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Here is a cute craft you can make with your kids {or a classroom full of kids!} in little time and for little cash. Here is what you need to make snowman lollipop ornaments:
Flat Lollipops (I got a pack of 22 Christmas Pops at the Dollar Tree)
Markers (Red, Blue, Black)
Pink chalk (Or you can use cosmetic blush 🙂 )
Cotton Swabs (ya' know, Q-Tips)
Glue (white school glue for kids, hot glue for grown-ups)
Cardstock (several sheets of white for the faces and a scrap of orange for the noses)
Ribbon or string
1 3/4″ Round Scallop Paper Punch (you can use a plain circle punch, circle cutter or just freehand circles and they will be just as cute!)
Optional: Googlie eyes or sequins
- Before you invite the kids to craft have everything prepared! Punch plenty of scalloped circles and place markers out where all the kids can reach. Have squeeze bottle of white glue out or little cups of glue with toothpicks in them for kids. Place a stick of pink chalk on a paper towel and have several Q-Tips on the towel next to it. Make sure to have a few examples of the finished craft for the kids to see. Precut the "noses" from orange and have them out as well as sequins or googlie eyes for the eyes. Remember APB when you craft with kids: Always Be Prepared!
- Take a q-tip and rub it on the chalk and make pink cheeks on the snowman face (scalloped circle).
- Draw or dot a smile on the face with black marker.
- Glue on a carrot nose and sequins/googlie eyes for the eyes. Anything else you want to add is up to you!
- Adults only!!! Place a small dab of low temp hot glue (you must use low temp glue gun or you will melt the plastic wrapper on the lollipop) on the wrapped lollipop and secure both ends of a 6″ strand of ribbon in the glue and press a snowman face on top.
Well, that was easy! My kids made 44 of these yesterday and they had a blast! This is a nice craft fair item too because they make up quick and are cute hanging on the tree and you can sell them for a quarter so little kids can afford them 🙂 I hope you can use this idea whe you are crafting with your kids (or grandkids) this year! Til next time happy crafting!
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Our Philanthropic Committee has sent, as a first step, $10,000 in emergency relief through the Catholic Relief Services. We chose this organization as the conduit for this contribution, first, as an expression of interfaith solidarity but, more important, because we felt this would be the most direct way of getting the money to the people who need it. Catholic Relief Services has been operating in Haiti for many years, and its network of contacts is well established.
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>I would love to hear the opinions of you Europeans who've played it. Is it as good as they say?
Nah. It is a silly game. Running around in a silly hat with a sword, packed with all sorts of unrealistic creatures and someone has apparently built all sorts of puzzles into the world. Who would do such a thing? Totally unrealistic and stupid. You'd probably want to give this one a miss.
It's nice to get the first last for once, but I have to say that I don't understand why developers still release their games at different dates in different regions. Especially with the internet, reviews are going to be coming out as soon as the game is out anyway, which if the game is bad will reduce sales in the regions where the game comes out later (not that this is a concern in this case).
It's nice to get the first last for once, but I have to say that I don't understand why developers still release their games at different dates in different regions. Especially with the internet, reviews are going to be coming out as soon as the game is out anyway, which if the game is bad will reduce sales in the regions where the game comes out later (not that this is a concern in this case).
i18n, mostly. Translating the story, translating the script, hiring voice actors to say the lines, re-doing UI elements in case stuff doesn't fit (like it often doesn't), doing culture checks etc. (some gestures may be considered obscene, some graphics may be illegal, etc.).
Doing 20+ languages simultaneously would drive anyone up the wall - a problem in one language then has to be fixed, and the fix tested on all the other languages to make sure they still work correctly, etc.
At least, you do Japanese first (easy, Nintendo's native). Then you do English(/French) for North America (maybe Spanish as well). Then you pick either Europe and do the other languages, or Asia and its languages.
Imagine the chaos caused if a worldwide release is held up because someone discovered a bug in some little used language.
Also, doing this allows the disc pressers time to press discs so they're not having to make millions of copies in a month, but hundreds of thousands as the demand ripples through the world.
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This seems to be nearly simultaneous, and gp was talking about the general case, which ggp was asking about. Your data suggests they completed all localization, probably during the year-long delay, and are more likely avoiding other big game launches in the region. For this specific case, which was not even the subject of gp or ggp post.
At least, you do Japanese first (easy, Nintendo's native). Then you do English(/French) for North America (maybe Spanish as well). Then you pick either Europe and do the other languages, or Asia and its languages.
Where this really, really tends to suck is in the UK. We have to wait for the European release to be ready, due to localisation issues, but when we do finally get it, the game is still in American rather than English
Indeed, but that doesn't explain why Nintendo puts out its big games on Sunday in North America, since Tuesday is "the day of the week" in general as far as I know.
It's due to shipping schedules. In Europe games arrive in stores on Thursdays (this also applies to re-stocking if something sells out). Hence release dates are put on Fridays so the stores have enough time to unpack the goods and put them on shelves. Some stores just put stuff on the shelves as it arrives, others wait for the official date. When games get released on unconventional dates (e.g. a Tuesday) that confuses retailers because it means their usual handling schedule doesn't apply. E.g. Space Marine
In the US Nintendo has a policy of releasing games on Sundays. I think it has to do with not wanting children to skip school for the games or something. That's not possible in Europe since at least Germany doesn't allow stores to open on Sundays outside of special occasions and I'm sure plenty of other countries also shut down stores on Sundays. Can't release a game when stores are closed.
Time to put this one to rest.
Insert scathing comment about pot-addled teenager who only grew up with casual gaming and has a limited view about gaming in general, but feels he's an expert because he played Pokemon and WoW a lot.
It works decent enough. It is sometimes a little off (for example, a spider enemy needs a thrust to kill, but the Wii Motion generally picks up a thrust as an overarm swing), though for the most part it gets better as you get used to avoiding certain gestures.
One partciular annoying factor is having to recalibrate the controler every now and again. When your character starts swinging the sword in the opposite direction from you, you know its time.
Also, you may have a lot of headaches if you use a third party controller with this game.
To me using a third party controller is asking for trouble. The feel is never right, and I worry about the analog components being poorly calibrated. The only good one I owned was the AsciiPad for SNES, but that was pure digital.
Thus far, the only decent Motion Plus game (as opposed to collection of mini games like Wii Sports Resort) is Red Steel 2 which is a lot of fun, but too short, w/ only Challenge Mode after beating the game).
That said, IR pointing games are fun and I've enjoyed:
Red Steel 2
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (doing attacks by moving the Wii Remote is engaging)
The Conduit
Link's Crossbow Training
Metroid Prime Trilogy
Typical button-mashing games don't interest me --- I spend too much time at work sitting.
Looking forward to
There's Zangeki no Reginleiv but not even NoE is bringing that one to the West. It doesn't use the M+ all that much (mostly relies on IR but the M+ keeps it more accurate when the cursor goes off-screen) but it's clearly a game that wouldn't work as well with any other input device. You pretty much draw lines on the screen that your attack goes along but those lines only draw when you're moving the controller quickly. Also it goes pretty silly with its weapon ranges (a sword can cut stuff at 20 meters range
Skyward Sword doesn't come out in the U.S. until Sunday, and not until next week for Japan and Australia.)
What is this madness? Perhaps I started gaming in the 90s, but I always thought that games were released in the country they were made first, then either America or Japan (whichever one didn't make it), then Europe a month or three later (and then Australia gets a new game whenever there's a chilly breeze in hell). Has Nintendo moved their HQ and developers to Europe without me noticing?
Hardcore Nintendo games tend to go to Japan first, then Europe, then not to America at all. It's a trend that I IGN wrote an article on not too long back. My how times have changed, eh?
Makes a bit of sense from a profit perspective though.
New games in Australia cost about $110 AUD (112USD) whereas games in the US tend to be about $50... I know which I'd sell to for more profit per item.
sure discs might be cheap as chips to manufacture, but storage/distribution etc still cost.
Maybe they just wanted to get the money from the Europeans while it's still worth something.
Basically, Nintendo of Europe is the cool branch nowadays. NoA is primarily concerned with pushing party games. For more evidence, see Xenoblade, The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower, which aren't receiving an American release at all.
True, but there's almost never more than a few days between the various regions' release these days, so I don't think Europe being 'first' really matters. It's only first by a couple of days, not like in the 90s when there could be months apart. Plus with things like Steam/XBLA/other digital distribution, it makes no sense to stagger releases by too much.
It was like that in Australia in the 90s, but these days we get releases of games and movies on the same date as everywhere else usually. A day or two late
You didn't think Twilight Princess was better than Link to the Past?
Back in the Wii Menu 3.x days, Twilight Princess let you install the Homebrew Channel and start Snes9x GX to run the copy of A Link to the Past that you dumped with your Retrode adapter. (In 4.x, the go-to games are the Lego series and Super Smash Bros. Brawl if for some reason you can't use Bannerbomb 4.0, Bannerbomb 4.2, or LetterBomb 4.3.)
Sure you can ride around a huge field but in LttP the world was big without resorting to huge empty spaces. The tile graphics let them put interesting stuff on every screen.
With a few bucks and a decent PC and you can play in HD.
I don't have a compatible Bluetooth chipset (at least, it's not on the compatibility list), and I don't want to rig up my own LEDs or candles or what not, but for about $25 (price of a wireless sensor bar and compatible bluetooth kajigger), I might give Dolphin a shot for Skyward Sword.
With a few bucks and a decent PC and you can play in HD.
So I have a PC and a Wii, and I've letterbombed it to install Homebrew Channel. What software would I need to run on the Wii to copy a game disc to a PC to run it in Dolphin?
A few PC DVD drives are capable of reading the Wii discs, but odds are you don't have one that is.
You need a USB loader channel and either an external hard drive, or a SD card with enough free space to hold the image. Dump the image and physically move it to your PC.
Or you could just download it from someone else who's done the same.
A tutorial that covers all you need (and much more):
http://gwht.wikidot.com/ [wikidot.com]
I worked at target for a while and Target's setup for the Wii tends to look exceptionally fugly. (I'm not sure if that is the effect of component cables.) Though you would think that modern HDTVs would be able to cheaply include some kind of filter to emulate the look of old SDTVs. You can blame SD equipment, but shouldn't you be partially blaming the equipment made to display the SD signal?
"The Legend of Zelda: The Rise of Tim Tebow"
Probably have to be an NFL fan to get it.
Lttp did, and Ocarina did, and Twilight Princess almost did. Just from the demo, I can tell you this game is going to rule all sorts of awesome.
Wind Waker definitely brought that feeling back for me. Especially given the cartoony graphics. Despite its flaws, that game felt amazing.
LttP or OoT probably would have, except I didn't play them until a long time after they came out (OoT on Gamecube and LttP on Wii Virtual Console).
Give it up. A new Zelda game will never recreate that experience of firing up The Legend of Zelda on your NES for the first time when you were 10 years-old.
Perhaps not, but then again no new games can reproduce the nostalgic effects of a 25 year old game, however good they may be. Having said that, classics do have to start somewhere. Give it time and it just may become the next A Link To The Past...or Twilight Princess.
That's definitely true. But maybe that's not what the adults who are interested in this game are looking for. Perhaps, they're hoping a feeling similar to jumping on the horse and riding through the plains the first time in Ocarina of Time at age 17. Or, maybe they just like to play any game that's good, and this game is likely to be good.
It's sad we live in a world where people feel the need to drag others down. In a world teetering on the edge of a double-dip recession, where most 1st world households are
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Xenoblade is great but isn't the jury still out on Last Story and especially Pandora's Tower?
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I picked up a copy yesterday and started it last night. Verdict so far? It's ok - pretty good. Heading for a 7/10 or 8/10 kind of score.
It's difficult stepping back to Wii level graphics these days. I didn't notice the difference so much early in the console cycle, but Wii games really do look very grim indeed next to anything else around. The artwork goes some way to compensating - it's very good in places. That said, it doesn't have the really strong visual style we've seen from other games over the last few years; Ratchet & Clank, Gears of War, Dark Souls, Mirror's Edge etc have all carved out really distinctive art styles - and have done so on better hardware. Even on the Wii, Xenoblade Chronicles has had more visual impact. There's just a bit too much "generic fantasy" around Skyward Sword (which is a criticism that can be levelled at a lot of the recent Final Fantasy spin-offs from Square-Enix).
The controls are undoubtedly better than Twilight Princess. There are occasional issues with the motion sensing refusing to register an attack at all, but they're the exception rather than the norm now. That said, I know this is a point about the Wii in general, rather than this game in particular, but I remain unconvinced that motion controls really add as much immersion as they were supposed to. There's that same "lack of connection" feeling that has always undermined motion gaming, be it on the Wii, PS Move or Kinect.
To be honest, if Zelda has one really, overwhelmingly huge problem, it's called "Dark Souls". I know that stylistically, the games are worlds apart (Zelda being a bright, colourful fantasy, while Dark Souls shares its palette with the original Quake) - but they are very similar in gameplay style - the same mix of exploration, combat, back-tracking and problem solving. And in every respect, Dark Souls is infinitely superior; not just to Skyward Sword, but to pretty much everything else in the genre. It's a pity that the reviews focussed so much on the difficulty (insanely hard though it is), because there is a supremely awesome game in there as well - and one that took me 79 hours to beat. The game's melee combat sets the new standard for this genre, with a real and distinctive sense of weight and mass to every weapon. After that, a bit of Wii-mote waggling, even with the Plus enhancements, just feels a bit limp.
Sorry, the text above is more negative than intended. This is a fun game. It's not kept up with the competition, but if you haven't played the competition yet, that might not matter to you.
Amen to that...Dark Souls is my personal Game of The Year, put close to 65 hours into this game and it never got boring!
Uncharted 3 und Skyrim were okay, but Dark Souls really delivered this year!
It has however leap-frogged the competition in the one area which matters to me, gameplay / controls.
I've had my fill of sitting and mashing buttons.
I'm hoping to enjoy Skyward Sword until someone creates an open-ended RPG w/ full character creation / customization (a wider variety of weapons would be a nice bonus) and a persistent on-line environment that has motion controls as good as or better than Skyward Sword.
Erm... really, no. My whole point was that in terms of gameplay and control, Skyward Sword has fallen behind the competition.
The biggest competition this year in this genre is Dark Souls. Not the only competition, but certainly the one that needs to be reflected upon. In terms of fish in the pond, Dark Souls is the huge, great genre-redefining megalodon.
And believe me, Dark Souls is not about button-mashing. Button mash and die. In fact, die anyway, whether you button mash or not. But if you don't button ma
I find the Wii Motion Plus controls to have precise controls, and I _don't_ want control reduced to just pushing buttons and I _do_ like standing and swinging the Wii Remote, or manipulating it to pretend to use a bow (when I can't get to the range to shoot).
The Dark Souls controls seem to not be universally praised, ``Dark Souls wants you to deal with its awkward controls.'' and reduce to just button-mashing, ``Lock on is handled with R3, you have two main attacks (light and heavy) mapped to R1 and R2 (or
Dark Souls controls are awkward in two areas - the button combos needed for kick attacks/forward leap attacks and the lock-on controls. The latter have, allegedly, been fixed in a patch that released today.
And no, honestly, no, it is not button mashing. Seriously. Watch some basic gameplay videos. Each attack takes a long time - even with a fairly fast 1 handed weapon. If you launch even 1 attack more than you ought to against most of the game's enemies, they will punish you for it brutally (instant death i
I think we mean different things by ``button-mashing'' --- to me it's any activity which happens when one presses a button, to you, I believe that it's wildly pressing a button, and Dark Souls isn't button-mashing since it requires strategizing and planning of which button to press when. I want motion controls. I want to stand and pretend to use weapons (and practice using weapons which I do use --- Wii Sports Resort's archery has actually helped me improve my focus when using my recurve and horse bows) ---
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With the exception of MIL liking her bacon extra extra crispy (which would have burned the jalapenos and melted the cream cheese now that I think about it), I cook everything somewhere in the middle. I prefer not to salt a lot of foods if I can avoid it, but I don't get offended when people ask for the salt either. I cook chicken and pork well, but not burnt. I guess there's not really a way to ask MIL to not burn her chicken or pork or to not add salt to everything?
I cook things how I like to eat them. I like my pork and chicken cooked through but I try not to overcook them. I like my beef still pink in the centre but if it is a roast, there should be lots of outside bits that are more cooked for those who prefer it that way. If it is steaks, it is easy enough to throw one on a little sooner for those who like well done.So I will try to tailor a little bit to my guests. But I won't serve something I feel is unsafe, like a rare burger. If I had a friend who wanted their burger that way, I wouldn't ever serve burgers again if that friend was coming over.
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SIOUX CITY (AP) — Feeding deer and wild turkeys in Sioux City will be illegal starting this weekend.
The city council gave final approval Monday to a ban on feeding the animals, a move aimed at reducing traffic accidents and damage to plants caused by wild animals, the Sioux City Journal reported. The ordinance takes effect Saturday.
Residents still will be able to feed birds and squirrels and plant flowers and trees that provide food for turkeys and deer. But those caught feeding turkeys and deer will be cited with a municipal infraction that carries a $65 fine or be charged with a simple misdemeanor carrying a fine of up to $100 on a conviction.
The city will work with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources on a deer management plan.
The council considered a similar ban in 2010 but backed off after a number of people said they wanted to feed the animals. The council's vote on Monday was 4-1 in favor of the ban.
"The city is not a farm," Councilwoman Rhonda Capron said.
Councilman Keith Radig voted against the ban, saying he thinks it will be difficult to enforce. He also said there are at least 100 licenses that still can be issued by the state for bow hunters to kill deer in the city.
Bev Hinds told the newspaper that the council's action is the first step to be proactive in culling the deer, which can transmit Lyme disease.
"My backyard looks like a barnyard," Hinds said. "I have a doe and two fawns in my backyard."
Sheryl McGowan said she wants something done to reduce the herds of deer in her neighborhood.
"They keep breeding," she said. "I don't see this being the solution, but we shall see."
At least two other Iowa cities have banned feeding deer: Polk City near Des Moines and Elkader in northeast Iowa.


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Before summer rears its hot, humid head, there are some winter dishes I'm not ready to bid adieu. While strolling the market a few months ago, I happened upon a pile of onions. Actually, it was more like tripped over them. Anyone who's spent a winter season in the northeast knows January is the land of root vegetables and tubers.
On this particular trip I was looking for some savory tart inspiration, and the onions set off a light bulb. What if I could capture the flavor of a hearty, French onion soup, complete with the gooey, golden cheese-laced top. I went home, a sack of onions and fresh thyme in hand. A pit stop once I emerged from the train yielded a chunk of gruyere cheese. All of the other ingredients were in the pantry at home.
Well, that tart has gotten me into a bit of trouble now. See, I'm smitten with it, and the thought of saying goodbye is almost too hard to bear. Luckily it's a nice compromise for the warmer weather on the horizon. Served with a salad, it makes for an oddly light meal. The flavor is intense, yet you don't feel weighed down the way one would after eating a crock of traditional French onion soup.
And if you're worried about heating up an already hot house as the temperatures outside rise, then take comfort in knowing it reheats amazingly well. Make this tart at night when the weather is cooler, and you'll be more than eager to wake the next morning, knowing what's in store for dinner.
French Onion Tart
Serves 6 to 8
For the filling:
1 to 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 pounds yellow onions, peeled & sliced thin
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
1 large egg, lightly beaten
2 sprigs of fresh thyme, leaves removed & stems discarded
1 teaspoon sherry vinegar
2 ounces Swiss cheese, shredded
For the Swiss cheese crust:
3/4 cup (110 grams) whole wheat pastry flour
1/4 teaspoon (2 grams) fine sea salt
1/4 teaspoon hot paprika
1 cup (3 ounces) Swiss cheese, shredded
4 tablespoons (2 ounces) very cold butter, shredded using a box grater
1 to 2 tablespoons cold seltzer
- To make the filling, heat the olive oil in a heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat. Add the onions and saute for 2 minutes. Cover pot, reduce heat as low as it can go without shutting off, and let cook until onions have cooked down and released a lot of their liquid, about 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the crust. Add the flour, salt, and paprika to the bowl of a food processor. Pulse once or twice to mix the dry ingredients. Add the cheese and butter, then pulse a few times until it forms a sandy-looking mixture. Add 1 tablespoon of seltzer, pulse again until a rough ball of dough comes together. If the mixture is too dry and crumbly, add more seltzer 1 teaspoon at a time (you may not need the entire 2 tablespoons), and continue to pulse until you have a ball of dough. Turn the dough out onto an unfloured counter, flatten and shape into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 400ºF.
- Remove cover from the pot of onions, raise heat to medium, add the thyme and season with salt and pepper. Let the onions cook, stirring occasionally to scrape the browned bits from the bottom of the pot, until onions turn golden brown, about 30 to 35 minutes. When onions are golden and very tender, stir in the sherry vinegar. Remove from heat and, using a slotted spoon, transfer onions to a medium bowl.
- Place the chilled dough between two sheets of parchment paper, and roll it into a 13-inch circle. Fit dough into a 9-inch ungreased springform pan. Fold down sides of dough, leaving a 1-inch high crust.
- Add the egg and cheese to the bowl with the onions. Stir to mix well. Pour the filling into the pan and spread to the edges using a rubber spatula. Bake for 25 minutes, until slightly puffed and golden. Remove from oven and let cool for 5 to 10 minutes before slicing.


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Today is a big important day in the lives of Leaving Cert students around the country.
For many, the results they received this morning will set them on a course and help shape the rest of their lives. Others will face hard choices and a re-evaluation of what it is they intend do next. Whatever they have achieved, they must all be congratulated and supported as they choose the path ahead.
But today is an important day too for many others. For those who work in the area of educational policy, curriculum design, scientific research, commercial IT and more, the achievements of the class of 2013 in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects will be keenly analysed. For many of the 56,000 students who venture out into the world today could be the key scientific and technological leaders of tomorrow.
So what do the results show? Well, let's start with the good news.
In Maths, the number of students taking higher level is up considerably. In response to the introduction of 25 bonus points for opting for the higher paper, the numbers taking it have increased dramatically, up 58 per cent over the past two years. This year alone, 1,883 pupils or 17% transferred up to the higher level syllabus. Unequivocally, that is to be welcomed.
Drill down a bit deeper though, and the picture isn't quite so rosy. The numbers achieving an honour in higher level Maths is down more than 10%. The failure rate rose slightly from 2.3% last year to 3.4% this year. The obvious implication is that a significant proportion of the 2,000 extra students who took the higher level paper this year were borderline A or B Ordinary level students. Some of them were capable of achieving a pass or low honour at higher level, others were clearly not.
The Department of Education says this is to be expected, and is predictably focusing more on the positive numbers taking the Higher paper and the 96% pass rate. The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment agrees and says those who took the Higher paper and passed will be better placed for third level courses that have a maths component. However, the Irish Maths Teachers Association (IMTA) cautions that in future, students will have to listen more carefully to the advice of their teachers when it comes to choosing the level they sit.
Then there is the question of the success or otherwise of Project Maths – the new syllabus designed to teach students maths through real world applications. This year a large portion of the questions, but not all, were Project Maths based. Next year will be the first year where the entire exam is based on the new system.
The IMTA says the new syllabus is still bedding down and teachers who have been teaching the old curriculum for 25 or 30 years need a little more time to adjust. Because of the introduction of bonus points for Higher level maths, it isn't entirely clear what effect Project Maths alone is having. It may be partly responsible for more students taking the higher paper. But what is clear is that at Ordinary level a large proportion are still struggling. Almost 10% failed the ordinary level paper, which is high in the context of a subject that is so fundamental to success in so many careers.
According to the NCCA, now that the updating of the Maths curriculum is coming to an end, the challenge for the future is to support the students who are struggling with the subject. That starts at primary level, the NCCA says. Maths teachers, on the other hand, will inevitably point to the ever growing scarcity of resources in the classroom and devoted to in-service training.
In many ways, the lessons learned from the Maths experience, could and should be applied to the Sciences. The positive news this year is that more students took Science subjects and demand for college Science courses remains high. But so too is the failure rate at both higher and ordinary level in the sciences. 8.1% failed higher level Chemistry, and a whopping 18.2% failed ordinary. 7% failed higher level Physics and 9.3% the ordinary level paper. 8% failed the Biology higher level paper, and 13% the ordinary. The gender gap also remains apparent in certain science subjects, like Physics where boys outnumber girls by more than 3:1.
The NCCA says the increased number of students taking science subjects is a reflection of the work done across government to encourage students into these courses. But it admits that while the attitude towards the sciences has improved, like in Maths the challenge now is to support the students who are taking the subjects. In that regard, there are changes promised in the science curricula, which the NCCA says will modernise them and make them more attractive.
The "Eureka" moment in Irish STEM education has not yet been reached. But perhaps today we are one step closer.


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DPLM Faculty Profiles — Dr. Maygarden
Susan J. Maygarden, MD
Associate Director, Residency Training Program
Office: 984-974-9150
Research Interests
My research interests include role of growth regulatory factors in prostatic carcinoma and clinicopathologic applications of fine needle aspiration cytology.
Selected Publications
Tang W, Harmon P, Gulley ML, Mwansambo C, Kazembe PN, Martinson F, Wokocha C, Kenney SC, Hoffman I, Sigel C, Maygarden S, Hoffman M, Shores C. Viral response to chemotherapy in endemic Burkitt lymphoma. Clin Cancer Res. 2010 April 1:16(7), 2055-64.
Singh SS, Mehedint DC, Ford OH 3rd, Jeyaraj DA, Pop EA, Maygarden SJ, Ivanova A, Chandrasekhar R, Wilding GE, Mohler JL Comparison of ACINUS, caspase-3 and TUNEL as apoptotic markers I determination of tumor growth rates of clinically localized prostate cancer using image analysis. Prostate. 2009 Nov 1;69(15):1603-10.
Waugh MS, Guy CD, Maygarden SJ, Livasy CA, Jones CK, Volmar KE. Use of the ThinPrep method in bile duct brushings: analysis of morphologic parameters associated with malignancy and determination of interobserver reliability. Diagn Cytopathol. 2008 Sep;36(9):651-6.
Singh SS, Mehedint DE, Ford OH, Maygarden SJ, Ruiz B, Mohler JL. Feasibility of constructing tissue microarrays from diagnostic prostate biopsies. Prostate. 2007 Jul 1;67(10):1011-8.
McLaughlin S, Shephard J, Wallen E, Maygarden S, Carson CC, Pruthi RS. Comparison of the clinical and pathologic staging in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for bladder cancer. Int Braz J Urol. 2007 Jan-Feb;33(1):25-31.
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O'Reilly Policy on Re-Use of Code Examples from Books
Bruce Epstein, author of Director in a Nutshell (out of print) and Lingo in a Nutshell, who is now working as a part-time editor for O'Reilly (he is editor of Colin Moock's recently published ActionScript: The Definitive Guide) sent in the following question:
"What is our policy with regard to programmers incorporating code examples from books into their work? I get asked this all the time."
The short answer is this:
You can use and redistribute example code from our books for any non-commercial purpose (and most commercial purposes) as long as you acknowledge their source and authorship. The source of the code should be noted in any documentation as well as in the program code itself (as a comment). The attribution should include author, title, publisher, and ISBN.
As is often the case, there's a longer answer as well. Bruce made it really easy for me to put this response together, since he forwarded an unofficial reply on this subject that he'd sent to the FlashCoders mailing list. What appears below is based on his message. (Hey, anyone else who wants to send the answer as well as the question to Ask Tim can make my job a lot easier :-) Thanks, Bruce.)
As per the copyright notice in our books, O'Reilly reserves all rights to the material in the book, including the code examples. This literally means that you can use the example code all you like, but you can't publish or redistribute it without our permission. In reality, we are comfortable with any reasonable "fair use" of the code, and you can assume permission is granted without contacting us. The threshold of what is reasonable (fair use) depends on a number of factors. First, if the book is published under an open source or open publication license, you can use the code examples without any obligation to us. Otherwise, use the following sanity tests:
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Acknowledging the source is particularly important. Bruce didn't mention this in his posting to FlashCoders, but I know that he personally was bit by this one. Someone was routinely answering Lingo questions on a mailing list by supplying examples from Bruce's book, without acknowledging the source (and leading people to believe that the poster had written them).
We put the code from our books online because we want it to be used. (Who wants to type it in?) That's why we make it available in lots of ways: for download from the Web (all examples are linked from the book's catalog page on oreilly.com), in our CD Bookshelf products, and in our new Safari online service.
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Diame the difference
As part of our Premier League snap-shots series, Rob Parrish looks back on West Ham's 3-1 victory over Chelsea at Upton Park.
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Last Updated: 01/12/12 4:08pm
Rafael Benitez must have felt his Chelsea side had turned the corner after an impressive opening 45 minutes against West Ham in which they completely dominated.
Juan Mata scored the opening goal of his tenure on 13 minutes and there could have been more had it not been for a combination of excellent goalkeeping, poor decision making and wayward finishing.
But the Hammers were transformed after the interval, with the introduction of midfield powerhouse Mohamed Diame totally changing the momentum, with the Blues forced onto the back foot and left to limp back across London with their tails between their legs.
West Ham were hit with a major blow before the clash with Andy Carroll ruled out by a knee injury that is expected to keep him out for between six to eight weeks, with Carlton Cole brought in to start against his former club. Sam Allardyce also included Mark Noble following his recent suspension and Gary O'Neil was also drafted into the starting XI.
Benitez rang the changes again as he dropped Oscar to the bench and recalled Mata and Victor Moses following the drab 0-0 draw with Fulham at Stamford Bridge in midweek. Centre-back Gary Cahill also made his first start under interim manager Benitez, with David Luiz serving a one-match ban after picking up five bookings this season.
The Hammers started the game with a 4-2-3-1 formation with Noble and James Tomkins as the defensive midfield duo, but the hosts struggled badly before the interval and forced Allardyce into a double switch at the break. The introduction of Diame and Matt Taylor swung the game in West Ham's favour with the France-born midfielder the catalyst for the home side's recovery.
Chelsea also began the day with the 4-2-3-1 line-up they have favoured under both former boss Roberto Di Matteo and now Benitez. Fernando Torres remains the focal point in attack despite his continued struggles, with Mata, Moses and Eden Hazard - who had a very quiet afternoon - tasked with creating opportunities. All looked to be going to plan until the break.
Allardyce had seen his side overrun before the break and needed to take action at the interval. He withdrew Tomkins and O'Neil and thrust Diame and Matt Taylor into the fray. The impact was immediate, with West Ham pressing and pressuring Chelsea and getting their rewards. Modibo Maiga came on for Carlton Cole moments after West Ham took the lead and he helped himself to the third.
Neither of Benitez's substitutions produced the desired effect. Belgium international Hazard had rarely threatened before his number came up, with Oscar joining the fray in the 73rd minute, but the Brazilian could not impose himself on the contest. Moses' withdrawal sparked bemusement from some members of the travelling fans as Marko Marin replaced him in the 78th minute with the score at 1-1.
Martin Atkinson was inconsistent with many of his decisions and managed to infuriate both sets of players and supporters. The official penalised James Collins for climbing on Branislav Ivanovic seconds before Kevin Nolan found the net in the first half but then saw nothing wrong with Cole clambering all over the same player prior to his leveller. Atkinson also ignored Chelsea appeals for a penalty in the 71st minute when Moses went down on the edge of the box following Taylor's challenge.
Main men
Diame may have only been on the pitch for 45 minutes but he was named man of the match by our reporter Jack Woodfield. Allardyce turned to the midfielder for more bite, drive and direction and received all three and more. Chelsea's first-half threat was nullified and the former Wigan midfielder capped his display with a goal which set the Hammers on course for victory.
Mata was running the show for Chelsea in the first half having been restored to the starting line-up after being rested against Fulham in midweek. He opened the scoring and was at the heart of all Chelsea's good work with the Blues unlucky to be only 1-0 up at the break. He struck the woodwork with an excellent free kick after the interval, but was subdued by the introduction of Diame.
Looking ahead
Victory over Chelsea was just the fillip West Ham required after a three-game winless run and the news of Carroll's injury which will keep him out until next year. With Liverpool, West Brom, Everton and Arsenal next on the agenda, Allardyce will have been delighted to see his side claim three crucial points amid a testing run of top-flight fixtures.
Quite where Benitez and Chelsea go from here is anyone's guess. The former Liverpool boss has found himself berated by his own supporters, has claimed just two points from his first three games in charge with only one goal scored in 270 minutes of football. They now face a make-or-break week in the UEFA Champions League where a group stage exit would only add to the Spaniard's woes.


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The outlook for new jobs created in West Virginia as a result of booming natural gas production from the Marcellus formation is, as many sources have pointed out, "hopeful."
The prospect of more than 50,000 jobs over the next 20 years and annual tax revenues pushing $1 billion offers great hope for Mountaineers.
Factor in the additional employment and revenues provided by oil production in West Virginia and the future looks even brighter.
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But along with optimism there is a harsh reality to be accounted for and that is politicians' tendency to adopt policies, enact laws and impose regulatory regimes that do more to harm the energy industry than assure the welfare of society.
In a recent report by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, energy expert Mark Mills writes with a national perspective: "Expanding production and encouraging exports will jumpstart great swaths of our economy, help our balance of trade, and put millions on the payroll."
The boom in oil and gas drilling is reshaping the nation's economy. West Virginia's oil and natural gas producers rightfully own a share of that future, but for them to be successful, they have to know that their government isn't working against them.
Consider exports. With the outlook for increasing natural gas production all across the country making the United States self-sufficient, producers welcome the development of a robust LNG export capability to help assure markets for their output.
Washington, however, seems to be resistant. Well over a dozen requests for licenses to export LNG are bottled up in the Department of Energy because the countries that would get the gas don't have free-trade agreements with the United States. And the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden, has urged the Obama Administration to restrict LNG exports.
The bulk of oil and gas operations in West Virginia are carried on by small and mid-size businesses, which are the state's main job creators. They also are exactly the kinds of enterprises most hard-hit by mandates from Washington such as Obamacare and misguided tax policies. As an example, the Administration's long-lived insistence on higher taxes on incomes over $200,000-since raised to $400,000-also would have hit hardest on small business job creators.
In the area of regulation, we can't ignore the fact that the Obama administration has a panel of 14 agencies examining how the government might impose additional federal regulations on the use of hydraulic fracturing in oil and gas production on top of state regulations.
The two recent movies about "fracking" lack balance and regard for facts and were produced to incite fear in the populace and their elected representatives. Fear of the unknown or of the "made up" is no way to govern or regulate.
West Virginia's oil and gas producers are responsible corporate citizens who do not resist reasonable regulation to protect health and the environment. And in fact, that's exactly what the state's regulations are doing.
During the presidential campaign, President Obama talked about utilizing all energy forms-"all of the above" as he put it. But as one observer said recently, that seems to translate as "all from above" and none from below the surface.
There's no getting around the fact that what happens in Washington affects our energy industry in West Virginia. William O'Keefe, CEO of the George C. Marshall Institute in Washington, recently wrote "Unless the White House adopts a different model going forward, we are likely to see an economy that underperforms because of uncertainty by the private sector, excessive regulatory burdens, and hostility toward fossil energy." So we need to be vigilant.
West Virginia is not alone in the struggle for reason in government oversight of the nation's natural resources. All the states that produce oil and natural gas share these concerns. But for us, responsible development of our energy resources is especially important to our economic wellbeing.
In the past, our state economy also has relied heavily on the third fossil fuel-coal-which has taken a beating in Washington.
It is doubly important that the hope for the future that derives from oil and gas operations not be dimmed by unsound or irrational political decisions.


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Philosophy is the rational investigation of fundamental problems of human life, knowledge, values and reasoning.
In order to do philosophy well, one must have a high level of reading comprehension, clarity of thought and good communication skills, both oral and written. Put simply, then, philosophy teaches one how to read, think, speak and write well. These skills are fundamental to all intellectual endeavors. It's no coincidence that some of history's greatest scientists, theologians and artists were also philosophers.
Because the study of philosophy teaches students to think logically, critically and ethically, philosophy majors are well prepared to pursue any number of challenging careers. The cognitive skills learned as a philosophy major are important in any number of professions such as:
Philosophy graduates are well prepared to seek graduate training in law, philosophy, theology, politics, computer science, social science teaching, medicine, business and other areas.


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The nature of this thread was to feel out everyone's thoughts on what Tebow's value will be. I would like to trade him, rather than just cut him, and I think there will be a couple of retarded teams that will want him. The reason I'm throwing Flynn and Cousins names out there is because the Jets will absolutely bring in some competition for Sanchez, as they should.
if the question is; can the Jets get a draft pick for Tebow? I would say no based on how little he was used - teams will assume he will be released and wait, so why delay the inevitable
He'll be dealt to Jacksonville for a conditional 7th round pick or he'll be given his outright release.
I think BB would be very interested in Tebow. This is a guy who can be your 3rd QB, 5th RB, 4th TE/H-back, and contribute on ST. He could run your scout team practices when the schedule has you playing the panthers, Skins, 49ers, seahawks etc. i think he could be a very valuable 53rd man.
BB would not be interested if he just wants to play QB


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July 29, 2012
Celtic Orient Express Racing's James Rispoli started Saturday's AMA Pro Road Racing SuperSport race from fifth on the grid and nailed the hole-shot to lead the 45 rider field. James would do battle at the front of the field the entire race with Hayden Gillim, with Rispoli riding his #1 Suzuki GSX-R 600 defensively every lap. The battle between Rispoli and Gillim was intense, with neither rider allowing a gap. Gillim managed a last lap pass in turn five and led Rispoli to the final corner, but a small mistake by Gillim allowed Rispoli to power past and take the race victory at the finish line by 0.036"! Corey Alexander started the race from second on the grid after a great qualifying session, and was pleased to be back on the front row for the start. Alexander showed good speed and consistency all weekend aboard his #5 National Guard Fairhills Group Suzuki GSX-R 600. Corey battled with a three rider pack most of the race and would finish fifth, just 2.7" behind third place - a good ride with solid results.
Rispoli's win on Saturday is his fifth win of the year, and serves to cement his 2012 AMA Pro Motorcycle Superstore.com SuperSport West Championship with a 60 point lead over second place, and 279 points total. Just one West series event remains, the season finale at NOLA Motorsports Park in October. Alexander remains fifth in the 2012 AMA Pro Motorcycle-Superstore.com SuperSport East Championship with 106 points and six races remaining at the final three rounds of the series. The Celtic Racing team heads to New Jersey Motorsports Park for the next race, September 7-9th, on another tight 2.2 mile circuit.
James Rispoli was thrilled to notch another race win, and really enjoyed the battle with Gillim, saying that "the race was so sweet! I went around the outside just like JP [Jason Pridmore] told me. I had no problem leading most of the laps, but I knew Hayden had a little corner speed on me in some spots. I knew I had good braking and good drives to keep the gap all race, and my K-Tech Suspension was working awesome. When he tried to pass midway in the race I quickly passed him back under braking in the corkscrew. When the last lap came I rode defensively into the second corner and he passed me in turn five, so I stuck on him hard, and he went a little wide in the last corner. That little mistake let me get the best drive and I out-drove him to the line. I'm so happy to be at the Laguna MotoGP weekend and win my fifth race this year. By far the best win of my career, many thanks to the team for a great bike, and to all my sponsors, AGV Helmets, Dainese Leathers, Monster Energy, and Techmount!"
Corey Alexander has regained form as the season has progressed, and his results are improving steadily. Alexander stated that "right away I felt really comfortable on my National Guard Fairhills Group Suzuki GSX-R 600, my crew gave me a great bike right out of the truck. We were fast in practice and ended up second in qualifying. It was exciting to be up at the top of the charts again. The race went well, but after a few mistakes we lost touch with the top three which was unfortunate as I was expecting to bring home a better result. We have a long break now and I plan to keep riding intensely -- a lot of motocross and if, possible do a bit of a road racing. I'm excited for our home race at Jersey so it should be exciting." Corey would like to thank all his personal sponsors for their support, including Arai Helmets, Fairhills Group, Hudson Valley Motorcycles, Spidi Leathers, and XPD Boots.
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Approximately 14 hours after leaving the ice from a 7-1 blowout loss at the hands of the Texas Stars, Charlotte returned the favor by way of a 6-1 win in a noon rematch at Time Warner Cable Arena. Aaron Palushaj led the way with two goals as the Checkers held the league's best offensive team, one that had won each of its last four games, to one goal on 24 shots.
Justin Shugg, Zach Boychuk, Philippe Cornet and Victor Rask also scored for the Checkers, whose six goals were the most they had scored since an 8-2 win over Milwaukee on Feb. 16 of last season. Texas, their West Division rival, has lost only two of its last nine games, both at the hands of Charotte.
"We responded in the right way," said coach Jeff Daniels. "Obviously last night was disappointing, but we couldn't dwell on it because 12 o'clock was going to come early. Right from the get-go we were ready to play, got some big goals early to give us some life and just carried it throughout the game."
With their season officially halfway over as they get set to conclude a three-in-three set against Norfolk Sunday evening, the Checkers sit at 18-19-1 with another chance to get back to the .500 mark for the first time since Nov. 7.
Saturday's game was actually the second in a row in which the Checkers got off to a good start as they had led 14-6 in shots before allowing Texas to score three goals before the end of Friday's first period. This time they made their opportunities count with three first-period goals of their own to chase goalie Cristopher Nilstorp from the game.
After Shugg got things going as he had time to line up his shot from the slot, Palushaj scored twice in just under three minutes, first splitting the defense to finish from a sharp angle and then on a highlight-reel, breakaway deke on an excellent home-run pass from Greg Nemisz.
With the goals, Palushaj has seven points (4g, 3a) over an active four-game point streak and 22 points (7g, 14a) in his last 15 games overall.
"I think (our line) is playing hard, we're getting chances and I capitalized on a couple tonight," said Palushaj, who lined up alongside Brody Sutter and Nemisz, the latter of whom returned from injury just in time to replace the injured Nicolas Blanchard on Friday. "We've just got to keep playing hard and keep going."
"He's feeling good about his game," said Daniels of Palushaj, who extended his team scoring lead with 35 points in 38 games. "The biggest thing is he's skating. He's making plays, he's finishing plays and he's involved. He's playing a simpler game and not trying to complicate things, taking what's given and not forcing plays."
Before the first period had ended, Curtis McKenzie made it 3-1 on the strangest goal against the Checkers this season, as his high flip from the neutral zone hit John Muse's outstretched glove and fell into the net. It initially seemed as though that might be the spark needed to awake the sleeping Stars, who finished the first and started the second with more scoring chances than they had previously, but the Checkers kept control, dominating the rest of the game.
The goals kept coming in the second period when Boychuk caught speed coming down the left wing and handcuffed goalie Josh Robinson and when Cornet knocked home a rebound of Matthew Pistilli's attempted stuff chance from the side of the net. The Checkers could have had even more goals if not for sharp saves by Robinson down the stretch.
"We could have easily had eight or nine," said Boychuk, who took sole possession of the team lead with his 15th goal. "We had some breakaways and bunch of chances in the second in the third. It was nice to get a few and hopefully we can do the same tomorrow."
Boychuk, who tied Palushaj with a team-high five shots on goal, had several of the Checkers' best scoring chances, including two unsuccessful breakaway chances in the third period.
"I've got to work on those breakaways, I guess," said Boychuk, who has scored many of his 96 career AHL goals in that manner. "(Daniels) told me that maybe next time I should just turn up and try to find somebody late or maybe just dump it in the corner. We'll figure something out."
Rask sealed the victory with 48 seconds remaining for his second goal in four games since ending a 24-game drought last week.
The Checkers now get a little over 24 hours off – a nice break compared to the one between games against Texas – before attempting to beat Norfolk for the third time in as many tries on home ice this season.
If they've learned anything from the last few days, it's that their next game will bring a clean slate, though a little restored confidence won't hurt.
"I think we're just hitting our stride," said Boychuk. "Obviously yesterday was a bit of a setback but we answered back with a huge win today. We want to get to that point where we're in playoff contention and every game can mean something in the second half of the season."


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China likely hit the bottom of a seven-quarter long economic downturn between July and last month, but the slowest three months of growth since the depths of the financial crisis and a cloudy housing market outlook make recovery prospects tepid.
GDP grew 7.4 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, in line with forecasts of economists polled by Reuters who expected the first miss of the official target since Q1 2009's 6.5 percent.
Industrial production, retail sales and investment data were all slightly ahead of forecasts, however, and quarter-on-quarter GDP growth was strong, suggesting the worst may be over and the world's No.2 economy will pick up in the final quarter — as a once-a-decade leadership transition gets under way in Beijing.
"Those fearing a hard landing will be able to sleep a little better tonight, but those positioned for a clear recovery might be disappointed," Alistair Thornton, senior China economist at IHS Global Insight, wrote in a client note. "The picture is one of emerging stabilization, not the return of unbridled optimism."
Annual economic growth in the first nine months of the year was 7.7 percent, down slightly from a 7.8 percent rate in the first half of the year, but the NBS insisted China would meet or exceed the government's official target for this year of 7.5 percent.
"We have 7.7 percent growth in September, which laid a solid foundation for achieving the full-year growth target. So we are confident that we can achieve 7.5 percent full-year growth or above," NBS spokesman Sheng Laiyun (盛來運) told a news conference.
While GDP growth at 7.4 percent would be cause for joy in recession-stalked developed economies, it represents a sharp slowdown for China, where GDP grew 9.2 percent last year and has averaged an annual rate around 10 percent for three decades.
Fixed-asset investment rose 20.5 percent in January-September from a year earlier, ahead of the 20.2 percent consensus forecast, although still down from around 25 percent seen for most of last year.
Consumption also quickened, with retail sales last month expanding by 14.2 percent year-on-year, ahead of the 13.2 percent forecast, which would have been unchanged from August.
Growth in factory output came in at 9.2 percent, slightly ahead of both the 9 percent forecast and August's 8.9 percent.
Meanwhile the NBS revised five prior quarters of seasonally adjusted GDP data to show the economy bottomed in the first quarter.
"The quarter-on-quarter data has in the past on many occasions been hard to reconcile and hard to replicate," said Zhang Zhiwei (張智威), chief China economist at Nomura in Hong Kong.
"To me it is a little bit puzzling that Q3 quarter-on-quarter improved so much. I wouldn't read too much into it," he said.
Real-estate investment, which affects 40 other business sectors from cement and steel to furniture, was also an area of uncertainty for economists.
It rose 15.4 percent in the first nine months of this year from a year earlier, slowing from an annual increase of 15.6 percent in January-August.
Meanwhile, land sales growth slowed to 4.9 percent last month from a year earlier, down sharply from August's 20.4 percent, according to Reuters' calculations based on NBS data, and newly started property construction fell 8.6 percent in the first nine months of the year, accelerating the January-August fall of 6.8 percent.


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The Grateful Dead
Acquire some Bread of the Dead and give it to the Cheerful Draenei Spirit in The Exodar's graveyard.
Use an Orange Marigold to see the otherwise invisible spirit.
It's good to visit with friends and family again, though I may have overdone it... I've already eaten everything they made for me!
Might I trouble you for some more of that delicious Bread of the Dead? I'd be most grateful...
Chapman there sells the recipe, I think.
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Identity and our ability to control our own is very much in the zeitgeist,
which goes a long way in explaining why there are two current films built around
the confused search for identity, both adaptations of novels titled "The
The muddled puzzle of "Enemy" has a college professor (Jake Gyllenhaal)
stalking, and then confronted by a man who seems to be an alternate version of
himself. It's based on a book by Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago. "The
Double," the classic take on this question of identity and the madness that
obsessing about it too much can reveal, was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is
the basis of a cerebral thriller starrying Jesse Eisenberg.
For all of both film's surreal touches and stylistic flourishes, "The Double"
is the one that makes more sense.
Eisenberg plays a clerk trapped in a gloomy corporation run by a distant
Colonel (James Fox). Simon James is the sort of nobody that nobody notices —
pushed around, bullied.
"How long you been here, son?" the boss (Wallace Shawn) wants to know. "Just
started, eh?"
"Yes sir. Seven years."
Even the sliding doors, omnipresent in this retro-future of adding machines,
cathode ray tube computer screens and permanently dim lighting, torment Simon.
He's living in a world where nobody knows his name.>
Not even the lovely Hannah, who runs the photocopying room, gives him a
thought. But he thinks about her. She puts a spring in his step, even as he
spies on her in her apartment with his spotting scope, puzzling over the torn
bits of bloody paper left over from the drawings she makes by pricking her
Then the unnoticed Simon is confronted with the very noticeable James
(Eisenberg, too). He is confident where Simon is tentative. James is aggressive
where Simon is nebbishy. Simon would be the only person who realizes they look
exactly alike, but James does, too. The more assertive James begins to offer
life, love and dating advice to Simon. But Simon and we suspect James of more
sinister motives.
"This is NOT me!" Simon protests. But no one listens.
Richard "The IT Crowd" Ayoade, who directed the dark and dense teen romance
"Submarine," concentrates on externals, here. "The Double" looks like science
fiction, a "Dark City" built around a Kafka-esque nightmare of a Dostoevsky
story. Ayoade's background means he plays up the humor inherent in this
scenario, at least partly through casting. Shawn is perfect as a grating boob of
a boss, Sally Hawkins makes a dry, contemptuous receptionist, one of many who
refuse to acknowledge that Simon exists.
But Eisenberg, perfectly, pliably put upon, is the engine that drives this
picture. Simon's inept longing for Hannah, for human connection of any sort,
shows in his hurt eyes. And Eisenberg is just as convincing as James, whose
cocky patter and arrogance seem a natural extension of Eisenberg's turn in "The
Social Network." One guy we fear for, the other we fear.
It's not a great or a deep take on identity, or even that novel as a concept.
Dostoevsky wrote "The Double" in 1846, and the timeless theme is mostly what
resonates here, not the muc- imitated sense of future past that Ayoade & Co.
borrow (see "Brazil"). But as with "Enemy," what's worth the price of admission
is the acting exercise, the subtle wonders of seeing a great talent create two
versions of the same man with just downcast eyes, stooped shoulders and a
difference in walks — one confident, conniving, the other hesitant, just
waiting for that next hurt and humiliation.
MPAA Rating:R for language
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, James Fox, Sally
Credits: Written and directed by Richard Ayoade, based on a novel by Fyodor
Dostoevsky. A Magnolia release.
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A KPL librarian recently asked her colleagues to submit titles of books and movies that have had special meaning for us---inspiration, memory, life impact, whatever. Instantly, I thought of All Mine to Give, a movie I'd seen with my mother in the late fifties when I was about ten years old.
All Mine to Give was the wrenching story of a Scottish pioneer family that settled on the Fox River in central Wisconsin in the 1860's. The beloved father, a logger, and his wife died in close succession, leaving six orphaned children. To keep a promise he made to his dying mother, the oldest son trekked through the snow on Christmas day seeking homes for his siblings among the families in the town. This was a tear-jerker, yet the most uplifting movie I had seen to date.
Alas, KPL did not own the film, and there could be no book because the movie was based on a story my mother had read in a magazine. Somehow I remembered the title, The Day They Gave Babies Away, and I set out to track it down. Before checking any magazine indexes, I keyed the title into the library's catalog. I was shocked to find a matching entry, classified as an essay, written in 1947, 38 pages long. Excited but dubious, I flew down the back stairs of the library in search of 818 E88. The slim volume was dwarfed between two larger books. Inside the re-bound orange cover, the words "overflow storage" were stamped in six places. On the seventh yellowed page, I read, "this essay originally appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine."
At home that evening, in my favorite chair, a cup of tea in hand, I read the story. It was just as I remembered the movie, but until this reading, I had no idea the tale was true. The author, Dale Eunson, wrote the brief family history to memorialize his father, his aunts and uncles and his grandparents.
At Kalamazoo Public Library, staff weed our collections vigorously and responsibly---to remove outdated material, to get rid of worn copies, to keep the collection fresh, to make room for new titles. How and why the library's weeding machine spared this little jewel, which has been checked out just seven times since 1990, I'll never know. I'm a strong advocate for weeding, but this time I'm glad there was clemency!
Coincidentally, All Mine to Give has just been released on DVD as part of a collection of MGM holiday classics. It's now on order for the library. Look for it in January.
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ODU Tops William & Mary, 74-60
By ODU Athletics
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) (Jan. 22) -- Michael Williams scored 18 points and Old Dominion made up for poor second-half shooting by making 21 free throws Saturday as the Monarchs sent William & Mary to its seventh loss in nine games, 74-60.
The Monarchs (8-11, 3-5 Colonial Athletic Association) hit just 5 of 22 field goal attempts in the second half but took advantage of 30 trips to the line to keep the Tribe (7-10, 2-5) from erasing a 16-point half-time deficit.
Scotty Scott's 3-pointer, the third in four possessions for the Tribe, cut the lead to 58-51 with 8:21 left, but the Monarchs countered with a 10-3 run to put the game away.
Andre McCullum added 13 points and eight rebounds for the Monarchs.
Mike Johnson led William and Mary with 12 points.


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Submission + - Porting Aquaria to the PSP (wolfire.com)
Apple Prophet writes: Just a few short weeks after BitBlot released the source to Aquaria as part of the Humble Indie Bundle, Andrew Church hacked up an ambitious homebrew port of the game to the PSP. He wrote a detailed synopsis of the technical challenges in an article on the Wolfire Blog and of course, contributed all of the patches back to the project so anyone with a homebrew-equipped PSP can try it out. Check out the mercurial repository for the source.


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Publications: Hordyk, Adrian
Prince, J.D., Victor, S., Kloulchad, V. and Hordyk, A. (2018) Corrigendum to "Length based SPR assessment of eleven Indo-Pacific coral reef fish populations in Palau" [Fish. Res. 171 (2015) 42–58]. Fisheries Research, In Press .
Jaiteh, V.F., Hordyk, A.R., Braccini, M., Warren, C. and Loneragan, N.R. (2017) Shark finning in eastern Indonesia: assessing the sustainability of a data-poor fishery. ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil, 74 (1). pp. 242-253.
Hordyk, A.R., Ono, K., Prince, J.D. and Walters, C.J. (2016) A simple length-structured model based on life history ratios and incorporating size-dependent selectivity: application to spawning potential ratios for data-poor stocks. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 73 (12). pp. 1787-1799.
Prince, J., Victor, S., Kloulchad, V. and Hordyk, A. (2015) Length based SPR assessment of eleven Indo-Pacific coral reef fish populations in Palau. Fisheries Research, 171 . pp. 42-58.
Prince, J., Hordyk, A., Valencia, S.R., Loneragan, N. and Sainsbury, K. (2015) Revisiting the concept of Beverton -Holt life-history invariants with the aim of informing data-poor fisheries assessment. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72 (1). pp. 194-203.
Hordyk, A., Ono, K., Sainsbury, K., Loneragan, N. and Prince, J. (2015) Some explorations of the life history ratios to describe length composition, spawning-per-recruit, and the spawning potential ratio. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72 (1). pp. 204-216.
Jaiteh, V., Loneragan, N., Hordyk, A. and Warren, C. (2015) What's the catch? Shark fisheries in Eastern Indonesia. In: ASFB Conference, 11 - 14 October, Sydney, Australia.
Hordyk, A.R., Loneragan, N.R. and Prince, J.D. (2015) An evaluation of an iterative harvest strategy for data-poor fisheries using the length-based spawning potential ratio assessment methodology. Fisheries Research, 171 . pp. 20-32.
Hordyk, A., Ono, K., Valencia, S., Loneragan, N. and Prince, J. (2015) A novel length-based empirical estimation method of spawning potential ratio (SPR), and tests of its performance, for small-scale, data-poor fisheries. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72 (1). pp. 217-231.
Hordyk, Adrian (2014) The development and application of a length-based method to estimate the spawning potential ratio in data-poor fish stocks. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.
Hordyk, A. and Prince, J.D. (2013) Extending the principal of Beverton-Holt Life History Invariants for length based assessment of SPR. In: ICES World Conference on Stock Assessment Methods for Sustainable Fisheries (WCSAM 2013), 15 - 16 July, Boston, USA.
Prince, J.D. and Hordyk, A. (2013) Implementing the risk catch cost framework for data poor fisheries. In: ICES World Conference on Stock Assessment Methods for Sustainable Fisheries (WCSAM 2013), 15 - 16 July, Boston, USA.
Hordyk, A., Loneragan, N. and Price, J. (2012) Length-based empirical estimation of SPR for small-scale, data-poor fisheries. In: ASFB & OCS 2012 Joint Conference & Symposium, 15 - 18 July, Adelaide, Australia.
Hordyk, A.R., Loneragan, N.R., Diver, G. and Prince, J.D. (2011) A cost-effective alternative for assessing the size of deep-water fish aggregations. Marine and Freshwater Research, 62 (5). pp. 480-490.
Hordyk, A., Price, J., Kobryn, H., Diver, G. and Loneragan, N. (2009) Understanding the spawning dynamics of orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus, in south-eastern Australia. In: 8th Indo Pacific Fish Conference and 2009 ASFB Workshop and Conference, 31 May - 5 June 2009, Fremantle, Western Australia.


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Kasam 10th March 2016 Written Episode Update
Kasam 10th March 2016 Written Episode, Written Update on TellyUpdates.com
Raaj and Rishi were in the party where Rano was announced as the member of the club. They put on a sash around her neck. Rano got everything translated by a friend before understanding. She comes to Raaj and Rishi and asks how she looks Rishi says fabulous. Raaj goes to welcome Deepam instead. He appreciates Deepam for doing this all his sons. Deepak says but his boss… Raaj didn't listen to anything. Deepak says he own job has been lost. He tells Raaj that Friday means casual day, they all wear casual; boss was in casual. Rishi thought him as a waiter, Rishi asked him to bring a drink for him. Deepak saved it saying Boss doesn't look like boss in this dress. Then in the International conference the video that Raaj's sons played… Boss had asked them to play the video. Rishi got up and said this wasn't
Rishi comes around a girl and says this party is really really boring. A lady says to Rano that her son if flirting with her husband's partner's daughter. Rano was elated. Rishi says to the girl that he has got a lovely room, she would love it. She says he is quite fast. He says he hates those old sentences. The girl agrees.
Tannu and Ahna serve the guests. A lady had brought Tannu's proposal for her son Balbir. Veeru says they all know about Tannu, she must also know that they have fixed Tannu's wedding with Raaj's son Rishi a long time ago. The lady says he lives in America. Veeru says he trusts his friend, his daughter will get married in time. It is a promise from his friend that when Rishi will turn twenty three, he will come back. The lady argued, Veeru stands up saying he will come for sure. He says their house, their phone changed, but not their trust, their promise and their friendship.
The lady says to Tannu that if her father keeps on saying no for each proposal, she must be left behind every one of her age. That boy will never come. Tannu says he will come, she will wait for him.
There, Ahna says to Tannu that there wasn't a single call from them, he must have been coloured in the foreign's colours now. Veeru tells Ahna to stop talking.
In the room, Rishi flirts the girl. She says she loves him, Rishi invites her to bed. All at once he gets some flashback, he has a head ache and fell back on bed. He remembers his childhood and gulps.
Raaj drinks with Luthra that he will now build a million dollar hotel. Luthra asks him to show him his beautiful house. Raaj takes him to show the house. The girl asks Rishi what happened, Rishi says may be they were really fast. The girl takes him. Raaj brings Luthra to Rishi's room. He didn't look at the couch where Rishi and the girl were, but Luthra does. He asks Raaj if he brought him here for this all. Rishi turns around, they both straightens up. Rishi says to Luthra that his daughter is really… Luthra says she isn't his daughter but his wife. Rishi still flirts. The girl accuses Rishi for being forcing her. Raaj advocates Rishi that had he known she is his wife he wouldn't have hold her hand. Luthra punches Rishi on his face. Rishi still flying kissed the girl, Luthra throws his wife's purse on Rishi. Raaj goes behind him.
Rishi has a head ache, he recalls the memories from past and faints on bed. Raaj come into the room and shouts if he is asleep. Rishi doesn't get up, Raaj tries to wake up but he realizes Rishi had fainted. He calls for doctor. The doctor observes Rishi, he opens his eyes to the echo of child Tannu's call. The doctor tells Raaj that someone might have hit his nerve between eye and nose during boxing. It supplies blood to brain and had it broken he could have lost his life. With God's grace he is out of danger. Raaj thanks him for saving his son's life. The doctor leaves. Raaj turns to find Rano there, Rano says the girl had a bad luck. She has many friends who are richest of America. Raaj strictly tells Rano that Rishi has a single girl in his fate, Tannu. Rano asks if he knows his sons, they will never accept that village girl. He says they must go to India as soon as possible. Rano says she doesn't want to go to India. Raaj tells Rano that Rishi has nightmares, he is afraid. She must stop playing games with him. Rano says she won't go to India. Raaj says alright, if Rishi doesn't go to India and marry Tannu he will give his property worth millions to charity. Rano was left silent at all. Rano asks what if he goes to India but doesn't like the girl, then. Raaj says he wants Rishi to give him a chance to say yes or no.
Shanta asks Tannu how she burnt her hand so badly. Ahna says Rishi did this, she was saving a butterfly from fire as if Rishi was felling off. She says only Tannu's hand was burnt in all this. Shanta scolds Ahna. Tannu says a small butterfly could have died, where did Rishi come from. Ahna says Rishi lives all around, he can't come in between. Shanta scolds Ahna. Ahna asks what is the date and when is Rishi's birthday. Tannu says eighteen days. Ahna says she thinks day and night about him, if he doesn't come in the next eighteen days. Tannu says no one can change fate. Shanta seconds him, she comes out lost and asks Veeru if he heard from Raaj. She tells him to write to Raaj. Ahna says she knows about their new address, it is the time of internet. Tannu hears this. Ahna says she got their email id and mailed them already, now either they reply or not atleast her sister's way would get cleared. Tannu smiles. Shanta was worried and wonders what if Rano's dream gets fulfilled.
PRECAP: Tannu says she will not run behind her fate anymore. If Rishi is in her fate he will come to her, else not. Rishi has moved forward in life may be she also does. Rano tells Rishi that he has to go to India and say no to girl. He asks why he should go to India. Rano asks if he wants his father's property? Rishi calls Rano and says he is coming to India just for her. She asks who is it. He says the one she has been waiting for years.
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September 10, 2013 > Celebrate Mexico's independence with a fiesta of music and dance
A fiesta of colorful dancing and vibrant music representing the magnificent variety that Mexican culture has to offer will transform the stage at Ohlone College as Ballet Folklorico Mexicano (BFM) presents a full mariachi band and a lively cast of twirling, spinning dancers. Make this event part of a weekend-long celebration of Mexico's independence by joining us for our season opener on Saturday, September 14.Directed by Carlos Moreno, Ballet Folklorico Mexicano will mesmerize the audience with their intricate footwork, precision and flair with music from Jalisco, Sinaloa, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, and Durango. BFM has developed a repertoire of over 180 dance pieces, drawing on the artistic variety of Mexico's diverse regions. Many elements are represented in traditional form, while others have been "restaged to include diversity of artistic elements." For example, "sensuous African movements that typify dances from the Gulf of Mexico region in the south are juxtaposed by Mexican polkas that mark the influences of eastern European ancestors in the north."Founded in 1967 to promote Mexican culture and folklore in the United States, BFM is one of the oldest live Mexican dance companies in the United States. The group has a reputation for excellence from Mexican authorities and artists and among other traditional and ethnic dance companies.Enjoy this artistic tour of Mexico's varied regional dance customs, and celebrate the country's Independence Day (two days early!) at Ohlone College. For more information on Ballet Folklorico Mexicano, the 2013-2014 Season of the Arts offerings, or to purchase tickets, please visit www.smithcenter.com.Ballet Folklorico MexicanoSaturday, Sept 148 p.m.Smith Center at Ohlone College43600 Mission Blvd., Fremont(510) 659-6031www.smithcenter.comTickets: $20 general admission, $18 senior, $15 studentEvent Parking: $2


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Michael Jackson's eldest child, Prince, will testify Wednesday in the King of Pop's wrongful death suit.
Prince, 16, is expected to testify about what he saw on June 25, 2009, the day his father died in the family's rented Holmby Hills mansion.
Kai Chase, who was the family's chef, testified Jackson's personal physician, Conrad Murray, yelled at her to get help, and she sent Prince upstairs, thinking it was something minor, such as a sprained ankle.
She said she told Prince, then 12, "Dr. Murray needs you. There may be something wrong with your father."
Then she heard Prince shout, "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy," following by a "blood-curdling scream" from Paris, Jackson's younger daughter.
Michael Jackson's three children and his mother, who is their guardian, are suing AEG Live, promoter of his 50-concert comeback tour that was scheduled for London, and two of its executives, saying they negligently hired and controlled Murray, who administered the anesthetic. AEG says it was Jackson who hired Murray and that any money the company was supposed to pay the doctor was an advance to the singer.
Murray is serving time in jail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
Brian Panish, one of the Jacksons' attorneys, said Prince also will testify about life with his father. Other witnesses have testified about what a good father Jackson was.
Prince will be the first of the Jacksons to testify in the trial, which just completed its 36th day. Nearly 20 family members are on witness lists.
Paris, 15, is recovering from an apparent suicide attempt this month. Panish said it has not been decided whether she will testify. The third of Jackson's children, known as Blanket, is 11.
Until he died, Michael usually kept his children out of the public eye, and they often wore masks in public. In many ways, their first major public exposure was at their father's memorial at Staples Center.
Prince will be taking a break from summer school to testify, his attorneys said.
In court Tuesday, the director of Stanford University's sports medicine program continued his testimony about what he said was Murray's and AEG's conflict of interest regarding Jackson's medical care. Testifying for the second day, Dr. Gordon Matheson said the conflict was the worst he had heard of.
Asked by AEG attorney Jessica Stebbins Bina, about the propofol use, Matheson answered, "I think AEG Live enabled it, yes."
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