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In the virtual world we are set with few rules and regulations to abide by, our imaginations are taken to cities around the world, planets across the galaxy, and worlds beyond our own. But, when we begin to interact with other characters or people, our real world personal values can conflict with those of the virtual one. With that, the Daily Reaction crew of Sebastian Moss and Dan Oravasaari discuss the continuing controversy of same gender relationships in video games.
BioWTF. Seriously, who there thought that was a good idea?
Implementing the option just to segregate it is ridiculous.
I don't think that's what they did. What's crazy to me is all lack of reality. I just watched Lincoln and forgive me for the comparison because slavery should not be compared with gay rights. But, after everything Lincoln did, at the end, one congressman was still angry with him because because he didn't use stronger language concerning the right of free men to vote. Now, Bioware has been a pioneer and just like all businesses, money Is their bottom line. If u support the cause, u should applaud them for putting their necks on the line financially to push an ideal. If u don't agree, then bioware probably ticks u off. But, remember, they are constrained too and could easily ignore the cause altogether. So, as everything has happened in human history, good or bad, it happens in increments. Sure, get pissed off at them and maybe they will stop fighting the fight.
I can't see how they thought it was a good idea.
Who cares; just about all women are men in games anyways.
Bioware: Let's have people pay to be gay!
Consultant: I don't th..
Bioware: * interrupts* it's a genius idea, we're going with it.
That's such a ridiculous article. It's not segregation...
As of now, there's no SGR in the game at all.
They're adding some in the first expansion of the game, which happens to be a new planet. So yeah, at first the options will only pop on that world.
Calling this segregation is just like saying Arkham City is misogynist because you had to pay more to get a chance to play with a female character.
Man, you're all making a mountain out of a mole hill. Here you're all ready to lynch BioWare for supposed segregation when you're forgetting some important factors. First, BioWare have been among the biggest supporters of same gender relationships in games. What, does that all of a sudden disappear with this? Second, they could have decided to not implement the feature at all, would that be better? Third, this is a preliminary thing and no one knows what the future is going to bring, and yet you're all jumping on the "BioWare is anti-gay, let's burn them at the stake" bandwagon.
I find it laughably ridiculous that so many say things like "you can't judge a game before you play it" trying to tell people not to jump the gun about game design choices, and yet in the same breath with little information available you're all ready to pounce on BioWare citing insensitivity to the LGBT community by making the option to be gay a paid feature. I also find it laughable that the the authors of this piece berate people for having the opinion that homosexuality is wrong, telling them to grow up and they aren't entitled to have a say in every gaming design choice, and then conveniently flip the script to attack BioWare when BioWare could have said "screw all of you, none of you get to play as a gay or lesbian anything."
In a world where people segregate themselves, and homosexuality has devolved into a political correctness issue instead of just a basic fact of existence, the real hypocrites rear their ugly heads armed with ignorance and a desire to just find something to b*tch about.
If you're playing an MMO just so you can have any kind of relationship, maybe you're spending too much time gaming. BioWare has made a lot of mistakes, but this stuff just came up and you're all ready to get the pitchforks out in defense of something I bet most of you do nothing about in the real world.
Cant believe you got disagrees.
Ppl are blowing this way out of proportion and so is the media. N4G is becoming like The Sun, Fox news and Kotaku.
If there was one chief editor with some ethics he/she prolly wouldn't allow a biased headline like that
All this boils down to is getting people to talk about the game. It's what companies do, especially EA since they're hated already.
Look at the recent Dead Island controversy. That was a PR stunt as well.
Console gamers are made of pre dominanately by male gamers who enjoy mostly shooters...not guiter heroes. Since im free to my own opinion, i believe that gay is not somet that should be encouraged in console gaming. Since PC gaming have alot of RPG and lets face it, thats were most gays play. I think console should remain the way it is. Not give gays or anyother groups any special attension. I aint being a homophobe, i have no problem with homosexuals as long as they leave me and my family alone then they can do whatever they do.
That was funny.
"gay is not somet that should be encouraged"
"PC gaming have alot of RPG and lets face it, thats were most gays play"
"i have no problem with homosexuals as long as they leave me and my family alone "
Sorry to tell you, but you may think you "aint being a homophobe", but the way you talk says otherwise.
Not at all. Im just stating, ur free to do what ever u do. I wont attack u and ur belifes and u dont attack mines. It was a rational and logical comment. No cursing or bad language used. But i should quote that NOT all PC gamers are gay and NOT all console gamers are hetrosexuals.
Well, that bit about gays leaving your family alone is still a little weird.
@pic Looks like the village people the Star Wars Edition lol.
Is it me, or would you actually like to see George Lucas make a Star Wars remake with the Village People? Couldn't be worse than what he has been doing.
Young Men's Clone Association?
As much as I agree with you about People being born the way they are whether straight or gays, the same can be said about pedophiles and necrophilia. Everyone is born with their own desire. Nothing is a choice.
Smart. Do the thing that will make everybody mad.
Hey Bioware, how's the weather all the way back there in 1850?
Search your feelings.... you know this was a foolish decision.
So? I see no problems with this. Just wait until they make a planet for beastiality and pedophiles as it will fall in line with this and you'll want them on a different planet too.
I think it's pretty crazy to compare a gay relationship to child/animal rape, but I'm also sick enough to think a bestiality planet would be hilarious.
I don't even care about Star Wars, but I'd pay any amount of money to see Mr. Hands in space.
Chocolate, you are sick....... and I completely agree lol.
Anyone who agrees with you is an un-educated moron. Comparing homosexuals to pedophiles is sick beyond belief. What next, are we going to segregate people who have birth-marks? People are born different. You would have been a friend of Hitler if that scumbag was still alive.
OT: Does this not remind anyone of the Planet Chick from DBZ? Lol Frieza ordered Vegeta and Nappa to destroy a planet of women lol. Now THAT is funny.
I wish they would remove homosexuality from games. It shoudnt be encouraged.
@peterdawa...... it's not being encouraged, it's being accepted as a natural thing. Homosexuality is not a choice, you can't encourage someone into becoming gay.
Meanwhile, discouraging it is like trying to discourage a plant from growing. A % of any mammal species will be homosexual, it's a part of how life has evolved. There's nothing wrong with it, and it can't harm you.
Put down the pitchfork and try to accept the 21st Century.
Homosexuality IS a choice. In fact, you can CHOOSE to be homosexual on whatever planet they're making for them.
^^ @ League_of_Draven ^^
How do you know it is a choice? Unless you identified with being gay at one point in your life and then made a choice to be straight, how would YOU know it is a choice?
Did you choose to be straight or is that JUST how it is for you?
Why would someone WANT to be discriminated against?
You are so ignorant.
I hope one day your personal beliefs are challenged by what you feel in your heart when someone close to you comes out of the closet. You are obviously short-sighted, dim-witted, and very isolated mentally.
Someone, somewhere really must have hurt you if you carry that much disgust for something that doesn't affect your life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness. I'm sorry. :(
^^ @peterdawa ^^
LOL, "It shouldn't be encouraged"
But mass murder, sexism, and headshots....Thats OK?
Why is it every other facet of human life can be portrayed in video games, but once the word 'GAY' comes along, everyone treats it with such fear and realism?
WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF? Homosexuality is NOT contagious. Just like killing in video games does not make you a killer.
"WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF? Homosexuality is NOT contagious. Just like killing in video games does not make you a killer."
Apparently gamers will only defend the ~artistic integrity~ of a game if it involves extreme violence, possible rape, or a severed bikini torso. Yep, apparently the Dead Island severed torso is "art" and the allusions to rape in Tomb Raider are there for "realism" and anybody offended by such things is just a wimp or a pussy or "taking fiction too seriously".
But two men or women kissing? "EW! GET THAT NASTY SHIT OUT OF MY GAME! IT'S NOT NATURAL!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!"
Homosexuality is fine...as long as it involves hot chicks and no dudes. Say whatever you want to say but "I" think sexy women kissing each other and having sex is hot while if it was men who did it I think it's completely disgusting.
I know some smartass will call me a hypocrite and that if I accept lesbians I must accept gays. I still don't deny people their right to stick it in each other. I just think the act itself is disgusting. Call me a homophobe, I don't give a fu*k, it's your opinion and it sucks just like your boyfriend.
Interracial marriage used to be compared to bestiality, and look how far society has come since then. I only hope that one day we, as a society, will look back at this generation and laugh at how ridiculous it was for people to do things like protest homosexuality or compare two consenting adults (who happen to be the same sex) with the rape of children and animals.
I'd hate for historians to write off this generation as being filled with short-sighted bigots
You'll be the crazy grandparent whose grandchildren make fun of for personal beliefs just like today we make fun of our racist grandparents.
Homosexually is not natural. I don't care one way or another what someone does in their personal life, its none of my business, but despite that it certainly is NOT natural. If it was natural then the relationship could produce a child. This is a fact.
Natural as it doesn't occur in nature?
Because I'm sure a quick google search could give you a huge list of homosexual behavior in animals proving it otherwise.
Please give me your objective, fact-based definition of "natural."
It's sad that someone agreed with you. I understand that your opinion is probably brought about by religious belief, or just the way you were raised, but that is the stupidest reasoning ever.
When you grew up, you sure as hell didn't have a choice in being attracted to the opposite sex, it just happened. The same as with gay people and their attraction to the same sex.
I mean considering what a lot of gay people have to put up with growing up (bullying; segregation) there are probably quite a few who wish the could just make it easier by being attracted to the opposite sex.
But that's not how it works and they can't help who they are attracted to, the same as you. So I would have to say that homosexuality is very natural considering that's the way they ended up.
Animals also eat their young and shit where they sleep and eat that too
so then who created all the gay people?? O_o
I am pretty sure they naturally were born from straight couples.
If a species cannot procreate, it cannot endure. Think what you will, but a homosexual relationship doesn't result in offspring. Only a small few creatures can swing both ways and have offspring. Humans are not one of them, far as I know.
I don't believe homosexuals will be the humans downfall or anything, that'd just be silly. But fact remains that it isn't natural if they cannot procreate.
I'm actually a regrettable atheist and grew up with very accepting and reasonable family so...
I'm not really sure why you're so sensitive to this. I clarified that I have nothing against homosexuals. I just said that it isn't natural.
Just because I'm fine with them doesn't mean I have to warp my definition of natural to make overly-sensitive people feel more secure about themselves.
I don't condone bullying of any kind, but just because a few can be 'born that way' doesn't make such way 'natural'. Some children are born with an extra limb or lack of limb. These abnormalities are considered deformities because they're not natural to the 'default' human template.
You're not 'supposed' to be born that way, its a fluke of genetics. Same with those who are born with hormonal abnormalities that lead them to be gay. Does that mean we should treat them differently? No, of course not. People are people and they all have rights. But it doesn't magically make them natural either.
They're unnatural. It isn't an insult, its just a fact.
Qrphe That doesn't prove anything. Animals also have disorders, you realize that right? People shouldn't be disagreeing with FrightfulActions, because what he is saying is true. It doesn't mean it's harmful or not, but the purpose of sexual attraction is to lead to sex, which thereafter leads to reproduction. If you are attracted to the same gender and not the opposite, THEN IT ISN'T NATURAl. Again, that doesn't mean it is harmful or that you can't live following these feelings, but if you think it is a natural instinct then you are just wrong.
grow up, if nature intended you to be gay then its natural, if people are born sterile and cant have kids are they not natural?
stop using a word to cover up your homophobia.
i was born gay and theres no way im letting idiots like you tell me its not natural!
It occurs widely throughout the animal kingdom. It is therefore natural. To say otherwise is ignorant. End of story.
I can only assume you were raped by a man. And assaulted by a dog. On planet Uranus.
/rim shot
/See what I double did there? What a great audience.
This has already been publicly denied by Bioware and its employees.
Then did they get hacked? Why is it right here on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic site then?
You mean this comment: "Secondly, I want to reveal today that we are adding SGR with some NPCs on Makeb and do intend on pursuing more SGR options in the future. More details to come!"
You know shortly after expressing they are very supportive of it? Really seems like segregation..... not.
Maybe I misunderstood Rhaigun's comment but I thought he meant them adding same gender relationships was denied by Bioware. You're right that it doesn't mention segregation on the site.
I don't understand why people still say "homophobia". Nobody is actually AFRAID of homosexuality.
I'm sure there are plenty out there who do. People usually fear what they don't/refuse to understand.
I guess being gay is the new trend nowadays.
No, that is just society changing around you and PROGRESSING.
How is this progression? The Greeks used to stick it up each others butts also, actually they used to stick it up the butts of boys between the ages of 12-17 and it was perfectly acceptable and standard within that society. Society in general is a joke and hypocritical, all it does is hope on the bandwagon of the new trend.
There's just more vocal, mental morons these days in the gay community, that's all. You have been hand fed in what to believe and if you don't do as they say, you will be cast out and called a racist homophobe! they like throwing that one around alot. Lol, it's far from progression! Just a sicker and more mental world is all!
this is just pathetic, bioware. there is no reason to make concessions to ignorant bigots. especially since 99% of the people complaining (like the group "one million moms") are not the kinds of people who would play the game in the first place. even most of the homophobic gamers are not going to boycott the game over it. so this is just moronic
its just a blatant cop out. you might as well not have them in there at all, if you are going to segregate them to one planet. that just makes it worse.
ten years from now we are going to look back on incidents like this with such embarrassment.
Other adults can do what they want. It doesn't affect me.
I wish others were as mature and forward thinking as you.
To those saying homosexuality is natural, how is sticking a cock up someones arse natural? Common sense should tell you that it is comparable to bestiality and pedophilia. I don't hate or fear gay people but I do pity them and their enablers.
How is it "common sense" to compare two adults in a consensual (and probably loving) relationship to the rape of children/animals? Nobody is being harmed in a homosexual relationship, so how is that even comparable to one the sickest crimes imaginable?
Fair enough if you don't like/understand homosexuality - that's your choice, but to compare it to the violation and brutality of child/animal rape is just...gross. And doing so just lessens the true crime of pedophilia and bestiality by treating them as just another form of sexuality, when they should instead be treated as the crimes and violations that they are.
There are over 500 species, including our own, that have homosexual individuals proves it IS natural. If it exists, it is part of the natural world and is, obviously, natural and normal.
Also, comparing consensual sex between two adults to raping children and animals is completely idiotic at best.
And how does it effect you?
Nobody is trying to convince people to be gay, just that it has no effect on your life at all.
"I don't hate or fear gay people but I do pity them and their enablers."
Yet, to you, they are no different than child molesters and people who have sex with animals. Classy. Way to to use that "common sense".
its consenting dumb ass hows that comparable to bestiality or pedophilia!
who the hell let you out of the gene pool!
It's natural because it occurs in nature, throughout the animal kingdom. It's not that tough to understand. The laws of society don't always line up with the laws of nature, but the laws of society are more easily changed.
America (and i mean the USA not the continent) is raising faggots, first the army accepting gays now they want the boyscouts to accepted gays too, exposing the kids to that is just sick well at least your nation will disappear cuz how will american reproduce? Lol
Supporting gay rights does not make you gay; by that logic, I support marriage between black and white people. Does that make me, a white man, also a black woman? By your logic, it does.
Homosexuality is not a choice, that is a fact. And only 1 out of at least 75 people are gay. I would say human reproduction won't be taking much of a hit. And if America is as full of people like you, then I will be glad if America is unable to reproduce; last thing we need is more idiots.


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In Montreal political circles, rumours have intensified in recent days that Gilles Duceppe is planning to resign as leader of the Bloc Quebecois before Parliament resumes. If he were to do so, the federal political dynamic would be redrawn in Quebec and the door would be thrown wide open for the Harper Conservatives to stage a comeback.
Assuming there is any substance to these rumors, the potential offers a very intriguing development. Adam Daifallah spends the rest of the article arguing how Duceppe leaving really works for the Conservatives. Apart from the fact that it buys the Conservatives more time- an election surely put off- to regroup in Quebec, the assumptions he makes read more like wishful thinking, than solid analysis:
Bloc voters are more likely to go to the Conservatives than to the Liberals as a second choice, and the Tories have been working hard since last December's election to reinforce riding-level ground organizations in the province and to rebuild bridges
On the latter point, the Conservatives don't operate in a vacuum, the Liberals have been working equally "hard" "rebuilding", with the added benefit of using a provincial party appartus to help the cause. Cancel out, or net positive for the Liberals, on balance.
That's a side issue, this premise that the Conservatives are the "second choice" of Bloc supporters couldn't be further from the truth, just a lazy assertion based on certain political assumptions. In FACT, not only are the Conservatives not the second choice of Bloc voters, they've consistently been the LAST option now and in the recent past.
Whether you look at recent findings or pre 2008 election polling data, the Conservatives don't benefit from a Bloc erosion. EKOS just asked the question, with a large sample size, and found the Liberals enjoy THREE times the support as second choice, over the Conservatives- 26.2% compared to a LOWLY 8.9%. The NDP enjoys 29%, the Greens 15%. These results were mirrored by NANOS last fall, same order, Conservatives dead last on second choice. Where the columnist fabricates this Conservative second choice notion escapes me, the opposite finds empirical basis.
Taken further, the NDP's high preference, as well as a respectable total for the Greens, translates to a left of center preference, it speaks to how at odds Conservative policy is with Bloc voter sentiment. Despite this high potential, it is reasonable to wonder if these percentages would translate at the voter booth. The NDP and Greens both suffer from a "credible option" problem in Quebec, which means when push comes to shove, any movement away from the Bloc would probably go to a party with the potential to win seats, form government. Seems pretty self evident that the Liberals are better placed on the political spectrum to benefit form this potential sensibility. If anything, the NDP total speaks to a resistance to the Conservatives as an option. Factor in Ignatieff having the "nation" angle covered, the advantage Conservative argument even less persuasive. There is also the little tidbit of Ignatieff consistently towering above Harper (Layton bests him too) on the best PM measure.
I'm not saying that a Duceppe departure wouldn't give the Conservatives a new sense of optimism, because there's no guarantee how it would shake out. That said, the other parties can project that same optimism, and they have the benefit of some factual underpinning to support their belief, as opposed to the wishful thinking and tortured logic exposed in the National Post. I suppose when you're dead, any development that changes the standard dynamic is a welcome sign. But, this superficial argument that any Bloc loss is the Conservatives gain is based on tired assumptions that don't hold water after the slightest of examination.
One thing is certain, if Duceppe were to leave, we would enter a fascinating phase in Quebec federal politics.


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BAINBRIDGE, Ga. � Chad Prough of Chipley weighed a five-bass limit totaling 22 pounds, 8 ounces Saturday to win the Walmart Bass Fishing League Bulldog Division event on Lake Seminole.
For his victory, Prough earned $4,163.
Rounding out the top 10 pros were:
2nd: Mike Reid, Perry, Ga., five bass, 21-11, $2,082
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10th: David Millsaps, Ranger, Ga., five bass, 15-9, $486
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Tyler Morgan of Columbus, Ga., weighed a five-bass limit totaling 15 pounds, 8 ounces Saturday to win $2,082 in the co-angler division.
Rounding out the top 10 co-anglers were:
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The BFL is a 24-division circuit devoted to weekend anglers, with 120 tournaments throughout the season, five in each division. The top 40 boaters and co-anglers from each division qualify for a regional tournament and compete to finish in the top six, which then qualifies them for one of the longest-running championships in all of competitive bass fishing � the Walmart BFL All-American presented by Chevy. The 2013 BFL All-American is being held June 27�29 on the Nickajack Lake in Chattanooga, Tenn. Top winners in the BFL can move up to the EverStart Series or even the Walmart FLW Tour.


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Motherkissers is an Italian alternative metal/hc band from Milan (Italy), formed in late 2011, with a clear idea in mind: play live, play louder and bang heads. Musical influences range from classic Deftones to Every Time I Die, jumping across a bunch of nu-metal, melodic metalcore nuances, as a perfect result of the different flavors tasted by their members Dan (Voice), John (Guitars), Teo (drums) and Api (Bass). Name "Motherkissers" reflects the relaxed and provocative personality of the four underdogs, in contrast to the stereotypical image of the genre they approach. In 2013 Motherkissers released "Lost in a paradox", EP promoted by several gigs all around Europe. In 2014 they released the debut album "Cage the water" through Memorial Records. It's a new beginning...
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The Phillies make it four wins in a row as they rout the Reds, 22-1, increasing their lead to two games in the East.
The Phils tie a franchise record by scoring ten runs in the first inning while in route to a 22-1 rout of the Reds, one of the most lop-sided scores in the team's long history. The Phils' lead in the National League East is now at two games over the Marlins, as they lose to the Giants.
After Phils' starter Cole Hamels had an easy first inning, the Phils' batters went to work on Reds' starter Johnny Cueto. After Jimmy Rollins worked a walk, Shane Victorino gave the Phils a quick 2-0 lead as he belt Cueto's ninth pitch into the right field seats for a two-run home run, his sixth home run of the season, scoring Rollins in front of him. After Chase Utley is called out on strike for the first out of the inning, and Ryan Howard then lined out to the third baseman, 5-unassisted, Jayson Werth continued the inning with a single. The next batter, Greg Dobbs, made it 4-0 Phils as he hits a two-run shot of his own, also to right field, his fifth home run of the year, knocking in Werth. After Pedro Feliz was hit by the pitch and then Carlos Ruiz was walked, moving Feliz up to second base, Hamels helped his own cause by hitting a two-run double, scoring both Feliz and Ruiz, giving the Phils a 6-0 lead, as the Phils batted around. Rollins, up for the second time in the inning, hits an RBI double of his own, scoring Hamels, and making it 7-0 Phils. After Victorino was walked, Reds' manager Dusty Baker had seen enough, as he came to the mound and took out Cueto, replacing him with Daniel Ray Herrera. Utley quickly greeted Herrera with a three-run shot to right center field, his nineteenth home run of the season, knocking in both Rollins and Victorino, giving the Phils a 10-0 lead, tying the Phillies' franchise record for the most runs scored in the first inning, which had been done three previous times, with the most recent one occurring on June 2, 2002, against the Expos. The inning finally ended with Howard being called out on strikes for the inning's final out.
The Reds would get onto the scoreboard in the second as Jonny Gomes hits a lead-off home run, his fifth home run of the year, making it a 10-1 Phils' lead. But that would be it for the Reds, as Hamels kept them quiet during the seven innings that he would pitch, going after them, as he gave up only three hits, while walking none and striking out only two batters. Meanwhile, the Phils just kept on scoring. They would make it 11-1 in their half of the second as, with two men on, and one out, Ruiz hits an RBI single, knocking in Dobbs, who had earlier singled, and had gone to second on Feliz's single, while seconding Feliz up to second base. The Phils increased their lead to 12-1 in the third as, with runners on the corners, and one man out, Werth hits a sacrifice fly for the inning's second out, knocking in Victorino, who had earlier hit a ground-rule double, and had gone to third, when Howard hit in a force play, 3-6, as Utley, who had just walked, was wiped out at second base, while Howard was safe at first. The Phils then proceeded to really pile it on in the fourth. With two men out, Hamels got on base with a single. Rollins followed with a walk, sending Hamels on to second base. Victorino then followed with an RBI double, knocking in Hamels, giving the Phils a 13-1 lead, while sending Rollins up to third. Utley then hits an RBI infield single as he beats out Reds' third baseman Edwin Encarnacion's throw to first, which allowed Rollins to score, making it a 14-1 Phils' lead, while Victornio stopped at third. Utley is then replaced at first base by pinch runner Eric Bruntlett, giving Utley some rest. Howard then followed with an RBI single to right, which scored Victorino, making it a 15-1 Phils' lead, before it became 16-1 as Bruntlett would score on Reds' right fielder Jay Bruce's fielding error, which also allowed Howard to move to second, before he is in turn replaced by pinch runner John Mayberry, Jr., so that he can also get some rest.
The score would stay 16-1, as Hamels, and then Tyler Walker kept the Reds under control, while the Reds' bullpen would keep the Phils off of the board until the bottom of the eighth inning. With one man out, pinch hitter Matt Stairs would get on base with a walk. Rollins would follow with a single, sending Stairs up to second base. Victorino followed with a single, scoring Stairs, making it a 17-1 Phils' lead, while moving Rollins up to second base. Bruntlett followed him with an RBI double, knocking in Rollins, giving the Phils an 18-1 lead, while Victorino would stop at third. Mayberry then walked, loading the bases. Werth would then clear the bases with a grand slam home run, his seventeenth home run of the year, sending home Victorino, Bruntlett and Mayberry before him, as he gave the Phils a 22-1 lead, the team's highest runs total since the 26 runs that they would score against the Mets on June 11, 1985, and the fifth highest runs total in franchise's history, as well as being the highest numbers of runs that they would score at Citizens Bank Park. This would be the final score as Scott Eyre, coming off of the 15-days disabled list, would pitch a scoreless ninth.
Cole Hamels got the win, as he pitched the team's fifth straight quality start, and the fourth for the present home stand, as he went seven innings, giving up just one run on three hits, while he struck out two. His record is now 5-5 with an ERA of 4.70. Tyler Walker pitched a 1-2-3 inning, striking out a batter. Scott Eyre pitched a scoreless inning, giving up just two hits, as he struck out two. Johnny Cueto lasted only two-thirds of an inning, giving up nine runs on five hits and three walks, while striking out only one batter. His record is now 8-5 with a 3.45 ERA. Daniel Ray Herrera pitched two and a thirds innings of relief, giving up three runs on five hits and a walk, as he struck out two. Nick Masset pitched an inning, giving up four runs, three of which were earned, on four hits and a walk, as he struck out one. Carlos Fisher and Josh Roenicke would combine for three scoreless innings, giving up only three hits (Fisher (2), Roenicke (1)), while they each struck out two batters. Paul Janish, normally a position player, pitched an inning, giving up six runs on four hits and two walks, while striking out a batter.
The Phils had twenty-one hits in the game, the most hits that they have had in one game so far this year. Shane Victorino and Greg Dobbs leads the team with four hits each, followed by Jimmy Rollins with three hits. Chase Utley, Jayson Werth, and Cole Hamels come next with two hits a piece. Ryan Howard, Pedro Feliz, Carlos Ruiz and Eric Bruntlett have the other four Phils' hits. The Phils had ten extra-base hits in the game (2B (6), HR (4)) as Victorino was a triple short of hitting the cycle. Werth knocked in the most runs with five, thanks to his grand slam home run and his earlier sac fly. Victorino and Utley followed with four RBIs each, followed by Dobbs and Hamels with two RBIs a pieces, then by Rollins, Howard, Ruiz and Bruntlett with one RBI each. All of the Phils' starters had a hit in last night's game, with each man who had batted in the first, except for Howard, getting a hit that inning. The Phils ended up leaving only six men on base, as they have now won four straight games at home, after coming home from a 3-6 road trip.
The Phillies (43-37, 1st National League East) continued their so far successful home stand with a night game against the Reds (40-41, 4- T National League Central). The game will start at 7:05 pm and will be played at Citizens Bank Park. The Phillies will send to the mound J.A. Happ (5-0, 2.96), presently their best starter this season, as he comes off a no-decision against the Braves on July 2, where he pitched seven strong innings, giving up only two runs on seven hits and two walks, as he struck out five, in the Phils' 5-2 lost. He will be going for his sixth win of the year, and planning to pitch the fifth straight quality start on the home stand. The Reds will counter with Aaron Harang (5-8, 3.86), who is coming off a no-decision against the D-backs on July 3, where he went seven innings, giving up two runs on four hits and three walks, while striking out eighth, in the Reds' 3-2 win. He will be trying to break a personal four-games losing streak, while hoping that the Phils' bats will not be as potent as they were last night. The Phils will be shooting for their fifth straight win at home, while trying to take care of business while increasing their lead over the rest of the Eastern Division.


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Joe DesJean'03 Drains a "3" to Win!by Tom Runge • January 29, 2012 Share:
Joe DesJean '03 hit a "3" with less than 10 seconds to go to claim a one point win for the White team over the Red team.
That shot capped off another great alumni basketball game on January 28, 2012, before the Wabash-Denison varsity game. Players form as recent a class as 2011, and going back to 1986 enjoyed a great afternoon of friendly competition. Referees Jon Pactor '71 and Jacob Pactor '04 kept everything and as they lat the teams "play".
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Michigan classics day on BTN -- Open Thread
BTN is showing classic Michigan games all day. There are a lot of the usual suspects--'93 Rose Bowl, '97 MSU--but also the '85 South Carolina game and the spring game. Already aired: Trey Burke's steal-to-win against MSU this year. Currently on is the 2009 Notre Dame game.
My initial observation: Interesting that nobody has seen Johnny Manziel and Tate Forcier in the same place at the same time. I wonder why that is?


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Press Release: Study Sheds Light on School-Related Gender Based Violence in Asia-Pacific
UNESCO Bangkok and EAP UNGEI Press Release
BANGKOK, 6 March 2014 Children in Asia-Pacific are being robbed of their ability to learn in a safe environment as a result of school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) and current policy approaches do not adequately address the problem, according to a study released today.
The review, School-Related Gender-Based Violence in the Asia-Pacific Region, commissioned by UNESCO Bangkok and implemented in partnership with the East Asia Pacific Regional UN Girls Education Initiative, is the first to examine the evidence on SRGBV and related policy and programming in Asia-Pacific. Policy information and studies pertaining to SRGBV from the majority of countries in the region were analyzed in the review.
Violence against children in schools is a complex, multifaceted issue. It is closely linked to broader social norms around the acceptance of violence, deeply ingrained gender inequalities and rigid gender expectations. SRGBV refers to violence affecting schoolchildren that occurs in or around educational settings and is perpetrated based on gender roles or norms, and expectations of children based on their sex or gender identities.
The review paints a disturbing picture of the extent and effects of SRGBV in Asia-Pacific. The most common forms of SRGBV in the region are: corporal punishment; physical violence and abuse; psychosocial violence and abuse; bullying including cyber-bullying; and sexual violence and abuse.
SRGBV is driven by rigid constructs of femininity and masculinity as well as social expectations. Many young people in the region who do not conform to these gender constructs face SRGBV, including sexual violence and bullying.
Verbal and emotional abuse and social exclusion or discrimination are common and often characterized by verbal humiliation based on caste, status in society, gender identity/expression or perceived sexual orientation, and disability. Girls appear to be more likely to face this type of psychological abuse, including discrimination and social exclusion, whereas boys are more vulnerable to physical attacks.
Those who are believed to be same-sex attracted or gender non-conforming are also subjected in many settings to psychosocial violence and abuse in multiple forms.
Corporal punishment is also a hugely prevalent form of SRGBV in the region, common even among countries that specifically outlaw the practice.
The effects of SRGBV can be devastating and long-lasting, the report finds.
This report highlights that the experience, or even the threat, of SRGBV has detrimental educational outcomes. This includes irregular attendance, dropout, truancy, poor school performance, and low self-esteem of those affected, which may follow them into their adult lives, says Justine Sass, Chief of the HIV Prevention and Health Promotion (HP2) Unit, UNESCO Bangkok.
SRGBV is a disturbing violation of childrens fundamental human rights and directly contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which all countries in the region have ratified and most have signed.
All children, girls and boys, should have the right to learn in a safe context. Anything less should never be accepted. UNGEI in East Asia and the Pacific, and globally, is committed to addressing all aspects of school related gender based violence by advocating for change on behalf of children, says Dr. Chemba Raghavan, Regional Focal Point for the UN Girls Education Initiative in East Asia and the Pacific.
The review found that existing policies in the region for the most part lack an evidence base, are fragmented in their approach and are heavily influenced by cultural and social gender stereotypes. Policies in the region boast only a few successful results.
The review ends with a call for countries to adopt the following steps to address the problem of SRGBV in Asia-Pacific:
- Review data and clearly articulate the problem of SRGBV;
- Establish mechanisms for comprehensive and integrated action and promote inter-sectoral coordination and collaboration;
- Develop and implement policies underpinned by robust evidence, and establish effective legislation and regulation mechanims;
- Put in place mechanisms for a safe and effective reporting of, and response to, incidents of SRGBV;
- Train relevant personnel within the education system and implement gender transformative teaching and learning mechanisms; and
- Promote the principles of, and establish mechanisms to ensure, accountability and transparency and participation and inclusiveness in SRGBV prevention and response efforts.
The full report is available here.
Join the discussion and share your thoughts on SRGBV on social media using #IWD2014 and #SRGBV. To retweet/share the messages you'll find on our social channels on SRGBV: https://twitter.com/UNESCO_AsiaPac and https://www.facebook.com/unescobkk
For further information, please contact: Noel Boivin, UNESCO Bangkok Media and Communications Officer.


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Topic: Why is Halo so popular?
Now I've had a lot of members telling me how great Halo is. After playing some I really don't see what the go is. It doesn't seem to be any better than any other first player shoot 'em up I've played. In fact I think I preferred Red Faction.
So tell me, what's the big deal? Am I missing something?
It was like thousands of voices cried out for a sequel and were suddenly silenced...


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On July 5, Salvadorian Ambassador and Representative of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Panama, Abigail Castro de Pérez, informed AID FOR AIDS International's office in Panama that Rita Banús, Catherine Quintero y Carlos Pavel Smith were invited to attend the Regional Youth Forum that will take place in Guatemala City from July 6 to 9.
The candidates were selected by OAS, the Trust of the Americas and USAID to represent Panama at the event for their valuable work in the field and their proposal to the Pacific Challenge contest, organized as part of the Youth Project "Armando Paz" (Forging Peace). Their proposal, strives to build and promote a culture of peace for the youth in Central America using social dialogue, art and media as a platform.
Ambassador Abigail Castro emphasized that their participation in the OAS event in Panama will be important because their work in "Conjuring Equity" has ranked highly among the many projects from the countries that participate in the "Armando Paz" initiative, which includes El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Panama.
We want to congratulate Carlos, Catherine and Rita! We are sure they will make the AID FOR AIDS family proud.


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Dunkin' Donuts announced the signing of multiunit store development agreements with two franchise groups to develop three new restaurants in Illinois over the next several years.
The two franchise groups and their development plans include:
· Sujal Patel, who plans to develop one restaurant in Pontiac, Illinois. The restaurant is planned to open in 2013.
· Aziz Nathani, a current multiunit Dunkin' Donuts Franchisee, who plans to develop two additional restaurants in LaSalle and Ottawa, Illinois. The first restaurant is planned to open in 2013, and the second in 2014.
Franchise opportunities are still available in Illinois, in the cities of Decatur and Champaign.
To drive its expansion efforts, Dunkin' Donuts has aligned its strategy to support the growth opportunities and consumer needs of individual markets. As a result, the company continues to expand with single and multiunit opportunities with no minimum unit requirements.
"Our secret to success is our passionate franchisees who provide a high level of customer service to our guests every day," says Grant Benson, CFE, vice president of Development, Dunkin' Brands, Inc. "We believe these new franchisee partners will cultivate lasting customer relationships and become integral parts of their local communities."
Building a solid network of stores within a market enables Dunkin' Donuts to invest in a distribution model that provides consistent, high-quality products that guests expect.
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
Ethanol: Bleak Presence, Brighter FutureTweet
Ethanol has seemed to have a run of bad luck lately. First, it hit the blend wall, the maximum of 10% of the total motor fuel supply. Then the recession curtailed some of the miles we drove and less gasoline was purchased. Then the EPA proposes that the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) be revised to curtail ethanol production. Then the government increases the fuel economy target for auto makers to ensure we continue on a downward trend of less gasoline being purchased. Never mind the woes of the petroleum industry, all of those dynamics combine to limit the growth of ethanol. It seems to have a bleak future, or does it?
It may not be common knowledge but in recent weeks, the price of ethanol in metropolitan markets such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles has been in the $4 neighborhood. That is $4 per gallon, and is well above the price of unleaded gasoline. This is contrary to conventional wisdom that ethanol is cheaper than gasoline and helps reduce the price of motor fuel for the motoring public.
Sorry, but the rail freight logjam issues have provided insufficient service to ethanol refineries, and ethanol deliveries to fuel blenders are few and far between. That pushes up the basis at the blending plants and pushes down the basis at the refineries. Recently there has been a $1.50 to $2 difference between the two because of the railroad problems.
That problem will be temporary, believe industry analysts and Iowa State University economist Bob Wisner. He says, "Whether ethanol prices will weaken relative to gasoline in the next few years will depend heavily on whether the domestic market can be expanded beyond the current blend-wall saturation level." Wisner says before the RFS policy was put in place, there was a surplus of corn, but afterwards, corn became a limiting factor in the ethanol supply chain. He says that caused the price of corn to rise until ethanol producers reached their break-even level, and then the refiners stopped their expansion plans.
Looking at the future, Wisner says, "If ethanol demand does not expand in the future, rising corn yields will likely shift corn back to a chronic surplus supply with relatively low prices, except in years of adverse weather. Instead of ethanol driving corn prices, the reverse may be true with ethanol prices being heavily influenced by corn's impact on ethanol production costs." But he says ethanol may have several aces up its sleeve which would expand the demand for ethanol.
1) E-15. Acceptance of E15 in the motor fuel industry has been very slow. Retail fuel marketers offer a number of reasons for their reluctance to market this fuel, but over time its use may increase.
2) E85 is another alternative. It can be used only in flex-fuel vehicles and its market has been limited by (1) the small number of retail fuel stations selling it, (2) a limited but increasing percentage of the vehicle fleet that is made up of flex-fuel vehicles, and (3) lack of competitiveness of E85 with gasoline and E10 because of its much lower fuel mileage per gallon.
3) Increased foreign use and competitive U.S ethanol prices from lower-cost corn could lead to expanded export demand for ethanol.
The price of ethanol is currently higher than gasoline, which is quite abnormal, and should soon return to a lower price level. Consumption of ethanol may tend to decrease because of the blend wall and increased auto mileage economy. However, increased use could be spurred by higher blends of ethanol along with lower production costs, as well and with increased international use and higher exports.
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Politecnico di Bari
Abstract: In a series of papers ([2, 3, 4]) the relations existing between the metric properties of Randers spaces and the conformal geometry of stationary Lorentzian manifolds were discovered and investigated. These relations were called in [4] \emph{Stationary-to-Randers Correspondence (SRC)}. In this paper we focus on one aspect of SRC, the equality between the index of a geodesic in a Randers space and that of its lightlike lift in the associated conformal stationary spacetime. Moreover we make some remarks about regularity of the energy functional of a Finsler metric on the infinite dimensional manifold of $H^1$ curves connecting two points, in connection with infinite dimensional techniques in Morse Theory.
Keywords: Stationary Lorentzian manifolds, lightlike geodesics, Morse index, Finsler metric, Randers space
Classification (MSC2000): 53C22; 53C50, 53C60, 58B20
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jul 2011 14:00 UTC
Well, paint me red and call me a girl scout, I totally did not see this one coming at all. This is so utterly surprising it made my brain explode. Hold on to your panties, because this will rock your world. After pressuring several smaller Android vendors into submission (and yes, HTC is still relatively small compared to other players), Microsoft is now moving on to the big one: Redmond is demanding $15 for every Samsung Android device sold. Samsung's choices are simple: pay up, or face another epic lawsuit.
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by pantheraleo on Wed 6th Jul 2011 18:00 UTC in reply to "Comment by pablo_marx"
I'm pretty sure the USPTO granted patents on software prior to 1998 -- For example the QuickDraw patent (US Patent 4,622,545).
Thom's claims about when software patents were first granted are completely wrong, but he refuses to admit it. Just a few examples that prove he is wrong:
- The first known software patent was granted in Britain on August 17, 1967 entitled "A Computer Arranged for the Automatic Solution of Linear Programming Problems"
- On November 20th, 1972, in Gottschalk v. Benson, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a software patent application was invalid because of prior art dating to the 19th century. However, in its ruling, it specifically stated it was only ruling against that particular patent, and NOT software patents in general. "it is said that the decision precludes a patent for any program servicing a computer. We do not so hold."
- On May 26th, 1981, the first known U.S. software patent was granted to Satya Pal Asija for a natural language interface program.
- In 1994, Stac Electronics successfully sued Microsoft over software parent violations regarding the DoubleSpace disk compression technology included in MS DOS 6.0.
In short, the claim that software patents were not granted until 1998 is clearly false.
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Obama's global-warming claims demolished
President 'cherry-picks' facts 'with the same relentless care as Al Gore'
Dubbed the "high priest of climate skepticism," former Margaret Thatcher adviser Christopher Monckton has become a formidable foe of the movement claiming mankind is causing catastrophic "global warming," noting that the average worldwide temperature has not risen in nearly two decades.
So when President Obama recently announced his plan to bypass Congress and use his executive power to "fight climate change," targeting the coal-energy industry, Monckton responded.
Some of what Obama said was simply copied from Al Gore's writings on global warming, he said, and virtually everything was incomplete, misleading – or wrong.
Obama's declarations included:
- "Science … tells us that our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind."
- "The 12 warmest years in recorded history have all come in the last 15 years. … these are facts."
- The "sea level in New York, in New York Harbor, are (sic) now a foot higher than a century ago."
- "The question now is whether we will have the courage to act before it's too late."
It was too much for Monckton.
"The 'image of Earth from space' intro is lifted from Gore's sci-fi movie 'An Inconvenient Truth.' Gore may well have written much of the speech," Monckton said. "The phrase 'carbon pollution' is also lifted from Gore. It occurs 30 times in the text of the speech.
"One imagines he means 'carbon dioxide pollution.' But CO2 is not a pollutant and is not listed as one on the U.S. national inventory of pollutants. It is a naturally occurring trace gas, harmlessly present in the air we breathe out, and in the bubbles in bread, Coca-Cola, and (more importantly) champagne."
Then Monckton launched into a point-by-point demolition of Obama's claims:
The "worry that rising levels [of CO2] might someday disrupt the fragile balance that makes our planet so hospitable" is scientifically unfounded. CO2 concentrations, at almost 400 μatm, are almost as low as they have ever been in geological time. In the Jurassic era, 175 million years ago, CO2 concentration was about 6000 μatm; in the Cambrian era, 550 million years ago, it was 8000 μatm; and in the Neoproterozoic era, 750 million years ago, it was 30,000 μatm, or 75 times today's concentration. Yet the planet survived and throve.
The statement that "the 12 warmest years in recorded history have all come in the last 15 years" is no big deal. Recorded history, as far as global temperatures are concerned, only goes back to 1850. The weather was warmer than today in the medieval, Roman, Minoan, Old Kingdom, and Holocene Warm Periods, the last of which endured for 4000 years (8000-4000 BC) and was 3 Cº warmer than the present.
Obama says, "Last year, temperatures in some areas of the ocean reached record highs." Welcome to our variable climate, which, like the baseball scores, is a chaotic object where new records will tend to be set all the time. Yet the 3500+ Argo bathythermograph buoys deployed throughout the world's oceans since 2006 show very little ocean warming overall, so that – according to the now-failed ENVISAT satellite, sea level in the 8 years 2004-2012 rose at a rate equivalent to just 1.3 inches per century.
His moan about ice in the Arctic shrinking to its smallest size on record is also little to worry about: for the Arctic ice record only goes back a third of a century. It is likely that there was a lot less ice in the Arctic in 1922 and again in the mid-1930s than there is today, but we cannot demonstrate that definitively.
The statement that sea level is a foot higher than a century ago should also be put in context. In the 11,400 years since the end of the last Ice Age sea level has risen by 400 feet – a rate of getting on for 4 feet a century. So 1 foot a century is no big deal (and the 1.3 inches/century equivalent warming rate from 2004-2012 is still less of a big deal).
He whines on: "2012 was the warmest year in our history." That may or may not have been true for the U.S. (there is good reason to suppose that 1934 was warmer): but it is certainly not true globally:
The graph, showing the Hadley/CRU data, makes clear that January 2007, an el Niño month, was the warmest on record; and 1998, an el Niño year, was the warmest year on record. El Niños are naturally-occurring events. Since the entire trend-line falls within the blue zone of measurement/bias/coverage uncertainty, we do not even know to 95% certainty that there has been any global warming at all for the past 17 years 4 months. Notwithstanding continuing increases in C)2 concentration, there has been no warming at all for 12 years 6 months:
The statement that "Midwest farms were parched by the worst drought since the Dust Bowl [in the 1930s]" is equivalent to a statement that the drought of the dustbowl years was worse than today's drought. Yet the world is warmer now than it was then:
Why was there more drought when there was less warming, if global warming is the chief cause of drought? Besides, as Obama admits, the Midwest was then "drenched by the wettest spring on record." In short, climate has been changing for 4567 million years; it is changing now; and it will continue to change.
Obama cherry-picks his event with the same relentless care as Al Gore. He talks of Western wildfires scorching an area larger than the state of Maryland and a recent heatwave in Alaska. He does not mention the 10,000 cold-weather and high-snowfall records set just in the U.S. in the past winter; or the 100-year record cold in London and Moscow.
He talks of "the costs of these events" being "measured in lost lives and lost livelihoods, lost homes, lost businesses, hundreds of billions of dollars in emergency services and disaster relief." Yet the annual costs of extreme weather, normalized to allow for growth in population and infrastructure over the past half-century, show no trend. And the economic peer-reviewed literature is near-unanimous in finding that it would cost considerably more to try to mitigate global warming today than to adapt to its consequences the day after tomorrow. In fact, it is 10-100 times more costly to act now than to adapt later.
Obama says, "Farmers see crops wilted one year, washed away the next; and the higher food prices get passed on to you, the American consumer." Well, farmers have always had fluctuating weather and consequent crop failures from time to time. Yet sometimes conditions are ideal, supply high and prices low. Those prices, too, get passed on to the American consumer, not that you will learn that from Obama.
He goes on: "Mountain communities worry about what smaller snowpacks will mean for tourism," but he fails to mention that the United States has seen record snowfall in the past two or three years.
He says, "Families at the bottom of the mountains wonder what it will mean for their drinking water." No, they don't: the December snow cover extent in the northern-hemisphere winter of 2012/13 was the greatest in the entire 34-year satellite record, and the snow cover for the entire winter was the fifth-greatest on record.
Obama says, "Americans across the country are already paying the price of inaction in insurance premiums, state and local taxes, and the costs of rebuilding and disaster relief." No: they are paying just about as much as they always did for extreme weather damage, which is why the insurance companies have found it so very difficult to use climate change as a pretext to talk up premiums.
He trots out the Trots' usual meme that "Ninety-seven percent of scientists, including, by the way, some who originally disputed the data, have now put that to rest. They've acknowledged the planet is warming and human activity is contributing to it."
The survey he mentions actually showed less than a third of a sample of almost 12,000 published papers even implicitly endorsing the notion that humans are contributing to global warming. Only 0.3 percent of the abstracts – just 41 out of 11,944 – said humans had caused more than half of "current" warming: no surprise there, given that there has not been any current warming. And none of the abstracts said warming would be catastrophic.
Obama got some applause for saying, "As a president, as a father, and as an American, I'm here to say we need to act." No: we need not to act. Since it is about 50 times more expensive to act now than to let the predicted global warming happen and pay the far later and lesser cost of adapting to it, it is necessary not to waste our legacy to future generations by spending it on pointless measures now.
He says: "This plan begins with cutting carbon pollution by changing the way we use energy – using less dirty energy, using more clean energy, wasting less energy throughout our economy." Yet the four specific proposals for reducing "carbon pollution" would, if implemented at vast cost, forestall between them so little global warming that modern instruments and methods would not be able to detect it.
He trumpets: "Today, we use more clean energy – more renewables and natural gas –which is supporting hundreds of thousands of good jobs." Yet each "green job" costs between $100,000 and $1 million, destroying many other jobs in the real economy.
He proclaims: "guess what – our economy is 60 percent bigger than it was 20 years ago, while our carbon emissions are roughly back to where they were 20 years ago. So, obviously, we can figure this out." Except that, until he came along, no one was silly enough to do the economic damage he is doing. So the fall in US CO2 emissions is inadvertent: it owes nothing whatsoever to past concerns about global warming.
Obama goes on to say the State Department will decide on the Keystone XL pipeline by evaluating "the net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate." The net effects will be nil: if the U.S. don't buy the product, someone else will.


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"Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." ~ Marcus Aurelius
"Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." ~ Marcus Aurelius
November is a month of holidays that make us remember things. Armistice Day commemorates the end of the Great War, when the Allies defeated Germany in "the War to End All Wars," on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Of course it became Veterans' Day after the Allies defeated Germany again in World War II, and so it honors veterans of every war since then.
Like most of us, my family had relatives on both sides of both wars. In fact, my family has had relatives on both sides of every war since the Revolution, and answering the question of who was in the right has always been a matter of diplomatic finesse. Not that it is usually successful. We seem to have a knack for getting along famously with everyone – except each other!
That having been said, Veterans' Day is a day for remembering that we are all in this together, whatever our individual heritage. There are no atheists in foxholes, and there are no loners either.
November also hosts Thanksgiving, that quintessentially "American" holiday that symbolizes our common bond. We are on this side of "the Pond," and the Old World isn't. As O'Henry put it, "There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
The nice thing about Thanksgiving is that it is really a harvest festival, so it is also universal. You could say it's how we celebrate harvest day in the USA, since it has its roots in both worlds. In 1621 the Old World Pilgrims and the New World Wampanoag Indians shared what they had as neighbors.
Abraham Lincoln made it semi-official in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, proclaiming a national Thanksgiving Day to be celebrated each November.
Now it's a day when people who don't even like football will watch it for hours, and a day when many of us will give up fitting into that old, tailored suit for one more year.
November is also Native American Heritage Month, which may be coincidental but is also appropriate. Had it not been for the Wampanoag Indians the Pilgrims would likely have perished. I am happy to report that today about 3,000 Wampanoag Indians live in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and there is a reservation for the Wampanoag Indians on Martha's Vineyard. Nice spot for a reservation.
I recently spent some time with Moses Bring Plenty. He is the Community Outreach Liaison for the Kansas City Indian Center, and over the course of an hour he reminded me how broad a view of the world one needs to take in order to see it in detail.
Mo has a knack for making the simple sublime. Take the word "equality," and apply it to everything you see around you. If you include the rocks and trees, the clouds and people, you start to get a glimmer of how he sees things.
Now if you make that your personal philosophy, too, your whole worldview shifts. You come to realize that everything on earth has a role to play and that we really own nothing but are only stewards of things for our time. So each life becomes a gift, every passing flower a treasure, and sunrise a recurring miracle.
Albert Einstein understood that, too, when he observed, "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." That's one man's perspective, but it holds great truth.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Robert L. Beardsley is manager of Planning & Development for the Preservation Alliance of Leavenworth.


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Henry Miller Library in Big Sur
Henry's old pad is now a cafe/museum/bookstore and concert venue with massive redwoods surrounding it.
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Spacious impressive modern art gallery in downtown Paso Robles.
Vale Fine Art
Another surprisingly contemporary gallery in downtown.
Studios On The Park
Artist studios, classes and exhibition space across from the park on Pine St.
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Military Aircraft as well as race cars. (5 miles)
Palm Theatre
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DENVER – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed earlier this week that Discount Cabinets and Appliances, a Denver-based retail company, violated the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) when it denied a hearing-impaired warehouse assistant's request that the company provide a telephone with volume control, and shortly thereafter fired him because of his disability.
According to the EEOC's suit, Discount Cabinets contacted a temporary employment agency in 2008 to request placement of a warehouse assistant in a temporary-to-permanent job at the company's store and warehouse in Denver. The temporary agency recommended Ramon Guzman, who had experience in a similar warehouse job. Guzman has had a significant hearing loss since birth as well as resulting difficulty with speech. The company accepted his placement.
In addition to his warehouse duties, Guzman was assigned to fill in for the receptionist and answer the phone every other Saturday. After Guzman saw that the company phones did not have adjustable volume, he asked the company to provide a handset with volume control. The store manager refused. A short time later, the manager criticized Guzman's speech, and told the temporary agency that Guzman was not working out because of his inability to hear on the phone. She instructed the agency to stop sending him to the job site.
The ADA requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities absent undue hardship on the employer. The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Thurston, Inc. d/b/a Discount Cabinets & Appliances, Case # 10-Cv-01352 CMA KLM) in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement out of court through its conciliation process. The suit seeks monetary damages, including back pay, compensatory damages, and punitive damages. The EEOC also seeks injunctive relief prohibiting further discrimination by the employer and mandating corrective action.
"Employers can prevent a problem like this by making simple and reasonable accommodations," said Acting District Director Rayford Irvin of the EEOC's Phoenix District Office. "Employers have a legal obligation to explore solutions under the ADA."
Regional Attorney Mary Jo O'Neill of the EEOC Phoenix District Office added, "People with disabilities continue to have extremely high unemployment and underemployment rates. The ADA, including the requirement that employers provide reasonable accommodations, was intended to ensure that workers with disabilities have equal employment opportunities."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Sep 2010 21:28 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac launched today with a number of new features and refinements for users looking to run alternative operating systems in virtual environments on their Macs. As summarized on Parallels' site, the update brings enhancements to gaming and graphics, simpler setup and integration, greater manageability and mobility, and better performance. Beyond improvements to the standard Parallels Desktop application for Mac OS X, the company has also released a new, free iOS application, Parallels Mobile, bringing remote access on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch to users running the desktop software."
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I downloaded Parallels 5 trial two days ago as VirtualBox 3.2 is bloody awful and slow on my MBP4,1 with Snow Leopard and I've lost my licence key for VMWare 2 in a house move.
Parallels 5 wouldn't play nicely with OpenSUSE 11.3 x64 so when I saw Paralells 6 was released yesterday I downloaded the trial and upgraded it.
It felt a bit faster than v5 even before installing the Parallels Tools but much faster once they were installed.
So far I prefer it to VirtualBox but it lacks the polish of VMWare.


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