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I'm not the world's biggest fan of strategy or role playing games. The last one I actually enjoyed was the original Vandal Hearts and I think I got halfway through Final Fantasy III before realizing I had better things to do, like go meet girls. I've never played World of Warcraft or Civilization. Command and Conquer was more enjoyable to me as a coaster for my drink then as a game. Tower Defense is a pleasant strategy-lite game, but it's also extremely difficult and time-consuming.
(Note from Levi: I will rectify your grievous Civ oversight.)
Monsters are on the warpath and speeding along a trail to your hometown or castle. Your job is to crush these enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women. You do this by building your defenses along the trail and praying they kill the monsters in time before they reach their destination.
You have numerous weapons in which to choose from. Arrows are fast and are good for both land and air enemies. Cannons are more powerful -- but are good for ground-only attacks. Air Attack is more powerful than arrows, but is for the air only. I found buying arrows and upgrading them was the most efficient way to go due to their high rate of attack. Earn enough gold (you earn an average of 5g to 14g for every monster killed, plus interest) and you can purchase research skills such as Fire, Water, and Earth. Once learned, you can purchase elemental weapons like fire towers, water towers (which are good for slowing down enemies), and earthquake towers that have a huge attack range. Lightning and Storm are "disaster towers" that can be purchased once you reach Chapter 6. They're more costly but do significant damage.
Each enemy is different, but the one constant is their hit points increase after each subsequent wave. This isn't normally a problem if you have your trail sufficiently defended with upgraded cannons, arrows etc. What is a problem is learning the next wave of enemies is immune to a certain type of attack or is a flying enemy and your ground towers are useless. Let's say you spent a lot of money purchasing flame towers and upgrading them only to find out the next enemy is immune to fire attacks. Now what do you do? You have the option of selling your towers at a reduced price and unless you have wads of cash you're going to have to sell almost everything that won't kill the next waves of enemies. It's a slow process and I wish they had included a 'Sell All?' option for each type of defensive unit because it's really time consuming having to sell off each one individually.
Money management is another enemy you have to contend with. Do you spend money upgrading your current weapons, purchasing more weapons, purchasing an interesting upgrade, or buying research items which start at 100g pieces? Then, once you have the ability to build new towers, those cost even more money. Also, if monsters happen to escape and make it to your castle or hometown, it gets damaged and is very costly to repair. It takes a lot of trial and error and patience to advance in chapters. Once you make it to chapter ten, you can unleash hell on your enemies with the purchase of the Meteor Storm. Good luck making it that far. If this game required quarters after every restart, I'd have to take out a loan.
There are ten chapters to contend with in Story Mode and each chapter has at least forty waves of enemies, with boss battles occurring at after every tenth level. The game auto-saves after every boss battle which is very annoying. Let's say your town gets destroyed on wave 18 out of 40 waves, when you continue you'll continue at level 11, not 18. So you have to go through the motions once again. I don't like it when games do this, it should start me at wave 18 and give me the option of rolling back if I choose. There were numerous times when I had to start a chapter over again from the beginning and completely change my strategy. I factored in the cost of the game compared to the hours I spent on it, and I think the game actually owes me money.
The graphics are very well done. The monsters aren't very pretty (by design, I'm sure), but everything is vibrant and nicely detailed. The absence of any sort of sound effect was disappointing but the music wasn't bad and reminded me of the old school RPG titles I never had the patience to finish.
Once you've completed a chapter in Story Mode, it's becomes available in Custom Mode where you can replay story mode maps or play custom built maps. Once you've beaten story mode, the map editor is unlocked and you can go nuts building your own stages. If you're a fan of the game, that feature alone adds a lot of replay value.
The Verdict
Tower Defense really put my strategy game playing skills to the test. It pulverized me with its difficulty yet I had to come back for more. No way some dumb monsters are going to best this gamer. If you have the brain power and the patience, Tower Defense is one of those wireless games you cant delete until youve made it pay for all the time it stole from you.


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Israelis walk past an election campaign billboard of Israeli Prime Minister and Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Max Blumenthal's Goliath, published by Nation Books, consists of seventy-three short chapters, each one devoted to some shortcoming of Israeli society and/or moral outrage that the Jewish state has perpetrated against the Palestinians. Some are titled to imply an equivalence between Israel and Nazi Germany ("The Concentration Camp," "The Night of Broken Glass"); others merely evidence juvenile faux-cleverness ("How to Kill Goyim and Influence People").
Israel is rarely wholly innocent in the stories Blumenthal tells. Its brutal military occupation of Palestinian land, now entering its forty-sixth year, has not only deeply damaged Israel's democracy, but also desensitized its citizens to the daily humiliations it inflicts on the Palestinians. But Blumenthal proves a profoundly unreliable narrator. Alas, his case against the Jewish state is so carelessly constructed, it will likely alienate anyone but the most fanatical anti-Zionist extremists, and hence do nothing to advance the interests of the occupation's victims.
Blumenthal evinces no interest in the larger context of Israel's actions. Potential threats that emanate from Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Syria, Iran, etc., receive virtually no mention in these pages. Israel's actions are attributed exclusively to the myopia of its citizens. Blumenthal blames "Israeli society's nationalistic impulses," its politicians who struggle "to outdo one another in a competition for the most convincing exaltation of violence against the Arab evildoers," its "fever swamps," its "unprovoked violence against the Arab outclass," and its textbooks that "indoctrinate Jewish children into the culture of militarism." It would have been easy for him to at least pretend to even-handedness here. Did it not occur to Blumenthal, for instance, that Palestinians have textbooks as well?
Blumenthal's accounts are mostly technically accurate, but often deliberately deceptive. In one relatively trivial but revealing example, Blumenthal hides behind the passive voice to repeat the accusation that El Al "airline has been accused of allowing Mossad officers to pose as El Al staffers to collect information on non-Jewish passengers in foreign airports" [italics mine]. Lo and behold, it turns out that the accuser in question was a recently terminated El Al employee who spent nineteen years at the company without ever mentioning any of this (and who presented no evidence for his claim). Nor does Blumenthal even briefly weigh the charge from the standpoint of common sense. Think about it: El Al employees wear company uniforms and are the most visible Israeli workers in any foreign country. Also, the airline's offices abroad are all well advertised. Is that where you would plant your spies?
Blumenthal's selectivity often gets in the way of his truth-telling. For instance, he credits Zionist pioneer Berl Katznelson, whom he calls "the Labor Zionist movement's chief ideologue"—a title that exists exclusively in the author's imagination—with saying, "The Zionist enterprise is an enterprise of conquest." Yes, but Katznelson also said, "I do not wish to see the realization of Zionism in the form of the new Polish state with Arabs in the position of the Jews and the Jews in the position of the Poles, the ruling people. For me this would be the complete perversion of the Zionist ideal…." Apparently, there are more things in Labor Zionist history than are dreamt of in Blumenthal's philosophy.

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Thread: Summertime difficulties
- 07-10-2011 #1
So as we all know the summer is here and more of us are going on vacations and PE is not really an option. Some break from PE is actually pretty healthy and good for your gains but this is only an option if u are going on the beach or camping in the mountains for 10 days. But unfortunately there are some people (like me) that will not be able to perform their routines for 1 or 2 months which is not very good, especially if u haven't cemented your gains. So here are some things that I was thinking about and I am sure that I will try this summer. The goal here will be EQ and not loosing any gains:
1. Focus on stamina. Kegels and reverse kegels will be very important because u can do them where ever u are and at any time. IMPORTANT - Keep kegeling every other day. Every day PC muscle work can still exhaust your muscle even though u are not doing an intense routine. The second exercise for stamina and especially harder and lasting longer erections will be the Towel Raises. You can combine them with edging in the shower so that they are not done as extra work. Just masturbate and when u are fully erect start kegeling (you won't even need the towel, because u can just push down your penis with your hands and achieve the needed resistance).
The third exercises will be the reverse towel raises. Again I came up with u method which will not take an extra time of your day. When u get a morning wood instead of just lying there and waiting for it to go ---> do the raises. Again use your hands for resistance.
IMPORTANT: Do not do more that 100 towel raises and more than 5 minutes of kegeling. After all we are aiming for harder and healthier penis, not a sleepy and exhausted one.
2. Jelqing.I thought about this and let's face it no matter how busy you are u can still find 5 to 10 minutes for jelqing. Why I think jelq is very important for the long summer vacation? Well if you do not do any work you are risking your gains. It is not the first time we hear about a person who has lost up to 0.5 inch due to illness and not doing minor PE work. Also jelqing is the best PE exercise u can do because it targets girth and length at the same time. ULIs, squeezes and so on are not really an option, especially if u haven't warmed up.
3.Basic stretching. 1 or 2 sets of basic stretching will be more than enough to cement your length gains. Again this could be done right after the reverse towel raises. After your erection is gone start doing the stretches. Tunica tugs, blasters and so on are not really good without warming up. You can add some JAI stretches every time u go to the bathroom.
4.Bed fowfers. Every night that u are falling asleep alone u can do it while doing a fowfer. This exercise is great because it works on your flaccid length and helps your friend heal quicker and grow stronger.
So this are my thoughts. I am pretty sure that I am not the only one in this situation so I decided to share my opinion with you. Any response would be appreciated and you can also give me your thoughts and ideas.Here is a list of the exercises mentioned:
Kegel ---> https://www.pegym.com/penis-exercises/kegel-exercises-for-men
Reverse kegel ---> https://www.pegym.com/forums/penis-enlargement-forum/13469-reverse-kegel.html
Towel raises ---> https://www.pegym.com/free-penis-enlargement-guide-advanced-exercises/kegeling/towel-raise
Reverse towel raises ---> https://www.pegym.com/forums/beginners-forum/5471-reverse-towel-raise.html
The Jelq ---> https://www.pegym.com/penis-exercises/how-to-jelq-instructions
Basic stretching ---> https://www.pegym.com/penis-exercise/penis-stretching
Bed fowfers ---> https://www.pegym.com/forums/beginners-forum/3601-bed-fowfers-101-a.html
- 07-10-2011 #2
This sounds pretty good but don't forget the warm up/down. Also the people going on vacation for a week or two can also use that time as a vacation for their little guy but for like you that'll be gone for a month or more, take the first 2 or 3 weeks of as a resting period that way you can recondition your penis with a light routine that you can do in the shower or throughout the day like you mentioned above.
I'm sure it'll be possible to find time for a 30-40 minute routine and it won't have to be done everyday or even every other day so you won't have to worry about losing any gains
I hope that was somewhat helpful. Good Thread!!!If you don't want to date me - that's fine, I get that, but you're wrong and I hate you.
It is that big, deal with it, I've got an Ed Helms.
- 07-10-2011 #3
Will deconditioning routine help with further gains when I restart again in September? Do u have any personal experiences about this. I am searching for solutions to my girth plateau.PE is an amazing experience, an incredible obsession, a builder of confidence and a changer of lives!
- 07-10-2011 #4
Taking a complete break for a few weeks will helps your gains and fix your plateau. I haven't had any personal experience but I just saw a thread about someone who took 6 weeks off and he's going to start to build his way up to his old routine.
Your little guy needs a good resting period and a few weeks of nothing will do a whole lot of good. I'm going to take a week off after August 17th if my gains slow down but I have a feeling that won't happen.If you don't want to date me - that's fine, I get that, but you're wrong and I hate you.
It is that big, deal with it, I've got an Ed Helms.
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A "step in the right direction." That's how President Obama described the anemic jobs report showing that just 80,000 jobs were created last month – 5,000 fewer than the 85,000 Americans who left the workforce to receive Social Security Disability payments, and just half of the roughly 150,000 new jobs needed just to keep pace with population growth.
Like many taxpayers, we are beginning to wonder exactly how many more steps in the President's "right direction" America can afford to take.
And it isn't just Mr. Obama's abysmal record of job destruction that gives us pause.
The annual federal deficit has swelled by a whopping 600% since Democrats took control of Congress in 2006. Way back then, under Mr. Obama's spendthrift predecessor George W. Bush, the deficit was a "mere" $160 billion. That number has ballooned to more than $1 trillion per year on Mr. Obama's watch.
To put that in perspective, the total multi-year direct cost of the Iraq war was around $1 trillion – meaning that Mr. Obama has added the equivalent of an entire Iraq War to the national debt in every single year of his presidency.
And despite Mr. Obama's catchy campaign rhetoric about "nation building here at home," very little of that profligate spending has gone toward building anything – except perhaps a permanent class of slackers.
In 2000, for example, the federal government spent around $17 billion providing Food Stamps to some 17 million people. By earlier this year, however, the number of people on the dole had tripled to nearly 50 million – or one in every seven Americans – and the annual cost of the program has exploded to almost $80 billion, some five times above 2000 spending levels.
Worse, the government is actually spending tax dollars it doesn't have on radio ads designed to entice even more loungers on to the program.
And Mr. Obama, who famously characterized Mr. Bush's comparatively paltry deficits as "immoral," isn't through Europeanizing America just yet.
Not satisfied with having converted America's social safety net into a hammock for loafers, Mr. Obama is now seeking to raise marginal tax rates for high income earners to an incredible, dare we say "immoral", 39.6 percent.
The President's own White House bean counters say the tax hike would generate $65 billion in revenue – not even enough to cover this year's Food Stamp tab (let alone dent next year's projected $1 trillion budget deficit), suggesting the proposal has far more to do with election year politics than fiscal responsibility.
Yes, it appears that Mr. Obama is willing to risk crippling an already flat-lining job market with a tax hike on employers if it earns him a few extra votes from the moochers who live on government handouts.
And who knows. The gamble may very well pay off. After all, a politician who takes money from Peter and gives it to Paul can always count on the vote of Paul.
And Mr. Obama has created an awful lot of Pauls over the last four years.


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Bad Things and Good People
What are we to make of what has befallen innocent victims of the September 11 massacre and like inhuman atrocities committed upon the blameless since, in the name of religion? Job, a righteous and upright man, was obsessed with the tragedy that befell him. Rabbi Aaron Kushner, centuries later, still wrestles with the same dilemma in his book, "When Bad Things Happen to Good People." In the futile pursuit of such an answer, with my meager human insight, I have often found myself slipping into cynicism, the jaded and fatalistic view that, despite our best efforts, the rain falls upon the just and the unjust, and there is no point in attempting to change it. "Stuff happens," to paraphrase a popular expression. Hemingway drew from the writer of Ecclesiastes, who said:
"The sun rises and the sun goes down; back it returns to its place and rises there again…What has happened will happen again, and what has been done will be done again, and there is nothing new under the sun…"
Then I remember my mother and my friend. Over fifteen years ago now, sitting hour upon hour at my mother's bedside, where she was dying a grotesque death from cancer, I went from agony to anger and back again, obsessed with why she deserved it. It was my friend who, quite unintentionally, allowed me to cope with my grief.
My friend is an extraordinary person. If you have not spent time with him, seek him out in my community. He was born in a foreign country and came to this country to study. He wound up at Snead Junior College, where he met and fell in love with a girl who grew up in my North Alabama hometown. It was an unusual combination: he of Muslim upbringing – she of the Methodist faith, with three brothers who became Methodist ministers. They married and returned to Iran, his native country. He returned to his country with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and an MBA. They amassed quite a comfortable fortune in that country, and two sons were born of the marriage. They had an income greater than any I ever hope to earn, a very nice house, and luxury cars. There was a revolution afoot, and at midnight, under cover of darkness, they left their home, their consulting engineering and import-export business, their luxury cars, and his family, and they caught the last plane out and came to this country. That's when I first met him.
He came to my office with a smile on his face, and he was selling pumpkins. He did not speak to me of his engineering degree or his MBA, but with a smile on his face he tried to convince me that his pumpkins were the best in town. I bought several.
Soon he had enough funds and credit to start a small gas station near the square. He had outrageously high prices, but I traded with him, I think, because of his smile. Once, he put regular gasoline in my diesel engine car. With one of his infectious smiles and a dumb-slap to his head, he said he would make it good. He did.
News came that his youngest brother, at the age of seventeen, was arrested by the new regime in his country and imprisoned. The brother was tortured, kept in prison ten years, and then executed. My friend never got to say goodbye. We talked about it, and still he had his smile.
My friend's oldest son was in his freshman year of high school with my son. My son, never given to open displays of emotion, came home one day from school with tears in his eyes. He related to me how my friend's son was being ostracized by some of the other kids in school and even physically abused, because he was part Iranian and Iran was holding American hostages. My son, with tears in his eyes, asked me a question I could not answer: "Dad, why are these things happening to him? He hasn't done anything to deserve them." I had no answer for my son, and I had none for my friend's son, who was in my Sunday school class.
Then a great day arrived for my friend. After studying American history and cramming for the exam, he was given the oath of allegiance as an American citizen, with dozens of others, in a federal court. I remember the night we celebrated with him at Doctor Ron Dykes' home. There were little American flags beside every plate, and there was my friend, with his ever-present smile.
I am told by one of the ladies who works in the revenue commissioner's office that some time ago, when my friend came to pay his taxes, they told him his taxes had been raised. My friend smiled, and he said to them: "It is no matter. I am just happy to be here."
Shortly after my mother's death, my friend received news that his mother, his father, his sister, and his sister's five and three year old children were killed in a plane crash in Iran, burned to death. His mother, in prayers it seems, had promised God that if he would spare one of her sons from a serious illness and surgery, she would go on a pilgrimage to a holy place in the Muslim faith. It was on that pilgrimage that their plane was accidentally struck by a military plane, and all perished in flames. Again, my friend never got to say goodbye.
I went to my friend to console him. He had his ever-present smile. We talked for almost two hours, and in probing how he was able to deal with this unimaginable tragedy, I was privately trying to deal with my own mother's death. I remember only vestiges of that two hours. I remember asking him if he was angry with God, and I remember his response: "I don't think God had anything to do with it. I have a brother who is a philosopher. He says that life is a roadway from one eternity to another, and that we encounter many miseries along the way." And then he added: "I just hope that when I get through one misery, it is just a little longer till the next one." I asked him if he was still of the Muslim faith. He did not know how to answer me. "I believe in the good things in all religions," he said to me. I asked him if his belief in God had been shaken. He assured me that it had not. "You know," he said, "if there is not a God, it scares the hell out of me."
And so my friend, who is not a saint and who does not purport to be, and whose conversation is sprinkled with epithets from time to time, and whose prices were outrageous, and who is not sure if he is a Muslim or a Christian or none of the above, has allowed me to learn something. He has allowed me to learn that it is not the tragedy in my life I should focus on in my time here on earth – it is, rather, how I respond to them. And that is the thought that keeps me from the precipice of cynicism in the face of atrocity.
My friend, Hooshang, better known to us in my hometown as "Hank," and who is not quite sure there is any important difference to him whether he is Muslim or Christian, grasps the good things and the good people in both faiths. He responds, still, with a smile and a handshake, after all the tragedies that have befallen him. And his smile has given me a light to go by in my grief and in my anger.
Maybe "it is no matter." Maybe life is a roadway "from one eternity to the next," and filled with miseries we hope there are long distances in between. I came to console my friend for the bad things that had happened to him, and I came away uplifted. And you know, I have begun to smile again. Tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that the sun will also rise. But it is no matter; I am just happy to be here.
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It's a mighty big fuss for what amounts to a shadow.
The moon butts its way in between the Earth and the sun Aug. 21, casting its shadow across the continental U.S. from sea to sea.
A cross-continental U.S. total eclipse like this hasn't …
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For more information, NASA's www.eclipse2017.nasa.gov page has links to science and eclipse trivia, an interactive map of the Aug. 21 Great American Eclipse and links to live video streams, smart phone apps and other resources.
The Great American Eclipse runs from about 10:20 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. across the Front Range, the maximum eclipse at about 11:45 a.m. and lasting for two or three minutes. Viewing events are free and open to the public unless noted otherwise.
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The library's branches at Huron Street, Wright Farms and York Street will host eclipse viewing parties with eclipse glasses, safe viewing technique discussions and crafts.
Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Sante Fe Drive, Littleton
A question-and-answer session with astronomy faculty begins at 11 a.m., along with video streams from other locations on the campus' west lawn. Viewing stations will include filtered telescopes, pinhole cameras and eclipse glasses.
Community College of Denver, 1111 W. Colfax Ave., Denver
Viewing station will be set up near the Confluence Building with two telescopes and eclipse glasses.
Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver
The museum will be giving away a limited number of eclipse glasses and selling them for $2.99 each when the free glasses are gone. Eclipse-themed events are scheduled throughout the day, including a NASA live-stream indoors, solar-scope viewings in Boettcher Plaza, family Eclipsercize in the studios, and crafts and story time in the Discovery Zone. Eclipse events are free with general museum admission.
Front Range Community College, Westminster Campus, 3645 112th Ave., Westminster
Viewing stations will be set up in the parking lot in front of the rotunda. The school will have 1,000 solar eclipse glasses that viewers can borrow, several filtered telescopes, pinhole cameras for tracking the eclipse and displays about the science of eclipses.
Regis University, 3333 Regis Blvd., Denver
Individuals will all receive free eclipse glasses for viewing from the campus commons, while supplies last. Physics and astronomy faculty will have filtered telescopes to watch the eclipse and will be on hand to answer questions and lead activities. In case of bad weather, the campus will stream live NASA footage of the eclipse.
Experts agree the only time it's safe to look at a solar eclipse is during the few minutes of totality, when the moon is completely covering the sun and only the chromosphere and corona are visible.
Since Colorado won't see a total eclipse on Aug. 21, it won't be safe to view with the naked eye at all.
"I cannot say it enough — never look directly at the sun," said Carla Wente, chair of the science department at Front Range Community College's Westminster campus. "You will ruin your eyeballs."
The Colorado Optometric Association recommends using specially rated eclipse glasses with its ANSI Z81 or ISO 12312-2 rating stamped or printed on the side. These glasses contain a chromium or aluminum that will screen out harmful light and will allow people to watch the eclipse progress. They are available at most local viewing events.
Homemade eclipse glasses, sunglasses or smoked glass will not work and could damage your eyes.
However, a pinhole camera is easy to make, Wente said. There are numerous how-tos on the internet but the basic design involves using a pinhole and paper to watch.
1. Cut a small rectangle out of a piece of cardboard, an inch or two wide should work.
2. Tape a piece of foil over the rectangle.
3. With a pin, punch a small hole in the foil.
4. Hold the cardboard up in front of the sun, making note of where the point of light from your pinhole shows through. Put a piece of white paper below and focus the pinpoint on the paper. It will be the shape of the sun and you can watch the eclipse progress without risking your sight.
"The foil makes a difference because you get a smoother hole with sharper edges," Wente said. "But a hole in a piece of paper, shined on your hand or the sidewalk, will work, too."
And if you don't have a pinhole camera, even looking at the shadows of leaves from the trees is a way to see the eclipse, Wente said.
"The sun filters through leaves, and it acts like a pinhole camera," she said. "You have to find the right tree — one that's not too dense and not too sparse. You can walk under the trees and see this beautiful pattern of crescents. It's very cool."
It's a mighty big fuss for what amounts to a shadow.
A cross-continental U.S. total eclipse like this hasn't occurred since 1918. And the rare event comes with a special name: The Great American Eclipse.
"That's what they call it, because everyone in the United States will get to see something, at least a little bit of it," said Damon Olsen, astronomy instructor at Littleon's Arapahoe Community College. "Everyone in the U.S. will see it, plus Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. They'll all see something."
Along the Front Range, the moon begins creeping over the sun at 10:23 a.m., covering more than 90 percent of the sun just before noon.
By 1:23 p.m. the Great American Eclipse should have moved out of Colorado.
Schools, libraries and parks across the Denver Metro area are hosting viewing events, complete with glasses, telescopes and crafts for kids.
At Westminster's campus of Front Range Community College, the school will have multiple filtered telescopes, eclipse glasses and other displays.
"We will have a telescope, solar viewing glasses, pinhole cameras," said Clara Wente, chair of the science department at Front Range Community College's Westminster campus. "We may have astronomical binoculars, which are binoculars with special solar filters."
The path matters
Like most professional sky watchers in Colorado, Wente said she won't be anywhere around here when the eclipse begins. She's headed north into the path of the deepest part of the shadow, total coverage of the sun by the moon.
"Like millions of other people, I'm going to be at the eclipse," Wente said. "Basically, everyone else here is going to Wyoming, so my husband I decided to go Nebraska. Either way works, but we didn't want to get stuck on traffic on I-25."
Solar eclipses come in three varieties: total, annular and partial.
A partial eclipse occurs when any part of the moon covers the sun, and that can happen as often as five times per year.
Annular eclipse happen when the moon moves completely in front of the sun but, because of the moon's elliptical orbit, it is too far from the Earth to completely block the sun. An annular eclipse results in a bright ring of sunlight around the moon.
Total eclipses, like this one, are the rarest, typically occurring somewhere on Earth every 18 months or so.
The Aug. 21 solar eclipse begins about 9:55 a.m. mountain time somewhere over the North Pacific Ocean, northwest of Hawaii and just east of the International Dateline.
It makes landfall on U.S. soil at about 10:04 a.m. Mountain Time just west of Salem, Oregon, reaching totality - total blockage of the sun by the passing moon - at about 11:16 a.m Mountain Time there.
From there, it follows a looping diagonal path southeast across the country's midsection, through Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennesee and South Carolina.
Eclipse totality comes closest to Colorado before noon. Casper, Wyoming, should go dark at 11:43 a.m.; Grand Island, Nebraska, at about 11:59 a.m. Mountain Time. The total eclipse will last more than two minutes in each location.
The eclipse finishes with the U.S. and leaves the continent at 12:48 p.m. Mountain Time just north of Charleston, South Carolina. It's completely finished at 12:55 p.m. Mountain Time out over the Atlantic Ocean.
Those in the direct path will see the sun completely covered, all but a wispy ring. That is the sun's chromosphere or atmosphere and seeing that is why eclipses matter to astronomers.
"It's one of the rare times you can actually view the sun's atmosphere," Wente said. "It's one of the advantages of having a total eclipse. It's the very lowest atmosphere, right above what we think of as the surface of the sun. It's colored red but you can't normally see it because the sun is so bright."
It's also the most breathtaking for everyone because a 100 percent total eclipse is as different from anything else as night and day - quite literally, Wente said. Under totality, the sky goes dark and stars will be visible.
A crescent sun
Colorado is out of the path of totality and Wente said sky observers should not expect mid-day darkness here. From the perspective of viewers in Westminster, the moon will cover nearly 93 percent of the sun; in Highland's Ranch it's about 92 percent.
"The sun's wattage, what we actually see, is about 1,300 to 1,400 watts per square meter," she said. "A light bulb is 100 watts. So even 10 percent of the sun's light will be a lot. I'm expecting it, personally, to be like a cloudy day."
There should still be quite a show.
"I think the amazing thing will be just to see the sun as a crescent, to see the moon over on top of the sun," she said.
The eclipse maximum will be over quickly, she said, finished here in minutes.
"Part of the fun is the whole process, the moon moving in over the sun," she said. "We won't get that totality, but will get to follow along, up to that 90-plus percent."
And if you miss it, don't worry. There will be another Great American Eclipse on Aug. 12, 2045 - and this time, Denver will be in the path of the totality.
"It's just like this one, but 200 miles to the south," she said. "It'll come right through the center of Colorado and we only have to wait another 28 years."
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PORTLAND – Part of the Maine Red Claws game plan took hold.
The Red Claws contained Erie power forward Ivan Johnson, the second-leading scorer in the NBA Development League.
And Maine guard Avery Bradley displayed some of the reasons why the Boston Celtics drafted him in the first round of the 2010 draft.
But the same bugaboo came back to bite the Red Claws: defense. Maine succumbed to the Erie BayHawks 113-109 Friday night before a sold-out crowd at the Portland Expo.
Bradley scored 24 points, 21 of them in the second half, to lead the Red Claws.
Johnson, who scored 46 points the last time Erie was here on Jan. 14, was held to 12 on Friday, 8.2 below his average.
But Erie guards Blake Ahearn (29 points) and Tasmin Mitchell (25) found open shots and drained them.
"We tried to limit (Johnson's) touches and not allow him to be comfortable," said Red Claws forward DeShawn Sims, one of those responsible for guarding Johnson.
"We did it for the most part. But we let the other guys beat us."
The Red Claws were swarming on defense at the start, taking a 28-19 lead.
"We played good defense in the first quarter," Red Claws coach Austin Ainge said, "and then we softened throughout the rest of the game, and Blake Ahearn tore us apart."
Ahearn hit 5 of 11 3-pointers, including the go-ahead basket for a 109-106 lead with 48 seconds to go.
Jamar Smith, who hit three 3-pointers, was given the task of trying to tie the game. He faked twice to elude defenders but missed. Erie rebounded and sank free throws to finish the game.
Bradley, a 6-foot-2 guard out of the University of Texas, joined the Red Claws on Jan. 14. He had been averaging 13.8 points a game, but broke out in the second half Friday, draining jumpers and driving to the basket.
"I just had to pick my spots," Bradley said. "At the beginning, I had to make sure everyone got involved in the game.
"At a certain point in the game I just got opportunities where I could score and I capitalized on them."
Bradley recorded eight assists (second to Smith's nine), but also had nine turnovers.
"A lot of those weren't his fault," Ainge said. "A lot of those were the receiver not coming to the ball.
"Avery played very well. He was aggressive. He was attacking. You could see his athleticism."
The Red Claws flowed on offense at times. Center Tiny Gallon (22 points) and Sims (16) hit jumpers, while Bradley and Smith (19 points) directed the attack.
But Erie countered, and then some.
"We shot 55 percent. That's great," Smith said. "But on the defensive end, we didn't get any stops, and that's what it came down to."
Maine plays at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Expo against Tulsa.
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- Hacking group ShadowBrokers has released data including PowerPoint slides and target lists suggesting the NSA had compromised the Dubai EastNets office
- Info implies financial institutions in the Mideast were targeted for espionage
- EastNets is a global anti-money laundering and financial services firm
- ShadowBrokers also released a Windows hacking tool that apparently can let a hacker remotely run their own code on a targeted Windows-operating machines
TheShadowBrokers hacking group has released a new batch of documents purportedly taken from the National Security Agency, which suggests that American spies have burrowed deep into the Middle East's financial network.
The documents appear to show that the NSA compromised the Dubai office of the anti-money laundering and financial services firm EastNets.
The company said Friday that the leaked documents were dated and denied that any customer data had been affected.
TheShadowBrokers, which startled the security experts last year by releasing some of the NSA's hacking tools, has recently resumed pouring secrets into the public domain.
In a first for TheShadowBrokers, the data includes PowerPoint slides and purported target lists, suggesting that the group has access to a broader range of data than previously known.
'This is by far the most brutal dump,' said Comae Technologies founder Matt Suiche, who has closely followed the group's disclosures and initially helped confirm its connection to the NSA last year.
In a blog post, he said it appeared that thousands of employee accounts and machines from the EastNets' offices had been compromised and that financial institutions in Kuwait, Bahrain and the Palestinian territories had been targeted for espionage.
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Monday, 9 May 2011
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I know they made a film out of this in the 90s, but I can't get my head around that. Not because it's an unfilmable mess; I have no trouble imagining this as a film. Almost the opposite. I can picture the film exceptionally well, because I've already seen Withnail & I half a dozen times.
Two drugged and drunk friends go on a crazy roadtrip and mourn the passing of the 1960s, and all those years entailed. Yep, that's the same story. As Withnail and Fear and Loathing are both at least 'based on' true events, though, I'm not calling plagiarism (except in the way that all non-fiction is plagiarism, by stealing bits from real life.)
The fictional truth/factual nonsense angle is undiluted in Fear and Loathing. This is, after all, the textbook example of Gonzo journalism (it was only in the Post Script material in this Harper Perennial edition that I learned that Gonzo journalism wasn't Thompson's own coinage.)
Maybe the lure of Gonzo journalism was contextual to its time. From my perspective, though, there is little that is surprising or original in it. I'd be massively surprised if it really did only take hold in the late 60s -- it's a fundamental tool of storytelling (or truth-telling, whatever) -- just having an identity crisis.
That's not to say Hunter Thompson's own take on the mongrel approach is not frantically exciting and readable. Fear and Loathing paints a very different picture of the end-of-the-decade malaise than that found in the rain-filled English Withnail. Thompson is looking back, mourning the loss of the bigger thing; the movement, the intangible moment when everyone who was there was part of the same cresting wave. Withnail's journey is a much more personal one; looking forward, but not with positivity. He is staring down the barrel of a hopeless life, the decade after Hope reached an all time international high.
How much of that difference in perspective is genuine, and how much is some Gonzo insinuation from the weather the two stories both fight and embody, I wouldn't care to say.
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why is it called Gonzo?ReplyDelete
Allegedly because of the muppet -- Fozzie was a bear, Kermit was quite clearly a frog, Animal was pure animal, but Gonzo was... Gonzo. A bit of everything, a bit of nothing, not definable with reference to other things.ReplyDelete
I love this book. I really do. It's one of the best stories ever told on "absence". Two feral animals of the sixties, lost in a desert of meaninglessness, trying to live up to a promise that nobody believes in anymore. Very touching I thought. Despite the debauchery, I thought it pictured a loss of innocence not so far from mine.ReplyDelete
That's interesting. I can't say I read it as them trying to live up to anything... all the talk of the American Dream seemed to sway between the bitter and the mocking.ReplyDelete
I've not read either of these, though I've heard of both. I can't say I was ever attracted to Gonzo journalism. The closest I've ever got was Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff which I think is loosely associated with Gonzo journalism.ReplyDelete


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The 2010 Gloria is an ass-kicking, fabulous value once again from this estate, which would probably be classified if the 1855 hierarchy of the wines of the Medoc were ever done again. Abundant notes of cedar wood, fruitcake, flowers, creme de cassis and kirsch are all present in this full-bodied, opulent, dense, dark ruby/purple wine. It is slightly more restrained than the flamboyant 2009, but equal in quality. This is a juicy, well-proportioned, sensationally concentrated, super-ripe Gloria to drink over the next decades. Of course, it is a sleeper of the vintage, given the reasonable price it normally sells for. (RP)
A little coarse, with chewy tannins, but velvety in texture. Full body, with plenty of fruit and bright acidity. Intense and interesting.
Good bright, full ruby-red. Captivating nose combines cassis, kirsch, coffee, game, spices and sexy smoky oak. Densely packed and bright, with a fine-grained texture to the flavors of cassis, black cherry, licorice and chocolate. Concentrated wine with lovely sweetness buffered by framing acidity. Finishes with a hint of fresh herbs and dusty, building tannins. A superb and generous vintage for this property: ripe, rich and sweet. (ST)
The wine shows considerable new-wood influence at this stage. However, this wood emphasis brings out polished fruit that is deliciously smooth and blackberry-like in profile. This is likely to develop relatively quickly. (RV)
Juicy and direct, with a relatively friendly feel to the plum, blackberry and blueberry fruit, all coated with a ganache note that hangs through the finish. Surprisingly accessible, and not quite as grippy as when tasted from barrel. Drink now through 2023. (JM)
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DLT 'grabbed breasts of young radio announcer live on air'
DAVE Lee Travis grabbed a radio announcer's breasts live on air and another woman's on her first day of work, a court heard today.
The first witness was introducing Woman's Hour on Radio 4 in the early 1980s, when he assaulted her, Southwark Crown Court heard.
The woman, who will remain unnamed, said she believed Travis saw it as "a stupid joke".
Travis, 68, is charged with 13 counts of indecent assault dating back to between 1976 and 2003, and one count of sexual assault in 2008.
The former Radio One DJ, from Buckinghamshire, is accused of assaulting 11 women, one of whom was 15 at the time of the alleged crime.
He denies all the charges. Giving evidence behind a curtain, the woman told the court that Travis walked into the studio she was in as she was about to go on air.
She felt the DJ standing behind her when: "His hands came round under my arm pits and he put one hand on each breast.
"He started to move my breasts up and down."
The woman, who was 26 at the time, said Travis held her breasts throughout her announcement which lasted about 10 seconds.
Asked by prosecutor Miranda Moore QC how she felt at the time, she replied: "Well I imagine there was a feeling of sort of panic.
"Radio 4 is a very serious network. I was making a serious announcement. I was just frightened I was going to mess up the announcement."
The woman said she would "not have been very lady-like" had she not been on air.
"I'm sure I would have screamed at him to get off me, probably with a few choice words" she said.
She said Travis sat down after the incident "as if nothing had happened".
The alleged victim said she "would not dream" of making an official complaint to the BBC or asked for compensation.
She had previously told police officers that she believed Travis got a "thrill" from attempting to interrupt the announcement.
The second witness, who worked on Chiltern radio for four years at the turn of the millennium, said she was assaulted on her first day working in the same building as the defendant.
She said: "Dave Lee Travis got up and he came over, was introduced to me, and the first thing he did was kiss me on the cheek, put both arms around me like a bear hug, which did not feel right.
"He let go of one hand, and with the other started to rub the side of my body. He was touching my breast.
"I was frozen."
Travis raised his eyebrows and sighed as the woman gave her evidence. She said she knew when Travis was nearby because of his "strong, pungent aftershave".
The woman, who was in her late 20s when she worked at the station, said Travis "slid his hand" on her breast as he reached to take a pen away.
Asked why she did not say anything to Travis, she said: "I have asked myself that question a hundred times.
"I had the job of my dreams. I had worked very hard to get where I was. I was initially terrified no one would believe me."
She said "everyone" knew of Travis's behaviour, and that women in the office "kept their heads bowed" when he walked in.
Recalling one incident when she "snapped" after Travis allegedly approached and assaulted her while she was perched on a desk, the witness said: "His face was inches - even less than that - from mine.
"He had both hands on my thighs and began rubbing my thighs. "He pushed the skirt up. I could feel his fingers against my knicker elastic - at which point he tried to get his fingers under.
"At that point I absolutely snapped. I couldn't take it any more." She said a manager had to pull the pair apart after she kicked off, but that Travis had become very aggressive when she shouted out that he was a pervert.
The witness said senior managers "were aware" of Travis's behaviour, and that the latest incident prompted him to be banned from the office where the complainant was working.
Dressed in a dark green blazer, white shirt and tie, Travis listened to the proceedings in the dock today with the aid of headphones.
Jurors were yesterday told the former BBC presenter was an "opportunist" who assaulted "vulnerable" young women.
Travis, whose real name is David Patrick Griffin, allegedly assaulted women at various locations including a Showaddywaddy concert when the alleged victim, who was 15, feared she was going to be raped.
In one incident, the court heard he "touched the bum" of a 19-year-old woman during a recording of Top of the Pops.
In another incident, Travis allegedly assaulted a woman working in the pantomime Aladdin in which he was appearing in Crawley, West Sussex, between November 1990 and January 1991, the court heard.
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A 19-year-old man wanted in a homicide and home invasion in Pittsburgh was arrested Wednesday night on Chicago's West Side, authorities said this morning.
William Faulkner was arrested in the 2100 block of South Central Park around 9 p.m. on the warrant out of the state of Pennsylvania, according to police. He was being held in the Central District police station pending an extradition hearing.
According to Pittsburgh news reports, Faulkner was wanted in connection with the shooting death of Charles Hall on Dec. 26.
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The Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys basketball team will open up the regular season at the Arkansas Tech Tournament. Where the Wonder Boys host Minnesota-Crookston on Friday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. and will continue play by taking on Concordia-St. Paul on Saturday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m.
The Wonder Boys have been picked to finish 2nd behind the Arkansas-Monticello Boll Weevils in the annual preseason poll of Great American Conference head coaches. The Wonder Boys went 21-8 last season and defeated the Boll Weevils twice but were defeated in the GAC tournament. The Wonder Boys led the conference in scoring last season.
They will return six players from last year's team. Alex Brown, from Vernon, Florida, was named a GAC Honorable Mention last season, and finished 2nd on the team in scoring, averaging 13.3 points per game. Brown was 2nd in rebounding, grabbing 5.2 game and 2nd on the team in three-point percentage, shooting 39.9 percent behind the arc. Montrell Williams, from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, will also return. He averaged 12.7 points per game and recorded 27 blocks last season. Freddy Lee, from Clarksville, will return for his junior season. Last season, he averaged 8.7 points per game and 5.1 assists per game. Mason Cline, from Springdale, and Tobin Johnson, from Van Buren, will return for their senior season.
Lee wants to lead by example this season and help other players get involved in the offense. "My role is to always be a leader on the team. I want to help other players learn how we play and operate on the floor," Lee said. "If we play good defense and play as team, I don't think we will lose a game. We have a lot of talent on the team this season."
The Wonder Boys will have 10 new faces on the team this season. Some of those players included Division I transfers, such as Leonardo Edwards, from Detroit, R.J. Glasper, from Forrest City, Jerami Grace, from Dallas, and Jamie Rutherford, from Indianapolis.


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Although Tetris (Korobeiniki) and the Mario Brothers theme songs are easy to sing along with, I always thought that the majestic theme music for The Legend of Zelda was quite beautiful. NeatoGeek showcases that theme today with eight different interpretations of the music from the video game The Legend of Zelda. Which one is your favorite? Link
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Salad Skier
We're up in the mountains in the snow. Not skiing but no reason not to create one anyway!
Here's my fun food, Salad Skier.
– Radish
– Carrot
– Red capsicum (bell pepper)
– Celery
– Cucumber
– Cottage cheese
– Dill
– Yellow capsicum (bell pepper)
1. Cut the radish into a circle to form the head.
2. Create a body from carrot.
3. Then add an arm.
4. Give him a backside.
5. And some strong legs.
6. Use the outside of the radish for goggles and a smile.
7. Then red capsicum for the hat and gloves.
8. Slice celery to make a ski.
9. And another one.
10. Make him a ski pole.
11. Then add the cottage cheese snow.
12. Cucumber trees give him some obstacles!
13. But they're not complete without a bit of snow.
14. Fresh dill makes the perfect bobble and scarf.
15. All finished with a yellow capsicum sun.
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I hope you all enjoyed your weekend and are all ready for the new week. I see silver showing up more in blogs these days so I took a few photos of some that I have.
Then, I made a couple of mosaic's for Mosaic Monday.
I found these at thrift shops awhile ago.
Thank you Mary for hosting MM again and I hope you will enjoying check out the other lovely mosaics at Little Red House.
Thank you for visiting me,
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Man I'd post videos of the entire Ropin' in the Wind album by Garth Brooks but I couldn't find a video of Rodeo that was actually Garth singing.
That came out when I was 3 and I wore the tape out until I no longer owned a tape player and 21 years later I still listen to the CD frequently.
George and Garth are the two I grew up on and it doesn't get much better IMO.
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CAMDEN, N.J. - February 27, 2013 --Camden police say a 23-year-old man was shot and killed late Tuesday night.
The incident occurred shortly after 10:00 p.m. at 27th and Arthur Streets.
Police were called to the report of an unresponsive man in a car.
Upon arrival, officers discovered the man with a gunshot wound to the head. He was then rushed him to Cooper University Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The man's name has not been released.
Police are searching for suspects and a motive for the shooting.


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In 1948, in what Israelis call the War of Independence and Palestinians call the Nakba, or catastrophe, some 700,000 Palestinians–more than half the Arab population–were driven from their homes into exile. The dispossession of the Palestinians by the Zionist movement, representing a people who had suffered centuries of persecution in Europe, continues to haunt the Middle East, influencing events far beyond the Levant. The story of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and its present-day reverberations has been told from almost every conceivable angle. Rarely, however, have the competing narratives of individual experience been set forth so poignantly as in Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree.
Tolan's story is woven from two intertwined lives, one Palestinian and one Jewish, around one house–"the house with two histories." Bashir Khairi was a child of 6 when, in July 1948, he, his family and almost all the citizens of the towns of al-Ramla and Lydda were forcibly expelled from their homes by the Israeli army. It was the single largest such eviction of the war, numbering 30,000-50,000 Palestinians, ordered by the newly declared state's prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and orchestrated by a young lieutenant colonel named Yitzhak Rabin (who, after signing the Oslo Accords with the PLO more than forty years later, would be assassinated by a Jewish extremist). The Khairis, like their neighbors, were forced to leave behind everything but what they could carry on foot–the house of white Jerusalem stone, built to specification by Bashir's father a decade earlier, along with most of its furniture, clothes, food and other belongings, as well as the lovingly tended garden in back, with its lemon tree.
At the same time, Moshe and Solia Eshkenazi and their infant daughter, Dalia, were preparing to leave their home in Bulgaria to make a better life in Israel. Five years earlier the Eshkenazis, along with the rest of Bulgaria's 47,000 Jews, had narrowly escaped annihilation at the hands of the Nazis. Under King Boris III, Bulgaria had in 1941 joined the Axis powers, and by 1943 it had agreed with Germany to the secret deportation of the country's Jews to Treblinka. But Bulgaria's Jews were saved–at almost the last minute, as they had already been ordered to pack a few belongings and wait at schoolyards all over the country–thanks to the courageous efforts of a few Jewish activists and their gentile allies, including leaders of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and some members of Parliament, who were outraged at the orders and threatened to reveal them to a wider public they were confident would also resist.
Although the country's Jews suffered harsh restrictions under the fascist government, the overwhelming majority survived the war. Even so, after it was over, Zionism beckoned them to a new life in Palestine, away from a harsh Communist regime and postwar scarcity, away from a continent that had almost exterminated them. For many of these Bulgarian Jews who made aliyah in 1948, "the journey to Israel represented a return after two thousand years of exile." Israel welcomed the Eshkenazis, settling the young family in the newly conquered town of Ramla, where they found a spacious stone house to move into, one with a lemon tree in the backyard. When Dalia was growing up, she often asked about the previous owners. Her elders and schoolteachers told her that the Arabs simply ran away–that they "preferred to leave," as one textbook put it. She accepted what she was taught, but "Why, she wondered, would anyone leave so willingly?"


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The Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published its Final Report on Regulatory Issues Raised by the Impact of Technological Changes on Market Integrity and Efficiency, containing Recommendations aimed at promoting market integrity and efficiency and to mitigate the risks posed to the financial system by the latest technological developments including high frequency and algorithmic trading.
The Report analyses the most significant technological developments that have arisen in financial markets in recent years and their impact on market integrity and efficiency, and sets out
Recommendations to assist securities markets regulators in mitigating these effects. These are designed to:
- help regulators to identify the practical impact that technological developments have had and the regulatory issues to which they may give rise;
- promote a consistent approach amongst global regulators to the latest technological developments; and
- mitigate the risk that technological change may pose to the integrity and efficiency of financial markets.
The Recommendations were developed in response to the G20 Leaders request in November 2010 that OSCO should "develop recommendations to promote markets' integrity and efficiency to mitigate the risks posed to the financial system by the latest technological developments".
Masamichi Kono, Chairman of IOSCO's Technical Committee, said:
"Markets are evolving rapidly and it is important for regulators not only to monitor developments in technology and market structure, but also to continue to assess the impact of these changes on market integrity and efficiency and to address any risks identified.
"I welcome the G20 Finance Ministers´ and Central Bank Governors´ recent endorsement of this Report's Recommendations whose implementation will assist regulators in identifying what impact developments such as high frequency and algorithmic trading have on the markets they oversee, will promote a globally consistent approach by regulators in addressing these issues and contribute to regulators´ ability to mitigate the risks that these activities may pose to the integrity and efficiency of global capital markets.
"The G20 Finance Ministers and Governors have asked for further work by IOSCO by mid-2012 on the subject. IOSCO will focus upon such issues as development of recommendations for market surveillance and an analysis of the evolving new market structure in its next stage of work.
"It is also noted that, in addition to the above report, a broad range of work has already been completed by IOSCO in relation to market integrity and efficiency, particularly through the development of recommendations and principles in the areas of short selling, structured finance products, direct electronic access, OTC derivatives and dark liquidity. The implementation of these principles, alongside today's Recommendations, would be key in achieving the G20's objectives."
IOSCO Recommendations on Market Integrity and Efficiency
The Recommendations set out high level guidance to address issues in two specific areas:
Trading venue operators and trading participants
Recommendation 1: Regulators should require that trading venue operators provide fair, transparent and non-discriminatory access to their markets and to associated products and services;
Recommendation 2: Regulators should seek to ensure that trading venues have in place suitable trading control mechanisms (such as trading halts, volatility interruptions, limit-up-limit-down controls, etc.) to deal with volatile market conditions. Trading systems and algorithms should be robust and flexible such that they are capable of dealing with, and adjusting to, evolving market conditions. In the case of trading systems, this should include the ability to adjust to changes (including sudden increases) in message traffic;
Recommendation 3: All order flow of trading participants, irrespective of whether they are direct venue members or otherwise, must be subject to appropriate controls, including automated pre-trade controls. These controls should be subject to the regulatory requirements of a suitable market authority or authorities. In addition, regulators should identify any risks arising from currently unregulated direct members/participants of trading venues and, where any are identified, take concrete steps to address them;
Recommendation 4: Regulators should continue to assess the impact on market integrity and efficiency of technological developments and market structure changes, including algorithmic and high frequency trading. Based on this, regulators should seek to ensure that suitable measures are taken to mitigate any related risks to market integrity and efficiency, including any risks to price formation or to the resiliency and stability of markets, to which such developments give rise.
Recommendation 5: Market authorities should monitor for novel forms or variations of market abuse that may arise as a result of technological developments and take action as necessary. They should also review their arrangements (including cross-border information sharing arrangements) and capabilities for the continuous monitoring of trading (including transactions, orders entered or orders cancelled) to help ensure that they remain effective.
IOSCO's future work plan
In support of the Report's Recommendations IOSCO will carry out work in the following two areas:
a) Development of recommendations on market surveillance
IOSCO will assess the new challenges that technological changes pose for regulators in their market surveillance, which include: the fragmentation of markets; the dispersal of trading information; the increased speed of trading; and the ability to gather and process the increased volume of trading data. It will consider the feasibility of regulators having additional tools to deal with the challenges arising from market surveillance, some of which may include:
- additional audit trail or surveillance data consisting of all orders and trades by market participants in a given instrument;
- a single reporting point for all orders and for all transactions, by jurisdiction or geographical zone and across asset classes; and
- unique legal entity identifiers.
In addition, IOSCO will build on its work on supervisory cooperation to consider how best to enhance operational contacts and cooperation between regulators in order to more flexibly share information and views for day-to-day market supervision.
b) An analysis of the new market structure and its impact on market efficiency/integrity
IOSCO will analyse the evolving markets' structure, in order to assess what specific issues such structural developments raise with regard to market efficiency and integrity; and consider whether and what recommendations may be needed to address any risks.
IOSCO will provide an update on the progress of this work in mid-2012.


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Below is the complete list of themes and their descriptions for our 2016 releases. Submissions deadlines have passed for 2016 releases, so be sure to check out our new themes for 2017!
Featured Author: Ronie Kendig
(Submission Deadline: 11/6/2015)
Sub-genres – Fire- or heat-based Superhero stories; sci-fi on a hot planet, fire-breathing dragons, volcanoes and lava
There's a chill in the air, but a fire in our souls. The opposite of last year's Frostbite issue, this year we want to heat things up. We're looking for stories to get us through the winter months. Ignite our imaginations with stories involving fiery volcanoes, blazing superpowers, hot planets, sizzling science experiments, and anything else that raises the mercury.
February – Partners in Crime
Featured Author: Lisa Phillips
(Submission Deadline: 12/4/2015)
Sub-genres — Flirting with Danger, Captivated, Peaceful Protests (nonviolent resistance), Caught in Love, Accidentally Criminal, Stealing a Kiss, Prank to Proposal
Instead of partners for life, this Valentine's Day we're looking for Captivated Partners in Crime. Think "The Man Who Knew too Little" meets "West Side Story." Or Greenpeace girl chained to a tree until Bulldozer boy sweeps her off her feet. Nancy Drew encounters Encyclopedia Brown, and they uncover a new element of chemistry.
Weave a tale of a bounty hunter with the hots for her target. Or thicken the plot with a heist involving more than money and jewels. Transform robbery into romance and let your characters flirt with danger. Send us your best story of rivalry, sabotage, criminals, competition … and romance. Lots of romance.
March – News that Never Happened
Featured Author: Mags Storey
(Submission Deadline: 1/8/2016)
Sub-genres – Only in your wildest dreams, Secrets revealed, Caught on camera, Mythical creatures, They did what?!, etc.
This just in: Believe everything you read. Or, at least make us believe it. Our March issue is all about fiction that reads like fact. Think The Onion, Splickety style.
We want to see your best reporting skills on something that's never happened. The wilder, the better. Put on your journalism hat and write a tale that's too tall to be true. Convince us it's news and not a ruse.
April – Fairytales: Unfettered
Featured Author: Will Wight
(Submission Deadline: 2/5/2016)
Sub-genres – Traditional fairytales with magic and ogres and spells, stories about fairies, new twists on fairy lore
Whether it's old-school elven mischief-makers, uptown urban sprites, or a more traditional tale with magical creatures and wicked witches, take us on a trip into the fantastical realms of Faeries and Fairytales for our April issue. Introduce us to a world of magic from which no one returns unchanged. That is, if they return at all.
May – For the Love of Chaos
Featured Author: Beth Vogt
CONTEST ISSUE ($10 entry fee; hundreds of dollars in fabulous prizes to be won; see Contest page for details)
(Submission Deadline: 3/4/2016)
Sub-genres – Mr./Mrs. Wrong, "Frenemy" Love, Love in Passing, Trapped Together (elevator/delayed flight/traffic jam), Opposites Attract, Different Perspectives, Happy Ending Romeo and Juliet
If they ever look at each other, sparks will fly. But that'll be the day hell freezes over or they get stuck in a five-hour traffic jam. We're talking about a match made for a combustion chamber, family feud, or a mediation session. It's love fraught with tension and serendipitous twists. This is the story that changes everything.
We want once-in-a-lifetime tales of two hearts colliding in a match made for never who overcome the distance, the odds, and even the bad blood. Mr. Wrong meets Mrs. Totally Not His Type. Long-lost frenemies brought together by a matchmaker's blind date. Passing strangers meet again when they stumble into each at the park while he's walking her missing dog. Hit us with your best shot of unique pairings and unlikely reunions.
June – Outdoor Misadventure
Featured Author: Mark Hancock
(Submission Deadline: 4/8/2016)
Sub-genres – Adventure gone awry, trips never to forget, man vs. nature, lost and alone
The great outdoors, where adventure awaits. Or misadventure. Let's face it, nature is unpredictable. Without the right tools to take on her fierce elements, we could be up a creek without a paddle—literally. Nature rains on our parades, blows our plans up in smoke, and bows to no mortal man.
So we want stories featuring outdoor escapades that didn't quite go as planned. Whether tales of camping chaos, fishing fiascos, rough road trips, Sasquatch sightings, or wacko wildlife, send us your spin on what can go out of control in the great outdoors.
July – Heroes vs. Villains
Featured Author: Lynn Rush
CONTEST ISSUE ($10 entry fee; hundreds of dollars in fabulous prizes to be won; see Contest page for details)
(Submission Deadline: 5/6/2016)
Sub-genres – Contest issue: Heroes, anti-heroes, villains, noble villains
Superman vs. Lex. Thor vs. Loki. Harry vs. Voldemort.
Who do you like better, the hero or the villain? What makes a hero heroic? How does a villain become evil? What drives a hero to become better? Where do those lines blur?
These are the questions to ask as you write to enter our Heroes vs. Villains issue, in a contest to the death. Choose a side and write a story that compels us to love or hate—or both—a true hero or a dastardly villain.
August – Love on Location
Featured Author: Siri Mitchell
(Submission Deadline: 6/3/2016)
Sub-genres – Westward Love, Meeting in Paradise, Lights-Camera-Passion: Film Set Romance, Southern Sweethearts, Beauty and the Beach, Hippy Commune Courtship
Summer is the time for travel and globetrotting lovers. Do you love exotic locales and faraway places? Now's your chance to spin a tale with a setting that makes us swoon. Strangers catching each other's gaze while walking the cobbled streets of Rome. A lifetime adventure climbing Kilimanjaro where rescue leads to romance. A chance meeting in paradise that rekindles an old flame. Or maybe a stunt double discovers on location that Mr. Hollywood is also Mr. Right.
Whether it's southern sweethearts, On the Set, European vacations, or beauty on the beach, Splickety Love wants stories that stir up love and wanderlust. We're particularly looking for faithful and evocative descriptions that transport us to Destination Romance
September – Buckle Up
Featured Author: Kristy Cambron
CONTEST ISSUE ($10 entry fee; hundreds of dollars in fabulous prizes to be won; see Contest page for details)
(Submission Deadline: 7/8/2016)
Sub-genres – Time travel, racing, exploration, homemade conveyances, fast and furious vs. slow and steady, etc.
From tricycles to ruby slippers to the back of a burro, we're looking for stories that revolve around transportation. You don't have to stick with plain old trains and boats—think outside the boxcar for this one.
Whether it's explorers on an airship, stowaways on a time machine, innocents in the backseat of a police car, a waitress on roller skates, or a flea circus on a stray dog, we want the mode of transportation to be an important part of the story. So start your creative engines and ready, set, write!
October – HalloWhimsy
Featured Author: Rick Gualtieri
(Submission Deadline: 7/22/2016)
Sub-genres – Funny ghost stories, getting tricked instead of treated, magic spells gone wrong
Who says October has to be gloomy? Let's shine a little light on the dark night of All Hallows Eve by showcasing grim humor, graveyard mischief, and good old-fashioned Halloween fun. From fun and silly to creepy and quirky, what embodies the spirit of Halloween for you?
Whether your characters are being double-dog dared to spend the night in a creepy house, throwing toilet paper in a carnivorous tree, or teaching their pet zombie to do their chores, make sure your story is full of pumpkins, candy, full moons, autumn leaves, and creaking doors.
November – All's Fair in Love and Uniforms
Featured Author: Hallee Bridgeman
(Submission Deadline: 8/26/2016)
Sub-genres – Love and Duty, Hearts and Badges, Hearts in Service, Hearts of Honor, Love in War, Love on the "Beat", Kissing the Chef, Fire for You (Fireman/woman), Romancing the Sargeant
When describing love, few can easily define the boundaries. We want stories that stretch the rules, and for this issue we're focusing on our boys in blue and green. And black. That's right, we love a man in uniform, whether he's a policeman who falls for a cat burglar, a drill-sergeant captivated by the cute new recruit, a touring soldier torn between love and duty, or a volunteer firefighter saving a neighbor's kitty from a tree. So submit your stories of men (or women) in uniform…and in love. Bring on the badges and captivate us with courage in the line of romance.
December – Christmas in Crisis
Featured Author: DiAnn Mills
(Submission Deadline: 9/23/2016)
Sub-genres – Holiday heroism, last minute rescues, weather woes, unexpected visitors, naughty list, detours, etc.
'Twas the night before Christmas and all was amiss. Danger on the horizon—a real crisis.
Will the whole world be watching the holiday's fate, or can Christmas be saved before it's too late?"
At Splickety, all we want for Christmas is action, adventure, and suspense wrapped up in a healthy dose of holiday cheer. Missiles instead of mistletoe? A kidnapped Santa? A society of ninja elves who save Christmas every year before the kids even know it was in crisis? Yes! Bring on the stories of misfits, unsung heroes, and everyday Joes who are determined to avert crisis and save Christmas.


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Tzanos Flash Vol 3 DVD How to Tzanos Seminar
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The 3rd phase of a seminar that can feel the latest technique of GEORGE TZANOS.
This technique is the nearest "World No.1" now!
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- Warm-up
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- Attack when away
- Four types of defense
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- Throw which holds a leg
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Run Time: 115 min.


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Because I hadn't painted any stripes recently… 😛
In addition to working on Bradley's bathroom, I've been working on finishing up the facelift for our bathroom. I love our new shower curtain situation….which has actually been done since May but I haven't gotten around to posting about it.
Last bathroom update left us here with a shower curtain that needed to be finished.
I raised the shower curtain to keep in more heat in the shower. It is hard to find 96″ shower curtains that aren't ugly and/or aren't ridiculously expensive, so I decided to make one. I originally got the idea from Welcome to Heardmont.
By adding button holes to the top of a white queen sheet, it made almost the perfect shower curtain. It just needed to be hemmed a few inches and some oomph. I decided to paint charcoal gray stripes for a few reasons: the paint gives the sheet some stance making it less flimsy, the dark gray grounds the space, and the wide stripes give a masculine touch since The Husband shares the space with me.
I will say that painting the sheet was more difficult than I anticipated. It really soaked up the paint and took much longer than anticipated. I really like the result though. It does everything I wanted it to do for the space. Also, I like the way the paint dried on the sheet. It isn't completely consistent across but that gives it sort of a velvety look. I chose Sherwin Williams Peppercorn. It has the same undertones as the wall color (Sherwin Williams Sliverplate) but is much darker.
I also added a second shower curtain bar. One for the liner, one for the curtain. It's really a brilliant set up. I can easily leave open the curtain part and close the liner if I need to keep an eye on an active toddler while I jump in the shower. Or, if the stars align and I don't have to keep an eye on Little Man, I can close the curtain too. Brilliant.
The bathroom is pretty small in true early 80s construction style. This makes it hard to photograph so I tried to take some panoramic shots on my iPhone. They aren't great. They aren't really even that good, but they give you an idea of the space.
A few more things and this sucker will be dunzo.


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Percy Harvin, is obviously a great football player, however he has had many injuries and was not working out for Vikings management. The Vikings have been struggling especially on offense and in the WR area. However, with the recent pick-up of Greg Jennings, I believe it was a good choice to cut Harvin to get money to spend on free agents and such. You do not need lots of money to get a good football player, and if you are going to have an all-star, get one that is not constantly hurt.
Percy Harvin is a great football player. But when you are becoming a cancer to your team or your employers, then change needs to happen. Percy Harvin was not working out very well for the Viking management so they did what any good employer does and got rid of the problem by trading it. Football is a business and business is good if you win.
No, I believe that the Vikings should not have traded Percy Harvin. Although many people are praising the trade, the truth of the matter is that the Vikings got the short end of the stick. Percy Harvin is one of the NFL's top players, and the Seahawks have absolutely come out ahead on this trade, as the Vikings did not get any spectacular talent in this trade.
They should not have traded Percy Harvin. He was one of the best offensive options the team had, and perhaps the best wide receiver on the team. Not sure what the Vikings were thinking here, but it has left me scratching my head. Maybe there was a problem between he and the team internally.
The Vikings were wrong for trading Harvin. Harvin was a very good wide receiver and the second best offensive option they had on that team. Their offense already struggled, but now it is going to be absolutely terrible. The only threat they have now is their run game. They will miss him.


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Robson selected for inaugural fellowship
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University School of Pharmacy Ph.D. student Matthew Robson was recently awarded a fellowship opportunity to further develop his leadership skills and advocacy efforts.
Robson is one of 13 fellows nationwide selected for the inaugural American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) Washington Fellowship Program. ASPET is a scientific society, located in Bethesda, Md., that deals with basic and clinical pharmacological research. The fellowship is awarded to any graduate students, postdoctoral trainees or researchers — no more than four years past the completion of their postdoctoral training — that have a strong interest in science and its connection with public policy.
ASPET will be training Robson and other fellows to advocate for biomedical research and increased funding for the National Institutes of Health on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., as well as in their local areas. Fellows will also have the opportunity to attend the ASPET Annual Meeting to discuss their experiences.
Robson says the importance of biomedical research funding and lack of scientists to advocate for it is what interested him in applying for the fellowship.
"I think graduate students tend to forget that a lot of their research areas get a significant amount of money from government sources or tax payers," Robson said. "There is no one better to advocate for this funding than scientists, as long as they learn how to advocate effectively."
Rae R. Matsumoto, Ph.D., associate dean for research and graduate programs in the WVU School of Pharmacy, believes Robson is an excellent fit for the program.
"What distinguishes Matt from his peers is the range and depth of his skills," Matsumoto said. "Matt is an exceptionally motivated, highly productive researcher with outstanding technical skills, a strong work ethic and demonstrated leadership abilities."
Robson, a native of Waterloo, N.Y., will be completing his research, which focuses on the treatment of depression and drug abuse, and earning his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences in the spring of 2013.
Robson says he is honored to be selected for the chance to represent the university and the School of Pharmacy.
"Many people outside of Morgantown may not realize the research that takes place here at the WVU Health Sciences Center," Robson said. "I am honored to be selected amongst the other 12 fellows from extremely prestigious universities and am excited to represent WVU along the way."