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Photo Exhibit to Explore Watershed
Thursday, Mar. 13, 2014
A group of Utah State University photography students, sponsored by the Department of Art and Design, have issued a call for entries for the upcoming "Radiant or Ravaged" photo exhibit on the Bear River watershed.
The students have partnered with the Bear River Watershed Council (BRWC), a local nonprofit organization advocating the conservation of the Bear River Basin.
"We are asking photographers to search through their work and get out and take images that portray the radiant beauty or ravaged impacts of the watershed and submit them for an exhibit in April," said Dan Miller, chairman of the BRWC board. "We hope to engage amateur and professional photographers, as well as scientists, to take a close look at our local watershed — a place that sustains life — with a different eye, not only to see the beauty, but also to look the other direction toward the impacts from human activities that may not be beneficial to the environment, the watershed or human health."
Beth Hansen is among the USU photography students involved in the exhibit.
"We want to get the word out to the public and specifically scientists and photographers," Hansen said. "We want to get everyone thinking about issues and how they can be portrayed in a meaningful and, hopefully, artful way. We have a Facebook group page that photographers can post images, have discussions and have their images critiqued."
The exhibit will be hung in Logan, Utah, at the Thatcher-Young Mansion downtown, from April 11 through Earth Day, April 22. The exhibit includes both opening and closing receptions. Prints will be accepted April 4 and will be juried by Utah State University assistant professor of photography Carsten Meier and professional fine art and nature photographer Howie Garber.
Meier says he is "extremely pleased with the exhibit's concept of merging science and art."
He believes when more local scientists and artists understand that the exhibit is trying to bridge their disciplines, participation will increase.
Garber said he would like to see photographers between now and the time of the exhibit, "get out and find those unique and all important situations that can unequivocally communicate the conditions of the watershed."
As part of the exhibit, USU Water Quality Extension will create an online photo gallery of the images that will be linked to the Bear River Watershed Information System and also include an interactive map of the watershed that has the photos geo-referenced.
"The information from these photos could help us target areas that need more attention or protection," said Brian Greene with Utah Water Watch.
Greene said he looks forward to the submissions and possible importance they can provide to science and his work.
The exhibit will also include ten historical images of the Bear River watershed provided by the USU's University Libraries and its Special Collections and Archives division. Dan Davies, Special Collection's photograph curator, said he is excited to present a historical aspect to the exhibit and that he understands the significance photographs can play in the future to help understand the past.
To augment the exhibit, the Stokes Nature Center will host several photographic spring programs, including one by Miller, who will show images from the BRWC's "Motorized Use Data Project" (MUD) and explain how the images have made a difference in the local forest and watershed. Another program will feature Brian Greene, Utah Water Watch, who will show citizen science projects that use apps to document plants and animals. He will highlight several smartphone apps that use photos to collect scientific data. The class will conclude with a nature walk around SNC allowing participants to take photos and test out the apps.
For more information see BRWC's website.
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At the moment, I'm sprawled out on the couch in the living room, watching a movie about baseball dubbed over in Spanish. I haven't been able to make myself leave the house today, aside from to go to class this morning. I'm not sick anymore (thank God) – I'm just taking advantage of finally being back home. In the last month, I've traveled every single weekend: Cordoba with my program, Lagos for three days of sunbathing, Toledo with my friend Michelle, and finally Barcelona these past four days. It's been exhausting, but in the best way. But as much fun as I've had, I'm just so glad to be back in my flat for the foreseeable future. I was literally grinning the whole way to class this morning because I was so happy to pass all my favorite landmarks – the confiteria with the fabulous pastries, my post-siesta beer stop, the gorgeous designer bridal boutique with the feathered dress in the window…perfection.
Two weeks ago, however, I was getting restless in Sevilla. I was ready to get out and see some more of this country that's my home for the next nine months. Cordoba was a brief day trip, and since my jaunt to Portugal (while fun) was with a company specializing in trips for American students I didn't feel like I was seeing anything culturally significant. On Wednesday I mentioned this to my friend Michelle, who agreed, and on Friday morning at 1 AM we were boarding a bus for the first leg of an 8-hour journey to Toledo.
For those not in the know, Toledo is a small city about 20 minutes by train outside of Madrid. It's famous for its medieval center, which has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. As in, the whole thing.
So as I'm sure you can imagine, it's pretty awesome.
We got in around 9 or 10 on Friday morning, and since our hostel couldn't check us in until noon, we went straight away to see the cathedral. Like Sevilla's, the cathedral is from the Gothic period with a reclaimed minaret for a bell tower. But Toledo's cathedral was built much earlier than Sevilla's, as it was the first major Arab city in Spain to be reconquered by the Christians. I didn't even realize the bell tower was originally Muslim; a nice security guard who ended up giving us something of a free tour told me. Overall, the church is a great example of Gothic style – I was pretty into it. And since we showed up right as they were opening the ticket booth, we managed to avoid the crush of tour groups. It's always nice to see churches when they're quiet; we even got to see part of a Mass going on in one of the side chapels.
My favorite part of the cathedral was definitely the bell tower. The climb is actually terrifying – I can't even begin to describe how tiny and twisty the staircase is – but it's worth the effort. The bells are beautiful, as is the view. The biggest bell has only been rung two times. It's cracked now so they don't use it, but its smaller companions manage to make up for it.
One of the reasons Toledo is so famous is its history as "la ciudad de las tres culturas" – the city of three cultures. The Arabs first set foot in Spain in 711, and by 780 they had taken over most of the Iberian Peninsula. Toledo became a major epicenter during the first few centuries of Moorish rule, and the time became known as "la Convivencia" – the co-existence. Supposedly, Jews, Muslims, and Christians lived together in relative harmony. In reality, there were probably some tensions between the three, but Toledo still carries the mark of all three. See: la Juderia, the Jewish Quarter, and the two beautiful synagogues still in tact.
The more famous of the two is la Sinagoga del Transito, which now houses the Museo Sefardi. It's certainly larger. But I liked the much-smaller Santa Maria la Blanca better (and yes, I realize it's a bit of a misnomer). The courtyard was beautiful, and inside was a beautiful art exposition featuring drawings of a Judeo-Christian bend. A kindly older nun was selling them, and we got to talk to her a little bit. She said she was part of an order that helped take care of the synagogue (which was converted into a church, and now back to synagogue). Either way, both synagogues are worth a visit.
After all the sightseeing we did, Michelle and I were desperate for some good food. The first night, the guy working the front desk at our hostel gave us a recommendation for dinner: "Bar Enebro," he said. "Cheap, delicious, fun." I can't even begin to tell you how true that is! We had originally thought about going to a real restaurant first and stopping by Enebro for drinks after, but I'm so glad we didn't. You see, with every drink you buy, you get a HUGE plate of fries and bocadillos. So for 5 euros each, we both got two drinks and a full meal. The sandwiches were delicious – melty manchego cheese and either ham or bacon, depending on the bartender's mood – and I couldn't believe the amount of fries they served. Suffice to say, I was impressed.

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Now you know.
Tastes like lime and kuru.
C'MON outta there, Ol' weird Harold!
It's scrumdiddlyumptious!
it's soylent jello
And they call this progress?
Feed the homeless to the hungry.
Sounds more like the communist demand to get the last bit out of every worker.
Sounds more like the communist demand to get the last bit out of every worker.
Sounds more like the communist demand to get the last bite out of every worker.
Fact is that we've had the technology to make gelatin from human tissue for millennia.
Has NBC been around that long?
Why does my jello taste like Grandma?
Gross! But I think they use hydrocolloids for those these days.
More than you know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDvSPQ7megQ [youtube.com]
Why does my jello taste like Grandma?
They keep the adult diaper on during processing for that extra Grandma flavor. "Depend - Kimberly-Clark"
Why does my jello taste like Grandma?
How do you know what Grandma tastes like?
This means I can finally eat Jello made from Bill Cosby!
You, Sir, are twisted in the right direction.
The Doctor will create a ganger of himself and figure out how to break the link between Amy and her avatar!
Still have to get around the cannibal aspect.
They are putting gelatin genes into yeast. If Vegans can drink beer can they not eat gelatin as it is? It isn't like the yeast have suddenly become more animal like with a few extra genes.
For you or me this doesn't matter but for those that want to superpowers it is really important.
A lot of vegans won't drink beer, as it is sometimes clarified with egg protein, regular gelatin, or isinglass, which is made from the linings of fish swim bladders.
this hip life style sounds less fun the more I hear about it.
A lot of vegans won't drink beer, as it is sometimes clarified with egg protein
Further clarifying everything we need to know about their cognitive difficulties.
A lot of vegans won't drink beer, as it is sometimes clarified with egg protein
Further clarifying everything we need to know about their cognitive difficulties.
No, clarifying agents leave trace amounts behind, vegans, by definition, are scrupulous in avoiding animal products. Hope that clarifies your understanding.
scrupulous in avoiding animal products
Do you have any idea how many perfectly nice earthworms are killed by plow blades on organic farms as fields are being tilled to plant soybeans so that vegans can smugly pretend they're not bothering any non-plant life forms? Do you know how many scrupulous gardeners use chickens to control insects and weeds, and notice that no hens seem particularly distraught about laying eggs on a regular basis? Do you realize how absurd vegans make themselves sound over matters like this? It's just faux piety, and it's
How is it faux? They are living their ethics to the best of their abilities, which would seem to be a good practical definition of piety. Do you consider Jains to be practicing false piety when they wear face masks to avoid inhaling fruit flies?
They are living their ethics to the best of their abilities
Perhaps they are, and thus it's real piety. If so, then what it is instead is a case of faux ethics (in the sense that they are built on internally inconsistent, hypocritical, irrational standards applied capriciously and in a fair-weather, fashion-minded way that highlights the mixed premises and deliberately obtuse, purposefully selective perception of reality that underlies their professed world view).
Do you know any vegans who eat food products made from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)?
Unless I miss my guess there will be few to none who would consider this acceptable, regardless of the human source of the inserted gene.
You'll have to ask the Vegans? If you send a message there now you could get a reply in 52 years
I would say 'yes', if the people contributing the genes are consenting.
Luckily there's already a few types of vegan 'gelatin', such as agar agar, so we've had jello, marshmallows, etc, for many years already.
And i would certainly prefer those over the human variants. Ew!
- Token Vegan
I'd say probably not. The definition of vegan is:
Veganism denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical - all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals, and the environment.
We have animal-free alternatives, so it's a moot point really.
Beyond that, it could be argued we're still exploiting that animal (assuming the cow was raised in captivity.)
Most vegans avoid transgenic food as well. This isn't really made from humans; it's a human gene expressed in yeast.
Avoiding transgenic food isn't mandatory for vegans. Many at least at margarine, made with highly processed fats, so they're not opposed to all technology. Still, I suspect this would get few takers.
Not that it matters. This isn't for food; it's for medical purposes. If they wanted vegan gelatin from transgenic yeasts they'd have made it from pig genes years ago.
Even as a vegan you can't get around eating germs and yeast.
They sit on plants too, no matter how much you scrub them.
Germs and yeasts aren't considered a problem by vegans, but you don't generally get transgenic yeasts just sitting around on food. That's the part that would concern many vegans.
Oblig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPUqNFEGPMQ [youtube.com]
I've seen arguments for vegan/vegetarianism that allows them to consume human flesh if it's produced in a non-destructive manner-- specifically, eating their own placenta. Looking around online shows some interesting links and recipes for that, actually. Some interesting photos and commentary if you search for a blog post with the title of 'Placenta Party'.
Not before you finished your gramma!
There's always room for Jell-O.
If they could derive human tissue from gelatin, that would be news.
Human gelatin!
The Pohl house special: Chicken Little.
The next time I get a cold, I can replace all my lost phlegm with no fear of the dreaded phlegm rejection syndrome.
It means that...
humans are animals!
[dramatic music]
[open-mouthed yawn]
It means that...
humans are animals!
[dramatic music]
[open-mouthed yawn]
Tasty, tasty animals. Your hungry friend Hannibal
So, if you take your fat, and make human jello out of it and eat it, do you get fat again and get to repeat the whole process?
Actually this is kind of exciting for the medical field. I would think. If we can develop human genetics to take off in another medium and cultivate parts to replace our own dying ones, that would be GREAT. What's even better is we can make BETTER replacements. They did say a form of jello? The first thing that comes to mind is even BETTER breast enhancements.
Nerve splicing is going
In case beef/pork allergies exist, this is the solution.
What color is it?
Green, presumably.
In case of the zombie apocalypse, this is what you can distract them with. Add poison or high explosives, and much hilarity ensues.
Think again. You'd not only have zombies coming after you, you'd have explosive zombies coming after you that go KABOOM the moment you shove them back.
Scientists replacing animal collagen with animal collagen is news? The only thing that is news in this is the way the collagen was obtained.
Oh NO!
Jello IS people!
"This is lemma 1.1. We start a new chapter so the numbers all go back to one." -- Prof. Seager, C&O 351


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"Too true. I for one will always spell it "Schiffahrt". Three f's in a row? Not for me "
It's Schiffahrt still in Switzerland, and they don't have ß, they use ss everywhere. But Schiffffahrt is almost harmless. Schlussstrich is much better - five (!) consonants in a row. But Newspeak is more: Concatenated is now divided, divided is concatenated. Capitals are lower case, lower case is upper case, punctuation is a pure game of luck, hyphenation takes place where no one assumes it, and many words have been deleted from the language to reduce expressional diversion. In fact, nobody can really newspeak because there are many contradicting dictionaries around. The worst thing: This scientifical nonsense has been tried by the nazis in the 40s once, without success; today, they have their will. But why bother, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that everyone can spell as he likes (Bundeesverfassungsgericht, 1 BvR 1640/97), this, of course, eliminates any rules for marks in school. People who have to communicate substantial contents still use the unified orthography, grammar, hyphenation and punctuation. But I'm walking off-topick. =^_^=
To come back on topic, KDE's german language quality is not that bad because it does not comply many the many rules of Newspeak. An arbitrary subset of the ß has been replaced by ss, along with some other nonsense. But as I mentioned before, no one in Germany will really notice. Germans have gotten tired using their native language properly. So I hope there are dictionaries and hyphenation sets available in standard orthograohy ("old") for KOffice.


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Australian Unity Investments, once one of the biggest players in the troubled mortgage fund sector, is terminating its remaining mortgage fund after concluding that it is unlikely to regain the appeal it once enjoyed with investors.
The Mortgage Income Trust, of which there is a retail and a wholesale version, will return all capital to investors through regular payments over the next three to four years. Last year, Australian Unity began a wind-up of its High Yield Mortgage Trust.
Mortgage funds have been hit hard by the global financial crisis and the federal government's introduction of the $250,000 guarantee on bank deposits in late 2008.
Mortgage funds, or trusts as they are sometimes known, were favoured by retirees seeking secure income. They are not covered by the guarantee and worried investors have been withdrawing their money from the funds. Most mortgage funds have been forced to freeze withdrawals or offer limited withdrawals, though they have continued to pay income to investors.
The general manager of property, mortgages and capital markets at Australian Unity Investments, Mark Pratt, says even four years after the bank guarantee was introduced, withdrawal requests are continuing. He says the best course of action, therefore, is to terminate the trusts and return the balance of the capital to investors.
Mortgage funds lend investors' money for commercial property investment to property developers and to holders of residential mortgages. They maintain minimum levels of shorter-dated fixed-interest investments and cash to be able to offer daily liquidity to investors.
But the mortgages are paid back over several years. Ordinarily, that is not a problem. But when investors want their money back, such as after the government introduced its bank-deposit guarantee, the funds were not able to raise enough cash to repay investors in full. Most funds, including Australian Unity's, have been offering limited or capped withdrawals at regular intervals, usually monthly or quarterly.
Loan arrears in the Mortgage Income Trust is about 3 per cent of the loan book, which is low by mortgage fund standards. Investors will receive all of their capital back, Pratt says. Most mortgage funds maintain a unit price of $1 and the funds pay regular income. ''When people put their money into these mortgage trusts they want income and expect that if they put a dollar in that they get a dollar back,'' Pratt says. ''We have been focusing on [maintaining] that in these funds and with the high-yield trust.
''With the high-yield trust, we have now returned 35 per cent of investors' capital and it has always been at a dollar [a unit] since the wind-down started. We expect to be able to do that over the coming period as well.''
Pratt says the niche that mortgage funds filled for both investors and borrowers is still worthwhile. "We will continue to investigate alternative approaches as part of our product-development activities, taking advantage of our considerable commercial lending expertise to create alternative income-producing options for investors,'' he says.
Australian Unity expects to make an initial payment to investors in the Mortgage Income Trust before Christmas of up to 10 per cent of each investors' capital, and to continue on schedule by making regular payments each six months.
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Rosemont women's basketball sophomore and Downingtown West graduate Liz Coyne was selected to the Colonial States Athletic ConferenceFirst Team on Monday, when the league released its end-of-season awards as voted on by the coaches. Coyne and teammate Ashley Montecchio are the first Rosemont players to receive the honor since Katie Linder in 2006-2007.
Last year's CSAC RookieoftheYear proved there was certainly no sophomore slump in 2012-2013. Coyne had a tremendous season, ranking near the top in various statistics nationally (NCAA Division III). Coyne ranked 11th in points per game, averaging 21.1. She also posted impressive numbers for double-doubles (4th), rebounds per game (19th) and field-goal percentage (38th).
Coyne left her mark within the conference this season, leading the CSAC in rebounding and in offensive rebounds. She finished second in scoring, third in field-goal percentage, third in defensive rebounds, seventh in free-throw percentage, seventh in minutes played and ninth in steals.
Coyne surpassed the Rosemont record for points scored in a single season, pouring in 528 points. The standing record was set in 2000-2001 by Ekaterina Markova, who scored 499 points.
Her career scoring total todate stands at 997 points. If she scores her 1,000th point in the postseason, she would be the first Rosemont player to join the 1,000-point club in only her sophomore year.
Three Mighty Macs named All-CSCA selections: Senior guard Chrissy Esbensen earned recognition on the Second Team All-CSAC, sophomore guard Sara Smith was named Honorable Mention All-CSAC and freshman guard Christie Orgera received the CSAC Sportsmanship Award.
It marks the fourth consecutive season that Esbensen has been honored by the conference in its postseason accolades, and the third consecutive year on the Second Team All-CSAC. Esbensen garnered the CSAC's Rookie of the Year award in 2009-10.
Esbensen, a starter in all 24 games she played this season, averaged 13.9 points, 3.1 assists and 2.3 steals to lead the team in all three categories. The Royersford native also paced the Mighty Macs in three-point field goal percentage (.409) and made three-pointers (45). Her 3.8 rebounds per outing were fifth-best on the team.
During the 16-game league slate this season, Esbensen ranked fourth in the conference in scoring (15.6), first in three-point percentage (.407), second in made threes (2.1), 10th in assists (3.0) and 11th in steals (1.9). Esbensen posted 12 double-figure scoring games, including four contests in which she scored over 20 points. She recorded a season-high 24 points against Cedar Crest.
Esbensen, who became a 1,000-point scorer for the Mighty Macs in just the fourth game of the season, amassed double figures in scoring during 18 of 24 games this season. Esbensen finished her collegiate career with 1,276 career points to list third on the Mighty Macs' ledger, and she finished fifth in all-time assists with 442.
Smith, who started all 25 contests this season for the Mighty Macs, led the team in rebounding with 6.2 rebounds per game, while ranking second in scoring with 11.0 points per outing. Smith also led the team in free throw percentage (.761) and was second in field goal percentage (.432). She recorded 15 double-figure scoring and five double-digit rebounding games this season, including four double-doubles.
This is the first all-league citation for Smith, who received CSAC weekly honor roll recognition on Feb. 4.
Orgera saw action in eight contests during her rookie campaign for the Mighty Macs, scoring 16 points and bringing down seven rebounds. She also had two assists and five steals.
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Norfleet earns weekly honor:In a pair of wins this week, Cheyney's Brandon Norfleet scored a total of 37 points, making him the PSAC East Freshman of the Week, the conference announced Monday. After scoring a career-high 22 points in the victory over Mansfield, Norfleet went on to score 15 more as the Wolves beat Millersville. He shot 63% from the field this week. The freshman guard ranks second on the team in scoring at 14.3 points per game. Overall this season, Norfleet has netted double figures 18 times.


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The following information was collected at the Bureau County Courthouse:
Disregard stop sign — David M. Guither, 23, of Walnut.
Driving on suspended license — Randy C. Foster, 54, of Buda.
Leaving the scene — Guiseppe S. Alfano, 25, of Spring Valley.
No dog license — Christopher M. Evans, 28, of Spring Valley.
Seat belt required (driver) — April J. Barringer, 30, of Princeton; James M. Bernabei, 32, of Seatonville.
Speeding (1-10) — Tad M. Meisenheimer, 22, of Manlius.
Speeding (15-20) — Ryan M. Dinkelman, 26, of Princeton; David A. Hartsough, 18, of Princeton; Jeanne E. Jarigese, 55, of Buda; Kendra Lawson, 31, of Walnut; Meredith S. Wamhoff, 32, of LaMoille.
Unlawful transport of weapon — Jonathan J. Monier, 25, of Princeton; Joshua K. Schnaiter, 23, of Princeton.


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DETROIT (AP) - An aggressive Rick Santorum went after Mitt Romney on multiple fronts Thursday, challenging the Republican front-runner's economic policies, values and consistency in the city of his birth.
Santorum criticized his rival's record on federal bailouts in particular, although both men opposed the government's decision to rescue the auto industry.
"Gov. Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit. My feeling was that the government should not be involved in bailouts period," Santorum said in an address to the Detroit Economic Club, just 23 miles from where Romney went to high school. "I think that's a much more consistent position."
Santorum spoke as Romney campaigned elsewhere in Michigan, ignoring Santorum and two other rivals for the GOP presidential nomination altogether while focusing his criticism on President Barack Obama.
Santorum, who has surged in state and national polls, is showing greater confidence in what should be safe territory for the longtime GOP front-runner. Romney not only grew up in Michigan, he is the son of a former governor. His family members also have been deeply involved in the state's politics for decades.
Despite those inherent advantages, Santorum vowed earlier in the week to "plant our flag" in Michigan, where the presidential primary is Feb. 28. He began to make good on that promise Thursday.
Known for staunch socially conservative views, Santorum outlined an economic policy with a heavy emphasis on family values. He supports additional tax breaks to encourage charitable donations to churches, for example.
"We certainly won't be able to have limited government, lower taxes, if the family continues to disintegrate," he said.
Santorum also linked Obama and Romney, suggesting neither wants to lead the entire country as he would.
"We have a president who says he supports occupiers who divide America between 99 and 1. We have another candidate in this race who suggested that he didn't care about the very poor," Santorum said of Romney. "How about a candidate who cares about 100 percent?"
And while he said he supports economic opportunity for all, Santorum said income inequality is good.
"Why? Because people rise to different levels of success based on what they contribute to society and to the marketplace and that's as it should be," he said.
Santorum also reiterated his "Made in America" plan to eliminate a 35 percent corporate income tax on manufacturing to help rebuild the industry. He also wants to increase a tax credit for research and development, from 14 percent to 20 percent, to help create high-tech jobs.
Santorum spoke hours after he released tax returns showing his average income exceeded $990,000 in recent years. He paid a considerably higher tax rate than Romney, whose income largely comes from interest on investments.
"Look, I do my own taxes. Heck, Romney paid half the tax rate I did, so obviously he doesn't do his own taxes," Santorum said. "Maybe I should hire an accountant in the future."
Santorum sought earlier this week to minimize expectations for winning Michigan, but he hopes to score a victory that could be a huge embarrassment for Romney. The former Massachusetts governor has struggled to persuade his party's most conservative segments to embrace him.
Despite the challenge from Santorum, Romney campaigned Thursday using a formula that served him well in Iowa and Florida: staying positive while using TV attack ads to undermine his chief opponent.
Romney did not mention Santorum - or Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul - in two campaign stops in Michigan. At a business round-table at a steel galvanizing plant in Monroe and in an address to a Chamber of Commerce in suburban Detroit, Romney focused almost entirely on business and the economy. He repeated his calls for lower corporate tax rates and less regulation, and gave Obama no credit for the slightly improving economic picture.
Obama "has taken actions which have made it harder for our economy to recover," Romney told the chamber gathering.
Meanwhile, Romney and his allies are vastly outspending Santorum on Michigan's airwaves, including with ads attacking the former Pennsylvania senator for voting to increase the federal debt ceiling. Local Romney supporters also held a conference before Santorum's speech to criticize his support in Congress for pork-barrel spending.
The underfunded Santorum defended himself, saying during his speech that he was "the most conservative senator by far based on the state I represented and the spending record I had."
Though unable to match Romney on the air in Michigan, Santorum is airing one ad featuring a gun-toting Romney impersonator shooting mud at a cardboard cutout of Santorum. An announcer says Romney's "negative attack machine" is on "full throttle" and accuses Romney and groups that support him of "brutally attacking fellow Republicans."
Charles Babington in Farmington Hills, Mich., contributed to this report.


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You silly, this is not for Apple devices. This is for banks' doors.
So the banks can blame the special glass when their employees fail to be visible in reflections?
Then just put a piece of glass over the coating
oh, wait....
But what if I want it on my eyeglasses?
Durability is a HUGE issue. Anyone that wears glasses knows that when you get the anti-glare coating, that means the glasses are impossible to clean and will scratch if you even fart too close to them.
If they do this and it can withstand 10 psi of pressure on a 000 steel wool wad for 500 strokes witout any damage, I am suddenly very interested.
It's not just durability. Anti-reflection coatings also fail when someone touches the display and leaves behind a fingerprint: the oils in the fingerprint are thick enough to make it reflective again, so they really show up.
Yes, but I can think of damn many "no touch" surfaces like monitors, TVs, glasses, picture frames, glass doors, windows and so on that would benefit. It's not like everything has to be touch even though it's the new megahype.
People would be more likely to fail to see a glass door if it has anti-reflective film, resulting in them walking face-first into it and hurting themselves and possibly also damaging the door.
People would be more likely to fail to see a glass door if it has anti-reflective film, resulting in them walking face-first into it and hurting themselves and possibly also damaging the door.
Not to mention rendering it reflective do to the smudging from the person's face.
So long as it's Justin Beiber [youtube.com] doing the failing, there shouldn't be a problem. He's too small to damage the door.
Decals or other decorations can mitigate this, without falling back on turning the door into a mirror...
yeah for a retail store eye level is where the Branding Stripe(R) goes (or the POP signage for your current promo)
depending on your store you may also want a BS at Knee level to catch ADA folks or your younger customers
People do touch their monitors. Quite a lot. You can tell by the fingerprints.
One of my friends is a monitor toucher. I called him out on it one day and he claimed he didn't do it. I stopped him in the act and pointed it out. He apparently never realized he did it. I got so sick of cleaning the screen of my laptop I keep by the couch.
This is very old hat - quarter wave plates are hardly news. You can't even make a good zoom lens without it. I'm guessing what's new is the durability of the film, so that you can use it in more expsed places than the inside of a lens array.
I have anti-glare coating on my glasses and I have none of the problems you describe. My glasses aren't scratch anywhere noticeable, and cleaning it with a lint-free cloth is ridiculously simple.
Hopefully your glasses aren't as old as your UID; this may explain the problem otherwise as I change mine rather regularly.
My anecdote: I also have an anti-glare coating on my glasses. After less than a year I started noticing what looked like chemical etching on my lenses. I work with chemicals but I never wear my glasses anywhere but at home (where I don't work with chemicals). I take them to the eye doctor to check it out. It was the coating coming off the lenses. So the thing I paid extra for to prevent me from not being able to see through my glasses made me not be able to see through my glasses. (and they wanted to charge
If they do this and it can withstand 10 psi of pressure on a 000 steel wool wad for 500 strokes witout any damage, I am suddenly very interested.
I'm trying to think of any time I've ever used steel wool on an electronic gizmo's glass...
Can glass survive that?
Yep, that's what I was thinking of as well. Plus I'm sure there are other anti-reflection treatments, maybe 0.5% is a new record but it's not like 8% was the best we could do before.
I thnik 0.5% is normal for a quarter wave plate (IIRC, circularly polarized light still has the normal 4% reflected off each boundary, though that physics class was some time ago).
If it's anything like the anti-glare coating on my glasses it will be very sturdy indeed. Of course that coating adds a pretty good chunk of change to the cost of the lenses, but it works like a charm and stands up to repeated cleaning with rubbing alcohol.
but will it be destroyed the first time you have to wipe off dust/fingerprints/etc
No problem! Just put a thin coating of glass over it to protect it!
That's a really cool coating, but will it be destroyed the first time you have to wipe off dust/fingerprints/etc...?
I expect it would hold up as well as your typical camera lens/filter coating; unless you really abuse it or use harsh chemicals, it will hold up well.
Oh, I can't wait for this to show up on phones and tablets! It is probably my #1 complaint about modern capacitive touchscreens. For example, I could use my Xoom as a mirror, before applying an anti-glare film on it. And films are hard to apply, sometimes not pretty, and sometimes reduce the touch sensitivity.
I read that birds have been seen flying into trees and hillsides. There is a reason we have the term "bird brained", birds are not smart and will fly into all kinds of things. Solid things. Things that are plainly visible. We'll see them run into windows because the window is transparent enough that a person can see the bird. Also, the glass does not deaden the sound as much as a solid wall meaning if we didn't see it then we'll hear it.
Long ago when I lived on a dairy farm I'd see birds fly into the s
After all - existing screens aren't that shiny until they put TruBright(TM) or Ultrabright(TM) or AmazaView(TM) or BlindUView(TM) coating of crap on them.
I am typing this from a 13" glossy Macbook Pro, and I think there's a misunderstanding about why people buy glossy screens. The glossy screen is the perfect Apple screen because I can simultaneously see the two most important things in the world: the blog I'm reading, and myself. Always myself.
Also the reason for the camera that faces you, when your holding the iPhone properly. Really FaceTime... no one ever uses that. It is made so you can admire yourself actually being on the screen of an iPhone. Its the closest you ever get to iHeaven.
Also the blog you're reading is your own blog.
We all know that the perfect monitor screen resembles (or should resemble) a highly polished mirror, and that the viewing of films, games, software or the web is a secondary effect that some people find occasionally useful.
So with that in mind, how is this technology a step forwards again?
Is this a troll? I'm confused. It's a step forward because there's less glare, and no one wants glare in windows.
Oh you're right, I don't buy glossy so it kinda went over my head.
Maybe someday we'll have digital cameras that aren't the size of a book!
Why do we need protection screens at all? Can't they make the actual screens hardy enough to survive relatively rough usage?
The reason I ask is - is this regular, breakable glass, or can you put some Gorilla Glass on top of it? And if you did, would it then become reflective again? Can this new extra-transparent glass be made extra-hard like Gorilla Glass?
I think even if it can't, and if you can't put Gorilla Glass on top of it without losing your extra-transparency, I'd still prefer this on my cellphone/tablet. At least that's not a worry on monitors.
Is there any idea as to the cost of
Very similar, although I think the key is that they've refined to process to get the cost down. Those high-end coated optics are very expensive and easily scratched.
When people start using this stuff for windows in buildings, I wonder how the bird population will be affected....
And if I'm wondering that now, you know PETA will jump on it later. Hmmmm
-imagines typical naughty imagery they use somehow involving invisible glass this time-
This might be worth it after all. Kill the birds!!
Birds will be better off. They won't see the reflections, thinking there's trees behind the glass. They'll see what's actually behind the glass. Now, if you put a bunch of trees on the other side of the windows...
And dogs everywhere cringe at this announcement. I know that my dog will hate me if this ever makes it to consumer windows.
This isn't news, this is an advertisement.
1. AR (anti-reflection) coatings [wikipedia.org] have been available on photographic lenses for decades. Even the ultra tiny lenses in your iPhone/Blackberry/Android phone have AR coating. AR coatings are *always* nanometers thick, by their very nature.
2. AR coatings have been available on eyeglass lenses for nearly as long. Most people these days get some sort of AR coating on their lenses.
3. AR coatings have been available on framing glass to protect valuable paintings, photographs, and other items in picture frames for the same scale of time. Drop by your local framing / art supply store and check out what's usually called museum glass.
4. AR coatings were used on nearly every CRT by the time sales started to plummet in favor of the LCD. I use a couple of them in my lab to this day.
5. AR coatings are already available on some laptop screens (eg, by Sony and Samsung, no doubt among others).
So, news about a new technology ("Solves Screen Reflection Problems")? No. Product announcement? Yes.
I have a painting with AR glass. It's a big improvement over regular glass, but it's way, way more reflective than the glass seen in the photo.
Also note from the WP article you cited:
It is possible to obtain reflectivities as low as 0.1% at a single wavelength. Coatings that give very low reflectivity over a broad band can also be made, although these are complex and relatively expensive.
TFA claims broadband 0.5% reflectivity.
Indeed, I have a Samsung with AR.
1) Everything is nano-meters thick. The quest is, how many. Is this less then the current technology?
The breakthrough here is it's high durability. I use isn't actually for computers, it's for Solar power; which will hep greatly.
Of course, this specific breakthrough was announce in 2009.
http://www.neg.co.jp/EN/pdf/200902_taiyomirror_en2.pdf [neg.co.jp]
Sure.. Invisible glass was invented in 1938(Katy Blodgrett?) That doesn't mean it can't be improved, nor does it mean that further development isn't worth noting.
So what
A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom. -- Parkinson


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Newton Police Department
• Tony D. Bass, 40, of Newton was charged with aggravated eluding after authorities attempted to stop him at 10:17 p.m. Monday in the 1000 block of East 17th Street North for having an inoperable license plate light and were forced to pursue Bass when he didn't stop. Bass allegedly drove 55 to 60 mph on North 11th Avenue East, proceeded through five stop signs and drove on the wrong side of the rode until he pulled over at 202 E. 14th St. N. He was taken to the Jasper County Jail and additionally cited with no driver's license, no insurance, five stop sign violations and driving on the wrong side of the road.
• Kellie C. Brown, 48, of Marshalltown was charged with driving while license suspended and cited with violation of financial liability after authorities responded to a two-vehicle accident at 5:34 p.m. Monday on First Avenue East in front of Newton Family Restaurant. Brown was westbound in the inside lane when an eastbound vehicle driven by Keith A. Nicodemus, 84, of Colfax turned left in front of her, resulting in a collision. Nicodemus was cited with failure to yield while making a left turn. After Brown was found to have a suspended license, she was charged and taken to the Jasper County Jail.
• Tony E. Hansen, 50, of Newton was charged with operating while intoxicated (third offense) and driving while license revoked and cited for failure to maintain control after authorities responded to a report at 1:36 p.m. June 29 of an individual crashing his motor scooter in the 300 block of South 11th Avenue West. An officer observed Hansen smelled of alcohol and appeared to be disoriented. He was taken to Skiff Medical Center. Hansen refused to give a preliminary breath test and a blood test. He had previous OWI convictions from March 2002, September 2002 and April 2007.
• James M. Johnson, 50, of Newton was charged with pubic intoxication after authorities responded at 5:19 p.m. Sunday to three complaints of a person sitting on the side of the road in the 300 block of West 10th Street North with a bicycle yelling at those passing by. Johnson showed signs of intoxication but stated he could not perform sobriety tests because he has a prosthetic leg. After learning he would placed under arrest, Johnson became belligerent and yelled profanities at the officer. He was taken to the Jasper County Jail.
• Anthony E. Ortiz, 23, of Elgin, Ill., and Angel M. White, 31, of Woodstock, Ill., each were charged with possession of more than one-half ounce of marijuana with intent to deliver and possession of more than 42.5 grams of marijuana without a drug tax stamp after authorities stopped them at 9:16 p.m. Sunday at the 166 mile marker on Interstate 80 for speeding. White, the driver, and Ortiz, the passenger, had conflicting stories about their travels. A Jasper County deputy later ran a K-9 unit around the vehicle and indicated narcotics were present. Authorities located marijuana, and Ortiz and White were arrested and taken to the Jasper County Jail. White also was cited for speeding.
• Dezmond L. Rogers, 17, of Newton was charged with public intoxication, interference with official acts and minor in possession of tobacco (second offense) after authorities observed two men — one without a shirt in 42-degree weather — walking and smoking at 10:52 p.m. Saturday in the 100 block of North Second Avenue West. One did not appear to be the legal age, and officers stopped to investigate. Rogers stated he was 18 years old, refused to provide any other information and began causing a scene, according to police reports. He also smelled of alcohol and was taken to the police department, but he refused chemical testing. Authorities determined Rogers had a valid juvenile detention order, and he was transported to Eldora by a Jasper County deputy.
• Jordan M. Sexton, 17, and Byron A. Sharp, 17, both of Newton, were charged with fifth-degree theft after authorities responded to a shoplifting complaint at 4:36 p.m. Wednesday at Walmart. A loss prevention worker informed police she observed Sharp taking tags off a sweatshirt and a hat and Sexton putting the items on and continuing to walk around the store. The total value of the items was $42.68. They were referred to juvenile court services.
• Timmy L. Sholley, 42, of Newton was charged with driving while license suspended after authorities stopped him at 9:20 a.m. Oct. 17 in the 100 block of Iowa Speedway Drive after recognizing him as driving with a suspended license. He was released to appear in court.
• Robyn D. Taylor, 45, of Newton was charged with simple domestic assault after authorities responded to a domestic situation at 5:19 a.m. Monday at 1102 N. Fourth Ave. W. in Newton. Taylor was charged for allegedly slapping the victim. A no contact order was requested, and Taylor was taken to the Jasper County Jail.
• Three individuals were charged Oct. 15 with fifth-degree theft in connection with a shoplifting incident reported at 5:10 p.m. July 25 at Walmart. Joseph L. Symmonds, Kendi K. McCollum and Katelyn A. Roush, all 16 and residents of Newton, were charged for allegedly stealing 10 bottles of alcohol with a total value of $32. They were referred to juvenile court services.
• Three men — 32-year-old Jayson R. King and 23-year-old Joshua D. Jiron, both of Newton, and 21-year-old James A.P. Freerks III of Laurel — all were charged with public intoxication after authorities were dispatched at 12:48 a.m. Sunday to 7 Cardinal Court for a fight in progress. The men appeared to be intoxicated and were taken to jail. A chemical test indicated at .162 BAC for King. Jiron passed out and vomited at the jail and was unable to request or waive a chemical test. Freerks banged his head on the inside of the squad car several times while being taken to the jail and kicked an officer. He was not offered a chemical test and was additionally charged with interference with official acts causing injury.
A criminal charge is merely an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. It is the policy of the Newton Daily News to release the names of individuals charged with a crime who are 16 and older.


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Inouye touched many lives
Sen. Daniel Inouye came home today - home for his final rest.
Audrey and I joined our fellow citizens at our State Capitol this evening to pay our respects and bid Senator Inouye aloha. The sky above was a deep blue; a gentle tradewind blew from beautiful mountains through the Rotunda to 'Iolani Palace, where his political career began almost 60 years ago in the Territorial House. As his casket entered, the mood was solemn but not somber, sad but uplifting.
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Each of the speakers reflected on Sen. Inouye's larger-than-life life, but also added their own personal remembrances. And I was struck that the mark of a person like him is how many lives he touched in a very personal way.
I remember my parents gifting me a book on the day I became an adult, "Journey to Washington," and feeling in his story the first pangs of inspiration to my own path. I remember watching the Watergate hearings in college on the East Coast and feeling so fiercely proud that a son of Hawaii was teaching those folks in D.C. the meaning of integrity and dignity.
I remember Sen. Inouye giving this young staffer of his colleague, Sen. Spark Matsunaga, more than the time of day to encourage me in my own political career. And I remember feeling so humbled to join the delegation a few decades later and to learn from the master at work.
Of course, we disagreed later over how to ensure Hawaii's representation in the Senate in a post-Inouye world, and that cost me dearly. But somehow none of that mattered tonight; it just seeped away in reflecting on a remarkable person.
We mourn not just the passing of a life but of an era; a time in which our Hawaii and country were remade by Sen. Inouye and his comrades through sheer force of will into a more just society.
Gov. Abercrombie aptly quoted the Bible in concluding his remarks: Well done, good and faithful servant. Yes, well done, Sen. Inouye. We can honor your life best by continuing the fight into the coming generations.
An American imperative
An astute observer might wonder what possibly could have prompted the prophets from the ancient Mayan civilization to foretell the end of time. One might hazard a guess that those soothsayers of old somehow had a glimpse at the current reading of our moral barometer.
The spin doctors on the Right are every bit as adroit as their counterparts on the Left at promulgating and perpetuating The Lie to the point that they themselves believe it as Truth.
To wit, on the Sunday following the horrific slaughter of 20 first-graders and their teachers in Connecticut, a friend of mine and respected business leader here in Maui quipped, "Better hurry up and get your gun before Obama puts an end to our [God-given] right to bear arms." The statement was mind-numbing. And though the church service that Sunday morning included a moment of silence for those massacred, I pondered the perspective which deems our "right to bear arms" of greater value than the lives of innocent kids and adults alike.
Let us consider that the level of madness now commonplace in our society could not have been fathomed when our forefathers penned it a Constitutional right to own firearms. By what measuring stick is it justifiable for anyone to be able to purchase something known as an "assault rifle" and enough ammo to take out an entire town? Would not a stun-gun/taser be more than adequate for anyone seeking personal protection? A clear distinction should be made between those who hunt and should have the right to own game rifles, and those who simply want to feel like "The Terminator."
It is imperative for us as a nation to take a good, hard look at ourselves and be honest with what we've become. The "enemy" abroad, whom we've fervently pursued to the tune of billions of dollars and thousands of lives under the guise of "Protecting Our Freedom," seems not as threatening to America The Great as that video-game dazed teenager next door who gets a hold of his mom's Bush Master and mows down the very Spirit of the Christmas season.
The time is long overdue, America. Let us look first at ourselves and the things we devote our time and money towards. Will our 80-inch flat screens, "Call of Duty" video games, Escalades, and arsenal of firepower save us from the True Enemy within? Ironic it is that the very guns Mrs. Lanza purchased hastened her demise. The enemy she perceived to be "out there" turned out to live within her own home.
How many hours of "Halo" and "Call of Duty" did that deranged young man take in before he could no longer differentiate fantasy from reality? Could this tragedy have been averted by some tough love? Perhaps encouraging him to step outside once in awhile and maybe throw a baseball with the other kids on the block - though, realistically, most kids nowadays seem to gravitate much more towards the video monitor than the backyard or local park. To quote an old high school friend of mine, "How's it working, America?"
Even in the wake of the Connecticut tragedy, we wonder if there might be a correlation between our love affair with violence in our "entertainment" and the real-life madness being played out on our flat-screens like "virtual reality."
Sadly, there are many who will simply consider this latest atrocity as just another snippet in the nightly news. They'll say a cursory prayer and reach beneath their beds to assure themselves that their Glock is locked and loaded, ready to protect them from the Enemy.
Lest we forget, the Bible tells us that the Lord's return will be like a thief in the night.
Hopefully, He won't get shot upon entering.
CARRLL ROBILOTTA, Kahana
Renovated library looks great
You're in for a real treat when visiting the newly refurbished Lahaina Public Library.
Thanks to Sara Foley's leadership, along with the hard work of Norm Bezane, The Friends of the Library, Rotary fundraisers, the efforts of so many who volunteered their time and muscle, and contractors who went beyond their contract to put it all together.
We now have new shelves; clean, sparkling new floors; fresh painted walls; cool, unobstructed breezes; and an organized office. We can now actually see our librarians sitting behind the desk!
The local public library is the one place in a city or town where everyone is welcome to enjoy books, check out videos and cruise the Internet. It's a place to develop an appreciation for literature, or just read for entertainment. In all the places I have lived since my childhood, and there are many, it is the one public building I remember most vividly.
A public library is a reflection of who we are as a community.
DIANE PURE, Lahaina
Motorcycle parades are too loud
Mahalo to all you hogs - hog riders that is. We sure do appreciate all eight or nine dozen of you ripping down Front Street every Sunday morning during church services. No, really - I might have fallen asleep in my pew last Sunday otherwise.
We were just having a moment of silence in tribute to the 20 children and six adults slaughtered at Sandy Hook. I would, of course, rather listen to a bunch of guys who feel a need to show off every Sunday!
Your bikes were some of the loudest I've ever heard... and it went on forever! So, mahalo for being so considerate, so thoughtful, so pono. We don't mind stopping the service to feed your egos.


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Moon, Mars, and Regulus [1]
The stars yield their secrets grudgingly.
Consider Regulus, the brightest star of Leo, the lion. It's directly above the Moon as night falls this evening, with the planet Mars close to its left.
For most of human history, Regulus was no more than a bright point of light in the night sky. But it held a special place in human affairs because it lies along the Sun's path across the sky. In ancient Persia, it was one of four "royal" stars -- the guardians of the night.
The first observers to look at Regulus with a telescope found that it's a double star -- the bright star that we see as Regulus, plus a fainter companion. And in 1867, an astronomer found that the companion is also a double star.
About that same time, astronomers also got their first good measure of Regulus's distance. And in the late 20th century, they got their first good measure of its size.
Not until a few years ago, however, did they get a really complete dossier on Regulus. It's several times the size and mass of the Sun, and about 350 times brighter; it spins so rapidly that it looks like a squashed beachball; and Regulus itself has a small companion in a tight orbit -- a "dead" star known as a white dwarf.
Yet there's a lot about Regulus we don't know. Its age is a bit muddled, for example. The star itself looks young, yet the presence of the white dwarf suggests it's much older. Even today, Regulus continues to guard its secrets.
Script by Damond Benningfield, Copyright 2012
- History of Astronomy [2]
- Regulus [3]


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What is change? Deep and profound change? It is an interesting question. We all make changes in our lives. We force ourselves not to have that second coke. How long do these changes last though? I mean we really WANT that second coke. When do we start not wanting it? For this is the essence of change. I have cut down to one coke a day for like four months now. I still like coke though. I noticed the past week I have cheated a couple of times and gone to two cokes a day. How long until I just say fuck it and buy a case? Die in a coke filled bathtub of debauchery?
I have given up coke in the past. It has not lasted yet. How do you get past the point of forcing yourself not to do something and keeping discipline versus actually not wanting to do something?
Other changes are slightly easier. Like cooking. I enjoy it actually. I like making myself a few meals a week and it is probably marginally healthier than my previous diet of Hungry Man dinners and other assorted frozen fruit.
Some changes I have made for many months. Like training for a 5K. I was a runner for 9-months. The first time I quit I think it was because I got bored. The second time I got hurt. My leg was all fucked up and sore and I just never jumped back into it. Sometimes I quit because it was too cold. I keep coming back to it though. Mostly because I think exercise is a good thing to do, not because I necessarily like it. I do like my rock solid boobs from pushups though. Women should feel them things when I am doing 100 pushups every 3 days. Ahh yeah.
I guess I have not answer for the question of when SHOULD DO becomes something that you just do. Perhaps it is never. The whole point in life could be to be so disciplined that SHOULD DO just IS and you never have an issue with falling back to your old ways. I hope this is not the case because I am not the most disciplined person in the world. I have my moments. Peace.


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Detective Curtiss Kull, with the sex offender notification unit for the Reno Police Department, says parents need to take the responsibility to be a parent.
"For this law to work, you are counting on a convicted person... a convicted sex offender to walk up the stairs of that police station and fill out a piece of paper telling me where he's at."
Detective Kull, with the Reno Police Department, says you have to depend on more than a list to protect your kids from sex offenders.
That's the exactly what officers say happened to Carmen Bauer, the mother of 8-year old Lydia Rupp of Fernley.
Investigators say 47-year old Fernando Aguerro befriended Lydia's mother and eventually moved in, as a roommate, as the family started to trust him more and more.
"Whether it be a family member, a teacher, a coach, a pastor... when they're paying an inordinate amount of attention to your kids or something is just telling you this isn't a normal relationship, you cannot ignore that. You have to pay attention to that."
Statistics also list Nevada as the fourth worst state in the country because of the number of sex offenders who do not comply with the law and register as an offender according to Parents for Megan's Law.
In Nevada, whether you're just visiting or working, an offender has 48-hours to report to a local law enforcement agency to complete the paperwork.
Anytime an offender moves, it's also their responsibility to update the information with police.
But, offenders don't always register... that's why investigators say you must be the one to know who your child is with and what they're doing.
And, they say you must not be afraid to discuss why it's important for your child to protect his own body from anyone else and always tell you if something has happened.
Detective Curtiss Kull, with the sex offender notification unit for the Reno Police Department, says parents need to take the responsibility to be a parent.


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I don't know how I feel about Mitt Romney as a president, but I do love him as a candidate, and I wish he could run every year.
Thanks to the neverending news cycle, which has stations running countdown clocks on the debate and includes CNN offering a live wire on undecided voters, we've been subjected to Romney winning the longest game of "Survivor" to get the nomination, and we've been treated to so many sound bytes from candidates that are so wooden, you expect them to start shedding leaves in the coming weeks. But Romney really has a gift for waking me from an apathetic haze (which is at least partly the fault of Irish whiskey, I suppose) and laughing along at the punch lines.
I really thought Romney hit a high-water mark in the first debate, when he said he'd fire Big Bird and essentially told Jim Lehrer he was next on the chopping block, even though Lehrer did more to help Romney in that debate than even the professorial, disengaged Barack Obama. But when a Mormon is onstage talking about binders full of women, you know you've struck paydirt.
So while I'm not excited about President Romney — although I'm about as thrilled with his opponent — I am really a fan of candidate Romney, especially since he's reinvented himself so often that he's on pace to have more patents than Thomas Edison by Election Day. But what would he do in the four — OK, two — years between presidential elections? Here are some ideas, Mitt, in case you lose:
– "X Factor" judge. Not that I really think he'd be a great judge of singing voices, but I would love to hear him interrupt Simon Cowell in mid-diatribe, then insist on having the last word on each performer because someone else got to go first.
– "Sesame Street" character. Don't you think "Sesame Street" needs a lovable accountant-type figure to bring a sense of morality to young viewers? Like, say all the characters were going to have a surprise party for the letter "P," and Mitt shows up at the last minute and tells them that, due to budget cuts, not only is the party off, but Elmo and Grover need to share a room and Oscar will have to move out?
– Starbucks barista. There's something very Romney about being inside a Starbucks — the worldwide corporate giant posing as a mom-and-pop roaster. I think it would be great to have him overhear you complaining about how slow the line is moving, and hear him offer his five-point plan on how to get people their triple shot, no whip, extra dry latte up to five minutes faster without raising taxes.
– Running mate to Chris Christie. The only downfall to this is we would never see a debate between Romney and Joe Biden, which might be a good thing, since such a debate likely would be the mathematic equivalent of dividing by zero.
I'm even more irreverent on Twitter @joe_arney.


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Pac-12 Morning Five: 03.22.12 EditionPosted by AMurawa on March 22nd, 2012
- While the NCAA Tournament may be a fading memory for Pac-12 teams, the conference is alive and thriving in the NIT, as Stanford became the second team to clinch a trip to Madison Square Garden by demolishing Nevada 84-56 on Wednesday night. They will face Massachusetts in the semifinals next Tuesday. The win was highlighted by four different players scoring in double figures and nine of the 15 players who saw action getting in the scoring column. The win was the Cardinal's 17th home win this year, good for a school record, quite an accomplishment given the elite Stanford teams of the past.
- Washington State's season continues as well, as they handled Oregon State pretty easily themselves in Corvallis last night. The surprising thing is that Washington State was able to take care of the Beavers without the services of Brock Motum, who left the game after playing just two minutes (and scoring four points on three field goal attempts in those two minutes) due to an ankle injury. But Abe Lodwick and Reggie Moore picked up the slack for their fallen comrade, combining for 45 points, with Lodwick adding 12 rebounds and five threes. The Cougs now face Pittsburgh in the three-game CBI championship series.
- On the heels of yesterday's announcement out of USC that Curtis Washington and Alexis Moore would be transferring out of the program, Trojan fans got news today that Evan Smith would be leaving the team as well due to an ongoing issue with his shoulder. He'll say at the school and remain on scholarship, but he won't count against the team's scholarship limit. That now makes four players from this year's roster that won't be back next year. Still, for a team that just won six games this season, there is quite a bit of hope around the program. Kevin O'Neill released an open letter to Trojan fans on Wednesday thanking them for their support and offering his signs for hope in 2012-13. He also noted that the Trojans are all lined up to play a rough schedule, with teams like San Diego State, Long Beach State, New Mexico, Minnesota, Nebraska, Georgia, and Dayton on the schedule, along with a trip to the Maui Invitational.
- We got some other news about future schedules this week as well, as Arizona announced that they have completed a contract with Michigan to begin a two-year home-and-home series beginning in 2013-14. The Wildcats still have five open spots on their schedule and are looking to potentially fill one of those spots by buying a game with Oral Roberts. Of the four other remaining games, it is likely that one of them would be either an away or neutral-site game against a quality opponent.
- Lastly, we discussed after the California season ended just how much longer Mike Montgomery would continue to coach. While we don't have an answer to that question yet, it appears that the 65-year old veteran of 15 NCAA Tournaments isn't considering hanging up the whistle anytime soon, as he is in talks with athletic director Sandy Barbour to ink an extension to Montgomery's contact. The coach still has two years remaining on his original contact, so all indications are that his time in Berkeley is still quite a ways from being done.


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Cliff Lee Helps Himself to a Win
Just a short 12 hours after a stunning 19-inning victory, the Phillies won again, making it two wins in one day. The 10-4 victory today gave the Phils a 3-1 series win over the Reds.
The Phillies hoped that starting pitcher Cliff Lee could go deep into the game as nearly the entire bullpen was worked hard in the previous game. Lee did not disappoint, going eight innings. He did allow four runs on 10 hits and a walk, but he kept his team in the game in more ways than one.
Lee himself accounted for two of the Phillies 13 hits and he drove in three runs, two on a double and one more later on a single. There have been a number of role reversals in the past two days. Lee was the big slugger today and infielder Wilson Valdez was the winning pitcher in the game before.
Not so backwards was a three-run homer by Raul Ibanez in the third inning. Chase Utley also hit his first home run of the year today. Utley has now doubled and homered since coming off the DL on Monday and all is right with the world again.
Utley did appear to twist his right ankle / leg on a play today, which was a bit scary. However, he kept playing and it looks like we all have to wait until tomorrow to see if Utley bounces back okay.
As for the rest of the offense, some of the younger players are starting to hit, which is a good sign. The Reds starter Homer Bailey only lasted five innings and then rookie Daryl Thompson took over, making his major league debut. However, Domonic Brown and Michael Martinez each had a hit off Bailey, so it was not like they were just abusing the rookie. They hit a solid, veteran pitcher as well.
If the younger guys can keep stringing hits together like this, things may soon look-up for the Phillies offense.
And if injured players keep returning, like Jose Contreras did today, that is another big positive. Contreras pitched a scoreless ninth inning today and looks like he is ready to pick up where he left off, although Ryan Madson will remain the closer. And David Herndon was sent back to Triple-A to make room on the roster.
The Phillies will embark on a 9-game road trip next. They play the Mets in New York Friday night at 7:10pm; Roy Oswalt will pitch.
Photo by Jenn Zambri Photography
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(Corrected) 2012 Schedule Wallpaper - Scrap Wood
Update: I've posted new wallpapers with the correct schedule.
I didn't expect a win against Alabama but I'd hoped for something a little less embarrassing. I needed a wallpaper palate cleanser so I disassembled last week's wood-themed wallpaper and used the scraps to build this schedule with retro-ized opponent helmets rendered in my 3D stadium.
I hope this will get you through a couple of weeks. I'm going to disappear for awhile but will return with new artwork for one or two of the rivalry games. I have some fun things planned including that ambitious project I mentioned at the end of last season.
Follow me on Twitter @thearttheart for updates.
The images below are previews only. You can get the widescreen, 4:3, iPad and mobile wallpapers at The Art. The Art. The Art!.
this schedule looks incorrect
I guess the loss hit me harder than I thought. I'll have a fix later today.
Very nice work.
That is fantastic. I kinda want to actually try to carve this, even though I have no artistic talent.
I remember you hinting at some huge project for a season wallpaper in one of your posts last year, is this it / is that still in the works? Not that I would have a problem if you decided not to do it, but I would love to hear what the big idea was.
Yes, your memory is good and I'm still working on that ambitious project. It got away from me a bit but I will publish a series of wallpapers later in the season based on an idea that I think is awesome and that my 9-year-old will think is awesome and that I hope you think is awesome.
After looking at this one, I know it will be awesome.
and all that, but any way you could put '14-41' under alabama?
i know that sucks and all, but if you could update this weekly, you'd be like...my hero. :)


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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 2, 2012 Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki says VA is on track toward meeting one of the top priorities he set on arrival at the department three years ago: breaking the back of the disability claims backlog.
VA spent the last two years creating an automated tool to make claims determinations faster and more accurate, he said.
"Our intent is to have no claim over 125 days," Shinseki told American Forces Press Service. "And every claims decision that we put out the door [will be] at a 98-percent quality mark."
Toward that end, VA has been testing the new Veterans Benefit Management System in Providence, R.I., and Salt Lake City. Shinseki told Congress last month he believes this technology is helping VA "approach the tipping point in ending the backlog in disability claims."
He stopped by the Salt Lake City office last week to assess progress there as the department prepares to take the system nationwide beginning this fall. The rollout will begin at 16 regional offices in September, with all 56 VA regional offices to receive it by the end of fiscal 2013, Shinseki said. This advance is expected to go a long way in helping VA reduce the time veterans must wait for disability claims decisions, the secretary said.
"We know we can do it manually," Shinseki said. "But we plan to layer this automation tool on top of that, and have the people who did the manual work now armed with an automation tool. I think we will be able to improve our productivity in ways that we will be able to take that backlog down quickly."
Shinseki noted the monumental challenge VA has been up against. During 2009, VA produced 900,000 claims decisions, but also received 1 million new claims. The next year, VA increased its claims decisions to 1 million, but received 1.2 million new claims.
"Last year, we produced another 1 million claims decisions and got 1.3 million claims in," Shinseki said. "So the backlog isn't static. The backlog is a bigger number than we would like, but it is not the same number as three years ago."
Once the automated system is in place, Shinseki said, he believes the 125-day, 98-percent accuracy goals he set are achievable. "There is a lot on the line here," he said. "And that is why this rollout in September is an important one."
His confidence, he said, comes from the successes he's seen automation bring to VA's processing of Post-9/11 GI Bill claims.
Shinseki recalled arriving at VA in 2009 just as the new program was being launched and having to implement it on the fly, with no automation tools. Within about nine months, he said, VA was able to prepare the manual process of getting about 173,000 people into schools by the fall 2009 term.
"It was pretty rocky," he acknowledged. But today, with the process now automated, VA is able to process more than 600,000 Post-9/11 GI Bill claims faster, and with fewer mistakes, the secretary said. That experience demonstrated the importance of keeping manual processing going as automation is being rolled in, then gradually moving all the processes toward automation, he added.
"The lessons we got out of that were tremendously important," he said. "It educated our efforts with the automation tool for the [disability] claims process, and we are doing the same things, step-by-step, that we learned how to do through with the [Post-9/11 GI Bill]."
The new system is just one initiative VA has taken to break the claims backlog.
Another effort focuses on fundamentally changing the relationship between veterans and VA, making VA an advocate in putting together a strong claims package. VA began giving veterans a checklist of what's needed to file a claim, and also did its own digging to produce whatever documentation veterans couldn't find. This effort reduces the time needed to put a claims package together.
Another pilot program focuses on making claims processing more efficient by simplifying the process and improving communication among the entities that process a claim to reduce procedural delays, the secretary said.
Shinseki said he wanted to focus on getting the bugs out of the claims process before increasing automation.
"We didn't want to automate bad processes and just get lousy decisions faster," he told a Paralyzed Veterans of America gathering. "So we broke the complex, convoluted claims process down into its component pieces to improve each part before putting them back together."
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Parallel Port I/O Access Under Win2K? 10
stumped-by-MS asks: "I'm having a tough time accessing my parallel port under Win 2K. I'm working off of a Dell Precision P4 workstation, and using Microsoft ASseMbler to run simple programs involving IN and OUT commands. Initially I read about 2K's strict I/O control, and found the PortTalk driver to get around it. This driver, when coupled with the supplied allowio.exe, is supposed to give any program User level 0 to any specified port. Using the program (syntax:
allowio test.exe 0x378 ) allows access to the base address just fine, however with base+1 (0x379), the input port, is still unresponsive. Using allowio to specifically give access to that port also fails, as well as giving my program access to all ports, which I would rather not do in the first place. " Is there some hidden set of permissions a program must have before they are allowed access to certain I/O ports under Windows 2000?
"Am I missing some concept here? As I understand it, allowing access to base=0378H should give access beyond 0x380! If anyone knows what I am doing wrong, or the location of some software that does things right, it would help me a lot."


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DURHAM, N.C. - The Duke volleyball team concludes its current five-match homestand with a midweek contest against Wake Forest Tuesday, October 16. The Blue Devils and the Demon Deacons square off at 7 p.m., in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The match, streamed live by the Blue Devils Network, is available to watch for GoDuke.com Inside Access subscribers, while live stats are also available.
The Blue Devils, who are 8-2 at home this season, are coming off a pair of five-set contests over the weekend. Duke (11-9, 2-6 ACC) fell, 3-2, to Clemson Friday evening before rebounding with a five-set victory over Georgia Tech Saturday in Cameron.
Offensively, freshman Emily Sklar leads Duke with a 3.18 kills per set average as the rookie has reached double-digit kill totals in 12-of-17 matches played. Sophomore Jeme Obeime is tops on the squad with 212 kills and has led the Blue Devils in kills nine times this season.
On the defensive side, junior Ali McCurdy continues to lead the conference with a 5.77 digs per set average. The libero from Tampa, Fla., has picked up 20-plus digs 12 times this season while topping the 30-dig plateau on three occasions. Junior Chelsea Cook has paced the Blue Devils in blocks and ranks seventh in the ACC, averaging 1.12 per set.
Wake Forest enters Tuesday's match with a 7-13 overall record and 1-7 mark in the ACC. The Demon Deacons dropped two matches this past weekend, falling to Georgia Tech and Clemson. Senior Andrea Bech leads Wake Forest with 256 kills on the year and ranks third in the conference in kills per set (.366 kps) and 10th in hitting percentage (.328).
Duke holds a 47-13 advantage in the all-time series, including a 22-3 mark at home against the Demon Deacons. The Blue Devils have not lost to Wake Forest in Cameron since the 2003 campaign, a streak of eight straight victories. Last season, the two teams split a pair of decisions with both squads defending their home courts.
Following Tuesday's match, Duke hits the road, traveling to Virginia and Virginia Tech for two ACC contests. The Blue Devils and the Cavaliers are set for a 7 p.m., match Friday, October 19 at Memorial Gymnasium. Duke then takes on Virginia Tech at 6 p.m., Saturday, October 20 in Cassell Coliseum.


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I also HATE any service where you pay for a ticket and no mention is made anywhere of tips. Not on the website, not when you buy a ticket, nowhere. But at the end they brazenly ask for tips. And I am not talking about dinners, I expect to tip servers when I go out to dinner. I'm talking about other events where there are employees, presumably making more than $2.17 per hour, but at the end of the "event", someone gets on a mic and says please tip our wonderful employees if you enjoyed this event and they have someone holding a hat on the way out, so everyone can see if you do or you don't. I hate that. Just tell me the REAL cost of the event UPFRONT. I will pay it or not go, but don't spring it on me like that. I also don't carry cash, ever.
Crass. Very.
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I have a query regarding how the value objects( model objects) should be designed?
Let us say I have Country, State, District, City and I need to build the model objects for these.
My country Model object (CountryVO.java)will have
My State Model object (StateVO.java)will be havingCode:private int countryId; private String CountryName; //other details
Case 1:
case 2:Code:private int stateId; private String stateName private int countryId; private String countryName;
Problems with Case 1:Code:private int stateId; private String stateName private CountryVo countryVO;
So, for the City object (Country->State->District->City)there will be lot of variables in the model object
also, if we want more details in the (like one variable for number of people in all these) we need to add one for each(like populationInCity,populationInDistrict,populationInState,populationInCountry) in the city model object.Code:private int cityId; private int cityName; private int disctrictId; private int districtName; private int stateId; private String stateName private int countryId; private int countryName;
Advanteges: looks good while retrieving the details
Case 2:
The cityVo will have district reference, district will have state reference, state will have country reference.
so the city Model object will look like
I feel this is neat when compared to the case 1.Code:private int cityId; private String cityName; private DistrictVO districtVO;
While retriecing the details, we need to do multiple level of delegation
to get the countryName from the cityModelObject
Can anyone please help me in finding the best OO way(either case 1 or case 2) to build these kind of model objects?


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Next to last down the backstretch under jockey Ramon Dominguez, Super Espresso swept wide around horses entering the stretch before out-battling Payton d'Oro nearing the wire to win by three-quarters of a length.
Allaire DuPont Quotes
Todd Pletcher (winning trainer, Super Espresso) – "I was very, very pleased and a little disappointed the way the other one (Life At Ten) ran. If you take out her last race on turf, she's been a steadily improving filly. She trained well leading up to this, so we're not shocked that she ran well."
Ramon Dominguez (winning, jockey, Super Espresso) – "She ran just the way Todd expected. She's got a beautiful long stride on her and I just kept her together. They went quick enough early on where it was helpful, but she just continued coming. I don't feel like they were really collapsing in front of her. She was closing.
The filly that ran second got a great trip and I was a little bit concerned before I actually came to her because she really got the best trip."
Larry Jones (trainer, Payton d'Oro, 2nd) – "She ran well. She's been off a long time, but she likes Pimlico. She ran well."
Gabriel Saez (jockey, Payton d'Oro, 2nd) – "I was in the place that I wanted to be the whole way. When we came down the lane, the seven (Super Espresso) beat us. I think she was one of the better fillies in the race and I got beat."
Todd Pletcher (trainer, Life At Ten, 3rd) – "I didn't see much excuse. I'm just hoping she needs a race or two to round back into form. It was obviously a little disappointing."
John Velazquez (jockey, Life At Ten, 3rd) – "I had a perfect trip and she didn't come up with anything. She was laying third, perfect, at the three-eighths pole. At the quarter pole I asked her, and she just came up even. She didn't stop but she didn't pick it up either."


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I'd really enjoy watching a Harbowl this year. Niners would win, though.
Last year Jim was 1 dropped pass from the Super Bowl. John was a fumbled kick return away. Could have easily had a Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh Super Bowl.
This year again they're both looking at a potential Final Four appearance in getting to the conference championship games.
Say what you want but these guys know how to coach!
I'd really enjoy watching a Harbowl this year. Niners would win, though.
how many rings do they have? same as rex. thats what i thought
Do they have another brother ?
One of them will get a ring this year. No doubt about that.
Not sure how anybody can hate John. Jim can get under people's skin but he is a great coach.
My SB prediction before the year was a Harbowl. I'm looking good so far...
OMG what's going to happen when the defense figures out how to stop Kaepernik? LOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Too bad Rex never scratched off that lottery ticket Tim Tebow. If he did even half as good as Kaepernik we'd be in the playoffs.
And I don't hate the Harbaugh's, i wish they could adopt another son so we had somebody to hire.
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"Arab Spring" never did quite pass muster as a metaphor. It hardly heralded budding flowers and tweeting birds. In Egypt, Mohammed Morsi wafted into the presidency on the Arab Spring breeze, trailing the dark cloud of the Muslim Brotherhood and its harsh Islamist agenda.
Yet, in those precincts where the words "Middle East Peace Process" are uttered with ritualistic reverence, optimism persisted. "Spring has sprung!" it was said. That view persisted even when Morsi took an emphatically authoritarian direction reminiscent of the nasty ancien regime he replaced.
And the Panglossian outlook that all is in the process of working out for the better persists in those precincts even though the foul odor of anti-Semitism has now been carried in on the Arab Spring breeze from Morsi himself. In 2010, Morsi described Jews as "the descendants of apes and pigs" — a rant that long ago attained the status of cliche among Brotherhood types and others of like mind. Moreover, this was not some aside comment Morsi made into a microphone he thought was not on. He made the comment in a public speech. He further urged the assembled to see that their children and grandchildren are "nursed" on such hatred.
But such grotesque tirades tend to be ignored in high places or dismissed with a perfunctory disapproval — as exemplified by White House spokesman Jay Carney's bland equanimity. Undeterred, the White House still views Morsi as a valuable asset in the — cue a choir of heavenly angels — Middle East Peace Process, he said.
In parallel fashion, the rantings of Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas in Gaza also are ignored or given a tut-tut — even though, as we keep pointing out, Hamas' charter calls for the elimination of Israel and of Jews elsewhere worldwide and incorporates other anti-Semitic golden oldies such as the complete text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Author Neil Kressel chronicles the phlegmatic, shrugging or excuse-making response to such vile rhetoric in his book "'The Sons of Pigs and Apes': Muslim Anti-Semitism and the Conspiracy of Silence." He suggests some of our high-minded progressives are hesitant to make a fuss out of fear of undermining — here it comes again — the Middle East Peace Process. Or worse, fear of being stripped of their PC bona fides by sounding critical of Muslims. In these circles, many seem to view such hateful attitudes as those expressed by Morsi or Hamas as proof of the need of the Peace Process rather than the fundamental impediment to it.


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Hello everyone! Volt Devilray here, one of the three wise guys of the Christian group.
so this thread is going to be reserved for any news concerning the
group. changes in owners, important news, special announcements, stuff
like that. If it doesn't concern the group as a whole then it doesn't
belong here. Feel free to start your own thread for anything else!
So please everyone, lets try to keep this thread on topic, okay?
Now you're playing with power!
Announcing the new Christian group Archives!
You guys know how there's always been two group forums? Well, I've turned the unused one into the new Christian group archives. Okay, here's how it's going to work. All old, unused threads will be moved into the archives after a predefined amount of time after the last post. This way it will be easier to navigate active threads, and the group won't be quite so cluttered. Also, this way no threads will be deleted, preserving the history of the group. If anyone would like to comment on one of the archived threads, just let me, or one of the other owners, and we will gladly move it back into the active forum ready for new comments.
Awesome, I just joined this group. Feels good to see other Christians! :)
Welcome to the group!
1 Peter 3:15 (NASB): "But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence."
Thanks, You guys are awesome. :D
As Servant said welcome. Hope you enjoy it here. Everyone is pretty awesome at GI. Also thanks for the friend request.
Welcome to the group, hope you enjoy your stay!
Welcome to the group! Happy to have you as a member! If you ever need anything feel free to ask.
You all are so very nice! I can't wait to be friend all of you! :D
Just joined, its awesome that there is a Christian group on GIO.
Ohh, and nice to see you again "The Tador Tot"
What's new in the group? Is there any interesting games that the group is interested in, in 2014? Me. Destiny, Watch Dogs, & The Division. Everyone else?
I'm a gamer; a lover of music!
Welcome to the group! I guess I need to tell you what's going on right now. Currently, I'm trying to revitalize the group. A personal or biblical question will be posted every Monday for you to answer, and, starting this Sunday, I'm going to start posting Christian blogs on this group's blog page to encourage you to do the same.
Thanks for joining the group!
@ Sniper XI: What I told Alto was the new stuff. That, and I can't wait for Dark Souls II.
X, No Man's Sky, and Smash Bros.