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That Sarah Palin will be speaking at what's being billed as the first "National Tea Party Convention" makes complete sense. A popular movement that is still trying to figure out exactly what it is will be addressed by a popular woman still trying to figure out exactly what she is.
For now, this is OK. Come to think of it, this confusion or vagueness concerning ideology and identity amongst grassroots conservatives is much better than OK — it's a necessary and encouraging journey.
As the Left and liberal media tries to portray outspoken Americans fed up with government spending as some sort of wacky fringe, the much-maligned "tea baggers" actually represent the first sign of sanity on the mainstream Right in some time. Perhaps it took the extreme spending example of President Obama's Democratic Party to induce fear in so many about America's future, but it is also significant that the tea partiers don't seem to find any worthwhile value in the recent Republican past. In fact, Republican politicians who supported TARP or stimulus spending remain primary targets of the tea party set, and the big-government, big-spending, warmongering of the George W. Bush years seems to have become a distant, often embarrassing memory. Reported ABC News this month, "So-called 'tea party patriots' are members of a political movement sweeping America whose core beliefs center around fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets."
"Fiscal responsibility?" "Constitutionally limited government?" "Free markets?" Isn't this just long established, stock Republican language? It is. The difference is, unlike grassroots Republicans of the past 30 years, the mostly conservative and independent folks who make up the tea party movement are beginning to realize that the so-called party of "limited government" has not delivered.
But who might deliver? Generally not comfortable with the same old Republican establishment types, Palin is perceived as someone outside the Beltway, who is held at arm's length by GOP elites and who is abused mercilessly by the mainstream media — just like the tea partiers. Given the dynamics in play, no one should be surprised that the tea party movement has embraced Palin. But it could be that Palin's emergence as a tea party favorite is more indicative of a thirst for leadership than a thirst for Palin.
If the ideologically incoherent Palin is embraced simply because she is perceived as anti-establishment, so is the more politically sound Rand Paul. Thanks in no small part to the tea partiers, Paul has a good shot of becoming a US Senator in 2010, or as PoliticalLore.com reports:
"As rumors are circulating as to which politician may be able to lead the Tea Party movement into Washington D.C. many are talking but very few are working as hard as Kentucky US Senate candidate Rand Paul… While his Republican primary opponent (Trey Grayson) enjoys the support of the GOP establishment, namely Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, it does not seem to be translating into votes. It will be interesting to see how extensively the RNC and the GOP establishment is willing spend resources on a campaign that is already looking desperate for Grayson. And if Grayson fails, will McConnell ever back Rand Paul?"
It's a good question, especially considering that men like Mitch McConnell are part of that old Republican guard that grassroots conservatives used to dutifully obey. Not anymore. As the son of popular libertarian maverick Ron Paul–the presidential candidate most troublesome to the RNC in 2008 — Ron's son Rand might become the next US Senator from Kentucky precisely because he is perceived as an antagonist of the establishment, not merely despite it. Notes PoliticalLore.com "While names such as Sarah Palin and Gary Johnson are thrown around as the potential leaders of the Tea Party movement, it is Rand Paul that is on the ground raising real dollars that look as though they will soon translate into real votes."
I'm not a big fan of Sarah Palin precisely because I don't know what she stands for and am not sure she does either. Regardless, I do recognize a certain value in her popularity and in many ways Palin is perfect, at least symbolically, for this moment in the tea party movement.
But the tea partiers cannot simply stop with Palin. They have to keep evolving. Unlike Palin, I'm a fan of Rand Paul precisely because I have a confident grasp of what he stands for, much of it to do with his father. While Rand is his own man, it is still safe to say that the Paul political lineage is based on tangible conservative principle and not mere personality. Such serious conservative principle can be, and eventually must be, the guiding force for any tea parties worth having. And any future political force based on a genuine desire for limited government coupled with an unrelenting distaste for both the Republican and Democratic establishments could finally be the popular movement serious conservatives have been waiting for.


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The Butler Homeless Initiative (BHI) met for their regular meeting Thursday night March 14.
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The Butler Homeless Initiative (BHI) met for their regular meeting Thursday night March 14. They invited both mayoral candidates, John Grange and Mike Fagg, to attend the meeting, to learn more about the project and the accomplishments of the initiative. BHI board members, guests, and several local social service agency partners shared local statistics about the homeless population in El Dorado and Butler County. Both Candidates were given a copy of the preliminary management plan for the proposed transitional home. BHI found both candidates to be candid and very open to discussion. They encourage anyone to call them with questions. The BHI board would like to thank both John Grange and Mike Fagg for their attendance and willingness to share in the service of the homeless in our community. Butler Homeless Initiative and the mayoral candidates urge to community to vote on election day or by absentee ballot. For more information about BHI and the proposed transitional home you may contact us at 316-321-1454 or attend our meetings on the second Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held at the Presbyterian Church at 400 W. Central in El Dorado at 6:30 p.m.
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Here's the story about the one that did not get away. Edinburgh angler Jim Reid was named winner of the Savills Malloch Trophy yesterday, awarded for landing the largest salmon caught on the fly this yuear in Scottish waters and then safely returned.
Mr Reid landed the colossal fish, estimated to weigh close to 50lb, while fishing in the River Tweed. It is one the biggest salmon caught using rod and line in recent years.
Measuring more than 4ft in length and with a girth of 25in, it took Mr Reid 40 minutes to reel the fish in under the guidance of local ghillie Ian Farr.
The UK record, set on the River Tay in 1922, weighed more than 60lb.


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Greece bankruptcy averted with new deal
Critics say deal 'condemns Greek society to a slow death'
Greece has avoided imminent bankruptcy after its international creditors finally agreed to give it the money it urgently needs but the cash-strapped country's economic distress is likely to drag on for years to come.
After three weeks of negotiations, Greece's euro partners and the International Monetary Fund agreed to release vital loan payments totaling $56.8 billion Cdn and introduce a series of measures designed to reduce the country's massive debts to a more manageable level within a decade. These include reducing the interest rates Greece has to pay on the loans and a bond buyback program.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras hailed the agreement in Brussels early Tuesday as a victory that heralds "a new day for all Greeks," but the reaction in the markets was a bit more cautious.
Most stock markets in Europe were modestly higher. The Stoxx 50 index of leading European shares was up 0.4 per cent, but the main stock index in Athens fell 1.4 per cent as investors had hoped for some more debt relief for the country. The euro also gave up earlier gains to trade 0.4 per cent lower at $1.2947.
"There remains the potential for this deal to fall apart in the medium term as there are a lot of moving parts and it is a long way away from the permanent fix that the IMF had been insisting upon," said Gary Jenkins, managing director of Swordfish Research. "Instead it is just one more big kick of the can down the road."
Unemployment at 25 per cent
For three years, Greece has been struggling to convince markets as well as its creditors that it can get a grip on its public finances, which spiralled out of control. The country is predicted to enter its sixth year of recession and is weighed down by an unemployment rate of 25 per cent.
The so-called troika of the European Central Bank, IMF and the European Commission has twice agreed to bail out Greece, pledging a total of $309.6 billion in rescue loans — of which the country has received about $193.5 billion so far. In return for its bailout loans, Greece has had to impose several rounds of austerity measures and submit its economy to scrutiny.
Without the bailout money, the country would be staring bankruptcy in the face together with a possible exit from the 17-country eurozone, with potentially chaotic repercussions for the world economy.
The meeting agreed to release $44.4 billion in loans to Greece in December, with the remainder issued in three installments in the first quarter of 2013. The money will be used to help recapitalize Greece's struggling banking industry and pay back suppliers.
Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said the deal was "very important for it keeps Greece in the euro, offers it a significant opportunity to exit the vicious cycle of recession and over-indebtedness, and contributes to its debt reduction."
But opposition leader Alexis Tsipras, whose Radical Left Coalition wants Greece to scrap its bailout commitments, accused the conservative-led governing coalition of failing to defend the country's interests.
"The solution does not include a viable program for Greece, therefore it is no solution," he said. "(It follows) successive failures of a program that has destroyed our society and meets none of the targets it sets."
Third time's a charm
The meeting in Brussels was the third time in the last two weeks that finance ministers from the 17 European Union countries that use the euro had tried to hammer out a deal on the next installment of bailout money for struggling Greece.
The main aim of the bailout program is to right Greece's economy and get it to a point where it can independently raise money on the debt markets. It has been clear for months that the country is far from achieving that goal. The talks have centred on trying to get Greece back on the path to sustainability by reducing the country's debt load.
Tuesday's meeting reached an agreement where Greece's debt level would be reduced from the 190 per cent of its economic output predicted for 2013 — some $262 billion — to 124 percent by 2020 and below 110 percent by 2022. The IMF had originally insisted on a debt-to-GDP ratio of 120 percent by 2020.
To reach this level, the meeting agreed on a raft of measures. These included:
- A cut of 100 basis points on the interest rate charged to Greece by other eurozone member states — excluding those that are also receiving bailouts.
- A 15-year extension of the maturities of loans from other countries and the eurozone's bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, and a deferral of interest payments by Greece on EFSF loans by 10 years.
- A program whereby Greece could buy back some of its debt from private investors. The details of this program are still to be agreed by the eurogroup and IMF.
The deal still requires the authorization of a number of Parliaments in Europe, including Germany's, where patience with repeated Greek rescues has been running low.
However, Rainer Bruederle, the caucus leader of the Free Democrats, the junior coalition partner, said he expects broad approval this time on Thursday.
"Conditions have been put together which maintain a tough mechanism toward Greece, but still save us from a collapse of the Greek economy possibly having consequences that could pull down the whole of Europe," he said.
Greek newspapers were divided on whether the agreement would give the country breathing space to right its economy, or keep it trapped in years of recession and austerity.
The broad-circulation Ta Nea daily argued in an editorial that the deal affords Greece "a last chance" to escape the crisis.
The left-wing Efimerida ton Syntakton carried the headline "A poisonous (loan) installment," arguing that the agreement "condemns Greek society to a slow death."


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The No. 3 seed at 113 pounds at the Tri-City Athletic League tournament fell behind West's Jeff Sapiandante 4-0, rallied to take a 6-4 lead with 33 seconds remaining, then pinned Sapiandante to win the league championship. His win also helped the Tigers, who beat runner-up West by more than 100 points (268-165), earn the TCAL overall championship for the first time since 2006.
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Won the Dave Mendoza Outstanding Wrestler Award (top senior) at the San Joaquin Athletic Association tournament after winning the 172-pound division with a 6-1 victory over Bear Creek's Pablo Moreno.
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The 160-pounder won an individual championship at the Mother Lode League tournament for the third time and helped the Redskins win their seventh consecutive team crown.
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The Trojans' leading scorer this season finished with 17 points in a 73-30 win over Lodi that capped Lincoln's fifth consecutive 10-0 SJAA season.
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After nearly posting a triple-double against McNair with 12 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, she scored 23 points in a 91-22 win over Sacramento-St. Francis.
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Trailing 4-1, Pearlman pinned Oakdale's Eric Berrigan in the heavyweight finals of the Valley Oak League tournament to win the championship and hand the Mustangs their only finals loss (11-1).
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The sophomore guard scored 16 points in a 49-39 win over Lathrop that secured the third-year program's second consecutive Sac-Joaquin Section playoff berth.
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If this were a sporting event, the moral of the story of the Economic Opportunity Act would be "that's why they play the game."
The bill — a revamp and consolidation of the state's business and job-creation incentives — has been the subject of close speculation and endless negotiation for the past several months. Thursday appeared to be the day of reckoning for the bill, as the state Senate passed an amended version of the bill and sent it to the Assembly for concurrence.
Instead, the Assembly added its own amendments before passing the bill last night, meaning it will need another Senate vote before it goes to Gov. Chris Christie's desk.
Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-Union) said he doesn't expect the latest delay to last too long.
"I expect that the Senate will give final approval on July 8," he said.
Christie already has said he'll sign the bill.
Still, the latest delay confirmed the fears of many in the business community, who had hoped to see the bill passed earlier in the spring before it got sidelined by budget negotiations.
Instead, the bill became the subject of numerous last-minute meetings and discussions, ultimately pushing it into the summer break.
David Brogan, first vice president of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association, said while he had hoped for quicker passage, he understands why the bill is taking so long.
"It's a very difficult and highly technical bill, so something of this nature is not going to simply go through without any issues," he said.
Lesniak said he doesn't expect the latest delay to have much of a material impact on projects that would seek to take advantage of the incentives in the bill.
"These projects, for the most part, don't have a drop-dead date," he said. "Obviously if it goes on for too long, people will start looking elsewhere, but as long as there's light at the end of the tunnel, I don't expect that any delay of this nature will have any impact."
Brogan said he agrees with Lesniak, but added "we also have to consider the opportunity cost for any delay," saying as long as the program isn't in place, there's a potential for the state to lose out.
Brogan said he's hopeful the bill will cross the finish line during the week of July 8. He said doing so is in line with Senate President Stephen Sweeney's (D-West Deptford) stated goal of creating jobs.
"This is a great way to do that," he said. "If you're going to focus on jobs, then we should be getting this bill passed and signed."
Reporter Jared Kaltwasser is @JaredKaltwasser on Twitter.


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Abbott Properties cited as top commercial broker
Abbott Properties of Warwick has been named a 2011 CoStar Power Broker by CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP), commercial real estate's leading independent research firm. This annual award recognizes distinguished professionals in commercial real estate brokerage by highlighting the achievements of the U.S. firms and individual brokers who closed the highest transaction volumes in commercial property sales or leases for the entire year of 2011 in their respective markets.
As the largest professional research organization serving the commercial real estate industry, CoStar is uniquely positioned to identify the top firms and brokers in each market throughout the U.S. All awards are based on transaction data maintained in CoStar's commercial real estate database, which is the largest independently researched database of commercial real estate property information available online.
Abbott qualified as one of the top commercial brokers in Providence/Warwick based on the total leasing/sale transactions they closed during the year.
Abbott's significant lease transaction that closed in 2011 was 26,500 square feet of office space to Care New England (CNE) in Warwick located at 171 Service Place. The company also executed leases for Hampton/Wilbea Medical Equipment, Pomeranz/Safelite, Merriam/NE Airnail LLC, Pariseault Event Resource Group, Budlou/Cox Communications, Bogosian/ATL-American Tower, 123 Association, LLC First Bristol/Washington Trust.
"Considering the difficulties in the economy, we had a pretty good year," says broker/owner Don Morash.
"CoStar Group is very proud to acknowledge the outstanding brokers who performed at the industry's highest level to achieve remarkable sales and leasing success in 2011," CoStar Group founder and CEO Andrew C. Florance said in a statement. "These top performers truly represent the best of the best in commercial real estate, and they deserve to be recognized for their proven deal-making abilities. We congratulate Abbott Properties on their impressive professional accomplishment."
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First I want to really work on my source citations within my genealogy program. Using Tom as my subject gives me many different types of documents to use. I feel that once I've gotten every piece of data I have for Tom properly documented and cited, I'll have a better understanding of how to handle a wide range of sources. This goal is related as much to better understanding and utilizing my software as it is to source citations.
Second, because I have so much information on Tom it will allow me to work on my overall organizational strategy as well. I'm going to think of it as a mini-project. If I can get all the pictures and documents, both digital and paper, in a form that makes sense then I'll be in good shape for working on those ancestors where I have much less to go on.
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By having these two goals in front of me - and ONLY these two – I should be able to overcome some of the debilitating effects of that disorder I have – GADD. I've written about it before and it still haunts me ;-) In addition, having a very narrow scope will allow me to use what little time I have without being overwhelmed just trying to decide where to start.
Up next, what I know and don't know about Gertrude and a few wild-eyed theories as well. I hope some of you out there will stop by to poke holes in my theories or offer some words of wisdom or both!


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My Sunday print column, expanded and updated:
The voters of trend-setting California may well decide this November to legalize marijuana – there's a serious ballot referendum, and 56 percent of Californians say they support the idea – and no doubt this would be great news for the munchie industry, the bootleggers of Grateful Dead music, and the millions of respectable tax-paying tokers who have long yearned for an era of reefer gladness.
Seriously, this is a story about how desperate times require desperate measures. Legalization advocates, including many ex-cops and ex-prosecutors, have long contended that it's nuts to keep criminalizing otherwise law-abiding citizens while wasting $8 billion a year in law-enforcement costs. That argument has never worked. But the new argument, cleverly synched to the recession mindset, may well herald a new chapter in the history of pot prohibition.
It's simple, really: State governments awash in red ink can solve some of their revenue woes by legalizing marijuana for adults and slapping it with a sin tax.
So much of the marijuana debate used to be about morality; now it's mostly about economics and practicality – which is why New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island are also floating measures to legalize and tax; why similar voter referenda are in the works in Washington state and Oregon; why 14 states - including, most recently, New Jersey - have legalized medical marijuana, and why even Pennsylvania, hardly known as a haven for innovation, is currently weighing the sanction of medical pot, complete with six percent sales tax. (Meanwhile, the city of Philadelphia, with an OK from the state Supreme Court, is reportedly preparing to decriminalize the possession of weed for personal use, as early as next month, in order to sweep 3,000 annual criminal cases out of the clogged city courts. Under the new rules, city cops could still bust a casual toker, but the toker would only pay a fine.)
California, however, is the likeliest lab for a legal toke tax, given its dire financial straits and the fact that marijuana is the state's top cash crop, racking up an estimated $14 billion in annual sales – twice as much as the number-two agricultural commodity, milk and cream. The fiscal wizards at the State Board of Equalization say that pot could put $1.4 billion a year into the depleted California coffers, which helps explain why 56 percent of Californianians like the legalization option, and find it preferable to the ongoing layoffs of teachers and other public servants.
Indeed, marijuana is reportedly the top cash crop in a dozen states, and one of the top five in 39 states – valued annually at anywhere from $36 billion to $100 billion. That's a lot of money left on the table for the black market – what the economists refer to as "deadweight losses." In fact, five years ago, a Harvard economist concluded in a report that legal weed nationwide would yield at least $6 billion in revenue if it was sin-taxed at rates comparable to alcohol and tobacco.
Actually, I doubt that most stoners see themselves as sinners – what's immoral about seeing Avatar three times, or rooting for The Dude in The Big Lewbowski, or strip-mining a tray of brownies, or punctuating the conversation with lines like, "I'm sorry, what was I just talking about?" – but most would probably be willing to pay a sin tax in exchange for the opportunity to imbibe, hassle-free, with no fear that they might join the 765,000 Americans who were reportedly busted last year for possession.
Pot-smokers have long been bugged by the stigma. When I covered a marijuana reform convention in Washington way back in 1977, a delegate from Illinois named Paul Kuhn spoke for many when he complained to me, "You can get rip-roaring, toilet-hugging, puking drunk in public, and that's OK. But if you pass a joint in public to a friend, you're a pusher."
But even the reformers of '77 shied away from legalization; they said it was "naïve" to believe that Americans would ever buy the idea. Today's generation is shrewder; the word legalization doesn't even appear in the California ballot proposal. The well-organized proponents, including a retired superior court judge who got fed up with handling pot cases, are calling it the "Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act," and the first TV ad features an ex-cop talking about how a legal sin tax would replenish city and county budgets, and free up law-enforcement expenses for real crime.
There is serious strategist muscle on the legalization side - notably Chris Lehane, a former Clinton/Gore communications aide, and several other veterans of statewide California campaigns - and the ballot proposal itself is carefully crafted for the swing voter. It would legalize pot only for those over 21, and it would retain the current ban against driving stoned. It would also permit each individual county to decide whether it wants to regulate and tax weed - or to opt out entirely (just as we already have many "dry" towns that ban booze sales.)
Frankly, California and other cash-strapped states dn't have a whole lot of sin tax options. Cigarettes and booze are already taxed to the max, and (as Philadelphia is currently discovering) any attempts to slap special levies on sugared water are fiercely resisted by soda companies that fear any curbs on their freedom to rot kids' teeth. By contrast, stoners crave the respectability of being taxed; the fiercest tax opponents are probably the Mexican drug cartels, which would lose market share just as the mob lost out on liquor when Prohibition ended in '33.
Granted, nobody quite knows whether or how the California pot plan would fly in practice. Pot use would still be illegal under federal law – the current director of the National Drug Control Policy has said that "legalization is not in the president's vocabulary" – and the U.S. Constitution decrees that federal law trumps state law. On the other hand, the Obama team has stated that it has no interest in hassling the medical-marijuana states, even though their laws conflict with the federal ban.
The big question, really, is how such a sin tax would be structured. Would all sellers be licensed? Would it be a point-of-sale excise tax, on top of the sales tax?
It's worth pondering, because some state is bound to take the plunge at some point, even if California's voters ultimately balk in November – which certainly could happen because, favorable pot polls notwithstanding, conservatives riled up by health reform seem most energized to turn out in disproportionate numbers this year. And reefer foes, who have yet to organize or raise money, will undoubtedly contend that legalization would make it easier for kids to get the drug. (James Gray, a retired superior court judge in Orange County and a legalization proponent, says in response that, under the status quo, kids have a far easier time getting weed than alcohol, precisely because the latter is regulated. As he told Time magazine last year, referring to pot's illegality, "we couldn't make this drug any more available if we tried.")
The bottom line is that public support for legalizing the crop has been building incrementally for a very long time. Gallup found only 12 percent of Americans in favor back in 1969, but 31 percent said yes in 2000, 36 percent said yes in 2005, and 44 percent said yes in 2009. The economic crisis has put wind behind the sentiment, and it seems inevitable that there will come a day – if not in November, then perhaps in the next major recession – when a presidential candidate will find it perfectly politic to speechify about the audacity of dope.


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It should be noted that all the causes of regurgitation mentioned here can also lead to vomiting. The mechanics are different but the cause is often the same. That's not to say that only these things can lead to regurgitation (or vomiting for that matter), but that these are some well known causes in snakes.How to prevent regurgitation
Sometimes despite your best efforts you will find yourself needing to treat a snake which is regurgitating its meals. Clearly it doesn't take a scientist to realize that if a snake is vomiting it is not getting its nutritional needs met. In cases where a snake is regurigtating repeatedly you will need to worry not just about the causes, but also worry about what the snake needs for proper care.How to treat a snake that has regurgitated a meal
Next give the snake an opportunity to rest. Don't handle it or bother it for several days. Don't shove more food into the snake's face either. Just let it rest. In fact if your living situation allows for it I suggest setting up a small closet, or room where no one will go in and out of. Put your snake in there to give it even more peace and quiet.
When you do offer it another meal (try to wait about 2 weeks after your snake regurgitates before trying again) it will need to be about 1/4 to 1/2 the size it normally would be. This is especially true of snakes that have vomited, but I use the same principle with snakes that have regurgitated and had great results.
If necessary seek a professional assessment of the situation from a veterinarian. Better to spend $50, $70, $100 on a quick checkup and consultation than to spend ten or twenty times that when the snake has been pushed to the brink.
Snake regurgitation is no small matter and should always be treated with great respect. It can easily move into the realm of becoming a killer if not dealt with accordingly. Never just ignore it and think it will magically fix itself. It is an indication that something is wrong in paradise.
The final piece of advice this article can give is to contact a vet if your snake regurgitates. They may or may not want to see you, but there's a reason that they are paid professionals who deal with animals and "you're" not.
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Behind the Scenes at Rhythms of the Night
If It Looks That Easy, It Probably Isn't!
An accomplished pianist plays Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 as if it were the melody line of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, and a gifted chef prepares a perfect Grand Marnier soufflé as easily as you or I would take the lid off a container of ice cream and scoop some into a dish. But what we don't see when we marvel at the final products of these masters is the hundreds or thousands of hours of practice, revision, training and planning that bring them to such polished levels that they make their art look easy. So it is with Vallarta Adventures' Rhythms of the Night.
Night after night, up to 500 guests take the one-hour boat ride to the exotic coastal setting of Caletas to experience this magnificent event. Since its inception in 1996, it quickly became and still remains one of the most popular tours in the Banderas Bay area for guests of all ages. According to Vallarta Adventures' Isabel Spénard, "This experience is a mix of culture, mysticism and art, and is not just for couples. It's a beautiful place to share a magical moment with family, friends or that special someone."
We're going to take you on a behind the scenes tour of the things you'll never see at Caletas, since care is taken to ensure that, from the moment you arrive, you enjoy the polished final product, minus signs of the preparation process.
7:00 am: Crew arrives to load the boat with supplies in Vallarta and get it ready for guests.
8:00 am: Ten and a half hours before the first boatful of visitors step onto the dock for Rhythms of the Night, the supplies arrive at Caletas and are taken to the proper areas for production. Preliminary preparation of salads, dressings and desserts begins and continues throughout the day, while the hot food is freshly cooked just prior to serving. Approximately 170 employees over two shifts participate in all facets of food production for the daytime and evening excursions.
9:00 am: The dancers begin their three-hour daily training session in downtown Puerto Vallarta, taking classes in ballet and contemporary dance.
3:30 pm: Enriqueta begins her five-hour shift of cooking fresh handmade tortillas on a traditional cast-iron comal that can hold 10 tortillas at a time. She forms, hand flips and cooks hundreds of tortillas each day, without ever burning her fingers, to ensure plenty of hot and delicious tortillas for dinner.
4:00 pm: As the guests from the Caletas Day Trip are boarding the boats back to Vallarta, the staff walks behind them, picking up trash, empty water bottles, beach chairs and any other items to help restore this special place to as natural an environment as possible. If there has been a heavy afternoon rain, any gouges in the pathways are filled with sand to ensure a level walking surface for guests arriving in the evening. The outdoor grills are lit.
5:00 pm: Bar and table set up begins. They even wash the limes before they are cut for beverages to ensure that drinks are served in the most sanitary of conditions! And since Vallarta Adventures uses cloth napkins instead of paper to help the environment, at least 450 napkins are folded for dinner. Tables are set in the 12 restaurants and along the shore, and the bars need to be restocked with reusable glasses and other supplies. Organization is an absolute necessity, since approximately 1600 beverages are prepared and served nightly by the eight talented members of the bar staff.
Each Person Is an Intricate Piece of the Puzzle!
Would you believe that it takes the combined talents of over 100 people each day to orchestrate this excursion? Dedicated employees, such as the chef pictured with some of his enthusiastic assistants, are one of the keys to making the dining portion of this experience an adventure in gastronomic delights.
5:20: Things are really "cooking" in the kitchens by this time, with hot food production getting into high gear.
5:30: Cold food is carried from the kitchens to storage areas near the buffet stations.
5:40: The grills are checked to verify the coals have reached the perfect temperature. All areas are inspected to ensure the final preparations have been completed.
6:15: The performers arrive in their dressing room. Props are checked and outdoor preparations are made, such as pouring the mixture of gas and alcohol on the steps of the pyramid backdrop of the stage for the fiery finale of the show.
7:15: Musicians wearing body paint and full costumes take their places on the pathways near the dock to be ready to greet the guests. Candles and torches are lit in the open-air restaurants, on the seaside tables and along pathways. During high season, there can be upwards of 1200 candles and 100 torches, so it takes about eight people to light them all. Put this grand scale of romantic flickering lighting into perspective by realizing that there are as many candle lighters as there are bar staff!
7:30: As the first boat arrives, the sound of a conch shell over rhythmic drumming sets an exotic mood along the torch-lit pathways. Guests are escorted to their seating areas, and the buffet is ready to go. The dancers are warming up backstage and adding final touches to their makeup.
8:15: After a delicious dinner, including "to die for" desserts, guests make their way along torch-lit pathways to the outdoor theater, unaware that other guests have unobtrusively gotten off subsequent boats in time for the show. (These later arrivals enjoy the second seating for dinner after the finale.)
8:30: Rain or shine, the show goes on — and watching it in a downpour under the effective shelter of large umbrellas for two may add an even more mystical feeling. Nothing changes in the performance, and even the fire dancers continue in a blaze of glory. This upbeat show, which includes fire, singing, dancing, ancient indigenous traditions and even a 10-foot python, set on a large stage in the middle of the jungle needs to be experienced to grasp its magnitude fully.
9:00: The show is over with a flaming finale and, as the guests from the first boats make their way back toward the dock for their 10:30 return to town, the guests who have not yet eaten enjoy a late dinner by candlelight.
9:15: The party starts onboard with an open bar, entertainment by the crew and dancing along the way back to the drop-off points in Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Vallarta.
11:30: Clean up is finished about this time, and the last staff members depart from Caletas by midnight, leaving behind only the overnight security staff.
11:45: The final boatload of guests arrives in Vallarta, and crew members clean the boat until about midnight.


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What's that you say? You made a New Year's resolution but haven't kept it? You vowed to sharpen your programming skills, write a cool application, AND use cutting edge operating system technology? Look no further, you have come to the right place. This article will get you started writing applications for Haiku, the open source version of the advanced BeOS operating system.
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Which part? The micro-kernel part or the object oriented one?
Haiku, like BeOS, *is* an object oriented operating system.
Haiku, like BeOS, is *NOT* a micro-kernel operating system. It's a modular kernel.
So, please half-uncheck. or half-check, depends if you're a glass is half-empty or half-full guy ;-)


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Dove Creek wrestling is one of Colorado's best teams.
The Bulldogs are pretty good nationally, too.
Dove Creek finished ninth out of 48 teams at the prestigious Tournament of Champions. The two-day tourney was hosted by Uintah High School in Vernal, Utah, last Friday and Saturday.
"It's a pretty tough tournament. There were a couple nationally ranked teams there," said Bulldogs coach Shane Baughman. "We placed ninth out of 48 schools, we were pretty tickled to place top-10 in that tough of a tournament."
Baughman feels it was the toughest competition his team will face all year, which should bode well for state next month.
"There's nobody in Colorado that's ranked in the nation, as far as teams go. There were several nationally ranked kids at this tournament," Baughman said. "It helps prepare the kids (for state). I think it's good for them wrestling that tough competition. It may ease their minds at state."
Cole Baughman, 126 pounds, suffered his first loss of the season in the finals to finish 4-1 in the tourney. He lost by decision to a wrestler from Pleasant Grove (Utah).
"He didn't wrestle a good finals match. He went defensive instead of offensive," coach Baughman said about his son. "It will help him understand, he needs to go offensive and stay in his style."
The top-8 placed in their respective weight class.
Case Baughman and Chance Randolph were fourth at 113 and 120. Nick Jones, Tyler Ebberts and Tyson Smith placed eighth at 132, 138 and heavyweight.
"I felt like everybody on the team lost their last match that they could have won," Shane Baughman said. "We just got to finish better than what we've been doing."
Dove Creek will wrestle Friday and Saturday at the Page (Ariz.) Tourney.
"It's a new experience for us. We've never been there. I don't know what to except," Shane Baughman said. "I don't know if it will be the same caliber (as Vernal). I hope it is. We have a couple kids that are switching weights to get comfortable for (state in) Denver."
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"Polish Girl" - Neon Indian
Trust me: It just sounds like New Year's Eve after the ball has dropped. --Ernest Wilkins
"All My Friends" - LCD Soundsystem
Because, hopefully, you also are at a house party surrounded by all your good friends. --Sara Stewart
"Get Down" - P.O.S.
A standout track from the Minneapolis rapper's excellent new album "We Don't Even Live Here," "Get Down" will throw all cares aside. Commence bodies bumping, sometimes into each other. --MP
"Countdown" - Beyonce
If you just want to shake your tail and not think about it too hard, this is a fine choice for the holiday season. --Dana Moran
"1999" - Prince
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This old-school slow jam should be played as your party winds down. --EW
"It's The End of The World As We Know It" - R.E.M.
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As we all know as of now, Super Junior won over DBSK in Battle of Pops by acquiring 30000+ votes over 27000+ votes. But of course, every heated competition as this one has its share of rumors. and it's spreading all over blogs and other forums dedicated to both SUPER JUNIOR and DBSK.
Extension for the Deadline of Voting - others said that DBSK should have won already had the voting ended by the
deadline originally set by Channel [V] which was April 17, 2009. The casting of
votes was extended since the site 'crashed' obviously due to large number of
voters logged-on at the same time. Had the management stick to the original
deadline DBSK should have won already.
ELF Cheated - I couldn't find a good source explaining how in the world ELF cheated on the
said competition but the reason why others are saying this is because even
though the site was down and really, really, really hard to access votes for
Super Junior amazingly increased (they say rocketed) while DBSK votes
seem to be slow at increasing.
VIP is in connivance with ELF - they said that VIPs (Big Bangs Fanclub) was so angry that DBSK won over
Big Bang during the first so to 'get even' with the Cassies they had an alliance
with ELF and decided that they will also vote for SUPER JUNIOR just to be
sure that DBSK loses the battle.
So what do you think guys? Do you have anything to say? I didn't make this thread so that ELF will hate Cassies. Cassies are basically ELF and ELF are basically Cassies...no need to fight and bash over who wins who. I made this so that we SUPER JUNIOR fans can say what we have in mind about this whole thing. So again, no need to bash other fanbases. Be objective and if possible, don't name names. ^_^
teuki teuki eeteuk
as for my comment on these issues...
Rumor 1: Elf and Super Junior Fans could have done nothing with that decision. It is the decision of the management to extend the deadline and it really has nothing to do with any of us. To tell you honestly, I was really frustrated that the site was so damn hard to access during those critical times. And I was actually already losing hope (sorry!) that SJ will win because of this but then they decided to extend the deadline of course we're happy no need to doubt that. We were happy that we can still cast our votes for the guys nothing more. Had the competition ended by the original date and DBSK won, I would have been totally destroyed but sooner or later accept that DBSK and Cassies won over us once again.
Rumor 2: I don't know about cheating because I sure did had the hardest time logging-in to the registered accounts I made just so I could cast one vote. Call me a loser with no life but i did use 2 laptops and a desk top just so I could cast every vote that I can. I'm sure those who voted for SJ will feel a little hurt hearing this. I mean, we worked hard too. I'm sure we all did.
Rumor 3: This is what hurts me the most. Aren't ELF and Cassies family, brother and sisters? Did you ever think that we would ever betray each other and go against each other? Didn't we promise to go through everything together? To protect our guys together no matter what? You were there for us when we needed you and we were there for you when you needed us. No need for you to doubt us because ELF and Cassies are family just like how SUPER JUNIOR and DBSK are brothers. I'm sure that those who have not forgotten this were happy that SUPER JUNIOR won. Don't let those rumors and guys get in between us. Just help us win the next rounds.
teuki teuki eeteuk
I myself don't know about this issue, but it does make me curious a bit. I like both groups but when it comes to singing I like DBSK more since they really sing as a group and no one is left out. Somehow I think there's something fishy with the voting as well. I'm not being bias or anything. I wanted to vote to that Battle of the Pops but the first time I went there, I don't know how. The time when someone already sent me a direct link for registering to that site, I was ready to vote but the site was DOWN because of people registering countless times. Then they said DBSK is winning, that was a relief but I wanted to vote so I tried once more just to be disappointed because the site was down again. The next day I saw a comment on YouTube that their losing SuJu which alarmed me to check on the site again but to my surprise it's still down. Even I waited for a couple of minutes and visit it countless of times I can't get in. I'm starting to wonder how could SuJu quickly catch up with them when there's a problem connecting to the site. I don't know about the ELF or Cassies or whoever are responsible for this... but I wanted clarification for this matter like other people who are curious. ehehe ^^ Plus if people will tell me it's a matter of your networking that's one rubbish reason I could get. (sorry for the rudeness)
SInce DBSK and SuJu are brothers I don't actually mind that much but it doesn't give me any reason not to be curious or to doubt the result of the battle. Congratulations to SuJu though... eheh
bye to this acc. and to others [still waiting for some to accept the invite]
EH???? Cheated?? No way~ I had hard time accessing the site during those days.. Heck! I really want for suju to win so I was planning to make several accounts but then I can't access the site. I'm a CASSIE and an ELF. Yes. My avi is jaejoong oppa but i voted for suju coz i think its time for them to reign the Asia. I don't think Cassie's started those rumor though~ I think those who started those rumors are neither a Cassie nor an ELF. As for the site being down~ i think its US the Cassie's and ELF's fault. LOL!! We guys want to win DBSK over SuJU/SuJu over DBSK so we all went to the site just to vote. Imagine, if you combine the Cassie's and ELF's all over the world how many people would that be...??? It would be a miracle for a site NOT TO CRASH DOWN BECAUSE OF THAT. Come on guys~ its a friendly competition over the two~why paint it with those kinds of rumor???
p.s. I was so freaking EXCITED that time. LOL. Coz for the first time ever my most favorite groups DBSK and SuJu are up against each other.
saranghaeyo jaejoong oppa. xP
i vote for suju for this round. i love DBSK same as SUJU,but seriously , i did read about the alliance but then only one person suggested that they should vote those who against DBSK ....but one thing for sure ELF have nothing to do with it..
Let me remind here, only one person suggested that stupid ideas but we dun know whether VIP did that or not...so dun blame all VIP because we dun know that for sure...What ever it is congrat to all ^^ whether u r casssi,VIP or ELF...we did vote for our beloved idols..
here is the website to that blog...read tru' all the comments and u will find one person suggested that stupid idea,,,but i think some other people also found this idea on others blog...but i only knew this blog...
daesung my baby
i got mad that i couldn't get on the site to vote...i only votes like 3 times and later the site was down...i was sad. i thought that suju had lost because the last time that i had voted they were losing to dbsk.and i couldn't get on the site for the entire period that battle was going on and E.L.F. did not CHEAT! its obviously that everyone who voted, voted more then once..not like only. e.l.f. did that..but i'm just saying i'm positive that SUJU won fair and square
It's been so long since I've been here...I miss everyone!
lol hi ferusa! congratz for the new thread
aahhhh, yes...this battle do cause both fanclub to beat against each other..it saddened me a little coz they are brothers...but i do think itz time for SuJu to conquer Asia...they oredi felt hopeless n scared that they might lose our love since they are on hiatus for long time (almost 1 n half year without new album i mean)...n their latest album is GREAT!!!! they deserve this!!
i am both SuJu and DBSK fans but i made up my mind n vote for suju this time round coz they are the 1st + earliest korean boy group i fell in love with...they captured my heart with their sweetness (DONGHAE OPPA!), craziness (HEENIM!), dorkiness (EETEUK n EUNHYUK OPPA!), cuteness (KIBUMMIE, SUNGMIN OPPA!), superb voice (KYU, RYEOWOOK, YEHSUNG), gag (KANGIN!), sweet but very charismatic on stage (HANKYUNG OPPA), superb acting (SIWONNIE) and childish-like (SHINDONG!)
no matter how i much i love other group, i will alwizz come back to love SuJu..
no matter how much i love other group, SUPER JUNIOR will forever be the FIRST in my heart... :)
Dee ♥♥♥ BEAST too >.<
Do you guys think win SUJU fair and square?? Yesh, im happy that SUJU won. but is like .....
Is like one person, make several accounts just to vote SUJU.
It kinda show that SUJU is really hopeless and its also like nobody gonna vote for them...
Why make so much things up? i meant the Rumours here and rumours there..
Have u guys think that, those ppl making rumours here and there will hurt suju dbsk bigbang relationship?
p.s - i dont even know about the ELF or and fans club quarreling stuff.
and if the deadline were extended, those fans still can vote for dbsk ryte? why like wanna blame suju fans or whad because of the "rocket" vote??
im just here to write my point of view, no hard feelings....
^ it doesnt show that suju is hopeless. it just shows that elf is doing whatever they can to help suju win. it shows they are hardworking, & trying to bring victory to suju.
& do you think cassies arent doing that either? its just trying to help the band they love win. and whats wrong with doing that?
Hello,,,,,,,, DBSK has to admit that SuJu is more great when it comes to dancing.. hahahax..
Falling in love with Korea more and more!!
VIP did voted for suju after big bang lose ....
its the fact
its been so long since i hv not been using crunchyroll ...
uhh i don't know..
banned from anything anime-ish
cassies and elfs are family and they know to play fair as for vips they are also friends with cassies and elfs they support each other at times but i don't remember them ever having a fight
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TAMPA – The Bruins have come this far, so now they can't let the psychological warfare that's been staged against them since the start of the Eastern Conference Final by Tampa Bay head coach Guy Boucher get to them now that the series has turned into one winner-take-all showdown.
If Bruins head coach Claude Julien's postgame comments tonight after his team's 5-4 loss in Game 6 at the St. Pete Times were any indication, he might be letting his counterpart with the Sports Psychology degree play with his mind.
"What was more disappointing is probably the fact that, you know, I don't know if I agree with those calls," said Julien when asked about his team's 1-for-4 showing on the penalty kill that contributed to the Lightning forcing Game 7. "And hopefully what was said today didn't have any impact on that, because if it did, I'd be really disappointed."
When pressed some more on how he though Boucher's morning comments about the presence of referee Eric Furlatt would affect the game, Julien expanded:
"I thought we were very disciplined tonight. And again, it just seemed like it was one of those tough nights when you look back at some of those penalties, whether you're allowed to agree or disagree. I'm one of those guys tonight that probably disagreed on a lot of them.
"When you hear what happened today, I guess it certainly makes things look even worse. So referees have a tough job to do. One thing you don't want to do is criticize them. You're allowed to agree or disagree, but they've got a tough job to do. My job is not to criticize them. But it was something that was tough to swallow tonight."
During his morning media briefing, Boucher had been asked about Furlatt's supposed bias against the Lightning, who have been called for an inordinate number of penalties compared to opponents in the last four games Furlatt has worked. Boucher explained that he was "very, very aware of it" and how he hoped things "would be fair like everybody else." In the postgame presser, when asked about Julien's comments, Boucher slyly looked at the stat sheet in front of him and pointed out that the Bruins had five power plays to Tampa Bay's four.
"So I don't know who got the advantage today. We got less power plays than them," he said.
Well he knows who has the advantage because he wasn't the one bringing up his comments after the game. Julien went there without being led and then a Boston reporter, doing his due diligence, asked Boucher about Julien. The edge clearly goes to Boucher.
Where some coaches might've deflected a question about a specific official with a cliché about not wanting to think about anything but his team's play, Boucher slugged the softball out of the park and answered it head on with a response that clearly was meant to distract from any heat his team was feeling on home ice in an elimination game.
In the Bruins' dressing room, Patrice Bergeron talked about how the Lightning "were selling [the penalties] well." And Dennis Seidenberg, one of the culprits on a big penalty Tampa cashed in on, explained how he didn't cross check Adam Hall when the referee pegged him with the penalty.
Although Julien said he didn't talk to his team about Boucher's comments, they obviously had an impact on his minions' approach and their attitude about how the game was being played and called.
This isn't the first bit of gamesmanship Boucher has throw out during this series. He started before the series by waxing poetic about Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara and everything black and gold in attempt to butter up his opponent. As the series has unfolded he's played coy with his wording in response to questions about his goaltender (Dwayne Roloson was "preparing" to play and then didn't), Thomas had called the Lightning easy to play against (he didn't) and guaranteed a win (not even that close), and now the referee might be against us so he hoped "things would be fair."
Regardless of how Game 7 goes, no one will be able to accuse Boucher of not doing everything in his power to have every angle covered and give his team every advantage. While Julien might have the smooth, shiny head, it's Boucher who has the glare, scar and brainpower to turn a rag tag franchise into a Cup semifinalist and keep his team on track even when down 3-1 in a series against Pittsburgh or down 3-0 in a Game 4 against Boston.
The Bruins have done an exceptional job throughout this postseason of blocking out outside distractions. The circus-like atmosphere in Montreal, which was amped up 10 fold in the aftermath of the Zdeno Chara/Max Pacioretty collision, didn't send them off course. Starting out a series in the hostile environs of Philadelphia, with the ghosts of last season's collapse looming over them, barely slowed them down on their way to a sweep.
Now they've overcome the talent gap they have up front against Tampa Bay and got by without Bergeron when he was injured. They've reached Game 7 despite every attempt by Boucher to soften their resolve with a turn of phrase or praise.
To let Boucher's mind games get to them now would put everything they've worked for for eight months to waste. The temptation is huge, but they can't let anything by a Game 7 victory be first and foremost in their minds.
The Bruins have to keep their heads and keep their razor-sharp focus on hockey. Because if they're going to try to win the mental battle with Boucher, they'll lose.


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Police on Saturday arrested two men in connection with the robbery of a television reporter in which a security guard fired shots at the assailants.
Armani McFarland and John Woods, each 19 and from San Francisco, are charged with robbery and conspiracy, the department said.
Police say that incident occurred about 8 p.m. Friday in a high-crime neighborhood of the city. Police say that a person walked into San Francisco General Hospital a short-time later with gunshot wounds. Police said one of the suspects was treated for a "non-life threatening" gunshot wound, but didn't identify the man.
KRON4 reported on its website (http://tinyurl.com/kmbl9x5) that reporter Jeff Bush handed over his equipment after he and the station's security guard were accosted by two armed men. Bush then took cover and the security guard opened fired on the two men. Bush and the security guard were unharmed.
The holdup is the latest in a spate of robberies of San Francisco Bay Area news crews.
Information from: KRON-TV.


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It's that time of the year again where you notice the telltale signs of the seasons changing:
The geese have flown North and the bears have abandoned their hibernation as they sense that things are starting to get a bit more exciting. The lifts are turning and the chairs are starting to get occupied.
The hazy spring fog has burnt off to reveal the long bluebird summer days. The snow is no longer falling, but on the glaciers there are stockpiles large enough to get us through until next winter. Flowers have blossomed, lakes have thawed, and Mother Nature is ready to embrace a massive gang of smelly adolescent snowboarder punks.
Pro snowboarders, hungry rookies and eager campers have all migrated to Whistler, British Columbia. Camp of Champions is now in session for 2012. They just finished the first week, known as Stepchild week. JP Walker, Simon Chamberland and Joe Sexton, were up shredding and hanging with campers all week.
With three more sessions to go, it's never to late to sign up. Check the site here for more information http://campofchampions.com/


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(n) Chicks that have sex with hockey players because they think its cool.
(v) Yeah, after the party I'm going to fuckpuck these blond chicks that were staring at me the whole game.
(n) Tell those fuckpucks to close their mouth.
(n) Tell those fuckpucks to close their mouth.
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A puck fuck is a chick who only fucks hockey players.
by puckfuck June 17, 2005
The act of foreplay during the hockey pre-game, oral first intermission , intercourse in second intermission; if overtime is needed doggie style for both parties can watch. At end of game it's a smoke and a beer.
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It seems to me the scene is either "Slowing down" or evolving. Newer handhelds are on the horizon (besides just PSVite) and I believe nintendo will continue releasing new handhelds. So my first question is; will ScummVM continue to progress/update within the DSi scene as the 3DS becomes more popular for homebrew??
I used to own a DSLite and now I have the DSiXL so, I really miss the GBA Slot-2 that is such a big loss considering my SupercardDSTwo runs GoldenSun2 a bit choppy. Anyway will we ever see support for the SupercardDSTwo to run Full Throttle without Slot-2 as the SCDS2 has extra RAM built in?? I have asked this same question earlier this year and was told it was being looked into, is DSi no longer popular?? is it too late?
And my last question is a big big suggestion that I know nobody but me cares about ive posted this before but I would seriously pay/donate if somebody could add a feature for me. I would like to see a "auto-scroll" function added for when zooming in on the touch screen. It is currently possible to designate both the top and bottom screens to a "specific aspect ratio" but in my personal prefrence I think it looks best (and is easier on the eyes) to have the top screen "fit" and the bottom screen zoomed in.
I know its confusing but i have posted these questions all before, if anybody could look into this PLEASE i think it would be a great "cosmetic" touch up, i think its cooler to be zoomed in where my hand is, and look up to the full pic... if you dont know what i mean please click here http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=6050 just to clarify there is already a "auto-scroll" function that works great to "focus" in on the action of the character that is talking on the screen. But when zoomed in on the touch screen in order to manually scroll you hold L and use the d-pad. Cant it be press up on the d-pad to enter "scroll mode" and touch the screen wouldnt be "clicking"??
At least set L to toggle instead of needing to be held down
thanks for reading
Ditto on all that, a DSI compatible build would be much appreciated,
we'll just have to grin and bear it since there is no sign of Agentq for a long time.
Hey guys,
I'm not dead!
I haven't really done a whole lot of anything with ScummVM for a good few months now. I had a version of 1.3.0 which was ready for release except for my final round of testing which I aways do. I was working on it the day before getting married! There wasn't anything new from my side in there, but it would have meant I had kept pace with the changes from the other ports.
I also contacted the makers of the CycloDS iEvo who kindly sent me one, and I intend to look into the probems with that device and the sound glitching.
But so far I haven't had the time to do any of it. I think the problem is that my life just gets more and more busy each month, never less.
Still, one day I do hope to look at all these issues.
Thanks everyone for waiting!
Glad to hear that and congratulations, enjoy it
Thanks a lot for your time and all the updates,
Looking forward to future dev...
Hopefully in the near future some of the development team will work on it, but thanks anyway.
I'm the maintainer of Scummvm on the DS.
Actually, I did manage to find some time to work on Scummvm and solved many of the bugs with DSi touch screen and CycloDS compatibility.
I've also created a version for the DSi which runs Full Throttle and The Dig without a RAM pack. the performance is improved for all games too.
I was nearly done when a whole lot of 'real life' stuff distracted me again, but hopeful I'll get the chance to stick a download up on here so you can try it out over the next few weeks.
Neil (agentq)
Hi AgentQ,
I was wondering what became of the DSi-mode build? Over the past few months, have you found the time to continue work on the project?
-Another World
I would love to see the update if possible full throttle would be nice to have on my DSi again and also u say u fixed the touch screen issues? :O
In case you're interested, I've put up some test builds with DSi support here:


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Angels Camp, that easygoing Gold Rush city an hour up in the foothills - or, up in them thar hills - turns 100 this weekend.
Angels Camp, that easygoing Gold Rush city an hour up in the foothills - or, up in them thar hills - turns 100 this weekend.
To celebrate, Angels Camp is closing its Main Street on Saturday for a street fair, and throwing an all-weekend wingding. The occasion seemed to warrant a visit.
"It's got that hometown, country-town type of feel to it," Angels Camper Jim Turner, owner of Turner's Wild West clothes store, said. "It's just warm and homey and friendly. It's for real."
Ranchers shop at Turner's for Stetson cowboy hats, Wrangler jeans, silver belt buckles, and working gear such as the long oilcoats horsemen wear in harsh weather.
His store sits amid Angels Camp's historic Main Street. Down the street, which doubles as Highway 49, timber trucks barrel every 15 minutes or so, roaring between several blocks of 19th century buildings and raised sidewalks under wooden awnings.
A city of 3,441, Angels Camp is a mixture of longtime, multigenerational residents, urban transplants, shoppers from other Sierra villages and tourists.
To residents of even smaller Sierra Nevada villages, Angels Camp is the big city.
"I get my hair done here," said retiree Merilyn Bolei. "I've been with Connie (her hairdresser) for years."
Transplants include urbanites who traded away city life.
"I needed to slow down," said Skeez Nava, formerly of Oakland.
Nava opened a Main Street barbershop. "This whole town just welcomed me in," Nava said. "They're just generous, true people. Very wonderful people."
Still others find the Mother Lode healthier for kids.
"We wanted to get him out of Stockton and get him outdoors so he can run amongst the critters," Staci Santella said of her grade-school son, Dominic.
Dominic likes the stream and waterfall on the family spread.
"I go down there and catch sunfish," he bubbled. "My friend and I got carried away and had a moss fight. I came back to the house and my mom said, 'What happened to you?' "
"They were covered in moss," Santella said, amused. "Like they had a Ghillie suit on."
George Angel founded Angels Camp by opening a trading post in 1848. The city wasn't incorporated until 1912. The citizens were too busy digging gold.
The inescapable folklore is that Samuel Clemens rode down from his Jackass Flat cabin to Angel's Hotel and heard a story about a jumping frog contest. Mark Twain soon published his first story.
But Black Bart also passed through, and the bandit Joaquin Murietta. Local history records many lesser known but equally colorful characters.
One, a Danish strongman named Rasmus "Big Nels" Nielsen, tattooed his whole body, joined the circus and lifted 250-pound anvils with pierced nipples. Now, that's entertainment.
The city also boasts a good music scene, said City Administrator Michael McHatten.
"I came from the San Joaquin Valley, most recently from Fresno," McHatten said. "I can tell you, I think there's more night life with music and that kind of scene than there was in Fresno, a town of a half a million people."
Despite its arts and history, Angels Camp has a bit of an identity problem.
Though Main Street is decorated with frogs, people most associate frog jumping with Calaveras County. The Jumping Frog jubilee takes place annually at the county fairgrounds.
And Angels Camp has been upstaged by a town 10 miles uphill. Murphys transformed from a quaintly rundown Gold Rush village into a sophisticated wine and entertainment destination.
"I watched Murphys upscale entirely over the last 16 years from a sleepy, dark little town to a winery row," said Chrys Mollett, who moved her music store out of Murphys when her rent tripled.
Concerned Angels Camp was becoming a place people drove through, the city in 2008 hired consultants and rebranded as a base camp for mountain sports.
The city aims to capitalize on all the fun-seekers passing through on the way to go skiing, snowmobiling, rock climbing, caving, whitewater rafting, kayaking, boating, fishing, mountain biking, hiking, horseback riding, etc.
But many Angels Camp residents say they like the town just as it is: unpretentious, close-knit and proud of its traditions.
"People are real," said Mollett. "We're flowing with a lot of different changes, in the economy, in politics, whatever. And we work together nonetheless."
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Noted author and plant scientist Wes Jackson will speak on Thursday, November 13, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Auditorium of Clarkson University's downtown Snell Hall. His talk, titled "What Will the Ecosphere Require from Us?," is free and open to the public.
Jackson was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992 for his pioneering work in Natural Systems Agriculture and named by Smithsonian Magazine in 2005 as one of 35 people who have made a difference.
In describing his work in 2007, the editors of Scientific American said, "The challenge is monumental, but if these plant scientists succeed, their achievement would rival humanity's original domestication of food crops over the past 10 millennia, and be just as revolutionary."
Clarkson University awarded Jackson an honorary degree in 1999 for "his international leadership in developing the principles of ecological agriculture, and for his imaginative and exemplary work as a humanistic visionary in a technological field."
Jackson, president of The Land Institute, earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Kansas Wesleyan, a master's degree in botany from University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in genetics from North Carolina State University.
He established and served as chair of one of the country's first environmental studies programs at California State University-Sacramento and then returned to his native Kansas to found The Land Institute in 1976.
He is the author of several books, including New Roots for Agriculture, and Becoming Native to This Place, and is widely recognized as a leader in the international movement for a more sustainable agriculture. He was a 1990 Pew Conservation Scholar, in 1992 became a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2000 received the Right Livelihood Award (called the "alternative Nobel prize").
Jackson and Clarkson University Professor Bill Vitek have coedited two books, the Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge; and Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. They are currently writing a book together titled Consulting the Genius of the Place.
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Red Sox throttle Cardinals to win third World Series in 10 years
Crown the Red Sox, who won their first World Series title at home since 1918 and their third in the past 10 years. That long drought suddenly seems very, very far away. ...
BOSTON -- It was party time from the very beginning. From the signs on Newbury St. on a drizzly Wednesday morning ("Paint the Town Red Sox") to the horde of folks packing Yawkey Way outside Fenway Park by midafternoon (five hours before game time) to the Dropkick Murphys rocking the joint with their signature I'm Shipping Up to Boston right after the national anthem.
The Red Sox were shipping home for the final game -- or, at worst, two games -- of 2013. And what is incredibly striking about the modern-day Red Sox is how nearly every single thing they've touched since that rousing October comeback in 2004 against the Yankees has turned to gold. Everything this side of chicken, beer and Bobby Valentine, and you can bury those things in the same graveyard as the Curse of the Bambino was laid to rest. Start digging on Halloween. Perfect.
Crown them. Boston won its third World Series title in 10 years, blitzing the Cardinals 6-1 in a definitive Game 6 statement as the final pieces of another New England summer turned golden with the leaves. John Lackey was aces and World Series Most Valuable Player David Ortiz scored twice, representing the Old Guard, and Shane Victorino's three-run double against Michael Wacha in the third essentially broke this one open. Score first blood on this night for the New Guard.
What a decade to be a Red Sox fan. Even the big digs of last summer's 93-loss train wreck melted away in one perfect offseason for general manager Ben Cherington. Five of the seven free agents he signed last winter were in Wednesday's lineup: Victorino, Mike Napoli, Jonny Gomes, Stephen Drew and David Ross.
"We have a lot of players with heart," Ortiz said as Boston kicked into what surely was going to be an all-night party. "We probably don't have the talent that we had in '07 and '04, but we have guys that are capable to stay focused and do the little things. And when you win with a ballclub like that, that's special."
So charmed and skilled are these modern-day Red Sox that they won this title in Boston, something that they hadn't done in 95 years.
Last time they won a World Series in Fenway Park it was 1918, Babe Ruth was wearing the Red Sox flannels, World War I was wrapping up and -- true story -- in the decisive Game 6, they dispatched the score via carrier pigeons to the boys at Fort Devens, a major United States Army base at that time and some 50 miles from Boston (as the pigeon flies) near the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border.
"Every inning," said Dick Bresciani, the former Red Sox public relations director who now is vice-president of archives and history. "It might have even been every half-inning. From the old press box to Fort Devens."
No small part of the reason Lackey follows Carl Mays in the lineage of starting pitchers to win World Series clinch games at Fenway is because Cherington and club president Larry Lucchino were able to arrange last August's in-the-shadow-of-the-Green Monster deal with the Dodgers, sending Josh Beckett, Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford the way of the carrier pigeons in Boston.
With that savings of roughly $265 million, the Red Sox seeded their 2013 roster with seven players -- the aforementioned five, plus closer Koji Uehara and starting pitcher Ryan Dempster. No more than $39 million was committed to one player (Victorino), and the seven signed for a total of 12 years and $100.45 million.
The Sox also hired John Farrell away from Toronto to replace Valentine.
The moves completely changed the clubhouse chemistry, the look of the roster and and entire relationship between the team and the city. When September 2011 began, the Sox owned the best record in the majors. Then came the collapse that spawned a zillion chicken and beer jokes, followed by the lost summer of 2012.
"Once we got into the season, you don't know what the outcome is going to be, but you felt like this was a different group of people," Cherington said on the Fenway lawn following the trophy presentation, with the crowd at full roar and the love-in underway. "The way they were coming together, the way they were giving it up for each other, completely selfless.
"To have this many talented players be as selfless as they were, just a lot of fun to be around ... it'll probably sink in a few weeks from now."
Lackey, back from Tommy John surgery, reinvented himself. He dropped 25 pounds and totally reshaped his body and recommitted himself. And Ortiz, coming off of an injury-wrecked season (Achilles problems) in 2012, returned to form at 37.
Ortiz terrorized St. Louis pitching throughout this World Series whenever the Cardinals threw anything near the strike zone. He rounded up the Red Sox troops for a memorable dugout motivational speech in Game 4 in St. Louis. He reached base in an astounding 19 of 25 plate appearances in this World Series, completely changing the complexion of it.
He wound up batting .688 (11 for 16), with a 1.188 slugging percentage. The Cardinals are going to see Big Papi right there with their visions of sugar plums on Christmas Eve. He was the oven, they were the Thanksgiving birds. Wow.
"I take my hat off to him," Red Sox batting coach Greg Colbrunn said amid the champagne. "Especially the way he goes about his business, he's a great professional, he embraces this city and being a superstar.
"I've never seen anything like it."
Nobody has. Nobody with as many at-bats has ever produced a batting average and on-base percentage as high as Ortiz in World Series history. As a player, Colbrunn was on teams with Luis Gonzalez, Matt Williams, Steve Finley and Jay Bell (Diamondbacks), Gary Sheffield (Marlins) and Edgar Martinez and Ichiro Suzuki (Mariners) and, as the man said, still never saw anything like it.
"David's unbelievable," Colbrunn said.
As he sat at home in Maryland watching his old pupil train this World Series to sit, heel and play dead like a puppy, Terry Crowley, Ortiz's first major-league hitting coach with the Twins in 1997, was thinking back to those early days.
"He worked as hard as any player I ever had," said Crowley, the longtime hitting coach in Minnesota and Baltimore. "There were some discouraging days, some spots in the strike zone he had trouble with.
"I do some card tricks, and David loved card tricks. I'd tell him, 'David, go give me the best at-bat you can, and I'll show you a really good card trick.'"
Taking batting practice before Game 6 with a game face locked into off-the-charts focus, Ortiz smiled at the memory of then, and now.
"He had some great card tricks," Ortiz said.
Then he went back into the cage, a beast pawing at the gate with a world championship awaiting on the other side of his evening. This is a man who now produces magic without the aid of a deck of cards.
Outside Fenway, the Internet and StubHub had firmly replaced those carrier pigeons of 1918, with fans paying thousands for a box seat and even for standing-room only tickets.
The Red Sox scored three times in the third on Victorino's double and three more in the fourth on Drew's home run and singles from Napoli and Victorino. Their ambush of Wacha was quick, decisive and thorough.
"As the outs got less and less, as things got on our side for the better, whatever you were feeling, magnify that by 10, or whatever number you want," Victorino said. "To be standing out there [in the field]. ..."
The end of their season could not have been more fitting, completing the circle right back to the warm spring days in Fort Myers, Fla., at the beginning: After Ortiz carried the Sox to the brink, every Game 6 RBI came from one of the free agents the Red Sox added over the winter. And then Uehara arrived to close it out.
From the moment starter Jake Peavy arrived on Aug. 1 in the July deadline trade with the White Sox, he felt the bond that had developed. He heard over and over again how Dustin Pedroia told everyone this spring that the Red Sox could win, but it was "going to have to happen as a unit." There were both inward signs and, yes, outward symbols as well.
"I have a beard on my face I've never had, and I'm 32 years old," Peavy said.
Gomes and Jarrod Saltalamacchia were the first two greet him in the clubhouse when he arrived, and they both eagerly delivered the same message.
"Both of them, their first words spoken to me were, 'We're going to win the World Series,'" Peavy said. "Both of those guys, the first words out of their mouths.
"I believed."
All of them did. Through their turnaround from 93 losses last year to 97 wins this year. Through the division series against the Rays, the American League Championship Series against the Tigers and, finally, through the World Series against the Cardinals. Even when they fell behind 2 games to 1, come hell, high water or even obstruction calls.
And then, there was the city, the bombing the day of the Boston Marathon and the raw emotions that spilled out of that. And the ongoing, pure, unadulterated love for its baseball team. Especially this baseball team. The Beckett Gang finally did what few others in Red Sox history could do, and that was to turn off a large segment of the fan base where, like the old TV theme song goes, everybody knows their names.
"This city is so passionate," Ross said. "It is such a passionate group, and you don't want to let them down.
"When you're able to go this far, you don't want to let them down."
You bet the fans were a part of this.
"They share in it," Farrell said. "They deservedly share in it. Everything that we've gone through here in this city this year, it's fitting that not only are they here to witness it, but that John Lackey was on the mound, given all that he's been through as well."
No way was Lackey going to lose this game.
"I was pretty daggone determined," he said. "They were going to have to do something special tonight to beat me."
No way did these players want to let each other down.
"It's a hard group not to like," Ross said. "This is a fun group."
Crown them. It is a fitting achievement for a franchise at the top of its game, a fitting moment for a Big Papi at the summit of the mountain.
There's no telling what the people filling Fenway 95 years from now will say as they look back on Ortiz's incredible series, not even with the help of carrier pigeons or the World Wide Web.
"I sure as hell won't know," Farrell said, chuckling. "I won't be here. You know what? This organization's had a lot of success in the past eight, 10 years. And to share it with the people here, this is an incredible place to come play every single night.
"And thankfully we've been able to give something back to them."
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I never realized the amount of quick 5 min episodes (last i watched was...DiGi Character...like ten years ago almost). Do they just air between things?
EDIT: I made it through the Saobody Archipelago arc in One Piece.
Quote from: Mickeymac92 on February 04, 2013, 08:19:45 PMEDIT: I made it through the Saobody Archipelago arc in One Piece.Glad to know I'm not the only one watching that. :) I started with the first episode a few months back when I discovered that the TV channels at the hotel I stay at Sun-Thurs are terrible. I watched the latest episode last night - finally caught up with five hundred and eighty freaking three episodes. Now to just stay caught up (or at least close).Guess it's time to find a new show to watch...
Anyways, now that you've seen all that's available, what's your favorite arc so far?
Same here. I haven't really noticed anyone else here watching it, and I never really get to talk about it to anyone since I'm miles behind on it. Congratz on getting caught up, btw. I wish I could get through it that fast, but I lose steam after a month or two of marathoning, and then I gotta take long breaks, or at least take it slow. I figure I'll be caught up by this time next year, though.Anyways, now that you've seen all that's available, what's your favorite arc so far?
Finished No.6, wow, what a disappointing ending to a show I was enjoying. Almost done with Mushi-shi, awesome show, and just started Kokoro Connect, so far I am on the fence