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Deep Silver has defended the CGI trailer which catapulted zombie survival title Dead Island to worldwide success, telling VideoGamer.com that labelling the marketing tool as misleading would be "ridiculous".
"We did many gameplay trailers with in-game footage before the release, so labelling the CGI misleading would be ridiculous," said Deep Silver's creative director Guido Eickmeyer. "We never pretended to be something different.
They're kinda missing the point. We weren't upset the trailer was misleading, we were upset that the trailer was BETTER. Next time take the hint and follow some of the narrative conventions laid out in your bloody marketing because whoever wrote that deserves a bigger cut of the profits than the literary genius who scribed such wonderful characters as white douche, black douche, black douche with boobs, asian douche with boobs.
I actually liked the game but these guys need to shut up and realize we don't owe them crap and next time they should just hang their heads in shame when a 2 minute trailer achieves more emotional resonance than their entire game.
The trailer was misleading.
To put it simply ppl may or may not have been expecting the game to be like the trailer but the game was faaaaar from it.
Any info you put out about the game, reflecting its personality, art work etc says that the game is going to be like that or why show it.
IF they did not intend to make the game like the trailer then they should have released it as a short film with its own title called 'How I died in slow mo'
Anything game related is saying something about the game. Of course ppl who watched the trailer did come away with it thinking theres going to be zombies, thats obvious. Ppl expected the soul that was in that trailer and Deep Silver delivered the exact opposite.
Exact reason I hate cgi trailers etc that are far from the game. Some of them are good which shows a side of the story or the feel etc. For eg the Mass Effect 3 cgi trailers were fantastic and stuck to the story.
Dead Island? NOT
Gamers don't want the post zombie apocalypse or killing rooms, but the "mid" apocalypse. where you're fighting to survive trying to figure things out while everything is falling apart. NPCs whom you have to protect, need their support, or have to fight.


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As a life and physical sciences middle school teacher, Jennifer Curley is always searching for new ways to help her students understand tough concepts.
"Potential and kinetic energy are very abstract concepts for students but when they can see how a water turbine works at the Tsongas Industrial History Center, it brings those ideas to life," says Curley, a science education student in the Graduate School of Education.
The Tsongas Industrial History Center (TIHC) – host to more than 60,000 students who take part in hands-on workshops and tours of Lowell National Historical Park's resources annually – recently launched its newest workshop called "Engineer It!"
The workshop was developed by a team of teachers, students, community partners, Graduate School of Education and College of Engineering faculty and Lowell National Historical Park and TIHC staff.
"I brought my secondary education students to introduce them to the workshop and TIHC's teaching resources in science and engineering," says Clinical Assoc. Prof. Michelle Scribner-MacLean.
Designed for students in grades 3 to 12, "Engineer It!" combines history and engineering as students explore the Industrial Revolution. Working in pairs, students use the engineering design process in a design-and-build challenge using plastic building pieces that connect with metal bolts, nuts and L-brackets. They use simple machines including an inclined plane, a pulley, and wheel and axle that mirror complex machines in the city's many gatehouses, which students also visit .
"The Tsongas Industrial History Center is tremendously helpful because it makes learning meaningful by applying concepts to real-life situations," says Curley.
The "Engineer It!" workshop helps reinforce student learning as state standards place an increased emphasis on engineering.
Curley says: "We don't have a lot of resources in middle school education to teach engineering, so this workshop really helps fill that void."
The THIC's programs are based on state and national curriculum frameworks, and are reviewed to ensure relevance to all state and national standards, including the Common Core State Frameworks literacy skills.
TIHC Director Sheila Kirschbaum says: "Engineer It! has been in development for many years, and it's great to see all of the feedback from our university and classroom teacher advisers come together to get it done."
In other TIHC workshops, students work on an assembly line, role-play as immigrants, vote in a town meeting, create canal systems and test water wheels, measure water quality and trace the flow of groundwater pollution.
The Tsongas Industrial History Center is a partnership between the University of Massachusetts Lowell Graduate School of Education and Lowell National Historical Park.


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Unborn Children Not as Important as Already Born Ones
It's true. Just look at the top two movies this weekend. The one for the kids who are already here handily beat out the one about a kid that's on its way. So that proves it.
1) Megamind — $47.7M
Well, no surprise here. Halloween is over, and Christmas (and the Jewish Chanukahs, I suppose) is a long way off, so parents really need something to do with their kids. The long slog of Thanksgiving — a holiday most children don't like, as there is no candy and there are no presents, there are only old, strange-smelling relatives groping at them, only gross dry turkey touching everything else on the plate, only Cousin Rudy and his frighteningly small hands — is almost upon the nation, and parents really need to get their kids in happy moods before that terror begins. So Megamind it is, full of jokes and adventure, something to do on a Saturday, one last chance for good before America's terrible day of thanks. And then, after that, the daily jittery explosions of presents-mania that lead up to Christmas (and the ethnic Kwanzaas, too) will consume the entire house, the dog looking forlornly out the window, across the snow-caked lawn, searching sadly for freedom.
2) Due Date — $33.5M
And one for the fellas. Director Todd "Ballplay" Phillips' latest effort didn't quite match The Hangover's boffo debut, but it still did pretty darn well. Especially considering it's about, in a big way, a pregnant lady, and pregnant ladies are probably what scares dudes the most. Not like fun scared, not Hostel scared. Like abject, soul-grinding terror scared. Basically it's pregnant ladies, followed by actual born kids, followed by the phrase "bus crash leaves entire [blank] team dead." Those are the scariest things. But this weekend, dudes faced at least one of their fears and went to see Due Date. So good for you, dudes.
3) For Colored Girls — $20.1M
While not the strongest of Tyler Perry's openings, considering this one was a Madea-free, choreo-poem heavy adaptation of a play from the 1970s, this did pretty darn well. Perhaps due to Manohla Dargis's gushing, Critics Pick rave of the film. I didn't see the film this weekend, but I did watch Madea's Family Reunion yesterday, and aside from the melodrama and whatnot, it was pretty good. There was one scene where a courting, celibate Christian couple went on a date to a "poets and painters" night at a club, wherein the girl read a poem and the guy (Boris Kodjoe, from Undercovers) painted as she read. Like painting improv, I guess. It was kind of fantastic! Though I do take issue with one thing: Madea is a child abuser. I mean, she really just spent most of that movie hitting children, whether they were strangers on a school bus or relative strangers living in her house. I'm a little concerned about this. And with all the hitting, I was upset that there wasn't more of a climactic battle royale between her and Blair Underwood's wife-abusing character. Let's make that happen, Mr. Perry.
4) Red — $8.8M
Man oh man, does this film keep trucking along. It barely dropped at all from last week! What is it about old people shooting guns that appeals to the masses so? Does this mean that all the entertainment magazines are going to start crowing about the new rise of the elderly in cinema, the way they did about ladies when Devil Wears Prada did so well? I hope not. I hope they instead run articles titled "Movies: Are They Popular Again?" That would be interesting to read, an article about how sometimes movies do well and what that says about movies.
22) 127 Hours — $266K
Averaging $66k on each of its four screens, this movie proved what we've suspected all along: Americans can handle the tough stuff. We're not gonna go all sissy and faint at the sight of someone hacking through their arm with a dull, rusty blade. That's for the French, and other weirdos. No, we can take it. Not only can we take it, we want it. It's the story of America, being trapped in a hard place and making the tough decision to saw our own arms off with small knives. It's depicted in the famous painting of General Washington chopping his own arm off, metal cutting through bone and gristle, as he crossed the Delaware. As Abraham Lincoln once said, "Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers dug crude blades into their skin and tissue and cracked through their ulnae in order to achieve freedom." I............... Oops! Whoa. Heh. Sorry. Just fainted there for a second. Yup. Gross. Never going to see this movie. Nope. Can't do it. Will never. Seriously. You people who forked over $266k this weekend? You're all nuts. Absolutely batshit bonkers. I'm gonna go lie down now.


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I've had this blog for a long time (April 2005, nearly 8 years). I'm sure I've written posts about why wineries should have a blog (in fact, the topic of my second post ever). I used to actually make regular posts about new winery blogs. I even have a category for blog posts on the topic of winery blogs.
Some wineries actually do have blogs, although the percentage is still miniscule in terms of the 6,000-odd US wineries. I'd like to think that such wineries are more successful as a result, but there's no data to support or deny that hope (since wineries are notoriously quiet about their actual sales and profits).
The fact is, most wineries don't blog. It's just surprising that more don't, notwithstanding Paul Mabray's belief that there are other things wineries should do first (with which I agree).
Anyway, I was reading my Twitter search results for "winery blog" (which is one method I used to keep track of new ones), and came across Why Every Winery Should Have A Blog which does a good job of beating the dead horse of winery blogging one more time.
Comments from wineries, both pro and con on the question of winery blogs, are welcome.


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The Democratic National Committee's Rules Committee decided today, following a televised hearing, to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations at the party's August convention, but give them all a half vote apiece. This was construed as a defeat for Hillary Clinton, who gained delegates but, pundits say, not enough. Later, it was reported that the Obama campaign is negotiating with Hillary to give her a cabinet-level position supervising health care reform if she withdraws from the race. Maybe I should have titled this post "Recreate '93;" I can think of some things more off-putting to voters than another run at Hillarycare, but not many.
Clinton supporters demonstrated outside the DNC; this was pretty typical:
Quite a few Clinton supporters are threatening to defect to McCain in the general election. Not many will, but not many would have to for a few swing states to go red. Best of all, for us Republicans, is the report that Hillary is preserving her options:
"Mrs. Clinton has instructed me to reserve her rights to take this to the credentials committee," [Harold] Ickes said before the final vote, raising the specter of a fight until that committee meets, at the end of July. Others say the fight could go all the way to the convention in Denver.
What we'd really like to see is a credentials battle over the Florida and Michigan delegations at the Democratic convention, complete with demonstrations, walkouts, and chaos in the streets. That's probably too much to hope for, but for Obama to announce that he's putting Hillary in charge of health care is a close second.
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Ever since the 1970s, the three R's of the green movement were Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. It has served the recycling movement well, helping the planet through the recycling of aluminum cans, glass bottles and now, plastic.
A group of preservation minded planners, architects and activists are asking: Why don't we apply the same green principles to old buildings?
In short, by not tearing down older buildings, that will divert tons of brick and metal from filling up our landfills. Preserving and adapting older buildings for new uses will increase their energy efficiency, reduce their carbon footprint and create jobs.
Just like when we recycle soda bottles and tires.
"We need to reduce, reuse and recycle when it comes to our buildings. Why not apply those three R's to our built environment?" asks Chris Olson, president of the Alhambra Preservation Group.
For years progress was measured in how many old buildings are torn down and how many shiny new ones erected. This was the modus operandi of American commerce and it infected even architects and city planners. Preservations, on the other hand, have been singing the praises of historic structures but for cultural and aesthetic values. For example, they'd say nobody makes those Greene and Greene fitted beams and wood inlays anymore.
With the release of a documentary last year, "The Greenest Building: The Role of Historic Buildings in Creating a Sustainable Culture," the preservation
movement is going green. Screenings across the country, including one in Alhambra Thursday night hosted by Olson's group, are pumping up the environmental aspects of historic preservation.
More than 74 percent of the commercial buildings in the country were built between 1950 and 2010, according to Ralph DiNola, a green building consultant quoted in the movie. Over the next 20 years, he says, Americans will demolish and rebuild 30 percent of this building stock, he says in the film.
Even replacing them with environmentally friendly buildings may not be necessary, he says. In fact, when the overall environmental cost is counted, a brand new building will cost more in materials mined, energy used, and in the release of pollution and greenhouse gases that raise health risks and cause global climate change.
"We haven't made that transition when we talk of historic buildings," he said.
Jane C. Turville, the movie's writer/producer/director says in her blog that cities must develop environmental stewardship along with building stewardship. One of the topics at Thursday night's panel discussion featuring Denise Lawrence-Zuniga of Cal Poly Pomona's John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies; Victoria Deise-Wilson with The Ratkovich Co. and Peyton Hall, managing principal of historic resources with the Gamble House in Pasadena was how to make adaptive reuse more economically feasible.
Turville says laws that preserve historic structures must not be "just another hoop to jump through" for developers. "It should be everyone who values a community's sense of place."
Combining environmental stewardship – i.e. preserving our hillsides, our forest, restoring our rivers – with building stewardship – i.e. Old Pasadena, Old Town Monrovia – is what gives the San Gabriel Valley its sense of place.
The SGV's sense of place, and that of Whittier with its green hills and historic buildings, make for a more liveable space. The quality of life is better here than say, in the San Fernando Valley or in the city of Los Angeles.
Monrovia's oak tree ordinance and historic preservation laws have raised that city's property values. Restoring Pasadena's City Hall dome and Rose Bowl help keep up the Rose City's unique identity. Olson is trying to get Alhambra to incorporate a historical element into its general plan. That way, property owners can take advantage of federal and state tax breaks when they improve their historic structures.
A greener region, combined with the restoration of historic structures, ratchet up our area's quality of life, or as Donovan Rypkema calls it in the movie, our "sense of place."
If preservation of both buildings and open space is not pursued, then we run the risk of losing our sense of place: "For the first time in human history, many of us are locationally indifferent," Rypkema warns.
Steve Scauzillo covers the environment and the communities along the Puente Hills. He's the current recipient of the Aldo Leopold Award for Distinguished Editorial Writing from The Wilderness Society. Follow him on Twitter @stevscaz/twitter.com or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Lampard handed England armband
Roy Hodgson has confirmed that Frank Lampard will captain England against Italy on Wednesday.
• Walcott ruled out of Italy friendly
Lampard, who missed the Three Lions' Euro 2012 campaign with a thigh injury, will wear the armband when he returns to the international fold in Berne - and with the likes of Steven Gerrard, John Terry and Wayne Rooney all rested, the Chelsea midfielder was the natural choice to skipper England as they take on the side that ended their European Championship hopes.
"We missed [Lampard], if you got players of Frank Lampard's quality, then it is important that they play," Hodgson said. "We had the same situation with Gareth Barry so we lost two very important members of our central midfield just before we travelled to Poland.
"But at least now Frank is back, and now we have the added bonus that Michael Carrick, who was not available for the Euros because we were told not to consider him, luckily he has reconsidered and I have got yet another quality player."
Hodgson refused to disclose whether it would be Jack Butland or John Ruddy who would make their England debut in goal following the withdrawal of first-choice keeper Joe Hart.
With both sides restricted to six substitutes each, Hodgson has not yet decided whether to use the match as a chance to check out both keepers.
When pressed on who would start the match in goal, Hodgson replied: "I can't say that because I haven't actually spoken to the players. I haven't even given them an indication of who is playing unless they try to read my mind during the training sessions and see how people line up there.
"As far as Jack and John, they're pretty much neck and neck for a place in the team and I'm still to decide whether I just choose one or whether possibly we have enough substitutes to enable me to give each of them a game.
"And that wouldn't be wrong and if we didn't have the restrictions on substitutes I could tell you now. But I have to be a little more careful when you can only use six."
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Begin Your Genealogy Quest
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Just Getting Started?
- 1 Step One: What do you know?
- 2 Step Two: Around the house
- 3 Step Three: Family Group Sheet
- 4 Step Four: Family and Friends
- 5 Step Five: How The FamilySearch Wiki Can Help You
Step One: What do you know?
- Start by recording what you know about your family tree on a Pedigree Chart. For a Pedigree chart you can fill out and print click here. If you would prefer to fill it in by hand, you can print a blank form.
- Try and fill it out with just what you know about your ancestors to begin with. It will be interesting to see just how much you know and if any of the family legends you have heard over the years have any bases in fact.
- Putting your material into a computer program might be a little easier. Click on the "Computer software" tab at the top of this page for sources of free and commercial genealogy software programs.
- On the Pedigree Chart, notice in the upper left hand corner how names, dates and places are recorded.
Recording Names
- Use full names when recording names. Put "nick" names in parentheses.
- Record only the maiden names for all females. You can't trace your grand mother's ancestry with her married name.
- If you only know her first name, you might record, for example: Mrs. Jane Smith.
- If do not know her name at all, record: Mrs John Smith.
Recording Dates
- Record the dates as done in Europe: day, month and year.
Recording Locations
- To record a location, start from the smallest entity to the largest such as city, county, state, country.
- For a person born in the USA, an example would be: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA.
- If a person was not born in a city and you know the county, you might record just the county and state: Cook, Illinois, USA.
- If you only know the state, you will record: Illinois, USA.
- In other parts of the world, locations may be: City, Province, Country. For example: Chester, Cheshire, England or Acapuloc, Guerrero, Mexico.
- Record the location as shown on the earliest record you have of the event. Many times the place where a birth took place is in a different county or province today and in some cases even in a different country! For example, a person may have been born in a town which is in Poland today, but the town may have been part of the Kingdom of Prussia when the event took place.
Step Two: Around the house
- After completing the Pedigree Chart to the best of your knowledge, there will be some blank spaces.
- The information may be somewhere in your home or in the possession of other family members.
- Get a box and begin to collect any information that will help you fill the blank spots such as:
- Certificates - Birth, Marriage, and Death
- Bibles
- Letters
- Photos
- Diaries, Journals
- Obituaries, Newspaper articles
- Anything else that might contain family information
Step Three: Family Group Sheet
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- For each couple on your Pedigree Chart you need to create a Family Group Record
- Here you record not only the names for you direct ancestors but all their children which will be your cousins, aunts and uncles.
As you fill out these sheets, please consider these crucial steps:
1. Record our sources of information
With every fact you record on the Pedigree Chart or Family Group Sheet, it is important to record your sources of the information:
- For example, is the birth date of Aunt Betty from personal knowledge or did you get it from a record in a family bible or was it given to you by a family member's personal knowledge?
- You can be sure one day, someone or even you will wonder where you got you information because someone else has something different.
- Recording sources is a science almost in and of itself. Check out Cite Your Sources.
2. Create a "To Do List"
Rather than carry your partially fill out forms around with you when you go look for information, you might create a "To Do List.
- Here you will list in detail what information you are specifically looking for. For example: What is the birthday of Aunt Betty? Then you will write down where you might find that information such as: Ask my cousin George the birth date of his mother.
- Again record what you are trying to find out and where you plan to search to find out what you are wanting to know. Here is a sample of a To Do List
- An additional benefit is when asking a family member for a specific bit of information such as a birth, it almost always seems to bring other facts connected to the event. This may not happen if you ask a general question such as: "tell me all you know about Aunt Betty. It is very important to be very precise in your questions and only ask for one fact at a time!. Ask for such things like when was she born, where was she born, when did she die, etc.
3. Research Logs
Because you will probably look through thousands of sources over the years it is important to keep track of what you have researched and your results.
- If you researched the US Census looking for your Great Grand Father John Smith and did not find him, make a note so you won't waste time looking at it again because you can't remember if you have already looked in it. You can download an example here of a Research Logs or
Step Four: Family and Friends
Next step in your research is going to family and friends to fill in the blanks. While you're at it you might gather any photographs of family members and ancestors for you own collection.
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Group: I-495 incident shows need to fix bridges
CHELMSFORD, Mass. (AP) — An independent group says an incident in which debris peeled off a highway overpass and smashed the windshield of a car traveling below should serve as a warning about the need to fix crumbling roads and bridges in Massachusetts.
Crews made emergency repairs to the Route 3A bridge after Tuesday's incident on Interstate 495 in Chelmsford. No one was seriously hurt.
Transportation for Massachusetts said in a statement that the bridge is among many in the state considered structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
The group called on voters to defeat a November ballot question that would repeal a law that automatically ties increases in the gasoline tax to inflation. Revenues from the tax help fund road and bridge repairs.
Advocates for repeal say lawmakers should be required to vote on any tax hikes.


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Nintendo's new R&D division is working on ways to make future Nintendo devices more integrated with one another. President, Satoru Iwata, explains how.
ha haa .the irrelevance of today is . ." dont you love it when an angry one blocks you rite before they send you a p.m. that proves nothing . if they were correct, they wouldnt have to block anyone, pussy toes?
a goomba blocks you like a goomba should . ha haa
and oh yes, please lets share architecture between portables between consoles and machines khh
Well they kind of joined their console and portable teams together, so... Yeah.
Turrble idea. Increase interactivity, but keep them separate entities.


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Rain makes everything thrive. These drops were during a light rain in Valdez Alaska and found on a huge variegated nasturtium leaf.
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Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker said plans to limit the size or change the structure of the largest financial institutions must be made with the intent of allowing a failure without government aid.
"It makes perfect sense to constrain the scale and scope of financial firms in a way that ensures that they can be resolved in an orderly manner, without government protection for creditors," Lacker said.
U.S. regulators and lawmakers are searching for ways to limit the risk that a large bank failure will result in another taxpayer-funded bailout. Senate Republicans and Democrats are discussing legislation that would boost capital standards, while Fed officials are discussing ways to limit the safety net and curb balance-sheet expansion at the largest banks.
While the Dodd Frank Act's preamble says its intent is to "end 'too-big-to-fail,'" some of the largest banks may still benefit from the perception that they would be rescued by the government, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told lawmakers in February.
"We need to be working in the direction of eliminating it entirely," Bernanke told the House Financial Services Committee on Feb. 27.
The Dodd-Frank Act required firms to write living wills, or plans that describe how they would be wound down in the event of failure. Lacker said one flaw in the law is that it has provisions for temporary government support.
'Credible' Plan
Lacker advocated "creating a credible funding plan that avoids adverse effects, without resorting to government" financing "might seem daunting," Lacker said at the University of Richmond.
"I see no other way to achieve a situation in which policy makers consistently prefer unassisted bankruptcy to incentive-corroding intervention and investors are convinced that unassisted bankruptcy is the norm," Lacker said at the University of Richmond.
The KBW Bank Index, which tracks the shares of 24 large U.S. banking companies, rose 8.7% this year through yesterday, compared with a 9.6% gain for the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index.
Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo said Congress should consider a cap on non-deposit liabilities to curb balance sheet growth at the largest banks. Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher proposed that the central bank provide backup liquidity to commercial banks alone and not any of their nonbank subsidiaries.
Banks have boosted capital levels since the crisis as regulators demand larger buffers against loss. Bernanke said the aggregate Tier 1 common equity ratio at the 18 largest banks rose to 11.3% at the end of 2012 from 5.6% of risk-weighted assets at the end of 2008.
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High School Choir is open to every student in grades 9-12. Music reading, sight-reading, rhythmic, melodic, and historical skills are all developed on a daily basis. Students enrolled in high school choir are required to participate in the fall concert, the holiday concert, the spring concert, and the Pop's Concert. There are opportunities available for individual growth in the form of show choir, solo ensemble, the Dunn/St.Croix Honors Choir, and the All-School Musical Production.
The High School Show Choir is a select group that serves as a good will ambassador for our school. Auditions are held in September, and then the selected group meets on Monday evenings from 5:45 pm to 7:00 pm. This group performs the national anthem at various sporting events and prepares song and dance routines for selected concerts, competitions, and community functions.
Students from each school in our conference are chosen by application for this honor. The most qualified singers from each school are selected by the directors to form a mass choir that rehearses together and then performs a concert and a tour.
Students enrolled in high school choir are encouraged to get involved in preparing solos, duets, trios, quartets, madrigals, etc. for the district solo ensemble festival held in late February. Each event performs for a Wisconsin State Musical Association qualified judge and receives a rating and a critique. Those events performing Class A music and receiving a *I rating qualify to perform at the State Solo Ensemble Festival in May.
Every "even" year, in the spring, we put on a grand scale musical production. Past productions include Anything Goes, The Sound of Music, Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Good News, Oklahoma, Cinderella and Footloose. Auditions are held in February, with the musical being performed sometime in April. These productions are very grandiose, with the whole school getting involved in set construction, costumes, make-up, choreography, lights, sound, ticket sales, and program design. Any student in grades 9-12 that auditions for our musical is guaranteed at least a part in the chorus!
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UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- On the heels of our Frequent Flyers post on Wednesday about the Flyers possibly pursuing a trade with the Maple Leafs, the rumors appear to be gaining momentum.
Two organizational sources confirmed what TSN's Darren Dreger reported on their 'Insider Trading' show on Thursday night, that Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren and Leafs general manager Brian Burke have indeed spoken about a potential trade.
At this point, sources say no formal offer has been made for any player.
Dreger subsequently reported that Luke Schenn, the brother of Flyers forward Brayden Schenn, has not been offered to any team in a trade. That does not, however, mean that Schenn is off the market.
As of last night, however, it appeared that no deal was imminent.
Interestingly, Burke joined The Fan 590 AM in Toronto on Wednesday and confirmed that he does have a possible trade boiling on the burner. Burke also said he would not be against "trading a 22-year-old of one position for a 22-year-old of another position."
It just so happens that James van Riemsdyk, who signed a 6-year, $25.5 million contract extension last summer, and Schenn are same age (22) as the number mentioned by Burke. Whether that was pure coincidence or a top-of-mind comment is anyone's guess.
Van Riemsdyk has battled through various injuries but, all considered, has largely put up disappointing numbers with 11 goals and 11 assists in 37 games. Van Riemsdyk is on-pace to eclipse last season's point total by just 4.
Schenn was asked about any potential trade on Thursday in Toronto.
"In the three and a half years that I've been here, there has been a few rumors about trades that were going to happen," Schenn told reporters in Toronto. "They come up every year somehow. It doesn't really mean much. They're just rumors and I'm happy being here in Toronto."
We reported on Wednesday that Flyers director of player development Don Luce was spotted at the Air Canada Centre for the third time in as many weeks. Luce also spent a solid chunk of time in Toronto before the Flyers acquired Kris Versteeg last Valentine's Day.
Right now, it appears that the Flyers - who will likely make some sort of trade for defensive depth before the Feb. 27 trade deadline - appear to have their sights set on Nashville's Ryan Suter, who is in the final year of his deal. The Flyers will get an up-close look at Suter this weekend in Tennesee.
Carolina's Tim Gleason, as we reported last month, is also a name on the Flyers' list. Gleason, also a pending UFA, will likely be a hot commodity at the deadline at a much cheaper price than bother Suter and Schenn.
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT: There were a total of 12 rookies selected by the NHL's hockey operations department last Thursday to send to Ottawa for the Rookie Skills competition. Sean Couturier, 19, is 11th in points among rookies. There are 19 rookies with more assists than him. His offensive numbers are not flashy.
Yet, Couturier was still selected to head to Ottawa, a tip of the cap to the completeness of Couturier's suave game. Just one rookie, Ottawa's own Jared Cowen, has played more minutes shorthanded than Couturier. He is third in plus/minus rating and fourth in faceoff win percentage.
Matt Read, 25, will join Couturier in Ottawa for the skills competition, where they will be participating in the same drills as the bonafide All-Stars on international television. Read is tied for the league lead in goals among rookies.
"I think it's great," coach Peter Laviolette said. "You get to go to an event with the best players in the league. It's well deserved. We've used these guys in [big] roles all year and we count on them and trust them. Not only do we recognize their talent, but it looks like other people do, as well."
Both Couturier and Read have come a long way in the last calendar year. With Drummondville in the QMJHL, he was just finally getting adjusted to the season after a slow start because of mononucleosis. Read was in his senior season at Minnesota's Bemidji State.
Couturier said on Thursday that he still sometimes doesn't believe he's in the NHL. Read said he would have told his friends to "get real" if they would have predicted this.
"Actually, I got a text from Claude Giroux after practice with 'congratulations,'" Read said. "I said, 'for what, what are you talking about?' I'm still shocked I'm going."
SUSPENSION COMING? Islanders defenseman Steve Staios might not want to answer his phone on Friday. He may be getting a call from NHL director of player safety, Brendan Shanahan, for his dirty hit on Max Talbot.
Video of the hit is below.
With 4:31 to play, Talbot was blindsided by Staios when he turned around after receiving the puck along the boards.
Talbot, 27, was slow to get up and needed assistance getting to the bench. Video replay shows that Staios' first connection with Talbot was to the head. Talbot did finish the game but said afterward that he had no inkling the hit was coming. He did not seem like himself post-game.
"I had zero idea, none at all," Talbot said. "That's what we're trying to stop in the NHL, shots like that head shot. I had no time to react. I felt like the point of contact was my head. I didn't the replay or anything, but from what I felt, it was a pretty dangerous hit. But we'll see what they say."
There was no penalty called on the play by either official, referees Francois St. Laurent or Steve Kozari, which riled up the Flyers' bench.
"When I saw it live, I didn't like it," Laviolette said. "At the time, the observation [from the referees] was that it was a full-body contact."
SOUTHERN COMFORT: Scott Hartnell and Kimmo Timonen were traded to the Flyers in June, 2007. They played a combined 1,009 games in a Predators sweater. Yet, in a scheduling quirk, the Flyers have been back there once in the last 5 seasons. Saturday (8 o'clock start) will be their second matchup.
Last time, on March 16, 2009, a Predators fan greeted Hartnell outside the arena with a life-size cardboard cutout, which Hartnell proudly autographed and posed for a picture... with himself, himself and the fan.
The Flyers have never lost in regulation in Nashville (2-0-2-2) in the franchise's 14-year history there.
STAT WATCH: Speaking of Timonen, here's a random stat: Timonen has a better points-per-game rate (0.512) over his career than forward James van Riemsdyk (0.510).
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In a close vote on January 23, 2009, the Texas state board of education approved a revision of the state's science standards lacking the controversial "strengths and weaknesses" language, which in 2003 was selectively applied by members of the board attempting to dilute the treatment of evolution in the biology textbooks then under consideration.
Even as the Discovery Institute's Stephen C. Meyer was trying to convince the Texas state board of education of his scientific bona fides, the antievolution textbook he coauthored was receiving a scathing review in a top scientific journal.
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In a close vote on Friday, the Texas State Board of Education approved revised science standards which removed controversial language mandating that students be taught the "strengths and weaknesses" of scientific theories.
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) applauds this move, since the references to "weaknesses" in the old standards have been used to introduce creationist attacks on evolution in textbooks and classrooms.
Three journals — Science, The Lancet, and National Geographic — are celebrating the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin and the sesquicentennial of the publication of On the Origin of Species.
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More than 160 state education leaders and school and college officials will participate in a summit hosted by the State Board of Education and the Commission on Higher Education that will focus on ways to improve the transition from high school to college.
The joint forum by the board and commission to discuss issues of mutual concern will be held from 1 to 4 p.m., December 7 at the Rider University Student Center in Lawrenceville.
"The collaboration is an outgrowth of discussions held at the State Boards annual strategic planning meeting in August," noted Maud Dahme, president of the State Board of Education. "Several members of the Commission participated in the meeting, and one of the items discussed was how we could strengthen lines of communication and forge an even closer working relationship to address common goals."
"The new millennium holds unprecedented challenges for schools and colleges, and effective coordination from preschool to graduate school is essential for student success," said Alfred J. Cade, Chairman of the Commission. "There are many pressing issues that demand collaborative solutions, and the Commission on Higher Education and the State Board of Education are committed to tackling them together."
The summit will begin with welcoming remarks by Maud Dahme and Alfred Cade. A panel discussion examining the interrelationship of high school graduation requirements, college admission policies and remediation will follow. Nancy Cole, president of Educational Testing Service in Princeton, will be the moderator.
After the panel discussion, there will be three breakout groups: academic preparation and readiness; admissions policies and practices; and support and guidance for students and parents. Reports from the breakout groups will be discussed before David C. Hespe, Commissioner of Education, and James Sulton Jr., Executive Director of the Commission on Higher Education, discuss the next steps to be taken in closing remarks.
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BOSTON —The Massachusetts state Senate on Thursday approved a conference committee report of the State Legislature's transportation bond bill supporting the South Coast Rail project and mitigation as well as important infrastructure design, construction and upgrades in the First Plymouth and Bristol District, according to a press release from the office of State Sen. Marc R. Pacheco (D-Taunton) .
The $12.7 billion transportation bond bill, which dedicates capital spending over the next five years to fund improvements to the statewide transportation system, includes $2.3 billion for South Coast Rail improvements and creates a $100 million mitigation program for communities impacted by the project, according to Pacheco.
The bond bill will help meet Southeastern Massachusetts meet several infrastructure needs as it dedicates:
· $750,000 for the reconstruction of sidewalks on High Street in Taunton to meet ADA compliance,
· $500,000 for repairs and reconstruction to Oak Street Bridge in Bridgewater,
· $80,000 for initial design and permit scoping for a commuter rail station in Wareham,
· $20,000 for the design and production of way-finding and welcome signs in Middleboro,
· $300 million for Chapter 90 local road projects.
"I am pleased this transportation bond bill will allow South Coast Rail to continue chugging along while it also invests in projects that will help constituents move throughout the region," Pacheco said. "I will continue to fight for a commuter rail line to Southeastern Massachusetts and other transportation solutions that will promote economic growth, stir job creation and enhance the quality of life in our region."


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My take on the PBS Special
The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross
Episode 2 : The Cotton Economy and Slavery
In my family tree there are numerous George's and John's. Did he by chance make his way to North Carolina? Was he captured and sent back into slavery like so many others.(Let my people go)
Louisville Morning Courier July24,1844
How much cotton did my gg-grandparents John Lewis and his wife Sallie Jefferson Lewis have to pick in order to satisfy their slave owner in Grimes County Texas?
Sallie was around 9 yrs old before she saw the end of bondage and John was going on 20 years. (But still I rise)
This is the last bale of cotton that came from the Jonesville Gin situated in Jonesville Texas where my great grandfather Joseph P Taylor was born.
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Would love to have feedback from anyone else on the PTR. really a bummer that our pets don't transfer with our chars....
So far the only thing I have seen odd is that the camera angle now seems locked when you start a battle.
Quintessence wrote:- The forfeit penalty currently applies to Tamer battles, not just wild pet encounters. This might change in the future?
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Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown (Oxford University Press, March 2009), the new critically acclaimed biography of the longtime Cosmopolitan magazine editor by Professor of Gender and Women's Studies Jennifer Scanlon, has been earning rave reviews from major publications, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and others.
The book traces the life of the maverick diva of New York publishing from her humble, working-class beginnings to her ascent to the pantheon of 20th century women.
The book title is derived from an embroidered pillow that famously adorns Brown's office, declaring, "Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere."
Scanlon reveals a fascinating, unapologetic woman who blew open the conservative mores of the 1960s with a unique philosophy of pragmatic feminism that celebrated independence, sexuality, the pursuit of beauty — and the overlap of sexual politics and commerce.
"Many second wave feminists wrote her off as no more than the female equivalent of Hugh Hefner," notes Scanlon, who is an expert in consumer culture. "I'm arguing that she was an early practitioner of the second wave who also laid the groundwork for what people are considering feminism today — the so-called third wave, lipstick-friendly feminism you see typified in Sex and the City.
"For example, Brown thought fashion was liberating for women, not oppressive. She had an early understanding that women 'perform' femininity, as feminist theorists today argue, but she didn't see that as something altogether bad. She saw power in it, not oppression."
Scanlon found an untapped wealth of information on Brown at the Smith College Archives, which houses her papers, along with many other notable women of the 20th century, including Smith alum Gloria Steinem.
"Here is Helen Gurley Brown, who didn't go to college at all, never mind a place like Smith College, who made her way up in the work world without any formal education, yet Smith determined she was important enough to document through a significant collection. I greatly respect their choice," says Scanlon.
Among the materials, Scanlon discovered letters and journals that offer up juicy accounts of life as a single woman. "They are particularly revealing about what it was like in the postwar period, during an era of staid domesticity, for a sexy single woman to negotiate gender roles" notes Scanlon.
Brown was famous for advising women on how to leverage the social-financial contract between the sexes. "She had some interesting schemes," says Scanlon. "One was, if you go out with a man who is from out of town, get him to pay for your taxi ride home. Have him give you the cab money, let the taxi take you one block, then jump out and take a bus."
"She felt that women should never pay for dates," adds Scanlon. "She was aware that men were the ones who earned the money and felt they should be willing to spend it; she maintained that women should reciprocate as they saw fit. Brown addressed these economic, social, and sexual relations between women and men that most people didn't want to acknowledge or talk about. It was one of the things that made her unpopular among conservatives but enormously popular with a mainstream audience."
Scanlon had the opportunity to meet directly with Brown on several occasions at her New York office in the Hearst Building.
"She is 87 now, and she's still working, Scanlon says. "Her lifelong philosophy has been that work is central to women's identity, and she can't imagine her own life without that kind of engagement."
As for the biography, Scanlon notes, "She resisted anyone writing her biography for years, but in the end I think she was amenable to this project primarily because I'm an academic and not someone in the industry — someone who might well have written a very different kind of book about a figure like Helen Gurley Brown."


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LOS ANGELES — Authorities say actor Michael Jace is charged with homicide after his wife was found shot to death in their home.
The Los Angeles Times reported that city police arrived at the couple's home in the Hyde Park neighborhood about 8:30 p.m. Monday and that 40-year-old April Jace was found dead inside.
Detective Eric Crosson tells the newspaper that Michael Jace was taken into custody Monday night and arrested on a homicide charge later. Jace was in custody and unavailable for comment.
The 50-year-old Jace played a police officer in the TV series The Shield and had roles in Forrest Gump and Planet of the Apes. The couple were married nine years and have children.


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"Buttermilk Bakery opens doors, sells out day one" (Lydia Stetson - February 6) was a tasty treat!
The article should be must reading by our public officials on a bipartisan basis, be it Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, on the federal, state and city level to understand how jobs are really created.
Entrepreneurs such as Katie Rosenhouse, the owner of Buttermilk Bakery have continued to create new employment opportunities without the assistance of federally funded taxpayer stimulus dollars. These people are our neighbors who work long hours, pay taxes and provide local employment. All are true American heroes.
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There are three known Arkentools: The Arkenhammer, Arkendish, and Arkenpliers. Four Arkentools are said to exist. Each Arkentools are reported by many Sides to have originated as a tool of the Titans, divine Elvis like beings who originally created Erfworld presumably using Arkentools. Whether the Arkentools were left on purpose or by accident by the Titans is unknown, however, Toolists believe the Titans left them on purpose. Both the origins of the Arkentools and the Titan themselves are reported as if from legend. There are no known first hand accounts or documents of the legends.
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The fourth known Arkentool has been revealed to be the Arkenshoes. They were once in the posession of Judy Gale, the Overlord of Haffaton, during the existance of the original kingdom of Faq, but their current whereabouts are unkown. The Arkenshoes give the attuned individual unlimited move, though whether or not this only applies to the unit's own turn or extends to other side's turns as well is unknown.
It appears that individuals may attune to a given Arkentool and unleash latent Titanic powers. In this sense, attunement means that upon physical contact between the Arkentool and the individual Titanic abilities are unleashed that would otherwise be latent. It is unknown if different individuals upon attunement to a given arkentool release different Titanic powers or if multiple individuals can even attune to the same Arkentool, though to date it appears only one individual is ever attuned to a given Arkentool at one time.
Attunement itself is noted as extremely rare and not easily predicted, but such predictions as an aspect of Fate axiomatic Predictamancy are possible as in the case of the Arkenpliers and Wanda Firebaugh. It appears that either the Titanic powers unleashed by attunement may be an amalgam of the attuned person's personality/powers and the Arkentool or that only a person predisposed to a required personality and powers would be able to attune to a given Arkentool. (See Toolist below for third Theory). Arkentools can be used by those un-attuned to them for superior but relatively mundane purposes without Titanic powers. The mundane powers appear to also be related to the Titanic powers as such was the case of Prince Ansom and the Arkenpliers as he could destroy Uncroaked units with them, but Wanda Firebaugh, a Naughtymancer was able to unleash Titanic Uncroaked powers with the Arkenpliers upon attunement.
Toolists and Fate Perspective on Arkentools
Some individuals, notably Stanley the Plaid, ascribe to a belief in Toolism. That the Arkentools represent the will of the Titans themselves. As such, the claim attunement to an Arkentool surpasses Royalty in declaring a legitimate right to rule. Others, notably Wanda Firebaugh, see the Arkentools as players aligned to timeless Fate itself with attunement and the Arkentools as simply players in Fate.
The Arkenhammer
The Arkenhammer is currently attuned to and held by Stanley the Plaid, Overlord of the side Gobwin Knob. Stanley is attuned to the Arkenhammer and thus can cause it to express certain Titanic abilities that would otherwise be latent. The Arkenhammer can be used to
- "Rock Out". Rock music being the highest form of music on Erfworld, per Stanley, the Arkenhammer in his hands can be used as a faux guitar and cause a full heavy metal rock music sound to be created at tremendously loud volumes. Rocking Out may convey combat advantages and perhaps be used in Dance Fighting as well.
- Transmute walnuts into pigeons, (and Orlies into walnuts)
- Command Dwagons
- Turn Dwagons to the owner's Side
The Arkendish
The Arkendish is currently attuned to and held by Charlie, Overlord of Charlescomm. Unlike the other Arkentools, the Arkendish does not appear portable and appears to be installed in the Capital City of Charlescomm. Most the specific Titanic powers granted to the amalgam attunement of Charlie and the Arkendish are unknown, however, it is known they they allow Charlie Titanic Thinkamancy powers or powers to work with Grandiocosmic Strings that mimic Thinkamancy. This has allowed Charlie to be the "telecom giant of Erfworld" and this is the main thing Charlie used the Arkendish for http://www.erfworld.com/2009/10/summer-updates-%E2%80%93-046/ These powers are so great they even threaten the Thinkamancy organization of Great Minds That Think Alike.http://www.erfworld.com/book-2-archive/?px=/2011-01-07.png Part of the reason that the actual powers of Charlie and the Arkendish are not known is that some of Charlescomm abilities may stem from Archon Thinkamancy abilities or Charlie's own abilities inferred to be a benefit stemming from the Arkendish and Charlie has never confirmed any of this.
- Grant caster like Thinkamancy Links book-2-–-text-updates-018
- Grant the ability to Locate and Link to any commander in the world if the subject concentrates hard enough and long enough http://www.erfworld.com/2009/10/summer-updates-%E2%80%93-046/
- Grant and handle an unlimited number of Thinkagrams http://www.erfworld.com/2009/10/summer-updates-%E2%80%93-046/
- Grant the ability to black out all received communications book-2-–-text-updates-018
- Allow Charlie to limit contact between himself and everyone else to Thinkamancy only via the Arkendish (even his own units) http://www.erfworld.com/2009/10/summer-updates-%E2%80%93-046/
- Be the greatest instrument of observation there could ever be http://www.erfworld.com/2011/02/book-2-%e2%80%93-text-updates-040/ as reported by Isaac, Headmaster of the Great Minds That Think Alike Thinkamancy organization
- Grant Side units a pleasant emotional reaction http://www.erfworld.com/2009/10/summer-updates-%E2%80%93-046/ book-2-–-text-updates-018
- Grant some abilities to be extended to Archons in the Archendish Tower http://www.erfworld.com/2009/10/summer-updates-%E2%80%93-046/
The Arkenpliers
The Arkenpliers are currently attuned to Wanda Firebaugh of Gobwin Knob though they were previously held by Ansom of Jetstone and have at least been briefly in possession of Ossomer and Lady Sylvia Lazarus, for varying reasons. All the specific powers of the Arkenpliers are unknown, though the following have been seen:
- Grant the ability to Decrypt croaked Units, restoring them to a semblance of Life with full abilities, memories, and personalities and zero upkeep cost.
- Ability to dust Uncroaked with ease
It also functions fully as a melee weapon.
Parson's Stupid Meal has stated that there are four known Arkentools, creating the possibility of other, unknown, Arkentools. If this is true, because the Arkenshoes disappeared along with Judy Gale, it is possible that the Arkenshoes are one of the "unknown" Arkentools and the fourth "known" Arkentool has yet to be revealed.
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The Hotel Pontchartrain in Detroit, seen earlier today around 1907 in this post. Now it's circa 1910-1915 and it has a few extra floors trimmed Second Empire style to look like a giant mansard roof. Not too many years later it was torn down to make way for a bank. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.
"Bomber factory. No caption for this image." 1943 or 1944. So, what are they and where is Shop 301? Office of War Information safety negative. View full size.
1909. "Mme. Diss-DeBarr," a.k.a. "the noted and notorious Ann O'Delia Dis Debar, of many aliases, a number of husbands and several prison terms," according to a 1909 article in the New York Times. The headline calls her an "ex-priestess of fake spiritualism." 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain. View full size.
1865. "Cold Harbor, Virginia. Unburied dead on the battlefield of Gaines' Mill." Photographs from the main Eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Wet plate glass negative by John Reekie. View full size.
The Hotel Pontchartrain in Detroit circa 1907. By the mid-teens the hotel had been topped off with a huge mansard roof that added five floors of guest rooms. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1927. "Crosstown Auto Supply Co." 1801 14th Street at S Street N.W. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
November 1965. Fabulous, glamorous, glittering, world-famous Hollywood & Vine. My mother, father and brother take in the dazzling sights while I snap off this Kodachrome, two years after my previous memorable visit. Looks like brother and I have been hitting the record shops. Notable vehicles include a shiny red pre-1957 Volkswagen beetle, a 1961 or 1962 Thunderbird, a 1958 Plymouth wagon and, most interesting of all, a City of L.A. Water & Power Studebaker Champ pickup. View full size.
"Recreation Pavilion. Mirman Residence, Arcadia, California, 1959. Architects: Buff, Straub & Hensman." Color transparency by Julius Shulman. View full size. I see the potential here for limitless, free-spirited fun. (Please do not move cushions more than one-quarter inch from designated positions on the Recreation Pavilion Fun Grid. The Herman Miller benches will not be moved more than 21 bricks away from decking. Tennis racquets allowed on pillows only if propped at an appropriately informal angle, 35 degrees to the horizontal. Thank you.)


text: sports — Broad Street Bull Source: Flyers eye Lecavalier Updated: June 29, 2013 — 8:15 PM EDT Vincent Lecavalier after a fight back in April. (Chris O'Meara/AP) by Sam Carchidi, STAFF WRITER Twitter icon @BroadStBull | Mail icon email@example.com Close icon Mail icon Email Twitter icon @BroadStBull   Sam Carchidi STAFF WRITER Sam Carchidi became an Inquirer staff writer in 1984 and covered mostly South Jersey high school sports and the Phillies before taking the Flyers beat. Carchidi has written three books: the nationally acclaimed Miracle in the Making: The Adam Taliaferro Story, which he co-authored with Scott Brown; Bill Campbell: The Voice of Philadelphia Sports; and Standing Tall: The Kevin Everett Story, which was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. He also contributed to a 1993 Inquirer book on the Phillies. A lifelong South Jersey resident, Carchidi lives in Wenonah with his wife, JoAnn, and their two children, Sara and Sammy. More by Sam Carchidi Flyers to face familiar foe they rarely beat: Sergei Bobrovsky Oct 17 Observations from Flyers' escape against Panthers: The good, the bad, the ugly Oct 17 Flyers' Scott Laughton off to impressive start, Nolan Patrick's return could be soon Oct 16 More from Sam Carchidi Arrow icon Flyers' coaching staff staying; team's free agents likely headed elsewhere Flyers want win, not revenge Gostisbehere on way back Flyers seek to turn tables on Isles Holmgren backs Lecavalier deal The Flyers are in the hunt for 6-foot-4, 208-pound veteran center Vinny Lecavalier, an NHL source confirmed. In fact, Flyers officials met with the unrestricted free agent on Saturday. Several teams are trying to lure him. Free agents can sign on Friday. Lecavalier is still productive after all these years. He is a terrific playmaker and would provide the Flyers with some needed size and physicality at center. A four-time all-star, Lecavalier, 33, had 10 goals and 32 points in 39 games with Tampa Bay this season. Lecavalier's contract was bought out by the Lightning a few days ago. He had over $32 million left on a deal that ran through 2019-20. Follow Sam Carchidi on Twitter @BroadStBull. Published: June 29, 2013 — 8:15 PM EDT


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SAN DIEGO — As Roy Oswalt walked off the field having retired 13 Padres in a row, Carlos Ruiz made a prediction.
"You're going to finish this game," his catcher said.
But as soon as Oswalt entered the dugout, Charlie Manuel told the righthander he was done. Oswalt was due to leadoff the ninth inning and Manuel wanted to extend the one-run lead. Plus, Manuel said, he had Brad Lidge to pitch the ninth.
"Oswalt had already done good," Manuel said.
Lidge, of course, loaded the bases with by hitting Ryan Ludwick on the hand with an 0-2 count. Then, one strike away from winning again, he balked in the tying run.
In the end it was a blunder erased later by Jimmy Rollins' fantastic slide and Chad Durbin's fine relief as the Phillies won in 12 innings, 3-2.
But Manuel's decision to remove Oswalt was a head-scratcher — and this is hardly second-guessing.
Oswalt needed just 11 pitches to finish the eighth. He was at 102 and had cruised past the Padres, his only mistake a solo home run to Yorvit Torrealba in the third inning. He had retired 13 San Diego hitters in a row.
If that's the other Roy — Halladay — does Manuel do the same thing? He's had a long leash on Halladay all season. Oswalt, apparently, has yet to merit the same trust.
"I wanted to go back out," Oswalt said. "I feel like I probably could have finished the game."
Oswalt said he lobbied his manager. Twelve times this season, he has thrown more than 102 pitches in a game. Manuel didn't budge. He wanted a pinch hitter to begin the ninth with the top of the order due up. He sent Domonic Brown up for Oswalt. The rookie popped out in foul territory behind third base on the second pitch he said.
"But I understand," Oswalt said.
It very nearly cost the Phillies their chance to gain ground on the Braves for the first time since Aug. 14. Incredibly, the Phils stand just two back of Atlanta despite not having scored more than three runs in five straight games.
Oswalt has pitched at least seven innings in each of his last four starts and has a 1.24 ERA.
"My mechanics have come around after the first start," Oswalt said.
He was robbed of a fourth consecutive victory Friday. Oswalt has played every bit the part of ace the Phillies expected when they acquired him. He struck out six and walked none against the Padres on Friday.
He threw 78 of his 102 pitches (76.5 percent) for strikes. He wants to pound the strike zone with regularity. Consider that done.
"Actually," Oswalt said, "I looked down there one time and I had like five balls in the fifth inning or something."
It wasn't good enough for an Oswalt victory Friday, but the Phillies still won. And Oswalt has played every bit the part of ace so far.
Maybe it's time for Manuel to start treating the Roys equally.


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The 2010 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML http://www.cs.rit.edu/~mtf/ml2010 Baltimore, Maryland, United States Sunday, September 26, 2010 co-located with ICFP 2010 Call for Participation ML is a family of programming languages that includes dialects known as Standard ML, Objective Caml, and F#. The development of these languages has inspired a large amount of computer science research, both practical and theoretical. This workshop aims to provide a forum to encourage discussion and research on ML and related technology (higher-order, typed, or strict languages). The format of the 2010 Workshop on ML will be different than that of recent years, returning to a more informal model: a workshop with presentations selected from submitted abstracts but without published proceedings. We hope that this format will encourage the presentation of more exciting (if unpolished) research and deliver a more lively workshop atmosphere. Invited Speaker ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Luke Hoban (Microsoft) -- Bringing F# to Visual Studio 2010 Program ~~~~~~ 9:00 Invited Talk Visual F#: Bringing F# to Visual Studio 2010 Luke Hoban (Microsoft Research) 10:00 Break 10:30 Probabilistic programming using first-class stores and first-class continuations Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC); Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University) 10:55 Effective progamming in ML Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research); Ross Tate (University of California, San Diego) 11:20 Discussion 11:30 First-class modules and composable signatures in Objective Caml 3.12 Alain Frisch (LexiFi); Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University Graduate School of Mathematics) 11:55 First-class modules: hidden power and tantalizing promises Jeremy Yallop (Applicative Ltd); Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC) 12:20 Discussion 12:30 Lunch break 14:00 Deriving a Typed Implementation for Coroutines in ML Konrad Anton (Universitat Freiburg); Peter Thiemann (Universitat Freiburg) 14:25 The Design Rationale for Multi-MLton Suresh Jagannathan (Purdue University); Armand Navabi (Purdue University); KC Sivaramakrishnan (Purdue University); Lukasz Ziarek (Purdue University) 14:50 Discussion 15:00 Mirage: high-performance ML kernels in the cloud Anil Madhavapeddy (University of Cambridge); Thomas Gazagnaire (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) 15:25 Hosting a Standard ML compiler in a Web Browser: Status Report Martin Elsman 15:50 Discussion 16:00 Break 16:30 A simple and effective method for assigning blame for type errors David MacQueen (University of Chicago) 16:55 The MetaOCaml files: Status report and research proposal Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC); Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University) 17:20 Discussion 17:30 Closing Registration and Local Arrangements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * https://regmaster3.com/2010conf/ICFP10/register.php * http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2010/local.html Program Chair ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Matthew Fluet Rochester Institute of Technology Program Committee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kathleen Fisher AT&T Labs Research Adam Granicz IntelliFactory Daan Leijen Microsoft Research Johan Nordlander Lulea University of Technology Sungwoo Park Pohang University of Science and Technology Daniel Spoonhower Google


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Wolf hunting in the northeast zone will close for the remainder of the early season at the end of shooting hours on Thursday, Nov. 15, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
The northwest zone remains open through Sunday, Nov. 18, in 100 series deer permit areas. The season closed Sunday, Nov. 11, in 200 series deer permit areas. DNR closed the east-central zone on Monday, Nov. 5. Hunters with permits for closed zones are allowed to hunt wolves in the northwest zone during the early season while it remains open.
The harvest target for the northeast zone during the early season is 58 wolves. Fifty-seven were registered when DNR initiated season closure.
Hunters in all zones have registered a total of 125 wolves so far. The harvest target is 200 wolves for the early season.
Early season wolf hunters are required to:
Register all wolves by 10 p.m. the day of harvest in order for the DNR to monitor zone-specific harvest levels. Registration is available via telephone, website or in person.
Obey zone closures, which become effective the end of legal shooting hours for the day on which a zone is closed.
Take responsibility for tracking season progress and season/zone closure each morning before hunting by calling 888-706-6367 or checking the DNR wolf hunting page at www.mndnr.gov/hunting/wolf. Season status and harvest targets will be updated in real-time for each zone.
Return any radio collars when they bring wolves in for the mandatory wolf inspection and bring an ear tag along so that information on the tag can be examined and recorded.
Present the entire skinned wolf and pelt for inspection as outlined in the wolf hunting regulations so the DNR can collect data on wolves for population monitoring.
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When seeking tranquility and backcountry solitude, a visitor to Utah will not be disappointed with a trip into Canyonlands National Park. The Park is divided into three sections by the rivers, which are features in themselves. The Sky, Needles, and Maze Districts are each primitive desert lands, but each have different opportunities for adventure. This image is taken from the Wall Campground in the Maze District and may be reached by back-country vehicle .
Landscape Arch, at 290 feet long, is known as the longest natural arch in the world. It is located in the Devils' Garden area of Arches National Park, just 5 miles north of Moab. The trailhead for Landscape Arch is about 16 miles from the park entry. From the parking lot, it is a one-mile hike to the arch.
The thinnest section of Landscape Arch is just 6 feet thick. Since 1991, three slabs of sandstone measuring 30, 47, and 70 feet long have fallen from the thinnest section the arch, closing the trail that had run under the span. Of any of the several thousand arches within and near the park, Landscape Arch is one not to miss. For who knows? it may not be gone today, next week, next year, or it may stand for hundreds more years.
PIctures are provided by Jim Traeber and The Cali Cochitta Bed & Breakfast in Moab, a Member Inn of The Bed and Breakfast Inns of Utah.


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An unexpected wake up call this morning for guests at a Lexington hotel.
A fire at the Ramada Inn on North Broadway forced people staying there to evacuate the building for a while.
There was some confusion among guests about whether or not to leave their rooms. The fire alarm did go off, but fire officials say someone in the hotel's office turned it off. Some guests either stayed in their rooms or went back inside when the alarm stopped sounding.
Fire officials had to go door to door, to tell people they had to leave the building.
Fire officials say the fire started in some mulch outside the building. They aren't sure how the mulch caught fire, but say it could have been a cigarette. The outside of the building caught fire which then spread into the walls of the hotel.
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A couple found dead in Sausalito last weekend both died of gunshot wounds, police confirmed Tuesday.
Robyn Jay Chan, 51, and Mara Yvonne Truly, 41, were discovered inside 173 San Carlos Ave. about 2:45 a.m. Sunday after police received reports of gunshots in the area. The couple hosted a party at the home earlier that night.
Investigators found five guns at the scene, four registered to Chan and one that was unregistered, said Sausalito police Chief Jennifer Tejada.
One of the guns was an AR-15 assault weapon, and two of the weapons had high capacity magazines, she said.
Sausalito police did not disclose that both had gunshot wounds until the autopsies were performed Tuesday. Investigators are still trying to determine the circumstances leading to the shooting and whether it was a murder-suicide.
Tejada reiterated earlier statements that there is no apparent public threat of a killer at large. Tejada said the police department is "very appreciative of the exceptional patience and understanding the community has shown" during the past two days, while police kept a tight lid on information during the early investigation.
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Moreover, it's not at all unreasonable to see, in certain recurring reports, signs that the U.S. government is preparing our military forces to do violence against Christian denominations that refuse to abandon God's Word on matters like homosexuality.
How is this not shouting "FIRE!" in a crowded theater?
What kind of a following does this nutjob have?
It's funny - all religions want to be called "religions of peace". Yet, none of them really are. jesus H said to turn the other cheek, yet his second coming is to be marked by the execution of every human on the planet except for 144,000 jewish virgin men. Islam fancies itself a religion of peace, yet, well, you know, the obvious. Even Sikhism says it is a peaceful religion. Yet it's symbol is three swords crossed:http://www.sikhnet.com/thegallery/gallery/d/60532-2/Sikh+Symbol+Khanda.pngyeah, yeah, yeah, they're symbolic and represent the one god, as well as the unity of spirit and the temporal world.[1] But they could have picked peaceful symbols: flowers, or leaves, or just geometric designs. Instead they picked weapons. They're not really a religion of peace. Theya are a religion of fighting. 1. http://www.sikhs.org/khanda.htm
My favorite part about Keyes' rant is the bizarre rationalization he uses to justify violence. He claims that the Bible teaches people to return evil with good. So revenge is frowned upon. Ah! But if the evil is an insult to God--and he argues that any violence against a person is such because we are made in God's image--well then it's perfectly ok to return violence with violence because you're defending God. It's not really revenge and it's not really evil then. How easily they can talk themselves out of inconvenient rules of goodness.


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GENEVA – The city of Geneva's proposed budget for 2013-14 contained accounting errors that were corrected two weeks ago, Mayor Kevin Burns said.
But when Bob McQuillan, Burns' opponent in the recent mayoral race, addressed the council Monday during a budget hearing, he referred to the previous numbers posted online last month.
"We received communication from [city administrator] Mary McKittrick that the figures were revised, based on an accounting error," Burns said. "That is why we looked confused, because the budget had been revised."
For his part, McQuillan said he printed out the proposed budget after it was posted online last month and was relying on those figures when addressing the council.
McQuillan rejected the notion that the budget, given in a half-hour presentation and posted online, could be off by more than $5 million because of an accounting error.
"I think it's ridiculous," McQuillan said. "They are all highly paid, highly competent staff, and they put a budget – that is not correct – online."
Aldermen this week approved the city's corrected budget plan for the next fiscal year, of $83.7 million in spending and $85.1 million in revenue.
As the discussion centered around the erroneous first budget and the corrected second budget, McQuillan asked why no one was notified that the previous budget was incorrect.
Burns said McQuillan could have cleared things up by calling City Hall or his aldermen.
"There is no conspiracy here," Burns said. "He printed the wrong budget. ... Bob's passion is admirable, but his points are way off. I cannot and will not sit there and listen to him accuse staff of being liars, deceitful and dishonest."
Burns said the council's job is to set policy and steer the city in the right direction.
"Bob wants to find conspiracy in everything," Burns said. "It becomes exhausting. I do not know how someone can stay angry so long. ... There is no 'grassy knoll' at City Hall."
McQuillan said his questioning of the city's budget has nothing to do with lingering political aspirations, such as running for mayor again or alderman.
"I'm not angry about anything," McQuillan said.
But McQuillan said he would continue to ask questions about city spending.
"I'm going to ask legitimate questions and expect legitimate answers," McQuillan said. "And I'm not going to do it in emails. I'm going to be doing it in public."
As to political aspirations, he said he had no more.
"I'm probably finished running for public office," McQuillan said. "People don't want somebody who is going to hold people accountable and be fully transparent. ... I want to be a resident who is concerned and will hold officials accountable for their actions and their budgets."


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The 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission opened the floodgates of money flowing into an already money saturated American political system. Voters should be aware of who pays for political ads during election campaigns and understand how the court put democracy up for sale to anonymous high bidders.
The 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission opened the floodgates of money flowing into an already money saturated American political system. Voters should be aware of who pays for political ads during election campaigns and understand how the court put democracy up for sale to anonymous high bidders.
Citizens United is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation known for promoting conservative positions. A 501(c)(4) organization can collect contributions from donors and may engage in political campaigning so long as its primary purpose is promoting "social welfare" causes. Unlike political action committees (PACs), 501(c)(4) organizations are not required to disclose their contributors.
In 2008, Citizens United released a film titled, "Hillary: The Movie." The film was critical of then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who at the time was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Fearing regulatory action by the FEC, Citizens United filed an action in federal District Court against the FEC, arguing that certain campaign financing laws were unconstitutional if applied to the film. The District Court held in favor of the FEC.
Eventually the case was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and was decided in favor of Citizens United by a 5-4 majority. That decision overturned earlier Supreme Court decisions and held unconstitutional certain campaign financing laws passed by Congress.
The court's majority went beyond the questions argued by Citizens United and issued a broad ruling that in essence declared that corporations and unions enjoy the same freedom of speech rights under the First Amendment as individuals. In other words, they ruled that corporations and unions are people and that money is speech.
I agree with the dissenting opinion by Justice John Paul Stevens wherein he stated that legal entities are not "we the people" for whom our Constitution was established. "A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold," he wrote.
The Citizens United decision resulted in numerous applications for 501(c)(4) organizations being filed with the Internal Revenue Service by both conservative and liberal groups. Why? Because these organizations are not required to disclose their contributors. Many wealthy donors prefer not to have their names associated with a political organization and the negative ads they frequently produce. Consequently, money donated to these organizations is known as "dark money."
Lower courts, citing the decision in Citizens United, also spawned super PACs. These decisions allowed unlimited contributions to PACs that make independent expenditures in support of candidates and campaigns, so long as they do not contribute directly to campaigns. As a result, super PACs poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the 2012 election to support candidates. Some of these super PACs have since morphed into 501(c)(4) organizations to protect donor anonymity.
Money has always been a driving force in politics. Campaigns keep getting more and more expensive and go on longer and longer. But in this age when expensive media campaigns play such a critical role in politics, the candidate who has the most supporting money has the best chance of winning. And those who give the most money to support politicians have greater access to the politician and greater control over how a politician votes.
Legislators should legislate for the people and not out of fear that a wrong vote will cost them significant special-interest financial support or result in a well-financed primary challenger.
Think about it: Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, do you want massive amounts of money provided anonymously by billionaires and special interests to dictate who your representative or senator will be or how they will vote?
Money has a corruptive influence on politics, whether the money comes from George Soros, the National Rifle Association, unions or the Koch brothers. And if conservatives are content with where that money is coming from in 2014, in time that money could be coming in greater amounts from Silicon Valley billionaires who tend to be a lot more liberal in their political positions.
Congress is attempting to address the problem of money in politics, both with legislation such as the Fair Elections Now Act (H.R. 269) and joint resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment that would overturn much of the Citizens United decision. These efforts have not received much media attention. Could it be because the media are huge beneficiaries of political campaign advertisements?
My concern is that we are fast approaching the point where government of the people, by the people and for the people has slipped through our fingers.
Yes, First Amendment rights are a key to the free flow of ideas and opinions that promote a strong democracy. But when wealthy special interests and dark money organizations are the highest bidders for time in the media outlets, democracy is for sale, and "we the people," the voters, will become just a footnote to the election process.
Ron Davis is a retired corporate attorney who resides in Flat Rock. Reach him at email@example.com.


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- Being able to travel abroad once in while
- Getting reminded by S to take my vitamins
- S surprised me with a Hello Kitty pillow
- Chatting and goofing around with Intan my heartwarming lil' sis
- Watched two good movies in the cinema in a week - Life of Pi & The Hobbit
- See Up turn 2 years old and treated my parents some nice lunch to celebrate
- Keenan (3 y.o. nephew) brought me a glass of water to my room when he knew I was sick
- Donated half of my closet to relatives - now my closet has so much room I feel light. And have the reason to shop again heheheh.
- No matter now deep S is asleep, he always replies when I talk to him at night. Weird, yes? He said it's called the "love wi-fi".
- See S sing in public, on stage, on his bestfriend's wedding. S never did that his whole life. I'm proud..:)
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Little Things That Made Us Happy #12
10 comments:
- Emily Bre said...
it's such a good idea to write down the little things that have made you happy each day / week. i think it's a way to definitely change a bit of your outlook especially when looking back on past events / weeks that might have had many bad things happen and being reminded of all the good things as well.
your list is so cute! c: i'm glad you're so happy!
- December 16, 2012 at 1:12 AM
- Arfahani Arsad said...
reflecting time!
your husband is so sweet.love wi-fi? that is super cute.. ;)
i'm from Malaysia! :)
- December 16, 2012 at 2:59 AM
- Carlyn Girl said...
I'm glad that you are so positive. I thought the list was very cute. Particularly about S waking up to talk to you when you need it. I also like how you emptied out some of your wardrobe. It's great because your friends and family get some new clothes and you get to buy more new clothes.
- December 16, 2012 at 4:53 AM
- Meilina Utomo said...
Loving your nice and interesting blog :)
- December 16, 2012 at 10:21 AM
- Princess Monica said...
kak diana, aku ikut seneng baca happiness projectnya :')
- December 16, 2012 at 10:51 AM
- Mitha Komala said...
the simplest thing brings major happiness, very happy to read your list kak. stay happy xx
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- December 16, 2012 at 2:45 PM
wonderful life :))
- December 16, 2012 at 4:58 PM
- iegha ZULHAM said...
Love Wi-fi LOL.. a good one :)
- December 17, 2012 at 9:32 AM
- chieliciouz said...
it is really nice to see how you grateful with all things happened in your life.. and very inspiring me kak Di :D
and super weird is your hubby with the love wi-fi, but super lovely too :))
keep being a happy women kak Di!
- December 17, 2012 at 10:33 AM
- Caroline Michael Pineapple said...
Love it!
- December 21, 2012 at 2:25 PM


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The family of Eini Elizabeth NIEMI wish to announce her passing on
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Born in 1904 in Simo, Finland she was the first child of 16 for her
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B.C., Dana (husband Andi) of Orangeville, Darren (wife Natalie) of
Lively, and Neil (wife Michelle) of Sudbury. She was the Isomumma of
two great grandchildren, Christian and Page. Eini is survived by
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