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Friday, August 8, 2008
Further Dissent
The Monster Manual really was a revelation to me. Whereas the Holmes rules have only a few dozen monsters, most of which weren't even illustrated, the MM had over 350 monsters, most of which had art either by Dave Trampier or Dave Sutherland. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that I pored over the pages of the 1e Monster Manual for longer than any RPG book before or since (and I don't just mean the one containing the illustration of the succubus). The pages of this book are pure gold and fired my imagination in ways too numerous to count. No other monster book has ever come close to matching the genius of the original Monster Manual (though there are some excellent contenders) and it remains one of my most cherished gaming possessions.
It's a pity that the cover of the thing is so terrible:
Perhaps "terrible" is too strong a word, but I find the word "cartoonish" leaps to mind when I look at this cover. Maybe it's the garish colors that make it look worse than it is; I don't know. Yet, something doesn't sit well with me about this cover, which is just an arbitrary mishmash of unconnected monsters in "unrealistic" environment.
The red dragon in the top center is, in my opinion, the worst of the loot. He looks stiff and unnatural and, while his pose is meant to convey the notion that he's swooping down, claws outstretched like some reptilian bird of prey, I find it laughable, especially given the expression on his face. To me, it appears as if he's been gripped by a seizure mid-flight and is about to fall from the sky like a rock. In any event, neither the unicorn -- which still retains a more medieval cast to it than the white-pony-with-a-horn look beloved by schoolgirls everywhere -- nor the centaur seem much threatened by this evil creature's presence.
I like the troll, I'll admit, but then I've always been a big fan of the look of D&D's trolls. I mourn their loss in the latest edition more than I mourn the loss of many other things from earlier editions. I've never been a huge fan of the owlbear as a monster, although there's no arguing that it isn't an iconic D&D beastie. Same goes for the roper. These latter two look especially poorly drawn to me and the roper's illustration on the cover doesn't match its appearance inside.
Like both the Players Handbook and the Dungeon Masters Guide, this cover is a wrap-around one. The back cover illustrates several more monsters above and below the ground. Interestingly, these monsters, though just as cartoony as the ones on the front, at least look to be doing something rather than just arbitrarily posing for the artist. That's a plus, although only a small one.
David Sutherland is an old school artist of whom I am very fond. He's done a number of illustration that I think epitomize what I find compelling in older RPG art. Many people, though, dislike him or argue that he was not in the same league as Dave Trampier. Looking at the cover of the Monster Manual, it's very hard to disagree. This piece looks amateurish and rough. It does what it needs to do, I suppose -- show off some D&D monsters -- but it doesn't do it particularly well. As I say, some of the fault may lie in the coloring of the illustration. That's not all of it, since I think the underlying composition is poor, particularly the front cover. It's a shame, because I think Sutherland has a number of truly excellent interior pieces. He wasn't entirely without skill. What he lacked, though, was consistency and his ability to put together larger pieces is very hit-or-miss. He seems to have been better at smaller, more focused illustrations and you can see that if you look inside the MM.
I still retain a great fondness for the 1e Monster Manual. It's an absolutely fantastic book on almost every level, but the cover art is not one of them.
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I largely agree. I think that the MM could be improved by a factor of 10 simply by replacing the red dragon. It looks comically shocked to be there. It's a shame because all of the dragon interior art is far superior.ReplyDelete
I can't recall who or where, but it seems like one of the old TSR folks related that Sutherland—serving as art-director as well as artist for this book—had felt rushed (in both roles) and never felt satisfied with the results.ReplyDelete
I'll try to do some searching for those comments this weekend.
(None of which is meant as a criticism of the review. Just some related information.)
I was going to comment that who on earth would write up an art order describing the scene we're left with for the MM cover - but that makes a lot more sense. Perhaps DSCIII didn't even get an art order, and had to go it completely solo direction-wise.ReplyDelete
Not fond of the Owlbear!? Now I can truly say that you have erred!ReplyDelete
Otherwise, I agree. This is not a cover I particularly like. I might perhaps only dislike the mid nineties revised covers less, and it would be a close call.
I think the thing that makes it look amateurish is the strange "schematic" approach; that's the kind of composition you'd expect from a child, not a professional artist.ReplyDelete
"I was going to comment that who on earth would write up an art order describing the scene we're left with for the MM cover - but that makes a lot more sense. Perhaps DSCIII didn't even get an art order, and had to go it completely solo direction-wise."ReplyDelete
I had the opposite impression. I saw this and imagined an artist reading the art order and going "you have GOT to be kidding. Well... here goes..."
It looks comically shocked to be there. It's a shame because all of the dragon interior art is far superior.ReplyDelete
Agreed. DCS has some really nice pieces of interior art in the MM. It's just a pity the cover is so poor.
I can't recall who or where, but it seems like one of the old TSR folks related that Sutherland—serving as art-director as well as artist for this book—had felt rushed (in both roles) and never felt satisfied with the results.ReplyDelete
I recall reading that as well. I can certainly believe it. As I said, I actually like Sutherland's art, far more than a lot of old schoolers do. It's fashionable to knock his stuff as being technically inferior to Tramp's (which is true), but there's something about Sutherland's people that I like. There's a humanity to them that I really like and help ground them in reality, even when the subject matter is otherwise fantastic.
Not fond of the Owlbear!? Now I can truly say that you have erred!ReplyDelete
I don't hate the owlbear, but I'll admit it's not one of my great loves. For goofy D&D-specific monsters, give me the carrion crawler or rust monster any day.
that's the kind of composition you'd expect from a child, not a professional artist.ReplyDelete
It does have that quality, I'll agree. It reminds me of drawings my sister used to do as a child. She'd draw a scene of a house and people and the sun up in the sky -- and beneath it all there were these caves with a little red devil in the them, with a pitchfork and forked tail.
She's feeling much better now ...
I don't hate the owlbear, but I'll admit it's not one of my great loves. For goofy D&D-specific monsters, give me the carrion crawler or rust monster any day.ReplyDelete
Goofy? Now I know you're crazy. Owlbears are horrific party killing machines. ;D
- AnonymousAugust 8, 2008 at 7:32 PM
I have just found your blog, and I find your analysis of the D&D covers to be very insightful. Your commentary on the MM is spot on. This was also the first book that I bought, and I think I have read every entry 100x each at least! On a side note,at GenCon 40, I was able to get Gary to sign it, which was very special. While the interior is very solid, the cover is terrible. The Red Dragon truly looks like it is going to crash. As was stated earlier, this is very disappointing, as some of the interior dragons are very good. I think the Black Dragon pic is one of my favorites in the book. On a final note, the owlbear has never done anything for me, but I realize that since it was featured in "Keep on the Borderlands" is continues to get a lot of love.
I love the Roper.ReplyDelete
I was always puzzled by the Unicorn's armpit hair.
I was always puzzled by the poor red dragon, myself. I finally concluded it was a pinata.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 9, 2008 at 5:53 AM
When I first seen this cover, I was a kid, so I did not mind the cover to much - in fact, it reminded me of the 80s cartoons I like to watch.ReplyDelete
But as an artist, I think I could have been done better. The art is just as it is in the book, but in color. The monsters have a fairly good blend of colors, but the background was vary lazy. The cavern for example, was painted across with brown, then extra color was added to the rocky surfaces, but the background was largely ignored. The soft-brown background made the cavern look too bright and small. If it was painted black or with a darker color, then the cavern would evoke the feeling of an endless darkness that shrouds a strange and sinister underworld.
- AnonymousAugust 9, 2008 at 8:06 AM
I was always puzzled by the poor red dragon, myself. I finally concluded it was a pinata.ReplyDelete
Aha! That explains everything - they're all here for a birthday party! Since nobody has any cake yet, I suggest they're waiting to surprise the Quasit, whose entry has been posted as a joke - nobody ever said monsters had a good sense of humor. Why the unicorn and the centaur got invited I don't know, but I think most big parties include one or two people who just don't fit in with the rest of the crowd.
With that mystery resolved, we can appreciate this for what it is - a bit cartoonish in execution perhaps, a composition that is somewhat lacking, but a scene with a purpose, a story, and a dragon pinata.
And, in the best tradition of old-school art, it illustrates the moments before the birthday boy arrives and gets his surprise.
I think we've blown this cover review wide open.
I love the Roper.ReplyDelete
I do too, but the cover version doesn't match up to the interior version (the number of eyes, for example). That's a minor point, perhaps, but it irks me.
I think we've blown this cover review wide open.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 11, 2008 at 2:32 PM
A birthday party! Perfect! And the troll is styaing underground to keep clear of the candles on the cake.ReplyDelete
I find the horrible MM red dragon picture surprising as the one on the D&D cover is one I really like.
Honestly, I don't think I caught on that that was a red dragon and thought it was some other monster. Maybe a fiendish red dragon that had traveled back in time for 3.x
My favourite illo in the this book is the blue dragon. It started a lifelong fandom for me for the blues. Then the 3.x art made them look brutish and unintelligent.
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Economics 101, cheerfully
Every day the Chinese go to work, Americans get a raise: Chinese workers, many earning each day about what Americans spend on a Starbucks latte, produce apparel, appliances, and other stuff cheaply, thereby enlarging Americans' disposable income. Americans similarly get a raise when they shop at the stores that made Sam Walton a billionaire.
Every day the Chinese go to work, Americans get a raise: Chinese workers, many earning each day about what Americans spend on a Starbucks latte, produce apparel, appliances, and other stuff cheaply, thereby enlarging Americans' disposable income. Americans similarly get a raise when they shop at the stores that made Sam Walton a billionaire.
The ranks of billionaires are constantly churned. Most of the persons on the original Forbes 400 list of richest Americans in 1982 were off the list in 2013. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, was not born until 1984. America needs more billionaires like him, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Steve Jobs. With the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, unique products when introduced, Jobs' Apple created monopolies. But instead of raising their prices, Apple has cut them because "profits attract imitators and innovators." Which is one reason monopolies come and go.
When John D. Rockefeller began selling kerosene in 1870, he had approximately 4 percent of the market. By 1890, he had 85 percent. Did he use this market dominance to gouge consumers? Kerosene prices fell from 30 cents a gallon in 1869 to 6 cents in 1897. And in the process of being branded a menacing monopoly, Rockefeller's Standard Oil made gasoline so cheap that Ford found a mass market for Model Ts.
Monopoly profits are social blessings when they "signal to the ambitious the wealth they can earn by entering previously unknown markets." So "when the wealth gap widens, the lifestyle gap shrinks." Hence, "income inequality in a capitalist system is truly beautiful" because "it provides the incentive for creative people to gamble on new ideas, and it turns luxuries into common goods." Since 2000, the price of a 50-inch plasma TV has fallen from $20,000 to $550.
Henry Ford doubled his employees' basic wage in 1914, supposedly to enable them to buy Fords. Actually, he did it because in 1913, annual worker turnover was 370 percent. He lowered labor costs by reducing turnover and the expense of constantly training new hires.
All these thoughts are from John Tamny, a one-man antidote to economic obfuscation and mystification. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), who called economics "the dismal science," never read Tamny, a Forbes editor, the editor of RealClearMarkets, and now the author of the cheerful, mind-opening book Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James Can Teach You About Economics.
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A brand new Camaro SS Convertible will do 0-to-60 MPH in roughly 4.8 seconds. The brand new SRT8 Jeep Grand Cherokee will do it in about the same time. I knew that. The young woman in the Camaro SS next to me looking to sprint down the mostly abandoned section of rural Texas highway clearly didn't.
I couldn't measure the surprise on her face as I casually left her behind at the stoplight because she was too far away. The latest SRT8 is a lot like the Spanish Inquisition in that it's both violent and unexpected. It puts the Torque in Torquemada.
We live in a time where engineers can make vehicles that look like weird truck-wagon mixtures perform better than the sports cars of the previous generation. In the future, these vehicles may well be the hallmarks historians point to in order to portray the unseemly excesses of a culture hell bent on its own violent self-destruction.
It's not the future yet and violent self-destruction is fun. Compared to the previous generation the line on the latest Jeep is that it's apparently more refined — a nod to the German platform underneath. That's overstating it a bit. Rommel was apparently a gentleman but I wouldn't want to be staring down the nose of his panzerkorps, if you know what I mean.
So you know the Jeep SRT8 has the surprising fury of the Spanish Inquisition and the "refined" strength of the Desert Fox. How much more history can I squeeze into this review?
I drove the SRT8 to the Circuit of the Americas venue, which was under construction for a future US Grand Prix (which I think they should call the Texas Grand Prix because "You can all go to hell, I'm going to the Texas Grand Prix" would make a great shirt).
This is one of the few Jeeps you'd be able to drive on the unfinished, muddy turns about as quickly as on the finished track.
Jeep's regular Grand Cherokee is already one of the most attractive SUVs ever built, taking the best concepts from the Larry Shinoda-penned original design for AMC and updating it for the future with cleaner lines. Add in the aggressive fenders, scooped hood and mesh-backed grille and it's a visage replete with masculine beauty. Maybe this is how Cleopatra looked.
From an enthusiast's perspective, the flat-bottomed steering wheel makes the car. The leather wrapping feels great. I want to grab it in the same way all those women running out to see Magic Mike want to grab Channing Tatum. Too bad the cheap shift paddles are so wimpy.
The gauges are typical Chrysler in a good way (direct and easy to read) while the dash materials are typical Chrysler in an old way (cheap plastic). The seats are supportive and comfortable for long rides. It's not as luxurious as BMW or as sporty as a Porsche, but I covered a lot of miles across Texas without an issue.
These numbers aren't weighted to class, but there's no world in which a sub-5.0 launch to 60 mph isn't impressive. Not only does the Jeep launch easily off the line in both Track and Sport modes, it makes such a great noise doing it there's no easy way to stop from being a jerk and doing it all day every day. The truck's 6.4-liter Hemi V8 throws down 470 horsepower and 465 lb-ft of twist on all four Pirelli-clad wheels.
It's not a ton of power considering the truck's 5,150-pound heft, but displacement wins the day. Just think of Belushi in the little chocolate donuts commercial. Sometimes big things go fast.
If we were doing this on relative distance-to-weight we'd give it a 10/10 because somehow the Titanic manages to stop us short of the iceberg every time. How do you spell relief when you get too heavy on the go pedal? B-R-E-M-B-O. Six pistons up front, four out back, painted red, though just a little too progressive under heavy pressure. On a grand scale it doesn't measure up to a McLaren, but not much does.
Even enthusiasts have families (from which to breed more enthusiasts) and you won't have to sacrifice them — on road or off — to enjoy the vehicle. Some might complain the adaptive dampers soften the SRT8, but it's not quite like putting Moon Boots on Usain Bolt. They're more like my Onitsuka Tigers, giving the SRT8 a nice blend of sport and comfort dependent upon conditions.
My only complaint about the ride is it sometimes lulls the driver into forgetting about the power hidden underneath the vampire-bit bonnet. A little feel goes a long way with these big SUVs and I'd like just a little more.
- Engine: 6.4-Liter HEMI V8
- Power: 470 HP @ 6,000 rpm / 465 LB-FT @ 4300 rpm
- Transmission: Five-Speed Automatic
- 0-60 Time: 4.8 seconds
- Top Speed: 155 MPH (electronically limited)
- Drivetrain: All-Wheel Drive
- Curb Weight: 5,150 LBS
- Seating: 5
- MPG: 12 City / 18 HWY
- MSRP: Starts at $55,295 ($58,290 as tested)
I've only driven one thing that handles better than this and weighs about as much and that's the Porsche Cayenne Turbo. This thing beat an X5 M piloted by Matt Farah during One Lap and pulls 0.9Gs on the skidpad.
In Track and Sport mode Spinelli found the electronic rear diff did a good job of vectoring torque between the rear wheels, especially during braking under sharp steering. To quote his review "While disorientating to look down on creation from SUV level, the Cherokee in Track Mode is remarkably tossable. Perhaps not as precise as its heighty-weighty competitors from BMW and Porsche, but it's still a ton of fun. Make that 2.5 tons."
It's like a refined muscle car, capable of happy oversteer with the proper throttle application with an edge of understeer to account for the boat anchor sitting out in front of the firewall. Is this thing AWD? It's hard to tell sometimes.
Want to know what a completely adequate gearbox will get you? A 5/10. There's something a little silly about putting a 5-speed auto in a vehicle like this. It is the muscle car of the SUV/CUV world, but a sixth gear would be great on long highway drives. Combine that with the cylinder de-activation and it might get better than 18 MPG on the highway. It is my single greatest desire with this vehicle. In fact, the only thing saving this from getting a 4/10 is the little paddles.
The Jeep SRT8 comes standard with a nine-speaker system backed by a 506-watt amp and subwoofer. It's fine, though I'd have preferred the optional 19-speaker system. Why? It has to compete with the 6.4-liter engine growling. I can't be the only one who wants to blast Tune-Yards and Hemi simultaneously, right?
There were a lot of negative things said about Chrysler over the past few years (we said most of them ourselves), but they've had a few good ideas. The "Electronic Vehicle Info Center" is one of these. It lets you toggle between various info panels such as 0-to-60 mph time, braking distance, g-forces, and quarter-mile times. Everyone else is just catching up to this.
Otherwise, my tester came with a backup camera, blind-spot monitoring, bi-xenon headlamps, SATNAV, and the bluetooth UCONNECT system. Nothing earth-shattering, but it works.
The 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is not better than a Porsche Cayenne Turbo. I know it. Jeep knows it. Everyone with a brain knows it. The Porsche Cayenne Turbo also starts at $108,750. The Cayenne S is a more reasonable $65,860, but it's just not as mean as the $58,290, nicely-loaded Jeep.
If I wanted fast and had $60,000 to spend I wouldn't get a Jeep. But the "Central American businessmen" and "Russian industrialists" who buy these things by the Antonov AN-225 do so for a reason. They're big. They're mean. They're easy to tune and they'll kill you. They'll kill you dead.
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FBI profilers don't view video games as a cause of shootings and other violent crime, a former profile said yesterday morning on CBS' Face the Nation.
Profilers still include an interest in games when making their threat assessment of whether a person is at risk to act out violently, Mary Ellen O'Toole (above) told the public affairs show. Profilers also examine if an offender used video games as a kind of planning tool for carrying out an attack. However, "We don't see these as the cause of violence," she said. "We see them as sources of fueling ideation that's already there."
O'Toole's remarks align with the finding of another study performed by the U.S. Secret Service, albeit 10 years ago, which found that 12 percent of those who had committed violent crimes at a school had an interest in violent video games. More of them—37 percent—wrote things that expressed an interest in violence.
Christopher Ferguson, the professor of psychology at Texas A&M International and a critic of those who blame video games for violent crime, also appeared on the panel, warning against the "moral panic" that scapegoats new media for societal ills. Ferguson repeated the oft-cited statistic that violent crime among youths has actually receded to its lowest point in 40 years, despite games becoming more sophisticated and ostensibly more violent over that span. Ferguson added that this has no causal relationship to violent crime, either. In January, he noted to Kotaku that there have been more than 100 studies of video game violence and aggressive or violent behavior, and "most of them are horrible."
I'm still cynical that any of this moves the needle on the actual policy debate, however. Once politicians have identified what they think is the cause of a problem, it's difficult to budge them off it, especially if it involves a wedge issue such as gun control.
"We're in a mode of worry about—or panicking about this type of media," Ferguson cautioned. "We may do some putting the cart before the horse, and we may see some people sort of starting with a conclusion and trying to assemble data in a very selective way to try to support that conclusion." I think that's exactly what we've seen.
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A federal judge has sided with environmentalists and ruled the U.S. Forest Service erred by not exercising its regulatory authority when the state allowed huge trucks to haul giant oil refinery equipment along U.S. Highway 12.
U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill issued a decision Thursday that handed Idaho Rivers United a victory in the case.
The group sued the government in 2011 after the state allowed ExxonMobil's Canadian unit to ship hundreds of so-called mega-loads from Idaho's Port of Lewiston along the two-lane highway. The roadway runs through a scenic corridor protected by the 1968 Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
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PopCap Unveils Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare And Peggle 2 (Trailer Added)
PopCap had two titles to unveil during Electronic Arts' press conference: Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and Peggle 2. Unfortunately, nothing was shown for the latter announcement, but plenty was shown for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare.
A brief trailer was shown that made it look like a military shooter, but it quickly changed to familiar Plants vs. Zombies characters being controlled from the third-person perspective. A live demo was shown with four-player cooperative play. It was reminiscent of Horde mode from Gears of War; players take on the roles of plants and take on waves of zombies.
We saw players playing as the peashooter creating smaller peashooters as mobile turrets, flying characters that could fire from the sky, healing-class sunflowers, and cacti that could fire from long distances.
We also saw a few bosses including the Disco Zombie, and the Gargantuar, an enemy ripped straight from Mad Max. He's a gigantic zombie enemy with a smaller zombie enemy hanging from his back.
It was shown running on the Xbox One. Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is coming first to Xbox One, and then to Xbox 360.
Visit our E3 News Headquarters for all the stories from the show.


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College Station, TX – Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel reportedly met with NCAA investigators on Sunday to discuss allegations that the Heisman Trophy winner may have accepted money from autograph brokers for signing memorabilia.
According to ESPN.com, Manziel spent nearly six hours with NCAA officials at Texas A&M's campus in College Station.
ESPN had previously reported that the NCAA was investigating whether Manziel received compensation for signing autographs at different locations, including South Florida while attending last January's BCS National Championship Game.
A CBSSports.com report on Tuesday cited a source close to the situation as saying Manziel told the NCAA he did not accept money for the signing sessions.
Manziel's eligibility could come into question as the seventh-ranked Aggies open their season Saturday against Rice. If Manziel plays and the NCAA later determines he was ineligible, the Aggies would forfeit those games.
A&M athletic director Eric Hyman released a statement Tuesday morning, prior to the Aggies' game-week player and coach press conferences, saying the school would not comment on Manziel's playing status.
"The focus of our coaches and student-athletes is solely on preparing for Rice this Saturday," said Hyman in the statement, "and in the best interests of Texas A&M and the 100-plus student-athletes on the team, I have instructed Coach (Kevin) Sumlin, his staff and our student-athletes to refrain from commenting on or answering questions regarding the status of our starting quarterback, Johnny Manziel."
Manziel was the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy last year when he accounted for 47 touchdowns, while helping the Aggies to an 11-2 record.


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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Arizona Sen. John McCain is pushing an amendment in Congress that would allow anyone who kills bison at the Grand Canyon to keep the meat.
Hunting is prohibited at the national park, but land managers are trying to find ways to control hundreds of bison roaming the northern reaches of the Grand Canyon to preserve water resources, vegetation and fragile cliff dwellings. One of the options raised during a public comment period was lethal removal.
The National Park Service has the authority to kill animals that harm resources, using park staff or volunteer shooters. But the shooter cannot keep the meat. Instead, it is handed over to wildlife agencies, tribes or charities to distribute.
McCain's amendment -- one of two he proposed this week as part of the Sportsmen's Act -- would change that. The bison hunt in the northern part of the Kaibab National Forest is highly coveted, McCain said. Allowing hunters to take the full animal would be a service to the national park, he said.
The Arizona Game and Fish Commission voted Friday to support the amendment. Meanwhile, the Sierra Club criticized McCain for interfering in a public process.
"I don't know why anyone would object to the bison meat going to tribal entities or people who are hungry," said Sandy Bahr, director of the Sierra Club's Grand Canyon Chapter. "If it was just about the meat, it would be they (hunters) could go buy that."
McCain's office said the senator's intent isn't to open up the Grand Canyon to hunting. His office said Friday that the amendment would allow the Park Service to work with the Arizona Game and Fish Commission to determine who is authorized to aid in lethal removal, and allow those people to take the full carcasses of bison.
Martha Hahn, the Grand Canyon's chief of resource management, said that's not currently allowed because the bison are considered natural resources that can't be consumed or taken by a visitor.
"The fact is we have regulations," Hahn said. "You can't just turn over resources to the public."
The opportunities for hunters to catch bison in northern Arizona have lessened now that the animals are making their home almost exclusively at the national park. The bison were introduced to the area in the early 1990s as part of a ranching operation to crossbreed them with cattle, creating hybrids known as beefalo or cattalo.
The state of Arizona owns and maintains the estimated 350-450 bison outside the Grand Canyon, which can be hunted on U.S. Forest Service land.
Officials from the Grand Canyon, Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Forest Service are working on a bison management plan expected to be released in the fall of 2016. More than 150 comments were received during a recent public comment period.
Craig McMullen, the Game and Fish's regional supervisor in Flagstaff, said there would be no shortage of volunteers if the public could participate in the lethal removal of bison. He said bison hunting permits are the most sought-after of the state's 10 hunted big game species.
Lance Crowther, of Timberland Outfitters in Flagstaff, said the attraction is that the bison are wild, free-ranging animals that produce a lot of meat. He said he would welcome public participation in controlling the population.
"I would hate to see them send some sort of government shooter in there and deal with it that way," he said.
Bahr suggested McCain's amendment is aimed more at producing trophies for hunters than aiding the Park Service.
"It's pretty outrageous that Sen. McCain is again trying to do an end run around the National Park Service," she said. "People work for decades on these issues, and it's not unlike what he did with air tour noise."
The National Park Service was forced to change its goal for restoring natural quiet at the Grand Canyon after McCain and others pushed a provision in the 2012 federal transportation bill to make half of the park free from commercial air tour noise for at least 75 percent of the day and provide incentives for quiet air technology. The Park Service wanted to make 67 percent of the canyon quiet for three-fourths of the day or longer.


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Older women with excess body fat, even if they have what's considered a normal body-mass index, could be at greater risk for breast cancer, according to a study published Thursday in the medical journal JAMA Oncology.
"We do find that excess body fat in those who are post-menopausal with a normal body mass index is associated with about a doubling in the risk of estrogen-dependent breast cancer," said Dr. Andrew Dannenberg, one of the study's authors and director of cancer prevention at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine.
The American Cancer Society says estrogen-dependent cancers, called ER-positive breast cancer in the study, occur when the receptor proteins in or on cells attach to the hormone estrogen and rely on it to grow.
The researchers studied 3,460 American women between the ages of 50 and 79 who had gone through menopause. The women were part of the Women's Health Initiative and had their body composition measured at the beginning of that program, Dannenberg said. Of those women, 146 developed ER-positive breast cancer, and the researchers looked for a relationship between excess body fat and the development of this cancer.
They found that a 5-kilogram (11-pound) increase in whole-body fat mass was associated with a 35% increased risk of this kind of breast cancer. A 5-kilogram increase in fat mass of the trunk was associated with a 56% increase in risk.
Trunk fat is "defined by the fat contained in the torso apart from head and limbs," according to the study.
The study also found that for invasive breast cancer, which has spread into the surrounding breast tissue, a 5-kilogram increase in whole-body fat mass was related to a 28% risk increase. The same increase in trunk fat was tied to a 46% increase in the risk of invasive breast cancer.
"The main takeaway is that having excess body fat, even when you have a normal body mass index, is associated with an increased risk for breast cancer," Dannenberg said.
A person's BMI is calculated through a formula involving their height and weight; a "normal" BMI is considered to be between 18.5 and 24.9, according to the study.
The researchers also looked at blood data taken at the start of the Women's Health Initiative for other factors that are known to play a part in the development of breast cancer, such as elevation of insulin molecules.
The results "highlight the importance of research differentiating the contributions of body size, body composition, and metabolic profiles to breast cancer risk," Drs. Isabel Pimentel, Ana Elisa Lohmann and Pamela J. Goodwin wrote in an editorial published alongside the study.
The editorial authors also point out that other researchers have looked into the subject with differing results and note that "these observations suggest that components of metabolic health, rather than the presence of full metabolic syndrome, may contribute to breast cancer risk."
A particular strength of the research for Hoda Anton-Culver, distinguished professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, was the analysis of the location on the body of the fat levels.
"I think it's a good step forward that takes us from looking at the BMI as an indicator of obesity to really looking at the particular site of the fat concentration in the body," said Anton-Culver, who was not involved in the research.
Scientists have known that there was an association between obesity and cancer, but Anton-Culver says the new study moves the research beyond that general association.
"They say it correctly in the summary, that obesity is associated with breast cancer, but more specifically, obesity around the abdomen is more specific for that association," she said.
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Although Anton-Culver thinks the research is strong, she pointed out that it looked only at a specific cancer.
"I don't know if we look at the same issues with other cancers as the outcome, what it's going to be, is it specific to breast cancer?" she said. "We need to ask that question next, because obesity is a risk factor for other cancers."


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Hello guys!
I've been looking for largest chess games database for some time all over the internet, and there are people who made such databases by collecting games.
Most of these free databases are not exceeding more than 3 Million games, which is of course a lot, but I wanted larger one, and looked up for commercial solutions, and found some interesting sites offering chess databases of various sizes, such as 5 Million games or even 10 Million or more games.
However these commercial solutions cost money, and that's a big problem for people who simply can't or are not willing to pay, not only that but some websites don't even sell their databases, but instead offer online query only, therefore you have no control.
So I come up with an idea to create my own FREE largest database of games that will beat all other databases found on internet!
So I started collecting OTB games played by humans (not engines, not correspondence etc.) starting from year cca 1500 up until now, that is OTB games for last 500+ years.
I managed to collect over 30 Million games so far by downloading other people databases and PGN files from various websites, merged them all into one big database and started removing duplicate games.
So far this number reduced to some 20 Million games and still reducing…
I also created a project page on sourceforge to share my super-duper-jambo database with other chess players around the globe for FREE!
I've been using Scid vs PC program to manage database and therefore the database is in scid format, meaning you can download it and do with it what ever you want, such as importing more games.
Please note that this project is currently still in progress and I'm seeking for help from other chess players to collect more games and to help maintain this database!
The plan is to make the database available to everyone and more important the more people there are willing to contribute the larger database we will have, for FREE!
I'm still not sure how could all this work, so if you're interested please either give a reply here or join discussion forum on my project page to share your ideas on how to proceed with this project.
If you're a chess novice you might ask your self:
Q: Why on the earth would anyone need a chess games database?
A: You can use database to do following things:
1. Study games played by chess masters last 500 years.
2. Study openings, mid games and endgames.
3. Create high quality opening books for use by chess engines
4. Search for games played in chess history.
5. play chess against the database (ie. to learn opening variations)
6. Create opening books for specific opening or variation and use chess engine to play that specific opening.
7. Solve puzzles and much much more!
My project page:
Discusion forums:
Please note that the current database download is password protected and contains duplicate games (waste of bandwidth), I will soon upload a new updated version which will be publicaly available.
Thank you so much for attention!


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I Killed Them…What Is There?
A beautiful outside means nothing if there's ugly on the inside.
I very recently got engaged in a social media chat with a fine-as-fuck dude on Twitter DM. His name is Stanley Iwezulu. Claims to be a soldier. Young-looking. Well-built. Did I mention he's good looking? I definitely felt a buzz for him.
But I'm not reckless. So during our chat, I prodded and probed at him, trying to get a feel for his gay disposition, if any. And it wasn't very long before I got to find out that he was anti-gay. Well, that killed my buzz.
But my curiosity to understand the dynamics of anti-gay individuals kept me on the chat. I wanted to know what his thoughts on the gay issue were. And if the chat was intelligent enough, it might even nudge at my literary creativity. But the chat we had was anything but intelligent. It was poisonous. It was shocking. It was chilling. And it showed me yet again that the ill-will borne against the Nigerian LGBT community isn't by a faceless, nameless majority, but by real people. Citizens. Individuals. Next-door neighbours. Colleagues. Classroom seatmates.
Or, as is in this case, social media acquaintances. Check out the screengrabbed chat below.
The reason I updated this is not only to caution those of us adventurous guys, who see seemingly-straight dudes as a challenge, a 'conversion' mission; but also to let y'all see this particular dude, in case you follow him on Twitter tomorrow, or currently are following him, or know him on Facebook, or Badoo, or Manjam, or any other dating or social media site there is. Take a look and know that this one isn't for your own good.
On a final note, we have to be conscious of the fact that that these kinds of people walk among us, Nigerians who apparently would think nothing about snuffing out your life, and proceeding to sleep very well at night thereafter.
Be safe, my brethren. And be guided.
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Lemme go and follow him on Twitter right away.
Looooooooooolllll Absalom…exactly what's on my mind tho I don't think that's the best idea because we would start off with quarrel from day 1. I will just pray that queen karma visits him PRONTO and fucks every hole he got with an elephant dick till he chokes.
Lemme be very yoruba and say 'yeh!!!!!!!!!!!'. This one is strong. Pinky i felt the anger and terror and resentment you musta felt.
This is just crazy.
Gay men who want straight men are now very 'squashable' bugs.
And who is going to protect unsuspecting gay men from this homophobic assassin who invites them and does his worst to them.
*Everyone should get a gun and learn how to use them*
there is something not quite right with this soldiers mind. I couldn't help but laugh when he replied that he killed them while sleeping for tearing his clothes and kissing him. are you that hot or were they so thirsty that they didn't realize you were a blood thirsty marauding assasin. #God save us.
At least he was right about something…. SOLDIERS DON'T HAVE CONSCIENCE….they feel some sort of achievement whenever they kill people, that's why he could brag about the two people that he killed. And sadly, his fellow soldiers may know about this…….and applaud him for it. This is very disheartening…
And what's not gay about this stupid Stanley? Biko nye m tea ka m nuo **rolling eyes**
Such a wicked world! And to think that he's bold saying he killed two people. What makes him different from Boko Haram?
In d gaybourhood, there are lots of cute dudes, very very cute ones. But i wonder wat some gays see in str8 dudes. Dis man, to my eyes hs ntn like handsomeness in his blood. (red face)
Buh as a matter of fact, if checked from another angle I don't fink dis guy mean evrythn he is saying. Come to fink of it, dis is naija, kill and be killed. Dats d law, nd no way a normal human being won't have conscience nd be killing ppl like fowl. So from my own perspective, I fink d guy is jst fooling u around probably to scare poop outa u!
Lol….my thots exactly. I mean c'mon! Y'all know dis niggah is just messing with ya head,right? Aint no way he killed 2 ppl. You accidentally killed d first one by beating, and d situation came up again and u killed another one?not remembering d stress and inconvinience u must hav had from trying to cover ur tracks after the first one? C'mon!
Pinky, if this is not a disguised comedy then I'm surprised and grossly disappointed that you believed that your "soldier" friend killed 2 gays. That guy was chatting with u indifferently and you took him serious. A soldier WILL NEVER tell someone including other soldiers that he killed someone either in battle or in normal life. That guy is either not a soldier or is pulling ur legs.May I also bring to ur notice that some gay guys use to deny their sexuality and even curse and threaten gays when they want a guy they don't fancy off their backs.This might be one of such scenario. Lastly, I must commend you for warning us about the likely violence of homophobes but I don't think it's fair to put that guys pix online on the strength of your chats with him without further proofs
I understand Pink Panther, the guy may not have actually killed anyone but he wants us to get a feel of this guy's mind and his twisted thoughts. If he can wish he killed people like swating a fly, then there is some twisted shit going on in his head
Trust is, I wonder what the mental capacity of people like you is. I don't mean that as an insult but I truly do. You really think this guy wasn't serious? After reading that chat? There's nothing about trying to be macho in a chat about this conversation. Sorry to say but your likes would be those who instead of staying away from this guy will try to 'find' about him. And do I hate gay mean who venture to convert straight guys? Yes, with the last pint of my blood I hate them. When you find yourself dumped and decaying in some bush or some highway conner, will yourself to find a way to come tell us this post was right about him.
A man's actions and utterances are usually limited to his level of Knowledge and how willing he is to allow his learning impact on him and his brains. Education ought to make him objective and restraint in his speech but when it doesn't, one cannot but feel pity for him
See the ugly thing sef
I don't believe he killed anyone tho!
What did he do with the bodies? Hide them in his DM?
Buahahaha! Dennis u're a mess for this! No,he hid them in his mail-box…LMFAO. Dude aint ugly in d face tho; actually has a cute face….
Typically senseless chats coming from him. Bloody arse liar. "I was sleeping" my bony arse….and they tore his clothes??? Nwam, you sure say no be one of our 'Buff Bettys' be this???
Whoever was chatting with this dude had PATIENCE.
Goodmorning guys
Please go and like my friend's picture and help him win this. Do this as a personal favor for me biko!
I personally wondered about the veracity of his claims. He didn't sound serious enough. Plus, would he confess murder to total stranger just to drive home his antigay stance?
Anyway, turns out Mr. Iwezulu and my buddy were friends from secondary school. I'm told Stanley is short-tempered and a braggart. And, yes, he's a soldier. My friend confirms Mr. Iwezulu is vehemently anti-gay but doubts he's capable of murder.
Absalom honey have you voted my friend for Mr Tourism?
Right away. 🙂
For some reason I'm not provoked about the whole thing…
Maybe this was all a big joke…Or maybe it's real…
*Falls into a state of deep thinking…
I know this guy on Facebook and he has tons of gay friends there. The kind of friends that post nude pictures and advertise for hookups. And they like his many shirtless pictures in droves. However he keeps posting status messages proclaiming he is not gay. I once asked him why he has a lot of gay friends then and he promptly deleted me. Like I care.
The way I see it, something isn't right with this guy. Personally I think he is as gay as Magic Johnson's son and is only trying to the max to convince himself otherwise.
He is fine but isn't the finest around so why is he always in the company of gay men. Enough for them to sleep with him in the same room and have the opportunity to jump him?
Onye kpara nku aruru siri ngwere biara ya mgbaru.
Great advise Pinky, it would be wise to steer clear from this one.
The guy seems a bit off. He doesn't even sound hard enough. But that's not to say I doubt him. And Pinky really put him on the defensive. I would have loved to hear him when he's not on the defensive; maybe then we would have gotten to the inner workings of his crooked head. Anyway, the guy should be in prison now.
Goodness Gracious!!!!
I really lack the words to express how Shell-Shocked I am…
So He Callously killed n doesn't see anything wrong in it!
Hmmm ηα wa o…
me that cant even get turned on by fellow gay guys except str8, somtin tells me this dude is as queer as a 3 dollar bill, if not its a challenge, even tho he aint my type
Emm, folks. I have 23 mutual friends on Facebook with a certain Stanley Lauren Iwezulu. Virtually all of them are my friends and teachers from secondary school. In my JSS 2, I had a huge crush on a certain Stanley in SS3 who went on to NDA or somewhere like that. Am I next on the list? If there's a list. *clears throat nervously, looks behind, Home Alone, shit*
Lol…some serious paranoia. Shit like this just makes you rethink everything.
i know him. he was my jnior in secondary school. st thomass college kano. and yes he in d military. air force i think. i have always hated that guy. be careful boo.
Obviously dis guy isn't very well, looks like he's mentally derailed…healthy soldiers don't go about talking dis kind of nonsense on social medias…he might not even b a soldier for all there is!
D guy is a 4cking gay guy dat doesn't know hw to deal wit it I know him very well he lives in NDA kaduna,he claims nt to be gay but he's on manjam n still 4cks guys stupid idiot
This one that everybody seems to know this guy…
Nwannaa oriegwu awukwa ke nta
Translation??? As you can see my name is Deola.
Ok! Can we get into how inconsistent this guy's story is. He is just all over the place, he was touched, he was kissed, he was attacked in his sleep, his cloths was torn! Nna get it together! We get it! He hates himself and tries to take out on other people. As much as will like to dismiss this as complete rubbish, I wouldn't, pinky has a point, we should take heed, to the warning but am not sure about this queen. He also sounds like a complete dud, just a pretty boy with zero brains to booth. His conversation skills can be equated to a 3 year old trying to sound gangster, you can see that pinky sounded light-years well read and good @ holding a convo compared to this guy. Yes pinky I remember u retweeting a couple of his pic yesterday and am like this dude fine and truth bbe told, some of them pix look hella gay. Nuf said
Trust me it's easy for a soldier to kill a bloody civilian and cover it up nicely in today's Nigeria. It's sad but true
I strongly disagree
Have you thought about being shot before and labeled showing 'terrorist tendencies '?
If you haven't then you should read our papers more keenly
My friend this discuss falls within my jurisdiction. If the police condones murder, the armed forces won't. An average soldier is trained to stand up against injustice wherever it rears it's head. Sadly,I must also admit that we have charlatans amongs us but there disciplinary machineries put in place to check mate them and their excesses. A soldier is trained on how to be restraint at all times. There is nothing like "accidental discharge" in the army dictionary. Soldiers are trained to kill yet they value lives .
Shocked at the cold blooded manner with which he describes murder. I shall continue to scream from the rooftops, steer clear of conversion missions, the stress and risk involved far outweighs the 'reward' … there are loads of readymade gay men out there for the taking … grab one and forget all these confused 'straight' men ….
I never knew there are benefits. Pls what are the possible benefits? I want to weigh my options
I would love to slow torture this guy until he begs to die, and then I'll start again all d while keeping him very conscious. He deserves it. And yes I'm willing and very capable. Soldier my foot. I hope he gets to die my own way cos a bullet to the heart would be too easy.
But this guy is gay na.
But he sounds like someone that loathes himself too much.
His english sef na die.
This made me sick to my stomach.
I get crushes, we are all allowed to have 'em, after all we are only human.
Other than that though I wish we would save ourselves the pain and heartache when it come to these straighties.
Look and admire from afar and then move the fuck on.
We might be kind and well mannered but that doesn't mean everyone is. If it is not this idiot, it will be another one.
I salute our courage and the fact that we are dealing with the cards we were dealt with, without hurting anyone. People like this make me sick with their cowardice, because that is what they are. Cowards.
You cant deal with what you are and so you take out your self loathing and self hate on someone innocent. Karma is certainly not dead. And she will get to you in due time.
Pls we shouldn't get carried away. The guy said he has killed 20 sorry 2 gay guys.we are sure he said it. How sure are we that he did or ever will? He is no different from other cheap gays who turn ant-gay preachers when they meet someone they don't seem to like. What about guys that will invite those who can travel and switch off their phones leaving the guy stranded simply because turned out not to be "their type"? Instead of curses let's use our usual phrase "internal homophobia"
OMG! The bastard is a friend of mine on facebook. With wot he wrote do u knw dat he took law into his hand nd d Nigeria uniform should be collected frm him, he shouldnt be wearing it.
Oh shit! Lord have mercy…
If uve survived a kito experience before, u will know this ain't no joke. Trust me,it is. Killing gays or harming them is like killing a fly,that gay bill just made it better to harm us. I know what I saw and all I went through with my experience, smh, surprised some people are saying it might be a joke.. Very
heheheh!.. didn't knw Stanley is a murderer !.. maybe he said it to get u scared!.. he is sweet actually but


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Dr. Elena Nicoladis and her research colleagues observed the hand gestures of bilingual children as they told the same story twice, first in one language and then the other. The researchers were surprised by what they saw.
"The children used gestures a lot more when telling the story in what they considered to be their stronger language," said Nicoladis, a psychologist at the U of A. "These results seemed counter-intuitive to us. We thought the children would be more inclined to use gestures to help them communicate in their weaker language."
Based on these results and the results of earlier studies, Nicoladis believes there is a connection between language and memory access and gesturing.
"What we think is going on here," Nicoladis said, "is that the very fact of moving your hands around helps you recall parts of the story--the gestures help you access memory and language so that you can tell more of the story."
"Initially, we thought gestures were related to meaning--that they meant something on their own. But now we believe they are more related to language," she added.
Nicoladis also pointed to another study she and her colleagues conducted that showed Chinese women who spoke English at a higher level than Chinese men also exhibited more hand gestures when talking English than the men did.
The researchers also have preliminary results to show that 8 to 10 year-old girls use more hand gestures and were able to retell more of the story of a cartoon they had just watched than their male coevals were able to. Nicoladis added that it is well-documented that girls develop language skills faster than boys.
She speculates that all of this knowledge may come in handy for people who have difficulty speaking, such as ESL students and some elderly people.
"If you're in a situation where it's important to get the language out and you're having difficulty, it may help to start making gestures," said Nicoladis, who conducts most of her research on hand gestures with Dr. Paula Marentette of the University of Alberta Augustana College.
"There's certainly a lot more work that needs to be done before we can understand everything about gestures and why we make them," Nicoladis added. "But the results so far have given us a lot to think about."
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Privacy Policy
This Website Privacy Policy applies to the information Constellation Schools ("Constellation", "it(s)", "our", "us", and "we") collects through its website ("Site"). We do this to provide education information and to register individuals for receiving our educational services ("Services"). This Website Privacy Policy describes our information collection practices, such as the types of information we collect regarding visitors to the Site, how we may use, share, or disclose that information. By using this Site, you consent to this Website Privacy Policy.
Because Constellation manages public institutions, some information collected from the Site, including information from our server logs, e-mail delivered to our Site, and information collected from Web-based forms, may be subject to the Ohio Public Records Act. This means that we do not actively share information, but in some cases may be compelled by law to release information gathered from our Site servers.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
1. Information You Provide To Us
We collect information you provide directly to us, which can be personal in nature. For example, we collect information when you complete a registration or enrollment form; complete an employment or other application; participate in any interactive features; subscribe to a newsletter or email list; participate in an event, survey, contest or promotion; communicate with us via third-party social media sites; request support or otherwise communicate with us; communicate with us; or otherwise provide us information or interact with our Site. We may gather personal information, which is information that alone or in combination, is linked or linkable to allow a reasonable person to identify you as a specific natural person. This information includes, but is not limited to, your first and last names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers ("Personal Information"). If the Site offers you the ability to set up an account or personal profile, we may require that you supply us with Personal Information to set up such an account or profile, though you would not have to in order to access the Site for general purposes. In addition, we may collect other information about you, such as demographic information (e.g., your age or gender), or other information you choose to provide. If we combine demographic or other non-Personal Information with Personal Information, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect Automatically
We and our third-party service providers (including any third-party content, advertising, and analytics providers) may use a variety of technologies, including cookies, flash cookies, and web beacons, that automatically or passively collect certain information about your use of the Site whenever you visit or interact with the Site. This information ("Usage Information") may include:
a. Information about your use of the Site, including your Internet Protocol ("IP") address, web request, access times, pages viewed, web browser, media access control address (MAC address), links clicked and the page you visited before navigating to the Site;
b. Information about the mobile device you use to access our Site, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, mobile network information, browser type, and information about your use of our mobile applications; and
c. Information collected by cookies and other tracking technologies: Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that may help us improve our Site and your experience, see which areas and features of our Site are popular, and count visits. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used in our Site or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness. You can find more information about cookies and how they work at AllAboutCookies.org. A Flash cookie is a data file placed on a device via the Adobe Flash plug-in that may be built into or downloaded by you onto your device. Flash cookies may be used for various purposes, including, without limitation, enabling a Flash feature and remembering your preferences. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For more information about Flash and the privacy choices Adobe offers, visit the Adobe's Flash Player Settings Manager page. Use the options in your Internet browser if you do not wish to receive a cookie or if you wish to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. If you disable all cookies or adjust your Flash privacy settings on your device, some features of the Site may not function properly, and you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of the Site.
We may use Usage Information for a variety of purposes, including enhancing or otherwise improving the Site and our Services, and to target content or offers to users. The Usage Information we collect is generally non-identifying, and is not linked to any Personal Information while on our Site; however, if we associate it with you as a specific and identifiable person, we will treat it as Personal Information.
3. Information Third Parties Provide About You
We may receive information about you from third parties and we may supplement the information we collect with outside records in order to provide you with information, activities or Services you have requested, to tailor content, to offer you opportunities to become involved in activities that we believe may interest you, and for other purposes. For example, we may collect information about you when you post content to our pages/feeds on third-party social media sites. We may combine the information we receive from those other sources with information we collect through the Site. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to the combined information.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies, how they may be used, or third-party sites you may visit via a link on our Site. Please review the privacy policies of any third-party site you visit as we are not responsible for how their practices concerning your personal or other information. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Advertising and Analytics Services Provided by Others
We may allow third parties to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet and to provide analytics services. These entities may use cookies, flash cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Services and other websites, including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information. This information is anonymous and cannot be directly linked to individual users. This information may be used by Constellation and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our services and other Sites and better understand your online activity.
For example, we may use Google services, such as Google Analytics, to collect data about traffic across our Site, to deliver advertisements when you visit other websites, and to share data about traffic to our website with Google and other Google Analytics program participants. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and processes data, visit. To opt out of: (i) Google Analytics install the and (ii). You may also want to visit ("NAI") which provides information regarding targeted advertising and the "opt-out" procedures of NAI members, and the ("DAA") which provides information regarding targeted advertising and offers an "opt-out" by participating companies in the DAA Self-Regulatory Program.
How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect about you or that you provide to us, including Personal Information and Usage Information:
● to enable you to use our Site, and to provide related Services and care, including responding to your questions, complaints or comments;
● to process student enrollment or an employee application if requested;
● to provide you with information, opportunities, or Services that you have requested or that we otherwise believe will interest you, including special opportunities from us and our third-party partners;
● to personalize your experience by tailoring content, recommendations, and opportunities we display to you, both on the Site and elsewhere online;
● for internal business purposes such as to improve our Site and services;
● to process information you provide via our Site, including verifying that your email address is active and valid;
● to provide and deliver the information, products and services you request, process transactions and send you related information, including confirmations and receipts;
● to process your registration;
● to otherwise support students, parents, legal guardians, and/or staff;
● to monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our services;
● to contact you with administrative communications and, in our discretion, changes to our Privacy Policy, or any of our other policies;
● to comply with regulatory and legal obligations;
● for any purpose that you provide consent;
● to enforce our policies, including this Privacy Policy;
● to support functions of our human resource management, including the coordination of third-party service providers that provide insurance and personal financial services, such as retirement planning and savings and investment services;
● to comply with governmental regulations or to response to a subpoena, records act request, or other governmental or administration order/legal requirement;
● during the due diligence process for purposes of a sale, merger, or acquisition of Constellation;
● to carry out our Services as described above;
● to determine your level of engagement with email, the Site or promotional marketing materials that are sent to you, including whether you opened an email or promotional marketing material;
● to improve our Services, for example by reviewing information associated with stalled or crashed pages' experience by users allowing us to identify and fix problems and given you a better experience;
● for security purposes, including to prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraud, security breaches or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities and/or attempts to harass our users;
● to monitor and improve the information security of the Site and our Services; and
● for purposes as disclosed at the time you provide your information, with your consent, and as further described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy constitutes notice that, via a secure link on the Site, we collect student and staff information to allow staff of Constellation to monitor information necessary to ensure proper protocols, procedures, and policies are being followed and to ensure overall efficiency. If Constellation learns of unauthorized access of this secure link, Constellation will comply with all legal obligations, including notification to affected persons, and law enforcement if necessary, and take reasonable measures to assist to contain and remedy the unauthorized accident.
Data Security
We have implemented technical, physical and organizational measures to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure or access against all other unlawful forms of processing.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information via linked sites, such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Site.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.
Each employee who has any responsibility for the operation or maintenance of the Site, or the use of Personal Information maintained in the system, shall be provided a copy of this policy and shall be trained in how to comply with it.
Third Party Content / Links
From time to time, we may link content from third parties, which may include information to events that may include registration and/or payment links. By posting third-party content or allowing third parties to post content on the Site, we are not responsible for the linked or third-party accessible content or for any liability for any event. Constellation has no control over information posted by any third party or of any event marketed on the Site.
Information Sharing
We may share non-Personal Information, such as Usage Information and aggregated user statistics, with third parties in our discretion; for example, to target advertisements, to serve our advertisements elsewhere online, and to provide us with information regarding the use of the Site and the effectiveness of our advertisements. Constellation does not sell or share Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We may share the information we have collected about you (including Personal Information): (i) as disclosed at the time you provide your information, (ii) with your consent, (iii) as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, or (iv) in the following circumstances:
1. Third Parties Providing Services on Our Behalf
We engage third-party service providers to perform a variety of functions, such as providing technical services for our Site, sending email communications, providing administrative services to our employees, etc. Such third-party service providers may have access to Personal Information if needed to perform certain functions pursuant to the contracts we have in place with those third-party service providers. However, these companies may use such Personal Information only for the purpose of performing that function and may not use it for any other purpose.
2. Administrative and Legal Reasons
We reserve the right to use or disclose any information (including Personal Information) as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to protect the integrity of the Site, to fulfill your requests, or to cooperate in any law enforcement investigation or an investigation on a public safety matter, to protect and defend the legal rights or our property rights, our Site or its users, or any other party, or in an emergency, to protect the health and safety of our users or the general public. We also reserve the right to share registration and enrollment information that is collected to school districts or other third parties as may be required by state law, federal law, and/or school operating procedures.
3. Social Networking Features
Functionality on the Site may permit interactions that you initiate between the Site and a third-party website or service such as Twitter or Facebook ("Social Networking Features"). For example, our Site may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook "Like" button), which let you share actions you take on our Site with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the third party that provides the social sharing feature. The information we collect in connection with Social Networking Features is subject to this Website Privacy Policy. The information collected and stored by the third party remains subject to the third party's privacy practices. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features. We are not responsible for the republishing of the content found on our site on other Web sites or media without our permission.
4. Business Transfers & Transitions
In the event Constellation goes through a transition (such as a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or sale of all or a portion of its assets, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process), your Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. By providing your Personal Information, you agree that we may transfer such information to the acquiring entity without your further consent.
5. Internally with our Employees/Agents
We will share your information, including Personal Information, with our employees/agents who are responsible for provided you the Services in line with the scope of their employment/agency with us.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA")
We will production your children's education records as required by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA") and all applicable state laws regarding the privacy of student records or personally identifiable information (as defined under FERPA). We will only disclose education records or provide access to them in compliance with FERPA and applicable state laws, and we will require third parties that contract with us and have access to education records to do the same. We will not use personal identifiable information to target a student for advertising, sell personal identifiable information or use personal identifiable information to create profiles about a student (other than for purposes of the student's education at Constellation) when those activities are prohibited by law. We will require any third party vendors to destroy all personally identifiable information when no longer necessary for the purpose behind the access as required by law. If any provision of this Privacy Policy conflicts with FERPA or other federal or state law, Constellation will comply with the more protective standard for the education records.
Your California Privacy Rights
Shine the Light Law
Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask us for a notice identifying the categories of personal Information that we share with our affiliates and/or third parties for marketing purposes, and providing contact information for such affiliates and/or third parties. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a written request to the following address: Constellation Schools, 5730 Broadview Road, Parma, Ohio 44134 will respond to one request per California customer each year, and we do not respond to requests made by means other than as set forth above.
California Do Not Track Disclosure
Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the browser sends a message to websites requesting them not to track the user. At this time, we do not respond to Web browser "do not track" settings or signals. We deploy cookies and other technologies on our Service to collect information about you and your browsing activity, even if you have turned on the Do Not Track signal.
California Consumer Privacy Act
We are not subject to the eligibility requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Children Under the Age of 18
Visitors under the age of 18 must obtain permission from their parents or guardians before sending any personal identifying information to any page within the Constellation website.
Children Under the Age of 13
We take reasonable efforts to be in compliance with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"). Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age, we do not solicit information of any kind from children under the age of 13, and we do not and will not knowingly contact or collect Personal Information from children under 13.
The only Personal Information we may receive through this Site about children under the age of 13 is information provided by the parent or legal guardian or information provided by the child as part of that child's participation in our education program with consent of their parent or legal guardian. For example, we may collect personal information from children under the age of 13 when our students under the age of 13 use their Constellation account to communicate with us. Constellation student accounts may allow for students to share work, send files from home to Constellation, write to their teachers and turn in class work, among other uses. Constellation requires all parents and legal guardians of students under the age of 13 to review and sign our Technology and Internet Acceptable Use Policy, otherwise such student will not receive or will be denied access to her Constellation account. If a Constellation student chooses to correspond with us through their account or email, we may store, process and/or use the personal information contained therein to communicate with the student and/or her parent or legal guardian, to address technical issues with the student's account or access to the network, to update our records and perform other administrative functions. We may retain the content of the student's messages together with their email address and our responses. We may provide the collected information to employees, agents or service providers acting on Constellation's behalf in connection with the activities described above, but we will only provide those employees, agents and service providers the personal information they need to perform their functions for us. By enrolling a child at Constellation, a parent is consenting to the collection of that information.
If you are a parent or legal guardian and are concerned about the disclosure of personal information about your child that we may obtain via this Site, you may review your child's personal information, ask to have it deleted and refuse to allow any further collection or use of the child's information. You can contact us at the contact information listed below.
Our Site, products and Services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, once verified, we will promptly obtain parental or guardian consent, and in the absence of such consent, will delete the information.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information and Opting Out of Communications
If at any time, you would like to review, correct, erase, object to, and/or dispute the information we have about you or if you would like to change your preferences for contacts from us, you can let us know by contacting us at the address below. Constellation will make good faith efforts to implement requested changes in our active databases subject to the applicable laws. Note, however, that we may continue to store information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may also retain cached or archived copies of information about you for a certain period of time. We will endeavor to deal with all requests for access and modifications in a timely manner.
If you would like to opt-out of promotional information from us or unsubscribe from our email list, please use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our newsletter emails, or contact us through the email or postal address listed below. However, please note that even if you opt-out of receiving marketing communications or donor requests, we reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to notices of changes to this Website Privacy Policy, or similar administrative or transactional messages. These transactional messages may be unaffected if you choose to opt-out from marketing communications.
With your consent, we may send push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.
'Do Not Track' Notifications
Some browsers allow you to automatically notify websites you visit not to track you using a "Do Not Track" signal. There is no consensus among industry participants as to what "Do Not Track" means in this context. Like many websites and online services, we currently do not alter our practices when we receive a "Do Not Track" signal from a visitor's browser. To find out more about "Do Not Track," please visit All About Do Not Track (DNT).
Use Within the United States
The Site is operated in the United States and is for United States users only. Users outside of the United States are prohibited from using the Site. As such, we are not responsible for any potential violations of privacy laws outside the jurisdiction of the United States.
Where We Store Your Information
Information we collected is stored in the United States.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy and will notify you of material changes by posting the changed or modified Privacy Policy on our Site. We may also provide notice to you in other ways in our discretion, such as through contact information you have provided. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy on our Site unless otherwise specified and your continued use of the Site after the effective date of the revised Privacy Policy (or such other act as specified in the revised Privacy Policy) will constitute your consent to those changes. Rest assured, however, that unless we obtain your consent, any changes will not alter how we handle previously collected information, unless otherwise required by law. The date the policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Website Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about the Constellation Website Privacy Policy, or wish to review your information or be removed from our database for mailings, please contact us at: Constellation Schools, 5730 Broadview Road, Parma, Ohio 44134; firstname.lastname@example.com; 216-712-7600.
Other Policies: Please also see our public records, security, social media and networking, use of electronic equipment, software and copyright, technology and internet use, and personal information systems policies.
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