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A Leavenworth man has been sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for multiple drug charges.
A Leavenworth man has been sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for multiple drug charges.
Benny R. Bush III, 33, was sentenced Friday in Leavenworth County District Court for one count of distribution of hydrocodone within 1,000 feet of a school, two counts of distribution of marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school, one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school, and one count of possessing marijuana without having the proper Kansas drug tax stamp affixed to it.
In May 2012, the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office used a confidential informant to make multiple purchases of drugs from Bush. Bush reportedly sold the drugs from his home, which is within 1,000 feet from Earl M. Lawson Elementary School.
Law enforcement officers executed a search warrant May 24, 2012, at Bush's residence. They reportedly found a large amount of marijuana, cash, ammunition and several bottles containing prescription medication.
Bush was convicted of the charges in June.
Bush's attorney, Amy Ahrens, argued Friday for the judge to either set aside the jury's verdict and acquit her client or grant a new trial.
District Judge Gunnar Sundby denied the motion.
Bush was classified as having a criminal history score of A, the worst possible criminal history score under Kansas sentencing guidelines.
Assistant County Attorney Christopher Scott, who prosecuted the case, recommended a lengthier sentence Friday than the one ultimately imposed. He asked that sentences for each of the five charges run consecutive.
Sundby ordered the sentences to run concurrent, which means Bush will serve the sentences at the same time.
When arguing for consecutive sentences, Scott said Bush has a long history of criminal convictions.
The prosecutor said this case marked the first drug distribution convictions for Bush, but the defendant had a litany of other convictions.
"Where does it end?" Scott said.
He argued that Bush was a threat to the community.
Ahrens asked Sundby to depart from what was considered the standard sentence and grant probation or a reduced sentence.
She argued much of Bush's criminal history was based on juvenile cases. And, until the drug case, he hadn't been convicted of a felony in Leavenworth County since 2002.
Ahrens said Bush is now the father of several children.
"This case has been an eye opener to him," she said.
She said this is the most serious case he's had since his children have been born.
Ahrens said Bush has taken responsibility for some of the actions for which he was convicted and sought treatment and counseling.
Bush was given the opportunity to speak Friday.
"I am not a danger to the community," he said.
He admitting to using and possessing marijuana but denied distributing drugs.
"I am not a drug dealer," he said.
Bush argued he can become a productive member of society.
Bush's mother also addressed the judge and asked for leniency for her son.
Sundby said Ahrens argued many points, and he considered all of them. But, he was not persuaded to grant probation or impose a reduced sentence.
Sundby imposed the standard prison sentence for each charge and ordered them to run concurrent. This means he will have to serve a 78-month, or 6.5-year prison sentence.


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|School Name
|Kendriya Vidyalaya
|P.O. Trimulgherry Secunderabad Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh 500015 India
|K V Rao (M.A., M.Ed, Phd)
|Senior Secondary
|Phone Number
|040 7794121 , 7000649
|School Type
|CBSE Affiliation Type
|CBSE Affiliation Period
|1/4/2013 To 31/ 3/ 2018
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|principalkvt (at) yahoo (dot) com
|Opening Date
|1/25/2009 12:00:00 Am
|School Trust
|Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
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|Kendriya Vidyalaya located in P.O. Trimulgherry Secunderabad Andhra Pradesh is a Co-Educational Senior Secondary institution affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Provisional basis since 1963. The school has been operating officially under the trust/society Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan If you're looking for details in admission/application forms, fees, school timings, vacations/holidays schedule or facilities provided, kindly visit the relevant department of the school.
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Chad Porter's right leg bothers him sometimes. An old injury causes a bit of a hitch in his stride.
Chad Porter's right leg bothers him sometimes. An old injury causes a bit of a hitch in his stride.
But when he wakeboards in the Intracoastal Waterway or plays volleyball at Capt'n Bill's, he hardly thinks about that right leg. It was mangled by a boat propeller after a ski show when he was 15 years old. It was sliced and broken and barely salvageable. It was eventually repaired by screws and skin grafts in a barrage of surgeries.
His lateral motion is limited, but Porter has dealt with it for so long that he barely thinks about.
He thinks even less about his left leg. It required just one surgery – a clean cut on his shin bone, to secure the prosthesis.
The accident
At 15 years old, Chad Porter stood 6-foot-3. He was an Eagle Scout, MVP of his ninth-grade football team and president of his class. He dreamed of becoming a professional athlete and was looking forward to playing tight end at Lumberton High School. But that was still a couple months away. His parents were educators, and the family spent their summers at White Lake, where he skied on the Ski Heels stunt team.
On June 23, 1991, the Ski Heels performed a show for more than 300 people at Tucker Lake, just off Interstate 40 not far from Raleigh.
Porter and his teenage teammates skied barefoot, performed 360s, jumped ramps and built a pyramid on skis with five boys at the bottom and four girls on their shoulders. Porter had put on a gorilla suit and skied across the lake after a girl in a comedic chase scene.
With a storm moving in from the south, the team was moving quickly to put away the skis and all of the lines that tethered them to the boat. Porter and his friend, Michael Pittman, were wading to shore behind the boat, a powerful Ski Nautique. Somehow, the boat was thrust into reverse, going from idle to full-throttle instantaneously, and Porter was directly behind the boat.
With his back to the Ski Nautique, he had only a split-second to make the decision that would change his life. His instinct was to dive under the boat, and there was no time to think it through. Today, he doesn't think it was the right thing to do, but he's not sure there was a right thing to do. A powerful boat was bearing down on him, and he had nowhere to go.
Porter's legs got sucked into the propeller and he could feel his legs being thrashed around. He felt no pain at the time.
The boat hit a docked boat, and one of the adults scrambled to his feet and shut off the engine. The remaining spectators and Porter's teammates couldn't tell what was going on under the boat. All they knew was that Porter hadn't surfaced.
After a few tense seconds, Porter pulled his torso out from under the boat, and Pittman smiled.
"I was thinking, 'Wow, this is great. Chad survived. He's perfect. He's not even hurt,' Then I pulled him up and lifted his legs up. There were no legs there," said Pittman, who was 18 at the time.
"He starts to lift me out of the water, and my right leg comes out of the water," Porter said. "There was two inches of bone sticking out of the leg. Blood was spraying two feet up in air. The water was getting red all the way around me."
Pittman, his smile erased, lowered Porter back into the water to avoid exposing the spectators and teammates to the gory sight. He pulled Porter over to the floating dock. People ran toward them to help; some saw the carnage, stopped and backed away.
As adults worked on him, Porter's pain was no longer muted by adrenaline or nervous shock. Every twist, every turn, every touch sent searing pain through Porter's legs.
Still, he didn't know how badly he was injured.
The trauma
Porter's memories of the next minutes are vivid.
On shore, he saw his friends on their hands and knees bawling. He heard somebody mention a tourniquet. Pittman said it was his mother, using her belt. From his Eagle Scout training, Porter knew that signaled a serious injury. He heard somebody ask for a mask and snorkel and he wondered, "What in the world could they be interested in right now besides me?"
That's when he found out that he had lost his left foot.
He remembers more fragments of the story. On the way to Johnston County Medical Center, one paramedic asked another what was in the bag he was holding. "These are just some of the body parts that they found," he responded. Porter remembers being wheeled past his parents at the hospital. Just as they arrived with a police escort from White Lake, he was being taken to a helicopter. They shouted "I love you" at him, but the gurney didn't slow down.
He remembers getting to the helicopter and the medical team discovering that he wasn't going to fit into the smaller helicopter. Judging from the amount of blood Porter was losing, the flight nurse assessed the situation as life-or-death. She came up with a plan to turn the board on its side and she delivered the message to Porter.
"You don't have to worry," he joked. "If I fall off the stretcher, I'm not going to run away."
She laughed and she cried, and she got him in the helicopter.
At Duke University Medical Center, Porter was given a 25 percent chance to live, he said. The chances of saving his right leg were 15 percent.
The recovery
Porter's right leg was reassembled and every other day and he endured an excruciating debridement, where medical staff removed the dead, damaged and infected tissue. An external fixator was placed over his leg to hold it together and skin was grafted from his hip to cover the open wound.
For the three and a half weeks he was at Duke, Porter was never alone. An assembly line of family, friends and total strangers visited him. Family members signed up to spend the night in the hospital room with him. He got letters and cards from athletes, coaches and politicians.
Through it all, he never had time for introspection. To ponder his fate. To ask the obvious question: Why me?
He felt obligated to be OK because he wanted those who loved him to be OK with his injury.
At the same time, Pittman was asking the same question: Why him?
Pittman had already decided he wasn't going to pursue soccer in college. He had lived out his school sports dreams.
"I was thinking his whole life was ruined," said Pittman, now the owner of the Beach House Bar & Grill in Ogden. "I felt like – being two or three years older – it should have happened to me."
Pittman visited Porter in the hospital, but his family left White Lake for a few weeks. The whirr of a Ski Nautique engine at a distinct RPM sent a chill through Pittman's body and gruesome images through his brain. He couldn't escape the sound at the lake.
A question, an answer
One day, a therapist came in to counsel Porter. She showed him a video of amputees playing sports.
"This was supposed to be the day to enlighten me and brighten me and kind of show me that life goes on … I watched them and to me they looked like they had one leg and they played like I imagined someone with one leg – hopping, limping, not jumping hardly. In my mind, I said if they videoed these guys, they must be as good as they can be. They must be the best of the best and if I'm lucky, I'll be as good as them."
The grim reality blindsided Porter.
"I told her to shut it off. I told her to leave. I told everybody to get out of the room," Porter said. It was an uncharacteristic display of emotion, one that had been long overdue.
Nobody had signed up to spend that night in his room. For the first time since the accident, Chad Porter cried openly.
"That night I laid in the bed and was devastated," he said. "I finally had the opportunity to be alone and to cry and think it all through. Why me? I've never done anything wrong. Why is this happening to me?"
Amid the despair, a peace came over him.
He won't say it was the voice of God. He'll only say that he heard the words in his mind: "Don't worry about it. You'll find out."
From that day, Porter was determined to make his own video showing what an amputee could do.
But first, he had to walk.
After some recuperation time at home, Porter returned to Duke to learn to walk. A two and a half week program took him eight days.
"This was not going to define me," he said. "There were two choices I had to make, and they were pretty simple choices. I could feel sorry for myself and have an excuse for the rest of my life to not do anything. I could sit on the couch and get fat and nobody will judge me for that. That's the easy choice … Or get back to where you were. Try to make that new video."
With a prosthesis on his left leg and his right leg in a cast to his hip, Porter took the first steps to recovery.
"The most overwhelming sense of pride I ever felt was when I saw him take his first step," said Pam Porter, Chad's mom.
Forward steps
He walked, he ran, he jumped. Not in a matter of days. But gradually he strengthened his right leg and found the balance on his left.
He never got to realize his dream of playing high school football. Again, it was the right leg that hindered him. With limited lateral movement, he would have put himself in jeopardy of another serious injury if a cleat were to get stuck in the sod.
Pam Porter said she was overcome with sorrow during the first weeks of football practice. Her son would go to practice to be near his friends, even though he couldn't participate.
"I told Chad, 'I just want you to know it's OK to be angry, to be sad. It's OK to cry,'" she said. "Without blinking, he asked, 'Is it OK if I'm not?'"
Unable to pursue his dream of playing college and professional football, he joined the golf team. Then he played rec league basketball.
The next year, he played high school basketball. Porter wore high socks and a knee brace to cover his prosthesis. Some opponents knew he had a prosthesis; others didn't. One night, in the middle of a game, his prosthesis snapped, the first of seven that he's broken. He hobbled to the bench, his leg dangling and swinging unnaturally in circles. To him, it was frustrating. To his coach, it was a little bit funny. To the spectators who didn't know that the break was metal and not bone, it was horrific.
When he returned to water skiing, his leg fell off with each fall. He'd make a joke and get back up.
In college at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, he played intramural sports against able-bodied athletes. One day, Porter's team matched up against Tim Reaves' team in an intramural basketball game at Hanover Hall. A doctor had convinced Porter to make the liberating decision to stop concealing his prosthesis. So Reaves saw the metal leg and volunteered to guard Porter. On the first possession, Porter received a pass.
On the first possession, Porter caught a pass and blew past Reaves for a dunk.
"I was amazed and inspired," said Reaves, now the pastor at Pine Valley United Methodist Church.
The talks
When Porter was in high school, he told his story to groups of scouts or students. He even told his story at a medical convention.
During college, he became consumed with other pursuits. For a while he worked as a physical therapist, and he would infrequently reveal his prosthesis to help motivate a client. Now he has his own financial planning company, the Porter Financial Group, and he has re-asserted himself as a public speaker.
He spoke to a small group at Reaves' church, then he spoke to the entire congregation. He has spoken at several schools and to various scout groups from New Hanover to Bladen County. Last week, he spoke to seventh graders at Myrtle Grove Middle School. He told his story in third person and asked the students if they wanted to meet the person who had overcome all that adversity. He sent a student to open the gym door. While the students looked anxiously toward the door, Porter removed his left pants leg, revealing his prosthesis. When the student at the door turned around, he saw that Porter had removed his left pants leg, revealing his prosthesis.
"Oh my gosh, it's you!" the student said, completely surprised.
Porter's delivery is one of courage and determination. Another message Porter relates to the children – and adults – is that it's better to ask a question than to stare and wonder. Ask if the person minds talking about the disability, Porter suggests. Some do, and they'll say so. He doesn't mind.
Pittman used to wish that he had been the boy trapped under the boat – that he should have suffered Porter's injuries.
But like Porter, he has since discovered some clarity. He knows that Porter can be an inspiration to others.
"I thought his whole life had been demolished," Pittman said. "But no. That's what God does. He just sends people down that path."
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Stars in Couture: The Most Haute Red Carpet Moments
Stars in Couture: The Most Haute Red Carpet Moments
Zoe Saldana wasn't nominated for an Oscar at the 2010 Academy Awards, but she made fashion history with the ombré purple gown she wore on the red carpet that year. Her Givenchy Haute Couture design, a fashion-forward choice that blended unexpected textures like crystals and ruffles, landed the actress on many a best dressed list. The high-style move was nothing new, but rather in the tradition of Nicole Kidman, whose chartreuse Christian Dior gown in 1997 was among the first instances of truly modern couture appearing on the red carpet.
Couturiers have always had a special relationship with celebrities, who need jaw-dropping dresses to wear for particularly glamorous events. But now more than ever, couture numbers (as well as custom-created gowns) have become the gold standard for women who have to look elegant and fashionable in front of the flashbulbs. As Paris Haute Couture Week closes, we're taking a look at our favorite couture red carpet moments in recent memory.


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EPA Extends Public Comment Period to February 5 for Plan to Address Pollution at Ringwood Mines Superfund Site in Ringwood, New Jersey
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- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period for the cleanup plan proposed on September 30, 2013 for the Ringwood Mines Superfund site in Ringwood, NJ until February 5, 2014. The proposal contains plans to address contamination in three areas of the site: Peter's Mine Pit – the removal of some potentially contaminated soil from around the opening of the mine pit, followed by capping; Cannon Mine Pit – capping of the mine pit; O'Connor Disposal Area – excavation of the landfill, with a contingency if the Borough of Ringwood moves forward with its plan to build on this area of the site.
The EPA held a public meeting on November 7, 2013 to explain the proposed plan. The original public comment deadline of December 2, 2013 had first been extended to January 6, 2014 and is now extended until February 5, 2014.
Written comments may be mailed or emailed to:
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This one's not just for bloggers . . .
If you pay much attention to the blogging world you may have noticed that the most influential and popular blogs are tech blogs--blogs about blogging, computers and the internet. Why is this? The percentage of the population involved in the tech industry isn't representative of the percentage of tech blogs in production, so why do they have such a chunk of the cyber world's attention?
It's from two things: First, those who are interested in tech subjects are the ones building the internet and the blogosphere but second, readers who are interested in tech blogs are also savvy to social bookmarking: tools to mark and rate websites that have the power to drive certain blogs into the blogosphere's attention.
I'm frustrated that with as many smart, capable bloggers as I've come across few are aware of these social bookmarks and the power they represent for driving non-tech blogs into the public notice.
Many bloggers are concerned with little outside their niche and are therefore generally languishing in anonymity. I'm hoping to help change this with this third post in my Blogging 101 series, by explaining and encouraging the use of one social bookmark I've fallen in love with: Stumbleupon.
Whether you're a blogger or a reader, Stumbleupon is a web-discovery tool that operates much like your remote control on your television: with each click you can forward to the next randomly-selected website offered for your approval. Well, it's not entirely random, websites are generated based on various criteria you select when you join the world of Stumbleupon.
Here's how it works:
1. Go to Stumbleupon and click the Sign up Here button to register. It is compatible with both Firefox and Interenet Explorer.
2. Download the Stumbleupon toolbar. It takes just a moment and once you download it you'll have to close and then reopen your web browser to see the toolbar appear at the top of your screen.
3. Create a profile page. They'll walk you through the details and they'll ask for information such as where you are, if you want a picture included, things like that. If you have a blog you can register the URL with Stumbleupon.
4. Customize your stumbles. Once you've done steps 1-3 you'll be able to visit a page that looks like this where you can select which topics interest you. For example, I've selected things such as gardening, family, humor, home, hobbies and cooking.
5. Click that new Stumble! button you now see at the top of your page and see where it takes you. You'll immediately be whisked away to a site chosen for your perusal based on the topics you've selected. If you especially like it, click the "thumbs up" icon. If you hate it, find it objectionable or are just feeling cantankerous click the "thumbs down." What could be more democratic?
It is the process of each user rating the sites he or she visits that can drive certain posts or sites to the top of the charts. If you are a lucky blogger such as Mom on A Wire, you may have gone to your stat counter one day and discovered piles of mysterious visitors who arrived at your blog via the Stumbleupon train. Once someone Stumblesupon your site and gives you the "thumbs up," it places your site higher in the rankings and more likely to be Stumbled on by the next viewer, and the process grows from there until--if you're my husband--you suddenly have 4000 visitors in a single day (lucky dog).
So go register, get that toolbar, pick the topics you want to read and start Stumbling. Here are a few of the sites I've Stumbledupon this week:
Mom'sMinivan.com which has travel games and activities.
Kitchen Myths A site to debunk common cooking myths.
Smoothie Recipes which brags about over 100 different smoothie recipes.
ManyBooks.net One of many sites for free books compatible with an MP3 player.
Build the Best Paper Airplane in the World My boys will be thrilled.
Dave Barry's 25 Things I've Learned in 50 Years This isn't new, but it's new to me--and funny.
Top Secret Recipes A site that recreates favorite restaurant recipes.
Il Bloggo Specifically, a post that teaches how to make a concrete birdbath using a rhubarb leaf--and concrete.
Craft Bits Make a purse out of playing cards and duct tape. I'm not sure if it's hysterical or brilliant.
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As with television, you'll come across a lot of junk but vote for what you like--including the blogs you visit regularly while you're there--and see how mommybloggers and their readers can change the makeup of the blogosphere.
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Take a breath, read Ecclesiastes 1:9.
Are there special chrismation-renunciation texts for converts from different religions, like Islam or Hinduism?
This must be a Russian/Slavonic custom as I did not see anything like this when I was baptized in the GOA.GOARCH links here.http://www.goarch.org/chapel/liturgical_texts/catechumenhttp://www.goarch.org/chapel/liturgical_texts/baptism
If you spend long enough on this forum, you'll come away with all sorts of weird, untrue ideas of Orthodox Christianity.
I would suggest most persons in general avoid any question beginning with why.
I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
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There were many reasons to be skeptical when the Kings acquired 35-year-old center Vinny Lecavalier from the Philadelphia Flyers on Jan. 6, along with defenseman Luke Schenn.
Lecavalier hadn't played much for Philadelphia and hadn't played at all since Nov. 12. How much could he help a team that wanted to rebuild its strength up the middle after losing veteran centers Mike Richards and Jarret Stoll?
Quite a bit, as it turns out. Lecavalier's tying goal Sunday in the Kings' 3-2 overtime victory at San Jose was his fourth goal and fifth point in nine games, and he has been effective while averaging 12 minutes 57 seconds' ice time per game.
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Five Fall Cigars for Aficionados and Beginners
Victoria McKee, Director of PR for General Cigar Co. Inc., gives the Wall Street Journal's Lee Hawkins her tips for the five best cigars to smoke during the Fall. They also discuss the various cigar strengths and how to smoke, cut, ash and choose a cigars.
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Colorado's wildlife history books have been rewritten with the discovery of 10 tiny lynx kittens! Researchers in the state were thrilled to discover the endangered babies – seven female, three male – in mountain dens in May, the first documented in Colorado since 2006.
"The discovery of kittens this year is extremely promising," said Tanya Shenk, a Colorado Division of Wildlife lynx field researcher, in a statement. "The locations of the dens show that lynx are beginning to expand their ranges and are once again finding both food and habitat necessary for successful reproduction."
According to the Associated Press, the felines were native to Colorado before being wiped out by logging, trapping, poisoning and development in the 1970s. Since the state's lynx reintroduction program began in 1999, a total of 218 lynx have settled there after being brought in from Alaska and Canada.
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Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican allies in Wisconsin have made it clear this week: They insist on a major rollback of union collective bargaining power, not just on some budget concessions from public employee unions.
Partisan conflict on the issue has only escalated this week. Republicans in the state Senate on Wednesday used a procedural gambit to pass a measure to strip key bargaining powers from state workers, without a quorum. The state's House approved the measure Thursday afternoon, as protesters thronged the Capitol and union members weighed the option of a general strike.
So, what is this debate over collective bargaining all about?
Beneath the ruckus is an issue that goes to the core of labor union power in today's America. To backers of organized labor, it's about defending cherished means of advocating on behalf of workers, at a time when a majority of unionized workers are in the public sector. To union critics, it's about rolling back powers they say are inappropriate in the government sector and harm state economies.
Governor Walker framed it this way in a statement after the Senate vote: "I applaud the Legislature's action today to stand up to the status quo and take a step in the right direction to balance the budget and reform government. The action today will help ensure Wisconsin has a business climate that allows the private sector to create 250,000 new jobs."
Mark Miller, the state Senate's Democratic leader, has taken an opposite view: "Public workers have stepped up and agreed to ... increased contributions for health care and pensions," he said in a recent statement. "All they have asked for in return is to maintain the rights they have had for over 50 years."
Walker wants both the concessions on benefits and a shift in that 50-year tradition. The bill passed this week focused just on bargaining rights. By keeping direct budgetary issues out of the bill, the Senate was able to pass it without a quorum, although some argue the maneuver was illegal.
It's easy to see the drama through the lens of political self-interest. Public-sector labor unions are a vital source of campaign funding for Democrats, while some of the biggest donors to Republicans are business people who would like union clout to be pared.
Both sides say they're fighting for important principles that will make their state a better place to live – and they both make substantive points to back up their views. Here's a look at the arguments on both sides – and some of the evidence that might support or counter those claims.
The case for Walker's bill
Stripping away union bargaining power on compensation doesn't make Wisconsin unique. States have a patchwork of policies: Some require collective bargaining for many workers, others permit it, and a few largely prohibit the practice.
A core argument against collective bargaining in the public sector: Whereas private-sector employers' profits are limited by competition (moderating wage demands), governments have no competition and are funded by tax revenues. Political contributions flow from unions to politicians, who regularly support stepped-up union pay and benefits.
Walker also argues that his crusade is not just about taxpayer costs, but also about the quality of services government provides. What sense does it make, he asked in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, that an award-winning teacher gets laid off because of union-bargained rules that base job cuts on seniority?
Critics of public employee unions argue that their compensation has been rising faster than pay for other types of workers in America, and that this is a bad thing. It threatens states with a long-term budget squeeze, and finding a fix could be easier if unions weren't so powerful.
Outside experts agree that pension and healthcare benefits do pose a significant long-run challenge for many states. And research published last year by Chris Edwards of the libertarian Cato Insititute found that, since 1980, compensation has been rising faster in the public sector than in the private sector. And within state and local governments, he found that union worker compensation is about 40 percent higher than that of nonunion workers.
The case against Walker's bill
Foes of Walker's bill say Wisconsin's budget problems aren't the fault of public employee unions or collective bargaining, but relate to the aftermath of a deep recession.
Moreover, to the degree that public-sector workers have higher pay and benefits, that may be accounted for in higher levels of education and training, according to research by the liberal Economic Policy Institute. The group's report argues that in Wisconsin and elsewhere, public-sector employees are not overpaid.
The unions' defenders agree with critics on one point: Union workers reap a compensation premium over nonunion workers. They argue this is a good thing – a sign that collective bargaining is serving its intended function of balancing power between employers and workers. They say unions have often shown flexibility at the bargaining table, notably in tight fiscal times. And although state governments don't compete for consumers like private-sector firms do, there is still pressure on unions not to ask for too much. If state taxes go up too much, residents and jobs can move to other states.
States with strong union representation in the public sector don't show signs of having weaker economies than their less-unionized peers, they add. New York, where 75 percent of state and local government workers are unionized (according to Mr. Edwards' data), posted faster economic per capita growth since 1997 than Georgia, with the nation's lowest union share of state and local government workers (4 percent).


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The Trompe L'Oeil at Bloomingdale's — Complete
As a follow-up to last week's column, I have photos for my contribution to the Big Window Challenge contest. I know this is already all over the internet, but I wanted a few pictures of the completed project under my by-line.
I was charged with creating a set of trompe-'loeil bookcases to round out the concept of a writer's lair, in a play-set palette of dark browns. The inspiration was tompe-l'oeil painting and frescoes of yore, especially the Gubbio Studiolo at the Met, a room made of wood marquetry. Go to the site page to see the other windows, details on the wallpaper and furnishings and vote for your favorite window.
- Mark Chamberlain, interior and decorative painter


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Doesn't this look yummy? I really lucked out with this week's Random Recipe! My randomly selected cookbook was Pillsbury Classic Cookbooks #198, Stir-Fries Cookbook from August 1997.
I've had this book for many years and have never cooked anything from it. My randomly selected recipe was...
Twice-Cooked Noodles with Hoisin Pork. Since I don't eat pork I swapped out the pork and added extra veggies (the same amount of veggies by weight as was called for with the pork). The recipe also includes "purchased stir fry sauce" and I made my own. I grew up eating stir fries all the time and I don't remember ever buying a sauce. This one called for garlic ginger stir-fry sauce, so here is a quick and easy home made version, you can just up the ingredients if you want a bigger batch of sauce and vary the spices to taste, I usually add some Chinese Five Spice powder but kept this one simple since it was to go with the hoisin sauce...
Quick and Easy Homemade Stir Fry Sauce
double if desired, this makes enough for one small stir-fry
1/2 cup vegetable broth
2 tbsp soy sauce
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (or minced garlic)
1/2 teaspoon powdered ginger (or minced fresh ginger)
1 tbsp cornstarch
Whisk together all ingredients thoroughly, add to cooked vegetables in hot wok and stir for 30 sec - 1 minute until thickened and glossy. To use it in this recipe just whisk it all together and add it in when the recipe says to add stir fry sauce to the wok.
Twice-Cooked Noodles with Hoisin Vegetables
adapted from Pillsbury Stir-Fries Cookbook
8 ounces uncooked fresh Chinese noodles or angel hair pasta, broken into 2 inch pieces (I used a 10 ounce package of lo-mein noodles)
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons peanut oil (I used vegetable oil)
1 and 1/4 pounds mixed fresh vegetables, cut into like sized pieces -- I used 1 red pepper, about 6 mushrooms, about a cup of broccoli florets, and 1 small zucchini
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup stir fry sauce (see recipe above)
1/4 cup hoisin sauce
Cook noodles as directed on package. Drain well. In large bowl, combine cooked noodles, soy sauce, and sesame oil.
Heat 1 tablespoon of the peanut or vegetable oil in a large nonstick skillet or work over medium0high heat until hot.
Add noodle mixture, pressing to form pancake, cook 8 to 12 minutes or until bottom of noodle pancake is
golden brown.
Slide pancake from skillet onto plate (this is a little tricky); invert pancake onto another plate, browned side up. Add another 1 tablespoon oil into skillet or wok. Slide the noodle pancake into skillet, browned side up; cook 4 to 6 minutes or until bottom is browned. Slide onto serving plate, cover to keep warm.
In same skillet or work, heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil until hot, add veggies and stir to coat.
Add water and cook 6 to 8 minutes until veggies are crisp tender,stirring occasionally. Stir in stir fry sauce and hoisin sauce. Cook 1 to 2 minutes until thoroughly heated and sauce has thickened and is glossy.
To serve, with sharp knife or kitchen scissors, cut hot noodle pancake into wedges. Top pancake with vegetable mixture.
This was probably my favorite Random Recipe so far! It was such a delicious lunch even though it was a bit tricky to get the noodle pancake just right. One of my very favorite things at one of my favorite Chinese restaurants is called Pan Fried Golden Noodle and it is pretty much this recipe! It is not on a lot of Chinese restaurant menus and I'd never tried to make it at home because I never thought I'd be able to find the right type of noodle but the lo mein noodles I tried were very similar to the restaurant noodles. I will be making this one again for sure, some crunchy tofu would be perfect with this. Although it is a bit time consuming for lunch, it was worth it :)
I'm sending this off to Sue for Cookbook Sundays and also to Ruth at Once Upon a Feast for Presto Pasta Nights #258.


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I apologize ahead of time if this has been constantly answered, i'm sitting here at almost 1 in the morning and going frantic!! Due to constant reflux issues, etc... my son has NEVER slept through the night....NEVER, NOT ONCE ...The doctors and I mean all of them ( gastro, neuro, developmental, peds) all agreed that we think we will be much better off weening. I hope you guys understand this is something we WANT to do.
He literally wakes up every 2-3 hours a night to nurse, and were thinking to do this cold turkey. This is our first night and right now i'm about to pull my hair out because he's consantly screaming!! It will be an hour of screaming here shortly. Any advice? any ideas? any tips to get me through this?
BTW, he's almost 20 months old.
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WordWorld "Dog's Having A Party/Dog Wants to Play Ball" Dog's Having a Party - Dog and Duck want to throw a house party at Dog's house. But all they have is the letter H, and they don't know what to do with it! With the help of Sheep they soon realize that H is a fabulous letter; with it they can make hotdogs, hats, hula-hoops and a great party indeed. Hurray! Dog Wants to Play Ball - Dog wants to play ball, but he's having trouble communicating with his friends because they won't stop and listen to him. D
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Austin City Limits "Rodrigo Y Gabriela" The famed Mexican guitar duo performs a unique fusion of flamenco, jazz and rock.G
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Legacy: Austria's Influence On American Skiing "Hannes Schneider & His Disciples (1890 - 1940)" In St. Anton, Austria, Hannes proved that all that was to be the ski industry was possible. There he started one of the world's first ski schools and ski shops, starred in some of the first ski movies ever made (which received considerable international attention and acclaim) , and developed his now famous Arlberg ski and ski teaching techniques. D
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Dialogue "Annette Gordon-Reed: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference" The historian speaks with host Marcia Franklin during the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. Gordon-Reed won the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book on Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings slave family, which he owned.G
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Outdoor Idaho "Trip to the Moon" One early traveler called it the strangest 75 square miles in North America. Characterized by one of the only continental hot spots in the world, Craters of the Moon encompasses three quarters of a million acres of lava flows, sagebrush, rolling hills... and a few surprises. Part of it is managed by the National Park Service, as a national monument. And it may be as close as any of us will ever come to a trip to the moon.G
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Oregon Field Guide "Whiteheaded Woodpeckers/Broken Top Winter" The changing ecosystem of central Oregon's high Cascades spells trouble for some bird species. Adventurers head to Broken Top Mountain in the heart of the Three Sister's Wilderness by dogsled and skis.G
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Roadtrip Nation "In-Studio Interviews: Mike Song and Paul Dateh" Alumni Roadtrippers Ray, Hannah and Mariana interview Mike Song, Assistant Choreographer for the film Step Up Revolution, and Paul Dateh, a Hip-Hop Violinist and Youtube Sensation. Audience members learn about the struggle Paul faced in pursuing his life dream, and how he overcame 'The Noise' of doubt directed at him from others. Paul gives the audience a performance of his work before handing the stage off to Mike Song. D
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Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure LIQUID ASSETS, a ninety-minute documentary, tells the story of essential infrastructure systems: water, wastewater, and stormwater. These systems - some in the ground for more than 100 years - provide a critical public health function and are essential for economic development and growth. Largely out of sight and out of mind, these aging systems have not been maintained, and some estimates suggest this is the single largest public works endeavor in our nation's history. D
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Body's Secret Army The program introduces viewers to scientists, doctors, and patients who are united by their determination to unlock the immune system's mysteries, as well as to some of the Nobel Prize awarded pioneers whose discoveries opened the doors to today's advances.G
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Wild! "Sharks: Scavengers of the Seas" Before being an earthly paradise with enchanting colours, the lagoon of New-Caledonia is above all a paradise for sharks. Usually considered as fierce predators, sharks really are opportunistic scavengers. Scavengers that are not too picky when it comes to their menu: feathers, fins or fur, anything will do. D
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Globe Trekker "West Texas" In the state capital of Austin, Zay Harding explores everything from rattlesnake hotdogs to bingo with chickens. He checks out the Alamo at San Antonio, spends a night in a haunted hotel and travels to El Paso where he treks into the desert along the old Butterfield trail. He follows Route 66 in a 1960s Mustang and competes in Amarillo's steak-eating challenge.G
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Need to Know MARIA HINOJOSA ANCHORS. With the ongoing discussion in Washington about revising the federal tax code, Need to Know profiles four New Jersey residents with dramatically different incomes to demonstrate how current tax regulations disproportionately benefit some Americans more than others. D
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Biz Kid$ "Money Moves" When money moves between individuals or groups it is called a transaction. Join the Biz Kids and you'll follow a single dollar bill as it moves from a depositor's hand across the counter, down to the vault, over to the Federal Reserve, and finally out to a project the bank is financing. Visit the branch of a real credit union inside a high school where the students are the tellers. D
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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Italian Favorites Revisited" Test cook Bridget Lancaster shows host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate Slow-Cooker Meatballs and Marinara. Then, Chris answers questions from viewers. Next, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top picks for garlic peelers. D
4:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Iran:Tehran and Side Trips" Rick visits Tehran and a small village for a look at some of civilization's important historical sites and a sense of Iran's 21st-century culture.G
5:00 pm
NOVA "Decoding Neanderthals" A team led by geneticist Svante Paabo announces in 2010 they have reconstructed much of the Neanderthal genome, and the analysis shows modern humans and their Neanderthal cousins interbred widely outside Africa. The film looks at these findings and a range of new evidence for Neanderthal self-expression and language.G
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History Detectives HISTORY DETECTIVES tells four stories of our nation's beginning. First, Eduardo Pagan starts with a simple bill of sale for a 17-year old "negro girl" and learns how young Willoby's life unfolds from being property to owning property. Then Gwen Wright traces a powder horn from a muddy Minnesota field to a military captain in Massachusetts during the American Revolution. D
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Chatsworth House The Duchess presides over the Chatsworth International Horse Trials, 75 fences over a 300-acre course, which in 2011 is an official qualifier for the London Olympics. Then the third annual Chatsworth flower festival, "Florabundance," is complicated by unseasonably warm spring weather and attacks on the plants by the estate's pheasants, rabbits and mice. Both these events provide income to help support the upkeep of the house. Part 2 of 3G
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Reagan Presidency This detailed analysis features interviews with notable Reagan staff members, congressional leaders, scholars, journalists and presidential biographers. Part 2 of 3G
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Chatsworth House The Duchess presides over the Chatsworth International Horse Trials, 75 fences over a 300-acre course, which in 2011 is an official qualifier for the London Olympics. Then the third annual Chatsworth flower festival, "Florabundance," is complicated by unseasonably warm spring weather and attacks on the plants by the estate's pheasants, rabbits and mice. Both these events provide income to help support the upkeep of the house. Part 2 of 3G


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This Is Why You Shouldn't Bring Your Dog To See 'Cats' On Broadway
If you are planning on seeing Andrew Llyod Webber's hit musical 'Cats' on Broadway, it might be a good idea to leave your dog at home. During a recent show at the Neil Simon Theatre, a service dog got loose and started running toward the stage.
According to Page Six, the dog got free from it's owner and started to go after Bombalurina during the opening number. Luckily, an usher was able to stop the dog before it could reach the stage and "returned the wayward canine to its mortified owner." A spokesperson for the show said it was the first time that something like this has happened:
In the storied history of 'Cats,' this is the first time one of the actual cats was involved in an incident with a dog. We're pleased to report that no animals or humans were harmed in the dust-up, and the performance continued without a hitch.
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Portrait of a nude female, vintage photograph layered with color swatches. Dye sublimation glossy print on frameless white painted aluminum, with gallery brace & wire.
Materials used:
Dye sublimation print on aluminum/photoshop
Mirror Nude (2017)
Photograph by James Long
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- Subject: Nudes and erotic
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Few of the apps I wrote for FR use:
- Siglaunchd - Very useful daemon that waits for dbus signals and launches apps accordingly.
- PyPhonelog - A phone log daemon (and sample gui) fro fso based distros
- Framework-settings - A settings GUI for fso based distros, actually very useful for GPRS and power control
- Call Recorder - An application to record calls on the moko.
- [[1]] - A couple of state files for the moko.
Stylus_Alternatives#DIY - A DIY Stylus for the openmoko.
I also packaged an Hebrew keyboard for Illume avilable at that page.


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IGN - Colin and Andrew have first impressions on PlayStation's new mascot brawler.
and i will be unbelievably broke.
Oh fo sho
I am going top support the hell out of this game. I love SSB and it's by far my favorite fighting game. The only thing I have wanted from this secret Sony fighter since it was first rumored was that it was similar to Smahs and not just a side scrolling PvP fighter like MK or SF. I love the battle system, the characters and graphics and music. The world mash ups are great and unique. The gameplay is similar but very different than Smash and Sony has a great online community and will support this game big time.
I hope to see more on moving/interactive stages, other characters, special items, maybe challenges a story mode or in-game trophies like SSB. The mash up on stages gives me a feeling they might have a cool story to go with the game.
I wonder who is next? Nathan Drake...The 3D Dot Heroes Guy?
I hope they include Old or MGS2 Snake
The 3D dot heroe guy would be a nice idea.
Um ... you guys have amnesia or what ? ... You cant spell ignnorant without IGN.
Remember ?
I dont see why people always try to call some one out for some one else saying.
Makes you look like the ignorant one. Just saying
I'd like to see Cyborg Ninja Raiden or Grey Fox
Games like this exploit the hell out of DLC.
In this case, DLC might actually be a great thing. If the core game contains a strong main roster, it'll attract a robust community that request more of their favorites to be added to the roster through DLC, thus creating a stronger community and a stronger game. The same applies to levels, features, etc.
As long as Sony and SBE don't pull a Capcom DLC stunt, this game will be great with DLC support.
*the PS2 sits up in it's seat and claps like Orson Welles*
If this game is anything close to super smash bros. Brawl, then it will be a success. Hell I bought my Nintindo Wii JUST for that game alone.
The game looks fantastic so far. The characters look nice, graphics and art style are very impressive. And the gameplay looks like it will take alot of my time from life.
I'm sure they'll do a great job, but something just seems off about it.
I think it's the visual aspect. While Nintendo's characters all look great in smash bros since they share similar aesthetics across all the key Nintendo franchises, it looks a bit wrong having cartoony characters fighting Killzone characters on a God of War stage.
It doesn't mesh as well and feels wrong adding characters from mature games to a game that's clearly aiming for a lower rating classification and trying to be more humourous.
I guess the diversity of Sony's franchises doesn't really seem right when they're put together, and makes them seem a bit cheap and ridiculous to me...
Cant wait to kick the fat princess's ass with kratos
definatly gonna have some fun with that
LOOL yeah that would be an interesting fight anyway the game looks GREAT! Sony just needs to try to keep these announcments quiet so its all the more satisfying when its revealed!...
I would of not read your comment if it wasn't for your profile pic :)
Can't wait for this game. Looks incredibly fun.
first move and now this, wow sony is full of nintendos ideas this gen
I thrive on your hate
You thrive on hate?!?
That's kinda pathetic.
Pretty much and as always sony makes them better.
You think this game is going to be better than Super Smash BrotherS?
The Wii and Nintendos motion controls are a rip off of Sony's Eyetoy plans 10 years ago
And Sony's Eyetoy was a rip off of Nintendo's Power Glove (1989).
oh you mean this Power Glove?
The Power Glove was originally released in 1989. Though it was an officially licensed product, Nintendo was not involved in the design or release of this accessory. Rather, it was designed by Grant Goddard and Samuel Cooper Davis for Abrams Gentile Entertainment (AGE), made by Mattel in the United States.
the one made and developed and produced by another company. which Nintendo was not involved in anyway to its design or release?
yea that one...Lmao
Wow. I haven't seen someone get owned that badly in over a year. Good work!
You know there's video of the MOVE prototype being demoed prior to the Wii announcement. It just took the Wii to be successful for Sony to want to production
"You know there's video of the MOVE prototype being demoed prior to the Wii announcement. It just took the Wii to be successful for Sony to want to production"
as i already pointed out, no matter how well the Wii was going to do, All three companies Microsoft included was going to do motion control.
Sony and Microsoft had to wait they had no other choice..due to price of components at the time. think of how much the kinect would have cost to release back in 2005?. because the units could have been released than.
the price of the xbox360 was $399.00+ the kinect released much later an was what?
that's right $149.00 its not that Microsoft did not want to release it they had to wait..cost in components was too high of a cost.
Sony the same thing. multi- colored LED's magnetic sensor to offset sensor drift. ARM 7 chip inside the Move, acc/gyroscope+ add in the cost of the Playstation Eye to boot+nav controller. now add up those components for a release back in 2006!
ontop of the base price of the PS3 which was starting @ $500.00 which many gamers was upset about and adding Move to the above cost,what do people think is going to happen?
Sony had no choice but to wait.
you have many chuckle heads claiming:
but..but they could have dropped BLU-Ray instead.
yes lets just drop the investment an R&D COST'S THAT Sony was investing into since 1997, and that Sony already released Blu-Ray to the open market in 2003.
The first Blu-ray Disc prototypes were unveiled in October 2000
Sony Shows First Blu-Ray Recorder
Drive uses blue-laser technology to boost DVD storage to 27GB.
By Martyn Williams, IDG News Mar 3, 2003 9:00 am
also which had support from:
The format is backed by Sony, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic), Philips Electronics, Pioneer Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, and Thomson Multimedia.
all with movie production companies getting on board. with the above that Blu-Ray optical drives still played standard DVD's.
Where a new format for a HD movies was being chosen, and yet the PS3 was designed to be a living room entertainment system.
yea lets just drop all that cost in R&D AND ROLL OVER for another format that had only ONE manuf. at the Time Toshiba which made HD-dvd. While Sony an the main optical drive manuf. over 11 of them chose to support Blu-Ray over HD-DVD.
silly to spend that money just to say oh well?
many gamer's are not using common sense
Nintendo even had to wait on motion plus for the WiiMotes because the added cost would have been increased even right now online cost's $8.00 back in 2006 what would the cost have been?
more than $8.00 that's for sure
To be honest..it looks exactly like super smash bros.
Hey guys look captain obvious kicked open, a open door..
Doesnt mean it cant be fun dont see anyone complaining that the new tomb raider is heavily borrowing elements from uncharted. Or the fact that dante's inferno was inspired by god of war its how industries work.
dante inferno was burned to hell (pun non intended) by ps3 gamers for copying GOW III,
and rightfully so, thats a shameful rip off.
EDIT: forza? really? weak!
how possibly you gonna differentiate yourself in a cars sim? try again.
this is a fantasy fighting game. the possiblities are vast!
Forza was never crucified for ripping off GT.
"Forza was never crucified for ripping off GT."
Really dude ? Thats like saying football game A ripped off football game B, thats just stupid.
@dark-hollow : Forza isn't a sim, so you're right it's not a rip-off of GT. Changing real world tracks in the name of "fun" makes it an arcade/sim hybrid.
"Forza was never crucified for ripping off GT."
I think you should do some research. Not did SONY fanboys only bashed Forza left and right for "ripping off" GT, but Nintendo also got bashed when there were rumors about a GT like game for the Wii U. Now that SONY is making a game pretty much identical to SSB, SONY fanboys start their Worship SONY fest. Go figure.
" dont see anyone complaining that the new tomb raider is heavily borrowing elements from uncharted. Or the fact that dante's inferno was inspired by god of war its how industries work."
"Forza was never crucified for ripping off GT."
What? WHAT!? All of those games have been heavily criticized on this site, no less, for copying elements from precursor games.
Wow. The level of cognitive dissonance is amazing.
All Stars Battle Royale looks way too much like SSB, and not only that, the first slew of Sony characters shown off are not interesting enough to be featured players.
It's "Riiidge Racer" all over again.
Fat Princess, General Radec, Parapa Rappa?
Kratos and Sweet Tooth are awesome. No problems with them being in this game. But where is Crash Bandicoot?
If I buy this game it will be for the 3rd party characters that are rumored to be included. But the developer already mentioned DLC possibilities so I'm hesitant to get it on day one or month one or year one.
As much ambivalence as I hold toward Nintendo characters (mostly because of their broad excessive use over the last 20 years), they have quite a few iconic faces.
Sony does as well, but hopefully General Radec and Fat Princess serve as the *least* well-known characters. Anything more obscure would suggest they're a little past scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Honestly it doesn't matter what style they would have come up with for this game it would be just like other fighters on the market since they're a million and one fighters made since the beginning of gaming.
i say what's the big deal that this is like smash bros the gamers who love that will most likely love this game, and from what I've read of moat peoples comments they are happy about this announcement.
It has the elements of Super smash Bros.
Bayonetta has all the elements of DMC.
Dante's Inferno has all the elements of GOW.
Uncharted has all the elements of Tomb Raider.
Almost all FPS has the elements of COD!
All with different coats and tweaks on it. Are they bad games? No, they were all enjoyable and fun to play.
edit: I forgot the Gran Turismo and Forza Comparison.
Funny, people think CoD came up with most of its elements on its own. It too is an expansion of previously successful ideas.
Im just using a popular example. I know COD is also using elements from FPS if you trace it back to the 90's PC era. Heck, many games were classified as Doom clones.
there is a big difference from being influenced by other games and just blatantly rip them off!
dante inferno did the same with GOW III and a lot of gamers bashed them for that.
why try hiding behind microsoft stole this or that?
again, a HUGE difference from influence and blatantly copying.
...I've never said this to anyone but stuff it, seriously.
If you want to scream ripoff, then maybe Microsoft ripping off of the toy comes to mind. Or ripping off of the GT series. Or popular games these days ripping off of past games.
If you're not interested in this game, then why are you people here?
EDIT: Call of Duty games ripped off of many ideas in the past. But of course they get a free pass.
My issue is that if you do a rip off , wich it is (dont mind) , why not at least have a gorgeous and polished looking one ? Upscaling dissidia in HD would even actually look better than this .
Ths might be fun , but doesnt look great , and the gameplay doesnt even seems like some alternative to smash bros . It's basically the Stamina mode of smash bros , minus everything else .
I'll pass , judging from what i've seen so far
So would you say Microsoft and Nintendo putting double joysticks on their controllers like Sony did or grafting a second joystick on the 3DS blatantly copying? I'll bet you don't. Bet you would never say that.
@ Baka-akaB. So you have played it then? So far everyone who has played it has said how fun it is. So you are judging it on what you have seen on internet screens as opposed to the people who actually played it and had fun? I guess that makes you the expert right?
Uncharted doesn't have all the elements of the old, and best, Tomb Raider games (TR 1-4), but the new Tomb Raider may have all the elements of Uncharted. There was much more exploration and puzzle solving in the old Tomb Raiders. Better puzzles too.
the graphics and character choices are terrible, but the gameplay looks pretty fun. Hopefully we see some real quality sony characters revealed, though they are few and far between.
Do you and SuprLupe and others have nothing to do but complain about things you don't have any interest in?
You're in every article about this game, bitching about something, knowing full well you won't buy it.
Go find something better to do with your time.
You act like Nintendo has a whole bunch of amazing characters.
hah! hahahaha no longer will I get my ass handed to me in super smash bros...well I still will but not in this game. THIS will be the game I train and train and train and become master! I will laugh in their sad faces. hahahahaaahahaaaa
This game will end up being awesome and looking astounding bet that.
Halo was a rip off of Unreal Tournament.
No. Halo was a rip-off of Tribes. ;)
This game is a rip off of SSB.
You can back up against a corner and point fingers all you want, attacking your perceived enemies (Xbox/Halo fans, I gather?) but that doesn't make you seem any more intelligent.
If you want a different perspective of this game (how other people feel about it), step out of the N4G bubble and head over to Neogaf.
Here's a quote from a user that I thought made a fair point.
"But no seriously, the problem I have is that there is a standard of quality in Smash that is automatically being attributed to this game merely by association when, in fact, there's no evidence to suggest that the developers are talented enough to pull off a Smash-like game that succeeds on its own merits.
Basically, if the implicit selling point is "It's just like smash brothers!" that's an automatic red flag from the start."
The point is there is nothing wrong with having a game like this on psn. Why> because I could care less or even know what a kirby is.
LIke someone on neogaf said. NES was great when I was a kid, but from teenager to adult, I grew up playing playstation characters. Therefore a similar game but with ps characters not nintendo characters are more exciting to me.
Later on when ms gets mascots that don't have guns, and you all get your xbox smash game it will be exciting to those that grew up with xbox characters.
No one complained that gears was a rip off of black.
The hate here i'm sure is primarily just sony hate.
I'm excited for this title.
Need.... more..... INFO
want to know what characters .. levels etc
I am watching EVERY video I see about this game lol
So far I've seen 6 characters in action, and can't wait to see more!
Fat Princess
Parappa the Rappa
Sweet Tooth
Sly Cooper
and a Helghan
Can only imagine how many others could be in there!
i think a lot of people are missing a key factor in this game. SONY can use this game to even market other games. I'm sure some people will be like this sweet tooth guy were is he from.. etc.
remember most gamers don't buy/play every game, and go on gaming news websites.
i wonder if sony can bring in megaman.. one of most wanted characters for SB. do it!
This looks awesome. It looks similar to SSB but who cares, Sony has a more diverse range of characters to pick from anyway. I love Parappa being in it.
Give meee Square Enix/squaresoft characters!!!
Hopefully they will include Play, Create and Share elements.
Agreed. I'm so glad SSBB did that, but they didn't go far enough. I want full control over level design!
Definitely getting this. Just hope it doesn't suffer from cheapness or cheaters online. If you can't play fair, then f*ck off!
A definite day 1 buy for me.
I will buy day one if it has even one playable Disgaea character.


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When the owner of a Turkish food stand hires his nephew to film a commercial in hopes of bringing in new business, the competition between the Turkish stand and an adjacent Greek food stand finds family tensions rising in director Anno Saul's darkly comic family drama.
Though the aspiring filmmaker's catchy commercial does little to increase the profits of the struggling Turkish food stand, the owner of the nearby Greek stand sees the potential in advertising and soon places a request for his own commercial with the eager young director.
Though his disapproving uncle makes it undoubtedly clear that he vehemently disapproves of the endeavor, the filmmaker drives a sizeable wedge between himself and his family when he sets about shooting the advertisement regardless of their objections.


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Gigabyte GA-EX38-DQ6 Review
There are many components that are included in a complete computer system, all of which are required for proper operation. However, there is one component that allows all of the other parts to interface with one another. This component is, of course, the motherboard. Motherboards allow the RAM, CPU, video card, hard drive(s), and everything else to talk to each other. As time has gone along, certain improvements have been made to motherboards, such as using solid capacitors, including power saving features, and providing the ability to modify almost any setting that controls voltage, bus speeds, etc.
The Gigabyte GA EX38-DQ6 is one of Gigabyte's higher end motherboards that uses Intel's X38 chipset. The motherboard has many features, including Blu-Ray and HD DVD audio support (and 7.1 + 2 channel output), 2Gigabit LAN (via Teaming), Ultra Cool Silent Pipe technology, ultra durable capacitors, chokes, and MOSFETs, and dynamic energy saving. Specially designed for 45nm processors, the EX38-DQ6 can run any Core 2 processor and can push the FSB up to 1600MHz and will push DDR2 RAM to 1200 MHz. In this review I am going to go through and look at and test every part of this motherboard thoroughly so you can know if it is the motherboard for you.
Closer Look:
First, I would like to take a look at the packaging that Gigabyte chose to use for the EX38-DQ6 motherboard. This case is somewhat new to me and can also be found on the X48-DQ6. As the pictures show, the box is larger than the old box and is gold in color. A handle is also on the top of the case which could be helpful, especially if you bought the motherboard in a retail store. The front of the box lists some of the motherboard's main features, such as some major power savings and the X38 chipset that this board is based on. The back lists a lot more information about the board, and provides pictures of the motherboard and some cool graphs.
People have been becoming familiar with the door flap style packaging that comes on video game boxes and Gigabyte took that idea and used it on the packaging for the DQ6. Inside the flap is a lot of useful information about the board, so much information that it could keep you busy reading for a while. Everything from the Dynamic Energy Saver to the ferrite core chokes are covered on this flap, so no matter what level of understanding you have, you will probably find something to interest you. Also, you may have noticed the small window in the bottom right of the case. This is the actual motherboard and not just a picture. It was pretty cool to actually see the motherboard like this before I even opened the case.
Pulling the gold outer case off shows that the motherboard is enclosed in two pieces of plastic that fit the DQ6 snugly and a box of goodies are included underneath. The plastic case for the motherboard just comes right off without much effort, which is very nice.
On the next page I open up the accessory case and take a look at everything it contains.


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(AP) Obamas attend annual holiday concert in Washington
By STACY A. ANDERSON
Associated Press
An annual holiday concert attended by President Barack Obama and his family includes something non-traditional this year: a performance by South Korean rapper and Internet sensation PSY.
The "Gangnam Style" rapper, born Park Jae-sang, apologized Friday for using what he says was "inflammatory and inappropriate language" during anti-U.S. protests at concerts in 2002 and 2004.
Obama traditionally attends the "Christmas in Washington" concert of carols and songs to benefit Children's National Medical Center. The 31st installment is scheduled for Sunday evening at the National Building Museum, and to be hosted for a second year by comedian Conan O'Brien.
Other scheduled performers include Diana Ross, Demi Lovato, Scotty McCreery, Chris Mann of "The Voice" fame and "Smash" star Megan Hilty.
The concert is scheduled to air Dec. 21 on TNT.


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Works great on a 2012 Prius. Comes with an antenna pocket but I never use it. I just unscrew the antenna before I cover. Fits the mirrors perfectly. Cover is very light and easy to roll up.


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Weed resistance is getting increasingly worse across American farmland, and the Enlist Weed Control System will be an important tool for farmers to control several difficult-to-manage weed species, according to research presented at the just-completed Weed Science Society of America's (WSSA) national meeting in Baltimore, Md.
Results from dozens of studies during the past two years indicate a program approach including Enlist Duo herbicide with Colex-D Technology will provide greater than 95 percent control of several key weed species that are tough-to-control or glyphosate resistant.
In addition, Colex-D Technology used with best application practices reduced drift by up to 90 percent compared to other 2,4-D and glyphosate herbicide formulations.
Researchers from Dow AgroSciences and a university collaborator shared data and details relating to the company's highly anticipated Enlist Weed Control System which is awaiting regulatory approvals.
"The base chemistry in the Enlist system is the most extensively studied herbicide in American agriculture, and our most recent data confirms that our new innovative formulation will enable farmers to keep troublesome weeds under control," says Mark Peterson, global biology leader for the Enlist system, Dow AgroSciences.
Peterson also spoke on a panel regarding the path forward for herbicide-resistant weed management. The scientist reinforced there is broad agreement among all involved in the discussion that the best way to address resistant weeds is to provide greater diversity to weed management programs.
"Herbicides have been shown to be a key part of efficient, sustainable weed management systems that maximize production while preserving soil and water resources," Peterson said.
"It is important to note that herbicide-tolerant crops have enabled great advances in soil conservation and carbon sequestration — having farmers go back to widespread tillage to control weeds will negate those environmental advances.
"New technologies, such as Enlist, will enable more modes of action, increasing weed management diversity and sustainability."
As Dow AgroSciences works to take technology from the lab to the field, information was also presented about advancements in the best-in-class educational and training tools being developed to help farmers as part of an integrated system.
The company has developed Enlist Ahead, a management resource designed for farmers that will focus on responsible use of the technology as well as education and best practice recommendations.
"The team at Dow AgroSciences is continuing to educate farmers and applicators about the best ways to ensure the Enlist system is effective in the short term and also for its longevity going into the future. Enlist Ahead is our approach to this on-going dialogue," says Brian Olson, field scientist, Dow AgroSciences.
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Xplora wrote:Alien27 wrote:mmm... taking your argument to its logical conclusion you see very little difference between someone forgetting themselves and carelessly opening their car door and someone lying in ambush and flinging the car door open, just as a cyclist passes, with deliberate intent to wipe them out.
Don't think that my life and the life of other cyclists is trivial to me.
This is indeed the problem though - deliberate doorings and accidental doorings have the same result, and you have absolutely no way of ever knowing which is the real intent. Unfortunately, you've drawn the line in the sand and it exposes the riding population to possible death because your attitude towards door opening isn't anywhere near serious enough.
I think you'd treat gun handling, knife use, and driving at speed much more seriously than door opening, even though there is a very real chance that they can all result in the same thing. There are no accidental doorings, just negligent car users. There are laws against such door use already... the only problem is that few seem to appreciate they can kill people by being a deadbeat who doesn't care about their actions.
I know! We should shoot anyone who makes a mistake ever. Then nobody will ever make a careless mistake again.


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Who will be the next Batman? Top 5 actors
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The Superman/Batman movie is finally happening. From the details we already know, Zack Snyder will be directing, Henry Cavill will be playing Superman and there is a roundabout release date for Summer 2015. The enigma that still surounds the project is – who will be the next Batman? After The Dark Knight Rises, Christian Bale said he will retire from playing the masked character leaving one of the most relevant, profitable and coveted roles in Hollywood up for grabs.
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