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Report: Natural gas price hikes pushed electric rates higher in 2013By DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 18. 2014 10:00PM
The operator of the New England power grid has completed its analysis of energy prices for 2013, and the results should come as no surprise.
Rising prices for natural gas delivered to New England pushed wholesale electricity prices in the region up by 55 percent over 2012, according to preliminary figures from ISO New England, the operator of the region's wholesale electricity markets.
The average price rose to $56 per megawatt-hour (mWh) in 2013, up from 2012's historic low price of $36 per mWh.
The 2013 annual average was the fifth-highest since 2003, when competitive markets in their current form were introduced in New England. The all-time high was $80 per mWh during 2008, just before hydrofracturing (or "fracking") for shale gas in Pennsylvania and New York triggered the natural gas revolution.
In a roller-coaster ride for New Hampshire consumers, that revolution brought prices to historic lows one year before sending them soaring the next.
Natural gas is the predominant fuel used to generate the region's electricity — about 46 percent of total generation in 2013 — so wholesale power prices tend to track the price of natural gas, according to ISO spokeswoman Marcia Blomberg.
In 2013, the price of natural gas averaged $6.97 per million British thermal units (MMBtu), up 76 percent from the 2012 record low price of $3.95 per MMBtu. The highest annual average price for natural gas in New England occurred in 2008 at $10.07 per MMBtu.
"The price of natural gas has declined significantly in New England and nationally with increasing production of natural gas from the Marcellus shale field in New York and Pennsylvania in recent years," said Blomberg, "but the lower prices have resulted in higher demand for natural gas."
Pipeline constraints
The crunch hit home in 2013, when the capacity of pipelines serving New England crashed under the increasing demand for natural gas to heat homes and businesses and to generate electricity.
"Pipeline constraints, particularly in winter when home heating needs raise demand for natural gas, have pushed up the average spot price for natural gas in New England to the highest in the country," said Blomberg. "Until new infrastructure alleviates these pipeline constraints, prices for natural gas and wholesale electricity are likely to remain volatile."
The New England governors have called on ISO to manage a process whereby ratepayers in the six states would finance long-term gas purchase contracts through their electric bills to encourage pipeline construction.
Gov. Maggie Hassan said she and the five other New England governors met with ISO and representatives of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on the idea when they were in Washington earlier in the month for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association.
"There are a number of considerations that we need to address, but we are all working together on that," she said. "It's fair to say both the folks at ISO and FERC understand that this is a priority and that they need to be helping us to address it."
Hassan said the private sector may eventually get pipelines built with no help from ratepayers, but the region has to pursue all possible alternatives.
"I am encouraged that there is interest from the private sector in increasing gas line capacity, and that's certainly a factor we should consider," she said. "It's also really important that we do everything we can to make our energy prices more competitive with the rest of the country. That's what I am hearing from businesses throughout the region."


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Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney feels that Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere is the closest thing to Paul Gascoigne that English football has produced since the troubled hero's heyday.
The 21-year-old Gunner caught the eye with a fine performance for England as they beat Brazil in midweek and the United forward sees similarities with the former Tottenham player, who is struggling with alcohol addiction.
"The way [Gascoigne] ran with the ball ... probably the closest thing I've seen to him is Jack, where he gets the ball and runs at players a lot quicker and a lot stronger than people realise," Rooney told reporters.
"It's great to see such a young player come in, against a team like Brazil, and put in a performance like that."
Gascoigne flew to the United States in early February after suffering a relapse, with his agent, Terry Baker, remarking that he needs "immediate help", and Rooney hopes that the Three Lions icon can recover.
"It's a terrible shame about Gazza," the United star lamented. "My best wishes are with him and I hope he can get himself out of this.
"He was a hero of mine and I used to dream of being like him. It's so sad for everyone to see what's happening to him.
"I got to train with him when I was a kid [at Everton]," he enthused. "It was only a couple of times, when I was 14 or 15, I had watched him playing for England for years and to then have him where I was training was great.
"To see the stuff he could do with a ball was brilliant. It was a great experience for me. I used to go home and tell my mates, 'I've just trained with Paul Gascoigne'."

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This is a guest post written and contributed by Steve Vitale, Director of Ecommerce for Spencer's, a Rackspace Hybrid Cloud customer. Spencer's is a lifestyle retail company that operates two unique, national brands, Spencer's and Spirit Halloween, throughout the United States, Canada and online.
Most retailers see seasonal sales spikes – it's the nature of the business.
We've grown accustomed to spiky online traffic at Spencer's – the holiday shopping rush, the summertime gag gifts; you name it. For Spirit Halloween, however, the spikes can be downright frightening.
Spirit Halloween is built on seasonal sales – it focuses solely on Halloween costumes and decor. To put it into perspective, most retailers see a steady flow of traffic throughout the year, and as you approach a peak season, business increases four to six times the normal volume. Spirit Halloween, however, is a bit different. It's a highly seasonal environment. In the off-season, we see very little traffic. People don't think of Halloween in, say, March.
But once Halloween season rolls in, usually starting around August, we see what we call the "45-degree angle." Our traffic doubles almost every day – day over day – until the end of the Halloween season. Our traffic and business can increase 100 times to 1,000 times what they were in the off-season. Then, much like it swooped in, the traffic is gone – we see a steep drop off and that brings us back down to normal off-season volumes.
This puts us in a unique spot. We have to scale on and off, but we also have to try to not carry too much infrastructure in the off-season. That's why we went with the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud based on RackConnect – we split our application between a dedicated private infrastructure for our checkout process, credit card info and customer info, which keeps us PCI compliant and secure; and we use the public cloud for our web browsing portion, which includes product descriptions, prices and other information.
We maintain all credit card and customer personal information on dedicated servers that host our database, attached to SAN and DAS storage amounting to nearly 5TB. This allows us to maintain PCI compliance and a baseline capacity for their application processing. We also run portions of our application on a VMware virtualized private cloud environment, allowing us the flexibility to increase the backend of our system during the peak buying season.
Using RackConnect, we can scale up front-end web server capacity as our load increases throughout the busy Halloween season. Starting in August, we add about three 16 GB cloud servers. In September we add roughly another server per week to scale out the front end of our app. In October, we add two to three more servers per week to continue scaling for increasing demand. By the end of October, load almost completely vanishes, and we return to our baseline capacity.
But it doesn't end there. Through our infrastructure, everything is fully redundant – there isn't a system in our infrastructure that we don't have a duplicate of, from firewalls and load balancers to servers and hypervisors. It's the same in the cloud; everything we spin up in the cloud is redundant. This ensures our environment is always available, which is critical to us and any other online retailer.
This hybrid cloud setup up gives us the ability to carry the minimum capacity during the off-season. Then, during the on-season we can quickly and easily spin up servers in the cloud to accommodate the crush of Halloween traffic. And, once the season ends, we can dial it back.
Halloween is one of those things where you have to execute at 100 percent or go home. Our Rackspace Hybrid Cloud environment gives is the confidence to run at 100 percent – we don't have to be afraid of downtime, just the frights that come with a great holiday season.


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NEW YORK — Because of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Downtown Manhattan has had its share of tenants who have relocated to other areas of the city in the tri-state area. Even so, some displaced firms have decided to remain in lower Manhattan.
Union Bank of California is one such tenant. The company, which is the third largest commercial bank in the state, has leased 23,458 sq. ft. at 40 Wall St. for its New York offices. Previously, 106 Union Bank of California employees occupied the 14th floor of 2 World Trade Center.
According to John Moxley, a director for Cushman & Wakefield, which represented the bank in the transaction, Union Bank did not want to leave the financial district. "They wanted to be close to Wall Street, close to the New York Stock Exchange and clients," he said.
New York is home to Union Bank of California's International Banking Group, which provides correspondent banking and trade finance products worldwide. While searching for office space, New York-based employees of Union Bank of California were temporarily housed in The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Inc.'s operations center in New Jersey.


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Christopher Michael (C.M.) Honko
Christopher M. Honko, 39, of West Harper Road, Portland, Tenn., and formerly of Cumberland, R.I., died Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006 at his home.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he was the son of Barbara (Artemik) Honko of Cumberland and the late Andrew Honko. Raised in Cumberland, he moved to Tennessee in 1987. He was a 1985 graduate of St. Raphael Academy.
Mr.Honko. was a musician, a singer and songwriter, and had moved to Tennessee to fulfill his dreams of working in the country music industry.
Besides his mother, he leaves two sisters, Catherine J. Rose of Jamestown and Diane L. Bessette of Warwick, R.I.; three nephews, Michael, Ronald, and Joseph Bessette of Lincoln, R.I.; and two nieces, Crystal and Rochelle Rose of Jamestown.. He also leaves his fiancé Sharon Willard of Portland, Tenn.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Oct. 7, at noon in the J. J. Duffy Funeral Home, 757 Mendon Rd., Route 122, Cumberland.
In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.


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10 things you might not know about Easter eggs !
1. They predate Christianity (in a way). Obviously, they weren't associated with Easter then, but decorated eggs as much as 60,000 years old have been found in Africa. As traditions go, most point to 3000 B.C. in Persia, where eggs dyed red were given as gifts in celebration of the first day of spring.
2. The practice of giving Easter eggs — dyed red to symbolize the blood of Christ — developed into a Christian tradition, with the hatching of an egg symbolizing the resurrection. The Easter egg is also a byproduct of Lent, as many families would give up eggs during those fast days, which ended with Easter.
3. Before those little dissolvable capsules, egg dyes were made from a variety of materials, including onion peels, tree bark, flower petals, and vegetable and fruit juices.
4. The PAAS Dye Co. launched its popular product in the 1880s in Newark, N.J. The first packets contained five colors for 5 cents. The company now claims to sell more than 10 million kits annually (no longer just dyes, but also paints, stickers, glitter and more) and says that consumers use them to decorate 180 million eggs.
5. In some European countries, a Halloween-like tradition still exists in which children go from house to house to collect eggs.
6. The White House Easter Egg Roll, an annual tradition on the Monday after Easter, is the only time that tourists are allowed to gather on the White House lawn. The tradition actually started on the lawn of the Capitol, by Dolly Madison in the early 1800s, and was moved to the White House in 1878, when Rutherford B. Hayes was president. About 4,000 children participate in the event today.
7. Many Easter eggs aren't actually eggs but are formed from chocolate. In Scotland, a popular treat sold in fish-and-chips shops is deep-fried chocolate eggs.
8. The most valuable Easter eggs are the jewel-encrusted Fabergé eggs, crafted in the late 1800s and early 1900s as Easter gifts for the families of Russian czars. Only 65 were known to have been made. They are worth millions of dollars.
9. The world's largest Easter egg, as recognized by Guinness World Records, was made of chocolate in 2005 in Belgium (where else?) and weighed 1,200 kilograms (more than 2,600 pounds).
10. "Easter eggs" are found in numerous videogames and movies. That's a term for an inside joke or hidden message planted by the creator. The term was coined atAtari after a programmer put his name in a hidden room in the game Adventure, released in 1979.


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CaPRC Marksmanship Clinic "B" - April 28, 2013
April will be a busy month for CaPRC. On 04/07/13, we will host our centerfire match at the Eagles Next. Later in April, we will host our Clinic "B"
Come on out and join us at Angeles for the 2nd part of our new precision rifle shooter series of clinics on Sunday April 28th.
This shoot will have you gathering dope from a 100yd zero out to 600yds as well as work on spotting and calling shots and making corrections from calls.
We wil be continuing with using the features of the scope and how to make accurate soft dope from your hard dope using ballistics software.
You need to have attended (as a shooter) one of our former "A" clinics during 2012 or 2013 in order to attend this clinic as a shooter.
We will limit this to 24 shooters so that those shooters can get maximum range time.
Fees are $75 for non members or $60 for club members.
The entry fee covers the classroom sessions, cold drinks and BBQ lunch and your use of the range for the rest of the day after the clinic is over.
Plan on a full day as the schedule has us shooting until at least 3pm.
You may particpte as a non-shooter, observe the shooting portion of the day and join us for the BBQ for a reduced $20 non-shooter fee.
Tentative schedule as follows:
7:15 Sign-in
7:30 Classroom session on the firing line.
8:15 line goes hot. verify, correct and zero knobs at 100yds (5-10 rds)
10:00 open shooting time with instruction as needed
12:00 BBQ lunch break
1:00 open shooting time with instruction as needed
Some things to bring:
Precision rifle wearing a scope with target knobs, eye/ear protection, sunscreen, chamber flag, 80 rounds of match quality ammo, printout from a ballistics program showing your bullet drop in moa or mils as appropriate to your scope, shooting mat or blanket, bipod, some kind of rear bag or sand sock, small notepad and a pencil or pen to take notes.
Bring what you have, don't worry too much about what you don't have.
We always make do with what we have.
This is a Precision Rifle event so if the gun/scope/ammo is not capable of shooting 1moa groups, it will detract from your overall experience at the shoot.
Please have your rifle zeroed at 100yds and your knobs set to zero before you arrive on the day of the shoot.
We will verify a correct zero at the shoot, but it takes time that is better spent putting rounds on targets.
RSVPs for the Clinic "B" are not yet open. We are trying to announce the Clinic "B" as far ahead of time as possible so that people who wish to attend can clear their schedules.
RSVPs for CaPRC members will open on 04/17/13. RSVPs for non-members will open on 04/19/13. At the appropriate time, you can RSVP here:
To those of you who shot at last week's Clinic "A", this is a good opportunity to keep the momentum going while the material is still fresh in your mind and your interest level is still high. Try not to lose that momentum because it is difficult to regain once lost.
I don't know when the next "A" clinic will happen. But when it does, it will be announced here on Calguns.
Alternatively, you can follow the announcements on the CaPRC bulletin boards.
RSVPs are open for next weekend's clinic. You can RSVP here:
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I am going with Indications, but i am not sure that language it is.
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
I am going to be rude, and say ass.
I'm going for 2: tens.
I'll guess "lab coat".
I shall go with Tissue, body and clothes.
Angus and Alexis and nogodsforme win.Quote from: Angus and Alexis on February 03, 2014, 08:25:41 AMI shall go with Tissue, body and clothes.A tissue paper is called a "guardanapo" in Portuguese.Next word: FabricoMeaning in English:FabricFactoryFabricate (verb, first person, singular, present tense)The first and second optionsThe second and third optionsNone of the above
Ah, well...I almost won as well. I should have gone with my first impulse instead of overthinking! As for this one, I will go with Fabricate (verb, first person, singular, present tense). It seems as though it would fit with what I remember of Spanish grammar.I don't think it's fabric, and since the noun, Factory, is Fabryka in Polish, it seems as though it might be a feminine noun in Portugese also.
I will go with Fabricate (verb, first person, singular, present tense).


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Small addon I've found REALLY useful.
Right mouse button + alt will move the button.
Left mouse button reloads UI. That simple.
I've found this very useful, and hope someone else does, as well~
ALmost all the credits for this goes to Phanx, who showed me how to make a button, well, a button.


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Our wilderness is under an unprecedented attack from Trump and anti-conservationists in Congress. Help us fight back.
"All Americans can join in the celebration of our newest national monuments that recognize the importance of our Native American history and the living landscapes where Native culture continues to thrive today," said Wilderness Society President Jamie Williams.
On Dec. 28, President Obama announced that he designated Gold Butte National Monument using the Antiquities Act, helping to ensure that Native American cultural sites, wildlife habitat and breathtaking landscape will be preserved for posterity in Nevada.
The president is using a decades-old law to protect large stretches of the extraordinary Arctic Ocean ecosystem and underscore the nation's commitment to fighting climate change.
Cutting through one of the most celebrated hiking trails in America, the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline threatens wildlife habitat, recreational lands and the health of local Appalachia communities, while setting a terrible precedent of building energy infrastructure through our national forests.
More often than not, Rep. Zinke's voting record has followed the anti-conservation standard set by the rest of President-elect Trump's cabinet. He has sowed doubt about the well-established science of climate change, fought efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tried to halt long-overdue efforts to reform the federal coal leasing process.
Decision by U.S. Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture stops renewal of leases for sulfide-ore mining in the Boundary Waters' watershed that could have contaminated the wilderness' lakes and rivers.
UPDATE: Rep. Ryan Zinke has reportedly been offered the Department of the Interior job.
President-elect Trump has pledged to "conserve and protect our beautiful natural resources for the next generation including protecting lands," but his EPA nomination undermines that promise.
The Wilderness Society has signed on to a statement of solidarity with leaders from conservation groups nationwide, pledging to oppose hatred and abuses of human and civil rights and asking that President-elect Trump, in representing all Americans, ensure that "all his nominees and appointees honor fundamental civil rights and embody civility befitting the offices for which they have been selected."
Show the Trump administration Americans don't support plans to destroy this epic wildland.


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Noting change over the years with a bit of nostalgia
What happened to mail? I don't mean junk mail, bills and advertisements. I mean personal, handwritten letters. Am I the only one who cherishes this kind of unique mail?
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"Looking past the Metro hype, the Build conference also revealed promising road maps for C#, Visual Studio, and the .Net platform as a whole. Perhaps the most exciting demo of the conference for .Net developers, however, was Project Roslyn, a new technology that Microsoft made available yesterday as a Community Technology Preview. Roslyn aims to bring powerful new features to C#, Visual Basic, and Visual Studio, but it's really much more than that. If it succeeds, it will reinvent how we view compilers and compiled languages altogether."
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Southern Research will design and analyze a modified, advanced gasification platform for the conversion of low-rank coals to syngas for coal-to-liquid and gasification combined cycle applications. Specifically, this will involve development, testing and optimization of steam-reforming catalysts for converting tars, C2+ hydrocarbons, NH3, and CH4 in high-temperature and sulfur environments, typical of syngas from low-rank coal gasification. Improved catalysts would increase the H2:CO ratio of the syngas and reduce down-stream fouling costs and efficiency losses, which would support the commercialization of a high-temperature, sulfur-tolerant steam reforming catalytic process to reduce the cost of coal-based gasification cleanup, reduce carbon emissions and increase the efficiency of low-rank coal gasification for production of electricity and coal-to-liquids.
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Virginia's attorney general is expanding a technology lab that analyzes and processes evidence of child pornography and other computer crimes.
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says he will use a portion of the state's share of a national Medicaid fraud settlement to quadruple the size of the computer forensic lab in his office. The office also will deploy a mobile lab to gather and process evidence at crime scenes around the state.
The total cost of the projects is about $750,000. That's a portion of the $10 million Cuccinelli's office already has received from Virginia's $115 million share of last year's national settlement with Abbott Laboratories.
Last week, Cuccinelli asked the U.S. Treasury Department to release $30 million of Virginia's share to shore up two state law enforcement retirement plans.


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Charges withdrawn in Jaffrey car crash fatalityBy MEGHAN PIERCE
Union Leader Correspondent
April 22. 2013 9:12PM
JAFFREY - Charges against a Franklin Pierce University student in connection with a fatal accident on Route 202 earlier this month have been withdrawn, police said Monday. Edgard Henriquez, 19, of Rindge, had been charged with negligent homicide and aggravated driving while intoxicated. Police offered no explaination for the decision to withdraw the charges.
In the early morning hours of Sunday, April 14, a northbound Honda Accord on Route 202 -- River Street -- near Red Dam, crossed the center line and crashed into the woods. The car landed on its roof and caught fire. Passing motorists pulled one of the occupants from the burning wreck and called 911.
Police said Henriquez, who is originally from Dedham, Mass., was the driver of the Honda. He was hospitalized and subsequently arrested and charged with aggravated DWI and negligent homicide.
Police released him on $50,000 personal recognizance bail and gave him a June court date for his arraignment.
He and passenger Tyler Tobin, 18, of Dedham, Mass., were taken to Monadnock Community Hospital for treatment.
Tobin was treated and released the same day.
Henriquez was transferred to UMass Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., and listed in stable condition as of last week.
The third person in the car died in the fiery crash. He was identified as Peter Melville, 19, of Dedham, Mass.
"The cause of death as ruled by the Medical Examiner's Office was blunt force trauma," Jaffrey police said.
Monday afternoon Jaffrey police made this statement, "A continuation of that investigation by Jaffrey Police has resulted in information that, at this time, warrants the charges against Mr. Henriquez be withdrawn.?The investigation is ongoing, and no additional information can be provided at this time.


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Before Yale: Played two seasons for the Toronto Jr. Aeros, helping the team to a first-place finish and PWHL championship in 2006-07 and serving as assistant captain in 2007-08 ... Also played for the Midget Aeros for two seasons, finishing first in the regular season twice and winning a pair of provincial championships along with one NMGHL championship ... Attended Lawrence Park School ... Honor roll student and vice-president of the Girls Athletic Board ... Played hockey and was on the cross country, field hockey, rugby and soccer teams ... Was a two-time team MVP in both field hockey and ice hockey ... Off the Ice: Member of Ezra Stiles College. Favorite musician: The Beatles Favorite food: Broccoli Best present/gift you ever received: My laptop Who would you switch places with for a day? Sidney Crosby Pre-game routine: Warm up, dynamic stretch, music Favorite quote: "Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda Favorite athlete: Lance Armstrong If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? China Favorite TV show: C.S.I. What is your most prized possession? My pillow What is the strongest part of your game? Skating


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The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant was allowed to fall into a shameful state of collapse by Tom Suozzi, Jeff Tobak and the Legislature's Democrats for over a decade. Sewage spewed into our waterways, and the DEC handed out environmental violations left and right.
Legislator Howard Kopel and County Executive Ed Mangano worked hand inhand with Councilman Anthony Santino to refurbish and rehabilitate the Bay Park plant they found teetering on the verge of collapse. They invested over $130 million in operations and odor controls. The plant operated for the longest time without any incidents reported to the DEC — before Sandy crippled the facility.
Now, the Legislature's Democratic minority continues to obstruct the much-needed upgrades and repairs to the Sandy-damaged plant. That's enough for me to vote Republican.
While Kopel's opponent, Lisa Daniels, asks our neighbors to follow the money, and ridiculously claims repairs began close to a decade ago, all you need to do is follow your nose instead. Something just doesn't smell right about her untrue, partisan talking points.
We need to support Kopel, Mangano and Santino for re-election. They support us and keep working to improve our quality of life. My family and I are.
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Local leaders deserve our gratitude
To the Editor:
The amount of anger being directed at our political leaders since Hurricane Sandy is well deserved. The hell we went through because of FEMA's incompetence is a punishment I don't wish on my worst enemy. There isn't a single person I know who wasn't put through the ringer by insurance companies, adjusters, crooked contractors — I could go on.
But I will say that people who blame our local leaders are flat-out wrong and have no right to fault them. I saw almost every single leader in this area at least once during the days and weeks after Sandy. I must have seen Councilman Anthony Santino a dozen times, and the same can be said for Supervisor Kate Murray, Legislator Howard Kopel and both East Rockaway Mayor Fran Lenahan and the village board.


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Location: Derping in League of Legends
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Ugh Now I'm really disappointed with the ward skins not being a perm..
And she is a Jungler? We already have Enough junglers / Bruisers / AP mids,
I just want my new Support
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Join Date: Mar 2007
People always want new supports but don't realize that they're the hardest one to make.
And why is everyone surprised about her being a jungler? She can jump over walls and then right into your face then stunning you for 1.5 seconds all while doing damage.
A few questions about Elise:
Does her stun hit minions too?
Do enemies see the circle around her if she ascends to the air?
|2012-10-19, 00:51
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 29
Is there any ranged jungler btw?
|2012-10-20, 03:36
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Don't Call Me Bro
Tristana Rocketeer skin
Damn, that is cool...
|2012-10-21, 16:20
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
The updated Twisted Fate, dance moves, left without comment:
|2012-10-22, 22:56
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: 2D world
|2012-10-22, 23:27
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Connecticut
voyboy just got benched from clg lolwot
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Don't Call Me Bro
Hotshot is an egomaniac...bench him...but they won't since his mum is CEO.
Voyboy deserves a team more deserving and appreciative of him. Beginning to see why NA got their butt kicked in the worlds if an egomaniac like Hotshot is leading a team...
Dignitas will probably offer Voyboy a spot, I'm guessing.
The saga of Reginald contemplating quitting then Voyboy gets shafted. What next for those NA teams?
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|2012-10-23, 01:15
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Join Date: Mar 2007
This is fairly confusing.
1| The jungler is underperforming thus you replace top lane?
2| Furthermore breaking up the Chauster/Doublelift pair that usually performs the best in CLG?
I don't really want to join into the whole 'Voyboy too good to be replaced' issue as I believe that this is nonsense but what other solution did CLG have? Top level junglers aren't exactly common.
|2012-10-23, 01:47
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: FL, USA
Age: 31
I think the problem was HotshotGG while performed decently in the jungle was too limited in number of them he played, he always went mundo, cho'gath, alistar, or shen during regional and World Qualifier, which simply isn't enough versatility, imo.
|2012-10-23, 02:28
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 29
I think that NA teams have always been a bit overdramatic. Instead of changing tactics or champion focus, they switch out players way too fast. If I was in a team, it would be a last resort, only for serious reasons or underperforming for a long time, not just a game or two.
As for Voyboy, he's played against the best and proved he can hold his ground. HotshotGG did better as Cho'gath rather than Mundo, but like Konakaga said, his options are limited, making him easy to read and counter. Maybe learn to jungle Eve? :P
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Connecticut
They said it in the reddit thread ; HSGG is way past his prime. I think he should of just stepped down and accepted a self-proclaimed position as coach. After all him and bigfatlp basically own CLG(not fully sure how this works? bigfat owns the team but hsgg owns the company?)
In their defense though chauster is insanely good at league, he taught doubellift everything he knows now about adc(liftlift said it himself). It'll be easy for loco to catch up to speed as a support supporting lift so that'll be a nice addition to the team.
Still feel bad for voyboy, he even changed the way he played top lane for so long being on CLG. Hopefully he brings back his hyper aggressive top lane champions in another team(pls crs).
my opinion: hotshot will still do bad top unless cho/nid
chauster will faceroll jungle all day
botlane will still dominate
bigfatlp will do mediocre mid h4h4h4
|2012-10-24, 05:14
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Don't Call Me Bro
What bugs me about the CLG.na thing is that other players have regularly been shafted for the sake of Hotshot. That's more to the point of what has upset Voyboy and fans. Elementz was another undeserving victim.
|2012-10-24, 05:23
|Link #3216
Itadaki-nyaaa !!
Join Date: Apr 2008
It was just a matter of time til they benched Voyboy, he didn't perform very well when he began playing with clg and continued to be just mediocre, he was way better with Dignitas. Add in that CLG.na benches people on a regular basis, that's not a surprise. CLG.na are the Weekly Shonen Jump of the lol world. I lost any interest in them when they benched Elementz, to me the only likeable player on their team back then.
What I'm really surprised about is why "fapdoco" would play for clg.na now, despite him being friends with them. I read he wanted to go to university after Startale was disbanded. Remember, he was a top notch adc at Azubu (then MiG) Frost so playing support for such an inconsistent team now must feel like 3 steps back.
|2012-10-24, 07:07
|Link #3218
Itadaki-nyaaa !!
Join Date: Apr 2008
|2012-10-24, 18:21
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Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
Hmm... new CLG.NA playing against MME in MLG prizefight right now. Let's see how well Loco does in the team... (to be honest, Nhat Nguyen meshes well with CLG.NA's playstyle, so IMO they shoulda kept him when he subbed for them)
|2012-10-26, 08:00
|Link #3220
Senior Guest
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 29
New TT is out! It's more fight-friendly, some of the new items work amazingly well with certain champions and the new terrain favors casters to a certain extent. There are some connectivity issues, hopefully they'll be resolved soon enough...
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Waiting on a quarterback would be risky for Bills
Buffalo Bills General Manager Buddy Nix told a group of fans at the Monday Quarterback Club in December:
"I'll tell you this: If you like a quarterback, and like him in the third round, then you had better take him in the second."
The question facing the Bills this week is: If you like a quarterback in the second round, should you take him in the first?
There's a good chance the answer is "yes" when the first round of the NFL Draft is held on Thursday.
Nix said this week he believes there are two or three franchise quarterbacks in this year's draft class. The trick is selecting him.
The Bills own the eighth pick in the first round and the 41st pick in the second round. Teams with a need at quarterback beside the Bills include Philadelphia, the New York Jets, Jacksonville and Arizona.
Jacksonville owns picks No. 2 and 33. Philadelphia owns No. 4 and 35. The Jets own No. 9 and 39. Arizona owns No. 7 and 38. They all pick ahead of the Bills in the second round.
Can the Bills get the QB they want at 41?
"I think Buffalo, the closer we get … they're becoming the most fascinating team in the draft in terms of what they're gonna do," said Todd McShay, ESPN draft analyst, on a conference call Friday. "Because not only will they take a quarterback at 8? Will they move out of 8? If they go with a different position at 8, will they try to move up and get one of these quarterbacks in the first round?"
The obvious presumption is the Bills covet Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib, whom Bills coach Doug Marrone coached the last four years.
"I think everyone assumes, and it makes all the sense in the world, that Nassib is their guy," McShay said.
However, McShay thinks Southern California quarterback Matt Barkley makes a lot of sense for the Bills, as well.
What are the odds Nassib or Barkley still are available at No. 41?
"You have to view the chances as slim," McShay said. "It doesn't matter what percentage I put on it. If you're Buddy Nix, you're sitting there and thinking, 'Man, we really want one of these two guys.' And there are so many other teams that can move up ahead of you or have picks ahead of you … So it's a huge risk, if they're not planning on … trading up and moving into the bottom portion of the first round, which will be costly."
Buffalo did just what McShay describes in 2004, when it addressed receiver early in Round One, then traded up from No. 43 to No. 22 to pick quarterback J.P. Losman. The Bills gave up their first pick in 2005, which turned out to be the 20th overall pick.
Teams that make that kind of move usually have to give up a No. 1 pick the next year. Cleveland had to trade a future first-rounder to move from 36 to 22 in 2007. New Orleans gave up a future first-rounder to move from 56 to 28 in 2011.
Would the Bills give away their first-rounder in 2014? Nix repeatedly has stated he hates to give up draft picks.
Another factor pointing to a QB at No. 8 is there aren't a ton of great options at the Bills' other positions of need.
The Bills could use a big-time wide receiver. But the most talented wideout in the draft, Tennessee's Cordarrelle Patterson, has just one year of production in college and is viewed as very raw; a risky pick in the top 10.
The top-rated guard in the draft, Alabama's Chance Warmack, could be attractive to Buffalo, and the Bills could use a guard. But the guard position is far less important than quarterback.
There are three elite left tackles in the draft, but many think all will be taken in the first seven picks, and the Bills don't have a need at left tackle. Every team needs pass rushers, but a pass rusher would not step in and start for Buffalo. A safety would be more of a reach than quarterback at No. 8.
NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock does not think West Virginia QB Geno Smith, who some regard as a top-10 pick, is a good fit for Buffalo because he has fared poorly in bad weather. Mayock thinks No. 8 is too high to take a QB.
"Do you want Matt Barkley or Ryan Nassib or E.J. Manuel at 8?" Mayock asked. "That's way too high for me. Buddy can be sitting there going, 'Hey, I don't care what round I get my quarterback in, I just need to get him.' And I understand that. But for me I'd rather get a positional player at 8 that's gonna help me immediately. And hopefully its an offensive lineman."
"I'm gonna get somebody that I can plug in to make our team better," Mayock said. "Then I'm going to come back in. If I have to come back in and trade up and get to 26 to 32, I'll do that."
Says McShay: "I guess the question really is how willing are you to gamble? How willing are you to see Ryan Nassib or Matt Barkley or both on another team?"
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|2012-07-09, 10:35
|Link #1
Prefectural Magical Girl
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Paris, France
Original creator : Shin Araki
Original Character-Design : Aruya
Plot summary : The GJ-bu Chūtō-bu spinoff series launched this past April with a focus on Kasumi Shinomiya, the middle school girl who is the high-spirited sister of the main GJ-bu novels' protagonist Kyōya. She and two other sisters of GJ-bu characters — Geraldine Bernstein and the mysterious Seira Amatsuka — star in their own set of 36 four-page "Sisters" short stories.
Note : Araki launched the original GJ-bu moe light novel series as the "first four-panel novel" in 2010; each of the nine volumes contains 36 short stories about high school students, and each story is only four pages long with illustrations by Aruya. The second GJ-bu Chūtō-bu volume is shipping this month.
|2012-09-17, 16:16
|Link #5
Straight-Edge Dragon Hero
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: California, US
Age: 26
Director: Yoshiyuki Fujiwara
Series Composition/Screenplay: Hideaki Koyasu
|2012-11-17, 21:38
|Link #6
Now or Never
Looks like it'll start in April and cast members announced too. Anyone translate the cast?
|2012-11-17, 21:52
|Link #7
Last Engage
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Florida
Kyouya Shinomiya: Hiro Shimono
Mao Amatsuka: Maaya Uchida
Megumi Amatsuka: Yume Miyamoto
Shion Sumeragi: Suzuko Mimori
Kirara Bernstein: Chika Arakawa
Miyamoto and Arakawa are really young voice actors who I'm not familiar with, but I know and trust in the comedic chops of the other three. Maaya Uchida and Suzuko Mimori have contributed to some of my favorite series, and Shimono can make a fool of himself with the best of them.
Looking forward to this!
|2012-11-17, 22:32
|Link #8
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Australia
The anime is for the main series GJ-bu, not the Chuto-bu spinoff, we'll need a thread title change here. The summary on the official site is as basic as it gets really. It's about a guy getting dragged into the GJ Club, or Good Job Club and the things that go on in there. We have the short but haughty president, her calm and composed sister, genius girl with no common sense and the ever necessary mysterious girl.
Nothing stands out at all, so how this turns out will depend very heavily on the characters and their interactions.
|2012-11-18, 09:55
|Link #11
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Australia
What the club does is an enigma. The story is a novel equivalent to a 4 panel manga, meaning there isn't really a story, just slice-of-whatever the hell they do there. The summary on the site literally just comes down to "No one knows wtf the club does, guy gets forced into joining, (insert the basic archetype of each girl here) and it's about their time together"
|2013-01-10, 08:23
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Australia
Errr... I can't say I hated this, but I can't say I loved or even liked it, but I can't say it was average either. I don't even know what to think of this, so uhh, it sorta-but-not-really-sucked? A little below average? At least I do know I disliked the pre-school president, since I've never found her character type appealing at all. Ummm, yeah. Guess I'll try one or two more episodes? But why?
|2013-01-10, 08:41
|Link #17
One-Eyed Dragon
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: NJ, USA
I didn't hate it. It was amusing at parts, but nothing really spectacular. It might be fun to see how Kyoya gets picked on by the girls. The girls aren't bad, they each have their good points. Will see how things go next ep before making decision.
|2013-01-10, 10:06
|Link #18
likes cute things
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Searching for more imoutos
Age: 38
I skimmed through episode 1, I was surprised that it was not what I thought it was, a super deformed characters anime (I blame the picture in the 1st post). It looks really appealing, I'll give it a proper watch later on. The art style is really nice (Baka-Test artist?), and the characters seem likeable. I have no clue what the story is about (didn't read the synopsis), but there's enough here for me to keep my eye on it.
|2013-01-10, 10:12
|Link #19
Psycho Falling Deep
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: The Anime World
Age: 23
I enjoyed the characters a lot in this anime Kirara is definitely my favourite so far. I loved that she didn't do the usual thing most other anime like this do and treat the male characters like crap Take that Mao!
|2013-01-10, 10:32
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Last Engage
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Florida
GJ Bu 01 - MaoKyo
I was curious about this when I found out about it, since the idea of a "4-koma story" goes against the rules of writing to a point where it should produce something interesting. Writing a punchline for each scene, whether in sequential art or written word, isn't easy.
This series looks like one that's likely to fly under the radar, but that's not such a bad place to be, under the radar. It makes the going more relaxing. And relaxing is a very good way to describe this series. Mao's already my favorite - the always great Maaya Uchida voicing her combined with a funny take on a Napoleon complex makes for some nice watching. And Hiro Shimono is doing what he does best - playing someone who takes the fall. Though I expect nearly everyone to be the butt of a joke at one point or another. The timing on the comedy was good, with enough breathing room for the punchlines and variations on the jokes, while introducing new material and the characters at a steady pace.
I like this, a lot. It's giving me a lot of the same vibes as Acchi Kocchi.
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Face and Jaw Surgery
Hardened Edema on Jaw Line
I just went to my oral surgeon for some swelling on one side of my jaw (and last check up since my wisdom teeth extraction that was over 2 months ago). He told me it was a "hard edema" on my jaw line. He said there wasn`t really anything I could do about it and it would go away in a couple of months.
He recommeneded moist heat. I was wondering if anyone had any other tips/otc meds to speed up this process. Searching on the internet has been fruitless and I would like to get this healed up ASAP along with any other information on this condition.
The hard edema following wisdom teeth extraction is not uncommon. It is the thickening of a layer of tissue over the bone that gives it a characteristic appearance and feel. It does take a few weeks, sometimes longer to resolve. Your Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon is right, moist heat does help relieve this swelling. Sometimes the only thing that works is the tincture of time.
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The E-mini S&P 500 initially sold off then quickly rallied off of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee's (FOMC) decision to reduce its monthly bond purchase program (QE3) by $10 billion (see chart).
It may seem counterintuitive for the S&Ps to rally on the news of a taper—that was not the prevailing view of market experts— after the huge selloffs earlier this year on the statement by Fed Chair Ben Bernanke that a tapering might occur by the end of the year but some analysts believe that it will add needed certainty to the market.
Tapering is not tightening
Miller Tabak's Andrew Wilkinson wrote, "Reinforcing its stronger forward guidance the Fed also noted that it likely will be appropriate to maintain the current target range for the fed funds rate (0.0% – 0.25%) well past the time that the unemployment rate declines below 6.5%, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the Committee's 2% longer-run goal. "
"They are not shutting off the taper," says Martin McGuire, managing director at TJM Institutional Services. He notes that the market will no longer have to guess what the Fed is up to. "The Fed has given a path to future tapers; the market loves paths. There is less guesswork now. There is certainty [coming from] an area of uncertainty."
McGuire adds, "We haven't had that for a longtime."


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Singapore-style shrimp satay with a peanut butter sauce.
The shrimp has a wonderful coating on it that starts as a marinade made from coconut milk, coconut oil, ginger, garlic, lime, shallots, chiles and peanuts. The sauce has a silky, creamy texture with a spicy, zingy flavor that is all around delicious.
The shrimp is tender and succulent after sitting in the marinade and soaking in all those amazing flavors. You can make the peanut sauce ahead of time or skip that altogether for a fast dinner that takes less than ten minutes to cook on the grill. Alternately you can use the broiler in your oven or bake them but they won't have that great grill flavor and char.
After I made this I went out shopping and two people I never laid eyes on before told me I smelled like the beach. A positive side effect from working with the aromatic coconut oil.
I didn't let them in on my little secret. While they stared at me with envy in their eyes I played the part, smiling mysteriously and tossing my hair back while pretending I had sandy beach waves.
Then I came home and promptly devoured the leftovers.
Who needs the beach?
Singapore-style shrimp satay with a peanut butter sauce.
- In a large bowl toss shrimp and lime juice together.
- Add shallots, sugar, salt, lime zest, nuts, garlic, chiles, and ginger to the bowl of food processor and pulse until pureed into a thick paste.
- Heat coconut oil in a 12-inch skillet over medium heat. Add paste and cook, stirring, until oil separates from paste 4-6 minutes. Stir in coconut milk and remove from heat. Allow to cool and stir into shrimp. Cover and refrigerate 4 hours.
- One hour before cooking put your wooden skewers into water to soak so they don't burn on the grill.
- Make the dipping sauce by pulsing all the sauce ingredients together in a food processor until smooth. Cover and refrigerate.
- Thread shrimp by running the skewer through the body twice - so they look like the letter c.
- Grill turning once about 4-6 minutes total depending on the size of your shrimp. Alternately you can broil them or bake them in a single layer on 425 degrees F. watching them closely - once they start to curl they're ready - about 10-12 minutes depending on the size of your shrimp.
- Remove to a large platter and drizzle with peanut sauce, sprinkle with peanuts and cilantro. To serve family style remove the shrimp from the skewers and layer on a platter; drizzle peanut sauce over top; sprinkle with chopped peanuts and chopped cilantro.
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Gotta love the comment section on Salon. Just read one poster (left leaning) call out another (right leaning) as a Nazi, claiming:
To which another (left leaning) poster responded:This creep is a Nazi who has peppered his previous comments with little German Slogans which were only used during the Nazi Period.
So, to recap, the poster in question is both a Nazi in the classic, German sense, and, simultaneously, a pro-Israel Likudnik.Brad, the miserable little *&%^ is also a flaming Likudnik.
His lies for Zionist Israel rival his lies on behalf of the GOP.
Love. It.
Biggest problem with the internet- it has created a swath of people who now believe that they are informed, when they may in fact be even dumber than before.
But aye, more patience, less aggression (although not less passion IMO), and far more manners and tact, as tater said.
If all of us were Doggin, Government might not suck so much.
(Sorry Doggin, I'm President of the Fan Club mate, even if I'm a dick to you some days...).
Thanks for the kind words, but I'm officially never opening this thread again.
For such a smart guy, he sure picked a lousy football team to root for.
Cognitive Dissonance. Yes, this knob-polishing Crypto-Liberal convention slobberfest of a thread haz it in spades.
From "smart" pukes who are quick to call people bigots (some much for "tact") at a drop of a fedora for differing from their oddball, crackpot world view, to a subset of same (sub-pukes, or the puke thatpukes scrape off their shoes) completely oblivious to facts (AA programs have been in effect for college admissions since the 1960s, theBakke case came about from early 1970s discrimination) and still others lament (D) gov't abuses 24x7 and do nothing except enable them.
Yep, this thread has it all!
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LOL, I forgot how much I liked this forum. Angry people rock!!!!
This forum should be officially renamed to "Cognitive Dissonance"


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Norris symbolic of Astros' hopes for future
The Astros have the overall No. 1 pick in the First-Year Player Draft, which begins on Thursday night, and history says good times are around the corner.
That's where right-hander Bud Norris could offer a glimpse into how quickly that happens. He's a former sixth-round pick who at 28 has become a very solid Major League starting pitcher, having lowered his ERA this season to 3.39 with six shutout innings against the Angels on Saturday.View Full Game Coverage
The Astros have the overall No. 1 pick in the First-Year Player Draft, which begins on Thursday night, and history says good times are around the corner.
That's where right-hander Bud Norris could offer a glimpse into how quickly that happens. He's a former sixth-round pick who at 28 has become a very solid Major League starting pitcher, having lowered his ERA this season to 3.39 with six shutout innings against the Angels on Saturday.View Full Game Coverage
Norris has made 12 starts this season and pitched poorly only twice. His last three starters -- two earned runs in 19 innings -- offer hope that he has fulfilled the promise the Astros had for him when he made his debut four years ago.
He's also about to start making some serious money and is two years from free agency, so do the Astros make a commitment to Norris? Or do they trade him to a contender for a promising prospect or two? For the last three years, that's the course they've taken with virtually every veteran player in the system.
Lance Berkman and Hunter Pence were traded. So were Carlos Lee and Wandy Rodriguez, plus plenty of others.
As a result, two things have happened. First, the Astros have lost their share of games. Four straight losing seasons is their longest streak since LBJ was in the White House.
Second, their farm system has been transformed from one of baseball's worst to one of its best.
At some point, the unloading of players will stop and the reconstruction of a franchise will end. When is the time to begin the next step? In other words, how close are the Astros to being good again?
Here's a rosy scenario: They're close. Houston will take a five-game winning streak into Monday's game at Anaheim primarily because its starting pitching posted a 2.67 ERA.
It's a reminder that baseball isn't all that complicated. When teams pitch well, they're in every game. At a time of so much parity, it's the small things that separate the top two dozen or so teams.
The Tampa Bay Rays have averaged 92 victories the last five years with some of the lowest payrolls in the game due to the core belief that good pitching and sound fundamentals (defense, baserunning, not giving outs away) can overcome a lot of deficiencies.
If you look at the Astros from a certain angle, you see the light at the end of the tunnel. Besides Norris, 22-year-old right-hander Jordan Lyles, a former first-round pick, appears close to becoming a reliable Major League starter.
Best of all, some of those highly rated Minor Leaguers are having very good seasons. Right-handers Asher Wojciechowski, 24, and Michael Foltynewicz, 21, are at Triple-A and Double-A, respectively, both being fast-tracked to the Major Leagues. Outfielder George Springer, 23, has 17 home runs and 17 stolen bases at Double-A and seems headed for a Major League debut later this season.
If the Astros take a college pitcher -- for instance, Oklahoma's Jonathan Gray or Stanford's Mark Appel -- with the top pick in this year's Draft, they'd add to a growing collection of power arms.
Meanwhile, three of their Major Leaguers -- 26-year-old catcher Jason Castro, 23-year-old second baseman Jose Altuve and 23-year-old third baseman Matt Dominguez -- have played their way into the club's future.
All of a sudden, Houston seems to have the makings of a foundation. Here's a reminder that young players don't come with guarantees. Patience is required. The Kansas City Royals had baseball's best farm system three years ago, and so far, all of that talent hasn't translated into success at the Major League level.
But it's the only way to build a franchise, and the Astros have made enough progress that it's fair to consider a timetable for the next step.
Norris has two more seasons of arbitration eligibility before reaching free agency. If he continues to pitch well, his salary will rise quickly. Luhnow may see enough young pitching in Lyles, Foltynewicz, et al, that he decides to shop Norris for more young talent.
But Luhnow may decide to let fans know that things are about to change. Besides, money may be less a deciding factor than how close he thinks the club is to winning.
Houston has a payroll of under $28 million this season and only $6 million in commitments for 2014. When Luhnow decides the time has come to shape a contending Major League roster, he should have the money to fill a hole or two.
OK, back to that history of clubs having back-to-back No. 1 picks. The Astros will join the Nationals and the Rays as the only other franchises to have done it.
The Rays were in the postseason four months after the second of those No. 1 picks -- infielder Tim Beckham -- was selected in 2008. He hasn't played in the big leagues yet, but Tampa Bay's 2007 No. 1 draftee, left-hander David Price, pitched five times down the stretch in '08 and five more times in the postseason that year, helping the club reach the World Series.
The Nationals took Stephen Strasburg in 2009 and Bryce Harper in '10, and both of them were contributors on the team that had the best record in baseball last season. Plenty of other smart Draft-day decisions went into building the Rays and Nats, and their general managers did a nice job of shaping their rosters.
The Astros may not be at that point yet, but they may not be as far away as people think. That's why the way they handle Norris is about more than one player.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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NHL's next generation of stars are 'special', says Wayne Gretzky
In his role as the official ambassador for the NHL's Centennial Season, Wayne Gretzky sat down for a one-on-one with Postmedia to discuss all things hockey. In the first of a four-part series entitled THE GREAT ONE & THE STATE OF THE GAME, Gretzky breaks down the meteoric rise of both Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews — the poster children for the sport's next generation of stars.
For the Great One, it was a snapshot of future greatness.
Times two.
Last Wednesday, on the opening night of the NHL's historic 100th campaign, three Hall of Famers — Wayne Gretzky, Paul Coffey and Jari Kurri — were waiting for the start of the official ceremonies celebrating the first Edmonton regular season game to be played at Rogers Place, the glitzy new state-of-the-art home of the Oilers.
As part of the festivities, the plan was for Gretzky and Mark Messier to skate out and leave a puck at centre ice for new Oilers captain Connor McDavid, who would then emerge from the dressing room and fire it into the net. Call it a passing of the torch, if you will.
Having a bit of rare spare time on their hands before the fun and frivolity was scheduled to start, Gretzky, Coffey and Kurri started watching the Ottawa Senators-Toronto Maple Leafs contest, the first leg of the Hockey Night In Canada doubleheader that would later include the Oilers hosting the rival Calgary Flames.
And so, like the rest of the country, they saw the Maple Leafs' Auston Matthews make history. After 40 minutes of hockey, Matthews already had found the back of the Ottawa net four times, setting a single-game record for goals scored by a player making his NHL debut.
"I'm seeing this special performance take place thinking: 'I don't think I scored my first goal until my fifth game,'" Gretzky recounted Monday. "He had four goals in the first two periods. I said to one of my buddies as we were watching: 'This kid might break my 50-goals-in-39-games record in the first year.'"
The next threat on the record book was the modern day mark for goals in a game with six, held by, among others, former Leaf Darryl Sittler. In fact, that was a possibility Sittler himself was considering as he, too, sat in front of the TV that same night.
"It's ironic because Jari, Coff and I were sitting around thinking the same thing as well. It was like: 'My goodness, Darryl's record is six goals. (Matthews) isn't going to get his points record of 10 given where he was after two periods, but he really has a chance to score seven goals!'"
"We weren't even sure if anyone had ever scored seven before."
In the end. Matthews finished with the four — a remarkable feat in itself. Then, in the next several hours, Gretzky and the rest of the hockey world were privileged to witness another treat, this one authored by McDavid as he scored twice and added an assist in a 6-3 dismantling of the Flames.
"You see how special Connor and Matthews are, and when you see things like that, you understand how much our game is changing," Gretzky said. "These kids are so much more prepared to take the next step — from pee wee to juvenile to the NHL."
And, as Gretzky admits, these two talented youngsters are "special," so much so that they are the faces of the league somewhere down the road — if they're not pushing the Crosbys, Ovechkins, Kanes and Stamkos's for that honour already.
As we chat in Gretzky's suite at a downtown Toronto hotel Monday, word has come down that McDavid and Matthews have been named the NHL's first and second stars of the week — pretty heady achievements in this, the opening week of the NHL's 100th season.
Ok, so we get that the Great One considers these teens "special." But, raw talent aside, what makes them so?
Here's Gretzky's breakdown:
1. "EMBRACING" PLAYING IN CANADA: "I know there is a lot more media coverage than when I played. And yes, it can be tougher to play in (the fishbowl) of places like Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton. But you have to embrace it. Jean Beliveau embraced being a Canadien. Dave Keon loved being a Leaf. Mark Messier and I loved playing in Edmonton. And I think Auston and Connor get that."
2. "AMAZING" HOCKEY SENSE: "They both see the ice so well … What I find amazing is how responsible defensively they are at such a young age. With two great coaches like Mike Babcock and Todd McLellan, they'll learn the details. But it's impressive how much they already know about that aspect of the game."
3. LANKY WINGSPANS: "I know they're not Zdeno Chara-sized or Mario Lemieux-sized but they both have tremendous reach." As Gretzky acknowledges, such a physical attribute allows both Matthews and McDavid to better control pucks in tight spaces and shield the puck from defenders.
4. UNSELFISHNESS: "They're both like that. And understand: You can be an individual without taking anything away from the team. It's not wrong to want to strive to score four goals a night but there is a proper way to do it. Good for Auston for scoring those four goals. It's good for Auston, it's good for the game." What Gretzky also finds "good:" at no point in the night did Matthews try to show anyone up, yet another trait he and McDavid share.
5. WORK ETHIC: "They both get how important this is. It's kind of funny when people say of Crosby 'Oh he's so talented.' Well, yeah, but he's also the hardest worker every time he's on the ice. I think that rubs off on kids like these who watch him."
Without any pro-Edmonton bias whatsoever, Wayne Gretzky says there is a skill set owned by Connor McDavid that separates him from Auston Matthews, Johnny Gaudreau, Jack Eichel and every other young star.
Indeed, according to Gretzky, no one in the sport can step on the gas pedal like Connor McDavid.
And, perhaps, no one ever has.
"The speed aspect of it — Connor has that one extra gear that I don't know if anyone in hockey has ever had," Gretzky said Monday.
"I'm truly amazed when I watch him skate and I watch him play. He's truly a pleasure to watch."
Gretzky's comments echo those of New York Islanders captain John Tavares, who told Postmedia in May 2015 that he'd never seen a player with the acceleration of McDavid, who still was a member of the OHL's Erie Otters at the time.
McDavid was named the NHL's first star of the week on Monday while the Maple Leafs' Matthews was second.


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2012 DERPA Challenge
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2012 DERPA Challenge
The DERPA Challenge is to building the derpiest machine to travel from point A to point B while breaking a series of arbitrarily rules. The race is believed to have taken place between May 25th and 26th on 2012 at the Orlando Mini Maker Faire.
- The derpier, the better
- If it's happened before, don't do it again.
- A vehicle is any portion of one's construction which is not destroyed (rendered impossible to find due to chemical change or witchcraft).
- If it's got wheels, they may not be circular NOR can their axis of rotation be near their center nor may the axis of rotation of the wheels be parallel to the ground.
- legged robuts
- If it's got legs, the minimum number of leg lengths for N number of legs is (N/2)+3 or (((N/1)+1)*1)-1, whichever is lower.
- If it's got legs, no leg length should form any relationship to any leg across any line of symmetry in your derpmobile. There shouldn't be any lines of symmetry anyway.
- If it's in the category of planicopters, then it cannot have an fixed wings or static arms linking to its props.
- If it's a dirigible, it must have multiple buoyancy devices, separated by the maximum width of any of the balloons, and the smallest must not be smaller than half the size of the largest
- If it's a watercraft, you'll have to be able to flood the course yourself (as we will not provide water) without flooding the surrounding area.
- The entire vehicle must make it to the end of the race
- You may not intentionally damage someone else's vehicle
- No task can go uninterrupted longer than 5 seconds
- Autonomous robots may not go in a straight line
- Can I do X?
- Not anymore! Everything is fair game, but if you tell us, we just might make some more rules ;)
- (illegal and dangerous things are disallowed)
- Where will it be held?
- Will you help me code it?
- Sure. Why not. We might have a lot of people to help, though.
- Will there be a kit, or do I provide my own materials?
- We plan on making a simple robotics kit and selling it as cheap as we can at the faire. Bringing your own parts is more than welcome.
- Can I bring a bot I made at home?
- Yes.
Judging Criteria
- Winner of race
- Creativity of solution
- Derpiness
- Age of team members on a scale of 1 to 10
- Final score gets a 00.7% bump for brown nosing the judges in a way that doesn't make us feel bad for giving out extra points. Judging is not fair in this category.
Possible Acronyms
- Dont Expect Really Practical Applications
- Deliberately Engineering Rather Problematic Applications
- Derpy Engineers for Reaching Profound Altitutdes
- Daring Entropy Research Project Agency
- Most spectacular failure
- Derpiest design
- Biggest surprise
- Race Victor (or who got the furthest)
- Best in show


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Program all of your emergency contact numbers and e-mail addresses into your mobile phone. Numbers should include the police department, fire station hospital, evacuation center, as well as your family members.
Forward your home number to your wireless number in the event of evacuating your home. Because call forwarding is based out of the telephone central office, you will get incoming calls from your landline phone even if your local telephone service is disrupted at your home. In the unlikely event that the central office is not operational, services such as voice mail, call forwarding and call forwarding busy line/don't answer may be useful.
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Keep non-emergency calls to a minimum, and limit your calls to the most important ones. If there is severe weather, chances are many people will be attempting to place calls to loved ones, friends and business associates.
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AT&T is committed to keeping our customers connected - even in the wake of unpredictable, catastrophic events - by maintaining the reliability of the AT&T global network. The mission of the Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) Team is to recover AT&T voice and data service network elements to an area affected by a disaster. AT&T has invested more than $600 million in its U.S. NDR program and another $15 million internationally. Telecommunications is vital for our business and government customers following a disaster, both for the impacted area and for the rest of the country. AT&T launched its Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) program in 1992 to provide a way to rapidly restore network services after a catastrophic disaster.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - February 1, 2013 --U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez did not answer questions or address a recent FBI raid on the office of a donor while speaking to New Jersey's Chamber of Commerce in Washington.
The Democrat spoke about how the congressional delegation responded to help those affected by Superstorm Sandy.
Menendez sat near and chatted with Republican Gov. Chris Christie at Thursday night's dinner.
Menendez left without answering questions about Tuesday night's FBI search of the Florida office of a political donor.
Menendez's office said he reimbursed the donor this year for the cost of two of three trips Menendez took on the donor's plane to the Dominican Republic in 2010.
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OpenRacing WIP
- 1 Tasks & Plans
- 1.1 Achieving OTI
- 1.2 Tasks
- 1.3 Screenshots
- 1.4 Old tasks
Tasks & Plans
Achieving OTI
This is little thinking about torcs/openracing interdependencies.. The goal of this thinking is to simplify the code, by getting rid of as much C++ as possible, especially if it is useless.
- The only hard dependency that OR does have on Torcs' C++ code is simuv2 (simuv2 works with tTrack, tCarElt and tSituation).
- This in turn create a dependency over torcs track plugin, which is required to load a tTrack properly.
- The robot interface depends on tCarElt for compatibility with Torcs AI, this can be dropped for now (we have C# robots), and we can find a cleaner solution later on.
- The robot itself is responsible for loading the car informations (via an XML GfParm file).
- RaceManager inits tCarElt using informations given by the Robot's XML, then associate the car with the robot (see Q1).
- RaceManager inits tSituation.
Quick remainder
- tTrack is the logical track as stored and manipulated in C++ by Torcs (i.e. track trajectory and width basically as a list of segments)
- tCarElt is the information about a car. positions of elements, wheels, fuel, driving commands, etc... (hundreds of fields in the structs)
- tSituation describe the situation of a race. List of cars, the track, some global infos.
Q1: Should the robot decide the features of his car?
It seems more natural to me to build a car then put a driver into the car (instead of the opposite). Maybe some AI are very specific to drive a particular car, let's forget about that first: we simplify!
Killing C++ Howto
- Get rid of all C++ code not needed by simuv2.
- 1. disable legacy c++ robots
- 2. C# code that needs to access/modify t* struct should do it through an interface (will will very probably serve as a base for OTI).
- 3. Comment out and remove as much C++ code as possible.
- Simplify simuv2
- simuv2 no longer manages collisions, we should be able to get rid of Solid.
Disabling C++ robots
This should allow to disable learning, robottools.
Separate C# code from current data structures
Will make changes to those easier.
The indicator is the number of lines of C++ compiled in libsimulator.so. Goal is 0 (one day maybe).
- 22/06, 5pm. 35250 lines
- 23/06, 3pm. 29063 lines (removed c++ drivers)
Ogre renderer
- Automatic car 3D model conversion. (can be called "automatic AC3D to Ogre conversion").
- Automatic track 3D model conversion from Torcs-NG's data (starting from trackgen). Should warn about unsupported geometry and such.
- Load sharpy's driver, make it run a car : Keith will do
User interface
- Make a GUI designed for our needs (load a track, evaluate drivers, run simulation in background, ...) : WIP
- Work on the installation process
Bellow, you'll find some screenshots showing work in progress of Ogre renderer and GUIs.
- Error creating thumbnail: File missing
2008-sep-08, high-quality skybox, back to stencil shadows
- Error creating thumbnail: File missing
2008-feb-12, minimalist main menu
- Error creating thumbnail: File missing
2008-feb-25, chasing camera
- Error creating thumbnail: File missing
2008-mar-14, speedometer, tachometer, detect and remove alpha-blended objects
- Error creating thumbnail: File missing
2008-mar-18, free-ride
Old tasks
Ogre renderer
Make a camera follows a car (from behind): DONE.
Core engine
Load a complete track using C++ plugin: DONE. Initialize OgreDotNet graphic plugins to display the track: DONE. Load cars / physics engine: DONE. Load a C++ driver / create C# interface: DONE.
Implement user controlled vehicle: DONE.
User interface
Port to MyGUI's C# interface: DONE.
Merging Imre's work
- Identify hardcoded stuffs : WIP
- openracing.in -> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/mulder/projects/openracing/cleaned/src/libsimulator/.libs
- src/ode/OdeLoader.cs -> mCtx.RegisterResourcePath("/home/mulder/projects/trunk/track/Barcelona/");
- my_config doesn't have to be in the repository
- src/core/RaceManager.cs -> InitStartingGrid
- src/graphic/OScene.cs -> mCtx.RegisterResourcePath("/home/mulder/projects/openracing/cleaned/data/tracks/road/icy");
- src/ode/OdeMesh.cs -> XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader("/home/mulder/projects/openracing/cleaned/data/tracks/road/icy/Mesh.mesh.xml");
- Full merge


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Welcome to 6th Grade Keyboarding. I hope you will find the calendar below helpful for keeping up with the day to day activities we do in Keyboarding.
Students will learn how to use word processing skills more efficiently. For example, students learn how to change font style, size, color, use format painter; use cut, copy, and paste; use Word Art; add graphics to a document and manipulate the graphic within the document. Students will learn to change margins and print in landscape or portrait orientation. They will learn to use comments and spell check. Students also learn how to manipulate words in a document by using the alignment icons, change line spacing, using autonumber and bullets. And, finally they will learn to change the view of their window and work with the ruler.
Students will learn to proofread and work on skills to improve their proofreading abilities.
Students will improve how fast they keyboard by doing various speedbuilding activities.
Towards the end of the quarter, students will also learn to create a multimedia presentation. They will be responsible for researching an Ancient World topic and creating a slide show about that topic.
Resources and Websites:
Great sites to practice Keyboarding:
Al Bunny's Typing Class V3
Dance Mat Typing
Learn to Type
Typing Master
Typing Test
Free Typing Games
All the Right Type
Alphattack Keyboarding Game
Super Hyper Spider Typer
Spacebar Invaders
Learn Typing or Play a Game--suitable for games based on your level of keyboarding
Frogs Are Off Their Diet
Slime Kids Typing Games
Nibble Fingers
Alpha typing Games
Keyboarding with Vocabulary
Learning Games for Kids--Typing Practice
Brown Bear Typing
New Typing Games
Learn to Type with Brown Bear
Learn Keyboarding Games for Kids
Interactive Typing Sites
Rapid Typing Zone
Only Typing Games
Fun to Type
Word Games with Typing
Web Arcade Typing
Nitro Type
Typing Club for Dodgeville students only
**Disclaimer: Please note that these sites/links are not official pages of the Dodgeville School District web pages. They were free of questionable content when first published on the Dodgeville School District site.
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The Editors Discuss The Chocolate Show, The Greatest Event Of The Year
For gluttonous New York City dwellers, some of the greatest few days of the year come in the form of the annual Chocolate Show, a giant expo in which chocolate purveyors and fanatics from all over the world converge on the Metropolitan Pavilion for a celebration of eating too many samples and getting a stomachache but it being totally fucking worth it. Editors Jennifer Wright and Ashley Cardiff humbly offer this tour.
Also, for context: here is a reel of outtakes in which Orson Welles gets plastered filming a commercial for a fine French champagne: