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An urban park vision that grew out of a zoning controversy has become a 103-acre reality with about 8 miles of mountain biking and hiking/running trails that connect North Chattanooga to Red Bank and eventually perhaps to Moccasin Bend.
Stringer's Ridge Park will formally open Saturday, and when it does it will be an urban forest surrounded by about 28,000 residents and 47,000 Chattanooga and Red Bank workers.
It has taken plenty of patience, determination and cooperation - more than five years of effort and about $2.6 million in donations and volunteer hours - to get to this day.
When the work began in 2008, it was the consequence of a mutiny by residents of North Chattanooga's Hill City where homes sat at the base of the ridge. The residents feared for their property values, their quality of life, their health and their forested ridge view if the site's developer succeeded in gaining city approval to take off the top of the historic ridge in order to build 500 condominiums and townhouses.
The plan brought a storm of attention. Questions were raised about exposing Chattanooga shale, a rock that produces radon gas and sulfuric acid runoff when open to air and rain. Similar ridge-top development along another section of the ridge had caused runoff problems, and those concerns, along with the beginning of the recession, prompted developers to announce in April 2008 that they were backing away from the plan.
But debating the condo plan, against the historic and pastoral backdrop that Stringer's Ridge holds in Chattanooga, galvanized many in the city: What, after all, would be the effect on the Scenic City if a green ridge that frames the river-and-sky-view from downtown was suddenly all condos? Some in the city even suggested new legislation to help protect the city's iconic views from threats of brow and ridge residential development and cell towers. The marching cry was "remember Cameron Hill," another historic site and a once miniature version of Lookout Mountain that was flattened for condos decades ago then shortened again in recent years for the BlueCross BlueShield building.
In the months that followed, the owner, Jimmy Hudson, agreed to sell some of the property to the Trust for Public Land, and later he agreed to donate still more.
Hudson acknowledged at the time that he hadn't at first understood the public fervor over changing Chattanooga's view.
"I didn't envision it going this way," he said. "But I think that process helped us realize what it really was worth. I guess you could say we all took it for granted."
The view works both ways. Not only is it gorgeous from the city, looking north. It's also gorgeous from the trail-crossed ridge where part of the new park is a knockout overlook pavilion funded chiefly by the Lyndhurst Foundation.
"It's a $2 million view," quips Rick Wood, Tennessee director of the Trust for Public Land. Volunteers built the trails that were designed sustainably by a premier trail building company, also paid for by Lyndhurst.
The whole effort makes Chattanooga - today and tomorrow and in decades to come - a city that will still have it's iconic scenery, along with a calming, peaceful, 103-acre urban forest and park, all pretty much smack in the middle of everything. And the only city taxpayer investment is $500,000, which the city paid over two budget years.
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Dr. Paul Dauphinais is a psychologist for Turtle Mountain Community Schools in Belcourt, N.D. He wrote this letter earlier this year after attending a tribal outreach gathering for American Indian youth, part of the work ChildFund supports in the United States. Here's an excerpt.
I had an experience last week that was very moving and gave me great hope for the future of our youth and community. It was a Wednesday in the early evening. I was invited to go to the gym at Dunseith High School. When I arrived, there were children, youth and some of the outreach staff gathered near picnic tables. One of the tables had food that the staff had prepared. I was observing and enjoying the true friendships that the staff and youth showed. A couple of the girls then spontaneously began to serve the youth and staff. They assumed that responsibility without any adult coaxing. It was a pleasant experience.
The gathering really demonstrated to me that each person there genuinely cared for one another, making sure that everyone was served food and satisfied. The children and youth were respectful of each other and it was clearly evident that each one was welcome.
After the meal, several of the team leaders gathered youth in a large circle for the main part of the gathering, the Talking Circle. [Talking Circles are an important component of ChildFund's cultural restoration initiatives.] The adult leader then began with an introduction of himself and his family in the language of the Anishnabe; he gave an explanation of respect in our cultural world. After this, Paco, a stuffed animal, was handed from person to person to say what respect meant to them and who and what they were respectful of in their lives.
When each youth had finished with their explanations, the rest of the circle applauded, showing respect and acknowledgement of the other person's perspective. Each person in the circle was offered a turn. The insight that youth demonstrated in their speaking was a pleasure to hear, no matter their age. We have such great leaders-to-be who will be able to have insights into their daily lives and what it means to be Anishnabe/Mitchif. I was very proud to be a part of that group that night. [ChildFund believes that engaging children and youth in initiatives that connect them to positive Lakota values, practices and beliefs strengthens their cultural identity and their resiliency against inherent risks in their environment.]
All week, this past week, I wondered how these youth developed into such respectful and insightful beings; what is this process of growth? Who were they before they became involved with what is called Club Night? How do children mature in this manner – to become so respectful of each other and confident to speak about how one of the gifts of the grandfathers is part of their lives in the presence of others?
Club Night has been happening for many years through the leadership of Claudette McLeod and Turtle Mountain Outreach, and the staff of the Tribal JTPA, Turtle Mountain Youth & Family Center and tribal youth programs.
After the Talking Circle, the youth and staff played a group activity where there was not any bickering about rules or other negative behaviors. Everyone seemed to truly enjoy each other's companionship, regardless of gender or age. At the end of the evening, the staff remains to assure that each youth has a ride home and that, if someone wants to talk about a concern or share a recent event, they are there.
I just wanted to jump in and be a part!
I thank the group for allowing me to be a part of the group that night.
Club Night will continue to be a part of program services and the dedicated staff will continue to be supportive to the youth. And I thank them for providing this opportunity for our youth.
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Mount Union?s Sigma Nu Beta Iota Chapter Forms Alumni Chapter
April 27, 2010
Alumni of the Sigma Nu Fraternity recently formed a Beta Iota Alumni Chapter.
On Saturday, November 25, alumni of the Beta Iota Chapter of Sigma Nu Fraternity held a meeting at the chapter house at Mount Union College to discuss the development of an alumni chapter. For that initial meeting, a formal petition was signed and submitted to the Sigma Nu Fraternity, by-laws were adopted and officers were elected.
On December 7, the alumni chapter was formally recognized and was issued an active charter by the Sigma Nu Fraternity national office.
'The purpose of the Beta Iota Alumni Chapter is to support alumni relationships and to help foster stronger personal and professional connections between members of the Beta Iota chapter,' Jarrod Cole, a Mount Union Sigma Nu alumnus said. 'Since the initial meeting of Sigma Nu alumni, several committees have been formed and operational functions have been developed and implemented.'
The alumni chapter will hold an annual meeting at the chapter house to discuss the various functions and new developments of the chapter each year on the day following the chapter's philanthropic Mike Hardy Basketball Marathon Event. This year, the basketball marathon will take place on March 16 and the alumni chapter meeting will be on March 17 at the chapter house.
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I was out kiting the other day in total harmony and bliss, loving the elements playing with the toe side, boosting , air transitions and loving the way the bar felt. I had gone up wind and outside, playing with Bob and Sylvia when I noticed that they were running back to the beach. As I looked around, I realized that the whole area was shutting down.
I ran back to the beach as best I could and got to about the approximate area of the flagpole. I had cleared the flagpole, my kite was well on the beachside.
Well the wind had died and my kite fell back in the window, directly over the flagpole and dropped to the water, it had relaunched but was moving violently to and fro as one line was caught and it was keeping me from controlling the kite.
I pulled my safety, the kite was pulling me toward the pole, but I still have that one line caught. Shit I'll cut it or I'll unhook it clear, the pole reattach the line and oh here I am at the flag pole rip it out, clear the poll and end of it story.


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HIV-Positive Women Need Annual Cervical Cytology: ACOG Guidelines
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently issued guidelines for the routine gynecological care of HIV-positive women. "Most of the women living with HIV today in the US are in their prime reproductive years," noted Dr. Hal C. Lawrence, vice president of practice activities for ACOG.
All women ages 19 to 64 should receive routine HIV screening, the report recommended. While there is no consensus on how often repeat screening should be offered, the guidelines suggested at least annual testing for women at elevated risk, including injection drug users, those whose partners are injection drug users or HIV-positive, and those have had an STD in the previous year.
The guidelines recommend aggressive treatment of STDs, which increase the risk of HIV transmission. CDC recommends annual testing for curable STDs, ACOG noted. HIV-positive women should have cervical screening twice during the first year after HIV diagnosis and annual screening thereafter.
HIV-positive women are at increased risk of bacterial vaginosis and yeast infections, and treatment may take longer than average, the guidelines note. Women with recurrent yeast infections may need long-term medication to forestall future yeast infections, they said.
Condoms, which are recommended for all sexually active HIV-positive persons, plus another method of birth control are recommended to prevent unintended pregnancy among HIV-positive women of child-bearing age. Oral contraceptives are safe for women with HIV, but combined oral contraceptives generally are not recommended for women taking certain antiretroviral therapy, as the medications can interfere with each other. ACOG notes that IUDs can be a good birth control option for HIV-positive women.
Strategies are available for HIV-positive women who wish to become pregnant to avoid the risk of vertical transmission. They include reducing the virus to undetectable levels before delivery, not breastfeeding, and administering the infant prophylactic antiretrovirals.
HIV-positive women tend to go through menopause about three to four years before other women, according to the guidelines. In the absence of detailed research, the guidelines suggest standard interventions to address the bone loss often seen in menopausal women: increasing physical activity, stopping smoking, and taking vitamin D and calcium supplements.
The full report "Practice Bulletin No. 117: Gynecologic Care for Women with Human Immunodeficiency Virus," was published in Obstetrics & Gynecology (2010;116(6):1492-1509).
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Communication is one of the most versatile and broad disciplines among contemporary university offerings. The degree curriculum provides students with a thorough understanding of the process at work when people interact. The degree program provides a significant set of tools with which to enter any area of career interest. Knowing how to successfully negotiate the many ways that cultural differences make communication difficult gives students the skills that apply in interpersonal, family, group, organizational, and public settings. The department offers a minor, a B.A. in Communications and a Master's in Professional Communication.
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Where did you last see it (or sell it)? I don't think we could actually NOT keep an eye out for a '75 on the road!
Did your '75 happen to have the SOA dealer installed air conditioning? Or maybe the dreaded add-on A/C from Lone Star? On the '76, we had to turn off the A/C when passing on the freeway!
Well, I wish I was 16 again!! My first car. It was a 1975, 1400, DL, automatic. Gosh I loved that car!!! Wish I had it now. Has anyone seen it around??????? LOL. OH where is it now?????
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It had no AC. All my current ones have the Lone-star system.
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That sure looks like PA in the background.When are you coming back?
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COLUMBUS — A three-day suspension from school has been upheld for a 10-year-old boy a principal says pretended his finger was a gun and pointed it at another student's head.
The fifth-grader had said he was "just playing around" but Columbus city schools said students had been warned about pretend gun play numerous times this year.
The Columbus Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1djfeom ) a district hearing officer upheld the boy's suspension Monday while offering to change the offense to committing a "volatile act."
The boy's grandfather said the ruling would be appealed while the district said the grandfather was not the boy's legal guardian and didn't have the standing to make that decision.
The school system said pointing a finger like a gun violates the district's zero tolerance weapons policy.


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1. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithmTPD-Opitz Dec 11, 2012 2:12 PM (in response to 978140)your requirement is not clear to me.
what's the real question?
why is 6 the correct answer?
by changing parameters in the question: is there a possibility that 7 is the correct answer?
when you add more examples, when would the correct answer change?
2. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithm978140 Dec 11, 2012 2:45 PM (in response to TPD-Opitz)Ok. Lets try again:
Q: You are having a collection of random time intervalls with start and end time, [start time, end time]. What is the total time without counting two or more intervalls in the same time slot twice?
Example 1:
Ans: 1+1+1 = 3
The time slot [3,4] is overlapping [2,4] and dismissed:
Ans: 1+2 = 3
First time slot[1,10] is not overlapping with anything = 9
Second time slot[20,25] is overlapping with [21,30]. 20 it not overlapping(+1), 21-25 is overlapping(+4, the thing is that we only add the time for this timeslot once) and 25-30 it not overlapping(+5) = 10
Last time slot [28,30] is overlapping with [21,30]. Because already have been taking the time for [28,30] = 0
Ans: 9 + 1 + 4 + 5 + 0 = 19
Think I made it more clear now?
3. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithm796283 Dec 11, 2012 3:17 PM (in response to 978140)Have you tried putting all the intervals on a "number line" and just +1 when you find a 1 minute slot that's occupied?
4. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithm978140 Dec 11, 2012 3:32 PM (in response to 796283)Think what you are suggesting is having a time complexity of O(n^2). Would need a more general solution it think.
5. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithm796283 Dec 11, 2012 3:42 PM (in response to 978140)Then put it in a map and get the size of the keyset. What's the difference between O(n) and O(n ^2^ ) when you don't have any solution to begin with?
6. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithm978140 Dec 11, 2012 4:01 PM (in response to 978140)I can start with what I have come up with:
I think this is correct as long as we dont have two(or more) intervalls that starts before an earlier intervall has ended.
result = total time for all intervalls List list = sort intervalls with earliest starttime first first starttime : t1 for all start times next starttime : t2 if t1 ends before t2 ends if t1 starts before t2 ends remove (t1 end - t2 start) from result else no overlap and do nothing else t2 ends before t1 ends remove t2 end - t2 start from result set t1 = t2
Example: sorted list with intervalls [a,b,c].
Gives wrong if a end time is bigger then both b and c start times
7. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithmrp0428 Dec 11, 2012 4:51 PM (in response to 978140)>
I think this is correct as long as we dont have two(or more) intervalls that starts before an earlier intervall has ended.
Example: sorted list with intervalls [a,b,c].
Gives wrong if a end time is bigger then both b and c start times
Your key constraint in your use case is that ANY pair can overlap any OR ALL of the other pairs. That means that each pair, after sorting by start time, must be checked against ALL previous pairs: the third pair must be checked again the first two, the fourth against the first three and so on.
1. Put the first pair into the result set - there is no need to SORT the pairs you start with; it is the result set of pairs that needs to be in order.
2. for each pair in the remaining list
a. for each pair in the result list
1) if the new pair does NOT overlap the result pair continue (loop to next result pair)
2) the new pair overlaps
a) if the pair overlaps completely do nothing - this interval is already covered - continue the OUTER loop (go to step 2)
b) the new pair overlaps. You need to create a new pair for the part of the interval of the new pair that does NOT overlap the result pair. These new pairs (there will be either one or two) must be added to the SOURCE list; do NOT add them to the result since they may overlap other pairs already in the result.. You could use a recursive function for this loop and then just call it for the pair.
So basically you put the first new pair into the result set. For each of the other pairs you check against each of the pairs already in the result set. Use a recursive function for this.
If the new pair does not overlap you just add it. If it overlaps you create one or two new pairs to represent the non-overlapping intervals and call the recursive function for each of these to add them to the result list.
Walk it through on paper first so you can follow the logic.
8. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithmdadams07 Dec 11, 2012 8:12 PM (in response to 978140)Another approach, which take da little more up front work, but is more useful in the long run (IMHO), is to create a time span class which implements a Mergeable interface. I have done something similar at my job when I needed to merge a list of (possibly adjacent) milepost ranges. Once a class implemented my Mergeable interface, I then called a list utility class with a merge() method that merged any objects in the list which abut each other.
You could use the same approach on a list of time spans. Once they are merged so there are no overlaps, it would be simple to iterate thru the list, computing the duration of each time span & adding it a total.
9. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithmbaftos Dec 12, 2012 7:32 PM (in response to 978140)Maybe I use other words or use a technique similar to what others said, but here it is.
Let's say we have an Interval class that encapsulates two numbers: start and end. Assume you know how to write a Interval merge(Interval i1, Interval i2) method that returns the merged interval or null, if the two are not mergeable.
Now here is the skeleton of adding a new Interval to a List<Interval>.
Call the above method in a loop for each interval in your input.
List<Interval> add(List<Interval> intervals, Interval newInterval) { for (Interval i : intervals) { Interval m = merge(newInterval, i); if (m != null) { intervals.remove(i); newInterval = m; } } intervals.add(newInterval); return intervals; }
Edit: Consider the above to be pseudo-code. A List.iterator() should be used instead of the for loop above for correct results.
Edited by: baftos on Dec 12, 2012 2:02 PM
10. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithmTPD-Opitz Dec 13, 2012 12:45 PM (in response to 978140)how about this?
the <tt>merge</tt> method should thow an exception if the otherInterval is disjunced, so that the caller can decide what to do (eg. adding the current spanningInterval to a list and set the faild as new spanningInterval ...).
/** * @author TPD, OPITZ-CONSULTING Deutschland GmbH * @version $Revision: $ $Date: $ */ public class IntervalMergerTest { private static final class Interval implements Comparable { private final int _x; private final int _y; Interval(int x, int y) { _x = x; _y = y; } public Interval merge(Interval otherInterval) { int x = _x < otherInterval._x ? _x : otherInterval._x; int y = _y > otherInterval._y ? _y : otherInterval._y; return new Interval(x, y); } public int getDuration() { return (_y - _x); } @Override public String toString() { return MessageFormat.format("Interval [_x={0}, _y={1}]", _x, _y); } @Override public int compareTo(Interval pO) { return _x == pO._x ? (_y - pO._y) : (_x - pO._x); } } Interval mergeIntervals(List<Interval> intervalls) { assert(!intervalls.isEmpty()); TreeSet<Interval> orderedIntervals = new TreeSet<>(intervalls); Interval spanningInterval = orderedIntervals.first(); for (Interval interval : orderedIntervals) { spanningInterval = spanningInterval.merge(interval); } return spanningInterval; } @Test public final void testintervalMerge() { List<Interval> intervalls = new ArrayList<>(); intervalls.add(new Interval(2, 3)); intervalls.add(new Interval(4, 7)); intervalls.add(new Interval(1, 6)); Interval spanningInterval = mergeIntervals(intervalls); Assert.assertEquals("overall duration calculated", 6, spanningInterval.getDuration()); } }
Edited by: TPD Opitz-Consulting com on 13.12.2012 13:26
Edited by: TPD Opitz-Consulting com on 13.12.2012 13:33
11. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithmAlex Geller Dec 13, 2012 2:44 PM (in response to TPD-Opitz)if I am not mistaken, it fails on test E3 yielding 29 when it should yield 19:
List<Interval> intervalls = new ArrayList(); intervalls.add(new Interval(1, 10)); intervalls.add(new Interval(20, 25)); intervalls.add(new Interval(21, 30)); intervalls.add(new Interval(28, 30)); Interval spanningInterval = mergeIntervals(intervalls); Assert.assertEquals("overall duration calculated", 19, spanningInterval.getDuration());
12. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithmTPD-Opitz Dec 13, 2012 3:09 PM (in response to Alex Geller)
Alex Geller wrote:This is true because (as I wrote) <tt>Interval</tt> does not (yet) check if the other interval is disjuct. So it simply add it (and the gap between...)
if I am not mistaken, it fails on test E3 yielding 29 when it should yield 19:
You should implement that check and add the current <tt>spanningInterval</tt>s duration to not yet existing <tt>allIntervallsDuration</tt>.
int allIntervallsDuration=0; Interval spanningInterval = orderedIntervals.first(); for (Interval interval : orderedIntervals) { if(spanningInterval.isDisjunct(interval){ allIntervallsDuration += spanningInterval.getDuration(); spanningInterval = interval; } else { spanningInterval = spanningInterval.merge(interval); } } // don't forget the last interval. allIntervallsDuration += spanningInterval.getDuration(); // change the method to return the allIntervallsDuration and don't forget to give it a new name.
13. Re: Looking for overlapping algorithmAlex Geller Dec 13, 2012 3:49 PM (in response to TPD-Opitz)Yes very good. That works nicely and makes sense.


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By YVONNE VILLARREAL LOS ANGELES TIMES
This article was published November 29, 2012 at 3:14 a.m.
LOS ANGELES The plaintiff — a young man — is angry, feeling violated and no longer willing to be the lover of the woman standing a few feet away. Their affair is a sordid one: He's her literary professor; she posted a humiliating sex video of him on YouTube.
The rub: Their entanglement was sanctioned by the man's wife, a way to keep him sexually satisfied once motherhood left her unkempt — an idea that developed after she read the erotic best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
And they're looking to Ana Maria Polo for resolution.
"Cuando juegas con fuego, uno se quema!" Polo says, scolding the defendant in Spanish with a common English idiom (when you play with fire, you're going to get burned).
Judge Judy may be the undisputed queen of mean in the TV courtroom arena, but there's one challenger who not only matches her sharklike disposition but comes with an added entertainment value — she can sing. This "judge" croons her own theme song.
Polo is the star attraction of Telemundo's Caso Cerrado (Case Closed), a Miami-based Spanish-language court show that has emerged as one of the judicial reality genre's most colorful and popular entries. She has been dubbed the "Latino Judge Judy," a comparison she doesn't overrule.
"I have no problem with the comparison," Polo said in English — she was born in Cuba, but raised in Miami. "I admire Judge Judy. She has a style that I find refreshing. A strong personality is something to strive for."
There are some notable differences between the two — Polo, unlike Judy, has never been an actual judge, but she's a legal arbiter who settles differences between litigants. And instead of an imperial black robe, Polo hands down her rulings wearing brightcolored jackets and bold prints.
Did we mention she sings the show's theme song?
The Emmy-nominated show averages 1.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen — well below its English-language counterparts, but still impressive. Its reach is so widespread, with the show airing in 30 countries, that it's no surprise hundreds thronged to a makeshift set during Caso Cerrado's recent trip to the West Coast, releasing "oohs" and hoots during this particular scandalous proceeding.
Her television career isn't too far divorced from her original ambition — she wanted to be an actress.
"The biggest actors in the world are lawyers," she said. So she spent 20 years as a thespian of the law, becoming a lawyer and tending to cases on divorce, adoptions, custodies and domestic violence.
Then, like many rise-tofame stories, someone heard her sing and a TV judge was born. It was mid-December 2000 and Polo's law office — Polo, Yablen & Santamarina LLP — was in the middle of a holiday party when a knock at the door came. It was a fretful producer with a court show slated to start production in January — only it had no host.
What led him to Polo? Someone from the show's production company had heard Polo perform at a cafeteria opening near the Miami courthouse, and he knew she was also a lawyer.
"They thought, 'Oh, she's a lawyer and she doesn't mind being in the limelight,'" Polo recalled. She ditched the party that night to go in for a casting audition. The gig was hers.
"I didn't think it was going to go anywhere," she said. "I would always watch the American court shows — there were and are so many. But there were close to zero Latino court shows. It seemed to me Latinos simply don't care about this genre."
Debuting in 2001 as Sala de Parejas (Couples' Room), with a focus on couple squabbles, the show expanded in 2005 to include other cases, and changed its name to Caso Cerrado.
Its cases range from divorce battles and teen bullying to the outrageous: sex addiction disputes, a father and mother arguing over whether their son should wear boxers or briefs, a husband dismayed by his wife's decision to have cosmetic surgery on her nether regions.
It's the latest court show to surface on Telemundo — La Corte de Familia (Family Court) ended its six-season run in 2005. Alina Falcon, the network's executive vice president of news and alternative programming, said the decision to implement an alternative to the English-language TV staple was to service the community.
"There's a variety of different court shows out there offering different styles and cases," Falcon said. "Caso Cerrado does a great job of talking about cases and situations that are, in many cases, unique and relatable to the Hispanic audiences — many times the situations surround issues of immigration, family issues that arise from that."
It has all helped the show gain notice outside the Spanish-language community. In 2010, Caso Cerrado became the first program from a Spanish-language network to be nominated for a daytime or prime-time Emmy.
The passionate cases make it to air even when those involved want no part in it. The show uses actors in cases where participants in the dispute don't want to appear on the program.
Polo now has her sights set on a crossover. "We have a lot of bilingual viewers," she said.
"We are working to somehow bring the concept to the general market," Polo said. "Court shows, I think, bring to light the way we are all similar, not different. I think America is ready for my kind of court show, for my idea of justice. Justice with a human touch."
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Chicago's Building Stage theater company will be shuttering its doors after eight years, and its final production is Dawn, Quixote, a 95-minute condensation of Cervantes' epic novel, featuring six actors (three male, three female) in the role of Quixote. The play equally skewers and celebrates the stories that make up Cervantes' picaresque tale of the deluded nobleman who fashioned himself into a knight; the different actors assume the role of Quixote, while the other actors assume the other parts, while still done up in their wigs, beards, and swarthy makeup as the title character. The play is a recitation of passages from the novel, with fun touches added; the actors play Rock, Paper, Scissors in order to determine who's going to play Quixote (revealingly, the loser is the one who plays him;) the actors occassionally break into song, some original to the production, some old favorites, while playing on ukeleles; and setting off into the sun on their imaginary horses while the theme from The Magnificent Seven plays. The play's director and "conceiver", Blake Montgomery, and the cast (Gabriel Franken, Michael Hamilton, Chelsea Keenan, Kate Sufern, Anne Walaszek, and Nathan Wonder), who together created their interpretation of the novel for the stage, have reconceived of Quixote as a cowboy, rather than an errant knight, and the analogy is far from spurious; after all, the extent to which Western movies and myths proliferated tales of gunslingers and their adventures on the open vistas of the old West were similar to the exaggerated tales of chivalry which sent Don Quixote on his journey. The play also incorporates some of the themes by Ennio Morricone used in the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, which were shot in Spain and provides another link (though I'm not sure if it was intentional) between the land Quixote traversed and the mythic American West. The play makes entertaining viewing for anyone familiar with Don Quixote or anyone who just enjoys the skewering of great literature; think of it as a way of letting off steam at the long, "great" books you had to read in high school or college.
Dawn, Quxiote will run at the Building Stage, 412 N Carpenter St, Chicago, from March 25 until April 27.


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- Accused bomber had a little-known and now deleted Instagram account
- Digital traces still remain of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's deleted post
- Investigators are likely to look closely at the Instagram trail
- One of Dzhokhar's friends says he "was the last person you'd expect to do this"
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Twitter account and VK Russian social networking profile have drawn heavy public scrutiny, but he left another, more hidden social media trail: a deleted Instagram account that sources close to him tell CNN once belonged to the accused Boston bomber.
The Instagram account, with the user name "jmaister1," no longer exists, and friends of Tsarnaev's say it was deleted only recently. An Instagram spokesman declined to comment on the account or disclose when the account was deleted.
CNN National Security Analyst Juliette Kayyem says the account could be significant.
"If I were an investigator right now, obviously the platform he deleted matters the most," she said.
Traces of the jmaister1 account were still visible this week in Google's Web cache and on other archiving sites. Digital sleuths often use those tools to find glimpses of deleted material.
"It's exactly like an archive," tech entrepreneur and programmer Sam Altman explained. "So no matter what changes were made to the page today, on the current server, Google has this sort of imprint from a couple of weeks ago."
Tsarnaev's complete account could not be recovered with those tools. Google's cache stores the pages it indexes for variable lengths of time: sometimes days, sometimes weeks.
The digital traces that remain show that Tsarnaev added a "like" on several photos referring to Chechnya that were posted by other Instagram users. One shows Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, a onetime government official who later masterminded terrorist attacks against Russia. Basayev was killed in 2006.
Another pro-Chechnya image that Tsarnaev "liked" carries a string of hashtags including #FreeChechenia #Jihad #Jannah #ALLAH #Jesus and #God. An academic Chechnya expert whom CNN consulted said the images illustrated a familiarity with Chechen politics and iconography.
Tsarnaev's Instagram account wasn't widely known; CNN spoke with several friends of his who said they were unaware of its existence. Two of his high-school classmates, however, spoke about the account and said he used it to keep in touch with a close-knit group of school friends.
The two classmates say they are shocked by -- and in some cases skeptical of -- the charges being levied at the friend they knew as "Jahar." As one said, "Jahar was the last person you'd expect to do this. I've honestly never heard anybody say anything bad about him."
Since Tsarnaev's account was deleted, little of what he wrote and posted remains publicly visible, but Kayyem expects investigators to take a closer look at whatever data they can reconstruct.
"Were there clues embedded in the combination of images that can tell us something about what Dzhokhar was thinking?" she asked. "Some of those pictures are very benign. Some of them standing alone don't mean anything."
Instagram makes clear in its terms of service that it will turn its records over to law enforcement officials when it receives a valid subpoena or search warrant.
"Given the volume of real-time content on Instagram, some information may only be stored for a short period of time," Instagram says on its site. "We do not retain data for law enforcement purposes unless we receive a valid preservation request."


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Dig very deeply into the story of photographer Jerome Liebling, and you get a picture of an unusual and gifted teacher, the kind who effects fundamental changes in thinking. After Liebling's death in 2011, his former student James Estrin wrote this at the New York Times' Lens blog:
"Jerry Liebling's photography classes—at least in the late '70s, when I studied under him—consisted mostly of his lecturing about everything but photography. He would talk about Greek philosophy, German history, Jungian psychology, 16th-century Flemish painting and French cinema. In the same lecture! Only rarely would the names of Edward Weston or Lewis Hine come into the conversation. Then a half-hour would be devoted to his tough critiques of our photographs. While the lectures were thrilling, I was often frustrated. Jerry refused to teach technique. He insisted that it was unimportant. No matter how much I asked, he wouldn't show me how to use a four-by-five camera. Learn it yourself, he told me."
In a 2004 Boston Globe profile, Liebling described his teaching as "Seeing and encountering the world—that was it. We did it with photo; we did it with film. Take the camera, go look."
Beyond such tales of his teaching prowess (he founded the film and photography program at Hampshire College), it's clear that Liebling was a major force in documentary photography. He saw much with his camera, and focused on issues of social justice. All the same, Liebling's photos don't preach. They are subtle—he simply framed what he saw. Their effect is often stunning nonetheless.
There is a frankness and plainspoken power about his subjects, who are, as often as not, looking at the camera. In his older, black-and-white work, the effect is particularly strong. An image, for example, of a handball player in Miami offers a look at an older man with a paunch, tired and sweaty from playing the game. Yet there is something startling about how easily the man offers his half-clothed body to the camera. The beautifully exposed light seems to illuminate something ancient—a Greek wrestler of millennia ago, or a warrior.
One of his most often-seen images, "Butterfly Boy, New York 1949," shows a young boy on the street, his wool coat lifted like wings. The boy's expression is hard to read. He's not smiling, not angry, either. Something is going on, but it isn't clear just what. Liebling's images invite the kind of long contemplation "Butterfly Boy" requires, and that arresting power is something he seems to have been strongly aware of.
In a recent interview with Valley photographer Tom Young ("Visual Grammar," Feb. 28, 2013), Young offered this: "Liebling said there are some images we can read instantly. But with others, wouldn't it be funny if museums posted signs saying, 'This is a 20-minute photo,' or 'This is a five-minute photo'?"
If ever there was a 20-minute photo, Liebling's "Morning in Monessen, Pa. 1983" fits the bill. In it, an old woman in white coat and red headscarf stands in early light, staring at what appears to be an abandoned storefront. The scene taps into something primal, something that feels especially American, in the manner of "Nighthawks at the Diner." Somehow that quiet moment evokes a complex group of emotions—is this despair? Boredom? Just a quiet moment of contemplation?
It's something of a gift for the Valley that such a renowned and widely displayed photographer turned his lens on Holyoke 30 years ago, revealing everyday life in the post-industrial city. Here, too, Liebling's subjects seem to reveal an ease with the camera. Some images seem like particularly well-exposed snapshots, and others tap into the kind of emotional complexity he often captured. His scenes of children play against expectations often, like the frame in which a young girl sits in a window—the photo is dominated by the crumbling structure around her.
This convergence of artistic power and the local landscape offers fascinating viewing, and the exhibition of Liebling's Holyoke images, called A Walk Through Holyoke—1982, is the centerpiece in a month-long effort to showcase Holyoke art and artists, dubbed Holyoke Points of View. The events benefit the Holyoke Public Library and its campaign for renovation and expansion, as does the auction of a print of "Young Girls, Holyoke, Mass., 1982," pictured above (visit hpov.org/auction before the auction's April 5 close). The Liebling exhibition begins at Open Square (April 4 -7), then continues at the Holyoke Public Library's temporary location at Holyoke City Hall Auditorium and Wistariahurst Museum April 9 to 27.
A long list of events happen during the month at locations all over Holyoke's arts district. They include The Puerto Rican Cultural Project (displaying posters from Puerto Rico), Holyoke Through Our Eyes (photography workshops taking inspiration from Liebling's work), Ripple Effect (writing workshops hosted by Enchanted Circle Theater), Holyoke Then and Now (photos by Jeffrey Byrne and Bill Ravanesi, landscape paintings by Greg Stone), and lots more.•
A Walk Through Holyoke—1982: April 4-7: Open Square 4th floor gallery, Holyoke. Opening gala: April 4, 5:30-8:30 with speaker and former Liebling student Ken Burns.
April 9-27, Holyoke City Hall Auditorium and Wistariahurst Museum, Holyoke, (413) 322-5636.
For a full rundown of Holyoke Points of View events, visit hpov.org.


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Another year brings another list. If all goes as planned, I'll update this blog frequently, and won't finish until the new year arrives. The purpose of this document is twofold. First and foremost, I'm using it to chronicle all of the games I enjoy playing over the course of this year. The list I created last year helped me keep track of the games I still needed to get my hands on, and also reminded me what games I needed to bring up for Game Informer's Game of the Year voting.
The second reason I create this list is to generate a discussion with you the reader. Last year, you provided great insight into games I may have missed and should give a look.
I'm once again creating my own scoring scale as a way of reducing confusion between my take on these games and Game Informer's official reviews. If I happened to review a game, I'll include that rating instead. My rating system is even more ridiculous than before and probably won't make a lick of sense to any of you. Just know this, I enjoy all of these games. There are no stinkers here.
Bravely Default
After putting a few hours into Bravely Default, I jokingly told Game Informer's Joe Juba that, at that point in time, I thought it might be the best Final Fantasy game I've played since Lost Odyssey. That isn't meant as a slight against the game, but rather praise for delivering an experience that pays homage to one of my favorite series in its heyday.
Bravely Default is an old school RPG at heart, delivering turn-based combat with a row of heroes staring down a row of monsters or villains. The complexity of combat is impressive, giving players plenty of strategies to tinker with and master.
Class selection is fantastic and is enhanced by the depth offered not just in their individual functionality, but the fun quests tied to them. There's a deep social element tied to this experience, where friends can help you build a village and be summoned into battle for a quick assist. As of now, however, most of my friends keep sending ridiculously high powered monsters to my town. I don't think they are helping my cause. My Rating: I gaze into the eyes of a 16-bit angel and nod my head approvingly
The Lego Movie Videogame
An excerpt from my review: "The Lego Movie focuses on a society dictated by government and
big business. Citizens are spoon-fed the same music, television shows,
and overpriced beverages. These people gleefully swallow it all up,
never once considering alternative options. The thinkers and dreamers
who can make a difference in this world, and perhaps teach others how to
unlock their individuality, are hunted and silenced by the powers that
be. Under this rigid infrastructure of conformity, people's lives move
like clockwork, repeating the same steps every 24 hours.
formulaic reality is a good home for The Lego Movie Videogame. This
experience is built with the same set of instructions used to create
over a decade's worth of Lego games. While the Lego games are skinned
differently each time, the act of smashing bricks and scampering to
collect all of the loose studs hasn't changed a bit. Neither has
assembly, the search for Red and Gold bricks, or the heavy reliance of
using character-specific moves to open up new passages. Developer TT
Fusion falls back on the series' tropes in this entry, and that's okay.
Much like Emmet, the film's protagonist and the poster boy for
obedience, Traveller's Tales' classic gameplay formula can surprise you,
entertain you, and is periodically capable of amazing things."My Game Informer Rating: 8 out of 10
Strider strikes two nostalgic notes for me: On the one hand, the unrelenting difficulty, swift-footed traversal mechanics, ridiculously over-exaggerated sword strikes, and unexpected shifts in action sequences remind me of why I pumped quarters into the original Strider arcade game. On the other hand, it does a pretty damn good job channeling the great elements of Metroid's world design. The sense of freedom of exploration is established in the opening minutes, and the hunt for hidden upgrades and collectibles is handled exceptionally well through newly unlocked powers and level designs that demand thorough exploration. Developer Double Helix puts on a clinic with this long overdue revival.My Rating: A flowing, red scarf looks good with any swordThief
By the time I was done robbing the residents of The City, they had to eat all of their meals by hand, and drink their wine from the bottle. The reasoning for them turning into slobs? I stole all of their forks, knives, and wineglasses, often from right under their rich noses. Yes, Garrett fancies to fill his pockets with ordinary things most of the time, but that's perfectly fine, as there's almost always a thrill tied to snatching them up. The silver and gold items he lifts add up in the end, and are used as currency to buy useful items, upgrades, and skills.
Developer Eidos Montreal did a fantastic job empowering the player with the belief that Garrett is a master thief capable of stealing anything, even the earrings off of a fully alert woman. Feats like this are easily accomplished, thanks in large to the beautifully designed controls, and the decision to almost always show Garrett's hands on screen.
Garrett's foil in this adventure isn't a rich political figure, or a fortress loaded with traps and alarms. It's The City that casts the shadows he hides in. Between missions, Garrett must navigate The City to reach his next destination, and find merchants that can help him out. Sounds easy enough, right? What if I told you The City was an unintentionally designed maze loaded with dead ends, hard to reach exits, and long load times that I believe are used mostly to try to make players daydream and think about something else before trying to figure out where they need to go next? Garrett also runs into a mysterious piece of wood in The City that follows him throughout the entire game, and whenever it shows up, forces him into a horrible button-tapping minigame. That piece of wood is currently my villain of the year.
But don't let The City (or the wood) scare you off. When Thief's stealth gameplay is clicking, it can be immensely rewarding, especially when factoring in you really have to look high and low to find rare collectibles.My rating: Creepy hands worthy of touching gold
Infamous Second Son
A lengthy excerpt from my review: "I have to tip my hat to Sucker Punch for thinking outside of the box
with the power types. A hero who channels neon colors may sound like the
second coming of Jubilee, but Sucker Punch turns this strange ability
into a surprisingly powerful toolset. Achieving similar success with
smoke and the other power types – all while delivering a diverse move
set for each – is an impressive feat that leads to a decidedly different
super hero experience than we've seen before.Delsin can morph
from physical form into a puff of smoke that is sucked up through a
ground-based vent that leads to a rooftop. From this higher vantage
point, he can fire cinder shots at DUP troops, or absorb the neon from a
storefront sign, giving him the power to rain charged energy beams down
onto DUP troop transports – a move that will likely take out some of
the other soldiers in the blast. When the DUP forces hone in on his
location and retaliate with a hail of bullets, he can vanish in a second
– either using his neon power to dash off like the Flash, or absorbing
another power source to cloak.Control over this mayhem is
beautifully realized, allowing for attacks and movements to be chained
together in an array of strategic and visually dynamic ways. Conflicts
often showcase high levels of destruction. Towers crumble, cars explode,
bodies ragdoll, and the sky is usually scorched with a ridiculous
amount of particle effects. It's a symphony of chaos, and the game
handles it all with only the slightest of framerate drops.
I like the way that Infamous Second Son splinters off from the first two
entries in the series. Delsin's conduit ability creates uncertainty in
the gameplay mechanics, and the choices he makes apply similar levels of
ambiguity to the narrative arc. I never really grasped what was coming
next from this tale, outside of knowing that the open world activities
and encounters would be repeated ad nauseam."My Game Informer rating: 8.5 out of 10
Titanfall strikes the perfect balance between high levels of mobility and slow-moving brute force – a feat that makes its average-sized humans and two-story tall titans equally fun to control. Humans quickly dart across the frenzied battlefields, cloaking to hide their movements, and leaping off of the walls like Samus Aran. With excellently crafted controls fueling these actions, humans always stand a chance.
Titans stand at the width of a city street and are armed to the teeth with the latest and greatest in weapons and protective items. They can shoot off swarms of rockets, throw punches to turn humans into a sizable red stains and rival titans into smoldering wrecks, and volley enemy fire back using a shied that catches ammo. These lumbering giants are fun to control, delivering a true sense of power on the battlefield.
When the two gameplay styles collide, which happens in every match, Titanfall becomes a radically different experience than we've seen before, one that is both bombastic and demanding of skill. It's a highlight reel of a game that sucks the hours away.My rating: Giant mechs punching giant mechs. 'Nuff said
South Park: The Stick of Truth
South Park: The Stick of Truth is an RPG that plays by its own set of rules. Its own twisted, profane, and brilliant set of rules. Cartman and the familiar faces of South Park put on quite the show – blending crude humor with topic issues to create one of the most entertaining video game stories I've played through in quite some time. This is one of those experiences where I frequently found myself saying "I can't believe that just happened," followed by a chuckle or outright laughter. Obsidian's game design keeps pace with Trey Parker and Matt Stone's wild sense of humor. Combat is a little too simple in scope – I relied on the same strategy for half of the game – but the missions are rich in variety, and the world is a genuine pleasure to explore. I hope we see more gaming experiences just like it – not necessarily for the handling of popular licenses, but a short, compact RPG that keeps the story front and center and moves at a fast pace. My rating: Hallowed be thy fart
Dark Souls II
I'm still working my way through Dark Souls II. My pace is slow – a result of my decision to grind zones for as many souls as I can. The hours are flying by, and I'm loving almost every second that I invest in this dangerous world. I enjoyed the combat in the previous Souls titles, but the little tweaks made in this installment up the excitement and difficulty. Other changes like the implementation of fast travel, and Majula serving as a hub world, remove some of the hassle found in the first Dark Souls, and best of all, allow players to allocate more time to exploring a world that is teeming with secrets. Yes, this game is difficult, but I don't think it's unfair in any capacity. Most of my deaths come from my own errors in judgment, like swinging the sword one more time when I should have been blocking or backpedaling away. These little missteps add up to a greater sense of satisfaction when progress is finally made. That's what Dark Souls is all about – overcoming great odds and your own failures. Game Informer's Daniel Tack said it best in his review: "Praise the fun."My rating: Dead and loving it
Given how often I carry around my iPad these days, my body might as well absorb it as another appendage. I try to get in as many matches of Hearthstone as I can each day. I sometimes battle my weaker coworkers, but spend most of my time in Ranked and Arena matches. Blizzard's sculpted a free-to-play collectible card game that is both easy to pick up and play and loaded with depth. It's the type of experience that makes me nervous whenever it's my opponents turn, as one great play can turn the tide of war, even if I think I have control of the board. This game speaks volumes to the collector in me with its wide variety of rare cards. Even if you've never played a card game before, you need to give this one a shot. It really is that easy to get into.My rating: Knife juggling to victory
Wolfenstein: The New Order
You should never judge a book by its cover, and the same goes for a game and its demo. I walked out of last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo thinking Wolfenstein: The New Order was shaping up to be a dud. At the time, it looked like a generic first-person shooter that didn't grasp the vibe of the previous Wolfenstein titles. While that last comment still holds true, The New Order is a wonderfully inventive shooter that embraces madness. What kind of madness? Giant four-legged walkers that look like they are stripped out of the Star Wars universe. Blood-thirsty dogs outfitted with protective armor and metal teeth. Secret da Vinci-like machines. Secret moon bases. Secret prototype weapons. Unbelievable comic book-like villains. The list goes on and on and on, and it all brought a smile to my face. This experience ends up falling more on the side of science fiction than World War II, never once settling into familiar stride. The gameplay is equally as unpredictable with stealth, gun play, and big set piece moments all colliding at any given time. All of these avenues of play are satisfying, exciting, and fired from a cannon that specializes in ridiculous action. Long story short, I loved the hell out of it.My rating: Sneak, sneak, sneak... UNLOAD ALL OF THE WORLD'S AMMO!!!
Shovel Knight
After I finished playing Shovel Knight, I was once again hit with the realization that video games have never been better than they are right now. We're getting new experiences that push hardware to the limit, an influx of innovative ideas from the indie sector, and amazing throwbacks to yesteryear like Yacht Club Games' Shovel Knight. It plays like a NES game, looks like an NES game, tips its hat to the NES' Zelda II, Mega Man, and Super Mario Bros 3, yet is modern in design – giving players the best of both the past and present. Backed by pitch perfect controls (and the best bounce attack since Scrooge McDuck's), Shovel Knight delivers a unique and challenging platforming experience, and stands as one of the year's nicest surprises.My rating: Every generation needs a great bounce attack
Valiant Hearts: The Great War
Powerful. Heartfelt. Crushing. Valiant Hearts: The Great War is an emotional roller coaster that focuses on the struggles and sacrifices made during World War I. This tale, which plays out like a colorful history lesson, is seen through the eyes of four characters; each showing incredible courage on the battlefield. Some of these characters contribute to the war's bloodshed, but their focus is hardly ever on combat. Most of the action is tied to puzzle solving, such as figuring out how to free deadly gas from a house, or finding safe passage through an enemy occupied city. These tasks are rarely challenging, but are fun and varied enough to keep the experience flowing. Valiant Hearts is worth playing for the art alone, but the real show stealer here is the message of war that unfolds across the entire game.My rating: History with a heartbeat
The Walking Dead: Season 2
Any concerns I had of Clementine's story continuing without Lee at her side are gone. In Season Two, we learn that this is Clementine's story, and her story alone. We're watching her grow in an unforgiving world, hopefully from child all the way up to adult, safe and sound. For the second time, developer Telltale Games pens this journey in a way that is both riveting and heartfelt.
Telltale doesn't shy away from throwing Clementine to the undead wolves, placing her and the people she's come to trust in harms way time and time again. Giving George R. R. Martin a run for his money in good guy deaths, Season Two's story keeps the gravedigger busy. No one is safe. The story lulls at the right moments, giving plenty of time for character development to take center stage, and ramps up just when it seems like the Clem and her crew may be okay. I enjoyed this second chapter every bit as much as the first.
To top it all off, Season Two offers a branching conclusion, leaving Clementine in much different places, depending on what choices are made in the final moments. We'll have to wait for Season Three to see whether or not Telltale picks up these threads, or once again fast-forwards to a later date in Clementine's life.My rating: LEAVE CLEMENTINE ALONE!DestinyI have no idea what is happening in Destiny, but I like it. The weapon play and skirmishes are excellently crafted, giving plenty of reason to jump into the same missions again, and again, and again, and again. Yes, the game needs more content, but once the bullets start flying in any given conflict, that longing to see something new disappears for 20 to 30 minutes and is replaced by some of the best action I've experienced in a shooter. I'm currently sitting at level 25. My time is mostly going to the hunt for randomly dropped orbs, coins, armor pieces, and far too many kinds of currency needed to reach 26. Progression is slow, but the gameplay remains fun.
Destiny is the most played game by Game Informer staffers this year, and it's also the game we rant about the most. We hate it at times, but we can't stop playing it. Destiny is a case of great gameplay outweighing bad design.My rating: Purple…sometimes blue and greenSkylanders: Trap TeamAn exerpt from my review: "Adding Kaos to the playable character pool is just one of many ways that developer Toys for Bob turns Trap Team into the best Skylanders game to date. While the gameplay core of this annualized series remains largely unchanged, the functionality tied to Kaos (and the 40-plus other playable villains) adds an enjoyable layer of strategy to combat, inspiring collectors like me to scour levels for hidden areas that could contain chance encounters with these baddies.
The villains are bona fide game changers, often empowering the player with the might of a boss-like entity roaming the battlefield. The destruction they unleash is advantageous for several reasons. When used correctly, they can either be saviors who protect your Skylander from death, or the equivalent of high-leveled MMO players who power-level newcomers.
Since the villains are locked away in crystaline constructs, you determine when they are freed or imprisoned again. When let loose, they take the place of your Skylander, but only for a limited amount of time. When they sustain damage, their clock expires faster. Once depleted, they return to the trap. The villains cannot gain experience points or gold; all of these riches instead go to the Skylander they replace.
Level design is another area where Toys for Bob makes big strides forward. Yes, you still run in to an annoying amount of fetch quests, turtle-pushing puzzles, and lock-picking minigames, but the levels themselves are beautifully imagined this time around, rarely falling back on the elemental-based staples used in Spyro's Adventure and Giants. Players traverse a clockwork world filled with spinning gears and transforming terrain, and a construct overflowing with food. This adventure even shows off what technology 10,000 years into Skylands' future looks like.
Giving Toys for Bob an extra year to work on this sequel paid off, not just with the concept of villains partnering with heroes, but the world they inhabit feeling more alive. Trap Team is an expensive proposition, but one that pounds out thrills and gives fans plenty of reason to visit Skylands for a fourth time.
My rating: Spending lunch money on plastic things
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Date(s) - 05/01/2014
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Reese, Berkshire and Paul Galleries, Eskenazi Hall, Herron School of Art and Design
Look/See 2014, Herron's biggest night of the academic year, recognizes the achievements of Herron's graduating master's degree candidates with the M.F.A. Exhibition, which will fill all the galleries in Eskenazi Hall and the Eskenazi Fine Arts Center. Come celebrate with students, friends and family, faculty and guests.
The candidates, who come from nine states and represent Ceramics, Furniture Design, Painting, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture are: Steven S. Baker, Denise Conrady, Lauren Anne Davis, Michael Helsley, Melissa Michelle Hopson, Margaret Elizabeth Ingram, Sarah Kasch, Samuel R. Ladwig, C.J. Martin, John Collins McCormick, Hillary Russell, Marna Lee Shopoff, Freeland Southard, Bridgit Stoffer, Colin Tury, Stephanie Kristen Erin Wichman, Elizabeth Wierzbicki and David Woolf.
The Annual Honors and Awards Ceremony for undergraduate students and their families kicks off the celebration at the IUPUI Campus Center, 420 University Blvd., beginning at 4:00 p.m. All are welcome.
- School-wide open houses at Eskenazi Hall, 735 W. New York St., and Eskenazi Fine Arts Center, 1410 Indiana Ave.
- The 2014 M.F.A. Exhibition
- Chelsea Stillwell: Celebrating Her Artistic Life Memorial Exhibition, in the Photography Department
- Tours of open studios
- Food and entertainment


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Karen Angelo
Freshmen nursing students in the Bring Diversity to Nursing (BDN) program got a jump start – a three-day summer program in the new Health and Social Sciences Building that got them comfortable with the University, the new building and each other.
Designed by three faculty members – Lisa Abdallah, Margaret Knight and Shellie Simons – the program was a big hit with the students.
"The summer program helped me get ready for college by giving me tips on how to study and where to go for help and tutoring," says Kevin Nduati, who graduated from Lowell High School in 2013. "I was able to meet many of the faculty members and I plan to keep in touch with them throughout my years in the nursing program."
The three-day program included briefs on medical terminology, medication math, and test taking strategies as well as fun activities to get them to know their classmates.
"Transitioning from high school to college can be challenging so we wanted to give our Bring Diversity to Nursing students the tools they need for success as early as possible," says Assoc. Prof. Abdallah of the School of Nursing.
All students were officially welcomed to the University by Chancellor Marty Meehan in early October. View the photo gallery.
Diverse Workforce, Improved Care
Nurses who are able to effectively interact with patients across cultures and ethnic backgrounds deliver the best care to patients by alleviating fears about treatment and care, experts say.
Students enrolled in the Bring Diversity to Nursing program receive scholarships, stipends, technology equipment, tutoring, mentoring and leadership opportunities – all designed to help them graduate and work in local communities.
The program, now in its sixth year, has graduated 38 students, all of whom passed the national license exam for registered nurses.
The BDN program is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.


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Big Rapids, Mich. - For the 11th consecutive time, Ferris State University will be represented at the NCAA Division II Women's Golf Super Regionals as the Bulldogs earned a postseason berth to the 2012 East Super Regional as announced Monday (April 30) by the NCAA-II Women's Golf Committee.
FSU will make its 11th straight NCAA-II Regional Tournament appearance after making its debut back in the 2001-02 season with a third-place showing. To date, the Bulldogs have won a regional tourney twice (2003-04 and 2006-07) while attaining runner-up honors on four occasions (2004-05, 2005-06, 2007-08, and 2008-09).
Ferris State is among nine teams who will playing in the 2012 East Super Regional from May 6-8 at the Findlay Country Club in Findlay, Ohio. The University of Findlay will be hosting the East Super Regional Tournament.
The Bulldogs, who are coached by fifth-year head coach Mike Mignano, are seeded seventh among the East Region teams. Grand Valley State is the top seed while Indianapolis and Drury (Mo.) are the second and third seeds, respectively. California (Pa.) is fourth and Ashland is seeded fifth. The remainder of the East Region field is comprised of sixth-seed host Findlay, seventh-seed FSU, number eight seed Missouri-St. Louis along with ninth-seeded Southern Indiana. Four individuals will also take part.
Last season, Ferris State placed fifth overall in the 2011 NCAA-II Super Regional One Championships (May 21-3) in Belle Vernon, Pa.
Ferris State previously earned second-place honors at the 2009 NCAA-II East Regional as a result of generating a three-round 960-stroke total at the Cedarbrook Golf Course in Belle Vernon. The Bulldogs, who qualified for the national tournament with their runner-up performance in '09, recorded rounds of 320, 321, and 319 to finish 96 strokes over par and second to regional champion Grand Valley State (918, +54).
Each super regional will consist of both team and individual competition conducted concurrently with nine teams and four individuals from non-qualifying teams at each site. All participants will compete throughout the 54 holes of competition. The top three teams along with the top three individuals not affiliated with a team from each super regional, will advance to the national championships.
The 2012 NCAA Division II Women's Golf Championships will be held May 16-19, at Persimmon Ridge Golf Course in Louisville, Ky. The championships will consist of both team and individual competition conducted concurrently. All participants will compete throughout the entire 72 holes of competition. In the team competition, the low four scores for each team will count in each day's total score. The number of participants that qualify for the finals is 72.
Ferris State placed fourth overall at last week's (April 23-24) GLIAC Championships hosted by Northwood University at Currie Golf Course in Midland, Mich. The Bulldogs finished with a three-round total of 984 strokes.


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Northern Illinois' coaching staff had to get Jordan Lynch on the field.
Some way, somehow.
Former head coach Jerry Kill and his assistants saw the athleticism Lynch provided. They knew he'd be able to help them out in 2010, when Lynch was a redshirt freshman after sitting out all of 2009.
The problem was, the Huskies already had junior Chandler Harnish under center, and he was no slouch by any means.
But the coaching staff figured why not put Lynch on the field and give Harnish a break?
Lynch, a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, which will be presented in New York City on Saturday, had only one FBS offer to play quarterback, and it was with the Huskies. If it didn't work out, Lynch had the opportunity to move to safety.
However, Jerry Kill was not ready to make that decision 3 years ago.
"I think he could be special. There's something there. I've got to see what this spring, but there's something there," Kill told the Daily Chronicle in the spring of 2010. "Our defensive staff will tell you that. I'm excited about watching him play. It's easy to do it as a freshman and he didn't get tons of reps, but the reps he got, he can make some plays."
Lynch, who started the 2010 season behind Harnish and DeMarcus Grady on the depth chart, was used because the staff thought he was too athletic not to be on the field. It was also an opportunity to give Harnish a break here and there.
He got his first carries of his Huskie career against Akron on Oct. 2, 2010, recording just a yard on two carries. But a week later against Buffalo, Lynch had 96 rushing yards on two carries, including a 90-yard touchdown scamper, the first of a career that has produced 98 total touchdowns with one game remaining.
Lynch was a nice complement to Harnish that season, running 31 times for 362 yards.
"My initial thought was, tremendous runner, physical," said Jim Zebrowski, who was Lynch's position coach in 2010 and has been on Kill's staff at Minnesota the past three seasons. "What he's doing now, you knew he could. You never knew to what extreme, he's off the charts right now."
In 2011, Harnish was still the starter for NIU and would go on to win the Vern Smith Leadership Award as the Mid-American Conference MVP, an honor Lynch himself has earned the past two seasons. Lynch would spell Harnish at times once again, finishing the year with 45 carries for 246 yards and three touchdowns. He was also 15 of 20 passing for 166 yards and a touchdown.
The Huskies, blessed with multiple options, had a good situation with Lynch and Harnish, who's currently on the Indianapolis Colts practice squad.
Zebrowski's initial observations of Lynch were how competitive he was, and how much he enjoyed playing football, which showed even when Lynch, who obviously had the talent to be the starter, was stuck in a reserve role for two seasons.
"We had a great group of kids. Jordan was just as happy if Chandler made a run or if he made a run," Zebrowski said. "He was so well-coached and well-raised by his family that [a negative attitude] wasn't part of his DNA."
Eventually, Lynch got his chance to shine for the Huskies in the GoDaddy.com Bowl against Arkansas State in Jan. 2012.
Harnish was sidelined with an ankle injury during the second quarter, and Lynch took the reins for a short period, leading NIU on a 78-yard, go-ahead touchdown drive. Lynch showed off his arm down, going 4 of 4 through the air for 64 yards. The touchdown drive, which gave the Huskies a 14-13 advantage, culminated in a 3-yard touchdown run by Lynch and the Huskies would go on to win, 38-20.
It was a sign of things to come when Harnish moved on to the NFL and Lynch was named the starter by Dave Doeren before spring practice in 2012.
"It was really beneficial," Lynch said of his playing experience of 2010 and 2011. "Overall the experience, and getting thrown in live situations, that really helped me.