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Their intentions are, and always have been, crystal clear–unlimited immigration and unconditional amnesty. Everything else is a lie.
As President Obama and lawmakers from both parties begin to take their first tentative steps toward again rewriting the nation's immigration laws, opponents warn that they are repeating the mistakes of the 1986 act, which failed to solve the problems that it set out to address.
A lie: it was intended to fail. The employers built in a subterfuge, intentionally, as described further in the article (with absolutely no sense of outrage expressed). The politicians never intended to enforce the '86 act.
The latest proposals contain the same three components as the 1986 law….
"This is the same old formula we've dealt with before, including when it passed in 1986, and that is a promise of enforcement and immediate amnesty," Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said last week on the Laura Ingraham radio show. "And, of course, the promises of enforcement never materialize. The amnesty happens immediately, the millisecond the bill is signed into law." [emphasis added]
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But immigration experts [sic] note that the country has undergone big changes since then.
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The most obvious difference between now and a quarter-century ago is demographic. In those days, the Latino vote was not much of a political factor outside a handful of states. Only 3 percent of those who cast ballots in the 1984 presidential election were Hispanic; last year, they made up 10 percent of the electorate. Their growing numbers and increasingly Democratic tilt were considered a crucial factor in Obama's victory, as well as a serious problem for Republicans in the future.
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Here it is, practically a boast by the left, in Slate:
In 1980, when he defeated Jimmy Carter and destroyed the Democratic Party's national coalition, Ronald Reagan won the white vote by 20 points. In 2012, when famed car-elevator enthusiast Mitt Romney lost to Barack Obama, he also won the white vote. He won it by 20 points. But in 32 years, the Hispanic share of the electorate quintupled from 2 percent to 10 percent.
The reason, as any demographics-obsessed conservative could tell you, was the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. Passed by a Democratic House, signed by Reagan, it legalized 2.8 million mostly-Hispanic border-crossers. The new Americans brought their families up from Mexico. They had kids. According to the Public Policy Institute of California, the state's Hispanic birthrate rose from 3.2 children per woman in 1987 to 4.4 in 1991. And 21 years later, Reagan's own California had become a Democratic landslide state. John McCain's Arizona gave Democrats five of nine available House seats. Sen. Jeff Flake only barely won his 2012 race, because 18 percent of voters were Hispanic, and they went for the Democrat by 46 points.
The rest of the article goes on to describe in detail the fraud and misdirection surrounding the enforcement provisions, making it clear that the employers rigged the system to give themselves no culpability for reliance on obviously false documentation, along with complete non-feasance by the government. It's all presented very matter-of-fact without any sense of the obvious disingenuousness and purposeful misdirection of the 1986 Act or current efforts.
But then the glaringly obvious question is posed:
Why so little enforcement, when the practice of hiring illegal immigrants is so widespread? Wouldn't it be enough to just follow the law that is already on the books? (emphasis added)
Another "well, duh!" moment. But quite right! We already have a perfectly serviceable immigration/labor regime, democratically enacted–in 1986, with specific promises about enforcement!!! So what's the answer?
One of the law's most glaring deficiencies was that it did not stipulate or provide a secure means by which businesses could verify the legal status of those they hired. Instead, it listed dozens of documents that could be used — most of them easily falsified.
"You had a wink-and-a-nod system, where the employer was in compliance and the [illegal immigrant] could find a job…."
After all this we are given a version of the old JAWD/JAAND fraud:
Revamping the legal immigration system is an area that has had little debate. The key, experts said, will be coming up with a system that can accurately gauge the demands of the labor market, sorting out actual labor shortages from cases in which businesses are simply unwilling to pay enough to attract legal residents.
Could there be greater economic illiteracy? Or maybe it is just outright deception. "Experts" will tell whether there are "actual" "shortages"! Utterly fraudulent–by definition, a shortage means buyers are "unwilling to pay enough to attract legal residents."
It's all happening again…we are being systematically lied to. They are completely disingenuous in their false promises and their real intent isn't even disguised.
The only way any amnesty should be agreed to is after a serious program of interior enforcement, against the scofflaw employers. A couple dozen lawsuits–with RICO and asset forfeiture–would concentrate the scofflaws minds wonderfully. Otherwise we can be sure that we are being hoodwinked again.
JOHN adds: Personally, I don't understand why amnesty should be considered, now or ever. It the hard cases are presumed to be those who were brought here as children by their parents, fine–give them, and only them, a path to citizenship, assuming they have zero criminal record and there is reason to believe they will be self-supporting. But not a single additional illegal should get amnesty, and that ONLY if chain immigration is abolished.


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Pontiac Vibe Presents The George Liquor Program
Title Sequence
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He picks up Slab N Ernie from school. Picks up Jimmy the Idiot boy from the Idiot farm.
We see George's car parked in front of Victor Lugnuts' Meat Market. Victor is grinding up a live cow for George. He wraps it in brown paper.
George drives up to his house and jumps out of the car, followed by the kids.
His neighbor is waiting for him on the lawn, looking pissed about who knows what. George punches him and knocks him down
The kids jump out of the car.
We wipe the scene to the back yard and George is wearing his cooling apron and chef's hat as he barbecues up huge hamburgers for the family.
A narrator shouts in a booming baritone
"Pontiac Vibe Presents!"
The George Liquor Program!
George turns to camera and takes a big bite out of his burger. With his mouth full he shouts: "The only Goddamn decent family show on the Internets!"
Episode 1: Evil-ootion
In The House
Slab N Ernie
George marches past Slab 'N' Ernie's bedroom. The door is closed.
George yells at the kids in their room "You kids doin' your homework?"
Slab 'N' Ernie in unison: "Yessir Unca George!"
George walks past the room and plops a stump down on the rug in the den. He sits on it and grinds his butt into a comfortable position.
Slab N Ernie Try to sneak out to watch cartoons
Cut to hallway as Slab 'N' Ernie open the door a crack and peer around.
Slab: "I'm tired of doing homework Ern. Let's watch cartoons instead."
Ernie smacks Slab: "Shuttup, punkass! You want Uncle George to hear us?"
George catches them trying to sneak out of the bedroom and gives them a lecture about homework and discipline.
George: "Hey you kids! You know the Goddamn rules! No Cartoony Pictures until you finish yer homework!"
The kids moan and go back to their homework.
"These kids today don't understand the value of discipline!"
Cut to Slab N Ernie leaning over a big fat science book. Their brows strain as they try to absorb the knowledge.
George leans in and peers over their shoulders. "Watcha studyin' anyway?"
Slab tells George" We're learnin' 'bout EVOLUTION, Unca George!"
"What the Hell is EVIL-Lootion?"
Ernie explains: "It's a theory that says we're all related to apes and monkeys."
"WHAAAAAAAATTTTT?" George explodes with rage and disbelief. "Lemme see that book!!"
He opens it to a double page spread of an illustration of animals evolving.
We see a duck crawling out of the sea evolving into a crawfish, then a springbok and a crocodile, then a flying kangaroo, an ape in a tree and then finally George in a loin cloth. All the animals have George's face.
"What the Hell are they teaching kids these days?!!"
George tosses the book into the fireplace and says "Forget your homework. Let's watch some all-American Cartoony -Type Pictures kids!"
The scene wipes away to the rec room downstairs.
Cartoony Type Pictures
The kids are sitting on the couch in front of TV trays as George walks in with TV dinners for them.
George doesn't really get cartoons. He's too old and forgets what fantasy is all about.
The kids are watching the cartoons and laughing.
George stares at the TV and only sees abstract colorful shapes morphing around the screen. He squints hard.
"What the Hell is a cartoon anyway? Just a bunch of flying colors and crazy voices?"
George can never remember the names of cartoon characters.
George: "Look at that funny guy. What's his name, 'Woody Longpecker'? That's your favorite isn't it son? I like the other guy, what the hell is his name... 'Buzz Bunghole', the mean one. What's that pecker guy doin'? He's always poking around in Buzz Bunghole's business. That's some funny crap for sure.
The kids keep telling him to shut up. They feel every emotion in the cartoons and George is dumbfounded.
After the cartoon is over, George decides "At least that's a lot better than the crap they teach you in schools these days!
Tell you what. Go outside and do everything you see in the cartoonies!"
The kids go outside and jump off roofs and blow each other up with firecrackers and end up in the hospital.
George is visiting. "Well now you've learned something!"
In The Hospital
Slab 'N' Ernie are bandaged up in their twin hospital beds. George peers at them smiling.
"Does it hurt?"
"Yes Unca George!!!" the kids shout.
George: "Great! Pain lets you know you're alive!"
He tears out their I.V. s
Cut to George driving in his Vibe
Cut to a clock on the wall. Time passes.
Now George is looking at Slab N Ernie with contempt. He thinks they've had enough "rest".
They are lying in their hospital gurneys with compound fractures, misplaced eyeballs, and still smoking firerworks protruding from their bodies
GEORGE: Whaddya gonna do, just lay there all day and scab up? Suck it up boys! Be real men!
George unplugs their life support machine and drags them into the parking lot.
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He throws them, gurneys and all, into the spacious back of the Vibe.
GEORGE: There's a lot to do. It's a big fat world out there!
He plugs the life support machine into the Vibe's power outlet and takes off.
They are barreling down the highway in the Vibe singing "It's a Big Fat World"
As they fly around in the car, the boys are joyously singing, even though they're propped up in full body casts. They're all wired up in traction and their limbs bash everywhere.
We intercut driving and singing sequences with George encouraging the boys to "live life".
"Get your hands dirty!" They cut down trees. Ernie fumbles with a chainsaw.
"Learn an instrument" George blows a tuba and phlegm onto Slab's face.
"Fall in love…no touching ya raging hormone!" He smashes Ernie's already broken fingers away from a pretty girls hand.
More singing and driving. "It's a Big Fat World"
Then, they wave goodbye to the TV audience. "G'bye folks! See you next time! Ya bunch of commies!"
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Before the Christmas excess well and truly kicks in, it's nice to have something a little plainer and simple to make (and digest!).
It was the perfect week to make biscuits as the CCBF (Caked Crusader's Boyfriend) had given me some beautiful Christmas cutters. He's starting to think like a baker now – he'd bought them as part of my Christmas present but realised that if he gave them to me on the 25th it was too late for them to get used this year!
This recipe features in Nigella's 'Domestic Goddess' book but she makes them with vanilla. The CCBF doesn't like vanilla (it still hurts when I type that) so, seeing as he'd given me the cutters, I left the vanilla out. Personally, I'd prefer them with vanilla but without it they turn into a delicate butter biscuit akin to a shortbread but not as gritty in texture.
I used the biscuit mix in different ways: half I rolled out and used my cutters, the rest I rolled into a sausage, covered in cinnamon sugar and then, after chilling, cut into slices. The slices were thicker than the cut out biscuits and had a crumbly – almost cakey – texture.
This recipe is a great one to have in your armoury as they are a blank canvas – you can decorate them however you wish.
175g unsalted butter, at room temperature
200g caster sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)
400g plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
- Line two baking sheets with greaseproof paper.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until smooth, pale and airy. Don't skimp on this stage.
- Beat in the eggs.
- Stir in the flour and then bring the dough together. It might need a tiny bit more flour but add this with caution.
- I bring the dough together by tipping it out onto a large sheet of clingfilm and using that to help me move the dough i.e. lifting up one side of the clingfilm helps form the ball.
- Cut the dough in half and shape into patties. Wrap in clingfilm and chill for one hour. You can – if you don't want to faff about rolling dough out – shape the dough into two big sausages and then, when chilled, cut into discs.
- Roll the dough out between two sheets of clingfilm and cut out with the cutters of your choice. You're aiming for a thickness between 0.5cm-1cm
- Place on the baking sheet a little apart, they don't expand that much on cooking.
- Bake for 8-12 minutes or until the biscuits are golden.
- Leave to cool and firm up on the baking sheet before moving to a wire cooling rack.
- Decorate as required.
- Bask in the glory of the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.


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We're way overdue for an update here at Thriving, but there's just so much gloom out there that it became difficult to keep posting all the stories about high unemployment among young people, student debt levels that push young people to bankruptcy (or, sadly, suicide), and the ridiculously high rate of boomerang kids, those young adults who cannot make it in the world after college. (A combination of higher prices and stagnating and even shrinking wages makes certain of that.)
Even those "fortunate" young people who borrowed tons of money to get their degree and found a great high-paying job now struggle to pay the rent or mortgage payment because they have those monthly student loan payments sucking up chunks of their paychecks. Since the government took over 90% of the student loan market, these folks are basically slaves for the government. I don't think most parents dreamed of that kind of future for their kids.
There are bright spots. My personal favorite stories are those that describe young people who are fighting to grow their own businesses, or those who are learning to build their own tiny homes so they can live on their own and be financially solvent. More power to them! I also enjoy reading about parents who are developing homesteads and putting their teens to work on them. They have the right idea: all young people need to work. If that work can't be found in the marketplace (and increasingly it can't), then work must be found at home.
The worst outcomes will be seen among those young people who don't know how to work, those who have been coddled and spoiled, and those who plan to live off the largesse of the taxpayers. Parents who put their teens to work are doing their best to make sure their kids don't fall into those three groups as adults.
Many of the events I wrote about in Thriving are not even news now; they've become common knowledge. Just yesterday Bill Gates openly acknowledged that machines are likely to make many more jobs disappear. What will we do? No one can say for sure, but I still believe that there are things we can do to help our kids survive and even thrive in such an environment; you'll find that information in Thriving in the 21st Century: Preparing Our Children for the New Economic Reality.
Top Stories:
New jobs pay less so learn to handle money well.
Some young people are learning to buy almost nothing in order to make ends meet.
Google employees have lived in campers or cars on campus to save on rent.
Cheap tiny loft apartments draw young people quickly, create waiting list.
He earns 10K so he built a tiny house for 3K.
Some teens are learning to build tiny houses in high school.
Home sales are hurt by young adults who have student loan debt and can't afford mortgage payments too.
Study finds fastest-growing careers don't pay enough to allow home ownership.
Temporary work has become a way of life for many people.
Job opportunities for high school grads.
Too many STEM workers, not enough jobs.
Will half of today's jobs be gone in ten years?
There is a future in teaching kids to grow organic food. (Great video!)
College dropout grows eBay business into a $100 million fashion empire.
Another college dropout founds free code academy with 26 million students.
Here's one young man's impassioned argument against college.
Mike Rowe discusses the high cost of college.
Young woman dies, leaving her parents with $200,000 student loan debt.
Only 1 in 5 college students earns a bachelor's degree in four years:


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Aeon Computers needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 153 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
Aeon Computer Services
Aeon Computer Services is a new computer repair company that would like to eventually become a brand. We offer various computer services from virus removal to training, as well as a retail store for computer supplies.
We would like Aeon to be the main focus with "Computer Services" somewhere out of the spotlight.
We would like it to be a badge style preferably. We are looking for a high tech space theme. We also want to portray class and trust. Most impotant, it has to be professional.
Something that reminds people of Star Trek, the Nasa logo or a Space Academy.
As you can see there a ton of room to play and be creative. We will offer lots of feedback and look forward to selecting a winner.
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Bovodenko needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 366 designs submitted by 57 freelance designers.
American Vision Group
American Vision Group was founded in Feb 2010 in NYC to transform the delivery of and innovation in eye care, both surgical and non-surgical.
The tag line is "Your Vision is Our Passion".
The company will hire the top eye specialists to set the standard in eye care for everyone, ultimately spreading throughout the world. The four pillars of the company will be acquiring and retaining the best, most innovative technology, specialist talent, research, and public education about the health and diseases of the eye. The vision is to have fully-staffed company facilities throughout the USA.
Examples of eye ailments that will be treated include cataracts, nearsightedness (glases, contacts, or LASIK), and reconstruction of damaged structures within the eye. People of all ages will be treated and, hopefully, nearly all health insurances will be accepted.
In addition to surgery, eyeglasses and contact lenses will be dispensed.
People who will make up the company will span from receptionist, technician, optician, nurse, patient education specialist, optometrist, and ophthalmologist all working together to fulfill the AVG mission.
cool and representative of the mission.
One example might be an interplay/integration of words and images: images, concepts are incorporated into letters of the American Vision Group. For example take a look at http://www.eyetube.net logo: eye and (i)nternet are combined into one image. Please don't limit yourself to these concepts. The attached image is from Australian "vision Group" and I find it very creative.
Also http://aposeye.com/HistoryofAPOS.aspx
World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC) 2010
London Ophthalmology Centre (LondonOC)
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Take a Tour of Ace Frehley's 'Budokan' Les Paul Custom Replica Guitar
Ace Frehley's Les Paul was one of many guitars featured at the Musikmesse Frankfurt 2012 Fair that took place last week in Germany, and Dr. Will Jones, the Professor of the Epiphone, was on hand to show it off to Music TV.
Frehley's 'Budokan' Les Paul Custom guitar has recently been produced in a very limited edition, fifty of them signed by Frehley. These replica guitars are everything one might anticipate coming from Gibson. That makes this axe no ordinary copycat instrument, but instead the spitting image of the original guitar Frehley hit the stage with at Nippon Budokan with Kiss in Japan, 1977.
Gibson Custom, Frehley and the guitar's current owner Matt Swanson have employed digital scanning technology to capture every minute detail of the original instrument. The specs of this guitar are far too numerous to list here, however we have to mention that the back section of the guitar is made of solid mahogany and the decorative elements are generous.
Imagine mother-of-pearl block fingerboard inlays, multi-ply body and headstock binding, a split-diamond inlay and a cream pick guard. Those who are more serious will be interested to know that that just like Frehley's guitar, the three-way toggle switch has been modified to only allow the use of the bridge pickup, allowing you to pull off your own Frehley effects.
Last but far from least, this guitar promises "searing lead tones and fat, chunky rhythm for the ultimate hard rock performance" and that's a sound worth replicating.


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The terrible cosplaying is only the beginning, too, as there is also the smell of the gamer funk to contend with. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Gencon smells like a torrent of unwiped asshole and dirty feet. The smell isn't unbearable, but this year I was unlucky enough to sit directly next to a guy who, to quote Slick Rick, "Don't know the meanin' of water nor soap." This guy was foul, and I don't mean slightly uncouth, but rather totally and irrevocably vile to a degree I have only once experienced, and that was when I had to help a friend drag a three day old dead Labrador out of a basement where he died. Holy Christ above, this guy was absolutely repugnant in every conceivable way.
In short, Gencon is to many people a venue for drawing attention to themselves where to others it is simply a gamer's heaven. I'll never understand the former, but for the latter, I proudly claim that Gencon is as close to a gamer's paradise as one can envision.
I left on Saturday morning at 7:00A and got to Indianapolis at about 8:30A, having determined that my Eclipse GT Turbo really can do 130 on the ground, and I parked at the Circle Center Mall parking garage for the enviable rate of 15$ a day. After a short, yet brisk, jaunt to the Convention center while sucking down several Camel Turkish Royals, I saw an old buddy waiting outside puffing on a Cowboy Killer and chatted him up until about 9:00A, at which point I went to the Will Call line to get my badge and event ticket.
Luckily there was no line and I walked right up to a gentleman who had more metal all up in his grill than my wife's Cadillac to get my stuff. Ironically, he radioed to a buddy that "This guy in the white shirt here is causing trouble", to which I retorted, "Dude, do you know me or something?" It was all gravy from that point on; within one minute I was awash in a sea of gamer funk and obese cosplay chicks wearing crop-topped shirts that not only provided a shot of their muffin top, you could see the whole fucking pan.
Then there's the girls wearing short Daisy Dukes and Sailor Moon skirts; these chicks really need to rethink their wardrobes. I mean, if you're a hottie, that's all good, but if you're two hundred fifty pounds and five feet tall, please, don't do it. Nobody thinks it's hot; we're thinking that the craters in the back of your legs may actually be both where Waldo is and what Willis was talking about.
I've decided that I am having a T-shirt made for Gencon next year that will include a photo of an overweight Cosplay chick superimposed over the Nike Swoosh with the phrase "Don't Do It". Please don't read this to mean that I have anything against overweight people, this isn't the case. Many of my best friends, male and female, are big folks. All I'm saying is that if you are a big person, it's not a good idea to wear what amounts to a technicolor bikini while walking around at a venue with more than 25,000 people. Just not a good idea.
Anyhow, aside from the incredibly poor wardrobe decisions and basic lack of hygiene, the con was a great time again this year. I played very poorly in a couple of Heroscape tournaments and dropped out of both early, allowing me the opportunity to walk the show, meet friends, demo games, and talk shop. For the record, I want to point out that if you ever wanted to get involved in an event, Heroscape is the one to get involved in.
Unlike the other Wizards of the Coast games that are run ridiculously poorly by Pastimes, Heroscape is a fan-based, fan-run event series. A guy named Mark Pruitt, one of the most selfless and genuinely good people I have ever met, was the main guy who was organizing this year's event, and not surprisingly, it was run better and more efficiently than Pastimes' sorry bitch asses could've ever hoped or dreamed of doing. That being said, right next door was another event run by yet another incredibly good dude, Jerry Hawthorne.
The event was for Summoner Wars, which I didn't even know had a tournament scene, but apparently does indeed as there were a great many players there, decks ready to, as another friend put it, "Summon Stabbity Death". There were all kinds of events going on in Hall F, where I was at this point, such as Star Wars Miniatures, Classic Battletech, Axis and Allies: War at Sea, and a million other games. Thankfully, Heroscapers are, by and large, very clean and well groomed folks so there really was no funk going on while I was there. Unfortunately, we Heroscapers were not alone.
Half of the entire hall was made up of M:TG folks which, as usual, were hands-down the smelliest section in the hall. I walked the aisles and saw that while there were only a few people there clearly wearing 3-day old clothes, cosplay, or Goth gear, the vast majority of rows smelled of body mold and well-used flip flops.
It never ceases to amaze me how gamers truly stand firm by their stereotypes more than any other stereotyped group. That being said, there were a shitload of normal looking, well adjusted, clean folks but as in all things, the squeaky wheel gets the grease and the casual observer would only be able to ask one question: "What the fuck were they thinking???"
Moving on, I should tell you about some of the cool new stuff out there in the Gaming world. First, FFG/AEG has started selling their new City of Thieves, and it looks incredibly good. The minis are superb, and if you were lucky enough to buy it at Gencon, you would've gotten the full monty package including expertly painted miniatures.
The word is that they are going to sell the game en masse with unpainted minis with a separate package available with the painted minis. C'mon, Alderac, don't make the same mistake as last year with The Adventurers; charge 20$ more and sell the game with the painted stuff. Anyhow, their booth was loaded with folks demoing a variety of games and I got to sit and play some Rush N' Crush, which is still one of my favorites. Anyone foolish enough to take a pass on AEG as a company is making a foolish, foolish mistake. They fucking rock, and even with the faux pas of selling games with unpainted miniatures and then selling them separately, the company makes exceptionally fun and engaging games and it would be a pinnacle error to discount them as a good company, because they truly kick ass.
Next, I went over to Eagle games to thank Keith Blume for the review copy of Defenders of the Realm (review to be written this week), but he was so busy talking to people and selling games I didn't want to interrupt. He was wearing a suit and tie, being arguably the best dressed man at the Con. Just so you know, Defenders of the Realm is fucking awesome. It is a mix of Pandemic, Castle Panic, and Runebound in equal bits, in my opinion. If you read this before heading to the Con, or even while waiting for an event, get over there and buy it. It's one of the best games of 2010, without a doubt.
I then cruised over to the Plaid Hat games booth to hook up with my buddy Chad who was working the booth for Colby as well as to pay my respects to the man himself, Mr. Plaid Hat. The booth was small and when I went there, there was a line waiting to demo it.
In fact, Colby sold 4 full-monty sets of Summoner Wars right there while I was standing and watching. The man's a phenom; he went from a simple freelance designer working for Hasbro to a veritable Goliath of the gaming industry overnight. What an American Dream story. As I'm tired of my kid beating my ass at Summoner Wars, I picked up the Elf/Goblin starter set as well as the new battle board and the two new Expansions, Vanguards and the Fallen Kingdom. The art is outstanding on the expansions, but the hard on was really caused by the battle board. What a masterpiece! This thing easily surpasses most of the huge game companies in both layout and quality, and it is well worth the fifteen bones he's asking for it. If you're a fan of Summoner Wars, I suggest you pick one up as it's far superior to the paper mat and is actually quite portable, surprisingly. It folds down to an area that's just larger than the starter box sizes, meaning that in its totality the board and a starter are roughly the size of a child's shoebox. Epic Win, Colby and Company.
I then got a text from a buddy from Louisville, Adam, who was at the Fantasy Flight Games booth playing the Game Of Thrones with some random douchebag. As I walked up, the guy shot me a shitty look and said something nasty like, "Excuse me, we're playing here" at which point my first thought was to smash the jizzguzzler hard in the face, but seeing as Adam is such a nice guy and I really didn't want to pay a bail, I figured I'd just ignore the cockswiller. Knowing that the guy hasn't seen a vagina since he looked up and saw his mother's at birth was consolation enough; if I spent every night in my parent's basement fucking my fist while watching "furries" I'd be cranky too, I suppose. Anyhow, A Game of Thrones looked to be a very interesting game, but as I didn't want Adam to have to bear the brunt of this fuktard if I kept talking to him, I said my goodbyes and trotted off.
It was at this point that I had found my prey: Flamboyant Hat Guy. I should explain: at very event I attend, I try to seek out the most obnoxious, ridiculous hat that I can find to make the guy famous. Unfortunately, this year had so many choices it was tough to decide, but this one stood out as the most outlandish shit I have ever seen at an event. The man was dressed in a nice-ish suit, with his face painted Heinz ketchup red, and was wearing a two foot tall french fry hat. Epic is the only word that came to mind. I tried to get a frontal photo but I was laughing so hard I couldn't keep the camera still so I only managed to get a photo from 45 degrees behind him. To the man with the French Fry Hat, I commend you. Well played, sir. Well played.
I cruised over to the Wizkids booth to check out their Star Trek Clix game, which I found wasn't even there, but I did find one of the most bad-ass playmaps in the history of mankind. This map was set up with a multitude of heroes and villains struggling for supremacy, and it was awesome. I'm not a Wiz Kids fan, and although I do very much like their miniatures, I just don't like the games they produce. I was, at one point, a fan of Star Wars Pocketmodels, but that wore thin very quickly and luckily I only dumped forty or fifty smackerels on it, so it wasn't a terrible loss. As you can see from the image, they are quite a creative lot, so I'll be watching to see how the Star Trek game plays out.
After patrolling the gaming areas, I decided to ring a friend from the Eye of the Vortex website, a site I syndicate articles on and was dubbed a "Staff Writer and Editor". The man is Shea Reinke, VP of Marketing for the website, and he responded that he was out front of the convention center by the Hot Dog stand. I snuck up on him as he was smoking a roll-your-own Bugler and took a photo of him standing there looking as if he was lost. We met up, talked some shop, and then walked around looking for some trouble to get into. I decided that it was now time to find the Epic Fail Costume of the con, and again, there were so many choices that it was nigh impossible to decide.
I eventually settled upon Epic Fail Wonder Woman because while the costume was actually pretty good, the person wearing it was not. She looked more like "Wonder Why The Hell I Wore This Woman" or maybe even "Lynda Carter After 20 Years Of Binge Drinking". Certain characters are to be held to a higher standard, and Wonder Woman is one of them. In fact, my wife was Wonder Woman for Hallow'een some years ago and she is amazingly hot, so with that image of her burned eternally into my subconscious masturbational fantasies, I simply could not allow this to stand unrequited. Here, my friends, is Epic Fail Costume of Gencon 2010, Wonder Woman.
Shea and I then went into a random gaming room as the dealer hall had been closed, and we found ourselves at the Mayday Games room. There were about fifty Crokinole boards sitting around and when Shea asked me what the hell it was about, a random guy turned around and invited us to join he and his buddy for a game. I'd never played before, so after a short explanation we got right into it. It's a cross between Carrom and Billiards with a touch of Pitchcar, and I have to say that when I ever get a hundred dollars again, I'm buying one of these. They are expertly crafted pieces of wooden gaming goodness and I would highly, highly recommend it to anyone who likes dexterity games. It's phenomenal.
(Editor's Note: Please see THIS before purchasing a Mayday Crokinole board:
Mayday Crokinole Board Review (TLDR: Piece of shit)
How I found out they shipped me a defective board from another buyer )
As we walked past the overpriced food court, we saw a city built of old CCG cards as well as a variety of other cards such as baseball cards and whatnot. It was really neat, to be honest, and at 10:30P on Saturday people can throw change at the city to Godzilla it to oblivion. Not surprisingly, all the chicks were sitting on the floor doing the building and architecture. I've always thought that women were better suited to creation than men, and not only because of the fact that women bear a uterus, but because they're far less prone to a destructive nature than men. Well, most of them, anyhow.
After running through one more time, we strolled to Stake and Shake for some grub. I have often joked that Steak and Shake was named such because after you eat the steak, you're on the shitter shaking your head and wondering what possessed you to defile your body with such horrible food. I had not eaten anything all day, so at this point anything would do. Shanae Gaye was our server, and for the second year in a row I was impressed with her ability to keep your glass full and stomach happy.
There were cops all over the place, eating dinner presumably, and I noticed that they all carried Glock forty caliber pistols. While I am not a huge Glock fan, I am a huge fan of the forty caliber round, so I was happy to know that if Indianapolis' finest actually manage to hit an absconder of the law, they will absolutely bust the target's shit loose in no uncertain terms. Indianapolis Police 1, Lawbreakers 0.
Finally, Shea and I went to a hotel to the most well-guarded secret of Gencon, the xxxxxx room. This room is a Babylon of game designers, gameheads, and hardcore game enthusiasts, and more than a few game ideas have spawned from this, with some even becoming exceptional products. A great many of my dearest friends all get a very lush, very expensive couple of adjacent rooms and completely take it over, with up to 20 people sharing the rooms and sleeping wherever floor space exists.
The result is that they have their own gaming hall and it reduces the price of the entire week's lodging cost to under two hundred dollars. I met up with a couple of very good friends, and it was at this point that the chaos ensued. I'm not entirely sure that Shea was prepared, but when you're with me, what the hell could you expect?
I should go ahead and tell you the backstory to this so that it has the full effect. Last year I stayed in this fabled room for the first time, and in a rush to leave due to drama at home I had forgotten my single most favorite article of clothing, my "Keep Austin Wierd" shirt. One of my dearest friends was kind enough to find and keep it safe for me. Over this last year since Gencon '09 he has jokingly used it to ransom and blackmail me, and even though I'd been in his town several times and met with him, he kept "forgetting" to return it to me.
He had indicated that he used it as a "masturbational soup catcher", to wipe his soiled ass with it, and as all manner of rag to wipe up vomit and other vile substances. About two months ago he sent my group of friends a series of photos of him wearing it, and I should point out that I wear a men's large and he wears a men's 5XL. It may be the single funniest thing I have ever seen, and only this guy could possibly pull off the gag with such precision. We all laughed about it for the past few months and he even managed to start a faux auction to get people to bid on it since the shirt has such a history.
He was the first person I saw when I got to the room, and after giving him a great big hug he went back to his own room and brought the shirt up to me, but not in his hand. He was fucking WEARING IT. Colossal win, buddy. In the process of posing with me for a photo he managed to knock over and potentially destroy a lamp as well as pour a just opened beer on another guy in the room. What an amazing end to the story of the fabled Gencon Ransom Shirt. After the laughter in the room died down we managed to talk for a while and I got caught up with many of my friends. It was an amazing night, and to top it off his son managed to impress me enough to start an entire new category for my future Gencon reports: Most Disturbing Item Purchased At Gencon. As you can see below, it's a baby weilding a bloody knife and a mutilated teddy bear. It really just doesn't get any better than that!
In the end, Gencon is not the best four days of gaming because of the games alone, it's because of the friends, the freakshow, and the awesome memories that are made there. If you ever have a hankering to get out of town and spend an ungodly amount of money doing something that you will absolutely remember until the last moment of your life, get the fuck to Gencon. Don't wait, don't hesitate, don't hem and haw. Just do it. Please, though, if you're that person that walks out of the house in a costume that's clearly 10 sizes too small so that your enormous stomach sags over the front of the skirt so that you look like you're wearing a Sailor Moon halter top and a flesh-colored skirt, don't fucking do it. If you do, you may end up here, on my blog, for 10,000 people to laugh at you forever.
What Makes Gencon The Ultimate Gaming Mecca:
- Get to see friends you rarely get to
- Meet new people that may end up as lifelong friendships
- See and play the best new games on the market
- Laugh at people who really should've known better
Why Gencon Pisses Me Off, Year After Year:
- $52.00 for a one-day ticket is some fucking bullshit
- The ventilation is such that you can actually smell both shit and BO from 600 feet away
- While sneaking a flask of bourbon is totally simple to do, they do not sell beer or spirits
Just go. If you don't, you're missing out.
5/5 Stars
More of the Photos Of Gencon 2010...
Look in the center of the image; there's the runner up for Flamboyant Hat Guy. He was apparently cosplaying as Pope Tosser Notlaidus I.


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Prolific documentarian Alex Gibney will make a film about the iconic Frank Sinatra for the new Alcon Television Group and Frank Sinatra Enterprises.
The untitled four-hour mini-series will premiere on HBO and is described as an "up close and personal" look at the entertainer's life featuring previously unseen footage from industry and home movies as well as private and professional performances.
Alcon Television Group, Frank Sinatra Enterprises, Kennedy-Marshall Company and Jigsaw Productions are the production companies and Jeff Pollack will serve as producer alongside Gibney.
The executive producers are Frank Marshall, Nancy Sinatra and Charles Pignone, as well as Alcon Television president Sharon Hall and Alcon co-founders and co-CEO's Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove.
- Netflix has announced its next original series. Orange Is The New Black will debut on July 11. Lionsgate TV produced the comedy drama about a Brooklyn woman who gets sent to jail for one year after her drug dealer is arrested.


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Summer is the perfect time to reflect on the past year and learn new strategies for the coming year. One way to do this is by building your PLN…personal learning network. Teaching can be an isolating business, yet there are hundreds of teachers in your state, country and throughout the world who do exactly what you do and are willing to share their successes and failures with you. There are many ways to build a PLN, but today I would like to focus on one of the easiest ways (in my humble opinion) which listening to podcasts. Podcasts/vodcasts are audio/video recordings that can be viewed on your computer, smartphone or ipod/mp3 device. There are a growing number of teachers who voluntarily produce very informative podcasts on a variety of educational topics. What better way to learn about the value of listening to a podcast than to listen to a podcast? Teacher Tech Talk is a fabulous teacher-produced podcast and in episode 1.5 the host Chad Kafka provides a "tech tidbit" on the value of listening to podcasts, shares how to listen to podcasts and highlights some of his favorite podcasts.
For you to begin your podcast adventure, you will need to find a podcast that suits your needs. There are several organizations that provide a collection of podcasts that might be a good place to start. The first place I would recommend is The Edreach Network. You can listen to their publications through their YouTube Channel, on itunes or on Stitcher radio if you have a smartphone. They have podcasts for administrators, theater teachers, art teacher and so much more. My personal favorites are Teacher Tech Talk, Mobile Reach, The Google Educast and Techlandia. Another organization that provides a variety of podcasts is TeacherCast. My favorite podcast of the TeacherCast network is the TechEducator podcast, but there are several other great podcasts as well. In addition, there are many other podcasts available just by searching the itunes store in the podcast section. I stumbled upon The Cool Teacher podcast that way.
Whether you listen to a podcast in the car, while you are exercising or just sitting at your desk you are sure to be motivated to check out a new ipad app or website, or read an intriguing news article. Try it out! Most podcasts are between 15 minutes – no more than hour!
Julie Spang is a Technology Integration Specialist who lives in Dunstable, Massachusetts and will soon be working at Groton-Dunstable Middle School. She has been a technology teacher and integrator for 9 years. You can find more articles on her blog: http://technologeyes.wordpress.com/


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I have fallen in love with my crockpot! I got a new one for Christmas from my dad and stepmom, a nice big 7qt one…mind you we are a household of two people but we put this to some good use. After spending two very long weeks in New Jersey I came home with a horrible cold and no energy so I decided that it would be a week of easy and/or crockpot recipes. I have been so excited to start using the crockpot and one of my new cookbooks (which I won from the lovely Shirley of GFE) "Make It Fast, Cook It Slow" by Stephanie O'Dea (A Year of Slow Cooking). Her cookbook is fantastic, over 300 recipes all in the crockpot and all gluten free. Over the holiday I had been flipping through the book trying to figure out what to make first and we decided on the Korean Ribs recipe (That recipe will be posted soon but just a quick summary of it – they were awesome!). While looking through the cookbook Bryan saw the Pulled Pork Recipe and requested that "we", meaning I make that soon. I'm not the biggest fan of pork but I said sure, lets give it a shot. We didn't have all the ingredients listed in the recipe but we had a very large bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce (Bryan's favorite) so we used that instead. I have to say it came out really really good. Normally one would eat pulled pork on a nice roll but seeing as I didn't have or didn't make any gluten free rolls, I made some cornbread instead. I used Orgran Natural Foods Gluten Free Cornbread. This I have to say is my favorite gluten free cornbread. The taste, texture and the fact that I could use it as bread to make a sandwich is just awesome. Even Bryan, my cornbread loving non-gluten free boyfriend said it was his favorite, and he is very picky about his cornbreads.
Have you checked out Orgran's website? All Orgran products are Gluten Free, Wheat Free, Diary Free, Egg Free, Yeast Free, GMO Free and Vegan! So if you are a family with multiple allergies, you should really check them out. I have also had the pleasure to try their Gluten Free Easy Bake Bread Mix – YUMMM. I used this bread with my favorite Boar's Head meats and cheeses. Great texture and flavor to this bread, perfect for sandwiches and/or toast in the morning.
Pulled Pork – Slow Cooker Recipe
1 2-3 pound pork loin
1 large bottle of BBQ Sauce (Sweet Baby Rays is Gluten Free!)
1/2 cup water
In a crockpot place the pork loin and between 24-30 oz of Gluten Free BBQ sauce (one large bottle) and 1/2 cup water. Cook on low for 6-8 hours or until the meat is tender enough to shred with a fork…trust me this will fall apart. Mine was at this point around 5 1/2 hours but I let it cook for six.


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You're right, but keep in mind that I simplify to avoid textwalls, and do textwalls for fear of being misunderstood. All the footwork in the world will not help you with vicious (or even hard) if you aren't aware of your options. People get really good with the footwork and still get frustrated or stuck in the "I need this available on every run" mentality because of this. And this affected vets quite a bit - about half the time I spent with the game didn't teach me anything, yet every time someone gave up a locker slot and lockered something off the wall - it ended up opening my eyes to things I didn't even suspect was there. The game actively discourages letting go of triswords and dragonshields in a manner that very probably wasn't intended and this leads to us vets sounding like unreasonable fools about as often as we say something reasonable - we're not aware of what's in the game! After all this time!
EDIT: And untill you're aware of say, gods, you can't even develop proper footwork! You can only stick to what you're sure works, get better and better with the stuff you can't let out of your locker, and hit brick walls.
The point is not whether people will go looking for guides, the point is if they do - they will help them, and if they don't they'll get frustrated for the wrong reasons. This is why you have so few active vets - if it took less time to get to where I was a year ago, you'd probably have quite a few more. And it'd still take a big time investment. And you'd be getting bigger benefits from the ones you do have now. More sensible, concise and timely feedback, for one thing.


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Content with multiple streams to be delivered simultaneously
Content with multiple streams to be delivered simultaneously
Examples may be
- a) audio with music scores,
- b) side-by-side images, and
- c) image tiling.
- d) 3D delivery
Proposed naming convention is below.
For reference in the following examples, the mathematical x, y, and z axes are used. Lowest x numbers are at the left, highest x numbers at the right; lowest y values are at the bottom, highest y values are at the top. Lowest z values are on the 2-dimensional plane, highest are the farthest away from the 2 dimensional plane.
For (a): different formats, delivered simultaneously
use different extensions, same file name.
For (b): multiple images to deliver simultaneously, in row or column format
add x or y values to filename to indicate relative delivery location. For example:
- u0055_0000123_1x0000001.tif
- u0055_0000123_2x0000001.tif
- u0055_0000123_3x0000001.tif
The image tagged "1x" will be the one on the left; "3x" will be on the far right, and "2x" in the middle. If the delivery for the images is to be in a column, instead of a row, use y values instead.
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The image tagged "1y" will be the one on the bottom; "3y" will be on the top, and "2y" in the middle.
For (c): tiled images
use both x and y axis values in the filenames.
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OAKLAND — Six people were injured, one seriously, and a suspect remained at-large after a police pursuit that started in El Cerrito ended with a crash in the Oakland hills early Saturday morning, authorities said.
Eight people were packed in the stolen red GMC Yukon involved in the crash, according to the California Highway Patrol. All six people injured were between age 15 and 19 years of age, police said.
The driver, who was not identified, escaped arrest. A 19-year-old Antioch man, who was also not identified, suffered "major, life-threatening injuries," according to CHP Sgt. Diana McDermott.
El Cerrito police attempted to pull over the stolen SUV sometime after 2 a.m., she said. The driver fled.
As the chase moved out of El Cerrito, police requested that the CHP take over as the lead agency in pursuit about 2:25 a.m., McDermott said. The driver led the CHP onto westbound Interstate 80, then moved onto eastbound Interstate 580 in Oakland.
At one point, the car exited the freeway at the High Street offramp, traveled briefly on city streets, and re-entered westbound I-580 in the wrong direction, the CHP said. Officers backed off the pursuit and followed the car at a distance from the eastbound lanes with their lights off.
The driver exited at the Keller Avenue offramp, with the CHP restarting their pursuit, lights and sirens on. The SUV drove into the hills, before turning on Elysian Fields Drive, a winding, downhill street.
About 2:40 a.m., as it moved down Elysian Fields, the SUV jumped the curb on a mild curve, striking a rock and rolling onto the driver's side. It then struck a tree about 50 feet from the front door of a nearby home, shearing off a large branch before coming back to rest on its wheels.
Two people were ejected from the car, including the 19-year-old Antioch man and a female passenger who suffered a broken arm. Two others fled the scene; one unidentified suspect escaped, while another, a 19-year-old San Leandro man, was arrested. The others were taken into custody or taken to hospitals, the CHP said.
Resident Jimmy Colley, whose home is a few hundred feet from the crash site, said he was awakened by sirens as the chase approached.
Colley said he looked outside just in time to see the crash.
"I had a bird's-eye view," Colley said. "It went up (over the curb), hit the rock, jumped up, and hit the tree. I couldn't tell whether it was rolling or not."


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visions necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 252 diseños de 45 diseñadores freelance.
vision squared solutions
Vision Squared Solutions provides software and technical sevices to companies in the broadcast media industry. We assist our clients with their video production, broadcast transmission & general business systems by providing custom software, systems integration and project management services.
We are looking for a clean, professional, yet stylish logo for use on business cards, website & within our software products.
I will try to provide feedback daily. Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.
Medium-large companies in the broadcast media industry. Primarily targeting engineers, technicians & managers in these type of organizations. Predominantly males aged 25-55, fairly conservative.
Brand emphasis should be on "vision squared", i.e. less emphasis on "solutions". Ideally we would like to be able to remove the word "solutions" without the logo appearing unbalanced. Alternatively two versions can be provided, with & without the word "solutions".
If possible we would prefer the word "squared" to be fully spelt out, not abbreviated "2". Although the underlying theme is still the mathematical square (vision * vision), we'd perfer to spell the word as a differentiating factor. You might like to superscript the word "squared" to signify this.
The logo text can be in any case or capitalization. We are leaning slightly towards all lower case but this is not critical - whatever works the best.
Although the company operates in the broadcast media (TV) industry, it's not necessary to apply this theme into the logo. Something with a highly stylized or quite subtle media/tv theme would be good, but we're not looking for anything too bold or obvious. The styling should be professional & modern, nothing cheesy or cartoonish. No tagline is required on the logo.
We have no preference in regard to color scheme, but it should be simple (no more than 3-4 colors), The logo should look OK in monochrome (if you can include a mono version that would be great).
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KarenJ wrote:I REALLY love the X-Ray one.
But do you have anything for "delicious"?" I'm kinda big on minifig food... the more the better. Those poor minifigs have been starving for great food for a very long time. Seems like all they have are apples, cherries, bananas, carrots, cake, bread, pizza, and chicken. WHERES THE BEEF?
thanks for liking the x-ray one
and finally, a BEEF hamburger
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First Prize - Creamery Butter - Southern Zone at the National Corn Exposition, Dallas Texas
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Saturday, April 2nd 1864. To day left home for Nashville, Tennessee. I am not really a great home character, but owing to one or two, to me very unhappy things, I have thought it best to go forth into the world, perhaps to wander the remainder of my days. I have bidden farewell to friends, dear to me as my own life, perhaps forever. In a sort of a dead feelingness state of mind, I went about visiting, and saying good bye to friends, and I had almost begun to think I should get away from home without any display of feeling. But when I came to leave the �parental roof,� my feelings overcame me, and I shed tears for the first time in a long while. To day came as far as Adrian on my journey.
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When we are dealing with machines or computers, if we press the right button (IQ) we get the desired result. But in our business and professional life you have to deal with human computers and these human computers have emotions. Therefore Emotional Intelligence (EQ) plays vital role in building relationship and core values (SQ) in maintaining long-term relationship. There is a saying, "people join companies and leave their bosses." The truth is, "we take decision emotionally and justify them rationally".
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South Floridians' options are growing when it comes to services that can shop for you and make deliveries quickly — with San Francisco-based Instacart and Austin-based Dropoff becoming the latest such companies to launch in the region. They join Birmingham, Ala.-based Shipt, which delivers from Publix and landed in South Florida in 2015.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 26, 2010) - Lipscomb's Josh Smith was dominant striking out fifteen as the ETSU baseball team dropped the series opener to the Bisons 9-4 Friday night at Dugan Field in Nashville, Tenn.
Smith earned a complete game victory improving to 4-1 allowing four runs on five hits as Lipscomb improved to 7-15 overall and 2-2 in Atlantic Sun play.
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ETSU took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first as first baseman Paul Hoilman (
Lipscomb tied the game at 1-all in the bottom of the third on a Lee Wilson RBI single. Later in the inning, the Bisons took a 2-1 lead as M.L. Williams came in to score on a sacrifice fly by Zach Messer.
The Bisons jumped out to a commanding 8-1 lead in the bottom of the fourth as Lipscomb scored six runs on two hits and three ETSU errors. Messer had a three-run in the park home run in the inning.
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ETSU cut the lead to 8-4 in the top of the eighth as
Lipscomb capped off the scoring in the bottom of the eighth as Ryan Wilkins came in to score on a Tyler Wilson sac fly to make the final 9-4.
The Bucs are back in action tomorrow as they will face the Bison in a doubleheader to close out the series. First pitch is set for 2 p.m. Please visit www.ETSUBucs.com for more information on ETSU baseball and all other Buccaneer athletic news.
Lipscomb 9, ETSU 4 (March 26, 2010 at
ETSU............ 100 001 020 - 4 5 4 (14-5, 3-1 A-Sun)
LU.................. 002 600 01x - 9 7 0 (7-15, 2-2 A-Sun)
Pitchers: ETSU - Chas Byrne; Derek Bushey (6); Joseph Timp (7); Lee Hall (8)
LU - Josh Smith
Win - Josh Smith (4-1) Loss - Chas Byrne (3-3)
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Paul McCartney Wows at Yankee Stadium [VIDEO]
In an almost three-hour set comprised of almost 40 songs –during which he never took a break or even a sip of water – former Beatle and musical living legend Sir Paul McCartney showed the newer generation of stars exactly how it's done.
This weekend, McCartney, 69, played two concerts at New York's Yankee Stadium to rave reviews, and even welcomed hometown boy Billy Joel to back him up on piano during 'I Saw Her Standing There.'
Drawing from a career spanning nearly 50 years with The Beatles, Wings and as a solo artist, McCartney wowed audiences with anecdotes and energetic renditions of hits such as 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' 'Jet,' 'Live and Let Die,' and the sing-along anthem 'Hey Jude.'
There were poignant moments too – he played 'Something' on a ukelele given to him by George Harrison and 'Here Today' in honor of John Lennon.
But the overall tone was one of triumph. "Who is this Derek Jeter guy?" McCartney asked the crowd during the show. "Somebody said he's got more hits than me."


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The Spike Video Game Awards can always be counted on to supply awkward moments, but they're usually a celebrity bombing a joke with a hamfisted, if not intoxicated delivery. Last night we got something different, and no, we're not talking about the teabagging spree.
That's "The Black Baron," a YouTube hypeman who had earlier ripped the the awards show and was brought to it by organizers to enjoy the program at the table of Spike TV honcho Neil Shermans. Black Baron wasn't in any conciliatory mood after Spike's thankless gesture, vowing to both put a boot in and piledrive their asses, and also—said to Shermans' face—teabag their top executive. You can see the entire confrontation here.
Well. This screengrab may not be the best exploitable, but that's where you guys come in. That's Shermans holding out his hand, and you can put something in it. You can swap out Black Baron with someone else. You can substitute Referee Mario for Zachary Levi. Whatever, let's take something awkward and make it awkward and hilarious.
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You know the rules: The 20 best will get rounded up and published at the end of next Saturday. Meantime, I and the rest of the starred commentariat will approve and promote as many as we can so folks can see them and pass judgment.
This is your no-frills step-by-step procedure to participation in the Kotaku 'Shop Contest.
1. Create your 'Shop.
2. Upload it to a free image hosting service. I suggest imgur. It's stupid simple. No account is necessary.
3. This is very important: You must use the URL of the image itself. In imgur, this is the second URL it gives you after you upload the image. It's under "Direct Link (email & IM)"
4. At the beginning of the comments roll, click "Start a New Thread"
5. To the right of your name, select "Image."
6. Paste the imgur URL in the image URL field. It's the field that says "Image URL."
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Liverpool scouts have set their sights on Sporting Lisbon starlet Bruma, according to reports.
The Liverpool Echo claims the 18-year-old Portugal youth international has caught the eye of the Reds hierarchy as they attempt to negotiate a deal for Tiago Ilori.
Both players are representing their country at the FIFA U20 World Cup in Portugal, helping Edgar Borges' side to top spot in Group B and a place in the knockout rounds.
But, the news is not positive with regards to Bruma, with the paper claiming that Liverpool have 'very little chance' of bringing the talented teenager to the Premier League this summer.
Brendan Rodgers has already been a busy boss this summer, bringing Kolo Toure, Iago Aspas, Luis Alberto and Simon Mignolet to Anfield in a relatively short space of time.
Bruma would certainly fit the plans set in place by the Northern Irishman on Merseyside, with talented young players getting their chance to shine.
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26 September 2012
Wednesday Worry - Hear that Clanging? It's Your Freedom Calling...
While on my lunch break today, I saw Michael Hait's post updating the situation regarding the State of Georgia's Archives. A link to that post is here. After reviewing it and posting a comment to it (it's currently waiting for moderation), I thought, 'what happens if he chooses not to post it?' So, fortunately, I was able to copy and paste it here. For those of you who don't really know me, it takes a lot to get me fired up. But, once something gets to me, I have to DO something. Yesterday was a great example, and I can't tell you all how excited and proud I was that a question I asked was answered by the Director of the Modern Records Program of NARA as well as the Archivist of the United States. Wow. Anyway, here's the content of my comment on Michael's blog. Please do take a few minutes to go and check it out if you don't already follow him.
Yesterday, NARA held its annual Records Administration Office Conference, it's 24th. The main topic of discussion was the Presidential Records Management memoranda announced November 28, 2011 in which the President of the United States requested the Chief Records Officer set out "to develop a 21st-century framework for the management of Government records. This framework will provide a foundation for open Government, leverage information to improve agency performance, and reduce unnecessary costs and burdens." (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/28/presidential-memorandum-managing-government-records accessed 26 Sept 2012) What does this have to do with Georgia? Everything. Let me explain.
During the morning, there was a Q&A session. In that session, questions are taken from the audience as well as those participating in the conference virtually. As an Archivist, and a Genealogist, I took the opportunity to ask what, if anything, NARA or the Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero, had to say about this situation, framing it in the context that the State's actions are counter to what is happening at the Federal level. The 'non-answer' that both Paul Webster, Director of the Modern Records Program, provided, along with the answer of David Ferriero, only underscores how dire this situation has become. You can see their answers in the video ( http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/25699469) starting at 1:22:19 and ending at 1:23:37.
Additionally, as was noted on the Facebook page "Georgians Against Closing State Archives" yesterday, Linda Davis met directly with Georgia's Secretary of State, Brian Kemp. (apologies for not providing the link; I'm working on a computer that does not allow access to Facebook). I will quote the final words of her post (which I was able to access via my cell phone): "We will not get anywhere through the Secretary of State, even though he is ultimately the one running this show. I suggest we move on to another source. I am not sure who that would be. I am open to suggestions."
The consequences of the State of Georgia closing its Archives cannot be stressed enough. While, as a genealogist, I would hate to see us all take a giant leap backward in our ability to access records, the more dire fact remains our government was formed to be OPEN to everyone, and by shutting off access to ANY records of the State, the government is being closed to the People. It isn't about history; we're talking about the day to day functioning of our government. THIS is the point that those outside of the genealogical realm can understand, and the one that I hope your readers will take to their family, friends, co-workers, and whomever else will listen. If the State of Georgia can shut off access to its daily business, other States will follow.
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Laura, I saw Michael Hait's post, too. And I know you are deeply concerned about this issue. Broadening the scope so all affected constituencies may see the impact this decision poses is the best strategy, and the way you are re-framing the threat speaks volumes to all who should be concerned. Thank you for persistence in revisiting this topic.ReplyDelete
I agree wholeheartedly. I keep thinking that if they succeed, then surely other states will see it as a good option for cutting their expenses as well and will follow suit. I also feel that there is a fundamental right for us to have access to these governmental records and that limiting that right is a step in the wrong direction. It scares me to death. Thanks for the post.ReplyDelete
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Bleeding cash from its digital content unit, Barnes & Noble Inc. said today that it will stop making its own color tablets, the Nook HD and the Nook HD+, that compete with Apple Inc.'s iPad and Android devices using software from Google Inc. It will continue to sell the tablets, but they will be co-branded with outside manufacturing companies that Barnes & Noble will work with to build them, CEO William Lynch says. The retail chain will continue to make and sell its black-and-white Nook electronic book reader.
The strategic shift came as Barnes & Noble Inc. reported sharp revenue decreases in its most recent financial quarter and fiscal year, due in part to falling sales in its Nook segment, which includes the bookseller's digital content, physical tablets and their accessories.Barnes & Noble is No. 27 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide.
For fiscal 2013, which ended April 27, revenue decreased 4.1%, to $6.84 billion from $7.13 billion in fiscal 2012, the retailer says. Nook sales in fiscal 2013 were down 16.8%, to $776 million from $933 million last year. That $157 million decline in the Nook unit accounted for 54% of the company's revenue decline.
Revenue in the fourth quarter fell 7.2%, to $1.28 billion from $1.38 billion in the same period last year, the retailer says. The Nook segment in Q4 booked a 34.1% decrease in sales, to $108 million from $164 million in Q4 2012, representing about 56% of the retail chain's overall revenue decline.
To address those mounting losses, Barnes & Noble is changing its tablets strategy, Lynch told investment analysts in a call this morning. Barnes & Noble is in discussions about manufacturing deals now, he said, declining to provide further details.
In addition to being a large capital expense, chief financial officer Michael Huseby said competition has heated up in recent years among suppliers of sub-8-inch tablets—the size of all Barnes & Noble tablets. But the company knows it can sell a lot of them, he said. The manufacturing changes do not apply to the retailer's black-and- white e-reader devices, which Huseby said are not tablets; those devices account for the majority of Barnes & Noble's digital content sales, he said.
"We are taking big steps to reduce the losses in the Nook segment, as we move to a partner-centric model in tablets and reduce overhead costs," Lynch says. "We plan to continue to innovate in the single-purpose black-and-white e-reader category, and the underpinning of our strategy remains the same today as it has since we first entered the digital market, which is to offer customers any digital book, magazine or newspaper, on any device."
In October, Microsoft Corp. invested $300 million in Nook digital content, which led to the formation of a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary, Nook Media LLC. Since then, the subsidiary has been financing itself, Barnes & Noble says. In January, educational products company Pearson invested approximately $89.5 million in exchange for about 5% equity ownership of the Nook subsidiary, the retailer says; Barnes & Noble now owns about 78.2% of Nook Media LLC and Microsoft owns about 16.8%, it says. The subsidiary encompasses device sales, content sales, third-party device sales and the retailer's college segment, a spokeswoman says. Barnes & Noble does not break out Nook Media LLC as a separate division in its earnings reports, she says.
Barnes & Noble also reports today that:
Lynch told investors this morning that the retail division and the college division, which includes retail stores on college campuses, will help boost revenue as the company cuts its losses in the Nook unit.
This year the retailer will close five retail stores and open 15 to20 new ones, Huseby said. In February, Barnes & Noble founder and chairman Leonard Riggio announced plans to make an offer to buy the retail business, excluding Nook Media LLC.