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Riccitiello: "Other retailers will absorb the business" if GAME goes
He carefully avoided naming it, but EA's CEO last week said it's "all but a certainty" GAME has two terrible weeks ahead. But he thinks other retailers will pick up the slack.
Speaking at a Wedbush Morgan technology investors event last week, John Riccitiello said the firm is "still praying for the lenders to get rational and keep them in business".
However deeper trouble "now looks like all but a certainty. It was a risk a month ago. Now it looks like a fact."
Last month the firm warned that its own results might be dented by the problems faced by "a major European retail partner", which all assume is GAME.
After a tough Christmas and even tougher financing environment the retailer is now up for sale with the threat of closure or administration hanging over its head. A last-minute in-store promotional sale has seen it try to inject new cash into the business this weekend.
Credit insurers have lost faith in GAME - and now EA and a group of other publishers cannot get their games into the chain's stores.
Riccitiello said that problems faced by a 'major retailer' are "unfortunately more true than it was even a month ago, or more likely than it was even a month ago".
(Disclaimer: Riccitiello was careful not to talk about GAME specifically, remarking to one analyst in the Q&A "I didn't mention Game Group, by the way," which the questioner rephrased to "A UK retailer in distress". That comment Riccitiello did not correct.)
Nevertheless, he said that consumers are smart. They won't stop buying games without stores such as GAME or Gamestation on High Streets across the PAL territory. And he added that the left over market share will be lapped up by other retailers.
"I'm really confident that the consumer that wants to buy Mass Effect or Madden or FIFA or whatever, if a particular retailer is gone, other retailers will absorb the business," said Riccitiello.
"But I think in the fullness of time, I am extremely confident that, whether it's UK or France, or United States, et cetera, the retail marketplace will absorb that business.
"I don't think we're going to – we might lose 20,000 copies of Mass Effect 3 in the UK for the consumer that can't figure out another store to go to, but that would even surprise me. I mean I think we'll sell every unit. So, we love great retailer partners, and we, like I mentioned GameStop earlier and Best Buy and Amazon and others. They're great for us. If one goes away, the other guys pick up the slack. I really don't see it as anything other than a very temporary dislocation."
In fact, Riccitiello suggested that many retailers are actually "prospering right now" and that NPD figures dented by the collapse of the Wii market inaccurately suggest "the world's coming apart."
He explained: "I think that the retailers that are – a lot of the Mass merchants are prospering right now. Not all of them, but a number of them are. The big box guys – different parts of the world have had different, some are doing really well, and some are not doing as well. Specialty retailer, some of our partners are really adapting well to the digital realities and creating substantial new revenue streams, and those that aren't are having a harder time, certainly all those that aren't are certainly talking a lot about it now."
In fact, that digital element was - as it regularly has been for EA in recent years - Riccitiello's secret weapon in the discussion.
"Let's put it this way, I am really glad we've grown a $1.2 billion digital business in light of the circumstances in our industry."
He said that digital content sold on HD consoles was up 10 per cent year on year, and "the top 10 grew by between 10 per cent and 15 per cent".
"So what's happening in our world is that the actual packaged goods business is under a lot of pressure, but if you're at the top of the charts in HD, you're in a great spot.
"[EA's numbers] were up $600 million, $700 million calendar 2010 to calendar 2011. What did we do? We anticipated that HD was going to do better. We anticipated that the top of the charts would do better, and we doubled down on that part of the business and it's helped us gain share, drive profit. And that's what we want to continue to do."
His conclusion on the matter was most telling of EA's take - he said that "ours is not a very forgiving [industry]" to those who hadn't properly prepared for the digital challenge.


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In early 2011, daily deals were all the rage. Groupon seemed to have come up with a fail-proof social commerce model that seemed to benefit everyone: get a whole bunch of people to buy something, and everybody wins. The merchant profits by getting more shoppers and offloading excess inventory, while consumers profit by getting lower prices.
Groupon clones started mushrooming up everywhere as everyone tried to get in on the action. There was a low barrier to entry and it was relatively profitable. A number of companies began offering daily deals as an extra revenue stream—think Google deals, the short-lived Facebook deals, and even the New York Times had a daily deal offering.
The Problem
But it became more apparent over time that the model wasn't benefitting everyone equally. Merchants, especially restaurateurs, were getting a huge influx of the wrong type of consumer: people looking for a good deal, not necessarily a new favorite restaurant. A number of merchants began to complain, quite vocally, that the deal backfired: it brought in a horde of deal-seekers who didn't spend much over the price of the deal, left a bad tip, and never came back again.
"You have to rationalize supply and demand," said Micah Rosenbloom of Founder Collective, in a recent interview. "Both sides have to benefit."
Enter Subscription Commerce
Where daily deals have failed by being too imbalanced, subscription commerce is proving to be a more solid model. And startups across a wide range of categories are catching on, from food (Goodies Co.) and crafts (Brit.co) to makeup (Birchbox) and kids' toys (Babbaco). Last week, JustFab—a pioneer in the subscription commerce space—acquired FabKids, a subscription service for kids' clothes.
Even Amazon and Walmart have gotten into the subscription commerce game.
Why does the subscription model work?
"The subscription model actually makes things easier," said JustFab co-CEO Adam Goldenberg. "We know how many members we have and that they're going to come back every month, so we can forecast how many items we're going to sell in a given month, which makes planning and inventory very simple. If it's hard to plan, you're going to buy more inventory, so you're going to mark it up to sell at a higher price."
JustFab has found the magic recipe for a successful e-commerce business model. With 10 million members, the company is shipping a quarter of a million packages each month. And it's branching into other categories as well. What started off as an online shopping site for shoes has morphed into a site for denim, jewelry, handbags, and now kids' clothes.
"We're building the next-generation H&M," said Goldenberg. "It will only be a matter of time before anything you can find at an H&M store will be on JustFab."
The company designs and manufactures its own high quality, department store-style products, and then sells them at a fraction of the cost. By donning the hats of designer, manufacturer, and retailer/distributor, the company cuts out the middleman and passes on the savings to the consumer.
Some Kinks
Notably, one of JustFab's biggest competitors, ShoeDazzle, recently scrapped the subscription model for a more traditional e-commerce model. The company claimed it was missing out on a lot of potential customers who were interested in purchasing from ShoeDazzle, but were holding back because they didn't want to commit to a membership.
Interestingly, ShoeDazzle announced in August 2012 that it had added three million new members in the four months since scrapping the subscription model. The company may have more members now that it's dropped its subscription service, but the bigger question is how revenue has been impacted by the switch. ShoeDazzle may have had three million fewer members at the beginning of the year, but the 10 million it did have were a powerful bunch, as they were automatically being charged $39 a month, regardless of whether or not they bought any shoes (at which point their payment turned into store credit).
The site may have more members, but who's to say those members aren't signing up and buying one pair of $30 shoes for their high school reunion and then never visiting the site again? Shoedazzle hasn't revealed its customer return rate, and the company couldn't be reached for comment, so it's not clear whether that extra three million customers is translating into increased revenue.
When it comes to welcoming more customers to the platform, JustFab didn't make a stark either/or choice, but chose instead to add a traditional shopping option. Customers can forgo the subscription in favor of making a one-time purchase at their leisure. The catch is that the one-time purchase will cost more.
"Over 98% of purchases come from subscribers," said Goldenberg. "It's a big win for JustFab. Once we acquire a customer, they tend to come back to the site more than 35 times in a year."
Other advantages
Having users subscribe rather than make one-time purchases has another added bonus: it allows JustFab to get to know their customers and their styles. And that's ultimately the holy grail of retail. You want to target the right person with the right item to ensure a sale.
And, of course, there's the fact that you're all but eliminating shopping cart abandonment. When Amazon created its one-click purchase settings, it allowed customers to make a purchase on impulse, without having to look at all the shameful payment details. With subscription commerce, there's no thinking to do at all. In the case of box-o'-stuff subscription companies, like Birchbox and Goodies Co., the customer simply awaits the prize each month and discovers something new and surprising. In the case of JustFab, the customer can skip a purchase altogether and let the monthly payment turn into store credit, which can translate into a quarterly pre-paid shopping spree.
Subscription commerce will obviously never eclipse traditional e-commerce, but it is most definitely the key to disrupting traditional retail and making high-quality goods more affordable.
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I hope they dont drive the guy crazy. Watch Summit have to replace Edward because he can't take the "crazy obsessed" fans.KStew and RPatz wrote:I was just looking at the Rob thread and they really are kind of crazy!
They are planning to kidnap Rob the minute he gets back into the states!
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An Irish American air force cadet and his two friends have been hailed as heroes after rescuing an incapacitated stranger from the tracks as a New York subway train approached.
The New York Post reports that Matt Foley, Dennis Codrington and Garrett O'Hanlon jumped into the tracks of a Manhattan station when the man fell in.
The report says the three miraculously hoisted the passed-out twenty-something back to the platform before the next 1 train rushed in.
The paper says Columbus Circle station was packed with bar time traffic about 2:40 a.m when a man in his twenties, who appeared to be drunk, nailed his head hard on the rail and stumbled from the platform onto the tracks, unconscious.
Read more news about the Irish in New York here
Onlookers screamed and several witnesses broke into tears when they realised the man couldn't get back up.
The 22-year-old O'Hanlon jumped onto the tracks when he realised the next train was due in just two minutes.
A cadet third class at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, O'Hanlon said: "I couldn't watch a man die. It was such a rush, it happened so quickly - I just had to react.
"He was unconscious, he was bleeding, and I couldn't lift him up by myself."
Dennis Codrington Jr., 23, jumped in to help as O'Hanlon struggled with the man.
The personal trainer said: "The guy was pretty heavy and the train was coming."
Codrington's friend Matt Foley also sprung into action.
Foley said: "The train was one minute away. Once you're down there, you've got to make moves. It was out of control."
The paper adds that as they tried to hoist the stocky man up, the three realized they couldn't lift him entirely over the platform as the clock announced less than one minute for the next uptown 1 train to arrive.
O'Hanlon added: "I don't know if the train got a notification, I wasn't even paying attention.
"It was coming toward us but when we were down there, there was only one objective - to get this guy out."
Read more: Irish American firefighter chosen as Irish Bachelor of the Year
Other strangers started to pull the man up and got him over the edge.
O'Hanlon managed to jump up but Codrington and Foley needed a lift.
Foley said: "I'm glad there were good people there," said Foley.
The man was rushed unconscious to New York-Presbyterian's Weill Cornell Medical Center.
The report says his face was soaked in blood from what appeared to be a broken nose but he looked to still be breathing.
A shaken Codrington added: "It puts a whole new perspective on everything. There have been times when I've been drunk coming back home. It could've been me."
Foley, an automotive technician, said he woke up feeling some 'Good Karma' after his heroic deed.
He said: "I'm currently unemployed, so I feel pretty useless right now. But now I feel like a new person, and good things are happening everywhere."
O'Hanlon's sister Agnes witnessed the rescue. She confessed: "I thought the train might run over all of them.
"I was very frightened. I know how fast the train comes," she added. "But I'm just very proud of my brother. A little shakey, but very proud."


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Yeh but I bet Donald can't kitesurf as good as Shannon or Alex?T Dub wrote:I put this avatar up of the dude hauling his dick in the wheelbarrow especially for this post...we're talking about BEST here!!! If I were running a kite company, I wouldn't make promises that I was not sure I could keep. I'm not bashing any company in general, but I do feel the way that certain kite companies have overpromised and underdelivered speaks volumes about the character of the people running said company.
What I will say about Best is that they need a logo that doesn't look like a flying penis...not all of us get excited about the idea of flying penises guys!!! Maybe they could change the logo to my avatar?
That being said, when was the last time you saw Donald Trump make a promise he did not keep? He is one of the most successful businessmen in the world and I GUARANTEE you all that he didn't get to where he is by overpromising and underdelivering...quite the opposite. He may brag once he has something going, but he doesn't talk about how his company will make all others "obsolete" just before his product literally blows up in his face...
Bottom line is you get what you pay for. If you buy a Pinto, you really shouldn't expect too much performance out of it but it's cheap and affordable. If you buy a Ferrari on the other hand, you pay a lot more for the same size car but get MUCH better performance, looks, quality, etc. It's as simple as that, case closed!!!


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Feb 2012 11:22 UTC
No matter where you look these days, there's a profound sense here in the west that the people no longer having any tangible control over what our governments do. Sure, we are allowed to vote every once in a while, but effectively, most of our countries are governed by backroom deals and corporate interests. If matters really do get out of hand, how do we fight this? Well, with technology of course!
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Can you fill in the empty boxes in the grid with the right shape and colour?
I am less than 25. My ones digit is twice my tens digit. My digits add up to an even number.
Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?
Start with three pairs of socks. Now mix them up so that no mismatched pair is the same as another mismatched pair. Is there more than one way to do it?
On the planet Vuv there are two sorts of creatures. The Zios have 3 legs and the Zepts have 7 legs. The great planetary explorer Nico counted 52 legs. How many Zios and how many Zepts were there?
The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?
When intergalactic Wag Worms are born they look just like a cube. Each year they grow another cube in any direction. Find all the shapes that five-year-old Wag Worms can be.
During the third hour after midnight the hands on a clock point in the same direction (so one hand is over the top of the other). At what time, to the nearest second, does this happen?
I'm thinking of a number. When my number is divided by 5 the remainder is 4. When my number is divided by 3 the remainder is 2. Can you find my number?
How many pairs of numbers can you find that add up to a multiple of 11? Do you notice anything interesting about your results?
Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...
Why does this fold create an angle of sixty degrees?
Are these estimates of physical quantities accurate?
How many generations would link an evolutionist to a very distant ancestor?
Is there a relationship between the coordinates of the endpoints of a line and the number of grid squares it crosses?
Take any prime number greater than 3 , square it and subtract one. Working on the building blocks will help you to explain what is special about your results.
A napkin is folded so that a corner coincides with the midpoint of an opposite edge . Investigate the three triangles formed .
What is the same and what is different about these circle questions? What connections can you make?
Four rods are hinged at their ends to form a convex quadrilateral. Investigate the different shapes that the quadrilateral can take. Be patient this problem may be slow to load.
Make a conjecture about the sum of the squares of the odd positive integers. Can you prove it?
Sort these mathematical propositions into a series of 8 correct statements.
How would you massage the data in this Chi-squared test to both accept and reject the hypothesis?
One side of a triangle is divided into segments of length a and b by the inscribed circle, with radius r. Prove that the area is: abr(a+b)/ab-r^2
Predict future weather using the probability that tomorrow is wet given today is wet and the probability that tomorrow is wet given that today is dry.
Nicholas, Emily, Sam and children from Ysgol Aberdyfi all worked very systematically to solve this problem.
We had lots of impressive solutions to this problem. You were able to explain very clearly why odds and evens are so important.
The nice things about the solutions we received to this problem are that they revealed different insights and different levels of generalisation.
See how graphical methods can be used to solve this rates of change problem and how this simple congfiguration leads to an equation which needs a numerical solution.
These interactive dominoes can be dragged around the screen.
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
Peter Hall was one of four NRICH Teacher Fellows who worked on embedding NRICH materials into their teaching. In this article, he writes about his experiences of working with students at Key Stage Three.
In this Sudoku, there are three coloured "islands" in the 9x9 grid. Within each "island" EVERY group of nine cells that form a 3x3 square must contain the numbers 1 through 9.


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There's no business like snow business.
When Senator McCain dramatically announced to the voting public,that he was suspending his campaign race as well as his presence at the scheduled Presidential debate in order to fly off to DC to save our country from economic collapse and that he would not return until a resolution was reached, it successfully impressed all of his supporters. Well for better or worse, a resolution was finally reached long after his return to the campaign and after his presence at the scheduled Presidential debate. And now for better or for worse, his race goes on.
Senator McCain's gesture was eerily reminiscent of yet another like performance. It was our Commander in Chief dressed as a fighter pilot, suspending his daily duties at the white house in order to fly off for a day to the aircraft carrier Lincoln to announce the end of fighting in Iraq. Hardly for better but certainly for worse, the Iraq war still goes on.
These Mighty Mouse-like "flying off" symbolic gestures, although colorful, seem to be nothing more than gimmicks to divert the audience (which is the American public) from the real issue at hand, whether it is a flailing campaign or a failing war. Politics seem to be the perfect stage for theatrics. And the tricks go on.
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Heterodon platirhinos
15-42 inches. May be either pale gray, tan or brown with several rows of black spots down the back and sides, or, overall black or dark brown with a paler underside; scales keeled and in 25 rows. In young snakes the scales down the middle of the back are red or orange. The scale on the tip of the snout is pointed and upturned.
Hog-nosed snakes favor dry habitats with loose soils, preferably in mixed wooded and open country. Hog-nosed snakes rarely bite, but have a surprising repertoire of defensive behaviors. Upon first encounter, hog-nosed snakes will flatten and spread their necks cobra fashion. They will then hiss and strike, although the striking behavior is all bluff and no bite. If these postures don't scare off the potential predator, the snake will roll onto its back and play dead. Hog- nosed snakes feedprimarily on toads and frogs. They lay from 4-61 eggs.
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Monmouth Park's popular Survival at the Shore contest,
powered by 123racing, returns on Saturday, May 28 and runs through Monday,
Sept. 5.
The rules
for the contest are simple - the Challenge Commissioner will select three races
on each live date from which players will select one horse from each and
receive a mythical $2 across the board wager.
In order to "Survive" the contest and continue on to the next racing
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Using Wing with Twisted
Wing is a Python IDE that can be used to develop, test, and debug Python code written for Twisted. Two versions of Wing are appropriate for use with this document: Wing Pro is the full-featured Python IDE for professional programmers, and Wing Personal is a free alternative with reduced feature set.
If you do not already have Wing installed, download it now.
This document describes how to configure Wing for Twisted. To get started using Wing as your Python IDE, please refer to the tutorial in Wing's Help menu or read the Quickstart Guide.
Installing Twisted
The Twisted website provides complete instructions for installing and using Twisted.
Debugging in Wing
To debug Twisted code launched from within Wing, create a file with the following contents and set it as your main debug file by adding it to your project and then using the Set Main Debug File item in the Debug menu:
from twisted.scripts.twistd import run import os try: os.unlink('twistd.pid') except OSError: pass run()
Then go into the File Properties for this file (by right clicking on it) and set Run Arguments to something like:
-n -y name.tac
The -n option tells Twisted not to daemonize, which would cause the debugger to fail because sub-processes are not automatically debugged. The -y option serves to point Twisted at your .tac file (replace name.tac with the correct name of your file instead).
You can also launch Twisted code from outside of Wing using the module wingdbstub.py that comes with Wing. This is described in Debugging Externally Launched Code in the manual.
Related Documents
Wing provides many other options and tools. For more information:
- Wing Reference Manual, which describes Wing in detail.
- Twisted home page, which provides links to documentation.
- Quickstart Guide which contains additional basic information about getting started with Wing.


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I disliked everything about it.
We had the amazing experience to watch this movie on 3D format.
What a so much fun movie to spend some free time relaxing from everything.
In one of the last scenes Leia was given hope to Ray. Wondering if Leia will continuing her training. Beautiful scene.
I did not like the soundtrack.
The Last Jedi touched some sensitve things for some people. Still the movie was not a total disaster.
Georjge Lucas was not force out from Star Wars. He wanted to retired.
During one of his films his married ended.
George Lucas is not coming back. Deak with that.
"Can't wait for Disney...". Following one star sans user.
I remember when George Lucas kept changing things and people where bashing him.
Finally we got a new Star Wars movie and all some people is complaining.
George Lucas is not going back to write the sequel.
Hoping JJ don't touch this movie too.
I am given 5 stars because this movie was released on Christmas time. I think to me was a nice present.
I think this was a lovely story. Ray trying to find who where her parents and at same time looking for the force.
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Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Review (iOS)
Last year, Blizzard entered the card battle game arena with Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft to great success. The developer's Warcraft franchise has been a massive hit for years, and a creating a Magic: The Gathering-esque experience based in that world made total sense. While Hearthstone's success in the computer space was unquestionable, there was still a huge market out there for Blizzard to capture: mobile. Porting games to mobile can sometimes lead to a diminished experience, but with Hearthstone, Blizzard has faithfully ported its CCG, providing an almost identical experience.
While the license itself will likely draw even more players into the fold, it's Hearthstone's gameplay that will keep them coming back for more. Play is deceptively simple to learn, but there's an incredible amount of depth to strategy and deck-building for those card players looking for more substance. That shouldn't turn newcomers off however, as the great thing about Hearthstone is how easy it is to pick up and play. The tutorials work well, and introduce the tactics and rules in a way that's clear without being condescending. The only aspect of the game that could have used a bit more explanation is the crafting, wherein you can destroy several cards to create a better new one. World of Warcraft players already have somewhat of a grasp on how that mechanic works, but experimentation is really the only way to understand for people just joining up.
After you learn the ropes playing against the various computer characters to unlock the specific character decks, you can test your mettle against human opponents in either casual, ranked or Arena competitive modes. Each class has a number of specific cards that can only be used in that deck, while there are hundreds available to use between classes. Casual versus games are best for discovering the best cards to keep in your 30-card deck. Experimenting in ranked matches will almost always lead to a quick finish, and you won't be able to see the full potential of your hand. While ranked matches can be played whenever you want, it's definitely best to wait until you've leveled up a bit (say level 10) by winning elsewhere and built up a strong enough deck to compete.
Arena is slightly different, and offers a twist on the popular deck-building genre. You'll be presented with a variety of cards with which to craft a deck, with virtually no restrictions. Normally, you'd only be able to hold up to two of each card, save for legendaries, of which you can only have one per deck. Once you're ready to go, you'll be thrown into a series of matches against other human players. You earn a victory by winning 12 matches, and thus retiring your deck, and you are eliminated from the Arena when you've lost three times. Your first time through is free, but Arena play will cost you 150 in-game gold (or $2) every time after that. The rewards are worth it though, as you'll be granted with increasingly better purses the farther you get and the longer you can keep winning.
While Hearthstone is a free-to-play game, it doesn't succumb to the typical trappings of the model. You can buy new packs of cards (each contains five cards, with a guarantee for at least one rare) for a fee, but you can also buy them with in-game gold earned through regular play. There are no wait limits for mana to build back up, and you aren't set to a number of matches you can play in a given day. You almost never have to buy anything, but the curious collector will likely spend a few dollars to get a few packs to start a proper foundation of cards. Like any good CCG, there's a range of common, rare, epic and legendary cards to uncover. You can win with any combination, but there are some truly powerful cards to hunt down if you're willing.
What truly allows the iOS version of Hearthstone to stand out however, is the seamless play between platforms. Most ported games only allow you to enjoy playing against others on the same mobile device. Hearthstone pits iOS players against anyone and everyone else on Battle.net, giving you a massive base of friends (and foes) to enjoy battling against. Even better, you'll never know how or where someone is playing because the game runs so incredibly smoothly. The only real difference is the lack of a keyboard for text chat, but even then, the cross-platform play is easily among the best we've ever encountered.
To say the Hearthstone experience translated perfectly does a disservice to just how well the game functions on iOS. Blizzard has done a tremendous job providing an entry point for newcomers shy about leaping onto PCs to play, and has given longtime players a way to enjoy Hearthstone without having to sit idly at their computers. It's fantastic, fun and highly addictive, and there's no reason you shouldn't be playing Hearthstone right now.
This review was completed with a downloaded copy of Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft for iOS. Blizzard provided us with codes for two additional card packs.
App Store Link: Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft for iPad | By Blizzard Entertainment I Price: Free | Version: 1.0 | 480 MB| Rating 12+


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The consensus in our nation's capital is that the "fiscal cliff" threatens to bring about economic disaster.
The doomsayer story line — which we hear from both Republicans and Democrats — is pretty much textbook Keynesian economics. The combination tax hikes and spending cuts will create a "fiscal drag" on the economy, sapping aggregate demand and probably bringing on a new recession. At the very least, the conventional wisdom goes, we should avoid staying all the way down at the bottom of the cliff for too long. Some agreement must be reached to reduce both the tax hikes and spending cuts to a level that doesn't tank the economy.
You might have noticed that we did not exactly have a protracted public debate about the underlying economics of this narrative. There's been very little discussion by elected officials — at least in the United States — of the idea that a fiscal contraction could have economically stimulative effects.


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An 8-week course of acupuncture had statistically significant but short-lived benefits for people with seasonal allergic rhinitis, researchers reported.
The improvements in quality of life and use of rescue medication were small and of "uncertain" clinical significance, according to Benno Brinkhaus, MD, of Charité-University Medical Center in Berlin, and colleagues.
And 8 weeks after the treatment ended, the effects were no longer noticeable, Brinkhaus and colleagues reported in the Feb. 19 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
Acupuncture is used by about 18% of patients to treat seasonal allergic rhinitis, although the scientific evidence is limited, Brinkhaus and colleagues noted.
To help fill the gap, he and his colleagues designed a three-arm randomized trial – acupuncture combined with rescue medication as needed, sham acupuncture with as-needed medication, and rescue medication alone.
The rescue medication used in the study was cetirizine (Zyrtec, Reactine) but patients were permitted to use an oral corticosteroid if the rescue drug was inadequate.
The rescue medication score was calculated as the weekly sum of daily use, where 10 mg a day of cetirizine was equivalent to 1 point.
After 8 weeks, those in the acupuncture arms were followed for another 8 weeks, while those who had been on rescue medication alone were offered real acupuncture for 8 weeks.
The primary endpoint was difference on Rhinitis Quality of Life Questionnaire overall score and the rescue medication score from baseline to weeks seven and eight.
The researchers found that, after 7 to 8 weeks:
- Acupuncture patients had an average quality of life score that was 0.5 points better than those in the sham group and 0.7 points better than those in the medication-only group (97.5% CI 0.2 to 0.8 and 0.4 to 1.0, respectively).
- They also had rescue medication scores that were 1.1 points better than those in the sham group and 1.5 points better than those in the rescue medication group (97.5% CI 0.4 to 1.9 and 0.8 to 2.2, respectively)
At the end of the second 8-week period, Brinkhaus and colleagues reported, differences between groups were small and no longer statistically significant, with the rescue medication group (after getting acupuncture) having benefits similar to those shown by the original acupuncture group.
The researchers cautioned that the confidence intervals surrounding the estimates of improvement did not exclude values that were less than predefined thresholds for clinically important differences.
Because of that, the noted, the "clinical significance of the findings is uncertain."
But Jongbae Park, DKM, PhD, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told MedPage Today he interprets the difference in the use of rescue medication to be clinically important.
"By receiving acupuncture, patients could reduce that amount of antihistamine, plus increase the quality of life," Park said.
Park and Remy Coeytaux, MD, PhD, of Duke University, argued in an accompanying editorial that the study lends "compelling support to the effectiveness of real-world acupuncture" as a treatment for rhinitis.
What's needed now, Park told MedPage Today, are more well designed studies to "enhance the findings."
The study was supported by the German Research Foundation.
Brinkhaus did not report any financial links with industry.
Editorial author Park had support from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and reported financial links with AcuPrime, U.K.
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Annals of Internal MedicineSource Reference: Brinkhaus B, et al "Acupuncture in patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis: A randomized trial" Ann Intern Med 2013; 158.
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Annals of Internal MedicineSource Reference: Coeytaux RR, Park JJ "Acupuncture research in the era of comparative effectiveness research" Ann Intern Med 2013; 158: 287-288.


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DETROIT- Jurors have convicted a suburban Detroit homeowner of second-degree murder and manslaughter for killing an unarmed woman who showed up drunk on his porch last year.
Jurors on Thursday rejected Theodore Wafer's claim that he acted in self-defense when he fired through his screen door and killed 19-year-old Renisha McBride.
Wafer could face up to life in prison, but it is likely his actual sentence will be much shorter.
The 55-year-old Dearborn Heights man tearfully testified that he "wasn't going to cower" inside his home after being awoken by loud banging on his doors around 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 2. Prosecutors say he should have called 911.
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Food security, climate change and energy topped concerns at the recent Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit, but leaders failed to recognize the role of the environment in poverty reduction, according to IUCN.
Achieving food security amid concern over rising food prices, increasing capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change and increasing power generation and transportation were highlighted as requiring priority attention.
However, with the real complexities of poverty overruled by economic development objectives, Southern African leaders failed to recognize the importance of environmental goods and services in poverty reduction and development.
The talks came as the Heads of State of the 14 countries in the SADC signed the Mauritius Declaration on Poverty and Development on April 20 in Pailles, Mauritius.
"While we are pleased that adapting to and mitigating impacts of climate change have been highlighted here as key issues to address, we are concerned and disappointed that the potential role of the environment in overall poverty reduction and development planning is not being highlighted," said Sue Mainka, acting Regional Director for IUCN's East and Southern Africa Region, and head of the IUCN delegation at the meeting. "Only by including broader ecosystem management and accounting for environmental goods and services in national and regional planning can longer term, sustainable solutions be found to poverty reduction and development in the region."
The Conference deliberated on issues including trade, agriculture, infrastructure, gender, HIV-Aids, and capacity building. The increasing levels of poverty across the SADC region and a lack of progress toward the Millennium Development Goals were highlighted. This is a region where 40% of the total population lives on less that US$ 1 a day, and in 6 of the countries, undernourishment ranges between 44% and 72% of the population.
"Poverty is the greatest problem of our time," said Navinchandra Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius in his opening speech. "Soaring food prices, energy prices and climate change add even more complexity to the problem and undermine any progress we make in development."
Increased agricultural productivity, more irrigation schemes, improved seeds and subsidies for fertilizers were called for. None, however, commented on the importance of healthy ecosystems in achieving food security, for climate change adaptation and mitigation, and for providing renewable resources for sustainable energy.
As an International Cooperating Partner, IUCN is following up with the SADC Secretariat to consider the best way to ensure better integration of environmental issues and biodiversity in SADC strategies and deliberations in the future. In particular IUCN's current work on food security, energy and climate change will be of direct relevance.


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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Growing natural gas production and a surplus of supply in storage has depressed prices for the fuel and battered the cash flows and shares of Canada's gas producers. The outlook? It won't please anyone who's investment horizon isn't at least a year away.
Investors looking for a rebound in the price of the commodity and corresponding gains in the shares of gas producers Encana Corp (ECA.TO), Tourmaline Oil Corp (TOU.TO), ARC Resources Ltd (ARX.TO) and others may need to be patient. There is little on the horizon to suggest that prices are going to rise in the near term.
"I think we're in for a long period of low gas prices," said Gordon Currie, an analyst at Salman Partners. "We have to get used to that idea."
For a few years before the 2008-09 financial crisis, benchmark natural gas prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange routinely traded between $6 and $8 per million British thermal units and would surge well above $10 when hurricanes cut into production in the Gulf of Mexico.
Since the start of 2010, prices have been falling as gas production surged from the massive U.S. shale-gas fields unlocked by hydraulic fracturing techniques. At the beginning of 2010 benchmark prices were above $6 per mmBtu. By April of this year, they had dropped below $2 for the first time in more than a decade.
That drop has cut into the shares of the big Canadian gas producers. Encana stock has fallen 40 percent since the start of 2010. Talisman Energy Inc TLM.TO is down 34 percent over that period and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNQ.TO) has fallen by 21 percent.
Though gas has since rebounded to above $3.25 per mmBtu, the amount of gas now in storage for winter use may keep a lid on prices unless North America suffers through a bitterly cold winter.
In its last weekly report, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said U.S. gas stocks stood at 3.58 trillion cubic feet, 296 billion cubic feet higher than a year earlier, and nearly 9 percent above the five-year average level for the third week of September.
The situation in Canada is no better. According to figures compiled by Canadian Enerdata, Canadian gas-storage facilities were 95 percent full as of September 21, 7 percentage points above their year-earlier level with five weeks remaining in the gas-injection season.
If prices are to rise, demand has to increase significantly or supply has to begin to wane. The EIA said on Friday that U.S. dry natural gas production in June averaged 65.4 billion cubic feet a day. Five years earlier, production was about 53 billion cubic feet a day.
But the appetite among U.S. producers to boost supply has waned. Data from oilfield service company Baker Hughes released on Friday showed the number of drilling rigs targeting natural gas dropped this week to just 435, the lowest since June 1995.
Lower drilling will cut into production as companies fail to replace the gas they produce with new reserves. Eventually that lost supply will result in higher prices, but the impact may not be seen for months.
"The (price) forecast is more optimistic but it's more of a developing 2013 story," said Martin King, a commodities analyst at FirstEnergy Capital Corp. "We're going to have some improvement but it's not stellar and it's more of a second-half (of the year) story."
If reduced supply does help boost prices later in 2013, long-suffering investors may see the value of natural gas producers rise as well.
Investors "are generally bullish on natural gas right now," said Matt Donohue, an analyst at UBS Securities. "People see a lot of valuation upside."
Donohue said companies such as ARC Exploration, Tourmaline and Peyto Exploration & Development Corp (PEY.TO), with experienced management teams and growth potential, may be among those best poised to benefit from a potential boost to gas prices.
Still, patience will be required and there is no indication that prices will return even to where they stood at the start of 2010.
"I think 2012 will be the low point for pricing," King said. "The improvement next year on an absolute dollar basis will not necessarily tickle anybody pink, but it's going to be definitely going to be off the lows of what we saw in March and April."
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Katie's Tiny Kitchen Remodel
This is Katie's tiny kitchen in Berlin, Germany. Her entire apartment is 480 square feet; the kitchen is only 36. The apartment's previous residents had kept their fridge in the living room with dishes stacked on top of it! Katie and her husband Martin did all of the work themselves. They had just moved to Germany and didn't even know where to get tools or construction supplies. But with careful planning, they were able to achieve their dream kitchen. They depended on creative solutions to get the most out of the tiny space.
Katie chronicles her DIY adventures on her blog, Making This Home, which has many, many more kitchen photos!
Katie's List: "How The Heck We Fit It All In There"
- Our cabinets extend all the way to the ceiling, utilizing every inch of vertical space.
- Our oven is too small to cook a turkey, which is fine with us. (We're vegetarians) It also happens to be our microwave, too.
- We picked a two-burner stove. It turns out we hardly ever use three burners, let alone four.
- Our dishwasher is half-sized. It really feels like just the right size for a family of two.
- Our fridge is a standard German fridge… which happens to be the same tiny size Americans have in college dorms. It's covered by wooden panels, which is traditional in German kitchens.
- Our recycling system is super compact… and still manages to provide us with a way to sort our recycling in TEN ways (required by German law).
Katie said, "We like to think that good living can come in any size." We here, at Apartment Therapy, fervently agree with her!
Thanks for sharing, Katie!
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We're talking about Texas Instruments, makers of, among other things, very popular powerful scientific calculators. Some of these calculators perform a special signature check to prevent people from installing other operating systems. However, clever engineers have reverse engineered the signing keys, allowing them to install custom operating systems and unlock additional functionality.
As an aside, does anybody else see the hidden epic fail here? Signing keys and such to prevent mathematicians from exercising their rights?
In any case, TI is not amused, and has sent out legal threats to websites and users to remove any discussion about and links to these keys. As you probably guessed by now, just like Apple, TI is hiding behind the DMCA, claiming it forbids reverse engineering. Luckily for us, this is not true. The DMCA explicitly allows "to create interoperable custom software like the programs the hobbyists are using", the EFF writes.
Yes, three of the people who received the legal threats from TI are now represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "This is not about copyright infringement. This is about running your own software on your own device - a calculator you legally bought," said EFF Civil Liberties Director Jennifer Granick, "Yet TI still issued empty legal threats in an attempt to shut down discussion of this legitimate tinkering. Hobbyists are taking their own tools and making them better, in the best tradition of American innovation." The EFF has warned TI not to pursue the legal threats
Since we can understand any websites taking down the links to the keys out of a fear of getting sued, we will link to the keys. You can find them on WikiLeaks. TI is yet another company trying to take away consumer rights just for the sake of their own profits - just like so many other soft and hardware companies. This madness needs to stop.
This does make me wonder what would happen if Apple and TI joined forces. Quite possibly, the universe would implode.


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A Europol investigation has gained evidence of fixing in 380 matches across Europe in recent years, but Tebas, who has previously claimed that matches in Spain have been bought, is not shocked by these revelations.
"These cases take time to recover, this one has been investigated for over two years. It is a phenomenon that affects many countries and many competitions," he told Marca.
"The cheats should be removed from football, but we first have to admit that there is a problem."
And Tebas reiterated that governing bodies must first admit there is an issue.
"This disease is not admitted, so there is no cure for the patient yet. Some institutions are not yet aware of what is happening."There exists conspiracy and illegal gambling. It is at a small percentage, but in Spain there is also corruption."


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Mushkin HP3 12800 3x2GB Review
Every time there is a change in processor technology, there is usually a shift in the system memory needs that goes with the new "platform". This time around, we go from a DDR3 dual channel configuration with voltage limits that pushed upwards of 2.1 volts, into memory that is designed is to be run at 1.5 volts to a Tri channel configuration with strict voltage guidance from Intel that specifies that the memory should run at 1.65 volts or less for the long term reliability of the processor. With the enthusiast community, the limits are more of a guideline until there are mass CPU deaths and then there will be the usual screaming for heads. But the guidance was given beforehand. More system memory may not help with overall speed, but definitely impacts how "smooth" the system runs. That may be interpreted as a speed increase, but the speed was always there - it was the paging to the hard drive causing your lag and performance loss. Just going from 2 to 4GB of memory on a system running Vista will open your eyes to that fact since Vista is a resource hog.
But I digress - this review is not about a dual channel kit but Mushkin's HP3 12800 Tri Channel 3x2GB set of memory, that are optimized for use with motherboards that feature the Intel X58 chipset along with Intel's Core I7 processors. This set of modules is rated for use at 1600MHz (800) with latencies of 9-9-9-24 and uses 1.5 to 1.6 volts to get there - less than the 1.65 volts Intel specifies as a maximum.
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The HP3 12800 modules are packaged much the same way the rest of Mushkins lineup is packaged, in a plastic clam shell that holds the modules securely in place for their trip to your door. The front view shows off the modules and contains the Mushkin logo and the slogan "Get More", while the rear view features some installation and trouble shooting tips to help you out should there be a problem. With this set there were no issues.
The part number for this set of modules is Mushkin part number 998659. What this tells us after looking up the specifications for this set of modules, is that this is a 3x2GB set of modules in the HP3 lineup. These modules feature latencies of 9-9-9-24 at 1600MHz and use voltage in the range of 1.5 to 1.6 volts for the specified latencies and clock speed. This set of modules uses heatspeaders designed using Mushkin's own Frostbyte technology to provide these modules with the capability of shedding heat effectively. The blue color signifies that these modules are part of the HP lineup and not the XP or Redline series.
Now we are familiar with the HP3 modules, let's see just how well they perform.


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Dynamic balancing
SLT5Unbalance has been identified as one of the most common causes of machinery vibration. This is present to some degree on all the rotating machines.
To achieve dynamic balancing a lot of theoretical as well as practical knowledge is required. Correcting unbalance and effectively applying suitable techniques requires additional knowledge and understanding.
This course discusses the types of unbalance and methods of balancing in detail.
List of topics
- What is unbalance
- Types of unbalance
- Identification of unbalance
- In-situ dynamic balancing
- Types of balancing
- Balancing procedure for single plane balancing
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The Ohio Department of Taxation has compiled a list of frequently asked questions covering many different categories.
To view the questions, click on the "Select Category" bar and then click on the category you are interested in. A list of questions will appear pertaining to that category. Then click on the question you are inquiring about and the answer will appear.
I'm in the Air Force stationed at Wright-Patterson AFB and claim that I'm domiciled in another state (e.g. New York is the state of legal residence on my military records). Am I liable for Ohio income tax and school district income tax on my military pay?
Ohio does not tax the military pay of nonresident servicemembers, but in order to avoid a billing notice from the state, you are strongly encouraged to complete and file an IT-10 form each year when you file your federal return (see Please note, below). If you have income in Ohio from any non-military source, you are liable for state income tax (see However, you will have to file, below).
If your state of legal residence in your military personnel record is not Ohio, you are a military nonresident and are not subject to state income and school district income tax on your military pay.
Nonresident military spouses are affected by a November 2009 amendment to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act; please see FAQ #3 below.
Please note that the Ohio Department of Taxation annually issues tax assessments based on federal returns filed with an Ohio address for which no Ohio return is received. To avoid such an assessment, if your only income was military pay and interest and dividends, the department strongly encourages you to complete and file an IT 10 form each year when you file your federal return, if the federal return was filed using an Ohio address.
The IT-10 provides space for both you and your nonresident spouse to indicate military status as a reason for not filing an Ohio income tax return.
If you should receive a billing notice as a nonresident service member and your only income during the taxable year was military pay, please return the notice with the following information:
However, you will have to file an Ohio income tax return if any of the following applies to you:
If you are required to file an Ohio income tax return, you can deduct your military income on the Ohio income tax form IT 1040. By so doing, your income will not be subject to any Ohio personal income or school district income tax. Please see the instructions for Ohio Schedule A deductions in the current Ohio income tax publication.
Military payroll authorities will generally withhold income tax for the state of legal residence (e.g., home of record from where the servicemember entered the military) that is noted in his/her military personnel record. This does not change unless a servicemember takes action to change it, and this change is approved by the military. Service members can only make such a change by submitting Department of Defense form DD-2058. The approved form will be placed in his/her military personnel record. A servicemember who had state income tax withheld in error should have the military payroll authorities correct the state of legal residence in their military personnel record.
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KALAMAZOO—The Office of Service-Learning is hosting their annual Campus and Community Breakfast and award celebration from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 27, in the Bernhard Center. The event is free and open to the public, but is intended primarily for WMU faculty, staff, students and WMU's service-learning community partners. Registration is required; day-of-event registration will be available beginning at 7:45 a.m.
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During the service-learning award celebration, three WMU faculty or staff members, three WMU students, and three community organizations that partner with WMU on service-learning initiatives will receive awards for excellence in service-learning.
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Martin: Look at the clear:left site without a stylesheet. How clear is it that the indented paragraph is a quote? Blockquote text is rendered exactly the same as normal paragraph text aside form the small default indent.
Personally I feel that the addition of quote-marks would make it much more apparent that it's a quote when styles are off, especially important in this case where it's pretty much the first bit of information on the page.
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LAS VEGAS — There are 28 players in USA Basketball's mini-camp this week, eight of which are point guards. And with shooting guard Bradley Beal not participating in scrimmages (because he's still rehabbing a right fibula injury), those point guards will be spending time on the floor with one another.
In one scrimmage on the first day of camp, we saw Mike Conley and John Wall team up against Ty Lawson and Damian Lillard. Kemba Walker and Jrue Holiday played on the same team.
In speaking with NBA TV over the weekend, coach Mike Krzyzewski said that one of the things they'll be looking at is how all the point guards mesh on the court and "adapt to a few different roles."
Two-point-guard lineups aren't just a necessity because of the numbers here in Vegas or even the lack of star shooting guards in the NBA. It's a big part of the identity Krzyzewski and managing director Jerry Colangelo have developed with USA Basketball over the years. They stress speed and athleticism and that starts on defense, where the guards are asked to put pressure on opposing ball handlers. So we've seen Chris Paul and Deron Williams share the floor in the Olympics and Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook play together in the 2010 World Championship.
"We've all watched the Olympics," Walker said Monday. "We've seen those guys play, so when we get out here, we know what time it is already."
For some, playing alongside another point guard is no big deal. Lawson has played almost 2,000 minutes alongside Andre Miller with the Nuggets over the last two seasons. Pushing the ball at every opportunity is all he's known playing under former Denver coach George Karl. Having played FIBA rules in Lithuania during the lockout, Lawson also knows the importance of on-ball defense.
"In the European game, it's huge for pressure to be on the ball," he said. "If not, they have a bunch of shooters, so they just come off and knock it down. Pressure's huge. I'm not really used to it like this, but I'm getting used to it."
For some of the others here, there's an adjustment to not being the only point guard on the floor.
"Last season was my first time really doing it," Conley said. "With Jerryd Bayless, Tony Wroten and those guys, I got to play off the ball a little bit. So I'm starting to get used to it. I'm still not all the way there, but it's not my first time.
"The toughest part is being able to play without the ball. You got to learn where you get the ball, where you need to be, roll and replacing, getting spacing right and getting to the corners instead of always wanting the ball and needing the ball in your hands."
Still, Conley knows what he's doing when his fellow point guards kick the ball out to him on the perimeter.
"When I'm playing that off-guard, I'm thinking shoot first and pass second," he said. "It puts me in a different mode, more of a scoring mode."
And for Conley, the USA Basketball identity is a fun change of pace from the way he plays with the grit-and-grind Memphis Grizzlies.
"I love it," he said. "Who knows? The Grizzlies might turn into that one day."
More quotes from Monday…
- Walker on playing with Holiday: "I've been around Jrue for a long time, since high school. I enjoyed it. It was cool to not be the only one having to make the plays."
- Conley on playing with Wall: "We're pretty unselfish guys. We let whoever has the ball take it and the other person runs. We both like to get up and down, so it was fun to play alongside him."
- Lawson on Lillard: "He was killing today. You can see he's been working on his games. His shot's smooth. He's a great player. I like playing with him."
- Lawson on the advice he's received from the coaching staff: "Throughout practice, they were like, 'Just play your game,' because they saw me try to run plays and I guess they wanted to see what I can really do. So the last two games we played, I just started pushing it and felt a lot better. That's what they wanted to see."


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Watto's Junk Yard / Re: Do You Have Pets?« on: June 11, 2013, 09:54 PM »
Very sorry to hear that, Jesse. Sorry man.
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CINCINNATI — Matt Kemp's attempt to return from a sprained left ankle was shut down indefinitely Friday, a day after he experienced tightness in his right hamstring while running the bases at the Dodgers' minor league facility in Glendale, Ariz.
And though Manager Don Mattingly said the team is awaiting a more detailed evaluation of Kemp's condition, there's a good chance his latest setback means the outfielder is done for the season.
"When the hamstring kind of jumps back in there and becomes involved, that means we have more issues," Mattingly said. "Obviously at some point we run out of time."
That may prove a good thing in the short term because a third return from the disabled list for Kemp this season could become a problem for Mattingly and the Dodgers. An All-Star last year and the most-valuable-player runner-up in 2011, Kemp has played in just one of the Dodgers' last 55 games — during which the team went 43-12. And he looked overmatched in a recent five-game stint with Class-A Rancho Cucamonga, going hitless with seven strikeouts in 18 at-bats.
But before leaving for his minor league rehab assignment, Kemp was talking as if he expected a starting job to be waiting for him as soon as was healthy.
"I want to play every day," Kemp said. "I don't like to sit out of games."
Accommodating Kemp would probably mean benching either Yasiel Puig or Andre Ethier, who is hitting .305 since replacing Kemp in center field. But leaving Kemp on the bench would invite distraction.
Friday's setback may allow the Dodgers to avoid either situation.
"I haven't talked to him directly," Mattingly said of Kemp. "But the trainers say he is frustrated."
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The youngest of Mark Ellis' three children is a 2-year-old girl named Dylan. So when Sarah Ellis, wife of the Dodgers' second baseman, read about the death of an 8-year-old Indiana boy named Dylan following a baseball practice earlier this summer, it haunted her.
"The baseball tie-in and the name of the child and everything kind of struck her. And she reached out to the community to see if there was anything we could do," Mark Ellis said.
As a result, the Ellises partnered with the Dodgers, Reds and Rawlings to bus Dylan Williams' former Little League teammates and their parents to Cincinnati for Saturday's game. The kids will be on the field during batting practice, after which the Ellises will present the Union City players with specially made protective caps the children will wear on the field, as well as a check to pay for medical equipment. Dylan Williams died days after being struck in the head and neck by a thrown ball.
"To be able to do something like this and hopefully shine a little bit of light on this family and this whole community who lost this young kid, just to bring them out to the ballpark, something that's little to us is going to be hopefully a big day to them," Mark Ellis said.
As Ellis spoke, his 6-year-old son Briggs, who missed his first day of school to be with his dad, sat nearby in the Dodgers clubhouse.
"I don't think you can be a parent and not think about something like that," Ellis said. "And if you're a parent, you read an article like that, it's going to strike you for sure."
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"Only the qualifying round was played Friday," Lipscomb Lady Bisons coach Jamie Aid said. "The only player we had was Lorena Djuknic. She lost in a close match against MTSU."
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Anti-gay-marriage whites are not voting for Barack Obama. Forty-nine percent of white folks oppose gay marriage, but 74 percent of Republicans oppose gay marriage. And the Republican Party is almost entirely white. Where are the 48 percent of nonwhite voters who oppose gay marriage? Where are almost all nonwhite voters? In the Democratic Party. Even if every single black Republican is anti-gay, there simply aren't enough of them to account for all the black anti-gay voters. Therein lies the danger for a Democratic candidate supporting gay marriage: that voters otherwise disposed to him will not support him because of his stance on gay marriage.
And here is where Obama is different. If the black community doesn't flood the polls, Obama will lose in November. But he's the first black president of the United States. Black voters are sticky with Barack Obama in a way no white president could dream of. For whites, a white president is the natural order of things. For blacks, it was the miracle of Grant Park. Once the Iowa caucus happened, even Hillary Clinton, the wife of the "first black president," could not stem the tide. As black houses went into foreclosure after 2008 and the unemployment rate went through the roof, Obama's support among blacks stayed amazingly firm. As the election approaches, his support is at the same level as in 2008.
A simple thought experiment reveals the issue: Try to imagine Don King in black churches exhorting congregations to vote against Barack Obama over gay marriage. Not going to happen.


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I just peel off the masking tape I use to label my carboys and stick it on the keg.Style, date brewed, OG, date kegged, FG. All the info you care to know but nobody else cares about.
Wow! i guess I don't brew enough. I also only own 3 kegs but I don't think I have ever marked a carboy or keg. hmm... wonder if I am doing it wrong?
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I read a very provocative theory the other day on the origin of religion. The book claimed that hunters and gatherers lived in sophisticated tribal nations during the transition to civilization and basically created Yahweh and other gods to manipulate resources out of early settled communities. Anyone else hear about this?
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Haven't heard of this particular hypothesis and I don't think there's much if any empirical evidence to support it. It sounds like a plausible explanation but is really one of many plausible explanations.
I think that one of the consensus hypotheses out there is that religions were the byproduct of early human's attempts to deal with the death of loved ones. That's where the whole "bury the dead" thing came from and likely some of the most primitive "religions" if you can even call them that.
I don't know anything about this subject, but it intrigues me. So I am commenting to be notified of others who comment. ;-) What was the name of the book you read? I would be interested in reading it too. I'm not sure I understand your suggestion, but I do understand how organized religion used belief to benefit from others. Bill Bryson touches on this in his book "At Home: A Short History of Private Life".
The book was "On the Origin of Religion" and I just finished it actually. I have to say this is one of the most interesting manuscripts on this subject I have ever read. The evidence that the author compiled was quite sophisticated this was no haphazard hypothesis.
Is it this book? http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Religion-ebook/dp/B008F8R25K/ref=sr_1_...
If so, it sounds like some serious woo-woo.
That goes against what I've previously read on the subject. Archeological findings have shown that Yahweh was the war god of the Ugarit pantheon. The prevailing thought on the subject is that Yahweh was adopted by the marauding Jews who slaughtered their way through the area and picked up a lot of the culture of those they conquered.
I want a lot of supporting evidence before I accept this book as anything more than blather, similar to the un-scholarly crap that Acharya S spews all over the religious debate.
This doesn't seem plausible to me. The most likely explanation, to me, was to to make sense of the world. To answer questions like where does lightning come from?
Pretty much, yeah. This books seems, from this brief description, that it's very simplistic. It's kind of like Zeitgeist.
Certainly, people grabbed onto religion and used it to elevate themselves in society, particularly as the priest class, but its creation was likely a far more organic evolution from spirit and ancestor worship. That doesn't mean they created it from scratch for that purpose, though.
Yes I heard it. A book I read..believe it was called "The Dawn of Sex"? explores that too. Apparently, even today of the VERY few that exist, the very small tribal communities (under 200 peoples), don't/didn't have organized religion (not I wrote "organized". Does not include sporadic superstitions and such). It apparently came about and strengthened with civilization and greater population growth. Makes sense to me, as I see religion as more of a way to control a large population by a select few.
Ok.. I've finished the book and I'm telling you guys there is something to the theory. The book needs to be edited a bit.. i found a few grammatical errors and such.. but the actual sentiments delivered and the evidence was very high brow. I bet that this is a pre release version that was put up on kindle while the book is being published. The book uses patterns in mythological data, archaeology, and other evidence to lay down a very convincing theory that hunters and gatherers were responsible for the development of Yahweh and were waiting in the wilderness benefitting from the "burnt offerings" that were being left by communities like the Israelites. I would love to hear about anyone else who has read this book I'm actually almost blown away by it.
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