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Texting and driving is dangerous - by now, we all know it. And yet, texting and driving in Texas is nearly as popular as it was four or five years ago. So what does the law have to say?
Texting and Driving Laws in Texas
As of 2014, there's no statewide ban against cell phone use while driving in Texas. That includes texting and driving.
With that being said, there are plenty of local areas that prohibit or limit the use of cell phone in the car. The current cell phone prohibitions in Texas are as follows:
- You may not use a cell phone behind the wheel if you've been driving for less than six months.
- You may not use a cell phone while driving if you're under 18 years old.
- You may not use a cell phone if you're driving through a school zone.
- School bus drivers can't use cell phones while driving if kids are around.
READ: Hit by a Distracted Driver? Here's What You Should Do.
In addition to these, there are a few local restrictions. The following cities prohibit texting and driving as of February 2012:
- Alamo
- Arlington
- Austin
- Bellaire
- Brownsville
- Conroe
- El Paso
- Galveston
- Harlingen
- Magnolia
- McAllen
- Mission
- Missouri City
- Mount Vernon
- Nacogdoches
- Palmview
- Penitas
- San Antonio
- Shoreacres
- Stephenville
- Tomball
- Universal City
- West University Place
You may also like: Auto Accidents Caused by Smoking while Driving
The Future of Texting and Driving in Texas
As you'd expect, there's been a push from certain state representatives to enact statewide anti-texting and driving legislation. As listed above, many cities have passed their own individual ordnances to protect their citizens from what we know to be a dangerous, negligent act. Despite this, Texas continues on as one of the largest, most populated states without a ban on texting and driving.
Earlier this year, Texas Governor Rick Perry refused to sign a bill that would have approved a uniform statute involving distracted driving. For this reason and many others, laws banning texting and driving will not likely appear in Texas in the near future.
Until there is legislation banning texting and driving, remember to be a defensive driver and look out for distracted motorists around you who are messing with their phones. If you are tempted to text and drive, remind yourself that one text is not worth your life.
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Last week USC faced questions about a student manager stabbing an air needle into footballs. This week, it was about the USC drum major stabbing his sword into the Rose Bowl field.
Does football ever become the primary issue around USC anymore? It better today because the crosstown rivalry with UCLA takes place at the Rose Bowl, and if USC coach Lane Kiffin thinks the season is disappointing now wait until he sees how fans react to a loss.
The No. 21 Trojans (7-3, 5-3) enter the contest against the No. 17 Bruins (8-2, 5-2) with 12 victories in the last 13 meetings and last year's 50-0 shellacking fresh in everyone's minds.
The pressure is on USC, and that is not a position that suited the Trojans against Stanford and Arizona.
"A win versus a crosstown rival always is a good thing for your entire program," Kiffin said.
It's also a good thing for Kiffin, who needs a big victory to ease the sting of three losses. And even if the Trojans win, Kiffin admitted it will not make up for losing three games after being ranked No. 1 in the preseason.
"We'll still have more losses than we would have thought or where our expectations were," Kiffin said during the week.
So maybe the UCLA game comes at the right time to distract fans from the underachievement of 2012. But this is not the pushover UCLA teams of the Rick Neuheisel era. Victory no longer is assured, although USC remains the favorite.
"It's a huge game," USC defensive end Wes Horton said. "For a year everybody in blue and gold wants to say they beat the Trojans. But we're not going to be the team that doesn't beat UCLA."
USC enters the game with confidence and UCLA with the anger of last year's loss.
For the Trojans, it is another game in which well-known issues must be corrected. Quarterback Matt Barkley is among those under scrutiny. With 13 interceptions, this season resembles his inconsistent senior year at Mater Dei High more than his stellar junior year at USC.
The one-time Heisman Trophy frontrunner has thrown seven interceptions in his last three games, which is what he threw all of last season.
Barkley threw three interceptions against Arizona State right after Kiffin set a goal of no interceptions the rest of the season. That quickly led Kiffin to say two of the interceptions were "phenomenal" plays by Arizona State.
Kiffin neglected to mention repeatedly running the same play probably contributed to one interception.
"There's always going to be stuff that I have to get better at," Barkley said.
In some ways, though, Barkley might be irrelevant. Consider that he threw for nearly 500 yards against Arizona and Oregon and the Trojans lost both games. There is a reason USC is only 6-4 in the top 10 single-game passing performances but 10-0 in the top 10 rushing performances.
If tailbacks Curtis McNeal or Silas Redd have big games, it is probably more important than Barkley's stats.
One Pac-12 coach who did not wish to be identified said to watch the matchup between USC's defensive line and UCLA's offensive line for a barometer of the game. UCLA starts three freshmen on the offensive line while USC defensive ends Morgan Breslin and Horton will need to apply pressure on Bruins quarterback Brett Hundley.
"We need to get to the quarterback," USC defensive line coach Ed Orgeron said. "No question he is the biggest problem for us."
Horton said the defensive line is riding an emotional wave after registering five sacks against Arizona State.
"You could feel the temperament of the D-line change because of the way we were making plays," he said.
But USC usually experiences problems with mobile quarterbacks and defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin's struggled all year in these situations. Orgeron said you do not need to be a coach to tell how much better UCLA is than last season.
"They're not making the same mistakes as last year and playing harder, too," he said.
USC knows it can advance to the Pacific-12 championship game with a victory. It needs to win or a trip to the Rose Bowl instead will become the Alamo, Holiday or perhaps Sun bowls.
That is a side matter today, however, for the Trojans.
"I don't think I could take going out in my senior year losing to UCLA, so I'm not going to let that happen," Horton said.


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An introduction to Japan's highball craze.
It's 2008 and Japan's second largest beverage company has a problem. Whisky, the pride of its portfolio, the drink on which it built its empire, is in a slump. The market has been shrinking for 26 years. Japan is turning its back on the tipple that once epitomized worldly sophistication.
Said company, Suntory, learns that Japan's young drinkers see the distillate as too strong and a poor companion for food. Whisky is what old men drink before bedtime. To turn things around, the beverage giant launches a promotion that is now seen as a blueprint for other dwindling drinks sectors.
"We used highballs as the theme of the campaign because they're low in alcohol, easy to drink and they go well with food," says Tsugihiro Tanaka, head of Suntory's whisky section.
The highball—a whisky and soda, sometimes with lemon—was Japan's most popular cocktail in the postwar years. Luckily for Suntory, it's usually made with their top-selling Suntory Whisky brand, more popularly known by the nickname "Kakubin."
The company has been pushing highballs since the '50s, but in September last year the campaign went into overdrive. First, Suntory persuaded key izakaya to add highballs to their menus. By the end of the year, 5,000 pubs had signed up. This year the campaign expanded to 50,000 establishments, and is predicted to reach twice that many by the end of 2010.
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Serious shortcomings in national data, including an outdated federal measure of household poverty, are undermining the task of identifying and assisting America's most vulnerable children, according to a report issued Tuesday.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, in its annual Kids Count report on children's health and well-being, says national efforts to track and analyze such trends "fall far short of what is possible, what is needed, and what is demanded."
The report urges the government to overhaul its formula for measuring poverty, strengthen efforts in the 2010 Census to fully count children and minorities, and improve the national vital statistics system to better track data on disadvantaged families.
Patrick McCarthy, the Casey Foundation's senior vice president, said government officials should resist the temptation to cut back on spending for data collection and analysis because of the recession.
"Ensuring that policy makers and managers have the information they need to make critically important decisions can deliver an immense payoff in reduced waste and improved results for children," he said.
The special report on the "data deficit" accompanied the regular section of Kids Count measuring how the 50 states fared in 10 categories of children's health and well-being.
The report documented improvements since 2000 in the infant mortality rate, child death rate, teen death rate, high school dropout rate, and teens not in school and not working. Four areas have worsened: low-birthweight babies, children living with jobless or underemployed parents, children in poverty, and children in single-parent families.
The report noted with concern that the teen birth rate — after declining steadily for many years — rose from 2005 to 2006.
The data, gathered no later than 2007, did not reflect the impact of the economic meltdown. Casey officials said they expected the economy-related indicators to worsen in their next report.
In composite rankings for all 10 indicators, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Utah ranked highest, while Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama ranked lowest. States with the biggest improvement between 1999 and 2007 were New York, Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina and Illinois; states with the biggest drop in that span were Montana, Maine, Alaska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Vermont.
In its special report on national data, the Casey Foundation said "perhaps the single most glaring shortfall comes in our efforts to measure poverty, the key performance indicator that rises above all others in its impact on children's futures."
The poverty formula still used by the federal government, which Casey called "thoroughly outdated," was developed in the 1960s. It calculates the cost of a basic grocery budget for a given family size and multiplies the total by three because food, in the '60s, represented one-third of a typical family budget.
The formula has not been recalculated since then even though, according to Casey, food now accounts for only about one-seventh of a typical family's budget.
The formula takes no account of child care, transportation, health insurance, and certain government benefits such as food stamps and housing vouchers. Also — except for Alaska and Hawaii — it does not reflect regional differences in the cost of living.
McCarthy said the National Academy of Sciences has developed some recommendations for a new formula that would take many of these additional factors into consideration, and a bill reflecting the proposals has been introduced in Congress.
Skeptics in various camps worry that any changes might cause harm by either increasing or decreasing the number of families officially defined as poor, said McCarthy. "But the reality is, we need an accurate count."
The poverty measure — used to determine eligibility for various benefits — has been a source of concern to many advocacy groups over the years.
Kinsey Dinan, a senior policy associate with the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University, said the current system potentially disadvantages families that don't receive substantial government assistance and those living in areas with high living costs.
She said President Barack Obama's administration has shown interest in the issue and might be able to make changes through some sort of directive without waiting for Congress to act.
Under the current guidelines, the poverty level in 2009 is $22,050 a year for a family of four.
McCarthy said he is optimistic that the 2010 census will be more effective than the 2000 one in counting young children and low-income minorities. But he said additional funds may needed to ensure that the Census Bureau can complete a thorough count of hard-to-reach sectors.
The Casey report also calls for expanded federal data collection on young children, teen dropouts and teen births. It said budget woes have led the National Center for Health Statistics to reduce the sample sizes for some of its national surveys on children's well-being.
The report recommends amending the No Child Left Behind Act to produce a more precise picture of students' progress and standardize the states' methods of calculating high school graduation rates.
In general, McCarthy said, state and county social service agencies are using outdated data collection and analysis methods, and in many cases have fallen far behind the private sector in this realm.


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I haven't blogged in quite a while - well, over a year it seems - and was just saying yesterday how I don't know how I ever had the time. Then today, all I can think about is blog posts. Duh. Anyway, I think having a toddler just lends itself to blogging. Your friends get sick of hearing about how cute, sweet, smart, perfect, etc., little sweetie is and you have to tell someone - even if it is just a blog post with no readers bouncing around out in cyberspace!!
The Girl is 20 months old now. She is wondrous! Amazing. Outstanding. Perfect. Yeah, yeah, you are already sick of hearing it, I know. Therefore, I will spare you excess verbage and go to a bullet list.
Things I love about The Girl
- I love how feisty she is. She is NOT taking any bullshit from anyone. Being 20 months old isn't any reason to have to, right?
- I love how she says YAY!!!! when she is getting/doing something she wants. Enthusiasm should be her middle name.
- I love how she loves spicy food, pickles, salsa,butter beans, hot stuff - just like her mommy.
- I love how she trusts me completely. I can reach out to her from across the room and she'll just jump - knowing I'll catch her.
- I love her fearlessness. Big dog? Strange person? New food? New place? Bring it on.
- I love how she loves her brother. She will beat him down in a heartbeat if he messes with her - which he frequently does -, but she lights up from ear to ear, head to toe when she sees him. She doesn't look at anyone else like she looks at him. It makes my heart grow two sizes.
- I love how she rolls with the flow. She'll sleep wherever/whenever. She'll go wherever. She isn't bothered by change or inconsistency. Thank god, because we sure don't have any kind of schedule!!!
- I love how she wrinkles up her nose and makes silly faces at you when you say something she doesn't like. She may not say a lot of words, but she understands every word and their connotation.
- I love how she says mama. How she babbles on endlessly in some foreign language, yet expects you to answer and looks irritated when you don't.
- I love how she started putting her diapers in the trash can without me ever asking her to.
- I love that she is my baby for ever and always, no matter how old she gets. :-)


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In the June 28, 2012 issue of the Rappahannock News, a front page news article by Alex Sharp VIII discussed at length the embezzlement of my late husband's and my coin collection valued at $65,238. This case has finally been resolved, and full restitution was realized on Jan. 13.
Art Goff, the commonwealth's attorney, persisted — and rightly so — in his theory that if you lock someone up and give that person a key to get out (i.e., pay the restitution), then victims get paid. Whereas, if you issue idle threats, nothing gets achieved.
I am grateful to the commonwealth's attorney, to Michael Brown, attorney-at-law, and to the law enforcement officers who were involved in this case. It may take a lot of time, but the system does work. It certainly did for me.
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Fred Grimm: Florida voters' apathy sinking to new lows
Precinct R035 felt like a scene out of those old Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns. It was hot. It was eerily quiet. In lieu of Clint, I stood in for the stranger riding into town, headed for the old church building where the only signs of life were a few poll workers in a semi-somnolent state.
All the scene needed was tumbleweed, me decked out in a dusty serape and a few haunting bars of Ennio Morricone's score from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Except with lonely me as the only living voter in the vicinity of RO35, we'll have to settle for just The Ugly.
Voting in my precinct in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday made democracy seem a forlorn process. An exercise in solitude. Like a variation on that old Anton Chekhov line: "If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry." In this case, if you're afraid of loneliness, do not vote. And 89 percent of the eligible voters in R035 didn't.
Only 128 of the voters in my precinct in the eastern reaches of Fort Lauderdale cast ballots in the primary election. That amounted to 10.89 percent of the eligible voters — a pathetic showing, yet not quite as pathetic as the countywide turnout of 10.76 percent (By comparison, Miami-Dade voters, with a 14.4 percent turnout, were mobbing their precincts.).
Only Glades County, with a population just over 13,000, demonstrated more apathy than Broward with a 9.26 percent turnout. But Glades, a depressed agricultural community marooned on the western banks of Lake Okeechobee, may have an excuse for apathy. Broward's mass disaffection is harder to figure out.
Not that the statewide turnout — just 17.55 percent of eligible voters — was much more encouraging. I wrote columns back in the 1990s bemoaning the end of democracy when the turnout was twice what it was Tuesday. But apathy in Florida, particularly in South Florida, keeps redefining itself.
The numbers must be sobering for Charlie Crist, who'll need voters in Miami-Dade and especially Broward, one of the most liberal counties in the South, to awaken from their comas come November. Unhappily for Charlie, the Broward precinct with the highest turnout isn't exactly packed with his kind of voters. Nearly 44 percent of the registered voters came out for the election in precinct C029, largely defined by John Knox Village, a retirement community. The aged precinct's Republicans outnumber Democrats 444 to 260.
Across the nation, voters in the magic age range of 18 to 29, the kind of folks Charlie desperately needs to show up in November, have been coming out in this year's primaries at a rate 20 percent less than their mostly oblivious elders, a rate which in South Florida would put their impact on the election somewhere between sparse and infinitesimal.
Want to know where the young would-be voters have gone? We got a good hint on Monday when Amazon announced that it was paying $970 million for Twitch, a three-year-old video game streaming website that exists somewhere beyond the awareness of the over-30 set. Except for over-30 Jeff Bezos, who described Twitch as a "platform that brings together tens of millions of people who watch billions of minutes of games each month."
There's the answer for Tuesday's turnout. When you spend billions of minutes playing video games, who has time to vote?
But the primary was not completely slumberous. Nadege Green, my former Herald colleague now working over at WLRN Radio, reported yelling, bickering, admonishments and threats around a precinct in North Miami.
Once, that sort of election day behavior might have been regarded as unseemly. But in 2014, a precinct ruckus has become encouraging news. At least the voters there indicated that they were awake.


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Happy Birthday Xbox One: The Short Pause List Of The Top 10 Xbox One Games
Happy second birthday, Xbox One! Bolstered by constant improvements and new system features via monthly updates, as well as a steady flow of well-received exclusives throughout the year, the Xbox One is positioning itself as a strong gaming console heading into 2016. Phil Spencer and company have done an admirable job of turning the Xbox One's image around during the system's first two years, and it's exciting thinking about what this gaming-first future holds for Microsoft's home console. In honor of the Xbox One's second birthday, we have put together our list of our 10 favorite games available as of right now. We haven't played everything, but we've played a lot, and these are the ten games we've had the best time with. Let's get on with the list!
**Note: This list is in no particular order, nor is it restricted to Xbox One exclusives**
1) Titanfall
Developer: Respawn Entertainment
One of the many "over-hyped" games of 2014, Titanfall promised an unparallelled experience in the the first-person genre. Even though it lacks a true single player experience — disappointing considering its potential — Titanfall's actual gameplay, featuring massive, uber-powerful mechs, more than makes up for the half-baked narrative that exists to give you a reason to kill the opposing team. It never gets old wall-running as a Pilot, breaking another Pilot's neck (not the stupid bots!), or calling down your Titan from the skies above to help turn the tides of war. Never before has controlling a fully armed mech ever been so exhilarating. Since releasing the game back in March, developer Respawn Entertainment has released numerous patches to help improve the game's performance. Additional game types are being constantly patched into the game as well, including the recently released co-op horde mode, Frontier Defense. If you pick up an Xbox One this holiday, be sure to grab yourself a copy of this fresh take on mech warfare!
2) Halo 5: Guardians (New)
Developer: 343 Industries
I have no doubt that Halo fans the world over were completely enamored by the story featured in Halo 5: Guardians. I can only imagine how impactful the narrative was for those who have followed the franchise closely since Halo: Combat Evolved launched over 10 years ago. Sadly, I didn't get to experience the game like series veterans did (as with Gears of War earlier this year, I'm new to the franchise), but that didn't keep me from enjoying the game immensely. From start to finish, Halo 5 is a white-knuckle juggernaut that kept me locked in thanks to its excellent controls and exceptional sci-fi presentation. Playing through the campaign cooperatively made everything better, and I look forward to tackling it with a squad of four on "Legendary" difficulty at some point. Halo 5: Guardians' story may not be the most accessible for series newcomers, but that doesn't prevent it from being an enjoyable experience as a standalone product. Oh, and let's not forget the feature rich multiplayer suite that offers a wealth of well-designed maps and modes for both the hardcore fans (Arena) and noobs (Warzone) alike. If you are new to the Xbox One ecosystem, you simply must add Halo 5: Guardians to your catalogue of games. And if you're the type that likes to play through a series in chronological order, pick up The Master Chief Collection as well.
3) Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
Developer: Monolith Productions
One part Batman: Arkham City, one part Assassin's Creed, one part Lord of the Rings, and all parts awesome, Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is one of the standout titles early in this new generation. Deftly mixing fluid combat, open world exploration, and high production values, Shadow of Mordor is a game third-person action/adventure fans should eat up in droves. Where the narrative fails, the unique Nemesis system — which adds a more strategic element to the game's moment-to-moment action — more than makes up for its shortcomings. Plotting how you plan to take over and control the orc army is a ton of fun, and a rewarding set of upgrades make the terrific combat even more satisfying. Oh, and Troy Baker kills it as lead character, Talion.
4) Ori and the Blind Forest (New)
Developer: Moon Studios
When developer Moon Studios first revealed Ori and the Blind Forest, I immediately took away two things: one, this game was going for "the feels," and two, it looks super cute! After having played Ori and the Blind Forest, I can confirm that it successfully tugs at your heart early on and throughout the campaign. The beginning alone rivals the emotional impact that The Last of Us had on me, and it is the driving force behind wanting to guide Ori through the forest of Nibel safely; you want to see this little guy succeed. Now, Ori is a pretty cute character and the world created here is absolutely gorgeous —thanks to impressive locales and smooth animations — but don't let the beauty of Ori and the Blind Forest fool you because it's as punishing as Metroidvania-style games get. As you make your way through each area, you'll earn XP by completing tasks and defeating enemies. When you rank up, you're able to apply points to skill trees which unlock perks for combat and abilities that you'll need to reach otherwise inaccessible areas early on. The controls are complex at first, but once you've got them down, you'll appreciate just how exceptional they are. There are a ton of platformers available on the Xbox One, but few can match the mix of great controls, powerful story, and gorgeous graphics that make up Ori and the Blind Forest.
5) Rise of the Tomb Raider (New)
Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Making its controversial debut exclusively on Xbox One this year, Rise of the Tomb Raider is a shining example of how great action-adventure games of today can be. Packed to the brim with gripping content, this game wraps up Microsoft's "Best Games Line-Up in Xbox History" with a bang! From the striking visuals to the incredible attention to detail and addicting gameplay, Rise continues the evolutionary path began in 2013's gritty reboot, reminding players just how badass Lara Croft is!
6) Wolfenstein: The New Order
Developer: Machine Games
What happens when you take one of the 90's most badass (and most iconic) video game protagonists and flesh him out to be more than just a brutal killing machine? Well, you get one of the most unexpected pleasures of 2014! BJ Blazkowicz returns in The New Order, and this time he's almost as three-dimensional as the game itself. But don't worry, you will still kill many, many Nazi's in brutal Blazkowicz fashion. Developer Machine Games decided to forego adding multiplayer in favor of creating a more polished story, and that risk resulted in one of the best single-player experiences this year. The New Order's lengthy campaign features an excellent story, emotional moments, and fleshed out and memorable characters. It proves that not every game needs multiplayer tacked on for the sake of it, and that BJ Blazkowicz can be more than just a brutal killing machine…he's now a likeable brutal killing machine!
Check out our full review of Wolfenstein: The New Order here!
7) D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (New)
Developer: Access Games
Swery65 makes some…interesting games to say the least. Initially hailed as a Kinect heavy experience, D4 is definitely one of the better Kinect experiences out there. It's also incredibly unique. The infamous dinner scenes alone make this game worth checking out, and the quirky characters, hilariously awesome soundtrack, and silly, yet slightly relatable, story make this debut (and hopefully not only!) season a must play experience for Xbox One owners.
8) Assassin's Creed: Syndicate (New)
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
While I enjoy the Assassin's Creed series, I'm not a hardcore fan or advocate of the games. To date, I've actually only completed Assassin's Creed II and Unity, and while I've dabbled with and liked Brotherhood and Black Flag, I never really thought much about them after the little bit I'd played. Syndicate hearkens back to the roots of what made Assassin's Creed II one of the best games in the series. The focus on a fun combat system and missions that can be approached a variety of ways — including stealthily — has paid off for the game in a big way, and the new grappling hook makes climbing buildings fun again. Assassin's Creed: Syndicate is the polar opposite of what Unity turned out to be. It's a worthy entry in the storied Assassin's franchise, and it's easily one of the most fun games available on these hot, semi-new consoles.
9) Plants Vs Zombies: Garden Warfare (New)
Developer: PopCap Games
Once I had my fill of Titanfall, I sought something else to play with my friends on Xbox Live. After getting several recommendations for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare — which I had initially written off because I didn't feel like it needed to exist — I caved into peer pressure and picked up what would go on to become my Game of the Year for 2014. Garden Warfare is one of the most balanced multiplayer experiences out there and, because it doesn't take itself seriously, is actually extremely fun to play. Even here in November of 2015, I still find myself booting this game up. I look forward to what Garden Warfare 2 will bring to the table, but this first installment remains a treasured experience for me to this day.
10) Fallout 4 (New)
Developer: Bethesda Softworks
There have been some brilliant RPGs released on the Xbox One since its launch in 2013. Games like Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition are just a few of the games that will demand days, if not months, of your time to see them through to their completion. With that said, if you were to ask me which RPG I'd recommend above all others on the Xbox One? My answer is Fallout 4. While my choice may have a degree of bias behind it (I absolutely love the Fallout series), there's no denying the incredible gaming experience Bethesda has built with Fallout 4. Fallout 3 was one of my top five games last gen, and Fallout 4 is well on its way to securing a top five spot for this gen. I've spent close to 25 hours making my way across the Wasteland, and it doesn't appear Bethesda has lost their touch when it comes to crafting immersive worlds filled to the brim with unique — and at times disturbing — stories just waiting to be experienced. Instead of resting on their laurels, Bethesda has added a deep weapon and armor crafting system, in addition to a build-your-own-settlement mechanic, to a formula that wasn't lacking any depth to begin with. If you have an Xbox One, you can't go wrong with any of the other RPGs I mentioned above, but Fallout 4 is the one I'd recommend first and foremost to anyone.
There you have it gamers! The second edition of our Top 10 games to arrive on the Xbox One is in the books! As great as all of the games above are, we here at Short Pause are excited for the many Xbox One games on the horizon, such as Scalebound, Quantum Break, Crackdown, ReCore, and Gears of War 4. Don't agree with our list? Please let us know in the comments below which games you would recommend to friends who are picking up an Xbox One this holiday season. We want to know what you're playing!
Here's to another great year in 2016!
2015 Update: In the second iteration of our list, newcomers Fallout 4, Halo 5: Guardians, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate, Ori and the Blind Forest, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die join the party, as Diablo III: Reaper of Souls - Ultimate Evil Edition, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Destiny, Forza Horizon 2, Halo: Master Chief Collection, Sunset Overdrive, and Ryse: Sone of Rome are out.
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The dead end down which President Bush and Condoleezza Rice have led the United States in diplomatic maneuvers addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict has many manifestations, one vivid example of which is President Bush's request for $150 million in funding to the Palestinian Authority. Joel Mowbray reports on the role that Mahmoud Abbas's Arab-language "gaffe" (i.e., "what happens when the spin breaks down") is playing in congressional consideration of the Bush administration's aid request. Joel credits the invaluable role of Palestinian Media Watch in bringing Abbas's "gaffe" to light:
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Ever drive I-15 through Utah County and wonder about the names of cities and towns you pass by?
American Fork.
Where in the world do these names come from?
Brigham Young University professor Richard Neitzel Holzapfel has studied the origin of names of places in Utah and wrote "A History of Utah County."
"How place names came to be is fascinating," Holzapfel said. "They preserve our history. They tell us a lot about the culture of the time. They tell us about people's perspectives. It's fun that we have Spanish, Mormon, non-Mormon and Native American names represented. You can learn a lot about Utah's history by looking at the names alone."
Here's a look at the origin of Utah County city names according to Holzapfel and other sources.
It is said that when LDS prophet Brigham Young visited Alpine after it was first settled, this town reminded him of the Swiss Alps.
American Fork/Spanish Fork
Both cities' names are derived from nearby rivers, known as forks, flowing into Utah Lake. The names recognize people from two different cultures. American Fork was settled by American-Mormon pioneers and Spanish Fork was named for a pair of Spanish-Catholic explorers, Fathers Dominguez and Escalante, who entered the Utah Valley in 1776 along the Spanish Fork River.
Cedar Hills
This town was named for the many Juniper ("cedar") trees found in this northern Utah County area.
In 1901, the water failed in this southern Utah County town and most of the settlers left. A New York native, Matthew B. Whitney, purchased the land in 1907 and renamed it "Elberta" after the peach of that name.
Town founder Phineas Cook named this Utah County town after his birthplace, Goshen, Connecticut.
Homesteaders settled this town in the 1870s and was named by Scottish Mormon immigrants who thought the land resembled the highlands of Scotland.
Mormon Pioneers settled Lehi in 1850, which was then known as Dry Creek, Sulpher Springs and Snow's Springs. In 1851, it was renamed Evansville after David Evans, an LDS bishop in the area.
As the city was incorporated in 1852, the legislature also approved a request to name the city Lehi after the Book of Mormon prophet.
By the way, the name "Lehi," according to the Old Testament, also means "jawbone" or "cheek" in Hebrew.
Once called Stringtown, this Utah County town was known for a string of homes built along the road. Mail for Pleasant Grove and Stringtown residents was dropped off by Pony Express under a linden tree. During the post office application process, a name was needed for the area. Because the linden tree was a local landmark, Linden was chosen. A spelling error at the post office headquarters in Washington, D.C., gave them Lindon with an "o."
The city was named for Walter Orem, the owner of a railroad that ran between Salt Lake City and Provo, apparently in an attempt to attract investments from the wealthy Salt Lake resident. By the way, Walter Orem never lived in Orem.
Pleasant Grove
At first, the name of the city was Battle Creek, named for a battle that happened there between Ute Indians and Mormon settlers in 1849. Deciding they needed a more positive name, the settlers started to refer to their town "Pleasant Grove" for a grove of cottonwood trees in the area.
In 1850, Provo was named for Etienne Provost, a French-Canadian trapper who arrived here in 1825. Before that, Silvestre Velez de Escalante, a Spanish missionary-explorer is regarded as the first European explorer to enter the valley. In 1849, Mormon settlers from Salt Lake City called it "Fort Utah."
Ute Indian Chief Guffich forged a friendship with early white settlers to the region. Guffich secretly warned them about a plot among young braves, including his own son, Santaquin, to attack the white people. The settlers departed, and when the braves arrived to find the place deserted, Guffich told them the whites were honorable people and that the Great Spirit had alerted them of the attack. From then on, there was peace between the two groups. When Guffich was chosen as the name for the community, he declined and requested that it be named instead for his son.
Saratoga Springs
Because of the natural hot springs here, early settlers built a resort town known as Beck's Saratoga Springs. It was named after Saratoga Springs, New York resort owner John Beck.
Early on, Springville was called "Hobble Creek" by settlers because they loosely tied their horses' front feet together (which is known as being "hobbled") as they were left to graze. As the town grew, the name was changed to Springville after Fort Springville for the freshwater springs located in the area.
It is said that the small town near Orem was named after the first grapevines planted there. It wasn't incorporated until 1989.


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Northern Health board discusses quality improvements Northeast leading the way
The Northern Health Board of Directors held its latest regular meeting in Dawson Creek, where directors heard that the Northeast is leading the way on development of the Pharmacy Medication Reconciliation system.
Medication Reconciliation is a process where healthcare professionals partner with clients, their families and caregivers to ensure the accurate and complete transfer of medication information when a patients care transitions to a new setting or practitioner. This work was recently recognized at the provincial level by the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council Award, for its ability to substantially reduce medication errors and improve patient safety.
The board also discussed LEAN projects being done across the organization. LEAN is a quality improvement approach, used to identify improvements to services and processes to benefit patients and reduce costs. 33 NH projects have been completed over the last two years, focusing on areas like surgical waitlist management, health records management, patient way-finding, emergency room and policy review processes, and medical reconciliation systems.
These projects lead to improvements that directly affect patient navigation and care, said Dr. Charles Jago, chair of the NH Board. The work being done by these cross-functional teams throughout the region reflect our commitment to high-quality, integrated services across the North.
The board also heard about primary care work that is focusing on six northern communities; Prince Rupert, Fraser Lake, Prince George, Mackenzie, Valemount, and Fort St John. This work is aimed at fundamentally shifting how sustainable health services are designed for communities. The planning requires broad community, staff and physician input and engagement and will grow into other NH communities in the future.
Physician recruitment was also a key focus of the meeting. Northern Health has filled an important physician recruitment lead position and new recruitment marketing initiatives will be launched soon.
Our work in primary care, supported by our physician recruitment efforts, will improve health services in our communities, said Cathy Ulrich, Northern Health CEO. We are building true partnerships with our physicians, our staff and the communities in which they work.
In addition, the board received a report on Aboriginal Health focusing on the Aboriginal Patient Liaison Worker role. Liaison workers at several NH care facilities have been very successful in helping aboriginal people navigate the health system.
The latest report from NHs Chief Financial Officer continued to forecast a small surplus that is expected to continue to the final year-end audit report.
The next NH board meeting will be held June 13th and 14th in Prince Rupert.


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New York City's Air is Squeaky Clean, says Mayor...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City's air is the cleanest it's been in 50 years. And looking forward to the next administration, he says reducing air pollution should be simple, as it's just common sense.
"Everybody knows what we have to do. There's no new science here. Stop putting the stuff in the air and you will clean up the air," he explained.
The mayor says levels of sulfur dioxide, a chemical linked to increased asthma and emphysema, have decreased by 69 percent citywide in the past four years. And he says these low levels are due to the city's PlaNYC Clean Heat program, which encourages using cleaner fuels or natural gas to warm buildings.
New York is now ranked fourth in cleanest air among major American cities, up from seventh. Mayor Bloomberg says these results prove that the benefits of being environmentally conscious can no longer be denied.
"People understand this is their health. The air you breathe has a lot to do with how long you're going to live and the quality of your life," said the mayor.
He says the cleaner air will prevent 800 deaths and 2,000 trips to the emergency room in New York City each year.


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WrongforCA.com is launching a week of action to expose the California Congressional candidates who are standing with Donald Trump – including digital playing cards that flip to reveal the "jokers" who are running for Congress on the Trump platform.
One recent projection shows California with four vulnerable Republican members of Congress, more than any other state. Strong voter turnout here can help Democrats erase Republicans' Congressional majority and enact Hillary Clinton's plan to invest in good jobs to build the middle class.
With less than a week before the first Presidential Debate on September 26, Republican congressional candidates' support for Trump continues to hurt them with California voters.
Trump has denied the California drought, called climate change a Chinese hoax, demeaned Latinos and women, and proposed an economic plan that erases many of the new jobs gained under Governor Jerry Brown.
A national poll in August showed Americans want to see Democrats in control of Congress.
"While California Democrats have pushed forward the nation's most progressive agenda for a strong economy and cleaner air, Republicans in Congress have failed California on every front," said Michael Soller, communications director for the California Democratic Party. "The road to taking back Congress runs right through California. Voters here are going to see Republicans' support for Trump for what it is: a sick joke."
Who is Wrong for CA?
Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-49) is in the tightest race of his political life against Democrat and retired Marine Corps Colonel Doug Applegate, and Issa's record of putting his own interests first is again under scrutiny.
Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones challenging Rep. Ami Bera (CA-7) is under fire for the pattern of disrespect he shows toward women – including allegations of sexual misconduct toward a 26-year-old subordinate.
Congressman David Valadao (CA-21) is under pressure from Democrat Emilio Huerta for voting with hard right Republicans to tear apart immigrant families.
Congressman Jeff Denham (CA-10) is locked in a tight race with Democrat Michael Eggman. Denham's wealth has increased up to 29 times since he's been in Congress, and he bragged about his lead role in helping Trump get a government contract for a new Washington, D.C., luxury hotel.
Congressman Steve Knight (CA-25) is in a tossup race with Democrat Bryan Caforio in the last Los Angeles County seat held by a Republican. Knight said that "Social Security was a bad idea" and opposes abortion even in the case of rape, incest, or the life of the mother.
In the open seat in CA-24, Santa Barbara Supervisor Salud Carbajal leads Republican Justin Fareed, who has endorsed Trump, supported House Republicans' radical Planned Parenthood witch hunt, and wants to expand oil drilling even on the fragile Central Coast.
Rep. Scott Peters (CA-52) is facing Denise Gitsham, whose roots in hard-right politics go back to her early career with Bush henchman Karl Rove and who wants to defund Planned Parenthood, eliminating access to services like cervical and breast cancer screenings.
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Seven coal miners have died and 17 are trapped after a shaft flooded at a mine in northern China.
State radio said on its website that more than 600 rescue workers were pumping water on Tuesday and drilling holes from the surface in hopes of reaching those still inside the Jiangjiawan mine near the city of Datong. It said the bodies of those who died were retrieved on Monday evening.
A total of 247 miners were underground when water rushed into the shaft on Sunday evening. Of those, 223 people made it safely to the surface. Such accidents are usually caused by breaches of abandoned shafts where water has collected over time.
China's notoriously dangerous mines have seen declining deaths in recent years because of safety improvements and a decreasing demand for coal.
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Highway Users Alliance CEO Testifies Before Senate Committee
Warns of Impending Transportation Crisis
(WASHINGTON, DC) September 25, 2013 – Today the American Highway Users Alliance testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the importance of investing in the nation's ailing infrastructure.
Highway Users President & CEO Greg Cohen remarked, "We are facing an epic crisis with the insolvency of the Highway Trust Fund and a transportation 'fiscal cliff' is approaching that could lead to full cancellation of highway funding for 2015. There is no question that many domestic discretionary programs are facing cuts due to sequestration. Yet these across-the-board cuts pale in comparison to a nearly 100% cut in highway funding, which will occur in fiscal year 2015 if Congress fails to act.
"The federal highway program benefits every state and serves every citizen, whether they drive or not. Even those who are not highway users depend on the vast national network of roads and bridges to get food, medicine, and products delivered to their door–often overnight. The investment in highway infrastructure serves America's competitive interests as a whole while simultaneously improving individual lives in communities.
Cohen also highlighted road safety concerns noting, "There will be preventable deaths and injuries if funding is not available for systemic safety investments and hazard elimination projects funded by the Highway Safety Improvement Program. These projects have an average benefit to cost ratio of more than 42 to 1, according to SAIC, and correct systemic safety problems and hazards that kill and maim people of all ages.
He further stated, "25% of bridges are deficient. If we put them end to end, they would stretch 5,000 miles – or long enough to go from coast-to-coast and back. These bridges are collectively getting older and states are working hard to reduce deficiencies. But if we go over the transportation fiscal cliff, bridge deficiencies will grow, with potentially catastrophic results.
Cohen also emphasized the major negative impact of traffic congestion: "In fuel and time alone traffic costs exceed $100 billion per year. But the true cost of congestion may be many times that amount once safety, stress and other health impacts, unreliability in the logistics chain, emergency medical service delays, and reduced access to labor markets are figured in. If states are unable to fund congestion relief projects, the impacts will be felt far beyond individual metropolitan areas, they will affect the entire country the way blizzards affect the network of airports.
The Highway Users strongly supports a user-pay/user-benefit concept that underpins the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) and note that we are not currently paying enough to even maintain existing conditions. We support increasing fuel tax rates to mitigate any further deterioration of the nation's ailing roads and bridges.
Specifically, we support the following potential funding solutions:
- Keeping the HTF Solvent: The presence of the HTF locks off funding for its intended purpose. It creates trust for taxpayers that their use taxes will be spent primarily on roads and bridges and not diverted to non-transportation purposes.
- Keeping the Base Broad: Everyone who uses the road pays and the users (and country as a whole) benefits. According to GAO, a mere $96 in federal gas taxes is collected for the annual use of a typical sedan. It's an incredible deal for unfettered access to a vast highway network.
- Solve the Funding Problem Once and For All: The funding solution should be sustainable over the long-term so that reauthorization bills can be enacted with stable, predictable, and guaranteed funding levels for a minimum of five years at a time. The problem with the current, static, per-gallon gasoline tax is that it doesn't automatically adjust with the variables that impact its purchasing power.
The American Highway Users Alliance represents motorists, RV enthusiasts, truckers, bus companies, motorcyclists, and a broad cross-section of businesses that depend on safe and efficient highways to transport their families, customers, employees, and products. Highway Users members pay the taxes that finance the federal highway program and advocate public policies that dedicate those taxes to improved highway safety and mobility.


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Dr. Adam Kiefer Named to Inaugural All-Southern Conference Faculty Team
Over the last three summers, Mercer University students, led by Dr. Adam Kiefer, associate professor of chemistry, have traveled to the cities of Portovelo and Zaruma in Ecuador through Mercer On Mission to carry out multiple service projects in artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) communities. Artisanal miners use toxic elemental mercury to extract gold from crushed rock. Mercury is mixed with the powdered rock to amalgamate the gold, and the gold/mercury mixture is "burned" (heated), spreading the mercury into miners' lungs and throughout the environment. The mercury is highly persistent and contaminates the soil, water and air. It also enters the food chain and bioaccumulates in miners and their family members.
Both Portovelo and Zaruma have highly elevated concentrations of elemental mercury in the air, albeit for different reasons. Portovelo's elevated mercury concentrations result from the processing of ore with elemental mercury, as described above. In addition, during the comminution (grinding) stage of ore processing, other toxic metals such as lead, arsenic, chromium and cadmium are released into the environment. The city of Zaruma has atmospheric mercury pollution as a result of the "re-burning" and processing of gold. The re-burning takes place in urban centers and exposes members of the community not associated with mining to mercury vapor.
Teams from Mercer have developed analytical techniques using portable atomic absorption spectrometers and GPS units to map the cities and identify the location of excessive mercury pollution in the atmosphere. In doing so, the team has mapped the town to identify hot spots of mercury contamination in the air, which will inform future programs to remediate the mercury contamination as well as develop new systems for capturing the mercury before it is released.
As a result of this research, Mercer On Mission is developing a "center of strength" in Ecuador, where numerous other programs will address the needs of ASGM communities. For example, teams of business students led by Dr. Antonio Saravia, assistant professor of economics, have evaluated coffee production as an alternative to mining in the region, and they will continue to examine the unique economic processes of ASGM communities. In 2017, teams of engineering students led by Dr. Laura Lackey, professor of environmental engineering, will develop systems to capture mercury in the region and determine sources of water contamination.


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"Beware the Worser Evil! You're Not Voting? Are You Crazy?!"
By Dennis Loo (11/1/12)
While nature's latest revenge against the folly of those who think that Mother Nature can be ignored can be seen in the stunning wreckage of the people and infrastructure of the U.S. eastern seaboard, taking lives and threatening many more, and where nothing will be the same as before, another storm is happening within the political left. Here, for example, are the admonishments of The Nation writer Phyllis Bennis writing on October 29, 2012:
It's practically the eve of the election—and I'm still kind of stunned to hear from people who don't plan to vote, who think voting doesn't matter. A young writer, 21 years old, wrote to me the other day, after seeing an interview I did on what elections are and aren't, and on how the candidates do and don't differ on foreign policy. (Spoiler alert: mostly they don't.)
Among other things, he said "We young people understand that the political theater of electoral politics will not bring about the radical transformations required to avert environmental and economic catastrophe."
Rather than acknowledge the fact that this young unnamed writer is absolutely right that environmental and economic catastrophe is unfolding before our collective eyes - for those of us still able to see what actually is in front of our eyes - Bennis wastes not a single word talking about those disasters, including the one happening, as she wrote those words, with Hurricane Sandy.
Instead, our stalwart proponent for the Left Ms. Bennis focuses on what's really important – determining the decisive difference it makes whether Obama or Romney gets elected. I'm reminded while reading her piece of the fabled debate among religious scholars of the number of angels that can fit on the head of a pin.
Bennis' piece is entitled "Why Elections Matter – and Why We're Still Arguing About It." A better title, at least a truthful one, would be "Why You Have to Tail After the Pseudo-Progressive, Even After He's Shown That He's a Fraud." Or perhaps: "Don't Look at What Obama's Done (fill in the blank for whatever Democrat is running that year), Be Afraid of What the Republican Might Do."
I've lived long enough to see this guilt trip played on people who value justice time and again. Fear the Republicans. The Democrats are our friends. The Democrats won't crush us the way the Republicans will. They're not as bloodthirsty.
The evidence?
There is one war-and-peace issue where they do differ, and that one matters a lot. Both set "red lines" and say they would use military force against Iran—that's disastrous under any circumstance. Romney's red line, which is Israel's red line, would use force to prevent Iran from reaching "nuclear weapons capability." While it's not defined anywhere in international law, "capability" is generally assumed to include the ability to enrich uranium and scientific knowledge. And arguably, Iran actually has that capability already. In the real world of potential new wars, there's a huge difference between that, and Obama's red line, which he would invoke to prevent Iran from "having" a nuclear weapon, an event which the entire combination of US military and intelligence agencies agree could not happen before at least a couple of years out. The difference matters—because over years it is possible to build and strengthen movements that will make any such new wars impossible.
So let me get this straight: Obama's better because his stated trigger point for a military assault on Iran is that Iran must not "have" nukes versus Romney's they must not reach "nuclear weapons capability." Perhaps Bennis has forgotten the way that the last American president fabricated the WMD charge against Iraq. Do you really think that the U.S. president hasn't the capacity to make the claim and make that claimstick that the "enemy's" done something, whether or not the putative enemy has actually done anything at all? You are going to stake the people's movements against unjust, illegal aggressive wars on the official statements by U.S. presidents?
Have you forgotten, Ms. Bennis, that the GOP and the Democratic Party have to make their fundamental agreements appear to be different or else no one will continue to buy the fakery involved in roping people into the killing confines of two party electoral circuses that hold out the phantasm of the people's will being honored, all the while the real political decisions are made by the 1% no matter which face is in the White House?
People concerned about justice and who can see the disaster that capitalism and imperialism present to the planet are waking up about the fraudulence of the elections and searching for the path forward. That is all to the good and must continue much more broadly and deeply. People need to study profoundly how things work and see beneath the surface appearance of things to their essence and act in the streets and everywhere to bring the news to everyone that we don't have to put up with this, we and the planet cannot put up with it, and that another way is possible.


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Saturday, December 4, 2010
Knitting? Knitting!
I think I might have to take up knitting (again). I came across this really cool knitted blanket in ReadyMade magazine. Here is the
link to the online article
Doesn't that blanket just look so luscious and colorful and soft? Can't you just imagine yourself with that blanket wrapped around you on a couch reading a good book, or... knitting??
I can't really imagine myself knitting. But I think I'm going to have to take it up again for this project. It inspires me THAT MUCH. Yes, I tried knitting once, I think it was back in oh-three. I still have the balls of yarn and the project. The balls of yarn are so soft and I love the colors. But I got about four inches into a scarf, messed up, picked the whole thing out and started over. Here is how far I got on the second round:
Yeah, it's like eight inches. Not very promising. So anyway I'm going to look into this and see if I can't figure out a way to motivate myself to get interested in knitting again just long enough to finish this awesome blanket!
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What is the Games Research and User Experience SIG?
The IGDA Games Research and User Experience Special Interest Group (IGDA GRUX SIG) aims to improve games by improving the state of games user research and user experience work. Our main approach to doing this is to facilitate community and information sharing among user researchers and user experience professionals at game companies, consultants, and academia.
Admission into the group is limited to professional game developers, user research and user experience professionals, and those in academia (professors & graduate students) in fields related to games research and/or game development.
The GRUX-SIG is part of the International Games Developer Association.
What is the GRUX-SIG Steering Committee?
The role of the Steering Committee is to decide how the Special Interest Group should focus its energy and resources, and to help find and organize volunteers to take on initiatives that are important to the SIG.
In the past, SC members have managed the summit, curated libraries of GUR resources, and generally helped make the decisions that keep the SIG running.
What is the GRUX-SIG doing this year?
These are the current initiatives of the GRUX-SIG:
- A Website (… you're here)
- Running the US Games User Research Summit (details)
- Running the EU Games User Research Summit (details)
- A Jobs Board (details)
- A mentoring programme for juniors and students at the start of their GUR career (details)
- Reviewing and updating the committee's charter
Who are the GRUX-SIG Steering Committee?
Current Chair: Ben Lewis-Evans
Current Members: Mike Ambinder, Ashley Brown, Lanie Dixon, Jordan Lynn, Kirk Rodgers, and Nicolaas VanMeerten
Past Chairs: James Berg, Bill Fulton, John Hopson, Ian Livingston, and David Tisserand
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2016-17 Men's Lacrosse News
Lions Place Three on SAC Honorable Mention ListApril 24, 2017ROCK HILL, S.C. – The Mars Hill men's lacrosse team has placed three members on the 2017 South Atlantic Conference All-Conference Honorable Mention team.
Lacrosse Wins at BrevardApril 22, 2017Mars Hill defeated Brevard 14-11 in South Atlantic Conference men's lacrosse action Saturday night.
Make-A-Wish FundraiserApril 19, 2017Due to the threat of inclement weather during tonight's lacrosse game against North Greenville, Mars Hill's Athletic Department will allow Lion fans to watch the contest in the President's Box with a $5 minimum cash only donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Fourth Quarter Surge Propels Lacrosse over North GreenvilleApril 19, 2017The Lions outscored North Greenville 4-0 in the fourth quarter to obtain an 11-8 victory over the Crusaders Wednesday night in the Ammons Family Athletic Center and Meares Stadium.
Lions Lose 12-7 On Senior DayApril 15, 2017MARS HILL, N.C. – The Mars Hill (4-7, 1-6 SAC) men's lacrosse team dropped a 12-7 decision to visiting Tusculum (10-2, 6-1 SAC) on Saturday afternoon at Meares Stadium.
Lacrosse Defeats Young HarrisApril 12, 2017The Lions' lacrosse team defeated Young Harris 8-5 Wednesday night in the Ammons Family Athletic Center and Meares Stadium. Dima Ferreira scored four goals in the win.
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This is a way to pick teams for grades 3-8.
Submitted by Alicia Thorngate, Eastpointe, Michigan.
Here's another way to quickly select teams using popsicle sticks. What I've done is put everyone's name on popsicle sticks. The popsicle sticks are placed in a coffee can. When it comes time for team games, I select two or four sticks from the can. These students are captains. If someone has already been captain, I just choose another popsicle stick. They then pull the appropriate number of sticks for their team members. My students like this idea and seem to be pleased with this way of selecting teams.


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|Planes 101 to 150: Foamflyer's Project History
|101 Surfer Sep-2003
Another delta of EPS foam, with the wing encapsulated in packing tape. Expected it to fly as well as "Vector", but it didn't. Ended up cutting off the non-functional canards, that didn't help. Still not sure what was wrong with this plane.
|102 Flying Saucer 4 Sep-2003
My fourth flying saucer, this one was underpowered. Would have done better with a gearbox and larger prop. The "wing" was 1/2" EPS foam with strapping tape spars.
|103 GWS Slow Stick Oct-2003
My first kit in about two years, this one was given to me by a friend (so how could I refuse?). Since he already had the stock version (red with iron crosses), I painted mine with acrylic craft paint so we could tell them apart in a dogfight. One of the more successful planes I've ever owned, powered by the EP-300C motor. Flies indoors and out with ease.
|104 Aardvark Nov-2003
My first attempt at an indoor flyer, this one actually made a flight outdoors first. Powered by a highly-geared GWS motor, it swung a 13" prop with authority on a little 7-cell NiCd pack. It didn't fly very well, and never did fly indoors.
|105 So.18 Nov-2003
But yet another twin-boom foamie pusher, and another excellent flyer. Had a nice 432 square inch wing.
|106 F5 Nov-2003
A friend was nice enough to share some of his fan fold foam bundle, so I made this little one as my First Fan Fold Foam Flyer (F5). Used a GWS IPS-A unit and flew great. Total weight 10.6 ounces. Acrylic craft paint airbrushed.
|107 Fokker Fiction Jan-2004
To thank my friend for all he had done for me (even though it was me who got him hooked on RC planes), I made him this plane as a Christmas present. All fan fold foam with balsa struts. Also had hand-made spoked wheels. Used a GWS EP-300c motor. Once a lot of lead was added to the nose, and the incidence of the top wing adjusted, this turned out to be a great flying plane with good looks too.
|108 Langsamflieger Jan-2004
My first plane built from plans in over four years, this one was made of a balsa stick and de-papered Sturdiboard. Used a GWS IPS-A unit and flew good. Total weight 10.2 ounces.
|109 Circular Reference Jan-2004
Essentially a flying saucer with a tail, the fuselage was a balsa stick, the wing and tail surfaces were fan fold foam. Flew really good on a GWS EP-300c. Had most of the good characteristics of a pure flying saucer. Some people said it was just plain "wrong" to have a smiley face that big, I say "get over it, and be happy!"
|110 Goose Pusher Feb-2004
This was a foamie electric version of a plan out of RC Modeler. The original glow version had the engine on the front, this one has a motor on the back. All other measurements, including CG was taken from the plan. This plane flew poorly.
|111 Bamboozle Mar-2004
A flying wing made of folded-up fan fold foam with an EPS foam fuselage pod, this plane flew marginally.
|112 So.17 Mar-2004
An excellent plane with a Speed 400. All EPS foam with acrylic craft paint. Had paper covering the top part of the fuselage for strength.
|113 Breeze May-2004
A purpose-built slope soarer, it was EPS foam encapsulated with packing tape. Flies great.
|114 Flying Saucer 5 Aug-2004
My fifth flying saucer. Did not do well.
|115 Goose Puller Aug-2004
Almost the same as the "Goose Pusher", except with the motor on the front, like the original glow-powered design. Crashed on it's first flight.
|116 P-51 Mustang Sep-2004
A semi-scale foamie, did not fly very good. Entirely covered in clear packing tape and spraypainted chrome silver.
|117 Brat Sep-2004
My first ducted-fan plane! Constructed from a combination of hollowed-out EPS foam and de-papered Sturdyboard, painted with acrylic craft paint. Used a GWS EDF-50.
|118 Fusion Sep-2004
Built from a combination of balsa, Coroplast, and EPS foam, with a paper-covered foam wing. Speed 400 pusher. Intended for catapult launch.
|119 So.19 Sep-2004
An original design to experiment with a fin integrated into the fuselage. Built entirely from EPS foam with some paper covering to strengthen the booms. Speed 400 pusher.
|120 Flying Saucer 6 Oct-2004
My sixth flying saucer. Made of fan fold foam, flies great and has hovering capability.
|121 So.20 Oct-2004
Twentieth in my "So" series, this plane is EPS foam finished with acrylic craft paint. Speed 400, flies great.
|122 So.21 Dec-2004
How-wired from EPS foam with a GWS A drive pushing, 8.5 ounces AUW. Controls are elevator and single aileron, flies good with it's cambered airfoil, but has a nasty stall at full aileron deflection. Flies very slow.
|123 So.22 Dec-2004
The 22nd "So" plane. This one has a GWS 350C pushing. Climb rate is good, and overall performance is good. Very fun to fly. Features a single aileron on a Modified Clark Y airfoil.
|124 Rocky Dec-2004
Constructed from a combination of fan fold foam and EPS foam, this plane actually has two ailerons as most planes do. Used a borrowed Eflight 370 brushless motor. Canopy was molded from a soda bottle. Plane flew OK but was damaged due to a motor cut-out. Will be repaired and tried again.
|125 Kawasaki Ki-61 Hein Dec-2004
A sloper made from EPP foam. Mostly covered with Ultracote and Monokote trim sheets, but some paint too.
|126 Predator Jan-2005
A copy of the U.S. military drone, this plane was built from fan-fold foam. It originally had a GWS EP400 motor and a 2-cell lipo battery, but this was insufficient power. When the Predator finally flew, it had the Nippy brushless motor on the back with an 8-cell NiMH pack. This plane flew extremely well and was very stable.
|127 Mednat Feb-2005
An experiment with a tandem wing design, this plane glided well to estimate the center of gravity position, but then flew very poorly with a motor.
|128 Hawk Feb-2005
The Hawk was made from foam board with the paper removed. Made to resemble one of the Hawk biplanes from the 1930's, this plane flew very well despite my streak of relative bad luck with biplanes.
|129 Gunship Apr-2005
Gunship was an "So" design, but did not carry the "So" designation. This plane was built from EPS foam and featured a "tiperon", or an aileron that consisted of the entire outboard wing panel that pivoted. The tiperon functioned very well. The plane also had several machine gun turrets.
|130 Observer Jun-2005
Observer was built from foam board with the paper removed, and was intended to resemble an observation plane from the 1940's or 1950's. Flew very well. The wing was hot-wired from EPS foam with a camber shape.
|131 So.23 Jun-2005
So.23 was built from EPS foam and featured "tailerons", or elevators on each of the stabilizer surfaces mixed to function as elevators and ailerons. The tail booms were reinforced with tape and the plane flew and handled very well.
|132 Corporate Jet Aug-2005
This one did not fly well. Made from EPS foam.
|133 Back in the USSR Sep-2005
This one didn't fly well either.
|134 Blockhead Oct-2005
This plane was an experiment to see how much drag I could create. It was made from EPS foam, and the wing was a flat plate reinforced with a carbon spar. Needless to say it was very draggy, but it did fly.
|135 So.24 Nov-2005
This plane flew very well. It had a motor cowling made from a peanut butter container.
|136 Defiant Dec-2005
Another great flying plane. I felt I wanted to try a different paint pattern on this one, it was all hand-painted.
|137 So.25 Jan-2006
An experiment with three tail booms instead of two. Excellent flying plane.
|138 So.26 Jan-2006
An experiment with a very short-coupled airplane. It did have two tailbooms, but both were very short. This plane flew marginally well.
|139 So.27 Mar-2006
This plane's tail booms were not connected to the wing, but rather extended from a pair of sponsons or small wings on the fuselage sides. generous amounts of tape reinforced the structure, and it did fly good.
|140 Slope Jet Apr-2006
A slope glider with an EPS foam wing, EPP foam fuselage, coroplast tail surfaces, and Monokote covering. It flew OK.
|141 LCD Jun-2006
Another twin-boom pusher. It didn't fly well, later the wingtips were clipped off which improved it a little. This plane had tailerons like the So.23.
|142 Little Kid Oct-2006
A very small plane made from EPS foam with a GWS motor. The cowling was a plastic juice bottle, the canopy was made from a soda bottle. The tail surfaces were depapered foam board.
|143 Micron Nov-2006
Another small plane with a GWS fan mounted on the top. It flew OK, but was underpowered with a 2-cell lipo battery.
|144 Miss Swiss Dec-2006
Made from EPS foam with a plastic bottle as the cowling. GWS motor and 2-cell lipo pack. The nose was too short, resulting in lead counterweight for balance, which made the overall weight too high to fly well.
|145 Paranoia Dec-2006
EPS foam with a GWS fan mounted at the back of the fuselage. This plane had tailerons which did not have enough surface area to turn the plane effectively. This plane flew marginally well.
|146 Parasitic Adventure Jan-2007
Built from EPS foam specifically to piggy-back a glider. A servo controlled the glider release. Flew very will by itself and with the glider attached. Resembled a Pilatus PC-6, but didn't notice until after construction.
|147 Adventurous Parasite Jan-2007
The glider to go with "Parasitic Adventure". EPS foam and depapered foam board tail surfaces. Flew well.
|148 Membrane Apr-2007
An EPP foam slope glider. Flew very well.
|149 Nipster Jun-2007
A plane built specifically to test the Uberall Nippy Black 2410/103 brushless motor. Excellent plane.
|150 RPG (Red Powered Glider) Jul-2009
This plane represented my return to RC after university studies, it was also my first plane built entirely in Tehachapi. Constructed from EPS foam covered with paper, Nippy motor. The elevator and rudder servos were mounted in the tail, resulting in the nose being extended to get the 3-cell lipo pack farther out in the nose to achieve the proper balance. Very good flying plane. The battery was housed under the canopy which was attached to the plane with magnets.


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The AVG 1st, 2nd and 3rd squadrons, that was left of them, were organized as the 74th, 75th and 76th Fighter Squadrons under The 23rd Fighter Group and Chennault, the former honorary "colonel", jumped in grade to Brigadier General, U.S. Army Air Corps.
Cadres of the 23rd Fighter Squadron were already arriving to join the 23 F.G. as well as the formation of the 68th Composite Wing with headquaters in Kweilin. And before long the 51 F.G. was entering the picture, cadres arriving from India and flying P40-Es.


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Dear all, In its current state, Part 2 of the specification is not coherent about the reqres:State property. In 6.2.3, Table 3 [1], this property is defined as being an URI In 6.2.3, Table 4 [2], and in Table 5 [3], it has Init for value. It never has any other value (it should change at each state). Here is a proposal for solving this issue: <proposal> reqres:State is defined as a String. It can have the values: "Init", "Requesting", "Sending+Receiving", "Fail", "Success", "Receiving", "Receiving+Sending". Table 4 [2] and Table 5 [3] are modified to reflect the changes of its value. </proposal> Another solution would be to keep reqres:State as being an URI and to define URI for each of the different States. Regards, Hervé. [1] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.html#tabreqresprops [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.html#tabreqcon [3] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/2/06/LC/soap12-part2.html#tabrescon Accédez au courrier électronique de La Poste : www.laposte.net ; 3615 LAPOSTENET (0,13 €/mn) ; tél : 08 92 68 13 50 (0,34€/mn)"Received on Thursday, 1 August 2002 14:37:11 UTC
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The one-stop shop for all Roosters statistics for the current season. All stats are accrued via NRLStats.com, and may differ from those found on other databases such as NRL.com or Supercoach, which use a different provider and which aren't readily available in as much detail. If you see any irregularities, feel free to get in touch.
(Click on each chart below to enlarge or, for smartphones, flip the phone on its side.)
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2016 Opponent Match Totals/Averages and Roosters Match Totals/Averages
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2016 Player Averages
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Value-Added Run Rate: VARR is a general overview of the running game of players and their extra impact at the defensive line. It shows the number of "extra" impact plays i.e. in the form of an offload, line break or tackle bust, that are registered as a percentage of a player's runs.
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