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|Redskins | Brian Baker won't be retained
Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:58:26 -0800
Washington Redskins outside linebackers coach Brian Baker will not be retained in 2015.
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|Redskins | Brian Baker hired
Wed, 15 Jan 2014 09:16:55 -0800
The Washington Redskins have hired Cleveland Browns outside linebacker coach Brian Baker as their new outside linebacker coach.
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|Browns | Brian Baker added to staff
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:05:55 -0800
The Cleveland Browns have hired Brian Baker to be their outside linebackers coach.
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|Cowboys | Brian Baker let go
Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:30:39 -0800
Dallas Cowboys defensive line coach Brian Baker is no longer with the team.
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|Cowboys | Brian Baker hired
Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:01:47 -0800
Updating a previous report, the Dallas Cowboys have agreed to terms with University of North Carolina assistant coach Brian Baker to become their defensive line coach, reports David Moore, of The Dallas Morning News.
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|Cowboys | Brian Baker offered DL coaching job
Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:10:40 -0800
The Dallas Cowboys have offered former Carolina Panthers assistant coach Brian Baker their defensive line coaching position, reports Darin Gantt, of the Charlotte Observer. Baker said he will decide whether he will accept the position by Tuesday, Feb. 8.
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|Panthers | R. Davis met with B. Baker
Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:54:25 -0700
Ed Thompson, of Scout.com, reports University of California DE Rulon Davis met with Carolina Panthers defensive line coach Brian Baker at his Pro Day, according to a source.
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|Rams | Baker hired as defensive line coach
Tue, 21 Feb 2006 13:11:26 -0800
Nick Wagoner, of StLouisRams.com reports the St. Louis Rams have hired former Minnesota Vikings defensive line coach Brian Baker as their new defensive line coach. Baker takes the spot vacated by Bill Kollar, who departed for Buffalo soon after Scott Linehan was hired as the Rams' head coach.
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|Giants | Team interviewed Baker
Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:10:11 -0800
Sean Jensen, of the Pioneer Press, reports former Minnesota Vikings defensive line coach Brian Baker interviewed but did not get the secondary coach position with the New York Giants.
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|Vikings | Baker will not be retained
Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:00:31 -0800
Updating previous reports, the Star Tribune reports Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress has told defensive line coach Brian Baker that he won't be a member of the coaching staff.
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Our first Friday Focus for the New Year is all about animated designs, a bit on the subtle side but sure to pique your interest nonetheless.
Designs of the Week
The page first loads the logo, then clicking on it displays a trail of circular navigation items for each section of the site. Hovering on each runs a vertically scrolling animation in the background, each unique to the item. Clicking then loads the content area either in the huge half-circle background sliding out from the top, or another slide-out area from the bottom. Nothing too crazy, but lots of fun, casual touches from the heading font choice to the scarcity in straight edges. There's also a nice little bounce/delay effect in the portfolio slider, where the MBP screenshot "stops" before the iMac one.
The gray droplets of rain appear to stagger diagonally downward, just as slowly as the ferris wheel turns—it's not my usual expected behavior for rainfall and almost seems to be creeping instead of falling. Clicking around the area (wait to see your cursor change) reveals people holding black umbrellas appearing out of thin air and floating away. You might even chance upon a dinosaur. The portfolio items are arranged one after the other so it's a tall website, and scrolling past the first screenful reveals a cloud menu affixed to the left, replacing the original one.
This site plays two different animation modes in each section, which you can select by dragging the slider at the top: the pleasant "Reverend" and the more violent "Danger". Also featured are tree stumps that pop up as you scroll past, and a slider with an added bouncing effect. All areas use simple animations—slides, flips, easing—but it's the story and visuals that make them special.
There's only one small animation here and it's the smoke coming out of the cowboy's gun. I like how it looks random or unpredictable enough although it does look just a little pixelated at some points. The slanting text in the top navigation gives a small, old-style touch, while the four circles repeat in the social icons at the bottom.
Here's another on a very short list of sites with the scroll-to-zoom effect, and in this case it's zooming out instead of zooming in. But that's only half the story, below it is a shooting game of snowmen and snowballs. I think I only gripe is the two things kind of handicap the scrolling so once you've gone down you won't be able to go up unless you use the "Top" link, which actually reloads the page instead of jumping upwards with an anchor.
Here the animations occur in the slider, albeit one you can't control (at least a pause on hover would be nice). I like the concept of using CMYK colors for each graphic (also on other pages), tying everything together. Other sections remain warm and neutral.
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Design – Ketchup Bottles & The Physicality Of Design
"You may not immediately notice these little details, but they make digital interfaces appear more valuable, like little hand-crafted executive paperweights: expensive, heavy and solid."
CSS – Seven things still missing from CSS
"CSS has come a long way but it's not perfect (yet). Molly Holzschlag, passionate standardista and open web evangelist, quizzed her peers to find out what they see as the most frustrating aspects of CSS."
User Experience – A plea for progressive enhancement
"For this ubiquity to truly benefit all of us (not just those of us with a high income, or the latest phone) we have to start building sites using solid, future friendly principles such as progressive enhancement…not just when it's handy or simple, but all the time."
CSS, Optimization – Profiling CSS for fun and profit. Optimization notes.
"As our pages/apps become more interactive, the complexity of CSS increases, and browsers start to support more and more "advanced" CSS features, CSS performance will probably become even more important."
Tools, HTML, CSS – Animatable
"Create, serve and track HTML5/CSS3 animations for desktop, Android, Blackberry QNX, iOS and WebOS mobile devices."
Mobile – Test on Real Mobile Devices without Breaking the Bank
"Mobile is the future of the web, so it's time to start investing in some mobile devices. "

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The GOP's ObamaCare Flippers
How the law's perverse incentives—and the health lobby—captured Arizona's Governor.
As D-Day looms for ObamaCare, one big question is how many states will sign up for its Medicaid expansion. The recent and spectacular flip-flop of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is a case study in the political pressure and fiscal gimmicks designed to get states to succumb. It's also a study in the arcane and perverse ObamaCare incentives that are intended to gather ever more health-care spending under federal control.
Arizona's current Medicaid program is well run by the program's standards—a low bar—but it is also too large. The program now finances one of every two in-state births and two of every three days seniors spend in nursing homes. Spending tripled in the last decade to $9 billion a year.
That's despite $1.8 billion in cuts since 2009. The state fisc was such a mess that in 2010 Arizona Medicaid banned paying for several types of organ transplants. In March of that year, Ms. Brewer wrote to Mr. Obama calling the Affordable Care Act "a vast new entitlement program that our country does not have the resources to support" and also one that "makes our situation much worse, exacerbating our state's fiscal woes by billions of dollars."
Arizona argued before the Supreme Court that the Medicaid mandate was unconstitutional, anti-federalist commandeering—and seven Justices agreed it was "a gun to the head" and allowed states to opt out without penalty.
But so much for that. In her State of the State address last month, Ms. Brewer pulled a political 180°—or maybe 540°—and said expanding Medicaid would "inject $2 billion into our economy and "save and create thousands of jobs." (Is Larry Summers moonlighting as a Brewer speechwriter?)
One secret of her switcheroo is Medicaid's "matching rate" formula, in which the feds pick up 67% of Arizona's existing spending and 100% (and later 90%) of the costs of ObamaCare's newly eligible population. The state supposedly no longer needs to spend "billions" but merely an extra $154 million in 2014—then bank $1.6 billion from Washington, which her budget documents call "a return on investment of more than 10-to-1."
How can the state conjure such money from nothing? The answer is that Ms. Brewer and Arizona hospitals have cooked up a spending scheme to rip off national taxpayers to avoid even the $154 million the state would at first pay. The hospital lobby first floated this scheme in 2011 "for the specific purpose of generating matching federal Medicaid funds."
Here's how it works: Arizona will tax hospitals and insurers for the $154 million. Then it will return $154 million to the health industry via more Medicaid business that will cover the cost of the tax and then some. The money needs to make a round trip from providers to the state and back to providers to game that 67% federal matching rate.
So Arizona takes (say) $3 from a hospital and then turns around and pays the $3 back, using one of the hospital's own dollars that Arizona converted to "revenue" plus two dollars courtesy of Washington for its 67% federal share of the $3 payment. Arizona can then use the hospital's remaining $2 of the original $3 to pay for another $6 of Medicaid expansion.
Some 49 state now use this trick of so-called provider taxes to goose federal spending, up from 21 in 2003. (Alaska is the exception.) But the practice is so abusive that even Mr. Obama proposed new limits in his last two budgets.
This subsidy honeypot can't last forever, which is why other Governors are more skeptical about this Obama Medicaid windfall. When the money inevitably runs out, states will retain permanently larger obligations and lose budget autonomy for a generation or two as health care crowds out other priorities like education and roads.
Ms. Brewer was nonetheless besieged by health-industry lobbying, especially from hospitals that want more government money and the insurers that administer Medicaid. The campaign is orchestrated by Chuck Coughlin, Ms. Brewer's former political strategist, and Peter Burns, a former Brewer budget consultant.
Providers are especially powerful at the state and local level, and the goal now is to rush the Brewer-Obama condominium through the Phoenix legislature with little debate. A particular offender is the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association, a trade group whose 2012 agenda includes "Oppose Taxpayer Bill of Rights-style legislative referendums or bills that arbitrarily limit state spending."
Ms. Brewer's other rationale is that everybody else is doing it, and that if Arizona opts out of a larger Medicaid then "Arizona's tax dollars would simply be passed to another state." Well, no, Washington would simply spend less money that it doesn't have. In any event Arizona is already a net tax beneficiary—pulling down $1.19 from the feds for every dollar it sends to D.C., according to the Tax Foundation.
Ten other GOP Governors have rejected Mr. Obama's Medicaid bribe, with another 20, Democrats and Republicans, undecided. Twenty are expanding, including Republicans Brian Sandoval of Nevada, Susana Martinez of New Mexico, Jack Dalrymple of North Dakota and even, on Monday, Ohio's John Kasich. Thus does modern government create the carrots and sticks of ever-larger government.


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Grae's Rating:
They were right about the "Dog" part.
Who's In It: Brandon Routh, Sam Huntington, Peter Stormare, Taye Diggs
The Basics: Dylan Dog (Routh) is a private detective who used to handle affairs involving New Orleans' vast undead community -- vampires, werewolves, zombies, you name it. After his fiancée was murdered, he retreated to more conventional gigs. But now he's got a new case that puts him back among the things that go bump in the night, after an importer is murdered for smuggling in a valuable relic that both bloodsuckers and lycanthropes want for themselves, and if either side gets their hands on it, bloody war against humans will ensue. And if all that wasn't keeping him busy enough, his assistant Marcus (Huntington) refuses to face that fact that he's been turned into a zombie.
What's The Deal: I've never read the comic books on which this film is based, but it's clear that the Dylan Dog character is meant to be part tough-guy, part wisecracker, and part haunted romantic. Routh, for whatever capabilities he possesses as an actor, can't pull off any of them. But the miscasting of the lead is among the least of this movie's problems, since it's also horribly written (the plot would have been sent back to re-write at Scooby-Doo) and directed. Even if the whole vampires vs. werewolves thing hadn't already been done to un-death by True Blood and the Twilight and Underworld franchises, Dylan Dog would still be a crushingly dull 107 minutes.
Thanks for Bothering to Give a Performance: While Superman Returns co-stars Routh and Huntington were charming in that film (and in Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Freshman Orientation, respectively), the only Dylan Dog cast member who's any fun to watch is Taye Diggs as the mack daddy of the N'Awlins vamp set. But his periodic appearances aren't enough to resuscitate the proceedings.
How This Film Earned Half a Star: There's one fight scene involving a rope and a pulley that briefly lifts the general torpor, but as soon as that's over, it's back to snoozeville.
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SEMI Members and Industry Partners Discuss EHS Challenges for the 450mm Wafer Transition
By Sanjay Baliga, SEMI
SEMI members and industry partners came together at an information seminar held in conjunction with SEMICON Japan 2013 on December 5 to discuss environment, health and safety (EHS) considerations, implications, challenges and opportunities for semiconductor manufacturers and their supply chains as they transition to 450mm wafer technologies. The "450mm Manufacturing EHS and Facilities Seminar" included representatives from the Global 450 Consortia (G450C), the Facilities 450 Consortia (F450C), and tool makers.
During the seminar, Frank Robertson, general manager at G450C, introduced critical elements of the Consortia's EHS activities. The G450C has had safety and ergonomic requirements in place since 2009. According to G450C guidance, "all equipment must be safe to operate and maintain at any stage of maturity" and "equipment spare parts and modules must either be small and light enough to handle safely during maintenance, and clearances adequate, or ergonomic handling aids must be provide." Suppliers must ensure compliance with certain safety standards including SEMI S2 and S8. Robertson also emphasized recent G405C EHS guidance that encourages suppliers to minimize use of water, energy, chemicals and the generation of effluent waste / exhaust in the design of tools. Future G450C EHS activities will focus on characterizing tool utility use and effluent rates, as well as providing a platform for pump and abatement suppliers to demonstrate green modes. Robertson emphasized that the 450mm wafer transition represents a critical one-time opportunity for significant EHS improvements for fab operators and their supply chains.
Next in the seminar, Allen Ware and Adrian Maynes of the M+W Group addressed EHS issues on behalf of the F450C, whose vision is to lead the global effort to design and build the facilities to support the development of the next-generation 450mm computer chip. The F450C has a number of key focal areas including utility right sizing, green mode system usage, AMC improvement, tool install point of connection (POC) reduction, and helium recovery. The goal of the utility right sizing is to better predict utility consumption rates for 450mm HVM facilities. Ware and Maynes emphasized the importance of industry collaboration to optimize facility requirements with respect to the environmental footprint, facility interfacing, cost and duration, and safety and sustainability.
Addressing the equipment supplier perspective, Hisato Tanaka and George Hoshi of Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL), discussed environmental impact reduction approaches for 450mm tool design. According to Tanaka and Hoshi, several existing SEMI Standards provide key guidance that tool makers can use in complying with G450C requirements. In particular, SEMI S23 (for Energy and Utility Consumption) and S29 (for Green House Gas Emissions) can be used to measure energy and CO2 use in 450mm fabs. The speakers provided several intricate models based on these standards for assessing energy reduction approaches. In summary, Tanaka and Hoshi emphasized that the standards allow for measurement and subsequent reduction in resource use in 450mm fabs.
During the roundtable discussion at the end of the seminar, the five speakers, as well as the session moderators, Toshiaki Nishihara of Dainippon Screen Manufacturing and Toshi Matsuda of TEL addressed future EHS activities. All agreed that coordination between G450C, F450C and SEMI is a necessary for all EHS improvement in the next-generation 450mm fab.
For more information about EHS activities, visit www.semi.org/en/Issues/EHS or contact me (Sanjay Baliga) at email@example.com.
For more information on the 450mm transition (events, articles, presentations), visit 450 Central at www.semi.org/450
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31 August 2007|
Truth be told, us PAS Editors have a lot on the go. There are a full year of issues, about a dozen event programs, regular website updates, marketing copy and all kinds of interaction with our clients. Then there are often times we need to pitch in with our other publications PRN Mag and MX Performance when the chips are down. As well there are the multitude of events and press junkets we have to attend (not that it is bad) which keeps us out of town. The communication with various industry people and car owners alone is a full time job and I haven't even touched on how we need to babysit and remind certain cats to make good on their promises. It is a dream job but no one ever said it was easy, especially during these times of minimal staff and budget constraints.
So, things tend to slip though the cracks. It affects us and we also fall victim ourselves. And this particular Z is one of those crack-slippers. Pereira and I couldn't stop grippin' it at SEMA last year but then we had a bitch of a time orchestrating a shoot and a photographer along with getting the owner to agree to run it in PAS Mag. Looking back I'm not sure how another mag didn't scoop-scoop it since this particular feature was plagued with problems pulling it together. Finally it got shot, then we contacted Ben Abutin of High End Performance who built the Z for details. Abutin was busy, then were, then we forgot, then he forgot, then he lost the spec sheet, then we lost it. Why we're admitting this, I don't know but it happens and unfortunately to a sick build this time.
So here we are. It's now SEMA 2008, a full year after this car popped up in the Seibon booth. Where did the time go – Hell, where did my near decade in the industry go while we're on the subject. Regardless, this project owned by Mark Lucena of Oxnard, CA made an impression and that is due in large part to Seibon's involvement. As one of the leaders in the carbon fiber parts and accessories marketplace, Seibon was onboard with Lucena to build something that would stop SEMA attendees mid-stride.
More about the exterior and performance beyond only straight-line, this project deploys everything in Seibon's catalogue and some parts not even available. The Z33 has been fitted with a Seibon carbon fiber lip kit consisting of four pieces. A Seibon GT style vented hood reduces weight and allows for better cooling. Carbon fiber doors skins are a huge weight savings over stock and are fitted with Autotechnic carbon fiber mirrors. The B-pillars have carbon overlays and the A-pillar overlay flows back into the C-pillar seamlessly. The front fenders have been removed in favor of Seibon carbon fiber vented fenders for improved airflow. A Power Enterprise rear carbon wing was also added to the Seibon carbon fiber hatch to cap it all off. S&A Design of Camarillo, CA shot the car in BASF flat black to mesh with all of the carbon, then they removed all of the clear off the carbon pieces and shot it with matte clear.
The rollers set of the car perfectly. Anything other than a dark sinister look would seem awkward and Lucena chose something that was not only functional but hella hardcore. He opted for the Volk Racing TE37s in a special gunmetal hue dubbed the Seibon Edition with a red lip and lettering. The fronts are 19x9.5-inch and the rear are 19x10.5-inch to accommodate fatter rubber. Supplied by Falken, the FK452s are sized in 245/35R19 and 275/35R19 on the drive wheels. Poking between the sexy hollow spokes of these forged legends are some trademark teal blue stoppers. Up front are 6-piston / 355s and in the rear are capable 4-piston / 330mm to equate to some serious braking force from Project Mu.
Under each corner are a set of highly-adjustable coilovers. The Tanabe Seven coilovers with TEAS in-car dampening adjustment were installed for some on-the-fly moves from inside the cabin. To eliminate roll, a set of Tanabe sway bars and urethane bushings were installed both front and rear. An aluminum front strut bar from Cusco and a Tanabe under chassis brace were added to tighten up the front end for improved handling. Cusco rear upper arms allow for high camber adjustability and TC Sportline front tie rods and rear toe rods help aid in cornering stability of the lightened Z.
Under the hood, this project didn't have the opportunity to really get overhauled pre-SEMA. It was more a High End Performance motivated study in carbon and every other g-force generating part they could bolt-on. Aerodyne Performance of Garden Grove, CA was contacted to add a couple of go-fast tweaks to the project. A heavy shot of NOS wet nitrous oxide was added to the VQ and as most people know these engines respond well to the spray. A Tanabe ConceptG twin canister exhaust was added for a few extra ponies. Some odds and ends like a carbon fiber engine cover, heat wrap and a Cusco catch can were also installed.
Inside the cabin, the Z made a few moves to deviate from stock. The leather La-Z-Boys were pulled to install some Bride Euro II racing buckets which now run Takata green 4-point harnesses. The OE flip storage unit has been retro-fitted with a carbon fiber panel that houses the Ignited switches, engine start and TEAS module. A Nardi Type-B steering wheel has also been installed along with Nardi shift knob and boot. No audio or multimedia to speak of but it never really was about that from the start.
High End Performance, Seibon and Lucena pulled together and built one of those SEMA stunners that will be remembered. Sure it could use a boost in power but we know the High End crew has done more than their share of turbo Zees. We look forward to what Seibon has to display at SEMA 2008 and based on what we saw last year will be difficult to top.
Owner: Mark Lucena
Location: Oxnard, CA
Vehicle: 2006 Nissan 350Z
Nissan 3.5L VQ35DE V6
NOS wet 100-shot direct port
Tanabe Concept G dual exhaust
Cusco catch can
Seibon CF engine cover
Volk Racing TE37 Seibon Edition
(f) 19x9.5-inch
(r) 19x10.5-inch
Falken FK452 tires
(f) 245/35R19
(r) 275/35R19
Project Mu
6-piston / 355mm
4-piston / 330mm
Tanabe Seven coilovers
Tanabe TEAS controller
Tanabe sway bars
Tanabe under-chassis brace
Cusco strut bars
Cusco rear upper control arms
TC Sportline tie rods
TC Sportline rear toe rods
Seibon carbon fiber lip kit
Seibon carbon fiber fenders
Seibon carbon fiber vented hood
Seibon carbon fiber hatch
Seibon carbon fiber A,B,C-pillars
Seibon carbon fiber door skins
Autotechnic carbon fiber mirrors
Power Enterprise carbon fiber wing
BASF matte black paint
BASF matte clear
Bride Euro II seats
Takata 4-point harnesses
Nardi Type-B steering wheel
Nardi shift knob and boot
Ignited switches
Ignited start button
Ben Abutin @ High End Performance
Dave Pankew @ PAS Mag
Eddie @ Mackin
NOS Systems
Shaun @ Ignited
Aerodyne Performance


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A friend made some delicious corn when we went camping a while ago, and Emma has been dying to re-create it on her own.
I am a bit of a purist and usually like little more than butter and salt. Well, this recipe is not a whole lot more, just a few added spices.
Because the corn is pretty perfect right now, Emma decided to seize the opportunity and make it.
We stocked up on fresh ears of corn, which is pretty much a daily activity during this time of year. Luckily, everything else was pretty standard ingredients in my house.
Emma convinced Molly, 9, and Clay, 7, to shuck the corn for her in exchange for an after-dinner cupcake another one of her recent kitchen experiments.
Meanwhile, Emma mixed the few ingredients in a small bowl. I helped her smear about a tablespoon of the butter on each ear of corn, then we squeezed some lime over each ear.
Finally, we rolled them up individually in tin foil like a burrito, so the butter wouldnt leak out on the grill.
Emma placed the corn on a medium hot grill and cooked them for about five minutes. We turned them often so they would not burn on a side while on the grill.
We learned quickly that these corn wraps are hot. Let them cool for a little while before digging in. It is hard to resist, but please try, or there will be burned tongues.
Everyone at the table agreed that this was a fun and tasty way to enjoy one of summers greatest agricultural joys.
If we didnt have so many kids at my table, I would add a little chipotle chile to the butter.
If your kids want to help make something to share at the table, let them make this easy corn recipe. They will be very proud of their contribution.
email@example.com. Margery Reed Poitras is a former professional chef who now cooks for her kids and occasionally for the more mature palate.


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Checkem wrote:A little unrelated but since we're talking about shop item scumming here, the items you get from beating the vicious (and the dragon soul) dungeons can only be used in-dungeon if you prep them from the lockers correct?
And also, dragon souls don't stack do they?
The Dragon Soul can be unlocked and appears in the shop pool if you complete the CO quest.
But yeah, Vicious rewards + Faboulous Treasure are only useable by lockering them.
Not sure about stacking, but I think they do - most items actually stack if you happen to get them twice. (2 Midas Gloves is fun with TT, if you happen to get that lucky.)
Always wished vicious rewards would have their own kind of locker - theyre usually too strong for anything below vicious, so I hardly use them - but I keep them just in case I might need them, as relockering them is a pain.


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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Thanksgiving Greeting
I am celebrating Thanksgiving with my family this weekend. I am grateful for so many blessings, not the least of which is having both daughters, a son-in-law, and my grandson here with my husband and me for the holiday.
I hope you are with family and friends and that you are enjoying a rich abundance of blessings, too.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends!
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Bishop John Michael D'Arcy, bishop emeritus of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., and former chairman of the Our Sunday Visitor Board of Directors, died Feb. 3 at his residence in Fort Wayne, on the 56th anniversary of his first Mass as an ordained priest. He had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer while spending the Christmas holidays at his family home in Boston. He was 80 years old.
Bishop D'Arcy became the eighth bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend on May 1, 1985, and led the diocese until he retired upon installation of his successor, Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, on Jan. 13, 2010.
As chairman of Our Sunday Visitor's board, Bishop D'Arcy oversaw both the expansion of the publishing and offertory solutions divisions of the company as well as the shuttering of its commercial printing operation. He also was a member of the advisory board of the Our Sunday Visitor Institute.
Bishop D'Arcy retained his home in Fort Wayne and remained very active until his final illness. He assisted Bishop Rhoades in conferring the Sacrament of Confirmation across the sprawling diocese and often stood in for him at other events.
The greatest joy of his retirement, however, was being able to continue his priestly ministry in the diocese as well as other cities where he was invited to give retreats. He told the diocesan newspaper, Today's Catholic:
"The best part of it [retirement] and what has kept me strong is doing priestly work, whether retreats, celebrating Mass, hearing confessions — it's like a rebirth of your priesthood."
Boston born and bred
His obvious love of the priesthood, quick wit and approachable style quickly won over the people in his Indiana diocese. When people noted that his Boston accent made him sound like the family of the late President John F. Kennedy, he would reply: "No. The Kennedys sound like me."
Even though Bishop D'Arcy came to love his Indiana diocese and chose to retire in Fort Wayne, his affection for his native Boston endured. He often spoke fondly of his childhood days in the Brighton neighborhood, where he was born on Aug. 18, 1932. He was one of four children of Michael D'Arcy and Margaret Moran D'Arcy, both Irish immigrants.
Bishop D'Arcy claimed that he decided to become a priest after concluding that he was not gifted enough to play second base for his beloved Boston Red Sox. He entered St. John's Seminary in Brighton after high school and was ordained a priest of the Boston archdiocese on Feb. 2, 1957.
His first — and only — parish assignment was to St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Beverly, Mass., where he served for eight years. His attachment to the parish lasted a lifetime, for he often celebrated Mass at St. Mary when he returned to Boston for a home visit.
Rise to episcopacy
Father D'Arcy thought he would always be a parish priest, but in 1965 he was sent to the Angelicum University in Rome to study spiritual theology. Upon earning his doctorate in 1968, he was appointed spiritual director and instructor at St. John's Seminary.
On Feb. 11, 1975, Father D'Arcy was ordained an auxiliary bishop and given the position of director of the archdiocesan Office of Spiritual Development.
Bishop D'Arcy's work at the seminary convinced him of the need for careful screening and solid formation of seminarians, and he chaired a committee of New England bishops to write and release their 1978 "Letter on Priestly Formation." During the 1970s and 1980s, Bishop D'Arcy warned his Boston superiors about some of the predator priests in the archdiocese, warnings that apparently went unheeded and unpublicized until the early 21st century, when the clergy sexual abuse crisis was exposed.
Bishop D'Arcy was named regional bishop for Boston's Lowell Region in 1981 and served in that capacity until being appointed to Fort Wayne-South Bend on Feb. 26, 1985.
Contributions to diocese
In his new diocese, he became the leader of approximately 150,000 Catholics in an area where only 12 percent of the population is Catholic. One of his roles was as Our Sunday Visitor board chairman.
Greg Erlandson, the president of Our Sunday Visitor Publishing, said Bishop D'Arcy was an enthusiastic supporter of the company's mission of service to the Church. "Bishop D'Arcy appreciated the history of Our Sunday Visitor and its mission to both form and inform Catholics as well as to defend the Church from unjust attack," Erlandson said. "He encouraged our support for evangelization and catechesis, both in the works we published and in the priorities of the OSV Institute."
In the diocese, Bishop D'Arcy set about reorganizing the diocesan administration, setting up several new diocesan offices and six regional vicariates.
In 1987 he established an innovative annual bishop's appeal that allowed him to reduce the parish "tax" from 13 percent to 6 percent. Over the years, the appeal has brought in more than $117 million, with more than $21 million being returned to the parishes.
Desiring a stronger, visible presence in South Bend, which is 90 miles from Fort Wayne, Bishop D'Arcy opened a chapel and chancery office in downtown South Bend in 1988. He did not ignore the smaller towns in his diocese and regularly made pastoral visits to them.
True to his interest in spirituality, Bishop D'Arcy opened an office of spiritual development and started campus ministry programs on the campuses of the eight non-Catholic colleges and universities in the diocese. In 2001, he received the Campus Ministry Exemplary Bishop award that is given annually by national student and campus ministry organizations.
Other priorities included vocations and religious education. His appointment of Sister Jane Carew as head of religious education in the diocese led to a diocesan-wide effort to improve both the content and the teaching of religious education programs in parishes and schools. With funding help from the OSV Institute, the diocese was able to provide certificates and master's degrees for many of its catechists, teachers and directors of religious education.
Notre Dame relationship
The diocese has five Catholic colleges or universities, including the University of Notre Dame. Bishop D'Arcy developed and maintained a respectful and cordial relationship with the university and the Holy Cross order. He praised what he saw as a positive development of the Notre Dame theology department and moved the diocesan catechist master's program to Notre Dame under the direction of then department chair, John Cavadini.
However, Bishop D'Arcy also made it clear when he disagreed with the university. Notably, in 2009 he made headlines when he absented himself from the Notre Dame graduation because he disapproved of President Barack Obama, an abortion rights supporter, being invited to speak and receive an honorary degree.
That same year, the U.S. bishops offered their support for his position in a statement saying: "We affirm his pastoral concern for Notre Dame University, his solicitude for its Catholic identity — and his loving care for all those the Lord has given him to sanctify, to teach and to shepherd."
Bishop D'Arcy is survived by two sisters, Sister Anne D'Arcy, a Sister of St. Joseph of Boston, and Joan Sheridan. A sister, Mary Caprio, died in 2007.
Ann Carey writes from Indiana.
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by Mike Masnick
Fri, Aug 12th 2011 5:34pm
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copyright, debate, fair use, fox news, gop
associated press, fox, news corp.
The Associated Press has a history that suggests it doesn't like fair use, even though its reporters and staff rely on it constantly. Yet, perhaps the AP is finally putting its money where its mouth is and will no longer rely on fair use at all. As Tim Lee points out, in this video clip the AP put together of the GOP presidential candidates' debate, there is no footage of the actual debate shown, and the AP says (at about 28 seconds) that "Fox News Channel did not allow AP to select excerpts of the debate for use in this online video story."
But, of course, short clips from debates are always used by competing news channels and they know that it's protected by fair use. There's so much that's bizarre about that single line in the story when you think about it. Why would AP ask permission in the first place? The whole point of fair use is that you don't need permission. Why would Fox deny the permission? Fox relies on fair use just as much as others do, and "denying" another news provider seems likely to come back and haunt them. Why didn't the AP use the video clips anyway and stand up for their basic fair use rights?
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The eejit (profile), 12 Aug 2011 @ 5:09pmGotta give props for the AP - they're learning to practice what they preach.
abc gum, 12 Aug 2011 @ 5:50pm
Re:Honor among thieves?
I'm guessing they will feel free to use the works of little people.
Donnicton, 12 Aug 2011 @ 6:13pm
Re:Keep in mind as well that Fox doesn't have a lot of networks that are friendly towards them. Considering as pointed out before that the AP tends to have a pretty deceitfully hypocritical streak, it wouldn't surprise me if some lone AP reporter just wanted to make Fox look bad.
The Mighty Buzzard (profile), 12 Aug 2011 @ 7:02pm
Re: Re:More likely Fox was just returning some of the ass pain the AP has been giving everyone else. I'd have told them a heartfelt GFY too after some of the shat they've pulled.
abc gum, 12 Aug 2011 @ 7:39pm
Re: Re:"it wouldn't surprise me if some lone AP reporter just wanted to make Fox look bad."
I doubt they need any help, they do a fairly good job themselves.
tindiana (profile), 13 Aug 2011 @ 9:46am
Re: Re: DonnicatonFox knows there is a lot of ammo for the other side, which may or may not be the AP.
They want to shape the news... not report it. This has become a problem in mainstream news on-line comments also. They (media "moderators") are "censuring" in the name of moderation and when someone doesn't like a comment, even when it makes sense, is reasonably argued and contains no names or profanity...it is "flagged" and it is removed quickly.
I'm banned on Bloomberg, PBS, and censored significantly on CNN, especially CNN Money. They simply cannot argue and debate truthfully, openly, because often their arguments fail under analysis. Is that big brother controlling them?
Courts are doing the same thing (ignoring reasoned argument and pleadings) and fraud is prevailing often.
ChurchHatesTucker (profile), 12 Aug 2011 @ 6:02pmFox relies on fair use just as much as others do, and "denying" another news provider seems likely to come back and haunt them. Why didn't the AP use the video clips anyway and stand up for their basic fair use rights?
No CLIPS for YOU!It would seriously hamper their ability to steer polls and the primaries if people actually saw what went down.
No CLIPS for YOU!It would seriously hamper their ability to steer polls and the primaries if people actually saw what went down.
Anonymous Coward, 12 Aug 2011 @ 6:24pm
I think Gamefreak claimed copyright on those clipsWith Cain's closing speech quoting Pokemon it seems likely.
gorehound (profile), 12 Aug 2011 @ 6:25pmHahahahahaha
is all I have to say about these two giants of our modern media.
Anonymous Coward, 12 Aug 2011 @ 7:09pmBecause anyone that watched the debate could see what a laughing stock the Republicans are. Fox being the Republican network wanted to protect their candidates from being exposed as nutjobs. The less people that see them the better.
abc gum, 12 Aug 2011 @ 7:40pm
Re:"Because anyone that watched the debate could see what a laughing stock the Republicans are. Fox being the Republican network wanted to protect their candidates from being exposed as nutjobs. The less people that see them the better."
This sounds like a reasonable hypothesis
Anonymous Coward, 12 Aug 2011 @ 7:49pm
Re: Re:What I was going to say. The debates where a bizarro insane-fest suitable only for the mentally deranged. Fox news and the GOP receive no benefit for showing the debates. If anything it would hurt the pro-war neo-conservative stance as Ron Paul actually came out the frontrunner in the debates and thoroughly embarrassed Bachmann and whoever the #2 guy is. I'm not a fan of Ron Paul in the general sense, but if I had to vote for anyone currently running from the two crap-parties, I'd vote for him.
Fox news actually removed the results of the opinion poll after the debate which showed the results heavily in his favor.
The eejit (profile), 13 Aug 2011 @ 1:14am
Re: Re: Re:I'm bugfuck craxy, and even I wouldn't step into the current GOP primaries. I'd be too sane.
Anonymous Coward, 13 Aug 2011 @ 3:02pm
Re:Does this mean that the rest of the networks are Democrat Networks??
Anonymous Coward, 13 Aug 2011 @ 5:10pm
Re: Re:No. The other channels are news channels. Fox "News" isn't a news channel. It's a Republican chennel.
caspiansails (profile), 15 Aug 2011 @ 10:43am
Re: Re: Re:You are correct they are not Democrat they are liberal and Fox is conservative except hard news is fairly unbiased.
Anonymous Coward, 12 Aug 2011 @ 7:54pmI think that the reason is the the debates were not "news", as much as a program produced by Fox for the Fox networks. Think of it as "entertainment" rather than news.
yourelame, 24 Aug 2011 @ 1:47pm
Re:So clever. Please, just keep writing so we can all enjoy more of your unique wit. Idiot.
Anonymous Coward, 12 Aug 2011 @ 8:15pm
PropagandaThink about it - Fox knows that it's fair use. AP knows that it's fair use. What is the point of pretending otherwise?
Well, you have two copyright-maximalist organizations, who want to eliminate fair use. Why not pretend it doesn't exist, so as to convince anyone watching that it doesn't exist?
There is a word for this: propaganda.
Any Mouse (profile), 12 Aug 2011 @ 9:34pm
EasySometimes this stuff is just too easy to find.
ANoiXioNA (profile), 13 Aug 2011 @ 4:06am
Re: EasyThank you Any Mouse.
Let's cut and paste this all over the web.......
Fair use styley.....
ANoiXioNA (profile), 13 Aug 2011 @ 4:32am
Re: Easyjust found a torrent on TPB...
Better quality... 874mb
Third GOP Debate 2012 ( misnamed as Ohio )
A Guy, 13 Aug 2011 @ 1:31amWell, as nice as it is to see them practicing what they preach, it won't last long. Someone will notice that blogs continually outperform the AP on a MORE regular basis when reporting on the same issue. If the AP is truly handicaps itself in this way, it will only serve to quicken their irrelevance and demise.
BongoBern (profile), 13 Aug 2011 @ 8:35amFair use applies to all. No permits required. Irritating to see a "Goldline: The only gold company Glenn Beck recommends." ad underneath all of this - as if Glenn Beck wasn't a payed shill. Glenn Beck? Drech. A madman tilting at windmills.
newsdork (profile), 13 Aug 2011 @ 9:56am
Fair Use is fairly straight forward...theoreticallyLemme quote from the U.S. Copyright Office -
"Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."
Maybe the AP is subtly reminding us that they're not news reporters?
tindiana (profile), 13 Aug 2011 @ 10:40am
AP is subtly reminding us that they're not news reportersMy wife, a journalist, explains to me that the AP doesn't even have an office in our state. They have no vested interest in bringing balanced news in my community. A small staff simply operates it as a business from another state, choosing what they want to pass on and what they don't. The comment about them respecting Fox request rings true as a way to eliminate "fair use", at the expense of their readers.
NamelessOne, 13 Aug 2011 @ 5:33pm
Let me ask you AmericansWOULD YOU want to be the next president with a 16.5 trillion dollar debt?
Matthew McIntyre, 13 Aug 2011 @ 7:59pm
AP are a bunch of Progressive ToolsThe AP doesn't care about fair anything. FOX on the other hand did what was right and did not allow a bunch of anti american or anti free speech people get there hands on video so they could doctor it up so it looked like the candidates said one thing when they really did not. I swear FOX is the only semi honest news station out there the rest flat out LIE.
abc gum, 14 Aug 2011 @ 7:29am
Re: AP are a bunch of Progressive ToolsThat's pretty funny, keep up the good work.
TIndiana, 14 Aug 2011 @ 5:55pm
Re: AP are a bunch of Progressive ToolsSince when do "sponsors" of public events have exclusive copyright? Were the Iowa organizers so desperate that they made some contractual agreement?
Listen to the crowd reactions to answers...Paul was a hands down winner.
I watched MSNBC News a few minutes ago and they didn't even mention Paul. Who owns/runs MSNBC for them to "shape" the news, not mentioning Paul
Anonymous Coward, 17 Aug 2011 @ 12:50pm
Re: AP are a bunch of Progressive ToolsEvery time I think people couldn't possibly be this delusional, someone like you shows up to prove me wrong.
Beaker1991, 13 Aug 2011 @ 9:19pm
QuestionSince these people are running for public office, should/would not any "clip" of them be public domain? As FOX is suppose to be providing a public service so that information from the debate is disseminated to the public.
Anonymous Coward, 14 Aug 2011 @ 2:52pmIf I were shareholder of AP I would be having a word with the board members right soon.
Dan Zee (profile), 15 Aug 2011 @ 7:55am
Smear Fox NewsI agree with many of the other commentators that grabbing clips is pretty standard practice and this report seems created just to smear Fox News as if it's some sort of Pravda of the Republican Party. Very strange report.


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Madonna's rock-hard biceps. Gwyneth's board-flat stomach. Heidi Klum's taut thighs. Hollywood's top trainers spill their secrets.
Celebrities seem to have it so easy, with their scrum of assistants, agents, managers, stylists, pool boys, spiritual advisors, and dialect coaches. Yet for all their hired help, there's still one thing they have to do for themselves: exercise. "Heidi Klum always jokes that if she could pay someone to work out for her, she definitely would," says her longtime trainer, David Kirsch.
But alas, Klum can't—nor can any of us. So celebrities shell out big bucks for intense one-on-one training. We asked the men and women who count off their crunches to reveal their most useful advice—the tricks they employ to keep their prized clients in prime shape and get them to the point where "working out is like brushing their teeth: It's not a decision, it's automatic," says Tracy Anderson, whose clients include Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. The same habits will work for those of us who still have to carry our own gym bags.
It can be hard to motivate early in the morning, but often it's the only stretch of free time for exercise. No one knows this more than overbooked celebrities. "Sometimes, when I was working with Jennifer Garner, we started at 4 a.m.," says Los Angeles personal trainer Valerie Waters. "We'd get there and nod at each other, she'd get on the treadmill...and about ten minutes later, we'd finally be like, 'Good morning.'"
As anyone who has ever set the alarm for 6:15 only to hit snooze nine times knows, the most arduous part of morning workouts is getting out of bed. To that end, Waters suggests a few tricks: Put your alarm clock across the room. Stack your workout clothes on your sneakers right next to your bed. Leave your makeup bag in your gym locker so you can't get ready for the office without it.
Yes, switching your schedule will be a challenge, but as Anderson says, "You can train yourself to work out at any hour. It just takes commitment and repetition. The most important thing is consistency." And Waters, for her part, points out that "the first four days or so, you may be like, Oh, my God, what am I doing? But once you work out in the morning, you're always happy you did." While Garner benefited from daybreak cardio sessions because they loosened and warmed her up for stunts on various television and movie sets, Waters says there's a civilian-life equivalent: "You get to the office and hit the ground running"—and you don't have to worry about something getting in the way of your evening workout, either.
Doing the same thing day in and day out—be it the mindless half-hour on the treadmill or the rote-as-the-rosary 200 crunches (and nothing else)—can be as counterproductive as it is deathly dull. Los Angeles trainer Harley Pasternak, who works with Katherine Heigl and Alicia Keys, has a system that entails five five-minute phases of full-tilt intensity, starting with a warm-up on a cardio machine or with a jumping rope, then continuing with a series of upper-body strength moves, some lower-body exercises, core conditioning, and then a bit more cardio to finish. With each visit to the gym, the exact exercises within the five-minute intervals change, making the whole thing pretty rutproof.
Don't slack off during your workout either. "Rest between sets" doesn't mean dawdling in line for the water bubbler or fiddling with your iPod playlists for five minutes. Anderson says that "taking breaks is usually more of a motivation problem than your body actually needing rest. You want to give it your all."
Indeed, "Every second should be accounted for," says Key Son, a trainer at Equinox Fitness Clubs in New York City with private celebrity clients who include the model Daria Werbowy. He has them jog in place or run drills between sets. If that seems a little relentless, just think: The harder the workout, the sooner it's over. Shorter workouts are a dividend if you really mix it up and maximize your time. Pasternak says Heigl gets in and out of the gym in 25 minutes to a half-hour by doing some variation of his interval program. Similarly, Pasternak says, "Alicia used to work out for more than an hour, but now it has shortened by as much as 25 minutes."
"I'm not going to Tom Sawyer you into anything," says Beverly Hills trainer Gunnar Peterson, referring to the chicanery that Twain's hero employed to con someone else into doing the dirty work. "That's condescending. I want exercise to be much more Huck Finn, about genuinely having fun." That means incorporating a level of play into the workout. As Jackie Warner, owner of SkySport & Spa in Los Angeles and star of Bravo's Work Out reality series, points out, "Celebrities are always looking for something new and different. I'll take them out to the park and do soccer drills, pulling from my background."
Oscar Smith, owner of O-Diesel Studio in New York City, has been known to play paddleball and shoot baskets with his clients—many of whom are models. He even created intricate obstacle courses—anything that forces the client to mix it up. "The goal is to make it like we're going back to playing in the schoolyard," Smith says. Having fun seems to reset your understanding (and perhaps your daily dread) of exercise. "You want to associate good things with exercise," says Son. He suggests drawing up a list of the sports and athletic games you enjoyed when you were younger—and then making a conscious effort to incorporate elements of them into your workout.
In New York City, Liv Tyler has been known to hit the streets on her bicycle; her trainer, David Kirsch, owner of the Madison Square Club, actually bought her one to match his own. "I've had to find ways to keep Liv from being bored," he says. "And riding the bike outside definitely helps."
Peterson is a proponent of "all that taking-the-stairs and not-going-on-the-moving-sidewalk stuff. The calorie meter is running all day long"—and you're probably at the gym for only an hour. (He wishes that valet service was more like the parking at airports—as far from the entrance as possible.) Don't allow yourself to be lazy. Walk that invoice down to your colleague. Instead of hitting the vending machine at 4 p.m., go outside for a walk.
If the first thing you sacrifice in a time crunch is strength training, do that before you hit the treadmill. "Think of it as eating your vegetables first," Peterson says. "You get them out of the way so that the Brussels sprouts aren't the last taste in your mouth." This approach is especially beneficial for A-list clients because you never know when they'll get an important call and run off. The body part most analogous to Brussels sprouts then, is the abs. "Way too many people leave the abs for last," Peterson says. "That's an archaic approach. You should do abs first." (Abs work also serves as an ample low-impact warm-up.) Balance training is in some ways an extension of ab work—it not only helps strengthen your core muscles, it's also a component of fitness that nearly everyone can benefit from, considering it helps safeguard against injury. To improve core stability, Son suggests incorporating various leg exercises and standing drills on a Bosu ball—a half-circle stability ball that is flat on one side, round on the other—for ten minutes of each hour of exercise.
The next time you're tempted to blow off a workout, remember this: Jane Fonda has had two hip replacements, and "she never makes excuses," says Pasternak (who admits that he was initially intimidated at the thought of training the actress and fitness revolutionary). "She never says, 'I don't feel good today,' or 'That's too heavy.' It's 'Bring it on.'"
Of course, not everyone is as rarin' to go. Smith says one model—we'll protect her identity—has tried everything imaginable to wriggle out of her workouts. Smith just blocks every excuse—and you should, too. (Smith is also a full-time cop, so enforcement comes naturally.) "She'll say there's traffic; I'll tell her I'll come to her. She says it's raining; I remind her she has rain gear. She says it's too cold; I say exercise will warm her up." Kirsch doesn't allow roadblocks either, offering clients home workouts, workouts with children, even office routines and moves to do while in the back of a car. When Ellen Barkin left New York City to film Ocean's Thirteen in Los Angeles, he gave her a list of a dozen exercises that she could do in her trailer to make the downtime more productive. "I asterisked the ones that were more important, if she was really short on time."
Travel is no excuse, either. When Son's clients jet to Milan and Paris for fashion shows, he gives them a short list of things to do during scarce free time (see box, at right): "It's a simple routine, but if it were longer, it might be daunting, and they'd feel more defeated if they missed a day," he says. Ashley Borden suggests buying a resistance band for travel, such as the JC All-Purpose Band, "because you can loop it around anything and it gives up to 80 pounds of resistance."
The bottom line, Peterson says, is if you want to change your body, you have to stop looking for the easy out.
Celebrities have a lot of built-in deadlines: a love scene, a revealing photo shoot, a superhero outfit fashioned from equal parts Latex and dental floss. Pasternak had just a few months to whittle Halle Berry's waist so she could slip into her Catwoman costume, and Kirsch had a mere eight weeks after Heidi Klum gave birth to her second child to help her get ready for the Victoria's Secret runway show. Even without the looming specter of a close-up, Waters says anyone can ramp up her fitness efforts by setting goals, with deadlines. First, declare your intentions. It could be to get a better butt or a leaner body overall, run a 10K, or simply look good for a reunion. Then, set a realistic date. To stay focused, write down your goals and put them somewhere you can see them every day, Waters says. "They're like affirmations: 'I'll minimize white sugar and white flour.' 'I'll go five minutes longer on my run today.'"
Are we there yet? You've put in the time and effort, and, naturally, you want to see improvements. But most trainers do not recommend looking for it on the scale. "The scale is the piece of equipment that causes more injury than any other in the gym," Peterson explains. "You can feel great and look great but then see a number you don't anticipate, and that mood goes south."
Instead of watching the scale, Kirsch recommends using a measuring tape to chart your improvement. He recalls a client who became enraged at him because she had gained four pounds. "But she'd lost three inches in her waist and four in her chest, gained muscle, and lost all her back fat," he says. Borden suggests that once a month, you get measured in eight different spots: "the calf, the crease where your butt meets your thigh, at the belly button, at the smallest part of your waist, across the bustline, the biceps, the biceps when flexed, and the neck."
A long weekend. A tax-return check. A trip to Costa Rica—it's nice to have something to look forward to. Exercise is no different: When you build certain rewards into your regimen, the fitness itself doesn't seem like such drudgery. "A reward is as important in some ways as the training," says Borden, who urges her clients to give themselves anything other than food. Peterson particularly likes to use new sneakers as a reward. He owns about 120 pairs—and has no shame in admitting that he likes to match them to his T-shirt.


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Sniper Elite V2 has long been rumored for Wii U, but publisher 505 Games has never made any official announcements. But now it appears that the nearly year-old shooter will be coming to the console in just a few months.
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Members present: Trisha Cruse (CDL), Julia Kochi (UCSF), Todd Grappone (UCLA), Sarah Pritchard (Northwestern), Paul Soderdahl, (Iowa), Ed Van Gemert (UW-Madison), John Wilkin (HT Exec. Director), Bob Wolven (Columbia)
Members absent: John Butler (Minn)
1. The minutes of the August 18, 2011 SAB call were approved and passed onto Jeremy York for posting on the HathiTrust website.
2. Updates:
Authors Guild lawsuit
It was acknowledged that even though HathiTrust is listed as the first defendant in the lawsuit it will be the five institutions named as co-defendants who will argue the lawsuit. HathiTrust is not a 501 (c)(3) organization, and has no separate legal assets or resources. Legal counsel and communication staff from each of the five universities are working closely together.
Michigan acknowledges the pilot process for determining an orphan is not as good as it should be. The process will be reviewed and improved. Despite the need to modify the workflow process, the principles behind the Orphan Works Project remain based on lawful application of Fair Use and include completely transparent practices. Following modification to the process, the work will continue.
The Executive Committee is finalizing an official public response that will soon be made available.
Constitutional Convention Planning Group
Arising from questions from the Communications working group, John Wilkin and Bob Wolven outlined plans to date for the organization of the convention in October including: the formulation of the agenda, communication during and after, rules of order, facilitation and minute taking.
The Executive Committee received 7 ballot proposals prior to the deadline. A process for capturing and storing proposals that emerge from the floor is being established.
HathiTrust developments
There are now over 9.6m volumes in the digital repository.
OCLC and EBSCO have announced plans to integrate the HathiTrust full-text indexes in their discovery products.
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3. Review ballot proposals :
The SAB reviewed and discussed the seven ballot proposals.
4. Revised Session #2 Constitutional Convention agenda:
Ed Van Gemert and Trisha Cruse will represent the SAB in presenting the Three Year Review to the membership. In addition to summarizing the findings and data presented by Ithaka S+R, Ed and Trisha will also provide SAB perspectives of the work done to date and opportunities and challenges facing the partnership.
5. Discussion: issues that did not emerge in ballot proposals:
The SAB did not have time for this discussion. Bob Wolven will summarize his ideas via email to the group for a later discussion.
Sarah Pritchard reported on the Communications Working Group, which brought forward questions about, 1) how communication about the results of the ConCon would be handled, and 2) what higher levels of review might be needed for any text added to the web site commenting on the Authors' Guild lawsuit.


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By Sr. Mary Honorata, CSSF
Felician Sisters
I received my Green Card last week and this is a good time to recall the whole process. I came to the United States in 2011. I was born in Poland. If someone told me a few years ago that I would be living in the United States, I would not believe them. But, with time, it became more and more clear to me, that this was exactly where Jesus wanted me to be. Felician Sisters have communities all around the world, but the two main countries we serve the Lord is in Poland and in the United States. As a Felician Sister, I vowed to Almighty God to obey His will. I desire to do so with all my heart. However, when it became clear to me that to follow my vocation wholeheartedly I would have to leave my home country and join the community in North America, at first I didn't feel comfortable with this. My family, sisters and friends are in Poland. However, after a time of discernment and struggle, in order to follow what I felt is the will of God, I needed to move to the United States.
This is the spiritual part of the story. But there is also an organizational part – going to the United States is not so simple. I knew that it is difficult to get a visa. I attempted to fill out the visa application to the U.S. embassy in Warsaw. At that time my English was poor and I was not able to fill out the online forms within allotted period of time. (I believe it was 10 minutes or so.) I remember the distress when several pages of my work online, with an open Polish-English dictionary, disappeared after the online form expired. Actually, even with the dictionary, I didn't fully understand some of the questions. After this experience the Felician Congregation asked CLINIC to help me with the process.
From the very beginning, I was amazed with the way the CLINIC lawyers were able to organize my documents from Washington. I received a plan what I need to do, a list of documents to collect, and detailed instructions. I felt their guidance when I went to the American Embassy in Warsaw, even though they were so far away. The visit in the embassy went smoothly because of papers that were prepared by the CLINIC.
I would like to give one example. The clerk at the entrance to the embassy initially claimed that there were errors in my application. Because of this allegation, I was denied to see the visa officer and apply for a visa. I replied that the application was completed by a lawyer, so surely it was correct. This still didn't work. I was only allowed to see the visa officer when I told them that the application was prepared in Washington, D.C. and offered that they could call my lawyer in Washington. Then I received my visa.
When I came to the United States I was not familiar with the immigration process. I did not have a clue how long and expensive it is. I only began to understand how difficult the immigration process is during the time I waited for the visa. For six long months, I just waited. I could not start a job because any employer I spoke with asked me how long I would be able to work. I could not answer, and so I remained unemployed. The uncertainty made the waiting time the most difficult in my life. However, finally I was able to come to the United States. Thanks to my Felician Congregation, and to CLINIC, who put tremendous work in my next applications, permissions, and visas, I am enjoying having my Green Card. I can now serve my Lord, free of worries, in the place where He wants me to be.


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Not even the comeback story of Mason Crosby could save the Green Bay Packers from possessing one of the NFL's worst special teams units in 2013.
A year after missing 12 of 33 kicks for a career-worst percentage of 63.6, Crosby beat out two August challengers and then made good on an incentive-laden contract by splitting the uprights 35 times in 39 tries, including the postseason. His regular season conversion rate of 89.2 percent was the best of Crosby's seven-year career.
He eventually earned every penny of a restructured contract wisely tied directly to his kicking performance. Crosby hit both roster bonuses, in Week 5 and 10, plus the 85-percent high-water mark needed to make back all $2.4 million of his original salary.
If only Ted Thompson and Shawn Slocum could contractually coax better out of their entire special teams unit.
Overall, the Packers placed 20th out of 32 NFL teams in the special teams rankings designed and produced by the Dallas Morning News. Among the 12 playoff teams in 2013, only the San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints and Denver Broncos ranked lower than Green Bay.
At Pro Football Focus, the Packers ranked 30th in overall special teams grade.
Crosby's superlative accuracy and volume could only do so much to steady Green Bay. He made the fifth-most field goals and had just four misses. Twice he connected on kicks of 57 yards, all 21 of his attempts inside 40 yards were good and two of his four misses came from 52 yards or longer.
Struggles over so many other aspects of special teams killed the Packers in the third and less sexy area of the game.
Shoddy coverage on both punts and kicks allowed opposing teams to have an average starting field position of the 25.6-yard line, worst in the NFL. The Packers allowed 26.0 yards per kickoff return—their worst mark in over 60 years—and 13.1 yards per punt return. Both figures ranked 29th in 2013.
Green Bay also gave up a kick or punt return of at least 30 yards in 12 of 16 games, and six times an opponent had a return of at least 40 yards.
Tim Masthay finished 21st in net punting average and 25th in punts downed inside the 20-yard line. But he was otherwise dependable in holding up his end of the punting equation, and Slocum noted several cold weather games at the end of the season effected his final placement in the punting rankings.
Masthay was swiftly replaced on primary kickoff duty when Cordarrelle Patterson raced 109 yards for a score in Week 8. He proved to have a big leg—with 17 touchbacks over 34 kickoffs and an average distance of 70.1 yards—but the Packers decided to go with Crosby's directional prowess.
Slocum had ample reason to make the switch. On average, opponents were starting at the 26.9-yard line with Masthay kicking off. That eventually finished as the worst in the NFL among those with at least 10 kickoffs.
Crosby wasn't considerably better. A whopping 73.7 percent of Crosby's kickoffs were returned, second highest in the NFL behind only Nick Folk. His average distance (63.2 yards) ranked 28th, and opponents had an average starting field position of the 24.6-yard line, second worst behind only Masthay.
The Packers struggled on the opposite end of the spectrum, too.
The team averaged just 20.3 yards per kickoff return, which ranked 30th. Rookie Micah Hyde (24.1 yards per return) eventually improved the unit, but 10 dreadful returns from Jeremy Ross and Johnathan Franklin early on—averaging just 15.7 yards—put the Packers in a hole it couldn't recover from.
It actually took the Packers a grand total of 13 weeks and 12 games to produce a kick return over 30 yards. Hyde's 70-yard scamper against the Pittsburgh Steelers finished as the team's long of the season.
Against the 49ers in the Wild Card round, the Packers returned five kicks—including four from Randall Cobb—but failed to muster a return longer than 23 yards.
If there was a saving grace in the return game, it came from Hyde fielding punts.
The Packers averaged 11.3 yards on 39 returns, of which 24 came via Hyde, who took over the duties in Week 9. He averaged 12.3 yards per punt return, fifth-best in the NFL. While lacking the explosiveness of Cobb, Hyde succeeded because of excellent ball skills and a commitment to north-south running. He took a punt back 93 yards for a touchdown against the Vikings, tying for the third-longest in franchise history and the team's longest since 2007.
Cobb was sent back to return a punt eight times, returning just three and fair-catching five others. He finished with only 33 combined kick and punt return yards over six regular season games.
There were plenty of forgettable moments from Green Bay's year on special teams.
Jeremy Ross's fumbled kick return in Week 3 gave the Cincinnati Bengals an easy touchdown in a game that ended in a four-point loss. John Kuhn mistakingly touched a blocked punt in Baltimore that extended a Ravens drive. A week later, the Cleveland Browns busted two kick returns of over 50 yards (56, 86) that set up scores. Patterson nearly blew the top off the Metrodome by returning the opening kick 109 yards for a touchdown, tying the NFL record. The Falcons executed a fake punt when the punter completed a 30-yard pass. Nick Perry jumped offsides on a late field goal attempt from the Steelers, giving Pittsburgh a critical first down.
Along the way, the Packers' special teams committed 17 penalties and missed 27 tackles. For comparison's sake, consider that Green Bay missed a grand total of 26 special teams tackles in 2012 (11) and 2011 (15) combined.
The mistakes were season-spanning and at times devastating. But they were not without a reasonable explanation.
According to Rob Demovsky of ESPN, the injury-plagued Packers used 58 different players on special teams over 17 games in 2013. That's a striking variation of players that likely made it difficult for Slocum's units—especially in covering kicks—to become a cohesive group.
Still, most of the core members of the Packers special teams, including Jarrett Bush, John Kuhn, Jamari Lattimore, Davon House and Ryan Taylor, remained healthy for the majority of 2013. But it still takes 11 players working in unison on every punt and kick to play effective special teams.
"At times we did a good job adjusting, at times we didn't do such a good job of adjusting," Slocum said of the injuries. "You have to be able to adjust."
While Crosby finally adjusted to his evolving situation, the rest of the Packers special teams did not follow suit in 2013.
Zach Kruse is a 25-year-old sports writer who contributes to Cheesehead TV, Bleacher Report and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He also covered prep sports for the Dunn Co. News. You can reach him on Twitter @zachkruse2 or by email at [email protected].
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The Jotron Group has evolved into one of the most respected names in the air traffic control and coastal communications sectors since the founding of Jotron AS in 1967.
In 1974, Jotron entered the air traffic control market with the launch of the 5000 series VHF receiver. This was quickly followed in 1975 by the development of the innovative Low Level Modulation technology and the launch of the 5000 series VHF transmitter. This was the world's first product to incorporate the new technology, which is now used by all radio manufacturers.
In 1980, we won our first export contract for air traffic control radios and have since then supplied more than 15,000 radios to the air traffic control market, over 90% of which have been for export markets.
Serving the world of airspace communication for over 40 years, Jotron now offers a state-of-the-art range of high performance VHF and UHF aeronautical band radios for both civil and military air traffic control purposes.
Designed to surpass today's demanding standards for audio communications, the radios also incorporate the technology required for tomorrow's demands for digital data transmission modes, including full voice over IP functionality. The range's unique modular architecture offers the most compact radio system configuration possible, with increased reliability and simplified installation, inspection and maintenance.
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November 22, 2012
Infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV causes inflammation, a natural response by the immune system as it seeks to deal with invading germs. However, sometimes the sheer number of germs overwhelms the immune system or at other times the germs are able to subvert the immune system's response to infection. In such cases, the germs spread and infection takes hold. This can be the case with viral infections and when such an infection becomes established in the body, it becomes a chronic infection.
Even in cases of chronic viral infections the immune system tries to fight the infection, but inflammation that may have been useful in the initial stages of exposure becomes a problem if it is sustained over the long-term.
The immune system and its cells are widely distributed throughout the body and found within many organ-systems such as the following:
A chronic viral infection with its associated inflammation of the immune system is likely to cause inflammation-related problems for these organ-systems.
The inflammation caused by chronic HCV infection affects the liver, causing this organ to become dysfunctional and injured. HCV can also cause other problems; for instance, some studies have found thinner-than-normal bones in some HCV-positive people.
Some researchers think that this problem of bone thinning in HCV infection arises in part because of complications of liver injury and chronic liver inflammation. An injured and inflamed liver could result in reduced levels of the hormones estrogen and testosterone. These hormones play an important role in maintaining the health of bones. Also, a dysfunctional liver may not be able to convert vitamin D to its active form. This may affect the body's ability to absorb and retain nutrients such as calcium and phosphorus, which are needed to build bones.
Potent combination anti-HIV therapy (commonly called ART or HAART) can also temporarily decrease the thickness of bones (called bone mineral density) in the first few years of use. However, after this, bone mineral density tends to stabilize. The reason for the initially decreased bone mineral density under ART is not yet clear. But the benefits of ART continue to greatly outweigh the risks.
A team of researchers in the U.S. has grown concerned about the strength of bones in the hips of people with HCV, HIV or both viral infections. Among HIV-negative people, when hip bones/joints become broken their survival subsequently decreases. Moreover, the U.S. researchers noted:
"Hip fractures cause significant pain and disability and typically require an emergency department visit, hospitalization, surgery and rehabilitation stay, resulting in substantial healthcare costs."
The U.S. research team (based at the University of Pennsylvania) conducted a massive study of three million people, both with and without different viral infections. They found that people co-infected with HIV and HCV were at greatest risk of hip fracture compared to participants with HCV infection alone (monoinfection) or to people who had neither infection.
This study underscores the need to understand why thinning bones, particularly in the hips, occur in people with HIV, HCV or both. Furthermore, ways to improve the bone health of people with chronic viral infections are needed.
Researchers at hospitals in Philadelphia and Boston collaborated on a massive cohort study, analysing health related-information collected from adults using the U.S. Medicaid program in the following states:
The research team compared data assembled on each person with HCV monoinfection, HIV monoinfection and both infections (co-infection) and compared them to health-related data collected from up to 10 randomly selected people without viral infections.
The researchers analysed data collected from more than three million people distributed as follows:
On average, participants were in their early 40s, and 60% were men and 40% women. They were monitored for up to seven years.
The study team found that it was relatively common for HCV-positive people to have been diagnosed with conditions that were either associated with severely thin bones (osteoporosis) or a risk of falling, including the following:
They also found that participants with HCV monoinfection were more likely than other groups in the study to have received medicines associated with thinning bones, including the following drugs:
Overall, HCV-positive people had a 47% increased risk of hip fracture compared to uninfected people. However, it is important to note that this risk varied, in some cases, by factors such as age and gender among HCV-positive people, as follows:
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Billikens Top Northwestern for 39th Win
Courtesy: SLU Media Relations
ST. LOUIS –Saint Louis scored two runs in the seventh to notch its ninth consecutive victory and 39th overall. The Billikens are now 39-15 on the season. According to the most recent update by the NCAA earlier this week, only four teams have reached the 40-win plateau this season.
Starting pitcher Clay Smith got off to a rocky start, allowing three runs to score (two earned) in the first inning.The Wildcats had four hits in the first frame.
The Billikens answered back with three runs of their own in the third to tie the game at 3-3. The tie was short-lived as NU had an RBI single in the bottom of the inning to take a 4-3 lead through three innings.
In the seventh, a fielding error by Northwestern allowed Connor Gandossy to reach first and start a Saint Louis rally. Alec Solé walked in the next at bat. Then, another error helped the Billikens, as Mike Levine grounded to the pitcher, who threw the ball away at second, sending Solé to second and scoring Gandossy. Jerry Mancuso followed with an RBI single through the left side, scoring Solé and giving SLU a 5-4 lead through seven innings.
A Marco DiRoma RBI single in the eighth scored Danny Brennan and gave the bullpen a 6-4 lead.
Travis Parker entered the game in the bottom of the eighth and threw two scoreless innings to notch his 12 save of the season. The appearance was his 26th of the season, tying the SLU single-season record. He also extended his streak to 39.1 consecutive innings pitched without an earned run.
Sophomore Damian Rivera gets the win, his first since April 1. He is now 4-5 on the year.
Game two of the three game series will start tomorrow, May 18, at 3:00 p.m. in Evanston, Ill.


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P04DA Engine Trouble Code
Meaning of P04DA engine trouble code is a kind of powertrain trouble code and when your car's 'P04DA Check Engine' light comes on, it's usually accompanied by a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. The light could mean a costly problem, like a bad catalytic converter, or it could be something minor, like a loose gas cap. But in many cases, it means at minimum that you'll be visiting the car dealer to locate the malfunction and get the light turned off.
P04DA Fault Symptoms :
If one of these reasons for P04DA code is occuring now you should check P04DA repair processes.
Now don't ask yourself; What should you do with P04DA code ?
The solution is here :
P04DA Possible Solution:
Disconnected, dirty or fouled spark plugs are common causes for engines that won't start. Spark plugs typically need to be replaced every season or 25 hours of use. You should also check that the spark plug gap is set properly. If your spark plugs look good, problems with your ignition system can also preventing a spark. These can range from a faulty spark plug lead, shorted kill switch or flywheel key damage.
P04DA Code Meaning :
|OBD-II Diagnostic Powertrain (P) Trouble Code For Engine
|Intake Valve Control Solenoid Circuit Low
|O2 Sensor Heater Circuit Malfunction
Is the fuel pump sometimes not priming when you turn the key to ON(II)? Start by measuring the fuel pressure and checking whether you have bright white-bluish spark at all four plugs. The mechanical timing is also something that you should check, as we mentioned above.
P04DA OBD-II Diagnostic Powertrain (P) Trouble Code DescriptionP04DA engine trouble code is about .
Main reason For P04DA CodeThe reason of P04DA OBD-II Engine Trouble Code is O2 Sensor Heater Circuit Malfunction.
P04DA DTCs may also be triggered by faults earlier down the line. For example, a dirty MAF sensor might be causing the car to overcompensate in its fuel-trim adjustments. As a result, oxygen sensors are likely to report fuel mixture problems.


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2 Chainz's 7 Best Red Carpet Looks
We're glad 2 Chainz was nominated for "Best Rap Album" at the 2013 Grammy Awards. Really, really glad. And, it's not for the reason you probably think. Sure, we're glad that a guy who used to go by the name Tity Boi is being recognized by the Grammy voters. But, we're even more happy about the fact that we'll get to see him strut his stuff on the red carpet prior to the Grammy Awards in an outfit that will no doubt get people talking.
We won't get to see what he pulls out of his closet until the Grammy Awards air on CBS on February 10 live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. But, in order to prepare ourselves, we decided to take a look at 2 Chainz's 7 Best Red Carpet Looks. Which one do you like best?


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New Year's Furry Ball
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The New Year's Furry Ball, or NYFB, is an annual event hosted by The Furst State and other local furries in the Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey region of the USA, from December 31 - January 1 each New Year.
2005 and 2006 ("Room Con" in Berlin, NJ)[edit]
Chrono Otter Coon (Chrono) hosted a New Year's party for two years which was playfully dubbed Room Con at his private home in Berlin, New Jersey.[1] The party was followed with a visit to a local restaurant or bowling alley on New Year's Day. There were 23 attendees for the 2005 New Year[2] and 38 attendees in 2006[3]. For the 2006 New Year, Room Con badges were distributed to partygoers.
Chrono intended to officially move the event to a hotel the following year[3], but later announced that he was leaving the area[4]. Tigra began making plans for a replacement New Year's party, before allowing LupineFox to take over[5][6].
Based on a suggestion by Cyril Jackal[7] that some objected to[8] and a compromise suggestion by SomaCat[9] the replacement event was officially named the New Year's Furry Ball.
2007 to 2010 (Quakertown, PA)[edit]
The event was hosted for 3 consecutive years by LupineFox with assistance from SomaCat, SkippyFox, Tigra, LittleWolf, Kung Fu Dave and other locals at the Quakertown Comfort Inn[10].
For the first two years the event took place entirely within two suites in the hotel, and not in a hotel's actual meeting space. The third year expanded to six independently run themed room parties throughout the hotel. Attendees received badges made to resemble government passports, and each official party had a unique stamp for attendees to collect on their passports.
For the 2010 New Year, the fourth and final year in Quakertown, the event was organized by Protocollie. There were four con suites next door to each other: registration/raffle, video game room, open bar/dance suite (21+ to enter), pizza/lounge room and one additional open room party serving dinner.
2011 to present (Newark, DE)[edit]
Now organized by Protocollie, Kitt3ns and members of Furst State, the event was moved to the Embassy Suites Newark-Wilmington/South in Newark, Delaware, and utilized actual hotel meeting space instead of individual suites.[11] For the 2011 New Year the event featured music from DJ Protocollie, a Rock Band game area, a buffet-style catered dinner, cash bar and a raffle[12].
Furstivus was held instead of the New Year's Furry Ball for the 2012 New Year. NYFB 2013 returned to the "doomsday proof" Embassy Suites[13] on December 31, 2012 - January 1, 2013.
New Year's Furry Ball 2015 started on December 31, 2014, at 7pm, at the Embassy Suites.[14]
New Year's Furry Ball 2016 started on December 31, 2015, at 5pm, with the ballroom to close at 1am on January 1 with the gaming rooms to "remain open until things calm down."[15] The event was at the Embassy Suites.[16]
New Year's Furry Ball 2017 started on December 31, 2016, at 5 pm, and the ballroom closed at 1am on January 1 with the gaming rooms to "remain open until things calm down."[17] The event was held at the Embassy Suites.
New Year's Furry Ball 2018 theme was "Shipwrecked on a Tropical Island"[18]. The event was held at the Embassy Suites.
- New Year's Furry Ball 2007 (2006-2007): 55[19]
- New Year's Furry Ball 2008 (2007-2008): 92[20]
- New Year's Furry Ball 2009 (2008-2009): 122
- New Year's Furry Ball 2010 (2009-2010): 115
- New Year's Furry Ball 2011 (2010-2011): 146
- Furstivus replaced NYFB for 2011-2012
- New Year's Furry Ball 2012-2013: 175[21]
- New Year's Furry Ball 2013-2014: 211[22]
- New Year's Furry Ball 2014-2015: 289
- New Year's Furry Ball 2015-2016: 340[23]
- New Year's Furry Ball 2016-2017: 350[24]
- New Year's Furry Ball 2017-2018: 340[25]
- ↑ "RoomCon '05-'06 : The Annual Furry New Years Party!!" on ChronoCoon's LiveJournal
- ↑ "The long journey to recovery..." on ChronoCoon's LiveJournal
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "ROOM CON: 2005-2006 Wrap Up" on ChronoCoon's LiveJournal
- ↑ "A series of unusual events..." on ChronoCoon's LiveJournal
- ↑ "Plans for the Holidays" - comments on Lapis Tigra's LiveJournal (currently locked)
- ↑ "Furry New Year's Eve" on LupineFox's LiveJournal
- ↑ Comment by cyriljackal in "Name That Party!" on LupineFox's LiveJournal
- ↑ "We have a name" in LupineFox's LiveJournal
- ↑ Comment thread in "Sometimes voting doesn't work" on LupineFox's LiveJournal
- ↑ "2007 Bitches!!!!" on Lapis Tigra's LiveJournal
- ↑ The New Year's Furry Ball is back and more 2011 than ever before!
- ↑ "Mission Accomplished" - Posting by Kitt3ns, on his Fur Affinity journal
- ↑ Hotel on the New Year's Furry Ball 2013 website
- ↑ New Year's Furry Ball (2014) website, archived 2015 Jan 8 at archive.org. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
- ↑ Schedule and Events on the New Years Furry Ball website. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ↑ Hotel on the New Years Furry Ball website, archived 2016 Jan 4 at archive.org. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ↑ Schedule and Events on the New Years Furry Ball website. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
- ↑ http://thefurststate.com/newyears/ Retrieved November 13, 2017.
- ↑ "Furry New Years Ball Recap" in LupineFox's LiveJournal
- ↑ "New Year's Furry Ball Wrap-up" in LupineFox's LiveJournal
- ↑ Tweet by Kitt3ns. Dated January 2, 2013
- ↑ Tweet by Protocollie on his Twitter account. Dated January 1, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ↑ Tweet by Sapphykinz
- ↑ Tweet by @newyearsfurryball
- ↑ Tweet by @newyearsfurryball
External links[edit]
- New Year's Furry Ball website
- @newyearsfurball on Twitter
- @nyfb2013 on Twitter
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Penelope Cruz: Baby Bump in the Bahamas?
Penelope Cruz holds onto her baby boy Leo after arriving on a private jet on Saturday (February 2) on the island of Nassau in the Bahamas.
The 38-year-old possibly pregnant actress seemed to be sporting what could be a baby bump, but it might have just been a gust of wind!
The day before, it was reported that Penelope and her husband Javier Bardem are expecting their second child together, but we are still waiting on confirmation from her rep.
DO YOU THINK Penelope Cruz is sporting a baby bump?