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ANDERSON, S.C. – Paced by three players in double figures, the Anderson men's basketball team won its fifth home contest of the early season by topping Peach Belt opponent Georgia College, 69-63, Saturday afternoon at the Abney Athletic Center.
Anderson (6-1) stretched its win streak to six games and improved to 41-8 over the past four seasons at the Abney Center, while Georgia College fell to 3-2 and had its early-season win streak snapped at two.
Clinging to a 58-57 lead with 3:14 left in the game following a 3-pointer by the Bobcats' Nate Hamilton, the Trojans sank 11-of-12 free throws inside the final three minutes to claim the win.
The Trojans, who were third in the nation in free throw accuracy before stumbling at the line in Wednesday's win past North Greenville, connected when it counted in the final moments against the Bobcats, with senior guard Denzail Jones hitting all six of his attempts down the stretch.
The final 10 minutes of the contest saw four ties, before forward Bo Holston drained a 3-pointer from deep in the left corner to give the Trojans a lead they would not relinquish, at 55-52, with 5:28 left in the game. Bobcat junior guard Aaron Robinson pulled Georgia College within 60-59 at the 2:41 mark, but the visitors would get no closer, as Jones countered with a pair of free throws.
Neither team was able to build more than a nine-point lead in the game, which featured three ties before the closing minutes.
With the Trojans holding an early 7-2 lead, Georgia College went on a 12-2 run to claim a five-point advantage with just less than 14 minutes left in the opening half and edged to its largest lead of the game, 20-14, on back-to-back 3- pointers from Hamilton and Ryan Lively, at the 9:21 mark.
But the Trojans battled back with a 15-2 outburst of their own, as sophomore guard DJ McGowan ignited the surge with a short jumper, then Holston scored five straight for the Trojans. Junior guard Chandler Hash regained the lead for AU with a pair of free throws and consecutive 3-pointers, first from Jones, then Hash, built the Anderson lead to 29-22 with 2:07 left in the first half.
McGowan dropped in a trey and junior Kyle Sledge added a jumper to extend AU's 30-24 halftime lead to nine with 18:53 left, but the Bobcats trimmed the advantage to just one on two occasions over the next six minutes, before Scott Ferguson knotted the score at 44-44 midway through the second stanza and setting up the final minutes.
Jones finished with a team-high 17 points, while Hash added 14 and Holston netted 11. Sledge, in just his fourth career start and first since his freshman campaign, nearly posted his second career double-double, recording nine points and pulling down eight rebounds.
Ferguson led all scorers with 19 points and collected a game-high 11 rebounds to complete the double-double.
Anderson does not return to the Abney Center until the New Year, as the Trojans play three road games in four days, and four games in eight days, beginning with Limestone on Wednesday. AU has a quick turnaround, visiting Division I College of Charleston on Thursday, then travels to Winston-Salem State on Saturday.

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Which sex is the worst about washing up? Why is it so important? We've got the dirty truth on how and when to wash your hands.
Multiple-Drug Therapy for Tuberculosis (TB)
First-choice medicines:
|Generic Name
|Brand Name
|Rifadin, Rimactane
Second-choice medicines:
|Generic Name
|Brand Name
|Capastat Sulfate
|para-aminosalicylic acid
Combination medicines:
|Generic Name
|Brand Name
|isoniazid plus pyrazinamide plus rifampin
|isoniazid plus rifampin
How It Works
These antibiotics kill the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB).
Multiple-drug therapy to treat TB means taking several different antibiotics at the same time. This is the first choice of treatment for TB that is growing in your body (active TB disease). Most of these medicines are given as pills. The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America recommend using one of several combinations of the first-choice medicines to start treatment.1
The standard treatment is to take isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide for 2 months. Treatment is then continued for at least 4 months with fewer medicines. Also, there are special treatment recommendations for people with HIV and TB, people with drug-resistant TB, children with active TB, and pregnant women with active TB.
Prepared combination medicines, such as Rifater, are usually used when there is a need for fewer numbers of pills, such as when a health professional is not giving each dose of medicine personally. Combining antibiotics into a single pill makes it less likely that you will miss taking any doses. Failure to take a medicine could prolong your treatment and increase your chance of developing drug-resistant TB.
Streptomycin usually is given only to people who cannot take ethambutol.
Some antibiotics (such as isoniazid or rifampin) may be taken alone to prevent a latent TB infection from turning into active TB disease, which can spread to other people.2 Or two or more antibiotics may be taken together to help prevent latent TB from becoming active TB.3 You typically would take the single antibiotic for a longer time (6 to 9 months) than the combination of antibiotics (3 months).
Why It Is Used
Treatment with several medicines makes it more likely that all TB-causing bacteria will be killed. The combination of medicines and the length of treatment may change based on:
- Whether you have latent TB or active TB.
- Whether you are also infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
- Whether you are pregnant.
- Your age.
- The results of sensitivity testing, which determine the medicines that can kill the TB bacteria you have.
How Well It Works
Treatment for active TB disease
The standard treatment for TB using a combination of four medicines is very effective. Almost everyone infected with TB bacteria that can be killed by the medicines are cured if they take the medicines exactly as they should.4, 5 The cure rate for people who have TB and HIV is similar to that for people who have only TB.4
It takes at least 6 months of treatment for a cure. It could take longer if doses are missed. It can also take longer if the disease does not respond well to the medicine.
Treatment for latent TB infection
Treatment with isoniazid alone for 6 to 12 months will prevent active TB disease in most people who have a latent TB infection.1
Also, taking a combination of two antibiotics for 3 months is an effective way to treat latent TB.3 For this treatment, a health professional watches you take each dose of antibiotics, which helps prevent the TB bacteria from getting resistant to the antibiotics.
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call911or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor right away if you are taking isoniazid, rifampin, or pyrazinamide and you develop:
- Hives.
- Loss of appetite, nausea, or vomiting.
- Skin rash.
- Yellow color to your skin (jaundice).
- A general feeling of being ill.
- A fever that lasts for 3 or more days with no obvious cause, such as a cold or the flu.
- Tenderness or soreness in your belly.
Call your doctor right away if you are taking ethambutol and you develop:
- Blurred vision or changes in the way you see colors.
Call your doctor right away if you are taking levofloxacin or moxifloxacin and you develop:
- Sudden pain or swelling around your ankle, shoulder, elbow, or hand. These medicines increase the risk of a tendon rupture or other tendon damage. Do not exercise until your doctor says it is okay.
Rifampin colors your urine, sputum, sweat, and tears orange-red. This is normal. The color will go away when you stop taking the medicine. But it will stain your clothing and your contact lenses.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
It is important to take all of the medicines during your treatment to ensure the infection is cured, to protect others from TB, and to reduce the risk of a relapse.
It is best to take these medicines without food. But if they upset your stomach, you can take them with food.
Do not drink alcohol during treatment for TB, because it can increase your risk of liver damage.
Before and sometimes during treatment with these medicines, you may have tests to check your liver.
If you have active TB, the health department will test people who work or live with you to see if they have a TB infection. If they have TB, they will get treated to prevent the spread of the disease.
A health professional may have to watch you take all doses of your medicines. This is called directly observed therapy (DOT), and it helps make sure that people take their medicines exactly as they are supposed to. As a result, cure rates for TB have significantly improved.1 If medicine is not taken as prescribed, drug resistance may develop. If this happens, the bacteria become harder to kill.
If you must be in the hospital during TB treatment, you will be in a special room that filters the TB bacteria out of the air. This will prevent health care workers and other people in the hospital from getting a TB infection. You probably will not be able to leave the room until you have 3 sputum samples that show you can no longer spread the infection.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
A woman can breast-feed her baby during TB treatment without worrying that the medicines will harm the baby.
Streptomycin, rifapentine, and capreomycin
Do not use this medicine if you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant. If you need to use this medicine, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Infectious Diseases Society of America (2003). Treatment of tuberculosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 167(4): 603-662.
Fitzgerald D, et al. (2010). Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In GL Mandell et al., eds., Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 7th ed., vol. 2, pp. 3129-3163. Philadelphia: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011). Recommendations for use of an isoniazid-rifapentine regimen with direct observation to treat latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. MMWR, 60(48): 1650-1653. Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6048a3.htm?s_cid=mm6048a3_w.
Tuberculosis Coalition for Technical Assistance (2006). International standards for tuberculosis care (ISTC). Available online: http://www.who.int/tb/publications/2006/istc_report.pdf.
Jindani A, et al. (2004). Two 8-month regimens of chemotherapy for treatment of newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis: International multicentre randomised trial. Lancet, 364(9441): 1244-1251.
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Do you engage in workplace gossip?
I am sure that all of us who hang our hats here in wooterville have, at some time in our lives, encountered the phenomenon of workplace gossip. The "Have you heard what so-and-so said to whose-y-whats?" or the "Do you know what diddly-bob did to whatsy-face?". This very thing came up today, at my work, where a story of workplace shenanigans, the kind between a man and a woman, from three years ago was told to a brand new employee while we were at lunch. I found this to be bothersome, on many levels. One, the individuals in the story still work here (though the shenanigans are long over) and two, the poor new guy now has to interact with them while knowing the intimate details, and three, it's just inappropriate. I tried to cut the teller of the story off, but was ignored.
So, my question to all of you is this. Do you engage in/condone/enjoy/abhor workplace gossip?
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I sit across from a girl who regularly will have "6 inch conversations" with girls from around the office about who's doing what in the office with whom, and it makes me effing nuts.
Every office has a Kelly Kapur, each one worse than the last.
I used to stay out of it, until I found out that untrue things were being said about me. So I listen in when things come up, but I keep my mouth shut unless it involves me in some way, shape or form.
Well how else am I going to learn stuff?
I'll observe but not contribute. I've had a couple things I said come back to bite me in the past so now I just keep my mouth shut.
Not so much gossiping as a fair amount of who is a waste of space and who actually gets stuff done. (Not that I ever spend time doing things like sitting on deals.woot in the middle of the work day. Nevah.)
I listen to the gossip.
I have found out that the truth usually lies someplace between the story being told and completely false.
If you can learn to take this chatter with a grain of salt, you can learn some stuff and, occasionally, get a good chuckle from the completely insane stories some people will tell.
I'm in nursing school, of course I have to gossip, it's basically a requirement to listen to it.
Thank the gods, I work at home. So, no.
I am so thnakful that the people in my current job all just get along and leave each other alone. It's a breath of fresh air. Everywhere else I've worked had been ripe with gossip.
I used to run a small department of 4 people, that consisted entirely of women, in a secluded building... God save me from venomous gossip. I had a basic policy that if I heard anything that would concern our HR department, that I would call them directly and haul everyone in - that slowed things down a little bit. Happy chatting about how people you care about are doing is a conversation - nit-picking and rumor spreading is just obnoxious. So glad I'm at home now.
why? What did you hear?
I generally don't care about it. Most of the people who do this are weak or cowards, that is why they don't say it to peoples faces. People are generally not as nice as everyone thinks, that is why I prefer to keep to myself. I interact with others, but I know the second one of those cowards doesn't like something that I have done, or they covet what I have earned or gotten, they are gonna talk smack about me behind my back.
This is why I love a straight shooter. You know where you stand with them, and there is no doubt about what they think. More mice then men these days.
No, but I know who does...meet me at the cooler and we'll talk.


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Once in compatibility mode, pressing Enter to add comments no longer works. So there is something wonky going on with the scripts (happened on a recent change set that was rolled out?)
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I can repro this at will and it causes all sorts of issues for me. Once I'm in compat mode, my tags look like crap Why do my favourite tags look screwy only on travel.se? and I can't use arrow keys to scroll after clickg a voting button Has something changed recently that would affect focus for keystrokes? . As you can see by those questions, it's been going on a while for me.
I"m using IE 8 on Win7, 64 bit. Without fail if I press Enter to submit a comment I am put into compat mode if am not already in it. Taking myself out of compat mode by clicking the broken page icon eliminates my screwy tags, keyboard focus problems, etc. I am close to being trained not to press Enter by this bug.
Update: Jan 4th/12 (or possibly a little earlier, I don't comment every day) something changed so that now submitting comments by clicking the button puts me in compat mode. This is so not an improvement. Any chance you can tell what's going on by looking at comment-related code that went live this year?
New Info - commenting on a question (with enter or the button) never puts me in compat mode. Commenting on an answer (again, with enter or the button) always does.
This is being caused by a "IE8 Specific" page layout error and the effects created can be stopped by doing the following.
To Stop compatibility view from recovering from page layout errors the Solution is simple.(although it took me awhile to figure out were the option was)
Open "Tools" menu then go to "Internet Options". Under the "Advanced setting" tab scroll down to The "Browsing" Section and Uncheck the option "Automatically Recover From page layout errors with Combatibility View"
This will not fix the layout incompatibilty with IE proprietary browsing visualization but there will be no unwanted loss of your individual Menu Items.
This bug, which just refuses to die, now has another symptom: no top bar showing my name, rep, badges etc on beta sites in compat mode. I got into compat mode by pressing Enter to comment. There was a comment on the answer already, and it was not upvoted.
On graduated sites the top bar doesn't go away, and I don't remember it ever going away with the sketchy theme on beta sites. I don't know what the fix for this is - whether to stop putting people in compat mode for no reason, or to behave better in compat mode - but I long for it.


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1953 Studebaker Post Coupe - A SagaWritten by on September 1, 2001 Contributors: The Rod & Custom Archives Hot Roddings First 200-MPH Grocery-Getter
One of the endearing aspects of Land Speed Racing is what I like to call the Fifty-Three Factor Raymond Loweyinspired Stude coupes and sedans and the wind-cheating profiles that influenced the shape and style of two-decades worth of Bonneville closed cars.
It all began in 1955 when Belmont Beach Ball SanChezthe rather portly son of a used-car dealerremoved a 53 Studebaker post coupe from his fathers pre-owned car inventory and joined forces with Clark Cagle and Carl LeMmon to build the first door-slammer to break 200. Forty years later, Jerry, Joe, and Jeff Kugel would enter into the twilight 300-mph zone driving the familys 92 Pontiac Trans Am. Although these two entries are four decades and 100 mph apart, they share one thing in common: When each reached their respective 200 and 300 magical mile-per-hour marks they remained virtually OEM stock. In fact, the Kugels air-managed Pontiac has merely followed the tire tracks of * SanChezs new/old smoothie.
This was the car that engendered the term Slippery Stude. In 1955, 53 Studebaker post coupes were still considered new cars, but even then land speed racers were aware of the benefits of an aerodynamic shape. Its therefore reasonable to assume that the boys appreciated Studes slippery profile. They entered the car in what the SCTA called the coupe and sedan class. Rules governing body mods were pretty restrictive, but not those concerning engine setback, powerplant choice, or fuel used. So they chose to round off the headlight openings and then get with the serious stuff under the box-stock sheetmetal.
The coupe and sedan class had few chassis restrictions. Consequently, the teams first order of business was to notch the rear portion of the frame 5¼ inches over the rear axle. They then installed adjustable spring perch plates. This modification allowed the team the luxury of being able to adjust the running height of the all-Ford suspension at both the front and rear. Another trick was to turn the Halibrand quick-change centersection upside down and move the ring gear to the opposite side of the rearend housing. The idea was to add a belly pan after raising the entire drivetrain a total of 6 inches above the original floorpan.
Class rules also allowed for a maximum 25 percent engine setbackas measured from the center of the driver-side spindle to the number-one spark plug. This would improve traction by moving as much engine mass rearward as possible. So the original firewall was removed and the rear of the engine encased in a fabricated sheetmetal box.
The original engine (which would have been a flathead six or an overhead V-8) was removed and replaced by a 284-inch 41 Merc fitted with a pair of Ardun hemi heads. However, the Fords life was short-lived. After upping the C coupe record with a two-way average of 155.458 mph (with a one-way best of 167.832) in 1955, the boys dropped the 5/16 x 3/8-inch former flathead and made the switch to Chrysler Hemi power in 1956. Two years later, the renamed SanChez, Kamboor & Ansen Spl warmed the salt with a 185-mph alky run, then returned to the starting line loaded (100 percent in the tank) for bear. The heavily nitrated 454-inch Hemi responded with a 210-mph qualifier. The next day the worlds fastest passenger car began its two-way record sequence with another 210-mph down run but the short-fuse Chrysler blew on the return run.
Not content with being the first stock-bodied passenger car to break 200 mph, the Saga of the Slippery Stude would continue for another three years. In 1959, another name change occurredSanChez-Kamboor-Locastoand two new class records were set: 217 in B/Competition and 204 in B/Coupe.
However, SanChezs old smoothie lost its sleeper status in 1960 as the result of a radical race lift. First, its OEM shell was chopped, smoothed, and rounded off. Second, the army of injected, nitro-burning Hemis were fitted with front-mounted, crank-driven 6-71 GMC superchargers. The teams new Studelinerrenamed the SanChez-Krasne Hi-Matic-Kamboor Spl and driven by Joe Locastoupped the existing A/Comp record (in those days a blower advanced the racer one class) to 220 mph, some 19 mph over the existing 201 mark.
Six years after it had begun its quest to be the worlds fastest coupe, the countrys first slippery Studebaker hit a one-way high of 231 mph in 1961 and averaged 230 for a new A/Comp class record. Unfortunately that mark lasted only one year when a similarly bodied 53 Studebaker fielded by the team of Edmunds, Cagle, & Alpenfels upped the A/Comp record to 232 with a best of 237 mph. But the die had been cast. Thanks to Belmont SanChez and his various partners, the Saga of the Salts Slippery Studebakers began in 1955 when the son of a used-car dealer helped himself to the old mans stocker locker and went land speed racing.
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Belmont SanChez's '53 post coupe was one, if not the first, of the Raymond Lowey–designed Studebakers to run at the salt flats. Here in 1956, the now Chrysler-powered sleeper is shown on what appears to be a death-smoking 185-mph return run.HRM's legendary photographer Eric Rickman captured the '53 in front of the famed Pan Pacific Auditorium during late 1955.The only obvious body modifications were its frenched-in headlights. Its hood, grille, bumpers, trim, fresh-air duct, and brightwork were stock.Rick's high-angle shot illustrates high-dollar racing circa 1955. Lakewood Muffler supplied the F-100 Ford tow truck—note flipper disc hubcaps, matching paint, and tuck 'n' roll upholstery. Also note the towbar—this sweetie was flat-towed—and the quick-release fender skirts that allowed easy access to the rear rubber.The Stude's first race motors were a pair of Ardun-equipped flatheads, the bigger displacing 284ci, the smaller one 259ci. Internal goodies included Chet Herbert roller cams, boxed rods, and forged aluminum pistons. Both engines were Hilborn-injected but note the missing mag.Notice also that a pair of war surplus "blitz" cans serve as coolant containers. Its 25 percent engine setback necessitated the fabrication of a new firewall. Note how the driveline sits above the stock floorpan and that the door panels still retain the OEM trim and window/door handles.I can personally assure the readers that the noise from eight, bell-tipped exhaust pipes sounds so bitchin' that you'll never forget it.
The Ardun Fords gave way to a series of heavily loaded Hemis in 1956, and the car's speed went up accordingly. But the big strokers usually blew before they could make the necessary two-way record runs.Two years later, the renamed SanChez, Kamboor & Ansen Spl followed a familiar script. The Stude, with the can in the tank, recorded a 210-mph down run in D/Coupe but the engine scattered on the return pass. Still, the '53 became the first stock-bodied passenger car to exceed 200 mph.The addition of the blower served to shorten the fuse of the team's various grenades—they lost four engines in 1960.Not only was the body radically altered, but a front-mounted blower was added to fill up the engine compartment.In 1959 the Studebaker ran two classes, B/Fuel Coupe and B/Competition Coupe, which was made possible by changing the shape of the headlight openings on the front fenders. Running with the smoothed-off openings put the car in the comp class and the '53 responded with a best of 217 mph.Driver Jim Locasto had a best of 231 mph and a two-way average of 230 mph before the car was retired in 1962. The interior had been trimmed in tin and the open driveline components received a total detailing.


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Why won't Obama, Democrats explain what 'fair share' is?
President Obama has been saying for several years now that all must pay their "fair share" of income taxes. I want to know exactly what he thinks a "fair share" is. What percentage tax rate or percentage of income is "fair" in his mind? He never says, and the press corps never asks him. Have you ever heard a journalist at a news conference say, "Mr. President, exactly what do you consider to be a fair share for a 'rich' person to pay in income taxes?" Of course you haven't, and if he was asked, he wouldn't have an answer. The same can be said for every Democratic politician living today. So it falls to us to educate them about what a fair share is.


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Florida Revels in Federal 4-Year Graduation Rate
Published: Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 11:13 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 11:13 p.m.
State education officials say Florida's federal graduation rate dramatically increased by 3.9 percent this year.
They announced on Friday that 74.5 percent of Florida's high school students graduated within four years.
It's the biggest increase since 2003. The rate has climbed 18 percentage points since then.
The rate is based only on standard diplomas as required by federal regulations effective last year. Until then, Florida used its own system that included other diplomas to arrive at a higher rate.
Minority rates have increased sharply in recent years but still lag. The rates this year are 63.7 percent for blacks and 72.9 percent for Hispanics.
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I read with much interest the question about Fudge dice, but what are these dice useful for?
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In Fudge, your character has skills and abilities that are ranked on the Fudge Scale: Terrible -3, Poor -2, Mediocre -1, Fair 0, Good +1, Great +2, and Superb +3. The dice, 4dF are zero-centered. You typically roll the dice and add the result to your relevant skill to determine the outcome of your attempt. An elegant system in all actuality.
Fudge dice are good for generating a nice bell curve centered on zero. Each die is six-sided, with two minus (–), two blank ( ), and two plus (+) sides, which correspond to -1, 0, and +1 respectively. You roll them and then add up the pluses and minuses to get your result.
For example, 4dF will get you a result from -4 to +4 with a mode of 0 and a narrow bell curve centred on zero, with low probabilities of anything outside the -1 to +1 range:
Fudge and FATE typically use 4dF and represent skills by a number you add to the roll, which biases the bell curve so that it's centred on the value of the skill instead of zero.
Fudge dice were originally used for the Fudge role-playing game. The basic mechanism is a "ladder" or "scale" of adjectives:
-3 Terrible -2 Poor -1 Mediocre 0 Fair +1 Good +2 Great +3 Superb
Fudge dice have two sides with a plus, two sides with a minus, and two sides with a blank. A typical roll consists of rolling four Fudge dice (4dF) and letting the plus sides cancel the minus sides, then reading the net pluses or minuses. For example, a roll of ++-b (plus, plus, minus, blank) is a net +1. In Fudge, a player would use this roll to shift a trait or ability (also described on the adjective scale) up or down according to the roll. For example, given Mediocre (-1) Intelligence and a roll of ++-b, which is Good (+1), that results in a Fair (0) Intelligence result.
The FATE role-playing game is based on Fudge, which was released under the Open Game License. FATE uses the adjective ladder and Fudge dice in more or less the same way.
Look for these FATE-based games on bookshelves and PDF sellers' websites:
Other games use Fudge dice but are not based on the Fudge or FATE game systems:
The new "big hit" game that uses Fudge dice is the Dresden Files RPG.
Fudge and Fate use them. Mathematically, they are 1d3-2. The normal use is to step up or down the skill rankings, using 4dF, each plus up a step, each minus down one. Then compare the resulting rank to the needed; if same or higher, succeed.
Fate is an engine; the best known games using it seem to be Diaspora, Spirit of the Century, and Starblazer Adventures.
Fudge is an engine and system construction set; the various Fudge based games do different subsets, and so vary widely, but most use 4dF; a few use alternate dice options like 2d6-7, 4d3-8 (mathematically the same), or 2d6 dark & 2d6 light, keep lowest untied die, with dark being negative and light being positive.
Another game that uses Fudge dice in a totally different way is Galileo Games' How We Came To Live Here.
Pluses are attacks and minuses are defenses, and the combat system is full of maneuvers and techniques for turning one face into another, gaining additional dice, etc.
The Shadow of Yesterday/Solar System are my favorite use of Fudge dice.


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A New Balance
Whether they describe themselves as liberal or conservative, reform-minded or traditionalist, Catholics were stunned by the interview Pope Francis recently gave to the world's Jesuit publications. So were many non-Catholics. Predictably, much attention has been paid to the pope's surprising admonition that the church has been too "obsessed" with abortion, contraception, and same-sex marriage. As welcome as that observation is, however, the real importance of the interview is to be found in the pope's clear-eyed evaluation of how the gospel should be preached in the modern world.
To be sure, many Catholics wholeheartedly embraced the change in tone and spirit in which the pope discussed difficult questions like abortion. Unfortunately, some deeply involved in the prolife movement have taken those remarks as a rebuke. That is an overreaction and misinterpretation of what the pope said. Obviously, Francis was objecting to the uncompromising and confrontational rhetoric of some Catholic activists. Why? Because that approach is simply not working. Worse, it is preventing the larger gospel message from being heard both within and beyond the Catholic community. With a third of all baptized Catholics abandoning the church, and those who remain increasingly divided on ecclesial, cultural, and political questions, the pope's diagnosis is hard to refute. Is it not time, as Francis urged, to "find a new balance" in presenting the church's teaching to an often doubting flock and a sometimes hostile secular world? "Otherwise," the pope warns, "even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the gospel. The proposal of the gospel must be more simple, profound, radiant. It is from this proposition that the moral consequences then flow."
A careful reading of the pope's remarks reveals Francis to be preparing the faithful for a significant program of institutional reform. Especially welcome were his comments about the hierarchy of truths taught by the church. Not every doubt raised about church teaching should be treated as heresy; not every church practice is sacrosanct. "The dogmatic and moral teachings of the church are not all equivalent," he reminded us.
Even more refreshing was the pope's insistence that "thinking with the church" does not mean thinking only with the hierarchy. "The church [is]…the people of God, pastors and people together. The church is the totality of God's people." It has been a long time since that bit of orthodox wisdom has been heard from Rome. In a similar fashion, Francis warned of the dangers of certainty in the life of faith. "If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good. For me, this is an important key. If one has the answers to all the questions—that is the proof that God is not with him."
Francis also used the interview to suggest how he is going to go about reforming certain aspects of church governance. He will be guided by his experience as a Jesuit provincial and later as archbishop of Buenos Aires, where he faced the challenges posed by internal church disarray as well as by secularism and the exponential growth of Evangelical Protestantism. He confessed that as a young Jesuit provincial his authoritarian style of decision-making caused him to make many mistakes. He has learned from those mistakes. "I am always wary of decisions made hastily," he now says. "The wisdom of discernment redeems the necessary ambiguity of life and helps us find the most appropriate means, which do not always coincide with what looks great and strong."
As he demonstrated by taking the unprecedented step of appointing an advisory council of eight cardinals, this pope will place great emphasis on consultation and collaboration. He is eager for the synods of bishops to become genuinely consultative bodies, not just rubber stamps for the pope or the curia's agenda. Vatican II's promise of episcopal collegiality may finally be given real institutional backing.
Francis cautions that change and reform cannot be hurried. Laying the groundwork and building consensus for renewal are essential. In the meantime, he will adopt the governing style of John XXIII: "See everything; turn a blind eye to much; correct a little." For those who want their pope to be more of a pastor than an oracle, Francis is undoubtedly the answer to many prayers. Yet even more disarming than his humility is Francis's openness to, and confidence in, the future. His every word attests to a profound faith that God continues to act in unexpected ways in the lives of his people. It is a faith secure in the knowledge that what is new in the church can be a revelation rather than a corruption. Those looking for a "countercultural" pope who is not afraid to challenge our modern skepticism and complacency should take another look at Francis.
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This interview proves that this Pope is very savy. He knows what's going on, and he knows what the Church needs. He is saying and doing all the right things. He knows that for the Church to rigidly adhere to the rules makes us know better than the scribes and pharisees whom Jesus condemned. Furthermore, Pope Francis knows that Jesus established the Church for sinners, not for the elect, saved, special few who adhere to the rules. People are comparing Pope Francis to good Pope John XX111, and rightly so. Right on, Pope Francis!!!
I would merely caution against over exuberant optimism. Surely Pope Francis is engaging in symbolic actions and pastoral rhetoric and this is all good. However, shortly after he was elected Pope and with his clear approval, the investigation and oversight of LCWR was moved forward and most recently an Australian priest was not only laicized for his support of women's ordination, but excommunicated as well with no opportunity to respond to the charges against him.
I am still disturbed by the reports of his abandonment of several Jesuit priests during the 80's when many Argentinians were disappeared and one report, in particular, that seems to show a clear contrast in verbally supporting a priest, but doing quite the opposite under the table.
I hope that I am wrong and that this man will be a leader who acts as well as speaks pastorally. His statements and personal lifestyle encourage me; nevertheless, his other actions and somewhat controversial history give me pause.
The Pope is not advocating these things but he is aware that doing or not doing something because the Pope or someone else said so isn't working and has actually never worked. These are deep issues. Just as coming to God has to be done in love so does coming to live your life in God's way. Good conscience is what should govern our lives and if all we are worried about is that the Pope, your pastor or your neighbors might think badly of you then you are not living a life guided by Christ. Christ didn't care what others thought, he cared what God thought.
If we turn away from people because they have had an abortion, use contraceptives or are gay we push them away from God. This is not the Cathlic way. We try to bring people to God.
Do we have the right to judge them? No, but we do have the mission to love them and hopefully through that love to bring them closer to God and closer to doing God's will. I just am not smart enough to know exactly what that is and I think Pope Francis feels the same way.
Hopefully this Pope understands that the axial age religion known as Roman Catholicism is in transition. It exits the axial age; it enters the post-axial age as a faith and moral agency phenomenon. It has culturally evolved.
Governance doctrine, practice must be entirely revised. It is the advance of human knowledge that serves as our teacher. We are learners. The people and planet multifaceted global crisis, [i.e. spiritually, morally, economically, financially, culturally, especially the population to resources ratio, and ecologically] hovers between evolution continuing or spiraling down to extinction. People are aware to varying degrees and not aware to varying degrees. Responsible people read or inquire in other ways and quickly get appropriately involved.
When the vast Catholic population reaches a critical mass to merge effectively with other activists to restore people and planet by mitigating the crisis as best we can, then we are a post-axial age faith and moral agency phenomenon. This takes organized, rigorous work. The laity creates it. The Pope can twirl and toss his baton if it is useful.
The only thing changed is style, and "what a difference style makes." In point of fact, Pope Francis hasn't changed any teachings nor will he. As both a leader and a teacher, he is simply "balancing" the teaching(s), this time, not direclty to the choir (abeit for sure to them in a passive way), but to the outsiders, the ones who feel they either don't belong or don't fit.
Pope Francis is saying, "everyone fits, come on in."
And look at the response, especially from the left, Hollywood included.
OK, so maybe they (the left), have initial "selective hearing" but I think there's a much bigger point to be made. Not only do these 'outsiders' feel, and perhaps for the first time, welcome, but they are happy, and joyful about it.
That says everthing, and proves once again, that no matter what our excuse for leaving or staying away from the Catholic Faith is, everyone wants to be loved, to fit in, and most especially, with God. That's because we all, knowing or unknowinly, have a desire for God written into each of our hearts. Even the Hollywood A List knows by now (if only inately), that "something is missing," and that something is always God.
So here we are. All of the non-choir members, standing like the Woman at the Well, with an empty water jug, shocked that Jesus/Pope Francis would even talk to "her/us", is representative of all of us in some way.
Pope Francis, like Jesus, is now simply offering "Living Water."
Some will take it, some won't, but for sure, all will have have known they have been giving the offer.
John Chapter 4 Excerpt
7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."8His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.9* The Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?"b (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)10* Jesus answered and said to her,c "If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."11[The woman] said to him, "Sir,* you do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water?12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?"d13Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again;14but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."e15The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."
16Jesus said to her, "Go call your husband and come back."17The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus answered her, "You are right in saying, 'I do not have a husband.'18For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."f19The woman said to him, "Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.g20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain;* but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem."h21Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.22You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews.i23But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth;* and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him.24God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth."j25* The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming,k the one called the Anointed; when he comes, he will tell us everything."26Jesus said to her, "I am he,* the one who is speaking with you."l
27At that moment his disciples returned, and were amazed that he was talking with a woman,* but still no one said, "What are you looking for?" or "Why are you talking with her?"28The woman left her water jar and went into the town and said to the people,29"Come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Messiah?"
To the Editors, from a traditional Catholic: A clear, thoughtful and well-balanced commentary.
Thank you, and I look forward to more of the same.
I don't know how to "hermeneuticize" PF's comments. Certainly his comments have to be read in their context, but that context is not ever referenced by secular (and a lot of Catholic media). The result is that the "out-of-context" sound bite becomes the new teaching, as far as many non-Catholics and Catholics go. There is always someone trying to "claw back" PF's comments into their context but that never gets the same coverage nor the same value as the sound-bite. In the end, PF's tantalizing comments, become what many people inside and outside the Church believe to be a new teaching. I've had Catholics say that they're happy that the Church now approves of gay marriage. (Try to convince them otherwise, and they just cite PF.) I've had Catholics and non-Catholics tell me that they're glad that the Church is no longer pushing an anti-abortion and now tolerates pro-choice views. (!) Is PF being disingenuous? Is he really proposing "de facto" new doctrine "non-ex cathedra" by allowing his out-of-context comments to become the normative view in so many people's minds? Pro-life Catholics in particular feel a strong sense of loss and even betrayal by PF's recent comments. They have invested so much of themselves in this effort, in the face of secular and even Catholic pro-choice opposition. They are deflated. And what is the new balance PF speaks of? If the Church has "obsessed" with some of these issues, what does that mean? Just stop talking about it for a few years? Moral Theologians and ethicists are really earning their paychecks right now.
I agree that on the face of it, PF hasn't changed any doctrine, but try explaining that to a public (secular and Catholic) that only gets the sound bite and the "non-contexted" commentary that inevitably follows that confirms that PF is indeed charting a new trajectory for the Church (read, "revising unpopular Church teachings"). PF himself never challenges the misinterpretation of his words, leaving that to others who are sometimes perceived as "spinning" or themselves misinterpreting the "real" meaning of PF's views. PF is sending mixed messages and I'm not sure one way or the other whether it's intentional or happenstance.
Granted Pope Francis' words were meant for all (obviously Catholics first) but i think primarily for priests and bishops. And people are afraid that he will be interpreted as "changing doctrines" which of course he is not. But what he IS changing is now the emphasis on pastora care for souls which is really what the gospel and Jesus whole life was about. Rules and regulations can be used too much for the sake of exclusiveness. And let's face. We all all sinners and need God's mercy and love. We dare exempt ourselves from the umbrella of sin. So, given we are all sinners of some sort, then we are all the same. Problem is, some sinners want to exclude sinners they consider worse than themselves. Pope Francis words, "Who am I to judge" was saying just that fact. He is in the boat with all of us. And so, priests, confessors, counselors have to use first and fore most the Gospels as their guide, not the book of Canon Law. That is a major change the Pope is urging especially for us who are privileged to work with people no matter what their struggles.
Unfortunately, the AP news story, several major TV networks, and (inexplicably) the America editors in the editorial above, have misquoted the Pope. If you look at the actual interview you will see that the pope did not say that "the church has been too 'obsessed' with abortion, contraception, and same-sex marriage." The word "obsessed" appears only once in the entire interview, and it occurs several sentences after the reference to abortion, in a passage when Francis emphasizes that not all the Church's dogmatic and moral teachings are equally important. But it seems bizarre to me for news reporters to assume that Francis considers abortion one of the less important of the moral issues. (If you search for the word "ossessionata" and related forms in the Italian original you will see the same thing.)
Now, reasonable interpreters can disagree on whether Francis actually believes the Church is too obsessed with the abortion issue... or whether he thinks the Church has spent exactly the right amount of energy on abortion but has spent too much energy on gay marriage... or any number of other theories. Opinion writers for all the news outlets can freely speculate on this question. But unfortunately they have been repeating over and over the phrase "obsessed with abortion, contraception, and same-sex marriage" -- a phrase which never appears in his interview.


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Another night in Soho for the London Film Festival and another quick beer and food before the screening. Running late i needed to grab a quick bite. A chance to finally visit Mooli's. I've followed the Frith Street purveyor of Indian street food for some time, read the blogs and craved a Goat Mooli. I'm glad I finally made it with it's warm welcome and laid back feel. The Mooli is generous, meaty and fresh. The crunch of chopped red onion with the hot goat wrapped in a fresh roti is just what's required. If I hadn't been eating on the go I may have had to go back for seconds. Don't get me wrong. The serve is ample, but when it comes to something this good it's just too tempting.
Tonight's pub is Lou's choice and one that I've only briefly been to before. De Hems on Macclesfield Street is ideally placed for a quick pint and then a dash to the Odeon and the Gala Premiere of Ides of March. More of De Hems in a moment.
The sight of a red carpet and a D List celebrity will not set my pulse racing. When it comes to an A Lister then I'm sorry to say I'm kinda starstruck like most. As we hurry down the red carpet we fail to notice some bloke who did a film about staring at Goats. Nothing to do with Mooli's I'm assured. You may know him as George Clooney. Or as i think I mouthed as he took the stage at the Odeon "OH MY GOD. GEORGE F***ING CLOONEY". Not a proud moment but hey it's George! As Phillip Seymour Hoffman was introduced I blacked out. I'll explain at this point that my brushes with the stars of stage and screen are relatively limited. Gordon Kaye (of Allo Allo), Halifax Indoor Market circa 1983 is probably the most notable, so you'll maybe forgive me this slip into hysteria? The film focuses on the dirty business of politics, following a campaign team during a Democratic Primary and the journey of a young political idealist (played by Ryan Gosling) to hardened political cynic. A solid script and cast make this a must see for the more politically minded cinema goer.
From Leicester Square it's back to De Hems for a few beers to round off the evening. Things have moved up a notch. A barmaid serves in an orange wig while the DJ is pumping out a mix of party tunes you'd know and some you probably wouldn't. Unless you are a fan of Ta Ta Ta Voor Oranje by Feastteam, which I'm guessing you're not. It sounds awful, but its fun, people are having a good time and as a conga line forms and drunkenly slivers through the pub it's time to head home after another Soho night of the London Film Festival.


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Really looking forward to this, personally.
Dragon Age: Origins will be the next big title from BioWare, creators of Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire, Star Wars: KOTOR, and Mass Effect. It is described as a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate while also reinventing the fantasy RPG genre, taking elements from BG and renovating upon them in a high-tech system while putting lots of new mechanics in.
This is not D&D; rather it's a brand new setting created entirely by Bioware with a new rule system. The story is described as a "dark heroic fantasy" and will take influences from George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, among others. "An epic tale of lust, violence, and betrayal" that takes place in a gigantic world (said to be over twice the size and scope of Mass Effect) where death is lurking just around every corner.
The Darkspawn, a race of demonic beings usually residing deep beneath the surface of the earth, are emerging in massive waves - a rare event known as a Blight, the first one in generations. "The survival of humanity rests in the hands of those chosen by fate. You are a Grey Warden, one of the last of an ancient order of guardians who have defended the lands throughout the centuries. Betrayed by a trusted general in a critical battle, you must hunt down the traitor and bring him to justice."
One of the cool new things in DA:O is the Origin stories. Upon character creation, the player selects one from six possible Origins for the character. That Origin represents who your character is, where he or she comes from, their station in the world, exactly how you joined the Grey Wardens and more. You then get to play out your Origin, a sequence that serves as the introduction to the game and takes place in the first couple of hours of gameplay or so, during which you will be faced with many important decisions that will drastically affect your experience throughout the entire game. The possible Origins are very diverse and as such in one playthrough your experience may be very different from the next; for example, NPC's will treat you with respect if you play a human, but may instead treat you with disdain or even near-hostility if you play an elf (elves are considered second-class citizens in human lands in the world of DA:O).
The six origins are: Human Noble, City Elf, Dwarf Commoner, Dwarf Noble, Mage, and Dalish Elf. Each Origin will start in a different location appropriate to it: a Dwarf Noble will start as a member or a royal family, but a Dwarf Commoner may start on the streets. During your Origin introduction you will meet important characters who will return later on in the game, some of whom as adversaries.
DA:O is also said to have the most powerful facial customization tool Bioware has created to date.
Unlike previous BioWare games there is no tracking of alignment at all; neither is there a sense of clear "good" and clear "evil", the developers explicitly put emphasis on staying smack in the middle of the "morally gray" area. BioWare promises lots of difficult choices that carry significant consequences, including changing the world around you, and possibly even turning your own party against you.
Combat will draw a lot from Baldur's Gate; players may view the world from a top-down "tactical" angle like in BG, and pause whenever they like to issue orders, like in every other Bioware game; but they may also zoom in for a closer look and manage things from there.
Another cool thing to look for is the spell combos. Magic is powerful in the world of DA:O and spells may even be used in synergy with one another to create new and special effects. Cast a Grease spell on enemies to create a thick layer of oily muck to slow them down, then set it all ablaze with a quick Fire spell; cast Tornado to create a sudden storm in the middle of the room, then charge it up with some Lightning spells to send bolts everywhere, creating a violent twisting thunderstorm. These are separate spells that may be used in combinations; there are many, many hidden combos waiting to be discovered.
BioWare will include a developer-grade toolset with the game (the same one they're using to create it), which will allow modders and builders to create and publish their own adventures, like in NWN (although unlike NWN, DA:O is a single-player-only game). This toolset is shaping up to be an incredible tool, and Bioware is planning on extensive DLC to continue on upgrading and adding to it in the future.
DA:O is coming up this October.
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Hash and Gleaton Earn All-Conference HonorsMarch 5, 2014
ROCK HILL, S.C. – Anderson University men's basketball players Chandler Hash and CJ Gleaton have earned All-South Atlantic Conference accolades, as announced by the league office on Wednesday.
Hash, a prolific long-range shooter, earned first-team honors for the second straight year after leading the league and ranking fourth nationally with his 24.1 points per game average. The left-handed guard wrapped up the regular season with a school-record 676 points, which was second only to Central Washington's Mark McLaughlin, who posted 677 points on the campaign. Hash currently ranks third in the SAC and 21st in the country in free throw percentage (88.7 percent).
The Greer, S.C., native has reached double figures in the scoring column in 43 consecutive games dating back to last season, including scoring 30+ points on six occasions this year. Hash was named SAC Player of the Week in mid-November and drained at least five 3-pointers in a game on 11 occasions. He started all 28 regular-season games and has led the Trojans in scoring 23 times.
Hash is third all-time in the school record books with 1,435 career points and his career-high 42 points versus GRU Augusta in November is tied for sixth highest in NCAA Division II this season. Hash also performs off the court as well after being named to the Capital One Academic All-America men's basketball second team and is the reigning SAC Scholar-Athlete for men's basketball.
Gleaton, a senior from Anderson, S.C., was named to the All-SAC Second Team, while starting 26 games this season and averaging 15.1 points and a team-high 7.1 rebounds. His scoring proficiency currently ranks 17th in the conference and the versatile guard also swipes 1.3 steals per contest, which is good for 12th in the SAC. Gleaton leads the Trojans with seven double-doubles on the season and has reached double figures in 23 contests, while posting a career-best 27 points at Georgia College and a career-high 15 rebounds at Brevard earlier this season.
"They have both had great seasons for us." said Anderson head coach Jason Taylor. "I am proud of them both and the recognition is well-deserved."
Lincoln Memorial's Vincent Bailey was chosen as the conference's Player of the Year.
Bailey came just short of averaging 20-and-10 for the regular-season champion Railsplitters, finishing with a scoring average of 21.6 points per game and a rebounding mark of 9.8 per game. Those numbers both ranked second in the SAC, and his 61.6-percent field goal shooting was the league's fourth-best.
The forward finished the regular-season with 14 double-doubles – tied for the SAC lead – and scored 20 or more points in 17 of LMU's 26 games. He becomes only the second Lincoln Memorial player to earn SAC Player of the Year honors, joining Desmond Johnson in 2010-11.
Accompanying Bailey on the All-SAC First Team were Carson-Newman forward Antoine Davis and guard Ishmael Sanders, Hash, Newberry forward Dondray Walker and Queens guard Jarrett Stokes.
Sanders finished fourth in the SAC in scoring at 19.7 points per game, led the conference in steals at two per game, and led the conference and ranked eighth in the nation in free-throw shooting at 91-percent. Davis – last year's SAC Player of the Year – ranked fifth in the league in scoring at 19.5 points per game along with averaging six rebounds and three assists per contest.
Stokes ranked seventh in the SAC in scoring at 18.3 points per game and also placed in the conference's top 10 in free throw shooting, three pointers and steals. Walker, meanwhile, was the SAC's second-best three-point shooter at 47.7-percent and finished 10th in scoring at 16.8 points per game.
Five of the six spots on the All-SAC Second Team were claimed by guards, as LMU's Lorenza Ross and Chance Jones, Lenoir-Rhyne's R.J. McClure, Wingate's Ryan Daye and Anderson's C.J. Gleaton earned selections. Wingate's Deion Turman was voted as the team's lone forward.
Earning All-SAC Honorable Mention accolades were Coker guard Julian Nelson, Brevard forward Darius Moose, Catawba forward Tyrece Little, Newberry guard Demarkus Smith, Queens forward Josh Clyburn and Catawba guard Kijuan Arrington.
Additionally, Wingate forward Isiah Cureton, LMU guard Luquon Choice, Brevard guard Trevon Shaw, Wingate forward Josh Dominguez and Newberry guard Gerald Evans were voted to the SAC All-Freshman Team.
Cureton was named the SAC Freshman of the Year after averaging 9.3 points and 6.6 rebounds per game this season for the Bulldogs.
Finally, LMU's Josh Schertz was selected as the SAC Coach of the Year after leading the Railsplitters to a 24-2 record and their third conference title in four seasons. Schertz earns Coach of the Year honors for the second time in his career, with the first coming in 2010-11.
The SAC basketball postseason awards were selected by the conference's head coaches.
The third-seeded Trojans open SAC Tournament action by playing host to No. 6 seed Queens Wednesday night at 7 p.m.
2013-14 SAC Men's Basketball Awards
SAC Player of the Year: Vincent Bailey, Lincoln Memorial
SAC Freshman of the Year: Isiah Cureton, Wingate
SAC Coach of the Year: Josh Schertz, Lincoln Memorial
All-SAC First Team
Vincent Bailey, Lincoln Memorial
Antoine Davis, Carson-Newman
Chandler Hash, Anderson
Dondray Walker, Newberry
Ishmael Sanders, Carson-Newman
Jarrett Stokes, Queens
All-SAC Second Team
Lorenza Ross, Lincoln Memorial
R.J. McClure, Lenoir-Rhyne
Deion Turman, Wingate
Ryan Daye, Wingate
CJ Gleaton, Anderson
Chance Jones, Lincoln Memorial
All-SAC Honorable Mention
Julian Nelson, Coker
Darius Moose, Brevard
Tyrece Little, Catawba
Demarkus Smith, Newberry
Josh Clyburn, Queens
Kijuan Arrington, Catawba
SAC All-Freshman Team
Isiah Cureton, Wingate
Luquon Choice, Lincoln Memorial
Trevon Shaw, Brevard
Josh Dominguez, Wingate
Gerald Evans, Newberry


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The Seven Characteristics of a Good Leader
How can we determine not only who is a competent leader, but a good leader? Some, like Tom Lickona of the Smart and Good Schools Initiative, believe the proper distinction is between moral and performance character. The former typically refers to having sound values, to be oriented toward an ethical way to behave; the latter refers to the essential importance of having the skills -- particularly SEL skills-- to carry out one's values.
What does this mean for leadership? From a social-emotional and character development (SECD) perspective, it means that the skill-based performance of leaders must be judged along with the character of that performance. And how shall we judge that character?
Sargent Shriver, whose leadership credentials are unrivaled in American public service, believed leaders must act and infuse their organizations with:
1) A sense of purpose: The values of an organization must be clear, members of the organization should know them, and they should exemplify and uphold them in their own actions.
2) Justice: Everyone in an organization should be held to common standards, with rules and procedures that are clear, firm, fair, and consistent.
3) Temperance: A leader must strive to maintain a proper balance of emotions; Shriver did not mean that leaders should be dispassionate. Quite the contrary- but there are time for passionate advocacy and times for quiet reflection and reconsideration. Balance is the key.
4) Respect: The dignity of each individual is the concern of any leader, and this is preserved by treating all members of the organization with respect and ensuring they treat one-another similarly, regardless of differences.
5) Empowerment: Leaders are just that- leaders. Most of what happens in organizations is carried out by individuals other than those in formal leadership positions. Therefore, the more skilled they are, the more they feel confident in their abilities and competent to make decisions, raise questions, see new possibilities, and disagree respectfully with others at all levels of the organizational hierarchy, the stronger and more successful the organization will be.
6) Courage: Leaders are paid to set direction, not wait for direction to emerge. They have to be willing to follow their convictions and bring their organization to new places. In education, this is most sorely needed in response to the test-based regimen that has taken over our schools at the expense of true education and social-emotional and character development.
7) Deep Commitment: Leaders must not be polishing their resumes, but rather should have deep commitment to their organizations, the advancement of the organizations' missions, and the wellbeing of everyone in them. It is this deep commitment that makes leadership in schools so challenging, because it requires a commitment to every employee, student, and parent.
The performance of a leader must be judged by his or her skills and the character of his or her performance in the many and complex roles that leadership demands. Using the seven cornerstones of leading with character, derived from the life and work of Sargent Shriver, educators and those concerned with education have a tool for both evaluating and improving leadership competencies along both moral and performance dimensions.
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When I continue with my own learning and share my journey with my students I feel a trust develop. Professional learning helps me to reflect on my practices in an effort to fend off the stagnation that can set in over the years. When students observe their teachers remaining vital and engaged with their own learning the model has been presented. I feel that this encourages an environment of active learning that benefits all stakeholders.
[quote]When I continue with my own learning and share my journey with my students I feel a trust develop. Professional learning helps me to reflect on my practices in an effort to fend off the stagnation that can set in over the years. When students observe their teachers remaining vital and engaged with their own learning the model has been presented. I feel that this encourages an environment of active learning that benefits all stakeholders. /quote]
I can relate to your idea of posting this in a place I can see and reference it each day. As a Math Coach I think of myself as a leader in a soft way. Instead of asking teachers to create something that takes significant time (our calendar program comes to mind), I will often assist or do the work for the teacher instead of empowering them to do the work. I am going to work on empowering teachers! Referencing this daily will help remind me. Thanks for the great idea.
[quote]This post is very truthful and honest. I believe every leader; principal, coach, teacher, mentor, parent, older sibling, account executive, CEO's, etc. should have this list posted somewhere where they can see it each and every day. A leader needs to be reminded that, one, in fact they are a leader, and two, that they must be the example and lead with it. Thank you for your ideas and your honesty.[/quote]
Excellent blog. These seven characterstics of a leader are great value to teachers, a teacher is also a leader for students. I found seventh characterstic about deep commitment an essential constituent in the composition of leadership. A very meaningful line said that performance of a leader should be judged with respect to the complexity of roles and demands of leadership. A great work by Shriver S. in theorizing the seven valuable characterstics, and by Elias for putting them in the blog and benefitting readers.
[quote][quote]When I continue with my own learning and share my journey with my students I feel a trust develop. Professional learning helps me to reflect on my practices in an effort to fend off the stagnation that can set in over the years. When students observe their teachers remaining vital and engaged with their own learning the model has been presented. I feel that this encourages an environment of active learning that benefits all stakeholders. /quote][/quote]
I agree with your thoughts about students observing teachers and their own learning. I am also thinking that students observe teachers and their engagement with other teachers and administration. If students are seeing teachers using these same qualities with their coworkers and administration, students are more likely to follow along. Students who see everyone following the school rules and being held accountable if they don't, tend to follow the rules. As teachers we need to keep in mind that we are leaders in our classroom and among some of our peers, but we also need to make sure we keep in mind that we are also followers of some people (ie: administration, team leaders, etc).
Leadership skills are essential for properly maintaining classroom management. These skills also foster student productivity and accountability. When students sense that they can take advantage of a situation or fall behind in assignments, they will use this option. I enjoyed the list!
If you want to suggest a book for your teen to read that will support these seven characteristics, 8 to Great is THE book. It touches on every one of these characteristics, and from what I have learned about the book, kids love it. It is literally changing teens' lives. Go to www.8togreat.com to check it out!
Your blog really defines the true meaning of being an effective leader. As I read your post, I realized how important these characteristics are to good leadership. I am working to develop into a leader of sorts and I will focus on these characteristics. Thank you for outlining them so clearly and concisely.
What we must remember when trying to expand and embrace the idea of being a leader ourselves is that leadership encompasses the field of a widely discussed phenomenon in the business world. A leader overnight is not made, created or born. The growing influence of global culture and workforce diversity makes the task of being an effective leader that much more challenging. In a very simple and straightforward manner, leadership is all about energizing people toward a specific goal.
Development of courageous, visionary, and inspirational leaders must begin with our young people. Mr Chris Salamone, who has formerly served as a faculty member at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and served as a leadership curriculum adviser at The University of Central Oklahoma is CEO of Lead America which is most respected youth leadership organizations with an unwavering commitment to quality and excellence in their academic offerings. The organization focuses on Leadership development, experiential career education & study abroad programs for high achieving high school and middle school students. Chris Salamone works to improve the lives of young people around the world through his many philanthropic endeavors. Mission is to 'inspire and empower our young people to achieve their full potential and instill in them a sense of purpose, integrity, self confidence, and personal responsibility.' This is achieved through engaging students (high school for most programs and middle school for a few) in conferences that combine challenging academics with hands-on experiential learning.


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I remember reading somewhere:
when you sleep in a way subjecting your body to cut the geomagnetic field at right angles, you become highly emotional whereas when it is Parallel, it cools your mind.
Meaning, it's better to sleep with your body/bed aligned in north-south direction.
On the contrary, there is a local belief saying "do not sleep with your head towards north direction" there's a mythological story to back it up too! "Birth of Ganesh".
- Earth's Magnetic field is not that strong enough to influence our emotions. Or does it?
- Can this theory be applied in the presence of stronger magnetic fields around? Are there any such fields in day to day presence?
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My employer is considering implementing a single-account, multiple profile system across their various web properties. The thinking is that SSO will be more convenient for users, but they might not want their activities on a dating site to be associated with their contributions to a forum on another site.
I'm very cautious about this approach - I'm pretty sure Yahoo! used to do this and it was enormously confusing. My hunch is that users won't understand having multiple identities behind a single SSO account on one network of sites.
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ok well, i kinda killed my panel object... umm, i deleted the wireless internet bar, (the thing that lets me connect to the internet) and the battery bar (the thing that lets me know how much battery power if left. and i dont know how to get them back. if i right click the panel and go to add to panel the two objects are not in the list of things i can add. so how can i add it back on if i cant select it? or if i cant where can i down load a new one?
need some help with gnomw panel...
u don't need to download that again. It'll be there in options. U said that the two objects u re looking for doesn't exist in the lists. Does that have any option to browse and add ur own icons in the panel. It'll be there. pls check it.
ok well i looked but it did not have a "browse" option but it does have an "application launcher" and a "custom application launcher" could it maybe be one of those?
i think, it may be under those u specified here. Jus try it man.


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Douglas Maximus Heffernan, 23, was named in an indictment charging manslaughter in connection with the January 16 shooting of Jack Tullos Tennyson, 20, who died days later at Scott and White Hospital in Temple.
Tennyson was shot in the head at a residence in Killeen while one of two other men who were with him "was handling a revolver in an unsafe manner, causing a negligent discharge," police said in a new release at the time.
Hefferman was released from the Bell County Jail after posting a $500,000 bond.
An affidavit submitted for the arrest warrant says Heffernan told investigators he accidentally shot Tennyson while cleaning the gun
"The suspect stated that he pulled the trigger while cleaning the weapon, causing it to fire at the victim's head," the affidavit said.
The investigator said in the affidavit that he had viewed photographs of the Taurus Revolver, which was found at the scene, "and have observed that the loaded bullets are clearly visible when the cylinder is closed.
The house is near Ellison High School, whose parking lot was used as a landing zone for the medical helicopter.
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The late Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson zt"l had no successor as the rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch. Why is this? Was it simply because he had no children? If so, why was nobody else appointed to be the rebbe?
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(I suspect this will get some downvotes or be seen as disrespectful by some. It's important to say nonetheless.)
That's a million-dollar question. No, make that a billion-dollar question.
It appears that as Rabbi Schneurson had no children there was no heir-apparent; in his last years after he suffered a stroke he was probably unable himself to choose a successor, and prior to that -- well I don't know what plans were made. Rumor has it that some believed it had been decreed long ago that there would only be seven grand rabbis of Lubavitch, and hopes were high that the Messiah would come at that point. But critics will tell you that succession planning could have been done a lot better -- it's actually a lesson for all of us to think about our wills and life insurance, unpleasant as it may be.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneurson zt'l was an incredibly great man in all sorts of ways, and he left some very large shoes to fill. (Critics would tell you that exaggerated language about his greatness only makes the transition after his death even more difficult.) Not to mention there is a division within Lubavitch regarding how to view Rabbi Schneurson's messianic potential after his death, this makes choosing a new rebbe harder still.
(Some have floated the name of Rabbi Adin Steinzaltz shlit'a as a possible eighth Lubavitcher Rebbe; besides the above difficulties, Rabbi Steinzaltz's background is seen as somewhat of an outsider's [his parents were not religiously affiliated], and his role as a quiet intellectual (of colossal stature, may I add) would be a great departure from his predecessor's public figure.)
The Talmud gives thanks that human corpses rot; Rashi explains that this forces us to bury them. Otherwise we'd leave the remains of our loved ones around all the time, and never cope with their loss. We take the memories of the dead with us, but then we move on. Candid friends of Chabad-Lubavitch wonder if they would have done better had they planned for a post-Schneurson existence.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe perhaps did not have anyone one person to proceed him on purpose perhaps becasue he has more then 5000 Shluchim emissarys worldwide who have proceeded him and followed his mandate of 'Uforatzto, Yomo Vokedmo, Vetzofono Vonegbo', bringing a thirst of yiddishkiet to all corners of the world. What other leader do you know of charged so many of his chassidm with leadership ones who are committed there for a lifetime till the coming of Moshiach.
From the outset, the Rebbe was to be the seventh and final Lubavitcher Rebbe. It is an important part of Chabad theology. See here:
I accidentally came across this site and wish to give a different perspective. First it's important to realise that the Rebbe was a unique person and that his legacy lives on in those who follow him and that no one could fill his shoes.
Sadly though there are those who were capable of guiding the Rebbe's Chassidim just as Breslov Chassidim have, for Breslover's there only was one Rebbe, Rav Nachman but they have Rabbonim who guide them and crucially they are involved with other Chassidus and the wider Orthodox Jewish world.
Unfortunately what happened in Chabad is that a sizable number believed and some even declared the Rebbe the Moshiach, the Messiah, this is not the place to go into detail but there are explicit sources to prove that the Moshiach has to be conceived and be born in the Holy Land as well as uniting the Jewish people and when explicitly asked the Rebbe responded that he was not the Moshiach and that he had tried everything that he could do to bring the Moshiach, a direction that many of his contemporary Rebbes and Roshei Yeshivot considered incorrect.
This 'Moshiach' group of people have made it almost impossible for Lubavitch to integrate in the way that Breslov Chassidim have done and their beliefs which have no source or foundation to them can even place them in a Jewish Law in a category of people who are actually non-observant even though they keep the entire rest of the Torah a bit like Jews for Jesus. Imagine a Jew who observes all the mitzvoth but belives that Jesus is the Messiah - this person has placed themselves outside the Orthodox camp and has strange alien beliefs.
In truth Chabad do not need another Rebbe but what they do need is for those who do not believe the Rebbe to be the Moshiach to split from those who do belive this but this could be very acrimonious and so the status quo has been accepted even though it has isolated Lubavitcher's from the rest of the Orthodox world. A tragic story given that they do much good and help many people but true non the less.
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I am looking for documentation that explains the different kinds of (well the major ones anyway) 2D space partitioning algorithms & data structures.
Any pointers besides 'Google it and sift through hundreds of papers'. A book perhaps?
I've got this sort of info spread over many books on my bibliography, but I'm currently away from them. But from what I could gather up from memory and browsing through the table of contents online, I recall the following books:
3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development 1st Edition or Mathematics for 3D Game Programming & Computer Graphics
Chapter 16 (Visibility Determination) of 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development 1st Edition (strangely the authors seem to have removed this section from the second edition of the book) covers the most common techniques (i.e. grid system, quadtree and octree, bsp trees, portal occlusion). The book is really good, although perhaps not the best of its kind.
I've seen Mathematics for 3D Game Programming & Computer Graphics being mentioned very often, but unfortunately haven't gotten my hands on it yet. From the table of contents, it seems to cover space partitioning algorithms too. Not sure how they compare against each other.
Naturally, the focus of these books is on the math. And although the title says 3D, they are also quite relevant for 2D programming.
Real-time Rendering 3rd Edition
Chapter 14 (Acceleration Algorithms) of Real-time Rendering also covers most of these topics, and this is actually my favorite general graphics programming book ever. Very comprehensive but I don't recall how much it covered this particular subject.
The focus of this book is on the graphics theory, but it covers such a large amount of topics that I could hardly find a better recommendation for anyone interested in the field.
Game Programming Gems
The previous books were mostly theoretical though. For more specific and practical advice, I've read several articles on the subject scattered throughout the Game Programming Gems series. Some that come to mind:


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Interferon is a man-made copy of a protein that your body makes in response to infection. It helps the immune system fight disease and may slow or stop the growth of the hepatitis B virus in your body.
Interferon is given as a shot 3 times a week. A slow release form of interferon, pegylated interferon (also known as peginterferon), is given as a shot once a week. Peginterferon is used more often than interferon to treat hepatitis B. Treatment with interferons can last 4 months to 1 year.
Why It Is Used
Interferons are used to treat long-term (chronic) HBV infection in adults and children who are at risk for liver disease. The American Association for the Study of Liver Disease has made recommendations on who should receive treatment for hepatitis B based on the presence of hepatitis B antigen in your blood, the level of hepatitis B virus DNA (HBV DNA) in your blood, and the level of the liver enzyme alanine aminotransferase (ALT).1
Treatment with interferons is not recommended if you are using illegal drugs or drinking too much alcohol. It is also not recommended if you have had an organ transplant or if you have advanced liver scarring (cirrhosis).
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It is important to weigh the benefits of treatment against the risks. Treatment for HBV infection is considered successful if blood tests show that the virus is no longer multiplying in the body, if liver enzyme levels return to normal, and if liver damage (such as inflammation and scarring) improves.
The success of interferon treatment for hepatitis B depends on how treatment success is defined. Relapse-when the virus starts to multiply again-is common after treatment is stopped. Interferons stop the growth of the virus over the long term in about 35% of people who use them.1 Recent studies suggest that peginterferon works a little better than interferon.2, 3
Interferons work best for people who have high levels of liver enzymes and in whom the virus is multiplying. They are also more likely to work in people who have a strong immune system, who have had hepatitis for a short amount of time, and who became infected after childhood.4
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