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On Tuesday night, the feeling of girl power at Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier One was palpable. The occasion? The launch of Levi's new "Live in Levi's" ad campaign. Rather than throw the commonplace cocktail party, the denim brand opted to throw a free outdoor concert with Sleigh Bells and Haim. The gig was open to the public with one simple caveat: all attendees must wear Levi's. Judging by the massive line snaking around the pier, populated almost exclusively with backsides clad in the brand's signature Arcuate pocket stitching, the trade-off was a pretty sweet deal.
The Haim sisters — Este, Danielle and Alana — arrived in an array of denim, a mash-up of cutoffs, skinny jeans and jean jackets, managing to look perfectly coordinated without veering into Destiny's Child matchy-matchy territory. Still riding the success of their debut, "Days Are Gone," the sisters have been on the road all summer.
"This has been the summer of our life," said Este, sandwiched between her sisters in the band's trailer. "We've had so much fun. We did a U.S. run, then we went straight to Spain, which was unbelievable. And then it's been a lot of festivals — every weekend, and then some. It's like musician summer camp."
To date, the band's summer festival itinerary has included Primavera Sound, Glastonbury and Osheaga in Montreal, among others.
"Osheaga was amazing," Este continued. "It was nuts. They had this thing, which I'd never seen before, where they had bottles with the names of all the bands so you could put notes in the band's bottles. We got one that was like 'See you at Gelson's, which is around the corner from our house in the Valley. We were like, 'OK Osheaga, I see what you are doing there.' The food was also out of control."
"There was like…an oyster bar," added Danielle. "Usually, a festival has French fries and burgers."
In addition to dietary options, the festival circuit has inadvertently affected the band's wardrobe choices.
"Being onstage is about being comfortable and not feeling restricted," Este explained. "The minute you feel like, 'My strap is about to fall off and I'm going to have a Janet Jackson Super Bowl moment,' that's when you get in your head and mess up playing."
The sisters took a sartorial chance at Glastonbury, only to face a potential wardrobe disaster. "For Glastonbury, we wore all white," says Alana. "And it was so muddy. We didn't think that through.…We had to be very careful. Somehow only our boots got dirty, though." Added Este, "We were touched by angels, seriously."
Sleigh Bells' front woman, Alexis Krauss, herself no stranger to the festival scene, is more agitated by what festivalgoers aren't wearing. "I've seen way too much ass cleavage," she said. "Even if you have a great ass, just keep it in your shorts."
On stage, Krauss embodies the ultimate rock chick: jet-black hair flips, black leather, guttural wailing. In person, however, the singer is soft-spoken and unfailingly polite. "I love performing," she said. "I'm just so incredibly grateful that I get to do this for most nights of my life."


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Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast in the feature-film adaptation of the beloved musical. As an independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna (Streep) is about to let go of engaged daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried). For Sophie's wedding, the proud mother has invited her two lifelong best friends from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. Yet unbeknownst to Donna, Sophie has secretly invited a few guests of her own. Hoping to find the identity of her father so that he can walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna's past. Also starring Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski, Julie Walters, Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper.
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Modern Holiday Decorations
Thanksgiving is over and it's officially December, which means it's time for the holiday decorations to go up. Whether you're decorating inside or outside, it's important to express yourself in the decorations you choose. If you're a modernist with holiday cheer, you'll be looking for decorations that are a little less traditional than most.
Maybe your modern decorations will be as simple as faux reindeer antlers to hang your guests coats or maybe you'll build a mid-century modern gingerbread house. The sky is the limit and it's up to your personality and imagination!
Here are some of our favorite modern holiday decorations and ideas:
• Canadian House and Home
• 3 Modern Holiday Decorations at Rockett St. George
• Modern Gingerbread House
• David Stark for West Elm
• CB2 Angel Tree
What kind of modern holiday decorations do you use?
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TSA agent killed, 6 wounded in Los Angeles airport shooting
November 01. 2013 9:55PM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — A gunman opened fire with a rifle in a Los Angeles International airport terminal on Friday, killing a Transportation Security Administration agent and wounding at least six other people before he was shot and captured, authorities said.
The attack set off chaos, with passengers running, diving and hiding in the crowded terminal of the airport, one of the world's busiest, where Terminal 3 was quickly evacuated. Departing flights were halted, arriving planes were diverted, and streets surrounding the airport were shut down.
"An individual came into Terminal 3 of this airport, pulled an assault rifle out of a bag and began to open fire in the terminal," Patrick Gannon, chief of the Los Angeles Airport Police, said at a news conference.
Gannon said the gunman, who appeared to be acting alone, made his way past the screening gates and well into the secured area before law enforcement officers shot him and took him into custody. His condition was not immediately clear.
Authorities did not name the suspect, but California U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, a member of the House Homeland Security committee, during an interview on CNN identified him as 23-year-old Paul Ciancia, a Los Angeles area resident. Sanchez said she had been briefed by authorities on details of the attack.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said that multiple agents had been shot, one fatally. The agency did not identify the slain agent.
A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner said it was handling one person who was killed in the shooting, a man approximately 40 years old who was not identified by name. It was not immediately clear if that person was the TSA agent.
A Los Angeles fire department spokesman said seven people were wounded in the shooting and that six of them had been taken to area hospitals.
Three male victims hurt in the incident were taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, where one was listed in critical condition and two others in fair condition, said Mark Wheeler, a spokesman for the hospital.
The condition of the other victims or the gunman was not immediately clear.
'Shooting randomly'
Witness Alex Neumann, meanwhile, told cable network CNN that he was in an area inside the airport past a security checkpoint when he heard loud noises and screaming and saw people running.
"We were at the food court and all of a sudden I hear a big commotion and people started running. People were running and people getting knocked down," Neumann said, adding that he heard screams. "Mayhem is the best way of describing it."
Television images showed at least one person being loaded into one of several ambulances, and passengers were seen being evacuated. Footage showed emergency responders setting up what appeared to be a triage area outside an airport terminal.
"Other than arriving flights, flight operations have been temporary held," airport spokesman Katherine Alvarado said in an emailed statement.
President Obama was briefed on the incident and White House officials are in touch with law enforcement officials on the ground, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.
Los Angeles International Airport is the world's sixth busiest, handling 63,688,121 passengers in 2012, according to its official website.


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Big Mean Carl is a shaggy monster who continued the proud tradition of Muppet characters with voracious appetites.
Although Carl made his first appearance in the 1992 Muppet Meeting Film "Think Bigger", in which he was called Chairman Budget and performed by Dave Goelz, he is best known for his role on Muppets Tonight, where he received the name Carl and his new performer, Bill Barretta.
On Muppets Tonight, Carl's stage name would change slightly from appearance to appearance, always starting with "Carl the Big Mean" but usually ending with a different appellation depending on what kind of act he was performing. But the acts, which ranged from Bagpipe-Eater to Ventriloquist, were usually just a cover for Carl's real intentions: to eat another character. Always a performer, though, Carl would usually end the with a triumphant "Thank you!"
He made six such appearances on Muppets Tonight:
- Episode 104: Carl the Big Mean Bagpipe-Eater
- Episode 106: Carl the Big Mean Bunny
- Episode 109: Carl the Big Mean Ventriloquist
- Episode 201: Carl the Big Mean Bubble Guy
- Episode 206 : Carl the Big Mean Porcupine-Eater
- MacDowell Episode 211: Carl the Big Mean Psychic
Carl also appeared regularly in one the show's recurring UK Spots, the game show Swift Wits, in which he always ate the contestants. He also performed with the Smashing Pumpkins in episode 210 and was visited by his mother, Carla the Big Mean Mom, in episode 212.
A modified version of the puppet appeared as "The Grox" (performed by Leslie Carrara-Rudolph) in The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss episode, "There Is Nothing To Fear In Here".
In a more recent appearance, Carl played the "boss," lording it over the director Pokey and a control room full of rats on the November 13, 2008 broadcast of Today, in which the Muppets took over the show to promote the newly opened Whatnot Workshop. He also appeared in A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa and "Bohemian Rhapsody" and starred in the viral video "Stand By Me".
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- Muppets Tonight
- Today
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- Lost Slapdown
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Introducing the QCEW State & County Map Application
Introducing the QCEW State & County Map Application
We have developed an interactive state and county map application available at https://beta.bls.gov/maps/cew/us. The application displays geographic economic data through maps, charts, and tables, allowing users to explore employment and wage data of private industry at the National, State, and county level.
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San Goku Shi V Walkthrough and Guide
Welcome to the San Goku Shi V Walkthrough where our team of contributors will help you work through the game via a step-by-step tutorial. A Gamewise walkthrough aims to take you all the way through the game to 100% completion including unlockable quests and items.
If you are stuck on something specific and are unable to find any answers in our San Goku Shi V Walkthrough then be sure to ask the San Goku Shi V Forum / Community for help and advice in the discussion box below and they will get back to you as soon as possible with an answer!
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Bartow's Perry Garnering Interest
Bartow's Chris Perry, a 6-foot-8 forward, has picked up offers from Boston University, Savannah State, Georgia Southern, the University of Memphis and Jacksonville University to play basketball at the collegiate level. He is also receiving interest from the University of Central Florida and Kennesaw State, his coach, Terrence McGriff, told The Ledger. Perry averaged 14 points and 10 rebounds as a junior last season.


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Lady Gaga + Cher Duet 'The Greatest Thing' to Drop in October
Cher just tweeted about 'The Greatest Thing,' her much-ballyhooed duet with Lady Gaga, and it seems that the song will drop in October. We think. Cher's tweets are written in a language all her own and it's one that is not easily discernible. But from what we can piece together based on the diva's tweets, it's a'coming!
First, Cher tweeted that Gaga is both a major talent and that her vocals are amazing. This, we already know. But to hear it from a legend like Cher is just another affirmation that Gaga is indeed a talent unlike any other.
The song was rumored to drop last fall, but we've seen neither hide nor hair of it since. Gaga did reveal how the duet came to be, telling MTV, "I wrote that song a long time ago, and I've never put it on one of my own albums, for really no particular reason. I always write these concept records, and it just didn't fit in. But it's always been this big, massive, beautiful hit record and everyone always says, 'Why don't you put that on your album?' I said, 'I don't know, it just doesn't fit with everything else.'"
Enter Cher.
When she heard the song, Cher "loved it and wanted to do it together. And I said, ''F— yeah, it's Cher!,' according to Ma Monster.
Below is Cher's first tweet about the song. She said she it heard it for the first time the other night and freaked. Way to rub it in!
think ALL SONGS R Great so Far& I'm not Big Fan!GREAT Writers!GAGA IS MAJOR&Her VOCAL IS AMAZING!KUK Heard TGTLast nite 4 1st Time & FREAKED
— Cher (@cher) July 30, 2012
She then teased a little more info, admitting she can't reveal any key details since her record label execs will get ticked off, but she did mention that the single will drop in October and then her album will land at retail closer to Christmas. Access Hollywood mused that the Gaga duet will indeed be the first track we hear and it stands to reason that it'll be the song we're enjoying in just about two months or so. Below is Cher's second cryptic tweet.
Finished Song!I LOVE IT! Cant tell names of songs cause Record CO. gave Strict ORDERS ! THINK 1st Single drops Oct. then cd near Xmas — Cher (@cher) July 30, 2012
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The doors of the Mission Neighborhood Health Center in San Francisco don't open until 7 am, but on the Saturday morning I was there, a dozen or so people were already lined up by 5:30. The group included a middle-aged white man who had lost his job managing a high-end restaurant and a black man wearing a crisp security guard blazer because he had to be at work by noon. Each was there hoping for a bed for the night. The city assigns most slots in its homeless shelters on a first-come, first-served basis by computer. The people had shown up here so early because they know through experience that every last bed will be claimed by 7:10 am.
A 56-year-old woman named Marcia, who has been homeless for six years, was one of the unlucky ones. She arrived while it was still dark, but not early enough to secure a bed. Because it was the weekend, her bad luck also meant two days of killing time. "Saturdays and Sundays are hell for those of us who are homeless, because most walk-in centers are closed," she told me. "I especially hate Sundays. That's when I ride BART." For Marcia, riding the Bay Area's commuter rail system is a relatively cheap way to get some rest during the day. She often falls asleep on the train, and it's not uncommon for her to wake up and find herself an hour or more outside San Francisco.
When Marcia has no bed, she is left with precious few options, none of them good. She can ride the city bus, hoping for a kind driver who won't boot her into the street. That's what a 55-year-old woman I met named Dorothy used to do until she deemed that strategy too risky. "If you don't get a nice driver, you have to get off every hour or so and wait for another one," Dorothy said. "If you have to wait for a bus at three in the morning, you'll be waiting a long time. Anything can happen."
And then there were the plastic chairs at the Oshun Drop-In Center, a public facility run by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Marcia usually chose the plastic chairs at Oshun. It was hardly ideal, but at least she felt safe there and could try to get some sleep. "You can't lie down on the floor," she said. "You try, but you're not allowed." After a night spent contorting herself into an uncomfortable chair, her back would be killing her. "But I try not to think about it," she said. "After a while, you get used to it."
It used to be that homeless women over 50 were blessedly rare. Marie O'Connor began helping seniors find housing in San Francisco's Mission District in 1992. "To see homeless elders back then was shocking," said O'Connor, a volunteer coordinator with the St. Anthony Foundation, a nonprofit providing the homeless with housing, meals and medical care. "Today, it's the norm."
How widespread is the problem? Every homeless advocate and shelter monitor I spoke with told me the older homeless population in San Francisco is exploding. The problem is bound to get worse as the price of housing reaches new heights. San Francisco is the most expensive city in the country for renters, according to a March 2012 report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Small studio apartments are going for as much as $2,000 a month, which requires a salary of at least $70,000 a year.


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DescriptionWestern mastiff bats live in rugged, rocky canyons typical of the arid Southwest, where they inhabit crevices in vertical cliffs. Because of their relatively large body size and narrow wings, these bats are unable to take off from a flat surface, and must instead freefall from a height to initiate flight. Hanging upside-down in a crevice, it can let go, gain airspeed as it drops, and flap away for its nightly hunt for insect prey. If an individual is on the ground, it will scramble up a tree or other object to get high enough to be able to launch itself into flight. In the early 1900s, they often roosted in buildings in southern California, but this may not be the case today.
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To plug myself, in "The Great Dysmorphia" following my adventure at a Republican presidential debate, I wrote:
"If a presidential debate is pure farce than the media coverage is farce on top of farce—69ing farce."
You don't have to be on mushrooms to see how that insight applies to the first debate of the general election.
As far as Mitt Romney "winning" the debate goes, I am not so deluded as to think that President Obama did not come off as listless and uninterested during his answers while Romney appeared plucky and eager to take it to the president at every opportunity. As far as debates-as-optics-contests go I'll fully admit Romney took the night as long as you didn't check on anything he said.
For instance, the first third of the night was spent haggling over his proposed tax cut, which, you barely need the internet to understand, will indeed cost $5 trillion and vastly, incredibly, disproportionately favor the wealthy. Indeed, he hasn't outlined what tax loopholes he would close, and the president was correct in pointing out that it will either blow up the deficit or require extreme cuts or burdens elsewhere.
Romney's rebuttal to this totally evident, universally acknowledged truth was, "Nope. No, it won't."
Similarly with Romney's plan to cover pre-existing conditions, you barely have to understand how to use a spoon to know that it's crap and it won't, and if he had a plan to force insurers to cover pre-existing conditions, it would require the Obamacare mandate and the Obamacare subisidies.
Romney's rebuttal to this was, "Nope. It works. Don't worry about it."
I could go on, but by appearing blithely confident in his totally fictitious, inscrutable and unworkable policy positions, he clearly frustrated the president and won the night.
More importantly, the debate format was so appallingly dumbed down and moderator Jim Lehrer of PBS so feckless and insipid, it's hard to see how anyone benefited from anything said during the entire course of the night.
It's not just that in the modern era a "moderator" should presumably have facts on hand if a candidate is bold enough to make the claim that, to use one example, Frank-Dodd financial reform closed down 122 "community and small" banks and is a "kiss to big New York banks." What a total innovation it would be for the moderator to say, "Uh, your five biggest contributors are major Wall Street banks, so explain what Frank-Dodd does that closed those community banks and how it aids the larger firms. Go."
The media has focused on how the lump of narcotized clay that was Jim Lehrer was "steam-rolled" by the two candidates. However, what's worse than how ill-prepared he was for moderating a debate in the age of the post-truth campaign, were his questions. What Lehrer asked the candidates should have embarrassed a ninth-grader taking his first civics class. With the two men running for control of the free world in front of him, here's just a few of the weighty questions Lehrer posed:
• "What is your view about the level of federal regulation of the economy right now? Is there too much? And in your case, Mr. President, is there — should there be more?"
• "Governor Romney. You want it repealed. You want the Affordable Care Act repealed. Why?"
• "Mr. President, do you believe there's a fundamental difference between the two of you as to how you view the mission of the federal government?"
• "Does the federal government have a responsibility to improve the quality of public education in America?"
• "Many of the legislative functions of the federal government right now are in a state of paralysis as a result of partisan gridlock. If elected, in your case, if re-elected, in your case, what would you do about that?"
I'm sorry—I wasn't aware that my Great Aunt Edna, whose only political information comes from "Dancing with the Stars", was moderating presidential debates now. I thought we only let adults vote in this country and not eight-year-olds who need questions like: "Government. Good? Medium-good? Not-so-good? Your thoughts."
To say that just about anyone I follow on Twitter could have asked more interesting, specific and important questions than Lehrer is the understatement of the election. I won't even begin to start frothing at the mouth about how Lehrer never breathed a word about climate change, immigration, reproductive rights, or any of the other myriad topics that got sucked into a vortex of bullshit and never appeared. Here's a whacky innovation: instead of trotting out old, information-free white men to run debates how about we get actual, you know, policy experts to come out and grill candidates? Someone who could call Romney on every fictitious, nonsense answer he gave and then turn to Obama and say, "Mr. President, the financial crisis started in housing and so far your housing policies have been an abject failure. We have about a decade worth of foreclosures still to sort through, what would you do about housing in a second term?"
If you're just going to waste everyone's time by getting in front of candidates and giving them an excuse to recite pablum from their stump speeches, what the motherf***ing f*** is the point of having a debate?


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OK - let me first explain my ambition and vision, then ask for your input ..........
Theres not much in life that I enjoy more than programming and delving into the deeper inner sanctums of the internet ........ But there is one thing .......
Efficiency - I love shortcuts (and why wouldn't I)
I have 2 harddrives on my box (C: and D: - named local disk and rural disk respectively)
Almost everything I do goes into my D: drive and the 2 most used directories there are my business directory and my 'pleasure' directory - named 'programming'. Within the programming directory I have many subdirectories aptly named after all the programming languages I use ie. perl, python, java(script), c++, DHTML, xml, php, flash etc. this directory is a few levels down in the D: drive and I like it where it is (the breaking from habit is not immediately conducive to efficiency).
I dual boot windows XP home and unixBSD if Im just working locally I use XP for my passtimes activities and have it set up with many customized keyboard shortcuts - what I want to do is write a program (possibly a batch file - not sure, thus, the starting of this thread) that will pop up a window when I press a predetermined combination of keys, that will allow me to just type in the folder I want to go to and it will take me right there to that directory.
I have alittle experience with batch file writing and what I would like to confirm is: Is writing a batch file the best way to go about this?
I am sure that many will ask questions like: Why would you want to do this? or Why would you dual boot with Win XP? and such
Please don't - to be as congenially honest as possible - Im not looking for my agenda or motivations to be questioned, just looking for a bit of educated and knowledgeable advice.
Thanks to all who submit constructive and useful replies .......... they are all appreciated.


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First, I need to thank again all the responders to my previous questions, from the moderators to the neophytes(IreneY, you don't seem like a neophyte to me) you guys are good, and fast. Thanks for teaching me what you know. You're saving me a bundle on tuition!
(all the references to Liddell are to Greek- English Lexicon, Liddell and Scott, abridged)
As I begin to leave the cradle of BBG and use other references I've come to have some questions regarding Liddell.
1. What is "Middle Liddell" that I have seen referred to in several posts?
2. Is there any way of finding the declension of a noun using Liddell? Cross checking some nouns with Liddell vs BBG it seems that if Liddell lists the genitive it's third declension and if it doesn't, the noun is first or second. Is that the rule?
3. Some verbs in Liddell have the other tenses listed(e.g. αγναεω) and some do not(e.g. αγιαζω). Why the difference?
4. BBG gives the root of a particular verb in the vocabulary section, though not in the appendix lexicon. Liddell gives no roots. Is there a way of finding the root? (here are two examples; αγνoεω: based on it's similarity with a verb like ποιεω, I would expect a 1st person singular to look like αγνoω, the ε being the contract vowel. αγαλλιαω: here it is not clear to me whether the final α is a contract, like αγαπαω, or not, and whether the 1st person singular would look like αγαλλιαω, or αγαλλιω. Is Liddell giving clues I'm not getting or is this where experience with the language will be my guide?)
5. Liddell lists αγαλλιαω(the active form) and then in the meaning section says the verb can also be deponent, αγαλλιαομαι. BBG in sec 18.13, pg. 151, "In a single tense a verb will be either regular or deponent. It cannot be both." What is happening in this instance?
6. This may be related to the previous question. The BBG lexicon shows the verb 'to bring good news' to be ευαγγελιζω, Liddell lists the same verb as ευαγγελιζομαι, a deponent verb. Why the difference?
7. In the BBG workbook, the noun κιβωτος is given the meaning "ark" in an exercise using a verse from Genesis. Liddell only lists the meaning as "a wooden box, chest, coffer". Does this imply that Greek did not have a word for ark, and since the ark was basically a wooden box, albeit a large one, the nearest descriptive word to it was used?
8. Back to the verb αγνoεω, the meaning given in both BBG and Liddell is 'to not know'. Is there a qualitative difference between using αγνoεω and the negation of γινωσκω, something like ου' γινωσκω?
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Laurence Freeman OSB, "Meditation," JESUS THE TEACHER WITHIN(New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 212-213.
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus identified material concerns as our main source of anxiety. How can we make ourselves more comfortable and reduce personal suffering? This is the major preoccupation that obscures the present moment and disrupts true priorities.
Therefore I bid you put away anxious thought about food and drink to keep you alive, and clothes to cover your body. Surely life is more than food, the body more than clothes (Mt 6:25).
When he tells us not to worry Jesus is not denying the reality of daily problems. It is anxiety he is telling us to abandon, not reality. Learning not to worry is hard work. . . .[Yet] despite its "attention-deficiency disorder," even the modern mind has its natural capacity to be still and to transcend its fixations. In depth it discovers its own clarity where it is at peace, free from anxiety. Most of us have half-a-dozen or so favorite anxieties, like bitter sweets we suck on endlessly. We would be frightened to be deprived of them. Jesus challenges us to go beyond the fear of letting go of anxiety, the fear we have of peace itself. The practice of meditation is a way of applying his teaching on prayer; it proves through experience that the human mind can indeed choose not to worry.
This is not to say we can easily blank the mind and dispel all thoughts at will. In meditation we remain distracted and yet are free from distraction. This is because---however minimally at first---we are free to choose where to place our attention. Gradually the discipline of daily practice strengthens this freedom. It would be childish to imagine that this is fully realized in a short time. We stay distracted for a long time. We soon get used to distractions as traveling companions on the path of meditation. But they do not have to dominate. Choosing to say the mantra faithfully and to keep returning to it whenever distractions intervene exercises the freedom we have to pay attention.
It is not a choice in the sense in which we choose a particular brand off the supermarket shelf. It is the choice to commit. The way of the mantra is an act of faith, not a movement of the ego's power. Within every act of faith there is a declaration of love. Faith prepares the ground for the seed of the mantra to germinate in love. We do not create the miracle of life and growth by ourselves, but we are responsible for its unfolding. Coming to peace of mind and heart—to silence, stillness, and simplicity---requires not the will of a type-A high-achiever, but the unconditional attention, the sustained fidelity of a disciple.
Meditate for Thirty Minutes.... Remember: Sit down. Sit still and upright. Close your eyes lightly. Sit relaxed but alert. Silently, interiorly, begin to say a single word. We recommend the prayer-phrase "Maranatha." Recite it as four syllables of equal length. Listen to it as you say it, gently, but continuously. Do not think or imagine anything—spiritual or otherwise. Thoughts and images will likely come, but let them pass. Just keep returning your attention—with humility and simplicity—to saying your word in faith, from the beginning to the end of your meditation.
After Meditation, from Simone Weil, "Forms of the Implicit Love of God," WAITING ON GOD (London: Fount/HarperCollins, 1972), pp. 91-92.
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Queensland players are threatening a torrid night for champion Blues halfback Andrew Johns in Wednesday's State of Origin decider.
The Maroons received a significant boost with proven hit man Tonie Carroll added to the team after playing 50 minutes of Brisbane's 22-10 win over the Sharks in his first game for a month following a calf injury on Sunday.
Carroll, who made 16 first-half tackles and a long break early in the second half, could start at lock ahead of Chris Flannery.
Carroll's teammate Casey McGurie will join the Maroons as 18th man.
"It's a great honour and I'll wear the maroon jersey with pride," said Carroll after his coach Wayne Bennett delivered the good news after consulting with Queensland selectors chairman Des Morris soon after the game.
"It's a massive honour they kept a spot open for me."
The blockbusting defender denied his mission would be to wipe out NSW playmaker Andrew Johns.
"I'm not going to worry about his game, I never worry too much about the opposition," he said.
The biggest thing to emerge from analysing video of Origin II in Sydney last month was the way NSW managed to "hide" Johns from Queensland and how ineffective the Queenslanders were in roughing him up and making him work defensively.
Some of that had to do with referee Stephen Clark's massive 10 metres which made it almost impossible for Queenslanders to get out of the defensive blocks and get their hands on Johns.
But even when they did get close enough to him to hit him, they seemed like startled rabbits as Johns mesmerised them time and time again.
"There's not many players who can do it (mesmerise you) I suppose," said centre Paul Bowman who racked a game high 40 tackles in the 32-22 loss in Sydney last month when Johns was almost untouchable.
"He's got so many options you start to second guess yourself a little bit.
"You think to yourself 'Is he going to pass, or kick, or dummy, or step?, he's just got so many attacking options at his disposal.
"If you're on the back foot and not able to get off the (defensive) line it just makes your decision making even harder and gives him more time."
In that regard, the re-appointment of first game referee Paul Simpkins over Clark could help Queensland get to Johns a little quicker because Simpkins has a different idea of 10 metres.
Forward leader Petero Civoniceva said Queensland had some ideas to make life less comfortable for Johns.
"They placed him out a bit wider in Sydney and it was pretty hard for any of our big forwards to get at him," he said.
"We'll look at the video and look at ways of stringing a few passes together to a little wider and make him work a bit harder in defence and hopefully chew up a bit of gas.
"With Ash (Ashley Harrison) in the side, he likes to work a little bit wider on the fringes and hopefully we can generate a bit more attack on the edges and pull Johns into work harder in defence.
"TC's proven at this level and I know how much he loves to get at those kind of blokes," said Civoniceva before Carroll was confirmed at Queensland's 17th man.


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SOURCE: InnVision Shelter Network
November 19, 2012 19:26 ET
InnVision Shelter Network Receives Donated Meals From Rock Bottom Restaurant So That No Homeless Child or Adult in Silicon Valley Goes Hungry This Thanksgiving
InnVision Shelter Network Receives Donated Meals From Rock Bottom Restaurant So That No Homeless Child or Adult in Silicon Valley Goes Hungry This Thanksgiving
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 19, 2012) - The holidays are particularly challenging for low-income and homeless individuals in our community. It is estimated that roughly 7,000 people are homeless every night in Santa Clara County (2011 Homeless Census & Survey). InnVision Shelter Network (IVSN), as one of the leading providers of shelter/housing and supportive services for this population, is dedicated to ensuring that no person walking through its doors goes hungry this holiday season.
To that end, Rock Bottom Restaurant in Campbell will donate 400 prepared Thanksgiving meals to IVSN, including stuffed turkeys with all the trimmings. This is Rock Bottom's fourth consecutive year donating Thanksgiving dinner to IVSN's homeless clients. The meals will be dropped off Wednesday, November 21 at IVSN's Montgomery Street Inn in San Jose. From there, the donations will be distributed to several of IVSN's locations in Santa Clara County, such that every household will have a delicious, festive Thanksgiving meal for themselves and their families.
"It is incredibly rewarding to sponsor Thanksgiving meals for the people at InnVision Shelter Network," said Sean McKennan, General Manager of Rock Bottom Brewery. "I am inspired by their impact, dedication, and passion for serving our community, and I look forward to many more years of partnering together."
Since IVSN operates in both Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, the agency also has a number of programs and partnership to benefit clients on the Peninsula. McGraw's Tavern in Belmont is providing Thanksgiving dinner for 75 homeless men and women at IVSN's Maple Street Shelter in Redwood City. Esposto's Deli and Catering, located in San Mateo, has invited IVSN families to occupy their entire restaurant for two separate seatings, serving donated dinners to a total of 120 people.
At IVSN's four family facilities in San Mateo County, families are provided with transitional apartments furnished with donated furniture and household items, where they stay for an average of 120 days before transitioning to permanent housing. To provide Thanksgiving meals for these families, IVSN is accepting donations of dinner baskets (valued around $40 each) from individual donors and community groups. Dinner baskets are distributed to every family at these four shelters -- 87 families total -- so that they can cook a festive holiday meal together in their own transitional apartment unit.
"Every person deserves to have a safe place to call home and to enjoy nutritious, festive meals with their family. This basic dignity is the foundation from which our clients can develop the skills and learning they need to become self-sufficient in the long-term," said Karae Lisle, CEO of InnVision Shelter Network. "With the community's support, we are dedicated to providing these quality services to those in need during the holidays and throughout the year."
At IVSN's largest family facility, First Step for Families, which houses 39 families every night, volunteers will serve Thanksgiving dinner to approximately 130 children and adults. The meals have been generously underwritten by an anonymous Silicon Valley donor, and Girl Scout troops have decorated the shelter to make it festive and inviting.
In Palo Alto, where IVSN operates the Opportunity Services Center, the nonprofit is partnering with Downtown Streets Team, another homeless service agency, to serve 500 Thanksgiving meals. Nearly 150 community volunteers will prepare and serve a full holiday meal to families and adult residents of the Opportunity Center, as well as to other low-income individuals in need. This event has been an honored tradition in Palo Alto for over 20 years.
In addition to the households living in shelter facilities on Thanksgiving night, IVSN serves hundreds more people through outreach to unsheltered people, non-site-based case management, and housing assistance programs. The vast majority of these families and individuals will also receive meals and gifts for the holidays.
InnVision Shelter Network's services are only made possible with community support, including financial contributions, volunteerism, and in-kind donations. Opportunities for holiday giving can be found at www.ivsn.org/holiday.
IVSN Thanksgiving Meals - Thursday 11/22/12
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This blog post will require you to employ critical thought, and avoid gut reaction. It will require you to step outside your own existence and into that of somebody else. It will require you to set aside the emotions you want to feel, and instead consider the reason you want to feel them. If any of this does not interest you, I would encourage you to stop reading. There are plenty of other areas of this web site that will appeal to you. If, however, you are interested in peeking beneath the surface of an uncomfortable situation, I would encourage you to continue. It might not alter your feelings. But at least it will not make you hate me.
About once a season, a controversy like this arises. A member of the Phillies, or a member of their extended family, will say something that rankles the fan base, and that something will get picked up by a media outlet, and that media outlet's something will get picked up by other media outlets, and before you know it, gangs of neighborhood watchmen will be organizing on the corners of Rhawnhurst and Springfield and Bensalem and preparing to march with shovels and torches toward Citizens Bank Park. They are my least favorite stories, the ones about somebody saying something that upsets someone else. The esteemed philosopher Fred Durst once labeled it, "the he-said, she-said bulls---," and that's pretty much how I see it.
Back in 2008, Jimmy Rollins labelled Phillies fans "front-runners" in a national television interview, and a great deal of outrage was then expressed by those fans, including the 25,046 who had bothered to show up for a Sept. 10 game against the Rockies, including the thousands who had spent much of that season booing 2006 NL MVP Ryan Howard, including some who would go on to yell about signing Cole Hamels to an extension after 2008, and then yell about trading him after 2009, and then yell about signing him to an extension after 2010, and then boo him after his first start of 2011.
Was it wise for Rollins to say what he said? Probably not, unless his end-game was to take the bulls-eye off the back of his struggling teammate, which, knowing Rollins, just might have been the case. But was Rollins right? Absolutely. The majority of fans in every professional city are front-runners. That's the glory of being a fan. You get to think with your heart and react accordingly without having to take pesky little things like the big picture into consideration. You don't shell out your hard-earned cash because you want to sit in a luxury suite and sip your bottle of Evian and perform a rational analysis of everything that happens in front of you. You buy your tickets and your jerseys and your T-Shirts and your beer so that for three to four hours of your life you can sit in a stadium seat or a leather recliner and forget about reason and just react.
It's a beautiful thing. For you. But there are human beings on the other side of those reactions, and as much as you want to believe in the mollifying qualities of millions of dollars, those human beings have wants and needs and desires that are very similar to yours. You think Cole Hamels should not have a care in the world because he makes more money than you? Well the single mother on welfare working two minimum-wage jobs might feel the same way about you.
Most professional athletes have been conditioned to accept the realities of their standing in society. The adulation, the loathing, the cheers, the boos, the stares and whispers while walking through the mall: They chose this life. They can easily walk away from it. For the majority of people, the immense benefits of life as a professional athletes would outweigh the various inconveniences, most of which are minor when compared to other occupations.
The same cannot necessarily be said of life as a professional athlete's family member. Which brings us to the case of Sarah Madson, and a blog that very few people had heard about before today. A woman named Laura Goldman, who runs a blog called Naked Philadelphian, talked to the wife of Phillies set-up man Ryan Madson at a charity event and quoted her as saying, "I hate the fans. It is bad enough that they bother us during the season, but they will not leave us alone in December when we go out to eat. We stayed here during the off season last year, but we will be going to California this year. There must be something particularly bad about Phillies fans because all the players leave in the off season."
According to Goldman's blog, Sarah Madson, five months pregnant with the couple's fourth child, also complained about female fans of her husband, saying, "Can you believe that they have the gall to give my husband their number in front of me?"
There is some strong language in there: "Hate," "bad," "bother," "gall" -- nobody wants to be associated with any of those words. And I'm sure there is at least one columnist in the metro-Philadelphia region who is preparing to put on his Lorax shoes and and shake his fist in indignation and speak for the fans, for the fans have no tongues.
But before you react, I ask that you focus on four different words, words that if repeated enough would make this planet a hell of a lot more inhabitable. Those words are not "Make love not war" or "Don't tread on me" or "Make it a double."
Those words are, How would you feel?
It is not an easy life being a player's wife. There is a reason why one New York Times article floated the estimate that 60 to 80 percent of NFL marriages end in divorce. An athlete playing in Philadelphia might be subjected to boos, but rarely is he subjected to biting personal criticism. You might have booed Jimmy Rollins after he labeled you a front-runner in 2008, but if you ran into him at a bar and he offered to buy you a drink, you sure as hell would have clinked glasses with him and patted him on the back. Family members, though, are anonymous. That person two rows in front of you who can hear you and your friend trade cheap insults about Joe Blanton? It might be his wife. Or sister. Or his mother. Or his aunt. Or his high-school teacher. That guy at the coffee shop reading the newspaper column about how Cole Hamels lacks the intestinal fortitude to become an elite-level pitcher? It might be his brother. Or father. Or best friend. Or college coach.
That dinner conversation you just interrupted to ask for an autograph? It might have involved a family member's health, or a child's behavior, or a job's future.
Forget whether Sarah Madson actually said what she is quoted as saying or in what context she meant it (A Madson representative told the Daily News' Dan Gross that the couple "enjoy playing in Philadelphia and have a great fondness for the city and the fans"). Forget the fact that this is one of those "stories" that should die by daybreak. It offers us, the viewing public, a chance to step inside a perspective that few of us ever have reason to consider.
How would you feel if you were five months pregnant with your fourth child and your husband was preparing to embark on a six-month odyssey in which he spends one week on the road for every week he spends at home? How would you feel if, on the rare occasion that he and you and your three children are able to head out for a family dinner on home turf, you are constantly interrupted by strangers? How would you feel if you watched women in tight Phillies T-Shirts sliding phone numbers to your husband?
You probably would accept it. You probably would even enjoy it at times. But on some days, you sure as hell would hate it. And on one of those days, you might find yourself admitting it.
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I love painkiller, so friggin awesome.
I bought this game a while back. It was pretty entertaining. A little gross, but entertaining.
Ah, thanks. I tend to not notice, since I'm used to accents like his and worse.
Heh. I presume so. I heard Penfold say it in Danger Mouse once or twice. I say it on occasion, and have heard/seen one or two English people say/type it.
oh and everyone needs to go around and use the word Murmporpegah (MMORPG) as much as possible, If they haven't seen Zero punctuation then you can tell them about it. And they will thank you from the bottom of their hearts <3
murmorpegah i meant....
i think
Nice review, but it wasn't my fav, mainly as I never really got into Painkiller when it was out, side a demo. A demo which was admittedly fun due to the stake gun. I like the new look for the site. Nice not having to close adverts whenever I watch a ZP.
You have a pause (OH GOD A PAUSE IN A ZP!!!) wich kinda breaks the flow right after you say "the enemys don't give me stiffies, that would be gay" *pause*
Good review, its a bit of a change to see him review a game he really likes. Great, now I need to find a copy of this game now, though i hear its a tad rare.
I wonder if there will be a spike in sales of this game now that this has been reviewed... especially at $9.99 on Steam or otherwise incredibly cheap in a bargain bin.
Painkiller...fun? It's just a gothic take on Serious Sam, every enemy runs screaming towards you (barring the odd ranged attack), you hold left mouse button down and move the crosshair over wave after wave of bad guys, then advancing till you discover a new baddy and hopefully a new weapon so you don't stop playing (lets face it, were ALL about the new toys).
Serious Sam was amusing, but just because PK used the Havok physics engine (woopy-doo, impaling...fun for A WHILE), it's still just an SS clone.
So yeah, just because it's fun for 20 minutes, doesn't change the fact it's just for 20 minutes!
Excellent review for an Excellent game. Well done Yahtzee.
and guys....stop pestering him about Mario Kart.....it really is NOT WORTH REVIEWING and not that good of a game really.
if you didn't play this game or follow it upon its release you should probably stick your dick in a blender and hit the puree button.
1 thing... gun shooting X + lighting can by use like mine hiting with lighting ^^
and "painkiller" gun can be use to fly-cut :>
I was also expecting "The World Ends With You," but knowing Yahtzee's rabid hate for JRPG's, we probably won't be getting it. I mean, the setting is Shibuya for Christ's sake, I'd be surprised if he's even considered looking at it yet.
A good review, I guess, if a tad redundant. The jokes really aren't as funny or quote-able as they used to be, but still much better than the average review, so I don't have right to complain. Also, this new format is making me a little nervous, is the Yahtzee we know and love going to change into Guitar Hero III? I hope not.
It's a fun review of a pretty boring game. Might have to give it another go, but I just found the action gameplay repetitive and ultimately boring...kill everything you see, period. Then again at $7, who can argue it's not worth trying? Gotta stop drinking coffee when watching Yahtzee...my monitor needs cleaning evrytime damn time.
Definitely feels like a return to form for me. And although I doubt my previous post was even read, let alone meaningfully considered, your end result of this week's review addressing a more unknown game and steering clear of obvious critical "gimmes" makes me feel great. Please keep that up.
Although please, don't even dignify the people requesting a Mario Kart review with a response. If they want one, then here
Now read that very quickly and there's Yahtzee's MKWii review. Actually, Yahtzee, I would be honored if you used that as a 15 second review just to appease anyone still asking for an MKWii review.
But anyway, good review and I look forward to the drought of big name games which I hope will encourage more creativity and less "gimmes".
Not really. But your concern is touching.
I mean that.
You can get it even cheaper than that.
I never knew wot this game was about but if it is like serious sam with more violence thats good enough for me!
Perfectly said DanRSL. Well done and very true.
I'm surprised to find out that many of you have never heard or played "Painkiller". It's a very good game, and despite the fact that in this game you basically just kill tons of bad minions, it has great sound and visual design - you'll love it if you value these things in games. Some of the ambient music pieces are purely genius, particularly that of the "Military base", "Factory" and "Opera house" levels. The game uses dynamic music background, which means that during fights a realty hard heavy-metal riffs kick in, but since I don't like metal I just turn off battle music and leave only the ambient.
I must say you give this game far too much credit.
All right all right the weapons are great. Actually I can't really remember when I liked the weapons more in a game. There is in fact something greatly therapeutic about using these weapons and especially the painkiller made me feel good about myself.
However this is where the good stuff ends which doesn't make for a lot of good stuff. I found the levels to be samey and murky. It was just a succession of closed areas that you ran around in for a bit (that is to say till you killed everything) ending in a bossfight. Ok I admit I enjoyed the bossfights too. Some of them at least. I do seem to remember that the scenery changed from time to time but it was mostly the same dark and grey colors so I didn't really care that much.
The enemies might have been interesting with their own quirks and personalities but when you are fighting of you 100th wave of ignorant undead or whatever they are this time it doesn't really register. They are just the next dead monster in your way and your just going to treat it as such. This is luckily set on pause for some nice bossfights or I might just have turned the painkiller on myself.
Now for the story. Here I agree. It is shit. It is poorly executed and instead of drawing you in it repulses you to the point where you question yourself as to the reason for this clearly botched investment. Why all this sobstory? I can understand that in games with some substans you might want a well rounded character with motives of his own but here I would rather have had a a grizzled monster with arms like tree trunks. He should be wearing a t-shirt, army boot and pants and a gimpmask for that true heavenly hitman feel. Instead I get mister Believable. In all honesty if the story hadn't been there I might have called this an average game but with it I have to grade it down.
2x P.S: First PS: I admit I made this "review" several years after I played the game. I am now gonna play the game again (or at least as long as I dare before going insane) and if I change my mind I will come back and tell you. In the meantime I stand by this.
Well there you have it. My opinion.
Hey, if he was forced to do stuff like Peggle and SSBB, he can be forced to do TWEWY.
However unlikely.
Or otherwise, I simply did a quick search and that was the first thing that I saw. Forgive me if it appeared that I was advertising Steam or something, not that it *really* needs advertising does it... I would like to meet someone who's remotely connected to the Internet gaming community and hasn't heard of it.
The fact you give your opinion lots does not make you an expert in opinions. I tend to keep out of anonymous online arguments but your arrogance shouldn't pass by ignored. The only reason I visit this website is to watch Ben's reviews in the same way I flick over to paramount to watch south park. He makes me laugh which seldom happens nowadays.
I'll leave "the other forums" to those of you with a more permanent relationship with the internet.
Oh and before I forget:
1) Yahtzee is a GOD!! This review was crafted by angels.
I hope you found that irritating. wanker!
this is possiably my favorite review ever ... and i intend to get that game as soon as possible ... it appeals to my twisted sense of humour
fraid u did miss something - 'LOL YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD, GOOD JOB! BEST ONE YET! LOLOLOOLLOLOLOLOL
Damn, this sounds like an intruiging title. Once again, a quite fascinating well thought out plot that people disregard because its easy to miss amongst the beautiful weapons (not that I'm saying any slightly more recent games had that exact same problem...). I hope my computer can handle it.
I say we're still a little off the barren lands of "Midyearia", awaiting Father Christmas to come in on a camel with answers and VIOLENCE!!!!. He could still review Haze, Turning Point : Fall of Liberty, and... huh, I guess we are there.
Dingo Out.
Forgot to comment on this earlier.
This new videoplayer is not working good :/
Please use the old player in the next videos.
Can't decide if I like the new setup or not.
I thought that Black had its moments of brilliance, with the big, loud guns and astounding particle effects. However, when you unload an entire magazine into an enemy's sternum, only to watch him walk away, it gets a bit frustrating. I do think that it is a shame, however, that after the cliffhanger ending we aren't getting a sequel.
That was precisly the point!
oh my that was one that had me grinning from the beginning
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Ars has a review of Ubuntu 7.10. They conclude: "Ubuntu 7.10 provides an unparalleled desktop Linux experience and sets new standards for power and ease of use. This release lives up to Ubuntu's reputation and delivers cutting-edge new features and solid enhancements. Although Ubuntu 7.10 is very impressive, some of the new additions - particularly Compiz and Tracker - lack the polish and robustness that they need to truly shine. These technologies are still a work in progress and give Ubuntu 7.10 a slightly unfinished feel. Ubuntu also unfortunately inherits some of the minor weaknesses of the GNOME desktop environment."


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The Eagles made four trades during last week's draft (including that strange swap with the Patriots).
Only the Washington Redskins made more.
Prior to the draft, I wrote about the trade chart, a tool that assigns value to every pick.
So how did the chart judge the Eagles' trades this year? Here's a look:
The Birds' first deal came in the third round. They traded the No. 85 overall pick to their old friend John Harbaugh and the Ravens for the No. 90 pick (third round) and the No. 191 pick (sixth round). In other words, they moved down five spots in the fifth round and picked up an extra sixth-rounder.
Baltimore ended up taking Central Florida offensive lineman Jah Reid at 85, and the Eagles selected Utah State cornerback Curtis Marsh at No. 90. In the sixth round, the Eagles took Cincinnati offensive lineman Jason Kelce.
Going by the draft value chart, the Eagles came out a -10. The No. 85 pick was worth 165, while the 90th and 191st picks were worth 140 and 15, respectively.
The Eagles made three trades on Day 3. The first was with the Tampa Bay Bucs. The Birds sent the No. 104 pick (fourth round) to Tampa in exchange for the 116th pick (fourth round) and a 2012 fourth-rounder. Essentially, they moved down 12 spots in the fourth round and picked up an extra fourth-rounder next season.
Tampa Bay selected Tennessee tight end Luke Stocker, while the Birds got Oregon linebacker Casey Matthews.
The draft value is tough to assess here because we don't know how much that 2012 fourth-rounder will be worth. The 104th pick was worth 86, and the 116th pick was worth 62. At the very worst, if that 2012 pick ends up being the final pick in the fourth round, the Eagles will end up +20. If it ends up being the first pick in the fourth round, they will end up +88. The difference will likely end up being somewhere between those two numbers.
The third Eagles trade was with the Jets. The Birds sent picks Nos. 153 (fifth round) and 227 (seventh round) to New York for 161 (fifth round) and 194 (sixth round).
The Jets took TCU wide receiver/return man Jeremy Kerley and Colorado wide receiver Scotty McKnight with the two picks they acquired. The Eagles took Iowa offensive lineman Julian Vandervelde and then pulled the bizarre trade with the Patriots where they exchanged the 193rd and 194th picks.
At 193, the Eagles took Ohio State linebacker Brian Rolle. New England took Central Arkansas linebacker Markell Carter a pick later.
In the trade with the Jets, the Eagles came out a +8.6.
And finally, there was the one trade that many fans wanted the Eagles to make. In the first round, Nebraska cornerback Prince Amukamara slipped down to No. 19 before the Giants snagged him.
What would it have taken for the Eagles to have moved up to No. 18 and take him?
The No. 18 pick is worth 900, and the Eagles' original pick at 23 was worth 760. Based on the chart, they would have had to make up about 140 points. Coincidentally, the 90th pick in the third round (which they ended up acquiring from Baltimore) was worth exactly 140. So to swap picks with the Chargers at No. 18, it's reasonable to assume the Eagles might have had to give up their third-rounder.
Of course, the chart is just one way to judge the trades. The players' performance is really what we'll look back on years from now. If Amukamara ends up being a perennial Pro Bowler, and right cornerback continues to be a problem for the Eagles in 2011, we'll say they should have made the deal.
If Danny Watkins ends up solidifying the right side of the line and the Eagles make a splash in free agency for a top corner, fans will stand behind what the Eagles did.
In case you missed it, on Saturday I wrote about the possibility of using the franchise tag on Kevin Kolb after the 2011 season and then trading him.
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GREENVILLE, Ill. – The Beavers of Blackburn College (9-13, 5-3 SLIAC) escaped Greenville baseball on Saturday, compounding runs from the outset and serving the Panthers the 4-2, 10-9 sweep.
Junior outfielder Cole Lawson headlined the Panther's efforts offensively in the weekend double-dip, batting 3-for-8 with four runs and two RBI in the sweep.
In game one's 4-2 edging, freshman lefty Cody Hinterscher was charged the loss. Hinterscher pitched three innings while surrendering four earned on two hits with three walks and seven strikeouts.
GC used nearly all-available arms in the 10-9 heartbreaking capper, tossing five different individuals in the loss. Freshman Tyler Pilcher was dealt the defeat on the mound as his two-inning, six earned run performance qualified him for the decision.
With the pair of defeats GC baseball falls to 5-14 and 3-3 in the SLIAC and will look to get back on track on Friday, April 6 as they begin the first of another three-game conference set with MacMurray.


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By Robin Bairner
The ever-growing French contingent at St James' Park is set to be added to imminently as Newcastle United are poised to sign Marseille striker Loic Remy for a fee expected to be in the region of £8.5 million.
Manager Alan Pardew has found the Ligue 1 market a profitable hunting ground over the last 18 months, as he has been able to pick up international-class players at appealing prices, and in forward Remy he may just have made another great coup.
Comparisons have been made between the 26-year-old and the legendary Thierry Henry, but these are not necessarily fair. While it is true that Remy is an athletic forward player capable of operating in the wide areas, his game does not especially resemble that of the ex-Arsenal hero.
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In truth, Remy's career has never quite taken off as it might. He was overshadowed as he broke into Lyon's first team by the likes of Karim Benzema and Hatem Ben Arfa, who were emerging at the same time, and as a result, he would never score a league goal for OL.
A spell at Nice followed, where he would live up to his billing as the club's record signing, and despite attempts from Lyon to regain his services, it was a move to Marseille that really pushed Remy into the limelight.
At Stade Velodrome he started to be used as a centre forward on a more regular basis, although this almost came by chance due to a lack of form on the part of his team-mates. Nevertheless, playing through the middle best suited Remy's skillset - and it still does.
Last term he displayed devastating form by scoring 22 goals in all competitions, the vast majority of which came in the second half of the campaign. By some distance this was his most prolific season, yet it would have an unhappy ending as injury prevented him from taking his place in Laurent Blanc's Euro 2012 squad, to which he would surely have added quality and another attacking dimension, having scored three times in his previous six outings for les Bleus.
But missing the summer's European Championship was only the beginning of a troubling six-month period for the attacker. The niggles that prevented him from playing in Poland and Ukraine persisted into the early part of this campaign, and though he has theoretically been fit since mid-August, he has yet to find his best level in terms of his physical shape or his match sharpness.
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As a result, he has been toiling. Remy has registered only three times all season for OM, with two goals coming in a one-sided Europa League fixture against AEL Limassol and the other arriving as a meagre consolation as les Phoceens were humbled 4-1 by Lyon at home.
While a change will undoubtedly help to refresh the striker, Newcastle fans should not expect to see the best of the 17-time capped France international until he has regained his sharpness and his confidence. As such, he may be something of a long-term investment to replace Demba Ba as the vanguard of their offence, which could be deemed a risky policy given the club's recent struggles.
In addition, by making this signing, Newcastle could be inadvertently weakening their position to sign another Ligue 1 prospect in the form of Toulouse's Moussa Sissoko. Marseille are also interested in the powerful midfielder, and L'Equipe suggested they will use the money earned from the Remy deal to help secure his services ahead of the Magpies and Monaco.
Pardew, however, has an excellent record in the French market, and he is likely to see this gamble as providing value. If he can extract the best from Remy, he will have himself a dangerous centrepiece to his attack, and a player worth at least twice as much in the English market as his reported purchase fee.
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Or is he just a mutated, see-through elephant with low-self esteem? Either way he's being shot at 100 times magnification.
Ant head
This autoflouresence shot captured a giant ant about to eat the photographer... or it's magnified ten times, you decide.
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Man shot six cows in face, officials say
Cows seriously injured after being shot
Man shot six cows in face, officials say
Cows seriously injured after being shot
BUNNELL, Fla. —
A Flagler County man is accused of shooting neighborhood cows in the face.
Six of the Bunnell cows were shot -- two of them badly injured.
According to a report from the state attorney's office, Justin Deloach is responsible for the cow's injuries.
Authorities say the shooting happened late last month. The cows were hit in the face, rump, ribs and shoulders.
Deloach claimed he only fired into the air when he said the cows broke through a fence and ate his horse feed. He said he only wanted to scare the animals so they would move.
The animals returned their owner, however, bleeding profusely.
A veterinarian who examined the cows said the injuries are so significant, the animals' value is affected.
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A group of students from the University of Houston School of Art plan to make some noise at this year's Houston Art Car Parade on Saturday, May 8. Ironically, they won't be driving vehicles with rumbling, roaring motors but, rather, riding bikes.
These won't be ordinary bikes, however. As part of professor Paul Kittelson's Public Art class, students developed audible art bikes. Using bells, bottles, bags and other items, the student sculptors have crafted high volume bicycles that are bound to turn a few heads during the parade, which begins at 1 p.m. in downtown Houston.
Among the bikes to watch out for are senior Stephanie Williams' Recycle Cycle, a bike covered with re-used grocery store plastic bags and dragging a host of plastic bottles.
"It makes more noise than you think it would," Williams said. "It's pretty loud. My friend was riding it around the parking lot, and people were looking around to see what was causing all of that noise."
For Williams, the Recycle Cycle marks her final project as a UH undergrad. While many of her peers will showcase their end-of-semester works in studios, she is a little antsy about the massive parade audience that will view her art bike.
"It's an exciting experience," she said. "It's like my first public art piece, so I'm hoping everything works correctly the day of the parade and that all of the bags and bottles stay on the bike throughout the parade."
While this is Williams' debut at the annual event, her classmate, master of fine arts candidate Natali Leduc, is an Art Car Parade veteran. She has designed both art cars and bikes for previous parades. This year, she worked with fellow grad student David Graeve. Together, they came up with two bikes connected to a large spinning wheel adorned with glass milk bottles and wooden clappers. As its riders peddle, the wheel spins, the bottles then are struck by the clappers making a clanking noise. Little bells are also affixed to the bike's spokes for added sounds.
Although she is no stranger to creating art vehicles, Leduc said that there always are new things to learn from projects such as this.
"There are different kinds of lessons to learn when you make things like this," she said. "It's always about discovering solutions. For this project, it was like how are we going to make this bike, what is it going to do. As these questions come up, you focus on answering them while using your imagination."
This year's group of student artists continues the university's tradition of contributing to this popular event. Kittelson has designed art cars and has had many students over the years, who have participated in the parade.
"It's one of the many avenues that our students have to connect with the community," he said. "It provides them with an excellent outlet for their talents and is really one of the best events at which to showcase what they're learning here at the university."
For more details on the Houston Art Car Parade, visit http://www.orangeshow.org/art-car-festival/.
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Queen Elizabeth called 1992 her annus horribilis. Bill Clinton defeated President George H.W. Bush and ended the Reagan era. Pope John Paul II lifted the Edict of Inquisition against Galileo, and the Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-American team to win the World Series. In April, a Simi Valley jury found four LAPD officers not guilty in the beating of Rodney King and Los Angeles exploded. In August, Pat Buchanan rocked the Republican convention with his infamous "God's country" speech ("better in the original German," observed columnist Molly Ivins).
Arching over the sociopolitical upheaval was the AIDS epidemic. By 1992, more than 1 million Americans were infected with HIV, and AIDS had killed close to 150,000 people, including Rock Hudson, Alvin Ailey, Robert Mapplethorpe, Isaac Asimov, Perry Ellis, Liberace, Michel Foucault and Ryan White. There was no cure or effective treatment in sight.
"Angels in America": A Nov. 11 Critic's Notebook about the legacy of the play "Angels in America" 20 years later misspelled former Times editor Richard Rouillard's last name as Rouille. —
Then, on Nov. 8, in a city still rebuilding from days of violent riots, "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" opened at the Mark Taper Forum. There had been successful plays and films that positively depicted gay lives — "Torch Song Trilogy," "La Cage aux Folles" — and later the devastation of AIDS with "The Normal Heart" and "Longtime Companion," but nothing like "Angels in America," which put AIDS into such heaving, glorious context that it finally and irrevocably became part of the national narrative.


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Flatforms are here to stay! Get some height without killing your feet by donning a pair of flat platform boots, Oords, or sneakers this season. The options are pretty much endless, which means you can get as loud (yellow patent with a super-thick sole) or subtle (black suede lace-ups) as you want.
Wear 'em with a pair of skinny jeans or a dress and tights, and you'll be head and shoulders (and feet) above the rest.


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