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Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom follows the familiar yet instantly accessible theme of discovering friendship in peculiar places. However, where other similar stories - notably ICO - prevail at conveying this theme with grace and reverence, the Forsaken Kingdom takes the silly, awkward approach to building a trusting relationship with an unlikely companion. The game puts you in the shoes of a relatively agile thief who has the uncanny ability to converse with animals. In a world turned to darkness, the animals call upon the thief to befriend the Majin, a giant bumbling oaf with a heart of gold and the mind of a dimwitted four-year-old.
It takes little time for the thief to find the Majin, locked up in a castle and drained of his power. When the thief releases the Majin, named Teotl, from captivity, the pair quickly discovers they need to combine their efforts in order to survive. The entire world's darkness consumes people, turning them into black gooey beasts, and while the thief (later named Tepeu) is smart enough to stay out of trouble, he's not strong enough to fight enemies. Likewise, Teotl is strong enough to battle foes, but not smart enough to do so on his own accord. Thus, a partnership is born, with Tepeu promising to restore Teotl's power along the way in exchange for the lumbering giant's help.
The story advances as the pair's friendship grows. While it never really reaches its full potential, it still manages to convey a classic tale of courage, and relying on those stronger than us for protection. Of course, the narrative is only one particular highlight on offer, as you'll encounter a plethora of brainteasers and boss battles throughout to keep you distracted, the latter of which play out more like giant puzzles rather than epic bouts of strength and agility.
Forsaken Kingdom has a tendency to force you to backtrack. Once your Majin learns a new ability—there are four total—you'll be able to enter new areas. Getting to those areas requires you to walk through the same environments over and over again, which quickly becomes monotonous. The Majin regains various abilities, strength, and stamina by eating fruit scattered throughout the land. The first ability you recover is wind, which allows you to blow over enemies and interact with various environmental objects. And this is the gist of the game: you help the creature recover abilities, which in turn allows you to interact with objects you couldn't before, thus progressing you through the story. You'll eventually acquire lightning and fire, and finally the ability to turn darkness into crystal.
Navigating the game's puzzles is a simple task thanks to the control set-up, although the Majin can be a bit slow off the bat when performing rudimentary instructions such as follow, stay, crouch, as well as various interact abilities. Still, it's easy enough to get to grips with - you simply hold a right trigger button to call up different commands for the creature, select the one you want, and bob's your uncle. The 'interact' ability is extremely wide ranging, and generally has the Majin lifting giant stone doors or pushing over weak walls. As you acquire additional abilities, you'll be able to blow objects or set up a string of electricity to power an object. One of the highlights to the game's puzzles is the use of a catapult. The Majin is strong enough to launch you to areas once inaccessible, which of course allows you to find treasure or levers, again progressing the story. Everything in the game is laid out relatively clearly. While the puzzles offer some complexity, there are plenty of helpful hints along the way, including some familiar Zelda-esque tones when you discover the appropriate secret to advance.
One of the game's biggest problems is the control reactions. Tepeu has a single jump, which is pretty unresponsive. As such, since this maneuver is typically involved in puzzle solving, you'll have to allocate an extra half-second or so to perform to properly pull off your feat. It's not a game breaker by any stretch of the imagination, but it is irritating nonetheless.
Similarly, combat falls victim to some ongoing issues. For starters, you are only given a small handful of attacks. While Namco Bandai emphasizes that the game's true focus is on the co-op AI experience, we actually found this component to fall short. You do have command over your Majin, but it's quite limited. You essentially tell it who to attack, and despite some additional abilities as the game progresses, this is essentially a button mashing affair affording little in the way of strategy. As mentioned previously, Tepeu's attacks aren't strong enough to cope against your enemies, so you pretty much always have to rely on the Majin to deal out the lion's share of the damage, with Tepeu best left to call the shots from a safe distance. Those four abilities we discussed earlier can all be used in combat, so you'll get some extra flair as you progress. Eventually your opponents are weakened enough so you can perform a deadly combo by tapping the circle button. These abilities help change up the combat, but there is little diversity to your combos so you end up just getting thrown in the air to pull off giant body slams.
From a technical standpoint, combat is pretty dull and frustrating, and from a pure aesthetics perspective, fighting is purely uninspired. We've played many games that have just as basic combat, but it doesn't help matters that the Forsaken Kingdom's controls are so unresponsive. Tepeu doesn't move forward as he fights and he usually doesn't lock on to any enemies. Technically speaking, you can dodge, but it's also quite unresponsive, leaving you rolling into enemies when you meant to evade an attack. Our biggest gripe however, is that the sheer amount of backtracking results in you fighting the same repetitive enemies over and over again.
Luckily your partnership with the Majin offers some unique ways to approach a battle. For instance, you can ring a loud bell to attract enemies into a secluded area, and then ask Teotl to drop a stone door, trapping them in the process. Even better, you can occasionally sneak up on a swarm of enemies and push over a stonewall, taking out the mass with one simple maneuver. Furthermore, Tepeu can also facilitate your combat prowess by throwing rocks to set off traps or to hit airborne foes.
Boss encounters are essentially more puzzles with choreographed combat. This offers a nice break from the monotony of regular battles. For instance, one occasion has you duking it out with a hulking spider-like creature, where you'll task your Majin with swinging a giant stone bell to knock the boss far to the ground. Likewise, another fight will have you attempting to lure a boss in to the path of an electric current. The battles aren't overly complex, but as mentioned, it's still a refreshing break from scrapping with the usual gaggle of dull adversaries multiple times over.
Where the game truly excels however is through its combination of sumptuous visuals and compelling storytelling. Among the highlights include some beautifully-realised 2D cut scenes where you witness the Majin's memories of the land that once was, while the game's environments themselves are richly detailed and highly evocative. And, while there are some minor gripes in the form of shadow flicking and the occasional visual hiccup, it doesn't detract from the fact Forsaken Kingdom offers an overall eye-popping graphical presentation.
Forsaken Kingdom certainly had heaps of potential, but it sadly falls short due to some glaring niggles. Aside from the repetitive combat and copious backtracking, the major problem rests in the relationship and lack of development between the two main characters. Tepeu isn't fleshed out enough and doesn't have much of any past to speak of, while Teotl, despite showing genuine concern for his companion, doesn't ascend beyond the obtuse, fumbling sidekick persona that he frequently inhabits throughout the game. Had the pair been developed further, the story and underlining themes could have provided a more welcoming distraction from the game's more prominent shortcomings. Having said that, Forsaken Kingdom still offers an engrossing tale and plenty of worthwhile distractions in the form of gripping boss battles, gorgeous visuals and indeed anyone interested in a forging a relationship with an awkward beast.
|Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom Review by Adam Dolge
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Despite some repetitive combat and unresponsive controls, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom's evocative visuals, epic bosses and neat puzzles provide more than enough reason to witness the relationship between a thief and a giant magical oaf slowly flourish


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McDonald's claims the payment system, which will be launched by the end of the summer this year for purchases of less than £15, will be one of the largest roll-outs of contactless technology in the UK.
Jill McDonald, CEO of McDonald's UK, said, "We were the first major quick-service restaurant to launch payment by cards and we're delighted to be leading the way again with the roll-out of contactless payment technology."
Howard Wilcox, senior analyst at Juniper Research, said, "This is a major step for contactless payments in the UK in raising awareness of the technology. From McDonald's point of view, it's very important because it enables it to increase the speed of payment and reduce queues.
"This comes shortly after the Starbucks announcement of mobile phone payments in the States. Both pave the way for mobile payments in the future," added Wilcox.
Contactless-enabled debit and credit cards allow customers to pay for purchases at a point of sale by touching their card on a wireless reader without entering a PIN.
An aggregated limit for contactless transactions and periodical PIN checks are used for security purposes.
IBM's cashless payment system will support McDonald's contactless payments in UK and Ireland after the two companies signed a three-year agreement last year.
See also: iPhone and iPad to enable NFC payment services
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July-December, 2010 International Religious Freedom Report - Benin
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|United States Department of State, July-December, 2010 International Religious Freedom Report - Benin, 13 September 2011, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4e734cb39.html [accessed 1 June 2016]
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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
September 13, 2011
[Covers six-month period from 1 July 2010 to 31 December 2010 (USDOS is shifting to a calendar year reporting period)]
The constitution and other laws and policies protect religious freedom and, in practice, the government generally enforced these protections.
The government generally respected religious freedom in law and in practice. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom by the government during the reporting period.
There were no reports of societal abuses or discrimination based on religious affiliation, belief, or practice, and prominent societal leaders took positive steps to promote religious freedom.
The U.S. government discusses religious freedom with the government as part of its overall policy to promote human rights.
Section I. Religious Demography
The country has an area of 43,483 square miles and a population of 8.8 million. According to the 2002 census, the population is 27 percent Roman Catholic, 24 percent Muslim, 17 percent practitioners of Voodoo (Vodun), 6 percent adherents of other traditional indigenous beliefs, and 5 percent Celestial Christians. Groups that constitute less than 5 percent each include Methodists, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), Jehovah's Witnesses, Rosicrucians, the Unification Church, Eckankar, Bahais, Baptists, Assemblies of God, and Pentecostals. Seven percent claim no religious affiliation.
Many individuals who identify themselves as Christian or Muslim also practice Voodoo or other traditional local religions.
Nearly all Muslims are Sunni. The few Shia Muslims are primarily Middle Eastern foreign residents.
There are Christians, Muslims, and adherents of traditional local religious groups throughout the country; however, Muslims are represented most heavily in the North and Southeast, while Christians are prevalent in the South, particularly in Cotonou.
Section II. Status of Government Respect for Religious Freedom
Legal/Policy Framework
Please refer to Appendix C in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for the status of the government's acceptance of international legal standards http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/appendices/index.htm.
The constitution and other laws and policies protect religious freedom and, in practice, the government generally enforced these protections.
The constitutional court determines the legal guidelines that govern religious practice. In recent years the court determined that it was illegal to block access of any group to its religious premises, and discussion and debate regarding religious belief was a protected right of free speech.
The Ministry of National Defense was permitted to intervene in conflicts between religious groups to ensure public order and social peace, provided that the intervention complied with the principle of state neutrality in the management of religious affairs.
Persons who wished to form a religious group must register with the Ministry of the Interior. Registration requirements were the same for all religious groups, and there were no reports that any group was refused permission to register or subjected to unusual delays or obstacles in the registration process. Religious groups were exempted from taxation.
Government officials accorded respect to prominent leaders of all religious groups by attending their induction ceremonies, funerals, and other religious celebrations. Police forces provided security for any religious event upon request.
In accordance with the constitution, which provides for a secular state, public schools were not authorized to provide religious instruction; however, religious groups were permitted to establish private schools.
The government observes the following religious holidays as national holidays: the Birth of the Prophet Muhammad, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Assumption Day, Eid al-Fitr, All Saints' Day, Tabaski, Christmas, and Traditional Religions Day. State-operated television featured coverage of the celebration of religious holidays and special events in the lives of prominent religious leaders, including ordination anniversaries and funerals. Ecumenical Day was celebrated in the historic town of Ouidah every first Wednesday of May and traditionally included a large celebration of interreligious cooperation. Religious leaders made an effort to bridge the divide between Christians and Muslims and preached a message of tolerance.
Restrictions on Religious Freedom
The government generally respected religious freedom in practice. There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom by the government during the reporting period.
There were no reports of abuses, including religious prisoners or detainees in the country
Section III. Status of Societal Actions Affecting Enjoyment of Religious Freedom
There were no reports of societal abuses or discrimination based on religious affiliation, belief, or practice, and prominent societal leaders took positive steps to promote religious freedom.
Due to the diversity of religious affiliations within families and communities, respect for religious differences was widespread at all levels of society and in all regions; however, there were occasional conflicts that required the intervention of local security forces between Voodoo practitioners and Christians over Voodoo initiation practices.
Interfaith dialogue occurred regularly. The country has a Framework for Interfaith Dialogue, "Cadre de Concertation des Confessions Religieuses du Benin." This institution was created in 2007 to advance interfaith dialogue and social peace.
Section IV. U.S. Government Policy
The U.S. government discusses religious freedom with the government as part of its overall policy to promote human rights. On August 30, 2010, Embassy Cotonou hosted an iftar (evening meal during Ramadan) for prominent local Imams and Islamic scholars. The ambassador highlighted the importance of tolerance and interfaith dialogue in country and affirmed the positive dialogue that he has encountered here.


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The Bachelorette: Trista And Ryan Sutter Have A New Baby Girl
April 05, 2009 01:00 PM by Britteny Elrick
Trista met the love of her life on ABC's The Bachelorette. A year later in 2003,Trista and Ryan Sutter were married in front of millions of viewers on aprimetime ABCspecial. They welcomed their first child, Maxwell Alston, in 2007 and now they have even more happy news to share with the world…
Everyone's favorite reality TV couple, Ryan andTrista Sutterhave welcomed their newest addition- a baby girl! Blakesley Grace Sutter was born viaCaesarean section at 1:23 pm Saturday, April 4, 2009 in Colorado. Blakesley weighs 6 pounds, 2 ounces, and measures 19 inches long.
Trista told Life& Style Magazine yesterday, "She's healthy. Everything is really good." So will there be more children on the horizon for the happy couple?
Tristacontinued to saythat now having two healthy children, this will be the final addition tothe Sutterfamily. Trista plans on having a permanent birth control procedure. You can check out the full interview with Trista in Life & Style, available on April 8.
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Forgot to secure Valentine's dinner reservations? Fear not, romantic dinners will be taking place across the city; selecting only one will be the challenge. Opus Fine Dining is featuring a four-course aphrodisiac menu—including Kumamoto oysters; while vegetarian restaurant, WaterCourse Food's dishes take on a Spanish flair (diners will commence a six-course dinner with stuffed piquillo peppers paired with a Kila Cava Brut). Indulge in Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar's four-course dinner intended for two—Uni (sea urchin roe) to start and flourless chocolate cake with butter pecan ice cream to end, with two sea-inspired courses in between. Linger will serve a globally-inspired four-course meal including BLT steamed buns, lamb chops tagine, and honey truffles. Thu, times vary.


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For girls, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis are the principal sports whilst for boys they are rugby, hockey, cricket and athletics. To read more about each major sport, please click on the images below.
The School has an excellent regional reputation and many Hurst boys and girls represent their County every year.
We aim at Hurst to ensure that 'nobody is left on the bench'. Every pupil, with the enthusiasm to do so, is likely to represent the School at some level. Second, the coaching is, in a word, outstanding. It is noticeable how supportive Hurst boys and girls are of each other whatever the activity, encouraging ever greater success. These three factors combine to produce a real Hurst spirit in sport which is palpable to the spectators. Our pupils play sport not just to win but also for the joy of it. As importantly, they learn how to be gracious in victory and dignified in defeat.
By their involvement in sport, our pupils develop skills of teamwork, leadership and commitment – qualities of immense value in every aspect of their future lives. At the same time, it is intended that they will develop interests which will extend beyond their years at Hurst, thus benefiting both their physical well-being and social life.Hurst's diverse sporting programme also enables children to develop skills and qualifications in a range of outdoor pursuits including climbing, sailing, shooting, kayaking and equestrianism. Team and adventure sports parties travel abroad regularly; recent trips include tours of Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Barbados, Dubai and the Alps.
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Humboldt's state tournament bid falls short, 11-10 in regional final
FORT DODGE - Humboldt's state tournament bid came up short Tuesday night in a Class 4A regional softball championship game as Denison-Schleswig denied the Wildcats, 11-10. The loss ends Humboldt's season at 22-10.
Lauren Friesth led Humboldt's 10-hit attack by going 4-for-5 with a home run and three RBI. Sarah Peters had two hits and three RBI. Avery Terwilliger pitched all six innings allowing 11 hits, three walks and two strikeouts.
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Future of Ybor City cigar company threatened by new proposed FDA regulations
TAMPA, Fla. - Aleida Sanchez has worked in Tampa cigar factories for most of her life.
"When I was 19, I started in the cigar business," she said.
Sanchez now works at the J.C. Newman Cigar Company in Ybor City.
Tampa used to have more than 150 cigar factories. Today only one remains. In business for more than a century, J. C. Newman is located in the historic "El Reloj," or clock tower factory. But new proposed FDA regulations threaten the fourth-generation business and its 130 employees.
"We've gone through two world wars, the Great Depression, the Cuban embargo, smoking bans, excessive taxes on cigars, but this one is a tough one," said Eric Newman, president of J.C. Newman Cigar Company.
The FDA proposes to require extensive lab testing on new products that aren't considered premium cigars, like hand-rolled cigars. And because J.C. Newman produces multiple sizes and types of cigars, the rigorous testing proposed would prove too costly to remain in business.
"Oh my God, if they close it. Oh my God, what are we going to do?" Sanchez asked.
Newman knows the heritage of Tampa is part of the issue.
"This is the Cigar City. And we're going to need a lot of help to keep cigars in the Cigar City," he said.
Now Newman is urging people to go to www.savecigarcity.com .
There, people can offer their opinions during the FDA's comment period, which runs through Aug. 8.
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Amazon Kindle ebook sales overtake paperbacks
Sales of Kindle ebook titles now outnumber traditional paperback releases, online retail giant Amazon.com reports. Amazon now sells 115 Kindle titles for every 100 paperbacks sold--in addition, ebook sales now outnumber hardcover sales by a three-to-one margin. Amazon adds that the sales metrics include sales of books where there is no equivalent Kindle edition--in addition, free Kindle titles are excluded, with the retailer noting that if free ebooks were included in its sales breakdown, the discrepancy between Kindle downloads and traditional print sales would grow even wider.
Amazon's net sales increased 36 percent in Q4 2010 to $12.95 billion--net income grew 8 percent to $416 million, while operating income slipped to $474 million, off from $476 million a year ago. Amazon states it sold millions of third-generation Kindle ereader devices in Q4, with the unit surpassing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the bestselling product in the company's history. The U.S. Kindle Store now offers than 810,000 ebooks, including 107 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers. The Kindle Store also boasts millions of free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 titles. Along with ereader devices, Amazon also offers Kindle apps for smartphone and tablet platforms including the iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry.
Earlier this month, Amazon launched its Appstore Developer Portal, confirming long-rumored plans to roll out an Android application storefront later in 2011. Applications available in the Amazon Appstore for Android will operate on all smartphones and tablets running Android 1.6 and above; the storefront will leverage the retailer's signature recommendation and merchandising solutions to boost app discovery, extending beyond software download histories to suggest app purchases based on the customer's complete Amazon shopping history.
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When the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS) had information to share about the monkeypox epidemic that spread through the state in May and June, stuffing sheets of paper into a fax machine was not sufficient as a means to reach the masses.
The department needed something better. Matt Duffy, IT supervisor responsible for Web communications at the DHFS, began looking for ways his department could serve the state's citizens in the most cost-effective and successful manner.
Months before the outbreak in Wisconsin, Duffy met with Joe Plasterer, director of strategic products at Sonic Foundry, to understand the benefits of webcasting information to an Internet public.
"When I was listening to people in the division of public health and our public information officer talk about [planning a news conference], and how we can reach as many d work with SBC to produce the monkeypox presentation's audio portion, which would be placed on the DHFS Web site so interested parties could listen to the conference. But Duffy, after meeting with Plasterer, realized more could be done.
"Why not take it to the next step?" Duffy said. "For what we were going to be charged to have this done, it would be a nice down payment on a MediaSite Live box, and we'd be able to do this ourselves."
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Creating a webcast is fairly straightforward, said Plasterer.
"Before you actually give the presentation, you create kind of a framework of time, place and information about the webcast," he said. "Then our MediaSite Live software, our server-side software, creates a webcast template."
This template is housed in what Sonic Foundry calls a "capture station," which looks like a black aluminum suitcase, and is carried to the presentation site.
"In the case of a presenter, all they need to do is show up at the place with the laptops, say with the PowerPoint on it or whatever information they want to show, and then give their presentation," said Plasterer.
Once the unit is in place, technical staff puts the presentation online.
"You take the video from the video camera, and you plug into whatever the audio source is -- it could be just the native microphone system they have there -- and then you hang it onto the network," said Plasterer. "Then the capture station talks to our presentation server infrastructure, which is a Web server and a video server. So when the presentation is created, it's encoded on the fly and streamed out to whoever's viewing via the URL. All [the viewers] need to do is open up their browser after having clicked on the link."
Another draw of webcasting is the presentation's availability after the initial webcast. After the live webcast, the presentation can be saved on the server for on-demand viewing, Plasterer said.
"In the case of the hour and 17-minute monkeypox webcast we did, it took about a minute and a half to upload the whole thing to the servers, so it would be available for on-demand viewing for anyone who didn't get to see it live," he said.
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When the time came for the DHFS to prepare the presentation about monkeypox, there were a number of factors to consider in the production of a presentation to ensure the webcast would be as effective as possible.
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The crew of a man-o'-war sleeps in hammocks. To the landsman this might imply discomfort, not knowing what a sailor's hammock is. It is made of canvas, and contains a hair mattress, and is as comfortable as any bed, being provided with two woolen blankets of good quality. When a man gets down into that pliant hammock, swinging with the motion of the ship, and beneath the woolen blankets, he is as comfortable as any bed could make him.
Every ship in the Navy is provided with shower-baths of hot or cold salt water. There are also hot or cold fresh-water baths. If the ship is in a climate where the water is warm enough, men are permitted to bathe in the sea. From the very beginning of his career in the Navy, the bluejacket is taught that cleanliness of person is demanded by his shipmates.
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What do you drink when you're home alone with a box of takeout?
As I talked with readers, I realized this is a common problem in need of a quick and easy fix. We all have weeknights spent in front of the TV with a box of food. Here is help in finding the right beverage for Chinese, Italian and Mexican takeout.
I've heard all too often that wines like Gew�rztraminers go well with Asian flavors. They do not. The food flavors are big with salt, soy and sometimes a little sugar to round it out. Add ginger and sesame oil to the mix, and there's that taste we all know and love.
The key to pairing is not to go big or expensive. The wine needs to be under 10 percent alcohol, and it's nice if it has a touch of sweetness. The absolute best wines for this are German Rieslings of the QBA, or Kabinett, style. They are low in alcohol, low in sweetness and a great value. Dr. Loosen, von Hovel and Selbach all make delicious wines.
2006 Graff Riesling, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, Germany ($11-$13) - The color is a light golden yellow. The aroma is chopped apple and cider with some minerality. The taste is light, clean and simple with good tartness. 84 points
This cuisine has a much broader range for food and wine pairing. The good news is that most Italian dishes beg for a simply made country wine, a wine of low cost and good value. The most obvious is a well-made lower-designation Chianti, like the one made by Castello Gabbiano. Another is a simple but well-made Valpolichella. Today's choice is by a company named Banfi, which makes high-end Brunellos but also a great line of affordable blends, both red and white.
2006 Col di Sasso by Banfi Cabernet Sauvignon/Sangiovese, Tuscany, Italy ($8-$9) - The color is intense ruby with a purple hue on the rim. The aroma is youthful berry fruit. The taste is of light berry fruit, hollow in the middle palate and with a simple, clean finish. 85 points
If you're bringing home Mexican, don't bring home spicy wines like Gew�rztraminer and Zinfandel. I'm tired of hearing that they go well with spicy foods. It is absolute bunk.
Gew�rztraminers are spicy like baking or cabinet spice, not like chile spice. They are most always fermented dry or semi-dry at higher levels of alcohol (12.5 to 14 percent). Chile or Thai spice with alcohol equals kaboom! in your mouth . . . not pretty. Zinfandels are spicy in a black-pepper way at best, and always have huge alcohol levels (13.5 to 16 percent).
The best food-and-wine combo here is not wine. It's beer. If you must have wine, a light German Riesling would work, and a Moscato d'Asti is great. Both are in the 8 percent alcohol range. The beer tasted this week is a fun one that will add a creative twist to your couch fiesta: Lambic or fruit-based beer.
Lindeman's Framboise (Raspberry) Lambic, Belgium ($4-$6 a 355ml/12-ounce bottle) - There was an unfortunate typo the last time I wrote about Framboise, identifying it as wine instead of a beer. Look for it with the beers and enjoy. The color is a muted raspberry with an orange tinge. The aroma is a gorgeous vibrant raspberry. The taste is of tart, freshly crushed raspberries with a nice moussey fizz. 95 points
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Community support helps save Upper Valley M.E.N.D.'s Meadowlark project
Ian Dunn
Last year, when Upper Valley MEND and the city of Leavenworth applied for a Community Development Block Grant from the state, a lot was riding on it. The $750,000 was to be used to bring utilities to the 15 acre Meadowlark affordable housing development off Titus Road in Leavenworth.
The grant was denied, and it nearly killed project. Now, as MEND and the city are ready to apply again for the grant, it is truly remarkable to look back to see what happened to keep the project alive.
"In May, we got word the CDBG grant didn't work out," said John Agnew, president, Upper Valley MEND Board, at the Jan. 8 city council study session. "It blew a big hole in the project. I remember getting interviewed and asked, what's the implication of this? The board was saying, we literally do not know if the project can survive this or not."
The following June board meeting was all about risk, he said. How much risk is involved and can the board tolerate the level of risk it would take to get the project moving forward? The board's conclusion, he said, was to take couple months to see if they can find funding. They needed a business plan that worked without the CDBG grant.
"We need a business plan that is believable and that worked. The key element in this plan, infrastructure costs and construction costs on homes," he said. "And on the other side of the equation, price points on affordable homes, price points in the near market arena and the absorption rate for both."
Agnew said they attacked both sides of the equation. They went out and got formal contractor bids on infrastructure and competing bids on the preliminary home plans. Price points were adjusted on both the affordable homes, the near market homes and their absorption rates.
They tweaked those four categories and did some value engineering on the infrastructure pieces. That was all brought back together last November.
"It was not without risk, but it appeared to be a doable thing," he said. "However, we were out of money. And we were not willing as a board to put MEND out there on a limb to move forward, even though we had a plan that made sense. Because it relied on six to eight months of pre-development work. We had no cash to fund that."
From there, the plan was to get 40 to 50 people together in a room at different times and show them the numbers, the pro-forma and the spreadsheet. They people would be asked, if they were the board, what would they recommend?
And finally, they needed to raise $150,000, which would be the first deposit on a $500,000 capital campaign.
"That's what we did. The three weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas we had a dozen meetings with 40 community members," Agnew said. "At the December board meeting, the team reported to us, success on both fronts. Yes, you should do this and they wrote us checks to fund the next six months of pre-development."
With that, the board decided to press ahead. Agnew said that everybody on the board drinks the Kool Aid about the importance of the project. They all really want it to happen. Because of that, he says they risk making a bad decision.
"We know that. That is why we wanted to take this to the community. If we are going to do this, we wanted to make sure if we told this story in realistic ways, with realistic numbers and asked people what they thought...what would they say?," he said. "Where would they come down on this? That gave us the comfort level to make this decision in December."
Board member Chuck Reppas said the support in the community was overwhelming.
"We actually intentionally had a few people that were naysayers about the project that we presented this to. At least one or two of them actually contributed money at the end," Reppas said. "It gave us a good deal of confidence we were doing the right thing."
Last year, prior to applying for the CDBG, MEND was 30 percent complete on plans for the homes and utilities. Now, they are at 50 percent complete for the homes and 60 percent for the utilities.
This allowed the builders to take the guess work out of it, said Brian Thompson-Royer, executive director, Upper Valley MEND. He believes there is more savings to be attained. The other part of the project, when looking at overall cost, is dependent on sales.
"We've been working with Leavenworth Properties now for two plus years," Thompson-Royer said. "We need to adjust the price to a point that is doable and reasonable in terms of the market. The first is the affordable homes on the land trust, generating $5.2 million in sales. Then the market rate units, the prices are significantly greater because it includes the land. They are not part of the land trust model."
The market in town for homes does not generate huge numbers every year, said realtor Lynn Stoddard. The average home is older and typically needs a lot of work. The Meadowlark homes would be a brand new home, not requiring $20,000 in repairs.
The homes would be a little larger. Most homes in town are two bedrooms.
"To see three and four bedrooms options... south of $300,000 is a comforting number for me to promote," Stoddard said. "Overall, I think absorption rate will work and the market is getting stronger. I think it is a great product that has never been here before. Keep the pace going in terms of the rates they are sold. I think we will have people lining up to buy them."
To purchase an affordable home, you must meet the income requirements set by the federal government. Currently, for a family of four, the maximum income in $47,000. The 22 near market homes currently don't have a limit. Thompson-Royer said it is around 80 to 120 percent of median income.
Having the affordable and near market homes in the same package creates an ideal situation for a realtor, said Leavenworth Mayor Cheri Kelley Farivar.
"I can't sell you this house because you make too much money. It is an affordable house. Thereby, I am going to move you to the near market home, which you certainly could qualify for," Farivar said. "Surprisingly, the two together create a situation which is market heaven for a realtor."
Stoddard said it is kind of exciting to be able to show something to somebody who did not think they could afford Leavenworth.
"They can in the affordable arena or trade them up if they don't qualify. It is a great, terrific, hopeful thing and I hope it happens," Stoddard said.
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PEORIA - The City of Peoria is being taken over - by motorcyclists.
More than two-thousand bikers rode through downtown Peoria as part of the Grand Nationals TT Motorcycle Parade.
The event is part of a bigger festival in the city.
Organizers say the parade raises money for a variety of local charities, including those that help residents impacted by the November 17th tornado.
Plus, it creates awareness for biker rights.
Bikers say it shows others that they are active in the community.
The parade lead bikers down to the Peoria riverfront for the 20th annual TT Festival.
The day long event featured musical performances and bike stunt demonstrations.
Hit bands Saliva and Tesla will close out the night.
Festival promoter Jay Goldberg said the festival turns the Grand National races into a weekend-long party.
"What we wanted to do was let people know that, again, Peoria, right here in Peoria, Illinois, we were the home of one of the longest continuous running spectator sports, the Grand National TT races," he said.
Grand National races start at 2PM Sunday afternoon.
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Chapter 1 - Why Agile Results
From Getting Results | The Book
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. —Bruce Lee
In This Chapter
- Learn how Agile Results is different from other systems.
- Learn how to improve your life with effective results.
- Learn the three keys to results.
This chapter explains how Agile Results differs from other systems you may have seen or tried, as well as what distinguishes it as effective for everything you apply it to. You can even apply Agile Results to your existing productivity system by applying the principles and practices.
Before going into the nuts and bolts of a solution, it's important to know the problem it solves and what sets it apart. Agile is the ability to respond to change. In a changing world, your ability to learn and respond is one of the most crucial skills to go from surviving to thriving. Agile Results is a flexible system for getting meaningful results. It's a cross-discipline approach for results that combines some of the most effective techniques in human performance for your mind, body, and emotions.
One of the most important concepts in Agile Results is the idea of agility. Maybe when you grew up, you thought you could go to school, learn a job, maybe switch careers once or twice, and then retire happily ever after. This big up-front design and long-term planning, just doesn't work in today's world. That doesn't mean give up planning. Instead, learn how to adjust your sails to the winds and tides and sail wherever it is you want to go with your life. Rethink your goals. Rather than a static set of dreams and ideals, test your results along the way and carve out the path that works for you. Mini-goals and actions go a long way towards your biggest and most impactful results.
Agile Results is elegance in action. It combines the art and the science of results. Don't let the simplicity fool you. It's been tested in some of the most complex working environments, as well as in private life.
The State of the Art vs. the State of the Practice
There are many state-of-the-art techniques people around the world are using every day to improve their results and amplify their impact. For example, sports psychologists have great techniques for improving the energy, focus and results of world class athletes. They even help athletes use stress to be their best. Highly effective project management techniques are available today for managing scope, estimating work, and scheduling. In software, Scrum and Agile practices are helping individuals and teams prioritize more effectively, get to working results faster, and respond to change.
Yet, the full potential of all this learning is rarely achieved in practice. There's a gap between the state of the art and the state of the practice. The state of the practice looks more like this:
- You can't keep up with change, and things are changing faster than ever.
- You don't finish what you start.
- What does get finished isn't what you actually wanted.
- You feel like there's never enough time.
- You regularly feel overwhelmed and drained.
The problem is, while you may learn a lot of things in school or on the job, you learn the least about the most important thing that can change your life. What's needed is an understanding of the art of results.
What Makes Agile Results Different?
What makes Agile Results different is that it integrates the world's best techniques for results.
- Outcomes over Activities. Outcomes provide a lens for focus. Outcomes are the results you want to accomplish. Just doing more activities, checking off items from a task list, and throwing more time and energy at problems won't necessarily produce the results you want. By starting with outcomes, you define what good will look like and you give yourself a compelling path to work towards. Working on the right things to produce the right results for your current situation is a recipe for success.
- Time as a First-Class Citizen. In Agile Results, time is a first-class citizen. Windows of opportunity are important. It's about doing "good enough" for now, and versioning your results. Time changes what's important. What was important last month or last week might not be what's important now. That's the agile part—be responsive to what's important now. This also includes using timeboxes effectively. For example, rather than try to figure out how long something might take, start by figuring out how much time you want to invest in it. Identify up front at what point do diminishing returns become unacceptable. This will help you cut your losses and figure out how to optimize your time.
- Fresh Start. If you fall off the horse, you can get back on. You get a fresh start each day, each week, each month, each year. What you take on is just as important as what you let go or "slough off." You don't want to be a beast of burden where one more straw breaks your back. It's about thinking in terms of delivering value over simply working through your backlog or crossing off a laundry list of to-dos. It's about asking and answering what's your next best thing to do.
- Test Your Results. Have a bias for action. Rather than do a bunch of analysis and commit to a big plan up front, start taking action and testing you results. Use feedback to improve your plans. Testing your results is a way to find the risks and surprises earlier versus later. A simple way to remember this is "Do it, review it, and improve it." In addition, you'll find that action creates inspiration. A lot of people wait for their moment of inspiration before they start, but what they don't realize is that simply by starting, the inspiration can follow. It's like going to see a movie and then enjoying it more than you expected.
- Fix Time, Flex Scope. By fixing time, you set yourself up for success. The main thing is to set a fixed time for eating, sleeping, and working out. You can also fix time within work. For example, you can decide that work is an eight hour day within which you set timeboxes to produce results: an hour for administration, four hours for execution, two hours for think time, and a minimum of an hour on communication and relationships. At a higher level, you might fix time to be a 40-hour or 50-hour work week. Within that time frame, you will bite off the work you can do. What you won't do is flex time. You won't throw more hours at the problem each day. You'll gradually learn to bite off what you can accomplish and manage your plate more effectively.
- Boundaries. Boundaries are simply minimums and maximums. Setting boundaries is a key to success. You'll produce more effective results by spending the right time and energy on the right things. You can set boundaries with time; for example, tell yourself, "I'll spend no more than an hour on that." You can set boundaries in terms of energy; for example, tell yourself, "I'll stop when I start to feel tired." Most people trip up by not setting boundaries. They'll work on something until they crash. They throw all their time in one area at the expense of other areas. Setting boundaries is how you can add balance to your life. You can spread your time and energy across the important Hot Spots.
- Tests for Success. Your tests for success answer the question, "What will good look like?" Simply by figuring out the three outcomes you want for the day, the week, the month, and the year, you identify your tests for success. You have an idea of what you want to accomplish and what good will look like. Knowing your tests for success helps you prioritize.
- Approach over Results. How you accomplish your results is more important than the results themselves in the long run. Your approach is your foundation. It's what you fall back on when you don't know the way forward. Your approach should be sustainable. You should also be able to improve your approach over time. Your approach should be consistent with your values. Your approach should play to your strengths and limit your weaknesses.
- The Rhythm of Results. Iterate on your results. Version your results over time. The rhythm of results is your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly results. This is about flowing value incrementally. Think of it as a set of trains that come and go from the station. If you miss a train, you can catch the next one. At the same time, you want to catch certain trains because of your time frames and windows of opportunity.
- Time, Energy, and Technique. You don't want to just throw more time at problems. You also don't want to burn yourself out by just throwing your energy into things. Your results are a combination of time, energy, and technique. By using more effective techniques, you can amplify your results. This is how you use your time and energy more effectively.
- Strengths over Weaknesses. Rather than spend all your time improving your weaknesses, spend your time playing to your strengths. While it's important to reduce your liabilities, you'll go further, have more passion, and produce more effective results by spending more time in your strengths. In areas that you are weak, one of your best moves is to partner or team up with others that supplement you. If you can't outsource your weaknesses, you can find more effective mentors or pair up with other people who help you amplify your results.
- System over Ad Hoc. When you have routines for how you produce results, you can learn and improve. It's one thing to produce results randomly, while it's another to have a system you can count on. When you have a system, you can tune and prune what works for you.
- Continuous Learning. The world's not static. Skills aren't static. You're not static. Learning is a first-class citizen. It's about taking action, getting the feedback, and changing your approach. It's about letting go of what's not working, and testing new ways to achieve your results. It's about personalizing your approach and continuously refining it to meet your needs. Your weekly reflection will help you learn more about yourself in terms of your strengths, your weaknesses, your passions, your bottlenecks, and ultimately your results. While improving your results, you'll improve the way you produce results. Improving the way you produce results, will improve your enjoyment and fulfillment no matter what you work on.
In the next chapters, you'll see the "What" and "How" behind Agile Results. You'll see how to achieve your best results by combining the power of multiple patterns and practices.
Life's Better with Results
When you lead a life of results, you make things happen. Whether it's getting your body in shape, achieving excellence at work, or just getting things done around the house, results is the name of the game. Sometimes having fun is the result you want, and Agile Results helps you with that too. Knowing how to produce results effectively and efficiently, changes your game. Here are some examples of how Agile Results can work for you:
- You find your flow and are focused and engaged in whatever you do.
- You learn the best ways of doing things over time and avoid painful pitfalls.
- You're responsive to change and have unlimited energy to take on whatever life throws your way.
- You have a rhythm of results that helps you get up to bat time and again.
- You play to your strengths and live your values.
- You regularly enjoy power hours and creative hours to unleash your best results.
- You find your best work-life balance.
- You spend less time working but produce more effective results.
The Way of Results
The way of results is moving forward. It's growth over decline. It's learning over failing. It's outcomes over activities. It's meaningful results. It's valuing your time. It's taking action. It's balancing your demands. It's having an enjoyable journey towards a compelling end in mind. You get more out of life when you know what you want to get. You get more out of life when you have a sustainable approach. The key is a flexible approach that supports you.
3 Keys to Results
You can master your time management only to spend your time on the wrong things. You can master task management and miss windows of opportunity. What are the real keys to results?
There are three keys that can change your game pretty quickly.
Key 1. The Key to Time Management Is Energy Management
Managing your energy is how you produce more results in the same amount of time. You don't get more hours in a day, but you can change your level of energy. If you can spend more time in your power hours or add more power hours to your week, you improve your results.
Key 2. The Key to Energy Management Is Passion
Living with passion is a key to your best results. When you think about energy, think of your mind, body, and emotions. You can eat right, sleep like a baby, and get ripped at the gym. In contrast, you can get physically drained, mentally drained, or emotionally drained. Your energy depends on fulfilling your passions. Your mind, body, and emotions play off each other.
Key 3. The Key to Results Is Time, Energy and Technique
The key to results is using your time and energy more effectively and efficiently. You can't just throw time at problems. If you throw time at a problem, but you don't have enough energy, you can spend way more time than you need to. On the other hand, if you have a lot of energy, and you throw time at the problem, but you don't have the right technique, you can churn and burn, but never actually get the results you want. The key is to spend your time working on the right things with your best energy and the best techniques.
The three keys of results are shifts in thinking. For example, if you've approached productivity as simply managing time, then you've missed out on the benefits of managing energy. If you've tackled productivity as an exercise in task management, then you've potentially missed out on producing meaningful results or playing to your passions. If you've thrown time and energy at problems, but you didn't focus on exploring your techniques, there's a good chance that you can get back a lot of time and energy each week, simply by swapping out for more effective techniques.
You will see how to apply these keys throughout this guide.
In Summary
- Agile Results is a personal productivity system that combines the best patterns and practices from a variety of disciplines.
- There is a gap between the state of the art and the state of the practice when it comes to results.
- Agile Results has a special emphasis on simplicity.
- There are three keys to results: (1) improve your results by improving your energy; (2) spend more time in your passion to improve your energy; and (3) combine time, energy, and technique for your most effective results.


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|Running Time: 134 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
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Summary:Finn, a middle-aged English teacher, enters a mid-life crisis impelled by a recent tragedy. As he sets afoot selling encyclopedias to the town locals, encounters ensue and sales are made, but Finn's anxieties begin to consume him as he finds himself pursued by an unrelenting ghost. Circling through sleepless nights and desperate days, Finn is lead toward an unexpected and sublime awakening.


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Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the second-most powerful man in the House of Representatives and the highest ranking Jewish member of Congress in history - lost the Republican primary to a tea party challenger.
Cantor was dethroned Tuesday by a little-known, tea party-backed Republican primary challenger who rolled to victory on a wave of public anger over calls for looser immigration laws, in one of the most stunning upsets in modern American politics. The move also diminished any chance for Cantor to make Jewish history again by being appointed Speaker of the House.


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On October 25, Mrs. Mildred C. Parsons, a beloved member of the FBI family, was laid to rest after passing away Sunday at the age of 99. Known to all as Millie, she was the longest continually serving employee in FBI history—she never even took a day of sick leave during the entire 62 years, nine months, and two days of her Bureau employment. She retired from the FBI in June 2002 when she was 88 years old. Read more at: http://www.fbi.gov/news/news_blog/remembering-millie-parsons
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If you were looking forward to seeing Kristin Chenoweth this fall in CBS's The Good Wife, I've got some bad news for you. While the actress was booked for a recurring role on the critically acclaimed drama series' upcoming fourth season, she will be exiting the series much earlier than planned after sustaining an on-set injury.
Chenoweth was slated to play a political reporter who goes after Alicia (Julianna Marguiles) and Peter (Chris Noth) in an attempt to uncover dirt on their private and professional lives. She nabbed the role in June, but in July, while filming the series, she was hit by a piece of lighting equipment blown over by wind. She was hospitalized overnight and released the next day, but apparently the injuries were too much to continue filming.
"It is with deep regret to inform everone that due to my injuries, I am unable to return to The Good Wife at this time," Chenoweth said in a statement. "Getting better slowly and thank you everyone for your concern."
Chenoweth is still slated to appear in the show's season premiere, but she will not appear in the following episodes as planned; she might return to the series later on in season 4.
Chenoweth recently starred in the cancelled ABC series GCB, and had a recurring role on FOX's Glee. Her largest television role to date has been The West Wing, in which she played Annabeth Schott from 2004 to 2006 (she also dated West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin). She was also a star of the short-lived series Pushing Daisies. She's slated to appear in the upcoming comedy film Hit and Run, which is due out later this month.
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Download, Create and Display an Image from URL
This tip will show the steps to download and display an image from a remote resource. This is handy if you need to add an image as a subview, yet, the image is not part of your application bundle.
URL to Remote Image
We start by creating a URL to the remote resource:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://iosdevelopertips.com/images/logo-iphone-dev-tips.png"];
Create UIImage from NSData
The next step is to build a UIImage using the data downloaded from the URL, which consists of an NSData object that holds the remote image contents:
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData: [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url]];
Putting it Together
Here's how to wrap it all together, adding the remote image as a subview to an existing view by creating a UIImageView from the above UIImage:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: @"http://iosdevelopertips.com/images/logo-iphone-dev-tips.png"]; UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData: [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url]]; [self.view addSubview:[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image]];
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The problem this code is that the fetch happens synchronously. If this is called in the UI thread, the app will appear block while the image is being fetched.
The fetch should happen on a background thread.
The problem with this approach is that this will block the UI thread until the image is downloaded. I would suggest using EGOImageLoading by Enormego for example http://url.akosma.com/sz9xb which loads the image in a background thread, and even caches it so that later it's retrieved from the local disk.


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Rogene C. Wolf, 87, of Greenwood, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014.
She was born March 23, 1926, in Sheboygan, Wis., to the late Fabian and Wilma Sonntag and was a 1944 graduate of North High School.
Rogene was a volunteer nurse's aide for the American Red Cross at St. Nicholas Hospital in pediatrics. Later, she and her husband co-owned and operated multiple Ben Franklin stores in Indianapolis.
A snowbird, she was an avid bridge player, which included being involved in a Meet and Greet bridge organization in Lakeland, Fla.
She and her husband also enjoyed RV traveling.
Survivors include her husband of 67 years, Monroy J. Wolf; children, Dianne (Mike) McDowell, Laura (Linda Hoffmann) Phillips, Carol (Leonard) Howard and Lisa (Jonn) Hester; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; a sister, Rita Ader; and a brother, Ron Sonntag.
She was preceded in death by siblings Ruth Karas, Rosella Ott and Roger Sonntag.
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No. 6 Virginia Tech Sinks No. 19 Wake Forest 2-1 in OT
Oct. 17, 2013
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BLACKSBURG, Va. - No. 19 Wake Forest gave No. 6 Virginia Tech all that it could handle, but the Hokies scored with a minute left in the first overtime period to notch a 2-1 win over the Demon Deacons at Thompson Field in Blacksburg, Va. Thursday.
With the loss, the Demon Deacons fall to 8-4-2 (3-4-2 ACC) while the red-hot Hokies improve to 12-1-2 (7-1-1 ACC).
Kendall Fischlein had given Wake Forest the lead early with a well-placed strike in the 11th-minute, but Virginia Tech evened things up in the 26th minute thanks to Shannon Mayrose's first goal of the season.
Neither side was able to find another goal in regulation with Aubrey Bledsoe making five saves in the second half to keep the Demon Deacons in the game.
Tiernan broke Wake Forest hearts with her 99th-minute goal, beating the offside trap to collect a pass wide open in front of net, finishing calmly past Bledsoe from eight yards out.
Fischlein's goal, her second of the season, was a one of the best the Deacons have scored all season. She cut in from the right, juking a defender before unleashing a lofted left-footed shot that curled into the top-right corner.
Fischlein, Sarah Teegarden and Jessica Mandarich tied for the Wake Forest lead with two shots apiece.
The Demon Deacons will play their penultimate road match of the season on Sunday when they head south to face Clemson. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m., and the game will be broadcast on the ACC's Regional Sports Networks and ESPN3.


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If you feel a sudden surge of anger, there may be an underlying reason why you're losing your cool - thirst.
Dehydration affects cognition, concentration and the general ability to think clearly and control mood, a group of scientists have discovered.
Researchers from the University of Connecticut's Human Performance Laboratory found that even mild dehydration alters a person's mood, energy levels and mental function.
The study involved putting dehydrated participants through a series of cognitive tests measuring vigilance, concentration, memory, reasoning and learning ability. The results compared against those who were not dehydrated.
Researchers discovered that mild dehydration, particularly in young women, caused headaches, fatigue and difficulty concentrating. Female participants struggled concentrating on simple tasks but interestingly, suffered no reduction in cognitive ability.
Dehydrated young men on the other hand, experienced difficulty in mental tasks, especially in areas of vigilance and memory, as well as anxiety and tension.
Alterations in mood were "substantially greater in women, both at rest and during exercise," explains co-author of the study, Harris Lieberman, in a statement.
"Even mild dehydration – 1.5% loss in normal water volume in the body – that can occur in the course of our ordinary daily activities can degrade how we are feeling, especially in women, who are more susceptible to the adverse effects of low levels of dehydration."
Researchers added that the adverse effects of dehydration didn't vary between those who just exercised for 40 minutes or those sitting down at a desk.
"Dehydration affects all people, and staying properly hydrated is just as important for those who work all day at a computer, as it is for marathon runners, added Lieberman.
Adding to this, fellow author, Lawrence E. Armstrong, says: "Our thirst sensation doesn't really appear until we are 1 or 2% dehydrated. By then dehydration is already setting in and starting to impact how our mind and body perform."
The study was published in The Journal of Nutrition.
Dehydration happens when the body loses more fluid than what goes in. When the normal water content of the body is reduced, it upsets the balance of minerals, like salts and sugars, in the body, which affects the way it functions.
Water makes up over two thirds of the human body and it lubricates the joints and eyes, as well as aiding digestion, flushing out toxins and waste and keeps skin healthy.
Symptoms of dehydration include feeling thirsty or lightheaded and having dark coloured, strong-smelling urine.
Many studies have tried to establish a recommended daily intake of water but it varies on the individual and other factors like age, climate and physical activity. In general, a healthy water intake is around 1.2 to 2 litres per day (6 to 8 glasses).
Steer clear of caffeinated drinks when possible, as the caffeine tends to counteract the water benefits as it dries out moisture. If you need to get your hot drink fix, opt for herbal teas instead. Green tea is great for its antioxidants and cleansing, and chamomile tea is a lovely calming drink. If you don't fancy them hot, chill them in the fridge and enjoy them cold.
Get your vegetable intake as well as water with a glass of tangy tomato juice. Tomatoes contain a high level of water, so making these into a juice is an ideal way to get some water into your everyday diet, as well as one of your five-a-day.
Soups are predominately water-based, so in the winter months, use this as an excuse to eat lots of hearty soups and stews.
If you find plain water boring to drink, spruce it up with a slice of lemon or lime (or both). This will add subtle citrus flavour to your drink without involving any added sugar or nasties.
Instead of drinking water, you can eat it instead. Opt for water-based fruits, such as watermelon and cranberries. Watermelon is 90% water and is also packed with other essential nutrients such as vitamin C and vitamin A.


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After Midnight Project, ya'll were amazing! My best friend & I saw ya'll at The Whiskey Bar in Waco. NO other band could've opened for P Roach better. [first row, full impact baby!] Jacoby, thanks for the autographs. For my first concert it was a million times better than i could have imagined it. That night was the higlight of our year. We love ya'll!


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Steubenville Rape Case: Investigation now focusing on Steubenville City Schools
April 25, 2013
STEUBENVILLE -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine this afternoon announced that his office executed search warrants at the following locations as part of the ongoing investigation in the Steubenvill......
Search warrants like these are just court orders to obtain records that cannot be released by the person holding them. Like student records, counselor notes and personnel records. The news exaggerates this. For sure, DeWine and his people are investigating but the fact that search warrants were issued and served on the Board and the record holders is not a big deal police operation, they are just getting records to see if there was knowledge of this act and that someone in power should have acted. Be interested to see that information, but its not a "raid" its just procedure. The action will happen when charges are presented to the grand jury. If there is record of the football coach talking about it to someone in the Board, that would be the first evidence of value linking him to anything criminal. Neat to watch but no need to go nuts til the time is here.
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Did they obtain phone records of the adults involved? How about search warrants for the homes where the parties were held?
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Maria Sharapova graces the cover and is inside the pages of the September 2012 issue of Hamptons Magazine. In the interview, Maria talks about carrying the Russian flag at the Olympics, her new business venture, Sugarpova, and getting married. As for becoming a mom one day? She said: "For sure! My mother and I have a very close relationship; she had me when she was really young. I've missed that train, but absolutely some day."
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Also on Arizona Spotlight: A wrap on the 2017 State Budget; a doctor from Pakistan makes a difference in Marana; new book details UA role in space exploration.
Also on Arizona Spotlight: How changes to campaign finance laws may change Arizona's politics; StoryCorps; and "A Book I LOve".
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Also on Arizona Spotlight: Tusconans try their hand at interpreting Shakespeare.
Also on Arizona Spotlight: Looking ahead to the Arizona legislative session's second half; The Department of Child Safety deals with backlog of cases.
Scholar says that without this almost 400 year old book, only half of Shakespeare's plays would be known today.
Also on Arizona Spotlight: Visit the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show with an avid shopper, and Beth Surdut pays attention to her desert neighbors, the coyote.
Listen to the first Arizona Spotlight to be recorded in front of a live audinece, on Jan. 24, 2016 at the historic El Casino Ballroom in Tucson.
StoryCorps in Tucson preents a grandfather's tale of adventure during World War II; new biography tells the story of the first American woman to become a doctor; Tucson unemployed look for work "Under the Sun".
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Groups Seal Deal to Protect Transboundary Flathead River
North Fork of the Flathead River, MT | Scott Bosse
The decades long battle over whether to develop the mineral wealth underlying one of North America's most wildlife-rich river corridors is finally over.
Last week, The Nature Conservancy of Montana and the Nature Conservancy of Canada announced they had raised the $10 million needed to buy out existing mining rights and implement new environmental protections along the North Fork of the Flathead River. The buyout comes on the heels of legislation the British Columbian parliament passed in 2010 to protect the North Fork from all forms of mining and oil and gas drilling.
Born in the Canadian Rockies not far from the town of Fernie, the North Fork flows south along the western boundary of Glacier National Park before emptying into Montana's Flathead Lake. Thanks to its pristine water quality, low elevation and location at the interface of dueling climate zones, it supports an unparalleled array of wildlife including grizzly bears, gray wolves, wolverines, lynx, moose and elk. The North Fork is also one of Montana's last, best strongholds for native cutthroat trout and salmon-sized bull trout that embark on 150-mile long spawning runs.
Just when it looked like mining and energy companies might finally pry their way into the North Fork, American Rivers highlighted its plight in our 2009 America's Most Endangered Rivers report. That listing, along with the international media attention provided by the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, helped conservation groups like the National Parks Conservation Association get the North Fork campaign across the finish line.
As a former resident of the North Fork who first fell under its spell while tracking wolves there twenty years ago, this victory tastes especially sweet. To celebrate the victory, my wife and I rafted from the Canadian border downstream to the remote outpost of Polebridge last Independence Day. That night, under a star-filled sky, we stopped in at the Northern Lights Saloon and raised a beer to all those who fought so hard to protect this magical place.