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Penn State upsets No. 4 Michigan 84-78
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State coach Patrick Chambers kept saying all winter that his team was close to winning a Big Ten game even as the league losses piled up.
Momentum finally bounced the Nittany Lions' way on Wednesday night against one of their toughest foes of the season.
Jermaine Marshall scored 25 points and hit a key layup with 1:06 left to help Penn State roar back from a 15-point deficit and upset No. 4 Michigan 84-78 for its first Big Ten victory in more than a year.
No wonder fans rushed the court in delight after the final buzzer.
"I was looking around. I wanted to see our team," Chambers said about the frenzy inside the Jordan Center. "I wanted to embrace it and be in that moment, because those moments don't come very often."
Penn State (9-18, 1-14) had lost 18 straight regular-season Big Ten games dating to last season. The team's previous conference win came on Feb. 16, 2012, a 69-64 victory over Iowa.
It was Penn State's first win over a top 5 team since defeating No. 5 North Carolina 82-74 in the second round of the 2001 NCAA tournament, and the highest-ranked opponent that the Nittany Lions have beaten since moving to the Jordan Center in 1996.
Even Michigan coach John Beilein was impressed.
"I think what you saw tonight is why we all love college basketball," he said.
But this loss might hurt Michigan as it jockeys for seeding in the NCAA tournament. The Wolverines squandered a chance to pull into a second-place tie in the Big Ten with Michigan State and Wisconsin.
Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 19 points for the Wolverines (23-5, 10-5). Trey Burke had 18 points and six assists, but also committed six turnovers.
Michigan was uncharacteristically sloppy with 15 turnovers in the game, six more than its season average.
Penn State pounced on the mistakes.
D.J. Newbill added 17 points for the Nittany Lions, who hit a season-high 10 3-pointers. Marshall scored 19 in the second half, including four 3s that whipped the hometown fans into a frenzy. But it was his twisting drive to the bucket late left that really hurt Michigan.
The ball teetered on the rim for a couple of seconds before dropping in, causing the Penn State partisans to let out a collective sigh of relief with their team up 81-78.
"It was a chip play that we run. ... Coach put the ball in my hand and he had trust in me," Marshall said. "Fortuantely that layup rode around the rim and went down."
That was not the kind of luck that the Nittany Lions have been used to, ever since leading scorer and point guard Tim Frazier went down with a left Achilles injury four games into the season.
They had to adjust on the fly, with combo guard Newbill sliding over to the point, and Marshall needing to assume more ball-handling duties. Chambers, a never-say-die cheerleader, convinced his team to keep fighting through the adversity.
"Tonight, it's a relief. All the hard work, practices and shootarounds paid off for us," Newbill said.
Michigan's Glenn Robinson III misfired on a 3 with 17 seconds left. Sasa Borovnjak (nine points) had a memorable Senior Night, hitting two foul shots with 15 seconds left to seal the win.
Ross Travis provided the muscle up front with 15 points and 12 boards as Penn State made the clutch plays down the stretch.
"They beat us fair and square, and the last 10 minutes they really outplayed us," Beilein said.
Two foul shots by Marshall gave Penn State its first lead since the first half, 76-74, with 3:55 left. The Jordan Center rocked as if it were a Michigan-Penn State football game across the street at Beaver Stadium.
It was all Penn State from there.
Chambers watched as Michigan fumbled away opportunities, like when Burke had a steal from Newbill but lost control.
"The ball finally bounced our way," Chambers said. "Trey Burke strips D.J. at halfcourt and kicks it out of bounds ... that's usually what we do."
Midway through the second half, Michigan controlled the lane with dunks and cuts to the bucket. Long-range shooting gave the Wolverines breathing room after Nik Stauskus (12 points, eight rebounds) and Hardaway hit 3s on back-to-back possessions to help build the short-lived 15-point lead after Penn State had drawn within 49-45.
The first half was a sign of things to come. After struggling from long range much of the year, Penn State went 5 of 10 from behind the arc and forced 10 turnovers to stay within 39-36 at halftime.
All five of Michigan's losses have come on the road in the Big Ten — none worse than Wednesday night's defeat. Michigan finished February with a 3-4 record, heading into a showdown Sunday with No. 9 Michigan State.


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I just rebuilt my Ultra 1 to use as a NMS and a general unix box. I was looking to lock the thing down tighter than....welll you get my point
anyways...i came across these two links that might be of some use to some people. The article is dated a few years ago, but it should apply to Solaris 2.x
The Solaris Security FAQThe Solaris Security FAQ
Unix Insider 1/1/01
Peter Baer Galvin, Unix Insider
The following is a list of questions that are frequently asked about Solaris 2.x Security.
this article has some pieces of redundant info that is in the first article, but it's another resource
Securing Solaris - AdminschoiceSolaris security broadly falls under two groups - one is where the system is accessible using local area network/vlan and it has to be secured against unauthorized access. Second is system is accessible over the Internet to a number of persons and it has to be protected against unauthorized access using network or security loopholes.
This document details some of the focus areas for security and provides suggestions to make it strong.
1. Latest patches
2. Access to the system.
3. Run level and network services
4. ip module
5. System file , /etc/system

subset: commoncrawl


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- 94% modal, 6% spandex
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POSITION: Founder and President, Paramount Companies, which includes Coffee Services, Automated Food Services and Vending.
PERSONAL: 65; married 29 years to Beatriz, from Chile; two children Alan, a chef, and Maria, who works with Paramount in Pompano Beach. .
EDUCATION: University of Georgia, bachelor's in business administration.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Started Paramount in 1974. Inducted into the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame at Nova Southeastern University in 2004.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Community Foundation of Broward, Nova Southeastern University, Boys & Girls Club of Broward County, St. Thomas University, ARC Broward, Hispanic Unity, North Broward Preparatory School co-founder and more.
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Homework for boxing fans: Write down the name Leo Santa Cruz. Then start looking for his next fight.
He is a Mexican-born resident of Los Angeles who, Saturday night at Staples Center, remained unbeaten in 23 fights. He beat a tough and game Victor Zaleta of El Paso in a bantamweight brawl that featured punchers appearing to carry considerable more weight and danger than the normal 118 pounders.
Santa Cruz won with a straight right to the face in the eighth round. By then, Zaleta had taken quite a beating and seemed to go down, not just with the right to the face, but under the totality of punches. When it ended, Santa Cruz had thrown 839 punches, connected with 342 and had more than three rounds to go to increase those numbers.
To his credit, or bad judgment, Zaleta hung in impressively.
Santa Cruz put him down with a punch to the liver — Santa Cruz has established a reputation as one of the more devastating body punchers in the game — in the fourth round. He did it again in the seventh, connecting to the body and staggering Zaleta, before following with a shot to the chin.


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Police in Oklahoma City have identified a man found dead after he called 911, saying he'd been attacking.
Police say officers were called to San Nicholas Drive at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday after a man called authorities. Once there, officers found 58-year-old Deepak Bhasin dead.
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Police have no suspects and no one has been arrested.
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OXFORD, Miss. (April 3, 2010) - Sophomore Mayte Vizcarrondo (Cadiz, Spain) and senior Laura Jansone (Jurmala, Latvia) posted scores of 1-under-par 71 to lead the ETSU women's golf team during second round play Saturday in the Rebel Intercollegiate at the Ole Miss Golf Course.
With those efforts, the Buccaneers remain in second place, eight strokes back of 27th-ranked Tulane heading into Sunday's third and final round. The Bucs remain in front of teams such as Ole Miss, No. 18 Texas A&M, Augusta State, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma.
Individually, Vizcarrondo is sixth on the leaderboard and currently the top ETSU performer at this point of the tournament. She trails leader Julia Potter of Missouri by seven strokes.
"Mayte and Laura really stepped up today," said ETSU head coach Stefanie Shelton. "We still need to stay focused and we have a chance to catch Tulane if we can get four quality scores tomorrow. The third round should be exciting for us."
Along with Vizcarrondo, senior Sinead O'Sullivan (Galway, Ireland) is tied for 13th, while Jansone and sophomore Nina Muehl (Vienna, Austria) are tied for 26th and 29th, respectively.
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October 14, 2011
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No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge Challenger News and Notes
• This Week's Challenger… Brad Keselowski and the Penske Racing Discount Tire Dodge Challenger team will use chassis PRS-211 during Friday's Dollar General 300 Miles of Courage at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Keselowski drove this chassis to a victory at Chicagoland Speedway last month.
• The No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge Challenger in 2011... After 30 events, Keselowski and the reigning NNS champion No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge Challenger team are ranked sixth in the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) owner point standings. The team is coming off a victory in the Kansas Lottery 300 last weekend at Kansas Speedway.
• Keselowski Climbing the Charts… By taking the checkered flag in last week's Kansas Lottery 300 at Kansas Speedway, Keselowski entered into a tie for 15th place with Jeff Green and Joe Nemechek on the NNS all-time wins list with 16 victories. He sits four wins away from tying Greg Biffle for 14th place on the all-time list.
• Keselowski Speedway Stats… In 97 speedway starts in the Nationwide Series, Keselowski has accumulated eight wins, 42 top-five finishes, 60 top-10 results and five pole awards. In addition, he has led the field for 1,458 laps at tracks between one and two miles in length.
• Perfect Driver Rating… With his win last weekend, Keselowski scored a perfect driver rating of 150.0. The Penske Racing driver led 173 of 200 laps to secure his 16th career NNS victory. It was the fourth perfect driver rating for Keselowski during his NNS career.
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Brad Keselowski on racing at Charlotte Motor Speedway
"The Discount Tire Dodge Challengers have really been strong on the mile and a half tracks, especially over the last couple of months. To have a dominant car like we had at Kansas, even though they are two completely different intermediate tracks, gives me no reason to think we can't have another strong run at Charlotte this weekend. Every driver wants to win at Charlotte and my win in this race last year is one of my proudest moments in racing. Charlotte usually has some very tough fields so you beat the best when you win a race there."
Crew chief Todd Gordon on racing at Charlotte
"Charlotte is a very fast 1.5-mile track, probably one of the fastest places that we go. You need to get as much speed out of the car as possible without sacrificing the handling. Charlotte is very temperamental to changing track conditions. Most of our practice time is during the day, but we'll race at night. That makes our final practice on Thursday very important as it is the closest we'll be to race conditions. We like the intermediate package that we have developed over the course of the season. Hopefully it continues to perform like it has lately."


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The Dodgers and Boston Red Sox will meet today as first-place teams, exactly how the general managers and owners of both teams drew it up when they engineered the most expensive trade in baseball history on Aug. 25, 2012.
Nearly a year later, both franchises can trace their change in fortunes to the day when nine players and more than a quarter-billion dollars in contracts changed hands.
"People looked at it as 'Wow!'" Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said. "It had a lot of surprise from coast to coast, really."
The precarious process of trading players in August — seeing the superstars pass unclaimed through waivers, pitcher Josh Beckett making an exception on his no-trade clause — would make a Rube Goldberg machine jealous. That it worked so well for both the Red Sox and Dodgers is making 28 other major-league teams jealous.
It was a trade few teams could afford to make. But for the Dodgers, who could gain more than $7 billion out of a regional network deal signed with Time Warner in January, money might have been the least risky aspect of the trade.
The biggest risk was the players they acquired at the cost of young talent.
There was veteran utilityman Nick Punto, a fun-loving Orange County kid at heart despite his age (34) and .200 batting average at the time of the trade; Beckett, a former phenom flamethrower whose support among Sox fans was wearing out faster than his right arm; Carl Crawford, a fleet-footed left fielder who couldn't stay healthy in the prime of his career; and Adrian Gonzalez, the soft-spoken slugger who came closest to a sure thing for the Dodgers.
What each had in common one year ago was overshadowed by what they didn't have: the collective capacity to alter the fate of a struggling franchise.
"We were all pretty happy to be coming this way to a pennant race," Gonzalez said. "You know where Boston was at. We came to a really good situation."
On the morning of the trade, the Red Sox were 60-66. The Dodgers were 68-58. Punto, Beckett and Gonzalez — Crawford was relaxing at his home in Houston, having undergone elbow surgery two days before — took a celebratory picture on their chartered flight out of Boston. Punto published it on Twitter for the world to see.
They were free, united in purpose, and smiling broadly.
"That," Punto said, "was genuine."
Colletti wouldn't allow himself to envision the moment back in April 2012, when he took the idea of acquiring Gonzalez to Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington. Gonzalez was the Dodgers' primary target all along, going back to the first baseman's tenure in San Diego from 2006-10.
But Cherington wasn't interested in dealing Gonzalez, who led the Sox in RBIs (117) and batting average (.338) in 2011. A couple weeks into the new season, "El Titan" was doing everything except hitting home runs out of Fenway Park. Colletti and Cherington touched base again in July, but Gonzalez's stock was only rising further then; he hit .372 for the month.
By mid-August the Red Sox were falling out of contention and Cherington was willing to deal. While the framework of the trade was coming together — the Dodgers would have to acquire an unpopular Beckett and an injured Crawford — it was getting expensive.
So with Dodgers president Stan Kasten in Denver for the quarterly owners' meeting, he met with Red Sox principal owner John Henry and team president Larry Lucchino to discuss the financial aspect of the deal, a "middle step" in the process. The Red Sox would agree to pay $3.9 million of Gonzalez's salary each year through 2015.
Colletti knew what he would be getting in Gonzalez, having crossed paths often when Gonzalez was a Padre. He consulted with Dodgers manager Don Mattingly about the other players, particularly Crawford, whom Mattingly saw often when he was a coach with the Yankees and Crawford was playing in Tampa Bay.
"It happens all the time during the trade deadline," Mattingly said. "You're talking about numerous guys, different teams — 'what do you think about this guy, what do you think about that guy, we're looking at this.' They don't tell you everything they're doing, they just ask you about different guys so you have an idea that something could be going on. Then either it happens or it doesn't."
When word of the trade first leaked, Gonzalez wasn't listening.
"At this point in my career I don't listen to anything," he said. "The rumors were … just because we all went through waivers and were claimed by the Dodgers."
Not Punto. He was listening intently beginning Aug. 24, when the possible trade was suddenly the talk of Boston.
"I got to the ballpark around 2 like I normally do, and the trade rumors happened really quick," he said. "From 2 o'clock to 10 o'clock at night, that all went pretty quick. Everybody was just kind of sitting on eggshells wondering if it was going to happen. And we had a game to play."
Gonzalez was pulled from the Red Sox lineup moments before first pitch. Punto didn't play, either. Boston beat Kansas City 4-3.
Crawford was taking it all in from his couch in Houston. He was watching SportsCenter with his mother, brother, and a few other family members when he first saw his name lumped in the trade.
"I was just hoping that it wasn't a joke," Crawford said. "I was like, man, I need this to be true."
There was one hangup on the Dodgers' end. First baseman James Loney and minor leaguers Ivan DeJesus and Allen Webster all cleared waivers, while minor-league outfielder Jerry Sands and pitcher Rubby De La Rosa were claimed by other teams.
But the deal didn't fall through. De La Rosa and Sands became "players to be named later" and the trade was submitted to the league. When it became official Aug. 25, Colletti finally allowed himself to breathe.
"I try to prepare myself, and our staff tries to prepare itself, for every inevitability knowing that we don't know what's around the next corner, whether it's on the field or off the field," he said. "We try to do the best we can with whatever scenario we're faced with."
He called Crawford to deliver the news. It wasn't a joke.
"You know, with the ($142 million) contract, I didn't think I could ever get out" of Boston, Crawford said. "I thought I was going to be stuck there for seven years."
Gonzalez does not wear his emotions on his sleeve, but even he couldn't deny the joy of his new surroundings.
He hit a home run in his first at-bat as a Dodger the night of Aug. 25, the high point of an 8-2 win over Miami at the end of a long day. Gonzalez had a mechanical flaw in his swing at the time and didn't hit another home run for 26 games, but the smashing debut was an appropriate metaphor. Off the field, he hooked up with Padres Contra El Cancer (Spanish for "fathers against cancer"), a nonprofit organization based in Toluca Lake, and has donated his time and money to other local charities since.
To him, Los Angeles feels more like home than Boston.
"It's the stuff you can do outside of showing up to the ballpark," said Gonzalez, whose childhood was split between San Diego and Tijuana. "Being able to eat good Mexican, being around Mexicans, Mexican-Americans — that's my culture."
His numbers (16 home runs, 77 RBIs, .298 batting average) are more good than great, but Gonzalez has been healthy and consistent since Opening Day, something few Dodgers can claim. Gonzalez has batted third or fourth in every game, and has a chance to become the Dodgers' best first baseman since Steve Garvey.
Crawford and Punto have been pleasant surprises. Crawford's elbow hasn't been an issue at the plate or in left field. He is still close enough to his prime at age 32 to be an effective leadoff hitter, with a .350 on-base percentage and 11 steals in 15 attempts.
Punto's infectious hustle has led to 11 infield hits, including four on bunts. His defensive versatility (Punto plays three of the four infield positions) and ability to switch-hit make him an attractive option off the bench. Only five Dodgers have appeared in more games.
Beckett is the lone disappointment this year, having pitched only eight games before being sidelined with a nerve issue that required thoracic outlet surgery in July.
On the other end of the trade, Loney left Boston as a free agent to sign with Tampa Bay. Sands and DeJesus left in a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates. De La Rosa and Webster have appeared in 11 games with the Red Sox this year, but at 24 and 23 years old, respectively, it's too soon to say what kind of an impact each will have in Boston.
More important to the Red Sox was the money they saved. They re-signed David Ortiz and Jacoby Ellsbury, and lured Shane Victorino, Ryan Dempster and Mike Napoli as free agents.
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, who will be part of ESPN's broadcast team at Dodger Stadium on Sunday, said without the trade the Red Sox wouldn't be as financially flexible and able to develop their prospects.
"Boston found somebody willing to take all that — that was the perfect storm," Schilling said.
The Boston Globe wrote last year that the trade, for the Red Sox, was about "realizing that building a baseball team is more important than building a brand."
For the Dodgers, it was about both.
"It worked out for where we were as a franchise and what we were trying to do in the short term," Kasten said, "to provide us the foundation of credibility we needed with our fanbase, and to give us time to build in the long term."
"I think it showed everybody that this ownership group was real," Colletti added. "Its desire to win and to put as good a club on the field as possible as quick as possible showed not only with that trade, but that was the exclamation point to the earlier deals."


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Re: Scandals in the Sangha and the relevance to our practice
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:37 am
Very well put Aloka. A very sensible and positive post...Aloka wrote: I think that the mistake lies in having expectations that ''Buddhists'' will behave like perfect Buddhas, when in fact they're probably just ordinary human beings like anyone else.
My personal opinion these days is that I'm responsible for my own practice and not for anyone else's.


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And here is where I run into a metaphorical wall. What happens if you don't avoid a cliff? You go over it, plummeting into the abyss. Or the ravine. Or the valley below. Whatever. It's a very binary thing: Either you avert disaster, or you don't.
The problem policymakers in Washington face is real and potentially catastrophic, but it isn't so binary. We need a better metaphor.
"Fiscal cliff" refers to the simultaneous expiration of numerous temporary tax breaks -- including the lower rates enacted during President George W. Bush's first term and the 2-percentage-point cut in payroll taxes Congress put in place two years ago -- and an assortment of spending cuts, including across-the-board reductions in defense and social programs as well as the end of extended unemployment benefits. Economists at the Congressional Budget Office warn that allowing all of these changes to go into effect would send the economy back into a recession, although the changes also would do a bang-up job of reducing the federal deficit.


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We are in mid-September and my five-year-old has started kindergarten. So far I have felt as though I am shouting in the wilderness when mentioning the thought of slowing things down. We have a girl who wakes up a 3 AM, thinking about school and all that can go wrong. There are new pressures for all of us, but, looking around, I don't think we are in this wilderness alone.
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Brent Crude Oil (January '13):
- Short Term Trends are bullish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 11/30/12 @ 111.31. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 11/06/12 @ 109.11. Upside Targets = 110.78 – 112.12.
- New highs made on current move Monday @112.33. Upside Targets over 100% achieved
- January Brent Crude moved significantly higher in early trading on Monday as it broke through the November highs (112.20) before settling back just off the session's lows.
- Brent has traded sideways between effectively $105-$112 since the sharp breakdown in prices in the middle of September and without closing above $114 with a wide range and strong daily close, the back and forth price action within these price parameters are likely to continue for the coming weeks.
- Projected Daily Range: 1.56
- Projected Weekly Range: 3.89
- Projected Monthly Range: 9.03
WTI Crude Oil (January '13):
- Short Term Trends are bullish.
- Confirmation of a bottom with a range violation on 11/30/12 @ 86.70. Confirmation of a bottom with a close violation on 11/06/12 @ 87.86. Upside Targets = 88.99 – 89.89.
- New highs made on current move Monday @ 90.33. Upside Targets over 120% achieved
- January WTI Crude Oil was maligned to the same fate as Brent on Monday as it made new five week highs but was unable to sustain the gains as it closed in the lower 20% of the day's trading range.
- WTI's price action on Monday points to a lower opening and low on Tuesday but current ST support lies just below at $88.04 and should prop the market from those levels this week.
- Projected Daily Range: 1.78
- Projected Weekly Range: 3.36
- Projected Monthly Range: 8.74
Natural Gas (January '13):
- Short Term trend is bearish.
- Confirmation of a top with a range violation on 11/28/2012 @ 3.840. Confirmation of a top with a close violation on 11/28/2012 @ 3.801. Downside Targets = 3.746 – 3.708.
- New lows made on current move Monday @ 3.526.
- January Natural Gas initially gapped lower in Monday's overnight session before rallying back strongly throughout the trading session to close in the upper 60% of the day's trading range as investors saw value in the market after twice penetrating the daily SBB.
- Natural gas is trading at an extreme discount at current levels and should receive another round of follow-through buying on Tuesday as a precursor to an expected draw in inventories and rally as high as $3.70 by day's end.
- Projected Daily Range: .143
- Projected Weekly Range: .317
- Projected Monthly Range: .557


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Cover: The Green Knight's Belt The URL of this comic is http://www.rocr.net/?p=GKBcover
Well of course on the day of launch, two new errors would raise their heads. It's fixed now, though.
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By the way, there are several early versions of this cover art in the Gallery, on pages 8 and 9 of the Artworks section: http://rocr.xepher.net/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=colorartworks&page=8
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Commissioners move Theno Estates annexation forward
March 11, 2010
Three properties in the Theno Estates subdivison are one step closer to becoming part of Basehor.
At Thursday's Leavenworth County Commission meeting, the board voted, 3-0, to submit a decision to the city of Basehor that entering into an island annexation with the Theno properties would not hinder the growth of Basehor or that of any other incorporated city in the area.
In December, the Basehor City Council received a request from developers of the land, Brooke-Lynne Development and Howard Theno and Sons Builders, to annex the properties in the subdivision, which already uses the city's sewer system. Four additional properties are included in the subdivision, but the owners of these properties do not wish to annex into the city at this time.
The council voted at its Jan. 25 meeting to request the county commission to determine if annexing the lots in Theno Estates would be detrimental. The council's vote was in opposition to the course of action recommended by City Administrator Mark Loughry. Loughry told council members city staff did not believe the financial benefits of annexing Theno Estates were sufficient enough to take on the added costs of the subdivision's street maintenance, snow removal, etc. Also fueling Loughry's hesitations in the matter was the lack of a full voluntary annexation. Several properties will receive certain city services without paying city property taxes, Loughry said.
The county commissioners shared some of Loughry's concerns Thursday morning, as they discussed possible confusion the four remaining properties might cause.
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While we follow the spectacle of prospective immigration reform and whether Congress employs various "terminological inexactitudes" (Churchill's term for "lie") to disguise what would be in essence a blanket amnesty, herewith Churchill's remark from 1906 that bears on this point:
In dealing with nationalities, nothing is more fatal than a dodge. Wrongs will be forgiven, sufferings and losses will be forgiven or forgotten, battles will be remembered only as they recall the martial virtues of the combatants; but anything like a chicane, anything like a trick, will always rankle.
He added in a 1911 debate on British immigration reform:
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'Backing out of a failed update really ought to be a trivial matter...'
Plus: 'I'm not panicking AT ALL about Surface. No'
QuotW This was the week when there was an almighty tech disaster at RBS and Natwest that froze millions out of their bank accounts. Stories abounded of houses lost because sales hadn't gone through, people stuck in prison because their bail hadn't been paid and legions of folks just plain old p***ed off because they couldn't put their hands on their own money.
A day or two would have been FUBAR enough for any "glitch", but the banks' problems rolled into four days and people began to wonder exactly what went so totally horribly wrong to cause that kind of downtime.
Sources told The Register that the error was in a piece of batch scheduling software called CA-7, at least partially run out of India.
A former employee said:
Backing out of a failed update to CA-7 really ought to have been a trivial matter for experienced operations and systems programming staff, especially if they knew that an update had been made. That this was not the case tends to imply that the criticisms of the policy to "off-shore" also hold some water.
Another former employee said:
When they did the back-out, a major error was made. An inexperienced person cleared the whole queue... they erased all the scheduling.
Meanwhile, RBS denied that what was quickly becoming an apocalyptic disaster had anything to do with outsourcing.
However, sources kept coming out of the woodwork to say that RBS's cost-cutting efforts had led to elements of batch scheduling being outsourced to India.
One such source said:
The batch team was about 60 guys... they ran applications that chose the jobs that ran - maintaining the CA-7 schedule, not the CA-7 support... There were no redundancies in the CA-7 team but the batch support were taken down to about 30.
Which RBS continued to deny:
We have been clear we will fully investigate the causes of this incident. We hope people will understand that right now our complete focus is on fixing this problem and helping our customers.
The management and execution of batch processing is carried out in Edinburgh as has been the effort to recover and resolve this issue.
Following Microsoft's terribly late arrival to the tablet party last week, hardware partner Acer claimed it wasn't in the least bothered by the arrival of the Surface.
EMEA boss Oliver Ahrens said the Surface wasn't a competitive threat because its sales would be "superficial". He said:
Microsoft still has a big agenda for improving the user touch experience on Windows 8 and we hope this approach does not defocus them, but from a competitive point of view we are not concerned, not a bit.
Fujitsu is also not bothered by Redmond's move into hardware. Dr Joseph Reger, CTO at Fujitsu Technology Solutions told The Register:
I'm not panicking at all. Two things can happen. It's successful, and grabs market share and the market is growing.
If it's not successful, that brings clarity. Then we know the tablet space is a fight between Android and iOS.
In the latest instalment of the Great Patent Wars, there were losses on both sides as US Judge Richard Posner stamped the life out of an Apple v Motorola Mobility case and Apple won a ban from US Judge Lucy Koh on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1.
Posner had warned the companies already that he found their patent gripes totally annoying and wished they'd cop themselves on (paraphrasing), but this week he followed through, throwing the case out because he said neither company had proved they deserved any damages.
Dissing Apple's arguments, Posner said:
[There is a] danger that Apple's goal in obtaining an injunction is harassment of its bitter rival...The notion that these minor-seeming infringements have cost Apple market share and consumer goodwill is implausible, has virtually no support in the record, and so fails to indicate that the benefits to Apple from an injunction would exceed the costs to Motorola.
While he gave Moto's pleadings equally short shrift:
How could it be permitted to enjoin Apple from using an invention that it contends Apple must use if it wants to make a cell phone with UMTS telecommunications capability – without which it would not be a cell phone?
The fruity firm won a round in California when Judge Koh granted a preliminary injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1, which will be banned once Apple hands over the $2.6m bond and will stay that way until the whole case is over – unless Samsung wins an appeal.
She said:
Although Samsung has a right to compete, it does not have a right to compete unfairly, by flooding the market with infringing products.
Which the Korean giant was none too chuffed with, stating:
Apple sought a preliminary injunction of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, based on a single design patent that addressed just one aspect of the product's overall design.
Should Apple continue to make legal claims based on such a generic design patent, design innovation and progress in the industry could be restricted. ®


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Mohamed A. Baaqil 9/8/2007 3:10:39 AMWhat a nice picture. The way the light is coming into the cave is amazing.
Crystal L. Craig 9/8/2007 12:38:13 PMFabulous capture Patrick! Love the light and details in the rock walls. Very magical! Excellent work! #4764455
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Grilled Pompano with Vegetable Salsa
Moist and delightfully tender grilled Pompano is paired here with a fresh vegetable salsa. Artichoke slices dress the plate and add another texture contrast.
6 med. artichoke bottoms, sliced paper-thin
Juice of 1 lemon
Olive oil, for brushing
Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
6 pompano fillets, 5 oz. each
Vegetable Salsa
Vegetable Salsa:
2 med. tomatoes, diced
1 avocado, diced
1 yellow bell pepper, diced
1/2 red onion, diced
1 garlic clove, chopped
1/3 cucumber, diced
Juice of 2 limes
1/2 cup olive oil
2 tbsp. chopped cilantro leaves
Fine sea salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
1. Dress artichoke slices with lemon juice and olive oil; season with salt and pepper.
2. Season pompano with salt and pepper; brush with olive oil. Put on the grill, skin-side down; grill for 2-3 min. on each side, depending on thickness.
3. Mound salsa in center of plates; arrange fillet on top of salsa; top with artichoke slices.
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Epicurean travelers looking for a getaway in the spring need to check out the Broadmoor Hotel's inaugural "Taste & Savor" event, scheduled for March 5-8.
The weekend's seminars will include a caviar tasting, new ways to prepare vegetables and throwing the perfect cocktail party. The entrance fee will include all the seminars, a welcome reception Thursday night and the gala on Saturday night.
Visitors can choose among several dinners Friday night. Among the offerings will be a Southern Heritage dinner paired with American whiskeys and bourbons; another will pair the Burgundies of Joseph Drouhin with foods of that region.
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February 28. 2013 9:11AM
Nashua man in critical condition after Brookline accident
BROOKLINE - A Nashua man is hospitalized in critical condition after a crash late Wednesday afternoon on Route 13, near Averill Road.
Raymond Beauregard, 20, was driving a 2007 Honda Civic north on Route 13 just after 4:30 p.m. when his car crossed into the southbound lane and was struck by a 2012 Freightliner van operated by James Keavney, 62, of Fitchburg, Mass., police said.
Beauregard was taken by Brookline Ambulance to St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua and later transferred to the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass., for medical treatment. Police Chief Bill Quigley said Beauregard was not wearing a seat belt and, as a result, had to be extricated from under the dashboard.
Beauregard was in critical condition Wednesday night, but Quigley said Thursday morning that police have not heard from the hospital concerning how he is doing this morning. Keavney was not injured in the crash.
The road was extremely icy at the time of the accident, police said, but what caused it remains under investigation. Anyone who witnessed it is asked to call police at 673-3755.


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It's that moment that every bride longs for. In the name of love, every minute of planning comes together on your big day. We're thrilled to be sharing those details from Jennifer's wedding to Brandon today.
Jennifer and Brandon teamed up with Stacy McCain Event Planning to create an enduring affair for their guests. From the venue, to the florals, the brides accessories and the paper details, every element fell perfectly into place with effortless beauty.
Working with Dauphine Press exclusive retailer Union Street Papery, the couple chose our Ivy suite as inspiration for their wedding stationery. Personalizing the letterpress invitation with a natural color palette of spring green and espresso brown gave their guests a glimpse into the gorgeous outdoor affair in store. The couple also chose a deep brown backer card to frame the invitation and carry out the look. With a touch of tradition, they customized the design to include a layout with all of the text centered on the card, over the whimsical offset layout of the original design.
With classic place cards directing guests to their seats where they found the 2-color letterpress menus tucked into the perfectly coordinating napkin and the invitation design duplicated on the wedding cake {we LOVE that touch!!!} this fabulous fete is one of our favorite real Dauphine Press weddings!
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Church, will be the speaker at the annual spring meeting of the Davidson Foundation
held at the Josephine Davidson Memorial Chapel situated on Davidson Road at the
center of the Foundation's 3000 acres near Harleton in northwestern Harrison County.
This annual event is recognized to be one of the most unique events in Northeast Texas.
This spring's program begins at 11a.m. on Saturday, May 18th, 2013 and
following Rev. Garbs' appearance, all those in attendance are invited to remain and
enjoy a complimentary catered lunch on the chapel grounds.
Rodger Garbs' credentials are impressive. He is a native Texan and is a
graduate of Texas A&M University receiving his BAA in Marketing in1993. During his
undergraduate days he served as "The Voice of Aggieland" at public events on campus
including football games at Kyle Field. After graduating from Texas A&M he attended
the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, receiving his Master
of Divinity degree in 1999. Rev. Garbs is active in the Marshall community as a
member of the Rotary Club and Lions Club. He is also President of the Sam Houston
Middle School PTA, a member of the Marshall Education Foundation and volunteers
his time with schools and Boy Scouts. Rev. Garbs brings a broad and thoughtful
perspective to many of the pressing religious issues of our day. His comments on "the
faith of our fathers" our within this context promises to be memorable.
On a country road between Harleton and Gilmer, the Josephine
Davidson Memorial Chapel was constructed to honor the mother of one of Harrison
County's most outstanding jurists and political figures. Judge T. Whitfield Davidson,
being largely self-educated "read the law," and then passed the Texas Bar Exam. He
served as City Attorney in Marshall, Texas State Senator, Lt. Governor and
subsequently ran for Governor of Texas in 1924 on a platform opposing the Ku Klux
Klan which was then attempting to influence and control many state offices. Though he
failed to win the governor's race, he was appointed United States District Judge by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt where continued his battle against vigilante justice until
he was in his 90s.
Childless, in 1955 he decided to use his wealth to honor his mother by
building a stone chapel in her name on the farm where he was born. He intended it to
last forever, he said, and was buried there himself in 1974, just two years shy of his
100th birthday.
When he established the Davidson Foundation he gave its Trustees two
mandatory tasks: maintaining the chapel and holding two gatherings there each year.
One was to be in the fall where someone "learned in the Constitution and laws of the
land" would speak and one in the spring as a celebration of "the faith of our fathers."
Reflecting, perhaps, on his own memories of arduous trips to the county seat from the
country, he made sure the guests at each gathering would be fed before they left the
chapel grounds.
To reach the chapel from Marshall, travel north on S.H. 154 to Harleton, then turn
onto FM 450 North and follow it until it meets the Davidson Road (a TxDOT sign
marks the turn) then turn left from FM 450 onto Davidson Road and follow it until it
intersects the entrance to the Chapel property, which is marked with a sign for the
entrance. From Gilmer take S.H. 154 southeast to Harleton and follow the same
directions. From Longview, take Alpine Road (FM 2208) north to Harleton and then
follow the same instructions. From Jefferson, take FM 2208 west to Harleton and then
follow the same instructions
The Foundation's Trustees invite the public to enjoy this unique East Texas
tradition with a truly impressive jurist and speaker in one of our area's most picturesque settings.


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Whether you want a casual look for running errands or a hairstyle that's appropriate for the workplace, all top ten hair trends featured below can be completed in thirty minutes or less. So sit back, relax, and get your brush ready because these trends will get you excited to try something new this season.
Top Hair Trends for Fall 2011
Casual Hair Trends 2011
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This fall, throw on your skinny jeans, boots, and let your hair go a little wild. To achieve this look, throw your head over and spray your hair with hairspray. Then, flip your head back and place your hair in a ponytail, letting the strands fall wherever strikes their fancy.
The Loose Braid
This is not the French braid you perfected in junior high. This is a loose, easy style that should take only five minutes to achieve. Part your hair on the side and bring the braid over your shoulder for a relaxed look that goes well with any casual outfit.
Honey Colored Highlights
One of the hottest hair trends this season is honey toned highlights. Ask your stylist to make the highlights chunky for a warm and layered look that's perfect for the fall.
Workplace Hair Trends 2011
Thick Bangs
Add sophistication to your work attire by experimenting with thick bangs. The best part about this fall fashion trend is that you can easily alter it. If you decide that bangs don't work with your facial structure, simply pull them to the back or side, and they should be gone by Christmas.
The Elegant Ponytail
Even a ponytail can be elegant if you create it the right way. Try hot rolling your hair (a la Princess Kate). Then, pull your hair all the way to the back of your head in a high ponytail, wrap it with a piece of your own hair, and secure with a clip or pin.
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Josh Stickler and Kate Kelly provide an overview of what's new and improved with Variations in SharePoint 2013, with an emphasis on infrastructural improvements most interesting to IT Admins.
Variations is a SharePoint feature that enables users to create, manage, and translate locale-specific content for Internet and intranet Publishing sites. We first introduced Variations in SharePoint 2007. Since then, we've had the opportunity to learn how customers use the feature and better understand customer scenarios, pain points, and aspirations when it comes to managing content in multiple languages.
Here's a quick overview of what we'll cover in this post:
- Package and export content for translation using Microsoft Translator or the translation tool of your choice
- Add languages faster, handle more content, and operate more reliably
- Support a diversity of localization management requirements among locales
Introducing integrated translation support
We're excited to introduce default support for exporting and importing Variations content for translation. SharePoint 2013 includes a Machine Translation Service that connects SharePoint to Microsoft Translator. You can also export SharePoint content as a package that you or a third-party translation vendor can use for human translation.
Machine translation provides a valuable first step to localizing website content, making your content accessible to users speaking other languages. Machine translation is available as an additional step, after you publish and approve source-language content and sync that content to a locale-specific site. You can then send pages, list items, and documents to Microsoft Translator, the same service you may be familiar with from Office client applications. Users around the world trust Microsoft Translator to translate millions of documents from or to 39 supported languages every day, in a way that is secure and preserves rich text formatting.
Many customers work with localization vendors to get their content professionally translated. In the past, we emphasized in-browser translation; but, localization vendors often prefer using their own tools and processes outside of SharePoint. SharePoint 2013 makes it easier to send content to localizers by exporting an XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF) file. XLIFF is an Oasis open standard that is gaining popularity in the localization industry.
Translation is available only when using the Variations feature. Variations is different from our Multilingual User Interface (MUI) feature. Variations helps you manage user-generated content in multiple languages for both Internet and intranet Publishing sites. MUI switches the language of the SharePoint user interface elements (like the ribbon and Site Settings links) based on a user's browser language.
Variations adds languages faster, handles more content, and operates more reliably
Suppose you've been using Variations for a while and are ready to expand into a new market. Adding a language is now much faster. The operation runs in the timer service just like in SharePoint 2010, but instead of running as one large timer job, we've split the operation into a bunch of smaller work items. This way, if you encounter and resolve an error, you can pick up where you left off instead of having to delete any partially-created sites and start over.
You can also create more variation labels than ever before. Variation labels represent a locale-specific set of sites, lists, and navigation. We support creating up to 209 variation labels on-premises, one for each locale supported by SharePoint. Also, improvements to performance, scalability, reliability, and monitoring in SharePoint 2013 have enabled us to make Variations available to customers running Office 365. Office 365 now supports a maximum of 50 variation labels.
In SharePoint 2013 the Variations feature is also much more inclusive about what gets translated, and it offers greater flexibility in terms of when and how variants reach target locales. In SharePoint 2010, the only way to propagate a resource such as a document or image from a source library to a target library is to publish a source page that refers to that resource. Even if the source page is already published and has not changed, you have to publish a new version of the page to propagate changes to a related resource. In SharePoint 2013, lists and libraries can sync independently from pages. You can also sync and translate managed navigation terms to localize navigation and friendly URLs.
Variations supports diverse translation management requirements among locales
Interviewing customers about their translation management requirements, pain points, and aspirations reinforced a key lesson: When it comes to global content strategy, one size does not fit all. That's why we've designed Variations to accommodate diverse requirements among locales. Two general patterns emerged from our research: "centralized" and "distributed" control.
"Centralized" control organizations typically have a large core set of content that applies to all locales. While content owners in locales can create locale-specific content, owners must translate new and updated core content more often than not.
"Distributed" control organizations give locale content owners more discretion over how and when to incorporate source content changes into their sites. New source content may apply only to the source locale, or to a subset of target locales. For example, Contoso Electronics might offer a new product only in the United States and Mexico, but not Canada. When source content is updated, locale content owners can get an email notification and "opt in" to receiving and translating the changes.
Likely, one or both of these types of organizations sound familiar to you. You can choose a different approach for different locales and you can switch the approach at any time.
Thanks for reading! We'll cover more end-user improvements for Variations in our next post.
Josh Stickler is a Program Manager on the SharePoint Enterprise Content Management team, responsible for the Variations feature in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. Kate Kelly is a Program Manager on the Office Globalization Experience Platform Team, responsible for integrating Translation Services into SharePoint
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DirecTV (NASDAQ:DTV) will report its Q1 2013 earnings on May 7, 2013. While the saturated pay-TV market in the U.S. remains a key challenge, its Latin America business is the dark horse for the company's growth and contributes around 25% to DirecTV's value.
The company faces fierce competition from other multi-service operators (MSOs) such as Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and telecom carriers such as Verizon (NYSE:VZ) that provide fiber based cable and broadband services. For the Q1 earnings, the focus will remain on the company's pay-TV subscriber gains. While we expect the subscriber additions and average revenue per user (ARPU) to drive growth in the U.S., subscriber growth will be the primary driver for Latin America operations.
See our complete analysis for DirecTV
- Weekly Pay-TV Notes: AT&T & DirecTV Merge With FCC's Blessing; Comcast Announces Strong Q2 Results And Declares Dividend
- Why We Believe That The DirecTV-AT&T Merger Is Almost A Done deal
- DirecTV-AT&T Merger: Some Questions Still Remain
- How Much Of An Effect Is Cord Cutting Having On Cable Companies?
- How Are DirecTV's U.S. Operations Trending?
- Factors That Could Potentially Trigger Movement In DirecTV's Stock Price
What Is DirecTV Betting On?
Opportunity In Latin America
The Latin America business has been doing well for the company, and its revenues jumped 23% in 2012 as compared to the previous year. [1] We expect a strong growth in Latin American market due to the under-penetration of the pay-TV market in the region.
Exclusivity Of NFL Sunday Ticket
NFL Sunday Ticket is an out-of-market sports package that broadcasts National Football League regular season games unavailable on local affiliates. The exclusivity of NFL Sunday Ticket will continue to attract more customers to DirecTV. Moreover, the company has been focusing on becoming a premium brand in the U.S. by targeting high-end customers. This strategic positioning will help the company boost its subscription fee. We expect ARPU for the company to grow in this quarter and reach $70 by end of the year.
What Is DirecTV Lacking?
Bundling Option
DirecTV commands close to 20% of the pay-TV market share in the U.S. In the past couple of years traditional cable based pay-TV operators have been losing their market share to satellite based operators such as DirecTV and Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH). However, companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) have been aggressively attending to this issue and have come up with multiple strategies to retain their customers. Comcast has been successful in reducing its subscriber losses in the past few quarters. In the long run this can impact the growth in market share of DirecTV.
Given the saturation in the pay-TV market, there is not much room left for the company to penetrate in the U.S. and it lacks bundling options as provided by MSOs and other fiber-based operators. DirecTV's rival Dish Network has been eyeing wireless market and offered $25.5 billion to acquire Sprint last month. However, DirecTV has made it clear that it has no intentions to enter into wireless space, and it will continue to invest in its traditional satellite based model. [2]
Need for online streaming
Another important feature that the company is lagging in is the online streaming service. Given the increased use of smartphones and tablets and a change in customer's preference to grab entertainment at home as well as on-the-go, it is important for any pay-TV operator to offer smooth streaming services. DirecTV offers certain shows and videos on demand for multiple devices and certain live networks on its tablet and smartphone apps, but it still has a ways to go in improving these services.
Our price estimate for DirecTV stands at $58, roughly in line with the current market price.
Understand How a Company's Products Impact its Stock Price at TrefisNotes:
- DirecTV's SEC filings [↩]
- DirecTV Spurns Dish's View That Wireless Is Satellite-TV Savior, Bloomberg, May 6, 2013 [↩]


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I would cut peoples fishing lines with my <<Sword Skill.>>
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I would have multiple affairs and then tell them all where they could find me, and never show.
I would start a new religion, where I am Charlie Manson and I would preach about Helter Skelter.
I would convince a girl that I loved her, lie to her about owning a house and I would leave her there.
I would mix paralysis into my food items and offer them to ppl.
I would go into stores and break their weapons.
I would dance naked during boss fights.
I would ninja all the loot.
I would lie about "legendary" weapons and skills and tell everybody that I am a new age Homer.
I would try to start the first VRMMORPG <<Brothel.>>
I would craft items with terrible durability and convince ppl they are "pro."
I would try to sell my items inside other peoples stores.
I would throw low lvl poison knives into large groups of ppl, without caring who it hits.
I would start a discrimination group for hating beta's.
I would feed starving children my crumbs.
I would throw hallucination bombs at RAID parties.
I would create division between the races of SAO, saying that my race is the best.
I would deliberately mess with escorts and I would intentionally lead groups in circles.
I would kill steal.
I would trip who ever I saw running.
I would create a hotel and when people went to their rooms, I would lock them inside for days.
I would dig incredibly deep sink holes around cities and along roads.
I would ask a <<Knights of the Blood>> the time, and while they're looking away I would break an egg over their head.
I would heckle during Guild meetings.
I would start a <<Stand Up Comedy>> gig, and continuously insult Asuna and Kirito.
I would <<Exploit>> the <<Auction House>> Buying and selling for profit, and I would then horde all the <<Money.>>
I would ruin the in-game economy by destroying all the <<Money>> I had horded.
I would vandalize <<Knights of the Blood>> HQ.
I would convince Heathcliff that I could <<MOD>> his shield, and then sell it for the cheapest I could.
I would craft a <<Cruise Ship>> fill it with people, never myself board it, and leave it stranded for days.
I would build a homeless shelter, and as soon as it was built I would blow it up and laugh.
I would take inappropriate <<Screen Shots>> of myself and send them to Asuna.
I would start a <<Secret Society>> Guild that campaigns misogyny.
I would start funny rumors about Kirito, for instance "Kirito likes to cross dress!"
I would start a death cult, convincing people they have to sacrifice their <<Pets>> to Kayaba Akihiko.
I would start a beauty pageant and declare nobody the winner.
I would convince the women of SAO that their only purpose is cooking.
I would write music about how Asuna should stay in the kitchen.
I would convince Asuna that I could revive Yui, then pawn the necklace.
I would give children in-game alcohol.
I would convince women to bake pies, so I could throw them at Kirito and <<Knights of the Blood.>>
I would tell everybody that the final boss looks like Nicki Minaj, playing her fail music.
I would shout sexist things.
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In the end, I would be hated by the entire community. I would not take another players life, ever.
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Fake my death in a saf....oh wait someone beat me too it
@casualplayer for the love of God, man. o_o I don't troll unless I'm bored and if I do I feel really bad about it. D: I would probably just make things explode or set them on fire and organize flash mobs even though I can't dance. I would also create an event for Valentines Day where everybody (or at least a huge group of people) all go to one town running all over the place in wedding gowns asking people embarrassing questions, going to restaurants, and other random things. Then I would organize the same event on Christmas, only we all dress up as Santa and upset the officials (or the equivalent if they have them). (Okay, yes, I got these ideas from The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks o3o Well..the Santa and wedding gown ones. As much as I would love for those to be my ideas, they aren't. Sorry.) Maybe I could even set up a few McDonalds or Walmarts. :D
It's been fun, everyone, but I'm afraid I must leave. Adios~
Gotta admit, I'm liking the brothel idea...... but i would probably only yell every couple floors or so "INVISIBLE MOBS!!!" and act like im getting hurt and see how long people believe it
walk around dual wielding like a boss....
the ultimate troll is something no one else can do
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Well, I wouldn't PK anyone since I'm really not that...bloodthirsty. And all those people who would want revenge...
Dancing naked during boss fights sounds like something I would have the guts to do, I guess.
Perhaps I would just give misleading directions when someone asked for them or something akin to that. Nothing people could get killed over/would kill me over, but something still at least mildly annoying.
I probably would not troll. I don't know why anyone would want to harm another in any way but i do know people do...
Legal Anime http://www.crunchyroll.com/user/Assassinx89/pages/legalsites
Troll criminals and let them die in boss dungeons.
Hell no, I'd be too busy with the front lines trying to get back to the real world.
July 4th, 1776 was the day that man kind started making better decisions.


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For the longest time, I was using my task list to manage my appointments. It was really easy to do that with a custom Planner task-sorting function. This is the function I used on day pages:
(defun sacha/planner-sort-tasks-basic () "Sort tasks by time (@1030, etc), priority, and status (oP_>XC)." (let* ((info (planner-current-task-info)) (status (aref (planner-task-status info) 0))) (concat (if (or (eq status ?X) (eq status ?C)) "Z" ; Completed and cancelled tasks go last " ") ;; Sort by time (or (and (string-match "@[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]" (planner-task-description info)) (match-string 0 (planner-task-description info))) "@9999") ;; Sort by status: in progress, postponed, ;; open, delegated, completed, cancelled (cond ((eq status ?o) "1") ((eq status ?P) "2") ((eq status ?>) "4") ((eq status ?X) "5") ((eq status ?C) "6") (t "3")) ;; A, B, C (planner-task-priority info)))) ;; Here's how to make that your task-sorting function, although ;; mine actually changes function on plan pages (setq planner-sort-tasks-key-function 'sacha/planner-sort-tasks-basic)
This worked because I generally had few appointments and I didn't use M-x plan to carry unfinished tasks forward. If I did, then I'd probably get hopelessly confused. =)
That's because I was keeping track of several different things using the same syntax. Appointments are typically scheduled for a specific day and a specific time. It doesn't make sense to carry them over to the next day if you don't mark them done. In fact, it makes very little sense to mark them as "done" or not, as you just show up to them. Granted, I used my task list to also keep track of (and publish!) events that I'd meant to go to but decided not to, so "cancelling" still made sense. But carrying stuff over to the next day? Not really.
I used my task list to keep track of people's birthdays, too. That didn't really work out too well either, because I had to remember to copy the task and date it for the next year. It was good for keeping track of whose birthdays I'd remembered to recognize, though. Still, setting up planner-cyclic would probably have been a good idea.
And I also used my task list to keep track of tasks, of course. I very much preferred thinking in terms of tasks rather than appointments. The action orientation's better for me, I guess. So my task list for each day would have plenty of tasks, some of which I *needed* to do that day, and others which I thought it would be nice to do that day.
I like reviewing my tasks during the night before, or over breakfast. I go through my tasks and appointments and figure out what makes sense to do when. Sometimes I estimate how long tasks will take. Then I shuffle the tasks around with keyboard shortcuts until I've got similar tasks grouped together. Yes, I know, I *could* just visually scan the list to see what I can do next, but I like sorting all of that beforehand and then methodically going through this list. This is something I still haven't quite figured out how to do in Org or Lotus Notes. Maybe it's a Planner quirk of mine.
During this day-sorting, appointments are usually the only things with timestamps on them. Sometimes I'll add timestamps to my tasks as well, to give myself a clearer feeling about the time boundaries.
So what my schedule looks like throughout the day is a mish-mash of tasks and appointments and events (completed, in progress, blank, cancelled), but it works for me because everything's in one place and I don't even need to look to the side.
I haven't been able to keep that up to date recently because I now have a separate work computer, but once I set Emacs up on my work computer, I might get back to that kind of comfortable arrangement. It's either that or learn how to tweak Lotus Notes, which seems kinda scary... =)
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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Colorado exploration company will stop drilling next to Glacier National Park, with company officials saying they haven't located enough oil and gas to continue after 14 wells and more than a decade of work.
Anschutz Exploration Corp.'s leases are adjacent to Glacier on the western side of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, with some wells drilled within 10 miles of the park.
That has drawn protests from conservationists worried about the effects of hydraulic fracturing and the concern of officials from the park and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the possible effects on the resources and wildlife.
Anschutz spokesman Brent Temmer said the decision to halt operations was not influenced by any external pressure.
"Our decision to cease exploration is driven by the fact that we have not located enough resources to warrant continuing exploration," Temmer said Wednesday in an emailed response to an Associated Press query. "We came to the decision after extensive technical analysis and data interpretation. This is a business decision not affected by any other issue."
Anschutz is the last of three companies with energy exploration leases on the Blackfeet reservation to halt or suspend operations, effectively putting new oil and gas development on the reservation on hold.
Tribal officials said Wednesday the lack of success has scared away most U.S. companies, but they already are in talks with several Canadian firms about taking over the leases.
"These guys couldn't make it work, but maybe somebody else can," said Grinnell Day Chief, the tribe's oil and gas minerals director. "The oil and gas is here. It's just the problem of getting it out of the ground."
Regardless, Anschutz's decision to pull up stakes might alleviate — even if it's only temporary — some concerns expressed by Glacier officials about the potential of water quality being affected, the possible spread invasive weeds and the dark night skies being broken up by lighted drilling rigs, park spokeswoman Denise Germann said.
If oil and gas activity resumes on reservation land near Glacier, park officials will continue to state their concerns, she said.
"As a neighbor, we will comment appropriately," Germann said. But, she added, "That's their decision. That's their land."
The Park Service has called for a comprehensive study on the cumulative effects of all past and future drilling and what would happen if the wells start producing oil and gas.
Tribal officials have dismissed the concerns by federal agencies as outside interference, a view that Day Chief repeated Wednesday.
"This is our land, these are our minerals, and we will develop them the way we want," he said.
The Missoulian first reported Anschutz's decision to halt drilling.
Anschutz officials said they will continue to operate their five producing wells and surrender the rest of its leases after completing reclamation projects that include plugging other wells and restoring the sites.
Newfield Production Co. and Rosetta Resources, the two companies that already have halted exploration in the central and eastern parts of the reservation, are meeting with tribal officials in April to discuss whether they plan to surrender their leases, Day Chief said.
The tribe is in discussions with at least three Canadian companies to take over the leases, Day Chief said. Those companies, which Day Chief declined to identify, have a track record of producing wells in the same basin formation just to the north, he said
"They have it figured out across the border," Day Chief said. "But the U.S. companies have pretty much lost interest."


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Chiefs coach Andy Reid sheds a little light on what he thinks of the Browns' little big man, Joe Banner. For more than a decade, he played face man to Banner's secret agent.
Andy Reid was the head coach. Joe Banner was the president.
They were the face man and the secret agent behind Philadelphia's run to three NFC title games and assorted playoff seasons.
Banner got there first. He helped Reid get his head coaching break.
They departed. They meet again, Sunday at Kansas City.
Here is what Reid told a handful of us in the Browns' media room during a break in his preparations for extending his 7-0 record.
• Reid was asked to describe why his relationship with Banner ended — Reid spent one last season with the Eagles while banner was making his start as Browns CEO. Reid didn't quite go there.
"I'm a big Joe Banner fan. I spent 14 great years with him, and we had a ton of success together. He was one of the leads who was instrumental in me being part of the Eagles. They gave me really every opportunity, along with Jeff Lurie, to be able to win football games. And ... he's a brilliant guy. He knows football. He knows talent. He knows what it takes to win. I think he'll do a nice job there.
(Here's where Reid, without pausing, shifted gears away from the 'how it ended' question.)
"They had an owner ... switching to the ownership there ... I was very close with Mike Holmgren, too. I thought he had things going in the right direction. So Joe's able to pick up and now put his mark on it, and I think he'll do just a tremendous job. Cleveland is very fortunate to have him."
• Somebody asked him to recall one good "a day with Joe" story. Andy wasn't in the mood to go there, either.
"Ah, gee. We were together five times a day every day, so ... it was ... oh, heck, I don't know, there were too many of 'em. Too many different things. We experienced the highs, the lows, and, ummm, it was ... we did it together. I'm not sure I could pick one thing out. It was too many things."
• Reid was slightly more forthcoming when asked to assess Banner's work in Cleveland so far.
"Listen. First of all I think he hired a tremendous head coach. And I think the coordinators that Rob has hired there ... those three coordinators are tremendous (counting special teams coordinator). And then you see the different moves he's making strategically, with trades and accumulating draft picks. I mean, He's very, very good at that now. And, what doesn't seem ... you know ... it might seem crazy now, but ... you just watch and see how it blossoms in the future. He's got a great eye for putting things together that way."
• The question was about Banner's outward appearance of "bean counter." But how involved was he in the Eagles' personnel decisions.
"Listen, I think when you're in today's football ... however you ... you know ... the capolgists and personnel, those two have to be tied in, hand in hand. There's no walls in this thing any more, where you have a football coach, the personnel, and the front office. You can't have that.
"So, everybody blends and communicates. Everybody has a say in things. And then you come to a decision and you make a decision ... together. That's how it works.
"So, Joe was involved in everything. We had no secrets. That's not how we operated. And, uh, um, we did it together."
• The Chiefs' defense is going nuts. It leads the league in sacks with 35, 15 more than second place. When asked what has made the pass rush tick, Reid didn't mention coordinator Bob Sutton my name. He mentioned another guy.
"We have good players, No. 1. Tommy Frazier, who was with me a long time at Philadelphia, is my defensive line coach. He's a great teacher. And then, I think you add into it the scheme."
• Reid on the Browns quarterback du jour:
"I have a ton of respect for Jason. He's a heck of a quarterback. Very smart ... ummm ... accurate ... ummm ... got great size. If you have an opportunity to tackle him, you better wrap him up because he's a big man. I think he's a good football player.
"The main thin is you're (meaning the Browns) not changing the system. In Jason, they've got a veteran guy. That's not a bad situation there."
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St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 6167 Walmore Road in Sanborn, will host its monthly contemporary worship gathering, "Saturday Night Alive," on Saturday, Nov. 24, starting at 5:30 p.m. The gathering will include worship, a Bible study, and prayer.
The guest Bible study leader will be Derek Neuman, a Niagara-Wheatfield graduate. A free-will offering will be taken to benefit the ministries of the Magdalene Project of Niagara Falls.