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Sleepy-Eyed Writer, Wandering Byzantium
"About the Lower East Side today,' Mr. Price said, 'This place is like Byzantium. It's tomorrow, yesterday — anyplace but today.' ... 'Lush Life' took so long to finish, he said, in part because he spent so much time researching it — talking to people, riding around with the neighborhood police and sometimes just walking around. 'I always like to hang out,' he said, 'because, one, it's a way of avoiding really writing; and, two, sometimes God is a crackerjack novelist and you can plagiarize the hell out of him.' He particularly liked hanging out with cops, he said, 'because I'm so not a cop myself. Being with them gets me out of my own self-consciousness.'" READ MORE >
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Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
"Far from pushing boundaries, or the church's buttons, Rice's portrayal of Jesus as the son of God and the savior of humankind is theologically sound. At the same time, he's also very human, with needs and cares readers can relate to. 'It's an attempt to get close to him and what he experienced, to make it historically exciting and historically correct,' she said. Writing the books 'has made me conscious of what (Jesus) suffered in the way of derision and dismissal … Just like today -- people go around making jokes about him. But he goes right on winning souls no matter what anybody does. We've come 2,000 years, and you can still sit at his feet and hear him speak and feel his hand, maybe, touch your shoulder. He survives it all.'" READ MORE >
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The Last Triumph of Fatima
The centrality of Fatima to the second, 'suffering servant' stage of John Paul II's papacy, and his involvement with the two men who would become the Vatican's numbers one and two after his death, may help explain why Lucia's cause has been fast-tracked for beatification... In the book, Bertone seems relieved that all the Virgin's prophecies were now safely in the past tense, and could no longer be seen as portending the world's end: 'It's all quite different from the massive carnage certain fevered brains like to imagine taking place,' he writes… READ MORE >
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The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors
…Dan Ariely's new book, 'Predictably Irrational,' an entertaining look at human foibles like the penchant for keeping too many options open. "Closing a door on an option is experienced as a loss, and people are willing to pay a price to avoid the emotion of loss," Dr. Ariely says… So what can be done? One answer, he says, is to develop more social checks on overbooking. He points to marriage as an example: 'In marriage, we create a situation where we promise ourselves not to keep options open. We close doors and announce to others we've closed doors.'" READ MORE >
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After the Apocalypse
"As they travel the father feeds his son a story, the nearest that he can come to a creed or a reason to keep on going: that he and his son are 'carrying the fire.' …the boy seems to intuit a promise: that life will not always be thus; that it will improve, that beauty and purpose, sunlight and green plenty will return; in short that everything is going to be 'okay,' a word which both characters endlessly repeat to each other, touching it compulsively like a sore place or a missing tooth. They are carrying the fire through a world destroyed by fire, and therefore—a leap of logic or faith that by the time the novel opens has become almost insurmountable for both of them—the boy must struggle on, so that he can be present at, or somehow contribute to, the eventual rebirth of the world." READ MORE >
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Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
"Ms. Jacoby doesn't expect to revolutionize the nation's educational system or cause millions of Americans to switch off 'American Idol' and pick up Schopenhauer. But she would like to start a conversation about why the United States seems particularly vulnerable to such a virulent strain of anti-intellectualism… Avoiding the liberal or conservative label in this particular argument, she prefers to call herself a 'cultural conservationist.'" READ MORE >
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Death's Army
"Americans had never endured anything like the losses they suffered between 1861 and 1865 and have experienced nothing like them since." The author writes: "'The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.' Her account of how that work was done, much of it gleaned from the letters of those who found themselves forced to do it, is too richly detailed and covers too much ground to be summarized easily. She overlooks nothing — from the unsettling enthusiasm some men showed for killing to the near-universal struggle for an answer to the question posed by the Confederate poet Sidney Lanier: 'How does God have the heart to allow it?'" READ MORE >
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The Dawkins Confusion
"The God Delusion is full of bluster and bombast, but it really doesn't give even the slightest reason for thinking belief in God mistaken, let alone a 'delusion.' Dawkins seems to have chosen God as his sworn enemy. (Let's hope for Dawkins' sake God doesn't return the compliment.)... You might say… READ MORE >


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On January 22, 2009, Middlebury Electric, LLC, filed an application, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act, proposing to study the feasibility of the Middlebury Upper East Bank Hydroelectric Project, to be located on Otter Creek, in Addison County, Vermont.
The proposed Upper East Bank Hydroelectric Project consists of: (1) A refurbished abandoned mill structure including a new intake structure, penstock, tailrace and appurtenant facilities; (2) the millhouse would contain one or more turbine generating units with a total installed capacity of 0.4 megawatts; (3) a direct connection to an existing Central Vermont Public Service (CVPS) transmission line; and (4) appurtenant facilities. The Middlebury Upper Bank Project would have an estimated average annual generation of 3,400 megawatt-hours, which would be sold to CVPS.
Applicant Contact: Dr. Anders Holm, 1330 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT 05445, phone (802) 233-9606.
FERC Contact: John Ramer, (202) 502-8969.
Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, competing applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file competing applications: 60 days from the issuance of this notice. Comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing applications may be filed electronically via the Internet. See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site under the "e-Filing" link. If unable to be filed electronically, documents may be paper-filed. To paper-file, an original and eight copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For more information on how to submit these types of filings please go to the Commission's Web site located at http://www.ferc.gov/filing-comments.asp. More information about this project can be viewed or printed on the "eLibrary" link of Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number (P-13355) in the docket number field to access the document. For assistance, call toll-free 1-866-208-3372.Start Signature
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Last week members of Vancouver Whitecaps FC visited BC Children's Hospital, including president Bob Lenarduzzi, head coach Martin Rennie, goalkeeper Brad Knighton, striker Sebastien Le Toux, club ambassador Carl Valentine, and mascot Spike.
The 'Caps started with a visit to the playroom, taking part in a variety of activities included colouring, foosball, and playing FIFA 12.
Coach Rennie and the players then made their way through the hospital and were particularly touched to find many 'Caps supporters in the various rooms they visited. Among the patients was a little girl who was a player escort last year at the inaugural match at BC Place versus Portland Timbers.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers University says fired men's basketball coach Mike Rice is receiving $475,000 under a settlement agreement.
Word comes Thursday, the same day University President Robert Barchi told a New Jersey Assembly budget plan that he didn't believe the disgraced coach was entitled to a severance.
Rice was fired a little more than two weeks ago after a video of him throwing basketballs at players during practices, shoving them and uttering anti-gay slurs was shown on ESPN.
The scandal also led to the departure of the university's lawyer and athletic director.
The university says Rice's settlement is worth less than half of what's called for under his contract for being terminated.
Barchi says the agreement "is in the best interests of the university."


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Swim team numbers continue to multiply
It's been an interesting start to the summer for the Gothenburg Swim Team.
The swimmers have not only had to travel to Eustis and Cozad for practices that began in March but the number of participants has also forced them to sometimes take turns in the pool.
That's what happens when team members multiply from 12 when the program started in 2008 to more than 60 this summer.
"It can be a challenge sometimes," said team manager Lisa Jorgenson. "Keeping track of all those kids and their individual times is a lot of work but it's so exciting to see how much they've improved."
Ryan O'Hare and Alexa Ostergard coach the local participants and Jorgenson estimates that between 15 and 20 on this year's team come from Cozad with team manager Gina Jensen and coaches Anne Burkholder and Karen LaBrayere there.
So far, the cooperative effort has been a good one.
"I'm so thankful to have the collaboration with Cozad," Jorgenson said. "It has made having to practice there so much easier, among other things."
Preparing Gothenburg's pool this season took a little longer than previous years, so the local swimmers had to go elsewhere for their daily practices.
"That added a bit of difficulty," Jorgenson said.
But it has also allowed the Gothenburg swimmers to become comfortable in the Cozad pool.
That could benefit swimmers on Saturday when the Gothenburg Swim Team hosts a meet there.
As a member of the Plains tSunami Swim League, the team hosts one meet per summer.
Jorgenson said with so many Cozad swimmers involved, they decided to host the meet in Cozad.
"There are a lot of advantages," she said. "For one, we will be able to use all six lanes there. We can't use the sixth lane here because of the slide."
The Cozad pool is also the same depth at both ends of the lanes.
"We've decided to alternate between the two from now on," she said.
The meet begins with a coaches meeting at 8 a.m. followed by warm-ups at 8:30 a.m. and the first event at 9 a.m.
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The Gothenburg Swim Team finished second as a team to Minden at the 2011 championship.
"To finish second overall in only our fourth season is quite an accomplishment," Jorgenson said. "And with more kids, we have more opportunities for kids to earn ribbons and accumulate points for the team."
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Morning Five: 10.28.13 EditionPosted by rtmsf on October 28th, 2013
- For the fourth consecutive weekend (ugh), several schools around the country staged their Midnight Madness events. The headliner over the last three days was at North Carolina, where the Tar Heels' annual Late Night With Roy event featured big cheers for troubled guard PJ Hairston. At Seton Hall, eating contest legend Takeru Kobayashi was brought in to wow the crowd as he went head-to-head in a hot dog eating contest with Pirates' head coach Kevin Willard. Willard didn't even try to get one down, preferring to spend the minute-long competition watching Kobayashi house a total of 10 without so much as an extra breath. Perhaps more impressively, Kobayashi then drained a gallon jug of milk in just 15 seconds. Over at Villanova, Nicki Minaj performed during its Hoops Mania event, while Kansas State created some buzz with its Fresh Prince of Manhattan skit. The most impressive item out of the weekend, though, may have come from Providence's Brandon Austin, who shut down the proceedings with a simply ridiculous between-the-legs, 360-degree windmill dunk. All good fun, but after literally a month of these Madnesses, can we get to some real basketball soon? Eleven days.
- With just over a week remaining before bona fide games tip off, the NCAA is releasing decisions on player eligibility with gusto. Last week it was Georgetown receiving the good (and astonishing) news that former UCLA center Josh Smith would be eligible to play immediately; Oregon got similar news on Friday when the NCAA cleared Houston transfer Joseph Young to play immediately for Dana Altman as well. Young is an exceptional scoring guard who averaged 18.0 PPG last season and brings to Eugene the 26th-best offensive rating in college basketball (124.1 last season). In a now-loaded backcourt featuring Dominic Artis, Damyean Dotson and Young to go along with transfer Mike Moser in the frontcourt, the Ducks are suddenly looking like one of the top two or three teams in the Pac-12 again. Interestingly, transfers Young and Smith will face each other in their first game of the season between the Ducks and Hoyas in South Korea on November 8.
- Just a few days after Tim Floyd revealed that Kentucky and UTEP were exploring a 2016 game to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their Brown vs. Board of Education national championship match-up, word came out that John Calipari's program is seeking to spearhead another Champions Classic-style event involving the nation's top basketball schools. According to ESPN.com's Andy Katz, Kentucky, UCLA, North Carolina and Ohio State are negotiating a three-year event that would mimic the Champions Classic with each team rotating through the others in alternate years. The unnamed event would begin in 2014-15 and would move between Brooklyn, Indianapolis and Las Vegas during the first three-year window. When the Champions Classic was first developed, we wondered if some of the other all-time great basketball schools such as UNC and UCLA would ever have a chance to participate; with this new event now in the pipeline, we'll just about have it covered. Serious question, though — with a combined 24 national titles among this group, shouldn't the new event supersede the other for rights to the name "Champions Classic?" And what happened to Indiana (five titles compared with Ohio State's one)?
- The Miami/Nevin Shapiro scandal has come and gone with Frank Haith getting off relatively easy (a five-game suspension) and the Hurricane basketball program moving forward in decent shape. But, as the Miami Herald reports, former assistant coach Jorge Fernandez's professional life has been destroyed as a result of admitted violations relating to providing free airline tickets to players and later lying to the NCAA about it. The article correctly points out that it is often the low-level assistants in these scandals who suffer the brunt of the punishment, as Fernandez notes that a two-year 'show cause' penalty has shut him out of the coaching profession and caused the matter of providing basic needs for his family very difficult. Some coaches around the country have rallied around him throughout his ordeal, but many others have not, and it's uncertain if or where he will be able to land after his penalty has ended. It's another one of those stories that makes people shrug their shoulders at the stark inequities built into the NCAA's byzantine system of enforcement and punishment.
- It got lost in the late week news cycle, but some big news relating to the Ed O'Bannon case against the NCAA was released on Friday afternoon. Federal district judge Claudia Wilken denied the NCAA's motion for dismissal, paving the way for O'Bannon and the other plantiffs to move forward and eventually receive a trial on the merits of the case. The primary issue here was the relevance of language in a 1984 case from former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens that, while not part of the holding of that lawsuit, has been relied upon by the NCAA to retain its amateur model: "In order to preserve the character and quality of the [NCAA's] 'product,' athletes must not be paid, must be required to attend class, and the like." Wilken rejected the notion that Stevens' language represented any particular binding precedent, and in so doing, has removed a major procedural barrier assuring that the plaintiffs will get their day in court. Wilken will next rule on class certification of the case, potentially allowing thousands more plaintiffs to sue the NCAA and correspondingly raising their potential liability well into the billions of dollars.


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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My mother passed away 3 years ago from lung cancer. I have been trying to understand what happened in the last days of her life. When I came to see her, she was not responsive, but her eyes were open. Can you explain why this happens?
Erin McMenamin, MSN, CRNP, AOCN, Pain Medicine Nurse Practitioner and Program Manager at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
The process of dying is very complex, so it is hard to know for sure. Towards the end of life, both the kidneys and liver begin to shut down, resulting in toxins building up in the blood and leading to increasing confusion and/or lack of response. The person stops producing urine, his/her blood pressure becomes lower, heart rate slower, and there is a general slowing and shutting down of the body systems. The most likely reason for her lack of response when you visited was low cerebral oxygenation (oxygen getting from the lung to the brain through the blood), as a result of slowed breathing and decreased blood flow. In her case, the lung cancer likely contributed to this as well. The heart can continue to be active for a while, even when there is not enough oxygen getting to the brain. Any medication she had been given for comfort could also have contributed to sedation and her lack of response. Exactly why her eyes were open is unclear, but I have seen people who are unresponsive in states of both eyes-open and eyes-closed during these periods. The eye-opening response to light can be mediated by cranial nerve function in the brainstem, which operates independently of higher-functioning parts of the brain, and thus may not reflect a patient's level of consciousness.
It is also possible to have a stroke during the last days of life, related to lower levels of blood flow or blood clotting from factors related to the cancer. Unfortunately, attempting to treat a person for stroke in these cases would not prolong life.
In the end, it is impossible to say, but it sounds like she did not suffer during her last days, although it was probably very long and painful for you and the family and I am sure you did everything you could to ensure her comfort.


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Go for diamonds - the AAA Four Diamond Award variety - on your stay and check in to the Chateau on the River, otherwise known as the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald where you'll bask in luxury and its impressive setting overlooking the River Valley.
Or add a twist to your escape package. Consider a theme room at the Fantasyland hotel in West Edmonton Mall - North America's largest shopping and entertainment destination. You can sleep like royalty or escape to the Polynesian islands among other tantalizing options. Just don't forget to add the Petals and Passion package, which includes a romantic trail of rose petals, a bottle of sparkling wine and a sensual gift basket for your stay.
Fall in Love with Edmonton
Romance is in the air when you take advantage of all that Edmonton has to offer. Bustling, historic Old Strathcona, known for its nightlife, restaurants and shopping is a must see while the 124th Street area also brings together dining and shopping options in its own uniquely Edmonton style - a definite highlight is the Gallery Walk, the first of its kind in Canada, and the place to see distinctive Canadian works of art.
West Edmonton Mall, meanwhile, is where you'll catch the award-winning exhibit, Diana, A Celebration; a look at the life and work of the Princess of Wales. Among the items on display are Princess Diana's magnificent royal wedding gown with its 25-foot long train, 28 of her designer dresses, family heirlooms, personal mementos and rare home movies. It is on from February 9 to June 9.
Last, but hardly least, be sure to check out Edmonton's well-deserved reputation as Canada's Festival City. As a year-round festival destination, the Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival (February 8-9), the Silver Skate Festival (February 15-18), the Global Visions Film Festival (February 27-March 3) and the Expanse Movement Arts Festival (March 6-10) are just some of the upcoming highlights.
Dinner for Two
Edmonton also offers a vast array of romantic dining options. From fabulous French food to world famous Alberta beef, the city is full of restaurants where you can create delicious memories.
Just a few to consider include:
More Enchanting Options
Romantic opportunities abound once you're out and about in Edmonton. Explore the outdoor beauty of the Legislature Grounds. Edmonton, Alberta's capital city, is home to the historic grandeur of the provincial legislative assembly. Complementing this are 23 hectares of parkland and natural beauty, with an added winter attraction of an ice rink. Free tours of the grounds and the building are available.
Art and entertainment lovers will want to check out the downtown arts district, where you will find the Art Gallery of Alberta, the Winspear Centre (home to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra where you and your valentine can Put on the Ritz at a dazzling concert of Irving Berlin tunes on February 8 or 9) or head over to the Citadel Theatre for a date and see Noel Coward's Private Lives (February 2-24) or the sensational improvised production of Blind Date (February 13-24).
For movie lovers Edmonton has your silver screen ticket to romance, an evening at the Cineplex Odeon Windermere VIP theatres where you'll be pampered with luxurious reserved seats, a private licensed lounge and in-seat food and beverage service until the start of the feature presentation.
In Edmonton, it's all about the charm of the city and the chance to make your romantic dreams come true.
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Jordan Mercer 'emphatically denies any wrongdoing'
CHAMPION surf life saver Jordan Mercer has rigorously denied filming an unconscious team mate being assaulted at the world surf life saving titles last month.
Ms Mercer was provisionally suspended from Surf Life Saving Australia events and training alongside five Australian team mates after disturbing allegations were raised at the world championships in Adelaide.
The 19-year-old Noosa Surf Club member took the SLSA to the Supreme Court this month in an attempt to have her suspension lifted so she could continue to earn a living and compete in surf carnivals.
Court documents, including affidavits from Ms Mercer and her lawyer, have revealed details of the explosive allegations plaguing Ms Mercer, the daughter of iconic ironman Darren Mercer.
The sworn affidavits were tendered for Ms Mercer's civil application but they do not form evidence for potential future criminal proceedings.
Included in an affidavit from Ms Mercer's lawyer Mark Lacy was an email to SLSA's lawyer Jonathan Quilty.
In the email on November 28, Mr Lacy stated Ms Mercer had advised him she "did not video the alleged incident, had not seen a video of the alleged incident" and did not have a video on her phone.
Mr Lacy stated while he heard third hand a video had surfaced the day after the incident, Ms Mercer had left early that morning.
"...I wish to emphasise that Jordan emphatically denies any wrongdoing and will vigorously defend the allegations against her," Mr Lacy stated in his email.
"At best on all available facts Jordan may be a witness to an alleged assault."
On November 26, SLSA released a media statement revealing it had suspended six members following drug use and unlawful assault allegations at the world championships.
A letter from SLSA chief executive Brett Williamson to Ms Mercer, tended to the Supreme Court, alleged Ms Mercer was present when the assault on an unconscious athlete occurred.
"Amongst the allegations are that you were present during the assault of a fellow team mate while he was unconscious," Mr Williamson wrote on November 22.
The letter also revealed SLSA had set up trauma counselling for its members following the alleged assault.
In her sworn affidavit Ms Mercer stated she had never used performance enhancing or illicit drugs.
She stated she was subject to an anti-doping test following the world titles.
"I expect I would have been notified by now had I failed that test," she swore in her affidavit.
Court documents revealed Ms Mercer's sponsors had caught wind of the allegations and her alleged involvement.
After attempting to get an interlocutory injunction on her suspension to allow her to compete, Ms Mercer and SLSA both consented to have the application dismissed in the Supreme Court.
Ms Mercer's legal team had argued the young iron woman had not been able to train for the Nutri-Grain Series, scheduled for later this month, or compete in the Oceans 38 surf carnival at Dicky Beach last weekend.
A SLSA judiciary committee, including three barristers from Queensland, NSW and South Australia, will use the next two days to investigate the allegations.
A decision on Ms Mercer and her team mates' suspensions is expected on Sunday.
Jordan Mercer Timeline
- 1993- Born December 3
- 2009 - Best female competitor at Australian titles 2009
- 2010 - Youngest qualifier for Iron Woman Series 2010-2011
- 2011 - 4th in Iron Woman's series
- 2012 - Molokai 2 Oahu 54km World Paddle Board Champion
- Nov 2012 - represented Australia at Rescue World Surf Life Saving Titles in Adelaide
- Nov 22, 2012 - suspended from Surf Life Saving Australia following misconduct allegations at world titles
- Dec 4, 2012 - launches action Supreme Court to have SLSA lift suspension pending judicial committee hearing
- Dec 7 - Court application dismissed
- Dec 14-16 - SLSA judiciary committee hearing into allegations


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Written by Don Friesenborg, Gothenburg Friday, 01 February 2013 14:45
DUNNING—Heading into the semi-final of the Sandhills Conference basketball tournament against Mullen, Brady coach David Jacobs thought for sure a neutral court at Dunning would help the Eagles avenge a loss to the Broncos a week before.
Mullen senior Riley Rice proved him wrong.
Rice scored 24 of his game-high 26 points in the first half to give the Broncos a comfortable 37-15 lead at halftime and ultimately a 62-37 tournament victory.
"He shot us out of the gym in that first half," Jacobs said. "After that, we were pretty much dead in the water. That's a pretty deep hole."
The Broncos out-scored the Eagles in the second half 25-22, never allowing Brady to get back in the game.
The loss sent Brady to the SHC tournament consolation against Stapleton-McPherson County, a team the Eagles had split with in the previous two meetings.
"I think if we played them 10 times, we'd each win five games," Jacobs said. "We're just that evenly matched."
In the pattern of wins and losses, it was SMC's turn for a victory and the Cyclones managed to defeat the Eagles 47-43 to finish third in the tournament.
"We didn't shoot real well," Jacobs said, "and we got down by as many as 10 points in the third quarter."
The Eagles pulled close in the fourth period, tying the score about midway through, but they weren't able to get an edge.
Jacobs said with time running out, the Eagles trailed by three points as senior Bryley Roper put up a three-point shot that went in and he attempted to draw a foul for a free throw attempt but was called for an offensive foul instead.
"He was trying to make something happen and I give him credit for that," the coach said. "We just couldn't pull it out."
Senior Michael Neiman led the Eagles with 13 points and classmate Zach Mann added 12 points with 10 rebounds.
Brady moves to 11-6 on the season with four games remaining before D2-9 sub-district action next month.
On Friday, the Eagles host Hyannis (2-9), the team they defeated in the first round of the SHC tournament.
Saturday brings Maxwell (1-15) to town with Medicine Valley (8-7) and Sandhills/Thedford (13-4) the following week.
"We've still got some good games coming up," Jacobs said. "We've just got to stay focused and play our style of ball game."
Both matchups this weekend at home are set to begin at 7:30 p.m.


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Hey guys,
I was just online waiting for the first trailer to come about when I came across these two different featurettes that can be seen in the train tour.
Featurette #1: The cast on the motion capture process.
Featurette #2: The crew on the motion capture process.
Hope you guys enjoy them!


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Aussies help Lobos rebound in Laramie
UNM 63, Wyoming 59
Aussies help Lobos rebound in Laramie
UNM 63, Wyoming 59
LARAMIE, Wyoming. —
After getting beat on the boards the last two games, the 20th ranked Lobos owned the glass 35-23 and beat Wyoming 63-59.
UNM shot 48.1 percent from the field, led by starter Cameron Bairstow, who poured in a career-high 17 points on 5-of-8 shooting.
With 9 seconds left in the game, Hugh Greenwood knocked down a jumper to give the Lobos the lead for good. He added 13 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists.
New Mexico's 2 Australians (Bairstow and Greenwood) combined for 30 points on 10-14 shooting.
The Mountain West Conference leading Lobos improve to 5-1 in league play and 18-3 overall. The Lobos are 4-0 in conference games decided by 5 points or less this season.
UNM will host Nevada on Saturday at The Pit.


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As adopted by the Faculty Senate April 12, 2012
The purpose of this document is to outline the criteria and procedures used to evaluate faculty members for tenure in the Stewart Library. The normal probationary period for faculty members in a tenure-track appointment is six years, with a formal interim review scheduled during the third year and a formal final tenure review scheduled during the sixth year. The time in rank for normal promotion from assistant to associate professor is six years. To be promoted from assistant to associate professor one must either have been granted tenure or be granted tenure at the time of promotion. A candidate who is not granted tenure cannot be advanced in rank (see PPM 8-11). Because the Library is not subdivided into departments, the Library does not have a department level ranking tenure review.
Credentials/Probationary Period
Candidates for tenure must:
1. Have earned the Masters of Library Science or its equivalent from a program accredited by the American Library Association (see PPM 8-11),
2. Hold a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor or higher,
3. Be in the third year of the probationary period for the interim review and in the sixth year of the probationary period for the final tenure review, and
4. Meet faculty responsibilities, ethics, and standards of professional behavior specified in PPM 9-3 through 9-8.
Based on evidence provided in the candidate's professional file, evaluators will determine whether or not the candidate has met these requirements (see PPM 8-14).
The competencies to be considered during interim and final tenure review fall into three categories:
Category I: Teaching
Category II: Scholarship
Category III: Administrative and/or Professionally Related Service
Competencies in categories I, II, and III are to be rated from unsatisfactory to excellent. Each evaluator will interpret information presented in terms of the expectations of the Library, the candidate's specific duties as outlined in their Position Description and the candidate's overall pattern of professional performance.
Evaluation Summary
A written evaluation summary including the rationale for the ratings in each category and a recommendation regarding tenure will be submitted to the candidate with a copy to the University Librarian according to the dated guidelines of the review process (see PPM 8-12 and 8-13). The pattern of ratings must meet or exceed one of the channels described for a positive tenure recommendation:
Administrative and/or Professionally Related Service
Ratings for each category are to reflect the candidate's academic career span rather than a single year's efforts. The ratings mean that the evidence describing the quality and quantity of the candidate's professional efforts support a continuing level of performance judged by the evaluators as unsatisfactory, satisfactory, good, or excellent. Ratings assigned for a formal interim (3rd year) review reflect the committee's judgment of the candidate's progress towards tenure and should be based on reasonable expectations for a third year faculty member. The interim review is expected to be formative in nature and both the ratings and the committee commentary should provide helpful feedback to the candidate as she/he evaluates priorities in preparation for the final tenure review. A candidate's recent work at other institutions, while it may be taken into consideration, is not weighted as heavily as work at Weber State University.
General criteria for ratings in all categories are:
Unsatisfactory: Candidates will be rated unsatisfactory who do not meet the minimum requirements of the satisfactory category.
Satisfactory: Candidates will be rated satisfactory if the duties described in their position description are performed in an acceptable manner. Satisfactory means adequate and should not imply undesirable or below average endeavor.
Good: Candidates will be rated good if duties described in their position description are performed consistently in a more than satisfactory manner. Good implies commendable and desirable levels of achievement. A rating of good in any category implies a substantial degree of achievement above satisfactory levels.
Excellent: Candidates will be rated excellent if duties described in the position description are performed consistently in an outstanding manner. Inasmuch as a good rating in any category implies a substantial degree of achievement above satisfactory levels, a rating of excellent in any category implies a substantial degree of achievement above those considered appropriate for a good rating.
Clarifications of the criteria for certain ratings in each category are provided later in this document.
Professional File
Candidates are responsible for updating their professional files according to the dated guidelines of the review process (see PPM 8-12 and 8-13). This file should clearly document the candidate's teaching, scholarship and administrative and/or professionally related service activities. Candidates should include brief narrative summaries throughout the professional file. Candidates may create an appendix in the professional file for items that are referenced in the narrative summaries. In addition to the standard professional file documentation and the specific evidence mentioned below under each category, the candidate's professional file should include the following documents that are specific to library faculty:
1. A copy of the candidate's position description.
2. Copies of faculty activity records submitted each academic year by the candidate.
3. Copies of annual reviews by the University Librarian.
Evaluators should carefully review these additional documents during the review process.
Peer Review Committee Evaluations
Candidates being formally reviewed for tenure must undergo peer review in accordance with the Library's Peer Review Policy (https://library.weber.edu/libadmin/lppm/peer_review.cfm) and PPM 8-11. A copy of the Peer Review Committee's report will be added to the candidate's professional file before the review process begins. It is important to note that the Library Peer Review Committee gathers evidence in all three categories of formal review as defined below and not just teaching.
Definitions of Categories and Criteria
Category I: Teaching
In the Library, teaching includes librarianship and is defined as the processes or behaviors related to organizing and delivering knowledge; evaluating and facilitating learning; and in general, transmitting content to students (see PPM 8-11-E). For purposes of tenure review, teaching is divided into three areas: 1) Instruction, 2) Reference /Information Services and 3) Collection Management/Faculty Liaison. The specific division of duties among these areas for each library faculty member is defined in her/his position description, which is included in the Professional File and should be consulted by evaluators during the review process. Some library faculty positions involve significant administrative duties. Evaluators should take this into account when reviewing the candidate's performance in this category.
1. Instruction: Library faculty may be assigned to teach one or more sections of for-credit Library Science courses during each semester of their contract. They may also be assigned to provide general instruction sessions for students in ENG 2010, EDUC 1105 and other general courses. Evidence of performance in this area includes:
a. A teaching portfolio, including but not limited to a statement of their teaching philosophy and a collection of sample course syllabi, assignments, exams, etc., along with comments on how these samples reflect and support their teaching philosophy. (Required)
b. Summaries of student course evaluations, which are administered each semester for each course taught by the candidate, along with a brief interpretation of these evaluations including comments on both positive results and areas of concern. (Required)
c. Participation on relevant library teams and committees.
d. Involvement in the evaluation and revision of existing library science courses and the design of new courses.
e. Pedagogical innovations for instruction.
f. Teaching general library-related workshops and training sessions.
g. Attendance at relevant workshops, seminars, etc.
h. Receipt of relevant certificates, awards, etc.
i. Other activities appropriate to this area.
2. Reference/Information Services: Library faculty may also be assigned to provide students and other library users with reference and information services both during scheduled hours at the Reference Desk and on a one-to-one basis as needed. Teaching students and other library users how to find and evaluate information instead of finding it for them is a basic principle of Reference/Information Services in the Stewart Library. Evidence of performance in this area includes:
a. Providing proactive, user-oriented reference service.
b. Knowledge and application of the reference interview technique.
c. Knowledge of reference resources.
d. Design of web-based research and how-to guides.
e. Sharing of knowledge and expertise through workshops, training sessions, etc., and on a one-to-one basis.
f. Involvement on relevant library teams and committees.
g. Attendance at relevant workshops, seminars, etc.
h. Receipt of relevant certificates, awards, etc.
i. Other activities appropriate to this area.
3. Collection Management/Faculty Liaison: Finally, library faculty may be assigned collection management/faculty liaison duties in specific subject areas. A primary goal of these activities is to provide students and faculty with the most efficient and effective access possible to information resources necessary to support their instructional and research activities. Evidence of performance in this area includes:
a. Consultation with faculty in assigned subject areas regarding library resources in support of existing courses, new courses, new programs, accreditation, etc.
b. Overseeing the development and management of information resources in assigned subject areas.
c. Delivering course-integrated subject-specific instruction sessions requested by faculty in assigned subject areas.
d. Design of web-based research guides in assigned subject areas.
e. Providing subject-specific library workshops and training sessions.
f. Involvement on relevant library teams and committees.
g. Attendance at relevant workshops, seminars, etc.
h. Receipt of relevant certifications, awards, etc.
i. Other activities appropriate to this area.
Clarification of Ratings for Teaching: Candidates shall be rated good (minimum rating in Channels B, D and E) in this category if they are consistently rated good by students in instruction and good by peers in their primary area(s) of responsibility as defined in their position description. Candidates must also provide evidence of significant additional activities/accomplishments in at least one of the areas of Teaching listed above.
Category II: Scholarship
Scholarship is defined as those activities that contribute to the profession and increase the candidate's effectiveness as a professor. Candidates are responsible for providing evidence of successful scholarly activities, which may include interdisciplinary scholarship. They are not expected to be equally active in all areas listed below; however, candidates must submit evidence of significant scholarship since arriving at Weber State University. Evidence of performance in scholarship includes:
a. Refereed publications.
b. Non-refereed publications.
c. Papers presented at professional conferences and workshops.
d. Professional improvement, such as graduate education beyond the terminal degree, development of new areas of expertise, additional training in existing areas of expertise, or attendance at professional conferences and workshops.
e. Projects such as group or individual grants and submission of reports as required.
f. Other activities appropriate to this category.
Clarification of Ratings for Scholarship:
Candidates shall be rated satisfactory in this category if they demonstrate a pattern of scholarly work which includes activities from a minimum of three of the areas of scholarship listed above. To receive a rating of good for the interim review, a candidate must provide evidence of a publication and a research plan for future scholarship. To receive a rating of good for the final tenure review, a candidate must provide evidence of at least one refereed publication since the interim review.
Category III: Administrative and/or Professionally Related Service
Administrative and/or professionally related service is defined as those activities which provide professionally related value to the community, the institution, or professional organizations. It is the candidate's responsibility to provide evidence of productive service. Candidates are not expected to be equally active in all areas listed below. Evidence of performance in service includes:
a. Committee assignments at the university or library level with university assignments having more significance than library assignments. Leadership positions on committees are weighted more heavily than membership only.
b. Administrative responsibilities within the Library or University above and beyond the duties described in the candidate's position description.
c. Leadership positions and/or active participation in professional organizations and similar activities that enhance the reputation of the candidate, the Library, and/or the University.
d. Involvement in the planning and organization of professional workshops, meetings, conferences, symposia, etc., that benefit the Library, the University, and/or the library profession.
e. Participation in projects that benefit the Library, the University, and/or the library profession
f. Professionally-related community activities.
g. Consulting or otherwise providing professional expertise.
h. Student advisement activities or serving as an advisor to a student organization.
i. Other activities appropriate to this category.
Clarification of Ratings for Administrative and/or Professionally Related Service: Candidates shall be rated satisfactory (minimum rating in channels A and D) if they accept and perform in a professional manner duties in at least three areas of service listed above, including at least one committee assignment at the university level (see item a. above).


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Michael oversees the continued development and content-management of Public Agenda's website, as well as assist the organization more generally in the creation, formatting, and management of its presentational media. He also works closely with I/T staff and consultants in ensuring our technological infrastructure continues to meet Public Agenda's growing I/T needs. Michaels background in web development has given him an edge up on the increasing confluence of media and emerging internet-based technologies.
His work in the private sector included developing a content management system along with a handful of other programmers for the Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation. He has also worked in the television and film industry as a film editor. But hes most proud of his work in the nonprofit sector, having first started as a proposal writer for the then-fledgling Hispanic Federation (1990), and then as a technology consultant for the Fund for the City of New York and The United Way of New York City.
Michael received a BA in English from Hunter College (CUNY), and studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA., three years prior. He is an avid fan of music and film, and currently lives in East Harlem, New York City.


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Due to my extensive responsibilities around the Vicarage, I'm afraid I don't often have the opportunities my friend the Duke does to go on archaelogical expeditions in search of Mad Movie Booty in all obscure corners of the world. In fact just last week His Excellency invited me to come with him to a remote section of what was once ancient Cambria to excavate the crypt of Gogmagog in quest of the never-seen Gaelic translation of Quando os Deuses Adormecem, but because of my previous committment to speak at the Triannual meeting of the Ordum Illuminatus de Betamax, I was forced to decline. To my regret--I haven't heard from the Duke since his riverboat was reported lost in a violent storm on the Humber after a cataclysmic lightning storm--but I look forward with interest to his eventual report.
Still, sometimes a treasure falls unsought-for into the lap of a man of Gawd, and such was the case this weekend when after my sermon on the Torments of Eternal Damnation Alley, I noticed an odd humming sound a looked up to discover, quite to my surprise, a dinner-plate sized spacecraft with the legend "X-Y-Z" on its undercarriage hovering just above the peak of my mitre. Ere I had time to gasp in alarm, the diminuitive cosmonaut dropped into my outstretched hands a small videodisc--and then, in a flash, they were gone.
Which is how I came into possession of the 1982 science fiction (or is it?) oddity, Liquid Sky.
This is indeed a movie from another planet, and that planet is the 1982 New York Fashion Underground. I don't know where my extraterrestrial benefactors came from, but whatever society is their home could hardly be any more bizarre, unworldly, and downright alien than the milieu depicted here. It is a world of wonders I never would have believed existed but for this film, and for that I can only be grateful.
This is one of those wonderful movies where I feel I'm doing it a disservice even offering a synopsis, as no mere plot outline can adequately represent the raptures contained herein. Part science fiction, part cultural/anthropological document, part psychadelic drug trip, and all one hundred percent FABULOUS. And there's more than that, much more. But, since in a review the plot is the thing, I'll make my best attempt:
Smack-addicted aliens have come to earth in search of heroin. Naturally they settle in the plentiful opiate-fields of 80s New York, whereupon they discover that a chemical produced by the human brain at the moment of orgasm is even better than the horse. So they land above the apartment of Margaret (Anne Carlisle), a morose, androgynous, sexually frigid fashion model who has the disconcerting habit of getting raped a lot. When her partners, both consensual and non-consensual, start getting knocked off by the unseen alien menace, Margaret believes she has become a sexual killing machine and decides to use her new power to get revenge on those who have wronged her.
Meanwhile, a West German scientist with Werner Herzog's accent and Michael Jackson's red leather jacket is tracking the aliens with the help of Margaret's old drama teacher and a sexually rapacious Jewish woman who is obsessed with shrimp. And Margaret's abusive girlfriend Adrian, a diminutive performance artist of the Sprockets school, is dealing smack out of their apartment to a failed artist and amateur drug historian who has problems of his own. And in a fourth narrative thread, androgynous male fashion model Jimmy (ALSO played by Anne Carlisle) distances himself from his priveliged upbringing and wallows in drugs and perversion for the sake of self-destructiveness.
You with me so far?
It's all here, Mad Movie fans. And more--impossibly, indescribably more. Questionable editing choices. Thickly-trowelled helpings of 1980s video effects. Zero actors who look to be at a healthy (i.e., non-emaciated) weight. Philosophical dialogue cut straight from your freshman journals. ("[In the 60s] You thought your jeans stood for love, freedom and sexual equality. We, at least, know we're in costume." "You want me to be a happy housewife, slave to a husband's desire. A hooker is at least independent.") We get the Empire State Building as the world's largest syringe.
We get "Me and My Rhythm Box." Oh, dear Lord, we are not worthy!
Director Slava Tsukerman deserves props for piling on the sometimes gorgeous, sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing, but always memorable images. Anne Carlisle's monotone performance as both Margaret and Jimmy will stick with you despite her dramatic limitations, as the flat delivery of the lines seems to be part of the whole point. And Paula Sheppard as Adrian gives a performance that is Mad Movie Legend. Oh Paula, where have you gone? Berlin, maybe?
For all the wonders of the film, it does drag a bit in the middle sections, and the characters--who almost NEVER act the way you'd imagine actual Earthling people acting in a given situation--might be a little too much for some viewers to buy into. Plus the aforementioned relentless carnival music almost becomes a Chinese Water Torture-level affliction by the end. But I was in love all the way through.
Still, because of these reservations I give Liquid Sky 2.5 thumbs, instead of the 3 I would assign if there were only my tastes to consider. Nonetheless, it's required viewing for anyone with a taste for the bizarre. So paint a landing strip on your roof, have some sex, and hope the aliens will visit you with a copy of Liquid Sky. Just be sure to stop before you get vaporized--lest you become another Jimmy. Think on't.
And wherever you are, X-Y-Z Cosmonaut, thank you. May you travel the galaxies in peace.
PS--While I am able to find no proof that Dolph Lundgren's 1990 scifi vehicle I Come in Peace--with its incredibly similar "endorphins are alien heroin" plot device--is a direct remake of Liquid Sky with Dolph in the Anne Carlisle role, I am nonetheless convinced that this is the case. Sadly, Mr. Lundgren is no Anne Carlisle.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Liquid Sky (1982): or, The Chicken and the Alien Sex Fiend
Are you wigging yet?But that description is just the half of it. We get wild, totally alien club scenes with spasmodic dancing and unbelievable clothing and makeup choices. (Think Patrick Nagel meets The Sex Pistols, then multiply that by WTF?) We get positively RELENTLESS carnival music played on a state-of-the-art (circa 1980) synthesizer. We get a switchblade catfight over a naked middle-aged corpse. We get a very long and increasingly disturbing sequence of the Jewess's attempted seduction of the scientist, with multiple shrimp references. ("In my house, shrimps are more important than duty.") We get an a capello rendtion of "Old McDonald" done by New Wave Punks. We get necrophiliac face-sitting. We get a nightmarish doppleganger blow-job scene. A David Bowie name-check. And an extended Chicken Lady motif that is probably not referencing the climactic final images of Tod Browning's Freaks, but very well could be.
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 1:45 PM
Labels: '80s, 2-3 thumbs, Aliens, Science Fiction, Strange
2 comments:
- kindertrauma said...
I was actually drroling over this poorly done Paula E. Sheppard shrine the other day. Her resume is tragically too short.
--kindertrauma john
- January 29, 2008 at 6:14 PM
- kindertrauma said...
correction: drooling
Paula brings outs the misspeller in me.
- January 29, 2008 at 6:16 PM
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Want to see something really scary?
Go to J. R. Clancy's Facebook page to see some of the worst examples of rigging nightmares, in real photos sent to the company by rigging inspectors and theatre managers.
Each week, Clancy posts a new photo of a rigging accident-waiting-to-happen at http://www.facebook.com/JRClancy . These photos stand as vivid examples of amateur errors, often involving hardware that was never meant to bear weight.
Visitors can see a batten held up by lightweight chain that's never seen a welder … dog clips where load-rated wire rope clamps need to be … a head block distorted in an attempt to compensate for a poorly placed loft block. These are the frightening scenarios that exist every day in high schools, community theatres, worship facilities, and even in some professional performing arts centers.
"On the surface, it's fun to bring technical theatre professionals together on our Facebook page to see what crazy things people do with their rigging," said Tom Young, J. R. Clancy vice president of marketing. "Much more important, however, is our message to those who may not know that these things are dangerous. Using household clips and chains, compromising the system's hardware by bending or breaking it, and ignoring broken arbors, blocks, or wire ropes are all practices that can lead to disaster."
To see the photos, read comments from rigging professionals about each photo, and add your own comments, visit the J. R. Clancy page on Facebook and click "Like" at the top of the page.


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The upcoming episode of Basketball Wives is shaping up to be the most dramatic of the season.
Last week Evelyn Lozada confronted long time friend Jennifer Williams about some things she said in a radio interview. Tonight everything comes to a head as Tami breaks into Evelyn's hotel room so that Jennifer and Evelyn can hopefully make amends. Also Tami and Meeka get into a fist fight which might have led to Meeka quitting the show. But more on that later!
As for that infamous radio interview, Jen is still defending what she said. She tells Hollywood Life, "[E]verything I said in that interview, I have said before and to her face in Season Two." Jennifer also discusses Evelyn's reaction to the interview, and how she wishes that Evelyn had confronted her first, instead of allowing the drama to fester.
Jen says, "I also feel like all the talks with Noe, Shaunie and Tami were unnecessary. I have known Evelyn for over a decade and if she has an issue with me she should have come straight to me. Talking to a bunch of people only instigates things and when Evelyn gets mad she just lets it build, instead of dealing with it right away in a calm manner."
While she stands behind her statements, Jen hopes this drama will not be the end of her friendship with Evelyn. She continues, "I do want to say that as a friend I would never do anything intentional to hurt anyone's feelings. Evelyn and I have been through a lot and hopefully we will make it over this hurdle as well."
Moving on to Tami Roman and Meeka Claxton as they have had a rocky relationship (if you could even call it that) all season, and Tami has been making not so subtle digs at Meeka throughout the ladies' Italian getaway. Those digs become blows this evening as the women get into a knock-down-drag-out brawl while out clubbing in Rome.
The fight has resulted in a lawsuit with Meeka suing her co-star for assault and battery. Tami responded on her twitter page, "I was unaware of this pending lawsuit until getting word from my publicist, to which I have no comment." She later added, "I was defending myself-I didn't attack her." Guess we'll have to see on tonight's episode.
The TV Guide preview also states someone will quit the show tonight. All signs are pointing to Meeka! Wowzers. And finally, the reunion is taping today. Here's to hoping
Tami the ladies will keep their hands to themselves.
Photo credit: Johnny Louis/WENN.com


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University of Wisconsin System officials have released the names of the finalists vying to become the next system president.
The candidates include Raymond Cross, chancellor of the UW Colleges and Extension; Peter Garland, executive vice chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education; and Robert King, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.
A Board of Regents selection committee plans to interview the finalists on Monday and recommend one to the full board. The board expects to announce a hiring decision on Wednesday.
Kevin Reilly officially stepped down as president on Tuesday. He announced in July he would resign at the end of 2013 after taking intense criticism from Republican lawmakers for allowing system campuses to build massive reserves while raising tuition year after year.


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Mission Impossible - Operation Surma | PS2
In Mission: Impossible Operation Surma, players step into the role of Ethan Hunt as he traverses the globe uncovering the insidious mysteries behind the malevolent Surma Corporation and its newly developed virus, the Ice Worm, which allows Surma to break into any computer system in the world. Armed with the hyper-cool, super spy technology and weaponry inspired by the Mission: Impossible movies, such as miniature remote-controlled devices, micro cameras, tranquilising darts and character disguises, Hunt must lead his elite team in preventing Surma Corp. from taking over the world.
Mission: Impossible Operation Surma features groundbreaking gameplay that empowers players to choose the tactics and game play style they wish to use in tackling mission objectives. For example, as Hunt, a player can forge an uneasy alliance with questionable characters in order to gain the upper hand against an overwhelming enemy force; or, the player can charge in, blasting away with the latest top secret IMF weapon; or, the player can slide silently in and out of the shadows, penetrating enemy lairs unnoticed. Ultimately, the nature of the adventure lies in the player's hands. Ving Rhames, who played Luther Stickell in both Mission: Impossible feature films, reprises his role by lending his voice and likeness in the game. As part of the IMF team assigned to assist Ethan Hunt in his efforts, Luther will provide critical mission intelligence, hack security systems and generally sweep target areas clear of enemy detection devices, thus allowing Hunt to penetrate more effectively.
Mission: Impossible Operation Surma Features:
- Open-Ended Gameplay: Players will be empowered to play the game the way they like. Take out a guard and dispose of his body, sneak behind the guard and slip by unnoticed, distract the guard to another area, tranquilise the guard remotely or even take him prisoner are just a few options at the players disposal for nearly every situation.
- Super Spy Gadgets: As with any Mission: Impossible, the gadgets are where it's at. Operation Surma will put dozens of super-cool gadgets at players fingertips, including: The Wasp, a miniature remote-controlled "bug" with a devastating "sting"; a directional microphone used to overhear distant conversations; binoculars featuring a digital camera for evidence gathering; Electronic Warfare darts for disabling critical electronic devices; and, much more.
- Agent Moves and Abilities: As Ethan Hunt, players will have at their disposal all the moves that any respectable super agent has spent years perfecting, including: vaulting and mantling of objects; hand walking on ledges; wall hugging through tight spaces; crouching and creeping to keep a low profile; hand-over-hand maneuvering on pipes and girders. In addition, players will be able to execute numerous stealth disabling, restraining and finishing maneuvers on enemy characters.
- Gameplay Locations: Led by Mission Commander Swanbeck, players will follow clues and undertake missions in exotic locations around the world, including: the Los Muertos research facility in the southwestern United States; Sansara Prison in Northern Africa; and, Yugaria, a fictional eastern European country.
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Memories of war – Anzac Day 2012
For this year's Anzac Day blog post, I thought I would share some extracts from a memoir written by my father-in-law, Noel Edward Farmer (1923 – 1999). In December 1941, after waiting impatiently for three months for the Navy to find a slot for a seaman who "knew how to handle boats", Noel wrote to the Navy to ask if they were aware that Japan had entered the war. A month later a slot at Flinders Naval Depot was found. He was soon appointed a midshipman, although he rose to Lieutenant by the end of the war, and to Captain in the Naval Reserve.
The following extract describes an incident in 1942, when Noel was just 19.
'Westralia' went to Brisbane after Aitapee to pick up air force stores. When leaving the Brisbane River the gyro compass system broke down and the Navigator, running along the upper deck to the gyro room, fell over a deck bolt and was badly concussed. Young Farmer, despite or because of his lack of knowledge/experience at that time, was training as Navigator's assistant and was promptly propelled into the top job – and hence the immediate task of taking a 14,000 ton vessel drawing 30′ through the Barrier Reef and Torres Strait to Darwin with only a magnetic compass. All Navy captains may, and all merchant masters must, unless they have specially qualified for an exemption, take on board a Torres Strait Pilot when making this trip of some 2,000 km – but not my Captain. I had a canvas deck chair placed on the port side of the bridge and spent the next five days there except for toilet visits below. The Captain did somewhat similar and about six days later Westralia berthed safely in Darwin. After about three months, and to my great surprise, the Captain's secretary handed over a cheque in favour of Midshipman N E Farmer from the Navy in Canberra for about 14 pounds, with a chit attached saying "Pilotage – 1100 nautical miles at 3d per mile".
This next extract describes a day in 1944, when Noel was aged 20.
It was a grisly day. … The 7th Fleet had a policy that any enemy soldier taken alive in a landing be sent promptly to a designated ship for interrogation. After replacing the originals on our ill fated southern beach with reserve troops I agreed to take two prisoners in my boat to be interrogated. When the prisoners were dragged to the beach they were young, hurt, shell-shocked and stark naked. My boat was beached, bow on, about ten feet from the water's edge so that anyone boarding had to walk out into water at least one foot deep. The prisoners were in no condition to walk. Their escorts informed me that they were not intending to carry the cretins aboard and began to swing the first by hands and feet to throw him about fifteen feet on to the steel deck.
"Not on," I said. "Carry them aboard or take them back to your own medics for treatment." It was the only argument I ever won with a revolver and a threat to shoot US servicemen, if they threw the prisoner aboard – I'll never know if I would have shot them. For their part they were young, scared, had seen many of their buddies killed and were fearful of their short term future when darkness fell on a slaughterhouse beach.
When hoisted back aboard 'Westralia' on conclusion of that eventful day I was told to report to the Captain. He sat me down and handed me a signal from the Navy saying that brother Charles had died.
The final extract describes a time in January 1945, when Noel was 21.
When we entered Lingayen Gulf air attacks increased in fury and desperation. Every second plane seemed to be Kamikaze and after dropping its bomb load headed for its selection of target and tried to crash on its bridge. … As in Hollandia and Leyte, I led the first wave boats to our allotted beach. We kept on unloading troops, equipment and stores forever it seemed from all variety of ships. Our boats crews tried to ignore the fear and death around them – and tried to conceal their own gut feelings from the green troops we carried.
We fed off the land – that is, we broached the stores we carried to meet our needs – and that day I first saw and ate canned grapefruit pieces. I liked them and ate a lot. The US knew how to feed its front line troops. Here we were in Lingayen on day one with guns and bombs going bang, Kamikazes having a suicide picnic and death all about – cruising slowly towards a beach carrying tons of grapefruit pieces for those who survived to eat them.
Lest we forget.


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You may follow this code @ serializableex.codeplex.com.
This is an updated article and code base from my original publication [Serialization for Rapid Application Development: A Better Approach] here at CodeProject. After several years of growth in ability and advances in technology, I decided it was time to update that code base and article for use in .NET 4. The result of this is a much smaller code base, unit tests to back them up, and fixes to some issues concerning discovery within a web environment.
In short, the problems with the XmlSerializer that existed when I wrote the first article still exist today. They are classic issues that there is still no unified approach in dealing with. The major problem is still how do you resolve unknown classes when serializing and deserializing.
There have been several attempts that I've followed over the years to get around this, anywhere from the creation of entire frameworks like YAXLib to instructions on how to make use of the IXmlSerializable interface at various levels of sophistication.
With all of these solutions, the major problem from a developer perspective that has always crept in is cumbersomeness of the implementation. IXmlSerializable asks the developer to write some form of a customized implementation per class. YAXLib and others ask the developer to use different attributes, or handle outputs that don't look like the clean(ish) XML generated by XmlSerializer. The [XmlInclude(Type type)] attribute demands that all types to be serialized be within the same library. None of them (that I know of) in my opinion relieves the developer from the tedium of working with these solutions.
[XmlInclude(Type type)]
Serializable Extra Types is designed to be as thoughtless as possible with an absolute minimum of development consideration. What it does is make use of the standard XmlSerializer and a slightly un-hyped overloaded constructor; it has to incorporate extra type definitions for use in type resolution during serialization and deserialization.
It is actually a very simple idea. Keep a list of all the possible types that the XmlSerializer may have need of during a serialization/deserialization process. Register those types using attribute adornments and provide some Extension Methods to make incorporating those lists thoughtless to the developer.
It works under a parent child relationship. I can best describe it as saying, it's the reverse of the XmlInclude attribute. The XmlInclude attribute is placed on a class to give the serializer knowledge of other classes when serializing the class that is adorned. SerializableExtraType is placed on a class to give the other class knowledge of the adorned class when the other class is serialized.
XmlInclude = Parent => Child
SerializableExtraType = Child => Parent
This allows the SerializableExtraTypes code to integrate related classes across libraries. Additionally, I have exposed a method by which you may register additional relationships at runtime. This solves any situation that you may come across with libraries and applications having complex implied relationships.
The code is available in the download and at the CodePlex site. Both have a series of test libraries and a consuming test project that shows the usage very well. Here I will outline the quick and dirty of how to make use of it.
First, adorn a class with the required attribute like this:
// example 1 of registering class and all derived classes
// example 2 of registering class with an unrelated class
// example 3 of registering with multiple classes in same attribute
[SerializableExtraType(typeof(ClassOne), typeof(ClassTwo))]
public class Foo { public Foo() {} }
The Extension Methods make use of the SerializableExtraTypes under System.Xml.Serialization.
Now make use of the Extension Methods to serialize and deserialize objects.
// example 1 assuming that ClassOne and ClassTwo inherit from Foo
string xml = new Foo { ClassList = {new ClassOne(), new ClassTwo(), }, }.SerializeEx();
Foo obj = "<Foo><ClassList><ClassOne /><ClassTwo /></Foo>".DeserializeEx<Foo>();
// example 2 assuming that Foo bears no relationship with SomethingElse
string xml = new SomethingElse { ObjectList = { new Foo(), new Foo(), }, }.SerializeEx();
SomethingElse obj = "<SomethingElse><ArrayOfObject><Foo />" +
"<Foo /></ArrayOfObject></SomethingElse>".DeserializeEx<SomethingElse>();
There is more functionality built into the code base but this is a quick and dirty sample. Please take a look at the download for further examples.
This is the second publication of this method. Please send any comments or suggestions on how to improve it. You can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The GNU General Public License (GPLv3)
public class SerializableExtraTypeAttribute : Attribute
/// <summary>
/// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="SerializableExtraTypeAttribute"/> class.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="types">The types.</param>
public SerializableExtraTypeAttribute(params Type[] types)
: base()
_Types = types;
private IEnumerable<Type> _Types = null;
/// <summary>
/// Gets the types.
/// </summary>
public IEnumerable<Type> Types
get { return _Types; }
public SerializableExtraTypeAttribute(params Type[] types)
: base() { _Types = types.Where(t => t != null).ToArray(); }
public class Demo
string _ThisHasToHaveAValue;
public string ThisHasToHaveAValue
get {return _ThisHasToHaveAValue;}
set {
// ensure value.
throw new InvalidOperationException("no no");
_ThisHasToHaveAValue = value;
private void Demo()
//hide constructor.
public void Demo(string value)
ThisHasToHaveAValue = value;
public Class1
public Class2 { get; set; }
public abstract class Class1 { }
public class Class2 : Class1 { }
public class Class3 : Class1 { }
public class Class4 : Class2 { }
public class SomethingElse
public List<Class1> ListOfClasses { get; set; }
SomethingElse obj = new SomethingElse { ListOfClasses = new List<Class1> { new Class2(), new Class3(), new Class4(), }, };
string xml = obj.SerializeEx();
SomethingElse obj2 = xml.DeserialzieEx<SomethingElse>();
public abstract class Class1 { }
public class Class2 : Class1 { }
public class Class3 : Class1 { }
public class Class4 : Class2 { }
public SomeOtherClass
public Class2 MyClass2 {get; set;}
public Class3 MyClass3 {get; set;}
public Class4 MyClass4 {get; set;}
public class SomethingElse
public List<Class1> ListOfClasses { get; set; }
SomethingElse obj = new SomethingElse { ListOfClasses = new List<Class1> { new Class2(), new Class3(), new Class4() }, };
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