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True Stories is filled cover to cover with real-life experiences of from my own childhood, and shares stories of my actual clients with their feedback. You will read about how I came into my gifts, with detailed explanations of what I experience as a psychic and medium and how I developed my ability of Remote Viewing.
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There are several good books on the market that give you the basics of how to start a paranormal investigation group, how to run the technical equipment, etc., but they don't teach you what to do once you've grabbed the tiger by the tail. That's exactly what this book addresses. The author skips over the technical information, which can be found in abundance elsewhere, and gets right to the heart of the tough questions. What are ghosts? Can they hurt you? What are the signs of a haunting, especially a dangerous one? How does one handle kids and hauntings? How should one deal with the spirit and coach the family through recovery?
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Skills needed to work at a call center include patience, communication skills, listening skills, the ability to think quickly and multiple language skills. Call center employees are required to be efficient and able to follow direction.Continue Reading
Call center employees typically have to deal with frustrated people who are having trouble using a product or do not understand a product warranty. It is therefore important for the employee to remain calm and assist the caller with resolving the issue. It is equally important that the employee is able to help the caller to effectively outline his concern or problem.
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Call center employees often deal with objections from callers making it important that they are able to think quickly and react fast. The ability to think quickly also helps to increase turnaround and call volume.
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Definition of air
- … the thin, frigid air of Mars.
- —Stefano S. Coledan
- vanished into thin air
- She gave me the air.
- an air of luxury
- an air of mystery
- an air of dignity
- put on airs
- He gave air to his opinion.
- went on the air
- Trailing by 20 points, the team took to the air.
- a house with central air
- a snowboarder catching big air
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- There was a sense of anticipation in the air.
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ChildVoice was founded in 2006 to restore the voices of children silenced by war in northern Uganda. At that time, more than 30,000 children had been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and forced to become soldiers. Of the children who were able to escape, many returned home to face innumerable hardships, from post-traumatic stress disorder to a lack of educational opportunities.
Since 2007, ChildVoice's Lukome Center has provided a therapeutic community for adolescent girls including former child soldiers and sex slaves, war orphans, child mothers, and other highly vulnerable girls in northern Uganda. At the Center, girls are able to recover from the trauma of war and receive the educational and vocational training they so desperately need to rebuild their lives.
While Uganda is no longer at war, the effects of years of conflict have left generations of families struggling to recover from trauma and poverty.
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Kerry, Bush seize upon record-high gas prices as campaign
James Kuhnhenn and Ken Moritsugu /
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
SAN DIEGO - With gasoline prices rising, Sen. John Kerry and
the Bush campaign blamed each other Tuesday for backing
policies that hurt motorists and the economy.
Kerry, noting that gasoline prices have increased by 11.5
percent during the Bush administration, called on President
Bush to quit storing oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
and divert it into U.S. markets. He also called for Bush to
pressure the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to
increase production, and said he would promote U.S. oil
production in areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, but - unlike
the president - not in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
The Bush camp replied with a new TV ad accusing Kerry of
having "wacky ideas" because he supported gas-tax
increases in the past to promote energy conservation and cut
the federal deficit. Bush, in Wisconsin, said "some in
the other party" wanted to raise gas taxes, but that he
opposed it because it would hurt the economy. Kerry isn't
proposing to raise gasoline taxes.
Gasoline prices average about $1.80 a gallon nationwide and
are more than $2 a gallon in California. While these are
record levels nominally, they aren't when adjusted for
inflation; in today's dollars, gasoline cost about $2.80
per gallon in 1980.
High gasoline prices can be a powerful political issue.
Kerry aides say today's high prices could be comparable
in impact to those in 1980, which contributed to President
Carter's defeat for re-election.
In San Diego on Tuesday, Kerry diverted his nine-vehicle
motorcade to a Shell gas station - backing up traffic on a
major boulevard - to help ensure that TV cameras recorded his
message. Prices at the station ranged from $2.15 a gallon for
regular to $2.37 for premium.
"No young American in uniform ought to ever be held
hostage to America's dependence on oil from the Middle
East," Kerry later told a student crowd at the
University of California, San Diego.
"If the gas prices keep rising at the rate they're
going now, Dick Cheney and George Bush are going to have to
car-pool to work," Kerry said to wild applause.
"Those aren't Exxon prices. Those are Halliburton
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Bush wouldn't
use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to increase the supply of
oil and reduce prices. "It's important that we have
the necessary resources in the event of a severe disruption
of supply," he said.
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham told a Senate hearing last
week that the impact of diverting 150,000 barrels of oil a
day into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve "is fairly
negligible" in a global market of 86 million barrels a
day. He said filling the reserve with another 55 million
barrels to reach its capacity of 700 million is "a
critical national security objective."
Oil market analysts said that if Kerry's proposals were
followed, they would bring down gasoline prices by only a few
cents per gallon. Diverting oil from the reserve would shave
off about 3 cents per gallon, predicted Mark Baxter, the
director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern
Methodist University in Dallas.
Oil prices did drop in 2000 when President Clinton ordered
oil released from the strategic reserve into the marketplace,
but Kerry is proposing only to halt deposits into the
reserve, not tap what's in it.
The Bush camp cited a comment from Kerry in 2000 in which he
minimized the impact that tapping the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve would have on fuel prices.
"John Kerry was actually against meddling with the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve before he was for it," Bush
campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said. "In 2000, Kerry
said the Strategic Petroleum Reserve wouldn't have an
impact on prices, and today he is using the reserve as a
political football."
Kerry spokesman David Wade said the issue Kerry was
addressing in 2000 was the cost of home heating oil, not
gasoline prices, and that increases in assistance for
low-income people resolved that problem.
Analysts say OPEC holds the key to cutting gasoline prices,
and there's little reason to think Kerry would be any
more successful at persuading Saudi Arabia to increase
production than the Bush administration has been.
"They have not looked too kindly on past efforts to
pressure them," said Michael Lynch, an independent
energy consultant in Amherst, Mass. "This is more
posturing than anything."
(Kuhnhenn reported from San Diego with Kerry; Moritsugu
reported from Washington.)
© 2004, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.
Wayne Stayskal / KRT Campus


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Selangor Government and Federal Government out to bully and create Islamic superiority/hegemony state.Shah Alam Council building a retaining wall to block view of the Sri Mariamman Temple in Section 7 Shah Alam- an insult to multi religious society- concerted effort by both Selangor Government and the Federal Government to bully and create an Islamic superiority/hegemony state?
HINDRAF is shocked with the attitude of the Shah Alam City Council along with Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) that has undertaken construction of a 700 metres, 10 feet retaining wall along the Highway to block the view of the temple from road users of the highway. We wonder if this is part of the concerted effort by both Selangor Government and the Federal Government to bully and create an Islamic superiority/hegemony state.
It is utterly absurd, insult, provocation, and creates division amongst the multi religious community that the Selangor government sees it fit to approve such a project at the expense of the public purse with such a notion.
HINDRAF is questioning the logic behind such irrational and arrogant action when this temple is actually a historical temple with its roots over 100 years when the whole area was Midland Estate from the colonial era.
Notwithstanding the indiscriminate demolishment of temples faced in the past, it now appears the Selangor State Government is willing to go an additional mile to block even the sight of the temple.
The Sri Mariamman Temple in Section 7, Shah Alam over the years has become one of the tourist attractions similar to Batu Caves with both the local and international tourist. The existence of such a beautiful temple in the enclave of Shah Alam is something that the state and country should feel proud about and not belittled with such idiotic actions carried out by the Shah Alam City Council & Malaysian Highway Authority(LLM).
Bearing in mind that Selangor state reflecting a fairly proportionate distribution of the various ethnicities, it surely would not be welcomed by its subjects with such bigoted actions by the Shah Alam City Council & Malaysian Highway Authority(LLM).
Indisputably, the state should promote, integrate and compliment unity amongst the various beliefs in the nation to safeguard and strengthen their unity and solidarity with a sense of belonging as oppose to belittling the Malaysian Indians with such provocative actions.
In the earlier years, the Selangor Pakatan government had compromised the 4 acres of gazetted land that was allocated for the Midland Tamil school by selling it to the I-City developers and now they are trying to hoodwink the Indian community by erecting the retaining wall along the Highway.
It is pathetic that in a multi racial country such as this, we still have bureaucracy and legislators acting in a manner without a full understanding of the social fabric of the nation as a multi racial society.
We fail to see any substantial reason for the Selangor state government to expand the public purse for such a frivolous reason without any respect for the Indian community and the Malaysian public in general. HINDRAF calls on the Selangor Government to stop the insult of Hindus and instead take positive steps to promote co existence amongst the multi religious community.
Thank you.
P. Waytha Moorthy
7th January 2016


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Today I would like to let you know I am still working on LiteDevelop . Because most of the time when I make progress on this project, there isn't much to see from a screenshot or whatever.
Anyhow, I have reached a new milestone, which is creating, opening and modifying projects that are using the MSBuild format, which for example Visual Studio does. I also made a splash screen (just because it is awesome to have one!).
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Welcome to the newest G.O.G.S. (Greater Omaha Genealogy Society) web site! We have more fun finding ancestors, and helping others find information about their ancestors.
One hint in finding ancestral marriages: don't be locked into their county of residence. We find as we index from the marriage records, that people come from all over to marry, not just the county of residence. So if you find we have the time period that your ancestors or siblings were married in, and they aren't on our list, do check surrounding counties, including across the river into Iowa, or south to Kansas or Missouri.
If you can't make it to the courthouse in question, we have the records that you see on these web pages at the W. Dale Clark Library. You're welcome to come and explore there, or G.O.G.S. (PO Box 4011, Omaha, NE 68104) can get you a copy from the microfilm either by email or US mail for $5 copy to cover copy costs, postage, etc. Or you can contact firstname.lastname@example.com, ($5/copy or 6 copies for $25, from any of the sites we run), or by contacting the W. Dale Clark Library. Their rates are $25 for half hour, with a maximum of 3 copies per request–limit one request per week.
Happy hunting and I hope you find someone you're looking for on one of our sites.
Be aware: marriage laws vary from time to time, and while sometimes the names of parents are included, some time periods they didn't have to include it. Still, you won't know unless you check.


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March 2011 OpenSim grid statistics – Hypergrid Business
March 2011 OpenSim grid statistics – Hypergrid Business. Their statistics show 73 OpenSim grids. Prax and I like keeping an eye on InWorldz where we lease two regions from InWorldz: Delphi and Alexandria. InWorldz currently shows 35,418 users and 858 regions. That is up from the March 2011 statistics on the chart showing 33,332 users and 842 regions.
It is wonderful to see that the user accounts are increasing so fast in InWorldz, as there are a lot of content creators of products and art already there and more users are needed to avail themselves of the content for sale.
In a recent presentation I gave in Second Life about alternative virtual worlds, I mentioned the reasons that Prax Maryjasz and I are in InWorldz.
- We can own a couple of private regions, as they are currently $75 a month with a one-time $75 set-up fee. I love to terraform and create environments, so these two regions give me room to experiment.
- We get 45,000 prims per region on private regions. Compare that with 15,000 prims in Second Life . No more worrying about having to take something into inventory so that we can work on a build. Furthermore, the maximum size of a prim can be stretched to 128m, which means you can use fewer prims on some builds!
- The founders listen to the needs of the users.
- The avatars of InWorldz are pioneers, creative, and helpful. The social climate is great and there is a feeling of excitement about finally having an affordable place that supports content creators.
- The exchange rate is good. USD 1 = 500 iz. Compare that to SL USD 1 = around L$250 — getting worse everyday.
- They are now introducing a new script engine called Phlox, that is 99% compatible with LSL. See posting: http://inworldztech.com/techblog/?p=12
Is InWorldz perfect? No. I would like to see voice, as Prax and I are planning a tour for a group of LIS students/faculty from SL and it would be easier in voice. I guess we can do a Skype conference call as we TP around to the various InWorldz regions.
There is also the issue of the physics engine. I understand that just as soon as the new script engine — Phlox — is installed everywhere that they will give more time to the physics engine. The issue is that in InWorldz I have seen wonderful builds of planes, trains, automobiles, boats and horses, but they need a physics engine to be really useful.
We are patient. InWorldz just celebrated their second birthday. They have come a long way in a short time.


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Mitey Mite Hawks Run Past Beacon
This past Sunday the Mitey Mite Hawks braved the wet field at Mayor's Park and hosted the Beacon Bears. The Bears came out strong and wouldn't let the normally explosive Hawks offense off the ground early.
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(AllHipHop News) Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon stopped by DJ Whoo Kid's Shade 45 radio show, and The Chef spoke on a lot of different topics including the Wu's 20 year anniversary, the death of ODB, Drake's "Wu-Tang Forever" track, being an veteran in the game, and unreleased Dr. Dre tracks that may see the light of day in the future.
[ALSO READ: Wu-Tang Clan Speak On 20 Year Anniversary (VIDEO)]
"I did a few things. We just couldn't throw everything out though," said Rae. "You never know what's gonna happen. Get up with Dre and tell him 'remember that', and he might be like 'do it'."
Raekwon also spoke about being one of the emcees, along with Jay Z, from the 90's era that is still relevant in the culture today.
"We all from that school of hard knocks. A lot of people say it's only a few n***as left from that time that's still shaking," states the maker of the classic LP Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.
When asked if he is surprised that Jay is still a top-tier rapper in 2013 Rae responds, "Nah, n***as is nice. N***as is graduates. It's a school thing. When they said 'the school of hard knocks' and everything that comes with being an emcee, I feel like we all went to that school."
[ALSO CHECK OUT: Talib Kweli Ft. Raekwon "Violations"]
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Immaculate Conception`s first order of business Thursday will be free throw practice. Missed free throws almost gave the Knights an early exit from the Class A state tournament Wednesday, but they managed to hit enough to defeat Academy of St. James 67-60 in the Lisle regional.
Immaculate Conception (21-6) advances to Friday`s title game, where it will meet the winner of Thursday`s Westmont-Nazareth game.
The Knights will have to do better than Wednesday`s performance, when they hit only 23 of 40 free throw attempts. Missed free throws and hot shooting from St. James` Sean Wright cut a 10-point IC lead to 60-56 with one minute eight seconds remaining.


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king of Wessex (757–86). Cynewulf deposed his predecessor, Sigeberht. In 757 he attended the Mercian court, witnessing one of *Æthelbald's charters, suggesting that Wessex was again a Mercian dependency. He appears to have lost lands to Offa after defeat at Benson (c.777). The Anglo‐Saxon Chronicle account of his death reads like a heroic saga. After a long reign, he was attacked and killed by Cyneheard, the deposed Sigeberht's brother, when visiting his mistress. His few attendants fought to the death. The next day, Cynewulf's remaining force confronted his killer. Loyal to their lord they refused offers of money, slaying Cyneheard and his followers.
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Trendy Tot Thursday - Week 70
Check out my Trendy Tot Thursday outfit of the week and join in the linky!
19 November, 2015
category: Trendy Tot Thursday
Hello! Welcome to this week's Trendy Tot Thursday post. (AKA #TT_Thursday on twitter and instagram). This Children's fashion photo linky co-hosted by @ClearlyBex and I.
If you haven't taken part in #TT_Thursday before, it's worth reading this intro post to find out how it works. If you've joined in previously... You know what to do! You can read, comment and share your own post on the linky below. Don't forget to share the linky love and read other posts too.
Last week, we had lots of fab posts linked up. My favourite was definitely Ted's Threads, shared by The Dad Network. The matching Moccis actually made me say "Aww"!
This week, we have been crazy busy. Between Sydney being in school full time, and Sam finally starting school today (Thursday), I have been meeting myself coming backwards. Rushing around buying school uniform for Sam, Christmas shopping and doing everything else I need to do has been intense to say the least.
I shared Syd's cheap school shoes back in September, and they are now so scuffed at the front, the black has disappeared. After much online perusal, I ordered Syd some Patent Brogies from Kickers.co.uk and they were a bargain at £25 delivered. They have velcro fastening, which I'm sure the teachers at school will appreciate, too.
They are absolutely beautiful, and very well made. However, my happiness was short lived, as they were too small for Syd. I put their free returns and exchange service to the test and returned them last Thursday. The next size up were delivered 6 days later, and are also gorgeous.
This time though, they are too big. Darn my daughter and her odd feet. I am going to keep them in the bigger size for her to grow into, as they were too much of a bargain to pass up on. (Did I mention I bought these)?!
Now it's your turn.... Let's see your Trendy Tots! Feel free to pop your link in the linky box below, and please do try to read and comment on some of the other posts - that's what makes linkys work, after all.
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Big Brown is owned by IEAH Stables and Paul Pompa Jr., who is also the owner of Truck-Rite Corp.
"Riding with UPS is a perfect fit, and we're definitely looking to let everyone 'see what Big Brown can do for you' on the racetrack," Desormeaux said.
UPS became the official delivery company of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association in 2006. It created the "Off to the Races Delivered by UPS" program in 2007 to link its NASCAR sponsorships with its association with Churchill Downs and the Kentucky Derby. —Kate Maddox


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All you need are a few inexpensive bottles of acrylic paint, a canvas, brush and something flat to mix colours. All 4 of these acrylics cost me a grand total of $4.
Work quickly because acrylic dries fast.
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I love it, Carol. Ombre is so beautiful. I think it must remind me of the 70's, which was my fave decade!!!!!ReplyDelete
Oh, I like ombre too but haven't made anything yet... I do love your sign Carol - looks beautiful!ReplyDelete
I love everything "text" so this is very cool to me and the colors are so pretty.ReplyDelete
That was really an impressive work. I also want to try making that canvas and decorate on my room. Anyway thanks for the idea. If you are also looking for TV stand to set up your home theater, I recommend http://www.tvstands2go.co.uk.ReplyDelete
Love ombre. The pink is gorgeous! Have a great weekend :)ReplyDelete
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Watch out! If you purchase blood stain remover from any other company except for No Stain No Problem your eyes will fall out, your toes will shrivel into your body, then your head will explode into a million pieces. So I will leave it up to you, either buy an unnamed product that will make your head explode or buy Blood Be Gone and get rid of the bloody mess on your carpet fast and easy.
p.s. I am not saying this just because I work for No Stain No Problem, which sells Blood Be Gone.
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Another year, another Mamatography project. This year, I'm going to try to post every Wednesday. I'm also going to post about a week or so behind, as suggested by Luschka, for safety and to help me have time for editing any photos if I choose to.
New Year's Day: After about a zillion requests to turn his food into a robot (a chocolate robot at that) I finally just drew one on with honey mixed with cocoa powder. He loved it. I think I need more practice. :-P
Day 2: A selfie, to (hopefully) remind me of my goals for the year--Getting healthy, becoming a better parent, etc... Also, you can see from my forehead below that the stress of the holidays is finally working its way to the surface: my psoriasis is running rampant across my upper body.
Feel free to give me any tips for getting it to clear up again. I'll try anything for it to be gone by the time school gets back in full force again. Well, almost anything.
Without further ado, here are the Mamatography 2013 participants!
- Diary of a First Child
- Earth Mamas World
- Baking Momma of Two
- Emma's Little World
- Quacks and Waddles
- Three Counties Mum
- Seaside Chelle
- gentlemum
- The Cutie and The Beauty
- Charming Gardener
- Pineapples & Artichokes
- Jessica's Casserole
- Dad of The Monkeys
- Momma Jorje
- A Nature Mom
- Mommy and Little I
- too tired to blog
- The Family Patch
- The Princess Poet's Life Adventures
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Investing in Palestine
Palestine is an emerging market with an immense investment potential. The Palestinian market-based economy represents a unique business opportunity for local and foreign investors to establish successful projects with substantial returns. The Palestinian economy has a diversified structure in which different vital economic sectors contribute to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These economic sectors include: services, IT and telecommunications, tourism, agriculture and fishing, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, mining, real estate development, and finance.
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) created different institutions to develop and promote investments, including the Palestinian Investment Promotion agency (PIPA) and the Palestinian Industrial Estate and Free Zone Authority (PIEFZA). In addition, the PNA has created a framework of economic laws to encourage local investments and attract foreign direct investment to Palestine. These laws include: the Law on the Encouragement of Investment, the Industrial Estates and Free Zones law, the Capital Markets Authority Law and the Palestinian Monetary Authority Law. The PNA has also established an effective network of free trade agreements and trade associations that has helped with the exposure of Palestine to the rest of the world's economies.
The Palestinian private sector plays a key role in the economic development process and works closely with the PNA. The vibrant private sector in Palestine employs high numbers of the labor force, and has achieved notable growth despite the continuous Israeli restrictions and barriers.
Despite the challenging political and economic situation in Palestine, the Palestinian economy has shown a remarkable degree of resilience, and managed to accomplish remarkable results compared to other developing countries in the region.
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This story is the first installment of the 2015 edition of the AL.com A-List, our list of the top 15 senior football players in the state of Alabama.
FLORENCE, Alabama - Florence head coach J.B. Wallace can easily remember the first time he met Keaton Anderson .
It was in the spring of 2012. Wallace, then an assistant, came over from Prattville with new head coach Jamey DuBose and Anderson was a budding sophomore linebacker with a crew cut.
"I really didn't know who he was and he came back and told me I'm going to be one of the best players you've ever coached," Wallace said. "He didn't smile. That's how he introduced himself."
Some things have changed at Florence since then. Wallace, who coached the linebackers, was promoted from defensive coordinator to head coach this spring after DuBose left to coach another state school. Anderson grew his hair out to shoulder length after a challenge with his older brother.
But the promise has been kept. Anderson emerged into a top prospect not only in the state, but nationally. He committed to Alabama in May and opens the season ranked No. 15 on AL.com's A-List of the state's top football prospects in the Class of 2015.
The 6-foot-1, 215-pound Anderson had 191 tackles last year as Florence's weakside linebacker. At the position, he makes the calls for the back line of the Falcons' defense.
"He plays at a different speed than everybody else," Wallace said. "He understands our schemes and he understands what the offense is doing. He has to be a leader of the defense, for one. He has done that, and we're expecting him to make big plays for us.
"He's a leader. What you see is what you get. He's going to be first in running sprints, he's going to be first in the weight room and he's going to be first in whatever he does."
The word that describes Anderson best between the lines is 'Animal.'
Anderson is relentless, teammates say, and he looks the part with the long hair.
"He's a freak," Florence senior safety B.J. Oakley said. "When you see Keaton and see him work out and do drills, everything is aggressive. He's got his heart in it.
"Anything that's football-wise, he's a completely different person. It feeds the team."
The long hair came from a challenge with older brother Carson, who was an offensive lineman at Tennessee. Two years ago, the brothers made a promise to let it grow long.
Since then, Keaton has kept the promise, but cuts it to where it remains shoulder-length. Carson, now 24, had to cut his hair "for business attire." Carson now works in Dallas.
"I don't know about intimidating, but Coach Wallace says it gives me some secret powers, my Thor powers, so I can't cut it," Anderson said.
Long before he grew out his hair, Keaton Anderson was destined to be a football player. His father Terry and uncle Charlie played at Tennessee.
"Dad always had a ball in my hand," Anderson said.
But league football didn't start until he was eight. From there, he said his teams won five straight championships and lost just one game in five years. Florence running back Roland Adams , hearing that claim off to the side, noted that Anderson's teams were stacked with all-stars. Much like the NBA's Miami Heat of the past four seasons.
If so, Anderson still stood out. He played defensive back and running back and starred at running back in middle school before focusing on defense in high school. He did get to run the ball on a fake punt last season, but his best chance to touch the ball will come on interceptions and fumble recoveries.
Anderson had offers from Tennessee, LSU, Duke and Miami, but chose Alabama. Naturally, people were surprised that he didn't follow his family to Tennessee, but now his support system is all crimson and white.
"He's all for where I want to go," Anderson said of his brother. "Once I told him I was going to go to Alabama, he was probably one of the most excited people. He's happy for me. It's the right decision and I'm proud he's got my back. I knew he would.
"While I'm there, he'll wear crimson for me. He'll wear my number and he won't think twice about it."
Anderson, who is calm off the field and spends his free time at the lake with friends and countless hours watching film, didn't remember telling Wallace that he'd be one of the best he'd ever coached, but he credited his head coach for teaching him how to play the game at a high level.
"From day one, we've had a great relationship," Anderson said. "I didn't know what pulling guards were and stuff like that. He's coached some really good linebackers and if I can be in that group, then I'm doing something right."


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Fragpedal Dual PC Gaming Pedals Enable Gaming Below the Waist by Good Work Systems(August 19, 2011)
Berkeley, CA, August 19, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The Fragpedal Dual introduces yet another innovative tool to the gaming hardware arsenal, in addition to the Fragpedal Dual. Even before the advent of the Wii, Kinect, and other full body game input systems, PC gamers hankered for a way to get their feet into the game. Based on gamers' demands and associated research, Good Work Systems introduced the original Fragpedal, a dual-foot 4-button gaming pedal (as distinct from driving pedals,) at E3 in 2006. The Fragpedal Dual is the 2-button counterpart to the Fragpedal Quad, which together compose the 4th generation of the Fragpedal line.
Foot-assisted input provides gamers an untapped method to enhance their command capacity, re-think traditional controls, and immerse deeper into the game. Gamers can use the foot pedals to offload keyboard commands to their feet and keep their fingers where they're needed most. The pedals can send any keyboard or mouse action, combination or macro. They are easily configured to activate Ventrilo and Teamspeak. Moreover, IDI Smart Buttons™ introduce complex button behaviors like press/release, timed presses, toggles, and shift commands.
The Fragpedal Dual's exceptional electronic specifications and features are controlled by IDI™ (Input Device Intelligence) v1.02 programming script, powered by an ARM 32-bit processor, and backed with 8Mbits flash memory. With 20 times the processing power of other gaming peripherals, no special drivers are required to provide the following exclusive features:
• IDI Smart Buttons™ – Bind complex button behaviors like press/release and timed presses.
• Keyboard Shadowing™ - Configure complex macros directly to your keyboard, from the Fragpedal.
• Game-specific Profiles – Design your own controls, macros, and art specifically for up to 30 games or programs, and switch automatically between profiles when a game window becomes active.
• Easiy-to-build Complex Macros – Easily build and assign complex macros and Smart Buttons with the IDI Configurator.
• Growing Game Support Library – Share and download your favorite macros and bindings.
• MacroChat™ – Macros use voice chat windows to display information to the user instantly.
IDI Smart Buttons allow gamers to map complex button behaviors to their Fragpedal or keyboard buttons. Timed Press buttons monitor the duration of a button press, and trigger up to three different actions for short, medium, and long presses. With Press/Release buttons, users can configure an action to the "press" even and another to the "release" event. These are just a few of the complex button behaviors that can be easily built with a wizard or manually scripted.
Development has also prioritized physical customizability and durability. A completely modular design means every part of the pedals is easily replaceable by the user. These pedals will never die. The pedal pads support 5 arrangements each for button positioning and resistance. "The new Fragpedal Dual's ultra-modular and intelligent design is our solution to the real world issues of user preference and product reliability," says Marketing Director Steven Davenport. "Users want customizable control over parameters like button behavior, positioning and tactile resistance."
The Fragpedal Dual has an MSRP of $69.95, but is currently on sale for $54.95 on www.gamingmouse.com. It is plug-and-play for Windows XP, Vista and 7, as well as Linux and Mac OS X. The Fragpedal can be configured with Windows-based software, to change button assignments and use game support. Firmware is upgradeable via internet. The Fragpedal Dual can be upgraded to the Quad by adding an additional pedal. Owners of the dual can upgrade to the Quad for only $25 within 30 days of purchase.
Good Work Systems is an American computer peripherals company specializing in ergonomic electronic and hardware support for individually-adaptable PC input effectiveness. All Good Work Systems' devices operate under its flagship embedded Input Device Intelligence™ (IDI) technology. GWS has expertise and experience both in cognitive ergonomic research and product design, and since 2000 has produced mice, pedals and other devices for able and disabled gamers, professional, and casual PC users. GWS is best known for producing the R2 Omnimouse gaming mouse and Fragpedal Quad USB Foot Pedals.
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The Health Association of Niagara County Inc. has announced home health care aide Brianna Simmons of Niagara Falls is the recipient of the Caring Counts Award.
"Brianna is a very special person who makes a remarkable difference in the lives of her patients and the families she serves," said John Kinner, HANCI president and CEO. "Caregivers like Brianna play a vital role in our health care system and in the homes they work in. HANCI is proud to recognize Brianna Simmons as an outstanding employee. She is very deserving of this award."
The HANCI Caring Counts award is given monthly to a home health care employee who exceeds work expectations by going above and beyond the call of duty to provide outstanding care and service to clients.
Home care was a different type of work for Simmons, but it is now a job she loves, she said.
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SEATTLE (AP) - First the offense bailed out the Washington Huskies, then their defense did the job. Now coach Rick Neuheisel would like to see his team put it all together.
Ninth-ranked Washington hopes to finally give a solid all-around performance against a Pac-10 Conference foe when California visits Husky Stadium on Saturday.
'Hopefully we can find ways to get both sides of the ball to play well, along with the kicking game and put a full game together,' Neuheisel said. 'That is the goal against California.'
Neuheisel's offense certainly was the weak link last week, committing six turnovers and getting called for a safety, but the Huskies escaped with a 21-15 victory over Arizona State.
Washington's defense forced six turnovers of its own, held the Sun Devils to 60 yards rushing on 38 carries and allowed their quarterbacks to complete just 32.6 percent of their passes (15-of-46).
Ironically, the Huskies (5-2, 2-1 Pac-10) won in spite of their defense one week earlier. They gave up four touchdowns and 474 yards to Oregon State, but hung on for a 33-30 win as Washington's offense gained a season-high 504 yards.
Star quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo completed 20 of 32 passes for 223 yards in that win, but hit just 13-of-30 for 110 yards with an interception in the victory over Arizona State.
'We have got to give Marques more support, schematically as well as individually, so that he can play within himself and not force himself to be successful,' Neuheisel said.
Success against California has been commonplace for the Huskies. They have won 17 straight meetings in this series since 1976, including a 31-27 win last year as Tuiasosopo overcame five turnovers to lead a pair of fourth-quarter TD drives.
Golden Bears tailback Joe Igber rushed for 182 yards in that contest before leaving in the fourth quarter with a sprained shoulder, but was around until the very end last week for California.
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Last week's win in Berkeley snapped their four-game losing streak, but the Golden Bears (2-4, 1-2) have been a different team away from home this season. They have managed just 28 points in losing all three of their road games, while scoring 87 points at home to go 2-1.
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Prosecutor: Renton police nab barista stalker who won't stop
A Bellevue man twice convicted of harassing a barista now faces a prison term following allegations that he again stalked the woman, and attacked two police officers who tried to intervene.
David Lainez is alleged to have launched a campaign of harassment against the young woman after buying coffee from a stand where she worked. While she consistently rebuffed his advances, Lainez, 29, followed and terrorized the woman on two occasions previously; King County prosecutors contend he did so again just days after being released from jail.
King County prosecutors have asked that Lainez receive an exceptional sentence, which could see him jailed longer than the 1 ½ years or so suggested by state sentencing rules if he is convicted as charged.
Lainez began stalking the woman in 2011, when he chased her through a parking lot outside the espresso stand where she was then employed. Convicted of a misdemeanor offense in that incident, Lainez continued harassing the woman by phone and in person, and was ultimately convicted of felony stalking and other offenses for his conduct.
Released from jail on June 25, Lainez arrived outside the woman's new workplace on the evening of June 29, according to charging papers. Terrified and unsure how Lainez found her so quickly, the woman called 911.
Renton officers arrived to find Lainez in front of the business in an obvious attempt to contact the woman, and violate court orders against his doing so, a Renton detective said in charging papers. As police moved to arrest him, the detective continued, Lainez tensed, balled his fists and attacked the officers.
To restrain Lainez, officers kneed him in the stomach, ribs and face, shocked him with a stun gun and forced his arms into a position where he could be handcuffed, the detective told the court. Police report a 9 mm bullet was found at the scene; it is not clear in charging papers whether the bullet was part of a cartridge that could be loaded into a pistol, and Lainez has not been charged with unlawful possession of ammunition.
Speaking with an officer following Lainez's arrest, the woman said she had no idea how tracked her down and just wanted to get on with her life.
"I thought this was over," she told the Renton officer, according to charging papers. "How did he find me?"
Charged with felony stalking as well as two counts of third-degree assault, Lainez is currently jailed on $500,000 bail.
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In the mountains, lots of basic things are uncertain and resources scarce. Strategizing and competing in such an environment brings out the highest degree of individual learning and transformation. The Himalayan Mountain Challenge focuses on developing real life management skills in a non-simulated environment. It is a tested and highly recommended program that can be included in the PGP curriculum or as an additional program.
Indiahikes is highly professional with amazing skills to organize the event in synchronization with nature. The entire module of program such as pre-planning, execution, sequencing of events, enthusiasm of organizing team, the briefing sessions, the arrangement, the food, the trek, the tents etc. was wonderful experience. Happy to be associated with them. – Sanjay Choudhari, IIM Faculty
The objective
The Himalayan Mountain Challenge aims to impart real life management skills from the outdoors. It is an innovative method which integrates experiential leadership training with trekking in the mountains. Students experience the process of working through real challenges with limited resources and intense teamwork. The objective of the program is to enable students to overcome obstacles and challenges in a real-life environment. The activities laid out focus on bringing out qualities of team work, cooperation, consultation, creativity and decision-making under stressful situations.
Students are divided into teams and given limited resources to complete the challenge at hand. Mountain money is used as a resource during the challenge. The teams compete against each other in a real life setting through a series of activities and games that focus on team work, cooperation and overall individual capacity building. The details of the challenge are given to all teams along with equal amount of 'mountain money'. Teams need to strategise and carry out the activities in such a way that they maximise their money. Teams with a positive attitude and skills in cooperation, creativity,time management and effective communication usually emerge as winners.
Indiahikes is India's largest trekking organisation. We have more than 10,000 trekkers every year. We know the profound changes that people experience when they trek. These changes, that affect trekkers outlook and perspectives, have been the motivating force that has channeled our efforts into creating the Himalayan Mountain Challenge Program.
This program has evolved over the last 5 years. This is the 6th year we are running it for IIM Indore. Final year PGP students and faculty at IIM Indore rate this program very highly and have been instrumental in fine-tuning it.
What do students learn
We have noticed the program generally leaves a lasting impression on the student's mind. A proof would be the number of them who apply to be volunteers in conducting the same program in the following years.
More importantly, students learn that teamwork in such settings require a high order of cooperative skills. They also discover that most personal limitations that they have are largely imagined. For some, it is a humbling experience. For all, though, it is a great boost in self-confidence. Most of these lessons have direct implications in real life. Unlike a classroom setting the learning on this program is deep. Often lifelong.
I was lucky enough to be in an IIM which had a full fledged Himalayan outbound program for the PGP program It was not only an individual challenge but an experience I shared will my friends and batch mates. It was all teamwork whether we had to build a portable toilet or had to cook our own food with limited resources. It is a bit strange when we realise the similarities between surviving in a jungle miles away from "civilization" and in a corporate office situated in a mega city- Dhruv Shandil, Mountain Challenge 2014
How it is done
The trek takes students to an elevation of 12,500 feet, usually to a summit. The setting of the trek is in some of our most scenic mountains of the Himalayas. Climbing the summit over three days along with the tasks in hand is where the transformation happens. It does not require prior trekking experience to participate in this program, though we strongly advocate physical preparation.
The program also includes a 17 km white water rafting down the Ganges, which again reinforces the learning on the trek. The program duration is 6 days.
The locations for the program:
- Bedni Bugyal : The twin meadows of Ali and Bedni lie on the famed Roopkund trek route. The Bedni Bugyal trek has everything going for it. Deep virgin forests, gurgling brooks, breath-taking campsites, miles of undulating meadows and Mt Trishul and Mt Nanda Ghunti towering over them
- Kedarkantha A quiet, quick trek in the Eastern most fringes of Uttarakhand. Kedarkantha trek is known for its pretty campsites, pristine forests and a thrilling summit climb
- Dayara Bugyal The Dayara meadows stretch out far and wide and all around the meadows are the many towering snow peaks. Dayara Bugyal is considered to be one of the pretties high altitude meadows in India. The trek also climbs to the summit of Dayara top.
- Deoriatal-Chandrashila An exquisite lake surrounded my tall peaks, untouched Himalayan forests and a summit climb showcasing all the major mountains of Indian Himalayas are why this trek is a must do.
For all four locations participants come to Rishikesh. They are picked up from Rishikesh and driven down to the respective base camps of the treks. All base camps are about 8-10 hours drive from Rishikesh (with breaks).
Some immediate outcomes I observed were heightened self-confidence and a better understanding of others apart from a greater appreciation of nature. When I reached the final camp, the first reaction was "Woohoo, I've done it." As I settled down, I was asking myself, what is "it" that I've done. And then an inner voice said: "It" was not conquering the mountain; "it" was conquering myself.- Prof Srinivas Gunta, IIM Indore Faculty
Programme itinerary:
Day 1: Pick up at Rishikesh at 6.30 am and drive to the respective base camps. 8-10 hour journey. Mountain road journeys are slow and breaks are advisable. Reach camp by 6.30 pm. Room/Tent allocation followed by a briefing about the trek in hand. Instructions about the mountain challenge activity will be handed over as printed sheets for students to strategize overnight.
Day 2: An hour of mountain challenge briefing followed by the start of the trek. Trek duration is between 4-5 hours. Trekkers expected to reach camp by 1.00 pm. There are two mountain challenge activities post trek. Activities wind up by 6 pm.
Day 3: Mountain challenge activities followed by 3-5 hour trek. This is the highest camp on the trek (usually around 11,000 feet). After lunch, trekkers attempt the summit and return to the camp by dusk.
Day 4: Trek down from high camp to base camp. Trek ends by lunch time. Results of the Mountain Challenge is declared in the evening.
Day 5: Depart base camp by 7 am and reach Rishikesh by 6 pm.
Day 6: 6.30 am to 11 am – White water rafting in the Ganga. 12 pm – checkout, lunch and end of program
Minimum and Maximum Participants: We need minimum 30 participants per location and a maximum of 120 participants per location. Upto 4 locations can be organized. Students are distributed equally and teams are formed in advance. This program is exclusively for colleges. The activities can be modified in accordance with the specific objectives and learning goals of the Institution. The program is not open to individuals as yet.
Indiahikes staff: For a team of 50 students there are 10-12 backend management staff, 2 staff in leadership role conducting the Mountain Challenge and 2 Indiahikes volunteers who help conduct the program.
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Amidst all the pictures and posts and statuses of my contemporaries about the Himalayan Outbound, I would like to share an unrelated though extremely vital viewpoint. Seeing sanitary napkin advertisements would always make me cringe. "How can she do ALL that while she is menstruating? Seriously?" has been a widespread thought among women while viewing them. After trekking for the first time, river rafting and bungee jumping, all on my 'special days', I feel like a changed woman. There is really NOTHING that can stop a woman. It's about time us women believed that thought. Thank you Indiahikes for an experience of a lifetime! – Garima Sachdeva, Mountain Challenge 2016


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At our High Holiday services, we have two teams of clergy, Rabbi Daniel Liben with Cantor Ken Richmond, and Rabbi David Ebstein with Joel Sussman of Safam fame, and we hold the main services in two locations, the Sanctuary/ Social Hall, and a large tent in the parking lot adjoining our building. We now use the Lev Shalem Mahzor which includes transliteration, and many interesting readings and explanations. In addition, we hold fantastic age-appropriate services for children, preschool-age (with at least one parent in attendance), and engaging drop-off youth services for grades K-7. On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, we offer a broad-based service in the tent, geared for families with children of all ages, led by Rabbi Liben and Cantor Ken, with Rabbi Ebstein and Joel Sussman leading a traditional service in the Sanctuary. Family service FAQs are found here. Babysitting is also available for children 18mo and above.
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Paper: The App
The Hot New App of the moment is "Paper by FiftyThree." It's a sketchbook app, basically, but it's done by members of the team that created the much-hyped Courier tablet that Microsoft failed to produce a couple years back. The end result is a sketchbook app that closely mimics moleskins. It's used with a minimum number of tools that react similarly to the ways you'd expect them to in the real world. It's not just another drawing tool. It's one that's predicated on the experience of reality. The watercolors really do seem to flow out onto the paper. The pencil leaves behind its graphite shavings as you go. The pen nib has varying ink weights. For a comic book artist type on the go, this is a handy app to have hanging around.
It is limited, though. You get nine colors and up to five tools. (The app, itself, is free, but you'll want to buy a tool or two or three, which come as in-app purchases for $1.99 apiece.) There is an undo feature ("rewind") though there aren't layers or smart erasers to erase just one specific tool's lines. So if you want to erase the pencil lines you used to built up your drawing, you're stuck.
"Paper" comes stock with an eraser and an ink nib tool. The nib does do varying line weights, but the iPad doesn't have the capability to sense pressure sensitivity. Instead, the line gets thicker as you move your brush faster. The pencil took works in much the same way. Instead of assigning pen pressure to line weight, the app goes with the speed of your line. The watercolors brush is the exception to this. As in the real world, the slower you move the tool, the more it spreads color onto the page. But the other tools feel a little backwards for this, especially the pen nib.
I'm not an inker, so forgive me for this over simplification, but the easiest way to add weight to a plain line drawing is by having thicker brushstrokes at the end, and a lighter line in the middle. It helps to mimic the thickness or weight of the curved item you're drawing. Think about the lines running up a superhero's legs. Where the muscle bulges out, you use a thinner line. Go grab a comic and take a look. Pick out something Mark Farmer inked over Alan Davis for a good example.
To simulate that look in "Paper," however, you'd have to draw from the inside out, to built up the speed to make the thicker lines at the ends. And then, drawing with my finger, it's tough to meet up the two lines perfectly in the middle.
That's why, after spending $3.98 adding tools to this app, I now officially want to buy a stylus for my iPad for artistic purposes. There goes another $20 or $25, right? (Any recommendations out there? The Cosmonaut, maybe?) I didn't care enough about getting one to play "Draw Something" with, but this sketchbook app scratches one serious itch I've always had: watercolors.
I've never used them besides a high school art class, where I learned I stink at them. But I love the look. I love the washed out colors they provide, and the way they hint at a color and add so much to an otherwise simple sketch without overpowering it. I love the work, in particular, of Enrico Casarosa, a PIXAR animator and founder of Sketchcrawl. (I've reviewed his books, "The Venice Chronicles" and "The Adventures of Mia") I couldn't imagine sitting in the park with a notepook and a brush and trying to paint a picture. But with this app? I suddenly want to find a park bench and badly draw images of ducks floating in a pale blue lake, with a stand of green trees standing just behind them. "Paper" is the first time I've wanted to take a sketchbook out and watercolor something.
I stink at it. I'm exploring with it right now. I'm finding what I like and what's too much and how the tool, itself, works. But I love the results, as crude and unprofessional as they are.
The images accompanying this article are ones I've done inside of Paper, but please keep two things in mind: The app is still new to me and I'm just getting used to it, and I had to use my big fingers instead of a pen/stylus. I'm much better with these lines on pencil and paper.
One other shortcoming of the app: The rewind tool is not easy to get a hang of. It's supposed to work like you're dialing back a knob, but I can't pretend to twist a knob effectively enough to get the tool to come up. Instead, I use a two finger swipe upwards motion to bring up the knob, then spin my finger clockwise to go back in artistic time. I always understood the concept — and they show it off in the demo video — but the reality of getting it to work is tricky. Either you'll get it immediately, or you'll be playing with the screen forever trying to figure it out. I circumvented the whole process and found something similar that works for me.
Also, there is no adjustable tool size. You can't make the pen tip/brush tip bigger and smaller. It's one size fits all. The screen size is also the page size. You can't zoom in. You can't make a bigger image. The size is fixed. The iPad screen size is the page size. Some see that as limitations; others view it as a constraint that will bring out your creativity.
The app works very hard at being simple. I'd love to have layers, or at least the ability to erase only a specific tool. I tend to draw with a pencil first and then finish it off with inks on top. But I can't go back and erase the pencils afterwards. And if I've added the watercolors already, I'd be erasing the pencils AND the colors. The ink line is somewhat easy to recreate, but good luck with the watercolor stuff.
And that's the other controversy with the app: Its design. A few years back, people liked complaining about the age of Delicious apps. Named after Delicious Monster, it referred to apps which were popular as much for their prettiness as their functionality. Some might even say form won over function. But I like their main program, "Delicious Library," in all its skeuomorphic greatness, and even used it to see off a lot of DVDs back in the day to pay for my first SLR. Today's app economy puts the "Delicious Apps" age to shame, really. Prettiness is assumed to be part of a good app now, and not just a feature to be checked off the developer's To Do list. Form and function are almost inseparable in an app like this. That's taking some getting used to.
The other problem with "Paper" is the fact that the thing is so gesture-driven that you'll get unwanted art on the paper with a blown gesture. Absent-mindedly swipe to the left to go to the next page, and instead you'll just get a thick line across the middle of your drawing. (For the record, you need to pinch the screen to zoom out, then swipe to change to the next or previous page.) After some time, those mistakes went away, but I still have to think about it when I use the app.
"Paper by FiftyThree" is available for the iPad today. Again, the app is free because they know you'll wind up paying for the tools that go with it. Depending on what you might use the app for, you might be able to get away for cheap. Or spend $10. It's up to you.
If you spot any comic book artists using it in the wild or posting shots from their screens on their blog, let me know. I'd be interested in seeing how artists who are best known for their pencil or pen-and-ink skills might use this app with its watercolors and other something-more-limiting tools. In the meantime, I'm sorry to say you're stuck with me.
Takashi Murakami's "Stargazing Dog" will break your heart. I can't emphasize that enough. And the skill of it all is that it opens with the main character's body being found. The rest of the book tells the tale of how he got there, and it's a slow spiral of a man too proud to ask for help as he gets lost from society. You know he's going to die — along with his dog — but you can't help but get sucked into his story. He's not the greatest husband or father, but he's far from abusive or mean. He just got caught up in life, lost his way, then lost his family. His cute daughter who brought a puppy home as a kid is now a teenager punk who hates her family. The wife feels neglected and unloved, and files for divorce. And so the man travels away from home.
But he has a faithful dog as his companion; it's the family pet he didn't want, but with whom he's completely bonded. They've become best friends. The dog talks in caption boxes throughout the book the way you'd expect a two year old child to. The narration is heartbreaking. The dog is a little uppity, very much naive, and cuter than cute.
Did I mention the book will break your heart, yet? So it's really up to you if you want to spend a half hour of your life reading a book like that. I'm glad I did, because it's a memorable book that doesn't harp on politics or society as a whole. Those messages are there, particularly if you're better versed in Japanese society, I'd bet, but the author sticks with just telling the tale of this one guy who loses his family, goes off on his own with his dog, and slowly reaches his end.
"Stargazing Dog" is published by NBM. It's a $11.99 paperback, black and white, and slightly undersized. The book reads left to right, though it's originally from Japan, so I assume they did some serious panel flipping here. I'm sure if I paid closer attention, I'd have noticed, but I never did. The story sucked me in that hard. I'm a softie for this book, completely.
With the Emerald City Comicon growing in prominence, we get more and more publishing announcements from there every year. This year is no exception.
- I love it when a reprint is announced and it makes me revisit an older review. It's an interesting experiment to see if you liked the book as much as you remembered liking it, or if something else is coloring your opinion. Such is the case with the weekend's news that Image is reprinting the Joe Casey/Charlie Adlard OGN, "Rock Bottom." I thought I liked the book when it debuted, as a bit of a surreal character analysis. When I dug out my review in Pipeline from January 27, 2007, I discovered that I remembered that one correctly, at least. So I'm still recommending it, five years later. Give it a shot if you passed on it the first time, when AiT/PlanetLar published it. Also, do click through to that column for other reviews, like Darwyn Cooke's "Spirit" #2, C.B. Cebulski's "Wonderlost" and "Fantastic Four" #542, the start of Dwayne McDuffie's unfortunately short run.
"Scott Pilgrim" is getting a new color edition over the course of the next three years or so. It seems that the series is so popular now that they're following Jeff Smith's publishing program. I'll be interested to see if they do a singular collection of all six volumes (in color) through Scholastic in 2015. It would sell out at San Diego that year.
Nathan Fairbairn's colors are perfect for the book, and honestly makes the book look easier to read. Bryan Lee O'Malley's stark black and white visuals benefit from the color. With just the slightest hint of shading, Fairbairn's colors give the book a more dimensional look, not in the sense of being sculpted, but by helping to separate out the important elements of a panel.
- Penny Arcade is following the "Groo" publishing plan in jumping publishers as often as possible. In their defense, though, they're not leaving the publishers bankrupt and going out of business. "Groo's" streak of chaos and despair remains unchallenged.
- In sad news, Weird Al is suing Sony over the alleged lack of proper digital royalty payments. This has nothing to do with comics, I admit, but it's sad. I'm with Team Weird Al. Ironically, this lawsuit has merit because of a previous lawsuit won by Eminem. That's right; Weird Al is following in Eminem's footsteps, legally. Crazy world, eh?
OK, I can bring this back around to comics: I wonder what comic book royalty contracts dating back to the pre-digital era will need to be rethought now that digital comics are no longer inevitable, but are here and selling?
We'll have something a little different next week: a review of a Broadway musical and what the parallels to the comic book industry are. And I'm not talking about the Spider-Man musical, either.
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In 2008, Luminy Studios released a short game called Bloodwood. It was free.
Bloodwood Reload represents a complete re-tooling of that game. The new version will also be free. What follows is a preview consisting of a very small portion of the current Beta version.
The game has full 360-degree range of motion; movement is accomplished using either the WASD keys or directional arrows.
The suitably creepy story involves a village trapped in time and surrounded by trees that have unique, blood-red wood. As the game's protagonist, you're sent to the village by a logging company to acquire rights to the forest.
You learn from a local farmer that there's a legend concerning the color of the trees. It involves some pretty nasty activities. This is where the Beta ended.
Bloodwood Reload has great atmosphere. You arrive at the village at what appears to be dusk to the accompaniment of crickets, the buzz of flying insects, fog, an occasional wolf howl and foreboding piano music. Dark clouds hang overhead.
Other ambient sounds include footsteps and crackling fires.
The game's graphics are well-done in a variety of textures. They convey the feeling of an earlier time nicely.
There are no voiceovers in the game; all dialog is text-based. Some of the wording is a little awkward, as when the innkeeper says, "Let me working please."
This being a Beta version, bugs are to be expected. I came across a couple of major ones.
Wandering around the village after I first arrived, I encountered a priest. I found him lying face down on the ground. When I saw him a little later, he was embedded in the ground with only his upper half showing. He wouldn't talk to me except to tell me he was busy.
I tried saving the game in a couple of spots. But when I loaded the saves, both deposited me at the front door of the town's inn.
Bloodwood Reload has the potential to be an excellent mystery/horror adventure. I'm hoping that Luminy Studios will be able to iron out the bugs before releasing the game this summer.


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Quest-Based Learning for Economics Class
Question 1 Project Description:
Quest-Based Learning for Economics Class
Students will participate in team and individual "quests". Quests will be lesson plans with points awarded at the end, that goes towards their overall experience points in the class. These are used to level up which is like attaining a grade and numeric average. The difference from regular class will be the interaction and play required to gain experience points. Students will create a character version of themselves and attain different levels as they achieve different learning outcomes. For example after playing, learning and understanding what opportunity cost is, the students will be a level 2 economist. The final level, Level 50 would be Nobel laureate economist.
Question 1 :Purpose of project
To create a different learning environment for an introduction to economics class that focuses on student achievement in a class by class basis. The purpose will grow around the concept of gamification where students seek awards that correlate with their learning of basic economic principles. This encourages all different learning styles through a fun atmosphere, different from a traditional economics class that can be intimidating to new students.
Question 1: Goals for project
Participants will be able to recall basic economics concepts(opportunity cost, time value of money, scarcity, supply and demand etc.) through various games played in class such as monopoly, Life, and Settlers of Catan. Students will successfully conduct a debate on economic issues learned through "quests" in the class. Students will be able to trace the growth of globalization and the world economy through playing games such as Civilization and Empires. They will successfully reflect on the learning and demonstrate an awareness of all core economics issues at the end of the twelve weeks. They will demonstrate this during role play as a professor of economics. Students will have used quests to successfully set up an economics experiment.
Question 1: Activities
Use 3D Game Lab to form Quests based on course objectives through game play, lecture, movies, ted talks, textbooks, additional reading material, current events and research.
Game play will include board games, mobile game simulations, tablet games, console and PC games that all reflect economic principles.
Question 1: Expected Outcomes
1. Explain how various economic systems in the United States operate;
2. Generalize the concepts of economic efficiency, exchange and comparative advantage
3. Distinguish the characteristics of supply and demand;
4. Demonstrate awareness of how supply and demand interact;
5. Summarize the role of the government in the economic health of the country;
6. Explain the roles of producer and consumer in the free market economy
7. Trace the growth of globalization and the world economy
Question 2: Reason for evaluation
A major reason to evaluate this project would be to determine gamifications effectiveness. I would like to compare student outcomes and success based on the historical averages for previous economics classes. This would include comparison of student survey results, and overall class opinion prior and post-quest based economics. I would also like to observe how adult learners react to a non traditional class structure.
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Question 3: Definitions of Evaluation
For me, I subscribe to both definitions situationally.I feel this way because, in my professional role when working with the director of education there are times decisions need to be made based on collecting and analyzing data. For example, should a student be dropped from the business program? In order to answer this questions we analyze their satisfactory academic process as well other data; such as attendance. This creates a basis where decisions are made on the second evaluation definition. Other times I subscribe to the value the first definition represents. When evaluating curriculum or adjunct instructors we use the data to cross reference objectives. We then look at what degree objectives have or have not been achieved. This adds value by acting as an accountability checklist where the later definition acts as a performance management tool focusing on decision outcomes.
chapter 1 Questions
Would the program you detailed in Chapter One benefit from an evaluation? If so, how?
The program detailed earlier (please view frame 2) could benefit from an evaluation for a couple reasons. The first reason would be to see the response of associate degree students both traditional and nontraditional (adult learners) to a gamified educational approach and if their performance results match that of the learning communities that have been engaged in gamification practices; such as K-12. Another benefit would be a better understanding of using gamification in economics to achieve outcomes or if there is a link that can be drawn between a gamified economics class versus a non gamified economics class. This would gauge the classes effectiveness for student learning compared to the use of other tools. Another benefit would be to understand how students perceive the different class structure versus a traditional class structure.
Chapter 2: Why Evaluate?
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2. What are the inherent limitations in the evaluation of the program?
The program has some natural limitations that are commonly associated with attempting new classroom management tools. Administration will be concerned with the budgetary aspect of using games as an educational medium. They will also question the validity of quest-based learning versus traditional powerpoint and lecture, if, for no other reason than having uniformed instructional styles that are easier to manage. These limitations could prevent any relevant data and analysis from being taken seriously to enact change. Even if the change is not a complete overall of course design, but rather allowing individual instructors to create quest based learning without any negative connotation.
Chapter 2: Why Evaluate?
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3. How might you use the results to benefit the organization, community, schools, or yourself?
Depending on the results, I would use this evaluation to give educators the chance to try something new in their classroom. The information would be passed on to academic administrators as a potential alternative for classroom instruction. I would also use the results to request from administration new budget items that would help in the transition of game based learning for those who wanted to adopt it as an educational tool. I would cross-reference positive linked results to tell a story of positive student retention(if this was found as a result). If the results showed a positive effect in one aspect; for example, let's say game play was linked by the students to be a better way to learn and recall chapter objectives over end of chapter activities; I would make a notation of the positive takeaway as something that can be incorporated on a smaller scale, if every other quest based model failed in results. If the evaluation shows negative or no effect, I will document the program to use in new hire orientation and to reference when building new curriculum and syllabi that offer suggestion for instruction. These will denote the structure that has proven manageable in the classroom setting thus far.
Chapter 2: Why Evaluate?
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Boulmetis, John, and Phyllis Dutwin.
The ABCs of evaluation:
timeless techniques for program and project managers
3rd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011. Print.
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