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By NATHAN GREGORY
Lease options regarding the countyŌĆÖs portion of Oktibbeha County Lake and a resolution to support consolidation of Starkville and Oktibbeha County schools will be two discussion topics in todayŌĆÖs board of supervisors meeting, officials say.
The 5:30 p.m. meeting will be held at the Oktibbeha County Courthouse.
Last November, the Oktibbeha County School District signed a 25-year lease agreement with John Barnett and Rick Stansbury for its 312-acre portion of the lake for $31,290.25 annually.
District 1 Supervisor and county board vice president John Montgomery said Oktibbeha County Administrator Don Posey was authorized at a recent board meeting to seek Barnett and Stansbury and gauge their interest on leasing on the countyŌĆÖs 95-acre portion of the property. Board president and District 3 Supervisor Orlando Trainer said the board will likely ask for clarification on the lease and decide what to do next.
ŌĆ£I know we had a strong desire to perhaps engage in a lease with them but at the same time we were somewhat unsure about the conditions of the lease. WeŌĆÖll bring it back up for discussion and see if the board wants to move forward or delay action on it,ŌĆØ Trainer said. ŌĆ£Which way the board will lean, I really canŌĆÖt say, because there will probably be some discussion and some interesting ŌĆ" points will be brought out. IŌĆÖve had a lot of citizen inquiry about it as far as the status of the lake. I think probably thatŌĆÖs going to be a heavy factor in whichever direction we decide to go and ŌĆ" what would be good for the public and good for the county.ŌĆØ
Last year, the school district and supervisors issued requests for proposals for leases no less than $40,700 per year for the total 407 acres of lake and campground land at the demands of the Mississippi Secretary of StateŌĆÖs office. The price came from a re-appraisal that set the landŌĆÖs value at approximately $100 per acre. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks then vacated its long-standing, $2,500-per-year lease for the entire acreage.
Consolidation discussion
Last Tuesday, District 3 Supervisor Marvel Howard called a meeting to gather citizen input and use it to draft a resolution on consolidation for State Rep. Tyrone Ellis to bring forward in Jackson. Since the meeting, the Miss. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill in support of forced consolidation of the Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts by a 107-6 vote.
Trainer said he will call for the board to engage in a positive campaign to highlight the benefits of consolidation during the meeting.
ŌĆ£What I want to do is get the board to get a majority vote to pass a resolution to support consolidation in Starkville and Oktibbeha County and get some positive press behind the benefits of what it could bring to the citizens of Starkville and Oktibbeha County. ThereŌĆÖs been a lot of negative things that have been printed in the paper and ŌĆ" a lot of it is coming from (SSD) Superintendent (Lewis Holloway). When I say negative I wouldnŌĆÖt say extremely negative, but ... I think a lot of people have gotten some bad vibes off some of the things that theyŌĆÖve seen and read,ŌĆØ Trainer said. ŌĆ£I think itŌĆÖs time for us to do a positive campaign and come out and support this thing so it can continue to move as swiftly as it is and have the same type of traction in the Senate. I think all of (the board members) realize how this has an impact on the quality of life (and) community development ŌĆ" so we need to be involved in it because of the benefits it could bring to our county. I think the benefits outweigh any negatives out there.ŌĆØ
Equipment upgrades
Also up for discussion will be consideration of purchasing several new haul and dump trucks for the county to upgrade its aging fleet. Trainer said the board will discuss bids on purchasing the new trucks and replacing some outdated equipment.
ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖve got several trucks that have substantial amounts of miles on them so we feel like itŌĆÖs in the best interest of the county to go ahead and look at replacing those old trucks, getting some new ones and taking the old ones to the market and recouping some of our money on them, that way it will help defray some of the costs,ŌĆØ Trainer said. ŌĆ£One of the things that would help us out on is maintenance costs and things of that nature. Each year we have an amount that is fixed in our budget and so that amount ŌĆ" will allow us to make payments for whatever we have to borrow, which would be the balance of what we would pay for the new ones minus what we get from the old ones. WeŌĆÖll have a little money already built in our budget that would help us to service a note for maybe 36 months and that way we wonŌĆÖt have to drain all that money out of the coffers.ŌĆØ

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EAGLE LAKE and FORT KENT - Aurele D. Caron, 99, entered into eternal rest on Aug. 3, 2012. He was born in Frenchville on June 20, 1913, the son of Denis and Odile (Gervais) Caron. He was employed by Frank Martin & Sons for many years on the farm and retired from the former Peoples Benevolent Hospital in Fort Kent doing maintenance. Aurele was well known as an avid dancer and for volunteering for the Senior Citizens Club. His laugh, smile and jokes will be dearly missed. He leaves behind three daughters, Robertine (Bobby) Charette, Patsy Bouchard, Pauline and her husband Gary Dumond; one sister, Rinette Dubois. Many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins will dearly miss him. He was predeceased by his wife Sadie Caron in 1990; one daughter, Betty (Martin) Bouchard; three brothers, Lucien, Camille and Norman; two sisters, Jeannette Voisine and Annette Vaillancourt; three sons-in-law, Nelson Martin, Danford Charette and Herman Bouchard. Friends called 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 until time of service at the Daigle Funeral Home, Fort Kent. A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Louis Catholic Church, Fort Kent. Committal services will follow in the parish cemetery. At the family's request, those who wish in his memory may donate to Crosswinds Residential Care, 40 Village Road, Fort Kent, ME 04743 or to Hospice of Aroostook, PO Box 688, Caribou, ME 04736. Envelopes are available at the funeral home.


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Kourtney Kardashian has lost a ton of baby weight since giving birth to daughter Penelope, and the mother of two was not shy about flaunting her fit figure in a skintight Halloween costume last night at sister Kim's birthday bash.
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The Failure of U-Th-Pb "Dating"; at Koongarra, Australia
by Andrew A. Snelling, Ph.D.
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Published in: CEN Technical Journal, volume 9, number 1, pp. 71–92, 1995.
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As with other radiometric "dating" methods, the U-Pb and Pb-Pb isochron methods have been questioned in the open literature, because often an excellent line of best fit between ratios obtained from a set of good cogenetic samples gives a resultant "isochron" and yields a derived "age" that has no geological meaning. At the Koongarra uranium deposit, Australia, there is ample evidence of open system behavior, or repeated migration, of U and Pb—ore textures, mineral chemistry, supergene alteration, uranium/daughter disequilibrium, and groundwater and soil geochemistry. Yet U-Th-Pb isotopic studies of the uranium ore, host rocks, and soils have produced an array of false "isochrons" that yield "ages" which are geologically meaningless. Even a claimed near-concordant U-Pb "age" of 862 Ma (million years) on one uraninite grain is identical to a false Pb-Pb isochron "age," but neither can be connected to any geological event. The open system behavior of the U-Th-Pb system is clearly the norm, as is the resultant mixing of radiogenic Pb with "common" or background Pb, even in soils in the surrounding region, apparently even up to 17 km away! Because no geologically meaningful results can be interpreted from the U-Th-Pb data at Koongarra (three uraninite grains even yield a 232Th/208Pb "age" of 0 Ma), serious questions must be asked about the validity of the fundamental/foundational basis of the U-Th-Pb "dating" method. This makes the task of creationists building their model for the geological record much easier, since claims of U-Th-Pb radiometric "dating" having "proven" the claimed great antiquity of the earth, its strata and fossils can be justifiably ignored.
Radiometric Dating, U-Pb and Pb-Pb Isochron Methods, Koongarra, Uranium Deposit, Open-System Behavior, Ore Textures, Mineral Chemistry, Supergene Alteration, Uranium-Daughter Disequilibrium, Groundwater and Soil Geochemistry, Uraninites, Galenas, False Isochrons, Mixing, Zero "Ages"
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Valley CityŌĆÖs Another Time restaurant will soon serve authentic and homemade Mexican food from owner and head cook Abel Turrubiates.
Turrubiates, a native-born Mexican, said he will eventually call his restaurant Mi Pueblito, which means ŌĆ£my little town.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£The reason I call it my little town, is Valley City is a little town, and I have my children who live here, and I thought of adopting his little town as ŌĆśmy little town,ŌĆÖŌĆØ he said.
Turrubiates took over the business from former owner Tanya Hurlimann, who recently decided to move to Florida.
ŌĆ£This is kind of what I wanted to do, but I wasnŌĆÖt thinking it was going to be this fast,ŌĆØ Turrubiates said. ŌĆ£So it was just an opportunity that happened, and my dream was to have a Mexican restaurant.ŌĆØ
He hopes to serve his customers homemade and authentic Mexican food while having some fun and educating his customers on Mexican culture.
ŌĆ£I want to make this restaurant a little bit different than other restaurants, because we want to, in a way, serve the people but educate them on the way that Mexican food is served,ŌĆØ he said.
He said a lot of restaurants serve food with a side of chips and bowl of salsa, but traditionally, the salsa should be served to match the food.
ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs like a wine versus food ŌĆö you have to have a certain salsa with a certain dish,ŌĆØ he said. ŌĆ£ItŌĆÖs kind of fun ŌĆö┬Āyou get to show them the salsa that goes with the food, and at the same time youŌĆÖre kind of educating that part of your culture.ŌĆØ
The menu will feature authentic and homemade Mexican cuisine, including salsas, beans and rice. Some special items served will be carne guisada tacos, which are served with a secret gravy, fajita tacos and jalisco tacos, which are prime rib tacos.
ŌĆ£Since this is such a small place, weŌĆÖre trying to give you the authentic taste of the real rice and the real refried beans,ŌĆØ Turrubiates said.
On Saturday evenings, the restaurant will serve ŌĆ£passport to MexicoŌĆØ dishes, which consist of five entrees, all highlighting food from a particular part of the country.
The menu will show pictures of the items, ŌĆ£so you can actually see what youŌĆÖre going to get into,ŌĆØ Turrubiates said. He thanks his friend from church Michael Roettger for helping design the menu.
Until Turrubiates has everything ready to go, the restaurant will continue to serve from its existing menu, which includes pitas and cold and grilled sandwiches. Once the new Mexican menu is ready, Turrubiates expects that he will not serve from the existing menu. He does not know an exact date when the menu will change.
But customers can get a taste of Mexican now with the breakfast menu that is being served.
A native-born Mexican, Turrubiates has a passion for cooking that runs in his family.
ŌĆ£We were a family of cooks. My grandmother and my mother and my aunt started as home cooks and then they worked for restaurants. I created my momŌĆÖs food, and then I started having to learn my own food, because I wasnŌĆÖt always by mom all the time, so I had to learn my way,ŌĆØ he said.
Turrubiates, who plays bass guitar in the gospel band at First Baptist Church, says his passion for cooking and passion for music are one in the same.
ŌĆ£IŌĆÖm a musician, and when you put your passion into it, then itŌĆÖs just natural,ŌĆØ he said. ŌĆ£The food is the same thing ŌĆö like a performance sort of thing.ŌĆØ
Turrubiates said within the next year, he will start to repair and remodel the building, which is an old home converted to a restaurant, but itŌĆÖs already been freshly decorated, thanks to three ambitious Valley City women.
Kay Kringlie, who met Turrubiates in the grocery store when his purchase of Mexican Coke sparked a conversation between them, said she, Mary Ann Sheets and Sharon Buhr helped decorate the restaurant with Mexican decorations, many of which were donated by Kringlie.
ŌĆ£I was thrilled to hear that he was going to begin to have authentic Mexican. I wanted to help in any way I could, so I brought down quite a few things,ŌĆØ Kringlie said.
ŌĆ£I taught Spanish at the college for 28 years, so IŌĆÖve had lots of travel experience,ŌĆØ she said. ŌĆ£Over the many years, IŌĆÖve got a collection and lots of gifts from exchange students.ŌĆØ
Kringle has pottery for sale there too. The proceeds benefit the Valley City State University International fund, and she hopes to give some of the proceeds back to the potters who brought the pottery here during Mexican festivals in the early 2000s.
Turrubiates was born in Tampico Tamaulipas Mexico, where he lived for five years before moving to Guanajuato, Mexico. When he was 9, he moved to Texas, and moved to Valley City five years ago. He and his wife Heidi have four kids.


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UE women earn MVC regular season soccer title
Illinois State's win over Drake secures championship
Coach Krista McKendree and her University of Evansville women's soccer team never acknowledged the preseason Missouri Valley Conference coaches poll that picked them last of seven teams.
The Aces also won't formally celebrate the MVC regular-season championship they won Thursday night — the program's first since 2008 — that they clinched when Illinois State knocked off Drake 2-1.
"For us, what we continue to talk about is it's good, but the most important games are next weekend," McKendree said. "We tell them to remember what the ultimate goal is, which is trying to go to the NCAA tournament.
"This is obviously a great accomplishment, but at the end of the day if we don't come out next weekend and perform anywhere close to how we're capable, then we won't end the season with a good feeling."
With a 4-1-1 league record, Evansville won the school's first MVC title in any sport since women's basketball took the 2009 conference tournament, also with a sub-. 500 regular season.
The soccer Aces are 5-7-3 overall, but their MVC record trumped Drake's 3-1-2 mark. Once Evansville finished its regular season over the weekend, Drake had to win Thursday to clinch a championship.
"Some of the girls got together and watched it in the team room," McKendree said. "Others of them came and went, so it was just a casual kind of checking in to see the results."
The Aces secured the No. 1 seed in the MVC tournament. They next face the winner of Sunday's Northern Iowa-Indiana State quarterfinal on Nov. 2 while trying to continue an improbable turnaround.
Evansville started its season 1-6-0 but finished on a 4-1-3 run, all with freshman goalkeeper Simone Busby defending the net. Other freshmen led the team in scoring, as Abby Springer notched five goals and Kayla Smith four.
The Aces made their last NCAA tournament appearance in 2008, McKendree's first season as head coach.
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"Mobile Application Development using PhoneGap" session was presented at 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development, August 2011, Pune, India. Continue reading »
Inaugural Address at the 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development, August 2011, delivered by Dr. Sunu Engineer, CEO of Embedded Computing Machines and earlier a senior scientist at IUCAA.
Sunu talks of the genesis of mobile applications, the predecessors to mobile apps and how similar / dissimilar they are to other kinds of applications & software. Continue reading »
The 2nd Annual IndicThreads.com Conference On Mobile Application Development will be held on 19-20 August 2011 in Pune, India. Sessions at the conference deal with topics like building software for tablets, animations on Android, near field communication, Flash Flex on Playbook, iPad & iPhone, testing mobile apps with FoneMonkey, Mobile payment systems, Windows Phone 7 (Mango), Phonegap, etc.
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The Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek feels like a Tuscan villa -- the hotel is pink stucco, the roof is terra cotta, and beautiful fountains, tile mosaics, and trellis plants surround the pool. The property is lavish, with a grand lobby and large, upscale rooms with patios -- but it's a bit farther from the restaurants and galleries in Uptown Dallas than the Rosewood Crescent.
The Joule, A Luxury Collection Hotel Rating: 4.5 Pearls
The Joule is one of the coolest -- and most luxurious -- hotels in Downtown Dallas. It's located in a historic building dating back to the 1920s, and its decor is a mix of old and new -- funky furniture and patterned rugs are juxtaposed against dark wood paneling and antique touches in the lobby (including two giant cogged wheels), and the hotel has an extensive art collection, including works by Andy Warhol. There is a popular lounge downstairs and the bathroom walls are made of frosted glass (though a curtain can be pulled across), so this hotel may not be the best pick for families, but all can enjoy the cantilevered pool which juts out over Main Street.
Rosewood Crescent Hotel Rating: 4.5 Pearls
This elegant, 191-room hotel is housed in a beautiful historic building in hopping Uptown, close to art galleries and great nightlife. It has a lovely outdoor pool, a huge, impressive fitness center, and an acclaimed 22,000-square-foot day spa. Big rooms come with high-tech amenities, but the slightly bland decor is unimpressive (especially for a hotel of this caliber), and there's a fee for Internet access. The famous Japanese restaurant Nobu is located in the lobby, and the members-only Crescent Club offers stunning views.
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A glamorous, ultra-hip hangout, the 153-room Hotel ZaZa is a cool alternative to the luxurious but sometimes stuffy hotels in Uptown Dallas. Guests and locals mingle at the gourmet restaurant, Dragonfly, and at Poolside, the site of outdoor cocktail parties year-round. Rooms have a similar trendy vibe, with animal print accents and black-and-white Old Hollywood photographs.
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One of Dallas' grand dames, the 422-room Adolphus features a large, elegant lobby and one of the city's finest restaurants, The French Room. Some find the opulent decor (crystal chandeliers, velvet furniture, dark wood paneling, heavy drapes) to be a bit stuffy, but the rooms are large and bright (if somewhat plain at times). The Adolphus was opened in 1912, and its convenient downtown location has made it a popular hotel choice throughout the years. Many celebrities have stayed there, too, including Queen Elizabeth and Donald Trump.


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1) Per the wiring schematic in the Haynes manual the four wires (two hot and two ground) do indeed go JUST (directly) to the battery and do not wander off to the ZFE or other places. I speculate the same as you ... the needed more current carrying capacity and didn't want to use a single heavier gauge wire as it would make it harder to route the harness.
Yay.... Mystery solved...... Thank you sir.
2) I'm sure the stock regulator got very hot... I've never put my hand on it...
I'm sure that the MOSFET regulator still gets hot ... maybe not AS hot...
So I'm thinking that with the metal bracket bolted to the frame that it does act to extend the heatsink function somewhat .... not sure how big the effect is, but maybe you don't want to use a composite bracket?
You are right that the composite is like an insulator, but mind you the stock bracket is not touching the stock R/R , because of the little nut inserts... It's like 1/2 mm gap.... Plus there is a big hole cut out in the center.. Mine will mimic that.
Just because I could, when I took my R/R off to get the P/N off the back I re-assembled it with heatsink grease between the R/R and the bracket and also the bracket to the frame.... I know I know ... don't go all
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I personally believe that most if not all the heat is dissipated through the front heat sink. For the little time I ran it...it did not get very hot. I did not do any heat testing on the R/R, but have been assured that this unit will hold up to the heat quite fine. This unit is fused at 30 amps. Max draw of the stator is about 28 amps at full screw. I believe this units origin is Japan.
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Alright, everyone who is getting sick of GM saying that the next generation of the Corvette is going to be a mid engine raise your hand. Well GM is at it again only this time they are talking about radical changes to come to the C8 generation of the American muscle car.
This move is indeed odd as GM has yet to release any concrete plans are for the C7 Corvette which is already the source of many rumors and speculation. Now GM throws this gasoline on the fire and word is spreading fast.
The radical changes that GM is talking about now for the C8 Corvette include making the eighth generation Vette come with not only a mid-engine location but also having that engine be a high powered six cylinder as opposed to the traditional eight. This is not the first time that GM has spread such rumors, but this is the most aware that GM and the rest of the planet have been in regards to being green.
Also rumored for the C8 is a body that will be composed of something other than fiberglass. This breech of protocol is also not a first, but with all this talk of change it seems that GM just might be serious about lessening its carbon footprint and the mighty Corvette would certainly be a great place to start.
As for the C7, who knows? The rumblings on that is that it will come out in the next couple of years and most speculate it will be in 2013 as a tribute to the Vette's 60th birthday. While it is known that GM is actively seeking design ideas from the United States and abroad, what is now being said is that the C7 will be a more conservative model of the C6. Putting conservative next to Corvette though, just doesn't look right.
Once again, only time will tell how the C8 plays out and the C7 for that matter. While the GM engineering minds are brilliant, it is doubtful that they will begin too much work on the C8 before they are totally finished with the C7, but then again GM is known for their sometimes radical ways of doing things.
If the C8 is to have a V-6 it better come with plenty of power or those who have been faithful all these years to the Corvette may find their way to a different brand. But if there is one thing that GM has been able to show in the past is that even smaller engines can be capable of some amazing outputs especially when they are coupled with superchargers and the like.
Ultimately what comes out will have equal praise and criticism but one thing is abundantly clear with GM: the Corvette is not going anywhere any time soon. So all you lovers of the Vette can breathe a bit easier knowing that GM at least plans on two more generations of the Corvette with many more to probably come.


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Tunis — Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa on Friday (February 28th) replaced 18 out of 24 governors.
The opposition had accused the previous appointees of being close to Ennahda. The changes affected the most important provinces, including Tunis, Sfax, Monastir, Sousse, and Gafsa in the south, which has witnessed significant social unrest for years.
The step came just one month after Jomaa was sworn in as new head of a non-partisan government to lead Tunisia to the next election.
"Mehdi Jomaa's government is committed to the roadmap, which stresses the need for party-neutral state institutions and paves the way for a proper election atmosphere," Habib Hamdi of Ettakatol party told Magharebia.
The opposition accuses Ennahda and its government of appointing thousands of members and supporters at Tunisian administrative positions with the aim of controlling the next election.
The Tunisian roadmap stressed the need to review partisan appointments, disband the revolution protection leagues that are accused of violence and put an end to terrorism.
Last Tuesday, following a quartet meeting with Mehdi Jomaa, Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) head Houcine Abbassi told journalists that the government was serious about reviewing the appointments and closing the file of the revolution protection leagues.
Jomaa also dismissed 17 cabinet advisors appointed by his predecessor Ali Larayedh. However, the opposition is demanding the removal of all those appointed by Larayedh and Hamadi Jebali from office.
"This is a good, but slow move," UGTT member Kacem Affaya told Magharebia. "There are still many Ennahda advisors whether in the prime minister's office or ministries. As to the latest changes in governors, we will examine them and verify whether they are neutral or not."
Meanwhile, Jomaa government ministers are also poised to introduce more changes in leadership positions in their ministries to ensure the neutrality of administration in the next election.
Education Minister Fathi Jarray said in an interview with Tunisia's state-run television that the changes would abide by the roadmap and would take place based on the examination of all appointees' files because it was not possible to relieve all cadres.
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"What's important here is that every official work for the interest of Tunisia not for his or her party so we can get out of this crisis," agreed 37-year-old bank employee Mariam Ben Bouzid.
As citizens' interests were stalled, garbage piled up as a result of disrupted municipal work.
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Hi all
My Pak Choi has flowered little yellow flowers. Ive got around 8 of them, and over half of them have done this. Im sure they were not like that 2 days ago, but I guess thats all it needs
They were planted in a small greenhouse (seed tray) in late March and then potted about 6 weeks ago where theyve shot up
Question, are they now not edible? And could I harvest the seeds from them for next season?
If they are edible, should I get them out now? They are nowhere near as bushy as the supermarket ones, which I kinda was expecting!
Additional question, can I still sow Pak Choi in seed trays at this time of year, or is it too late?
Thanks in advance!
I grow green revolution, pak choi. Its sown in March, & already harvested , I sow again late july. This early & late planting avoids the the bolting. Pak choi doesnt like warm weather and bolts
I always start in deep seed trays.
I gave up on pak choi for this very reason. For weeks and weeks it was too small to cut and then wham! - bolted.
Hi Paul,
I am pretty certain that Pak Choi is one of those crops that needs to be sown where it is to grow. Transplanting makes it very prone to bolting.
Bolted Pak Choi are perfectly edible. If you snap off the flowering shoots you will get a flush of secondary shoots.
Don't bother planting the seeds from your plants, you will probably get very inferior plants.
The flowering pak choi is lovely in a stir fry
I always use seed in plant cells, 2 seeds to each cell. Grow them on into seedlings, then plant out, usually the weaker of the two grows on as well if I have space. I sow a tray about every 3 weeks, never had a problem with bolting, but then my raised beds do seem to be very good at hanging on to moisture. (Prob the clay soil it's mixed with.) If yours have bolted you can basically eat the plant still, just might be a little tougher. If you aren't happy with this, just sow some more, they don't take long to grow from seed anyways.
Thanks for all the advice
I harvested the lot, and yesterday used two of them in a stir fry. They were still pretty good, on par with supermarket bought Pak Choi anyway.
Ive also sown some more in place, I think I may have to sow them every 4-6 weeks for a constant supply!
Mine have done the same, this hot last week has done it.. which is why we are having tai green curry with pak choi for dinner tonight
It grows so fast it's not a big deal just sow some more. I view them a bit like raddishes as catch crops as they germinate easily and grow quickly.
And tasty it was too...


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A lot of money is pouring into Wisconsin for the upcoming senate race. The national Senate campaign committees plan to spend a combined $10 million on the race. UW-L Political Scientist, Joe Heim, says it's another sign of how significant the Tommy Thompson-Tammy Baldwin contest could be, in determining whether Republicans can win the majority in that chamber in November.
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Stop to Inhuman Military Education Demanded
|Pyongyang, May 8 (KCNA) -- The Citizens Solidarity for Democratic Society in south Korea issued a commentary on May 4 demanding the puppet authorities stop the inhuman military education.
The commentary said:
Several students lost their lives due to coercive military training enforced by the authorities in Thaean, South Chungchong Province last year.
Nearly 300 days have passed since then. But, the bereaved families still suffer from pains and sorrow as the probe into the truth has not been made and those responsible have not been punished.
This is a result of the inhuman attitude of the authorities to the students.
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Uploading Files
There are many tools within your D2L course that offer the option of uploading and attaching a document for student viewing. You may attach files to discussion postings, dropbox folders, and news items, among other things. But in the case of each tool, the process is basically the same.
Begin by locating the Attachments section of the editing page for the tool with which you are working.
Click on the Add a File button. A new window appears on top of the current screen:
From this window, you can attach a file that already exists in your D2L course - a file you have already uploaded to the Course Offering Files area, something that exists in the Shared Files area, or a file that you have saved to a locker. To choose one of these files, click on the link in the menu to the left and select that file.
If the file you want to attach does not yet exist in D2L, you will need to first upload it to the course. To do this, click the Choose File button shown in the screenshot above.
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Holograms Make A Comeback At 2013 Rock The Bells
Last year the late Tupac Shakur was resurrected at the 2012 Coachella Festival as he was included in a performance with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. This year holograms are making a comeback as Eazy E and O'l Dirty Bastard made appearances at this years Rock The Bells concert out in L.A over the weekend. Eazy E is known as one of the founders of gangsta rap as he and NWA spoke the blatant truth of their everyday lifestyles on their hit single "Straight Out Of Compton". This past weekend Eazy E's hologram popped up on stage for the first day of Rock The Bells with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
According to Revolt TV, the hologram was a combination of his three children. The body was from his son Lil Eazy, the voice was from his son E3 and face was from his daughter Erin.
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Young flash mob robs Northeast 7-Eleven
We counted about 20 teens in total who converged at a Northeast 7-Eleven, only to walk out seconds later with their hands full of stolen snacks and drinks.
Flash mob of teens rob Georgetown store
Most stores these days have surveillance cameras inside – like this True Religion store on M Street in Georgetown.
U Street 'flash mob robbery' hits convenience store, clerk assaulted
Detectives in the District are looking for several suspects who robbed an Anacostia convenience store en masse, then assaulted the store's clerk.
Montgomery County flash mob robbery bill proposedComment
Should one person be responsible for the actions of many in a flash mob robbery? If one Maryland delegate has his way in Montgomery County, that person could be responsible for the whole crime.
Police search for 7-Eleven thieves
Montgomery County police are investigating a group of thieves at a Silver Spring 7-Eleven store that may be linked to a birthday party.
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Police have released surveillance photos of teenagers who walked into a D.C. convenience store in August in a group and stole items.
7-Eleven 'flash mob' robbery suspects identifiedComment
Montgomery County Police have identified 17 participants in a "flash mob" robbery that struck a 7-Eleven in Germantown about two weeks ago.
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It is the third time in two weeks that the mob of girls hit the Shop Express. The last time, staff says, the group was larger.
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In her new movie, "Horrible Bosses," the queen of romantic comedies sheds her girl-next-door image to play a "sexually aggressive" dentist who harasses her male assistant, played by Charlie Day.
The part required Aniston to bare all, including a reported topless scene, a first for the actress, and to go right to the dark side with bad language and all.
"That's the sad part, that I was kind of comfortable," Aniston told "GMA" of the fun she had playing the role. "It was sort of a dream to just live in that skin and be able to say those words."
Later this fall, Aniston could also appear topless in the film in which she met Thoreaux, Judd Apatow's "Wanderlust." Aniston and Paul Rudd play a couple who drop out of the rat race to become hippies.
Aniston not only rips off her shirt but smokes pot and has a threesome, according to HollywoodLife.com.
Aniston says she doesn't feel Hollywood pressure to keep her body, also featured on the July cover of Marie Claire magazine, hot, but she does work at it.
"I do spinning, yoga and also circuiting. You sort of keep it moving," she told "GMA."
Aniston has shown she's not afraid to show some skin to promote a product (her fragrance line last year) or herself, for that matter (the cover of GQ in January 2009).
The actress also has a new ad out for SmartWater – this time she's posing next to a bottle of the designer water, without any clothes.
"I feel better when I'm fit," Aniston told "GMA." "Something about being able to just move that I love. It changes your energy and your spirits."
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Burial, also called interment and inhumation, is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. This is accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing an object in it, and covering it over.
Objects are sometimes buried in order to hide them against removal or tampering. For cables and pipelines, burial provides protection.
The remainder of this article discusses human burial.
Intentional burial, particularly with grave goods, may be one of the earliest detectable forms of religious practice since, as Philip Lieberman suggests, it may signify a "concern for the dead that transcends daily life." Though disputed, evidence suggests that the Neanderthals were the first hominids to intentionally bury the dead, doing so in shallow graves along with stone tools and animal bones. Exemplary sites include Shanidar in Iraq, Kebara Cave in Israel and Krapina in Croatia. Some scholars, however argue that these bodies may have been disposed of for secular reasons.
The earliest undisputed human burial dates back 130,000 years. Human skeletal remains stained with red ochre were discovered in the Skhul cave at Qafzeh, Israel. A variety of grave goods were present at the site, including the mandible of a wild boar in the arms of one of the skeletons.
Prehistoric cemeteries are referred to by the more neutral term grave field. They are one of the chief sources of information on prehistoric cultures, and numerous archaeological cultures are defined by their burial customs, such as the Urnfield culture of the European Bronze Age.
Human burial practices are the manifestation of the human desire to demonstrate "respect for the dead". Among the reasons for this are:
Some burial practices are heavily ritualized; others are simply practical.
With a natural burial, the body is returned to nature in a biodegradable coffin or shroud. Native vegetation (often a memorial tree) is planted over or near the grave in place of a conventional cemetery monument. The resulting green space establishes a living memorial and forms a protected wildlife preserve.
The practice of natural burial dates back to the late nineteenth century, when Sir Francis Seymour Hayden proposed "earth to earth burial," in a pamphlet of the same name, as an alternative to either cremation or the slow putrefaction of encased corpses. The earth to earth burial movement was part of the short-lived cremation controversy of the 1870s.
Muslims also practice natural burial, with the deceased's body covered in shroud and with the face facing Mecca. Likewise in Orthodox Judaism, embalming is not permitted, and the coffins are constructed so that the body will be returned to the Earth as soon as possible. Such coffins are made of wood, and have no metal parts at all. Wooden pegs are used in the place of nails.
Natural burial grounds are also known as woodland cemeteries, eco-cemeteries, memorial nature preserves, or green burial grounds.
Embalming is the practice of preserving a body against decay, and is used in many cultures. Mummification is a more extensive method of embalming, further delaying the decay process.
Bodies are often buried wrapped in a shroud or placed in a coffin (also called a casket). A larger container may be used, such as a ship. Coffins are usually covered by a burial liner or a burial vault, which prevents the coffin from collapsing under the weight of the earth or floating away during a flood.
These containers slow the decomposition process by (partially) physically blocking decomposing bacteria and other organisms from accessing the corpse. An additional benefit of using containers to hold the body is that if the soil covering the corpse is washed away by a flood or some other natural process, the corpse will still not be exposed to open air.
In nonstandard burial practices, such as mass burial, the body may be positioned arbitrarily. This can be a sign of disrespect to the deceased, or at least nonchalance on the part of the inhumer, or due to considerations of time and space.
In Gulliver's Travels, the Lilliputians buried their dead upside down:
Swift's notion of inverted burial might seem the highest flight of fancy, but it appears that among English millenarians the idea that the world would be "turned upside down" at the Apocalypse enjoyed some currency. There is at least one attested case of a person being buried upside down by instruction; a Major Peter Labelliere of Dorking (d. June 4, 1800) lies thus upon the summit of Box Hill. Similar stories have attached themselves to other noted eccentrics, particularly in southern England, but not always with a foundation in truth.
At death, a slave's body was wrapped in cloth. The hands were placed across the chest, and a metal plate was placed on top of their hands. The reasoning for the plate was to hinder their return home by suppressing any spirits in the coffin. Often, personal property was buried with slaves to appease spirits. The coffins were nailed shut once the body was inside, and carried by hand or wagon, depending on the property designated for slave burial site. Slaves were buried east to west, with the head facing east and their feet to the west. This positioning represented the ability to rise without having to turn around at the call of Gabriel's trumpet. Gabriel's trumpet would be blown in the eastern sunrise. East-west positioning also was the direction of home, Africa.
Thus in some traditions, especially with an animistic logic, the remains of the dead are "banished" for fear their spirits would harm the living if too close; others keep remains close to help surviving generations.
Religious rules may prescribe a specific zone, e.g. some Christian traditions hold that Christians must be buried in "consecrated ground," usually a cemetery; an earlier practice, burial in or very near the church (hence the word churchyard), was generally abandoned with individual exceptions as a high posthumous honour; also many existing funeral monuments and crypts remain in use.
Royalty and high nobility often have one or more "traditional" sites of burial, generally monumental, often in a palatial chapel or cathedral; see examples on Heraldica.org
Most modern cultures mark the location of the body with a headstone. This serves two purposes. First, the grave will not accidentally be exhumed. Second, headstones often contain information or tributes to deceased. This is a form of remembrance for loved ones; it can also be viewed as a form of immortality, especially in cases of famous people's graves. Such monumental inscriptions may subsequently be useful to genealogists and family historians.
In many cultures graves will be grouped, so the monuments make up a necropolis, a "city of the dead" parallelling the community of the living.
The corpse of Pope Formosus was actually disinterred, placed on trial (see Cadaver Synod), found guilty, and ultimately thrown into the River Tiber.
Many countries have buried an unidentified soldier (or other member of the military) in a prominent location as a form of respect for all unidentified war dead. The United Kingdom's Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is in Westminster Abbey, France's is buried underneath the Arc de Triomphe, Italy's is buried in the Monumento al Milite Ignoto in Rome, Canada's is buried at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Australia's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, New Zealand's Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is in Wellington and the United States' Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located at Arlington National Cemetery.
Many cultures practise anonymous burial as a norm, not an exception. For instance, in parts of eastern Germany, up to 43% of burials are anonymous. According to Christian Century magazine, the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church is that anonymous burials reflect a dwindling belief in God, but others claim that the practice relates more to the exorbitant cost of grave markers and the solitary nature of German life.
When Walt Disney was cremated his ashes were buried in a secret location in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, California. Some burial sites at Forest Lawn, such as those of Humphrey Bogart and Mary Pickford, are secluded in private gated gardens with no public access. A number of tombs are also kept from the public eye. Forest Lawn's Court of Honour indicates that some of its crypts have plots which are reserved for individuals who may be "voted in" as "Immortals"; no amount of money can purchase a place. Photographs taken at Forest Lawn are not permitted to be published, and their information office usually refuses to reveal exactly where the remains of famous people are buried. Although the cemetery's owners state that this is meant to deter gravesite tourism, some critics say that the cemetery wishes visitors to purchase memorabilia at the funeral home's numerous gift shops instead of taking photographs for free, especially in the case of grave markers notable for their beauty.
Mass burial is the practice of burying multiple bodies in one location. Civilizations attempting genocide often employ mass burial for victims. However, mass burial may in many cases be the only practical means of dealing with an overwhelming number of human remains, such as those resulting from a natural disaster, an act of terrorism, an epidemic, or an accident. This practice has become less common in the developed world with the advent of genetic testing, but even in the 21st century remains which are unidentifiable by current methods may be buried in a mass grave.
Individuals who are buried at the expense of the local authorities and buried in potter's fields may be buried in mass graves. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is believed to have been buried in such a manner. In some cases, the remains of unidentified individuals may be buried in mass graves in potter's fields, making exhumation and future identification troublesome for law enforcement.
Naval ships sunk in combat are also considered mass graves by many countries. For example, U.S. Navy policy declares such wrecks a mass grave and forbids the recovery of remains. In lieu of recovery, divers or submersibles may leave a plaque dedicated to the memory of the ship or boat and its crew, and family members are invited to attend the ceremony.
Sites of large former battlefields may also contain one or more mass graves. Douaumont ossuary is one such mass grave, and it contains the remains of 130,000 soldiers from both sides of the battle of Verdun.
Catacombs also constitute a form of mass grave. Some catacombs, for example those in Rome, were designated as a communal burial place. Some, such as the catacombs of Paris, only became a mass grave when individual burials were relocated from cemeteries marked for demolition.
Judaism does not generally allow multiple bodies in a grave. An exception to this is a grave in the military cemetery in Jerusalem, where there is a "kever ah-chim" (Heb. "grave of brothers") where two soldiers were killed together in a tank and are buried in one grave. As the bodies were so fused together with the metal of the tank that they could not be separately identified, they were buried in one grave (along with parts of the tank).
There are several common alternatives to burial. In cremation the body of the deceased is burned in a special oven. Most of the body is burnt during the cremation process, leaving only a few pounds of bone fragments. Bodies of small children and infants often produce very little in the way of "ashes", as ashes are composed of bone, and young people have softer bones, largely cartilage. Often these fragments are processed (ground) into a fine powder, which has led to cremated remains being called ashes. In recent times, cremation has become a popular option in the western world.
There is far greater flexibility in dealing with the remains in cremation as opposed to the traditional burial. Some of the options include scattering the ashes at a place close to the heart of the deceased or keeping the ashes at home. Ashes can also be buried underground or in a columbarium niche.
Writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote a number of stories and poems about premature burial, including a story called "The Premature Burial." These works inspired a widespread popular fear of this appalling but unlikely event. Various expedients have been devised to prevent this event, including burying live telephones or telemetry sensors in graves.
Superstition also played a part in the selection of cross-roads in the burial of suicides. Folk belief often held such individuals could rise as some form of undead (such as a vampire) and burying them at cross-roads would inhibit their ability to find and wreak havoc on their living relations and former associates.
In addition to burying human remains, many human cultures also regularly bury animal remains.
Pets and other animals of emotional significance are often ceremonially buried. Most families bury deceased pets on their own properties, mainly in a yard, with a shoe box or any other type of container served as a coffin. The Ancient Egyptians are known to have mummified and buried cats, which they considered deities.
Frequently, cultures have different sets of exhumation taboos. Occasionally these differences result in conflict, especially in cases where a culture with more lenient exhumation rules wishes to operate on the territory of a stricter culture. For example, United States construction companies have run into conflict with Native American groups that wanted to preserve their ancient burial grounds from any form of modern construction.
In folklore and mythology, exhumation has also been frequently associated with the performance of rites to banish undead manifestations. An example is the Mercy Brown Vampire Incident of Rhode Island, which occurred in 1892.
Human bodies are not always buried. Alternatives to burial include the following:
In most cases these alternatives are still intended to maintain respect for the dead, but some are intended to prolong the display of the remains.
Cryonics is often mistakenly assumed to be an alternative interment method, but is in fact a medical procedure carried out to physically preserve the body in the hope that it will one day be technologically possible to revive the individual. See also information theoretical death; clinical death.


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FES Driven Stepping in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
Improving walking in individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is a major current clinical and research goal. Gait training in SCI can be done with therapist-assisted over ground ambulation (with or without assistive device), in a Body Weight Supported Treadmill Training (BWSTT) environment, where assistance for the movement of legs and the pelvis is provided manually by a therapist or by a robotic device (Lokomat, Auto-Ambulator, or Gait Trainer), or in water (weight supported environment, with or without a treadmill).
Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) has been previously used to enhance the quality of gait training whether as an assistive device (FES orthosis for foot drop) or to enhance muscle strength and improve cardiovascular resistance (FES ergometer), thus decreasing gait induced fatigue. Over ground gait training (with or without an FES orthosis) can only be used for individuals with incomplete SCI, already able to support body weight in an upright position. BWSTT, robotic device gait training, and Aquatherapy gait training (training in water) can potentially be used to enhance loco-motor abilities in both motor complete and incomplete SCI individuals, as lack of trunk balance and ability to bear weight in an upright position are replaced by the supporting abilities of the device or environment used (harness, exoskeleton or water). But they are not typically used in clinical practice to aid in locomotor training in individuals with motor complete SCI as this training would need specialized, center based, expensive environment (i.e. therapeutic pool, robotic exoskeleton) or is very labor intensive (sometimes requiring 2-3 therapists' sustained effort over long periods of time to achieve a small incremental gain). Combining a robotic device that simulates stepping with FES while the individual is safely supported into a harness has the potential to tap into neuro-plasticity driven loco-motor patterning while increasing muscle strength and cardiovascular endurance and be safely applied in a center OR home-based environment.
We hypothesize that FES driven gait training utilizing the RT600 (Restorative Therapies, Inc.) is safe for both motor complete and incomplete individuals. In addition, we hypothesize that RT600 can increase the walking abilities of individuals with incomplete SCI. If our hypotheses prove right, the RT600 can then be safely used in a home based environment to perform long term gait training in individuals with varying degrees of SCI related paralysis.
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Through history, product design passed the mechanical, electrical and electronic eras where big inventions were accompanied by big hype.
Among those earlier inventions, only those that have incorporated aspects of today's digital era have met the user's requirements, whether in a telephone, refrigerator or medical equipment.
As users, we value easy-to-use products that add to comfortable living. Broadly, Europeans were initial inventors who provided functional benefit, Americans mass produced for more people to enjoy affordable products, while the Japanese miniaturised design to bring it close to consumers as cozy, friendly output. Beyond such functional features, I've developed a design culture that factors in unlimited sensorial advantage for consumers to always reduce effort and increase comfort when using any industrial product design.
I wrote about 'reduce effort increase comfort design (RE-ICD)' in my book Jalebi Management. It reflects people's psychological and physical craving, and directly connects it to their behaviour. Here, product design becomes sensorial, gets driven by commerce, provides fundamental physical benefits and hence can differentiate any product as pay-off. RE-ICD discipline can be deployed in any product in any category.
Always living in the consumer context, I approach my consulting work through the consumer's eye, heart, soul, behaviour and psychological ergonomics — the study of the relationship between man and a product.
This allows me to easily enter and accomplish a required design. I've found eight universal product design categories that touch billions of people worldwide in their daily lives. RE-ICD can play a major role here to uplift the product's value towards functional benefit excellence. The eight categories are industrial engineering, digital technology, habitat, luxury goods, FMCG, fashion, service industry and infrastructure design.
Engineering products are precision driven: When engineering components dominate products such as in the auto industry, their alignment, cohesiveness and a particular shape with metal, wood, plastic or any new material, need a tremendous blend that translates to RE-ICD discipline of high creativity. The physical engineering design object should have great detailing and refinement that is visible to give an air of mystery and create genuine aspiration for consumers. Here RE-ICD takes a central theme that becomes the payoff.
Digital technology design is convergence of multi-component factors: Intrinsically, digital technology has no physical expression but improves the product's feel or unstated usage advantage. RE-ICD design that is driven by non-human digital language has to be obsessed with humanisation. An opposite example is a small smartphone that's difficult for everybody to use. Today when technology is commoditised, freely available and newness comes every fortnight, an out-of-the-box RE-ICD is required for commercial success.
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WORCESTER, Mass. - Senior forward Whitney Fremeau (Manchester, N.H.), a member of the Holy Cross women's basketball team, is the 2010-2011 recipient of both the John P. Cooney Memorial Award and the Samantha Vellaccio Award. The awards were presented at the 56th annual Holy Cross Varsity Club dinner, held at the Hogan Campus Center on Satruday, May 7.
The Cooney Award is presented each year to a senior letterwinner who has performed beyond all expectations with courage, loyalty and dedication. The Vellaccio Award is presented annually to the varsity women's basketball player who best exemplifies the mission of Holy Cross both on and off the court.
A two-time All-Patriot League selection, Fremeau averaged a team-best 14.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game during the 2010-2011 season, while making 41.7 percent (174 of 417) of her field goal attempts. She finished the year ranked second in the Patriot League in scoring, ninth in field goal percentage and ninth in assists. Over the course of her collegiate career, Fremeau totaled 1,093 points, 459 rebounds and 215 assists, becoming the 27th 1,000-point scorer in school history.
Off the court, she volunteered her time with the Mercy Centre and took part in Holy Cross Cares Day, the Walk to Cure Cancer and Community Reading Day.


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Heat accelerates harvest progressThe near-record warm weather the past week meant a big catch up for harvesting farmers across the region, who took in 21 percent of the spring wheat crop in the seven days ended Saturday night. That means 77 percent of the crop the state's most known for is now in the bin, compared to 95 percent by Sept. 20 in a typical year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's weekly crop progress report.
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Another Day, Another Bundle: Humble Bundle for Android 3
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One might argue that the indie bundle was pioneered by the folks at Humble, and starting to offer Android bundles was an equally inspired idea. This brings us to the Humble Bundle for Android 3. Games this time round feature a few previously included in non-Android bundles, so if you are not interested in playing any of these on Android, this might be the humdrum bundle for you. The games themselves taken by their own merits are generally quite decent though. Some are also debuting on Linux for the first time, which might be part of the reason Linuxers usually tend to be more generous with donations.
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Fieldrunners: Tower defense game. No doubt included in the bundle as a way to draw your attention to Fieldrunners 2.
BIT.TRIP.BEAT: An oldie, the first in the BIT.TRIP series of rhythm-arcade games.
SpaceChem: A legendary chemistry-themed logic puzzle game.
Uplink: Hollywood hacking!
Spirits: This is the new title in the bunch, a Lemmings-like featuring forest-spirits that can be transformed to serve certain functions.


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