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The organic red Russian kale from Blue Heron Farm was selling for $1 a bunch. Cherry tomatoes from Full Belly were going for $2 a pint. And Kaki's satsuma tangerines could be had for $2.50 a pound.

If the prices seemed surprisingly low, the venue was even more startling: Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley.

"The Local" is a weekly produce stand run by people who go to Cal. It's one of the most visible manifestations of a budding campus movement that is trying to provide an alternative for students interested in sustainable, organic and local food production - but frustrated by how little they find at the university.

"College students don't usually have more awareness of where their food comes from than kids in elementary school," said Maren Poitras, a senior who is a leader of the Sustainability Team (STEAM), a student group that runs the produce stand.

The Local is one way to change that, she said.

Dana Flett, in her first year at Cal, agreed. She got involved with The Local for a simple reason: "I wanted to show people the wonders of food."

Flett grew up on 80 acres in Yreka, a small agricultural town in Siskiyou County.

"It was interesting to come here and see how detached people are from the food chain," she said. "It's amazing to hear that most people had never met a farmer."

She wasn't exaggerating. Among the 4,988 who intended to enter Flett's freshman class at Cal, only 165 said they were from rural areas or small towns.

"I think we're just at the beginning of all this," said UC journalism Professor Michael Pollan, who wrote the "The Omnivore's Dilemma," a best-selling book. "The kids are definitely interested in changing the way they eat. I just wish we could offer students more on the educational side. ... There's a tremendous demand for more courses in food studies."

The Local started in the spring outside Kroeber Hall and moved to Sproul Plaza after the current semester began. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Wednesday, students sell fruits and vegetables - at wholesale prices - that they purchased the afternoon before at the weekly farmers' market on Derby Street in Berkeley. Their goal is to break even.

"When I was a kid, I had no concept of seasons," said Ryan Cole, a sophomore from San Diego. "I got used to having an avocado all year round. But avocadoes don't grow all year round."

Cole is one of 15 or so students who take turns running the stand, selling mostly to their peers, but also to faculty, staff and people who live or work in Berkeley.

"Food is one of those issues where students and the community come together," Pollan said.

Tina Hackett, a second-year student, bought celery, tomatoes, broccoli and oranges.

"I come here every week," she said. "It's fresh, it's locally grown, it's really cheap and it's a really good deal. And it tastes better."

The produce, on this first Wednesday of November, was spread out on a long table in front of the student union. A book by Malcolm Gladwell, "The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference," was there, too, with "Please Don't Steal Me" scrawled on its cover.

The day before, from noon to dusk, the second annual Harvest Festival took over the lawn in front of the Life Sciences Building. Among other things, students made seed balls to scatter on undeveloped plots of land, sold puree they'd cooked from four varieties of pumpkin, and picked olives from campus trees.

"There's food everywhere," shouted Severine von Tscharner Fleming from a tree next to Giannini Hall. "When big oil comes, we're going to need it."

Fleming, who founded a student group called Society for Agriculture and Food Ecology (SAFE) two years ago, was referring to the university's controversial biofuel research deal with petroleum giant BP. Many students involved in food activism are alarmed by Cal's corporate ties - and infuriated by what they see as a dearth of relevant courses, especially at the College of Natural Resources.

"This is a land-grant university," said Fleming, who has worked on farms in Switzerland, South Africa, Hawaii, Austria and New Zealand. "We're supposed to be studying agriculture."

Pollan said the response to programs on food issues has been "astounding." For example, Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey drew more than 2,000 to Zellerbach Hall in February. And 250 people crammed into a small room on campus late last year to hear Percy Schmeiser, a canola farmer from Canada who stood up to Monsanto over genetically modified seeds.

"I was wondering if we could get 75 people," Pollan said.

A free "Food and Farming Film Series" presented this semester by SAFE has drawn crowds to see the movies and hear panelists who include farmers, bakers, market managers and agro-ecologists.

STEAM has worked with Cal Dining, UC Berkeley's dining service, to reform student eating - the four dining halls now offer organic salad bars. A produce garden lines a courtyard on the Clark Kerr campus and, in a pilot program there, organic produce from family farmers is being served, thanks to a connection that activists have nurtured between Cal Dining and two organizations - the Community Alliance with Family Farmers and the Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association.

"More and more students are focusing on food issues," said junior Natalie Nava, who works with The Local. "But I think Santa Cruz, Davis, Santa Barbara and Chico State are showing us up big time - and it's embarrassing."

How is this possible in a town where Alice Waters changed American cuisine by opening Chez Panisse in 1971, and on a campus where the Free Speech Movement in 1964 ushered in an era of student activism around the country?

Some students blame a general sense of apathy. Others say the competition is stiff.

"I feel like there are too many issues here on campus," Nava said.

It was the second Wednesday of November. The gantlet of causes in Sproul Plaza included the Jehovah's Witnesses at Berkeley, the Society of Hong Kong and Chinese Affairs, the Latino Business Student Association, and Modern-Day Assyrians. Not far from The Local, an anti-torture waterboarding demonstration was taking place. The Ski and Snowboard Club could be found at a table across the way.

Maybe Nava was right. There is also the matter of time.

"It's hard to run a stand with people who are in class," said Katherine Collins, a member of SAFE and co-director of STEAM, which receives money for The Local from the Associated Students of the University of California and from grants.

Every Tuesday, students meet by the bike rack at the Berkeley Farmers' Market to buy produce for The Local. Six of them showed up one afternoon in mid-November. Despite their shopping list, there was much to decide.

"Are we getting eggs?" "Should we get persimmons from the guy we got satsumas from?" "Nobody wants strawberries now." "Let's get dates."

Third-year student Blake Shurtz always provides the car that transports $600 worth of fruits and vegetables to campus.

"You can turn off the TV and you can throw out your cell phone, but as for food, you can't opt out," said Shurtz, a third-year student who lives with his parents in Lafayette. "Eating is a political act."


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For years, analysts could forecast Apple's stock movements with a single word: up.

The company's hit parade of new products like the iPhone and iPad led to record-breaking quarterly profits and expectations that Apple could become the first U.S. corporation with a $1 trillion market value. Bullish analysts saw their own careers climb in tandem, as investors who bought the stock on their advice captured huge returns.

Now, with shares down 24 percent since Sept. 19, the challenge of predicting where the stock goes next has produced wildly varying forecasts. One analyst sees the stock falling from its Dec. 31 close of $532 to below $300 this year, while another says it will soar above $1,000. The average among analysts tracked by Bloomberg is $735.

As the listing with the biggest weight in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, Apple affects anyone using the S&P as a benchmark. Mike Walkley, an analyst with Canaccord Genuity, covers 23 technology companies and says clients often want to hear about only two - Apple and Qualcomm, which makes iPhone chips. "Because if I don't get Apple right," he says, "I probably won't get the rest of large-cap tech right."

Analysts who make provocative calls on Apple often find themselves the subject of media attention - all the more so now that Wall Street is split on whether the company will resume its upward path or lose the competition with Google's Android.

"There is pressure to have a unique take on Apple all the time," says Ben Reitzes, an analyst with Barclays. "There is. There is." Viewers of Fox Business Network heard an upbeat anchor introduce a segment this way on Oct. 25: "Brian White, senior analyst for Topeka Capital Markets, has an astounding price target. Astounding! And he joins us now!" White's target: $1,111.

Hating on Apple gets attention, too. "Meet Ed Zabitsky, the man betting against Apple," read an April 7 headline in London's Daily Telegraph about the ACI Research analyst, who forecasts $270.

Canaccord Genuity's Walkley says media fascination with Apple's struggles makes his job more challenging. "Yesterday, on CNBC, I didn't really want to do it," Walkley says of a mid-December appearance on the network. "I had a buy on Apple, I'm positive, and they wanted to be real negative, and so it was like this confrontational interview. Negative news sells on Apple."

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Apple's rise was so explosive that standard measurements of technology stocks proved inadequate. It didn't beat analysts' expectations so much as crush them, often selling millions more smartphones and tablets per quarter than predicted.

Even as sales and profits soared, Apple managed to sustain growth rates more typical of startups. "One thing that was different was how much they beat (estimates) by on a routine basis, both in percentage terms and in absolute magnitude," says Andy Hargreaves of Pacific Crest Securities.

"Once they launched the iPhone, I mean, it was astounding - they'd come through with these beats that were like $5 billion, $10 billion."

Apple forecasting is further complicated by the company's penchant for telling analysts and the public little about its plans. While Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has pledged to "double down on secrecy," leaks have increased, and some analysts say his tenure has begun to produce more data.

"The level of transparency has gone up," says Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, citing Apple's disclosure of how many TV boxes it sells. "It's been a very clear shift since Cook took over."

Since September, Apple's decline has been so precipitous that it, too, has confounded the professionals. At $532, it was trading below the target price of all but two of the 51 analysts tracked by Bloomberg.

One reason Apple's moves are so difficult to anticipate is that its success has come from conjuring unprecedented consumer demand for entirely new product categories - complicating efforts to capture the company in conventional metrics.

Apple entered the entertainment business in 2003 with the iTunes Store; then it became a handset manufacturer with the 2007 launch of the iPhone. Now competitors such as Samsung Electronics, Google, and threaten to eat into the profits of markets Apple created.

Google's challenge

More than 70 percent of Apple's 2012 revenue of $157 billion comes from iPhone and iPad sales. "This is Tim Cook's greatest challenge right now, to rise above the competition - to rise to the challenge of Google and what Android represents," says Barclays' Reitzes. "It's the greatest challenge in my 10 years of covering the company."

Apple's weakness at the end of 2012 may stem from the realization that only another revolutionary product can reignite the stock. Customers are hoping design guru Jony Ive will create a next-generation television, but analysts are skeptical that the category is big enough to make a meaningful contribution to the company's bottom line.

"To grow that business, you need a new product that's going to be one of the most successful products in the history of consumer electronics," says Pacific Crest's Hargreaves. "Otherwise it doesn't move the needle."

Munster, who made his career as an early bull on Apple and sees shares hitting $900, thinks the next star analysts will be those who figure out where the iPhone's growth will come from.

"In 2013 or 2014, the biggest shift is going to be that the analysts relevant on Apple are those who understand emerging markets," he says. "The playing field will shift away from the U.S. and Europe."

Nick Summers is a Bloomberg Businessweek writer. E-mail:

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Guest Post: The Bad Review

by Mary Rosenblum

Mary Rosenblum

I want to address an issue that has cropped up several times recently with some of my client authors.

This is the Bad Review.

You know, we don’t teach writers about reviews and reviewers and we should. Everybody thinks of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ writing as a standard. If it’s ‘good’ editors and readers will love it! If it’s ‘bad’ nobody will publish the story and readers will hate it. Alas, that mean that many authors who had a really good story felt like failures when they couldn’t sell it to a publisher, when it was a matter of simply not suiting the publisher’s target audience. The quality of the book was excellent, the publisher felt it wouldn’t get the huge numbers of sales they needed in order to show a profit.

Self-publishing has let authors take their stories directly to readers and they vote with their mouse-clicks. You either sell or you don’t, but we all know that it’s a bit of a slow process at first, that self-publishing is all about the long tail. Meaning your sales are probably not stellar at first, with only one or two books out. So, the feeling of ‘success’ or ‘failure’ gets put on hold. Gotta wait to see how many people like it…

Enter the reviewers.

We love Authority. Authorities Know A Lot. Authorities Pass Judgment and They Are Gods. Reviewers Are Authorities And Therefore, They Are Gods.

You know what? That has never ever ever been the case. Reviewers are people who are willing to read lots and lots of books quite quickly and write down a judgment about the quality of that book to meet a regular deadline. You know what skills are involved? You must be able to read and you must be able to write a relatively coherent commentary and — most importantly — do that on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, reliably.

See anything missing? How about a ‘standard of excellence’ or some other measuring tool so that you can effectively winnow ‘good’ from ‘bad’? Don’t see one, do you? You can become a reviewer. You should become a reviewer. It’s a great way to meet new potential fans. One of my clients, from prison, has become a regular reviewer for a large circulation magazine.

Reviewers express their opinions. Their opinions. Remember that lacking ‘standard of excellence’? Keep it in mind here. Some reviewers only review books they like, others review books they don’t like. And the reasons they don’t like them may have nothing to do with lots of other people liking your book. Mr. Reviewer may hate cats and is disposed to pick holes in any story that features a cute cat as a player. So your cozy mystery with the Miss Marple type sleuth who owns a cat gets picked to pieces. Will Mr. Reviewer come out and say ‘I hate stories with cats’? No, of course not. How unprofessional! But he got even with you for putting that silly feline in there, didn’t he? He called your cozy mystery weak, with an obvious ending.

And it really isn’t weak and most readers are surprised by your clever ending.

Should you slit your wrists?

Messy and really, a waste of perfectly good future books, in my opinion. Relatively few readers read any one review. Really. Yes, it seems as if you have just been put up on the six o’clock news stark naked, but that’s just your perception. If every reviewer comments on your weak plot, I would sure pay attention! But that one snarky or nasty review isn’t going to hurt you. Really it will not.

The nastiest review I got, one where the reviewer strongly implied that I was an exploitive white writer using native culture frivolously, won the top award in its genre later on. Take that, snarky, nasty reviewer who clearly didn’t bother to even read the end of the story! Bleah!!!!

Did that sting at the time? Oh, you BET it stung! And that accusation of racial non-political-correctness was not a good thing to have kicking around, career-wise, either. I was furious, hurt, ready to kill the jerk…

What did I do?

Read that again. Repeat it to yourself. Look at all the libelous ‘news’ in those tabloids you see at the end of the supermarket checkout counter, accusing celebrities of everything from incest to consorting intimately with aliens. Do those celebrities ever sue? No, of course not. To even acknowledge that silliness is to give it weight.

If you comment on a reviewer’s post, you will hurt yourself professionally. YOU WILL HURT YOURSELF PROFESSIONALLY.

The review itself, painful as it seems at the time, will vanish into the murky waters of the online world and eventually it won’t even surface when someone googles your specific title. Sorry, folks. Enjoy the glowing reviews, shrug off the lukewarm ones, and be prepared to live with the snarky and nasty ones that you WILL get from time to time. Readers are not stupid. If you have ten really positive reviews on various sites and one ‘flyer’ who wails that this is totally unreadable, whom do you think readers will take more seriously? Yeah, maybe those are all your friends and you paid them to write those glowing reviews, but probably not all are paid friends. They outweigh the wail.

Live with it.

You have to.

Ahem…I have found that there is a certain…er…comfort in venting some of that hurt and fury in a less personally damaging way than responding in the heat of the moment, online. Breaking something that you need to recycle anyway is one good method. Personally, I like a very sharp axe and some rounds of wood that need to be split for firewood. There is something so pleasantly violent in a well sharpened axe.

I will leave my imaginings to your own imaginations.

But the wood burns nicely in my woodstove and warms the house!

Welcome to the real world of writing and reviews. Hey…it means you ARE a writer, you know!

An award-winning author of New York published Science Fiction and mystery novels as well as dozens of short stories, Mary Rosenblum began teaching writing fifteen years ago, mentoring student authors through the writing and publishing process. Now, as the Literary Midwife at New Writers Interface, she still helps new authors navigate safely through the process of publishing today, and teaches them how to promote their books effectively in today’s brave new publishing world. This post first appeared on her blog.

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Orcs Must Die! 2 preview

The original Orcs Must Die! was a surprise hit. It came late to the Tower Defense party, but breathed new life into it with a combination of style and third-person action. But orc genocide is never done, so Robot Entertainment recently announced Orcs Must Die! 2, featuring co-op, a new character, and tons of tweaks

We can't say that Robot keeps us waiting, either, because the game has already had its first public showing and is due this summer. My hands-on at PAX East 2012 was brief, but showed plenty of lessons learned from the first game. Considering how fun and original OMD was, that's saying something.

The addition of co-op, and the new Sorceress character, are obviously the largest changes. The Sorceress sports a faster long-range weapon, along with an alternate fire that makes orcs turn on their comrades. Though the demo only included a few basic classes of orcs, I'm already itching to use that power on stronger enemies and watch them lay waste to the underlings. She felt more of a natural fit for my play style; I would generally rely more on traps as the War Mage in the first game, but this gave me more incentive to get my hands dirty more often.

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It's conventional wisdom that co-op makes everything more fun, but in the case of OMD2, it feels absolutely vital. The first game was occasionally frustrating when tending to multiple pathways, traps, and third-person action would get too difficult to manage by yourself. A second player is a simple step to alleviate that issue. Players can split up the pathways, or stick together to heal each other and watch their backs. It's a natural fit for the game.

A few other changes may thrill or disappoint, depending on your play style. The Weavers are gone from this second iteration, for one. As someone who saw the Weavers as a smart way to create one's own play style, I'll simply have to trust Robot's judgment. Their absence is supposed to be compensated for by more traps, and more variation in the upgrades to those traps. Meanwhile, some traps are being altered for balance or outright replaced, like bringing in the triggered Ice Trap instead of the the continuous effect Tar Trap.

Many of the changes, especially the addition of the Sorceress, seem to be aimed at making the game a smoother experience. The debuffs to certain traps or removal of the Weavers should strike the delicate balance that keeps the intensity of angry orc waves, without feeling too overwhelmed.


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Wii U comes in 8GB and 32GB models, starts at $340 in Japan

Today's the day Nintendo starts actually confirming solid Wii U launch details, and it kicked off in the wee small hours of the morning with Japan. Nintendo revealed that its new console will launch over there on December 8 and come in both 8GB and 32GB models, starting at around $340--more than a 4GB Xbox 360 or 160GB PlayStation 3 costs there.

The white Wii U Basic Set with 8GB of storage has a suggested price of ¥26,250 ($337.76 US right now), while the black Premium Set with 32GB is to cost ¥31,500 ($405.32). Both include the tablet-y GamePad, along with an HDMI cable and AC adaptors for the tablet and console.

The Premium Kit also contains two years of Nintendo Network Premium membership, which offers a 10% discount on digital games and gives you bonus points too. Also packed into the box are a console stand, and a dock and stand for the GamePad.

The Wii U has 1GB of system memory and 1GB of game memory, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said on the stream. Wii U discs have a 25GB capacity--read at 22.5MB/s--and the whole shebang will use up to 75W watts of power.

New Super Mario Bros. U and Nintendo Land are confirmed as launch day releases, but neither is bundled with the console in Japan. That may be different in the rest of the world, as Japan was the only place not to bundle Wii Sports with the original Wii, and the two do seem likely pack-in candidates.

Nintendo will be streaming a Wii U presentation for North America at 7am Pacific today, so keep your peepers peeled for more information about the launch over here. Here's what some of your favourite Shackstaff predict.


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Walmart getting into used games business

The largest retailer in the country will be getting into the used game business soon. Walmart has announced plans to allow trade-ins starting March 26, with pre-owned games hitting shelves later this year. Next week you'll be able to trade your video games to Walmart or Sam's Club locations and use the store credit, while your old games get shipped off to be part of the company's first wave of pre-owned stock.

According to the announcement, games should be presented in their original packaging, and the electronics department will check for damage before giving an estimate. Later this year, they'll be sold back in "Certified Pre-Owned" condition. A calculator is available to estimate trade value.

GameStop's used games business kept the company with solid profits even as the industry itself was suffering from the recession. Walmart chief merchandising and marketing officer Duncan Mac Naughton seemed to indicate pretty clearly that his company's move into used games is attempting to take a piece of that pie.

"Gaming continues to be an important business for us and we're actively taking aim at the $2 billion pre-owned video game opportunity," said Mac Naughton. "When we disrupt markets and compete, our customer wins. They'll save money on video games and have the flexibility to spend it however they want. While new releases will remain the focus of our gaming business, we're glad to give our customers the option to buy pre-owned games."


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Men of War: Vietnam

PC / Strategy / Release: Sep 9, 2011 / ESRB: T

Men of War: Vietnam Details Emerge

By Chris Faylor, Jun 08, 2010 8:20am PDT

Publisher 1C Company today officially announced Men of War: Vietnam--the standalone strategy sequel revealed last week--offering a few new details...

"DigitalMindSoft know what they're doing and Assault Squad is looking absolutely top notch. I ..."

- kikinchaz see all 5 comments

Men of War: Vietnam Revealed

By Chris Faylor, Jun 04, 2010 6:00pm PDT

Though 1C Company only formally announced Men of War: Assault Squad a week ago, another new entry in the PC strategy series is also under...

"Not sure if want... The smaller scale infantry missions were okay but I liked the depth and fun ..."

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E3 2012 News

Halo 4 preview

By John Keefer, Jun 06, 2012 8:00am PDT

While Halo 4 is known for its multiplayer, 343 Industries is putting more of an emphasis on the fiction and story for its campaign and cooperative Spartan Ops mode.

"Back of the box quote "Master Chief now heavier then you remember!""

- InfernoAblaze see all 10 comments

Sacrilegium coming from Two Worlds dev

By Alice O'Connor, Jun 06, 2012 7:30am PDT

The horrors still lurking in the shadows of our modern world are to be revealed in Sacrilegium, a survival horror from Two Worlds creator Reality Pump.

Nintendo undecided on making Nintendo Land a Wii U pack-in

By Andrew Yoon, Jun 06, 2012 7:00am PDT

Although Nintendo Land appears to the spiritual successor to Wii Sports, Nintendo doesn't know if it will include the game as a pack-in with the Wii U.

"yeah but Nintendoland is basically a tech demo to show how the system works, somewhat like Wii ..."

- deathofrats see all 7 comments

Dead Space 3 preview

By Jeff Mattas, Jun 06, 2012 6:15am PDT

We get a look at the closed-door E3 Dead Space 3 live demo, and come away with some impressions of new things like the ice planet locale, human enemies, a cover system, and more.

"I know the chance won't come, but if the game had the level of freedom-of-choice that I would ..."

- aoleon see all 12 comments

Dead Island Riptide announced, is a mystery

By Alice O'Connor, Jun 06, 2012 5:30am PDT

Dead Island Riptide, a sequel to the undead shooter-RPG, has been announced for PC and consoles, but that's about we know for now.

"sweet!! i'm glad it's getting a full sequel and not just another expansion.... this and ..."

- megreedy see all 17 comments

This is what a next-gen Final Fantasy could look like

By Andrew Yoon, Jun 05, 2012 8:45pm PDT

What would a next generation Final Fantasy look like? Imagine, if you will, a pre-rendered cutscene from Final Fantasy XIII, but running in real time.

"Don't confuse "graphics engine" with "art direction" - most engines can all do the same stuff at ..."

- Jobos see all 67 comments

SiNG preview

By Ozzie Mejia, Jun 05, 2012 7:30pm PDT

FreestyleGames, the makers of DJ Hero, return with more music-based fun without all the bulky peripherals.

Pikmin 3 preview

By Ozzie Mejia, Jun 05, 2012 7:15pm PDT

The Pikmin series returns after an eight-year hiatus and helps launch Nintendo’s next-gen console with its classic formula.

F-Zero appearing in Nintendo Land

By Steve Watts, Jun 05, 2012 7:00pm PDT

Nintendo Land will feature F-Zero as one of its 12 attractions, Nintendo revealed tonight at a developer roundtable.

"Miyamoto said it wasn't a good fit for the Wii because of the controls or something. "

- K1Bond007 see all 5 comments

E3 2012 Playstation Conference Highlights - Shacknews Daily: June 5, 2012

By Garnett Lee, Jun 05, 2012 5:45pm PDT

Garnett is entrenched at E3 and offers insights into the Sony Press Conference, talking about the two new IPs from Sony, The Last of Us and Beyond:...

"I love every Weekend Confirmed! Really looking forward to this one though :)"

- lowlight see all 4 comments

Star Wars 1313 gameplay trailers enter Uncharted territory

By Alice O'Connor, Jun 05, 2012 5:45pm PDT

Three short gameplay clips of bounty hunt 'em up Star Wars 1313 came out of E3, looking awfully reminiscent of the Uncharted series with big stunts and set pieces.

"Yeah I definitely think it's more interesting to explore other parts of the universe. "

- OutlawSundown see all 9 comments

The Old Republic 1.3 beta test starts tomorrow

By John Keefer, Jun 05, 2012 5:15pm PDT

Star Wars: The Old Republic is starting a public beta test for its new 1.3 content patch tomorrow.

"Their plan is to supposedly merge into higher capacity "super servers." Why they didn't do this ..."

- StealthHawk see all 7 comments

Marvel Pinball hitting 3DS eShop

By Steve Watts, Jun 05, 2012 4:40pm PDT

Marvel Pinball is coming to the 3DS eShop this summer for $7.99.

SiNG music game announced for Wii U

By Steve Watts, Jun 05, 2012 3:30pm PDT

Nintendo announced SiNG at its E3 press briefing, a karaoke game that lets the controller serve as a prompt for the lead singer.

"Why hold the words in your hand? It seems rather pointless to me."

- solidsnaketoon see all 2 comments

Magic: The Gathering 2013 launching this month

By Alice O'Connor, Jun 05, 2012 2:30pm PDT

The latest digital version of the addictive card game is arriving on June 20 for download on PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and iPad. Hey, come watch the E3 trailer for some hot card-on-card action.

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Testing of jruby JMS vs MRI activemessaging in production mode

My previous performance tests of jruby JMS vs MRI activemessaging were flawed - I wasn't running in production mode, and my classes were being reloaded every time a message was processed. Rookie mistake. Anyway, here are my latest performance results running in production mode:

It turns out that MRI and activemessaging is faster. Not sure what causes the strange profile in the MRI test (perhaps garbage collection?), but I ran the test twice and came up with very similar profiles.

Thanks very much to my friend and colleague Joe Poon for pointing this out to me. Apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by this.

Randito said...

Can you go over your ActiveMessaging setup again?

I understand the listeners, pollers, and other elements used in ActiveMessaging.

I'm just curious what you used for your message broker. Did you use a Stomp protocol?

(I'm kind of new to the messaging parlance, so forgive my use and misuse of the jargon).

Shane Harvie said...

The activemessaging setup can be found here

I'm using ActiveMQ as the message broker, and Stomp as the protocol. If you have any more questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

James Strachan said...

Are you comparing like for like? e.g. are you persisting each message to disk before sending the next one in both situations? Or is one a pure in-VM protocol etc?

BTW if you are using jruby with JMS - you could embed the message broker inside jruby to avoid the context switch.

Also if you use the TCP protocol it'll be a fair bit faster than stomp

Joshua Graham said...

G'day Shane,

While you're at looking at "production" mode on MRI take a look at your JVM config too. Check things like Server mode, assertions disabled, heap size, etc are reasonable.

Also, try JRuby on compiled scripts(now that all nodes compile) see what the differences are - it's worth playing around.

Shane Harvie said...

Thanks guys. I also had some recommendations from Alexey Verkhovsky that I try the latest trunk of JRuby (I was using 1.0), that I let the JVM 'warm up' with a few thousand messages so that the just-in-time compiler kicks in, and that I turn off ObjectSpace. It seems I have a ways to go before I get an accurate performance result. I probably won't get around to it for some time, but at least the info is here for anyone else that wants to try.

Fire Ball said...

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This is a very unique volume. The anecdotes are short snippets written over the past decade and contributed to the folklore blog. This books brings them together and groups them into five seemingly logical segments of the development of the Macintosh and sprinkles in some great images – including Andy’s own notes and sxcribbles from the period.

The result is a poignantly authentic telling of the Macintosh development story from a variety of perspectives. It is not meant to be comprehensive or unbiased, merely reflective. It is almost Tolstoyan in delivery. You can walk away for a time and just jump back in and easily pick up where you left off. There are multiple intersecting plots and things just come together naturally. You don’t want to put it down though and I must say that I just wanted to read and read and read some more. It’s totally engrossing. Like many who will read the book I remember the early days and how I originally dismissed this toy of a machine, but one that went on to change my own life. This book takes you back to a different time (as Andy reflects himself in the afterword to the new edition) before so many recent Apple triumphs. Everything was so new and exciting in the early 80’s and the introduction of the graphical user interface on the Lisa and then Mac was a true revolution that goes on.

This is the book of tales from the inside. I think it’s all the more engaging for those who were there for the revolution and would be very interested to hear the perspective of those not there and who take what was so revolutionary for granted.

I read this as an ebook which seems somewhat odd, as the original conception of the book was to take the online version and put it into a particularly attractive and quality print edition and here it is coming full circle and being reassembled in an electronic format. Its really rather deserving of the print edition and I made a point of reading it on the iPad with full colour PDF rather than on the Sony eBook reader where this would be lost…but I did imagine myself reading the book and feeling the paper. I would highly recommend this for any and all and ebook or print volume this is a great collection. Taking it from content oriented folklore blog and creatively presenting it embellishes the collection and is well worth the investment.

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The name Bemossed is a Native American baby name. In Native American the meaning of the name Bemossed is: Walker.

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People with this name have a deep inner need for quiet, and a desire to understand and analyze the world they live in, and to learn the deeper truths.

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People with this name tend to initiate events, to be leaders rather than followers, with powerful personalities. They tend to be focused on specific goals, experience a wealth of creative new ideas, and have the ability to implement these ideas with efficiency and determination. They tend to be courageous and sometimes aggressive. As unique, creative individuals, they tend to resent authority, and are sometimes stubborn, proud, and impatient.

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The name Crannog is a Scottish baby name. In Scottish the meaning of the name Crannog is: Lake dweller.

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The MTV Video Music Awards are one of the most eclectic of the bunch, and the artists never fail to surprise. Whether it be clothing, music or what we can't wait for them to do, tonight's show was no different.
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The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards were just as random and entertaining as expected. They balanced hip-hop, R&B, pop, rock and even punk music throughout the show.

Here are some of the most eye-popping things we saw:

Kevin Hart makes flat jokes about KStew, Drake and Chris Brown

What can you say? Kevin Hart said he wouldn’t hold back on anyone, and he didn’t... except Kristen Stewart. Hart said he knew everyone wanted him to mention her, but he told them to forgive and forget. Not quite the answer everyone expected.

His jokes in the beginning of the show were the obvious news stories of the day, including a (little too silly) fantasy about why Drake threw the bottle at Chris Brown in a fight that happened earlier this summer (hint: Drake was just trying to recycle). He created a persona of “I’m not going to follow your rules” but he ended up just being loud the whole show.

“You’re talking to me in my earpiece, but it's live I am going to say what I want to say,” he said in his beginning monologue. But the show would have been just fine with the individual actors and musicians introducing the acts.

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One Direction owns it

Let’s face it, it may have been their night. The band is fairly young (in every way possible),0 but they made waves. The group won Best Pop Video, Best New Artist and Most Share-Worthy Video. You could tell all five of them were genuinely excited to be there and enjoying the night.

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Taylor Swift and Lil' Wayne stage-dive

Kevin Hart started it after his intro monologue and it became a trend throughout the night. Lil Wayne and Taylor Swift both did it after their performances. We just hope the crowd was prepared. During Hart’s it seemed like he shocked most of the audience he was jumping on, but they seemed to get used to it after the musician “surfed” over the crowd.

The backstage cam, seeing up Ke$ha's dress

MTV was streaming live the entire ceremony on their UStream page. The camera was backstage and in the audience. Those watching the camera could see what the audience really thought of the current musician on stage: It showed many artists with blank looks on their faces during a performance or an artist dancing along. Taylor Swift was in one of the first shots dancing along in her seat to Rihanna as the latter was onstage. It also showed artists backstage before presenting or performing.

One gem that was caught on the cam was as Ke$ha was presenting an award. After the winners came on stage, Ke$ha was seen from behind pulling her dress down and looking at the audience behind her as though they’d been looking up it. Kind of ironic for someone who wanted to look naked.

30 minutes after the ceremony was over, there had been a total of 781,000 viewers on the page throughout the night.

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Nicki Minaj

Do we even need to explain why she is on this list?

Minaj was dressed in a see-through lacey, sparkly jumpsuit, for lack of a better definition. If she was looking to accentuate her curves, she definitely did it. It was accessorized by a yellow wig that accentuated her personality. But hey, if you can get away with that outfit with praise, might as well go for it.

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Demi Lovato

She is a child star no longer. Lovato stunned in a black gown and grown-up hair and makeup. She looked gorgeous and you can tell she was trying to shed her young-girl image.

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She told Us Weekly "I wanted to look naked with some glitz on my bits." Oh Ke$ha, only you can get away with it. The look could have been pulled off though if the shoes weren’t just a little too tall for the singer to walk like she wasn’t trying on her mom’s heels and the dress actually fit her a little better.

But we wouldn’t have expected less from her. She can pull it off because she is who she is and we love her for that.

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Is that Miley Cyrus?!

Rihanna and Miley Cyrus -- Both singers stunned with their new looks. Rihanna wore a simple white gown and simple short, natural hair. Cyrus showed up with her short blonde hair in a Pink-like updo, almost a Mohawk.

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Katy Perry -- Loved it! The long dark locks were classy and, dare we say, very innocent-looking. Along with her dress, the singer looked gorgeous tonight.

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What you may have missed at the VMAsMTV mixes old-school performers with new

MTV has always done a good job of introducing new music while remembering our music past. Tonight was no different. Green Day performed at the awards show, the artists who have played the show more than anyone except Madonna.

When Pink took the stage, she began with an old recognizable tune before starting in on her newest song (but what was with the giant dancing lips?). While much of the night was focused on newer music, MTV never forgets where it started.

What was missing

Sometimes the things that don't show up mean as much -- if not more -- than the things that do.

Kristen Stewart -- She's promoting her new film On the Road at the Toronto Film Festival, so her not showing up may be a coincidence. But when MTV sent out a press release saying that "the cast of" Twilight would be presenting a clip from the new film, her name was surprisingly absent.

MCA's tribute -- While MTV did do a tribute for Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boy who recently passed away, it was less than a minute long and seemed like an afterthought. For a group that was there in MTV's early days, it seemed less than what he deserved.

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Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg presenting best hip-hop video

The two have a movie coming out, and they did not disappoint when introducing the Best Hip-Hop video. Rashida Jones, the daughter of Quincy Jones, was with Samberg, and both were somewhat dressed down. In true award-presenter fashion, they played the part and broke into a rhyme while presenting.

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Chris Brown vs. Drake

The fight was over long ago, but it was still on people’s minds. Kevin Hart made a joke about it, the cameras panned to the men as well as Rihanna during the night. They were up for the same awards, and both won throughout the night.

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Katy Perry and Rihanna snogged... a lot

Who knew these two even knew each other (and maybe they didn’t before tonight)? But all night they seemed to be BFFs. Throughout the evening, one would whisper something in the other’s ear. At first Rihanna seemed like she wasn’t that interested in the friendship, but by the end of the awards was chatting up Perry just as much as Perry was chatting up her.

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Alicia Keys and Nicki Minaj… and, Gabby Douglas?

The two performers were no surprise, but Olympian Gabby Douglas appeared onstage and began some tumbling in a cute, simple black outfit. This was after the Fierce Five all appeared onstage. The five gymnasts looked stunning in evening wear… especially since we are used to seeing them only in leotards.

What was trending on Twitter

Where do we start?

The most interesting was probably the two big events happening tonight. Normally on a night like this, the VMAs would have hijacked Twitter, but what with the Democratic National Convention, they fought for the spotlight. Twitter account @TheKing_atLyfe summed up the fight well. “Im surprised Twitter aint shut down tonight,” he tweeted. “THE #VMA's and now#DNC too much in one night but the VMAs still dnt compare to our president.”

@michaelhayes tweeted his thoughts about the night, but relating to last week’s incident. “Clint Eastwood > Awarding Chris Brown anything #VMAs.”

The two events combined took over Twitter for the night, and both topics equally prevailed on the trending lists on Twitter and elsewhere online.

Overall, it was a good night. Talented people performed and won awards, and equally talented people went home empty-handed. But the bigger story is always the personalities, and they did not disappoint tonight.

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Lessons from Tony & Eva's breakup

Eva Longoria and Tony Parker had a fairy tale wedding that ended in divorce with allegations of sexting and cheating. What can we learn from the demise of this celebrity power couple? Read on to find out.

Lessons from Tony & Eva's breakup

Long distance relationships are tough

We all know that long distance relationships aren't easy, but committed couples can survive them on the short term. However, there comes a point in your relationship or marriage where you should be going to sleep in the same bed with your husband at least 90 percent of the time. For Eva and Tony, they had very business schedules between Desperate Housewives and NBA basketball. And though they had the money for private jets and cross country trips on a whim, they still ended up spending a lot of time apart.

To some men, no woman is off limits

You expect that your husband would never look at his friend's wife. But as Tony Parker (allegedly) showed us, that's not necessarily true. Parker apparently was sexting with his former teammate's wife, Erin Barry (wife of Brent Barry) for several months.

A little snooping can be a good thing

Tony supposedly had a password-protected program on his computer where he saved hundreds of text messages. As the story goes, he left his computer without closing out the program and that's when Eva discovered the sexy messages. Though a wife shouldn't become paranoid or always be going through her husband's things, it's good to keep your eyes open. If there's something unusual on his computer or cell phone, it doesn't hurt to ask him about it. Just be prepared for the worst.

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The four species of lion tamarins make up the genus Leontopithecus. They are small New World monkeys named for the mane surrounding their face.
The European world's Jesuit Pigefetta, who was on the Magellan voyage, described the golden lion tamarin as "beautiful simian-like cats similar to a small lion."

Small and golden: Lion tamarins weigh up to 900 grams (2 pounds) and are about 30 cm (12 inches) long, with tails about 45 cm (17 inches) long. They are monomorphic - the males and females are the same size and look the same. Their fur is long and goes from a pale gold color to a richer red-gold color. There are black markings on the feet and tail. The fur is rather soft and silky, similar to a young cat's fur. The way the fur is around their face, like a big mane, their face looks like a lions - and that's where their name comes from!

They have narrow, long hands and feet. Their elongated fingers are as long as their forearms! On the hand, the three middle fingers are attached to a central joint by a skin fold. They have non-opposable thumbs.

Trees in Brazil: Living in the eastern tropical rainforests of Brazil, like all other callitrichines they are arboreal. They prefer humid areas with a closed canopy and lots of vines.

Jumping for insects: Golden lion tamarins are very agile and can leap and jump from branch to branch easily with their extremely strong legs. . They prefer moving in a horizontal direction but are also good at climbing on tree trunks because of their claw-like nails. They jump through trees using their fingers to hold onto branches and their claws to dig under the bark to search for insects to eat. They also eat some snakes, plants, small lizards and small, sweet and pulpy fruits.

Soft calls: The tamarin, in addition to being very active, is also very vocal. Perhaps as an adaptation to stay hidden from predators like eagles and hawks, all their vocalizations are very soft (other than their squeal of alarm).

Family Tamarin: Lion tamarins tend to live in family groups, with both parents sharing different tasks of child-rearing the yearly twins. The parents are monogamous. The mother nurses her young every two to three hours, and the father carries the babies on his back.

Day time tree hoppers: Diurnal tree-dwellers, they sleep in tree cavities at night, and also seek shelter during the hottest part of the day. The cavities have entrances that are too small for many predators to enter. They mark their territory boundaries with scent glands located on their chests and genitals.

Little lion primates in big trouble:
Lion Tamarins are critically endangered. Their habitat used to be much larger. Their body adapted specifically for their environment of dense, primary forest, so there is a great concern over their future, because 99% of the primary forests have been cut down for housing,lumber, pastures, and agriculture.
Also the tamarin's beautiful mane was valued target by poachers wanting to sell it on the black market. Before 1960, they were also exploited in the pet trade, zoos and laboratories.

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Where is Cung Le going in the UFC middleweight division? Does “The Fireball Kid” still have a spark? And did we see a future champion on Saturday’s undercard? We’ll try to sort out these and other questions, posed by Sherdog.com features editor Brian Knapp, in our post-mortem for UFC on Fuel TV 6. Make sure to let your voice be heard and leave your own answers in the comments.

Question: If Rich Franklin retired tomorrow, how will history remember him?
Answer: Much like Alexandre Franca Nogueira at featherweight or Shinichi Kojima at flyweight, Franklin will probably be remembered as the best middleweight before the middleweight division was fully developed. There’s a clear line through Franklin’s career: pre-Anderson Silva, when he was the inexplicably unstoppable math teacher, and post-Anderson Silva. Since the second Silva fight, it’s been a given that Franklin will never again hold the 185-pound title as long as “The Spider” is around, leading him to take all sorts of fights up and down the scale. That may be Franklin’s other legacy: a guy who won some spectacularly and lost some spectacularly but always came to fight. Hopefully, he has a few more left in him to author a more fitting end.

Question: How should the UFC utilize Cung Le?
Answer: Things are working out for Le, so it seems logical that it would continue giving him high-profile fights against established middleweights, as well as placing him on cards in Asia and California. Le will be closing in on 41 the next time he steps in the cage, but his star power and recent wins have earned him a more relevant opponent. Considering he emerged from the Franklin fight unscathed, it might make sense for Le to land on the UFC’s March card in Japan, and it would be nice to see him against someone in the Top 10 or 15.

Question: Thiago Silva has won one fight in the last three years, yet he has found himself in either the main event or co-main event in four of his last five appearances. How does he keep securing such prime real estate on UFC cards?
Answer: Although it nearly backfired in this instance, it has to be Silva’s exciting style that keeps getting him big bookings. Few guys match his intensity and willingness to go for broke each time out, and that’s a quality the UFC really seems to value. In this case, it was a win-win for Zuffa: if Stanislav Nedkov beat Silva, it would have a 13-0 light heavyweight with a “name” win under his belt, albeit a lackluster win. As it turns out, Silva did the UFC a favor and handed the Bulgarian his first loss after a rather dull 10 minutes, giving the company a reason to place him in another main card slot his next time out.

Question: Takanori Gomi provided glimpses of the form that made him the world’s top lightweight in his win over Mac Danzig. At 34, where does he fit into the UFC’s 155-pound division?
Answer: Gomi looked as good Saturday as he has since joining the UFC -- even better than his 2010 highlight reel clubbing of Tyson Griffin, because this fight required Gomi to go the distance with a durable opponent. His pace, punching, cardio, sub defense and even ground control of Danzig added up to a much-deserved and much-needed decision, giving Gomi his first back-to-back wins in the Octagon. All signs point to the former Pride Fighting Championships titleholder getting some of his groove back and becoming a name for lightweights to avoid, but there is one small problem: this is Takanori Gomi. "The Fireball Kid" has been maddeningly inconsistent since the fall of Pride, and it’s sometimes been hard to know which Gomi will show up from one fight to the next. For now, it’s best to be cautiously optimistic and say that if the Gomi who fought in Macau shows up each time, he could be around for a while yet as a Clay Guida-style gatekeeper-slash-fringe contender.

Question: John Lineker is only 22 years old and has won 14 of his last 15 fights. Is he a potential future champion?
Answer: Yes. Lineker lost his UFC debut, and while Louis Gaudinot is no slouch, that defeat is looking more and more like an aberration brought on by forces outside the Octagon. The Brazilian reportedly arrived in the states alone, without proper equipment or a team to help with his weight cut. On Saturday, Lineker put forth a great performance against a former Shooto world champ in Yasuhiro Urushitani. It wasn’t just a strong win; it was exactly the kind of all-action performance that the UFC is looking for in its newly forged flyweight division. Few would pick him to dethrone Demetrious Johnson tomorrow, but Lineker has heaps of potential and plenty of time to develop into a championship-caliber fighter.

Question: Does Tiequan Zhang belong in the UFC?
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They had two different styles carrying the ball. Barry Sanders ran around people; Earl Campbell ran through them.

They also had two different lives after football. Sanders retired early long before his body burned out; Campbell wasn’t as fortunate. It is stunning to see the one-time beast in a football uniform struggle to walk.

The careers and lives of both legends are examined in two new documentaries. Still Standing: The Earl Campbell Story, produced by Ross Greenburg, airs tonight at 11 p.m. (ET) on NBC Network. Wednesday, Sanders is the latest subject of A Football Life on NFL Network at 8 p.m. ET.

Here’s the rundown on both films. Highly recommended.

NBC Sports Network presents Still Standing: The Earl Campbell Story, a riveting documentary about one of the greatest running backs in the history of the NFL, and the touching life story that followed his retirement. Still Standing: The Earl Campbell Story, debuts Tuesday, December 4 at 11 p.m. ET/10 p.m. CT/9 p.m. MT/8 p.m. PT on NBC Sports Network.

Born in Tyler, Texas, to a family with 12 children, Earl Campbell began his life working the rose fields and living in a shack, where his brothers joked, ‘you could see the big dipper from your bed at night.’ His father, B.C. Campbell, died of a heart attack at the age of 50, when Earl was 11, leaving his mother, Ann, to raise all 12 Campbell kids.

After winning the Texas State Football Championship in his senior year at John Tyler High School, Campbell went on to the University of Texas, where in his senior year he won the coveted Heisman Trophy (1977). He became the No. 1 pick in the 1978 NFL Draft when the Houston Oilers traded with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the top pick in the draft, and the Oilers immediately chose Campbell.

Campbell’s Hall-of-Fame career was a highlight reel of running over those who would attempt to tackle him. Campbell’s 199-yard, four touchdown performance in a 35-30 win over the Miami Dolphins before a national audience on Monday Night Football in Week 12 of his rookie season is the signature individual performance of his career.

Halfway through the 1984 season, Campbell was traded by the Oilers to the Saints where he rejoined his mentor and coach Bum Phillips. He finished his career in New Orleans, retiring during the 1986 preseason, but he will always be remembered as the best of Bum’s Bunch in Houston.

After his retirement, Campbell battled five spinal surgeries, two knee replacements and an addiction to pain pills and alcohol. He was confined to a wheelchair for six years, but due to a successful spinal surgery performed by Dr. Stan Jones in Houston, and his sons Christian and Tyler convincing him to check into a rehabilitation center for his addictions, Campbell is still standing today. He is walking again, and tossed the coin at a University of Texas game in Austin earlier this season.

For 10 seasons, Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders electrified the NFL with unbelievable runs while putting up prolific rushing numbers. Yet just before the start of the 1999 NFL season, as one of the league’s biggest stars, he quietly walked away from the game.

 NFL Network’s Emmy-nominated series A Football Life continues Wednesday, December 5 at 8:00 PM ET with a profile of one of the NFL’s greatest players who retired during the prime of his career. Barry Sanders: A Football Life examines Sanders’ incredible Hall of Fame career, his unexpected retirement and the reaction it garnered throughout both the NFL and the city of Detroit, and his relationship with his late father, William.

The one-hour documentary features a sitdown interview with Sanders in which he discusses his fascinating football life. The NFL’s third all-time leading rusher talks about how he was overlooked in high school, his decision to attend Oklahoma State, the unwanted media attention that came as a result of winning the Heisman Trophy award in 1988 and being an NFL superstar, and the lessons he imparts to his children, including his son BJ Sanders, a redshirt freshman running back at Stanford University.

Additional interviews include fellow Hall of Fame running backs Emmitt Smith and Curtis Martin, former teammates Thurman Thomas, Herman Moore, Kevin Glover and Lomas Brown, former Lions head coaches Wayne Fontes and Bobby Ross, and Hall of Fame guard for the Detroit Pistons, Joe Dumars, among others.

Barry Sanders: A Football Life also includes past interviews with his father and Barry reading the statement he released to the Wichita Eagle announcing his retirement for the first time publically.

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Dayton Daily News – Ohio’s senators Wednesday urged the U.S. government to maintain import duties that keep foreign corporations from dumping subsidized products in the U.S. that could kill domestic jobs, including 250 in Kettering.

In a show of bipartisanship, U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman co-signed a letter to the International Trade Commission that said anti-dumping duty orders due to expire must be extended to prevent unfairly traded school paper product imports from China, India and Indonesia.

In Kettering, the duties are linked to 250 jobs with ACCO Brands’ Consumer & Office Products Division, known as Mead Products. The company makes lined paper used by school children, among other prominent consumer products. The current trade orders went into effect in 2006.

Last year, MeadWestvaco Corp. spun off its Kettering-based Consumer & Office Products division to ACCO Brands Corp. to create one of the world’s largest school and office products companies. An ACCO spokesman was not available for comment.

“Ohio’s companies, like Mead Products, can compete with anyone in the world when there is a level playing field,” Brown said. “But the domestic paper industry is being undermined and undercut by illegal trade practices from other countries. Unfairly subsidized imports harm our ability to innovate and compete. That’s why these duties are so important —to support Ohio manufacturing and keep jobs in the U.S.”

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In his first address before Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson called for the immediate passage of civil rights legislation. "No memorial or eulogy," he said, "could more eloquently honor President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought." Between January 1964 and April 1968, President Johnson pushed through more civil rights legislation than all presidents before and after him. In his four years in the White House, he authorized the kind of sweeping reforms only matched by the revolutionary—and nation-dividing—work of the Radical Reconstruction governments during the 1860s and 1870s.

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The official poster and trailer for director Niels Arden Oplev’s crime thriller ‘Dead Man Down’ have officially been released. The rated-R film, which hits theaters on March 8, stars Colin Farrell, Dominic Cooper and Terrance Howard, and reunites Oplev with his ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)’ star Noomi Rapace.

‘Dead Man Down,’ which marks the American theatrical debut of Oplev, follows Farrell and Rapace’s characters, Victor and Beatrice, as two strangers whose mutual desire for revenge draws them together in New York City. Their need for revenge triggers an escalating trail of mayhem, after Beatrice seduces a crime lord’s right-hand man.

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Truth be told, I’m not sold on Revolution…yet. I’ll give it another shot when it returns on March 25, 2013, however the young female lead character (played by Tracy Spiridakos) does such dumb things I have major problems getting past her actions and paying attention to the overall story. Hopefully the upcoming episodes will focus on the characters who are far better written.
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What would you do without it all? In this epic adventure from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Supernatural‘s Eric Kripke, a family struggles to reunite in an American landscape where every single piece of technology — computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights — has mysteriously blacked out forever. A drama with sweeping scope and intimate focus, — and television’s #1 new Fall series in the key demographic — Revolution is also about family — both the family you’re born into and the family you choose. This is a swashbuckling journey of hope and rebirth as seen through the eyes of one strong-willed young woman, Charlie Matheson (Spiridakos), and her brother Danny (Graham Rogers).
When Danny was kidnapped by a powerful militia for a darker purpose, Charlie tracked down her estranged Uncle Miles (Billy Burke), a former militia member himself, to help find her brother. Together, with a rogue band of survivors including Aaron (Zak Orth) and Nora (Daniella Alonso), they crossed the country, eventually rescuing Danny – as well as discovering Charlie and Danny’s presumed dead mother, Rachel Matheson (Elizabeth Mitchell), a scientist with inside knowledge of the power outage who was also being held by the militia.
Now, newly reinforced, Charlie, Miles, Aaron and Rachel set out to overthrow the militia led by the ruthless Monroe (David Lyons) and his brutal enforcer, Major Tom Neville (Giancarlo Esposito) — and ultimately strive to re-establish the United States of America. All the while, they explore the enduring mystery of why the power failed, and if — or how — it will ever be restored.
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The Auburn Tigers baseball team took to the diamond on Tuesday night and took home their second win of the season over the Troy Trojans.

The Tigers won the game 7-0, blanking the Trojans in Troy. Auburn started Trey Cochran-Gill, but Derek Varnadore and Justin Bryant attributed to the shutout from the mound.

Auburn arguably had their best game of the season, an effort that will need to continue as the Tigers prepare to close the season and head into the SEC and NCAA tournaments.

Baseball, Softball and Track are all in action this weekend, with Track and Field starting back competition tomorrow.

As the Tigers return to the competition fields tomorrow, I will be back with the Tigers Tidbits to keep you ladies and gents up to date on all things Auburn.

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I wrote a five most important post spring dates piece for Bleacher Report yesterday. If you missed it, take a look. Great stuff over there at B/R.

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Cincinnati Bengals reportedly in contract talks with quarterback Andy Dalton Andy Dalton has yet to win a playoff game in three postseason appearances as a pro. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

Andy Dalton is entering the final year of his rookie contract, and the Cincinnati Bengals are not going to waste any time working towards an agreement. According to the quarterback, he and the Bengals have already begun discussing a contract extension that would give him a nice pay raise.

"There have been talks about it. There have been a couple of proposals sent over and different things," Dalton told SiriusXM NFL Radio on Monday, via "We're working. Hopefully, we can get something done.

"I'm not too worried about it. I know in the right timing everything is going to happen. Obviously, everyone would like to get something done sooner rather than later."

The good news for Dalton is that Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis appears to be on board and is hoping that the team will lock up Dalton for the foreseeable future.

"We are hopeful we can get a deal done," Lewis said last week at the NFL meetings. "That doesn't preclude us from doing everything else we also want to continue to do -- and soon -- because we are sitting on a chunk of cap in order to get him done and continue to put the team together around him."

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The Bengals have had success with Dalton running the show, and he has a solid relationship with the team's young offensive weapons, but they will need to find some more success in the postseason before Cincinnati can justify opening the checkbook wide to keep Dalton under contract. Some of Dalton's worst performances have come in playoff losses, which is something the team would obviously like to see change.

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Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Season 3, "Episode 5" Review

Last week's train wreck of an episode saw Belle go to pieces and turn to shoe shopping for comfort after she had sex with her editor Duncan - terrible writing by the same author of this week's episode, Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Thankfully Lenkiewicz pulled herself together enough to get Belle out of the shops and back in bed for "Episode 6."

Belle was open for business in Ep. 6 and was back to her old tricks with a regular client. The client was chatting openly about his wife and making plans for a weekly rendezvous when suddenly a knock at the door threw her right back out of whack. Duncan's unannounced visit had Belle in an uproar, running all over, throwing clothes about, kicking condom rappers around and foaming at the mouth. Ultimately, she threw him out, asking that he not come by anymore, but it was obvious that their relationship was not over.

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Aug 21, 2012 6:16AM EDT

OK Is Duncan a prick I don't know but I do know this relationship will not last. will we met Lord byron's old money family during his and Bambi's doomed wedding. Ben Ben needs to find someone who will truly be a good friend. also stop the sex in the city references please the shoes and trying on clothes at a store is not funny.

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