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Once upon a time, as old fairy tales and fables begin, very many early computer Quest/Adventures games, the only genre dealt with in this article, included a numeric-counter indicating progress. For example… each time an essential action, task or dialog, etc, was completed a 'ping' or other sound was emitted and the 'score-counter' chalked up some points on a display panel. Frequently, if they were minor achievements, a small increment was implemented on the main score, whereas if the success were really substantial, a larger number of points would be added.
As far as I know, most gamers were happy with this system or its minor variations. It gave the player a constant sense of achievement and motivation to continue. It also provided a sense of what was primary in the solution of puzzles and maybe helped to overcome setbacks, it also gave the player a pretty accurate idea of what fraction of the whole game he had succeeded in completing to date.
Quite a number of players took this a step further and were not satisfied unless or until they had obtained the full maximum possible number of points. It would happen fairly frequently that a player would finish a game fully and completely but would find that his final point count was say 'only' 146 points out of the total possible of 150. Some of these players would replay part or even the whole game until they arrived at the absolute maximum possible score. Developers and Publishers alike were not averse to this since it tended to increase the playing time of their game and the player would get more bangs for his bucks. In addition, it reduced the possibility for reviews or reports to claim that a game was short or "I finished the whole game in 4 hours" etc. Such adverse criticisms, whether fully justified or not, could be the kiss of death for a game.
All seemed well. However it turned out unexpectedly that there was a proverbial fly in the ointment… Well not actually a fly but some nasty bugs!
In every single case the bugs materialized always as a complete unexpected absolute surprise and shock. I never ever expected problems and certainly never searched for them!
It all started nineteen years ago with a good unpretentious game called Blue Force developed by a Company called "Tsunami Games". It was a typical 3rd-person point'n'click game, rather similar to Sierra's early "Police Quests", and featuring a police officer called Jake Ryan. A fair way into the game, Jake enters his HQ and checks in. For the correct procedure you receive the appropriate bonus of points.
So far, so good!! Then for some strange unknown reason, I repeated that same action, naturally expecting no reaction since there was no reason to duplicate and purportedly no more points to be gained!?!. However, to my absolute astonishment, I received the same number of points once again. I have no idea now as to why I repeated the identical action unnecessarily. I can't remember… after all it was almost two decades ago!
Nevertheless, being curious, I experimented and found that I could repeat that particular action as many times as I liked, obtaining the same increase in points every time. Thus I could get any total number of points I wanted - possibly even more than the maximum total points that the game permitted… I don't know about that since I didn't continue far enough to try it!
The next time a similar thing happened was in a 1995 game with an excellent sophisticated "Sierra" game called Shivers. Most of this quite hard game, with its many complexities, takes place in a weird museum. But before you can even enter it, close to the beginning, as a short warm-up, you have to perform some tasks, each one giving you an added point-count.
Once again, completely by happenstance, I stumbled on the fact that you can repeat a certain one of these tasks as many times as you wish, adding the same number of points every time! Hence, either intentionally or not, you can rack up any number of points whatsoever, thus rendering the point- count and total completely worthless and meaningless!
Two years went by and in 1997 I played "Sierra's" Shivers 2: Harvest of Souls. I certainly did not anticipate a repetition of the same type of flaw. But I'm darned if it didn't happen yet again!
Somewhat into this game you are obliged to perform some essential actionand for so doing receive a number of points. I seem to remember that it applied to a vending machine in the motel lobby. But I'm not certain if it was actually there since it was 15 years ago, although it most certainly did happen fairly close to the beginning of the game. Once more you can repeat that action over and over again acquiring the same packet of points each time!
Fast forward a few years into the fairly early 21st century and I encountered my last exact example of this exact same bug. It was in a modest Independent game The Adventures of Fatman. Pretty early in this game, Fatman, a parody of Superman, receives a few points for obtaining an edible item. I seem to remember that it was a doughnut, but the passage of many years renders that questionable, What however is not questionable is that he can pick up the food repeatedly and add the same points every time… as in the previous examples. This might be wonderful for Fattie with his prodigious gargantuan appetite , but not for the unfortunate game developer!
I did encounter one other anomaly many years ago, and an amusing one at that. It was not exactly the same as the abovementioned cases since I have no idea how or where in the game it occurred… I was too busy solving puzzles and avoiding being killed to keep an eye on the score! All I know is that at the end of the game an incredible window was displayed. I was absolutely astounded to read an on-screen notification as follows… "Congratulations. You have completed the game with a total of 1016 points out of a maximum possible of`1000 points"! I can't really repeat this case since, unlike the previous cases, I don't know where in the game it occurred or what caused it!
I would be very interested in knowing if others came across these troubles, and even more so with additional examples. In over 30 years of constant computer game playing and related activities I have never seen a report or remark of any of the abovementioned bugs although I guess there have been some somewhere! I have never been in touch with any of the Developers or Publishers concerned, although maybe I should have been. Hence I have no idea whatsoever whether all or any were ever aware of these problems or whether any were corrected after release. It is certainly likely that adventure game developers were made aware of the potential dangers of including numerical scorers in their games, despite the advantages outlined at the beginning of this article. After all, they involved a lot of extra programming and particularly checking and testing and if despite this they apparently not infrequently resulted in bugs, it was a very doubtful proposition.
Whether or not developers became aware of the hazards and decided that numeric indicators were more of a curse than a benefit the fact is that
after a good while they were incorporated less and less and eventually fell out of fashion completely!
I have never known why I particularly stumbled on those several different scoring bugs. Maybe the same happened to everyone who played those particular games? Or maybe it was due to the fact that I did a great deal of intensive alpha and beta testing and detailed walkthrough writing? Either way makes no difference factually… those bugs existed and fairly likely continue to remain even now in those games.
As the numerical score pad died out, it gave way to a more flexible albeit less precise method of tracking progress throughout the game. This generally took the form of a narrow long bar with equidistant markings dividing it into the requisite number of chapters. As each chapter progressed the empty bar would fill with a bold color and as each chapter was completed, its appropriate segment would be completely filled. It used to somewhat remind me of a pre- digital mercury or other liquid thermometer. This system made allowance for small scoring discrepancies and, if necessary, also permitted the player a little latitude in that he did not necessarily have to complete every single minor action in order to proceed to the next chapter.
However for one reason or another this fashion did not last very long and eventually also died out. It may have been due to the fact that it was not applicable to the many non-linear games which were then in the ascendance.
There was a somewhat half-hearted attempt to allot stars for success in solving puzzles, or for the lack of skipping them when applicable. But the concept didn't take off!
And so eventually all forms of scoring systems more or less vanished from gameplay. As a matter of fact, I personally only recall one single example over the past few years although of course I may quite easily have overlooked others:-
Some brainwaves do not disappear completely! After a lapse of many years, quite recently Jane Jensen (of Gabriel Knight acclaim) released a game called Gray Matter. It incorporated some ingenious scoring elements (not the old-fashioned numerical panel), which, if nothing else, offered some guidelines if/when stuck.
What the future will bring in this realm, who can tell, but there are always developers who design new ideas, modifications and innovations!


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I NEEDED to sew SOMETHING while I was waiting for my couture dress pattern to arrive, so I made this bag out of bits and pieces…might give it to my Mum :) A bit fiddly, but happy enough with the overall result. It's based on the Burdastyle Bag from the book, with a couple of modifications (flap, single strap etc).
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Brown sheeting, blue wool felt and paisley quilting fabric.
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Jun 3, 2012, 10.23 AMby jennyrecorder
Ditto Marjorie (and lucky you to be heading overseas!). I just had the urge to sew and I didn't feel like making clothing…don't know if Mum will like it, she can always give it to a local charity down where she lives. Have you looked at any of the couture dress videos yet? I'm really looking forward to spending a bit of time to get things right and I like the calm of sewing by hand, can't wait.
Jun 3, 2012, 06.20 AMby schnui
I am sure your Mum will be happy with this bag Jenny. It looks like it will be very handy and fit heaps in it. Are you waiting on the Craftsy Couture dress pattern?? If you are, I have signed up for that class too and I got my pattern in just over 3 weeks. I haven't started yet but will when I get home from my holiday in Europe. The pattern is lovely and I have bought a floral Dupion silk to make it in. I think I would be able to make it without this course but I am sure there will be techniques taught that I know nothing about, so I am really looking forward to starting it. Good luck with your dress and I look forward to seeing it.
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Leo Roth, of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, reports former Buffalo Bills C Kent Hull refutes the claim by New Orleans Saints head coach Jim Haslett that he used steroids during his career in the 1980s. Earlier this week, Haslett stated that he "played with a guy who came into the league, he came out of the USFL. He was 270 (pounds), and he would never have made our team if he didn't get up to 300. The linemen got him together, got him a little supplemental pill for the week and he got up to about 305 and made our team. And he's probably one of the all-time great players in Bills history." The one player that fits that description is Hull. "It's false, I can tell you that," said Hull. "I hate to hear it. I may have to give him a call. I certainly didn't use them."
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Product liability law firm TorkLaw continues to pursue litigation against St. Jude Medical on behalf of injured patients and their families.
In December 2011, the Food and Drug Administration issued a Class 1 recall for the St. Jude Medical Riata leads after many adverse events were being reported in patients. Studies showed that the leads which connect the heart defibrillator to the heart were failing due to insulation problems referred to as externalization. A Class 1 Recall is the highest level recall that exists because the product poses a reasonable probability of serious adverse health consequences or death.
TorkLaw is now representing patients in fifteen states who have been affected by the recalled Riata leads and continues its ongoing investigation. "We are speaking with patients from all over the country who have suffered from life-threatening injuries as a result of the defects found in St. Jude Medicals's heart devices," said Reza Torkzadeh, Senior Partner at TorkLaw.
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Try to determine your cat's breed (or breeds), as certain health conditions have genetic links. For example, Persians and Abyssinians tend to be at risk for kidney problems, which are manageable if diagnosed early.
New research recently revealed that women, in general, tend to bond more with cats than men do. Many men, however, enjoy equally rewarding relationships with cats. What might explain our puzzling human-cat dynamics? Science is providing some answers.
Cats Make the Right SoundsKaren McComb, a reader in behavioral ecology at the University of Sussex, is both a researcher and a cat owner, so her daily interactions with her own pet often become fodder for studies. McComb began to notice that her male cat frequently sounds like a human infant. "Cats have about the right size of vocal folds to produce a cry that is similar to a baby's," she explains. "The meow, which can sound like a crying child, will be particularly effective with humans." Both men and women seem to respond to this sound, with the mothering instinct particularly kicking in for women.
Cats can also engage in what McComb calls "solicitation purring." This sound combines purring with an embedded high-pitched cry, which creates a sound that's nearly irresistible. "In the case of my cat, if he sees you stirring from sleep at all in the early morning, he will immediately switch into giving this solicitation purring and position himself next to your head so you get the full impact."
Cats Have the Right TouchCats are extremely tactile animals. Even among themselves, they are forever showing affiliation by affectionately pushing against each other, cleaning faces and even snoozing together in one big pile. This need and compulsion to touch extends to their human social partners too.
Manuela Wedl of the University of Vienna's Konrad Lorenz Research Station and Department of Behavioral Biology and her team recently analyzed the social dynamics between 40 cats and their owners. In their study, published in the journal Behavioural Processes, they documented these tactile interactions and more:
Women and CatsMen and women frequently differ in their influence over the cat. "It is known that, when humans and cats first meet, women tend to speak/vocalize to the cat more than men, and cats tend to approach women more often than men," says Wedl.
Once again, sound isn't the only bonding factor. "In studies of cat-owning families, it has been found that women tend to interact with their cats more than men do," says Wedl. "In response, the cats approach female owners more frequently and initiate contact more frequently, such as jumping up, than they do with male owners." She additionally points out that other researchers believe "female owners have more intense relationships with their cats than do male owners."
Men and CatsMysteries remain as to why cats and women so often seem to bond well. It could have to do with the cat-baby similarities. It may also just be that the ways women tend to express affiliation match better with those of cats. Hormones, genetics and other forms of hardwiring can come into play. Conversely, it's said that dogs are man's best friend.
Just as many women love their dogs, however, many men adore cats. Wedl and her colleagues studied numerous such relationships, and noted that petting, playing and other more active forms of engagement were not affected by whether or not the owner was male or female. Sometimes research data is even skewed toward women because, in some households, women tend to be at home more and can therefore spend more time with pets.
The bottom line is that if you can share affection -- be it in the form of food, a place in your home or time for play -- a cat would likely welcome your generosity and return the kindness in its own way.
Jennifer Viegas is the managing editor of The Daily Cat. She is a journalist for Discovery News, the news service for the Discovery Channel, and has written more than 20 books on animals, health and other science-related topics.
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Bill says: SaMocha ... you cat is trying to fix you up... Watch her choices... lol
Steve says: I also think that a woman's voice maybe more gentle and a bit higher than men's in general. This...I believe...is less intimidating to a cat. Cats do not like loud noises..prefer more gentle. easy going, perhaps high pitched voice. Just my observation from many years as a cat owner.
Steve says: Debby:
Try a new litter box...your cat is either telling you that box is unacceptable or it has a problem...if it is a male cat..perhaps a urinary infection. Please take it to a vet, or consult with a vet...at least.
Calvin Jacobs says: In my experience cats tend to draw towards men then women.
My theory is that with some cats and their social personality they give attention on there terms... Meaning if the owner wants to cuddle the cat tends to run away, but when the cat wants to cuddle and is being ignored the cats persistent in getting the attention that the owner isn't giving . In this case I have observed that because women tend to seek out a cat and bring thief attention more then men do, a cat will cautiously approach a man that is not threatening and when feels comfortable will start the attention seeking maneuvers. I have noticed when a women walks in a room and starts the sweet kitty talk and forwardness towards a cat a cat tends to run.
Natureboy says: This sounds like a very unscientific study done by a very bigoted woman.
Stephanie says: I think it all has to do with the cats personality. We have 4 cats, one is affectionately attatched to my husband, but will snuggles with me from time to time, while the other 2 females will follow me and sit in my lap 24/7 if I let them. Our male is very laid back and he , in my opinion is more affectionate toward me, only because I know exactly how to play with him and how he likes to be scratched.
Meowoof says: I never do any of that sweet kitty talk crap. It's ridiculously annoying. I just talk in my normal tone and cats come to me. Jeez, outdoor cats are so extroverted, its scary. Unlike my dog, who is much like the common cat. <_<
SuqMadiq says: SaMocha, are you suprised? So typical of females of all species! Just kidding!
DEBBY says: MY MOTHER IN LAWS CAT HAS STOPPED SCRATCHING IN THE LITTER BOX DOES ANYONE KNOW WHY
SaMocha says: My year old female loves me but prefers men. Whenever a man comes to me house(family , friends, repairmen etc) she is all over them.. She rubs, purrs and begs for attention. If women come to the house she totally ignores them. She is a hussy!! LOL
angel says: my cat had a male owner until I adopted her, and I know she prefers me. I spend more time with her, spoil her, give her lots of attention... she is the love of my life...my beautiful cat.
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The Big Bang. Quantum physics. Neutrinos. The splitting of a proton. Energy. Massive Energy. Fire. Hurricanes. Wind. Waves. A landslide. Magick.
All of science has shown that magick doesn't exist. On the surface. The science of the 1700's, 1800's, and 1900's worked to understand the how's and why's of the world and to uncover the secret workings of what was considered "magick". They did an amazing job and the result is the world we live in. Computers, cars, planes, and chemistry run our lives and give us the means to live our lives in comfort. We discovered the atom (which actually is Latin for irreducible) and from there have manipulated them to nearly the maximum extent that they can be manipulated.
We discovered that an atom is not in fact irreducible. There are two parts of an atom: the nucleus and the electron cloud that surrounds it. Imagine that an atom is the size of an orange. The nucleus is smaller than one of the seeds. The 1-160 electrons that make up the cloud are each the size of a speck of dust. The rest is void space. Okay, that's kind of crazy but imaginable. So an atom is 99% void space and 1% mass.
Now we get into the quantum physics part of it. Through crazy testing that I'm not even going to begin to try to explain they've found that the nucleus's parts (protons and neutrons) can be further broken apart into what are known as quarks. Come to find out, they too make up only about 1% of the proton and neutron volume. The rest is void space. So within an atom, only 1% of 1% (that'd be .01% for the non math majors out there) is actual mass. That is incredible. So here's an example of why that's so incredible: Think about an airplane. It weighs hundreds of thousands of pounds and carries 150 people through the air, defying gravity. Now think about it in terms of atoms. For every square foot of metal, cut out all but a single piece of metal about 1/8th of an inch by 1/8th of an inch. Oh yeah, and as thin as a hair. That's how much actual mass is there. The rest is all just nothing. It's kind of mind blowing.
Now let's look past that to what hasn't been discovered and make an educated guess. No one has ever broken apart a quark or atom (that I've ever heard of), but my guess is that there's only about 1% of the quark that's actually there and the rest is void space. Do you see where I'm going with this? Eventually you realize that there really isn't anything out there. Nothing takes up any space in actuality because there's nothing really there.
Except energy. There is motion and so there must be energy. Even if an electron cloud is nearly all void space, it acts as an object. It has force and it has volume. Energy is the only thing that is real in the world. Now my question to you is this: how is the energy that is the world any different from the energy that is pulled through your body to create change in the world? It isn't. It is all the same thing with different vibrational levels and different intention.
The next thing that needs to be thought about is the fact that our bodies are also made of atoms which means that truthfully we are made of nothing but energy. And something else. There has to be something else inside of us that allows us to be alive and different from one another. This is the most logical and perfectly undeniable proof of the soul for lack of a better word.
So we are in essence, a soul that is somehow bound to energy. This is pretty much exactly what the Eastern philosophies and religions have taught for thousands of years. Now comes the true question of this blog: what do we do with this information?
Well, as far as magick is concerned, this logic tells us that if we can control the energy of our body then why would we not be able to control the energy outside of this body? Also, why would we not be able to transform the energy of a chair into the energy of an ice cube? And furthermore, why is it that we don't already know how to do this?
I don't know. Possibly it has to do with the fact that we are here for a reason and that reason doesn't include having everything we want without any effort. That's about as far as I can get at 4 am. I'd love to hear other people's ideas on this.
The more important question to ask is this: if we are all made up of energy, and the world is made up of energy, and our souls are simply tied to the energy that we inhabit, then what inhabits everything else? I'd have to say that the idea of a Mother Earth or a God or the Universe or whatever other name you'd like to give it sure does sound pretty plausible when you put it into those terms. If you take the first point and put it with this point, then one of the most obvious conclusions for me is this: there is a reason we are here and there is some sort of design to all of this chaos that is our lives.
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After mostly tuning out the first 93 months of the presidential election campaign, I've been paying a bit of attention since the conventions. So far I've deduced that both candidates are very clever and impeccably groomed and also that, for all their differences, they have one big thing in common with each other and with every other nationally prominent politician: An unshakeable belief that every thought that pops into their heads is pure genius.
I don't mean that dismissively or even negatively. I'm okay with politicians being crazy narcissists. I cringe whenever the discussion veers to speculation over which one seems like more of a "regular guy" or which one would be more fun to have a beer with. Neither! Neither one would be any fun at all to have a beer with. If forced to choose, I guess I'd pick Romney, because he doesn't drink, so good, more beer for me. Other than that, I think the experience would be the same either way. It would suck.
But like I said, that's fine with me. I want my president to be unapproachable. I don't want him to be "in touch" with dirtbags like you guys. I just want him to preside. And that probably takes a lot of confidence and even arrogance. What's generally an obnoxious trait makes perfect sense for these fellows. Romney and Obama are both handsome, successful men with nice families and big houses. What's to be humble about? I mean, the one marketed as the more regular and less wealthy has a bowling alley in his basement. These are not common folk, nor should they be.
I never considered a career in politics, which is a good thing since I'm unqualified by nearly every conceivable measure, but I bet I could have come through on the self-importance if all the other stuff had lined up. I refer to myself by the third person from time to time, and I talk about my wedding for the first 700 words of most liquor reviews. But I just never made enough of myself to become a truly top-notch narcissist, which is why I don't quite believe that my afternoon tea-drinking is influencing the weather. Quite. Yet.
In early June I started replacing my afternoon coffee with an afternoon nap, which worked great until I ran out of money and couldn't find a financial visionary bold enough to invest in my nap-taking. So a couple of weeks ago I grudgingly accepted that it was time to implement a post-lunch recaffeination regimen, and I decided to try tea. I've never been a big tea guy, but I like the idea of drinking it all day long without falling asleep or getting overly jittery. I think of tea as a kind of session coffee, and it's served me well in that capacity. But perpetual tea-taking feels like an awfully British affectation, which is why I can't help but notice that it has rained every single day since I began this experiment.
If I'm going to bring about England's most famous liquid by drinking its second, then I might as well indulge in the third. I haven't had a bottle of English gin in the house for months, and I suppose I still don't if you're one of those sticklers who maintains that Plainfield, Illinois, is technically outside of England, but geographical quibbles aside, I am now the proud owner of a bottle of Booth's London Dry Gin. The label says this 90-proof cheapie ($13 per 750 mL) is made in Illinois under the supervision of Booth's Distilleries of London. That'll do.
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U.S. Olympian Michael Phelps started swimming at the age of seven. TCU swimmer Cooper Robinson started much later.
"My parents kind of threw me into it as a summer activity and something to do," Robinson said. "I ended up loving it and decided to pursue it further into high school."
Robinson, a Katy, Texas, native, really started to love swimming when he tried out for a summer league after eighth grade, when he was around 14 years old.
Age didn't matter, though. He may have started later than other talented swimmers, but that hasn't affected his success in his collegiate career.
Robinson, a junior, is now known in TCU's record book for being the first ever Big 12 Conference champion for his backstroke performance in 2013.
"It really means a lot to me that I can be in the record book representing TCU," Robinson said. "Going into the meet, I had no clue that would've happened. It was unexpected, but in a good way."
Robinson came to TCU following the advice of a previous TCU swimmer, Josh Bagby, who he looked up to as a mentor on his club team back home.
"He was a good friend and a good swimmer to look up to," Robinson said. "When he told me to look at TCU, I visited and liked the team atmosphere along with the academics, so it felt like the perfect fit."
Robinson has many mentors on the TCU swim team. Especially head coach Richard Sybesma, who is coming into his 35th season coaching the Horned Frogs.
"Being a swimmer under a coach who's been here so long like Sybesma is really cool," Robinson said. "He knows so much about the sport and offers good advice to us."
During his time as head coach, Sybesma has inspired his swimmers to reach their full potential. Before every race, he motivates Robinson to race to his full capacity.
"He always knows how to calm my nerves and clear my head before a race," Robinson said. "He just tells me, 'Go out, have fun, you know how to swim this,' which is really helpful when I get stressed before a meet."
Sybesma, along with Robinson's teammates, think highly of Robinson's hard work and dedication to the team.
"Cooper is one of the hardest working and dedicated athletes ever to swim for TCU," Sybesma said. "He is driven to be the best he can be and loves competing for TCU."
Swimming has brought Robinson some experiences that he would have never had otherwise, such as traveling all around the United States and meeting new people.
"I am so grateful that I have been able to travel all over the U.S.," Robinson said. "I never knew I would be able to go to Seattle or New York. It is really cool that I've been able to travel and meet new friends along the way through swimming."
Robinson, who is a geography major, loves the opportunity to travel around the world and experience new cultures.
"Growing up, I would always have tons of maps hanging in my room," Robinson said. "I have always been interested in different cultures and would love to travel all over someday, but I feel like every twenty something year old says that."
One of his favorite swimming experiences came his sophomore year of high school, when he broke his school's record in the 100-meter backstroke at a regional meet.
"It was really cool for me because I never thought I would be able to go that fast," Robinson said.
Robinson said that despite his busy swimming schedule, he considers himself to be a "geeky" college student in his free time.
"I'm a huge geek," Robinson said. "I enjoy geeky stuff like playing my game boy and reading comic books."
Robinson, who ran cross-country in high school, also enjoys running in the off-season to keep in shape. Swimmers are not allowed to be in the pool for healing and resting purposes.
Robinson was also involved with the Big 12 Leadership Summit for Cook Children's Hospital, which gave him the opportunity to interact and play with kids.
"Going into it, I was nervous that the kids would hate me," Robinson said. "But it ended up being a really rewarding experience seeing the smiles on the kids' faces."
As Robinson finishes off his junior year with the Frogs, he has started thinking about where he might want to be in the future.
He said he has several options in mind – graduate school programs, traveling the world and going to Tokyo, Japan or swimming professionally.
"Traveling is something I would really like to do with swimming," Robinson said. 'I've also been thinking about trying to swim after I graduate because there is an extra year before the Olympic trials."
Robinson still has plenty of time to think about his future, but for now, he is focused on finishing strong in his swimming career for the Horned Frogs.


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125 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08625
April 4, 2006
Excavation Reveals 1796 Secretary of State Building
on State House Grounds
Jersey State House (front steps and grounds)
125 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08625
remains of the historic 1796 structure began to emerge inches below
the existing grade, just east of the State House's front entrance
as workers from Hunter Research Inc. ripped out the sidewalk as
part of the state's ongoing security enhancement project.
note that the media and all guests are advised to wear flat shoes
or boots on the excavation site.
Press Articles
Dig at Statehouse site finds pieces of history - 7 April 2006
[© The Star Ledger, www.nj.com]
1796 building's foundation unearthed near Statehouse
- 7 April 2006 [© Asbury Park Press, www.app.com]
State House Privy Seal? - 7 April 2006 [© The Trenton Times,
Privy to piece of history - 7 April 2006 [©
The Trentonian, www.trentonian.com]
Historic Outhouse Unearthed - 7 April 2006, [6ABC,
© Associated Press, WPVI, www.abclocal.go.com/wpvi]
Dig at
Statehouse site finds pieces of history
Friday, April 07, 2006
Star-Ledger Staff
workers preparing the Statehouse for the future have uncovered part
of its past.
The stone foundation and a part of the basement
of New Jersey's first archives building -- built in 1796 and buried
when the Statehouse was expanded a half-century later -- were recently
unearthed by workers during a project to en hance security.
Archaeologists also uncovered the foundation of
an adjacent brick privy with a 5-foot-deep well-like pit just to
the left of the Statehouse's main entrance. In 1796, the "tastefully
designed" outhouse would have stood on the front lawn of what
was a much smaller Statehouse.
"This is a once-in-a-200-year opportunity,"
state Archivist Karl J. Niederer said yesterday as state officials
and history enthusiasts gathered outside the Statehouse to view
the finds. "The building held unique and priceless documentary
Constructed just four years after the Statehouse
was built, the building was used to preserve New Jersey's most valuable
Revolutionary- and Colonial-era documents. No artifacts have been
The records kept there included the 1787 copy of
New Jersey's ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the state manuscript
copy of the 1789 U.S. Bill of Rights, the 1776 state constitution
and the original 1776 great seal of the state of New Jersey, according
to Niederer. "It held 112 years of land, military and court
records," he said.
The rear of the building stretched 28 feet along
what is now the front of the east wing of the Statehouse. It was
a 12-foot-high one-story brick and stone structure that included
two offices with fireplaces and separate walk-in vaults, possibly
sealed with iron doors, for both the secretary of state and court
clerk. Each office had separate entrances.
The two people who currently hold those posts --
state Supreme Court Clerk Stephen W. Townsend and Secretary of State
Nina Mitchell Wells -- were at the site yesterday.
"This was the 18th-century equivalent of a
state-of-the-art facility for record keeping," Townsend said.
"Who needs to go around the world when we have
an archaeological dig right here in New Jersey, and right outside
my window," Wells said.
It is believed the building was demolished and the
basement filled in sometime in the 1840s to make way for the expansion
of the Statehouse. Today, the records it protected are held in the
State Archives a block away.
Niederer said he was home on the night of March
24 when he received a call from Richard Hunter, an archaeologist
with Trenton- based Hunter Research Inc., who told him they found
parts of a building both had long suspected was near the Statehouse.
the archaeologist and I had reason to believe the approximate location
of the building would be there," Niederer said.
No rendering
of the building is known to exist, but archivists found a map of
Trenton, circa 1800, that depicts it as a small square in the northeast
corner of the Statehouse grounds. They also found 1795 legislation
that describes how the building should look.
The foundations
are mainly out of sight to pedestrians and motorists passing on
congested West State Street. Officials conceded that because the
area is an active construction site, the public will not have the
opportunity to see it.
The site will
be covered by a plaza expected to be constructed by June as part
of the project to improve security at the Statehouse. Niederer said
it is expected the outline of the building will be marked with special
stones placed in the plaza. He said a video record of the site would
be made.
Also buried
beneath the Statehouse grounds are the remains of a Colonial-era
iron forge and steel furnace.
"The Colonial
history of Trenton is preserved beneath the ground and not far below
the ground," said Ian Burrow, a Hunter Research archaeologist.
"An astonishing thing is the layers of soil from the past.
If we kept digging, we would find more remains of this building
and artifacts of the Lenni Lenape Indians, who also thought this
was a nice place to be."
Additional photos
of the foundation are available at archives.nj.gov.
© 2006,
The Star Ledger
1796 building's foundation unearthed near Statehouse
Posted by the
Asbury Park Press on 04/7/06
By Gregory J. Volpe
Gannett State Bureau
A construction
project redesigning the Statehouse entrance for modern security
concerns has unearthed the remains of New Jersey's original archives
building — the second structure built by the state's government.
Erected in 1796
at a cost of 600 pounds, perhaps about $300,000 to $350,000 in today's
dollars, the stone fireproof structure housed the state's early
and colonial documents. Only the Statehouse — the country's
second-oldest in continuous operation — predates it in New
Jersey government.
Historians were
surprised that its foundation was still buried a few feet from the
current Statehouse.
"We knew
it had been here, but that's different than having any remains in
the ground," said Ian C. Burrow, an archaeologist with Hunter
Research, the firm that oversaw the dig.
Officials closed
the construction site for a brief tour of the findings Thursday
afternoon. Pictures of the dig and historical documents pertaining
to the building were posted on the state Division of Archives and
Records Management Web site. The site itself — beneath street
level — will be covered by fill and paved over.
"This is
an active construction site," said Karl J. Niederer, director
of the state's archives and record management. "They had to
shut down just for this."
The remains
were unearthed outside the office of current Secretary of State
Nina Mitchell Wells.
"Who needs
to go around the world to spot an archaeological dig when we have
one right here in the state of New Jersey — right outside
of my window?" Wells said.
found no artifacts besides the building foundation, Burrow said,
likely because the building was shut down and covered with clean
fill sometime in the 1840s.
The one-story
structure, 46 feet by 28 feet, had four segments — two vaults
in the middle designed to be fireproof, surrounded by offices on
either side. Portions of the foundation — a white stone mica
schist — and the old doorway were visible. Excavators also
unearthed a portion of the privy, a brick well that in its day was
state-of-the-art sanitation.
"This was
going really first-class," said Supreme Court Clerk Stephen
W. Townsend, who pictured his predecessor 210 years ago when the
building opened "trying his very best to look solemn and dignified,
but in the presence of his new official home he finds it next to
impossible to keep a grin from creasing his face."
The construction,
which expands the walkway in front of the capital building, is expected
to be finished this summer.
Gregory J. Volpe:
© 2006,
The Asbury Park Press
A State House privy seal?
Dig unearths old archives base -- and outhouse pit
Friday, April
07, 2006
By Joseph Dee
Staff Writer
TRENTON -- Archaeologists
and state officials announced two findings yesterday, one sure to
appeal to history buffs, another that will amuse the political cynics.
On display outside
the West State Street entrance to the State House, where workers
are excavating the sidewalk and street to make security improvements,
is the stone foundation of a 1796 building that served as an archive
for Colonial- and early statehood-era documents.
Wow. Cool.
But for some,
the unearthed treasure lies a few feet away, where archaeologists
have shoveled down to the brick remains of -- an outhouse.
The bricklayers
had formed a cylindrical chamber for the outhouse with the top course
sitting all these years within inches of the left edge of the State
House steps. There's got to be a joke there, but archaeologist Ian
Burrow stuck to the facts.
"The privy
was probably in use for 40 years, well into the 1840s," he
Burrow, of Hunter
Research Inc., pointed to where workers had removed half of the
privy's bricks, leaving perhaps a 6-foot-deep semi-circle. It had
been filled long ago "with clean material," he said.
The archival
building, used by the secretary of state and the clerk to the Supreme
Court, was built four years after the original State House on ground
that would have been the State House's back yard, Burrow said.
It probably
was demolished during the first expansion of the State House in
1845, he said.
"This is
the foundation of the original archives building and the office
of my predecessor, John Beatty," said Secretary of State Nina
Mitchell Wells.
The documents
that once were housed in the the old building now form the core
collection of the modern state archives, said Karl J. Niederer,
director of the state archives. Long-gone brick vaults served as
"state-of-the-art storage facilities," he said.
The Treasury
Department has been contacted about marking the outlines of the
old building with colored stones or in some other fashion when the
site is covered and landscaped, Niederer said. Treasury is in charge
of the security project.
signs will help visitors recognize the significance of the site,
Niederer said.
Part of the
archive building's stone foundation "was literally six inches
under the sidewalk on (West) State Street where we all walk every
day," he said.
Contact Joseph
Dee at email@example.com or (609) 989-5704.
© 2006,
The Trenton Times
Privy to piece of history
7 April 2006
By JACK KNARR,
Staff Writer
TRENTON -- There
were always rumors at the State House that a mysterious building
had once stood out front in the late 1700s.
So when new
construction plans were drawn up recently to rip up the sidewalks
of West State Street and tighten security-- a project costing about
$870,000 -- state historians figured this might be a good time to
dig deeper. And solve the mystery.
First, they
looked up old legislative bills and maps of the State House to learn
some basics.
And they found
that in 1795, five years after Trenton was named state capital,
the Legislature had acted to relocate the state's vital records
to Trenton, and approved spending 600 pounds to build offices for
the Secretary of State and the Supreme Court clerk, and "for
the preservation of the public records of the state ..."
Using an early
19th century map of Trenton, and the site description in the legislative
bill, archaeologists from Hunter Research, Inc., began digging.
(The Trenton firm was low bidder on the project.) They figured they
might find remnants of the mysterious 1796 archives building.
using the archives in the archives to help us find the physical
archives in the ground that once held the archives that are now
in the archives," said the twisted-tongued Ian C. Burrow, vice
president and principal archaeologist of Hunter.
Yesterday, the
findings were revealed. The digs outside the State House brought
ancient underground stone walls into sunlight for the first time
in about 160 years.
For a moment,
Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells, looked back into history.
"This is
the foundation of the original archives building and the office
of my predecessor, John Beatty," said Wells. "How amazing
is that?"
Her office overlooks
the West State Street site next to the foundation of the current
State House.
"As I look
out, I see a very significant place in the history of my office
and of this state," she said. "For 10 years, my distinguished
predecessor preserved and protected New Jersey's precious
colonial and early state archives right over there."
The state's
most rare, most precious documents were housed there in the "secure,
fireproof" building.
They included
the state's 1787 Ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the
state's manuscript copy of the 1789 U.S. Bill of Rights, the
1776 State Constitution, the original state Great Seal, and 112
years of colonial land records, enrolled laws, military and court
But there were
no "treasure" findings -- no coins or silver spoons, for
example. No gold bricks that might have been, uh,accidentally left
behind when the building was abandoned and demolished some 50 years
There was one
significant find, however: Diggers unearthed a giant circular brick
privy that had been used by legislators of the day, aside the front
Ian Burrow called
the dig an "astonishing find."
"This is
a real testimony to the importance that New Jersey places on its
history," he said. "... Here, just in front of you, is
an immediate example that you can see and you can touch.
glad to say that although we have actually found a privy, we can't
actually smell the history as well."
Burrow said
when the building was demolished many years later, workers had apparently
filled in the deep hole with clean ground.
Sen. Leonard
Lance (R-Hunterdon) greeted reporters with high humor.
think perhaps this excavation was done because of the safety concerns
at the State House," he deadpanned.
inaccurate. I was digging for gold -- to balance the state budget.
It was unsuccessful in that regard."
Ian Burrow spoke
of Trenton's colonial history being preserved underground.
"This is
nothing short of astonishing," he said. "Here we have
essentially a 19-century city -- Trenton Makes, The World Takes."
And despite
all the industrial development and change, he said, "beneath
the ground, and not very far down, either, in many many places we
have found significant archaeological remains of Colonial times."
No further digging
will be done. The giant hole will be sealed carefully.
And in the later
construction at ground level, the "footprint" of this
old structure will be marked for future generations to see.
The Trentonian
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - April 7, 2006 - It's unlikely
George Washington did anything there.
But workers excavating near New Jersey's Statehouse have unearthed
the foundations of an outhouse and the state's first archives building
that were built in 1796.
The outhouse, or privy, has a five-foot-deep well-like
pit and would have stood on the front lawn of what was then the
Statehouse. Today, it's to the left of the current capitol building's
The archives building once housed the 1787 copy
of New Jersey's ratification of the U-S Constitution, a 1789 copy
of the Bill of Rights and the original 1776 state seal.
The archives building and outhouse were buried when
the Statehouse was expanded in the 1800s.
The excavations will be covered by a plaza that's
being constructed to improve security at the capitol. Special stones
will mark the outline of the old building.
© 2006, The Associated Press


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In the box you'll find the Xbox 360 console, a black wireless controller, a black wired headset, two AA batteries, a power supply and cord, and a composite AV cable. Unfortunately, Microsoft has eliminated component cables as a standard add-in, so you won't be able to have an HD connection out of the box. Instead, you'll need to use either a separate HDMI cable or older Xbox 360 component wire for HD gaming.
It seems that the included headset has the updated in-line mute and volume toggle design found in some Xbox 360 Messenger Kits. We also noticed some minor updates to the wireless controller. The silver guide button is now mirrored chrome, and the Xbox 360 logo is embossed on the controller next to the sync button. Unfortunately, the wonky D-pad remains unchanged, our only gripe we wish Microsoft would have addressed on the otherwise near-perfect controller.
We should note that the included composite AV cable has a deliberate plastic protrusion that covers up the HDMI port when plugged in. Clearly Microsoft wants to prevent users from access to the port when using an AV slot connection.
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* Rains this week in Delta into Texas
* Southern Midwest, Plains to see showers
* Warm followed by cold snap leads to winterkill watch
By Sam Nelson
* Rains this week in Delta into Texas
* Southern Midwest, Plains to see showers
* Warm followed by cold snap leads to winterkill watch
By Sam Nelson
CHICAGO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Some modest relief is expected
this week from the worst drought in over 50 years in the U.S.
crop belt and volatile weather patterns are shifting attention
to potential harm or winterkill in the U.S. Plains hard red
winter wheat region, meteorologists said on Tuesday.
Heavy rainfall is expected this week in the U.S. Delta
extending into central Texas and the showers will move into
portions of the southern Midwest, an agricultural meteorologist
said on Tuesday.
"The strong storm system will begin late today and tomorrow
and push into Missouri and central and southern Illinois by
Thursday," said Don Keeney, meteorologist for MDA EarthSat
Keeney said from 2.00 to 4.00 inches of rain could be
expected in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas with lighter
amounts of an inch or less in Oklahoma.
Warmer weather this week will melt the snowcover in the U.S.
Plains, leaving the hard red red winter crop unprotected from
potential harm from a cold snap.
"It will turn cold Sunday and Monday with zero (degrees
Fahrenheit) to below zero readings in western Nebraska and
northern Colorado, so that's on the winterkill threshold,"
Keeney said.
Commodity Weather Group (CWG) meteorologist Joel Widenor
also cited increasing showers later Tuesday through Friday in
the Southern Plains into the southern and eastern Midwest and
"This will bring some slight improvement in soil moisture
for the Southern Plains but only very light showers are expected
in the drought areas of the western Midwest and Central Plains,"
Widenor said.
CWG meteorologists on Tuesday were not too concerned about
threats of winterkill in the Plains winter wheat region.
"There are no winterkill threats throught the next two
weeks, with the 11 to 15 day outlook trending milder today
(Tuesday)," Widenor said.
The weekly U.S. drought monitor report from last week showed
snowfull in parts of the U.S. Plains had little impact on the
historic drought gripping the region, but parts of Illinois,
Wisconsin and the Southeast showed slight improvement.
The report issued last Thursday said as of Jan. 1 42.05
percent of the contiguous United States was in severe to
exceptional drought, down from 42.45 percent the previous week.
The consortium of federal and state climatology experts are
expected to issue a new drought report late this week.
(Additional reporting by Julie Ingwersen in Chicago; Editing by
Chizu Nomiyama)