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With the 49ers trading away Alex Smith to the Chiefs, they now have a void to fill at the backup quarterback position.
Colin Kaepernick may be the quarterback of the future and his brightest years are definitely ahead of him, but his aggressive style of play could get him injured and sidelined for a while (knock on wood).
So, it is important that the 49ers have a backup quarterback who can handle being a starter on a moment's notice.
The easiest route to go would be to promote third-stringer Scott Tolzien to be the backup. The 49ers have liked Tolzien's work ethic and could reward him with a backup role.
Another strategy is to find one via the draft. The 49ers have a whopping 15 picks in the upcoming draft, and perhaps they select a quarterback in the middle rounds, or trade up to get one, which is how they landed Kaepernick.
However, free agency is always an option. The names on the market right now are abundant: Jason Campbell, Matt Moore, Bruce Gradkowski, Derek Anderson, and Bryan Hoyer are just some of the available quarterbacks right now.
You think that it would be hard to convince them to play for a Super Bowl-contending team in the 49ers?
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text: Did you look under the name "Bistro?" that's where I found the ones I ordered. They don't have the vents on the side...and even have orange ones like Mario's. Kiri On 10/2/07, Christine Seelye-King <kingstaste at mindspring.com> wrote: > > That's very funny. Originally, Crocs didn't have the holes, they came > later. The professional ones on the Crocs site (that don't mention Mario > at > all) have vents in the sides for air flow, but nothing on the top. > I need a new pair, mine went missing after Pennsic last year, and even > after > going to the war again (and hoping they would show up) - no dice. So I > guess I'll be getting some professional ones soon. They sure are comfy to > work in. > Christianna > > -----Original Message----- > From: sca-cooks-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org > [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Elaine Koogler > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:50 PM > To: Cooks within the SCA > Subject: [Sca-cooks] OT Shoes to cook in! > > Guys... > A friend of mine (actually on this list...Hi, Orla!) turned me on to a > great > thing. I knew that Crocs shoes were great for supporting your feet when > on > them for long periods, but, as a couple of folks said, with the holes, you > run a risk of spilling things or injuring your foot if you drop something > heavy/sharp/hot. Now, courtesy of Mario Batali, Crocs has come out with a > Croc built specifically for cooks...different tread on the bottom, more > support and a closed top/toe. They run around $39 a pair, and I am > getting > mine from a place called Surf and Dirt, and am getting free > shipping. They > haven't come in yet, but they look wonderful! > > Thought you'd like to know....I now return you to your regularly scheduled > period cooking commentary! > > Kiri > _______________________________________________ > Sca-cooks mailing list > Sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org > http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org > > _______________________________________________ > Sca-cooks mailing list > Sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org > http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org >

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Definition of schnauzer in English:
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A dog of a German breed with a close wiry coat and heavy whiskers round the muzzle.
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This volume summarizes a range of scientific perspectives on the important goal of achieving high educational standards for all students. Based on a conference held at the request of the U.S. Department of Education, it addresses three questions: What progress has been made in advancing the education of minority and disadvantaged students since the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision nearly 50 years ago? What does research say about the reasons of successes and failures? What are some of the strategies and practices that hold the promise of producing continued improvements? The volume draws on the conclusions of a number of important recent NRC reports, including How People Learn, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, Eager to Learn, and From Neurons to Neighborhoods, among others. It includes an overview of the conference presentations and discussions, the perspectives of the two co-moderators, and a set of background papers on more detailed issues.
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|Part I: Conference Summary: 1 Introduction
|2 Education and the Changing Nation
|3 How People Learn
|4 Social Dimensions of Learning
|5 Policy and the Education of Minority and Disadvantaged Students
|6 Linking Research and Practice
|Part II: Perspectives of the Co-Moderators: Overview
|Education Reform in Context: Research, Politics, and Civil Rights
|Part III: Conference Papers: Trends in the Educational Achievement of Minority Students Since Brown v. Board of Education
|Why Racial Integration and Other Policies Since Brown v. Board of Education Have Only Partially Succeeded at Narrowing the Achievement Gap
|Education, Adequacy, Democracy, and the Courts
|Appendix A: Conference and Workshop Agendas
|Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Conference Presenters
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After an excited "10, nine, eight" countdown by more than 150 people and with the flick of a switch, Columbia College was transformed Friday evening into a holiday wonderland.
More than 6,000 white lights instantaneously illuminated the outlines of the building and trees around Bass Commons. The commons is the lawn in front of St. Clair Hall, at Tenth and Rogers streets.
Calling Zach Foerstel a fan doesn't quite cover it. His tattoo, license plate, nickname and hobbies all reflect one thing: his passion for MU.
"I think the first game I remember seeing on TV was (Scott) Frost's freak (touchdown) sending Mizzou and Nebraska to (overtime) in 1997," he said.
How Do I?
There are several possibilities to see MU in an organized tour. Prospective students can arrange a tour that includes a special presentation and visits to a classroom, a computer lab and a residence hall by calling the Office of Admissions at 573-882-2456 or by registering online.
These tours are offered three times a day during the school year.
Now You Know
What was learned: MU veterinarians are using a surgical procedure to treat small dogs suffering from airway blockage.
How it works: Normally, cartilage in canine windpipes is stiff and supports a tightly stretched membrane across the top of it, which allows air to flow to the lungs, said Carol Reinero, assistant professor of veterinary medicine and surgery at MU.
Miles fly by as STRIPES marks its achievements
When three MU students called the volunteers at Supportive Tigers in Pursuit of Ensuring Safety for a ride home Thursday night, it was the 30,000th time in the past four years STRIPES has provided students with safe transportation after a night out.
By the end of the night, 100 more groups of students were taken home by STRIPES' drivers.
Chancellor's house to be updated
MU Chancellor Brady Deaton and his wife, Anne, will move in to the Chancellor's Residence on campus after the university completes a renovation of the house to improve accessibility for those with disabilities.
Although the date for the move-in is yet to be determined, Sue Mills, MU's director of development, said her office hopes to have the residence ready for the Deatons by December 2005. The house on Francis Quadrangle will be closed during construction.
Students question rising cost of tuition
When MU Chancellor Brady Deaton spoke with students Thursday evening, he answered some tough questions about MU policies, many of them centering on the rising cost of education at the university.
"It is increasing, and it's very hard for us to pay for school," said Lacey Hanson, a journalism student and Cabinet member of the Missouri Students Association, who is concerned about rising tuition.
Connected parents
Omega McNeese is getting her master's degree at MU on five hours of sleep every night.
McNeese wakes every morning at 5:30. In 30 minutes, she's about ready for class and turns her attention to getting her 19-month-old son, Makari, ready for the day. She drops the toddler at day care and arrives at her office in MU's Clark Hall by 7:30. She attends class and does work for her research assistantship in health management.
MU Assistant professor "staying cool" during semester off
Wouter Montfrooij is an MU Assistant professor who is currently conducting research using the University's nuclear reactor. He is involved in research of emergent phenomena in magnetism, superfluidity and superconductivity, processes with are done by examining the behavior of particles at the molecular level. "Essentially what I do is cool things down until something happens," he said.
MU scholars given grant for research
With a $593,792 grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, MU faculty members begin their research on entrepreneurship. The Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship Research Group, or IERG, was formed in response to being approached by the Kauffman group. The three-year grant will support the group's "Advancing Academic Research on Entrepreneurship" project.
MU professors recognized for teaching skills
Three MU faculty members were recognized with awards this month for their excellence inside and outside of the classroom. The Faculty Recognition Awards is an annual ceremony in November. Recipients this year included Meera Chandrasekhar, a professor of physics, Peter J. Markiem a professor of philosophy, and Ira Papick, a professor of mathematics.
Cut program takes new form
The foreign language education degree was eliminated at the University in 2001, due to significant cuts and withooldings from state appropriations. Due to budget constraints, large institutions like MU find it hard to maintain small programs such as foreign language education. Administrators in the Department of Education and Arts and Science have teamed up to find a solution: instead of a degree in foreign language education, the plan included a curriculum that would meet state requirements for a teaching certificate.
Young and old enjoy Peace Park evergreen
The large evergreen on the edge of Peace Park looks like a regular tree — until you see people hanging like monkeys from its branches, 20 feet off the ground.
According to Morgan Patterson, who says she has climbed the tree hundreds of times, it's enough to say, "Let's go climb the tree in Peace Park." Your friends will understand.
A memorable union
Students and staff who sought refuge Tuesday from the blustery cold inside MU's Memorial Union North found something a little out of the ordinary instead: two long tables covered with cake, ice cream and 1,000 cupcakes set on black and gold striped tissue paper, along with the celebratory cries of a woman behind one of the tables.
"Happy Birthday! It's 82! Would you like a cupcake?" called Mary Flatt, director for student and auxiliary services, to passers-by, none of whom passed up the invitation.
Plan would divulge student info
JEFFERSON CITY — A proposed overhaul of the way higher education data is collected would require all universities in Missouri to disclose personal information about their students, including Social Security numbers, to the federal government.
A proposal being studied by the National Center for Education Statistics would greatly expand the data the federal government collects about college students. It would allow federal officials to track individual students as they move through the higher education system by matching Social Security numbers with financial aid numbers.
Canadian addresses Iraq war
The Canadian government's decision not to participate in the war in Iraq stemmed from disagreement over the United States' approach to invading Iraq and not over policy goals of disarming Saddam Hussein.
That was one of Canadian Rear Admiral Ian Mack's main messages to an audience Tuesday at MU for the school's first-ever Canada Days festival this week, an effort to establish a Canadian studies minor at the university.
Faces: Rick Linhardt
Working in an ice cream store has obvious benefits. For Rick Linhardt, however, they stretch further than free ice cream.
Linhardt, manager of Buck's Ice Cream Place at MU since 1993, said the job has given him invaluable experiences.
How do I... Help an international student adjust to life in the United States?
MU's International Student and Scholar Services runs the American League of International Friendship Encounters program, which pairs community members with international students who are new to Columbia and the United States.
After filling out an application and attending a 45-minute orientation session, participants are paired with an international student.
As costume director and designer for MU's theater department, Kerri Packard, 37, would have liked her two children to have the greatest possible Halloween costumes.
"I'd like to say I always make my kids' Halloween costumes, but I don't," Packard said. "My poor son always picks something I can easily buy."
Now You Know
A 7-year-old rule is causing confusion among some MU professors.
In December 1997, the MU faculty adopted a mandatory plus/minus grading scale, but the change was not recorded in the Faculty Handbook, according to Bill Lamberson, chairman of the MU Faculty Council Academic Affairs Committee.


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We are pleased to report in June 2014, Alsion was re accredited until 2020, a six -year term. This is HUGE, and here is what it means to anyone who is evaluating a school for their child to attend. A school is denied accreditation when a team of impartial visiting evaluators, usually veteran teachers and administrators, finds red flags in significant areas, such as curriculum rigor and coverage, teacher competency, student achievement, financial sustainability, governance, parent and student satisfaction. Most schools are accredited for terms of two or three years while being given an opportunity to improve in aspects of school operation identified as needing improvement by the evaluation team. Few schools, however, are cleared for the full six -year term that accreditation may be granted. From an accreditation standpoint, Alsion belongs in this category. While there are no band or interscholastic team sport electives at Alsion, the WASC evaluators commended our school for the broad range of indoor and outdoor extra curricular activities, listed on Alsion s website, available to every Alsion student..
I was a student here from 7th to 8th grade (summer 2014), and two aspects of the school are necessary to review. Firstly, the academics. The academics are quite good--skills like time management, writing, etc. are taught well with lots of practice. The math teacher engrains complex principles in your memory. The second aspect is the social and extracurricular experience. There are not many electives, and none of them are set--there are no sports, no music--the school lacks many basic things that it should have. Also, though teachers would disagree, the work is relatively excessive, in contrast to other schools. Students from most schools would find the homework hard to cope with, and thus most of their outside-school activities would be limited. In addition, the teachers are not well educated in dealing with social problems. I as an 8th grade boy last year happened to be peers with one or two notorious students, and when something happened, automatically every 8th grade boy was put to blame. Meanwhile, 8th grade girls were lectured on 'drama' stereotypical to them, knowledge of which the teachers had none. Great in academic preparation, but not for a true school experience.
My three children graduated from both Alsion's Middle/High and Early College programs over the course of ten years. They all had different personalities, interests and abilities. They all grew in their own ways while attending Alsion. The caliber of Alsion's academic programs is on par with what you would expect from a private school. The difference is how they get there. Alsion graduates have stronger communication skills and are more comfortable collaborating with others. There is much more emphasis on classroom discussion, group-work and independent thinking. The frequent leadership opportunities and individualized attention helped them standout in college and excel in their professional careers. The Alsion system works best if students start in the 7th or 8th grades. The Middle/High program trains students to work independently and prepares them to be successful in a college environment. Most of the course work in Early College is done for college credit at the neighboring Ohlone College.
When a fourteen year-old exits 8th grade, is he or she ready for high school where dating and driving are the norm? Most kids would say, Yes but most parents would say No. For this reason Alsion s Middle School program includes 9th grade. It gives the kids the additional year to develop the emotional maturity to take on the challenges of being a semi-adult. Academic expectations for Alsion 9th however, are as rigorous as any honors classes at any high school. They must take at least one Advanced Placement course while in 9th grade. Alsion leverages its location adjacent to Ohlone College for the benefit of its students. Upon completion of 9th grade, Alsion Early College students are co-enrolled at the College, where they can earn up to 72 units of college credit transferrable to the University of California by the time they graduate from high school. Historically, 3 of every 4 Alsion graduates are accepted by U.C. This is an outstanding track record for any school regardless of reputation. So why send your son or daughter to a designer label school, where you must pay a premium tuition rate and suffer a peak-time commute just to get there everyday?
I attended this school for 7th grade and part of 8th grade. 7th grade was a positive experience for me and I learned a lot. However with the start of the 8th grade several changes were made to the curriculum that made me leave the school. 7th and 8th grade were combined and thought the SAME things!!!! The person in charge of the school is not qualified for her job. When my parents tried talking to the teachers the responded very defensively and claimed that it was all part of their new Montessori curriculum. Both 8th and 7th grade were learning physical science and many of the classes including history and literature were the same for both 8th grade as well as 7th grade. Most of the teachers are not qualified for teaching in a Montessori curriculum. This school used to be good but with the new curriculum changes 8th graders are at a serious disadvantage. Good for 7th grade though.
A hidden gem of a private school. I was looking for something small, where my child wouldn t get lost in the crowd, where she could gain confidence, have a voice in class discussions, participate in extracurricular activities, and make meaningful friendships with other motivated kids. Alsion s small size is its greatest strength. With about 48 students and 5 full-time teachers, every child is intellectually and socially engaged every day. Each teacher has an advanced degree in their subject area and takes a personal and long-term interest in each child s progress, interacting with each student every day, even during the summers, for three consecutive years, grades 7, 8, and 9. Alsion is a learning community rather than an institutional school. Far from being sheltered in a cocoon, students go on week-long educational trips, compete & collaborate with students from other schools regularly, and do meanigful school-sponsored Community Service activities. The campus is next to Ohlone College. After 9th grade, Alsion Early College students are co-enrolled at Ohlone, where they can earn up to 72 units of college credit, transferable to UC colleges. And it's affordable!
Alsion doesn t attract much attention because of its small enrollment. But amazingly, both my kids received a superb education there, owing to the small group tutorial format.There was no opportunity for my son to find distractions, nor did he want to, because his class discussions were personally interesting to him. With a smaller class size, Alsion teachers spent less time on class management and more time innovating fresh approaches to curricular subjects. They brought in loads of supplementary material and instigated lively discussions. He developed into a thoughtful, academically mature teenager. Much has changed since those early days when my son attended Alsion. An eighth and ninth grade were added in subsequent years; then came the Early College High School program, which enabled my daughter to undertake college during her last three years of high school. Now there is a new campus adjacent to Ohlone College. Alsion has a larger staff with a wider range of subject area specialties. There is a very full offering of elective activities that were unavailable during my son s time, but the small group tutorial has remained the essential feature of an Alsion education
I have been in this school since seventh grade, and it has served me well. It has helped me grow and nurture my academic interests. If you are a student that is looking for a program to boost your academic credibility, this is one of your best options. If, however, you consider it to be important to participate in athletics and extracurricular activities alongside academics, Alsion would not be your optimal to your needs. Another thing to consider is the low student population. While some may find that it is detrimental to a student's social life, many others including myself would counter that it allows for stronger bonds between all students as well as between students and teachers. As an academically strong school that fosters community values and individuality within student, Alsion is among the best schools in Fremont.
I am the mother of a 12 year old boy, I have chosen Alsion for my son because I think it's an excellent schools that will give my son great middle and high school experience First, I like Alsion's philosophy of of helping students to develop skills according to their talents while nurture them to become a good person. The teachers follow the Montessori method. I have an opportunity to observe a math class. During this class, all the children seemed engaged. They asked good questions, and were interested instead of checking out and looking bored. My ultimate goal is for my son to be prepared and ready for college when he graduates. Alsion has an early college program where high school students can take classes for credits from Ohlone College. These credits can be transferred and will save my son a couple of years in college and will help him be prepared and ready for college. Alsion has small size classes which enables teachers to give personal attention to each student. This atmosphere of caring and nurturing will help students resisting dishonest behaviors such as cheating, to use drugs and to misbehave. I am looking forward to the new school year at Alsion.
This is an alternative the traditional public school classroom style where kids face forward and are taught everything by the teacher. The Montessori style instead teaches kids to teach themselves and the projects and assignments are designed for that purpose. The class from 7 to 9th grade is mixed to get experience working with others. Actual class sizes per subject are small for individualized attention where needed. In the high school, an early college program allows students to receive an AA while simultaneously completing high school. It prepares students for when they move on to a four-year college or university. Being in an environment with older students helps the child become more responsible and mature. While it may not have all the perks of a public school (no big dances, no official sports teams), it still was an excellent experience that I believe prepared me to succeed in life. I grew up through the Montessori system and after receiving my AA from Ohlone in 2010, I've graduated UC Berkeley in three years and am moving on to UCLA for a graduate degree in Epidemiology. I don't believe I would have been quite as successful had it not been for Alsion
I would approach with caution. While strides have probably been made since I was last there, the Ohlone aspect of the program is probably still flawed. For the kids who are determined to succeed, it's an excellent outlet to channel that energy, at the expense of social development and the intimidation of having older classmates. For those that aren't, there are few safety nets, and most resources go towards nourishing the smarter kids, even if there isn't much difference in terms of GPA. Those in the latter category are left to their own devices, for better or for worse. The Ohlone program does create an express lane through college, allowing savings on an undergraduate education if one is motivated enough to graduate early. Whether one wants to actually do that is questionable, however, considering the importance and fun of the undergraduate experience to one's later life. I graduated with honors from UCSB in three years, and I'm currently attending law school at UC Hastings, but I remain the youngest person in my class. It boils down to whether one views the fast track as advantageous for reasons other than saving money and getting done with school sooner rather than later.
Alsion is an amazing school. We've been a part of the Alsion Community for 4 years now and are extremely pleased with the education our children have received while attending this school. The teachers challenge each child to achieve their own potential, nurturing them every step of the way. The innovative techniques employed in the classroom amaze me. The teachers engage our children to learn, empowering them to take control of their own learning environment.
Alsion is the best thing that ever happened to our family, yes, our family. There is nothing that affects our daughter that does not affect us. Her happiness since joining Alsion has brought us all happiness. She feels the student body is a family and mixing grades 7-9 and early college gives her a chance to stretch when she is ready and stay at her own level when she needs to. Her writing skills have improved substantially and she is not afraid to join in on a debate or deliver a power point presentation once a week. Her confidence has grown in ways we did not know were possible. She is learning about fitness and making good food choices and applying it in her daily life without prompting. While she struggles with some subjects, she not dejected or defeated but instead has said she knows she will 'get it" with enough practice. She is proof that an Alsion education shapes a youth's character while learning the basics and then some. Parental involvement is a growing movement at Alsion and people are responding
There are no extracurricular activities apart from a small art class. Classes offered like geography don't have any use afterward. My child doesn't learn from most of the classes. With a poor environment I am not pleased with this school.
This school helps kids to develop the invaluable ability to learn how to learn. The teaching style is unique and effective. The teachers are patient, kind, and innovative top educators. They are very supportive and approachable. My son got some top notch education there. Tuition is very reasonable for such a high scale school. They also offer early college program after 9th grade. It is an ultimate gateway to a 4-year college.
This school has a lot of homework. We are getting a high school education at the age of 11. This school makes up ext6remely stressed. But the teachers are nice and understanding.
Alsion montessori is superior, in my opinion, to any other school. It's accelerated program allows the students to work from Seventh to Ninth grade, and then enter an early college program and work toward a much higher education. During their 3 years of high school, and 1 year of college, the students have credit for 2 of their years of college. Plus, the school community and environment is one where every student may comfortable work and focus.
It is a prestigious school that offers many opportunities for their students. Their teachers also provide plentiful help that allows the students to excel in every subject that they apply themselves to.
Alsion is a gem of a school. The teachers are competent and kind. They somehow manage to get the best out of every kid without engendering ruthless competition in pursuit of the highest grades. While the student body is as diverse as any of the public schools that surround it, there are no discernable cliques at Alsion. Everybody mixes well. My daughter and all of the Alsion students I ve ever met complain about the work load and rigor, but without exception they all seem to enjoy going to school here. While the Alsion middle school runs through 9th grade, one year more than others, Alsion students prove to be strong students at their next schools, even when they bypass high school altogether and start Ohlone College at age 15.
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The Power of Commitment
- Thursday, June 15, 2000
We believe our convictions give our children stability in a very unstable world. Knowing that we have made a commitment to make home schooling our children a priority gives them a sense of value that no other commitment can equal. This is shown in the statistics themselves.
The average home educated student ranks in the eighty-fifth percentile on standardized tests. Yet the educational level of the parents have no correlation to this figure. The only public school students who do this well, as a group, are those whose parents have a college education.
We attribute the consistent academic success to the tutorial method of educating. In many educational studies the tutorial method of education proves to be the best possible way to teach. Add to this the commitment home school parents make to their children, and you have a clear and decisive strategy for success.
Optimally, a couple who prays together and knows God has called them both to home educate their children will weather all sorts of storms. This kind of conviction will allow the family to live with the challenges of living on a single income, or dealing pressure to stop home schooling.
There is also the inevitable experience of teen wavering where the teenage student becomes lethargic, or longs to participate in a traditional school experience. When a couple is certain of their commitment, they can work through these times confidently. Make sure you are prepared to face tough situations by making that long-term commitment with God and your spouse.
The past decade has seen a significant deterioration of the institutional school environment. Many parents have been shocked to see the tragedies of Jonesboro and Columbine High School, among others. They fear for the safety of their children, and rightly so.
Obviously, there are many safe schools in America. But the Littleton, Colorado story showed us ther are no guarantees. Clearly, the home is not prone to the kind of terrorist attacks experienced in schools of late. The home is the place a family goes for safety. The natural response to protect our children from harm by keeping them within the home is a virtue, not a fault. When a student feels safe, they can concentrate on learning.
We are aware that there are incidents of domestic violence, to be sure. However, these incidents will arguably be more common in homes that do not have commitments to educate and nurture the children as a part of the family lifestyle. The loving support and care given to the home school children is a part of an integral approach to life.
Also a prevalent problem on the rise in our culture is the increase of teen suicide. What is it that could possibly infect the mind of teenager that could lead to taking their lives! We believe it is clearly exacerbated by the failure of parents to communicate that the child is loved, cared for, and respected as a human being. We value our children. Our decision to home school them allows them to know this subconsciously as well as consciously
We have recently read with grave concern the comments of one home school mom who leads a support group in New York City:
Parents are faced with the difficult decision of sending their children into an environment that is for some young people too hard to bear. When a child sees no way out but to take their own life - this is a tragedy indeed. At this time, I am praying that we can make their transition into homeschooling as smooth as possible.
My son who is seventeen spoke to one of the most recent victims of violence at our Geography Bee. He said to me, 'Mom, he couldn't stand still. He had a nervous way about him. He told me how he was stabbed.' That is why I was so thankful for your prayers.
As home schoolers, we may actually be responsible for saving physical lives! We can do this for many young people as we challenge parents to take back the God-given responsibility that they have unwittingly relegated to the state in their decision to accept the status quo approach of public or private education. We then have the additional priviledge of giving them the stability and reliability of the Christian world view presented in the gospel of Jesus Christ. What greater opportunity for mission is there than this!
We realize that many of you fairly new to home schooling, and some of you are just contemplating the prospect at this point. When you know it is God who has called you to direct your children's education, you will have faith to finish the task.
It is our desire that you will find the information in this column to be valuable as you explore the possibilities awaiting your children, and as you help them succeed in meeting their goals. Most of all, we pray that you will be inspired by the many options and opportunities awaiting your home school students in their future.
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Off He Goes Lyrics - Pearl Jam
Review The Song (8)
Know a man
His face seemed pulled and tense
Like he's ridin' on a motorbike
In the strongest winds
So I approach with tact
Suggest that he should relax
But he's always movin' much too fast
Said he'll see me on the flip side
On this trip he's taken for a ride
He's been takin' too much on
There he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes
He's yet to come back
But I've seen his picture
It doesn't look the same up on the rack
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I wonder 'bout his insides
It's like his thoughts are too big for his size
He's been taken...where, I don't know
Off he goes with his perfectly unkept clothes
There he goes
And now I rub my eyes, for he has returned
It seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned
For he still smiles... And he's still strong
Nothing's changed but the surroundin' bullshit
That has grown
And now he's home and we're laughin'
Like we always did, my same old, same old friend
Until a quarter to ten
I saw the strain creep in
He seems distracted and I know just what is going to happen next
Before his first step, he's off again
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love this song | Reviewer: indysera | 4/8/11
I almost broke down when I first heard it. It still has the same power to make me cry as it did at my first liten...many interpretations can be possible but I believe it's Eddie himself trying to get over things he couldn't solve and trying again and again to take a look at a new side of life to start. Anyway, it's one of all time fav tune off No code.
Wow... | Reviewer: Patrick | 11/19/10
It's great to read these different takes. I had always thought it was about an addict/friend of Eddie's. And he goes off to use. But, oddly enough listening it to it today after many years, I came to believe it was about Eddie himself and coping with his own little distracted demon. And then I read all these different entries, and it's about it all, isn't it? The sign of a great song. Great album too, completely under-appreciated it seems to me.
A bad friend | Reviewer: Zach | 10/6/10
I think it's about eddie how he goes away with all these other friends, and how he goes back n forth between all these things. I do the same thing.
My friend told me i reminded him of this song. He's fuckin right. I cry when i hear this.
A dad that is in and out of his son's life | Reviewer: Jennifer | 8/18/10
My husband has a really strange relationship with his father. He has always been in and out of his life. My husband comes from divorced parents and he grew up living with his mom. His dad would always pop in his life, acting as if no time had passed, and stick around for a few hours. Then he would get the itch and had to get running. They are buds when together but it is a very strained relationship. He played this song for his dad one day and his dad became very emotional, as if he knew it was about him. My husband calls his dad "the wind". After him playing this song a lot over the years I always think about his dad every time I hear it as if Eddie wrote this song about him. Its a great song and very interesting to see the interpretations everyone feels about it...
my personal story | Reviewer: Marcelo | 8/30/09
It's incredible how can one song have different meaning to so many different people. I always related it with a friend of mine who had to spend some time in for being involved in a fatal accident. He spent nearly 3 years away from everything until he got a parole and suddenly appeared at my house for a visit. He had changed a lot, his weight, his hair, everything. A couple of years later I heard this song for the first time and instantly reminded me of him. Altough he looked different, and everyone seemed reluctant to have him around as he was an ex-con, in many ways he was still the same. The last part of the song reminded me that about 8 o'clock he had to left to check with his parole officer. A few months later he completely vanished out of town, but I heard he was taken in again for something else. Never heard of him again.
it's about eddie | Reviewer: Tom | 5/19/09
i think it is about eddie, but it's about how he's always having to deal with a busy mind.. like a kind of depression.. sometimes he's ok, but then all of a sudden it changes, negative thoughts.. so when he says he's a shitty friend he probably means he's to busy with his own problems.. but like always.. we will never know what eddies interpretation is!
i'm a little depressed myself, and i always feel like this song is about a guy like me "It's like his thoughts are too big for his size"
My personal story with this song | Reviewer: FrankieA | 5/13/09
Take this song for what you want. A friend who was close to me and would have become a family member was taken away too soon. He was a person who I looked upto in my late teens who decided to indulge in other activities and could have been my brother in law. Towards the end it appeared he had changed and his priorities had shifted. When I first heard this song on No Code, it has and always will remind me of Al.
According to wikipedia Eddies lyrics are about himself being a shitty friend. while this makes since I always thought that this song was about a man who was mentally ill or who had taken too much acid... Whatever the case may be Its a great song by a great band! the Word "hope" does not seem to be that in the song...sounds more like cloak, clothes, or coat...
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My intent in writing this is pretty self-explanatory – I feel the need to defend BioWare from some recent criticism. Now, I acknowledge that not only is this unnecessary, they don't need it – BioWare is a highly profitable studio, owned by a huge publisher and their last two games have received massive critical acclaim. That said, gamers seem to be turning on them in droves, I recently saw somebody whose opinion I generally respect say they hope that BioWare developers start jumping ship, and was genuinely surprised. Now, I'll briefly sum up my argument before I begin in earnest: BioWare is still doing good work, and will most likely continue to do so.
The common criticisms levelled at BioWare stem from Dragon Age II being a disappointment, Mass Effect 3's ending and The Old Republic not performing as well as expected. I want to identify these criticisms and attempt to rebut them. Whilst it's obvious that I still personally like BioWare as a studio and enjoy their output I will try and be objective about these criticisms, and acknowledge them when they have merit.
I'll start with possibly the smallest criticism in terms of what this post is about (BioWare's reputation) – the performance of The Old Republic. The Old Republic currently has 1.3 million subscribers, down from 1.7 in Febuary [1]. When compared with World of Warcraft's (which MMOs invariably are) 10 million or so, that is a disappointing figure.
I've previously written about TOR in glowing terms, but have since stopped playing and it's very easy to explain why: after a certain point, questing becomes very a tedious and you eventually give up. The draw of The Old Republic is the story, and it's good at presenting its narrative. The individuals storylines for each class are well written, there's ample roleplaying opportunity and the side quests are very well developed. However, there are simply too many side quests on each planet, and the sheer number means that when you come right down to it means they're all very generic. After a while you start to dread having to visit a new planet because it means more side quests and you end up spending far too long on an individual planet and become very bored.
To improve on this, they need to focus on less but better developed side quests – perhaps between five and seven per planet, making about ten or eleven when coupled with story quests. This would infinitely improve the game and make it much more playable. Whilst this would be less content I think that have less, but better developed side quests would encourage replay ability. I can't comment on the ability of end game content to keep people playing since I never reached the end game – this does appear to be an area they're working on though.
This said, let's bear in mind that 1.3 million is exactly a low number – it's a pretty solid player base. They obviously have a lot of plans for the game and hopefully as they keep adding content and features, the player base will begin to grow again. So, now that I've identified the issues with TOR, suggested possible fixes and expressed the view that things aren't all that bleak for the fledgling MMO I'd like to move on to the stuff that has done more serious damage to BioWare's reputation.
Dragon Age II was a huge disappointment. I consider Dragon Age: Origins my favourite game of all time. Not only was the base game incredible, it had solid DLC and a good expansion. Combined with a growing expanding universe of a reasonable quality (the books, written by the series' lead writer David Gaider are solid fantasy novels) things looked good for the series. Then the sequel was released.
Dragon Age II was a mess, an absolute mess. The gameplay was a watered down version of the previous game that failed to bring in new fans and alienated the old. The level design was generic and repetitive and absolutely no effort was but into encounter design, waves of enemies mindlessly threw themselves at you with increasingly bloated health bars until you became bored. Then there was the story. The first act played like an updated version of the first part of Baldur's Gate II, the second provided an engaging storyline that deserved its own game, but the third act was a mess. It failed to execute the Mage vs. Templar conflict that had been building through the whole game by railroading the player into a certain path and forcing characters to act in an illogical and ridiculous manner. It was also so ridiculously short you had absolutely no chance to get to care about any of the participants. I will say, however, that the companions were generally as likable and memorable as you would expect from BioWare games (bar Anders) and I've played the game repeatedly simply because Varric is so enjoyable.
I cannot defend Dragon Age II. I can defend BioWare thought. The game was obviously rushed, this is easily inferred by the short development time (it came out about eighteen months after Origins) and seemingly confirmed by developer interviews. This takes some of the blame out of BioWare's hand and places it on corporate higher ups (the grand nemesis in all things of people who aren't corporate higher ups). Not only that, but it had a lower budget, which explains some of the issues (sadly I can't confirm this). The good news here is that Dragon Age II performed poorly compared to Origins: Dragon Age II has 2 million sales, Origins has 4 million. [2] This is good news since this will encourage EA to give it a longer development time and more budget, since it's proven that it will make more money if they do so and they know they'll get a return on their investment (at least, this is the conclusion that I draw) and it will also mean a Dragon Age III that's closer to Origins.
As a fan of the series, I will say that all the information so far revealed on Dragon Age III paints a promising picture of the game and I'm very excited for that. I think it will be a very important game for BioWare – if it's well liked it will restore a great deal of their reputation, if it's a failure it may signal dark times for the company. But, returning to defending their reputation, factors outside of the development team's control led to Dragon Age II's poor quality, and the future of the franchise looks promising.
And now for the big one, Mass Effect 3's ending. The final moments of the trilogy absolutely trashed BioWare's reputation. Vocal fans were all over the internet for months kicking up a storm about how much they hated it, and once BioWare announced DLC to assuage people's fans they were attacked for caving in.
However, these fans complaining were a vocal minority. Mass Effect 3 sold four million copies [3]. There were not four million threads complaining about the ending on BioWare's forum. There were not four million signatures on the various petitions trying to get endings changed. The majority of people who purchased the game either didn't care enough about the ending to complain, or rather liked it (I personally enjoyed it, as I have written about previously).
I am not of course saying that these people's arguments had absolutely no merit. The ending didn't provide enough closure, and unless you paid attention throughout the game and picked on several small details a great deal of it didn't make sense. Free DLC offering closure and detail is an incredibly gracious move.
I've defended the ending previous; I enjoyed it very much thematically and thought it was ambitious and interesting. I won't go into again here in great detail; I'll simply reiterate a statement I made on a recent podcast: if you thought the ending went against the themes of the series then you didn't understand the series as well as you think you did.
Mass Effect 3 was also a tremendous improvement in gameplay over the previous game and the story was excellent and was the most successful attempt to date at making your decisions over the course of several games matter (it wasn't perfect, but it was the benchmark that all series will have to live up to). I think Mass Effect 2 will come to be viewed as the strongest of the series, but whatever you think of the ending Mass Effect 3 was an absolute joy to play for ninety-nine point five per cent of the game.
So, to conclude this section of my argument, Mass Effect 3 was an excellent game with a divisive ending with genuine flaws which has been much maligned by the people who didn't enjoy it. This is unfair and I personally hope the Mass Effect series continues with new characters, either as a prequel or a sequel set after the Reaper war.
There's my argument. BioWare are still an excellent studio that produce high quality output and clearly still care about their games. The future looks bright with DLC planned for Mass Effect 3 and a promising future for The Old Republic and Dragon Age. Even if you personally hate BioWare's recent games you have to acknowledge their history of quality. I hope BioWare's reputation begins to improve once of again, as they truly don't deserve all of the hate they've received.
[1] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/star-wars-Old-Republic-Subscriptions-numbers,15573.html accessed 01/06/2012.
[2] Figures from http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/ accessed 01/06/2012.
[3] Figures from http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/ accessed 01/06/2012.
With the announcement of The Elder Scrolls Online multiplayer the topic of multiplayer in the Elder Scrolls series is suddenly very, very relevant. In the past I've always been opposed to the idea of multiplayer in the series, but recently I've come around to the idea. Thus, I'd like to share my opinion on how I'd like to have multiplayer implemented in the series.
I'd first like to say before I start in earnest that I'm not interested in the MMO. I'm sure it will be a perfectly good game, I just don't like MMOs. The only one I've gotten into in the last few years is The Old Republic, and only because it's a sequel to the Knights of the Old Republic games.
I think there should be two types of multiplayer within the series. The first type that I'd like to see is in the style of Fable II. In Fable II you could simply drop into a friend's game and play in their world. Whilst this was OK, and I do have found memories of running through the Crucible (a sort of gauntlet of monsters) with a friend it had some significant flaws.
The first of which was the camera. You weren't allowed to stray too far from the person whose world you were in and thus the camera was locked into a very awkward position to keep you both onscreen and keep you together. As an alternative to this, I'd give the guest total freedom of movement, with the caveat that when the host moved to a different cell within the game world (such as entering a building or a dungeon) the guest would be loaded into the new cell with them. I think this would be the best way to handle this kind of multiplayer.
The other issue with Fable II's multiplayer is that you couldn't play as your own characters and were limited in your interactions with the host player's world. If TES were to this kind of multiplayer it couldn't have these flaws. The first issue is simply enough – just let you use your full character in another player's world. The second issue is more delicate, and I think that the solution would be to implement multiplayer options for the player so it was up to them how much freedom their guest could have. These options would be simple things like how much of a share of quest rewards to give them and how much interaction they could have with NPCs.
Now that I've talked about drop in multiplayer, I'd like to discuss the other type that I'd like to see, which a full world that players share. Sort of like setting up your own server on Minecraft this would be a world that you're equal partners in and advance in together. This is even more appealing than the drop in multiplayer in my opinion. This would be exactly what it sounds like, where you both start new characters and advance them together. You wouldn't be bound to each other like in drop in mode though. You could be questing independently across the world. I'd include too ability to fast travel to each other though so that you could go from adventuring alone to adventuring together instantly.
There are two issues with this though. The first is how you access the world. One player with more free time than the other who advances much more quickly, does all the quests and outpaces their partner needs to be avoided, but on the other hand I wouldn't want to prohibit people from accessing their character. To solve this I'd once again use player options. It would be up to them to determine whether to allow one to play without the other. In a series all about player freedom this is the option that makes the most sense to me. I'd also add in the option to change this option at any point, so if one player loses interest and stops playing the person who shares the world can keep playing their character.
The other issue is narrative in nature. It's the problem of how to share accolades between the two players. Simply put, you can't BOTH be the Dragonborn. You can't both be the Nerevarine. You can't both share the prison cell that Uriel Septim escapes through. Similarly, you can't both be Harbinger of the Companions and you can't both be the Listener. This isn't true of all factions – Ulfric can name two people Stormblade and Tullius can promote two people to Legate. I think the best option here is to allow players to decide amongst themselves who gets promoted to the top of a faction, with the other taking a second in command spot.
As for the main quest, they would have to rewrite how you enter into it. That's the only solution I can think of. Maybe provide a different main quest for co-op players, where the designated chosen one dies during the intro sequence and it's up to them to struggle on without them. This could be an excuse to dramatically increase the length and difficulty of the main quest to compensate for there being two players present in the world.
So those are my thoughts on how I'd like multiplayer to be implemented in future TES games. There are a couple of ways that it could be done and both could be really enjoyable. If anybody has their own take on how they'd like to see multiplayer implemented (if at all) then please tell me, I'd be interested to hear it.
To start this off, I'd like to point out there will spoilers in this post, so be warned.
Mass Effect 3 is probably the best game in the franchise. Everything about it works, the gameplay feels like the natural progression of Mass Effect 2 and the writing is completely successful.
However, there has been a lot of criticism of the ending, which saddens me since there's so much else in the game that's worth talking about. However, I feel like I want to weigh in on the subject regardless. Now, I liked the ending, it had an interesting moral dilemma and capped off Shepard's story perfectly. I was happy with it overall. For the record, I favour the choice to control the Reapers, however in my game I chose to destroy them, a decision I regretted immediately.
I don't think it's a valid criticism to whine about it being bittersweet. The whole game is a major galactic war; the game was never going to end with Shepard drinking cocktails on the beach with Garrus whilst the rest of the crew plays volleyball. Was I upset that Shepard died? Certainly, but I was upset to see this character I had shaped over the course of an entire trilogy die. It was tragic, but it wasn't bad writing. In fact, Mass Effect 3 was the game that made me truly care about Commander Shepard as a character, there was so much room to roleplay him and give him more of a personality, two days on and I'm still mourning this fictional character.
I'm also going to call out the people complaining about being railroaded. That's nonsensical, the last action the player takes is a huge moral decision that forever alters the galaxy. Similarly I don't buy into the people who are complaining that they didn't get to see the results of their decisions. Mass Effect 3's entire story was dedicated to showing the consequences of your decisions over the previous two games and offers a fairly unique experience to each player. Furthermore, throughout the game it's made fairly explicit how your decisions turn out, both through the forces you acquire on in the final assault, dialogue, and messages. For example, I know exactly how making peace between the quarians and the geth turned out, since Tali told me. It's similar with the krogan, I know how curing the genophage turned out through talking with Wrex/Eve, reading the Codex, and looking at my forces in the war room.
I also think that the ending fit thematically, and the nature of the Crucible and the Reapers was foreshadowed throughout the game. There is no deus ex machina, everything that happens once Shepard goes through the Conduit makes perfect sense if you were paying attention.
Now, another common complaint is "What was the Normandy doing flying through space when it was in the battle?" that isn't a plot hole, in my opinion. I just assumed that Cortez (who was still on Earth) extracted Shepard's team once Harbinger attacked, and Hackett ordered a withdrawal once the Crucible fired (which, considering the small window of time, explains why the Normandy was still in transit).
The scene at the end between the grandfather and grandson is also complained about. I just assumed that they were on a human colony that got cut off when the relay network was destroyed (I like to think it was Eden Prime or Horizon, that planet above them didn't look like Earth to me).
I don't even mind the destruction of the Mass Relays, in all honesty. It just means future games will be on a smaller scale than this trilogy and probably more about rebuilding galactic society.
Overall, the ending is perfectly fine. I think it was profound and deeply affecting. Whilst I was saddened by the ending, it wasn't in a pissy "the franchise is RUINED FOREVER" way, but in the sense that the series is over, many characters have died and ultimate victory was costly. But I was satisfied in knowing that Shepard's friends, who I cared about like they were real people made it through and that the Reapers had been stopped. It provoked a greater emotional response than any other game. No work of art has left me as deeply moved as the ending of Mass Effect 3, I'm not ashamed to admit I completely broke down as I watched the Normandy crash land on that unknown planet. So for that reason, I call the ending incredibly successful.
Transformers: Prime is easily the best iteration of the franchise so far, in my opinion. It has everything good about it distilled into one series.
The writing is overall excellent. The stories have obviously been thought up by people who love the franchise, and draw heavily on the mythology of the franchise whilst at the same time presenting it in a way that would be easily accessible to new viewers. Each episode is generally well plotted, well-paced and memorable. The five part series opening and four part ending in particular stand out as being fantastic. The dialogue is also good, and avoids feeling like cheesy kid show dialogue in most cases, and even managed to produce some genuine laughs.
The characters are also incredibly strong. It's the best Optimus Prime/Megatron so far and my favourite incarnation of each character. Optimus is simply the character everybody loves from the original 80's cartoon, paired with an awesome back story and great writing. Strong, respectable, wise, calm and at no point rips off people's faces. I'd be remiss not to mention that Peter Cullen gives a fantastic performance here Megatron is also at his best here. The challenge of Transformers is avoiding making Megatron look like an incompetent fool by the third episode, and this has been done successfully here. He's genuinely menacing, and whenever he appears he's able to curb stomp anybody that isn't Optimus. A huge part of it is the returning Frank Welker who injects much of the menace and intimidation into the character.
The other Transformers stand out as well. The smaller cast allows them to be well developed and coupled with good back stories makes them all excellent characters. The stand out here is probably Arcee, who's easily the best written and most interesting of the non-Prime/Megatron characters. People often say Transformers is just a glorified advert for the toys and if that's the case then Prime is a successful one since I want to buy the toys of all of them.
There are also human characters, which is generally a horrible thing, but not here. They don't have the Shia LaBeouf effect of making you hope that they die swiftly and horribly. In fact they're all liable, well written and actually competent. The fact that they actually manage to help the Transformers on several occasions is a refreshing change from the series norm.
The CGI animation (reminiscent of the pretty universally loved Beast Wars) is pretty fantastic. The characters models for the Transformers are ridiculously detailed and look incredible. And the fight scenes are fantastic, just fantastic. They pretty thoroughly outdo anything in the movies. Whenever Optimus and Megatron in particular fight it's incredible.
So there's Transformers: Prime. If you have even a passing interesting the franchise, watch it.
We all know the Sith, right? The bad guys in pretty much every Star Wars story every. Red lightsabers, lightning and general cackling villainy. But are they really so evil? Well yeah, of course they are, they fucking blew up Alderaan! But should they be? Outside of George Lucas' archaic insistence on black and white morality, at the core, the heart of their philosophy, the Sith aren't so bad.
This is the Sith Code:"Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me."
Alright, let's analyse this first, "peace is a lie". This reminds me of the Assassin's Creed ("Nothing is true, everything is permitted"). It's also true in a way, peace is a lie - peace never lasts, there is always conflict and war, both internally and externally. This is really just a statement of fact.
"There is only passion". Alright, this isn't a literal code mind, there is obviously things other than passion. This part merely stresses the importance of passion, drive, enthusiasm, ambition, tell me that isn't more entertaining than forcing yourself to maintain a veneer of cold detachment (the Jedi way)?
The "only passion" part only really works when taken with the next line "Through passion, I gain strength." This is pretty obvious, taken with my previous interpretation of what passion means this is simply saying "by applying yourself to something you're passionate about, you'll become better at it".
"Through strength, I gain power." From here on in the interpretation flows more freely. Through strength, meaning attainment, knowledge anything you want to interpret strength as you gain power, which can be interpreted as success, achievement of goals etc.
"Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken." I'm taking these two lines together since the first doesn't require much thought. It's simply a reinforcement of the idea that by achievement and attainment, you better yourself and your standing. The second line is where things get interesting. This is where the code starts advocating freedom. This is an appealing idea. It means that by achievement you gain freedom and ultimately frees you from the code itself, allowing you to live how you wish.
"The Force shall free me." A nice, simple round off.
So there's the Sith Code. It's fiercely individualistic, advocates ambition and achievement, and promises freedom. But is it evil? No, I do think so, but the Sith's interpretation of their own code is. Instead of being the passionate, independent, free individuals their code advocates, the Sith are angry, cruel, backstabbing fuckheads.
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 2011 Waggy awards! Because fuck it, my awards must surely be more preprestigious than the Spike VGAs. So without further ado, let the awards begin:
Best TV Show:
Winner: Game of Thrones.
Yes, Game of Thrones. It was the best thing on TV this year, hands down. As a fan of the books I was apprehensive, but the show was great, and I'm thoroughly excited for the next season.
And no, I haven't watched Breaking Bad.
Honourable Mentions: How I Met Your Mother.
Best Band/Musician/Singer/etc., Best Album and Best Song:
Winner: Florence and the Machine, Ceremonials, No Light, No Light.
Florence and the Machine are pretty incredible. Their Ceremonials album was great and No Light, No Light from said album has become one of my favourite songs ever.
Best Album Honourable Mentions: Machine Head - Unto the Locust.
Best Book:
Winner: The only book released in 2011 that I read in 2011 was A Dance With Dragons. However, it's one of the weakest books in the series and took six years to write. So it doesn't get an award.
Best Film:
Winner: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2.
Yeah, it was actually really good. In fact, on reflection all the films in the series are much better than I gave them credit for at the time.
Honourable Mentions: Rebuild of Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance. The dub was released this year, so it counts.
Best Wrestler:
Winner: CM Punk.
Best in the world!
Game of the Year:
Winner: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Skyrim is incredible, simply incredible. I can't praise it enough, it's cemented itself as one of my favourite games of all time.
Honourable Mentions: Star Wars: The Old Republic, Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
So, I just have one thing to say to the winners:
I was excited for The Old Republic. I really was. It's a sequel to one of my favourite series of all time - Knights of the Old Republic - and made by my favourite game developer of all time - BioWare. I was all set to buy it, but then they released the prequel novel 'Revan'. It was a travesty, everything I loved about KOTOR was annihilated by one Drew Kapershyn.
So TOR came out and I was fully prepared to ignore it. But, as it happens, it looked so good that I ended up buying it. Thankfully, BioWare have treated Revan well from what I've seen so far, and thankfully left KOTOR 2 alone, so I am sated on that front. I still wish to fight Drew Kapershyn to the death, however.
Anyway, my actual impressions of the game are overwhelmingly positive. Yes, this is KOTOR 3 and yes it's great. I have a couple of gripes I've like to get out of the way however.
First, the camera is pretty poor. Often my companion completely obscures my view and prevents me from targeting enemies. Until I learned to work about this my effectiveness was actually compromised because of this. The game cries out for the incredible camera found in Dragon Age: Origins. It truly is the best camera I've seen in this type of game (Tactical, party based RPG).
Secondly, the dialogue wheel. I've criticised it in every game it's appeared in, and the problems persist. The paraphrasing is too vague and I often find myself repeating conversations because I've ended up saying something I didn't want to. Why BioWare refuse to implement the simple solution of expanding the dialogue to show the full line when you hover over the option or hold down the corresponding number button is beyond me.
Now onto the positive stuff. I've been playing the game like it's a single player RPG and it's totally viable. It essentially plays like a BioWare RPG, and I love it for that. However, every time I've indulged in the multiplayer aspects it's been a real joy. Flashpoints are just fantastic and I enjoy partying up to tackle difficult quests. It helps that the community seems to be a fairly good one all around, with people always willing to group up and everybody is generally pleasant on the general chat.
I'm level 16 right now and a fair chunk of the way through the second planet in the Sith Inquisitor storyline (Dromund Kaas, capitol of the Sith Empire). So far, I've found a general lack of grinding in the game, with most of my levels coming from the completion of quests.
The quests are generally well designed. Even the fetch quests have fun encounters and generally have well written stories that make them interesting. The quests are nicely spaced out and you unlock more as you progress through the planet. All side quests generally take place in the same area as your main story mission, so there's no need to backtrack across the map and if you do there's quick travel and various Star Wars themed modes of transport to make the experience less painful.
The plot is one of BioWare's best, in my opinion. Each class has their own well written storyline. I can only speak for the Sith Inquisitor, but the plot so far has been really good. Solid characters and solid plotting. I feel loyal to my Sith Master, I hated my trainer on Korriban. The hook of the story is interesting enough that I feel compelled to keep going to see what comes next. I only have one companion thus far, but he's very good. I find myself deeply intrigued by every interaction between him and my character, and look forward to doing his side missions.
The PC (Player Character) is hands down the best done RPG protagonist of all time. Better than The Courier, better than The Warden and better than Commander Shepard. It's an elegant blend of the traditional blank slate and the Shepard style of a character that feels more like a person. The PC's background really helped to shape my character - as a former slave I'm playing him as disrespectful of those that consider themselves above him and with compassion for slaves and people of a low social standing, despite is immersion in Sith culture. That is exactly what a backstory is supposed to do in an RPG.
The reason that Saren the Sith feels like a real person though is the voice acting. The voice actor is great, and some of the sarcastic lines of dialogue have really made me laugh. My brother didn't mind that I kept winning rolls to speak in the Flashpoint we ran together because my character's lines were hilarious. That is what makes him feel like an actual person interacting with the world, which is a problem I know a lot of people have with RPG characters, that they feel like personality-less blocks of wood. TOR averts this completely. Saren is as real and fleshed out as any character BioWare wrote, and it's fantastic. I genuinely hope the Dragon Age team can do the same for Dragon Age III.
*Huge spoilers for Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2 and Fallout: New Vegas.*
On BBC Radio 4's today program Ekow Eshun, former director of the UK's Institute of Contemporary Arts said this "I'd suggest that the things we really consider art are the things that allow us to ask profound questions about who we are, how we live and the state of the world around us. I think most games don't get to that place, and it's important to set that bar quite high." I would like to take a moment to respond to this.
Firstly, I'm not going to be foolish and state every game I've ever played made me ask profound questions, but not did every book I've read, every film or TV show I've watched, every song I've listened to or every painting I've seen. But to state that no game does this is ridiculous, and suggests that Ekow Eshun hasn't been playing the correct games.
For the purposes of my argument I will talk about three games (I discuss more, but I'd prefer to keep this a reasonable length): Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2 and Fallout: New Vegas.
First, Dragon Age: Origins. It's my favourite game of all time, the setting is well written, fleshed out and fascinating, the characters are deep and complex and I have a damn sight more affection for my favourite Dragon Age characters than I do most people, and the plot is just epic fantasy perfectly done. Furthermore, thee gameplay is the perfect refinement of decades of tactical RPGs, the character customisation is fantastic, not to mention the capacity for some very deep roleplaying.
But, this doesn't respond to Mr. Eshun's assertion. At the time I played Dragon Age I was studying lots of moral philosophies, Kant, Aquinas, Mill, that type of thing. One of the games key hooks is a system of choices that affect the outcome of the game. I was able to use these choices, in combination with the ability to create a series of characters with wildly opposing moralities to approach these choices from various different points of view. The game allowed me to explore different moral philosophies in a deeply personal way and because of this I look at the world in a different way (I settled on Utilitarianism as the best way to make moral judgements, if anybody is wondering).
Next I'd like to discuss Mass Effect 2, and one moment in particular. There is a synthetic race of AIs called the Geth. The Geth are advanced enough to be, for al intents and purposes, alive. A portion of the Geth take another race of highly advanced machines known as the Reapers to be their gods. This splinter group (called 'Heretics' by the other group known as the 'True Geth') have an antagonistic relationship with organic races. In Mass Effect 2 you are given a choice; rewrite their programming so thy no longer worship the Reapers (essentially brainwashing them), or kill them all.
After a lot of introspection I chose to rewrite them. This made me realise something about myself; that I'd rather abandon a set of a beliefs and live than be killed for what I believe in.
Finally, Fallout: New Vegas. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic Mojave Desert, with various small towns scattered around it's battered highways and the city state of New Vegas in it's centre. At a certain point in the game your character becomes important enough to be courted by the major factions active in the Mojave, and you have to pick one to support; The New California Republic, the most successful and largest state in post-apocalyptic America, but a corrupt one that is incompetent, Caesar's Legion, a brutal Romanesque, fascist group who nevertheless bring order the the areas they conquer and the enigmatic owner of the New Vegas Strip, Mr. House, a corrupt and power hungry man who's robot army can provide security for New Vegas. Or, if none of those appeal, you can simply take over Vegas yourself. My character picked independence, since none of the other groups truly cared about the people of the Mojave and he believed he could do a better job.
But in reflecting on this I thought a lot about governments, nations and how I viewed them. The in game choice between an Independent Vegas and the NCR made me think about how much I valued personal freedom, and the ability to be able to do what I wish without anybody dictating the course of my life. This is what made me gravitate toward the Independent route: the freedom from the controlling forces of the NCR, House and Legion that it represented, which told me a lot about myself.
New Vegas also made me really think about letting go of the past, and whether it's better to hold on to it it or let go and live your own way, unburdened by expectation and baggage. I came to the conclusion, based on the characters in game who couldn't let go (one word: Ulysses) that letting go was better.
So there we go, three games that caused me to ask deep questions of society, re-evaluate my beliefs and ideals and I can honestly say changed me as a person. They caused me to ask profound questions about who I am , how I live and the state of the world around me. Therefore, Mr. Ekow Eshun games (or these three at least) don't just have the potential to be art, but are, in fact, already art.


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My first South African podcast, 'Pretoria – At the Union Buildings' is now live on the site! In it I speak with Kassiani Lythrangomitis, website manager at the South African Presidency which is housed in Union Buildings.
In the podcast, which was recorded behind the Union Buildings in a part of the grounds that isn't accessible to the public yet, I learned all about the history of the Union Buildings which are one of the city's most visible attractions and which have played a pretty large part in South Africa's history.
As well as finding out when the Union Buildings were constructed and what happens there today, I also learned about some of the important events that have taken place here throughout the year, including the inauguration of former President Nelson Mandela in 1994.
If you'd like to listen to or download this Pretoria podcast, you'll find it here.
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Health & Baby
Turn Off the TV to Set Baby's Sleep Schedule?
Tube Time
How much TV were the kids watching? That depended on their age.
The older they were, the more time they spent in front of a TV screen. Daily viewing averages for each age group were:
- Less than 1 year: 0.9 hours
- 1 to 2 years: 1.6 hours
- 2 to 3 years: 2.3 hours
The researchers show that the number of hours of television watching per day was associated with both varied naptimes and varied bedtimes.
These findings are potentially important, they write, because a routine sleep schedule is a critical component of ensuring good sleep.
Other Trends
The researchers also noted a few other patterns.
Irregular naptimes were more common among the kids of unmarried parents and those noting a lack of social support.
The kids of parents with at least a high school education were more likely to have regular bedtimes.
Meal schedules also mattered. Kids with varied meal times were more likely to have irregular bedtimes and naptimes.
That's "interesting," write the researchers. But it doesn't change their results or support for little to no TV time before a child's second birthday.


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