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In video games, Mario, the intrepid princess-saving plumber, does not usually pair up with anyone outside of the Mushroom Kingdom.
There are exceptions for special events, like Mario teaming up with Sonic the Hedgehog for the Olympics, but generally, the most iconic video game character doesn't use backup.
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The Mushroom Kingdom is in danger from an outside force in "Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle," a new video game for the Nintendo Switch gaming console. Mario and friends are getting help from the Rabbids, crazy rabbit-like creatures who speak in gibberish, yelling "BWAAAH!" very often, from another gaming company, Ubisoft.
Creative director Davide Soliani said he and his team wanted to bring something to the Mario universe of games that no one had seen before, and using the Rabbids and their penchant for chaos and slapstick violence provided the perfect injection of new ideas for a bold take on Mario. He said there is a familiarity in the overall look and feel of the game, but surprises are waiting around every corner.
"We used these contrasts as a focus to bring new ideas, new game mechanics, new environments, and that's why you are in the Mushroom Kingdom, but it is twisted," Soliani said.
"Mario is very well known as a hero, a brave guy. And the Rabbids are quite the opposite, quite different. How cool it could be if Mario, throughout the game, teaches to the Rabbids how to become heroes? And Mario learns from the Rabbids how to crack a joke, to take it easy."
Mario is joined by his friends Princess Peach (no rescuing needed this time), Yoshi, and Luigi. They team up with four Rabbid heroes who mimic their Nintendo idols, taking costumes to look like the original gang. In the campaign, these characters will form teams of three to find a way to fix the Mushroom Kingdom by visiting different worlds and battling enemies.
"We wanted make something that Mario players would recognize, like jumping and stomping," Soliani said. "But at the same time, we were using the Rabbids to inject in those mechanics new ways to spice up the combat, new ways to spice up the Nintendo characters as well."
The development team at Ubisoft specialized in tactical and strategic games. Making a new game with such beloved characters presented challenges, but Soliani said a turn-based strategy shooter made the most sense to maximize the divergent ideas of gameplay and abilities in the game.
"We should try to stay true to the Mario universe and mix tactical phase, combat phase, which is more in line with the Mario world," he said. "Finding treasure chests, collect coins to buy new weapons, meet new heroes and be challenged by new enemies."
When he came up with the idea for the mashup, Soliani knew he would have to not only convince his own company, Ubisoft, he would have to sway Nintendo to allow him to use their characters. He met with Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who created the Mario character, originally called Jumpman, in the classic video game "Donkey Kong" in 1981.
Solaini said presenting his idea to "the most legendary game designer in the world" was intimidating.
"When we first presented the game to Miyamoto-san, we had only three weeks in-house to come up with a prototype. When we presented the prototype to Miyamoto-san, he was surprised that we had, in our prototype, Mario and Luigi."
Miyamoto asked how Solaini got the character designs for Mario and Luigi in the prototype. Solani told him his team made them from scratch for the presentation, impressing the Nintendo game designer.
Early reviews of the game have been very good, mentioning the different elements of gameplay and the creativity used to bring Mario and the Rabbids together. The style of combat is reminiscent of another turn-based shooter, X-COM, with a variety of weapons and the use of cover for defense.
However, Solaini said their inspiration came from another popular game.
"I'm a big fan of X-COM, the original one from Julian Gollop and the new one from (Jake) Solomon," he said. "But our reference was not X-COM but Mario Kart. We wanted to bring the dynamics, the surprise that you have in go-cart racing to our combat system in a strategy game."
With delightful and recognizable characters, whimsical environments and dialog, and a battle system that combines movement and shooting into strategic combat, Solaini and his team were proud of what they accomplished.
"Those were the basic foundations that we built up for the rest of the game. When we did that, we said, OK, I think we have something very strong, something that we should explore even more."
He invited all fans, including diehard Nintendo fans, to experience something different.
"Mario+Rabbids: Kingdom Battle" is available now for the Nintendo Switch. It is rated E+10 for everyone 10 years of age or older due to cartoon violence, comic mischief, and mild language.


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DENVER (AP) – Two Colorado miners who died of carbon monoxide poisoning apparently entered an area of the mine where an explosive had been previously detonated, federal investigators said Monday.
Nick Cappanno, 34, of Montrose and Rick Williams, 59, of Durango were killed at the start of their shift Sunday morning at the Revenue-Virginius mine near Ouray (yoo-RAY') in southwestern Colorado.
Preliminary information indicates one of the men entered the area first, said Amy Louviere, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, which is investigating the deaths.
When the first miner didn't return, she said, a foreman went looking for him. Both men were later found by other miners working in the area, and those miners immediately evacuated the underground gold, silver and lead mine, she said.
Mine manager Rory Williams previously said there was a blast in the mine to remove rock on Saturday that may have been a source of the carbon monoxide. Louviere said the blast occurred during the previous shift, so it likely happened on Saturday.
Williams, who isn't related to Rick Williams, said he knew both miners.
"They were great men. They will be remembered indeed," he said.
Nineteen miners were taken to a hospital for treatment and all have been released.
About 100 miners work at the site, about 270 miles southwest of Denver, which will be closed until the end of the investigation.
At a news conference late Sunday, Rory Williams said all of the miners had air packs to help them breathe in an emergency, but he didn't know whether they carried gas detectors to alert them to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide. He said there didn't appear to be any equipment malfunction.
He didn't return a call Monday seeking further details.
Regulators weren't aware of any previous carbon monoxide problems.
Carbon monoxide exposure is a longstanding problem within the mining industry – the invisible, odorless "silent killer" can quickly overwhelm its victims at high concentrations, said Tom Hethmon, a mine safety expert from the University of Utah. It results from the incomplete combustion of gas, wood or other fuels, and in mines can come from machinery or the use of explosives to blast rock.
Improvements in ventilation practices have helped reduce accidents, Hethmon said. But if ventilation systems fail or the volume of gas is too great, carbon monoxide can overwhelm those exposed in a matter of seconds, he said.
Short-term symptoms of exposure include dizziness, confusion and headache. Miners are typically required to carry or have ready access to portable, self-rescue breathing devices that provide enough oxygen to last about 45 minutes to an hour.
Robert Ferriter, a senior mine safety specialist at the Colorado School of Mines, said routine air tests done after blasting should have detected any problems from earlier blasting at the Revenue mine.
"The big question here is how you got 20 people exposed to such a massive amount of carbon monoxide," he said.
The mine dates to the 1870s and was taken over by its current owner, Denver-based Star Mine Operations, in 2011. The company, which also has a mine in Cerro Blanco, Peru, received a permit to resume mining at the site near Ouray in February 2013. All the mining is done by drilling and blasting, according to state regulators.
Federal records show the mine reported eight employee accidents in the past two years, including five that resulted in days away from work for the injured worker.
The mine has received 33 citations since Star Mine became the operator, including 13 that regulators determined were reasonably likely to result in injury or illness. The most recent came last month after inspectors found tire chains stacked in a walking area that created a tripping hazard.
– By Colleen Slevin, AP Writer
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Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III says he would support an openly gay teammate. The Heisman Trophy winner and rookie football phenom is the most high-profile of the dozen players expressing similar sentiments in a new article at OUTSPORTS.
Many of the players credit President Obama's historic announcement supporting equal marriage and the growing conversation on gays in hip-hop, entertainment and religion. The comments are especially notable coming from football players because the sport has historically been perceived as a bastion of homophobia.
While everyone we spoke with had some personal connection to the LGBT community, only one athlete said he had a teammate who had come out of the closet. The smile of Robert Griffin III, the second pick in the 2012 NFL draft, lit up the red carpet at the NFLPA's Saturday Night Lights event in Hollywood. Known for his colorful socks, Griffin unknowingly chose a fitting pair – colored pink and purple – for his short, unexpected interview with Outsports.
Griffin remembered a high school teammate who had come out to his team in Copperas Cove, Texas. While Griffin said he has gay friends and wouldn't care if a player came out on his new Washington Redskins team, he remembered a sad ending to the football career of his gay former teammate.
"When he came out, he stopped playing," Griffin said. "He might have stopped playing because of the negative feedback he might have gotten from being that on the football team. So, I think that's probably why he ended up quitting." It was from that out player that Griffin learned a gay teammate poses no threat. "Just because they're gay doesn't mean they're hitting on you," he said.
RG3 was the Number 2 pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. The former Baylor University quarterback ran the fastest 40-yard dash by a quarterback with an official time of 4.41. Griffin joins a growing number of footballers speaking for gay rights, including Michael Irvin, Michael Strahan, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Donte' Stallworth and Will Demps.
Props to Outsports Editor Cyd Zeigler. Read it HERE.
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Good morning, AdLand. Here's what you need to know today:
According to Marketing Land, 26 of the 52 national Super Bowl ads mentioned Twitter in their spots. Considering that the Super Bowl generated 24 million tweets, that's a smart bandwagon to jump on. YouTube and Instagram each got a shout out, and Facebook was mentioned four times. Nothing for Google+, though.
Publicis is merging Digitas and LBI to make a single digital agency network with 5,700 people in more than 25 countries. Digitas USA says it won't be undergoing any changes in the short term and Colin Kinsella will still lead the shop.
AOL is rebranding Advertising.com to make it more relevant.
Rokkan is expanding its presence in the U.S. by opening up shops in Chicago and Los Angeles. It is also hiring more creatives. The staff has already grown 96 percent — the revenue, 51 percent — between 2011 and 2012.
Grey hired Jane Reiss, the former CMO of NYC & Company, to be its new CMO.
Adobe and Goodby, Silverstein and Partners decided to release this online ad instead of splurging for a Super Bowl spot.
Spredfast, a social marketing startup, just raised $18 million. It has worked with Whole Foods Discover, and Intuit.
Slate is not impressed with Oreo's blackout Super Bowl tweet.
Previously on Business Insider Advertising:
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK- What's a fair punishment in the Balfour case?
Eduardo Telles: "I personally think that she should take responsibility for it and that she shouldn't be acquitted. She should be punished, because it's neglect. Maybe jail, but justice should say what she should do. Maybe social work and a fine, something related to a punishment that would respond to neglect."
Molly O'Brien: "Well, legally, you have to go through the legal system, but emotionally, her life is ruined, and I would think that's plenty."
Lindsey Gerner: "Maybe parenting classes. I don't know how someone could leave their kid in their car accidentally."


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Top Contributors: Samuel-IGN, Bob-IGN, Andrew Nelson + more
Two films set in the Mass Effect universe have been announced by BioWare to be produced in the near future. The first being a live action film based on the original Mass Effect game, set to be produced by Legendary Pictures. The second film is supposed to be an anime produced by Funimation which will involve a new storyline altogether.
Upcoming Films
- Mass Effect Film: The Mass Effect film will be based on the story told in the original Mass Effect game. According to BioWare's Executive Producer, Casey Hudson, "At BioWare, we've always thought of Mass Effect as having the depth, emotion and plot twists perfectly suited for an adaptation to a motion picture. With Avi Arad and Legendary attached, we believe that the Mass Effect movie will be an extraordinary entertainment event that realizes our vision for the franchise and thrills fans." The film is set to be produced by Legendary Pictures with Avi Arad, and BioWare's Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuck, and Casey Hudson as its executive producers.
- Mass Effect: Paragon Lost: An anime film set in the Mass Effect Universe was announced by BioWare and EA, set for release sometime in Summer 2012. "Over the last few years, we have revealed different pieces of the Mass Effect world through different media. Extending the story through an anime medium is another amazing opportunity for us," says BioWare's Casey Hudson. This anime revolves around Lieutenant James Vega and will take place prior to the events of Mass Effect 3.


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EDT:Tutorial: RUI With Database Lesson 10
Access a database with EGL Rich UI
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Lesson 10: Install Apache Tomcat
You can use Apache Tomcat to display the web page and to run the EGL-generated service.
Download and access the server
If you have IBM® WebSphere® Application Server installed, you can skip to the next lesson. In any case, you can download Apache Tomcat, if necessary, and make it available in the workbench.
To gain access to server:
- Locate the Servers view, which is by default at the lower
right of the workbench. EGL created an AJAX Test Server by default.
Right-click the empty space and click New > Server.
- In the Define a New Server window, expand Apache and click Tomcat v6.0 Server. Accept the default values for the other fields. Click Next.
- In the Tomcat Server window, access
the open-source software either by using the Browse to
find an existing installation directory (for example, apache-tomcat-6.0.26)
on your machine; or click Download and Install.
If you found an existing installation directory, click Finish and skip the installation steps.
Accept the terms of the license agreement. Browse to a directory for the application files, such as C:\Program Files\Apache. While the workbench completes the installation, the Define a New Server window is displayed with the installation directory specified. Progress is shown at the lower right of the workbench.
- When the installation is completed, click Finish.
- Start the server by highlighting the server
name and clicking the green Start icon at the
top of the Server view.
Lesson checkpoint
In this lesson, you completed the following tasks:
- Downloaded Apache Tomcat, if necessary
- Started the server.
In the next lesson, you deploy the application to a server and run it there.
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"VistaPrint's No Customer Service: Consumeraffairs.com Documents Complaints" outlined my poor experience with VistaPrint and my decision to never use their products or services again. This article, as of May 8, 2009, is indexed in the #6 position page 1 of a Google search for the phrase "VistaPrint complaints."
My Promise to VistaPrint:
As I promised in my intial article, I have become "a consumer affairs advocate fighting hard to highlight the no customer service" treatment I received. My plan was simple: write a blog post about what happened and tell all of my friends in my assorted social networks of my experience.
My Blog:
- Article: I wrote the article describing my experience
- Google Search: I performed a due diligence search on VistaPrint utilizing the keywords "VistaPrint complaints"
- Links: I provided a list of 5 respected media sites, consumer advocacy sites with information on a variety of complaints lodged against VistaPrint. WordPress provided me my own category
Activerain is an important social network, with 145,000 registered users, where I have many real estate friends. I wrote a second article detailing my experience and that article now sits on page 2 of a Google search for "VistaPrint complaints" "VistaPrint: How Not to Run Your Company a Cautionary Tale"
This is one of my favorite social networks with an estimated 8-9 million registered users. I have over 1,300 followers on Twitter and counting
- Tweet: I tweeted my experience with a link to my deansguide article
- @VistaPrint: In my tweet I used the @VistaPrint to notify them of my article
Because I utilize the Typepad application on my Linkedin profile, my social network content from Twitter ends up streamed to my Linkedin profile. In addition my WordPress.com application streamed my article on VistaPrint making it accessible to my 398 1st level connections and their networks as well
Friendfeed.com aggregates all of your content that you place online. Recently it has become the hot new mover with many Twitter advocates moving to ramp up their networks on Friendfeed. My article, my tweets, and my conversations about my VistaPrint experience has streamed on my Friendfeed account


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Porthselau is a little sandy bay at the south end of Whitesands Bay, St Davids, and at low spring tide it is possible to walk from one to the other.
It is easily accessible from the coastal footpath and is worth the short walk from the main car park at Whitesands if the main beach is crowded.
It can also be reached by a pleasant walk along a clearly marked footpath across the peninsula from Rhosson Farm, where limited parking can sometimes be found.
Sometimes spelled Porthsele, the beach is sheltered from the south-westerly prevailing winds so there is usually no need for a windbreak, and the sunbathing is good.
Not far inland from the clifftop is the farm known as Treleddyn, a double pile 17th century house whose history is associated with smuggling. It is said that a tunnel connects the house with Porthselau through which an early owner brought in contraband landed on the remote beach at night.
The house can claim an important role in the thwarting of the abortive French Invasion of Fishguard in February 1797, when the merchant farmer, former High Sheriff and magistrate who lived there, Thomas Williams, spotted a squadron of four Men o' war off the North Bishop while out for his morning walk. A former sailor and owner of a trading ship called Phoebe, he was not fooled by the fact that the vessels were flying the British colours. Through his telescope he saw that the ships' decks were crammed with troops and there was a distinctively French aura about them, so he raised the alarm by sending a messenger to St Davids. The story goes that Mr Williams kept the ships in sight all the way round to Strumble Head, which would have been quite a feat, entailing a hike, or a horse ride, at least as far as Porthgain, six or seven miles up the coast.
But the Williams family were hardy folk. A few years earlier in about 1780, Thomas Williams's wife Mary had rowed out alone from Porthselau to one of the lesser Bishops to rescue the seven surviving members of the crew of a Swedish vessel whose fate she spotted through her telescope after the ship had been wrecked there. She took them back to Treleddyn and looked after them until they recovered from their ordeal, earning herself the accolade "The Welsh Grace Darling."
Treleddyn has another claim to fame which involves a Royal romance. The famous 18th century actress, Mrs Jordan, leased the house and was regularly visited there by her enamorata the Duke of Clarence, later King William 4th. It is said there was a Royal coat of arms decorating one of the ornate ceilings, but it was not present when later historians visited the house, so it may have been a figment of someone's imagination.
Many of the present-day visitors to Porthselau are unaware of its interesting history, but they can still enjoy its golden sands and rock pools.


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So this was a fun recipe to try — prepared for a monthly get-together with friends; I seem to have become the 'salad guy' of late but I don't mind at all, as this almost always gives me a chance to use more of my CSA basket than I might normally.
I received the recipe via my CSA newsletter — a couple of variations: I didn't add any salt (the Roquefort has enough already!) and instead of candying the pecans I simply bought some prepared but unsalted fragments. Meanwhile I only used one tablespoon of sherry vinegar and smaller amounts of the sugar and mustard in the dressing. While this reduced the full taste range of the dish on the one hand, on the other I felt it was a better balance as well as being a bit healthier.
• 1 head leaf lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces
• 3 pears – peeled, cored and chopped
• 5 ounces Roquefort cheese, crumbled
• 1 avocado – peeled, pitted, and diced
• 1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 1/2 cup pecans
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons white sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons prepared mustard
• 1 clove garlic, chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• fresh ground black pepper to taste
1. In a skillet over medium heat, stir 1/4 cup of sugar together with the pecans. Continue stirring gently until sugar has melted and caramelized the pecans. Carefully transfer nuts onto waxed paper. Allow to cool, and break into pieces.
2. For the dressing, blend oil, vinegar, 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar, mustard, chopped garlic, salt, and pepper.
3. In a large serving bowl, layer lettuce, pears, blue cheese, avocado, and green onions. Pour dressing over salad, sprinkle with pecans, and serve.


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Boonville Acquires Former Union Pacific Bridge
BOONVILLE (AP) - Boonville residents are celebrating the end of a long effort to take ownership of a former Union Pacific Railroad bridge.
The Boonville City Council on Tuesday approved a deal to transfer ownership of the bridge to the city.
City officials are already discussing plans for redevelopment of the Boonville bridge, which was built in 1931, with an eye toward making it a major part of the Katy Trail biking and hiking trail.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports the city has a four-phase plan that would cost an estimated $4 million over eight to 10 years.
The bridge hasn't been used since 1986. When former Gov. Matt Blunt asked Union Pacific to dismantle the bridge for parts in 2005, then-Attorney General Jay Nixon challenged the decision in court, and won.


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Taking a high road on bigotry.
I am feeling a little sad today, and it is not because I am black and sometimes wear a hoodie. I suppose I could be sad for those reasons.
But I am not sad because people like Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, a National Basketball Association team, seem to view skinheads the same as he does a "black kid in a hoodie.''
"If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it is late at night, I am walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there is a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald guy, tattoos everywhere, I am walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all lived up to and are fearful of,'' he said in a recent interview.
Many people applauded Mr. Cuban for being honest about his feelings, when I believe his honesty on this issue should be feared, not cheered.
The only white, bald-headed and tattooed guys of whom he and I would be wary, should be wary, would be skinheads, which would mean he was implying that a black kid in a hoodie is just as dangerous as skinheads and their neo-Nazi beliefs about blacks and Jews.
But I am not sad today because of that potential implication.
And I am not sad because I believe Mr. Cuban is trying to provide cover for the racist rants and behavior of his fellow NBA owner Donald Sterling, who doesn't want black people to consort with his girlfriend, and who as a real estate magnate was fined by the feds for housing discrimination against blacks and Latinos.
I am not sad because Mark Cuban seems to believe that prejudice and bigotry are like the common cold, things we should treat when they break out, but acknowledging all the while that we will never be rid of them, and I am not sad because he believes fighting prejudice and bigotry exacts a price.
"We have come a long way'' in combating bigotry, he said.
"And with that comes a price. We are a lot more vigilant and a lot less tolerant of different views, and it is not necessarily easy for everybody to adapt or evolve. I know I am not perfect. I know I live in a glass house, and it is not appropriate for me to throw stones.''
I am not sad because he believes a containment rather than an eradication campaign is the best treatment for bigotry.
What we should do with bigoted people, he suggested for example, is to help them "realize that while we have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to learn that it is an issue we have to control. ... ''
"It does my company no good, it does my customers no good, and it does society no good if my response to somebody and their racism and bigotry is to say, it is not right for you to be here. Go take your attitude somewhere else.''
I am not sad because I know that coddling the bigotry of grown men, not to mention 85-year-olds like Sterling, is to hold as an acceptable loss the many lives their bigotry might have scarred over the years.
I am not sad about any of those things, because despite the pain they may cause, and the dreams they would seek to withhold from me, I am still here.
And I can still laugh, and hope and soar beyond their expectations of me, and I am bold enough to stare the slight-givers in the face and say, as Maya Angelou did in her poem "Still I Rise:''
"You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.''
No, I am feeling a little sad today, because Maya, that regal lady of verse and prose, she who told me why the caged bird sings, is gone from us.
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Pentagon Deems Commissary Operations Necessary, Calls Back Workers
Thursday, October 10, 2013
The federal government shutdown will probably not be a windfall for supermarkets and drugstores outside military base gates.
The Pentagon called many of its civilians back to work Oct. 7, and that call included the people who run the commissaries — the on-base grocery stores.
The Defense Department deemed commissary operations necessary to support service members and their families. Stores began operating under normal schedules Oct. 7.
The CEO of the Virginia-based Defense Commissary Agency, Joseph Jeu, asked patrons to be patient as product delivery schedules got back to normal. Navy Times reported it may take three to five days for the stores to restock.
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The top dozen lessons I've learned regarding what not to do in over 35 years as a pastor's wife…
1. Don't go to a church potluck dinner with something that is not homemade. The church ladies will spot a Stouffer's lasagna in a New-York minute. They will know at once you can't cook. Find five never-fail recipes and let your mother make them. If all else fails, bring a salad or rolls.
2. Don't be fake. Don't wear the "church face." Fighting like rabid dogs on the way to church and popping out of the car with your happy "Praise the Lord" grins doesn't fool anyone. It will teach everyone in your family to be superficial, defensive and hypocritical. The more real and vulnerable you are, the better the congregants identify with you and respect you for being honest.
3. Don't trade ministry for spirituality. The Bible is not just a book to help you teach, it's to make you spiritual. If every time you open your Bible, it's for a sermon outline or teaching lesson, God can never change YOU. Let His life in you transform you into a powerful, anointed leader.
4. Don't expect your children to be perfect. They aren't. Get over it. They are normal kids. If you fill their lives with unrealistic expectations (your own and those of every nosey church member), you will just make them mad, hurt or rebellious. When I failed to protect my older, more sensitive daughter from unwarranted criticism, she became wounded and withdrew. When my youngest daughter felt "pastor kid pressure" she refused to conform and wore her bunny slippers to church for a year. Fortunately, we learned to comfort them, befriend them and help them filter which expectations were appropriate and which should be ignored. Every pastor's kid needs support, comfort, acceptance and affirmation. You want them to grow up and be launched into the world-loving church, not leaving church.
5. Never be surprised when the worship leader has an affair (just kidding.) But some high-profile church leader will fall into sin. "Wait for it….waaaiiit for it…." When a front-line, up-front guy or gal succumbs to temptation and devastates, disappoints and disillusions the unsuspecting congregation, you can recover. Remember, Satan is creative. He is always going to go after the "big guns." At this point, the pastor has two choices: to cover it up, which is stupid, unscriptural and destructive, or to deal with the situation honestly and openly, using biblical wisdom and church discipline while dealing compassionately with the couple through counseling, patience and forgiveness. That does not mean that the church and the individuals will not suffer consequences. We live in a sinful world. But God has given us spiritual weapons to wage spiritual war.
6. On a lighter note, don't push the envelope by wearing mini-skirts, leopard-skin pants or thigh-high boots, no matter how cute they are. Yes, I was in the church rock band and it was tempting. Bad idea. Be modest. Don't wear clothes that are too sexy, too casual, or too expensive. Let the congregation notice your "beautiful, godly inside" first (a little lipstick never hurt, especially if you have chapped lips).
7. NEVER, Never, no never take up an offense for your husband. That is ministry suicide. Bitterness will destroy you. You are not helping him. If you get mad, he gets madder. Your hubby needs comfort, love and a safe place at home. Every time I've been cruelly hurt by a church member, I can't stay mad if I pray for them, repay their meanness with kindness, and wait for God's time to heal the hurt. (This principle is the "heaping coals" principle and it has never failed me. In 36 years of ministry at the same church, I couldn't have lived without it!).
8. When you or your husband screws up, (and you will, often – remember, you are not Jesus) admit it. Own it. Don't explain it away. The best advice we ever heard in this regard is from a dear friend and associate pastor in our church. He said, "Roger, it's just about this time that a pastor will be tempted to do something really stupid." Don't run away, resign, or defend yourself from the pulpit. Learn from your mistakes. Listen to honest criticism. Be humble. Don't run away from trouble.
9. Don't be naïve. Expect the unexpected. Satan is relentless and creative. One valuable principle we've learned is that we must ALWAYS be prepared for hassle, interference and obstacles before God is getting ready to do something amazing. The worse the ammo, the greater the blessing that will follow. So don't give up. Be wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove, and pray your guts out.
10. Don't try do ministry alone. You really need to depend on Jesus. But you really need other people too. Every pastor and wife needs a support system. We have counseled thousands of pastors and wives, and they are some of the loneliest people we know because they are self-reliant and have never learned to receive. You can't give what you haven't received. You'll be tapped out pretty quickly. Find a godly, mature, safe friend or family member that you can be honest with and that will comfort, affirm and support you. God created all of us to be relational.
11.Don't miss the opportunity to have some family fun. Learn to laugh. Don't let your pastor-family become exhausted, dull, bitter or cynical. Set boundaries and plan to celebrate and recuperate. Life is too short, and your kids will love you for it.
12. And finally, don't forget that God is God and you are not. Every time I fear, falter or freak out about what's going on in my family and my flock, I remember that both belong to God. I am just His servant, and He is truly trustworthy.
For over twenty-five years, Dr. Julie Barrier has been in demand as a national and international conference speaker, addressing topics such as marriage and ministry, developing healthy relationships, biblical study, and women's issues. She is the founder and director of the Preach It, Teach It website, www.preachitteachit.org, providing sermons, devotionals, blogs, and videos by internationally renowned teachers and authors such as Francis Chan, Josh McDowell, Max Lucado, Beth Moore, Joyce Meyer, David Ferguson, Jim Cymbala, Larry Osborne, Mark Batterson, Stanley Toussaint and many more. International resources are also offered in ten languages. Since its inception in June 2008, Preach It, Teach It has received more than five hundred thousand hits from 203 countries. For many years, Julie also taught Biblical Foundations of Worship, Conducting, and Arranging as an adjunct Professor at the Dixon School of Church Music at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. She has served as a minister of worship, orchestra conductor, and arranger at Casas Church in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Barrier has also performed as a concert artist and orchestra conductor. Dr. Barrier is the author or composer of over fifty published works: books, choral pieces, orchestral works, musical theater scripts, and journal articles. Her latest book is Bored in Big Church: Recollections of a Church Brat and Tattletale (Xulon Press, 2011). She and her husband, Roger, have two beautiful daughters and two sons-in-law. If you wish to book a conference with the Barriers, go to www.churchthrive.com.
This article first appeared on Dr. Barrier's blog at Preach It, Teach It. Used with permission.
Publication date: October 11, 2011
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
First Day of School!!! Fall 2010
2 cuties ready to go - soooo excited!
Kinsley with Mrs. Summy
Kaden with Mrs. Brogan
already hard at work!
Chocolate chip cookies and milk - an after the first day tradition:)
good snack = good conversation about the day!
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
Fun Photo Booth Pics!
This is so fun, next time I'll have make-up on and my hair done, but go to the website laphotocabine.com and enjoy! It's a blast!!!
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Lunches packed - check
Backpacks by the door - check
First day outfit for Kinsley ready - check
Rest of the week's outfits ready - check
First day outfit for Kaden - check (complete with underwear and socks:))
Rest of the week's outfits ready - check
Sweet back to school bedtime story read - check
I think we're ready!!! Happy First Day of School tomorrow!!!!
There will be more pics to follow of course:)
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Our Anniversary at the Palomar!
My day started with these and a very sweet card from my hubby where he wrote he loved me "uncontrollably"!!! Really...he coulda just stopped there:) Beautiful!!! God thank you for creating such beauty and variety! Kinsley told him to "let her help pick out the flowers cause she's a girl and she knows what girls like"! She did good huh?
Then we dropped these two off at Mom and Dad's to spend the night! They had a blast with their Grammy!
Next it was on to the hotel!
We got all checked in to our cute little room
Said hello to our pet for the weekend, which we named "Goldilicious":)
And then went here - to Mockingbird station - right across the street to peruse the shops like West Elm, Francesca's, Victoria's Secret, Bath and Body Works (have you smelled their new "leaves" fall candle?, etc. It's a really fun place to go if you've never been:)
After that it was back to the hotel because we had reservations here: Central 214 (chef & reality tv star of the Naughty Kitchen Blythe Beck's restaurant). I had the brisket and Curt had their famous chicken fried steak, plus their famous mac & cheese, yummy sugar cookie/lemon ice cream sandwich, chocolate peanut butter cake, etc. etc. IT...WAS...GOOD!!! Blythe was actually walking around and greeting people and she stopped to talk to us and even gave me a hug when I told her I used to watch her show - she was VERY nice:)
Then we hung out in the pretty lobby for a bit...while we waited for our movie to start - we saw Eat, Pray, Love - it's a beautiful movie - go see it! But beware - it will make you want to travel first to Italy, then to Bali:)
The next morning we woke up...
And had breakfast here...
I loved all their palm trees - almost felt like we were on a vacation - I guess we kinda were - or a "stay"cation at least:)
it had this pretty fountain outside too - I sooo want a fountain for my backyard patio - someday!:)
Then back to the hotel, where we just walked around to "see" it all - there are all these pretty places to sit around there:) It made me REALLY want some outside furniture!
Finally we made our way here, to swim and relax
and relax we did - REALLY wanting pool furniture now...I'm such a nerd:)
Just in case you missed it...I REALLY liked the pool furniture:)
My sweet hubby was more interested in this than the furniture:) See the look on his face? I'm pretty sure right here he was thinking...babe, please stop taking pictures of all the furniture, people are starting to look at us funny...
...So after swimming I moved on to taking pics of the fabulous artwork, it was everywhere you turned and I got inspired - more to come on this later:)
Another cool place to sit with more awesome artwork - can't you just hear him saying, "babe..., seriously?":)
And last but not least, because I promised you I would...the famous zebra robe - oh...and you KNOW the leftover L'Occitane soaps and shampoos found there way in my bag...not sure how that happened:)
All in all we had a GREAT time, and if you're ever in Dallas know that Hotel Palomar comes highly recommended:)!!!
Curt I love you now more than ever - and totally "uncontrollably":)!!!
Curt I love you now more than ever - and totally "uncontrollably":)!!!
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
11 Years Ago Today!!!!
11 years ago today two babies walked down the aisle and said "I Do". We were 20 (me) and 23 (Curt). I love this man more every day and am so thankful God blessed me with EVERYTHING on my "wish list". Curtis you are a true man of God and I am SOOOO in Love with you!!! I can't wait to see what forever looks like with you!
We're going here this weekend:
Check back for more pics Mon!
Have a good weekend and be sure to tell your significant other how much you LOVE THEM!!!
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Summer Lovin'
We only have a couple more weeks left of summer, so we spent today just soakin' up the sun!
Kinsley did a little dance for us to "California Girls"
Kaden fired up the ol' Black Dog!
We had fun just a floatin' our cares away...
La dee dah
Splashin' in the fountains...
And making float forts:)
Just lovin' Summer while its still here:)
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Small Town Summer
Small town summers are the best! Especially when the community comes out for a little parade. Last night we went to see our friend Anna in the Lions Club parade! The kids had fun seeing all the parade goers and picked up a TON of candy as well - bonus!!!
Every small town parade HAS to have one of these!
And a few old timey cars:)
It definitely wouldn't be small town without this!
This was Kinsley's fave because of the horses:)
Here's our little friend Anna - she's participating in the Lions Club beauty pageant! Go Anna!!!
And we just happened to see another friend, my friend Kelly, and her two girls Ellie and Sophie! Ellie's in the pageant too - Go Ellie!
Our small town really isn't all that small anymore but parades like this remind me that even though its growing...there's still a community out there that remembers the "good old days". I guess you could say we have the best of both worlds!
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Dept. of Word Lists
Words About Words
You may remember an interview we did last year with Katie Raynolds, a remarkable 10th grader and dedicated linguaphile from Seattle, Washington. Well, Katie just spent a busy week with us here at the VT's New York office as our editorial intern! She graciously put together this word list:
I discovered when I searched through the Dept. of Word Lists that they're based on a subject a person is passionate about. So I thought, what is my passion? The answer clearly is: words! I found the following words that serve to describe other words, and I explain how we use them. For some I also included interesting stories about their origins.
Eponym, a name derived from the name of a person (real or imaginary). Examples: Achilles tendon (Achilles the Greek hero), Freudian slip (Sigmund Freud), Louisiana (King Louis XIV).
Onomatopoeia, words that imitate the sound that they denote. Examples: Pow! Bam! (a type of onomatopoeia that was made popular in comic books), chickadee, meow.
Sibilant, a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh). The word sibilant comes from the Latin word sibil (hiss), which is actually onomatopoeia for the sounds that a snake makes. Example of sibilance: Sally sells sea shell by the sea shore.
Palindrome, a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward. Examples: Kayak, So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so, A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.
Spoonerism, transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words. This word is actually an eponym, named after Reverend William Archibald Spooner, who constantly mixed up his words when speaking: "A well-boiled icicle" (a well-oiled bicycle), "It is kisstomary to cuss the bride" (It is customary to kiss the bride).
Malapropism, the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar. Malapropism is another eponym, this one from Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play, The Rivals. The name Malaprop came from the French phrase mal à propos (inappropriate) because the character used language inappropriately. Examples from Mrs. Malaprop: "She's as headstrong as an allegory (alligator) on the banks of the Nile." "He is the very pineapple (pinnacle) of politeness."
Antinomasia, substitution of a title for a name, or vice versa. Examples: An Einstein is "a smart guy," William Shakespeare is The Bard, and Queen Elizabeth is Her Majesty.
Euphemism, an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive. Examples: H-e-double hockey sticks for hell, pre-owned vehicle for used car, and darn vs. damn.


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When laying a cross-country ski track becomes, temporarily, next to impossible because of the constant fluffy snow, you know you have winter sports Nirvana.
In January, this is what you found at Panorama Mountain Village: Powder. LOTS of powder.
Blue sky. LOTS of blue sky.
And while snow followed by bright skies may be a consistent theme at this British Columbia resort about three hours from Calgary in the Columbia Valley, time spent there doesn't look a lot like your grandpop's — or even your mom's — memories.
Make no mistake: this area, including right around the 1,152 hectares of skiable terrain on the hill, has been a second home for Calgarians, and other Albertans, for several generations.
"We are to Calgary what Muskoka is to Toronto," says Steve Paccagnan, President and CEO of Panorama Mountain Village, which includes the expansive ski hill, 20 kilometres of cross country trails around the nordic centre, the Greywolf golf course, slopeside pools, and ski-to-door lodging/restaurants along with residential neighbourhoods.
But he says it may be time for a lot of Albertans to "rediscover" Panorama because so much has changed in such a short time.
In fact, since a new ownership group four years ago took over the resort, just 25 minutes up the road from Invermere, B.C., a much more family focus is making it a place to just park the car and never leave for your whole visit.
The investment group, which includes homeowners from Alberta, Ontario and the United Kingdom, is also spending money — about $7 million of it on everything from a new guest lodge to a new clubhouse for Greywolf — to ensure everyone from expert skiers or boarders to those just beginning snow sports, have something to enjoy at the four-season resort.
Let's start with the experts. For years, the 300 hectares of "backcountry-style terrain" in the Taynton Bowl was only accessed by helicopter. This season, Panorama, one of the highest mountains in North America with its 1,220 metres vertical from the top, opened the bowl with access from the Summit Quad Chair.
Full of chutes, bowls, and glades, Taynton is a steep-and-sometimes-deep, double-black paradise that expert skiers will love. On a January weekend, it was waist deep in new snow and, consequently, more forgiving than after a thorough packing.
Be aware, though, it's meant to challenge the truly accomplished skier and the merely advanced need not apply.
But fear not, family skiers and gung-ho weekend warriors; there is lots on the mountain for you. The lower and mid-mountain lifts offer dozens of green, blue and single-black runs to entertain every taste, while the front face of the summit begins the black and double-black challenge that's completed by the Taynton Bowl.
For novice to intermediate skiers, the news will get even better next ski season.
Panorama will be adding a quad chairlift — its sixth lift — to be ready for the first day of the 2014/2015 ski season. Construction begins this April and the new quad will have capacity for 1,500 people per hour up the hill.
It will take beginner to intermediate skiers from the base of the mountain to wide and gentle trails like Ski Tip Way and Stringer. Homeowners in Trappers Ridge, Panorama's newest residential neighborhood (second phase multi-family construction starts this summer) will also get increased ski-in/ski-out options with the new lift.
Paccagnan says Panorama, at "50 years young," continues to adapt to the winter market. It has added a snow tube park, night skiing on the Mile 1 quad, extensive family programming including a large groomed beginners area with a 135-metre carpet lift to get novices up the learner slope with effortless ease.
Part of the newest quad expansion will also include a new learning centre targeted at young skiers with another conveyor carpet that will bring access even closer to the Panorama village.
"As a parent, I know it's important to get kids to, conveniently, experience skiing instead of having a trail of tears from the mini-van to the slope. The carpet is designed to help with that."
He says it will also feature foam toys to engage kids as they ease into the comfort of being on a hill and on skis.
And, if you're looking for even more adventure than Taynton Bowl provides you can always hop in a helicopter at Panorama, for a trip to one of the 120 landing spots RK Heliski has in the Purcells (the mountain chain that includes Panorama).
Rod Gibbons, operations manager of RK and a mountain guide for 28 years, says every year his almost 45-year-old company finds new terrain to ski in the 1,500 square kilometres of mountains, the highest heli ski area in Canada.
Skiers must be age 14 and over to helicopter ski with RK, and Gibbons says if you are a strong, intermediate skier, "you owe it to yourself to try it."
There is a range of guided packages, all including safety/avalanche rescue talks, and a pick of runs depending on that day's conditions. Peak season is February/March but trips run till mid-April.
And as you look out across the mountains framed by blue skies, preparing to dig into waist high snow, you can think about one of Gibbons' favourite heli runs, the aptly named "Too Bad About The Skiing."
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Eunita Rushing feels at home when she's near plants, so perhaps it's no surprise that since 1999 she has been the enthusiastic president of the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, which works in partnership with the Chicago Park District to raise funds and awareness for educational and public programs for the conservatory, located on the city's West Side.
"There are so many Chicagoans who don't know that the place exists, and it's been here over 100 years," Rushing says.
The conservatory's 4-1/2 acres of exterior and interior gardens (there are eight display houses) offer surprises for everybody, Rushing included: "No matter where you turn, there is something fascinating," she says.
With an estimated 180,000 visitors in 2012, Rushing says her goal for 2013 is to get more people to enjoy the conservatory, designed by legendary landscape architect Jens Jensen and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Born and raised in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, Rushing has a 22-year-old daughter, Z'Dia Reid. The following is an edited version of our conversation at the conservatory.
Q: You started gardening as a graduate student at Loyola University?
A: I remember my first studio apartment. I had more plants than anything in that apartment and I loved it. People thought I was crazy because I talked to them and I just nurtured them, and they were really lively and really beautiful.
Q: Garfield Park Conservatory was distinctive from the start.
A: When Jens Jensen designed this conservatory, he didn't design it in the Victorian style; he designed it to resemble haystacks, which were a part of the Midwestern landscape. Then he took plants out of the pots and off the shelf and put them in the ground. He was cutting edge for his time.
Q: You believe that spending time at the conservatory can have a positive effect.
A: Oh, yes, especially with the younger people. There was a young man who took a class here; he was part of our Green Teens program and … he said, "I'm going to surprise my mother, and I'm going to build her a garden." You can open their eyes and give them experiences that they've never had before, and I feel like that's having an impact.
Q: Talk about the costly damage the conservatory suffered during the 2011 hailstorm.
A: It was total devastation and exhaustion, but as we began the cleanup process … there was such an outpouring from the public with people who were concerned and who wanted to send money, we all got a real shot in the arm. We were all recommitted at a higher level than ever before. And when we were cleaning up the broken glass, we found all this original stonework that you can see now.
Q: What kind of activities are planned for 2013?
A: We have a program year-round called Morning Glories; that's our family preschool program on Mondays in the children's garden. And then this summer, our city backyard garden, which is where people can come and learn how to garden, will be in full swing. We plan to do plays and have concerts this summer, just as we did last summer.
Q: Did you grow up in a big family?
A: I'm the oldest of nine girls. My parents migrated here 65 or so years ago, and my mom still lives in the same house. (My family) had one address since they came to Chicago. Isn't that cool? We've seen a lot of changes in the neighborhood, but it's been so fabulous to have that family home.
Q: You say your helping others was an example set by your parents, Nelson and Ora.
A: My parents were out there knocking on doors when there were elections. They were very community-minded. So I felt that I needed to do something where I helped people and worked with people.
Q: What did you want to be when you were 13?
A: I think I was begging my mom to let me be a Freedom Rider (civil rights activists who traveled to the South to fight segregation). And she refused. And a little later I wanted to join the Army because they had a slogan (on a television ad), "join the Army and see the world," and I wanted to see the world. I was probably about 16 then. She said "no" to that too.
Q: Have you seen the world?
A: I've seen parts of it, but I'm not done yet.
Q: What's the best advice you ever received?
A: Ronne Hartfield, who hired me at Urban Gateways, the job I had before I came here, told me, "Eunita, whenever people make requests of you, never say, 'Yes.' Just say, 'Give me a day to think about it.' " It's really important. I see (women) extending themselves constantly because … we try to do it all. We have such a hard time saying "no," and there are times when "no" is appropriate.
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Q: What's the best part of your job?
A: (Rushing points to a toddler who is smiling as he walks past.) You know, research tells us when you start with children very young, engaging them with nature, (they're) … more likely to be stewards of the planet as they become adults. And that is a very important part of our work.
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I was given some stamps from Penny Black from this year's Christmas release, and today I am going to share those cards with you!! I don't typically share more than one card in a blog post, and today there is going to be FOUR! So, bare with me....because this post might be just a little long. I hope you will enjoy it! Also- I have created each card for some challenges...and those will be linked after each card, rather than how I normally add them at the end of the post.
This first card is a winter card, and I just love the beautiful landscape of this stamp. I wanted to keep the colors of this card fairly muted, so I went with neutrals...and a more monochromatic feel. Here is the first one:
Cardstock: Penny Black (white)
Stamps: Penny Black (Mademoiselle Noel & Winter Wonders set)
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Contrary to intuition, people who suffer from the motor and vocal tics characteristic of Tourette syndrome actually perform behavioral tests of cognitive motor control more accurately and quickly than their typically developing peers do. According to evidence reported online on March 24 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, that enhanced control arises from structural and functional changes in the brain that likely come about from the need to constantly suppress tics.
"The motor outputs of children with Tourette syndrome are under greater cognitive control," said Stephen Jackson of The University of Nottingham. "You might view this as their being less likely to respond without thinking, or as being less reflexive."
The researchers say that the findings may help to explain a long-standing puzzle in the field--why some individuals who have profound tics during childhood are relatively tic-free by early adulthood, whereas other individuals continue to have severe tics throughout their life. It also suggests that "brain training" approaches may help individuals gain control of symptoms associated with Tourettes and perhaps other neurological diseases, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), without the need for drugs or surgeries that may carry significant adverse effects.
An earlier study had shown that children with Tourette syndrome show enhanced cognitive control over their motor outputs and that the degree of their enhancement is inversely related to tic severity. Those findings offered the first indication that control over motor and vocal tics might be something that could be trained.
Based on that evidence, Jackson and colleagues wondered whether those enhanced cognitive control abilities might be accompanied by structural and/or functional alterations in the brains of individuals with Tourettes that might be seen by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
That suspicion has now been confirmed: the Tourettes brain shows alterations in the white-matter connections that allow different brain areas to communicate with one another, Jackson said. Brain scans also revealed changes in activity as indicated by blood flow when people with Tourette syndrome performed an executive function task.
The structural and functional changes observed were also strongly associated with clinical measurements of tic severity and executive function. In particular, the researchers found that changes in the frontal cortex of the Tourettes brain, the region most often linked to executive function, are strongly linked to levels of tic severity and executive task performance. They interpret this as evidence that the frontal cortex of the Tourette syndrome group reorganizes to help control the motor and vocal tics.
"Children growing up with a neurological disorder may develop adaptive changes in the way that their brain is organized that will help them overcome their difficulties and gain control over their symptoms," Jackson said.
There is one potential caveat: it may be that some people are simply born with the propensity to develop a particular profile of brain white-matter connections that allows them to gain control over their tics, whereas others with a different profile may not. To find out, the researchers are now planning a study in which they will follow people with Tourette syndrome and related neurodevelopmental disorders over time as their brains develop.


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Biddy Ball started it all.
Before building Chicago's premier high school basketball program and imparting discipline on hundreds of South Side kids with his "my-way-or-the-highway" brand of leadership, Bob Hambric directed the children's basketball program at the Chatham YMCA.
Educated, principled and committed to the fundamentals of the game, Hambric had developed a strong reputation in the community when Simeon athletic director John Everett convinced him to become the school's frosh-soph coach in 1973.
"Everybody knew what he was about," said George Stanton, a grammar school coach at the time who later became Hambric's sophomore coach before turning Young into a power in the 1990s.
"He didn't change based on who he was talking to or what player he had. He was consistent. That's why a lot of people respected him and trusted him, even if they didn't always understand him."
Many of his former Biddy Ballers followed Hambric to Simeon, and it wasn't long before the Wolverines were perennial contenders for the city championship — on the frosh-soph level.
The success was not carrying over to varsity, and in January of 1980, Simeon's administration decided to fire Lamont Bryant (no relation to the former Marshall, Young and Hyde Park coach) and promote Hambric.
Change came quickly and drastically. Simeon's current gym was not built until 1988, and Hambric always resented having to leave the building to hold frosh-soph practice at Garrett Morgan Elementary School a few blocks away.
Hambric coached both teams for the rest of the season, but that wasn't the only reason they immediately started practicing together — a tradition that continues to this day. That move also helped Hambric build a foundation for success.
"I went to one varsity practice, and other than that it was like they were separate programs," said current Simeon assistant Marcus Alderson, a sophomore at the time of the coaching change.
"That was a very important change he made. You do everything the same for four years, by the time you're a junior and a senior, you know the system and you know each other so well it is like waking up and brushing your teeth."
'My way or the highway'
Hambric, who died of cancer at 69 in 2009, was all about routine.
Uninterested in being liked by his players or coaching colleagues, his goal was to set an example for young men who had yet to realize they were desperate for a positive male role model.
"Eighty or 85 percent of the guys I played with didn't have fathers," said hand-picked successor Robert Smith, who played at Simeon from 1986-90 and replaced his mentor as coach in 2004.
"It wasn't an easy transition for me growing up without a father. At the beginning, I didn't like him. I didn't understand him at all, really until I was in college. I didn't know what he was doing to me. He was making me a man.
"He cared more about discipline than championships. I'm pretty sure he could have won more championships if he loosened up a little, but it was 'My way or the highway.'"
Hambric's way was particularly unusual in the Public League.
He saw basketball as a tool to teach kids about discipline, and the playground style most kids grew up with was strictly prohibited.
He wanted his teams to be capable of playing any style, but mostly they ran half-court sets and took the air out of the ball for long stretches of time.
Distractions like college recruiters and girlfriends were off limits during the season.
"He caught me kissing a girl after a game one time," Tim Bankston said. "Trust me, I paid for it."
Hambric's way worked.
The Wolverines — often referred to as the "Big Blue Machine" in those days — went 27-2 in Hambric's first full season and, along with King, soon replaced Marshall, Manley and Westinghouse as the top dogs in the Public League.
Led by junior Ben Wilson and seniors Bankston, Rodney Hull, Bobby Tribble and Kenny Allen, Simeon won city and state for the first time in 1984.
Yet even those guys had a hard time grasping the larger lessons Hambric was teaching.
"He always said, 'You won't understand it until you're grown,'" said Bankston, who was the star of Simeon's 53-47 victory over Evanston in the Class AA final and has been the head coach at Thornton Fractional North in Calumet City since 2002.
"He would tell me that all the time, and I would say, 'Whatever.' To this day, those words hold true. I used to say I wouldn't coach like him. He controlled everything. Now I find myself being so much like him it is ridiculous."
The Simeon family
Tragedy struck on the eve of the 1984-85 season. The bullet that killed Wilson outside the school shook the entire city with such force that it's still being felt today.
The basketball team managed to carry on, going 4-0 against good competition at a Thanksgiving tournament in Rockford a couple days later and winning its first 28 games and another city title before falling to Springfield Lanphier in the state quarterfinals.
"We were a family before it happened, so it wasn't hard for us to stay together," said Melvin Nunn, who was a sophomore at the time. "It brought us even closer. We didn't let people in our inner circle. My only friends were guys on the team. We stood together as a team."
Nick Anderson, who transferred from Prosser to Simeon to play with Wilson but never got the chance, became the first of Simeon's record four Illinois Mr. Basketball winners in 1986. Deon Thomas, who did not play organized basketball until high school, became No. 2 in 1989.
Both went on to star at Illinois and have long professional careers. Both credit Hambric.
"If you look at the majority of the kids he was with, we're doing pretty well with our lives," said Thomas, who is the coach and athletic director at Lewis and Clark Community College. "That is what Hambric was trying to do for us."
Those who succeeded under Hambric are not the only ones still singing his praises.
Legendary King coach Landon "Sonny" Cox, who publicly feuded with Hambric over the transfer of Laurent Crawford from Simeon to King, calls Hambric "the toughest coach I ever coached against. He was the only coach I prepared for."
Two of Chicago's playground legends, Brian Leach and Carl Harris, were Simeon students in the early to mid-1980s.
Years later, Leach and Harris made names for themselves against NBA players, including Michael Jordan, in summer league games. But at Simeon, they couldn't do it Hambric's way.
"He would challenge you mentally to see if you would crack," said Harris, who was banished to the bench as a senior after heaving up a shot from long range while the team was supposed to be running Hambric's "passing game."
"I didn't have any discipline. I grew up watching (all-time streetball legend) Billy Harris play in the playground, and that's all I knew. I learned everything I know about being a man from Coach Hambric."
Coming Saturday: The 1990s.


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The green and gentle landscape of Prince Edward Island is so inviting that visitors find themselves spending plenty of vacation time in the great outdoors. Picnics on the beach, cycling excursions or just an afternoon lounging with a book under a tree are just some of the possible ingredients for your Island vacation!
Let's begin on the ocean, where the warm salty water laps up on sandy shores or rolls in against red sandstone cliffs. There are so many opportunities to take advantage of all the water surrounding our island.
For those who like to paddle their own boat, there are several outfitters offering sea and river kayak tours. This is an activity that can meet the needs of the most adventurous or those who just want to try paddling for the first time.
It's true, you can swim in the warm salty water at PEI's beaches. The shallow shelf surrounding the Island's shore allows the water to heat up, and in July and August you will find supervised beaches in our provincial and national parks. Other beaches are perfect for those long solitary walks, or watching for the array of migratory and shore birds.
The Island is known for its excellent windsurfing conditions. Any afternoon when the breeze picks up, cars loaded with boards and sails can be seen heading out to the many access points around the Island.
Deep-sea Fishing
A wonderful outing for the whole family. You will gain a whole new appreciation for fresh seafood after you take part in a deep-sea fishing excursion, cast your line into the deep blue waters off the coast of Prince Edward Island and catch your own fish.
Sport Fishing
Brook Trout, Rainbow Trout, Salmon, or go for the big one, Giant Bluefin Tuna! One of PEI's best fishing areas may be found at the Morell River located in Points East Coastal Drive. The Trout River in western PEI is a perfect destination for fishing as well as hiking. Drop into a Visitor Information Centre for a map of PEI's fishing holes.
Confederation Trail
Prince Edward Island is the first province to complete its section of the TransCanada Trail. The Confederation Trail was developed on railway lines abandoned more than a decade ago. The trail is surfaced with finely crushed rock dust and is quite smooth and almost flat, making it easily negotiated on foot or by bicycle. The full, tip-to-tip, Tignish to Elmira distance is 274 kilometres. The trail passes along the sea shore, by farm pastures and woodlots, and through many small communities as it links the opposite ends of the Island.
The Confederation Trail is a true all-season attraction as it is turned over to snowmobilers in winter. Bright coloured gates mark the various entry points, and there are several interesting branch trails that lead to places like Souris, Montague or Borden-Carleton. Request a Confederation Trail map from our toll-free information centre. An excursion on our Confederation Trail is a must-do for your vacation, whether you walk a small section in one of our cities, or cycle the whole tip-to-tip distance.
Camping is a fun and inexpensive vacation option and PEI is blessed with a wide selection of campgrounds. Near the beach, among the trees, tenting plots or full service sites; we have it all. The province has 8 provincial campgrounds as well as National Park camping and a large choice of private sites.


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A few years ago, round about the time when I was flirting with the gilded chimera of Hollywood, just at the same time in fact, I was seduced by another chimera from the other side of the world. Out of the blue I was contacted by a young person who offered herself up as my agent to sell my stories in mainland China. This young person had been instrumental in introducing EQMM to China, and her credentials seemed tip-top.
"Hmm," I said to Mimi, "China. Just what we've been needing."
So, to cut it short, I parcelled and disked up a load of my oeuvre and bunged it off to the young person, mostly my published stuff but including one or two stories that had been rejected. Hah! That would teach 'em.
Well, the young person came up trumps. Not long after, she announced that she had found a publisher who was willing to publish two - not one, mind - collections of stories. I read the letter with trembling eyes.
"What is this hectic flush that is suffusing your dear face, beloved one?" asked Mimi. I gave her the glad news, and she suffused along with me.
I received two contracts -one for each collection, and all was tickety-boo. The publisher was - still is, for that matter - Qun Zhong in Beijing.
I rummaged around on the Net and managed to Google Qun Zhong. When Google had translated the publisher's pages for me, I found it wasn't half bad. This was the same publisher who had on its list James Patterson, Clark Howard, lots of Sherlock Holmes, Robert Brainard ( not inaccurate as translations go). They had the first Spenser novel, billed as 'The Gude Fu Handscroll', which is close enough. And they had Philip Margolin, otherwise known as Philip Ma Gaolong.
"Well," I thought, "I'll gaolong with that."
I received a smallish advance for each collection and that was that for a year and a half. The young person taking umbrage at a fairly innocent remark I made in an e-mail, scuttled off into the undergrowth never to be heard of again and I was left along with Qun Zhong or rather with Ms Zhang Rong, who was the editor in charge.
That hectic flush came and went several times in those eighteen months. Sometimes I looked like a set of traffic lights as I did the arithmetic. One billion, six hundred milion people in China, I reminded myself. Now say, just one-tenth of one percent bought a copy of just one collection - no it was too much, the brain refused to cope with the maths.
Nobody ever asked questions about the translations. They were just getting on with it, I supposed. But I did wonder how they were coping witht sentences like the one in 'Mine Hostage', one of my first EQMM stories, when a character says: "We've been stitched up. Done up like a kipper, we've been."
But I supposed they knew their business.
And after eighteen months, I had a bulky parcel through the post. Six copies of each. The first looked exactly like this:
And the second was pretty much like this:
They were what I suppose we would call Trade Paper Backs, but like no TPB I'd seen. The covers were beautifully produced, and the paper, well, the paper had nothing to do with paperbacks. It was almost silky to the touch, not that rough stuff we're used to.
It was beautiful work. The only hiccup being that although I'd written every word - well, ideogram, I guess - in these two gems, I couldn't make head nor tail of them. Never mind, I could show them to people, and people said: "Lovely. What does it say?" " Never mind that," I said, " look at the workmanship." " Lovely," they said again. Ah well. Somewhere in China I told myself, people were handling these jewels, and were actually reading the words.
Some were, in fact, but not quite enough. When Rong ( and that's something you've got to get used to - the first name comes last) sent me the first accountings, the numbers were lowish, about 3,500 copies of each sold. And the royalties had been munched up by the advance. So another chimera bit the dust. But not quite. I've still got six copies of each preserved in a jewelled reliquary, and the knowledge that on the other side of the world bookcases in apartments and houses hold copies of these two things.
They're still on the Qun Zhong list, these two collections. I occasionally peep at them, just to make sure. The blurb is interesting.
It goes like this: "Neil Schofield is one of Britain's famous suspense novelist, reporter origin, known as the "devil" writer."
And there's more:
"The reader not only his treacherous plot attracted but also because of its mysterious ending and cannot help laughing and then to appreciate the complexity of human nature and survival of the sinister."
Well, Google. You know.
But I love that 'survival of the sinister,' bit. That's poetry, that is.
In case anyone wants to become a devil writer like me, here's Rong's e-mail address.
An enquiry can't hurt, can it? And you never know. Life is full of surprises.


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Here's a sure sign your state is in deep trouble: when the governor delivers -- just in time for the holidays -- the "good news" that he's only going to have to trigger $1 billion in mid-year budget cuts.
That's what Gov. Jerry Brown did today, and yes, the news could have been worse. Some $2 billion in trigger cuts had been anticipated.
But Brown's department of finance came up with a much more optimistic assessment of how short revenues would be. Only $2.2 billion! Merry Christmas!
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
A previous estimate by the Legislative Analyst's Office -- Bah, humbug -- had put the shortage at close to $4 billion for the current budget year--which made sense since the budget was closed with $4 billion in revenue assumptions. Fortunately, the department of finance -- which unlike the independent LAO works for the governor -- embraced the spirit of the season.
That means only $1 billion in cuts.
Congratulations, higher education.
Merry Christmas, disabled programs.
Happy new year, local government. You're getting cut, but it could have been much worse.
Now, some people out there -- the sort of people who practice human sacrifice and math -- might point out that the numbers here don't add up. A $2.2 billion shortfall in revenues produces only $1 billion in cuts.
What happened to the other $1.2 billion? Isn't this trigger business just another gimmick for backdoor borrowing and pushing costs into the future?
C'mon, don't be a Scrooge. We'll worry about the future when the future arrives, after the holidays.
A state like California needs to celebrate good news every chance it gets.
So grab a cup of egg nog and let's sing a few carols. "We Three Kings..." OK, well we had to cut it down to two kings.
But you know what, it could have been none.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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Top 5 Steps for L&D in 2013
By Ara Ohanian, Chief Happiness Officer and CEO, CERTPOINT Systems
With 21st century technologies changing the way we think and learn, it's not surprising that we find ourselves at a tipping point for change. 2012 saw Facebook's 1 billionth user, and the world was gripped by a Korean artist-turned-global-phenomenon, thanks to YouTube. So how can we grasp these compelling opportunities to prove L&D business impact and propel L&D to its rightful seat at the C-table? I see five key steps to success in the year ahead:
1. Prediction: Social learning takes center stage.
Social will be must-have, not nice to have. It will move from a peripheral to an integral part of knowledge learning.
I see three types of companies adopting social learning: The first are those that have adopted it without a specific business purpose. They will fail. The second are those that have adopted it as a technology for chatter rather than as an intelligent balance of dialogue with performance support. They, too, will fail. The third type of company introduces social learning with a specific purpose in mind—these are the ones that will benefit.
Take global retailer Carrefour, which has implemented a social learning pilot at several stores to drive business growth. The program has enabled workers to identify skills they want to develop and then find experts to help them do so. Preliminary results have been impressive, with pilot stores reporting a 267 percent increase in sales of specific product lines. Source: http://www.accenture.com/us-en/outlook/Pages/outlook-journal-2012-the-learning-enterprise.aspx
Closer to home, Home Depot has an employee social community site with nearly 50,000 users posting more than 5,000 times a day collectively. This massive, interactive environment has increased learning and collaboration among employees across thousands of locations on product and store management tips, higher level of communication with senior management, and creation of expert communities around key products and services.
As Mark Oehlert of the U.S. Department of Defense said at the time the U.S. military considered banning social networking: "We trust our soldiers with live ammunition. I think we can trust them with Facebook."
2. Prediction: L&D professionals evolve from teachers to curators.
Seth Godin astutely observed in The Curation Chronicles, "We don't have an information shortage, we have an attention shortage."
In 2012, we have seen social curation take off on the Web with Pinterestreaching 40 million users and new curation platforms such as Pearltrees, Storify, and ShortFormgaining visibility.
The good news is that these new technologies, spurring on the easy spread of information and conversation, are encouraging us to move from the restrictive understanding of what L&D once was in the past to a much more positive view that mirrors more accurately how people really learn—through a combination of means, and, importantly through conversation and questioning. The result of these conversations and storytelling is user-generated content. It's often produced quickly and often with a great deal of impact. It's my view that L&D's role is no longer to create training materials, rather it is to provide the circumstances in which conversations can be held and stories can be told, and to filter and share the best with the organization. In short, we need to become the curators.
3. Prediction: L&D moves from traditional lessons to contextual intelligence.
Just as modern learning technologies allow us to curate rather than create and allow people to learn from each other naturally, they also allow us to escape the confines of the classroom and traditional courses. Learning technologies effortlessly facilitate learning by being embedded into people's daily work—permitting us to learn in context rather than in a sterile classroom environment.
Certpoint Systems' own clients, both U.S. and international, are finding the need for product knowledge that goes beyond what a product is and does. Often, the question is about the specific application of a product in a specific situation. Given the endless permutations of how products are used, learning and remembering is not always an option. But, the ability to turn to someone who has been in a similar situation is priceless. Product innovation is too fast for "prescribed" learning—social learning scales the conversation to bring thousands of relevant conversations at the right time.
4. Prediction: Leader understanding is critical mass.
Slowly, business leadership is coming to understand the impact of knowledge sharing on business performance—helped recently by McKinsey'sstudythat reported the untapped business value of social technologies across the U.S. economy at $1.3 trillion. As a result, we can expect a tipping point to be reached in 2013, where social technologies become the norm for general business use. When we reach that point, I predict an escalation in organizations using rapid knowledge transfer to improve performance. This could be likened to The 100 Monkeys Effect or the shift from early adopter to early majority status of Rogers' Innovation Diffusion Curve. The move to knowledge sharing is no different from how workforce behavior changed to adopt new ways of working with technology advances from telephone to fax to e-mail to the Web.
5. Prediction: The true Learning & Development professional emerges.
2013 will see the emergence of L&D professionals who are truly focused on the effect they produce on business. I see the L&D professional progressing through three states of evolution. Yesterday's professionals were concerned with pushing out information through courses. Today's hybrid uses a blend of push techniques and technological pull techniques to share information and stimulate conversations. Tomorrow's L&D professionals will step back from full focus on content creation and delivery, seeing it as a single strand of responsibility. They will see their role expand to include building systems where employees learn from each other, and, crafting filtering systems for the best information for a particular need to be located as quickly as possible. This new role will involve a combination of creative thinking, collaboration with the business, and focus on speed and delivery against business objectives.
Ara Ohanian is Chief Happiness Officer and CEO of CERTPOINT Systems. CERTPOINT is a privately held global corporation with worldwide offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It was founded to help large corporations transform business critical knowledge into measurable results.For more information, visit http://www.certpointsystems.com/en/


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It seems that St. Patrick's Day celebrations are not limited to March 17th anymore. As soon as the calendar reads March 1, the green, white and orange flags and posters take over the inside of bars and restaurants, and pub crawls and parades take over city streets. Being half Irish, I have no problem making St. Paddy's a month long celebration, because let's face it; the Irish know how to have a good time. From now until March 17 I want to help spread the word that there are other festive Irish drinks out there beside green beer (although I do have to admit that I have had my fair share of green colored concoctions).
Most St. Paddy's parades and pub crawls start during the morning hours or early afternoon, so drinks incorporating coffee or coffee flavors are always a great choice for the first cocktail of the day. With the coffee theme in mind the first St. Patrick's cocktail to be featured is:
Irish Coffee Cooler
- 1.25 parts Jameson Irish Whiskey
- 1 part Espresso Syrup
- 2 parts Half & Half
Shake vigorously and strain into glass with ice.
If (or when) you attend these pub crawls, parties and parades always remember to drink responsibly! St. Patrick's Day celebrations are always MUCH more enjoyable when celebrated in moderation 🙂