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With today being St Patrick's Day, we've taken the opportunity to recommend a few classic works of Irish literature to dip into while you're enjoying a pint (or two) of Guinness.
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Joyce is one of the most famous figures in Irish literature, and Finnegans Wake is infamous for being one of the most formidable books in existence. It plays fantastic games with language and reinvents the very idea of the novel in the process of telling the story of Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and his wife Anna Livia, in whom the character of Ireland itself takes form. Around them and their dreams there swirls a vortex of world history, of ambition and failure, pride and shame, rivalry and conflict, gossip and mystery.
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works by Jonathan Swift
This was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift. The author explains in a preface that it is the practice of seamen when they meet a whale to throw out an empty tub to divert it from attacking the ship. Hence the title of the satire, which is intended to divert Hobbes's Leviathan and the wits of the age from picking holes in the weak sides of religion and government. The author proceeds to tell the story of a father who leaves as a legacy to his three sons Peter, Martin, and Jack a coat apiece, with directions that on no account are the coats to be altered. Peter symbolizes the Roman Church, Martin (from Martin Luther) the Anglican, Jack (from John Calvin) the Dissenters. The sons gradually disobey the injunction. Finally Martin and Jack quarrel with the arrogant Peter, then with each other, and separate.
The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays by J. M. Synge
In The Playboy of the Western World, the action takes place in a public house, when a stranger enters and is persuaded to tell his story. Impressed, the admiring audience thinks he must be very brave indeed to have killed his father, and in turn the young tramp blossoms into the daring rollicking hero they believe him to be. But then his father, with a bandaged head, turns up seeking his worthless son. Disillusioned and angry at the loss of their hero, the crowd turns the stranger, who tries to prove that he is indeed capable of savage deeds, even attempting unsuccessfully to kill his father again. The play ends with father and son leaving together with the words "Shut yer yelling for if you're after making a mighty man of me this day by the power of a lie, you're setting me now to think if it's a poor thing to be lonesome, it's worse maybe to go mixing with the fools of earth."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
One of the greatest horror stories ever written. This is the novel that introduced the character of Count Dracula to the world, spawning a whole host of vampire fictions in its wake. As well as being a pioneering text in horror fiction, it also has much to say about the nature of empire, with Dracula hell-bent on spreading his contagion into the very heart of the British empire. Fun fact: Bram Stoker's wife, Florence Balcombe, had previously been courted by Oscar Wilde.
The Major Works by W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats was born in 1865 and died in 1939. His career crossed the 19th and 20th centuries, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and the symbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence all of his work, most notably in Cathleen ni Houlihan among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occult writings, and he also wrote a whole host of political speeches, autobiographical writings, and letters.
The Wild Irish Girl by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)
This is the story of the son of an English lord, Horation, who is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for gambling debts, he adopts the persona of knight errant and goes off in search of adventure. On the wild west coast of Connaught he finds remnants of a romantic Gaelic past a dilapidated castle, a Catholic priest, a deposed king and the king's lovely and learned daughter, Glorvina. In the process he rediscovered a love for the life and culture of his country. Written after the Act of Union, The Wild Irish Girl (1806) is a passionately nationalistic novel and an essential novel in the discourse of Irish nationalism. The novel was so controversial in Ireland that the author, Lady Morgan, was put under surveillance by Dublin Castle. There is a bust of Lady Morgan in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the plaque mentions that Lady Morgan was "less than four feet tall."
In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
This dark collection of five stories was said by none other than Henry James to be "the ideal reading… for the hours after midnight". Indeed, J. Sheridan Le Fanu himself had a reputation for being both reclusive and rarely seen in the daytime. His fascination with the occult led to his stories being truly spine-chilling, drawing on the Gothic tradition and elements of Irish folklore, as well as on the social and political anxieties of his Anglo-Irish contemporaries.
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What do you think: How necessary do you think it is that someone with HIV get a flu vaccine? Should someone on treatment also get a vaccine? Are there any dangers to flu vaccines?
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I think it is a no-brainer. The flu vaccine is very effective and safe. Real flu, not that sniffle you had last year that you called the flu, is a major illness that kills (as in dead) tens of thousands of Americans each year. When you get it you become terribly ill with fevers, cough and body aches. All persons with HIV infection regardless if on therapy or not should get the vaccine unless there is an allergy or other medical reason not to.
Lastly, let me set something straight for the record: the flu vaccine can not give you the flu (unless you believe in life after death). See the vaccine is made from dead flu virus particles. It is not alive. You can get mild reactions but not the actual flu. I know, you, who believe not wearing a scarf can lead to a cold, doubt me but it is true. Roll up that sleeve, it flu season. DW
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To Live Humanely in a Difficult Worldby Jim Amidon • May 17, 2004 Share:
2004 graduates march out
I've seen a lot of Wabash Commencement exercises in my 17 years working here—not to mention my own graduation in 1987. There's a good feeling of familiarity, of tradition associated with the ceremony. Thanks to the efforts of so many people at the College, the event comes off like clockwork. Sometimes we even think of it as routine, though to every graduating class it is a unique and memorable day.
This year, however, seems different to me. And I can't quite put my finger on it. The way the year ended—with Tony Lobdell drowning in a mountain lake in Argentina—certainly gives the community pause, but that's not the only reason.
Perhaps it's the month's news headlines. For the last several weeks we've heard about the interrogation of Iraqi prisoners, which reached beyond the limits of ethical treatment. In "retaliation" we see an American civilian beheaded, live and on the web for all the world to see. We've seen the blood and sweat-stained uniforms of American military in every newspaper and every news broadcast of every single day.
We see our most trusted politicians testifying daily before Congressional committees. We're bombarded by eight-second sound bites from the Left and the Right as the battle for the White House and control of Congress reaches a fever pitch.
It's a strange and difficult world our 180 new graduates enter today. How comforting their four years on the Wabash campus and in this community will seem in just a matter of weeks when they are forced to engage more deeply as citizens of the world.
President Ford rings out the class
These men of the Class of 2004 have spent four years pursuing the Wabash mission to "think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely." When the late poet Don Baker crafted the framework of that mission statement, he ended it with "…in a difficult world."
Never before does the phrase "…in a difficult world" appear to be more accurate.
These men of the Class of 2004 argued and debated the world's greatest questions. They have looked through microscopes at the building blocks of life. They have learned languages other than their own, and have practiced those languages in countries around the world.
They have spent summers as interns in high-rise business offices and in cool, antiseptic laboratories.
They have read the words of Shakespeare, Hemingway, and Wordsworth. They have studied the work of Plato and Socrates. They have carefully read and put into context the Declaration of Independence. They have learned from history of the great leaders, the great sacrifices, the successes, and failures.
The men of 2004 have discussed the rise of the Roman Empire and know why it fell. They have learned from active participants of the movement for Civil Rights in this country; they have read Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.
Indeed, the men of the Class of 2004 have learned to "think critically, act responsibly, and lead effectively."
My hope for our collective future is that they—and 2004 graduates everywhere—have learned, or soon will, to "live humanely in a difficult world."
What we've seen, heard, watched, and witnessed in the months of April and May have led me to doubt technology and question authority. At the same time, those events have reinforced in my mind the need for civil discourse, for humane action, and for a deeper understanding of others.
May God—Allah—be with the Wabash graduates as they embark of their life's journey, and with the thousands of graduates nationwide who hold in their hands our hopes for a better tomorrow.
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The Ice Out usually takes place in mid-April.
It took until May 1, but the Hennepin County sheriff's office has finally declared the 2013 "Ice Out" for Lake Minnetonka.
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Coldplay gave song to 'Garden State' movie for free
Back in 2004, stadium rockers Coldplay waived their usual fee and gave a song to the soundtrack of Zach Braff's popular indie movie 'Garden State' because they liked it so much.
In a new interview with London's Time Out magazine, actor Braff explained that the band, who won the Best British Group prize at last night's (February 21) BRITs, were so impressed with the film that they handed over a song named 'Don't Panic' free of charge:
"Chris Martin and the guys in Coldplay put their song on my soundtrack. 'Garden State' was, you know, this little movie, and they just said yes because they liked the movie and not for, at the time, any dough (money), because we couldn't offer them any."
Coldplay are still collectively doing great things with their music - even in 2012 - and earlier today released their live version of 'Charlie Brown', as performed at yesterday's BRIT Awards, through iTunes with proceeds going to The BRITs Trust.
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Website Design: 5 Robust Rules
For website design to be useful one clearly must pay close attention to the details. There is no reason to dismiss the meme, 'the devil is in the details.' In this article I write about five important gross details that deserve consideration.
1) Think Carefully About Splash Pages in Website Design
Technically one's homepage is a splash page. It is the first page one sees when going to your site. But the term splash page or landing page has taken on an entirely new meaning. In its normal use a splash page serves the purpose of 'selling,' of getting a visitor to act. It could be you want to build a mailing list, in which case you offer a free gift in exchange for a name and email address. You may want someone to buy your product, much like the hard sell of a used car salesman. In both these cases a 'splash page' makes sense. But if your business does not cater to these two exceptions, your home page should be informative and nothing more. Evaluate your purpose for having a website and then decide what your home page ought to look like.
2) Do not use banner advertisements in website design
Like splash pages, pages that use banner advertising tend to look and feel cheap. But, just like with splash pages, there are some exceptions to this general rule. If your site is a comparison site, say comparing web hosting companies, then banner ads with your review attached makes sense. If, say, you are running an eZine site, then outside advertising makes sense. Otherwise outside advertising takes away from your message and must be left out completely.
3) Web Design Must Have simple, clear navigation
There is nothing so frustrating as going to a website and not being able to easily navigate the site. That happened to me the other day when I needed to contact my internet provider. All I wanted was a phone number. Yikes, I must have been there for 15 minutes before I happened on the number. This should have been simple. Had I not needed the number I would have clicked off that site in a matter of under one minute.
Your navigation must be so simple that even a five-year-old can use it. You don't need fancy menus or gimmicks to find your way around. A simple, clear design, one that is user friendly and misses nothing important, is ideal. Make sure you tell your designer that this is what you want.
4) Good Web Design Identifies Exactly Where One Is
Website design ought to make it easy for the user to know exactly where one is at all times. This is another way of making it easy to navigate the site so that your visitor with a limited attention span will not simply give up. That is your worst nightmare when it comes to website design. Making your visitor want to stay on your pages means that you have a chance of influencing that visitor to act favorably toward you.
5) Avoid using audio/video on your site
Powerful website design means that you keep your design clean. It also means that you should think about search engine optimization when designing your site. Audio and video files are a sure fire way to cause search engine bots to ignore your site. They take up code space while the bots look for text when they crawl your site. If your ratio of code to text is too high, the bot will mark you down injuring your ability to rank high.
If that weren't enough, say you are a Punk Rock fan and you want to put Punk as background music to your site. I come there because I am interested in your product or service but I am a fan of Mozart. It is probable that the music will turn me off and I will go elsewhere. Your choice of music has turned me from a prospect to someone who never wants anything to do with you or your company. I am sure you have been on hold where the phone blasts music in your ear. I am also certain you have been annoyed by that music from time to time. The point is just this, if you must have music then use a generic selection of music and allow your visitor volume control and the ability to mute as well.
Video poses an entirely different problem. Go back to the issue of splash pages where you have a specific conversion goal in mind. Here videos tend to work quite well. People who come to your page are highly motivated and are predisposed to looking at a ten to fifteen minute video presentation. They tend to be high converters accomplishing exactly what one would want to happen. Anywhere else not so much. If you are going to use video, make sure that no video runs more than two to three minutes, that they are informative, and that there is text to go along with it. Otherwise, don't waste your time.


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Wealthy neighborhoods: All the wrought-iron fencing, alarm systems and police in the world won't help when the outbreak hits. Lakefront: Every body dumped there, back to the days of Capone, is going to be dragging concrete shoes to the surface. Major highways and rail lines: Hopelessly clogged. Chicago River: Sail out to deep water or downriver to escape the city. Close-knit neighborhoods: Where community institutions are strong, people will help one another. Graveyards: Seriously? You would try this?
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Finnov needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 102 designs submitted by 39 freelance designers.
A Web and print logo for our new company. The logo must show a high professional standard in the field of tax consulting
We advise high tech companies to get tax grants because of their effort in R&D or their innovative approaches. We target very dynamic companies too, which would trade abroad and would like to be advised for tax credit and grants.
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Consuming and Binding EJBs and Data in Creator
This article is the third and final in a series detailing the integration of Java Studio Creator into an existing software development process. In the example that has formed the basis for these articles, the architecture uses an EJB API that can be deployed to the Sun Application Server embedded in Creator and then consumed within Java Creator Studio itself. The previous two articles, Integrating Sun Java Studio Creator Into Your Development Process and Deploying and Consuming EJBs in Java Studio Creator, covered first the creation of suitable EJB archives for use in Creator, and then the deployment and consumption within Creator.
This final article details how you can use the EJBs and the data returned from them to bind into on-page controls within Creator, thus seeing the fruits of your labor. There are a number of basic approaches covered for binding in the data, and some specific details and notes on that usage within Creator.
This article refers to example code that is available from the NewEnergy Associates Web page at the following locations:
- CreatorDemoJDeveloper.zip—JDeveloper EJB project
- EJBFiles.zip—EJB EAR file and Client Jar
- CreatorDemoApp.zip—Creator Project
The EJB example project was constructed using Oracle's JDeveloper 10.1.2, available free for educational use after registration from http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/index.html. Make sure you get the 10.1.2 version to compile this project, not the newer early access version of 10.1.3 because it is untested with that version.
Because the aim here is to illustrate the EJB binding into Creator, the example jar is kept purposely simple and has no persistence and no error checking (it will be easy to cause NPEs in this demo, but I prefer clarity of the code in this case—persistence and error trapping are left as an exercise for the reader). Instead of persistent data, the EJB jar file uses static data to return results.
Download at least the EJB EAR file and Client Jar from the link given above and unzip the file. You should find one EAR and one JAR inside.
The deployment process to the app server and the consumption in Creator are detailed in the previous article, but a quick recap of the steps is:
- Start Creator, and from within Creator, start the Deployment Server.
- Run the deploy tool from the SunAppServer8/bin directory under your Creator install directory.
- Open the EAR file downloaded above in the deploy tool.
- Deploy (Tools->Deploy) the EAR into the Creator App Server (the localhost:14848) choice. Check the Return Client Jar if you want, but I have included the client jar file created by that in the zip file you downloaded.
- When the EAR has been deployed successfully, close the deploy tool and in Creator, import the client jar file. (Right-click Enterprise Java Beans and select Add Set of Session EJBs.)
- In the dialog, fill in the values and add the client jar file. Remember to set the port to 13700, and fill in something meaningful for the name. An example screenshot is provided below:
- After you click OK, you should see a new CreatorDemo entry in the list of Enterprise Java Beans section. Expand this new entry and further expand each of the three EJBs in there; you should see several methods on each EJB, like this:
- If you see the above, the EJBs are ready for use in Creator, so you can use them.
- The final step: Create a new project from the Creator welcome screen. This will be your demo application, so name it what makes sense to you.
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Simple Data Usage
First, examine the simplest level of data binding and EJB usage within Creator. The example page you will set up will allow the user to type in a number (between 1 and 3 because those are the company IDs I have provided; anything else will result in a error). After the number is accepted, the name and annual income for that company will be displayed on the screen as text labels.
Create a new page in Creator and call it something like SimpleBinding. Then, do the following:
- Drag an Output Text on to the page and change the text to read "Enter company ID."
- Drag a Text Field next to it, and rename the text field to companyId. (It's good practice to rename any controls you will manipulate from the java page bean because it makes it easier to figure out which control to use.)
- Right-click on the new text field and check the "Auto submit on change" option.
- Add two more Output Text controls, and rename them to companyNameText and companyIncomeText respectively. These will be the output fields.
- Your page should look something like this:
- You need to make a reference to the EJB you are going to use. Drag and drop the SimpleDemoEJB from the Enterprise Java Beans section in the server navigator onto the page somewhere. You should see a new reference, called SimpleDemoEJBClient1, appear at the bottom of the page.
- Now, double-click on the companyId Text Field. This should drop you through to the page bean in a new method called companyId_processValueChange. You are going to use this method to update the output fields on the page using the EJB reference you just created.
- In the body of the newly created method, add the following code:
- Some notes about the code above: In this case, I wanted to demonstrate the minimum exceptions that must be caught for an EJB remote method; these are RemoteException, NamingException and CreateException. This pattern can be put into a code clip (see the tips section), or you could choose to catch a more general exception and handle it instead of handling the three separately. Note also that you just use the simpleDemoEJBClient1 reference. All lookup and narrowing of the EJB has been handled for you by Creator. It makes life with EJBs very easy.
- When you paste in the code above, you may get several lines that do not compile because of classes that are not imported. Position the cursor in the underlined word and right-click; then choose the fast import option. This will give you the option of importing the class or the entire package. (I tend to import the package mostly because if I use one class from a package, I normally need several from the same package.) This will add the import statements automatically to the beginning of the file. Keep using this option until all of the underlined classes are gone.
- Next, compile the project, and then run it. You should get a screen that accepts a number; type in 1, 2 or 3 and you should see details come back about the company with the ID you typed in.
// first get the company ID typed in by the user String id = (String)this.getCompanyId().getValue(); // use the EJB to look up the name and income for the company try { String name = this.simpleDemoEJBClient1.getCompanyNameForID(id); double income = this.simpleDemoEJBClient1. getAnnualIncomeForCompanyId(id); this.getCompanyNameText().setValue(name); this.getCompanyIncomeText().setValue(new Double(income)); } catch(RemoteException rex) { throw new FacesException(rex); } catch(NamingException nex) { throw new FacesException(nex); } catch(CreateException cex) { throw new FacesException(cex); }
This is an example of the simplest way of using and binding data from an EJB API into Creator. In fact, depending on how you look at it, you are not really binding anything, merely using the results of the EJB methods to set values on the page. In essence, you are providing your own binding to the page, setting values, and potentially reading values back in and applied through other EJB calls (beyond the scope of this article, but I am sure you can work out the details).
You are also dealing with the easiest kind of data, scalars, and simple classes like String. What about if you want to return and bind more sophisticated data?
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Nationals prospect pitches seven one-hit innings, strikes out eight
By Danny Wild / MiLB.com | July 18, 2014 11:15 PM
Beneath the surface of Austin Voth's gaudy numbers, the nuances and, at times, even the struggles is the story of a rising prospect still learning his way through the Minor Leagues. He turned in another gem on Friday night, extending his scoreless streak to 21 innings, but it nearly fell apart in the second inning.
"Between innings, my pitching coach came up to me and told me I needed to slow down," said Voth, who's been nearly untouchable since his promotion to Class A Advanced Potomac last month. "I needed to keep my front side closed in a little longer. It was a quick fix for me -- I needed to take a deep breath and slow things down, and that definitely helped."
Voth returned to cruise control, allowing one hit and striking out eight over seven more dominant innings before the Nationals dropped a 3-0 decision at Wilmington.
This latest gem comes seven days after the Nationals' No. 16 prospect took a no-hitter into the sixth against Frederick. His effort on Friday lowered his ERA to 0.27 in five Carolina League starts.
"It's great. I'm definitely on the right track and I'm exactly where I want to be going into my next couple starts," Voth said. "I couldn't be happier with my progress of how I'm taking each start. I'm a very happy guy right now."
The 22-year-old right-hander has given up one run on 10 hits over 33 innings since moving up from Class A Hagerstown on June 24. The only run he's allowed with Potomac was a solo homer by Frederick's Trey Mancini on June 29; since then, he's limited opponents to six hits while striking out 23.
On Friday, the Blue Rocks got their only hit off Voth in the first inning when Raul Mondesi -- the Royals' second-ranked prospect -- poked a one-out single up the middle. Voth worked around a two-out walk to Jared Schlehuber in the second, pitched a 1-2-3 third and struck out the side in the fourth en route to retiring the final 16 batters he faced.
The 2013 fifth-round pick had to overcome some early issues with fastball command.
"Early on in the game, I was having a hard time locating my fastball for strikes early in the count, I was overthrowing a bit," he said. "I was pitching away from contact, which isn't me. Later in the game, I started pitching to contact and starting to pitch to the big part of the strike zone and letting the hitters hit it. Just be simple, pitch to my strengths, and I cruised through seven."
Striking out the side in the fourth only showed what a groove Voth was in following the pep talk from pitching coach Franklin Bravo.
"I definitely didn't intend on doing that," he said. "Certain pitches I'd been setting up earlier in the count helped. To all three, I went fastball away or in and then I finished with, I think to the righties, curveballs; and to the lefty, the fastball."
Voth's Carolina League numbers are far-fetched from all angles. He's holding opponents to a .092 average while issuing only six walks. He hasn't yielded more than three hits in any outing and no one has gotten a hit off him with runners in scoring. And he hasn't hit a batter nor thrown a wild pitch.
All that would suggest the University of Washington product has done a good job of proving he's mastered the Class A Advanced level, although the Nationals could keep him in Potomac for postseason experience. The P-Nats wrapped up a playoff berth by winning the first-half Northern Division crown.
"They haven't talked to me about my future and I'm not really worried about it," Voth said. "I mean, I set my goal of getting to Potomac, that was my goal coming into this year. I'm fine with that. If they keep me in Potomac or move me to Harrisburg, I'd be fine with both. I'm just glad to be here."
Ian Dickson (1-8) came on to start the eighth for the P-Nats but gave up three runs on three hits and a walk over the final two innings.
Blake Wood (1-1) fanned one while recording the final six outs for Wilmington after starter Jon Dziedzic -- Kansas City's 13th-round pick last year, held Potomac scoreless on four hits over seven frames.
"It's definitely frustrating when you go up with another pitcher like that. You know it's going to be a long night," Voth said of facing Dziedzic. "You keep fighting your way until somebody scores. My mind-set was to go out and put up a zero every inning until they took me out of the game. Unfortunately, we didn't get any run support tonight, but that's sometimes how it goes."
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Oct. 3, 2008) - The ETSU men's soccer team fell to conference opponent North Florida as the Bucs lost in double overtime Friday afternoon at Summers-Taylor Stadium, 2-1.
"In the first half we had a lot of chances, and we failed to put them away," said head coach Scott Calabrese. "When you don't put teams away, you always leave the door open for the other team to get back into the match. UNF's goal late in the half that gave their team momentum heading into halftime, and that's where things went wrong for us tonight."
The Bucs (4-4, 0-1 A-Sun) jumped out in front in the 11th minute as Russell Thompson (Blairsville, Ga.) scored his first goal of the season, knocking the cross from Andrew Brown (Montego Bay, Jamaica) into the back of the net to give ETSU a 1-0 advantage.
UNF evened things up in the 29th minute as Akil DeFreitas rocketed a shot from just inside the 18 yard box past the Buccaneer keeper to make the score 1-1. The Bucs outshot the Ospreys 12-5 in the first half as the score was tied going into the break.
In the second half, both teams had good scoring opportunities, but neither team took advantage of them as the score remained 1-1 at the end of regulation.
The Ospreys broke the tie in the 106th minute as DeFreitas flicked the rebound from his own shot into the goal for the game winner to make the final 2-1.
"The first goal for UNF was a bit unlucky," Calabrese said. "DeFreitas is very fast and we got isolated on him, and that's how he got free. With his pace he was able to get beyond our back line and James made a great save on the first shot but had some bad luck as the ball bounced straight back off DeFreitas and trickled in the net. That's sometimes how the game goes. It was disappointing to lose the game, but our team fought hard and the attitudes of the players were correct. They worked very hard, but ultimately if we put home our chances early in the match things would have been different."
ETSU outshot UNF 19-16 in the match, and also had more corners 5-3. Defensively, James Holt (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) led the Bucs with six saves.
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LOS ANGELES - UCLA Anderson School of Management today released a forecast report on the economic impact of the current WGA strike which contains results that differ from widely-published estimates. The report, written by UCLA Anderson Forecast economist Jerry Nickelsburg, concludes that, even if the strike were to last through the end of March, the economic impact on the Los Angeles economy would be about $380 million rather than the prevailing estimate of $1 billion.
"Virtually everywhere in the media, in City Hall and in Sacramento this greater than $1B economic impact is taken as fact," states Nickelsburg. "But what is behind it and how much faith can we put in this number? Is there a serious public issue for the Los Angeles economy worthy of governmental intervention? As it turns out, a close examination of the economic dynamics of the 2007 WGA strike suggests a much more modest and transitory impact on the Los Angeles economy. The impact, even if the strike runs as long as the record 1988 strike, will be about 1/3 or less of the currently accepted one billion dollar estimate."
Claiming that the initial estimates have been "grossly inflated," Nickelsburg reasons that the $1B figure is missing some key elements - the inventory effect, the substitution effect, and the composition effect. To view the full report, go to: http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/documents/areas/adm/media/UCLAAnd_StrikeImpact.pdf.
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UCLA Anderson Forecast is one of the most widely watched and often-cited economic outlooks for California and the nation and was unique in predicting both the seriousness of the early-1990s downturn in California and the strength of the state's rebound since 1993. More recently, the Forecast was credited as the first major U.S. economic forecasting group to declare the recession of 2001. Visit UCLA Anderson Forecast on the Web at http://uclaforecast.com.
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However, after looking at the new setup, I do think one child board is needed for new episode discussion. Anyone else?
It looks great, and it's quite a comprehensive list you've assembled here. I'd say even moreso than the information we have in a similar section for the Berserk Encyclopedia.
While looking through all this, I was thinking a character section with a brief description of each named character (ideally listed in either alphabetical or even order of appearance) would be extremely useful. Just this morning, I couldn't recall Ogawa's name and ended up looking like an idiot by calling him "what's his face." The character section could have saved me from that embarrassing episode
The guys who do Vagabond's wikipedia entry have an exhaustive character list, but it's too detailed and nuanced to be of any real use. It's like trying to read Ulysses. I think a 1-2 line description, similar to the entries in the Berserk Encyclopedia glossary, would be far more useful for our purposes.
Would I be cast out for saying I don't like it?
Update: How do do you like my "Inoue on the Web" theme? I almost feel like petitioning to be their official message board.
I sort of liked the blue better, but that's just me.
You VagabondKleptomaniac jk.
It does stand out with the other colors. How about it making it to grayscale to see the results.
I just don't have any pic at the moment. But the pic does make it feel like an "inn". Another pic I thought about for the "inn" feel is when Musashi is taking a bath and Sekishusai's grandson is with him.
edit: This is minor, but weird. If you click the banner at the top to get back to the Inn, then click the Skullknight.net index button, you remain with the Vagabond Inn title at the top of your browser for the rest of the SK.net forum... but only if you click the banner first. WEIIIIRD.
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- Mix together the flour, water, salt, cream of tartar, oil, and food coloring. Stir over medium heat until smooth. Remove from pan and knead until blended smooth.
- When mixture is cool, place in a plastic sandwich bag or airtight container. To make the brooch(s), shape the dough into hearts. Before they're totally dry, press pin backs into the backs of each of the hearts.
- When the hearts are totally dry, have the kids paint them with their favorite colors. Voila! Instant jewelry, either to give someone special, or for your kids themselves!


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If you're not familiar with Sydney Leroux, well, that's your fault. The soccer star's quickly becoming a fan favorite on Twitter. And she posts a lot of hot pics on Instagram, if you're into that whole "girls in bikini" thing. But that's a different post for a different day.
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Looking for logo/brand that I can use for photography business. Mainly weddings. Needs to appeal more to 20-35 crowd, but must appeal to all ages as well. Must use at least BD (hopefully the P also) as well as company name
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Traders often seek repeated patterns or repetitive relationships that we can take advantage of for profit. These patterns exist across all markets and time frames, but some are more easily identified than others. One such exploitable pattern involves the Swiss franc and the U.S. dollar. This currency relationship typically repeats a certain move at least once a day during any given trading session.
The first step to understanding the relationship between the Swiss franc and the dollar is to examine the birth and evolution of the foreign currency. While it may seem unlikely that such ancient history has any impact on the intraday fluctuations in the 21st century, it does help us appreciate the connections between the Swiss and U.S. denominations.
Prior to 1798, Switzerland as a country was divided into cantons or provinces, each with its own currency. This is similar to the early history of America when the country operated under the Articles of Confederation and each state minted its own coin. Imagine how problematic that was for conducting interstate commerce.
In the Helvetic Republic, a late-18th century effort to bring Switzerland under united rule, a currency pegged to the French franc was created. France was the premier world power at that time. Initially, this common currency was equivalent to 6.75 grams of pure silver or 1.5 French francs. This effort only lasted a few years, however, before local currencies regained favor.
A generation later, in 1850, the Swiss Federal Constitution mandated that only the federal government would be allowed to mint money, replacing the local currencies. Initially, the Swiss franc was pegged to the French currency and then directly to silver before Switzerland joined the Bretton Woods system in 1945, pegging its value to the dollar.
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Today, the Swiss franc sees significant fluctuations vs. other currencies. Throughout 2011, it had massive appreciation as the dollar slid. The stronger Swiss franc was not good for Switzerland's export economy, and the Swiss National Bank began targeting a value of 1.20 Swiss francs vs. one euro. The Swiss central bank would sell foreign currencies to achieve that rate. This is a common practice of central banks to keep their country's products cheaper, and more attractive, overseas. Indeed, this is a cornerstone of Japan's current so-called "Abenomics" principles.
In any case, the Swiss franc currently sells at or below the threshold of 1.20 euros. Most likely the reason for the mass appreciation was the Greek bailouts that occurred during that time. Most Europeans were concerned that the euro would devalue, and the Swiss franc always has been the emblem of stability. Be warned, however, this is not to say that such a devaluation couldn't happen again. It's the type of major market-moving event that currency traders always should anticipate.
Today, each tick on a Swiss franc futures contract at the CME Group is worth $12.50. Unto itself, this is quite appealing, and better than other currencies such as the Canadian dollar or the Australian dollar.


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A few days ago, we posted a few concept art pieces from the unmade fourth '90s live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, revealing a fifth turtle named after Jack Kirby and an evil April so busty she looks ready to tip over. But the '90s turtle train doesn't stop there; Comic Book Movie poster nailbiter111 uncovered more concept art from the defunct late-90s turtle film. These pieces gave our core turtles and their sensei additional mutations, resulting in a muscle-bound Splinter and a Raphael with sharp teeth and talons.
TMNT co-creator Peter Laird penciled these concept pieces, which were inked by his co-creator Kevin Eastman. The idea was that the mutagen would continue to give the turtles and Splinter new abilities and new woes: Donatello would become telepathic and telekinetic but would start to lose his eyesight; Leonardo could turn his skin into an impenetrable chrome-like substance; Michelangelo could project a human appearance, allowing him to interact with humans (hence the funky clothes); Raphael could turn into the monstrous "Raptor Raphael"; and Splinter would get in on the action since he would now have the power to morph into a super rat. On that last point, Laird says, "Okay, it's lame... I admit it."
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A study by scientists at the University of Nevada pesents evidence that Neanderthal may have sailed the Mediterranean Sea. Tools in deposits that could date back 170,000 years were discovered on Crete. There is the possibility, however, that early hominins arrived on Mediterranean islands as a result of having been swept to them while hanging on to logs. Notwithstanding, per the article:
"They had to have had boats of some sort; unlikely they swam," said Alan Simmons, lead author of a study about the find in this week's Science. "Many of the islands had no land-bridges, thus they must have had the cognitive ability to both build boats and know how to navigate them." ....On Crete, for example, tools such as quartz hand-axes, picks and cleavers are associated with deposits that may date to 170,000 years ago...."Additionally," he continued, "findings from the Indonesian Wallacea islands suggest the presence of hominins as early as 1.1 million years ago on Flores Island."
The study has been published in this week's edition of the journal, Science.
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What I find interesting is, time after time, the more we learn about our ancestors, it becomes apparent that modern humans have never given the proper respect to our predecessors regarding their intelligence and cunning abilities until just very recently. Perhaps this is so because modern science, until just recently, has given us the opportunity to discover these findings. But I can't help but wonder if we've also held a biased arrogance toward our common ancestor apes which has kept us from appreciating the full intellectual scope of Neanderthals, et al.
I share your feelings. I think a lot of us have jumped to the conclusion that Neanderthal et. al. lacked intellectual potential because of their primitive appearance. Because of their brain cavities I doubt that they had the intellectual potential that we have but I by no means think they were as low functioning as most of us have stereotyped them to be.
The chauvinistic understanding or assumption that we civilized people are superior to the barbarians, our failure to recognize that socially we are retrogressive and not equal to them. They were more humane and cooperative in sharing and caring which made them superior in their mental and social health and understanding, above all they did not have any religion to divide them and fool them. Their whole concern was survival and interact without any hostility and violence which are the product of the modern civilization of competition and consumerism and worse of all individualism,ego, mutual distrust and intolerance, rigid attitude to adjust with our fellow human beings, infected with prejudices like race, state, country name it devil or Satan the product of the modern brain like religion, called personal freedom.
I think you're greatly overstating ... well, everything really.
The article and photos fascinate me. What an interesting history. Thanks.
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Grazing in a nature reserve the only choice for herders in Xinjiang Uighur region of China
Just before Christmas my colleagues Judith Schleicher and Zeng Jun joined me on a visit to Lake Aibi in order to visit Kokobasto, a Kazakh nationality village situated north of the lake and within the Lake Aibi Nature Reserve in China's far north-western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. When I last visited the village (as mentioned briefly in my rant about goats and an accompanying YouTube film), I was told that herders from the high summer pastures to the north came down to Kokobasto during the winter along with their livestock.
I had wanted to meet them and discuss herding practices, even though it was a particularly cold and bleak time of year. In fact those shifting herders no longer come to Kokobasto, and my following YouTube film documents some of the meetings we had with a selection of the 250 inhabitants who live permanently in the village.
The villagers feel part of Tuoli County, Tacheng Prefecture, to the north, and they have their livestock grazing permit from there. But they actually live and herd their livestock in the nature reserve, which lies wholly within Jinghe County, Bortala Prefecture.


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'Dr.' Bearden's Vacuum Energy
Notes of a Fringe-Watcher
Martin Gardner
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 31.1, January / February 2007
One of the strangest books ever written about modern physics was published in 2002, and reprinted two years later. Titled Energy from the Vacuum (Cheniere Press), this monstrosity is two inches thick and weighs three pounds. Its title page lists the author as "Lt. Col. Thomas E. Bearden, PhD (U.S. Army retired)."
"Dr." Bearden is fond of putting PhD after his name. An Internet check revealed that his doctorate was given, in his own words, for "life experience and life accomplishment." It was purchased from a diploma mill called Trinity College and University—a British institution with no building, campus, faculty, or president, and run from a post office box in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The institution's owner, one Albert Wainwright, calls himself the college "registrant."
Bearden's central message is clear and simple. He is persuaded that it is possible to extract unlimited free energy from the vacuum of space-time. Indeed, he believes the world is on the brink of its greatest technological revolution. Forget about nuclear reactors. Vacuum energy will rescue us from global warming, eliminate poverty, and provide boundless clean energy for humanity's glorious future. All that is needed now is for the scientific community to abandon its "ostrich position" and allow adequate funding to Bearden and his associates.
To almost all physicists this quest for what is called "zero-point energy" (ZPE) is as hopeless as past efforts to build perpetual motion machines. Such skepticism drives Bearden up a wall. Only monumental ignorance, he writes, could prompt such criticism.
The nation's number two drumbeater for ZPE is none other than Harold Puthoff, who runs a think tank in Austin, Texas, where efforts to tap ZPE have been underway for years. In December 1997, to its shame, Scientific American ran an article praising Puthoff for his efforts. Nowhere did this article mention his dreary past.
Puthoff began his career as a dedicated Scientologist. He had been de¬clared a "clear"—a person free of malicious "engrams" recorded on his brain while he was an embryo. At Stanford Research International, Puthoff and his then-friend Russell Targ claimed to have validated "remote viewing" (a new name for distant clairvoyance), and also the great psi powers of Uri Geller. (See my chapter on Puthoff's search for ZPE in Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?, Norton 2000.)
Bearden sprinkles his massive volume with admirable quotations from top physicists, past and present, occasionally correcting mistakes made by Einstein and others. For example, Bearden be¬lieves that the graviton moves much faster than the speed of light. He praises the work of almost every counterculture physicist of recent decades. He admires David Bohm's "quantum potential" and Mendel Sach's unified field theory. Oliver Heaviside and Nikola Tesla are two of his heroes.
Bearden devotes several chapters to antigravity machines. Here is a sample of his views:
In our approach to antigravity, one way to approach the problem is to have the mechanical apparatus also the source of an intense negative energy EM field, producing an intense flux of Dirac sea holes into and in the local surrounding space-time. The excess charge removed from the Dirac holes can in fact be used in the electrical powering of the physical system, as was demonstrated in the Sweet VTA antigravity test. Then movements of the mechanical parts could involve movement of strong negative energy fields, hence strong curves of local space-time that are local strong negative gravity fields. Or, better yet, movement of the charges themselves will also produce field-induced movement of the Dirac sea hole negative energy. This appears to be a practical method to manipulate the metric itself, along the lines proposed by Puthoff et al. [217]
The 217 superscript refers to a footnote about a 2002 paper by Puthoff and two friends on how to use the vacuum field to power spacecraft. Bearden's anti-gravity pro¬pulsion system is neatly diagrammed on page 319. "Negatively charged local space-time," says the diagram, "acts back upon source vehicle producing anti-gravity and unilateral thrust."
In the 1950s, numerous distinguished writers, artists, and even philosophers (e.g., Paul Goodman, William Steig, and Paul Edwards) sat nude in Wilhelm Reich's "orgone accumulators" to absorb the healing rays of "orgone energy" coming from outer space. Bearden suspects (in footnote 78) that orgone energy "is really the transduction of the time-polarized photon energy into normal photon energy. We are assured by quantum field theory and the great negentropy solution to the source charge problem that the instantaneous scalar potential in¬volves this process." I doubt if the Reichians, who are still around, will find this illuminating.
To my amazement Bearden has good things to say about the notorious "Dean drive"—a rotary motion device designed to propel spaceships by inertia. It was promoted by John Campbell when he edited Astounding Science Fiction, a magazine that unleashed L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics on a gullible public and made Hubbard a millionaire. Only elementary physics is needed to show that no inertial drive can move a spaceship in frictionless space. On pages 448—453 Bearden lists eighty patents for inertial drives. They have one feature in common: none of them works.
Counterculture scientists tend to be bitter over the "establishment's" inability to recognize their genius. Was not Galileo, they like to repeat, persecuted for his great discoveries? This bitterness is sometimes accompanied by paranoid fears, not just of conspiracies to silence them, but also fears of being murdered. Bearden's pages 406—453 are devoted to just such delusions.
Several kinds of "shooters" are described that induce fatal heart attacks. He himself, Bearden writes, has been hit by such devices. An associate, Stan Meyer, died after a "possible" hit by a close-range shooter. Another ZPE researcher was killed by a bazooka-size shooter. Steve Marikov, still another researcher, was assaulted by a sophisticated shooter and his body thrown off a rooftop to make it appear a suicide. When his body was removed, the pavement "glowed."
One day at a Texas airport a person three feet from Bearden was killed with symptoms suggesting he was murdered by an ice-dart dipped in curare! "That was apparently just to teach me 'they' were serious." The colonel goes on to explain that "they" refers to a "High Cabal" who were offended by a friend's "successful transmutation of copper (and other things) into gold. . . . We have had numerous other assassination attempts, too numerous to reiterate. . . . Over the years probably as many as fifty or more overunity researchers and inventors have been assassinated . . . some have simply disappeared abruptly and never have been heard from since." Overunity is Bearden's term for machines with energy outputs that exceed energy inputs.
Any significant researcher should be wary of "meeting with a sudden suicide" on the way to the supermarket. Another thing to beware of, is a calibrated auto accident where your car is rammed from the rear, and you are shaken up considerably. An ambulance just happens to be passing by moments later, and it will take you to the hospital. If still conscious, the researcher must not get in the ambulance unless accompanied by a watchful friend who understands the situation and the danger. Otherwise, he can easily get a syringe of air into his veins, which will effectively turn him into a human vegetable. If he goes to the hospital safely, he must be guarded by friends day and night, for the same reason, else he runs a high risk of the "air syringe" assassination during the night.
Simply trying to do scientific work, I find it necessary to often carry (legally) a hidden weapon. Both my wife and I have gun permits, and we frequently and legally carry concealed weapons.
As early as the 1930s, T. Henry Moray—who built a successful COp<1.0 power system outputting 50kW from a 55 lb power unit—had to ride in a bulletproof car in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was repeatedly fired at by snipers from the buildings or sidewalk, with the bullets sometimes sticking in the glass. He was also shot by a would-be assassin in his own laboratory, but overpowered his assassin and recovered.
Obviously, I'm not competent to wade through Bearden's almost a thousand pages to point out what physicists tell me are howlers. I leave that task to experts, though I suspect very few will consider it worth their time even to read the book. To me, a mere science journalist, the book's dense, pompous jargon sounds like hilarious technical double-talk. The book's annotated glossary runs to more than 120 pages. There are 305 footnotes, 754 endnotes, and a valuable seventy-three-page index.
The back cover calls the book "the definitive energy book of the twenty-first century." In my opinion it is destined to be the greatest work of outlandish science in both this and the previous century. It is much funnier, for instance, than Frank Tipler's best-seller of a few decades ago, The Physics of Immortality.


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Aug. 22: The National Corn Growers Association has joined a coalition of 39 of the nation's foremost agricultural organizations in an effort to raise public awareness of the need for Congress to pass a new, comprehensive, five-year farm bill before current farm programs expire in September.
The coalition, called Farm Bill Now, comprises associations and coalitions representing commodity crops, livestock, dairy, specialty crops, state and local governments, minor crops, energy and biobased product groups, farm cooperatives and financial groups, as well as the nation's two largest farm groups, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmers Union. Each organization has strong and distinct policy priorities, yet all 39 are committed to passing a new, comprehensive bill this year.
Today, the group issues the following statement, titled "Why We Need a Farm Bill," on the importance of new farm legislation for America's farmers:
"Calling the farm bill the 'farm bill' suggests its impact is limited only to farms and to the rural areas to which they are so closely tied. It's really a jobs bill. A food bill. A conservation bill. A research bill. An energy bill. A trade bill. In other words, it's a bill that affects every American.
"The farm bill affects our nation's ability to provide the necessities of life for a global population projected to pass 9 billion by 2050. Here at home, it affects an industry that provides 23 million—or 1 in every 12—American jobs.
"The farm bill has broad impact on our citizens and our economy. It provides healthy foods to millions of schoolchildren and nutritious options to families in need. It develops and expands trade with valuable foreign markets. By reducing spending significantly compared to prior farm bills, the proposals pending right now in Congress address the need to get our nation's fiscal house in order.
"And yes, it benefits American farms—98 percent of which are owned and operated by families. It helps big farms and small farms, major crops and specialty crops, organic farmers and conventional farmers, cattle ranchers and cotton ginners, farmers markets and national suppliers, and the vast range of other pursuits that make up American agriculture. This year, it would help farmers tackle the challenges posed by the worst drought in a generation.
"While Congress waits to finish the farm bill, we are united in asking all Americans to encourage legislators—home for summer town hall meetings and speeches—to finish this vital legislation before the current farm and food law expires in September. After all, it's your bill too."
In addition to today's statement, Farm Bill Now launched an interactive web portal at www.FarmBillNow.com, through which visitors to the site can connect to their members of Congress and show their support for a new five-year farm bill. Using messages to Congress via social media, event locations and times, and an online petition, FarmBillNow.com gives both farmers and consumers the resources they need to make their voices heard, telling Congress that the farm bill needs to be completed before the current farm food law expires in September.
In the coming weeks, Farm Bill Now will hold events in Iowa and on Capitol Hill to underscore the message as well.
On the afternoon of Tuesday, Aug. 28, farmers representing multiple groups within the coalition will discuss the Farm Bill Now effort at the annual Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, the nation's largest outdoor farm show.
Wednesday morning Sept. 12, representatives of many of the groups uniting today will gather on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol to encourage Congress to pass the bill before programs expire at the end of the month.
For more information on Farm Bill Now and to get involved in ensuring that American agriculture has the security and certainty that it needs, please visit FarmBillNow.com.
Farm Bill Now is a coalition of the following agricultural groups, each with strong and varied policy priorities, yet all committed to passing a farm bill this year.
25x'25 Alliance
Agricultural Retailers Association
American Beekeepers Federation
American Farm Bureau Federation
American Feed Industry Association
American Pulse Association
American Seed Trade Association
American Sheep Industry Association
American Soybean Association
American Sugar Alliance
Biobased Products Coalition
Council of State Governments East
Council of State Governments Midwest
Farm Credit Council
National Association of Wheat Growers
National Barley Growers Association
National Cattlemen's Beef Association
National Corn Growers Association
National Cotton Council
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
National Farmers Union
National Milk Producers Federation
National Potato Council
National Sorghum Producers
National Sunflower Association
Northharvest Bean Growers Association
Northeast State Association for Agricultural Stewardship
Produce Marketing Association
Southern Peanut Farmers Federation
Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance
State Agriculture and Rural Leaders
United Dairymen of Arizona
United Fresh Produce Association
U.S. Canola Association
U.S. Dry Bean Council
USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council
USA Rice Federation
Western Growers Association
Western Peanut Growers Association


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It appears that NetherRealm is set to return to its brutal Mortal Kombat franchise - after a break with Injustice - with a new game set to launch around the time of the Mortal Kombat Legacy motion picture.
Speaking to GamerHub.TV, Legacy producer Lance Sloane said: "We've been in greenlight committee for a while at the studio and we've got a great script. And we've got a great director with Kevin Tancharoen, who is on board.
"It's just figuring out the business side of it and when we would do it and when we would launch it and how do we sync up with the launch of the game that they're working on now. It's not 100% yet, but we're getting closer every day."
VideoGamer.com has contacted Warner seeking clarification on Sloane's comments.
The Mortal Kombat movie was announced back in September 2011 and Injustice hit stores back in April, suggesting it won't be until at least next Easter and probably later before we see the new MK.
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Brook Lopez scored 38 points and Deron Williams had 31 in his first visit to Dallas since spurning his hometown team in free agency, leading the Brooklyn Nets past the Mavericks 113-96 on Wednesday night.
Williams scored 26 in the second half, repeatedly hitting shots and occasionally assisting on a basket by Lopez to prevent a Dallas rally in the fourth quarter.
Williams also hit a fadeaway jumper after a blocked shot by Lopez, running to his bench with a big smile after Dallas called timeout with the Nets up 97-88 midway through the fourth. The Mavericks didn't get closer than six after that.
Dirk Nowitzki led Dallas with 16 points and had a team-high six rebounds compared to 22 boards for Reggie Evans of the Nets, who outrebounded the Mavericks 45-34.
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