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Clinical Quality
UT Southwestern Medical Center regularly measures clinical quality and performance in several critical areas. We also compare our performance to other hospitals and academic medical centers across the U.S.
We also collect internal data that is used for continuous quality improvement activities and comparison to other institutions and accepted national standards.
Some of the national organizations we use to assess our performance include:
Hospital Compare
Created through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), this database has comparative information regarding Medicare participating hospitals in the U.S. This information is usually 1-3 years old.
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Survey
The survey was developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to measure patient satisfaction with their health care experience. This information is usually 6-18 months old.
National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI)
This is a national database of quality and safety indicators that provides national comparative data to participating hospitals regarding nursing quality.
Press-Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey
This organization is a leader in assessing patient satisfaction for health care organizations.
University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC)
This organization is an alliance of 118 academic medical centers and their hospitals that was developed to help these centers attain excellence in quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness.
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
This is a database of health care surveillance systems of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Just 15 minutes before game time, the vast and serene campus green at Vermont College of Fine Arts showed no signs of the annual Writers vs. Poets softball game. There were no bats, no balls, no bases, and no players. Suddenly, Victorio Reyes stormed onto the scene.
"First of all I'm a poet," he said.
Reyes is in his fourth semester at VCFA. Like the rest of the writing program's 124 students, he's only on campus twice a year for two 10 day residencies. He graduates this winter, so this was his last chance to lead the poets to victory.
"There's two things," Reyes continued. "One: the United States invests way too much money in sports and too much emotion, okay? That's the first thing. The second thing? This game is life or death. That's all you need to know."
The prose always wins. Always. The poets are just a bunch of…alliterists.
"We might have 50 people in the outfield. It's just kinda an informal, crazy game."
"Eventually, will there be bases?" I asked.
"There will be bases, yes," Crowley said. "There will be bases, there will be a batter, there will be a catcher, you know. But other than that, it's just sort of a free flowing, everything goes."
Well, almost everything goes.
"We kinda can't let it go on for 15 innings," Crowley said.
The annual game has to be over in time for dinner. After dinner, there's a reading, and then hours of painstaking writing and re-writing before workshops begin again early tomorrow morning.
"I don't think anybody's ever been willing to let it end in a tie, though. Maybe somebody reads a poem and a piece of prose and they decide which is better, I don't know. You may hear some poetry reading out here in the midst of the game."
Faculty members are encouraged to play. Previously on the roster: at least one Pulitzer Prize winner and the Poet Laureate of Vermont. But poetry instructor Matthew Dickman had a preexisting injury this time around, so his job was to provide inspiration—of the negative variety.
"Whenever a fiction writer gets to bat, a student, I'm going to sit behind them and talk about how difficult it is to get published," Dickman said. "How they'll probably just go back to working wherever they work and their dreams will come to an end. And I'm also going to tell them, I'm not joking around, I kind of hate you. You know?"
The writers were taking a more positive approach.
"Oh, the prose, the prose always wins. Always," said Connie May Fowler, who describes herself as a novelist, essayist, screenwriter and VCFA faculty member.
"The poets are just a bunch of..alliterists," she joked.
The prose writers fell behind early, but Fowler stood at the sidelines, assured her team had the tenacity to pull out a victory.
"I mean, we sit for hours and hours and hours to produce one page and they, you know, just sit around and write a couple of lines and call it a poem."
Most of the pitches didn't make it over home plate…and home plate wasn't so much a plate, it was the catcher's chest protector laying on the ground where home plate should have been.
Every once in a while, the pitcher lobbed in a good one and the batter managed a hit—usually a pop fly that floated over the outfield. And, although the number of outfielders had ballooned to at least a dozen, every single one of those pop flies dropped to the grass.
By the top of the second inning, a total of 16 runs had been scored.
The game began under sunny skies, but just 30 minutes later, storm clouds had gathered. The players were undeterred by showers, but lightning finally forced the teams from the field in the fourth with the poets ahead, 12-6.
It was their first victory in years, and no one was happier than co-captain Victorio Reyes.
"Here's the thing," he said. "Since last year, we've been training nonstop for this game. Or talking about training. Or…"
"Writing poetry about training?" I suggest.
"Right. Actually, we didn't train at all. But the point is my life is fulfilled," Reyes says. "That's it, I'm happy."
Reyes might have been happy, but I wasn't. The game had ended with nary a soliloquy. No one had hurled a haiku or lobbed a limerick.
"Okay, well, I think in honor of this victory, I will recite Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes," Reyes offered.
And, as the writers and the poets and the dozens of bystanders ran quickly for cover, Victorio Reyes braved the rain to make sure at least one of my dreams came true.

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Picturing engines and solar energy together make us think of a car with photovoltaic cells covering the entire body of the vehicle. Missouri-based inventors Matt Bellue and Ben Cooper have thought of something entirely different. The duo has taken an internal combustion engine and has made to run it on water and oil heated using solar energy. The engine can then be attached to a generator to produce renewable electricity.
Dubbed HydroICE, short for Hydro Internal Clean Energy, the process starts with mirrored parabolic solar collectors that heat up oil to a temperature of about 371 degrees Celsius. Heated oil is then injected into the engine cylinder just like gasoline. A few microdroplets of water are added to the mix, which instantly turn to steam upon contact with oil.
Steam rapidly expands in the cylinder and does the same thing that the gas explosion does in a conventional engine, driving the piston downwards and turning the driveshaft. Once the piston reaches the bottom, the spent steam and oil are made to enter the oil/steam separator, for re-use. The team has already converted a 31cc 2-stroke engine to run on the HydroICE setup and have partnered with Missouri State University and the Missouri University of Science and Technology to develop the necessary hardware to test the engine. The team is claiming an efficiency of 15 percent, but also hints that the setup would cost a quarter of what an equivalent photovoltaic system does.


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The Ann Arbor Summer Festival
By Patrik Holubik • Jun 13, 2013
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Summer is finally here, and the Top of the Park and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival are right around the corner. There's truly something for everyone this summer at the A2SF and WEMU is happy to be a media partner of the annual summertime celebration. Live Music with international and local favorites, movies under the stars, open-air spectacles, and there's always great food and drinks. All The festival fun starts this Friday, June 14th!
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Hartnett made Goldman deal to save "embarrassment"
Former HMRC boss Dave Hartnett allegedly breached statutory duties and let Goldman Sachs off £20m in tax to save "major embarrassment" to himself and George Osborne, the High Court heard today
The legal case brought by pressure group UK Uncut Legal Action against HMRC centres on the so-called Goldman Sachs "sweetheart" tax deal made in 2010.
The dispute began over a tax avoidance scheme involving the payment of bonuses to UK staff via offshore tax havens. Several other banks had been using the scheme but only Goldman refused to settle in 2005. It was agreed in 2010 that Goldman should pay the principal it owed but not the interest gained over the five years.
UK Uncut alleges the deal is unlawful as it was in direct contradiction of HMRC's own statutory duty to collect tax properly due, and its litigation settlement strategy prohibiting package deal settlements or settlements where HMRC "splits the difference" with the taxpayer.
David Hartnett
The risks here are major embarrassment to the [chancellor of the Exchequer], HMRC, the [large business service of the HMRC], you and me
Hartnett shook hands on the deal with Goldman's Mike Housden, which allegedly let the bank off the interest, and then refused go back on the agreement despite HMRC's High Risk Corporate Programme Board rejecting the deal and advising that discussions should be re-opened to recover the money.
An email from Hartnett to other senior HMRC officials said that Goldman Sachs "went off the deep end" in response to the suggestion the deal should be re-visited.
However, it was revealed that just one day after HMRC's general counsel, Anthony Inglese, made this recommendation Hartnett and commissioner Melanie Dawes contacted Goldman's and confirmed the deal.
In an email shown as evidence today Hartnett stated, "The risks here are major embarrassment to the [chancellor of the Exchequer], HMRC, the [large business service of the HMRC], you and me, not least if GS withdraw from the code."
In addition, just a week before George Osborne had publicly announced the government was making a concerted effort to tackle tax avoidance by big banks, drawing up a code of practice on tax.
Ingrid Simler QC, acting for UK Uncut, told the court "this is the most reliable piece of evidence the court has" that external factors would have influenced the decision.
Adding that, "at the very least he (Hartnett) should not have taken part" in the final agreement made on the 9 of December as his "personal reputation would have been on his mind."
In Hartnett's witness statement, he said that "Goldman Sachs had been involved in tax avoidance in the past and we regarded their signing of the Code as a valuable step in securing improved tax behaviour from them. This would have been under threat had we reneged on the settlement (they said they would withdraw from the Code if HMRC reopened the settlement)."
Simler stated it is a "black and white" avoidance case in which all tax should have been paid back and that HMRC was "horse-trading" with Goldman on interest and NIC owed.
UK Uncut also referred to a leaked email involving Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office (NAO) and former HMRC Hartnett, that it said appeared to undermine the judge-led inquiry by the
James Eadie QC for HMRC
It aims to wound rather than strike
NAO. It was sent before the process began but said the review would find "nothing of substance".
The email, which was marked "private and confidential – please do not pass on to anyone without coming back to me", was sent by Hartnett on 15 December 2011 to 10 senior HMRC officials.
James Eadie QC, representing HMRC, pounced upon this inference claiming it is "wholly inappropriate to second guess" the judgements of a "respected public official".
Eadie mounted the defence of HMRC by arguing that the claim was brought "against a backdrop of cosy backroom deals" but that stance is now "untenable following the NAO report". He said the NAO had access to all information needed to make a judgement, unlike the Public Accounts Committee, and as such had determined the deal "represented good value for taxpayers."
He suggested that UK Uncut's case did not have "any legal significance" and that it aims to "wound rather than strike".
The judicial review continues. A judgment is expected in the next couple of weeks.
Speaking outside court, Murray Worthy, director of UK Uncut Legal Action said, "We believe that by having this deal declared unlawful it will stop HMRC making similar deals in the future.
"It is very important for people to see that there are clear rules, that there are no favourites and that no one is getting treated better than others. That is more important than handing out sweetheart deals to individual companies for political benefit, which is what we have seen here."
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People become homeless for an unending list of reasons. But every person who finds themselves without a place to live shares a common deficiency. They lack a family/support system with the means to intervene. Micah believes the church and community have responsibility to fill that gap. We do so through a coordinated care system that meets people where they are with basic needs and general support. As our team of staff and volunteers grows in relationship with individuals, we work with them to pursue income, housing, and medical/mental health solutions. As individuals get jobs, locate housing, obtain benefits, regain stability and succeed otherwise, Micah offers support until it is no longer needed. Just like any family, that support can last months, years, or even a lifetime.
To reduce the length of time households experience homelessness
Through a growing base of landlords, people experiencing homelessness are assisted in quickly regaining stability in permanent housing. Ideally, people will be homeless no more than 30 days before re-gaining a place to live.
To reduce households returning to homelessness
Participants who benefit from our re-housing programs are assisted in the development and implementation of a success plan. Each plan includes goals aimed at increasing participant skills/income and improving their self-determination.
There is no application or waiting list for either program. All participants enrolling in Micah services are asked to complete a housing barrier's assessment, which helps us develop a plan to address the circumstances that have caused a person to be homeless. Out team of case managers specialize in:
• Application for disability and other benefits
• Connection to mental health/substance abuse services
• Employment search and placement
• Connection to health care resources
• Developing independent living skills
In partnership with Central Virginia Housing Coalition and other private landlords, our staff places individuals/households in community units and provides the support necessary for them to stabilize their living situation.
• Budget or financial management
• Identifying food and community resources
• Finding furniture and other household items
• Landlord or roommate mediation
• Life skills development
• Transportation planning
• Connection to residential supports
• Accessing appropriate benefits
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Typically, three to nine months of support will stabilize a person enough that we can reduce our support and their household is no longer at risk of returning to homelessness.


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Frozen Custard in Altoona Oct 06, 2008
There are 2 Meadows Frozen Custard in Altoona, one on Plank Road across from Walmart and the other on Pleasent Valley Blvd. I was trying to get to the Notary today,... I got lost, well, I thought it was on Pleasant valley but it's really on 6th ave... so I decided to get some custard on the way.
I was told this place is fabulous by people who live here! So I went in and got excited when I saw on teh sign that they had pumpkin frozen yogurt today. They always have chocolate and vanilla in both yogurt and custard (they even have sugar free options) but then they always have one specicalty flavor that rotates so you have to check back frequently.
They also have places to sit inside that looks very retro and a drive through---again another kid who didn't seem to care about work and I don't think he said a word to me...
But the ice cream is HUGE a small was like a Large! and it was Very Very delicious!
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Contractor mishap fouls up traffic for miles
Updated 11:38 pm, Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Damage to an Interstate 95 bridge deck in Stamford backed up traffic for nearly 20 miles Tuesday morning, leaving rush-hour commuters to crawl down the highway or search in vain for a quick alternate route.
A contractor milling a bridge deck near southbound exit 9 damaged both a metal joint in the deck as well as the milling machine at 4:30 a.m., forcing crews to begin emergency repairs that closed three of four lanes on the bridge and turned rush-hour into a morning of misery unusual even for what is one of the worst commuter corridors in the country.
Commutes that might typically take 30 minutes stretched well over an hour, several irritated drivers told the Connecticut Post via Facebook.
"My ride to Norwalk was horrible," Sean Haubert wrote on the Post's Facebook page. "It got so ridiculous, I got off in Fairfield and took Route 1. Apparently everyone else was doing the same thing."
Yes they were.
Fairfield Police Lt. James Perez, the department's spokesman, said officers responded to about 10 fender-benders Tuesday morning while all of the town's major east-to-west corridors clogged with commuters looking to escape the gridlock on I-95.
"The entire Post Road from the Fairfield town line in Bridgeport to Westport was crowded and every secondary road was also crowded," he said. "We had traffic past 10:30 in the morning. ... We usually only have it for an hour" beginning at 7:30 a.m.
Though Haubert, the commuter, said he "jumped back on 95 by Sherwood Island State Park" in Westport, the detour did not do much to speed up a trip from Stratford to Norwalk that he said took about 2 ½ hours in the end.
And he certainly wasn't alone once he got back on the highway.
Jean Jacobs Correa said she needed two hours and 20 minutes to get from Bridgeport to Stamford, a trip that usually takes about half that time. Ruth L. Parks was in her car for 2 hours and 15 minutes just going between Stratford and Stamford.
Haubert and Correa said the electronic signboards warned only of "Delays to Exit 9," but a reason was not given.
"But who reads those signs anyway?" Haubert said.
The Merritt Parkway did not offer much of a shortcut either. Already a busy route during the morning commute, cars choked the parkway with southbound traffic from the Sikorsky Memorial Bridge in Milford to New Canaan on Tuesday.
Ultimately, all of the brake lights, horn honking and headaches were caused by the mishap near exit 9 -- an accident that could not have happened at a worse time, admitted Kevin Nursick, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation.
"We got some angry emails from people who weren't happy being stuck in traffic for an hour, and frankly I don't blame them," he said.
Once the damage was done, the only thing to do was "button things up and make it safe," the DOT spokesman said.
The damage to the bridge deck joint did not create a structural problem, he said, as "a bridge joint isn't a structural element."
But the "big gouge in the road" left behind made for an uneven surface that created a "driveability issue."
"We can't have cars driving over that," he said.
By 11 a.m. traffic had reached about normal speed. Nursick couldn't immediately provide the name of the contractor doing the work that caused the backup Tuesday, but said that the milling and paving on the bridge would resume after Tuesday's evening commuter rush.
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Who knew Dylan loves Blur and LL Cool J? Or that he's an expert on topics including the sixteenth-century European tulip market and the career of Martin Sheen? On Theme Time Radio Hour, his weekly XM Radio show, Dylan tells jokes, fields e-mails and plays music — all related to weekly themes that have so far included the devil, coffee, flowers, dogs and divorce. Dylan introduces songs with the cool patter that ruled the airwaves when he was growing up. Here, in his own words, are highlights from four of the best shows.
"Tonight we're going to visit the big house. The clink, the brig, the coop, the gray-bar hotel, the hoosegow, the joint, the jug, the pen, the pokey, the slammer, the stir. A real hush-hush subject where everyone is hurting for someone or something. We're going to learn about cons, jailbirds, stoolies, lifers, new fish and politicians. Prison, the house of many doors."
"Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair": Bessie Smith
"Bessie Smith doesn't want to be in prison. She caught him with a trifling Jane. She cut him with her barlow knife. She kicked him in the side. She stood there laughing as he wallowed around and died. She admits it. She's nutso crazy, unbalanced, unsound, loony, witless and wrong. She has a grave disorder of the mind that impairs her capacity to function normally in society."
"Jail Bait": Andre Williams
"'Jail Bait' talks about a rough temptation but a common invitation. A good association, but a quick limitation that will take you out of circulation. He's talking about that younger generation. He's talking about jail bait."
"Okie's in the Pokie": Jimmie Patton
"Will Rogers said there is no more independence in politics than there is in jails. Harry Truman said the White House is the finest prison in the world. Nelson Mandela said, 'In my country we go to prison first and then become president.' Jimmie Patton put it another way: Okie's in the pokie."
"Christmas in Prison": John Prime
"Charles Bukowski once said. 'I don't like jail, they have the wrong kind of bars there.' Prisoners spend a lot of time in the library. I guess they enjoy escape literature . . . John captures the isolation and loneliness of spending Christmas away from your loved one. Sometimes it's not such a bad thing."
"Tonight we're going to head out to the field of dreams, schemes and themes, the ever-widening diamond, to look at the national pastime: baseball."
"Home Run": Chance Halladay
"In the Fifties, every red-blooded American boy either wanted to play baseball or be Elvis Presley. Here's a rockabilly song by Chance Halladay that combines the best of both."
"The Ball Game": Sister Wynona Carr
"If diamonds are a girl's best friend, why do so many girls get mad when you want to go to the ballpark? You tell me. Sister Wynona Carr was a powerful gospel singer. She also recorded some rhythm & blues numbers. Her best-known number, however, is a gospel song, and it's all about the game of baseball."
"Joe DiMaggio's Done It Again": Billy Bragg and Wilco
"Here's a song about Joltin' Joe by Billy Bragg and Wilco from the album Mermaid Avenue, where they take the unfinished lyrics of Woody Guthrie and add music to them. Guthrie left behind 2,500 unfinished songs. The lyrics about New York streets, filmstar idols, drinking, loving, dying and even spaceships were chosen because they presented a completely different aspect to Woody's public persona. Here's a song Woody wrote about the Yankee Clipper."
"Heart": "Damn Yankees" (1955 Original Broadway Cast)
"This is a song from the play Damn Yankees — I don't mean the band Ted Nugent is in with those guys from Styx . . . That's it for another show. I'm going to head to the dugout, see if I can find a relief pitcher."
"We got an e-mail from Johnny Depp in Paris, France. He wants to know: 'Who was the father of modern communism?' Well, Johnny, Karl Marx was the father of modern communism. He also fathered seven children. Four of them survived to adulthood. His only son, Frederick Demuth, was illegitimate. I wonder if he calls his daddy on Father's Day?"
"That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine": The Everly Brothers
"This is the Everly Brothers, doing 'That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine' — written by Gene Autry, who got a gold record for it back in 1932, back when a gold record meant something. The Everly Brothers did an album of songs called Songs Our Daddy Taught Us, and they've always had a strong sense of family — even when they're not speaking with each other."
"Father Time": Lowell Fulson
"Lowell was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where you can still get the best steak sandwich in the country."
"Father Alone": The Swan Silverstones
"The Swan Silverstones, featuring the Reverend Claude Jeter — no relationship to Derek, as far as I know."
"Sometimes a relationship goes down like the Titanic. Divorce is the sacrament of adultery. Join us as we listen to things going to pieces."
"The Grand Tour": George Jones
"It takes two to make a divorce, and here's Tammy Wynette's ex-husband George Jones with a grand weeper of a song. A house where heartbreak lives, but the wife doesn't."
"Alimony": Tommy Tucker
"Lotta things can kill you. Knives, bullets, ropes, strychnine, iodine and carbon monoxide. A radio in the bathtub, a golf ball bouncing off a tree, bulldozers, a big rock can fall on you, parachute can fail to open, car crash, boat, bus mishap, you can drown in a glass of water. But alimony is killing Tommy Tucker."
"Mexican Divorce": The Drifters
"A Mexican divorce was easier, quick and less expensive than a U.S. divorce. What made it easier was that both spouses did not have to be present at the hearing. They could send a lawyer instead. Some celebrities that had Mexican divorces included Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Burton and Marilyn Monroe."
"Divorce Me C.O.D.": Merle Travis
"Time has run out here, and all this talk about sadness and broken hearts has made me want to go to Elmo's bar and get myself a drink. I'm going to make like a divorce and split."
This story is from the September 7th, 2006 issue of Rolling Stone.


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4/13/2006 11:32pm, #541
I thank you because the fact that she was that stupid made me loose faith in the human race a little.
To be fair, she did distract a lot of people from the increase in retards ala Newbie Town and what not.
4/13/2006 11:36pm, #542Originally Posted by JKDChick
4/13/2006 11:39pm, #543
I can't believe I visit this site every day and somehow managed to miss the Blooming Lotus fiasco.
4/14/2006 12:07am, #544Originally Posted by Mr. Jones
Anyway, JKD go look her up on KFO. You'll find many things contradicting what she said here. Honesty, I was surprised she posted so long without going nutty.
4/14/2006 2:42am, #545
My quote about honesty above meant that
I don't see how banning her would make her a better or healthier person, mentally.
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Dealing with fucked-up nutjobs can really get to you. It's depressing, and just having a brief converstation with one of them will result in either listening to their drama (and killing your neurons) or getting exhausted for trying to help them out. In any event, it ends up ruining your day... probably even several of your days.
As noble as it may seem, we are not in this world to be somebody else's crutches or weelchair while they learn how to walk upright again. The whole thread was amusing at first, then it was annoying, and by the time BL was banned, it was just depressing beyond words.
She really needs professional help, real professional help - benevolence and quasi hard love from an internet forum won't blip in her mental radar unfortunately. :5forbidde
And if it is true that she has a propensity and a history of sending naked pics of herself (or at worst, of somebody else pretending the pics to be hers), then that may classify as sexual predation. No matter how you want to help someone, that's a pandora's box and can of ****-eating worms that I wouldn't want to touch with a yard-long stick... not even with a robotic arm for handling radioactive material.
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Its the only internet. In future I hope I have enough sense to walk the **** away from this kind of stuff.
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By Liesa Malik
"I'm so excited that people want to hear what I have to say," said J. Ellen Smith, publisher and owner of the Champagne Book Group, as we talked together about our upcoming Colorado Gold conference and other writing thoughts.
Champagne Book Group publishes both electronically and in paperback formats, and Ellen will be coming from their offices in High River, near Calgary, Alberta to speak about the publishing process, meet new talented writers, and accept pitches at the Gold Pitch Sessions. She expressed a small concern, however, that writers use a professional attitude during the conference time.
"I've always prided myself on being approachable," said Ellen, "but please treat us smaller publishers with the same courtesy as the large press. Don't shove a book at me and demand that I read it."
A few other signs that shout out "newbie writer" to Ellen include:
- Submissions with a copyright symbol on them. "I don't need to be told this work isn't mine," said Ellen. "Why copyright something that hasn't even been edited yet?"
- Interrupting. Getting interrupted, especially when Ellen and another editor are in conversation, is a real put-off. There are ways to find more appropriate opportunities during the few days we have together. She chuckled on this thought. "Once, at my very first conference, some woman followed me into the bathroom and kept shoving her manuscript under the door. I didn't know what to do, so I kept shoving it back."
- Inebriation. "It's a red flag to me when I see someone who has had a few too many." Ellen says she understands that the conference is a celebration of writing and writers, but makes a point to remember that she's out representing her business at these affairs, and wants to be prepared to conduct business with a clear head always.
Still, Ellen has sympathy for new authors and will be looking forward to meeting them. "As a guest, they like to work you to death at these conferences," said Ellen, "but that's okay. It's an honor to be invited."
She said if she sees 30 people in her pitch sessions, it's likely she'll ask for full reads from about five, sometimes a little more. Her role in these sessions is to help a person feel confident and get rid of their 3 x 5 cards. "'Now,' I say, 'just tell me about your book.' I want to see the passion of the author in the pitch." She says that she knows the journey to publishing is difficult, having been a writer herself, and she's anxious to find and encourage fresh new voices.
The path to publishing and publisher started for Ellen in her early school years, when she would write stories that she and a few friends would act out for others. "Skits and plays, really," said Ellen. "As a little girl, I had a vivid imagination. My stories always had humor in them. It was fun to make our friends laugh."
Later, Ellen became a nurse, but continued to write in her spare time. She had some success, but disappointment with contracts, quality of production, and publishing houses that were disappearing as fast as they went up, stole motivation from her.
One day at a coffee shop, Ellen's friend, Penelope, said, "You've been complaining for years about this. Why don't you get going and publish yourself?" They talked over the idea for a while, and Ellen continued to mull it over.
She found a small publisher in Calgary and apprenticed for a year with them, learning the ins and outs of the publishing business.
Finally, in December of 2004, with a website and $20 in the bank, Champagne Books started work. By April 2005, they were ready for a cyber-launch of their first four titles. "I totally believe in the old saying that you don't run before you're ready," said Ellen. So, for six years, she kept working as a nurse as well as a publisher. The company grew and became a leader in e-book publishing.
Today, proudly loan and debt-free, Champagne Books has ten categories of e-book fiction posted and several more titles in printed form. The company believes that eBooks are the future of publishing, and Ellen and her team are ready to lead the way.


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Small business is typically hit hardest by government regulation. Often, this has to do with the overhead costs that the regulations impose on businesses, and how small companies are less able to absorb those costs.
We've seen the big guys often supporting the proposed regulations that will crush their smaller competitors. See the regulations of toys, employer-based health-insurance, food, tax prep, trucks, minimum wage, tobacco, emissions rules, for a few examples.
But often more damaging than the costs of doing what the regulations tell you to do is the cost of figuring out what the heck the regulations want you to do. A small banker discussed Dodd-Frank with the Washington Post's Suzy Khimm, and she came away with this:
The new regulations are so complex that no one on Main Street knows what's really going on, and it's going to cost them to figure it out. "The whole financial regulations act. … What is it, 2,500 pages?" Stebal said, trooping toward Durbin's office in a small rally that the chamber had organized. Corporations have in-house lawyers and accountants to help them puzzle out complex new laws. But small businesses don't. "Just the size and scope of it — [companies] will have to spend so much money to make sure they're aware of what's going on," Stebal said. "They don't have teams of attorneys to read them."
Exactly. Liberal blogger Kevin Drum at Mother Jones wrote about why big business likes complex rules:
Complex rules, conversely, are the meat and drink of $500-per-hour lawyers and whiz kid engineers. If the rules are complicated enough, smart lawyers can always find ways around them. And American corporations employ lots of smart lawyers...
Drum should have distinguished between small business who can't afford those $500-per-hour lawyers, and the big guys who can.
We saw this dynamic play out on a very granular level with the federal tobacco regulation law, which Philip Morris supported. A trade group for small tobacco retailers and wholesalers filed a comment with the FDA pointing out
Most of our retail members are small business owners who do not have the wherewithal to hire counsel to help interpret letters issued by the FDA.
And regarding a proposed a ban on flavored cigarattes, the retailers' rep wrote:
The very first enforcement action by the FDA is a letter which creates confusion over which products are banned. It requires us to somehow interpret the letter correctly or, as the letter so clearly warns, possibly face confiscation of inventory, monetary fines and criminal prosecution.
Many Americans who distrust big business the most are also the ones who call for government regulation the most. These two impulses often clash.


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(Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Every time I go to my grandparents' house, they ask me to lift something heavy, write HTML code for their computer, or open that jar of pickled herring they've been trying to pry apart for weeks. "We've got arthritis! Our eyes are bad!" "You're young, you can handle it!" I equate this youthful plague to the touring capacity displayed by (and imposed upon) Long Beach-based, barely 20-year-old Avi Buffalo thus far. Since the April release of their self-titled debut, the band has barely had time to brood in their rooms and skip dinner to prove a point; they've been too busy doing their geography homework for the gifted-and-talented rock prodigy class they've enrolled in. And for the last leg of their first headlining tour, they partake in another laborious load-in, slinging their jangly, dreamy, and appropriately heavy guitar rock to Portland for our listening pleasure. But they're young. They can handle it. RAQUEL NASSER
(Satyricon, 125 NW 6th) The final countdown continues for Satyricon, which will live out its final days the way it always has—bringing underground rock bands into its dingy digs. But tonight's (second-to-last) show might actually make you feel like you've fallen into the most kickass wormhole ever. Fred and Toody Cole come this time as Pierced Arrows rather than Satyricon staples Dead Moon. Joining them is seminal Portland punk band Napalm Beach, who haven't played a show in years. The place will no doubt be packed full of people who frequented the venue back in its heyday, as well as young folks who need to see what the hubbub is/was all about. Deafening rock and beer-besotted patrons never goes out of vogue—come say goodbye to a place that carried that tradition for so many good years. MARK LORE
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A full size ark and it floats!
An intrepid Dutchman builds his second floating ark; this time it's humungous!
In 2008, I interviewed Dutchman Johan Huibers for Creation magazine.1 He had built a floating replica of Noah's Ark, which, though only half-size (so it could traverse Dutch canals), was still considered immense by most people who saw it.
Revisiting him some three years later, it turns out that this was in his view only a 'practice project'. Johan has been busy for the last three years with his real project, envisioned from day one—a full size floating ark. It was almost done when I saw him; by the time this article appears, it should be ready to launch.
Johan Huibers is a man with considerable charisma. Anyone who meets him will not readily forget his down-to-earth but enthusiastic way of explaining the Gospel and his vision behind his ark, which has remained undimmed. As he often says—God does not ask if you are fit for the task, just whether you are available. And that is what Johan lives by. The owner of a construction business, the fact that his vision of the first ark replica was realized meant that his local bank was prepared to finance this second one, for which the costs will be considerable. However, the first ark drew 600,000 visitors in almost three years, no mean feat considering the population of the Netherlands is a mere 17 million. Johan made no effort to market it, either, apart from a life-size polyester model of either a giraffe or elephant at several of the entrance roads of the town where the ark was moored, along with a large sign. Local churches supplied volunteers to help man the exhibit.
Johan says that only about half the visitors were Christians, and that it would sometimes lead to great conversations. Johan recalls a talk with a group of firemen who came to survey the security/safety issues at the ark: "They were tough guys, the type who dare to enter a burning house to rescue people. But, I asked them, are you really courageous? Do you dare to kneel tonight in your room if God wants to show you who He is? I'll bet you would not dare to do that, I challenged them! They had to laugh, but you don't know what God does and how or whether He will use it. I leave that part in His hands."
The difference in size has a big effect; Huibers' first, smaller ark was built using 1200 trees, while the new one requires 12,000 Swedish pine trees. (Huibers says that some translations of the Bible say that God ordered it to be built of 'resin wood' which he thinks was pine.) His ark, to comply with bureaucratic restrictions, has been built on 21 floating transport barges which measure 18.75 x 9.5 metres (c. 60 x 30 ft) They were welded together, two on top of one another and then joined.
Huibers kept to the general dimensions in the Bible, but had to adapt some of the details. Instead of three floors, he installed seven so as to use the space available. The massive vessel, as high as a three-storey building, is 138 m (c. 450 ft) long, matching the biblical description using a common cubit of c. 45 cm (18 in.). The width and height (30 x 23 m) are somewhat bigger, even, than would make it the exact proportions of the biblical ark for that cubit scale (c. 138 x 23 x 14 m, or 450 x 75 x 45 ft). Asked whether this degree of inexactitude mattered, he answered in his usual friendly and disarming manner: "The people who know the proportions better than I do already know all about Noah's Ark. I want to reach all the others."
Inside, Johan's ark will have real geese, cows, etc. as well as life-size polyester 'wold' animals. Including some dinosaurs and even a 'teenage' T. rex. There will be two partly covered amphitheatres available for choir performances, lectures, etc. The tour which visitors can follow will be signed via elephant 'footprints' on the floor. As they tour the interior of the ark, visitors will pass by hydraulically powered moving models and robots of Noah's family and other biblical characters, aimed at bringing the Bible's history to life.
Johan wants to promote the message even to those people who will merely observe only the outside of this not-to-miss-ark in its full stature. "Many people will not visit a church, or even enter the ark", he says. "But when they see it, it preaches to them already … the Flood really happened." He believes that it is an overt display of God's love and His willingness to save those who will turn to Him.
Hurdles for a modern-day Noah
Unlike Noah, one would think, Huibers had to have his ark conform to a vast array of rules and regulations. For example, fire-safety standards meant having to apply three coats of fire-retardant varnish. Also, a special 'mooring anchor' had to be installed, so as to qualify the construction as a 'building (house boat), rather than a vessel.2
Bureaucracy was also the reason for having to build it on floating steel barges as well as to install a heavy steel reinforcing frame. Lest critics claim that this is proof that it would have been impossible to build a wooden vessel that size, Huibers, an experienced worker with wood, says it would actually have been much easier to make a wooden ark.3
And then there were formal complaints from some neighbours that the vessel was obstructing their view—even though, as a more sympathetic neighbour noted, overlooking a shipyard was never exactly the most beautiful view. In any case, like all vessels constructed in such shipyards, it was destined to move on in due course. Not only that—all the neighbours' houses were due to be torn down soon for redevelopment, which has likely already happened by the time this article goes to press.
Unlike Huibers' smaller ark, this huge ship cannot readily tour the canals and rivers of the Netherlands. So it will mostly stay moored in Dordrecht (also known as Dordt) near Rotterdam, where it was built. But Johan has bigger plans.
Taking the ark to the world
Johan has reportedly written to Boris Johnson, London's mayor, for permission to have the ark sail to visit London in 2012 during the Olympic Games. He has had investors from Texas urging him to take it to Galveston, and has even had discussions with business associates in Israel, where his construction company also has active interests. He says, smiling: "The Israelis are curious, but they say it's not a Christian ark, it's a Jewish Ark. They say I 'stole' it." Of course, both Jews and Gentiles are descended from Noah.
When I saw it, the ark was not yet open for visitors. But scores of people were already turning up every day, through the unsought publicity about this world 'first'—an ark that is not only life-sized, but actually floating at sea and able to traverse oceans, potentially to be seen in many countries.
As Johan Huibers sees it, his full size replica ark is not only a message to unbelievers or Christians who doubt Genesis. It is a message to all Christians to do something with our faith. He says: "It is so important that we pass on our faith and what we have learned on to others, not keep it to ourselves. Even though you are not perfect yet, yes, even when you might miss the mark in many aspects, just put hands and feet to your Christianity and put it into practice."
For details of when the Huibers ark may be visited in the Netherlands see www.arcofnoah.org (www.arkvannoach.com in Dutch).
Full size ark plans around the world
To our knowledge, at the time of writing Johan Huibers' personally funded project is not only the first, but the only floating, navigable, full size 'Noah's Ark' in existence—or even under construction. To date, the first and only land-based, full size ark in the world is the huge concrete one on the road to Hong Kong airport, which we featured in January 2011 (pictured).4
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References and notes
- Gunnink, F., One man and a vision, Creation 30(4):12–14, creation.com/huibers. Return to text.
- Tagliabus, J., A biblical blueprint meets the fire code and the neighbors, New York Times, 29 May 2011, nytimes.com, accessed 9 June 2011. Return to text.
- In fact, there are records of ancient ships bigger than the Ark. See Pierce, L., The large ships of antiquity, Creation 22(3):46–48, 2000, creation.com/huge-ships. Return to text.
- Wieland, C., Full-size Noah's Ark in Hong Kong, Creation 33(1):28–31, 2011, creation.com/ark-hong-kong. Return to text.
I heard about a theory, years ago, that was put forward by scientists who were Christian and it basically said that the 'waters above the firmament' were ice and sunlight that passed through it on its way to earth was diffracted, hence no further diffraction on earth would be possible and neither would rainbows be seen at that time. However, once these waters dropped to earth, diffraction on earth was possible with the first rainbow ever seen after the flood.
Where I live there are gravel beds exposed by river erosion and in some places they are several hundred feet high. A believable explanation for that accumulation of gravel is that it was laid down by massive amounts of water, such as by, oh, I don't know, a flood of biblical proportions perhaps?
Search for 'vapor canopy' and 'waters above' on this site and you will find relevant articles. It was widely accepted in the 1960s to the 1990s but some problems with the theory emerged that mean creationists are not so accepting of it now.
Also search for 'quartzite boulders' and you will find articles about the gravel you mention. Yes, this is powerful evidence for the Flood.
The builder claims the Bible says that the ark was built of "resin wood." A search of all English translations does not find "resin wood." Gopher wood is the most common translation, followed by cypress, cedar and pine. Does anyone know where he got "resin wood?"
We have received some information that the reason Johan Huibers chose Swedish pine was not directly based on a translation but on a practical analysis of the present types of wood. Swedish pine contains resin which when heated can be used to seal wood which Noah's Ark must have been finished with.
Just to know that the ark was built in time for the flood is just glorious to see how God plans was perfect indeed.
I would like one that we could control to surf the sea, to surf the waters :)
GOD keep blessing you!!!
An 18-inch cubit in my opinion is an absolute minimum size for the vessel. Many things were bigger before the flood (including humans) and I think that even the 21-inch cubit is a bit conservative for this vessel.
But I think I can be sure of one thing. The Ark would not have had an open deck or a superstructure of that height. It would only be high enough to put in a series of windows to let light into the Ark, then scatter it throughout the vessel.
What would be proof that a wooden vessel that size couldn't be built?
another difference presumably would be the purpose of the dutch ark ie- to sail. to quote part of my own song-
it was'nt small, it was'nt light
what noah built was quite a sight
not exactly quite a boat
it was designed and built to float
a picture bathtub may be cute
but a lousy substitute
450 ft long
noahs ark was big and strong.
As a Christian believer in the historical-literal truth of the Genesis information, I am very pleased with these Arks being built. I have a question related to the "gopher wood" used to build the original Ark. Is this some form of known wood, like some commentators claim, such as cedar, or, is it like some others including both Christians and some Jews have said: Gopher Wood was in actuality a very strong WOOD COMPOSITE of some form? I hold to the school of thought that Antediluvian/Pre Flood civilization was VERY ADVANCED technologically (though spiritually degenerated and Anti-Christ), and surpassed even our current technological civilization in many areas. I know it is not good to speculate beyond Scripture but I am curious: Could the Ark that Noah and his sons constructed have been something made of more advanced structure than what many think? Many picture the Pre Flood people to be Pre Industrial technologically. I don't think they were. Thank you.
"God does not ask if you are fit for the task, just whether you are available." Wow, what a challenge! One could add, are we WILLING?
Some people think that those dimensions are on the conservative side. There were quite a few different 'cubits' in existence. There is a strong likelihood that Moses would have used an Egyptian one of about 20", rather than the 18" one (in my opinion).
Fascinating article and an exciting project. One question arises and that is the detail design of the ark itself. Whenever CMI or AIG have depicted the ark, it has been a much squarer design without a separate pitched roof which is more typical of "cartoon"-type depictions. Now I realise that we don't really know that level of detail, but the CMI-style depiction appears more likely and realistic to me. What are your thoughts on this?
Yes, there are some differences and these are to do with making the Ark safe and accessible to the public. Some of the differences are that this replica has a deck with railings where people can walk around, the side is full of windows whereas there was only one door in the real Ark, and the structure on this replica top with a roof. It is only a representation and not the real actual way the Ark was. The dimensions give a good impression of the enormous size of the real ark, although these are not in strict proportion. The real Ark in cubits was 300 x 50 wide x 30 high.


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Authorities say they've arrested a man believed to be a significant drug dealer in the San Tan Valley, along with his live-in girlfriend.
The Pinal County Sheriff's Office said James Gass, 25, was stopped by deputies for suspected drunk driving and arrested. PCSO issued a search warrant on Gass' home and found 4 pounds of marijuana, one ounce of cocaine, $7,000 cash, six firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
PCSO said Gass served two years in Arizona Department of Corrections on aggravated assault charges stemming from a shooting. He was released in 2010 and is prohibited from possessing a gun.
Deputies said Gass was moving pot from California and selling and distributing it throughout San Tan Valley with the help of his 23-year-old live-in girlfriend, Cassandra Rodriguez. Rodriguez was also arrested.
Rodriguez and Gass have an 18-month-old daughter who lives at the home. Deputies found a loaded AR-15 rifle with the safety off and in reach of the child. The child was placed in custody of Child Protective Services.
PCSO said they are still investigating and additional charges are expected against Gass.
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Former Red & Black Staff 'Excited for the Progress' Made at Today's Meeting with Board
Although marred by an odd altercation prior to its start, the meeting between former Red & Black staffers and the paper's board of directors appears to be a success.
According to a statement released by the once-and-seemingly-future staff on the website for The Red & Dead, all of their demands were met, a call for greater dialogue and trust has been sounded, and the recently-departed top two eds. will reapply for their old positions.
A portion of the statement: "We, the former staff of The Red & Black, are thankful and excited for the progress that has been made today, following the afternoon meeting with representatives from the Board of Directors. Prior review is off the table; student editors retain final content approval. Ed Morales, who was promoted earlier this month to the role of editorial director, made it clear that he has returned to his role as editorial adviser. And Ed Stamper, a board member who authored an internal draft of a memo that called for new content guidelines, tendered his resignation. These actions are signs of forward momentum, resolving many of our concerns regarding the editorial direction of the organization."
There has also been an increased outpouring of support for Morales. He confirmed hours ago on a popular college media advisers' list-serv that while the past few days have been difficult for him and his family, he maintains his commitment to "helping college journalists become the best they can be."
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Toys-to-Life Co-op Adventure Game "Oniri Islands – Children of the River" Meets Kickstarter Goal
Tourmaline studio announces successful $30K kickstarter campaign for its upcoming toys-to-life tablet co-op adventure game Oniri Islands – Children of the River
Geneva, Switzerland, April 17 – Geneva-based game developer, Tourmaline Studio, announced today the successful completion of its kickstarter campaign for toy-to-life cooperative adventure game Oniri Islands – Children of the River. The goal for the Kickstarter campaign was set at $30,000, which will go towards the tooling and manufacturing of the figurines. There are still 24 hours to go before the end of the campaign for backers to support new stretch goals.
Kickstarter Page for Oniri Islands
Oniri Islands – Children of the River is striking for its colorful and attractive art style, as well as the social interaction that develops between the players through its gameplay. It's a co-op experience where players use two figurines, which represent the game's two heroes Mina and Tim, to drag along the screen and explore the island together in unison. Players find hidden items and solve entertaining puzzles while also earning unique powers that are physically represented by masks that can be placed on the figurines.
"We're are thrilled to be funded on Kickstarter with still one day to go! With the pledges and thanks to our fans and community, we can now start the production of the toys. Our backers are really excited about our project and they are looking forward the upcoming release in November 2017." says Camille, co-founder of Tourmaline Studio.
Oniri Islands – Children of the River is scheduled to release in Q4 2017 on both Apple and Android tablets for $35.00 USD. The starter pack will include two figurines alongside the application delivering a storyline inspired by Peter Pan's Lost boys (JM Barrie) in 3 chapters full of life and vibrant imagery.
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About Oniri Islands: Children of the River
Oniri Islands is a co-op adventure game for two players. You play two kids lost on a mysterious island, searching for your shadows. You will find animal masks giving you magical powers to survive. Mina and Tim, the heroes, are two smart toys that come to life on your tablet. Move them on the screen to explore the fabulous world of Oniri Islands! Oniri is made for adventure game lovers from 6 years old and up!
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Tourmaline is a Geneva based interactive studio crafting new kinds of games. Blending tangible and digital realms. Today video games are not only played on one screen as well as the gamepad is not the only way to interact with the game anymore. We believe some of the greatest innovation in games will come from the combination of the warmth and tactile touch provided by physical design with the various interactive possibilities given by new technologies and digital content. Our goal is to create innovative and memorable gaming experiences.


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I liked the concept op the game but there are still some things you could improve:
- give it some music. a game with a soundtrack is instantly twice as good. but then, don't forget a mute button :)
- I was able to cheat in the Volcano.. if you jump against the left wall, you can keep jumping until the top of the level. you could avoid that by forcing the player through a horizontal tunnel.
- put some respawn points in the game. Currently i am stuck in the cave but im getting frustrated because i have to do that first walljump over and over again, after i died..
Overall it is a good game, so keep up the good work :)
Thanks Man!
First of all this game is basically an outline for games in the future!
Originally there was music, but I got frustrated because the file was corrupt.
Any how, thanks for the advise!
This has very nice graphics and such. could use a main menu, some instructions (like what key to use to jump I had to spam all the keys to find the right one), maybe a more detailed story line (why is he away from his homeland in the first place?) and maybe a few characters to interact with. But very nice job.
The Idea of no enemies was inspired by Blue Baby's 'Meat Boy' to rather have tricky jumps and obstacles instead of enemies.
It's not very entertaining to be honest. There are no save points that you can come back to, and there is no character art at all. I don't know if that was intentional at all.
BUT, the idea of wall jumping was great, I loved it, you should keep that.
Two stars man, it wasn't the best, but it wasn't the worst.
Thanks man, the no character design was intentional, it's sort of a rough draft of a character yah know?
It seems that There Are many Key Things That makes This bad: 1: The fact that You made the character the Default hit sensor sprites, 2: The level Design Is Pretty Poor Snd Contains jumps You usualy Would think "OH! thats a pit! Better not fall into it!". 3: some of the tiles are not solid. and 4: No creativity With this, You have to atleast add music or a level design made from the Preset levels! Maybe Make it better So you will have a lower chance of getting blamed. Just make it better and everything will be okay.
Yes, there are alot of errors, and there was originally going to be music, but the files where messed up. I have several things to say before I explain the errors
1: This is a test game, I used it to see if i could actually make a game.
2: The character is just an outline for a character originally planned for my next game "Q-Tails"
3:Some tiles are not solid because they aer represented as a 3-d object, or back/fore ground objects
I would just like to say I thank you very much for your response, and have created a list for things I need in my next game. THANK YOU!!!
*UPDATE- the character Jumpin' JAck is not original. I use a software called stencyl and ripped it from the actors section, but the level design and mechanics are indeed my work. Also the no enemies thing was inspired by Bluebabies, and Team Meat's "SUPER MEAT BOY"
The actual platforming works well, but it could be fleshed out more over all
BAsically, this was a test game to see if i was actually able to make games in general. This project was rushed, but overall got me started on how game mechanics work. Thank you for your support!


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Risks exist to be taken and, sadly, experiments exist to fail as often as they succeed. While Project Footlight: Wrong Number is a wonderfully risky entry in this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival, its daring intentions and lofty ambitions aren't enough to help it overcome the problems inherent in the very premises that make it so intriguing.
First, a note on the inside cover of the program informs us that "Eight weeks ago, no part of Wrong Number existed." The show, a collaboration between the comedy/improv titans of The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and rising-star musical writers Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk, has been developed, written, and thrown onstage in near-record time. Second, it's a choose-your-own-adventure musical, on a scale greater than the most famous example of the pseudo-genre, The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Every major decision in this show (and a minor one or two) is democratically voted on by the audience.
While it's not entirely obvious to what extent improvisation factors into the show in performance, the lack of a detailed, polished libretto as a foundation for the intended lunacy is a clear detriment to the proceedings. The book is credited to Kerrigan, and in selected moments in the scenes between votes, you hear the playwright's voice straining to break through the restrictions and establish depth and character that don't come easily in this format. Even basic pacing is a concern; many scenes have a ponderous, lethargic feel that's bereft of the energy a show like this needs to really work.
Given many of the performances onstage, one is tempted not to blame Kerrigan: Granted, Todd Alan Johnson, Brittany Pixton, and Brandon Wardell, whose program bios burst with theatre credits, do create compelling characters, even with only a handful of lines each. But Joe Wengert, in the lead role of Johnny Einstein, can summon up only a dispassionate monotone for his lines, and suggests no understanding of, or relationship to, a man who gets caught up in a kidnapping plot because of his phone number. (That Wengert can barely carry a tune is strangely incidental.) Ernie Privetera does labored work as a dim-witted kidnapper and a dim-witted cop, Eliza Skinner is only occasionally convincing as his partner in crime, and Rebekka Johnson is amusing if one-note as the kidnap victim.
More specifics of the story won't and can't be revealed here; with eight opportunities per performance for audience voting, the same show will probably never be performed twice at NYMF. But one suspects that certain scenes creep into every version, and that the overall theme - the volatile, often paralyzing nature of life in the years immediately following college - is also likely consistent from night to night.
That undercurrent of professional and romantic angst is territory that Lowdermilk and Kerrigan can cover better than anyone. They rocked last year's NYMF with their volcanic The Woman Upstairs, but can't make the same impression under these circumstances. They're serious writers who require time and breathing room to completely develop their songs; without it, as here, the results - if impressive given the constraints under which they were written - are skeletal. With the exceptions of "Wake Up," a high-octane anti-tribute to young adulthood with an infectious melody from composer-musical director Lowdermilk (working in his hardest-rocking mode), and a profanity-laced rap for Wengert (which he makes into the highlight of his performance), the team's compositions are little more than minor, one-joke songs and underscoring that don't demonstrate the full extent of their considerable talents. The UCBT improv gurus, equally out of their element, are likewise prevented from attaining their usual comic heights.
So it's not surprising that the show's most potentially moving moment has little impact: After a number of jokey, meaningless votes pass before the audience, one eventually involves a truly life-or-death matter. This highlights the comparatively irreverent irrelevance of your previous decisions, and reminds you that even the most insignificant choices can lead you to a situation that will have a lasting impact on the world and the people you love. It's a devastating thought, but one that withers all too quickly in this environment - there's nowhere in this cluttered show for it to fully blossom.
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To him who looks at the world rationally, the world looks rational in return.
Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Thoreau, Journals
For the beautiful is nothing but the beginning of the terrifying…
Rilke, Duino Elegies
The human gaze has a power of conferring value on things; but it makes them cost more too.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value
1. Knowing what we know, we know nothing: we believe our eyes (and ears, and words) but they are too busy verifying what has been stored in our cataloged universe.
2. Every age has its icons: photographers freeze that moment, cinematographers capture that movement. The traces of those fetishistic rituals are revered in museums, theaters and online. Media has already transformed society; can visual artists, besides "doing it their way," provide more than an ever expanding sensory massage?
3. Picture-perfect… captive audiences… can we look into our blindness?
We seek and look, like Nasrudin, BUT only where there is light*.
Can we go beyond what UG decried, art-as-sensory-massage, and is the mind just another organ awaiting similar stimulation?
Besides The School of No Media, this is an initial list of supporting materials:
Experiences –
Anechoic Chamber/Isolation Tank
Books –
The Society of the Spectacle & Against Cinema by Guy Debord
Notes on Cinematography by Robert Bresson
Mount Analogue by René Daumal
Sites of Vision: The Discursive Construction of Sight in the History of Philosophy by David Kleinberg-Levin
Voices by Porchia
U.G. Krishnamurti – but not the famous one's books or his website
Films –
The Society of the Spectacle/Against Cinema/ In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni by Guy Debord
Roberto Rossellini's historical films
Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky's work
Chris Marker's Sunless
Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished
Patricio Guzmán's Chile, Obstinate Memory & Nostalgia for the Light
Claude Lanzman's Shoah
John Berger's Ways of Seeing
Alain Resnais' Night and Fog.
*The famous Sufi story of Nasrudin:
One late evening Nasrudin was walking home. Upon arrival he seemed upset about something. Just then a young man came along and saw the Mullah's distress.
"Mullah, pray tell me: what is wrong?"
"Ah, my friend, I have lost my keys. Would you help me search for them? I know I had them when I left the tea house."
So, he helped Nasrudin with the search for the keys. For quite a while the man searched here and there but no keys were to be found. He looked over to Nasrudin and found him searching only a small area around a street lamp. "Mullah, why are you only searching there?"
Nasrudin answered proud of himself: "Why would I search where there is no light?"


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Tribeca 2012: Jack and Diane
The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 18th to April 29th. Jeff Hart and Jeremiah White are there and will be seeing a shitload of movies.
Diane (Juno Temple) is a space-cadet would be fashion student visiting New York who falls head-over-heels for bad-girl skateboard and walkman enthusiast Jack (Riley Keough). Feverish make-out sessions and gushy teenage over-shares ensue, until Diane starts getting nosebleeds and sporadically turning into a cannibalistic mummy-dog monster.
Because a sometimes pitch-perfect telling of a lesbian romance between two teenagers struggling with identity issues was apparently not unique enough, Jack and Diane director Bradley Rust Gray forces his first love flick into genre contortions by including a series of needless monster movie interludes. I'm all for stretching genre when it makes sense and serves the story, but Jack and Diane's goofy feelings-muppet is a raging beast of an overt symbol and really nothing more.
It doesn't stop at the monster-as-manifestation-for-the-uncertainty-of-love either, with Gray pushing the symbolism envelope as far as he can with ample meaningful music cues and a scene where a tasty human heart is munched after it's yanked fully formed from a vagina. First semester film students should really eat this up; it'll be super easy to construct a 3-5 page response paper around.
It's sort of a shame that Gray hits so repeatedly on the nose, because the more realistic love story elements of Jack and Diane often hit home. Although former Vogue model Keough has some difficulty settling into the butch haircut and put-on toughness of Jack, that she's a bit ill-at-ease in the character actually, and perhaps unintentionally, helps her mine some vulnerability that makes Jack more likable. Together with Temple whose wide-eyed and wounded performance needs no caveats, there's enough chemistry to create a halfway decent love story.
Scenes of Jack and Diane just being normal and awkward girls on a new-love bender – sneaking into clubs, making unsupervised messes, sharing meaningful secrets perhaps too soon – have a sweet ring of truth to them. If allowed to exist on their own, these scenes might've approached the levels of DEEP and PROFOUND that Gray so cheaply aspires to with his monster movie bullshit. Unfortunately, what's good about Jack and Diane is gobbled up by shoddy creature effects and hackneyed symbolism.
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TORONTO, Nov. 14, 2012 /CNW/ - Polar Star Mining Corporation ("Polar Star" or the Company") (TSX:PSR) is pleased to release a management update following the Company's recent fundraising and organizational and management changes.
Chépica Mine
In October 2012, the Chépica mine achieved its highest monthly revenue during Polar Star ownership. Production increases are expected to continue as the development program produces more faces for exploitation. The result of more faces will be more flexibility providing the opportunity to blend and balance input grade to the plant.
The Company intends to purchase a single boom drill rig and an additional scoop tram to meet the new production and development objectives. Similarly, the Company is placing orders for electrical transformers and an additional ball mill to meet the increased processing capability.
A surface diamond drill program will commence imminently with the initial objective of defining the next two years' production. The program will test the vein structures currently being mined and will also test other veins in the region for mining suitability. Veins closer to the processing plants will have evaluation priority and other veins within the general concession area will be explored in the mid-term.
Chépica has recently demonstrated improving production and revenues. Histograms below show monthly production and revenue increases.
A continuing review of the Montezuma exploration concessions in the major copper producing area near the town of Calama has confirmed a number of areas to be highly prospective and worthy of additional exploration. Recent prospecting work has identified an area in North Melisa where there appears to be wide veins over a considerable strike area. This is evidenced by small workings scattered along a distinct trend line. The veins are numerous and parallel. The Company intends to carry out trenching in the area with a view to assessing the mineralisation between the significant veins.
South Melisa has several defined stock work systems which are also populated with abundant previous small mine workings. As such, South Melisa also represents a short-term exploration target for the Company and future exploration work there will test for the possibility of a concealed porphyry below the stock work.
The central area of Montezuma, the Patricia target, also shows good indication for the possible discovery of a new porphyry system and information provided by the Company's previous drilling campaign will provide a basis for drill hole positioning in future programs. At the moment however this area is being subordinated to the work plan at Melisa.
The Karina target to the south shows good overall potential and detailed mapping and sampling will take place in order to decide its priority and ranking in any future drilling program.
BHP Billiton Joint Venture Agreement
Polar Star continues to liaise with BHP Billiton in relation to their joint venture agreement over 172,800 hectares of exploration land currently held by Polar Star. As previously reported, BHP Billiton has until July 13th 2013 to decide which of the five blocks currently under option it wishes to select for further investigation.
Other Exploration Areas
Other exploration areas in the Polar Star portfolio are being evaluated for prospectivity and potential contribution to the group. The Board is considering all options to generate value for its shareholders and these will include further joint venture agreements, direct exploration or possibly a spin-off of non-core assets into a new dedicated copper-gold exploration vehicle. The Board remains open minded and looks forward to announcing the results of this internal review to shareholders in due course.
The Company is pleased to announce that it has now successfully concluded its recently announced $6,500,000 equity fundraising. It was pleasing to see that most of the existing institutional shareholders participated in this offering and that a significant new institutional shareholder, Praetorian Resources Limited, also joined the share register.
The Company is in the process of implementing a significant cost cutting program at both the Toronto head office and the Chilean regional office level and this rationalisation will continue as the reorganised Board develops and executes upon the revised strategy for the group. To illustrate this, the revised aggregate cash remuneration for the Company's five person Board has fallen to approximately $100,000 per annum and a number of other non-core Company contracts and payments have either been cancelled or not renewed.
As already mentioned, as part of this equity offering there was a major overhaul of senior management. The Company is delighted to have been able to attract Kaare Foy to act as Chairman and Colin Bird to act as CEO. Mr Foy was one of the founders of Great Panther Silver Limited which subsequently listed on both the TSX and the NYSE Amex and attained a market capitalisation of over US$600 million. Mr. Bird has founded and floated several public companies in the resource sector and served on resource company boards in the UK, Canada and South Africa. In the exploration arena he founded, financed and was Chairman of Kiwara PLC, an AIM listed company, which discovered, and sold to First Quantum Minerals for $270 million, a large open pit copper project in Zambia.
The new management team is determined to continue to take a strong stance towards cost reductions to ensure every Company dollar is directed towards maximum shareholder return through the development of the Company's existing asset base. Remuneration is now significantly geared towards performance with cash payments reduced to a minimum.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain forward-looking statements based on assumptions, uncertainties and management's best estimates of future events. Actual events or results could differ materially from the Company's expectations and projections. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. When used herein, words such as "anticipate", "will", "intend" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. For a more detailed discussion of such risks and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, refer to Polar Star's filings with Canadian securities regulators available on www.sedar.com or the Company's website at www.polarstarmining.com.
About Polar Star
Polar Star is a TSX listed exploration and development company with a focus on building shareholder value in Chile. Polar Star's flagship property, Montezuma, covers 40 kilometres of the West Fault and the cross-cutting Esperanza Fault system and is located between Codelco's Radomiro Tomic - Chuquicamata - Ministro Hales (formerly known as Mansa Mina) group of copper-molybdenum porphyry deposits, and Antofagasta PLC's El Tesoro - Esperanza - Polo Sur group of copper-gold porphyry deposits. The Company's current strategy is to use the cash flow being generated from its Chepica mine (primarily gold) to fund, in part, the exploration program at its flagship Montezuma property and to advance its large portfolio of other potentially world class projects in Chile.
Share Capitalization
Shares outstanding: 166,001,001 as at November 14, 2012.
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CMAP Weekly Update, 11-27-13
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REMINDER: UIC Urban Forum December 5. The University of Illinois at Chicago will hold its annual Urban Forum next Thursday, December 5, at 725 W. Roosevelt Road, and this year's theme is Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions. I'll speak on an afternoon panel, "The Growing Metropolis: How will emerging technologies influence urban growth and development?" in addition to providing the forum's closing remarks. Register on-line. Earlier that week, on December 3 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., I will also be on a panel on the future of regional transportation planning with CMAP Board member Frank Beal, among others (UIC Great Cities Institute, 412 S. Peoria Street, Suite 400). RSVP at www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci.
Planning for the future. As part of the Chicago Tribune "A New Plan for Chicago" series, The Chicago Community Trust's president and CEO Terry Mazany contributed a piece on the importance of bold planning. In case you missed it, last week I contributed an op-ed column to advocate for express toll lanes as the most effective strategy for managing traffic region-wide.
Other News and Announcements
LTA updates. Among recent highlights from CMAP's Local Technical Assistance program:
- The Lan-Oak Park District is asking for feedback on its park master plan under development. Lansing residents can share what types of recreation facilities, programs, and services they would like to see at www.surveymonkey.com/s/lanoak2013 through December 13, 2013. Residents of Rosemont can also provide input on its first comprehensive plan since 1977 at www.rosemont.metroquest.com through January 15, 2014.
- The Chicago Tribune described the St. Charles Homes for a Changing Region public meeting held last week. This is the last week residents can provide input at www.foxvalley.metroquest.com. Learn more at www.cmap.illinois.gov/homes.
- The Roseland-based Development Community Project's LTA-supported efforts to set the stage for extension of the Red Line South to 130th St. -- a high priority of GO TO 2040 -- were the subject of a blog post.
Fixing leaks. The Center for Neighborhood Technology released a new report on the importance on investing in water infrastructure and fixing leaky pipes.
CMAP Blogs
Soles and Spokes. CMAP's bike-ped planning blog informed readers of a December 6 webinar on the maintenance of pedestrian facilities. We were also pleased to share that the Villages of Elmhurst and Batavia both obtained bronze-level status in the latest round of the League of American Bicyclists' BicycleFriendly Communities awards program.
Transportation Alternatives Program comment period. The draft set of projects for the FY 2013-14 CMAP Transportation Alternatives program was released for public comment. Send comments to Jesse Elam (firstname.lastname@example.com) will be accepted until December 16, 2013.
Performance-based funding. Transparent evaluation criteria based on "performance-based funding" can improve transportation decision making, as described in a CMAP microsite and detailed analysis.
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December 9, 2013
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A delay in state Rep. Curry Todd's court case on drunken driving and gun charges will move proceedings until next month.
The Collierville Republican was arrested in October 2011 after failing a roadside sobriety test. A loaded .38-caliber gun was found stuffed between the driver's seat and center console.
Todd is best known for sponsoring a law that allows people with handgun carry permits to be armed in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of drunken driving, possession of a firearm while under the influence and refusing a breath alcohol test.
Todd had been scheduled to appear in court on Friday, but the hearing was moved to Jan. 11. His attorney said he was still in talks with prosecutors.
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- Sept. 14, 2012: Rep. Curry Todd pleads not guilty to gun, DUI charges
- Sept. 7, 2012: Arraignment delayed for Rep. Curry Todd's gun, DUI case
- April 3, 2012: Rep. Curry Todd says he has incurable form of cancer
- Feb. 7, 2012: Rep. Curry Todd waives hearing on DUI, weapons charges
- Jan. 10, 2012: Curry Todd's DUI, gun arrest hearing delayed
- Nov. 14, 2011: Curry Todd replaced on committee by Ramsey
- Nov. 1, 2011: Rep. Todd declines deal following DUI arrest
- Oct. 25, 2011: Rep. Todd postpones fundraiser after DUI, gun arrest
- Oct. 24, 2011: Rep. Todd to hold fundraiser week after court date
- Oct. 19, 2011: Curry Todd returns to Legislature after DUI, gun arrest
- Oct. 17, 2011: Rep. Todd resigns as chair of gov't committee
- Oct. 17, 2011: Haslam: Rep. Todd apologizes for 'bad mistake'
- Oct. 13, 2011: State rep. resigns from guns task force following DUI arrest
- Oct. 12, 2011: State Rep. arrested on DUI charges in Nashville