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2012: Enters his second season with the Spartans after a strong freshman campaign ... has the ability to score and distribute to the Spartan midfield ... possesses a knack for finding the back of the net ... will be the quarterback of the team this spring.
2011: Appeared in each of the Spartans' 16 games during his rookie year, drawing five starts ... tallied 14 goals and five assists for a total of 19 points ... notched his first collegiate goal and hat trick at Rollins in the Green and White's 18-11 on February 26 ... registered three goals again later in the season as York bested Christopher Newport 11-5 on April 9.
Personal: Is a criminal justice major ... is the son of Joe and Patty Aita ... was born on July 30, 1992 ... his father played baseball for the Spartans ... played club for the Hot Shots Lacrosse Club ... was a first team All-Bayside selection in lacrosse both 2009 and 2010 ... was a second-team All-Bayside selection in football during the 2009 season ... names his parents and brother as the people he most admires ... hobbies include hanging out with friends ... favorite athlete is Drew Brees ... chose York to get a good education and for lacrosse ... his most significant athletic achievement wa making it to the Maryland 1A/2A State Lacrosse Championships in 2007 ... he plans on becoming a police officer after graduation.


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"I am delighted to learn of the appointment of Dr. Michael Scales as President of Nyack College and Alliance Theological Seminary and wish him God's rich blessings as he undertakes this new and challenging assignment.
Dr. Thomas P. Bailey
President of Nyack College 1975-1982
"I am pleased about the selection of Mike Scales as President. He is very gifted in the critical area of student enrollment and relates easily with students, as well as a wide arena of other persons. He has expressed a profound sense that God has called him to this task. All this causes me to believe that many more good days are ahead for Nyack College."
"I am pleased and delighted to hear of the appointment of Dr. Michael Scales as the twelfth President of Nyack College.
"My heartiest congratulations to the Nyack College community on the selection of Dr. Mike Scales to be the twelfth president of the college. Dr. Scales is well known throughout the Christian college world, and many others would dearly love to have such an experienced and respected leader.
You know you have a good man when he says to his boss, 'My main goal is to make you look good.' Well, Mike, you did that for me for twelve years. Now it's your time to shine. I fully anticipate good days ahead for Nyack."
David E. Schroeder, Ed.D.
"It has been said that many leaders use people to get work done. Mike has always been the kind of leader who uses work to get people done."
"Mike, it's good to have you back and at the helm. God has given you vision and discernment for the job that lies ahead. Under your leadership, along with David and Dave, I see renewed growth with our campuses.
Ongoing prayer and support are with you."
Head, Department of Childhood EducationNyack College-NYC Campus
"An excerpt from The Prophet reads, ' ... always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret ... and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.'
Mike, you were destined to do this ... call it Divine intervention or anything else ... but you are exactly what Nyack College needs, at precisely the right moment in time ... and this, like much else in our faith, is not by accident."
Associate Professor of FinanceDirector, MBA Program
"Not only does our new President know and understand higher education, but he's someone who loves people and is committed to building and developing their full potential."
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December 20, 2011
"In politics, as Jacques Derrida reminds us, the dead are sometimes more powerful than the living. To invoke their ghosts can constitute an affirmative practice rather than an immobilizing regret; it is to speak of the future, of revenance as re-naissance or rebirth." – Catherine Guisan, Of September 11, Mourning and Cosmopolitan Politics. (1).
"Every human society is, in the last resort, men banded together in the face of death." – Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. (2).
"Communal loss can shape history." – Tony Walter, The Sociology of Death. (3).
The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il led to an immediate outpouring of grief on the streets and public squares in North Korea by ordinary people.
Due to the nature of North Korea's mass brainwashing and cult system, it is tough to tell if people are pressured to cry by the authorities or if they are honestly expressing their pain and sadness.
But that difference doesn't really matter in the bigger picture because either way the collective outpouring of grief is a mass public ritual that is politically orchestrated to create the maximum propaganda effect in North Korean society. So whether the intense expression of emotion is fake or forced, the political effect is the same.
Based on this video, my guess is that North Korea's collective grief over the loss of their Father is reflective of the religious devotion that many North Koreans are taught at a young age to show towards the State and the Great Leader.
All elites of totalitarian societies, including those in the present era like Iran and America, exploit the deaths of important leaders to generate mass emotion and use the potent and spiritual power of grief to advance the regime's dictatorial policies.
The deaths of Khomeini, Reagan, and Kim-Jong il were all politically exploited by the totalitarian architects in Iran, America, and North Korea in the context of their different totalitarian systems.
The cult of Ayatollah Khomeini as Spiritual Father in Iran, the cult of President Reagan as Untouchable Icon and Celebrity in America, and the cult of the Great Dear Leader in North Korea, are all manifestations of the same terrifying and sick socio-political phenomenon.
Glenn Greenwald wrote about how the totalitarian U.S. media treated the death of the Untouchable Icon Ronald Reagan on Saturday, December 17, 2011. Here is a long excerpt from his article:
"One of the most intensely propagandistic weeks in the last several decades began on June 5, 2004, the day Ronald Reagan died at the age of 93 in Bel Air, California. For the next six days, his body was transported to, and his casket displayed in, multiple venues around the nation — first to a funeral home in Santa Monica; then to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, where it remained for two full days as over 100,000 people paid their respects; then onto the U.S. Capitol, where his casket was taken by horse-drawn caisson along Constitution Avenue, and then lay in state under the dome for the next day-and-a-half; then to a state funeral at Washington's National Cathedral presided over by President Bush and attended by dozens of past and present world leaders; and then back to the Presidential Library in California, where another service was held and his body finally interred. Few U.S. Presidents in history, if any, have received anything comparable upon their death; as CNN anchor Judy Woodruffobserved the day Reagan's body arrived in the capital: "Washington has not seen the likes of this for more than 30 years."Each one of those mournful events was nationally televised and drenched in somber, intense pageantry. At the center of it all was the prominently displayed grief of his second wife, Nancy, to whom he was married for 52 years. The iconic moment of the week-long national funeral occurred on the last day, at the internment, when she broke down for the first time and famously hugged and kissed her husband's casket, while holding a folded American flag, seemingly unwilling to let him go immediately before his body was lowered into the ground.
But the most notable aspect of that intense public ritual was the full-scale canonization of this deeply controversial, divisive and consequential political figure. Americans — including millions too young to remember his presidency — were bombarded with a full week of media discussions which completely whitewashed Reagan's actions in office: that which made him an important enough historical figure to render his death worthy of such worldwide attention in the first place. There was a virtual media prohibition on expressing a single critical utterance about what he did as President and any harm that he caused."
The devotion of the people to the leader in North Korea can't be compared to the level of worship in American society or Iranian society. On the scale of totalitarianism, America is a three, Iran is a six, and North Korea is a ten. So I am not comparing America to North Korea, but there are freaky similarities, chief among them being the people's worship of the State and its selected leaders.
The unquestioning acceptance of the government's word is another similar characteristic that America, Iran, and North Korea all share. Questioning the U.S. government in the days after 9/11 was a social and political sin. Those who didn't buy the official story of the tragedy were called mentally ill and paranoid. Even ten years later, telling the truth about the event is not a popular thing to do.
The political exploitation of tragedies like 9/11, which generate huge collective emotion, is a very evil and brazen act. But it doesn't have to be terrorist attacks. Mass shootings are also politically exploited, mainly by Democrats, who use the deaths of innocents to attack the second amendment.
What we see in America, Iran, North Korea, Israel, England, and other totalitarian societies, is the State as the guardian of collective memory and the generator of collective meaning. People who express a different narrative of the 9/11 attacks are attacking the American Totalitarian State's monopoly on the collective memory of that highly symbolic and political event.
All forms of top-down political and social collectivization are inherently evil, no matter if it is Islamic, Communist, Fascist, or New Age Luciferian. So, yes, America is not North Korea, but it is led by evil people who think the same way and use the same methods of control.
Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, repeatedly generates collective emotion in his political speeches to make his brainwashed followers cry. Scenes of Iranian military members and volunteer soldiers crying during government ceremonies and speeches are similar to the scenes of crying that we're seeing in North Korea.
The political use of emotion by power-possessed rulers is what keeps populations loyal to a totalitarian regime. Some people break out and think for themselves, but the psychological pressure to follow along with the herd and join the mass ritual of grief is hard to resist for a lot of people.
Public expressions of grief over the loss of meaningful and monumental individuals is normal and part of the human condition. But in America, Iran, North Korea, and other repressive countries, the natural process of grief is exploited for political purposes by totalitarian myth makers who desire collective obedience to the State.
The political exploitation of grief and loss is much more extreme in Iran and North Korea. America is nowhere on the same level. But the fact that America has the same characteristics of other totalitarian societies, along with the biggest military in the world, makes America the most dangerous country in the world.
Imagine if North Korea was a superpower. Or if the Iranian mullahs were in charge of an empire. The amount of military power and global reach that the totalitarian American empire possesses is the reason why I fear America above any other nation.
The treacherous hijackers of the American government are without a doubt the most demonic monsters walking the planet today. Let's hope they all meet the same fate as North Korea's Kim Jong-il in this decade and their evil empire collapses so that the world can be free and prosperous.
1. Guisan, C. (2009). Of September 11, Mourning and Cosmopolitan Politics. Constellations, 16 (4), 563-578. Pg. 565
2. Berger, P. (1969). The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. New York: Anchor Press. Pg 51.
3. Walter, T. (2008). The Sociology of Death. Sociology Compass, 2(1), 317-336. Pg. 326.


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October 25. 2013 9:41PM
Wildcats hope to keep up the attack today
By ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
UNH at Stony Brook
Today, 4 p.m.
LaValle Stadium, Stony Brook, N.Y.
— Twice in last week's riveting 29-28 win over Villanova, the University of New Hampshire offense found itself pinned on its 1-yard line by a punt.
And twice the offense quickly worked its way out of trouble.
The first time, senior fullback Chris Setian took a handoff from quarterback Sean Goldrich and picked up 11 yards on first down and the UNH got to midfield before having to punt.
The next time, the Wildcats put together a huge drive that gave them a 21-14 lead with just over five minutes to play.
Setian busted through the line for 17 yards on the first play of that one. The drive lasted 14 plays and ended with Goldrich's nice 8-yard touchdown pass to sophomore Jared Allison in the left corner of the end zone.
"That was definitely a confidence booster," said redshirt freshman running back Dalton Crossan. "We kind of knew we could move the ball off the goal line and once we got in a rhythm, we just kept rolling."
UNH was again able to move the ball on the ground and that helped eat up time and keep dangerous quarterback John Robertson and his offense off the field.
The Wildcats will try to do more of the same today at Stony Brook and limit the chances of the Seawolves' power running game in a 4 p.m. contest.
Both teams are 3-3 overall. No 20-ranked UNH is 2-1 in the CAA and Stony Book is 1-2.
UNH leads the Colonial Athletic Association in rushing yardage per game and is fourth in passing and the combined numbers are best in overall offense. The numbers could not be more balanced — the Wildcats are averaging 241.5 yard rushing and 239.2 passing for a total of 480.7.
UNH is second in scoring at 36.2 yards per game.
Crossan and Goldrich were two of many standouts against Villanova.
Goldrich completed 21 of his 28 passes for 236 yards and one touchdown and scored two rushing touchdowns, including a 4-yarder with 14 seconds left in the game. He received the Gold Helmet Award from the New England Football Writers for his efforts.
Goldrich has completed 52 of his 74 passes (70.3 percent) for 681 yards and five touchdowns with two interceptions.
He'll start his third straight game today. Andy Vailas, the junior from Bedford, will back him up. Vailas started the first four games and is recovering from a knee injury.
Crossan was named the CAA Rookie of the Week. He carried five times for 41 yards, scored UNH's first TD on a 17-yard run and it was his 35-yard kickoff return that set up the team's winning drive with just over a minute to play.Crossan, who had a scholarship offer from Michigan to play lacrosse, is back home this weekend. He grew up eight miles from Stony Brook in Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y.
UNH was called for 25 penalties over tis first four games. The Wildcats were whistled for one penalty against Rhode Island two weeks ago and none against Villanova.
Dartmouth takes a 2-3 overall record and 1-1 mark in the Ivy League to New York City and Columbia today at 1:30.
The Big Green are coming off a 17-14 loss at home to Bucknell. Two of Dartmouth's losses have been by three points and the other was in four overtimes to Penn.
St. Anselm, 0-7 overall and 0-6 in the Northeast-10, is at AIC today at 1 p.m.
The Yellow Jackets, 5-2 and 5-1, are on a three-game win streak.
Plymouth State, 1-5 overall, and 0-4 in the MASCAC, is at Framingham State, 5-1 and 4-0, today at 1.
PSU's Chris Smith, a junior from Merrimack, was named the MACAC's Special Teams Player of the Week for his work in a loss to Bridgewater State on Saturday. Smith scored on an 80-yard kickoff return and averaged 46.5 yards on four returns.


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By MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
All felony convictions requested in Manchester school background checks
Stevens High substitute teacher quits over Facebook ultimatum
After arrest of teacher with prior felony conviction, Claremont school chief to change policy
CLAREMONT — A past felony conviction was not picked up in the state-required background check for a Stevens High School math teacher arrested on charges related to his alleged relationship with a 14-year-old student.
Christopher LeBlanc, 29, of Claremont was hired last year. On March 21, he was arrested and charged with several counts of felonious sexual assault after a two-day investigation by police and the school administration. He has since been fired.
According to court records, LeBlanc pleaded guilty in 2006 to one count of conspiracy to transmit stolen goods in interstate commerce.
He was arrested in 2005, the federal complaint says, for stealing items such as night vision goggles and lasers — primarily for use by military and law enforcement personnel — from his part-time security guard job at Insight Technology in Londonderry.
He passed the goods to an accomplice who sold the items online, and arranged for some of the items "sold to be delivered in interstate commerce," court records state.
LeBlanc pleaded guilty and was fined $100.
In an email to Claremont School Board members Monday night, SAU 6 Superintendent Middletown McGoodwin said he had just learned LeBlanc "committed a federal crime several years ago" that had not shown up in his criminal background check.
Chief administrator of the state police criminal records unit Jeff Kellett, whose department handles criminal background checks for schools hiring staff or bringing on volunteers, said Tuesday he could not speak specifically to LeBlanc's case.
But he said that the state and federal criminal history passed onto schools has a narrow focus.
He said according to state law, only murder, kidnapping, sexual assault, child pornography, child abuse or any other crimes having to do with children are reported to the schools.
"As a result, Mr. LeBlanc's district court felony was not picked up by this check process," McGoodwin told school board members. "The SAU No. 6 did everything correctly, as did the New Hampshire State Police. However, because Mr. LeBlanc falsified his application by checking 'no' to the question 'Have you ever been convicted of a felony?' everyone was unaware."
Kellett said an SAU or school district can request to be notified of all felonies.
If any are reported to an SAU or school district that do not fall under the state statue, it is up to school officials to decide whether to hire the person or allow them to volunteer.
"A felony could be issuing a bad check that wouldn't necessarily rise to the level of not hiring someone at the school setting," Kellett said.
In the 5th Circuit Court District Division in Newport Tuesday afternoon, LeBlanc waived his right to a probable cause hearing on four counts of felonious sexual assault.
LeBlanc's attorney did argue for reduced bail, which prosecutor Sullivan County Attorney Marc Hathaway said Tuesday he opposed.
In the end, the judge reduced LeBlanc's bail from $250,000 cash-only to $150,000 cash-only.
He has been held in the Sullivan County House of Corrections since his arrest.
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NEW YORK — A jump in home sales and strong earnings from Home Depot helped the Dow claw back more than half of its losses from Monday. Improving consumer confidence also brought back buyers to the market.
The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 115.96 points, or 0.8 percent, to 13,900.13. The Dow fell 216 points the day before, its biggest drop in three months, on concern that the European debt crisis may flare up again. The index has moved 100 points or more on four out of the past five trading days.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 9.09 points, or 0.6 percent, to 1,496.94. The Nasdaq composite was up 13.40 points, or 0.4 percent, at 3,129.65.
Home Depot, the biggest home improvement store chain in the country, jumped $3.64, or 5.7 percent, to $67.56 after reporting that its income rose 32 percent in the latest quarter thanks to strong U.S. sales and the cleanup that followed Superstorm Sandy. That made it the biggest gainer in the Dow, accounting for about 28 points, or about a quarter, of its advance.
"Companies on the whole, particularly U.S. companies, are doing well," Michael Mussio, a portfolio manager at FBB Capital, said.
Strong earnings from home improvement companies, such as Home Depot and Lowe's, which reported earnings Monday that beat Wall Street forecasts, compounded evidence that the U.S. housing market is maintaining its recovery, Mussio said. Also Tuesday, the government reported that sales of new homes jumped 16 percent last month to the highest level since July 2008.
The report boosted housing companies, which led the S&P 500 higher. PulteGroup rose $1.03, or 5.7 percent, to $19.05, edging out Home Depot as the biggest gainer in the index. D.R. Horton advanced 88 cents, or 4.12 percent, to $22.25 and Lennar Corp. rose $1.35, or 3.7 percent, to $38.01.
The rebounding housing sector has been an important factor behind a rally that pushed the Dow above 14,000 last week, close to its record high close of 14,164 reached in October 2007. The Dow is still up 6 percent this year, even after Monday's sell-off. The S&P 500 is up 5 percent.
Also Tuesday, a measure of consumer confidence rose sharply, reversing three months of declines, as shoppers began adjusting to a payroll tax hike last month.
Investors closely watched testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The Fed chairman said that the automatic government spending cuts due to take effect Friday would put a drag on the economy. He urged lawmakers and the White House to replace the cuts with longer-term policies to reduce the budget deficit.
Investors shouldn't be dissuaded from buying stocks by any flare-up in Europe's economic troubles, says Hans Olsen, a strategist at Barclays. The strategist says stocks should have a good year thanks to earnings growth and a pickup in corporate dealmaking.
Deals have accelerated sharply in the last three months and have involved household names including Heinz, Dell and American Airlines. Some of the acquired companies soared 20 percent or more when the deals are announced.
It's not yet clear how the recent see-saw in the market will affect investors. Individual investors have been creeping back into stocks since the start of this year, but the swings might yet unnerve them.
"The gyrations worry them, it scares them, even though the market is up," says Gabriel Fancher, an adviser at the Financial Group, a financial planner. "The market seems out of people's hands these days."
Tuesday's good news about the economy in the U.S. helped investors turn their focus away from Europe.
While U.S. market rose, European markets fell again as investors worried about Italy's political situation. The country is facing political gridlock after elections left Parliament with no clear-cut winner.
U.S. stocks slumped Monday after election results in Italy showed a race too close to call. That left investors fearful that the country, the euro region's third-largest, will struggle to form a government that can move forward with reforms to revive the economy, rekindling the region's debt crisis and worries over the viability of its shared currency, the euro.
Italy's main stock index dropped 4.9 percent Tuesday. The yield on Italy's benchmark government bond rose sharply, to 4.83 percent from 4.43 percent the day before, as investors sold them. That's still far below the 7 percent the yield traded at in January 2012, when confidence in Italy's finances was far lower. The euro was little changed against the dollar.
Other European indexes also fell, but not as much. Stocks fell 2.3 percent in Germany, 2.7 percent in France, and 1.3 percent in Britain.
In U.S. government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to prices, rose two basis points to 1.88 percent.
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I first heard about Powers Hapgood while working at the United Mine Workers, an organization he had tried to change fifty years earlier. The "Save the Union" movement, which Hapgood, along with other left-wingers, aided in 1926, failed to topple then-UMW president John L. Lewis. But in the early seventies rank-and-filers campaigning under the banner of "Miners for Democracy" defeated a Lewis successor–the even more despotic W.A. "Tony" Boyle.
Backing this new UMW reform effort was an energetic group of college-educated "outsiders" who, like Hapgood, were drawn to the miners' struggle because of its potential for triggering a broader transformation of organized labor and coal-field communities. The more radical among them took jobs in the mines, as did Hapgood, despite his Harvard pedigree. Others were propelled by the MFD victory directly into UMW staff positions, where union politics was also a severe–if less physically demanding–test for even the most committed idealist.
In the seventies, as in the twenties, almost every UMW battle with the coal operators had an internecine aspect. Loyalists to Boyle quickly regrouped and tried to undermine the new MFD leaders. The latter fell out among themselves, adding to the factionalism, infighting and redbaiting. A growing wildcat-strike movement in the coal fields–over unresolved workplace problems–put the reformers in the uncomfortable position of trying to curb the militancy of members frustrated with the pace of change. Despite the MFD's success in democratizing the union, many of the hopes and expectations it initially aroused were never fulfilled. A decade after the group's election win, almost none of the progressives associated with it–either as "colonizers" in the mines or appointed staffers–were still active in the UMW (although some went on to other unions).
It's too bad that Robert Bussel's excellent new biography of Powers Hapgood wasn't available sooner to help put their experience in historical perspective. A former trade unionist now employed as a labor educator, Bussel's has both an academic's ability to scour the archives and an activist's feel for the real-life context of his subject. His book traces Hapgood's personal and political odyssey from a privileged WASP family to the coal mines of western Pennsylvania and then active engagement in some of the most high-profile labor struggles of the twenties, thirties and forties. A peripatetic organizer and frequent Nation contributor, Hapgood had a Zelig-like ability to be at or near the center of the action–whether in the UMW, the Sacco and Vanzetti defense, Socialist Party campaigns, Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) sit-downs, New Deal labor politics or postwar conflict over reds and racism within unions.
Throughout it all, he was an unusually perceptive and self-critical participant/observer. His private journals represent, in Bussel's view, "a rich chronicle of the American working class, the labor movement, and the practice of radical politics." Heavily mined by the author, these diaries record Hapgood's "interactions with intellectuals, workers, labor leaders, and managers as he attempted to make sense of his experience and adapt to the changing cultural and political circumstances that occurred during his career."


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PHOENIX (AP) - Patrick Corbin gave up three hits in eight innings to finally get his 10th victory and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat Colorado 6-1 Sunday for their fifth straight win and a dominant three-game sweep of the Rockies.
Corbin (10-1) struck out 10 in his seventh attempt at win No. 10. The 23-year-old left-hander, picked a day earlier for the All-Star team, also hit an RBI double as the Diamondbacks outscored the Rockies 22-2 in the series.
The Rockies lost more than the game. Star outfielder Carlos Gonzalez injured a finger on his right hand swinging at a pitch and left the game in the ninth. Starter Roy Oswalt (0-4) exited with a strained left hamstring in the second.
Jonathan Herrera broke up the shutout with a home run in the eighth.


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Thu, 02 May 2013 13:22:24 -0700
The New York Jets waived DL Claude Davis and CB Cliff Harris Tuesday, April 30.
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|Jets | Two signed
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The New York Jets signed free-agent CB Cliff Harris (Eagles) and LB Danny Lansanah (Lions) to reserve/futures contracts Friday, Jan. 4.
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|Eagles | Cliff Harris waived
Sun, 26 Aug 2012 08:22:34 -0700
The Philadelphia Eagles have waived CB Cliff Harris.
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|Eagles | Several to sit out afternoon practice
Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:29:42 -0700
Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid said DE Jason Babin (calf), WR Riley Cooper (collarbone), CB Cliff Harris (ankle) and DT Cullen Jenkins (hamstring) will not take part in the afternoon practice session Saturday, Aug. 11.
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|Eagles | Several CBs could be in fight for one or two spots
Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:31:28 -0700
Philadelphia Eagles CBs Joselio Hanson, Trevard Lindley, Curtis Marsh, Brandon Hughes, Wade Bonner and Cliff Harris may be competing for one or two roster spots during training camp.
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|Eagles | Six get early looks on punt returns
Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:10:30 -0700
Philadelphia Eagles CB Brandon Boykin, WR Mardy Gilyard, WR Chad Hall, CB Cliff Harris and WR Damaris Johnson each saw time working on punt returns during training camp practices Thursday, July 26, and Friday, July 27. Surprisingly, CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie also saw time returning punts.
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|Eagles | Three to get chance on kickoff returns
Fri, 06 Jul 2012 21:33:05 -0700
Philadelphia Eagles WR Mardy Gilyard, CB Cliff Harris and WR Damaris Johnson might get a chance to return kickoffs during training camp and the preseason. Johnson's biggest competition for a roster spot might come from WR Chad Hall.
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|Eagles | Agree to terms with 13 UDFAs
Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:40:34 -0700
The Philadelphia Eagles have agreed to terms with undrafted rookie free-agent WR Elvis Akpla (Montana State), LS Matt Camilli (Texas-El Paso), TE Chase Ford (Miami), CB Cliff Harris (Oregon), FB Emil Igwenagu (Massachusetts), WR McKay Jacobson (Brigham Young), WR Damaris Johnson (Tulsa), WR Aaron Pflugrad (Arizona State), RB Chris Polk (Washington), FB Jeremy Stewart (Stanford), FS Phillip Thomas (Syracuse), P Ryan Tydlacka (Kentucky) and WR Darnell Williams (Louisiana College). Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
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|2006-10-17, 14:46
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Bah, forget, I don't know.
|2006-10-17, 15:07
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Golden Week is a collection of 4 holidays and Japan just said "WTH" and made it a whole week off. The whole country pretty much shuts down for festivals and holiday. It happens in the first week of May.
So... the school year starts on April 1st and just about the time everyone gets rolling they have Golden Week. Then in mid-summer there's a one month summer break (which is usually filled with homework and extra-help cram classes) then a fall stretch until the harvest holidays.
Basically instead of the massively antiquated stupid "3 months off for summer" most Americans have (so, who helped with the summer farmwork last summer?) they get lots of breaks throughout the year. Of course, their school system actually expects you to work and meet expectations and the parents support that concept
The wiki thoughts are interesting but mostly speculative.... basic problem with wiki-data is that lame stuff can get left in if few participate or no one provides updated info. Anime stuff in particular seems to have its share of "religious viewpoints" that may or may not have references for backup.
|2006-10-17, 17:16
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|2006-10-17, 22:17
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Aye, 29April to 5May, so it slides over a weekend as we rotate through the 7 year week cycle. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2282.html
Heh.... it could also make Kyon *wrong* because he was still half-conscious.
It could also mean the writers forgot about Leap Year (when in 2004 normally the 6th would have fallen on Wednesday but Feb29 pushed it)
It could also be an intentional Twilight Zone moment --- Haruhi has screwed with reality.
I can't discount it completely though... it *could* mean that it is the year 2009 in the series... but then that would mean Kyon was fretting about 1999 when he was 5.... odd but not impossible. And I don't suspect much daily life change in only three years barring disaster....
Placing the Haruhi Initial Bang at the 2006 release of the series would be something KyoAni would think of though....
I guess that would clear the XP problem since no one is actually going to upgrade to Vista without having their teeth pulled
|2006-10-17, 22:38
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I dunno, I think Kazu's thought is plausible- he's not lamenting the uneventful passing of 1999 specifically, he's lamenting that the new millenia has come without the wonders anticipated by scifi and the like.
|2006-10-17, 22:56
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|2006-10-17, 23:10
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*pops in*
By the way, the debut chapter was "Suzumiya Haruhi no Taikutsu" (the baseball episode).
The first novel volume, "Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu", was released a little over a month later (6/10/03).
In other words, Tanigawa-san started with the magazine serialization and novel volume release at the same time (although at the time it was only meant to be a one-shot story written as an entry for the Sneaker awards (which it won)).
Tanigawa-san pretty much stayed like that since then: short stories for the magazine serialization, and an original long story for a novel volume every once in a while (like Shoushitsu (vol.4) and Inbou (vol.7), for example).
*pops out*
|2006-10-18, 01:32
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Sometimes no matter how careful a writer is there can be continuity errors .. hell even Tolkien carried around a bag of errors to his grave and LOTR to this day has continuity errors in it. Given the author of the various forms of SHnY has to have one hell of a flowchart/timeline of things happening and *all* the little bits that require continuity checks.... I'm not going to get toooooo anal about it.
|2006-10-18, 11:15
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Technically... a "slider" is really a time traveler. They're just moving across the axis (river?) of spacetime rather than up and down it.
Yuki might qualify simply because she's aware of how the timeflow is being manipulated but Mikuru comes closer. Itsuki's entrance into "closed space" also qualifies (closed space being a new baby universe or an intersecting p-brane depending on your physics flavor of the week).
Storywise, I haven't seen any indication that someone is tagged specifically as a slider ... maybe the translator guys have noticed someone?
|2006-10-18, 11:36
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A slider can also be someone who goes into alternate universes and parallarities. There was a TV drama series a while back called Sliders that discribed something about that. Also, various novels have certain context in regards to this, like Alan Dean Foster's Parallex. So which character has been travelling time and space and demensions or alternate universes?...
|2006-10-18, 16:14
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Speaking of sliders, from what I heard, what was actually said in the orignal Japanese was "ike-sekai-jin", which means "one from another world". Likewise, instead of timetravelers, it was "mirai-jin", which I believe means "one from the future".
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|2006-10-18, 16:34
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"alternate universes" and "parallelaties" are just descriptions of the branching of spacetime as a result of quantum wave events. So a time-traveler by default would be sliding up and down and across these branches - which is why I equated sliders and time travelers. I just don't differentiate between "time travel" and "parallel universe hopping" -- though I know people think of them differently in popular fiction.
As Meophist points out, the japanese terms are a little bit squishy.
|2006-10-18, 17:44
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|2006-10-18, 19:46
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Picture theory bothers me. I'm pretty suspicious of her claims that she can exist in a timeline and still 'have no effect,' especially when she interacts directly with such a powerful agent as Haruhi. Hell, the time-travelers started the whole 'John Smith' causal loop.
|2006-10-23, 01:24
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About the year the story takes place, here's my 2 cents:
First of all, the year of the story for the anime is definitely 2004 (unless KyoAni does a fix on the DVD). My proof? In ep. 10, around 5:30 of the a.f.k. release, Kyon's cellphone clearly show that 5/25 is a Tuesday. That would be year 2004.
As for the year for the novel, I have come to the conclusion that either somebody messed the date up (either in-story character or the author), or it's 2003.
My first clue is Dec. 17 -20 must be school days, since Kyon went to school during those 4 days in Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya.
My second clue is July 7 (Tanabata event) and Sept. 1 (first day of school after summer vocation) must also be school days, since Kyon also attended school during those dates. Unfortunately, these 2 dates happen to be the same day.
But now there's a contradiction. Assuming Kyon's high school don't have school on Saturday (as seen during the first "SOS Brigate wondering around the city" acitivity), then 12/17 must be a Monday or a Tuesday. That would be 2001, 2002 and 2007. But on all of those years, 7/7 and 9/1 are on weekend.
I have 2 explanations (other than someone messed the date up) for this contradiction.
(1) Because Kyon's high school was in special pre-holiday schedule, they might have to show up for school on Saturday. This will allow 2003 and 2008 to be considered, and 7/7 and 9/1 are monday on those years.
(2) Due to the event in Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, 12/18 - 12/20 can be concidered as a separate timeline. So as long as 7/7, 9/1, and 12/17 are weekday, any year is fine (which happens to be 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2009).
Both explanations have some flaws in them. But that's the best I can do.
Of course, there's also the issue of "the first day after golden week is a wednesday". If we were to accept that as truth, then there's no way to dispute the story must have happened on 2009. Together with all the other messed up, we can then say the author didn'r really plan on the date very carefully at all.
Bah, I say. Instead, I think the ff. are what really happend (most of which already mentioned by someone else):
(1) Error in translation. While this is the cause I would like to believe the most, concidering both the official Traditional Chinese translation and the a.f.k. translation gave the same translation, this is unlikely.
(2) The day Taniguchi tapped Kyon's shoulder is not the same day Kyon talked to Haruhi about her hair. But the way the story is presented definitely suggest those 2 events happened on the same day...
(3) Kyon in still delirious from the long holiday.
(4) Kyon's school didn't start on May 6, but almost a week later. But I have no proof to back this up.
The 7th novel might also shed some light to this issue (via Valentine's day), but I haven't read the book yet, so I wouldn't know...
|2006-10-23, 02:06
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In films, they have somebody whose sole task is to do "continuity checks" to make sure such things are tidier.... it may be that all we can say is that with Haruhi mucking up the spacetime continuum even the stones things are written on are malleable.
|2006-11-03, 20:25
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Ok, really random question!
Does Asakura's hairstyle have a particular name? To be percise I'm talking about the part where the hair behind her ears is tied back in a ponytail and drapped over the hair in the back of her head.
Really crappy description, sorry.
Just one of those odd things that has been nagging me.
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As you certainly know, a couple of days ago I've confirmed that Admins were actively working on some elements for the Map Foundry.
Today I'm happy and honoured to be able to give you more details of their work and finally announce this, let me say, huge and important Update.
So, without any further ado, let me introduce:
Bonus Collections
The bonus collections is an update that give to us more flexibility with bonuses. It doesn't allow many new gameplay elements but it makes possible to shorten the code, and those of you who are more experienced with the developement of big maps know well how much can be a pain to code everything without having a long and big file. In addition, this update will solve an issue we had to face twice in past (Research&Conquer and War of Wizards), infact the game engine can't handle too big xml files.
But let me show you the update more in detail.
The first thing that we can do now is to write a single list for a bonus in which the bonus value changes with the number of regions of that bonus (or continent) that we hold.
Till today, we had to use overrides, in that way we were able to cancel a bonus in favour of another, but now we can use this system:
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<bonus required="5">5</bonus>
<bonus required="8">15</bonus>
<bonus required="11">45</bonus>
<component type="mandatory">essential country 1</component>
<component type="mandatory">essential country 2</component>
<component type="blocker">bad country!</component>
<component>variable country 1</component>
<component>variable country 2</component>
<component>variable country 3</component>
As you can see, now all partial bonuses can be listed at once, you need just to use the <bonus> tag and write the number of required regions within the tag.
Mandatory components are self explanatory, you need to hold that region (or regions) in order to receive the bonus, instead, the blocker component works the opposite, if you hold it, you don't receive the bonus. It's important to know that the mandatory and the blocker components are always valid and applies on all bonuses listed into the continent.
But there's more! Look at this code:
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<component type="multiplier" factor="1.5">multiplier country</component>
<component>country 1</component>
<component>country 2</component>
<component>country 3</component>
You can see the "Multiplier" and "factor" options within the component tag.
If you use this tag, when a player hold that country, the bonus is multiplied for the factor number. If the number is not a perfect one, it is rounded to the nearest. So, for example a bonus of 7 with a multiplier of 1.5 will give you 11 troops.
The above codes are just examples, but I'm sure you are able to use them in more constructive ways.
There are some details to explain but we're working on a guide in which you'll find all the info you need to know, but in the meanwhile if you have question feel free to ask!
The end? That's all?
No, there's something else for us!
So, with tears of joy.....I'm really happy to announce that now we have:
Conditional Borders
This update allows more dynamic control of borders and it opens up Conquer Club to a whole new level of strategy!
Now you are able to use dynamic boders on your map, so a region A borders with a Region B only if the player holds "something"
But how looks the code?
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<name>Sao Paulo</name>
<border condition="New York">Buenos Aires</border>
<border condition="Oceania">Dakar</border>
As you can see in the example Sao Paulo borders with Buenos Aires only if you hold New York. Or it can border with Dakar if you hold the whole Oceania.
Yeah, you got it right! Also continents can be used as conditions.
Again the above is just an example and there're plenty ways to use them. This update is certainly one of those who will give us many and many new type of maps to draw.
For example it can used on a map in a way you can unlock a door only if you have a key, or you can "pass a bridge" only if you hold a specific region.
The only limit is the sky!
I really hope you are happy for these updates, enjoy them and now start to draw!
But, before to leave, let me say that lackattack is working on something else, something that will be useful for the foundry but that will have also a larger impact on the whole CC Community. He is working on a Map Database, right now he has finished the Phase 1, which is the back end. Currently we're all working on it to populate the non-automatic data and soon Lack will start to work on the Phase 2, that is a public Map Gallery.
Right now we're not able to set a precise deadline since there's some stuff to do, but for now don't think about it since you can spend your time playing with the new toys.
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Welcome to my website, a homage I suppose to my one of my favourite authors who writes under two pen names, Iain M. Banks and Iain Banks. I'd class him as a "Thinking man's author", in a similar manner to Felicity Kendal being once described as "Thinking man's crumpet".
I've tried to write some reviews from the basis of the average man in the street, not poncy Oxbridge literary reviews written to impress other critics, literacy academics and Times readers. So whilst Mr Banks uses plenty of long words, I won't be holding much truck with them here! The reviews are light hearted Panto style "Look out behind you!", because there are plenty of serious academic ones written by people much cleverer than me elsewhere – well, everywhere else in fact…
The Iain M. Banks books are sci-fi novels, space operas, galactic operas really, featuring a civilization called The Culture (a Level 8 civilisation), whose members consist of a number of semi-humanoid species and artificial intelligence based machines that are acknowledged to be sentient and are given the same rights and protection as humanoids. The Society is politically correct on the surface, but slightly darker and more pragmatic underneath. Things taken for granted when you become a member of the culture are: You don't have to work (other than philanthropic pursuits (which might include going to war)); you can change sex several times if you want to; change body shape or style; drugs can be used for recreational purposes as well as to enhance operational capacity in combat or whatever; you can negotiate the personal use of very large galactic warships; you are the top dog when it comes to pushing other civilizations around (which sometimes backfires spectacularly); the speed of light is for beginners (a long-held belief of my own – I've great hopes for the neutrino!); death is optional or only occurs due to bad planning or boredom (but that doesn't mean you won't go to hell).
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Things that you need when reading an Iain M. Banks book: A broad mind; a broader imagination; a (good) dictionary (I mean, really, whoever has ever come across Labtebricolephile or Xenoglossicist in a spelling test at school? -No? No, me neither); something to hold your sides in so they don't split laughing; a sick bag (on occasion); a handkerchief. A glass of Cabinet Sauvignon can also help, but not too many as you'll never follow the plot! PhD's in Astrophysics, Astro Engineering, Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, Socialist Politics and Psychology are useful, as is a working knowledge of the Kama Sutra (you know – when you hold it up sideways, then upside down to see if it looks any more feasible?). Access to a good Psychiatrist or trauma specialist can also be useful after reading some passages.
How do you know whether you are getting into a good Iain M. Banks novel? Good signs are: A major player in the book gets killed in the first chapter (always brings a smile to my face – I know it's going to be a good-un!); you've no idea what the main story is even though you're 200-300 pages into the book; you don't understand the technology but it sounds bloody convincing; you're not sure who the bad guys are; you don't understand the ending even after you've read it (and even at this point, you still might not be sure who the bad guys were!). It is perfectly acceptable, and probably good practice, to make notes as you work your way through the books!
Favourite characters? Probable the warships – crafty devious buggers some of them – I guess that's the trouble when you create AI's that are supremely more powerful than the human mind – they have their own game plan but convince you that it's really your game plan and will begrudgingly go along with your scheme if that's what you really want…
A great book to start with in this series is Player of Games. I was ill when I read this and dropped into an unconscious fever for about 24 hours in the middle of it. In the fever I was caught up in the game – a multi-layered multi-strategy board game that goes on for days. Imagine being in a nightmare that you can't get out of? Talk about waking up sweating! It's a great introductory text to the Culture series of books.
And so, that leaves us with his other novels, written under the name Iain Banks. What can I say? Every one completely individual, a unique storyline, moving, frustrating, funny, nauseous, sexy, emotive, satisfying, brilliant, memorable?
Example – how many times have you thrown book at the wall because the story line is so frustrating? That's emotive right? It took me 18 months to read one of his books. I hid it in drawers, lent it to friends (a sure fire way of never seeing a book again usually), took it on holiday twice, and finally plucked up courage to make it to the end – stunning – was buzzing for about a week afterwards! After reading another one of his fictional novels you'll never be able to sing the original lyrics to David Bowie's "Lets dance" ever again. Nope. Well, perhaps if your parents are listening.
Explore the darkest corners of your mind. You know, the really well hidden ones, the ones that you wouldn't dare tell either your best friend, a doctor, a priest or a complete stranger about? Now go beyond – put two dark corners together – the sort of thing that you feel guilty thinking about on your own in a dark room with the lights off in a power cut. It's acceptable to have a black cat in the room at this point. What have you got? Bad? Sexy? Illegal? Genocidal (yes, I've worked with people who make you think like that too…)? Hmmm… Probably not as bad as The Wasp Factory. But don't read that as your first Iain Banks book, even if it was the first one he wrote. A good starting point is probably Dead Air or possibly The Bridge.
My reviews give a bit more detail on each book. I'll be adding to them as time goes on.
I hope you get as much pleasure from Iain [M] Banks books as I do. If you've not come across him before then you are in for a real treat.


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JUPITER, Fla., March 7 (UPI) -- The defending World Champs are making enemies and it's only the first week of March.
According to Major League Baseball rules, spring training lineups must include "a minimum of four players who were regulars on the previous year's major league team or who were platooned on the previous year's major league team on a regular basis, or who have a reasonable chance to be regulars on the major league club's squad during the upcoming season. Each of those regulars, excluding pitchers, must play a minimum of three complete innings."
The Miami Marlins are "outraged" because the Boston Red Sox lineup for the teams' game in Jupiter, Fla., on Thursday afternoon only included one such player, centerfielder Jackie Bradley Jr.
Marlins fans paid "super premium" ticket prices for the Grapefruit League game because it featured the 2013 World Series Champions, but the team the Red Sox put out on the field certainly did not feature any premium players. Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz, Mike Napoli, Shane Victorino, Jonny Gomes and other projected starters were nowhere to be found.
The Sun-Sentinel reported that team executives were "outraged" about the situation and planned to contact the league office. If MLB finds that the club violated the rule, the Red Sox would be subject to a fine.
The game was called after eight innings because of rain and it ended in a 0-0 tie.
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5 killers line up to contest sentencesBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 16. 2013 10:45PM
MANCHESTER - A new sentencing hearing will be held this spring for Steven Spader, the convicted teen killer and accused ringleader of a 2009 Mont Vernon home invasion.
Spader, 21, is one of five convicted killers who were 17 years old when they committed their crimes and are seeking resentencing hearings under the U.S. Supreme Court's Miller v. Alabama ruling.
The others are Robert Tulloch, 29, who pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the 2001 slayings of married Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop; Robert Dingman, who was convicted with his younger brother of the 1996 murders of their parents in their Rochester home; Eduardo Lopez Jr., who was convicted of fatally shooting Robert Goyette during a 1991 Nashua robbery; and Michael Soto, who was convicted of accomplice to first-degree murder in the 2007 shooting of Aaron Kar in Manchester.
All are serving mandatory life prison terms without chance of parole.
The U.S. Supreme Court's Miller v. Alabama ruling declared unconstitutional all state sentencing schemes that required life prison terms without chance of parole for juvenile murderers.
In its June 25 decision, the court found such mandatory life sentencing schemes violated the Eighth Amendment's ban against cruel and unusual punishment.
A judge still could impose a life prison term without parole for a juvenile murderer - it just cannot be an automatic penalty.
Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Gillian L. Abramson set April 22 for Spader's resentencing hearing after meeting about 40 minutes in chambers Wednesday with defense attorneys and the lead state prosecutor.
Sentencing will follow April 26.
The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office considers Spader's case to be the one to which Miller v. Alabama applies since it has not yet gone before the state Supreme Court on direct appeal.
Spader's appeal was stayed in September as a result of Miller v. Alabama and his case remanded to the trial court for resentencing.
"We agree it is retroactive to Spader because his case was on appeal when (Miller v. Alabama) decision came down," Senior Assistant Attorney General Jeffery A. Strelzin said.
"We don't believe the decision is retroactive to the other four defendants" because their convictions either had been upheld on appeal to the state Supreme Court or they pleaded guilty and gave up their right to appeal.
A jury found Spader guilty of first-degree murder and other felonies for the hacking death of registered nurse Kimberly L. Cates, 42, and maiming her then 11-year-old daughter, Jaimie, inside their Mont Vernon home.
In addition to serving life in prison without parole, Spader is serving 76 years to life on the other charges.
A resentencing hearing would allow the defense and state to argue for whatever sentence they want and present mitigating and aggravating factors to support their positions.
Spader's defense attorneys Jonathan Cohen and Andrew S. Winters of the Concord law firm Cohen & Winters, anticipate "between three to five witnesses" will be called.
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You will be competing for a pass to BlizzCon 2009 in Anaheim, California! BlizzCon will be held August the 21th-22th.
The Contest
Through the years we have seen that you guys are amazingly creative and have fantastic new ideas for everything. This contest is going to put that to the test. We want you to design a new arena and describe why your arena would be fun, challenging, or wacky to play in.
Reply to this thread with an original design for a new Arena you would like to see in WoW. Including a drawing or picture of your arena is highly encouraged, but is not necessary to enter.
Designs will be voted on by the entire Arena Junkies' community to determine the top 3 as winners.
Please read the rules completely before competing and good luck!
If you have any questions about BlizzCon times, location, Murloc Marine pets, etc., please check out the Official BlizzCon Page.
NOTE: This contest is open to the entire Arena Junkies community. If you cannot reply to this thread please submit your entry as a reply to this thread in the Waiting Room. Please don't submit your design in both threads - it's not going to enter you twice.
Important Rules!
- If you enter the competition by posting an Arena design, you MUST be able and willing to attend BlizzCon. The invites are not transferable and will be waiting at the convention center with YOUR name on them.
- All designs must be in by June 5, 2009.
- Voting will take place the following week and conclude on June 12, 2009.
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To determine if alternating zidovudine (AZT) and zalcitabine (dideoxycytidine; ddC) (first
one and then the other) or intermittent therapy (1 week of drug then 1 week off) will lessen
the toxic effects of either drug alone, while still inhibiting HIV (the AIDS virus) in
patients with AIDS or AIDS related complex.
AZT extends the survival of some patients with AIDS, and both AZT and ddC are known to
inhibit the growth of HIV. When AZT or ddC is given continuously over a prolonged period of
time, toxic effects occur that are not found when the drugs are given for 4 - 6 weeks. It is
hoped that by alternating the drugs or by giving one drug intermittently, the toxic effects
can be decreased without lowering the therapeutic effectiveness of the drugs.
AZT extends the survival of some patients with AIDS, and both AZT and ddC are known to
inhibit the growth of HIV. When AZT or ddC is given continuously over a prolonged period of
time, toxic effects occur that are not found when the drugs are given for 4 - 6 weeks. It is
hoped that by alternating the drugs or by giving one drug intermittently, the toxic effects
can be decreased without lowering the therapeutic effectiveness of the drugs.
Patients will be assigned to 1 of 7 treatment groups. Both AZT and ddC will be given by
mouth every 4 hours. One group will take AZT continuously for 52 weeks. One group will
alternate 1 week of AZT with a week with no drug for 48 weeks and another group will
alternate 1 week of ddC with a week of no drug for 48 weeks. Other groups will alternate AZT
and either low-dose or high-dose ddC on a weekly basis or a monthly basis for 48 weeks.
Patients will be seen weekly for the first 8 weeks of study and less often thereafter. Blood
samples will be withdrawn frequently and evaluated for possible changes in the immune
system, toxic effects, and possible changes in the amount of HIV in the blood. Lumbar
punctures and skin biopsies will also be performed.
AMENDED: All patients receiving continuous AZT will be switched to a lower dose of AZT if
they have not already been switched. This is in accordance with results of NIAID ACTG 002,
016, and 019 which demonstrate that this dose of AZT delays progression of HIV symptoms.
Inclusion Criteria
Concurrent Medication:
Encouraged though not required:
- Inhaled pentamidine as prophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP).
- Allowed:
- AL-721 use is discouraged but not prohibited.
- Use of aspirin, acetaminophen, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents should be
minimized, with continuous use for > 72 hours discouraged.
- Acute therapy (7 days) with oral acyclovir.
- Acute therapy with ketoconazole.
Concurrent Treatment:
- Up to 4 units of packed red blood cells for hemoglobin toxicity.
All patients must have the following:
- A consistently positive serum HIV p24 antigen = or > 70 pg/ml, defined by the Abbott
HIV antigen test, on two occasions. The tests must be within 1 month of study entry,
separated by at least 72 hours, and the last must be within 2 weeks of starting
therapy. Any negative antigen test during the period will exclude the patient from
the study.
- A positive antibody to HIV confirmed by any federally licensed ELISA test kit.
- Patients in group A must have AIDS related complex (ARC) as defined by the documented
presence of at least one of the following:
- Recurrent oral candidiasis.
- Hairy leukoplakia.
- History of herpes zoster.
- Temperature > 38.5 degrees C with or without night sweats, persisting for > 14
consecutive days or > 15 days in a 30-day interval prior to study entry.
- Weight loss of > 15 lbs. or 10 percent of body weight noted in a 120-day period prior
to study entry.
- Diarrhea defined as = or > 3 liquid stools per day, persisting for > 30 days prior to
study entry without definable cause.
- Patients in group B must have CDC-defined AIDS not requiring systemic maintenance
Exclusion Criteria
Co-existing Condition:
Patients with the following conditions or symptoms are excluded:
- Transfusion dependence requiring 2 units of blood more than once per month.
- Significant malabsorption (> 10 percent weight loss within the past 3 months with
serum carotene < 75 IU/ml or vitamin A < 74 IU/ml).
- Significant cardiac or liver disease.
- Significant neurologic abnormalities defined by any one of the following:
- A significant abnormality on the ddC Neuropathy Targeted Symptom Questionnaire
defined as a symptom score > 4 (moderate severity) in any one of six categories or a
score > 2 (mild severity) in any two of six categories.
- Moderate abnormalities on standardized neurologic exam.
- Any severe abnormality (a value = or > 4.0) on standardized 4-arm quantitative
sensory testing of vibration threshold.
- Diabetes, renal failure, or alcoholism.
- Dose-limiting or transfusion-requiring toxicity during a previous course of
zidovudine therapy.
- History of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
- Requirement for prolonged acyclovir therapy. Patients in group A must not have the
- Opportunistic infection or malignancy fulfilling the CDC definition of AIDS.
- Neoplasms other than basal cell carcinoma of the skin or in situ carcinoma of the
cervix. Patients in group B must not have the following:
- Active opportunistic infection or AIDS-defining opportunistic infection requiring
ongoing systemic therapy and/or prophylaxis other than inhaled pentamidine for
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis.
- Symptomatic visceral Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), progression of KS within the month prior
to study entry.
- Concurrent neoplasms other than KS, basal cell carcinoma of the skin or in situ
carcinoma of the cervix.
Concurrent Medication:
- Neurotoxic drugs.
- Prolonged acyclovir therapy.
- Antineoplastic therapy.
- Systemic therapy and/or prophylaxis for an AIDS-defining opportunistic infection,
other than inhaled pentamidine for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) prophylaxis.
- Other antiretroviral agents, immunomodulators, or systemic corticosteroids.
- Other experimental medication.
Concurrent Treatment:
- Transfusion dependency (requiring 2 units of blood more than once per month).
Prior Medication:
- Antiretroviral agents within 60 days of study entry.
- Biologic modifiers or corticosteroids within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Dideoxycytidine (ddC).
Prior Treatment:
- Blood transfusion within 2 weeks of entry.
Any negative HIV p24 antigen test during the month prior to entry will exclude the patient
from the study.
Active drug or alcohol abuse.
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Home Depot comes through in Derry with new decorationsBy HUNTER McGEE
Union Leader Correspondent
December 19. 2013 5:29PM
DERRY — A video surveillance system set up by a resident has captured an individual using a knife to slash inflatable holiday lawn decorations.
The incident occurred in the early morning on Friday, Dec. 13, said David Borque, of 2 Donmac Drive. He had just recently installed a security camera system.
"At 2 a.m. it caught an individual running across the yard, slashing all of the decorations," Borque said Thursday from the house.
The six inflatables were damaged beyond repair, at a total cost of approximately $600.
"It's not an overwhelmingly large display, but it's a cute display and the kids get enjoyment out of it," Borque said. That's really why we do it — it' s for the kids. So having it cut up like it was last Friday was heartbreaking."
Police are investigating the vandalism, said Derry police Capt. Vern Thomas. A report on the incident hadn't been completed as of press time.
Borque said he had installed the security cameras after several of the decorations received minor damage in an incident Nov. 14.
Fortunately, Home Depot responded Thursday after viewing a television broadcast of the vandalism. A manager stopped by the house and dropped off some new inflatable decorations, a thankful Borque said.


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Sunday, January 25, 2009
Lemon layer cake
It was my friend Becca's birthday last week, and since I missed it, I wanted to bake her a cake to make up for it. She requested lemon with vanilla frosting. I really liked it, she thought it was too rich but I thought it was deeeeeelicious. I might not use a buttercream frosting next time and just use whipped cream instead, because it is rich, but oh well.
Also, sorry about all the not-the-best pictures, I can't find my camera-to-computer cord and have been using my moms camera.
Lemon olive oil cake
From epicurious.com, this cake is very light and spongey. I made it in two loaf pans so I could have layers in my cake, and also I didn't have a springform pan.
5 eggs, separated
3/4 c sugar
1/2 c olive oil
zest and juice from 1 lemon
1 c flour mix
1/2 t xanthan gum
1/2 t salt
Preheat oven to 325. Line two loaf pans with parchment paper, then lightly grease them. Beat the egg whites with the salt until foamy, the sprinkle in 1/4 c sugar and continue to beat to stiff peaks. Scrape the whites to another bowl, then beat the yolks and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in zest, juice, and oil, then stir in flour mix and xanthan gum. Fold 1/4 of the beaten egg whites into the yolk mix to lighten, then gently fold in the rest of the whites. Divide batter between pans, smoothing the tops, and bake 25-30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then remove using the parchment paper to racks to cool completely.
Lemon Curd
From The Joy of Cooking
3 eggs
1/3 c sugar
zest from 2 lemons
juice from 2 lemons
6 T butter, cut into cubes
Whisk together in a small saucepan eggs, sugar and zest, then add lemon juice and butter. Heat over medium heat until butter is melted, then whisk until thickened. Pour into a bowl and cover with plastic wrap, pressing down on the top of the curd to keep a skin from forming.
Vanilla Buttercream
2 sticks of room temperature butter
3 1/4 c confectioners sugar
2 t vanilla
2 T cream or milk
Beat the butter until light and smooth, and then beat in the confectioners sugar, a cup at a time. Add in the vanilla and cream, then beat until smooth.
To assemble cake
Slice each cake in half horizontally and spread lemon curd on two layers. Spread buttercream on one layer, then layer cake/curd/cake/buttercream/cake/curd/cake. Frost sides and top of cake, and eat! Store in the fridge.
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thank you! I love you!ReplyDelete
This looks great! Send me some, please!ReplyDelete
Thanks everyone!ReplyDelete
Jesse- Oh, cream cheese frosting, I didn't think of that. That's a good idea!
I can practically taste this cake!ReplyDelete
Looks so good!
If you just use rice flour, or almond flour, the cake will be very dense and not very cakey at all. Look into gluten-free flour mixes, the starches do things structurally to the cake that you need.ReplyDelete
If you leave out the xanthan gum, the cake will be really really crumbly and might fall apart.
I can't vouch for the recipe using other flour blends or different things, I have only made it this way.
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MCM14127 wrote:What next? Seven dollar shipping? This is horrible..."Read more..." What if we LIKED just scrolling down? When I see "read more" in an ad, I rapidly lose interest and just click "x." BRING BACK THE OLD WOOT!
By making us click more to read the product description, they get more advertising revenue from the additional page refresh. It's just Amazon's way of continuing to kill off what WAS a great, UNIQUE and fun website. I knew Woot would be killed off by committee when it was bought out...this is just another step on it's way out. Woot has officially lost it's soul. They are just going to milk us till we get sick of it and leave.
DaveD1420 wrote:Too much on the page. It looks like AOL threw up.
Yes! That is exactly what it looks like! Thank you for sharing your eloquence!
It is such a mess that I am much less likely to bother to come over and look. It gives me a headache. So that means I won't check, and if I don't check I won't buy (or rather, lately here, have my son buy off his account).
Not liking this at all.
It's a great line and very true.
Woot!, you're really lost your way. From the same boring items over and over again at the same prices, to very disappointing Woot Offs, you've lost your mojo.
Biggyniner wrote:Well the guy before me said it best.. "Looks like AOL threw up"... Sorry Woot but this is just ugly, complicated and confusing. My eyes are drawn towards.... too many things... terrible layout.
I've already commented today but I'm doing it again. Why, you may ask? Well, I simply hate this new design. sure, there may be a few cool things hidden here and there, and sure, I may want a few more woot-y deals from time to time. But what I don't want is this crap that's placed in front of me. Merge the old site and the new one. Keep the old layout but add the new features. Quit making me hate going to the woot homepage (or any woot page for that matter). I don't even care what the daily woot is anymore. I just want to see when this crap is gone. It's fowling up my iPad's memory...like a bad virus it is always stuck in the distant parts of my flash ROM, always lurking as a cached file somewhere. Get it out get it out!!!!!
New Site Design = FAIL
OK I have given it two days, and I just realized that if you click on "read more", that is pretty much what your home page should look like. Description back on one page, information easy to find, and mouse over ability to get to other sites.
grumb wrote:OK I have given it two days, and I just realized that if you click on "read more", that is pretty much what your home page should look like. Description back on one page, information easy to find, and mouse over ability to get to other sites.
Try bookmarking "http://www.woot.com/today/" for the closest approximation of what Woot! used to look like. The only thing really ruined in that version is the scrolling "Discuss This Deal" box that's utterly useless compared to the old quickly-viewed version.
novastarj wrote:Try bookmarking "http://www.woot.com/today/" for the closest approximation of what Woot! used to look like. The only thing really ruined in that version is the scrolling "Discuss This Deal" box that's utterly useless compared to the old quickly-viewed version.
Yes that is exactly what happens when you press "read more" but I like the idea you can bookmark it! Thanks
jandk113 wrote:I just don't see what is so terrible about woot wanting to offer more than one deal a day...I think people are forgetting that this is a business and no matter how much you want woot to never change it is going to evolve, woot was designed to make money.
I don't have a problem with the woot plus deals either. My issue is having them on every page taking up more space that the one deal a day. In my opinion, an acceptable solution would be to create a "Plus" page and fill in the newly available space for the features, specs, and humorous description. But as it stands, their business model, one deal a day, has dramatically changed. If woot wants to continue to go off in this new direction, that's fine. But they have to accept that people came to woot because of the old business model. The new direction, great deals...oh...and here's today's special offer, will turn off and drive away some current customers. I'd check out a dedicated "Woot Plus" page to see what was offered. But the current design screams "We were bought by a big company and they want to force feed more products to the customer."
jandk113 wrote:I love woot, and I am excited they are offering more items for me to buy!!
Personally, I don't have a problem with woot offering more items. It's how they are doing it that I have an issue with. When I want to go to woot.com, I enjoyed seeing the deal, reading the (sometimes) humorous description, and seeing the specs and features. To get the same info, woot has simplified the process to going to woot.com, clicking read more for the description and features, the clicking again to see the features. In addition to the unsimplification of the daily woot deal, they got rid of the concept of one deal per page. Put all the woot plus deals together and add a new tab titled "plus". Same additional items being offered but the comfort of the "buddy giving you a deal" is back with the simplified pages.
They can delete the entire thread now, and just take one thing from this entire discussion, because it sums it up on all levels:
halperez wrote:the current design screams "We were bought by a big company and they want to force feed more products to the customer."
Apparently, even if that means running the company into the dirt.
w-o-o tazon can vacuum it.
And it works for home.woot.com/today and all the other sites. Now what about a script that automatically forwards to the /today page?
... and most of the barf is not Woot...
As it has become customary lately, now that Woot has diverted all negative venting about the site redesign to this discussion, they have relegated the link to it to an almost invisible spot on the main page, so that it can quitely disappear...
Other than for the "Refurbished" placement comments, everything else seems to have fallen on deaf ears, once again...
niks wrote:As it has become customary lately, now that Woot has diverted all negative venting about the site redesign to this discussion, they have relegated the link to it to an almost invisible spot on the main page, so that it can quitely disappear...
Other than for the "Refurbished" placement comments, everything else seems to have fallen on deaf ears, once again...
You missed the part where everyone was complaining about the link that logged you out "mislabled" as "Not You?". There was a beautiful tirade of sarcasm from various posters about it.
They fixed it with the change of the Woot items last night.
Since it impacted enough people and could cause future PR issues, they just went ahead and changed it.
I posted the below to the "Woot beta feedback" form that greeted me when I clicked on the beta feedback link, thinking it would be posted to this forum (lesson learned -- read the fine print CAREFULLY from now on (as if I were on some other site).
Anyway, since I habitually do a ^A^C prior to posting ANYTHING (anywhere) (having lost too many moments of my life to lost typing due to the vagaries of the Internet), I still had the text in my paste buffer, so, I'm able to post it here (aren't you all lucky ;)
So with no further ado (reserving judgement for the time being as to the question of any future adieu), here's what was sent to whatever gravity well that other form has tossed my message towards:
Yuck yuck yuck.
(If I lived in an area served by connectivity other than dialup modem, it'd only be 'Yuck yuck' [if that's any consolation].)
I don't ask for you to change anything back, though... For every website I've ever seen go through the inevitable badmorph... for all the countless complaints, pleas for un-changery, and so forth... for ALL of these events, I could readily count those which were actually responded to (with something other than blather) on the fingers of one hand -- if my name were "Stumpy."
What is it about "the human condition" that drives people to fix that which is not broken? Further, what is it that makes them SO deeply vested in the "fixes" that they dig in for all they're worth, resisting any and all pleas for even the most modest amount of unfarklery?
I don't know, and I don't know that anyone knows. What I do know is that I no longer care. Life, as they say, is too short for this sort of [you know the word].
Now that Woot is riding the Digg train, what's the Reddit equivalent of Woot?
I actually got all my rantyness out in this thread before I calmed down enough to give my practical thoughts to the Beta group.
They are, apparently, watching these threads for bugs, consistent annoyances for easy fixes (like adding links to the derby and reckoning on shirt.woot), etc.
I'm actually a little suprised that you expected a "Tattle" style button would post to anywhere visible on-site at all!
thumperchick wrote:Please read the blog infographic. It specifically mentions linking your amazon account.
I only saw mention that you could use your amazon account, not link/merge a Woot and Amazon account together. I'm still not seeing it.
Biggest bug to me is the lack of community comments for all the WootPlus deals.. Without the community feedback, hell, I might as well go to gropeon or some other similarly named site.
What makes Woot special is that there's a chance I'll go to heaven if I buy enough products, and being able to flash that status to the lower creatures who haven't been as blessed.
Err, I mean, the great community support for bugs and problems that can come with a product, feedback on the value and utility, or just general griping and occasional informative posts by staff about if the item shipped or not.
Woot, community up the WootPlus items. Or stop calling them WootPlus and call it Wootless.
I have yet to buy anything since the new site design. I'm curious, when I click the button that says "place your order" does that actually complete my order or is there another screen? I ask because I use PayPal as payment. Is it going to take me to login to PayPal after that or is that the last button. I figure clicking 3 buttons from the first page just to buy the item seems like enough but you never know.
Dear Woot.
Personally I do not like the new look of Woot. The webpage now gives off a vibe similar to those shady popup websites you ocasionally get when browsing the web. It looks and feels cluttered and does not know what it's intended to be. The main deal has been reduced to a small box at the top and now alot of garbage advertisements take its place. Woot what do you want me to do view your advertisements or buy your products? Also why is it asking me to login when I open the page? Thats just so incredibly rude I will log in if I want to - not when you want me to. Millions of people know how to log into websites we dont require your assistance with a popup that I have to click off of everytime I visit. What if everytime someone walked up to the door step of your home and a computer voice suddenly said "Do you have a set of keys and would like to open the door? insert them in the keyhole" Eventually noone would like to visit you anymore. It genuinely from the heart makes me not want to visit woot after all these years. Woot you are the origional deal a day website Please dont take on the look and feel of your competition. Thank you.
Hate the brightness. Too much white.
I miss not seeing how many woots I have purchased since joining
pro: Nice to have all my orders and information about my orders on one page
Oh! Mutating Goodness! I go on vacation for 5 days and come back to this!!! I feel like "a deer in the headlights"...
not phone friendly (droid incredible 2) ...really small and have to log in just to view pages
whats up with loging in to look? i understand to buy or change account stuff you have to log in.
site is kind of garish now.
funny description is not up front.
Just make it fit the effing page.
Horizontal scrolling = Bush League
Woot was cool when it was simple: one product each day at a GREAT price. The "New Woot" is just like every other deal site out there - cluttered and complex.
jrs1980 wrote:Don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but I'm trying to use the coupon that jumbowoot bestowed on me to buy a tee that's going to be Reckoned tonight. It loads but never applies. I'm assuming it's an "unintended feature" of the redesign.
Same issue here. Seems to me the coupon box would have been something they'd have tested before going live...
What I like:
The tabs for "Woot!" "Home!" "Kids!" etc. at the top. Beats scrolling down to find the pics on the right you had before.
What I hate:
Getting the pop-up asking me to sign in when I first come to the site...every time I come to the site. If I want to buy or post, I'll sign in. I don't want to stay signed in in case someone else uses my computer. If I'm just looking, I don't want to waste time signing in and out.
This is crap.
I used to be able to see everything about today's woot. Now I have to click something to get details.
If you feel the need to redesign then fine, but don't take away information and make me take an extra step to get more info.
I used to make buy or no-buy decisions based upon the info I read, but if I have to go get more info to decide then I usually decide "NO-BUY".
I like the tabs on top, but why the colors? From the Home page, you can't tell the colors of the other pages until you're on them. You should have left them just the same Woot green or color the tabs in the color of the pages if you want to differentiate.
Secondly, waaayy too busy! My eyes can't tell where they should stop! I loved the old way, which was so different than any other shopping site! Why is the description, info on a different page? All that clicking!
I'm feeling like Gizmo: Bright light! Bright light! Too much white space on the page. It hurts my eyes!
Your uniqueness was what I loved about Woot! This has become just another shopping site and the Woots don't seem all that appealing anymore. Change is not always good.
Why do I have to click so much? If I click in the top menu bar to go to a different woot, then take me to that deal, don't make me click twice just to see the actual deal!!!
This page pretty much blows
Used to be a very nice, CONCISE, listing of purchases on the left. I could see, one page, everything, a list, searchable, all in one place.
Did I say I could, on one page, find any past purchase?
I don't need, or want pictures, much less TWENTY-TWO effing pages to mull through to find something.
Cute doesn't get it; function does, and you lost function.
The draw of the woot site it the product write-up and you have marginalized it. Instead of front and center I get a taste and I have to click. The page is now filled with other stuff that YOU want to show me.
So now the page is what YOU want to show and not what I want to see. Do you notice that when I capitalize YOU it looks funny but "I" looks normal that way?
Think about that while you consider your web design.
They won't notice when I don't buy anything.
I liked coming out to the one day one deal. It was short, simple with a couple add-on pages to tempt you.
Now that it is just another online store it'll be easier to not come out every day. Why come here when there is already an Amazon.com?
The level of fail is spectacular, and yet today all the people who failed still have jobs. That is the problem with America. You get promoted to the job you can't do, and then no one can get fired anymore without lawyers.
I'm not upset the site has changed, you give yourself WAY too much credit. I'm just taking the time to tell you that you are s-t-u-p-i-d. Really. Myopic beyond all depths of that word's contemporary vernacular meaning. If your focal point was any closer to your face, you'd be looking inside your nose.
You have flushed YEARS of carefully crafted and nurtured brand cache, which anyone with any advertising or marketing experience knows is the single most important factor for any commerce of any kind, in a matter of minutes.
The m-o-r-o-noscity is so spectacular, so gargantuan, it makes me think the only way it could possibly happen in such epic proportion, is that a 4 year old child from a country without electricity won a "Be the CEO of Woot for a day" contest.
Apparently, you spend more time writing code to auto-redact the word "w-o-o tazon" than you do having the slightest idea what made your company successful in the first place.
And since I practically type for a living, and this only takes me seconds to spit out, I have worked in the advertising and branding field for 20 years as a copywriter and product/package designer. (Syracuse/S.I. Newhouse School of Communications class of 88). I am not some whining wootnerd saying change the colors back, I am an industry pro telling you that you have completely screwed the pooch.
I know I have said this in here before, and probably will again, but since no one seems to be listening and I type really fast...
When you hit bottom, and fire your entire staff to become just another outlet of the megazon warehouse, remember how much fun you had being the little company that could, before you flushed your baby down the toilet for a payolazon paycheck.
And say hello to hoopstick.com for us. Their monkey was cute.
I sent a similar, albeit much briefer, letter to the beta team last night. They won't do anything differently, I'm just saying on record they just started the countdown clock for this company as it stands today. The light at the end of their tunnel is an oncoming train.
I have one small request... Bring back the colored triangle/square at the top of the page next to the username. Please and thanks. Keep up the good work!
yukoimada wrote:Here's a question for you all.... Now that I can log in with my Amazon password -- I know that Amazon bought woot a while ago -- If I use my amazon credit card, will I get triple Chase points?
This. I have been using my Amazon card at Woot ever since Woot was bought up. Still waiting on Amazon bonus points. Maybe we can actually start getting them now?
The feng shui is gone. Replaced by ASSEENONTV.
Also, just noticed that the link is gone from your order listing to the discussion of that item. Why remove that?
Hey, I've been here a while (since '06), so you might just dismiss this feedback as maudlin sentimentality or a tendency toward intransigent nostalgia.
Well anyway, here's my take on the redo so far. Much of this echoes others' comments, but maybe the weight of numbers will make a difference.
I like the actual product pages just fine. The writeup on the left with tabs on the right for the different sections of product info - great. I also like the combining shipping, the account info pages, and the fact that the writers are still writing blog posts.
But I very much dislike having to click through to the full writeup and info page. The large sections of space given to secondary sales will possibly increase your revenue, but it's all just noisy noisemakers that make noise. The simplicity is lost.
Also, on the Shirt site, I think you were doing well before to have the Reckoning showing little scrollable thumbnails or some such. This seems to go against my anti-noisemaker sentiment, but I prefer that to the giant chunk of page given to the weekly themed sale.
My advice: reduce the additional-sale sections drastically. It's a question of identity: are you our favorite lovable deal-a-day site or are you Buy.com?
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