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Tonight, vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden will face off in their first and only debate before Election Day.Locally, [Alfie Kohn, a respected author who is staunchly against No Child Left Behind, speaks at Kansas University.][1]Biden, in his brief run for president, said education would be a cornerstone of his presidency.Well, he won't be elected president, but let's take a look at where Biden and Palin stand on some education issues, including NCLB.No Child Left Behind Palin: Education Week reports that Palin has generally been supportive of NCLB, but has supported the state's efforts to gain more flexibility around the act. It has been difficult for schools in Alaska's remote areas to meet the law's benchmarks. Last year 294 schools in Alaska met adequate yearly progress under NCLB.Biden: Biden says he regrets voting in favor of NCLB in 2001. He said in last July's primary debates that "I would scrap it - or, I guess, theoretically, you could do a major overhaul." He says schools need smaller classrooms and better teachers.Accountability (this year's buzz word?) Palin: In her 2008 State of the State address, Palin said, "In education, we are shaping a three-year funding plan to finally shift the school debate from perpetual "money talk" to accountability and achievement! We are focusing on foundational skills needed in the 'real-world' workplace and college?Biden: Biden has repeatedly said he supports performance-based pay for teachers.Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Palin: Palin, the daughter of a science teacher, supports teaching both evolution and creationism. "Teach both," she said in the Boston Globe. "You know, don't be afraid of information ...Healthy debate is so important and it's so valuable in our schools."Biden: He calls intelligent design "malarkey." It's a safe bet he doesn't want it taught in schools.Abstinence-only education Palin: For it. Eagle Forum Alaska, a group that describes itself at "pro-family," asked Palin the following question, and got the following answer:"Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?Palin: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support."Biden: Against abstinence-only education. Biden's campaign answered a questionnaire last year, saying, "Senator Biden supports comprehensive and age appropriate sex education that includes science based prevention methods."Other education tidbits: The National Education Association (NEA) rated Biden 91 percent on voting for pro-public education issues.The NEA gave Palin [a favorable review][2] in a recent news release, despite its endorsement of Barack Obama:"While she is only in her second year as Alaska's governor, she has thus far shown herself to be a supporter of children and public education. She comes from a family of educators. Her father was a teacher, her brother is a teacher, and her mother was an education support professional. In her less than two years as the state's chief executive officer, she was able to increase per-pupil education spending, and she is opposed to sending public money to support private schools through political schemes like vouchers. Her selection, however, has certainly taken the issue of experience off the table for political debate."She has drawn criticism, however, for allegedly cutting spending on special needs programs in 2007, by 60 percent. Turns out that's a false rumor. [She actually raised funding for special needs students from $26,900 to $73,840.][3]Palin's stance on many education issues appears to be an open book, though, I will confess, I haven't dredged the entire Internet to find them. Biden has been more prominent and vocal about these issues than Palin, but that probably goes with the territory of a long tenure in the Senate.Maybe we'll learn more tonight. [1]: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/sep... [2]: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2008/08/nea_palin_is_pleasant_surprise.html [3]: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/04/30/35recaps.h27.html
Confrontation 9 years, 7 months ago
They forgot this part:Palin: "I don't want to fund anything that would give my kids the knowledge to protect themselves from deadly diseases and teen pregnancy. Why would a mother want that?!"
Ragingbear 9 years, 7 months ago
The claim about cutting the funding is true. But the context is a bit skewed. She cut 60% of the increase, not 60% of the budget. Which meant that the large sum originally set aside was cut into by her and used elsewhere. Perhaps on a bridge somewhere.
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The scope of the Web today is hard to fathom. The total number of Web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request and document files available through links, exceeds 600 billion. That's 100 pages per person alive.
How could we create so much, so fast, so well? In fewer than 4,000 days, we have encoded half a trillion versions of our collective story and put them in front of 1 billion people, or one-sixth of the world's population. That remarkable achievement was not in anyone's 10-year plan.
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I have been reading Kevin Kelly's musings in Wired magazine for several years. He is a great spokesman for the Internet.
I recall the first tme I saw the web. I was in the home of a friend. He started the Netscape browser and up came the home page. And the blue links. Everywhere! Click this one for CNN. Click this one for Newsweek. And I thought, wow, this is like having a subscription to every major magazine and newspaper in the country for $22 a month, the cost of an Internet connection. Amazing. And so it has continued to be.
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You may want to define "Smart Card", and give users an idea of what you are trying to do.
Cameras use a wide variety of media types (CompactFlash, SmartMedia, xD Picturecard, Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, etc.).
In most cases, when the media is in a camera attached to a PC via USB, it appears as a removable drive. So, you can both read and write to the media.
In some cases, you may need a card reader (depending on how the manufacturer implemented their USB connectivity).
So, if you are only trying to copy files to your media for printing purposes (bringing the card down to someone that has a card reader for it), then this will work fine.
However, if you're trying to copy images to your media so that your camera can see them, you will run into some obstacles (many models will not display images that have been modified, or were not captured by the camera trying to view them). There are ways around this in many cases though (software designed to modify the images so that they are viewable by the camera, etc.).
Now, I would recommend formatting any media you write to in the camera, using it's format menu, prior to using it again for shooting (just to make sure that you didn't corrupt the FAT when performing writes). With most media, a standard 16 bit FAT (FAT16)is used (although FAT32 is supported by some models). But, using the camera versus the PC to do formats is safer IMO.
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H.R.4625 - Health Care Freedom of Choice Act109th Congress (2005-2006)
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The Indian state as with anything Indian is an unique animal. At once bursting at its seams with a population explosion, scores of gods languages a climates, secessionist movements et all. We are unique and we could also become potentially powerful. But can the Indian state be undermined by a few particular power centers: Can the industry, interest groups or military ever provide a substitute (or a strong influence) in the current system. I would think not:
1) Structural stability: The seemingly arbitrary democracy by its vagaries ensures that the power is never concentrated at any given center for any particular period of time. This is applicable more in the national framework, with the regional parties constantly seeking attention. Many of the states have become inherently 2 party systems with no viable alternatives emerging (there is no strong reason for/against their going the coalition way), and these 2 parties tend to have a varying amount of influence on the centers.
2) Innovation is scarce: Indian innovation is confined to few centers of excellence in the public sector & a the rest lies in the adventurism of the Indian entrepreneur. He is likely to fight for his survival through manhandling the political machinery, but will he be more powerful than the state? Unlikely
3) Lack of expansionist tendencies: We historically have rarely invaded other countries (good/bad is out of scope). An influencing power center is formed when there is inherent feeling of superiority/inferiority among the populace. A group is convinced about what is right and sets out the mend the world in its world view. Our world view is based on inclusion, we would expand our physical presence & ideas, but area? Not for us.


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A couple of years ago I gave our big tree to one of our daughters, so now we just have this little one. This year I decided to only put bells, snowflakes and silver beads on it. I left all the other decorations in the box and decided simple would be good. We are having a quiet Christmas. All our children and grandchildren are enjoying the season at their own homes. By now they should all be tucked in bed with dreams of sugar plums running through their heads.
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Yesterday, after hearing about Puckett's stroke, I was going to write a brief note expressing my disbelief that it'd been 10 years since he retired from baseball. Since I didn't have much more to say than that, however, I left it unwritten while hoping that, like my father seven years ago, Puckett would recover and resume a productive life.
To me, the guy is still the Minnesota Twins. And whenever the Tigers played them, even 10 years after Puckett retired, I expected to see him in centerfield. I wanted to see him, because even though I wasn't a Twins fan, per se, Puckett was one of my favorite players to watch. It was probably that squat, roly-poly body of his. If he could do that, while carrying around that kind of luggage, then maybe I could, too.
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In high school, I wrote a term paper on Negro League baseball for a history class. And I used Puckett as my entry to the subject, writing that I couldn't imagine baseball without a player like him, someone who brought so much joy to the game. Whenever I think of my favorite calls in baseball history, my memory pushes Jack Buck's "We'll see you tomorrow night!" after Puckett's home run in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series to the top of the stack.
Retiring the way he had to, due to glaucoma taking away the vision in his right eye, seemed unfair. He should've been able to retire on his terms, to make that decision himself, when he knew he couldn't play baseball the way he had before.
It was jolting to see Puckett's physical deterioration - the afflicted eye that could barely open, the significant weight gain - once he stepped away from the game. And his public image suffered greatly when his name was attached to extramarital affairs, divorce, and sexual assault lawsuits (of which he was eventually cleared). What happened to the man who seemed to derive so much joy from his life? But how many know of us what it's like to have your livelihood taken away like that? How would it feel to be so good at something, only to have the body that once brought prosperity ultimately fail you?
Kirby Puckett was only 45 years old, days away from his 46th birthday. It just doesn't seem right. I really do miss that smile. And I miss his joy.
As you might imagine, with so many great baseball columnists and bloggers out there, plenty of people have written tributes to Puckett:
▪▪ Batgirl is the blog to read when you want stuff on the Twins. Here is her goodbye.
▪▪ The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, of course, has a lot of coverage in today's edition, led by Joe Christiansen's obituary.
▪▪ Both The First Ring and A Day in the Life explain what Puckett meant to Minnesota.
▪▪ Greg Eno remembers Puckett's tenaciousness, which often seemed to come at the Tigers' expense.
▪▪ ESPN.com's Jim Caple covered the Twins for 10 years with the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
▪▪ According to Tim Kurkjian, everything you need to know about Puckett was seen in that sixth game of the '91 World Series.
▪▪ While also remembering that memorable Game 6, Sports Illustrated's John Donovan says no one showed more exuberance than Puckett.
▪▪ Puckett was the only person to ever call Peter Gammons "Petey."
▪▪ FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal shares his memories of an amazing ballplayer.
▪▪ The Cheap Seats has an image of Puckett's Hall of Fame plaque.
▪▪ Finally, here's a transcript of Puckett's Hall of Fame induction speech from 2001.


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Upcoming Golf Events in Sun City West 2018
Here are a few special golf events being held at the RCSCW golf courses over the next few weeks:
Aside from the 40th Anniversary Scramble at Stardust Feb. 17 (sold out event), here are the others that might be of interest:
Feb. 24 and 25, The Arizona Desert Hickory Golf event will be held at Pebblebrook GC. Here's the information you want to know.
March 3 and 4, The AGA Senior Men's Stroke Play Championship will be hosted at Grandview GC. Go HERE for more information.
March 10, Senior Olympics will be held at Grandview GC. Find out more about this special event HERE.
March 10, Camp Corral Golf Tournament helping Kids of Fallen or Disabled Veterans. Sponsored by Golden Corral. Hosted at Pebblebrook GC. Entry forms are available at Golden Corral or any of the RCSCW Golf Pro Shops.
March 11, Can-Am Golf Tournament. Sponsored by Golden Corral. Hosted at Pebblebrook. Entry forms are available at Golden Corral or any of the RCSCW Golf Pro Shops.
March 18, Tin Cup Invitational Golf Tournament. Sponsored by Liberty Buick. Hosted at Deer Valley and Trail Ridge Golf Courses. Details HERE. Entry form HERE.
And then here is where the fun really begins…..
March 14, 15, 16 and 17, The Million Dollar Hole-In-One Contest being held daily at Echo Mesa GC driving range. This event is sponsored by Desert Golf Cars. Proceeds will benefit our local radio station KSCW (103.1). You do not have to get a hole-in-one to be a winner. There will be daily prizes for closet-to-the-pin. HERE are some of the details. Watch for specifics and specials coming soon for this event. Mark your calendar and plan to bring all your friends and challenge each other to get closer than the other. This event is for any and all skill levels. If you have played much golf, you know that all it takes is a little luck! Just saying, the finals are on St. Patrick's Day! You must be 21 years of age and older to participate.
March 24 and 25, The SCW Classic. A two day, 36 hole stroke play event for men and women that will be held at Trail Ridge and Pebblebrook Golf Courses. This event will determine out next RCSCW Club Champions. Entry forms will be in all 7 Golf Pro Shops by Saturday Feb. 10, and HERE. This event will fill up fast and is limited to the first 144 players so be sure to get your entry forms in quick.


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Foiled Merger Brings Providers Back To Basics
Termination of the proposed merger between DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] ended another chapter in the competitive landscape of the U.S. direct broadcast satellite (DBS) industry.
Many now believe that the two companies will readjust their year-end and first quarter sights back to the basics of subscriber growth and their strategies for dealing with cable TV rivals. No longer will intense focus be placed on Washington, D.C., and the statehouses, but rather on America's 104 million TV Households (TVHHs).
Energy now will be directed at maximizing the financial returns from these households by boosting average revenue per subscriber per unit (ARPU), subscriber acquisition costs (SAC), subscriber loss (or churn), and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA).
Times Remain Lean
In a bad economy, people may tend to watch more TV, especially superior quality "pay" TV offered by cable and satellite subscription providers. The logic suggests that instead of plopping down $100 or more to take a family out to dinner and a movie, the same family today could stay home most weekend nights and watch high-quality TV packages.
On the other hand, there is little doubt that for some sectors of the population, when jobs are lost and money gets scarce, that subscription TV is turned off before the electricity and water. For most consumers, satellite and cable TV are still considered less important than the basic elements of cleanliness and survival. Subscription TV, for most, is still hard to define as a must-have utility. Thus, there will be subscribers who cancel and hurt the revenue of providers. Those losses tend to off-set any of the gains from consumers described above who "stay-at-home" on weekend nights.
When all is said and done, growth will take place and satellite TV will continue to exact subscribers from rival cable TV providers. Nonetheless, the economy and better cable services, products and quality will do their share, as well, to trim satellite growth numbers during fourth quarter and November 2002.
EchoStar's Strategy
EchoStar undoubtedly will concentrate on keeping prices low as it introduces new advanced services to its consumers. This low-pricing strategy allows the Littleton, Colo.-based satellite provider to differentiate from wired services.
Important products will include interactive TV (iTV), High Definition TV (HDTV) and Digital Video Recorders (DVRs). Of these three, most emphasis will be on the area of DVRs, as EchoStar tries to distribute more and more of its set-top boxes with DVR built into them. Based upon our research, The Carmel Group estimates the U.S.'s Number One DVR provider, EchoStar, will have more than 600,000 DVR units in place by year-end 2002.
In the area of HDTV, EchoStar now offers most of its nearly eight million subscribers nationwide a set of four HDTV channels that represent a big chunk of the satellite provider's over one hundred FCC-assigned DBS Ku-band channels. The four HDTV channels include HBO and Showtime, the two premium service providers, as well as a Pay-Per-View (PPV) movie service and the Discovery Theatre. Additionally, in 17 larger urban/suburban markets, EchoStar offers its DBS subscribers the CBS Television Network. As such, EchoStar claims it is the "Number One HDTV provider to the entire nation." Talks are presently underway to add additional HDTV content, perhaps in the form of more sports and/or a service such as Mark Cuban's HDNet.
EchoStar also plans to launch a new HDTV set-top box at the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas during early January. This new set-top box will be a combination HDTV and DVR, offering an exceptionally large hard-drive on which consumers may store significant HDTV content for later viewing, pausing, and program-skipping.
DirecTV's Strategies
Industry leader DirecTV, on the other hand, has a slightly different strategy. It is tied to finding the more profitable subscriber, and probably conceding greater monthly and yearly subscriber numbers to EchoStar. DirecTV instead focuses on a subscriber who will not churn and who has an ARPU of almost $60 or more.
In its DVR category, DirecTV is focusing on a realignment of its branding. DirecTV will now call its new set-top the DirecTV Digital Satellite Recorder, rather than the prior version known as the DirecTV Receiver With TiVo. The DVR service itself is now termed DirecTV Digital Video Recording, Powered By TiVo, versus the prior description, which was simply termed the TiVo service.
DirecTV officials envision satellite-delivered DVRs as a clear answer to cable's Video-On-Demand (VOD) strategy to let a viewer have the head-end in his home and chose what he wants to download. Similar to EchoStar, there is not much new focus these days on iTV. Nonetheless, DirecTV states that many new channels will be offering some form of iTV functionality in the months ahead.
DirecTV's three HDTV channels include HBO, Showtime and Mark Cuban's HDNet. HDNet typically airs various sports (e.g., Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League), news, documentaries and specials. DirecTV owner Hughes Electronics Corp. [GMH] currently allocates transponder capacity for its three HDTV channels at the 119- degree orbital slot above Salt Lake City, Utah, parked at the equator. Like EchoStar, subscribers to HBO and/or Showtime premium services automatically receive DirecTV HDTV signals.
Unlike EchoStar, however, DirecTV itself does not include its own hardware vendor, but instead the GMH set-top box function is handled by another GMH subsidiary, Germantown, Md.-based Hughes Network Systems (HNS). Together with a significant handful of additional set-top vendors, such as Sony, Thomson and Hitachi, HNS' HDTV receivers will be offered at highly competitive retail prices, more and more frequently.
Latest Subscriber Trends
Estimates by The Carmel Group for month-end November show the total U.S. DBS customer base ending just shy of 19.5 million total subscribers. These are broken into 11.4 million (or a 58.8 percent market share) for DirecTV, and slightly over eight million (and a 41.2 percent market share) for EchoStar. For November, The Carmel Group estimates, based upon market developments and historical data, that DirecTV brought in 110,000 (or 47.8 percent) of net new subscribers, while EchoStar enticed 120,000 (or 52.2 percent). Between them both, they added an estimated 230,000 net new subscribers during November 2002.
The Carmel Group now estimates 2002 year-end overall U.S. DBS net new subscribers will come in at 2.2 million to lift the U.S. DBS customer total to 19.746 million (or about one in five U.S. TVHHs). Year-to-date estimated net new subscribers for DirecTV amounts to almost a million, while EchoStar accounts for a bit over one million net new subscribers. The estimated total net new subscribers for the year of November 30, 2001 to November 1, 2002 comes in at just over two million, which is about 500,000 subscribers less than the prior year-over-year period. To date, net new subscriber growth for the industry as a whole records an estimated decline of 12 percent versus the prior equivalent period of 2001.
Jimmy Schaeffler researches, analyzes and writes this monthly report. He is a subscription TV analyst at The Carmel Group, a publisher of industry databooks and the monthly newsletter DBS Investor, and a consultancy based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA (http://www.carmelgroup.com). The company specializes in telecommunications (e.g., cable, satellite and wireless), as well as computers and the media. He can be reached at e-mail or at telephone number 831/643 2222.


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Discussion in 'Motorized Bicycle General Discussion' started by mbuna420, Oct 9, 2011.
So every site I go to says the grubee skyhawks are out of stock does anyone know who has motor kits
I heard through the grapevine that EPA has banned the sale of all 2-strokes right now. It's not that these bicycle engine sellers are out of stock, it's that EPA has banned their sale atm. There are ofc still people around who'll sell you one under-the-tablelike, but you'd be taking a risk, even by chinagirl reckoning. Shady, all of it.
Hmm it is my transportation to work and a decent wreck took out my last motor I need one more than the risk I can not afford a 4 stroker or a car so I will have to find one any means necessary
You're gonna have to do your research. Anyone who points you to a 2-stroke seller is liable to have that seller stopped.
ok hmmmmmmm anyone got one laying around
They're still selling them on ebay, but they're getting very expensive!
The kit that I paid $139 for a few weeks ago is up to $350!
LEB has some for $199.
I called a couple places and they informed me that it is only grubee that is in legal litigation and that is why there is a hold on all grubee's now what is the second best motor after the grubee's
My two-smoker from That's Dax runs well. I've heard Raw motors are pretty good too. I haven't heard enough about Stingers to recommend them, though.


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The Associated Press reported on Tuesday from Tokyo that "The champ may not be able to chomp."
"All my friends and family," he said, "they're all saying, 'Don't pay any attention to it.' But it doesn't make sense. Why would anybody say, 'Oh I'm going to compete, but I'm hurt'?" Mr. Chestnut sighed again and thought out loud: "He's never gone into it as an underdog."
Mr. Kobayashi, he said, "could come to the Fourth of July with his jaws wired shut, and I'm sure he could still do all right; he's that good of an eater."


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Until Dec. 31: Storybook Island Christmas Nights of Light, Storybook Island, Rapid City. $3 per person; $2 for train rides.
Until Dec. 31: Trees & Trains exhibit and photos with Santa, South Dakota Railroad Museum, Hill City. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 24-25; from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 2, 9, 16, 17, 22 and 23. Cost: $6 adults, children 10 and under free.
Dec. 26: 19th annual Agate Fossil Beds Boxing Day Open House, from noon to 3:30 p.m. There will be music, crafts and refreshments. Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, 301 River Road, Harrison, Neb. Admission to the park is free, but the event is accepting donations of canned goods for food pantries in Crawford and Mitchell.
Through Jan. 2: Crazy Horse Memorial will featuring a light show twice a day, at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. The light show is holiday themed with dancing lights on the mountain and paired with the music of Mannheim Steamroller. Through Jan. 2, the memorial's hours are: open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the main complex; from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Native American Educational and Cultural Center; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Laughing Water Restaurant. Every weekend in December, admission to the memorial will be waived with the food donation of three cans per person. Food donations go to regional food drives.
Jan. 6-7: Miss Rapid City/Miss Central States Fair scholarship pageants. Miss Rapid City Pageant at 6 p.m. Jan. 6 and Miss Central States Fair Pageant 2 p.m. Jan. 7. Both at the Performing Arts Center in Rapid City.
Rapid City
Dec. 30
7 p.m.: Elaine Romero-Douglas, Cellar Music Series, Firehouse Wine Cellars.
Dec. 26
9 p.m.: The Cowardly Lions, Saloon #10
Dec. 27
9 p.m.: The Cowardly Lions, Saloon #10
Dec. 28
9 p.m.: The Cowardly Lions, Saloon #10
Dec. 29
8 p.m.: Brandon Sprague Band, Deadwood Tobacco Co.
9 p.m.: The Cowardly Lions, Saloon #10
Dec. 30
8 p.m.: Brandon Sprague Band, Deadwood Tobacco Co.
9 p.m.: The Cowardly Lions, Saloon #10
Dec. 31
8:30 p.m.: Drop Club Nights, Deadwood Mountain Grand
9 p.m.: The Cowardly Lions, Saloon #10
Jan. 1
2 to 6 p.m.: Cody Hullinger, Saloon #10
9 p.m.: The Cowardly Lions, Saloon #10
Jan. 6
8 p.m.: Gabriel Iglesias, Deadwood Mountain Grand. Tickets are $79 to $99.
Jan. 7
2 p.m.: Epiphany Concert, Black Hills Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Homestake Opera House, Lead. Tickets are $15 for students (17 and younger with ID), $20 for members and $25 for nonmembers.
Jan 12
5 p.m.: Red Dirt Music Festival featuring Josh Abbott Band and Troy Cartwright, Deadwood Mountain Grand. Tickets are $30.
Jan 13
5 p.m.: Red Dirt Music Festival featuring Casey Donahew Band and Chancey Williams, Deadwood Mountain Grand. Tickets are $30.
Dec. 28
7 p.m.: Acoustic Bluegrass Jam, Gaslight Restaurant and Saloon.
Dec. 28
5:30 p.m.: Open mic night, BHSU Jacket Zone, 617 Main St.
6 p.m.: Jazz night, Roma's Ristorante
Dec. 29
7 p.m.: Live music with Roulette Logic, Lucky's 13 Pub
7 p.m.: Live music, Roma's Ristorante
8 p.m.: Jon Wayne & The Pain, plus Useful Jenkins and High Rise, Zbar bar and nightclub. Must be 21 or older.
9 p.m.: Live music, Flanagan's Irish Pub
Dec. 30
8 p.m.: Roulette Logic, Lucky's 13
9 p.m.: Live music, Flanagan's Irish Pub
Dec. 29
9 p.m.: Judd Hoos, Loud American Roadhouse. Tickets are $10.
Dec. 28
7:30 a.m.: Badlands National Park will conduct its annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. Participants will meet in front of the Ben Reifel Visitor Center at 7:30 a.m., then enjoy a day of birding and help document winter bird life in the park. Participants do need to be experts. Experienced birders from the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies will help with bird identification. Plan to bring binoculars, a lunch and snacks, plenty of water, and clothes for varied winter weather conditions. A camera and field guidebooks are also suggested. For more information, contact Nancy Drilling at email@example.com.
Dec. 29-31
Guided cave tours at Jewel Cave. Each day offers three tours at 10 a.m., 12:40 p.m., and 2:40 p.m. One 20-minute Discovery Talk is available each day at 9:05 a.m.
Dec. 30
9 a.m.: Spearfish Winter Carnival & Big Hill XC Ski Trials at Big Hill near Spearfish. Lasts until 11 a.m. A free lunch will be served at 11 a.m.
Dec. 31
10:15 a.m.: Spearfish Winter Carnival & Big Hill XC Ski Trials at Big Hill near Spearfish. There are prizes and a bonfire after the races.
Jan. 1
10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.: First Day Hikes, Jewel Cave. Park rangers are leading snowshoe hikes at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in celebration of the New Year. If snowy conditions are not available, dry hikes will take place at the same times on the one-quarter-mile Roof Trail.
1 p.m.: New Year's Day Walk, "City of Presidents," register at 1 p.m. at Hotel Alex Johnson in Rapid City. Contact 721-7191 for more information.
Jan. 19-20
Deadwood Pro Snocross Races & Snowmobile Rally, Days of '76 Event Complex, Deadwood.
Dec. 31
2 p.m.: New Year's Eve all ages comedy improv show, $5, The Basement, Rapid City.
8 p.m.: "Romance, Intrigue Champagne!" Ring in the New Year with Strauss waltzes, classical favorites and operatic tales of romance and intrigue with the Black Hills Symphony and Paul Robinson on vocals. Rapid City Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $22 to $32, depending on seats, with discounts for students and military members, and are available at bhsymphony.org or 394-1786.
Jan. 26
"Rabbit Hole": Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day. Season ticket reservations start Dec. 29. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26-27 and Feb. 2, 3, 9 and 10 and at 2 p.m. Jan. 28 and Feb. 4 and 11 at the Black Hills Community Theatre.
Through Dec. 30: Veteran's Art Show by Cornerstone Rescue Mission veterans, downtown Rapid City Public Library.
Through April 14: "Denatured," a large installation exhibit by artist Suzanne Wyss, Sen. Stan Adelstein & Lynda K Clark Gallery, Dahl Arts Center, Rapid City.
Jan. 3: Trivia and bingo, from 7:48 p.m. to 8:48 p.m., Wobbly Bobby British Pub. What does Miss Havisham constantly wear in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations"? If you know the answer, join other trivia wonks downtown for a chance to win prizes. Cost: Free.
Jan. 5: Starlight Ball. Camera, lights and action for the Golden Age of Hollywood greats. That means top hats and tails, evening gowns and stoles, and all the bling. Pre-party lesson is at 7:30 p.m., dance party is 8:30 to 11 p.m. Cost: $12 for pre-party lesson, $8 for dance party, $15 for party package (includes lesson and party).
Dec. 30-31: Holiday Open House, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., free beer cocktails with donation of canned food item for KOTA Care and Share Food Donation, Miner Brewing Company, Hill City. This weekend, they will be serving mulled cranberry wine.
Through Dec. 30: Deck your halls or make a gift for a friend as you discover 3-D printing at the Rapid City Public Library's downtown location, at 610 Quincy St. During regular library hours, patrons can learn to design and print their own customized holiday ornament. The limit is one free print per person.
Dec. 29: Wine about Winter, free wine during extended shopping hours, 5 to 8 p.m., downtown Deadwood.
Lynyrd Skynyrd to perform at Sturgis rally
Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd will perform at the Buffalo Chip for the 2018 Sturgis Motorcyle Rally, the Chip announced last week.
The band, known for hits like "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird," is scheduled to perform on Monday, Aug. 6.
The rally is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 3, through Sunday, Aug. 12. Lynyrd Skynyrd joins a lineup of performers that includes Foreigner, Eric Church, Kid Rock and John Kay and Steppenwolf.
'Everybody Loves Opal' auditions
Auditions for "Everybody Loves Opal, the winter play for the Sturgis Community Theater, are from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 7, in the Sturgis Williams Middle School band room.
June Dill is directing. The cast includes two women and four men. No advance preparation is needed. Performances will be Feb. 23-26.
More information is available at sturgisareaartscouncil.org.
Sturgis Easter cantata to start rehearsing
Easter is early this year, April 1, so the Sturgis Arts Council's annual Easter Cantata is planned for Palm Sunday, March 25, and Tuesday, March 27, at Grace Lutheran Church.
Marlene Kotab will coordinate and conduct the cantata. Because of space constraints, the choir is limited to approximately 75 singers. If interested in singing with this group, contact Kotab by phone at 347-1375 or at email@example.com.
Rehearsals will begin Sunday, Feb. 11, and run every Sunday from 1:30 to 3 p.m., with one Thursday practice on March 22 at Grace Lutheran Church, 1061 Sherman St. in Sturgis. Singers should plan to attend all/most of the rehearsals.
Resolve to write your life stories
In the new year, resolve to write down your life stories at Thus Far, a writing workshop where you'll learn to pen the details of your life.
The event, which is open to adults of all ages, is held Jan. 6 from 10 a.m. to noon and Jan. 13 from 10 a.m. noon at On Common Ground, 610 Saint Francis St., in Rapid City. Participants should plan to attend both sessions. Tickets are $30 per person at the door and include both sessions. Writing materials are required, and light refreshments will be served.
Thus Far is taught by Molly Barari, who has an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University. She will provide writing prompts to help class members identify their unique life stories. To RSVP for this workshop, call/text 308-440-0047 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Registration opens for art show
SPEARFISH | Applications are now available for the The Matthews Opera House's 39th Winter Art Show.
Applications are available in the art gallery or online. Patrons can be professional or amateur, ages pre-kindergarten and up.
Registration is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Jan. 10-13. Fees vary depending on age group.
The show takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Jan. 17-25 in the art gallery.


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Rachael and Cheryl...I guess we both got the blue memo This is my cousin's little girl, Savannah...she is such a doll!!! I wish I could see her more often!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Day before Raegen's Wedding
My brothers and sisters at the rehearsal dinner from youngest to oldest: Rochelle, Raleigh, Raegen, Ross, Rhett, Rachael, RomFriday morning the bridesmaids got pedicures and manicures Friday night was the rehearsal dinner. Our good friends Lee and Cheryl were there so it was great getting to visit with them a while. My parents are at the table with us too.
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- McKinney Madness said...
I love that blue dress on you! Too bad you won't be pulling that one out in Alaska... or I guess you could if you had a big ol' feaux fur to go along with it! ha!
- September 30, 2010 at 4:35 PM
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"The hollow winds begin to blow,
The cloud looks black, the grass is low.
The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep,
And spiders from their cob-webs creep.
Last night the sun went pale to bed
The moon in halos hid her head
The boding shepherd heaves a sigh
For see, a rainbow spans the sky."
So beings the poem "Signs of Rain" by Edward Jenner (1749-1823). Yes, that Edward Jenner of smallpox fame! The poem is also known by its subtitle, "Forty Reasons for Declining an Invitation to an Excursion."
These three typed pages of this poem belong to the Indiana Writers Program Collection, Special Collections Department at Indiana State University Library.
This assignment on folklore and poetry was completed by Lucile Conn. To view the document more closely, click here.


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Mount Talang is 2,572 meters above sea level and it has a soothing view. From here you can overlook the beautiful Twin Lakes and Lake Singkarak. It's one of the six active volcanoes in West Sumatra . It is said that the tea grown here tastes wonderful. The view is breathtaking and the weather is cool and pleasant.â
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To Stay
For a short visit, it is best if you stay in Padang. Several accommodation are available should you wish to stay.
- Bring along a jacket or sweater since the temperature is quite cool here.
- It's advisable to rent a car with a skilled driver to this area since the roads can be steep.
To Buy
Fresh fruit, especially marquisa or passion fruit are abundant and quite affordable, too. They are sweet and perfect to be had while enjoying the breathtaking view.
Get Around
Public transportations are available, and should you decide to climb the mountain you can contact some guides in this area.


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HOMOPHOBIA is the dislike or prejudice against homosexual people, and something the African continent has lately become famous for.
Of the 78 countries where homosexuality is illegal worldwide, 35 of them are in Africa.
In some of these countries there is often a leading figure who, even though he rages against homosexuals, in fact "loves" them. This is because top officials, figures and politicians have recognised the benefits that homosexuals can bring them. By fanning the flames of homophobia they can divert attention away from a serious issue, generate more support and unify - cheaply. For several leaders, they need and rely on homosexuals so much that they talk about them all the time!
Just take a look at the track record.
In 1995 Mugabe shut down a book exhibit organised by the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe at the Harare International Book Fair, a move believed to have been made as a mobilising tactic for the 1996 elections where Mugabe sought to get Zimbabwe's conservative church constituents to vote for him.
Mugabe also uses homosexuals as scapegoats, a tactic he's used ever since he took the reins and a useful way of shifting the blame when things go wrong. In 2013 for example, anti-white rhetoric was getting a bit thin, when Mugabe was re-elected for the 7th time. Despite having just $217 left in the bank earlier in the year, Mugabe was able to devote time during his inaugural speech to address what he apparently saw as a far more pressing threat: homosexuals.
He is reported to have stated that it was homosexuality that "That destroys nations, apart from it being a filthy, filthy disease." Without the emotive issue, Mugabe would have had to deal with something on which he has a hopeless record - the economy.
Climate of Fear
In The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh seems to be well aware of the valuable political pawns homosexuals can be in a conservative country where the atmosphere is all too often described as one with a "climate of fear".
Jammeh seeks to maintain as much control as possible and there have been numerous reports of the repression of journalists and civil society, through "prolonged trials… on baseless charges" and "unlawful arrests, arbitrary detention and prosecution". This climate of fear has contributed towards allowing Jammeh to win every presidential election in the country since he took power in a coup in 1996.
Homosexuality has increasingly become a carte blanche for Jammeh to use in order to maintain a tight grip and perhaps even silence opposition, with even fewer questions asked - particularly by rights organisations.
This is supported by evidence that some of these arrests are doctored - take for example in 2012,18 men had to go in to hiding after police officers raiding a nightclub and took pictures of them "wearing female clothes" and "walking like ladies". They said they had been subjected to beatings and death threats when the charges were made public. Police subsequently dropped the case when it was revealed that the photos were faked.
"Slitting throats" of gay men
The violence of Jammeh's threats were also recently taken up a notch with threats "to slit the throats" of gay men, claiming "no one will ever set eyes on you again, and no white person can do anything about it." This during a speech on creating a healthy environment for the country's youth, and at a time when the dictator is seeking to maintain his hold on power following a failed coup in December last year.
In the East African nation of Uganda, President Museveni - who has sat at the helm of the nation for 29 years now - has also carefully been playing with the gay question to his advantage.
His fondness for homosexuals lies in his ability to play the gay card depending on which way he needs it to go. In 2014, despite international condemnation and US pressure not to, Museveni signed an anti-gay bill into law in 2014. Though his reasons are put down to the moral or religious, it cannot be ignored that Museveni has been president for almost 30 years and PEW research shows that 96% of Ugandans do not believe homosexuality is acceptable. Museveni needed a ratings boost.
There is also speculation that he felt he could finally make this political move because of the recent oil discovery made in Uganda. The drilling operations are assigned to three companies: British Tullow, French Total and Chinese Cnooc, meaning Museveni could ignore the US' warnings not to pass the homophobic bill. He hadn't reckoned with fickle world oil prices, that have thrown the Uganda oil investments in a spin.
Now he is back-pedalling, helped by a Constitutional Court that declared the law void because it was passed without the required quorum in Parliament.
Despite signing the bill into law, Museveni's public stance on homosexuals is actually quite ambiguous - he does not yet seem to be open to the idea that sexual orientations are not chosen nor changeable, but he does acknowledge that people can be gay without criminal intent. This position will serve him well as he appeases "Western friends" and seeks an unprecedented 7th term in 2016.
Over the past two weeks the homosexuality debate has raged in Kenya, highlighted when on May 4th reports came out that Kenya's Deputy President, William Ruto, told worshippers at a church service in Nairobi that homosexuality had no place in the east African nation.
This comes at a time when Ruto, currently on trial at the International Criminal in The Hague accused of crimes against humanity, is seeking to get his charges dropped. Now Kenyans are focussed on his gay remarks, instead of the case, debating whether his comments were misplaced or not. The religious right is probably looking favourably at him too.
But this line needs to be treaded carefully in Kenya - and what could be the start of a loving relationship with homosexuality could go very wrong for the vice-President.
A recent article listing alleged "Top Gay, Lesbians" by a Kenyan tabloid "Citizen Weekly" has faced incredible backlash by Kenya's online community. With many questioning the legitimacy of the claims, why the article was written and the violence it may incite.
All very valid questions. When I contacted the paper to interview the responsible journalist, Jared Opiyo, the request was quickly denied and the person who answered the phone said that Opiyo "is not an authority on the matter – he's just a journalist". The call was then abruptly ended.


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Wednesday and today I taught all about alcohol inks at my Blue House Art Group classes. We had alot of fun playing with many techniques. One was a resist technique using Archival black ink (for whatever reason this seems to only work with that ink). In a nutshell, you apply one or several colors of alcohol ink to acetate or any clear, non-porous surface. Once this is dry you stamp an image with Archival ink. Let the ink set on the surface for a minute but do not let it completely dry and then wipe the ink off. The ink will remove the alcohol ink below the stamped image. This is one of my favorite techniques and it's fun watching the clear image appear.
Once the class practiced this a few times, we made little charms/pendants with Ranger acrylic fragments. This was my sample:
We also had a fall-themed ATC swap. I used alcohol inks on a larger piece of glossy paper and then stamped the pumpkins with black Staz On. I cut these out and popped them on a fall-colored plaid paper over a small piece of frayed burlap. The stamp is an old Hero Arts stamp embossed with a "Chile Red Pepper" powder. I punched the tiny maple leaf in the upper right corner and edged the card with Krylon gold leaf pen.
These are the other ATCs that were swapped. I love how everyone interpreted "fall" differently.
Next month we will be creating a 10"x10" Christmas canvas. Can't wait to teach all the techniques I'll be using on that project.


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What Happens When An Unsaved Person Dies? Series
Contributed by Rick Crandall on Nov 22, 2010 (message contributor)
Summary: Jesus wants us to know, so in these verses He shows us: 1. The reality of hell (vs. 22-26) 2. The way to be rescued by God (vs. 20-22 & 27-31) 3. The road to hell (vs. 27-31) 4. Our responsibility to help people avoid hell (vs. 27-28)
What Happens When an Unsaved Person Dies?
Series: The Other Side of Death
Sermon by Rick Crandall
McClendon Baptist Church - Feb. 28, 2010
*Updated Oct. 16, 2011 for Grayson Baptist Church
*Red Adair was the oil field firefighter made famous by a 1968 John Wayne movie called "Hellfighters." After the first Gulf War, Red Adair led the effort to stop the terrible oil fires set by Saddam Hussein's retreating army.
*Adair was brash and fearless. In 1991, he joked that it would be no different after he died. He said, "I've made a deal with the devil. -- The devil is going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out." (1)
*Red Adair died at the age of 89, and unless he trusted in the Lord, he has found out first-hand that no one can put out the fires of hell. Hell is no joke. What happens when an unsaved person dies?
1. Jesus wants us to know, so in these verses He shows us the REALITY of Hell. (vs. 22-26)
*We can see the reality of hell starting in vs. 22, where Jesus said:
22. "So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.
23. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
*Don't be confused by the word "Hades" in the NKJ and other modern translations. Verse 23 in the KJV says that the rich man was in hell, and he surely was. But in the original language, "Hades" in general was the unseen place of the dead. And Bible-believing Christians have different views about what Hades contained before the crucifixion, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ.
*Here is my Biblical understanding of Hades: Before Jesus went back to Heaven, Hades included a temporary place of rest for Old Testament believers. This place was called "Paradise" or in this passage, "Abraham's Bosom." And this is where the Lord's soul went during the 3 days His body lay in the grave.
*Listen to what Jesus told the unbelieving Jews when they asked for a sign in Matt 12:
39. He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
40. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
*At that time, Paradise or Abraham's bosom was in Hades. In Acts 2, Peter was preaching on the Day of Pentecost, and speaking about Jesus, Peter said:
23. Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;
24. Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.
25. For David says concerning Him: 'I foresaw the Lord always before My face, for He is at My right hand, that I may not be shaken.
26. Therefore My heart rejoiced, and My tongue was glad; moreover My flesh also will rest in hope.
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Hannah's birthday was at my house today, and pat me on the back--I didn't eat any cake! Actually, "the program" allows for that sort of thing, in small doses, but I don't trust myself just yet, so I opted to be good.
Breakfast: Two eggs (one yolk), slice of whole grain bread, fruit smoothie (yogurt, banana, strawberry), skim milk with whey protein.
Lunch (around 4:30 or so, mind you): Mixed nuts, apple, salad (cup of spinach, cup of romaine mix, serving of red peppers, serving of grilled chicken, olive oil, balsamic vinegar), carrots.
Dinner: Bottom round, two servings of steamed broccoli, raisins, dark chocolate.
Now, who's going to remind me to buy bananas tomorrow?


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Funnel Sigil is a Dark based skill available in Dragon's Dogma.
- "Draws a magick sigil that pulls in nearby lightweight enemies, collecting them together for easy dispatch."
Upgrades to Vortex Sigil.
In Dark Arisen, becomes Maelstrom Sigil with a suitable Mystic Knight's Ring or Band equipped.
- For tactics and other general information see Vortex Sigil.
- (BUG) This spell may be bugged, lasting longer than it is supposed to - the upgrade Vortex Sigil lasts the same amount of time.


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Space Alert is one very unusual game. It is cooperative and real-time. It is by Vlaada Chvatil from the Czech Republic, who designed Through the Ages and Galaxy Trucker (both of which I like a lot), and often has very innovative and interesting ideas for games. In Space Alert, you and your teammates need to defend your spaceship for 10 minutes. If you survive, you win. The "real" part of the game is played in real-time. You listen to a sound track (there are many to choose from to provide some variety) which tells you about enemy attacks, ship malfunctions, communications downtimes, etc. During these 10 minutes, you plan your actions using your hand of cards. It sounds simple - you are just putting cards down onto 12 spaces, but it is actually quite tricky, requiring good coordination among the teammates in real-time. It's very chaotic! Once the soundtrack is over, you do an evaluation round, basically reenacting everything that had happened step by step, to see whether you survived.
I have played six games of this, and I have not even played a real mission yet! I am still playing the tutorials, and still failing them! There are three levels of tutorials - Test Runs, Simulations and Advanced Simulations. They introduce the game to you bit by bit, with new elements and new challenges being added at each new level. For now I have only reached Simulations. And I am not even beating the game yet! In fact, even for my very first Test Run, I (well, we) lost the game. I had thought the Test Run was designed to be impossible to lose.
So what do you do during a game? To summarise, you move and you press buttons. As simple as that. There are 6 rooms on the spaceship, each having 3 buttons performing different functions. The A buttons are for shooting. Each room has a different cannon, with different fire-powers, ranges and power sources, and also pointing in different directions. You often need to coordinate with your teammates to shoot at an approaching enemy at the same time, because it is much more effective in damaging your enemy. B buttons are all related to managing energy - for charging up defensive shields, moving energy cubes to where they are needed, and charging up your energy core. This is a very important aspect, which we learnt the hard way. There was one game when we (Afif, Sui Jye, Jing Yi and I) planned a very well coordinated shooting, only to find that our cannons had run out of energy cubes. Click! Click! We failed to destroy the approaching enemy, and lost the game miserably.
Then there are the C buttons, which do different things. Some allow you to control combat robots, which are needed to fight enemies which are on board. One allows you to fire homing missiles. One simply allows you to score additional victory points, but I think in this game that's the last thing I'm going to care about. I need to learn to survive first. There's even one C button that is for making sure that the computer screensaver doesn't come up to interrupt your actions. Apparently the operating system of the spaceship computer was sponsored, and thus has a screensaver with advertising content.
There are many different types of enemies in the game, which approach at different speeds, attack at different strengths, and have different shield strengths. There are also internal threats - sometimes enemies that board your spaceship, sometimes systems malfunctions. In each mission, these are randomly drawn, and you only see a few of them. This gives the game some replayability. There are some time tracks that vary how quickly enemies approach and how often and how soon they attack. Four time tracks are drawn randomly to be placed at different parts of the ship. This too increases variety.
Space Alert is a game that needs a dedicated group of players. It is actually not easy to beat, and requires good cooperation among the players. You need players who are interested enough to play it multiple times and work through the tutorials to get to the real missions. If you only play with casual players, you may never reach the real missions. I wonder whether the game will lose its appeal after you win a few real missions, the way some PC or console adventure games lose their appeal after you beat them. But even if this happens, I think I would have gained a lot of value from the game. I suspect the game will continue to be interesting even after I learn to beat the normal missions, like how Galaxy Trucker (also by Vlaada Chvatil) and Pandemic are.
Space Alert is probably a game that needs 4 or 5 players. With less than four, you need to introduce android characters, which are ordered around by the other human players. This is not very ideal when you are still trying to learn the game. There are enough for you to worry about without androids. You probably want to play with less than four after you are familiar with the game. But I think the game is meant for 4 or 5, because the fun is in overcoming the chaos of many players trying to coordinate their actions to save the spaceship.
There is one thing which I wonder whether I have been doing right. When I play the game, I don't try to move the pieces on the board much. I only sometimes move my character, to remind myself where I am. I don't remove energy cubes spent, I don't move enemy markers, I don't mark the damage done to my spaceship or to the enemies. I think I probably should do that, because that would help a lot in visualising what's happening. That would take some effort from everyone, because you need to synchronise the changes made to the board with your teammates. Else it may cause even more confusion, or worse, cause wrong planning. I should do this next time I play, and let's see whether I will fare better.
So this is just an initial impression of Space Alert. Hopefully the next time I write about this game I will have beaten some normal missions.


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I've been tearing things apart lately.
Melinda moved all of her stuff into my basement for the summer. My god, how much stuff does a college student need? I needed to make room for it so I started - naturally - at the opposite end of the house. I realized the messes in all the rooms are so connected and dense, that I knew I needed to start cleaning there in order for the bit of open space to roll through the house and make a place for her shit. So I tore certain parts of the house apart, and her stuff is in place. Now I get to put the other rooms back together.
A project at work was being a bit vexing, so I tore it apart. Killed the old tools - burning bridges is great incentive to move forward - then scrapped my day to day duties to make room for it. So far, so good. It will all be in place and beautiful by noon tomorrow. Just in time for the end of the fiscal year.
The eave rebuilding project at Kat's - now on summer number four - is 5 sessions from ending. To make that happen, I tore apart my workout and reading schedules. It sill be done next weekend, then I can turn my attention to repairing concrete and mortar. Long story.
I am tearing apart my alcohol habit. I live in a county that is dry on Sundays. This is a good thing, even though I want a beer so bad I could scream. But I am enjoy knowing that I will be alert and able to work every morning, so I think I'll stay dry for a while.
I am weening myself from Caffeine. Some mountains (booze) are best descended by jumping the cliff. Others (coffee) are best dealt with via a gentle sloping path. Just ask Heather.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Tear it all apart...
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Arecibo Message finds Lynn honing his distinct sound to a fine point. His raison d'etre- celestial atmospherics, ethereal melodies, razor sharp drum programming and grimey bass and generally dubbed out vibes- is on full display, as is his obvious obsessive attention to detail. Lynn's music could be compared to Mercedes Benz; sleek, modern, astonishingly well engineered and miles beyond the competition in shear innovation. True to form, he demonstrates yet again that to class his music as mere dubstep is doing it a disservice. Though firmly rooted in the 70 BPM bump of dubstep, Arecibo Message regularly transcends the genre- effortlessly flitting between techno, electro, atmospheric drum & bass, IDM and 2-step, often in the course of one song.
Released on the ever excellent Planet Mu, the album gets it's name from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. Presumably the "message" being some sort of contact with unknown extra terrestrial intelligence. This would go a long ways toward explaining the other worldliness of his interstellar dub sound.
Side Trak begins with synthesized bells, warm bass and a simple riddim. At about half way through he goes mental, thrashing about with that skittery metallic drum kit that seems to be proprietary (if you're already familiar with his work you'll know the one). In an obvious nod to the golden days of British raves, Mya Rave V2, starts with brittle UK Garage style snares and pitched up diva samples and vamped 'ardcore keys At the break down, things get technical with slinky modulated bass and a beat that changes between straight up 4/4 house, 70 BPM dubstep and back to 2-step again. The futurist electro of Spacebass is one of the many highlights; here 80's style electro squelches, 808 snares and hand claps meet with some really cool sounding synthesized keys, a laser bass line and mechanized android dub atmospherics. A Familiar Sound changes things up nicely. A heavily delayed r&b male vocal sounds disembodied yet quite comfortable over dubstep drums and bass. Keys, glitches, bleeps and synth gurgles swirl in and out making for a sleek bouncy hybrid of styles. Elsewhere Lamp Post Funk and A Cosmic Parent bounce with disco and almost Parliament funkiness respectively.
Lynn is again able to explore all kinds of different styles while remaining thoroughly grounded in dub. A must for fans!