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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College baseball team (28-16, 15-11 PBC) used a seven-run eighth inning to force a split of doubleheader action with the University of Montevallo (31-17, 16-13 PBC) Friday at John Kurtz Field. The Bobcats lost game one 12-6 and rebounded for a 10-9 win in game two.
In game one, the Bobcats had a 6-4 lead after a three-run fifth inning, highlighted by a two-run Steve Hazel (Kentwood, Mich.) single.
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Designated hitter Cody Maas (Alpharetta, Ga.) was 3-for-5 with a run and RBI, while Hazel finished 2-for-5 with two driven in. Centerfielder Ikaika Anderson (Austell, Ga.) and shortstop Daniel Bick (Alpharetta, Ga.) each went 2-for-5 as well, scoring a run apiece.
Righty reliever Jordan Brooks (Macon, Ga.) took the loss, (2-3) tossing two innings. Montevallo reliever Aron McRee (4-0) threw three scoreless innings for the win. Slaid finished game one with a 3-for-4 effort, driving in five runs and scoring two more.
In game two, the Bobcats were posed with a 7-3 deficit headed into the bottom of the eighth. Georgia College responded with seven runs, rattling off seven hits. Jake Sandlin (Evans, Ga.) provided a two-run double to tie it up, followed immediately by a two run single from Bick to take the lead. First baseman Clay Ardeeser (Loganville, Ga.) added an RBI double of his own to cap the scoring at 10-7.
Those extra runs would prove necessary, as the Falcons rallied for two in the top of the ninth, cutting the Bobcat lead to 10-9. The tying run was on first base when Jordan Modine (Ft. Pierce, Fla.) got a strikeout to end the game. Modine (3-0) threw 1 1/3 innings, allowing two runs on three hits while fanning two for the victory. Bobcat starter Matt LaMothe (Troy, Mich.) struck out 10 Falcons over his 7 2/3 innings of work in a no-decision.
Sandlin finished 3-for-5, plating two runs and scoring another. Anderson had a 3-for-4 game two, scoring a pair of runs and driving in one. Bick recorded three RBI in game two, while Rob Hogenkamp (St. Louis) and Jeremy Donaldson (Winder, Ga.) each tallied two hits. Hogenkamp scored one run and drove in another, while Donaldson scored twice.
The loss went to UM reliever Cody Hughes (2-1) surrendering the seven-run inning. Centerfielder Aaron Hill finished game two 4-for-5 with three runs and three RBI, including a home run.
The Bobcats are now 15-11 in Peach Belt Conference (PBC) play, good for seventh place. With four conference contests remaining, the Bobcats are just two games behind second place in the loss column.
The series-deciding game comes tomorrow, April 27 at 1 p.m. at John Kurtz Field.
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Carlisle eased the pressure on manager Greg Abbott with a comfortable 3-0 win against League One bottom club Hartlepool on Boxing Day.
An own goal by Sam Collins and Matty Robson's effort gave Carlisle an interval lead at Brunton Park and Lee Miller added the third to give Carlisle just their third home win of the season and leave Pools boss John Hughes still seeking his first victory since he took over in mid-November.
Carlisle survived an early scare when Pools' Jonathan Franks glanced a shot off the top of the crossbar from just outside the box.
But it was ex-Hartlepool winger Robson who was instrumental in Carlisle taking a 20th-minute lead. His left-footed shot from 25 yards struck defender Collins on the back and completely deceived goalkeeper Scott Flinders as it flew in just inside his left-hand post.
Carlisle defender Mike Edwards cleared a towering header from Steve Howard off the goalline before Robson made it 2-0 to the Cumbrians in the 27th minute with a simple finish from inside the six-yard box after Flinders had failed to clear Jon-Paul McGovern's corner to spark a defensive scramble.
Carlisle gave the Pools' goal a peppering after half-time, but the visitors hit back with their best spell with Andy Monkhouse and Howard both going close.
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An epic is a long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that retells the heroic journey of a single person, or group of persons. Elements that typically distinguish epics include superhuman deeds, fabulous adventures, highly stylized language, and a blending of lyrical and dramatic traditions.
Many of the world's oldest written narratives are in epic form, including the Babylonian Gilgamesh, the Sanskrit Mahâbhârata, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil's Aeneid. Both of Homer's epics are composed in dactylic hexameter, which became the standard for Greek and Latin oral poetry. Homeric verse is characterized by the use of extended similes and formulaic phrases, such as epithets, to fill out the verse form. Greek and Latin epics frequently open with an invocation to the muse, as is shown in the opening lines of the Odyssey:
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After he plundered Troy's sacred heights.
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Over time, the epic has evolved to fit changing languages, traditions, and beliefs. Poets such as Lord Byron and Alexander Pope used the epic for comic effect in Don Juan and The Rape of the Lock. Other epics of note include Beowulf, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Dante's Divine Comedy, and John Milton's Paradise Lost. The epic has also been used to formalize mythological traditions in many cultures, such as the Norse mythology in Edda and Germanic mythology in Nibelungenlied, and more recently, the Finnish mythology of Elias Lönnrot's Kalevala.
In the twentieth-century, poets expanded the epic genre further with a renewed interest in the long poems. The Cantos by Ezra Pound, Maximus by Charles Olson, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford, and Paterson by William Carlos Williams, while not technically epics, push and pull at the boundaries of the genre, re-envisioning the epic through the lens of modernism.
Edward Hirsch also writes about the epic in his book A Poet's Glossary (Harcourt, 2014):
epic: A long narrative poem, exalted in style, heroic in theme. The earliest epics all focus on the legendary adventures of a hero against the backdrop of a historical event: think of the Trojan War and Odysseus's action-packed journey home in the eighth century BCE Homeric epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, the models for epic poetry ever since; or the territorial battles of a warrior culture in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, dated between the eighth and eleventh centuries; or the preservation of a city and a civilization in the Babylonian Gilgamesh (ca. 1600–1000 BCE). These epics seem to be the written versions of texts long sung and retold, composed and recomposed by many epic singers over time, all telling the tale of a tribe. The first audiences for the epics were listeners, the later ones readers. Aristotle (384–322 BCE) considered the Homeric epic the prototype of tragedy. The epic carried important cultural truths but, as M. I. Finley puts it, "Whatever else the epic may have been, it was not history. It was narrative, detailed and precise, with minute description of fighting and sailing, and feasting and burials and sacrifices, all very real and vivid; it may even contain, buried away, some kernels of historical fact—but it was not history."


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I found this an exceedingly interesting article, and thoght it might be worth sharing here.When kids play across gender lines
By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN
updated 7:37 PM EDT, Mon August 27, 2012
(CNN) -- Like many parents, Carrie Goldman was thrilled to learn that Britain's biggest department store recently reopened its toy department with a fresh look: dolls and trucks side by side.
Instead of organizing toys into color-coded aisles of pink for girls and blue for boys, Harrods' new 26,000 square-foot "Toy Kingdom" is broken into six interactive "worlds." Looking for costumes, a rocking horse or stuffed elephants? Try the Big Top, which Harrods describes as "a fairground of circus acts and candy floss, with magicians and jugglers on stage." In the Odyssey, "a gigantic space rocket crashes through the floor and a huge sun bursts through the wall in front of an Area 51-inspired space and gadget zone, complete with alien space pods and limited-edition pieces."
For Goldman, a mother of three in suburban Chicago, it's a step in the right direction toward breaking down the gender divide erected at an early age through playtime. She experienced firsthand how those barriers can hurt children and make them feel like they need to change who they are to gain acceptance on the playground.
Two years ago, Goldman's 7-year-old daughter came home in tears after classmates teased her for carrying a "Star Wars" thermos to school, saying "Stars Wars" was for boys. Goldman shared the story on her blog, Portrait of An Adoption, and within a matter of days, the tale of "Star Wars Katie" went viral, drawing support from around the world.
Her plight didn't just strike a nerve with parents and children -- George Lucas' daughter, also named Katie, and the actor who played Chewbacca also had words of wisdom for Katie based on their experiences getting bullied for somehow being different.
The sheer volume of responses compelled Goldman to delve into why so many people could relate to Katie's story. That research culminated in her first book, "Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear," released this month. In it, she explores the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which society fosters a fear of those perceived as different and what parents can do about it.
The negative effects of enforcing gender norms emerged as a prominent theme, including the way girls are often nudged in the direction of princess fantasies and dolls while building blocks and train sets are traditionally boys' toys. It's part of the reason why Goldman saw the move by a large retailer such as Harrods as promising. Removing gender-specific connotations from packaging or displays sends the message to children that they're open to everyone, she said.
When stores separate toys into aisles for girls and boys, however, they learn that anyone who deviates from their designated shelves deserves to be ridiculed.
"We can't truly address bullying without talking about the fear of people perceived as different," Goldman said. "If you have a 6-to 8-year-old boy who goes into Harrods and sees 'Star Wars' toys next to other dolls and action figures, maybe it'll make him think differently when he sees a girl with a 'Star Wars' thermos. We could be preventing future bullies by teaching them to be open-minded now."
In the chapter "Calling on Toy Retailers to Eliminate Gender-Based Marketing," Goldman posits that the reason stores segregate by gender is so they can sell more of the same product. If a store carries soccer balls in pink and blue, a mother shopping for her son and daughter can buy one for reach. In addition to reinforcing gender stereotypes, the brother and sister no longer need to share, "eliminating an opportunity to develop their social skills," Goldman says in the book.
With children returning to school, Goldman's book lands at a time when bullying is front and center in parents' minds. It also comes in an era when the connection between gender norms and bullying is getting increased scrutiny from parents, educators and activists, prompting more direct action instead of just talk. When Lego announced plans to sell a new line of sets packaged in pink boxes and containing busty characters, salons and spas, girl-led activist movement SPARK launched a petition to quash the toys.
Restricting train sets to boys and dress-up to girls not only reinforces outdated gender roles but also stifles creativity, said psychology professor Deborah Tolman of the Hunter College School of Social Work in New York and co-founder of SPARK.
"Kids get a lot of ideas early from play about what they can do, what they like and what they can aspire to," Tolman said. "By making those themes gender specific, it leaves out a whole range of possibilities."
Efforts at gender neutral play are not about eradicating the sight of pink or blue from toy stores or necessarily pushing children away from toys traditionally associated with their gender, she said. It's simply a matter of making them feel like all options are open.
"It's about making all these ways of playing part of the human experience. Anxiety about gender has created codes that have nothing to do with how people should be people," she said. "There's nothing wrong with pink. It's the meaning we infuse it with."
Many independent toy stores across the United States have been doing what Harrods is doing for decades. Nancy Stanek was tired of toy shopping for her children and seeing the same limited offerings of Barbies and baby dolls in the girls' aisle and cars and action figures designated for boys. So she opened a toy store in Chicago in 1974 with "open-ended activities" in mind: puzzles, games, building blocks, train sets and dolls arranged by theme instead of color-coded aisles of pink for girls and blue for boys.
But more than 30 years later, Stanek is concerned by the marketing direction she said some toy manufacturers are pushing on her. She's reluctant to carry makeup sets and spa kits targeted at tweens and doesn't see the point of selling green Rollerblades with a picture of a boy on the box. For that matter, why should she fill her tiny store with pink bicycles adorned with flowers instead of yellow or purple ones that might appeal to boys and girls?
"I am becoming increasingly concerned with how we seem to be veering back into very gender-specific toys and activities," said Stanek, who owns four Toys et Cetera locations in suburban Chicago. "It's almost as if we've backtracked. We're pushing little girls into princess dresses and ballerina costumes."
That's not to say her stores don't carry fairy dresses or knights. But she tries to balance it out with costumes of doctors, chefs and pirates that show boys and girls on the packaging. She wouldn't even mind selling green in-line skates as long as the packaging isn't directed at one gender over the other.
"There are a lot of good, responsible manufacturers out there that go out of their way to depict objects in play showing both girls and boys," she said. "I generally opt for the ones that are basically presenting the activity appropriate for both sexes."
"Bullied" author Carrie Goldman signs copies of her books with daughter Katie.
Goldman's book also looks at how reducing a woman's value to her physical attractiveness plays into bullying, especially among girls. With makeup kits being marketed to children at younger ages, beauty and body adornment become ways in which children choose bullying targets.
"Toys for girls are overwhelmingly spa kits and princess parties, all these things to beautify themselves with," Goldman said. "There's nothing wrong with wanting to look pretty, but if your reason to look pretty is to please the kids at school, that's where it's a problem."
It's not just an issue for parents of young girls. Cheryl Kilodavis and her son are used to dealing with odd looks and comments from strangers over his affinity for all things pink, including dresses, jewelry and toys.
When 7-year-old Dyson's preference for "pretty things" emerged at an early age, Kilodavis struggled with how to handle it. The bumpy road to acceptance prompted her to share her family's story in the picture book, "My Princess Boy," which came out in 2010, stirring a bit of controversy.
Kilodavis said she supports him, even though she still has occasional moments of hesitation when he emerges from his room in a red dress.
"As parents, we all want our kids to be happy and to be themselves," she said. "But things get in the way of expression and letting kids choose toys or clothes that express who they are."
In public though, adults seem to have the hardest time accepting it. Just last week, a little girl in the toy aisle told Dyson that he couldn't have the mermaid toy he wanted because "it's not for boys," Kilodavis said. When the girl looked to her mother for guidance, she agreed.
"I think there's a lot more anxiety around it on the parent's side, but we set the example for our kids," Kilodavis said.
Boys are more likely to get picked on for stepping outside of the box to play with dolls or wear a pink backpack than girls are for playing with cars or wearing jeans, said Tolman, the psychology professor. It only makes matters worse when parents attach negative connotations to boys acting on traditionally feminine tendencies out of fear that they'll be labeled "gay," she said.
"If kids are coming into social situations with more constrained ideas about what boys and girls should be from playing, you can see how that would contribute to the negative reinforcement of ideas about identity and sexuality," Tolman said.
Well-intentioned parents might feel like they're saving their sons from bullying by pointing them away from traditionally feminine toys or behaviors. But Goldman said that encouraging them to change for the sake of others protects the bully and not the child.
"In the short term, they might protect the child from being taunted, but in the long term, it shows the world that who he really is isn't as important as the status quo," she said. "Those are the kids who are really tormented because they're not allowed to express themselves."
Are you a parent whose child plays across gender lines? What do you think of Harrods' new toy department design? Share your opinion in the comments section below.
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I attended my son's middle school orientation last Friday. The principal gave a very no-nonsense speech on bullying and that parents shouldn't cocoon their kids and lash out at the slightest insults to their kids.
Like starting a jihad because your daughter was teased about liking Star Wars.
I found the story of the mom who supported her son wearing dresses to be....odd.
Look, as a Kilt fan, I'm all for it, but in supporting it, is teh parent not doing harm to the child? When they grow up, unless they are Scottish, man-dresses in the workplace and generally frowned upon.
I like the direction of the effort, but not the extent to which it goes. Men and women are different, despite every effort to make it not be so. Doesn;t mean we should be treated under the law equally, but that equallity does not neccessarily mean we should both be raised exactly teh same with teh same clothes and toys just to prove a parents point.
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The article seemed like a bunch of crap to me. Wah wah someone told that lady's daughter that Star Wars was for boys. Boo hoo. Almost everyday my kids come home complaining about something another kid said at school. Big deal. If i reacted harshly to every "Jimmy pushed me when he wanted to use the bicycle at recess" story it would be ridiculous. It reminds me of a light duty version of the story where the mom let her son go to school everyday in a dress because she wanted him to be able to "express himself". I'd be tempted to instruct my children to make fun of that kid if he went to kids school. I probably wouldn't do that but I'm sure I'd flash the mother or father some dirty looks if I saw them.
There is pressure to conform; coming from the parents first. Daddy's approval, Mommy's approval...are all that matter to the child long before classmates come in the picture. Mom and Dad are the ones that have to be okay with non conformist behavior, and still take the steps to communicate this to their kids. If they are happy at home, they can be happy whilst among the "bullies".
Harrod's is making an admirable attempt at cat herding, though. 5 stars!
More nonsense.
Stores are certainly free to arrange their toys any way they wish. Seems to me though, if I were a toy store owner, I'd arrange them in such a way that I maximize my sales. Now, I understand that in this day and age that would be perceived as waging a "War on Children", but excuse me for not giving a sh*t about that.
Was just commenting about this to my wife. We have a young baby boy and one of the marvels of his growing personality is that through no fostering of it by us, it is obvious that his has certain interests. Even before he could walk, he was obsessed with cars and trucks. It really is amazing to watch - I can't really even grasp what the appeal is to him, given that he doesn't know anything about them other than that they move. His first words were "car" and "boat". Get him in one and he'll scream unless you let him play with the steering wheel for a few minutes while he makes a "VROOM" sound.
He plays with the girls down the street and their toys might as well be invisible to him. He wanders around their playroom until he finds a ball or a car, which the girls could care less about. It's pretty funny to watch.
I'm all for letting kids pursue their interests. But don't be upset when their interests fall right in line with stereotypes that are scary to some. It's just the way it happens. There's always going to be bullies, because there's always going to be insecurity and crappy parenting. Just do your job to make your kid isn't one of them, and teach them the right way to deal with them when faced with them. They'll be fine.


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Virtually everyone has a theory about colds and flu and, given the glut of information, it may be hard to separate the facts from plain fiction. Yet, there are data that show what makes us vulnerable to these infections, and how to stay well when the weather turns cold.
Susceptibility and stress
Catching the flu is not a random event. Bugs may be getting nastier (see box below), and our poorly ventilated, sometimes crowded, environments may encourage the spread of virulent viruses. But if exposure were the only factor, all of us would get sick every time we were exposed.
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People who have heart complaints, asthma, chronic kidney disease or diabetes, or who are taking medications (for instance, steroids) are more susceptible to colds and flu. Smokers are also more susceptible to upper respiratory tract infection (URTI; Am J Public Health, 1993; 83: 1277-83).
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Susceptibility to colds was reduced as social support increased. Of those with three or less relationships, 62 per cent came down with a cold compared with only 35 per cent in those with six or more types of social support (J Am Med Assoc, 1997; 277: 1940-4).
A repeat of that study (Health Psychol, 1998; 17: 214-23) evaluated stress more precisely (long term vs short term) as well as the severity of illness, and also measured blood levels of natural-killer (NK) cells, the immune system cells that combat infectious agents. Those stressed for more than a month had lower NK-cell activity and were 2.2 times more likely to develop colds. The biggest risk came with increased job stress.
Stressed children have a greater susceptibility to URTI and show measurable decreases in mucosal immunity (J Psychosom Res, 1997; 43: 271-8). Depression is also strongly related to catching a cold (Epidemiology, 2001; 12: 345-9).
Prescription drugs, like antibiotics, can also increase colds/ flu susceptibility. A substantial number of GPs still prescribe antibiotics for colds/flu, even though these drugs don't work against viruses (J Am Med Assoc, 1997; 278: 901-4; J Am Med Assoc, 1998; 279: 875-7).


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"Delaware Indians acting as scouts for the Federal army in the West. General Fremont, on taking command in the West in 1861, while he shrank from employing the Indians as soldiers, saw the advantage of using them as scouts, and for this purpose organized a band of them, selecting only the most reliable, robust and best characterized. They soon made their value known by the early intelligence they brought of the enemy's movements. Some of them were also employed by General Grant." —Leslie, 1896
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Winder city officials tonight will have the first of two public hearings about the city government's fiscal year 2015 budget.
The location of tonight's 6 p.m. public hearing has been changed, according to a notice received just before noon today. The meeting will be on the second floor of City Hall.
The second hearing is scheduled for 6 p.m. May 22 at the Winder Community Center. The Winder City Council is scheduled to adopt the annual spending plan June 3. The document is posted on the city's website at www.cityofwinder.com. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, the new budget projects more than $34 million in revenues — about $3.7 million more than the current fiscal year — and $30.4 million in operating expenditures, which is $3.4 million more than in FY2014. The vast majority of the additional revenue would be from utilities fees.
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Just as the Bee dance, for a "language", I mean that there are vocal pattens, or "grammar".
In the nature, there are many intelligent animals like human beings.
Bird songs, whale songs, dogs?
In fact, bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. There are Parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds,...
I wish to know the most well-understood vocal animal languages. Which species?


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text: I know the transponder satellites have been getting smaller and smaller, but I think an FM transponder in a cubesat would be amazing. If no FM transponder, maybe some sort of digi-talker similar to SEEDS, where it has a voice part and then an SSTV part. Either of these would be awesome. Thanks, KE5GDB On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:07 PM, <rct at uvigo.es> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > The Telecommunication School at Vigo University, Spain, is developing > a cubesat that will be launched by ESA. It will transmit in amateur > bands, and the University radioclub (EA1RCT) is collaborating in the > project. The design is not yet closed and we can send proposals to the > development team. The radioclub is willing to hear ideas from the > amateur radio comunity: we would like to have a short list ready by > next Thursday, June 26, so any proposal we receive before then will be > carefully read. > > The satellite will be small and lightweight as you know, and it will > run on a short electrical budget. Moreover, the time schedule is very > tight. One of the main objectives is to test SDR systems in space (not > necessarily in amateur bands). > > Neither the bands, power o full-duplex capability have been > established. It could eventually end up with just a telemetry beacon. > We would like to hear your opinions about what the amateur radio > community would prefer to carry on board, in these three scenarios: > > · full-duplex communication capability (linear transponder, fm rep, etc) > · half-duplex systems (digipeater?) > · beacon modes (afsk, psk, cw) > > > Best regards, > EA1RCT RadioClub Telecomunicaciones Vigo > http://lostrego.uvigo.es > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb > -- 73's Andrew K. KE5GDB http://www.thathamkid.com


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WARNING: Stagnant Wages can Support Only so Much Consumer Debt – we appear to have hit the ceiling again
Since my last update on U.S. Retail Sales and Consumer Credit in June, we have seen a continued slump in retail sales data (August sales growth was essentially zero) and a skyrocketing rate of consumer credit growth, which returned to levels last seen before the Great Recession.
As you may recall, I have been tracking growth rates in consumer credit and retail sales for some time now, and my methodology and conclusions are set forth in a report on the unsustainability of sales in an environment beset by stubbornly high underemployment and real (now looking like it will be nominal) wage deflation. My original report on the subject can be found here.
This time it seems clear that we have hit the ceiling on consumer credit again. For the first time since the recession, we experienced a sustained period of consumer credit growth (mostly student loans and autos, as well as plastic) rather than a continuation of the pattern of de-leveraging that we saw during – and immediately after – the recession.
The acceleration of borrowing had an inflection point that corresponds nicely with the announcement of QE2 and consumer credit growth actually became net positive almost exactly upon the commencement of Fed buying. Retail sales growth shot up too and remained up into the second quarter. Then matters begin to get really dicey – consumer credit continued to grow but retail sales growth began a seemingly inexorable decline and we now expect it to turn negative.
The problem is, you can't service more and more debt with stagnant/declining aggregate wages and continued high underemployment.
The Confidence Fairy may help pry the plastic out of your wallet, but she's not much help when the bill comes!
The data illustrated by the graph below sets off all sorts of warning signals and undoubtedly is playing a not-insignificant role in the apparent return to recessionary or near-recessionary conditions.
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Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has returned from China with the promise of billions of Euros worth of investment to follow.
The Chinese government has signed an accord with their Irish counterparts that allows for major trade between the two countries.
Kenny's cabinet believe the deal, brokered during a four day official trip to Beijing and Shanghai, can attract the capital needed to kick-start the Irish economy's recovery.
Already the China Investment Corporation has signed a special agreement with Ireland's NTMA agency – which manages the national savings and sale of state assets.
CIC intends to invest heavily in Irish companies and state assets, a move that is set to create jobs and boost Ireland's export figures.
"This agreement is very significant and an opportunity to examine all forms of investment. CIC will explore a very broad range of investments," said Kenny ahead of his return to Ireland.
NTMA chief executive John Corrigan, who signed the deal with CIC International chairman Lou Jiwei in Beijing, believes the agreement will serve Ireland well.
He said: "We've been talking to them for a good while. So this is a sort of cementing of the relationship. I think we should be clapping ourselves on the back. It's a major achievement to get to this stage.
"CIC has a very active bond desk. They invest right across the spectrum. Everything is a possibility."
Irish PM Kenny, who witnessed the signing of the deal alongside Chinese President Wen Jiabao, said: "Clearly a country as economically powerful as China expressing an interest in being a partner to investment in Ireland is an important indicator in its own right.
"China understands that Ireland is now heading in the right direction."
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The riots in Greece began in Athens on 6 December when a 15 year-old young man, Alexis Grigoropoulos, was shot and killed by police. Oddly enough, the situation in Greece came up at the beginning of our adult Sunday School class this past week. Rioting in modern Greece is nothing new, as Applebaum points out, but, she notes:
"even if Greece is unserious, even if anarchist subculture has uniquely deep roots in Athens, even if Greek corruption and youth unemployment are unusually high—it's a mistake to dismiss these riots as altogether peripheral. If nothing else, they show what can happen to a highly developed, post-ideological society where organized politics no longer interests large groups of people. One sympathizer says the rioters can be divided into three groups: communists, anarchists, and 'younger people who like to think that they are anarchists but … don't know what they stand for. They are the ones who have been looting … they feel the only way to make themselves heard is to do these things.'"She is certainly correct to note that the thinking of rioters "isn't exactly sophisticated." She goes on to observe that this upheaval, "among other things", is "being conducted to the strains of Pink Floyd ('We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control')."
What is noteworthy about all this is the incredibly precarious situation in which more and more people are daily finding themselves in the U.S. All of this is exacerbated by the series of exit interviews being done by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, both of whom, with logic defying seriousness, are arguing that their eight years in power, six of which they had a majority in both houses of Congress, were a success across the board. Add to that the banking and financial industry bailout and the almost outright refusal of help to automobile companies and the recent attempts by the incoming to administration to downplay expectations, expressed well by Vice President-elect Biden about the "exceedingly high expectations" other countries have for the Obama presidency, and you have a great deal of lingering uncertainty and growing resentment.
Given all of this it is easy to share Applebaum's concern about those who are not sure why they no longer have a job and who do not "have the political vocabulary to explain what's wrong" and who doubt that they have leaders capable of fixing it, that for these folks "random violence" may come to be seen as "a plausible response." Let's hope that the answer to her second question is "No".
"This is the good news the prophets foretold: The Savior will be born of the Virgin Mary" (Antiphon for Mid-morning Prayer, 24 December).


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NBA TV Canada broadcasters Paul Jones and Sherman Hamilton were just trying to get in a few league news and notes before Toronto's losing effort in Cleveland tonight when in came Mickael Pietrus.
We're not really sure what it is he's doing but whatever it is, he's doing it with incredible enthusiasm. Do yourself a favor and watch to the very end, when the video stops at the perfect moment.


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In this short video, we'll describe the basics of deciding how much power an amplifier should have when you're trying to match it to your speakers or subwoofers.
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Ken: You know, one of the questions our advisors get a lot is "How much power should my amp have"?
Zak: That's a really good question. It's important though, before you start comparing amp power ratings, that you don't compare apples to oranges. There's two different kinds of power ratings out there: peak power and RMS power.
Ken: Peak power is what the amp can produce for a very limited burst of power. It's often the number you'll see on the box but it's not very useful. It's better to look at RMS ratings.
Zak: Yeah, RMS power is the measure of the amp's continuous power output. It's much better to look at the RMS numbers when you're shopping.
Ken: And if you really want to be sure about an amp's power rating, compare amps that have a CEA-2006 power rating. Now, this standard establishes specific guidelines for how the amp's power is measured. So amps with this kind of power rating have all been measured on a level playing field.
Zak: But once you're aware of all this you still need to figure out just how much power you need to drive your speakers. The first thing to remember is that it's better to have more power.
Ken: Right. You want your amp to be able to play all your music, loud and soft, without distortion, and be able to handle sudden changes in volume easily.
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Great project Norma! Diastatic malt powder might also be a good option for browning.John
Norma,Several years ago, when I did the bulk of my experimentation using Caputo 00 flour in the context of an unmodified electric home oven, I came to pretty much the same conclusions as Roberto as to thickness factor but reached other conclusions as well that I thought were material and significant, as I tried to summarize in the next to the last paragraph at Reply 3 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3673.msg30921.html#msg30921. One of the measures that I found worked well was the use of a mini-oven, which is described in one of the posts linked in Reply 3 referenced above and also in the following Reply 4 in respect of the Dom DeMarco clones I played around with. I mention the mini-oven because a mini-oven somewhat simulates the small head space that exists in most deck ovens. For naturally leavened doughs, you might take a look at Reply 7 in the same thread. I do not recall specifically using sugar but I do recall using just about every method that we could come up with at the time to get more crust coloration in a standard unmodified home oven. Most of our work was done in the A16 thread but we tried diastatic malt (see, for example, Reply 205 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,1298.msg14399/topicseen.html#msg14399), sweet dairy whey, increasing the degree of damaged starch (I ran the Caputo flour through my food processor), etc. Some of these measures worked to get increased crust coloration but they also had effects on crust texture that were different than one would have gotten using the Caputo flour in the context of a very high temperature oven. Remember, all of this was happening when there were only about 1400 members on the forum, where then like now, most of them were on the sidelines watching those of us who were on the playing field fumbling around because, other than Bill/SFNM, we knew very little about Neapolitan style doughs, and even less in the context of using a home oven for that style. If I were to undertake a project to make a deck oven Caputo-based pizza, I would read the A16 thread and other threads and posts linked from there. It will be painful to go through the thread because of its length (19 pages) but, absent someone coming to the rescue and handing everything to you on a silver platter, I don't know of any other way to proceed. We now have quite a few members who know how best to use the Caputo flour so they might have some ideas for you. Peter
Hi NormaI have experimented with OO flour in my deck oven baking at 525-550. I started first using a "basic" neo formula. Since I usually judge doneness by what the crust looks like, the bake seemed to take forever. When the crust finally looked like it was done, the toppings were toast and the crust was hard as a rock. I then decided to add sugar and try again. This time I got some color to the crust but again it was baked too long so the crust was still too hard. Next I tried some malt-no improvement. Then I decided to mix OO with HG flour at varying percentages. This resulted in a more tender crust; of course this gets away from your desire to use OO 100%.During other experiments I did use OO 100% when I cranked the oven to the 800 range. This resulted in a crust with expected characteristics of OO; bake time was under 2 minutes.I concluded that with usual deck oven temps, OO isn't compatible with a light crumb and soft to slightly crispy crust as found in a neo pie. If however you are a pyro at heart and have good insurance, you could modify your oven to get the high temp OO requires.Good luck with your experiments.Bob


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Orlando Magic youngsters Maurice Harkless, Tobias Harris and Kyle O'Quinn only just started their professional careers. Even if each of them plays another decade, they might never again face a team as dominant as the one they played against Monday night.
LeBron James' Miami Heat beat the injury-ravaged, rebuilding Magic 108-94 at Amway Center to capture their 27th consecutive win. The Heat now need six more victories in a row to tie the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers' NBA-record winning streak of 33 games.
"Everybody's beatable," Magic point guard and co-captain Jameer Nelson said. "But those guys are playing so well right now it's tough for anybody to beat 'em."
Magic coaches and executives hope that their young players learned something, anything, from the Heat — lessons they can use to accelerate their development.
If nothing else, the Magic learned just how great James is.
James scored 24 points, collected nine rebounds and dished out 11 assists, and he played a central role in turning a close game into a rout.
With the game tied 68-68 late in the third quarter, James keyed a 20-2 Heat run that broke the game open.
"For us as a team," James said, "we've seen it all. We withstand runs. We know teams are going to make runs, and it's just how we come out of it."
James wanted the win badly.
He threw a perfectly timed alley-oop pass to Chris "Birdman" Andersen that Andersen dunked to extend the Heat's lead to 88-70 with 9:32 to go. When the Magic called a timeout, James pumped his fist and ran toward his team's bench. Teammate Mike Miller ran onto the court and gave James a flying hip bump.
"We did enough late in the third quarter and fourth quarter to come away with this win," Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. "That was some of our best in that fourth quarter on both ends."
Nelson scored 27 points and tallied 12 assists, both game-highs, while Harris added 20 points.
Rookie small forward Harkless spent most of the night defending James, but he picked up three fouls in the final 1:32 of the third quarter. He finished with seven points on 3-of-15 shooting and nine rebounds.
"I've just got to keep getting better," Harkless said. "These guys are really good players, and hopefully one day I'll be there."
The Magic (18-53) faced a difficult challenge from the start against the Heat (56-14).
Already playing without injured center Nik Vucevic and shooting guard Arron Afflalo, as well as injured power forward Glen Davis and suspended small forward Hedo Turkoglu, the Magic's injury woes worsened midway through the first quarter.
Rookie power forward Andrew Nicholson injured his left ankle and didn't return to the game.
A 3-pointer by Nelson tied the score 68-68 with 2:59 left in the third period.
That's when James took control. He ignited a 10-0 Heat run to close out the quarter.
James received a feed from Mario Chalmers, sliced through the lane and unleashed an emphatic right-handed dunk.
After Andersen blocked a layup attempt from Harkless, James drove past Harkless and scored as Harkless picked up his fourth foul. James made the foul shot to put Miami up 73-68.
A short while later, Ray Allen swished a 3 from the right wing.
"They made a lot of shots, and they made a lot of open 3s that kind of killed us there," Harris said.
As the game's final seconds ticked off the clock, Heat fans inside the arena chanted, "Twen-ty sev-en! Twen-ty sev-en! Twen-ty sev-en!"
Six more wins in a row to tie the record.
Seven more wins in a row to break it.
"Our historic run is about winning championships," James said. "That's what we want to be known for. But it's a process, and whatever comes in-between that, we can be excited about."


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Two shadowy out-of-state political groups have been fined a total of $1 million for laundering money used in California political campaigns last year.
Two shadowy out-of-state political groups have been fined a total of $1 million for laundering money used in California political campaigns last year.
The Arizona groups, the Center to Protect Patient Rights and Americans for Responsible Leadership, will pay $500,000 each. That's not chump change but neither is it enough, under current law, to dissuade further meddling in California politics by anonymous out-of-state interests likely to view the fine as little more than the cost of doing business.
It will take more than a fine. It will take sunshine falling on the names of donors who now hide in the political shadows. It will take a change in state law.
California, in the wake of the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, enacted some of the toughest political disclosure laws in the nation. But those were the days when nonprofits did good works for others. Today some are purposely set up as shell organizations, such as those in Arizona that, in this case, have close ties to the Koch brothers, the billionaire industrialists who back many conservative and libertarian causes.
We're not suggesting David and Charles Koch can't spend their money backing candidates and causes they support. We are suggesting they and anyone else pumping money into politics should have to disclose their spending.
California voters saw through the charade when they rejected Proposition 32 that would have blocked unions from raising money. The irony, of course, was that backers of the measure, especially the two shadowy groups funded by the Koch brothers, tried to sell this as a way to clean up politics. (Other money from the groups went to oppose Proposition 30, a tax increase measure that was approved by voters.)
Three bills before the Legislature aim to shine more light on California politics. One, AB800, would make clear the state Fair Political Practices Commission can audit a campaign before an election. It does considerably less good to find out who's pulling the political strings after the election is over.
Two bills, AB914 and SB27, would considerably expand the disclosure requirements for nonprofit organizations engaging in political activities in California.
The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling opened the floodgates to political contributions by essentially declaring that corporations and unions are people in the sense of free speech rights. We shouldn't compound that judgment error by letting such "people" hide their identities.
It's bad enough it happens elsewhere. But at least if they try to slip money into this state under the guise of some shell outfit set up for no other purpose than to wash away the donor list, then the full fury of state law should greet them at the stateline.


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Naturopathic Medicine: Hypertension
Emily Kane ND
Hypertension is defined as a repeated blood pressure (BP) reading of greater than 150/90 mm Hg (mercury). There are two types of hypertension: primary (aka essential or idiopathic, which means no particular cause can be identified) and secondary, which means due to some definable cause such as kidney failure or atherosclerosis.
About 89% of cases are considered to be primary hypertension, and while no specific cause can be singled out as the culprit, many factors are implicated in the development of primary, or essential hypertension. Some of the recognized risk factors include family history, environment (family size, crowding, eating patterns, occupation, obesity), salt ingestion and sensitivity (there is controversy over whether the sodium or chloride part of the salt molecule is the principal factor), race (blacks have more primary hypertension and more morbidity and mortality than whites), hyperlipidemia, smoking, and diet.
Secondary hypertension accounts for only a small minority of patients with hypertension, but must be ruled out in all cases, as discovery and treatment of the cause will cure the hypertension. Causes of secondary hypertension include:
sympathetic nervous system compensation in response to pancreatic hypoglycemia which usually will fluctuate; in the morning it will be better and in the afternoon it will be worse.
epinephrine compensation in response to severe pancreatic hypoglycemia: the patient will seem like they are calm outside but really tense inside. They will tend to have increasing hypertension as the day goes on.
obese hypertension: may be hormonal, hormonal with adrenal compensation, or hormonal with liver compensation.
renal hypertension: divided into renovascular hypertension (pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, usually seen in pregnancy), and renal parenchymal hypertension (stenosis of a renal artery causing decreased renal perfusion which results in the kidneys activating the renin-angiotensin pathway)
endocrine hypertension: this includes adrenal hypertension (primary aldosteronism, Cushing's syndrome, and pheochromocytoma), acromegaly, hypercalcemia, and oral contraceptives (probably the most common cause of secondary hypertension).
coarctation of the aorta
Signs and symptoms of hypertension are as follows:
In primary hypertension patients are often asymptomatic until late in the disease, and frequently hypertension is discovered during routine physical examination.
occipital headache: seen only with severe, advanced disease; worse in the morning on rising, and better as the day goes on
blurred vision
epistaxis (nosebleeds)
hematuria (blood in the urine)
abnormal sounds over the renal arteries, possibly due to abdominal aorta aneurysm
no fall in BP from supine to standing. Blood pressure should normally drop slightly with position changes just momentarily, then calibrate.
In secondary hypertension the same symptoms as primary hypertension are seen, plus symptoms or history related to whatever is the inciting cause. In addition:
blood pressure falls during orthostatic measurement (sitting to standing)
sympathetic nervous system compensation may cause BP fluctuations with a better BP reading in the morning and worse in the evening. The individual will appear calm but experiences internal tension.
To treat hypertension from a physical medicine standpoint, the first order of business is to assess cardiovascular fitness with a submaximal stress test. This is something typically done in a hospital or sports medicine setting, by a qualified exercise physiologist. Your aerobic condition is calculated, compared to normal for your age and other factors, and then an aerobic exercise program tailored to your needs can be designed. Typically heart patients need to work out in the range of around 40% of their maximum target heart rate, sometimes for only 10 minutes a day at first. Don't overdue. Consistency, and slowly building up as your condition improves is the key. Severe hypertension patients may be advised to do NO aerobic exercise at first. Isometrics are strongly contraindicated because they can unduly stress the venous system. A system of slow, standing Chinese exercise movements called Qi Gong have helped many people and are widely practiced in China not only as therapy but treatment of many diseases, including cardiovascular problems.
Physical medicine therapies using water may also provide great benefit. Some of these include:
hot baths: to promote sweating
peroxide baths: to greatly stimulate skin circulation
constitutional hydrotherapy
for acute hypertension : enema, then full body hot bath with cold compress to head and neck
foot baths: alternating between tubs of hot and cold water.
Stress is an important complicating factor in hypertension, so you may benefit from stress reduction techniques. One of the oldest and best beloved stress management technique is treating yourself periodically, as your budget allows, to a gentle, full body massage.
The importance of nutrition and diet cannot be overemphasized in disease control, and hypertension is no exception. In general, attempt to adhere to the following eating principles:
low sugar, especially refined, white sugar and products which contain it.
low fat diet of unsaturated fats -- no more than 15% is optimal, and try to avoid saturated fats (meat fat) altogether.
your daily food intake should provide calories in the following percentages: 70% complex carbohydrates, 12-15% protein and 10-15% fat .
high fiber, such as the good old apple a day, and whole grains
low cholesterol (avoid animal fat).
low Sodium/Sodium-restricted diet . Take the salt shaker off the table.
1-2 week fast on alkaline juices or watermelon fast, followed by a vegetarian diet .
if overweight, reduce weight to normal range.
Foods that can provide specific therapeutic benefit in hypertension include:
high Potassium foods such as millet, buckwheat, oats, rice, raw goat's milk, raw leafy vegetables, watermelon, garlic, onions, rutin-rich foods, cornsilk tea, garlic, broccoli, celery, cherries, nectarines, pineapple, kumquats, watermelons, squash, pomegranate, guava, parsley, cucumber, dandelion greens, cornsilk and white mushroom soup. If you are taking diuretics as part of your plan to control or reduce your hypertension, replacing Potassium is especially important.
increase omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. These high quality oils are found in vegetable, nut, and seed oils (particularly good is flaxseed oil), salmon, herring, mackerel, sardines, walnuts, evening primrose oil, and black currant oil.
Therapeutic foods used in Oriental cultures for hypertension include:
mung bean soup
chrysanthemum and spinach tea
cucumber vine tea
Other specific food-based remedies include:
take 60 g of banana skins or stems, steam in water and eat three times daily
one cup of grape juice and celery juice each, taken with warm water three times daily for 20 days. After one 20-day course of treatment, a 5-7 day rest, then resume another course.
drink the decoction of 10 water chestnuts and 25 g each of kelp and corn silk. This means bring 1 quart of water to a boil, add the ingredients and simmer for about 20 minutes on a low heat.
soak peanuts in vinegar for 5 days, then eat 10 peanuts every morning.
take a handful of sunflower seeds every morning and evening with 1/2 cup of celery juice (an effective, potassium-sparing diuretic) for one month.
drink one small "wine glass" of freshly pressed turnip juice morning and evening for 10 days
soak 6 g black fungus in water overnight; steam for one hour; sweeten with sugar to taste. Take one time per day in evening before bed until the symptoms and blood pressure have improved.
for constipation caused by hypertension take 500 g of peeled banana and mash together with 15 g black sesame seed. Eat daily.
take 60 g of water chestnuts and 30 g of fresh orange peel. Add water, steam until cooked and eat this dish 2 or 3 times daily.
take 30 g dried green peach (pitted young green fruit left to dry in the sun) cover with water and simmer until cooked and drink in place of tea.
allergenic foods
salt, salty foods: pickles, olives, chips, packaged snacks, meat, (especially ham, frankfurters, bacon, bologna, corned beef, lunch meats, frozen fish fillets, sardines, herring, caviar, anchovies, shellfish), dairy products, spicy foods: salsa, white and black pepper, mustard, ginger, hot foods, canned tomato juice, V-8 juice, processed cheese, canned, dried or instant soups, frozen peas and beans, most processed and refined foods, MSG, mayonnaise, salad dressings, gravies, ketchup, food with Sodium benzoate as a preservative, Sodium proprionate in cheese and bread, baking powder, baking soda, ice cream, milkshakes, soft drinks, smoked meats and fish, Jello, pretzels, potato chips, salted nuts, candy, rennet tablets, pudding mixes, beverage mixes, spicy foods, alcohol, fried foods, fatty foods, pork, overeating, low levels of Calcium
alcohol, sucrose, caffeine
trans-fatty acids, hydrogenated oils (margarine, vegetable shortenings, imitation butter spreads, most commercial peanut butters) oxidized fats (deep fried foods, fast food, ghee, barbecued meats)
Supplements that may be additionally helpful, because it is sometimes impossible to get therapeutic levels of certain nutrients through diet alone. Please contact a qualified health care provider for specific dosages.
Vitamin A
Vitamin B-complex
Vitamin B3
Vitamin C
Vitamin D
Calcium 1-2 grams
Magnesium 500 mg daily
Potassium 100 mg daily
Coenzyme Q10 60 mg daily
omega-3 fatty acids 10-15 g daily
omega-6 fatty acids, especially evening primrose oil (EPO)
The world of plant medicine has much to offer for controlling or even reducing chronic high blood pressure. Please consult with a qualified herbalist or naturopathic doctor to find out about specific dosages, or the form in which to take the herbs. The following list will provide a guideline.
Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) for essential hypertension
Allium sativum (garlic)
Apium graveolens: juice and seeds
Arctium lappa (Burdock)
Arnica spp. (toxic)
Berberis vulgaris (root bark of Oregon Grape Root)
Cimicifuga spp. (Blue cohosh)
Crataegus oxyacantha: cardiotonic, stabilizes heart (Hawthorne berries)
Fagopyrum esculentum (buckwheat) with vitamin C for raised arterial tension with capillary bleeding
Ginkgo biloba (standardized extract)
Hamamelis virginiana (Witch Hazel)
Olea europaea (olive oil)
Rauwolfia serpentina (toxic):primary hypertension
Scutellaria lateriflora (Skullcap) to soothe the nervous system
Taraxacum officinale (Dandelion), useful as a diuretic and to tone the vasculature
Tilia platyphyllos for hypertension associated with atherosclerosis
Valeriana spp. (Valerian root)
Viscum album (Mistletoe). Beware! this plant is toxic in relatively low doses but useful for high blood pressure which presents with headache, dizziness, loss of energy, and irritability
Chinese herbs:
Coptis and Scute (Huang Lian Jie Du Tang) (or if constipation, Coptis and Rhubarb C. (Xie Xing Tang)); Jiang Ya Wan (patent); Uncaria 6 (patent): Liver Fire Blazing Upward: irritability, dry mouth, insomnia, dark urine, red tongue with yellow coat, forceful pulse
Bupleurum and Dragon Bone (Chai Hu Jia Long Gu Mu Li Tang): Gall Bladder Phlegm: irritability with occasional attacks of palpitations, constipation, heavy sensation in the body, wiry rapid pulse , greasy tongue coat
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Planet Explorers Offers Gamers A Great Big Sandbox To Play In
Fans of open-world sandbox games will definitely want to check out Planet Explorers, an ambitious indie game currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. Developer Pathea has already done some amazing work on the game, which you can see in the video below.
Planet Explorers is an open-world voxel game that drops players in a huge world full of towering alien creatures and varied environments. In addition to being one of the prettiest voxel games we've seen (thanks to what Pathea calls a "Marching Cubes" algorithm that creates smooth terrain, as opposed to most blocky voxel games), Planet Explorers boasts a laundry list of promising features, including a full story mode complete with RPG elements and sidequests, an Adventure Mode that features randomly generated worlds, 4-player co-op, and the ability to create your own custom structures, weapons, and even vehicles.
While Kickstarters often promise potential donators the moon, Pathea has been working on the game for over a year, and frequently releases free alphas of the game on its website – the impressive video trailer below is actually from an older version of the game than the one available online right now.
Pathea is looking to raise $100,000 to complete the game, but has plenty of stretch goals in mind if more backers are interested. To find out more about the project and to contribute, head over to the official Planet Explorers Kickstarter.
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To be eligible for consideration in NSCAA College Rankings, a school must be a member of NSCAA's College Services program. To find out if your school is a current NSCAA College Services member, follow this link to the current membership list.
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The NCAA Men's Division I regions underwent realignment for the 2006 season based upon changes recommended by the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Committee. These changes are based upon the shifting landscape of conference alignment, which, in many cases took effect in 2005-06 and will continue in the future. Due to the geographical distances of some conferences, this was not always feasible. For the most part, conferences are assigned intact to a particular region. Out of 23 NCAA Division I conferences, 20 are kept intact within a specified region. Only the Atlantic Coast Conference (included in two separate regions), Big East Conference (two regions) and Conference USA (two regions) were not kept intact.
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PLAINVIEW – The Community Classroom at Wayland Baptist University has a few new offerings for the spring term for those interested in learning new skills, brushing up on old ones or just expanding their horizons.
The popular Cake Date with Etta classes, featuring longtime cake maker Etta Gilbert, return for the spring after two fall runs with full classrooms. Students have learned the various cake making secrets and a full host of decorating tips and tricks. The January sessions are nearly full but a few spots do remain. The classes are held Mondays beginning January 7 and repeating the 14th, 21st and 28th, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. The cost is $120 and that includes all supplies. Learn skills for making your own celebration creations and enjoy tasty homework.
Another popular returning feature is the Comedy Defensive Driving series, which is held monthly over two nights, from 6-9 p.m. each night. The first session of 2008 runs Jan. 21-22, then repeats Feb. 18-19, March 24-25, April 21-22, May 19-20 and June 16-17. These courses are great for removing traffic tickets or lowering insurance rates, with instructor Bill Anderson providing handy tips for protection on the road while tickling your funny bone. Cost is $30.
The Literary Lunch Bunch series continues as well, with the first spring session held Tuesday, Feb. 26 from noon to 1:15 p.m. Participants bring sack lunches and discuss the reading assignments from previous sessions, facilitated by Micheal Summers, director of church services at Wayland. February's session will cover the following titles: Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller; Jesus on Leadership by C. Gene Wilkes; Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert; A Perfect Union by Catherine Allgor; and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. There is no charge to attend Lunch Bunch.
Other returning classes to be featured, with dates and times to be announced, include the CPR and First Aid course and Quilting: Traditional Handpiecing. Call the Community Classroom for details.
Besides the returning favorites, several new courses are on the lineup for the spring as well.
Easy Upholstery Class: Meets Thursdays from Jan. 24 through Feb. 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Join Karla Glowicki, 20-year veteran of the upholstery and sewing design business, on a journey through step-by-step instruction for covering ottomans and small furniture. Cost is $120.
Beginner Sewing Class: Meets Thursdays from Feb. 28 through March 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Longtime seamstress Karla Glowicki will provide nuts and bolts instruction in sewing machine use, threading needles, sewing buttons and using single, blanket and hem stitching. Students will create a pincushion, pillowcase, laundry bag and apron during the course and learn valuable household skills. Cost is $90.
Opera: The Human Voice: Meets Mondays, Jan. 14 through Feb. 18, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Lovers of opera, unite! Join Dr. Shelley Tapp, associate professor of business at Wayland and a self-confessed opera fanatic, on a tour of the human voice in opera. Sessions will focus on the five vocal ranges, and students will listen to arias and discuss the material to enhance learning and enjoyment. Cost is $50.
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A native of Columbus, OH, Rascal Flatts bassist and harmony vocalist Stanley Wayne DeMarcus, Jr. — aka Jay DeMarcus — was born on April 26, 1971, and loved music from an early age, which was at least partially due to having musician parents. He and his second cousin Gary LeVox would actively participate in their frequent family jam sessions, and over time DeMarcus learned how to play guitar, bass, keyboards, and mandolin, among other instruments. He packed up and moved from Ohio to Nashville in 1992 to have his hand at a music career, and soon scored his first record deal as part of the Christian group East to West. They released a self-titled album in 1993, but eventually that group fizzled, and DeMarcus moved on to play with country star Chely Wright's band. On the side, he was also gigging in a Nashville club with his singer cousin LeVox, whom he'd previously convinced to quit his job back home to move and pursue music. One night, that side band's guitarist didn't show, so DeMarcus asked Joe Don Rooney, one of his mates in Wright's group, to sit in. That performance was all it took to see the trio had something special together, and the multi-platinum selling country-pop group Rascal Flatts were born. The group's debut self-titled album appeared in 2000 via Lyric Street Records, a label owned by the Walt Disney Company. In 2004, DeMarcus married beauty queen Allison Alderson (a former Miss Tennessee titleholder). He also produced Chicago's 2006 album, Chicago XXX. ~ Corey Apar
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Location: Clark County 4-H Fair GroundsThe Clark County annual vegetable gardening class series dubbed "The After Dinner Garden Conversation" is here again! Starting January to September 2018, we would have a series of 9 classes, one class per month on Thursdays from 7-9pm. There will be a fee of $20 for all 9 classes and $5 per class should you choose to participate in only some of the classes. Participants will get a 3-ring binder with presentations they participate in and enjoy light snacks at every presentation
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- January 18th - Raising Vegetable Seedlings for the Home Garden not Rocket Science
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- April 12th - Tomatoes: More Than Just in The Garden
- May 24th - A plant ID and Management Session with Bob Hill of Hidden Hill Nursery and Simon Kafari, Purdue Extension (Hidden Hill Nursery Location)
- June 14th - Growing Healthy vegetables in your Garden - The Application of Basic Organic Gardening Concepts to the Home Garden
- July 12th - Managing your Garden Pests without the use of Pesticides - The Place of Integrated Pest ManagementAugust 23rd Healing Gardens Part 1 - Basic Design Considerations
- September 13th - Healing Gardens Part II! Construction of key Components to a healing Garden
Clark County Extension is once again offering the opportunity to beginner Gardeners to get to learn how to successfully raise vegetables in their community gardens and backyards. It is also an opportunity for Gardening enthusiasts and experienced gardeners to come share their knowledge with beginner gardeners.
The after dinner garden conversation as the name implies is going to do just that! We will combine conversations that share individual experiences with power point presentations.
Registration is required to attend, as a minimum number is required for the program to come on. To register for this event, or if you have questions about the event, please call the Clark County Extension office (812-256-4591) or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Should you need a reasonable accommodation to participate, prior to the day of an event, please contact the Extension office at 812-256-4591.
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