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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College softball team (14-33, 9-11 PBC) really seems to be hitting their stride heading into the 2011 Peach belt Conference (PBC) Tournament. The 'Cats have picked up the sixth seed in the tournament after finishing with a 9-11 mark in conference play.
The Bobcats are coming off a sweep of USC Aiken in their season finale, downing the Pacers 6-5 and 2-1. GC is also winners of three of their last four games, after splitting a series with then No. 22 Armstrong Atlantic.
Fortunately, the Bobcats have drawn more favorable matchups on their side of the bracket, with their first game coming against No. 3-seed Columbus State University. Georgia College split the season series with Columbus State back on March 29, as the Bobcats won the first game 2-1 in extra innings before dropping game two 6-2
Win or lose, the Bobcats would then take on either No. 2-seed Armstrong Atlantic or No. 7-seed USC Aiken.
Rounding out the other side of the bracket are No. 1-seed North Georgia, No. 4-seed Flagler College, No. 5-seed Augusta State University and No.8-seed UNC Pembroke.
The Bobcats recent tear can be attributed to their increased offensive production, as six players are hitting .333 or better over their last four games.
Overall, GC has been led by junior Haley Burnett (Columbus, Ga.), who is currently seventh in the conference with a .405 average. Burnett leads the PBC with a .535 on-base percentage, while placing in the top six in slugging, RBI, home runs and walks.
The Bobcats post one of the more feared 3-4 tandems in the league, as junior Anna Parker (Columbus, Ga.) and Burnett have been walked 37 and 33 times respectively. That is good for first and second in the PBC.
Freshmen Whitney Okvist (Kennesaw, Ga.) and Lindsey Conway (Madison, Ga.) have done their part for the Bobcats this year, serving recently as the 1-2 hitters in the lineup.
Okvist brings impressive speed to the plate, stealing 24 bases thus far, which is good for second in the PBC. She also leads the conference in triples with six.
Conway has really turned it on as of late, hitting .500 (6-for-12) in her last four games with six RBI and three runs.
The Bobcats have been nearly as impressive on the mound recently, posting a 3.25 ERA over the last four games.
Freshman righty Chelsie Huffman (Powder Springs, Ga.) has been a threat out of the pen, compiling a 1.17 ERA in that span with a 2-0 record.
Junior Sabrina Chandler (Covington, Ga.) has remained the most consistent Bobcats arm, bringing her 8-12 mark and 3.89 ERA into the tournament.
Georgia College will look to remain hot when they take on No. 3-seed Columbus State Friday, April 15 beginning at 1:30 p.m. in Florence, S.C. All PBC Tournament games will be held at Freedom Florence Complex on fields two and three.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. commanders at a base in Afghanistan where two Marines were killed in a surprise insurgent attack last year had no explicit warning but intelligence officers there had "consistent indicators" of Taliban interest in attacking, according to an investigation report released Tuesday.
The U.S. Central Command investigation's conclusions led the top Marine, Gen. James Amos, to announce on Monday that he had forced two senior Marine generals to retire early. Amos held Maj. Gen. Charles Gurganus and Maj. Gen. Gregg Sturdevant responsible for failures to protect their forces.
The Central Command's report indicated that the Marines at Camp Bastion, one of the largest coalition airfields in Afghanistan, could have foreseen the possibility of a Taliban effort to penetrate the base's perimeter on the night of Sept. 14, 2012.
It said the base's intelligence officer reported that the threat to all major installations was "high" at the time of the attack and that there were "consistent indicators that the Taliban wanted to gain access" to Bastion and attack it.
A group of 15 Taliban fighters used wire cutters to cut through a chain link fence on Bastion's perimeter and walked onto the base undetected. They destroyed six Marine fighter jets and wounded 17 people in addition to killing two Marines.
The investigation report said that in the weeks prior to the attack there had been numerous breaches of Bastion's supposedly secure perimeter, some of which had been captured on surveillance videos. One video showed an individual who entered the base through a hole in its perimeter chain-link fence, "looked around inside an empty guard tower and departed again."
It said many people, including Gurganus, who was the commander of all coalition forces in southwestern Afghanistan, had expressed concern about the breaches but "accepted them" as related to theft or other incursions that did not necessarily pose a security danger to the Marines.
The report faulted Gurganus for failing to take sufficient actions to ensure security prior to the attack.
"He underestimated the threat posed by the enemy's capabilities, overestimated U.S. and coalition capabilities to counter that threat and failed to take prudent steps to counter or mitigate an enemy attack," it concluded.
Sturdevant, who commanded the Marine aviation unit in the region, mistakenly assumed that other military units on Bastion would provide adequate protection for his aviation forces, the report said.
"This misjudgment unnecessarily exposed his personnel and equipment to enemy attack," it said.
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Male voters are more inclined to favor strict interpretation of the Constitution, while female voters prefer more legal flexibility and tend to see it as a living document. Most voters under 40 see the Constitution as a living document; most older voters think the Constitution should be strictly interpreted.Why are women like younger folk and men like older folk? Strict/flexible — what's that about?
What, exactly, makes some people express beliefs in the value of flexibility — or is it "living" — and others in the value of strictness? It would be simplistic to think that women (and young people) are themselves loose and flexible, while men (and old people) are strict and inflexible, because we learn perhaps only what feelings superficially attract them and how they like to think about themselves. I'm tough and neutral/I'm nuanced and merciful. So you say.
Prompted by this forum discussion at Isthmus the other day, I (and Meade) took a quickie Myers-Briggs test. Interestingly, Meade and I got the same result. But I think the test is a bit absurd. The questions test how you think about yourself, not what you really are. Even if we were to accept that there are 4 dimensions of personality and only 2 ways to go within each dimension, you couldn't know where you really are. For example, in the 3d of the 4 dimensions, you can be "thinking" or "feeling." But I suspect the folks who ended up with "thinking" were at least as emotional in response to the relevant questions as those who got pegged as "feeling." What makes a person say yes to "You trust reason rather than feeling"?
"Reason" sounds right... but what drives you to answer the way you think is right? How soberly and clearly have you analyzed where you have put your trust — really, as you live your life? Putting the question that way makes me think the more reason-based person is more likely to answer no to "You trust reason rather than feeling" than the person in the grip of impulsive emotion. Of course, I'm a reason guy! Yeah, and you believe in the strict legal interpretation of the Constitution. So you say. But can I watch you do it? Can I look into your brain, Justice Scalia, and see the reason-gears turn independently of emotion?


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Ariela Gross of USC Gould School of Law is one of the winners of this year's Organization of American Historians--Japanese Association for American Studies fellowship for short-term residence in Japan. Ariela is the author most recently of the prizewinning book What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America (Harvard University Press, 2008). She will spend two weeks this June at Kyoto University teaching and lecturing on the history of race and racial ideology.
This fellowship -- awarded to two or three U.S. historians every year -- is a great opportunity. Other legal historians who have participated in this program are Davison Douglas, William and Mary, who visited Tohoku University, Sendai in 2002, and yours truly. I taught and lectured about U.S. constitutional history at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, in the summer of 2000.
This is a competitive fellowship, but easy to apply for. Expect an October deadline for next year.


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It's all started like this:woke up at 7:30 am, left M all alone, came to college to listen to cultural studies lecture, and the lecturer decided to dedicate it to global warming, animal extinction and the importance of preserving nature. i hate this type of mornings.
And continued like this:regardless my point of view on these issues i want to say a big big thank you to the today's lecturer because oddly enough i left the building with a clear idea in my head what my essay will be about [...] i'm going to write about ivory craft and how it helps to maintain the population of elephants in africa!
And ended like this:
[in two words:
if you want elephants population to grow, breed them like cows. here you can say that you're a vegetarian and don't want cows to be bred, you just want them to be left alone. but people are omnivores by nature, so not eating meet would be a step against nature. animals kill animals. and this is ok. this is how it always has been. here you can also say that while killing animals to eat them may be ok, killing them for aesthetic purposes is not. but the only thing that should matter is the end and not the mean.
we kill animals as any other carnivores animals do. but we're the only ones who can breed those who we kill. so let's just do it! duh.]
if you want elephants population to grow, breed them like cows. here you can say that you're a vegetarian and don't want cows to be bred, you just want them to be left alone. but people are omnivores by nature, so not eating meet would be a step against nature. animals kill animals. and this is ok. this is how it always has been. here you can also say that while killing animals to eat them may be ok, killing them for aesthetic purposes is not. but the only thing that should matter is the end and not the mean.
we kill animals as any other carnivores animals do. but we're the only ones who can breed those who we kill. so let's just do it! duh.]
And here is my essay (well, a couple of key paragraphs from it really):This essay addresses the social authority of historically ruling classes over the subordinate classes, i.e. the process of hegemony. I want to look at the intervention of the First World countries in the cultural affairs of Africa and China and its negative impact. More specifically, the ban of elephant hunting and ivory trade forced by the international environmental organizations, and how it leads to the complete eradication of the whole brunch of art, ivory carving.
Ivory has always been the symbol of wealth in Africa. After the trans-Saharan trade route was established in the 15th century, North Africa became one of the main ivory suppliers in the world which played an important role in its economic development. Thus, not only Africa developed its own national art practice, but it has also made a great contribution to the development of ivory carving throughout the whole world especially during the Gothic period and Baroque era.
As a result, the population of elephants in Africa significantly decreased. Recently, the international environmental organizations such as the World Wild Foundation and Greenpeace addressed this problem by lobbing the ban on ivory trade and elephant hunting. Since the ivory trade sanctions were introduced, prices on raw ivory increased in arithmetic progression, the First world countries such as America, Britain, France and Japan are attempting to completely close their domestic ivory markets. New rules will ban import and export of ivory, and make it harder than ever to sell. It has further compromised the existence of ivory craft in Hong Kong.
Seated in his workshop where he has meticulously transformed elephant tusks into intricate ivory artwork for four decades, Wong Cheong-lam knows the days of his craft are numbered.
"I'm the only one left," he sighs, looking around the workshop where six carvers once worked [...] "Ivory carvers usually do not have much education" he said. "It is too late for them to learn another skill and doing other odd jobs will barely make ends meet."
Meanwhile, the elephant population in Africa dropped even more since the elephant hunting ban was enforced.
In the states of Africa where the ban was introduced, the illegal ivory poaching has only increased. For example, the number of elephants in Kenya dropped from 65,000 to 19,000 between 1979 and 1989, the number of elephants in Zimbabwe increased from 30,000 to 43,000 where elephants were legally sold and private ownership of elephants were allowed, and the private owners of the elephants provided all the security to the wildlife to prevent poaching.
Kenya banned elephant hunting in 1977. Poachers subsequently butchered the herds, as supervision of the animals also declined with the loss of revenue from hunting. In less than two decades, Kenya's elephant herd went from 150,000 to less than 6,000. Botswana, in contrast, permitted big game hunting, and in the same period of time, their elephant herd has quadrupled.
- Subsequently, the ban led to the gradual decrease of the traditional ivory craft practice in Africa and China, as well as made it impossible to successfully develop the contemporary ivory craft.The dependency in one field and the exploitation in others show that the hegemony process and neo-colonial politics continue to deprive countries of their artistic heritage as well as the economic growth.
- By prohibiting ivory transactions western culture continues to oppress African contemporary art practices and replaces it on the international art scene. All the aforementioned sanctions prevent Africa from competing on the world market with finished goods and services, i. e. ivory crafts and wild animals hunting. Nowadays, Africa's role in the world economy is imposed by West and can not yet go beyond. The sanctions are also the reason why the ivory carving as an art branch is ceasing to exist in the developing world.
- The fact that we are now in the situation where the political authority dictates the evolution of the art practice, and where the contemporary art is being shaped by the bureaucracy instead of artists themselves is a serious problem. Instead of letting artistic expression be the primary drive behind the art we are faced with a situation where the political bureaucracy has a similar if not a bigger part in the contemporary art practice and its role in the public realm.
- All art is inherently political and while making a political statement by creating a piece of art is healthy, to be dependent on the authority and allowing it to dictate the medium means surrendering the agency as an artist to the political class. It makes one question the whole art system, its political independence and integrity.
- The only way to get rid of the problem is to stop intervening in the weaker states affairs without the understanding of their mentality, ethics and traditions. Otherwise, the intervention may only be in the interests of the interveners and for their own gain.
In conclusion, it becomes obvious that there is something else hidden behind the so-called help the West is persistently trying to enforce. Because what the world has now, after all the sanctions were imposed on ivory trade and elephant hunting, is the degradation of the ivory craft threatened with complete eradication, further decrease of the elephant population, steady increase of the illegal ivory poaching and continued existence of the neo-colonialism. As well as uncertainty in the integrity of contemporary art in the developing countries and the whole world.


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François Picard's panel is unanimously against the Nobel committee's choice for the Peace Prize winner. The World this Week's guests also discuss Turkey and its "diplomatic boldness"; and the doping scandal in the world of cycling.
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass.---UMass Boston struggled to get their bats going in their Little East Conference opener against UMass Dartmouth (4-10) in a 4-0 loss, but a pair of freshmen helped the Beacons (8-7) earn their first conference win by an 8-0 score in six innings in the second game at the UMass Darmouth Athletic Complex Sunday.
Freshmen pitcher Michelle Zullo (Everett, Mass.) had a series of first Sunday in the second game, including her first Little East Conference victory and her first collegiate complete game shutout. Battery mate Amanda Perry (Worcester, Mass.) provided more than enough run support with a grand slam, her fifth home run of the season.
In the first game, the Beacons struggled to get anything going against senior pitcher Brittany Eldridge (Raynham, Mass.). UMass Boston scratched out just three hits over seven innings and only managed to get six at bats above the minimum. Eldridge struck out five and walked just one batter for the Corsairs.
She also made an impact at the plate, as she knocked in the first run of the game and later scored to help UMass Dartmouth jump out to a 2-0 lead after the first inning. The Corsairs would tack on two more runs in the bottom of the fourth against Kara Willis (Burillville, R.I.) to account for the final score.
Willis pitched six innings and allowed four earned runs on nine hits and three walks. Willis also added two strikeouts to bring her to 23 on the season, more than twice her 2011-12 total (11).
Things would turn around for the Beacons in the second game behind Zullo, Perry and second baseman Lyndsey Capra (Lowell, Mass.).
Zullo (5-2) won her third consecutive start behind her most impressive performance of the year. Zullo scattered two hits and a walk over six innings and struck out three Corsairs.
The game flew by over the first three innings with neither team managing to get on the board. UMass Boston would jump out to their first lead behind a Corsairs error. With Lisa Polsonetti (Revere, Mass.) on third and Samantha Hemstock (Northford, Conn.) on second, Capra singled to bring both runners home to give the Beacons a 2-0 edge.
The Beacons would extend their lead in the fifth. Sophomore Toni Scola (Worcester, Mass.) led off with a walk and Natalia Bouyea (East Longmeadow, Mass.) followed with a single up the middle. Three batters later, Maria Nasta (Andover, Mass.) was hit by a pitch. Perry then stepped up to the plate and hit her team-leading fifth homer of the season over the left field fence.
UMass Boston added two more unearned runs in the sixth to cap off the scoring for the day.
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Immigration to the United States after 1945
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Post-1945 immigration to the United States differed fairly dramatically from America's earlier 20th- and 19th-century immigration patterns, most notably in the dramatic rise in numbers of immigrants from Asia. Beginning in the late 19th century, the U.S. government took steps to bar immigration from Asia. The establishment of the national origins quota system in the 1924 Immigration Act narrowed the entryway for eastern and central Europeans, making western Europe the dominant source of immigrants. These policies shaped the racial and ethnic profile of the American population before 1945. Signs of change began to occur during and after World War II. The recruitment of temporary agricultural workers from Mexico led to an influx of Mexicans, and the repeal of Asian exclusion laws opened the door for Asian immigrants. Responding to complex international politics during the Cold War, the United States also formulated a series of refugee policies, admitting refugees from Europe, the western hemisphere, and later Southeast Asia. The movement of people to the United States increased drastically after 1965, when immigration reform ended the national origins quota system. The intricate and intriguing history of U.S. immigration after 1945 thus demonstrates how the United States related to a fast-changing world, its less restrictive immigration policies increasing the fluidity of the American population, with a substantial impact on American identity and domestic policy.
The 1960s
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Few decades in American history reverberate with as much historical reach or glow as brightly in living mythology as the 1960s. During those years Americans reanimated and reinvented the core political principles of equality and liberty but, in a primal clash that resonates more than half a century later, fiercely contested what those principles meant, and for whom. For years afterward, the decade's appreciators considered the era to have its own "spirit," defined by greater freedoms and a deeper, more authentic personhood, and given breath by a youthful generation's agitation for change in nearly every dimension of national life. To its detractors in subsequent decades, the era was marked by immature radical fantasies and dangerous destabilizations of the social order, behind which lay misguided youthful enthusiasms and an overweening, indulgent federal government. We need not share either conviction to appreciate the long historical shadow cast by the decade's clashing of left, right, and center and its profound influence over the political debates, cultural logics, and social practices of the many years that followed.
The decade's political and ideological clashes registered with such force because post–World War II American life was characterized by a society-wide embrace of antiradicalism and a prescribed normalcy. Having emerged from the war as the lone undamaged capitalist industrial power, the United States exerted enormous influence throughout the globe after 1945—so much that some historians have called the postwar years a "pax Americana." In its own interest and in the interest of its Western allies, the United States engaged in a Cold War standoff with the Soviet Union over the fate of Europe and no less over the fate of developing countries on every continent. Fiercely anticommunist abroad and at home, U.S. elites stoked fears of the damage communism could do, whether in Eastern Europe or in a public school textbook. Americans of all sorts in the postwar years embraced potent ideologies justifying the prevailing order, whether that order was capitalist, patriarchal, racial, or heterosexual. They pursued a postwar "normalcy" defined by nuclear family domesticity and consumer capitalism in the shadow cast by the threat of communism and, after 1949, global thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union. This prevailing order was stultifying and its rupture in the 1960s is the origin point of the decade's great dramas.
The social movements of that decade drew Americans from the margins of citizenship—African Americans, Latina/o, Native Americans, women, and gay men and lesbians, among others—into epochal struggles over the withheld promise of equality. For the first time since 1861, an American war deeply split the nation, nearly destroying a major political party and intensifying a generational revolt already under way. Violence, including political assassinations at the highest level, bombings and assassinations of African Americans, bombings by left-wing groups like the Weathermen, and major urban uprisings by African Americans against police and property bathed the country in more blood. The New Deal liberalism of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman reached its postwar peak in 1965 under President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and then retreated amid acrimony and backlash, as a new conservative politics gained traction. All this took place in the context of a "global 1960s," in which societies in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere experienced similar generational rebellions, quests for meaningful democracy, and disillusionment with American global hegemony. From the first year of the decade to the last, the 1960s were a watershed era that marked the definitive end of a "postwar America" defined by easy Cold War dualities, presumptions of national innocence, and political calcification.
To explain the foregoing, this essay is organized in five sections. First comes a broad overview of the decade, highlighting some of its indelible moments and seminal political events. The next four sections correspond to the four signature historical developments of the 1960s. Discussed first is the collapse of the political consensus that predominated in national life following World War II. We can call this consensus "Vital Center liberalism," after the title of a 1949 book by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., or "Cold War liberalism." Its assault from both the New Left and the New Right is one of the defining stories of the 1960s. Second is the resurgence, after a decades-long interregnum dating to Reconstruction, of African American political agency. The black freedom struggle of the 1960s was far more than a social movement for civil rights. To shape the conditions of national life and the content of public debate in ways impossible under Jim Crow, black American called for nothing less than a spiritual and political renewal of the country. Third, and following from the latter, is the emergence within the American liberal tradition of a new emphasis on expanding individual rights and ending invidious discrimination. Forged in conjunction with the black freedom movement by women, Latino/as, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and homophiles (as early gay rights activists were called) and gay liberationists, this new emphasis profoundly changed American law and set the terms of political debate for the next half century. Fourth and lastly, the 1960s witnessed the flourishing of a broad and diverse culture of anti-authoritarianism. In art, politics, and social behavior, this anti-authoritarianism took many forms, but at its heart lay two distinct historical phenomena: an ecstatic celebration of youth, manifest in the tension between the World War II generation and the baby boom generation, and an intensification of the long-standing conflict in American life between individualism and hierarchical order.
Despite the disruptions, rebellions, and challenges to authority in the decade, the political and economic elite proved remarkably resilient and preserved much of the prevailing order. This is not to discount the foregoing account of challenges to that order or to suggest that social change in the 1960s made little difference in American life. However, in grappling with this fascinating decade we are confronted with the paradox of outsized events and enormous transformations in law, ideology, and politics alongside a continuation, even an entrenchment, of traditional economic and political structures and practices.


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Closing Time Ladies and Gentlemen
Posted by Chris in Uncategorized on August 7, 2012
It is with some regret that I tell you I have made the decision to wind up the Paint and Biscuits blog.
It was a tough decision, but in the end I have had to face the fact that, what with having a very young and all the other demands on my time I don't have the time to keep up the blog. Rather than do a half-arsed job and stress myself out over not being able to to things properly, better to draw a line under everything and concentrate on looking after my family and actually getting the occasional toy painted – and maybe even play a game.
Anyone who will miss my slightly indignant musings on the gaming scene need not completely despair as I have been asked to be a contributing writer to the Shell Case Blog. So I will still be able to address the world with my elegantly crafted rantings on the world of toy soldiers without the associated administrative burdens.
Thanks to everyone who has read my posts, especially those who have commented and added to the discussion. Thanks also to everyone who has posted links to my posts to help spread word of my blogging efforts. I'm hugely grateful to everyone who has contributed to my having had just under 11,000 hits in a little under a year.
Take care, keep painting and may your dice roll high.
I'll see you whenever Phil agrees to run an article of mine.
Posted by Chris in Uncategorized on July 17, 2012
Many congratulations to the Bear on his 1000th post!
I am truly stunned like really really stunned.
Never in my wildest days would I think I could hit 1000 posts when I started this blog never mind the fact I have been doing a post a day everyday for most of the blogs history.
Thank you all for keeping coming back and actually let hit some (in my humble opinion) amazing numbers.
To give you an idea I started in 2010 and since then I have doubled my monthly average year on year so my current average views already for this year is 300+ per day. Huge thank you.
The other thing that has kept me going is the HUGE amount of new guys coming out of the woodwork for this hobby. Some great miniatures, games and hobby-related gubbins means you could literally play a different game every day of the year and not be disappointed 🙂
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Bear's rather splendid Ork Meganobs.
Every Mega armoured Warboss needs a merry band of followers and mine are no different 😀
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Bear's thoughts on the new Stormwall Colossal for Cygnar in Warmachine.
So I have had the beast for a few days now and I have tried him with pNemo and pStryker (why? well thats my 2 Cygnar casters I have used so far :P)
But first some initial thoughts you have already had these hundreds of times already on the internet probably but I am going to go there just for completeness 😛
– 120mm bases can be a pain to move around even with pathfinder. Obstacles are going to be painful very very painful (apparently Colossals & Battle Engines are incredibly clumsy).
– He is a huge point sink it is amazing what your opponent can bring for the same cost.
– Playing him at below 50pts is not worth it as like any really elite list (which is what a SW list is) means you feel every loss that little bit more than usual. OK he is a monster…
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Phil's thoughts on the humble Rhino APC.
This grand statement was prompted by me building one last night whilst watching Battlestar Galactica – Exodus parts 1 & 2 if anyone's interested – and how much I enjoyed building it. I worked out I've built at least 10 Rhino chassis over the years (with 3 more sat under my desk) and all of them very immensely satisfying. And here's why…
It's such a sublimely easy kit to build and, presumably, because the company churns them out like a veritable Forgeworld, the casting quality is almost perfect. In my experience the mould likes are few and far between. But moreover, it just looks ace. The simplicity of the design encapsulates both the efficiency and single mindedness of the STC principle and the Space Marines themselves.
The RH1N0 has been the workhorse of the Adeptus Astartes and the Imperium as a whole since the Great Crusade. They are a byword for reliability and as much…
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The Shell Case reviews Noble Armada.
It's review time again and this time it's the turn of A Call to Arms: Noble Armada by Mongoose Publishing. I first came across Mongoose when my brother and fellow Alliance member, @Chris_S_79 pointed me in their direction. Being a total sucker for anything with space ships I didn't need much convincing to get in touch with them. And, thanks to their incredible kindness, this will actually be the first of two reviews, the other being Mongoose's Star Fleet game. But more on that another time.
Noble Armada is a space opera in the truest sense. It has a fantastic back story, based on the Fading Suns RPG, that recounts the rise and fall of Empires and religions. And it's so good to see a developer put as much effort into the background as they do the rules. I'll be honest, I couldn't quite keep track of who…
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Those fine chaps at Membraine Studios are running a couple of competitions on their Indiegogo page for Exodus Wars.
Competition details are as follows:
Competition 1
One random new contributor from the next 70 hours will be selected to receive ALL THE PERKS. Yes—all of them! 🙂
And because it's not fair to only offer this chance to new backers:
Competition 2
One existing backer will be selected now to be upgraded to receive ALL THE PERKS.
The winners will both be announced at 10:30pm AEST (which is GMT +10) three days from now. Best of luck! 🙂
If you think the game should happen – and I for one think it should – then pledge your support on the Indiegogo page.


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The short version of my question is:
1)For which positive integers $k, n$ is there a solution to the equation $$k(6k+1)=1+q+q^2+\cdots+q^n$$ with $q$ a prime power?
2) For which positive integers $k, n$ is there a solution to the equation $$(3k+1)(2k+1)=1+q+q^2+\cdots+q^n$$ with $q$ a prime power?
Now for some motivation. In this question I ask for an algebra-geometric construction of certain Steiner systems (there's background on what Steiner systems are and on the details and motivation for the construction in that question). In particular, if the construction can be carried out for a $(p, q, r)$ Steiner system, the blocks of the Steiner system would be given by the $p-1$-plane sections of some variety $X$ in affine or projective space over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$. If $X$ is in affine $n+1$-space and $p=2$, the number of blocks would be given by $1+q+\cdots+q^n$. Now the number of blocks in a $(2, 3, 6k+1)$ system is $k(6k+1)$ and the number of blocks in a $(2, 3, 6k+3)$ system is $(3k+1)(2k+1)$ (a $(2, 3, n)$ Steiner system is realizable iff $n=1, 3$ mod $6$, $n > 3$). So the question comes from setting these two quantities equal.
In other words, these equations must be solvable for all $k$ if the algebra-geometric construction of Steiner systems is to go through for all $(2, 3, n)$ systems (the Steiner triple systems) in affine space.
The most general form of this question (which covers both the affine and the projective versions) is:
For integers $n, 1 < p < q < r$, when is there a prime power $q$ such that $$\frac{r!(q-p)!}{q!(r-p)!}=\left[n \atop p-1\right]_q$$ or $$\frac{r!(q-p)!}{q!(r-p)!}=\left[n \atop p\right]_q?$$
Of course, I only expect answers to concentrate on the numbered questions (1) and (2) at the top of the page.
EDIT: Note that e.g. $k=4$ has no solutions for the first equation.


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HONG KONG, CHINA--(Marketwire - Dec. 23, 2012) - SouthGobi Resources Ltd. (TSX:SGQ)(HKSE:1878) (the "Company" or "SouthGobi") has received notification from the Mongolian Independent Authority Against Corruption (IAAC), that it has concluded its questioning of SouthGobi's Chief Legal Counsel Sarah Armstrong and that she is no longer a suspect in their investigations. The IAAC has informed the Company that she will shortly be able to leave the country.
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The Cupertino-based maker of the iPhone and the iPad is launching its iTunes store in Brazil and 15 other Latin American markets.
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After a knee-injury ended Curtis Martin's playing career in 2005, many waited for the day the former New York Jet would be elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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Martin was elected in just his second year of eligibility and is the only running back in NFL history, aside from Barry Sanders, to run for 10 consecutive 1,000-yard seasons to start their career. He is currently ranked fourth on the all-time rushing list with 14,101 yards on the ground behind only Sanders, Walter Payton and Emmitt Smith.
Though not as prolific as Martin, the rest of the class represents some of the greatest talents of their respective generations. Doleman and Kennedy were two of the fiercest defensive linemen of the '90s. Although he led the NFL with 21 sacks in 1989, Doleman was a presence throughout the decade. He ended his career with 150.5 sacks, with 107 of them coming coming in the '90s.
Kennedy, a five-time pro bowler, spent his entire 11-year career with the Seattle Seahawks as a force against the run and opposing quarterbacks. Butler was a standout defensive back in the '50s known as a vicious open-field hitter. He scored four touchdowns and reached the pro bowl four times in just nine years. Dawson and Roaf were arguably the best offensive linemen of the '90s and earned 13 combined pro bowl nods during the decade.
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You hopefully already know this, but a lot of the truly interesting stuff about games development (and game developers) comes not from the PR-managed machine of an upcoming title, but by scouring the medium's past. Example: the following story about NBA Jam creator Mark Turmell.
In a great piece over on Kill Screen, Turmell gets talking about his past, including the fact he was earning $US10,000 a month as a teenager, that he was afraid to go into the basement and that he...liked to set stuff on fire.
I was really a pyromaniac. My buddy Elmer and I would walk through autumn, and we had matches. We'd flick matches into the leaves and then walk away for a certain amount of time before we'd turn around. Then we'd have to run back and put it out. We'd do this in the middle of the night, and we were always starting fires. I loved fire, so it's ironic that the announcer for NBA Jam said, "He's on fire."
And just like that, those slam dunks take on a whole new meaning, whether the line's inclusion was intentional or not.
Pre-Game Interview: Mark Turmell [Kill Screen, via Super Punch]


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Oct. 31, 2005
Senior co-captains, Weldon Ehlert (26:41) and Zac Yanis (26:56) led the pack of Bisons to a seventh place finish at the last meet of the season, the Atlantic-Sun Conference, held in Buis Creek at Campbell University.
Bisons Coach Karen Robichaud said the conference was exponentially more competitive this year with newcomers East Tennessee State and Kennesaw State both placing in the top three positions.
"The seventh place finish does not adequately reflect how well the men ran; each stuck to his game plan and finished with solid times," said Robichaud. "The bar has been raised; and we embrace the challenges that come with a better conference."
Jordan Wilson 27:06, Daniel Pelletier 28:11, Clint Carter 28:18 rounded out the top five scorers, running as a pack the rolling hills of 8K course.
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BERKELEY, Calif. - In a rematch of an April 10 8-5 Bronco victory at Schott Stadium, Santa Clara baseball fell to Cal by a final of 4-0. The Broncos move to 18-16 overall while Cal is now 20-15.
Leading the team with six saves, RHP Paul Twining (3-3; 2.73) made his second start of the season and got a loss in 4.0 innings. He allowed two runs, one earned, on five hits with two strikeouts and no walks. 2B Greg Harisis and RF Stephen Takahashi led the way on offense by each going 2-4.
Santa Clara returns home for a weekend series vs. Pepperdine with the first game scheduled for Fri., April 20 at 6 p.m. On Sat., April 21 Bronco players and coaches will shave their heads in support of St. Baldrick's "Base Bald" program that raises money to fund research for childhood cancer. Click here for more on the event.
Cal put together a two out rally to take a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first. 2B Tony Renda doubled down the right field line after Twining recorded two quick outs. Twining struck out 1B Mitch Delfino but a passed ball allowed Delfino to reach and Renda to score from second. After C Chad Krist singled to put runners on the corners, CF Chad Bunting flied out to right to end the inning.
In the bottom of the third Cal was able to score another run after two quick outs. Again Renda doubled, this time to left center, and Delfino singled through the left side to bring in a run. Delfino would go to second on the throw to the plate and an infield single by Krist put runners on first and third. Bunting was unable to come through and ended the inning with a fly out to left field.
LHP Powell Fansler replaced Twining to start the bottom of the fifth but served up a one out home run to RF Andrew Knapp to make the score 3-0 in favor of the Bears. Delfino and Krist singled with two outs but Bunting flew out for the third time for the last out.
Santa Clara had its best chance to score in the top of the six. 3B Evan Peters, C Quinton Perry and Harisis all singled to load the bases with no outs. SS Justin Viele flew out to left field for the first out before Cal made a pitching change. CF Matt Ozanne hit into a fielder's choice to third where the runner was gunned down at the plate. LF Pat Stover couldn't come through with a two out hit and the inning ended with the score still 3-0 Cal.
The Bears added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth off of new Bronco pitcher LHP Max Deering. Bunting singled up the middle and moved to third on a passed ball and a wild pitch. After a walk to LF Darrel Matthews, SS Chris Paul laid down a bunt single to bring home the unearned run. A double steal and a walk to 3B Derek Campbell ended the day for Deering who was lifted for RHP Chris Mendoza. Mendoza got out of the jam by getting a fielder's choice out at home and a fly out to end the inning.
After two pinch hitters made outs in the top of the ninth for Santa Clara, a third pinch hitter, Stephen Meade, was hit by a pitch. Takahashi followed with an infield single to shortstop to put the tying run on deck. Casey Husband pinch hit for DH C.J. Jacobe but hit into a fielder's choice to seal the win for Cal.
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After a few days of editing, I used my 20% off coupon (always got to have a coupon!) and sent the book off for publishing. A little over a week later my book arrived. It is a 7" x 7" format, softcover with premium paper. All 108 pages for only $18.36 plus $6.99 shipping. I couldn't be happier!
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That didn't last long.
Eighteen months after ESPN trumpeted a global expansion that doubled the number of its events – with first-ever summer X Games in Barcelona, Munich and Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil – the company has ended its international blitz.
On Thursday the network announced it was nixing all international X Games events, including the four-year old Winter X Games in Tignes, France, and dropping the suddenly-dead "Global X" plan from six contests to two, with only Aspen and Austin remaining.


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My question is: How can you verify the users' requirements early in the software creation process?
I show the user specifications, prototypes, demos... but still users forget to share some "insignificant details" about the process or business rules and data. Which pops up after the final test as some "really small and rare exceptions" - which are turned into change request and accumulate a lot of work.
So how do you prototype (or verify) users requirements early in the project?


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Camp near Shelbyville, Tenn.
Feby 12th 1863"
My own Sweet wife,
I have been on picquet the past [two] days
and no opportunity of writing you. Yesterday I was ordered
to camp to assist in making out the pay roll for the
Company and I have appreciated a little time to write
a few lines to my darling Maggie. Our Battery is stationed
nine miles North of Shelbyville on the Murfreesboro
pike and when the Yankees make any demonstration
we advance a mile or two farther and take position on
the pike. There are Cavalry in front of us and in case
of their falling back we have to keep the position. Since
we have been out the enemy have made two or three for-
ward movements and the Cavalry with two pieces of
artillery belonging to Roberts' Battery have had some
right sharp skirmishes. We have taken no part in any
of the engagements as yet although we have been in
unpleasantly close proximity. The road from Murfreesboro to
Shelbyville is perfectly straight with the exception of a
slight bend about three miles from the former place and
when they shoot solid shot from their rifle battery they dance
along on the hard pike as though they never would stop."
We camp at night at a log meeting house at which in times
of peace I expect there has been many a good sermon preached."
Many of the Company go to the houses in the neighborhood
and get their meals, for my own part I would rather go


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Calling all budding comedy writers! CBBC is running a writing competition for 6-14 year-olds across the UK to write a short sketch for Horrible Histories. The winning script will be turned into an actual sketch for the Horrible Histories TV show!
Now clearly we all fall outside that category, but given the amount of knowledge we have about history I don't see why we can't have a go amongst ourselves and have the rest of the forum judge the entries. Because of this, I see no reason why we should restrict ourselves to just the Tudors or the Romans (as the entrants have do) so that means we can tackle the Stone Age, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Romans, the Celts, the Saxons, the Vikings, the Normans, the Middle Ages, the Aztecs, the Incas, the Tudors, the Stuarts, the Georgians, the Victorian and both World Wars. Each sketch (according to the competition rules) should be no longer than five minutes in length and here a few examples to inspire some ideas


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A cab driver in Las Vegas discovered a laptop bag in the back of his cab at the end of his shift. No big deal. But then he opened it and got the shock of his life.
There was $221,000 inside. And he turned it in.
Adam Woldemarim, a 42 year old Ethiopian immigrant who works 12 hours a day and takes home $350 each week, found the bag in the back of his van at the end of a shift last month.
Instead of keeping it for himself and running off into the night, he decided to turn it into the security office at his cab company. A short time later, a man claimed the briefcase.
Apparently he won the money at the Wynn casino and forgot the bag in the cab at the airport. How do you forget something like $221,000? Well, we don't know that.
The man gave Woldemarim a one percent tip of $2,000 and went on his way. For his part, Woldemarim didn't complain about the small percentage of tip. He was happy to get it. Although, if it's normal practice to get $20 for a cabbie returning a cell phone, we tend to think that this cabbie may have deserved a little more than $2,000.
But this just goes to show that there are some good, honest cabbies out there... even in Sin City.


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How to Be an Emotionally Intelligent Parent
The following advice helps you figure out the essential emotional skills you need as a parent. By managing your impulses, you will be more clear-headed in your approach to your child. By being more empathic, you can understand where your child's really coming from (and even discover that your child's goal in life isn't actually to drive you crazy)! Finally, by improving your problem-solving ability, you can come up with better ways to deal with your child when he or she gets difficult.
Using your emotional skills to manage your child
You need self-management emotional skills to bring up your child in a constructive and nurturing way. Studies have found that excessively yelling at your child can do as much harm as — or even more harm than — spanking your child. The results of yelling at your child, name-calling, and putting her down last longer than a slap on the bum, for example.
The message you send to your child — the words and the emotion attached to those words — live on in your child's mind. That message can reinforce the idea that your child is a bad person. In addition, if you continue yelling, your child eventually becomes immune to the noise — she tunes it out and ignores it. She just thinks, "Oh, he's telling me how worthless I am again."
When you can manage your own emotional responses, you can become a better parent. Some of the most important emotional skills that apply to parenting include impulse control, empathy, and problem-solving. By working on your ability (and your partner's ability) in these areas, you can implement any number of parenting approaches. If you can't manage your own emotions, no parenting approaches can help you raise a happy, emotionally secure child.
Managing your impulse control
Losing control of your impulses can derail effective parenting. Getting a grip on your impulsive behavior can go a long way in making you a more stable, nurturing, influential, and supportive parent. Sometimes, you may not even realize that you're being negative and deflating to your child. Your voice gets louder, your temper gets shorter, you move quickly and impatiently, and you start making demanding statements (such as Do this! Get that! Bring it to me now!).
Imagine if you behaved that way toward a perfect stranger — how embarrassing! Or think of yourself in a job interview. Would you think about the questions that the interviewer asks you, or would you say, "That's a dumb question. Look, I'm too busy for this. Just finish your questions and let me outta here." Think you'd get the job? Try imagining that your child is thinking about hiring you as his parent.
You can use a number of long-term strategies to become more patient. Here are a few suggestions:
Consider getting involved in meditation, mindfulness, or yoga.
Over the next week, pay close attention to your anger or frustration when it begins to build — monitor your feelings and the things that you tell yourself while these feelings escalate. Try to dispute the thoughts that give rise to these feelings. At the end of each day, summarize your attempts to deal with your anger. See whether you can figure out how to better detect your anger when it just begins and it's easier to manage.
If you consistently can't manage your impulses, you may want to meet with a professional counselor.
Using empathy as a guide
Empathy, which gives you the ability to read your child's emotions and understand where she's coming from, can help you manage her behavior.
Here are some ways that you can be more empathic with your child:
When your child is upset, first try to understand what he may be experiencing.
If your child is old enough to respond, ask what's wrong, or why she's feeling that way.
Try reflecting back the emotion that your child is experiencing. (For example, you could say, "You seem to be very angry, Sarah.")
Ask questions not specifically related to the feeling but about activities and events — what she was doing earlier today, what happened at lunch, what will she do this afternoon? Sometimes you can get clues to feeling issues through listening to what happened at recent events (for example, what did you do after Kevin said he didn't want to play with you?). Many kids have difficulty articulating feelings spontaneously.
If you attempt to understand your child, she responds with more useful information about what she's feeling, which she doesn't do if you try to control her behavior. Your child wants understanding and attention first — and solutions later.
Problem-solving your way through crises
After you manage your impulses and empathize with your child, you're ready for some real problem-solving. Start considering what you can do to deal with your child's behavior.
You might want to pull out whatever resources you have. Use your parents, other relatives, or close friends for advice. How have they dealt with these behaviors?
Follow these basic steps when you're problem-solving:
Make sure you have a good grasp of the problem.
Start by clearly and concisely describing the problem. (For example, Julia starts whining and complaining every time we go to Grandma's house.)
Consider a number of alternative solutions.
Think your way through how each of your solutions might play out.
Choose a solution that you can use, based on your trial-and-error thoughts.
Implement your solution.
Pay close attention to how well your solution works.
Re-evaluate whether it was the best solution for you.
If it wasn't, try one of your alternatives.
If your solution worked to your satisfaction, congratulate yourself on your success and remember this experience for the future.
When problem-solving in parenting, you usually have to go through some trial and error. Be optimistic. You can eventually find a solution that's right for you. But you also need to take away valuable information from your mistakes, as well as from your successes.