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The Credulous Press
I know, I've Been Quiet for a While…
It has been several months since I last wrote anything in this blog. There have been many occasions that excited my desire to comment, I have always discovered a reason to be doing something "more important" instead. Part of that is for the very legitimate reason that I have been fully engaged in the business of survival, but part of it has been a curious kind of shyness. I'm in business, and good businessmen keep their convictions very close to their chests. As one of my former colleagues once remarked in the middle of a barroom debate on politics: "Nobody gives a damn what you think, and neither should you. You're in business."
The theory is that if you're engaged in the business of selling things, you should chary of airing your own opinions, lest you alienate someone who might otherwise be inclined to buy from you. To paraphrase the Grand Inquisitor from the old fantasy adventure game, a good business man should "Shun politics. Shun the appearance of politics. Shun everything, and then shun shunning!"
But I can't. In truth, I have been doing plenty of writing lately. Over the past few months, I have written a novel's worth of the most arid content imaginable: proposals, business analyses, software documentation, grant applications, and even (God forgive me), PowerPoint presentations crammed with neat little diagrams. I have firmly suppressed the impulse to indulge the devices and desires of my own heart, and it's making me miserable. I must write, or burst.
For example: here's something that really grinds my gears:
The Death of the Press?
The press throughout the western world is preoccupied of late – engaged in an existential convulsion that threatens to cast down the foundations of some of its greatest and most august institutions. They're losing money, and they're firmly convinced that it must be because of some new technological advance that is irresistibly and irrevocably changing human behaviour: it's the Internet; it's blogs; it's Twitter; it's tablets and smart phones.
The great institutions of the press have convinced themselves that the only way to save themselves is to re-invent the way they deliver the news. They think that perhaps if they write shorter stories and deliver them with trendy appliances, people will be more eager to read them.
Hogwash. One might as well blame the failure of the press on the invention of coloured ink or radio. Maybe, just maybe, people are less convinced of the value of organised journalism because organised journalism is failing to provide value. It is becoming increasingly obvious that the majority of people employed in the business of journalism are desperately, almost religiously committed to a particular world view, and that they will go to tremendous effort to avoid seeing, hearing or speaking anything that contradicts the little narrative that they have built for themselves. The insipid, willful credulity of the press is quickly approaching the level of parody.
"Nothing to See Here… Move Along"
A few weeks ago, when the American ambassador to Libya was murdered in an attack on what was in theory a secret CIA safe house in Benghazi, the press obediently reported the glib and somewhat bizarre explanation offered by the US State Department that somehow this was the result of a spontaneous outpouring of righteous anger in response to an unwatchable amateur video, (in English, no less), on YouTube that only a few thousand people had even seen.
When I first saw this reported, I was thunderstruck. I could instantly see that it was a lie. Surely at least one of the reporters at the press conference would ask the obvious questions that would inevitably occur to a child of the meanest intelligence! If this was a protest, why did it happen at a secret location far removed from the American embassy? If only a few people had seen this video, how could it provoke a firestorm of protest half a world away? Libya is a French Arabic country, and hardly anyone there speaks English, so how did they even know what was in the video? Wasn't it a funny coincidence that this "just happened" on the 11th anniversary of 911?
Not only did no one question the transparent silliness of this cover story – the press committed themselves fully to the deception, and pontificated dutifully for days about hate speech and "Islamophobia".
Inevitably, elements of the truth emerged, but not through the press. Instead, the story was taken up by bloggers, and by talk radio. The facts that did come out ought to have made this one of the biggest news stories of the decade – it certainly had all of the elements of a blockbuster movie: The US State department secretly dealing in restricted weapons with Al-Qaeda operatives; an 11th-hour recantation by a disillusioned diplomat; the flight to a safe house; a betrayal by a friendly power; gunfire in the night, and a last desperate battle on the rooftops, with an ineffectual President unable or unwilling to act while hopelessly outnumbered Navy Seals beg repeatedly for help that is held just out of reach. The shame, the tragedy, and the final horror of this affair were like something that Shakespeare might have concocted in one of his darker moods.
To date, I have yet to see a single significant story about the Benghazi affair by a major news organization. The press held back their hand, because telling this story would unmake the narrative they had so carefully crafted. They inhabited a bright and brittle universe which held at its center the absolute imperative that Barrack Obama should be re-elected as the American president.
What happened yesterday is equally disgusting. General Petraeus, a man with a brilliant and storied career – and the former director of the CIA, was charged with "throwing the president under the bus", when he revealed certain facts about the Benghazi affair that contradicted the State Department's cover story. He had acted in an honourable and straightforward manner, but by telling the truth, he had embarrassed the president. A mere three days after President Obama's re-election, he was forced out of office.
What a Remarkable Coincidence!
Surely, this is a story that merits attention, and yet the response of the press is contemptible. According to a New York Times story, General Petraeus resigned after it was revealed – apparently by an accidental and unrelated FBI enquiry – that he had been having an extramarital affair with his biographer.
The explanation in this story as to why the FBI should be investigating his personal email, and why the revelation of marital inconstancy should have any damn thing to do with his appointment as director of the CIA is convoluted and tenuous to the point of lunacy. This makes no sense, and I call shenanigans.
What's disgusting to me is the fact that the New York Times seems to be perfectly satisfied. They might as well have announced that there's "nothing to see here". Move along.
Here's what it looks like to me: the director of the CIA refused to accept the blame for the perfidy of a lame duck president. Within three days of the president's re-election, he was forced to resign. It also appears that the president has used the FBI as an instrument to investigate and undermine the director of the CIA. Should this be the case, the constitutional implications are enormous.
The press ought to be screaming bloody murder. They ought to be affronted at the insult that has been offered them with this glib, tenuous, convoluted, and incoherent explanation for what looks like a gross abuse of power. They are either very, very stupid and credulous, or else they are complicit in this abuse.
Dear journalists, this is why you are losing the faith of your readers. It's not the Internet that's killing your profession. It's you.
Yes, We Have No Bananas.
Chiquita becomes a cautionary example when it gets just about everything about social media communications wrong.
I used to work for an ad agency, and I often had animated discussions with my colleagues about the danger of confusing cause marketing with product marketing. I have always maintained that they are separate disciplines that don't mix, while many of my colleagues disagreed.
As a society, we have become distressingly pious and self-righteous – and as a natural consequence advertisers wish to capitalize on this instinct. Like my erstwhile colleagues, they see this as an easy path to identifying their product with a strong public sentiment. This is such a bad idea that it merits a blog entry of its own, but what lead me to write today was a satisfyingly spectacular self-immolation by a large American brand that managed to make the wrong choice in just about every decision their communications and marketing teams have made over the past few days.
Talking to Business Students
I was pleased to be invited back to speak to Dr. David Wright's e-business class at the Telfer School of Management. It was a slightly smaller group than last year, but I enjoyed myself nonetheless. I always appreciate the chance to brush up on my public speaking.
I found myself thinking of James Herriot's description of his first experience in public speaking in which he gave a rather unfortunate talk on veterinary medicine to a church youth group. The students were an incredibly polite group of young people, but they watched me with such solemn attentiveness that I was positively unnerved. My few attempts at humour fell very flat, and after a while I felt obliged to give up the attempt.
I was also very surprised that in an impromptu survey of the class, not one student expressed interest in starting their own business, (though there were a few hands visible when I asked if anyone was working towards an MBA). This was, after all, a business class in one of the country's leading business schools. I singled out one young fellow, who was wearing a suit, and said that he had the look of an entrepreneur, and then I felt bad about it because I had obviously embarrassed him.
I talked to Dr. Wright after the lecture, and he suggested that there might have been young entrepreneurs in the group who just didn't want to talk about their business. He added that it's quite common for students to run start-up ventures while attending school. From my own experience dealing with entrepreneurs, I found it hard to imagine young business owners not wanting to talk about their business ideas.
It wasn't until I was making my way back to my car, and being passed by young folk who were obviously returning from the "Occupy Ottawa" protests that it struck me that the mood on most university campuses is overwhelmingly anti-business. I had just invited budding capitalists to "out" themselves on campus, and it may be that they felt discretion is the better part of valour just now. If so, I apologize.
A Near-Miss With Greatness
My wife and I went to see Kevin O'Leary speak at the Ottawa Writer's Festival at the National Arts Center. Ordinarily, I try very hard to avoid the sort of lefty-loon, quasi-intellectual bumpf that is the lifeblood of this kind of event, but hey – it was Kevin O'Leary.
There was the usual welcome and introduction from the festival chair, and a further introduction by the CBC "personality" Adrian Harewood, followed by Mr. O'Leary's presentation.
I regret to report that he uses a Mac, and something that looks suspiciously like PowerPoint, but I enjoyed his talk very much. I drew the ire of some of my neighbours when I agreed to a point Mr. O'Leary was making about our responsibility for personal, rather than corporate charity with a loud "amen". An "outrageously right-wing perspective" is an acceptable if slightly roué eccentricity when it's coming from a celebrity billionaire; but in Ottawa one doesn't tolerate it in the hoi-polloi.
Mr. O'Leary finished his talk and announced that he would take questions from the audience, but he was quickly and smoothly silenced by the organizers, who had arranged for an interview to be conducted onstage by Adrian Harewood.
What followed was a forty-minute harangue interspersed with loaded questions by an obviously hostile socialist drone. I was irritated, but completely unsurprised by the usual leftist talking points about "the growing disparity between the 98% and the 2% elite", (meaning that Harewood disapproved of O'Leary's disproportionate wealth), and "the responsibility for ethical investing", (by which Harewood implied that perhaps O'Leary wasn't sufficiently aware of how unethical he was). There were several questions obviously intended to bait Mr. O'Leary on the topic of the Occupy Wall Street Protesters.
Back in the Saddle
Seek Out Your Personal Yoda
The Asymmetrical Economy of Spam
In an earlier post, I wrote about the curious economics of the spam industry. Considered as an industry, the numbers initially make spam seem like an attractive proposition, with estimates, (and no figure relating to spam is better than an estimate), of global revenues from spam running as high as $3.2 billion in US dollars in the porn business alone. However, because of the quasi-legal nature of the industry, and the fluidity of the borders between nuisance selling and outright fraud, it's difficult to really put a number on the value of the industry as a whole.
Put simply, it's hard to determine how much of spam is selling, and how much is stealing. The membrane that divides the merely sharp operator selling an iffy MLM scheme from the illegal operators selling unlicensed drugs and software, or from the outright frauds who are trying to find "marks" is continually breaking down as operators exchange personnel, data, and technology.
It also becomes apparent that the actual revenues generated by individual operators aren't really all that attractive. All too often, spam operators use the methods they do because they're trying to sell a product that doesn't really present an attractive value proposition, and wouldn't perform well enough to be a viable selling proposition if they were obliged to pay to use more orthodox marketing channels.
Eat All the Free Lunches You Can Find
Eat all the free lunches you can find.
I don't necessarily mean that literally, (though I always scam free food when I can), but exploit every free service and opportunity you can find. Make use of local entrepreneur's groups and meet-ups, and make use of free local mentoring programs for start-ups like those offered in Ottawa by OCRI.
Every city will have some kind of similar economic development entity or local incubator.
Since most municipal economic development centers are staffed primarily by public sector employees, it's tempting to dismiss them as a real resource. However, they're a good place to start looking for contacts, and the better organizations will host regular symposia and events where business people gather. (Plus there's usually food.) Sometimes free advice is worth exactly what you pay for it, but free is the only deal where you can get more than you paid for.
Don't be a Solution in Search of a Problem
I had spent years working on my solution to email spam. It was a good idea, and I had patents. I had had my technology proposals reviewed by network engineers, and they all agreed that it would probably work very well. Sure, it was complex, and would cost a lot to develop, but it would work.
The problem was that no one wanted it. At least, no one wanted it enough to be willing to risk investing the money required to build it. When I spoke with ISPs and IT managers, I encountered wall of inertia.
They pointed to the effort and money they had already invested in their current solutions. They didn't work perfectly, or even very well, but they worked – sort of. Complaints were down, and their support people were used to the technology; and they'd spent a lot of money putting it in place. Sure, they might change their solution – perhaps in a few years – if other people adopted it first.
There's nothing more frustrating than trying to sell people on something they don't really feel they need. You can have the best mouse trap in the world, but no one is going to buy it if they already have a trap that catches mice.
Pimpin' (a Product) Ain't Easy
It turns out that launching a product is much harder than launching a service company. If you're hanging out a shingle as a service company, you can count on generating revenue almost as soon as you start to win contracts. That's not the case when you build a product. You have to have enough money available to continuously inject revenue into research and development for months or even years before you can generate any revenues.
I had just lost my job, and had very little money of my own. This meant that I would have to convince other people to invest their money in my venture. I decided to ask my former employers for advice. They were kind enough to introduce me to a friend of theirs, a former CEO who was willing to hear out my proposal and give me some practical ideas as to how to proceed.


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- "Great night out for anyone hoping to get lucky, assuming they can dance."
- ―GTA San Andreas Website
The Craw Bar is a bar featured in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and is situated in Old Venturas Strip, Las Venturas.
Beside the bar is a 24/7, while across from it is a Burger Shot. During Taxi Missions, some customers may ask the player to take them here. Like other bars, it features the Pool minigame. Carl Johnson can make a wager of up to $1,000 against the opponent. If there is a second controller, 2 players can play pool against each other but won't make any wagers.
The bar also has several arcade machines including Space Monkey and Duality. Assuming that most of the bar patrons would get drunk after their session, it would most likely be followed by a fight occurrence. Hence, The Craw Bar is a play on words for 'Crowbar', a tool for repair purposes as well as a common weapon used in fights.

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- Jordan Danks, OF, White Sox (Triple-A Charlotte): 3-for-4, 2B, HR (9), 2 R, RBI, K. Having impressive bounce back year with .265/.349/.524 line that features never before seen power.
- Trayce Thompson, OF, White Sox (Low-A Kannapolis): 2-for-4, 2 2B, R, RBI, 2 K. Among the streakiest prospects around, but when it's good, it's very good; still just .234/.300/.447 in 50 games.
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This is a map of its route. It began, as an idea perhaps, in Augsburg in 1678. The idea container became a brewer of beer. I would have liked that. He didn't. And so, the idea and its container went north, through heavily forested country and farmland, over the Donau, to Nuremburg, where Johann Homann taught him to engrave.
He returned to Augsburg with the skill but it wouldn't be till 1744, towards the end of his life, that the idea would find expression on paper. From there who knows how many journeys, how many copies, how many owners, till in the latter half of the 20th century it was picked up in an antique shop in Dublin, Ireland and found a home with us in leafy Lucan.
Since then it has been restless. Before long it was gracing walls in Madrid, baking in the summer heat of Spain's central meseta. After that a return to blustery Ireland, to Dublin, then Dundalk. It crossed the Irish Sea by boat and might have settled in the gently rolling country of Hampshire, England. But it wasn't to be.
It would have satisfied the container, I think, to see his idea take its longest trip yet, over the blue curve of the Atlantic to the New World. More


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[quote="Today's SF Chron"]BURNING MAN GOES GREEN
Merideth May, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday August 12, 2007
With the Burning Man art festival starting in the Nevada desert in two weeks, organizers are pulling out the stops to minimize the event's contribution to global warming.
Encouraged by the resurgence of the green movement, Burning Man organizers and participants are taking a hard look at environmental impacts. Over 28,000 tons of greenhouse gases are produced by the sacred flaming temples, solar-powered electric cars shaped like cupcakes, hundreds of rumbling RVs and 37,000 "burners" who attend the week-long event on the dry Black Rock Desert, according to scientists.
"Burning Man does a great job of getting on the ground after the event and picking up every nail and speck of glitter, but we want to take that to the next level -- leaving no trace in the climate," said Marian Goodell, Burning Man's director of communications and business.
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While it's hard to fathom right-wing nuttiness, it's sure not hard to find these days.
We saw it bloom spectacularly recently, popping right out of the head of Todd Akin, the GOP's Senate candidate in Missouri. The learned congressman gave America a twisted tutorial on the imaginary science of "legitimate rape," including an astonishing assertion of his belief in medical mojo. Akin explained that raped women don't get pregnant because - according to his grasp of reproductive science - the female body has ways "to shut that whole thing down."
Whoa! Screamed Mitt Romney and the entire Republican hierarchy, as they rushed to declare Akin out-of-bounds, unacceptable and ... well, nutty.
But wait. Guess who's presently cosponsoring legislation with Akin to impose this theological witchcraft on America's women? Why it's Romney's choice to hold the second-highest office in our nation, VP nominee Paul Ryan. Like his buddy Todd, Ryan has sponsored many bills to deny abortion to victims of rape.
Now, guess which party has just fully embraced Akin's nuttiness by including his absolutist "no-abortion-even-in-the-case-of-rape" provision in its national platform? Yes, the Romney-Ryan Republicans. Yet, that same party's panicked Poobahs have pronounced Akin's views so extreme that he should withdraw from the Missouri Senate race. Excuse me, but - logically speaking - doesn't that mean Ryan should also withdraw from his race?
Of course, in the fantasy universe of the far right, logic is an alien intruder, barred from interfering with either approved doctrine or political expediency. Indeed, here's their idea of logic: Akin, a devout worshipper of junk science, is a member of the House Committee on Science. Go figure.
And if you find that surreal, let me add that his committee assignment is hardly the only illogical perversion in the doctrinal right's carefully constructed NutLand. Michele Bachmann, for example, is a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
While Akin's pseudo-scientific tommyrot about "legitimate rape" has surged him into the lead for the title of Dottiest and Most Dangerous Political Nut of the Year, never count out us Texans in any hard-nut contest.
Our state's DMDPNY front-runner had been Ted Cruz, currently the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, who's deeply concerned that the United Nations is plotting to take over America's golf courses.
Suddenly, however, a dark horse from Lubbock has shot past Cruz and seized the lead. County Judge Tom Head, perhaps suffering from the heat of August, shocked and delighted the right-wing-o-sphere by demonstrating in an Aug. 21 interview that it's actually humanly possible to get even nuttier about President Obama than simply ranting that he's a Kenyan Muslim socialist. I'll let Head speak for himself.
"In this political climate, what is the worst thing that could happen? Obama gets back in the White House," he answered to his own question. "No. God forbid," he added. Why? Plunging deeper into paranoid darkness, Head announced that a re-elected Obama is "going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N." And that, warned Head, will lead to the worst: "Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war, maybe. We're talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy. Now what's going to happen if we do that?" asked Head as he built to his logical conclusion: "(Obama's) going to send in U.N. troops."
However, Head (who oversees emergency preparedness in the county) told Lubbockites not to worry, for if they approve a local tax increase, he will use the money to recruit and train more police to combat Obama's diabolical U.N. takeover scheme. "I don't want 'em in Lubbock County," Head said. "So I'm going to stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say, 'You're not coming in here."'
Thank you, Judge Head, for showing America just what you're made of: a sack of nuts and a bucket of silly putty.
JIM HIGHTOWER's column is distributed by Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.


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Against the grain
Controlling grain on your golf greens is an important step in ensuring that they putt true to their contours. Grain can be defined simply as the direction in which the grass is growing, or laying, as the case may be. Repeated mowing in the same pattern and direction is one of the primary causes of grain development.
Good reasons exist for controlling grain. Left unmanaged, grain can develop to the point where it may unfairly affect putts. Greens with strong grain tend to pull the ball off of its natural course, as well as affect the speed of the putt.
The newest bentgrass varieties exhibit more upright, dense growth and tolerate mowing at ⅛ of an inch throughout the season. This reduces grain-related problems. Similarly, new varieties of bermudagrass — which tend to be grainier than the bent greens — are less grain-prone than older types. Nonetheless, grain is still a factor that many superintendents need to deal with. Thankfully, several good tools are available to combat it.
Vary your mowing
The most important factor in controlling grain is varying your mowing pattern every day. If you mow left to right one day, then you should mow right to left the next, and so on. This is a big step in preventing the grass from laying in one direction. Visualizing a pattern with clock numbers is an easy way for crew members to remember the direction they are supposed to mow. For example, 8 to 2 would be left to right, and 4 to 10 would be right to left. Proper training of the crew using this method will help reduce grain in a relatively short amount of time.
Good grooming
Another tool for reducing grain is a greens-mower attachment called a groomer. The greens groomer precedes the reel and "tickles" the turf before it is mowed. This helps the turf stand up and allows the mower to get a much cleaner cut, rather than just pressing the grass flat without trimming the leaf blade to the intended height.
Brushing greens prior to grooming can be effective as well. Brushing stands the grass upright, allowing the mower to perform its job properly.
Verticutters are another aid in the fight against grain. Using a verticutter to slice through the top mat of turf chops the grass stolons, forcing the grass to grow more upright rather than laterally. This is critical in controlling grain.
If severe grain is already present, verticutting in several directions and then topdressing with sand may be the best option. The sand will help smooth the putting surface back out and also help protect the crown of the plants that were just injured by the verticutting. While verticutting can be rather hard on the grass plants, in the long run the benefits will greatly outweigh the drawbacks.
Integrate your strategies
In order for any of these options to work effectively, you must be persistent with them and implement them properly. If you can verticut, groom and topdress on a weekly basis, you can virtually eliminate the buildup of grain on greens. It is important to use all of these strategies together; no single one will reduce grain on its own.
Inspecting the greens daily after they have been mowed is also essential to ensure that the mowers are properly adjusted and the pattern is being mowed correctly. Keeping a putter in the cart is not a bad idea either. Putt the greens daily and see for yourself how they are rolling. Greens that look good but roll badly are no better than greens that both look and roll badly.
Grain is an issue that you can deal with relatively easily. With good cultural practices, golfers will never complain about grain on your greens.
Tim Wegner is the River Course superintendent at Blackwolf Run Golf Course (Kohler, Wis.).
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Georgia Southern University officials say the school is using a $385,000 grant to study the impact of concussions on football players.
University President Brooks Keel said Thursday that the school was the recipient of a grant from the National Institutes of Health and is using technology called the Helmet Impact Telemetry System — or HITS — to record every blow taken to the head during games and practice sessions.
The system has been implanted in 40 helmets and officials say six sensors in each helmet measure the severity of impacts to the head.
Professor of athletic training Tom Buckley says the system is not meant for diagnostic or medical purposes, but serves as an early warning indicator to help coaches and athletes try minimizing the risk of injuries.


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James Franco has been exploring his artistic sides, starring in the much anticipated film, "Eat Pray Love," opposite Julia Roberts, debuting his first solo mixed media art exhibit, reappearing on "General Hospital," and planning to pursue a Ph.D. in English at Yale.
The Golden Globe winning actor recently took time out of his exhausting schedule to talk to Parade Magazine about working with Hollywood's most sought after leading lady and his renaissance-like career choices.
"She is very, very outgoing," said Franco of Julia Roberts. "But I think she'll also admit pretty freely that she doesn't love to do love scenes and actually was charmingly shy when we had to do them."
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He added that part of the reason he agreed to his role in "Eat Pray Love" was the chance to work with Roberts.
"That was pretty much the reason I did it. I knew that all my scenes would be with Julia. I thought it would be a great experience."
In contrast to working with the Oscar winner, Franco has also been appearing as the artist/serial killer, Franco, on the soap opera "General Hospital."
"They move very, very quickly," said Franco of acting on the small screen. " I guess I didn't realize how fast they moved, but I quickly tried to adapt and I think I did OK. I learned all my lines!"
Although Franco admitted he was not always a fan of soaps, the genre has grown on him. "I really appreciated the structure and the serial nature of it and the history of it. I like a lot of films and shows that pay homage to soaps, like Twin Peaks."
So, amidst the soaps, love scenes and extracurricular art projects, how does Franco spend his time: studying at school.
"Going to school grounds me," explained the actor who has two graduate degrees and will attend Yale in the fall.
"It exposes me to incredibly smart people who are teaching all the subjects that I'm interested in. It keeps me focused where, before, I just would get very anxious about needless things."
"Eat Pray Love," the film adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir hits theaters August 13.


text: LA Galaxy win 2-1 Camilo netted his MLS-best 13th goal of the season Saturday night, but the shorthanded LA Galaxy relied on youth to overcome an early deficit and claim a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps. Jose Villarreal and Gyasi Zardes, paired up front as captain Robbie Keane sat out with an ailing hip, scored goals as the Galaxy dictated terms from start to finish in front of 20,093 at the StubHub Center. Villarreal scored a 29th-minute equalizer despite Vancouver's protestations for an offside call, and Zardes tallied the winner in the 57th minute, tracking down a long ball, beating a defender, then firing past Vancouver goalkeeper Brad Knighton at the near post. OPTA Chalkboard: Galaxy control things from start to finish LA (10-8-3), which had fallen to sixth in the Western Conference with Colorado's draw against Seattle earlier Saturday, vaulted into third place, four points behind Real Salt Lake and one in back of Portland. Vancouver, which was outshot, 22-4, dropped to 9-6-5. Hector Jimenez nearly gave the Galaxy an edge twice in the first 10 minutes. Brad Rusin cleared his header, from a Villarreal cross, off the goal line in the sixth minute; the winger's dipping shot from outside the box caromed off the crossbar three minutes later. Camilo, with his ninth goal in the last eight games, struck in the 19th minute on the Whitecaps' only chance of the first half. Lee Young-Pyo, on the right wing at midfield, sent a sharp diagonal cross toward the middle. Russell Teibert got a piece of it with his head, redirecting it beyond LA's backline and into space. Camilo took it alone to the box and slotted past Carlo Cudicini. The Galaxy were even 10 minutes later. Gonzalez headed Juninho's free kick into the goalmouth, it barely cleared forward Zardes' head, and Villarreal poked it home. Linesman Jeremy Hanson flagged LA offside - Villarreal would have been offside if Zardes had made contact with the ball - but referee Chris Penso stuck to his original correct ruling, signaling the goal for LA. Zardes scored the winner 12 minutes into the second half. A long ball from Todd Dunivant found the rookie streaking behind the Whitecaps' defense, and he caught up with the ball at the left byline. Zardes poked it past Rusin, stepped around the defender as he tumbled, then beat Knighton at the near post, getting off his shot just as Johnny Leveron arrived to pressure him. Cudicini made a foot save on Kenny Miller in the 73rd minute, and defender A.J. DeLaGarza dispossessed Jordan Harvey in the Galaxy box in the 86th, the only second-half chances the Whitecaps created. Vancouver is home next weekend against Philadelphia, and LA visits Colorado.


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Sarah Smith, left, and Ashley Harker give out Ohio University sunglasses to nearby tailgaters on homecoming weekend
Photographer: Chris Franz
A young Bobcat fan hands President Roderick J. McDavis some flowers at the Homecoming Parade
Photographer: Ross Brinkerhoff
International students, faculty and staff wave their national flags during the Homecoming Parade
Photographer: Ross Brinkerhoff
Oct 17, 2012
By George Mauzy
Themed "Better than the Best Ever," this year's Ohio University Homecoming events offered something for everyone. Take a look at some of the most memorable images from the annual celebratory weekend.
The Ohio University Marching 110 performs during halftime of the Homecoming football game against Akron on Saturday, Oct.13. Photo by Chris Franz.
From left: Karen Peden, Don Peden III, and Don Peden Jr., all visiting from Texas, peruse materials from the Ohio University Archives collections, which are annually on display on the fourth floor of Alden Library for Homecoming Weekend. Ohio University's Peden Stadium was named after Don Peden Jr.'s father. Photo by Lauren Pond, Ohio University Libraries.
Alumnus Carl H. Walker (left), who was being honored with a Distinguished Service Award, chats with fellow Bobcats, George Hall (middle) and Ralph Hopper before the Alumni Gala. Photo by Chris Franz.
Ray Schilderink chats during the College of Business pregame party at TailGreat Park on Saturday. Photo by Chris Franz.
Alumni members of the Marching 110 thrill the crowd with their dance moves during the 2012 Homecoming Parade. Photo by: Ross Brinkerhoff.
Quinton Motts (center) raises his hand to answer a question during a historic hayride at the Ridges on Saturday. Also pictured are Luis Clemente (far left) Patty Morgan (left), Sarah Motts (right), and Joe Callo (far right). Photo by Ross Brinkerhoff.
Ohio University basketball legend and former NBA first-round draft pick Gary Trent acknowledges the crowd during the Alumni Awards Gala on Friday in the Baker University Center. Trent was being inducted into the Bobcats Athletics Hall of Fame. Photo by Chris Franz.
Amanda Yezerski, an alumna (center) and Claire Oby (right) are all smiles as the Marching 110 passes them during the Homecoming Parade. Photo by: Ross Brinkerhoff.
Fans in the student section cheer on the Bobcats during the Homecoming football game against Akron on Saturday. Photo by Chris Franz.


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How did Henry Box Brown escape from slavery?
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Henry Brown was born into slavery in 1815 or 1816 on the Louisa plantation of John Barret, a former mayor of Richmond, Virginia. As a teenager, Brown was sent to live in Richmond where he worked in a tobacco factory, married, and fathered children. In 1848, his pregnant wife Nancy their children were sold and taken to North Carolina. With his family torn from him, Brown determined to escape slavery, and came up with an unusual method. Relying on the assistance of James Caesar Anthony Smith, a free black man, and Samuel Smith, a white shoemaker, Brown decided to ship himself in a box to the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, a group active in the Underground Railroad. On March 23, 1849, Brown stepped into a box three feet long, two and one-half feet deep, and two feet wide to begin his journey to Philadelphia, and freedom. In a trip that lasted 26 hours, Brown's box traveled by both railroad and steamboat. With the word "Box" added to his name to highlight what he had endured to obtain freedom, Henry Box Brown, quickly became an advocate for the antislavery movement. The passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill in 1850 left Brown fearing he could be captured and sent back to Virginia, and so he fled the country for England. While in England, Brown continued to promote abolition, which eventually led to a career in English show business. Brown remarried in 1859 and continued to be successful with his stage shows in which he acted as a mesmerist and magician. Deciding to return to America in 1875, Brown began giving performances in Massachusetts under his new name, Prof. H. Box Brown. The last-known whereabouts of Henry Box Brown was in Brookline, Massachusetts, in May 1878. The legacy of Henry Box Brown is representative of his daring escape from slavery, and his lifelong promotion for abolition.
Vocabulary Words:
• Fugitive— a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway
• Abolitionist— a person who advocates or supports the abolition of slavery
Lesson Activities
• PRE-LESSON ACTIVITY: Read aloud Henry's Freedom Box by Elden Livine and illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
• ART/MATH, AND ORAL EXPRESSION: Have students use math and art skills to construct a box the size Henry Box Brown used to escape. Discuss how much room he would have in a box that size. Use the box as a visual prompt to ask students how they think it might have felt to be such a small space for such a long time. Have students write adjectives that describe Brown's actions on the box when it is complete.
• MAPPING: Have students trace on a map Brown's journey from Richmond to Philadelphia, noting the various means of transportation used.
• COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Have students study Fredrick Douglass's escape from slavery and compare and contrast that to the experience of Henry Brown.
• DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Have students research the Fugitive Slave Act, and find out what the act stated. Students should then summarize what they have learned.
Suggested Materials
Ruggles, Jeffrey. The Unboxing of Henry Brown. Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2003.


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Flights to Denmark with Qatar Airways
Denmark is officially 2016's happiest nation on the planet, and when you travel to Denmark with Qatar Airways you'll easily understand why. This is a wealthy and highly civilised country, and the general sense of wellbeing rubs off on visitors too, so be prepared to have your mood considerably heightened during a stay here.
Denmark has relatively modest borders when compared with other European countries such as Spain or France, but it manages to pack an awful lot into a relatively small landmass.
The country has a compelling mix of pretty villages, historic towns, tracts of forest, enchanting islands and lively modern cities.
The main bulk of Denmark's historic and natural wealth lies outside the big cities in the rural parts of the country. Beautiful white-sand beaches and offshore islands attract thousands of visitors from around the world each year, while medieval castles are a more recent addition to Denmark's rich cultural legacy.
The Danes like nothing better than to relax and enjoy themselves, and in a city like Copenhagen you'll find many excellent cafés, entertainment venues, restaurants and nightspots. The people here are generally found to be casual and good-humoured, so you can be sure of a friendly welcome wherever you go.
Denmark is intimately associated with the Vikings, and in many of the museums here you can see their beautifully reconstructed long ships and examples of their handiwork, from carved magical runes to arms and armour. A country well-grounded in the arts and literature scene, Denmark is the home of Hans Christian Andersen, who looms over the literary landscape of Scandinavia.
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One of our great African American mental giants is often called the "Godfather of Silicon Valley." Roy L. Clay Sr. is the name of this African American star. In 1965, he created and headed the Hewlett-Packard computer division. It was the first computer company in the Silicon Valley. In 1966, Roy and his team created the HP-2116, the world's first mini-computer.


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Rev. Barry Lynn, the Founder and Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, wants a North Carolina pastor to lose his church's tax-exempt status for remarks against Obama's re-election during an anti-gay sermon.
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Gee, I wonder if Barry Lynn is going file a complaint against government forcing church based organizations to distribute abortion pills...for "free"...O, forgive me, I forgot about,.... Barryn Lynn selective outrage syndrome......
Would be better to just get rid of tax-exempt status for churches all together.
Is this preacher God Fearing."
The words separation,church, state are found nowhere in the US Constitution. I wonder if Barry Lynn would apply the same rules to government forcing church affiliated organizations to distribute abortion pills.
Rev. Lynn has a point. I'm a taxpayer and don't want to subsidize this church's political views. That simple.
I can't believe you'd go to this much trouble to crucify this preacher when you said nothing 4 years ago when Rev. Wright preached "God Damn America" and that was Obama's pastor and his church that believes whites are the enemy. Where were you then????
I believe the minister should file a complaint on Pastr. Worley. Pastr. Worley should never have said the hateful things against gays and lesbians. He should not get the tax exemptions.
This is one of the most unbelievable stories to watch in 2012. How about the idea of not giving any coverage to hate speakers? Or let's see how many adulterers they have stoned to death in the last few years, if we are seeking some kind of biblical support for their viewpoint? This kind of story gives the world the idea that; this is what most Americans think, this is the way Americans speak ," I'm Agin' It!", and this is way American's are. Note to world, these people do not represent most Americans.
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Tigers Look to Rebound From Slow Start at OVC Championships
MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. – Day one was a struggle for the Tennessee State men's golf team at the 2014 Ohio Valley Conference golf championships. The Tigers fought wind gusts up to 15 MPH on the Par-72, 7,187 yard Fighting Joe course at The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals in Muscle Shoals, Ala.
TSU is in 11th place as they shot a 33-over, 321, on the first day of competition. Jacksonville State holds the lead with an 8-under, 280.
In the race for individual honors, Camilo Aguado (Jacksonville State), Marco Iten (Austin Peay) and Ted Moon (Belmont) are tied as they entered the clubhouse on Monday with a 4-under, 68. The trio is a part of nine golfers who shot under par.
Andrew Warner is currently tied for 26th in the field of 55 after shooting a 4-over, 76. Warner carded 11 pars on the day, including eight of the first 12 holes. Along with two birdies, the senior was even-par after 12.
Warner hit nine fairways and found 12 greens in regulation as he used 31 putts on Monday. Warner drained an 18-foot putt on the par-4, 10th, after reaching the green with a 9-iron from 145-yards. The second birdie of the day for the Hendersonville, Tenn. native came on the par-5, 12th. Warner stuck his third shot, a wedge from 135 out, two feet from the pin to set up an easy putt.
Codie Welborn dropped four birdies during the first round, the most by any Tiger. Welborn opened the day with his first 1-under on the opening hole. The senior laid up on his second shot, setting up a sand wedge from 105-yards to six feet from the flag, for the makeable putt. Welborn found himself at 4-over through seven, but was able to get down to 2-over after 11 with a pair of birdies and two pars.
Welborn hit a driver off the box on the par-4, 8th, finding the middle of the fairway. The Murfreesboro product knocked his second shot 122 yards to 15-feet, and a one putt. On the par-4, 11th, Welborn was able to drop his closest putt of the day, five feet, to sit at 2-over with seven to play. Two holes later, Welborn found himself on the front edge of the green on the par-3, 13th, as his 6-iron off the box came up short. Welborn proceeded to sink an uphill and to the left putt for his final birdie of the round. The four-year member of the Tigers closed out play with an 81 on Monday.
James Stepp matched Welborn's 81 as he carded three birdies and five pars. On the par-4, 3rd, Stepp used a gap wedge on his second shot to within six feet to help him to move to 1-over after bogeys on the first two holes. After a bogey on No. 6, the junior was able to drop a putt from 20 feet away to move back to 1-over on the par-5, 7th. Stepp was once again at 2-over aftre the conclusion of the front nine. The Cheatham, Tenn. native, once again, would get the stroke back with a birdie on No. 10, as his second shot, a pitching wedge, stopped six feet from the flag to set up the one-putt.
Blake Burgett scored 11 pars as he hit 10-of-14 fairways and found eight greens. On the front nine, the sophomore finished 8-over, on account of four double bogeys. Burgett would settle in on the back nine shooting a 3-over to finish the round with an 83. The shot of the day for the Nashville product came on the par-5, 17th. Burgett found the right-side fairway bunker off the box, setting up a layup shot to 160-yards out. Burgett, once again, would find a bunker on his third shot on the front side of the green. The first-year Tiger hit his uphill bunker shot to four feet of the pin to set up a putt to save par.
Matt Campbell carded a non-scoring 86 on day one with nine pars on his scorecard. The junior continued to hit the ball well as he hit 11-of-14 fairways and found 12 greens in regulation.
The second round will begin for the Tigers at 8:00am on Tuesday as Campbell takes to the course. Burgett will tee off at 8:10am and will be followed by Stepp at 8:20am, Welborn at 8:30am and Warner at 8:40am. Hole-by-hole live results from each day of the championship can be accessed through links at OVCSports.com.


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WARM-WEATHER CUISINE: There are a few things in the food world that can be counted on with certainty: 1) Strange ice cream flavors, like the rosemary-butter-wasabi sort, will continue to poke into new untried pockets of dessert experimentation. 2) Chips and dips will always be a sports Sunday staple. And 3)? Food is very often sold, at least in concept, depending on the weather. It's rare to find a hot cocoa stand at the beach on a July day or a sno-cone machine on a ski slope. But that doesn't full explain how the desert and summertime became strictly about salads and refrigerated foodstuffs. Indeed, we want to eat lighter when the digits do that triple-digit thing, but not always. The point is we want to eat better, and that isn't weather- or temperature-dependent. Exhibit A is the long, lavish, and ever-growing-in-popularity Palm Springs Desert Resorts Restaurant Week. Nope, it isn't scheduled for January, alongside the area's international film festival, nor February, when the buzzy, bustling Modern Week arrives in town. It falls square at the start of June.
WHICH... It turns out, isn't just about slices of melon and salad. Restaurant Week, which runs from Friday, May 31 through Sunday, June 16, covers the gourmet gamut, from applewood bacon-wrapped dates at Babe's to braised short ribs at Cello's. For sure you'll find some salads and chilled bites, if that's what you require in an arid clime in June, but the week highlights the resort region's robust restaurant scene *beyond* the plate of cottage cheese and pineapple rings. (Mmm, though that sounds good, too.) The upshot? Palm Springs is plenty bold to throw its big food party during its toastier time of year, and to fill it with foodie items that aren't traditionally tied to summer. The only constant among the menus will be the good dining deals; three-course meals are running at $26 in some places, which is nothing to sniff -- or, er, sweat? -- at at all.


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Today I will be visiting the cenotaph in Essex with my son and his children. My son seems interested in learning about our family history, he actually took his kids to visit some of their ancestors' graves last weekend. He is taking the kids to visit the cenotaph this afternoon and I am tagging along.
My grandfather's younger brother, Fleming W. Hines was the first casualty of the First World War in the town of Essex and his name is on the cenotaph there.
He was born January 18, 1897 while visiting relatives in Elgin County but lived in Rochester at that time. He was the twelfth of thirteen children, the oldest being 23 years. I believe it was he and not his brother, Wm. Edgar, who, along with his sister, ate poison roots. His younger sister died within hours and the only thing that saved him was that he vomited, but he was very ill.
Fleming Wesley Hines was only seventeen when he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in 1915. He didn't think he was old enough to enlist so there are two sets of attestation papers, both with incorrect birth years. By the time that he was called to duty, he was eighteen.
He served with the 2nd Canadian Expeditionary Forces and fought in the Battle of the Somme, a three month long offensive which was fought in the trenches from July to October.
Private Fleming W. Hines was severely wounded on September 15th, in what is known as the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. This day was the first time that tanks were used on the battlefield. Private Fleming Hines died of his wounds on September 18, 1916 in the Etaples Military Hospital and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery.
In early September the French Tenth Army under Micheler joined the attack on a 20 kilometre front to the south. Meanwhile the British attack was renewed in north-east, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, by the Fourth Army on 15 September. This latter attack made use of tanks for the first time and deployed 15 divisions of men; even so, it gained under a kilometre of ground.
These first tanks, which totalled 50, were sourced from the Machine Gun Corps, 'C and 'D' Companies, and reached the Somme in September. Mechanical and other failures reduced the original number of participating tanks from 50 to 24. Whilst they achieved a large measure of shocked surprise when sprung upon the German opposition, these early tanks proved unwieldy and highly unreliable.
The tanks were rolled out at 06:20 on the morning of 15 September. General Gough's forces moved to force the enemy off the northern end of the main ridge and away from Fourth Army.
Rawlinson's troops were to break through the remaining enemy trench system while the French Sixth Army would attempt to clear the enemy from the British right flank. Meanwhile the Canadians were northwest of the Albert-Bapaume road and outpaced their seven tanks to capture Courcelette. Immediately south of them, the 15th Scottish Division, helped by a single tank, captured Martinpuich.
To the southeast, however, German forces in High Wood swept the ground with fire from each end, halting a number of tanks. Others found themselves lost, while yet others fired on their own infantry.
To the east progress to Flers was helped by the arrival of four tanks at a critical moment, the ruined village falling to a single tank assisted by mixed platoons of Hampshires and Royal West Kents.
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The Attack – 15 September
27. A methodical bombardment was commenced at 6 a.m. on the 12th September arid was continued steadily and uninterruptedly till the moment of attack.
At 6.20 a.m. on the 15th September the infantry assault commenced (13) and at the same moment the bombardment became intense. Our new heavily armoured cars, known as "Tanks," now brought into action for the first time, successfully co-operated with the infantry, and coming as a surprise to the enemy rank and file, gave valuable help in breaking down their resistance.
The advance met with immediate success on almost the whole of the front attacked. At 8.40 a.m. tanks were seen to be entering Flers, followed by large numbers of troops. Fighting continued in Flers for some time, but by 10.0 a.m. our troops had reached the north side of the village, and by midday had occupied the enemy's trenches for some distance beyond.
On our right our line was advanced to within assaulting distance of the strong line of defence running before Morval, Les Boeufs and Gueudecourt, and on our left High Wood was at last carried after many hours of very severe fighting, reflecting great credit on the attacking battalions of the 47th Division. Our success made it possible to carry out during the afternoon that part of the plan which provided for the capture of Martinpuich and Courcelette, and by the end of the day both these villages were in our hands (taken respectively by the 15th Division, and 2nd Canadian Division, Maj.- Gen. R. E. W. Turner).
On the 18th September the work of this day was completed by the capture by the 6th Division of the Quadrilateral, an enemy stronghold which had hitherto blocked the progress of our right towards Morval. Further progress was also made between Flers and Martinpuich.
28. The result of the fighting of the 15th September and following days was a gain more considerable than any which had attended our arms in the course of a single operation since the commencement of the offensive. In the course of one day's fighting we had broken through two of the enemy's main defensive systems and had advanced on a front of over six miles to an average depth of a mile.
In the course of this advance we had taken three large villages, each powerfully organised for prolonged resistance. Two of these villages had been carried by assault with short preparation in the course of a few hours' fighting. All this had been accomplished with a small number of casualties in comparison with the troops employed, and in spite of the fact that, as was afterwards discovered, the attack did not come as a complete surprise to the enemy. (14)
The total number of prisoners taken by us in these operations since their commencement on the evening of the 14th September amounted at this date to over 4,000, including 127 officers.
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I just woke and heard Joe Nuxhall Passed away overnight. I was soooooooo hoping he would pull thru this and later in 2008, be able to go into the Hall of Fame and stand on the podium.. gave me tears hearing the sad news.
I just woke and heard Joe Nuxhall Passed away overnight. I was soooooooo hoping he would pull thru this and later in 2008, be able to go into the Hall of Fame and stand on the podium.. gave me tears hearing the sad news.
This is very sad news.
I don't know why they are not reporting this on Fox 19 Morning News right now....
Nevermind... They are just reporting this now.
"And the fact that watching him pitch is like having someone poop on your soul." FCB on Gary Majewski
My radio turned on to wake me and its on WLW
a super volcano of ridonkulous suckitude.
I simply don't have access to a "cares about RBI" place in my psyche. There is a "mildly curious about OBI%" alcove just before the acid filled lake guarded by robot snipers with lasers which leads to the "cares about RBI" antechamber though. - Nate
very, very sorry to hear this
Thanks for all the good memories you provided me, Joe. Starting as a five-year-old listening to Reds games in secret after bed-time in 1975, you enriched my life.
"And the fact that watching him pitch is like having someone poop on your soul." FCB on Gary Majewski
R.I.P. He will be missed.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
"This isnt stats vs scouts - this is stats and scouts working together, building an organization that blends the best of both worlds. This is the blueprint for how a baseball organization should be run. And, whether the baseball men of the 20th century like it or not, this is where baseball is going."---Dave Cameron, U.S.S. Mariner
Thanks for the memories, Joe. You will truly be missed.
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Very sad news. Joe was an institution and he was the one constant with the Reds for my entire life. I didn't listen to the WLW broadcast much the last couple years but I tried to catch it when Joe was on. Things just won't be the same.
Bless you Joe and prayers for your family.
"All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it." --BABE RUTH
RIP Joe. You were truly one of a kind and will be missed.
RIP Joe
I loved your joy and enthusiasm for the game of baseball and life in general. You and your family will be in my prayers.
Hugs, smiling, and interactive Twitter accounts, don't mean winning baseball. Until this community understands that we are cursed to relive the madness.
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The Northeast Conference has announced its 2012 football television package, which includes a pair of televised games for the Blue Devils. On September 22, a national audience will get a look at the newly expanded Arute Field as it hosts a televised game between Central Connecticut and Wagner.
Fox College Sports, a national network, will carry all five televised NEC games this season with the first game of the slate coming at Arute Field.
The Wagner-CCSU game will be live on Fox College Sports and on MSG Network. Fans should note that the start time for the contest has been pushed back an hour to 7 p.m.
The following week, the Blue Devils will travel to in-state rival Sacred Heart and so will the television cameras. The September 29, game between CCSU and Sacred Heart can be seen live on Fox College Sports and Cox (CT). It will reach an additional national audience through an online broadcast on ESPN3.com.
The Blue Devils will be the only NEC team featured twice in the five game NEC TV package.
"As NEC football continues to increase its visibility, we are pleased to announce a television slate that provides our fans with coast-to-coast coverage this season," said Ron Ratner, NEC Associate Commissioner. "Along with our loyal regional affiliates, we are extremely excited to showcase our teams on a national scale via Fox College Sports and ESPN3. There are so many stories to tell, and with some terrific matchups and games of regional interest, this year's schedule really stands out."
Paul Dottino, who doubles as a reporter and host for the New York Giants' Radio Network, will return for his 10th season as the play-by-play announcer for NEC football. Entering his third season, former Cal quarterback Steve Levy will provide color commentary. Eric Singer is the producer of NEC football telecasts.
Set for its 17th season on the gridiron, the NEC will watch nine postseason-eligible members – Albany, Bryant, Central Connecticut, Duquesne, Monmouth, Robert Morris, Sacred Heart, Saint Francis (PA) and Wagner – battle for the coveted conference crown. For the third year running, the Northeast Conference will award its football champion with an automatic berth into the NCAA FCS playoff bracket.
All five CCSU home football games can be seen live online and every game can be heard on Fox Sports Radio 1410 and ESPN Radio 1300. Fans outside the Connecticut area can listen to games using the iHeart Radio app.
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Arguments for the existence of god
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As long as there have been two or more people with differing religious views, there has been proselytism. This of course presents a problem; as religion is based on faith rather than evidence, logic, or reason, how does one go about convincing other people that their religion is the correct one? After all, if it's based on faith and not reason, your faith is by definition really no more a reasonable position than anyone else's. If you don't like what the church is doing, just form your own. You don't need evidence, just faith. As a result of this complete lack of evidence on what the true faith apparently is, there are over 30,000 denominations of Christianity alone, and no empirical reason to believe any of them.
Over the years, attempts to convert people to a particular faith have taken many different forms, most of them involving brute force and threats of violence - Convert or suffer the wrath of god's chosen people! This was fine up until about the end of the Dark Ages, with the adage that-
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- "Creationism lost its best argument when the Catholic church stopped burning people at the stake"
After the enlightenment, the church started to have serious problems justifying its position. As science expanded our view of the world, God had fewer and fewer places to hide. Coupled with the fact that it was now considered slightly uncouth to simply torture and burn alive those that disagreed with you, the church and its parishioners now had to work very hard to justify their positions of belief, and harder still to convert others. Thus apologetics was born.
In a nutshell, apologetics is the discipline of attempting to justify a theological position through evidence, philosophy, science, metaphysics, and history. However, when these apologetics arguments are actually reviewed under scrutiny, we find they rely on:
- evidence so incredibly poor that even the apologists using it wouldn't accept such evidence as proof of anything in any other argument than for that of their personal god,
- horrific straw man representations of true scientific theories,
- convoluted metaphysics that ultimately have no real world underpinning, and
- the distortion of historically documented events and evidence in a fashion similar in degree and irrationality to holocaust denial.
There are many conflicting arguments which attempt to support the existence of many conflicting gods. Being often mutually contradictory, they can't all be correct - but they can all be wrong. Indeed, every "argument" presented for gods thus far has one or more problems with validity or soundness. At their core, even the most seemingly persuasive apologetics are founded upon cognitive biases, magical thinking, logical fallacies, or basic unproved assertions, and the fact that theists of all stripes tend to use the same arguments for their specific god or gods speaks more to the common flaws in human thinking than it does to the usefulness of the arguments.
It is important when engaging in an argument with a theist that all the required concepts involved in the argument are clearly defined; particularly the definition of God. Having clearly defined definitions prevents the theist from moving the goalposts mid-argument, or even more frustratingly getting to the end of the argument and then having the theists say "but that's not my God" or "that's not in my Bible".
Purpose of the argument
It is also important to make sure that the discussion is one that will be enlightening. An important question is, "what is the purpose of this discussion/argument?"
Prior to the onset of the hopefully dialectical discussion, both sides must reflect on the purpose and aim of the discussion. Argumentation will only prove to be fruitful if both sides are aware and accepting of the limits of persuasion in argumentation.
Religious people will almost never be "convinced" by any logically defeating counter-point, remaining staunch in their conviction, unless their faith is solely dependent on reason and proper logic. Therefore, it seems the appropriate middle-way seems to be to approach these discussions, on the whole, as forums for insightful discussion, rather than grounds for a conversion war, an approach that has proven and will continuously be proven to be ineffective in convincing religious theists to lay down their dogma.
It is important to consider the reason that successful logical arguments fail to convince theists is precisely that these theists were not convinced by logical arguments in believing in a divine being. It is usually based on personal experience, some subjective conviction that cannot be formulated into logical terms. It seems that even those who claim that their theistic belief is constructed upon some logically argumentative foundation, when pushed, eventually admit there is some fundamental subjective impetus for belief. However, if a particular theist maintains that they have a logical, objective foundation, but then dogmatically refuse to acknowledge the failure of his argument and are unwilling to question his theistic belief, then further communication is unnecessary and pointless.
Favorite arguments
Most common theistic arguments
Favorites of professional apologists
See Also
- Call for Proof
- Arguments for belief, which do not try to directly establish the existence of God.


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Hello, so I am writing a program and had to create a one dimensional array and a two dimensional array. Here is my arrays:
privateGame [] games; private double[][]hoursArray = {{40, 60, 900, 400},{10,100, 800, 900},{20,70,100, 200}}; public GameSales() { games = new Game[ 3 ]; games[ 0 ] = new Game ("Scary Halloween","Mr. Boo",1000,6091,12.99); games[ 2 ] = new EGame ("Haunted House Party","Patrick Armstrong", 0, 2012,38.99,"www.SmartBook.com/IIS",180); games[ 3 ] = new Game ("The Green Monster", "Game Boy", 800, 3033,6.50);
so there is my arrays and constructer. Next I have to make another method. here are the instructions. I have tries a linear search but dont know if this is a good idea. I am very confused and am looking for any help. maybe a steer in the right direction
In this method, you will search for a specified game title. You will prompt user to enter the title of a game in string format, and search game array for the game. If the specified game is found in the game array, return the array index . Otherwise, return an integer value of 99 to indicate that the game was not on the list. You will use the result returned from this method in other method.
**You should implement a try-catch to catch a potential exception that might occur when dealing with iterating through an array. What would that be?
This is what i did, im not sure to use a linear search or index of
privatepublic String FindGame() { int searchString; int position; try { System.out.print ("Please enter game title: "); searchString = input.nextInt(); while (searchString != -1) { for (int index = 0; index < Game.length; index ++) if ( Game[ index ] == searchString ) return index; } } catch(InputMismatchException inputMismatchException) { System.err.printf ("\nExceptions: %s\n", inputMismatchException); input.nextLine(); System.out.println ("You must enter a String. Please try again. \n"); } return searchString; }


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UPDATE: Not good. Ecuador's Vice-President Jorge Glass has just appeared on TV to confirm the first reports of fatalities, 16 people in the nearby town of Manta. I'd hope it weren't so, but in all likelihood number is going to rise as the hours pass.
UPDATE 2: That's now 28 dead. IKN now signs off on this story, way too big for this little blog, go find it in the major news services.


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- Some White racialists seem to regard honesty as an impediment. This is a wrong attitude.
- While propaganda such as the system uses is beyond our means, counter-propaganda, the disputation of the system's propaganda, is within our means.
- By appealing to reason, we cannot win over the masses, but we can win over the rational minority that does not follow the crowd.
- Our appeal will be smaller when we progress beyond counter-propaganda to the presentation of a new worldview. This means that our cause is destined to have an inner circle of completely enlightened people, and an outer circle of people that reject the system's propaganda but have not accomplished a revolution in thinking.
- Radical social change is accomplished by militant minorities. The majority merely waits to see what happens. We can form our own militant minority by convincing thinking and idealistic people that our way of thinking is correct.
- In order to cultivate this elite, we have to be careful in our rhetoric.
You can read the whole essay on The Occidental Observer.


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This article describes how to view and manually configure the Boot.ini file in Windows XP from within the Startup and Recovery dialog.
In Windows XP, you can quickly and easily locate the Boot.ini to verify and/or edit the file.
It is suggested to backup the Boot.ini file before editing. The first tasks will involve modifying folder option so as to view hidden files and then backing up the Boot.ini file.
Save a Backup Copy of Boot.ini
Edit the Boot.ini FileTo view and edit the Boot.ini file:
Sample Boot.ini FileThis is a sample of a default Boot.ini file from a Windows XP Professional computer.
[boot loader]This is a sample of the above Boot.ini file with a previous installation of Windows 2000 on a separate partition.
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
[boot loader]
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect
Modifying the Boot.iniWhile you can modify the Boot.ini file using the Startup and Recovery dialog, where you can select the default operating system, change the timeout value, or manually edit the file, the following method uses the command line utility, Bootcfg.exe.
Note The Bootcfg.exe utility is only available in Windows XP Professional. This utility is not available in Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition. Therefore, this section does not apply to Windows XP Home Edition.
Adding an Operating SystemAt the command prompt, type:
bootcfg /copy /d Operating System Description /ID#Where Operating System Description is a text description (e.g. Windows XP Home Edition), and where # specifies the boot entry ID in the operating systems section of the BOOT.INI file from which the copy has to be made.
Removing an Operating SystemAt the command prompt, type:
bootcfg /delete /ID#Where # specifies the boot entry ID that you want to be deleted from the operating systems section of the BOOT.INI file (e.g. 2 for the second Operating system that is listed.
Setting the Default Operating SystemAt the command prompt, type:
bootcfg /default /ID#Where # specifies the boot entry id in the operating systems section of the BOOT.INI file to be made the default operating system.
Setting the Time OutAt the command prompt, type: bootcfg /timeout# Where # specifies the time in seconds after which default operating system will be loaded.
Open the Boot.ini File to Verify Changes
For additional information about this topic, click one of the following links:
Safe-Mode Boot Switches for Windows 2000 Boot.ini File (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q239780/)
How to Set Up a Remote Debug Session Using a Modem (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q148954/)


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Understanding Objects in ActionScript - revised - Page 2
You can create your own class containing initialised properties and then apply it to new objects which will inherit these from the class. Here is a simple example:
//first create the class: function Human (name,sex) { //properties of the Human object this.sex = sex; this.name = name; //objects contained within the Human which will hold their own properties this.head = {}; this.body = {}; this.arms = {} this.legs = {}; } Nick = new Human("Nick","male"); Nicole = new Human("Nicole","female"); trace("Nick is a "+Nick.sex+". Nicole is a "+Nicole.sex+".");A class is defined in ActionScript using the function method. It is good practice to capitalise classes to distinguish them from regular functions. In the example, we have made efficient use of ActionScript by defining the class just once and from then on new Human objects can be created by using one line of ActionScript. When an object is defined you can use either of the following methods to add properties to it:
this.head = {}; this.head.hairColour = 0x663399; this.bigNose = true; //or this.head = {hairColour : 0x663399, bigNose : true};I prefer to use the second method. Add this to the Human class:
function Human (name,sex) { this.name = name; this.sex = sex; this.fReferers(); this.head = {hairColour : 0x663399, bigNose : true}; this.body = {}; //introducing class methods this.fCreateArms(false,true); this.fCreateLegs(true,true); }You'll notice that I've changed arms and legs in the Human class and added a new method call 'fReferers'. Here I'm calling methods of the Human class which will generate the arms and legs and a method which will create string references which I can use when dynamically creating sentences about my new male Human. Now to create the Human methods:
Human.prototype.fCreateArms = function (leftArmWaving,rightArmWaving) { this.arms = {}; //short cut var sc = this.arms; sc.armLeft = { bWaving:leftArmWaving } sc.armRight = { bWaving:rightArmWaving } } Human.prototype.fReferers = function () { if(this.sex == "male") { this.referers = {n1 : "He", n2 : "His"}; } else{ this.referers = {n1 : "She", n2 : "Her"}; } }You must use the prototype when creating class methods as it enables these methods to be called by any new object instance of the Human class.
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i am developing a multiplayer game via socket connection..
the program work well in my lan.. with my friend over his IP Address it work's fine too, but he needed to make a port fowarding on his router.
so my problem is, how can i make a port fowarding? or maybe, when router receives a packet to a port that it dont know what PC that want this packet, it make a broadcasting yeah?
so, how can i make my application to listen to all packets receiveds from the router, and select the packet it want. if it's possible.
i saw that when im installing Skype (Make the most of Skype - free internet calls and great value calls), this application made to me a port fowarding in my router. i dont know how its possible..
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