before the Bitcoin Cash split, I really thought Dash might take the crown for the coin-of-choice going forward, and there are some significant things to like about it. However, it has some issues too (including a significant premine and a shady past). Ultimately everyone MUST DO THEIR OWN DUE DILIGENCE before deciding what to go with.
For me and my money, I don't believe anything else will be able to compete with Bitcoin Cash in the near future. Coinbase doesn't support it today but has announced that they will in the near future, likewise for other exchanges. But whatever you do, I would urge you not to ignore the cryptocurrency phenomenon. It is as revolutionary in its own way as overunity, and has the capacity to bring financial freedom like nothing else in history ever has.
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Join Coinbase
Join Coinbase - it is a very secure, honest and reliable exchange in the United States. You can join for free and verify the method you want to use to purchase coins. Join here: Coinbase
After the verification, you can purchase Bitcoin, Litecoin or Etherium. This is the best place for a beginner to start.
After you have your coins in Coinbase, you can always send them to a local wallet you keep on your computer.


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Plan A for Illinois basketball coach Bruce Weber is getting the bench involved when the Illini host low-major Chicago State at Assembly Hall Sunday.
That means more minutes for Nnanna Egwu, Mike Shaw and Tracy Abrams. Weber also wants to get Crandall Head and Myke Henry involved.
Henry is a candidate for minutes at power forward. He can rebound, and there's always a use for a scorer, Weber said. Otherwise, Henry needs to improve his defense, but Weber needs more depth for games against Maryland Tuesday, Gonzaga next weekend and beyond.
Weber hit the main topics prior to meeting Chicago State, who sits at No. 342 in the Sagarin ratings among 345 teams in Division I.
On the bench:
"I hope I can get a little more confident. I don't know if it's extreme where everybody is splitting time. I'm hoping Nnanna can get 14-16 minutes, Tracy 14-16 minutes. Get Crandall involved. Mike Shaw hopefully gets a little more confidence in his game. Myke Henry can shoot the ball. You can always use someone who can shoot it. He's got to learn on the other things.
"Depth still has to be one of the keys to our season. Meyers (Leonard) played too many minutes. We extended (Sam Maniscalco's) minutes too much, especially the second night. We have to do a better job of giving (Abrams) extra time, make sure he's in there with Brandon (Paul), somebody who can help him.''
On the Cancun Challenge title: "It was a positive trip. You come out with two wins. We gave them the mindset, the goal of going and winning a championship. Hopefully, that was a big deal for them.''
On the team's play in Mexico:
"For big stretches of games, we played pretty well. We've had some breakdowns at the start of halves in both games defensively. We've got to improve that area.
"We didn't finish against Illinois State and Richmond. We didn't put them away. We gave Illinois State a chance, and we're fortunate to win the game.''
Maniscalco wasn't limping on the travel day after the heavy workload in Cancun, but Weber will want to get Abrams more work. Henry is a talented rebounder, Weber said, who has a nose for the ball but must learn to play defense.
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Illinois (5-0) vs. Chicago State (0-5)noon, Assembly Hall, Champaign (BTN, Illini Sports Network) ILLINOIS (5-0) ppg rpg F Tyler Griffey 6-8 Jr. 7.2 6.0 C Meyers Leonard 7-1 So. 12.6 7.6 G Brandon Paul 6-4 Jr. 9.0 3.4 G D.J. Richardson 6-3 Jr. 14.0 2.8 G Sam Maniscalco 6-0 Sr. Fr. 12.2 2.0 CHICAGO STATE (0-5) ppg rpg F Aaron Williams 6-6 So. 7.2 4.0 F Lee Fisher 6-5 Sr. 12.0 2.6 F Jeremy Robinson 6-9 Jr. 16.2. 6.6 G Matt Samuels 9.6 2.0 G Ardarius Simmons 6.0 1.8 Noteworthy: Illinois is 5-0 for the first time since a 6-0 start three years ago. . . Former Illini great Eddie Johnson, whose basket defeated No. 1 Michigan State in 1979, will make his debut as an analyst for BTN. . . The Illini have a 21-game non-conference winning streak in Assembly Hall. . . Weber needs two wins to reach 200 in ninth year at Illinois. He ranks third among Illinois coaches behind Lou Henson (423 in 21 seasons) and Harry Combes (316 in 209 seasons). . . Jacobby Anderson, a Springfield Southeast graduate, is a Chicago State freshman. . .
Key for Illini: Play hard, get a lead and let the freshmen play.
Key for Cougars: Show up and cash the check.
Key quote: "I didn't probably get the freshmen enough minutes. Hopefully, that will change a little bit.'' -- Illinois coach Bruce Weber.
Prediction: Illinois 95, Chicago State 60