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A few weeks ago, I camped with my two year old son alone for the first time. It was a very special trip for us.
I think raising your children to love nature is one of the most important lessons we can give them. Which leads me to camping. Camping is so important – to fully immerse yourself in it is the best way to learn anything. So we went camping together, just the two of us, for 5 days at Devil's Lake State Park.
I have many years of camping experience. I have been camping with my family in Tennessee and all around Michigan, where I grew up. Some of my best memories are in these trips, so I feel it's wonderful to share these experiences with my son and teach him how to get dirty, how to play in a river, the fun of finding fish and swimming, throwing rocks and making big splashes, going on long hikes and cuddling up around a fire afterwards…
The following is a list and menu of what we will be making together in our five days. I want to keep meals simple so we can play and/or be prepared for any 2 year old moments that may require more attention. 😉 We are also lactose intolerant and eat mostly vegan. I have also learned from experience that cooking with children can be tricky, so keep it simple. The easier cooking can be when you have children and are camping, the better (and saner) you will be. And I have limited space. So meals are easy and there are some repeats in ingredients.
::::::::Menu for camping with a small child::::::
Sun dinner: premade peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and oranges
Mon: breakfast: granola and soymilk lunch: premade macaroni salad with "confetti" diced yellow, green, and red peppers, corn, and broccoli with olive oil/vinegar dressing snack: trail mix and raspberries dinner: marinating tofu "steaks", potatoes roasted on campfire, roasted asparagus dessert: smores!
Tues: breakfast: cereal with soymilk and grapes lunch: peanut butter and banana sandwiches, pretzels, sliced peppers snack: blueberries and almonds dinner: precooked spaghetti noodles with homemade vegan marinara sauce with garlic bread cooked over campfire (purchased vegan baguette from store, stuffed with garlic and earth balance vegan butter and parsley)
Wed: breakfast: granola and soymilk with blueberries lunch: leftover pasta salad snack: cliff bars and orangesdinner: tofu dogs roasted over fire, pickles, chips, and homemade potato salad dessert: smores!
Thurs: breakfast: cereal with soymilk and raspberries lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, chips, pickles, and leftover fruit before hitting the road
:::::::::::checklist of things to bring camping with a toddler::::::::::::
The "Duh" Essential Camping Items:
Extra Stakes
Sleeping bags
Mattress if you want
Stuffed Animals that child is fond of, it will ease any transition of falling asleep in a new place
Bedtime items to make it "special" and not scary
Books for bedtime
Broom to clear tent
Bungee Cords
Rope for hanging wet towels/clothes
Pots/Pans (buy them from a second hand store)
Dish soap/Sponge/Kitchen Towels
Toilet Paper
Paper plates, cups and plastic silverware (I am one of the greenest Moms you'll find, but I am totally for paper plates with camping. Time saver = sanity saver)
Paper Towels (see above comment)
Beach Towels and regular towels
Beach blanket(s)
Blanket for picnic table
Can opener
Bottle opener
Knives (wrapped in newspaper to keep them safe)
Cutting Board
Aluminum Foil for cooking
Garbage Bags for dirty laundry and trash
Plastic Bags
Water Jug for brushing teeth and clean drinking water
Water canteen for hiking and walking around
Bug spray
Adult and kid sized camping chairs
Mechanical Things
Cell Phone/Charger
Stereo with batteries
The Toddler Clothes: Pack a little extra because toddlers love mud puddles
sweat shirts/pants
Shoes with good traction
Extra pair of shoes
Sandals for showering
2 Swimsuits
Diapers/Wipes (if you're still in them)
Swim diapers (if you need them)
Short Sleeved Shirts (at least one for every day)
The Adult Clothes List
Sweat shirt/pants
Short Sleeved Shirts/tank tops
Sandals (for shower)
Bathroom Essentials
Biodegradable soap in container
Sunscreen for Adults
Sunscreen for children
First aid kit with bandaids, tweezers, etc
Asprin/Pain Meds
Hand Sanitizer
Plastic Grocery bags for Diapers or accidents
Special Items/Activities for child:
Bring books about camping to ease them into the idea: Curious George Goes Camping is a good one
Bring a backpack for the kids when hiking or going on walks to collect special items around you – take the time to look at them, identify them, and say why they are special and essential in nature
Bring coloring books or activity books for your child to play with when you are doing things (like cursing under your breath when you're trying to set up the tent!)
Give them jobs, not just as things to "help" with, but things to really help with. They are an equal and valued member of the family – they can and should help. Let them clear the table, collect sticks, set up the tee-pee for the fire, let them unroll the tent, set up their own sleeping bag and pillow. Or give them their own sized items, like a flashlight and magnifying glass perfect size for their smaller hands so they can explore the area around them
Mason jars to catch fireflies or caterpillars
Simple maps to teach them directions and what a map looks like
Walkie talkies are fun and it can be a fun activity when you are doing something and they are "hiding" in the tent.
Flashlights are also good for shadow play and late night walks to the bathroom
Play I Spy
Find Footprints
Play a camping ABC game – find things that begin with the letter (S is for sleeping bag, U is for Under the Stars)
Connect the dots with constellations
Thoughts before you go:
Reeeaaaallllly talk up camping. Set up the tent in the backyard and sleep in it! Read books! Talk about all the fun you'll have before you go! Smores, finding bugs and mud puddles, – make it something that they look forward to!
For your first few trips, select a campsite that has activities that match their interests. Many state parks have lakes, playgrounds, or trails that make it fun and easy. Also, select a site at the campground that is smart – not too close to the store with busy traffic day and night, not too close to the river so you don't have panic attacks while you're setting up the tent by yourself and wondering where your toddler might be, not too far away from the bathroom because you will be walking with them every time you or they need to go.
Avoid bringing toys or activities that are hard to clean up… a puzzle would be silly. Also, try to avoid things that distract them from the beauty around them. I don't believe in bringing mini-dvd players when you are camping – there is FAR too much to explore!
Give them time to be bored – they will discover more!
Yes, I just said let them be bored, but don't be an idiot. When you have to be busy setting up the tent or doing something where you are occupied and more importantly can't keep the best eye on them have things that they can do. Coloring books, new game, etc.
Use your trip as a time to get closer with each other… there's no tv, computer, bills to pay, house to clean, or video games so you have to talk and play games with each other. You can connect. Pay attention to the little moments. Feel lucky for this time.
Make it a teaching trip – one that teaches responsibility, helps the family, and is magical. There are so many beautiful and amazing experiences you can share as a family. It's also a trip where you have to do a lot, but they can also help . Let them pack a backpack before you leave for a hike. My son could pack more than Diana Ross… Help your kids understand that whatever they pack (snack, animals, books, toys, rocks, dolls, flashlights, maps, etc) they are responsible for…Because Lord knows we do not need to bring every horse and ball that we own. You will not carry it, no matter how tired or heavy it is. They will learn a lot faster that way. They will also learn what is helpful to bring.
Remember, sometimes camping is hard. If it's raining the whole time or your baby is screaming and waking up the whole campground…whatever…don't let it get you down. Finish your trip (even if that means packing up in a thunderstorm at 3am), and go home. Build up and remember the truly amazing moments. Try again. It's worth it.
Pump it Up
When you get home, print out any pictures you took during the trip and make a little book of your adventure together that you can read before bedtime or before your next camping trip. You can make it together with the pictures that you took, the leaves that you found, maybe even a few samples of sand or dirt! Don't forget to write stories. You could write about your process of camping – first we get to the campsite (wow, how nice!), then we set up the tent, etc. or you can write about what you did (caught fireflies, swam, smores, etc) This will keep the "fun" of camping in their heads. It will also be a great keepsake 🙂
The Result:
We stayed for all five days!
We went horseback riding, had picnics, made campfires every night, heard raindrops on the tent as we fell asleep, built sandcastles and smores, swam at the beach, and left with beautiful memories.
Liam didn't stop running the whole time, and it was great! He learned how to build a fire, collect the right sticks for roasting marshmallows, how to climb and hike, and perfected his technique of getting completely soaked in the mud. He helped me make sandwiches for our picnic, clear the table and trash, and kept our site clean. I am so proud of him and so happy that we could go! I can't wait for our trip later this summer when we go to the Point Beach State Park in beautiful Door County!
*Pictures by Mallory, Fitzgerald Photography*


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Mike Holmgren believes finding a franchise quarterback is of paramount importance for building a team that can consistently compete for a Super Bowl title. It was with that thought in mind that he approached Indianapolis Colts general manager Ryan Grigson at the owners' meetings last year.
During an interview with Dave "Softy" Mahler of 950 KJR-AM in Seattle, Holmgren said he was willing to offer a huge windfall to the Colts in the way of draft picks from the Cleveland Browns for the rights to draft Andrew Luck.
"I talked to (Grigson) before we made the trade (up to the No. 3 overall pick to select Trent Richardson), I said 'I'll give you all our draft picks for the number one pick and I'll take Luck,'" Holmgren said.
Holmgren joked that they were both sitting by the pool and Grigson was "having one of those little drinks with an umbrella in it so I thought I could take advantage of him."
The Browns made 10 selections in the 2012 draft after dealing away selections in the fourth, fifth and seventh rounds to move up to take Richardson. It would have meant Holmgren was willing to send close to 13 picks (before other trades in the draft) to the Colts for the rights to take Luck with the first pick.
Grigson shot Holmgren down and told him they were going to take Luck. He said Grigson probably didn't take the offer seriously, though Holmgren did put it on the table.
"I probably offered it knowing he wouldn't take it," Holmgren said. "If he had said OK, I probably would have choked on my offer."
Holmgren said the Colts made the right decision in standing pat and taking Luck. One piece Holmgren added was that Grigson supposedly said that if something weird had happened with Luck, they wanted to take Richardson with the top selection.
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Celebrity chef Paula Deen focused less on her famous butter-filled recipes and more on how to get protein in the hands of Hurricane Sandy victims last week.
On a cold loading dock in the Long Island City's branch of City Harvest, Deen threw hams and other protein-rich items into a donation basket.
Deen teamed up with Smithfield and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) to donate 25,000 pounds of protein to City Harvest to further the Feed the Hungry initiative that the group has taken on in 2009.
"The significant donation in New York is part of Smithfield's and the UFCW's Feed the Hungry tour, a cost-to-cost effort to help families and individuals become more food secure, in which two originations donate and deliver much-needed protein to food assistance organizations across the country," read a statement issued by Smithfield.
The food this time will go to those who have been devastated by the hurricane.
After discussing the needs throughout the community the group agreed that the needs of those who had been affected by the hurricane were of the highest property.
"We can temporarily take care of hunger, but inevitably a few hours later it returns," Deen said. "It is a non-stop job that we have to do."
While the Feeding the Hungry initiative is a nation wide project, due to the severity of the hurricane, the focus has shifted to the hurricane-destroyed areas.
Deen said she toured some of the devastated areas affected by the hurricane, and said she views the volunteers as heroes. She said she was able to see the "goodness that is in American people."
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"I can't help feeling that cars like this will soon be consigned to the history books. I have this horrible, dreadful feeling that what I'm driving here is an ending…" J Clarkson, reviewing the V12 Vantage in 2009.
The boss's words ring loud in my ears as the V12 Zagato crests the Furka Pass and the Alps yawn out beneath us. A mile and a half above Europe, the Aston's venerable V12 beats a tattoo off the cliffs, warm morning sun flashing over aquamarine bodywork, and I am struck by a happy thought: JC was wrong. Three years since he delivered his epitaph to the finest modern Aston, here we are, atop Switzerland in a car that shows the V12 Vantage to be far from dead. The big-engined, beautiful GT is alive and wearing a new Italian suit.
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NEW YORK CITY — Hundreds of Vermonters on Sunday afternoon joined an estimated 350,000 people on the streets of Manhattan for the People's Climate March, the largest climate demonstration in U.S. history.
"This is the biggest event any of us will ever be a part of," said Greg Dennis of Cornwall. "You just got a sense that if we can get this many people out on the streets, we can make leaders pay attention."
It's one thing to launch a national political movement. It's another and much larger challenge to see it gain momentum.
Remember Beyond War? Remember the Million Man March? Me neither.
So the growing success of the national movement for fossil fuel divestment is all the more impressive. Launched just a couple years ago by 350.org (which itself originated on the Middlebury College campus), the divestment campaign has proven it has staying power.
MIDDLEBURY — Several dozen Middlebury College students marked the last day of spring semester classes with a protest outside of the administrative buildings at Old Chapel that lasted through Friday night and into the next day, serenading the board of trustees' May meeting with a barrage of speeches, chants and acoustic guitar songs.
Pizza was served, and points were made.
MIDDLEBURY — Following months of charged discussion among students and administrators about the possibility of divesting the college's endowment from fossil fuels and weapons companies, seven students presented the case for divestment at the February board of trustees meeting this past Saturday. No decisions were made, but officials lauded the students for their presentation.
MIDDLEBURY — Though many past campus events surrounding the issue of divestment have been heated, Middlebury College students, faculty and staff were on their best behavior as they crowded in the McCullough Social Space on Tuesday evening for the college's first panel discussion on the possibility of divesting the college's endowment from fossil fuel and weapons.
When Middlebury College President Ron Liebowitz sent out an all-campus email earlier this week to say the college would take steps to consider divesting its $900 million endowment of stock in fossil fuel companies — about $32 million of which is invested in that industry — he joined the vanguard of a growing movement that is trying to put climate change back in the forefront of the national political agenda.
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The Walking Dead: What Past Character Will Return in Season 3?
As 'The Walking Dead' fans patiently await the second half of season 3 to debut on Sunday, February 10 with all-new episode "The Suicide King," the fate of multiple characters already hang in the balance. That said, could the back half of season 3 bring back characters long-forgotten, in addition to the new faces that joined in mid-season finale "Made to Suffer?" Find out what surprise guests could appear in 'The Walking Dead' season 3 inside!
'The Walking Dead' prides itself on a number of twists, turns, deaths and surprising survivals, but the back half of season 3 might see the most surprising reappearance yet. TVLine's Michael Ausiello offered up a few teases of the coming episodes recently, saying "not only will we learn the outcome of the Daryl/Merle showdown, a character you probably never thought you'd see again will put in an appearance, and Rick will do something (literally) everyone has wanted to do at one time or another."
Returning character, you say? Might said appearance be from Morgan (Lennie James), not seen since the series premiere? Rumors have certainly suggested as such, and it would make sense to provide a bit of closure on the character given James' casting in upcoming AMC drama 'Low Winter Sun.' Even then, Morgan wasn't the only character from earlier seasons whose fate was never revealed.
And of course, as Rick's recent hallucinations of both Lori and Shane proved, it isn't out of the realm of possibility for said return appearance to be from a fallen character, but the rumor mill leans more heavily toward Morgan. Fans of the comic will remember that the Morgan character eventually returned there as well, though likely under very different circumstances.
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As the mists of cloud computing start to finally clear, there are questions in the air as to whether a lack of standards and an oversupply of open source 'innovations' will lead us towards unregulated stormy skies -- as opposed to a brand new wide blue yonder for computing.
Earlier this month we saw the launch of the OpenStack initiative, which it is hoped will alleviate the potential risk of platform lock-in at any level. It is too early to say whether any of the 30 or so companies behind OpenStack ultimately feel that the program has a blunting affect upon their own innovative edge.
It will depend on the application in question according to Nathaniel Borenstein, chief scientist at cloud-based email management company Mimecast. Borenstein points out that open source should not be regarded as a panacea and that, as a computing discipline, it will always be suited to some types of software and file formats than others.
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As if cash-strapped Americans didn't have enough to worry about, the average price for a gallon of gasoline across the US is up to $3.67 a gallon.
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DeHaan says he's surprised to see the price jump so high in February when demand is normally low, and he's now concerned about what might happen next month.
DeHaan explains, "Traditionally, gas prices rise anywhere from 40 to 60 cents a gallon in late March through early May." He says if that happens this year, "it will easily send the national average over $4.00 a gallon."


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Commuter Train Goes to Ridiculous Lengths to Help Singles Hook Up
There's a city out there that wants you to join hands and start a love train.
Officials in Prague are working on creating separate cars for singles on the subway in a way to guarantee people look for the one, as well as a seat.
The transportation authority that runs the Ropid subway system in the Czech Republic plans to ask customers if they would be interested in such a service.
One spokesman said it's an idea that can show passengers that traveling by rail offers unique opportunities:
We want to emphasize that public transport is not only a means of travel but that you can do things there that you cannot do in your car."
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Baron Alexis de Redé (1922-2004) lived a life of self-imposed luxury. In some ways he was a private person living in the seclusion of the Hôtel Lambert on the Île St-Louis, but he had outbursts of flamboyance, staging memorable costume balls, moving at a level of international society beyond the public gaze, and delving into the worlds of auction houses, antique dealers, haute couture and haute cuisine.
In his lifetime he was described by the diarist Sir Henry "Chips" Channon as "The Eugène de Rastignac of modern Paris", a reference to his social progression, and by Ms Nancy Mitford as "La Pompadour de nos jours", a reference to the fact that he was a kept man. He wanted to be remembered as the man who had restored the Hôtel Lambert and this was indeed a monument to his taste and endeavours.
The Baron set exacting standards for himself and others. "I relish comfort, style, and luxury. I dislike men whose socks are so short that when they cross their legs they expose flesh. And I dislike men who do not wear white shirts after six o'clock." If he gave a party, he liked the buffet to look as fresh at the end of the evening as at the beginning, so the plates were replaced regularly with fresh food as they were taken. "There is nothing more depressing than fish bones at the end of the evening," he declared. The concept of straying across a bowl groaning with the finest caviar at three o'clock in the morning has, I confess, a certain appeal.
He insisted that his orchids and clusters of Sweet Williams be sprayed with water to give a dewy effect before luncheon parties. He told me that others had tried to copy this but never quite got it right. His dewdrops never fell to the table. He claimed to have the gift of remaining silent in eight different languages. Nor was he given to hyperbole or exaggeration. A trip to an enviable tropical island might be judged "very agreeable" - a delay in travel dismissed as "not very amusing".
Baron Alexis de Redé's collection of G.J.Cleverley shoes, Hôtel Lambert, Paris, 2004 © Elizabeth Vickers
He established various fashions - he wore two silk scarves simultaneously when going out in the evening, one white, one black. There is the moccasin called the Redé. There was also a little cake sold on the Île St-Louis, also called the Redé. And perhaps most famously, he favoured the shoes of G.J.Cleverley in London - he owned dozens. The Baron persuaded Mr Charlie Watts, of The Rolling Stones, to invest in a pair of what he called "these remarkable shoes".
Baron Alexis de Redé was a self-creation. He began life as Mr Oskar Dieter Alex von Rosenberg-Redé in Zurich in February 1922, the son of a Jewish banker from Austria-Hungary (he adopted his title, which was from Liechtenstein, later in life). After a traumatic childhood in which his father committed suicide and his mother died young, he made his way to New York, an umbrella from Swaine Adeney Brigg in his hand, and was presently taken under the wing of the decorator, Ms Elsie de Wolfe. His fortunes changed when he was spotted in a restaurant called Le Bruxelles in New York by Mr Arturo Lopez-Wilshaw, an immensely rich Chilean who, though married, became his protector. It is said that Mr Lopez offered him one million dollars to be his boyfriend. Baron de Redé was later coy about whether or not this was true, but whatever money he did receive he did not squander as he was a keen businessman. He invested wisely and well for himself and for Mr Lopez-Wilshaw, and following their return to Paris took on the Hôtel Lambert, restoring it to unsurpassed glory. After Mr Lopez-Wilshaw died in 1962, Baron de Redé became the escort, adviser and friend of Paris-based socialite Ms Marie-Hélène de Rothschild. Together they cooked up fabulous parties to dazzle the international set. It was a world that lost its glamour when Ms de Rothschild died following a long illness in 1996.
A trip to an enviable tropical island might be judged 'very agreeable' - a delay in travel dismissed as 'not very amusing'
Baron de Redé's world will not be seen again. He once told me of a spat between the interior designers Mr Georges Geffroy and Mr Emilio Terry as to whether Mr Claude-Nicolas Ledoux or Mr Ange-Jacques Gabriel was the better neoclassical architect. This altercation became so heated that one of the designers hit the other over the head with his umbrella. As the Baron commented: "It was a period when people felt passionately about things. I don't see people brandishing umbrellas over such matters these days." He died in Paris in July 2004.


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There have been no shortage of great players in the history of the Steelers franchise, which should mean that the choices for their Mt. Rushmore will leave plenty of people wondering how their top pick could miss making it as one of the four faces of the organization.
One such person could be former Steelers wide receiver and current Football Night in America contributor Hines Ward. Ward will join the Pro Football Talk on NBCSN crew on Friday to discuss the biggest names in Steelers history and tell us which four he believes should be given the nod as Rushmore ready.
Erik Kuselias, Mike Florio and Shaun King will also give their thoughts on the Steelers monument and, as we've done with the other 31 teams in the league, walk us through some of the most crushing defeats in franchise history.
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EA is releasing a new addition to the Need For Speed franchise. Fans of racing games cannot tell me you have never played any of the previous Need For Speed games. The trailer for the new game, titled The Run, is directed by Michael Bay (Transformers, Bad Boys, Armageddon)
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Iraqi tribal leaders say more U.S. help essential
Thousands of Iraqi from the Yazidi community have a rest in refugee camps near the Syrian border, after walking in the desert for days to flee the Islamic State. Video provided by AFP Newslook
BAGHDAD — As the United States considers ways to increase aid to Iraq's beleaguered military, those who are fighting the Islamic extremists say nothing short of a dramatic increase in U.S. air attacks will allow them to defeat heavily armed Islamist militants.
"Iraq is going to lose the war without U.S. support," said Sheik Jassim Mohammed, a tribal leader in Ramadi in western Iraq. "We need airstrikes."
Sheik Jassim, as he is commonly called, said he is commanding about 700 fighters from an alliance of about seven tribes in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province.
He said his forces are under siege by Islamic State extremists who daily fire mortars and artillery at his fighters, who are battling militants in an effort to protect their homes and farms.
Both the majority residents in the region and the militants are Sunni Muslims, but the Islamic State fighters, who have seized large swaths of Iraq practice stricter customs. Nationwide, most Iraqis are Shiites, who dominate the government in Baghdad.
Limited U.S. airstrikes have blunted an extremist offensive that appeared headed toward Irbil, capital of the Kurdish region in the north, and have headed off attacks on a small religious sect under siege on a mountaintop in northern Iraq.
The White House said Wednesday it would send 130 troops to Iraq to assess how U.S. forces on the ground could help rescue the Yazidis, who are on Sinjar Mountain surrounded by militants.
The administration has said it has no plans to send combat troops back into Iraq three years after their exit.
The United States said the airstrikes it launched were limited to protecting U.S. personnel and relieving a humanitarian crisis. There is a U.S. Consulate in Irbil and a joint U.S.-Iraqi military operations center.
"This is not a combat boots-on-the-ground operation," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said.
The White House has said it is considering an increase in aid to Iraq now that a new prime minister has been nominated to replace Nouri al-Maliki and lawmakers are attempting to form a new government that U.S. officials say should include more Sunnis. Al-Maliki has been fighting to remain in power for a third four-year term but his support from within Iraq and the country's foreign allies has withered.
"We are prepared to consider additional political, economic, and security options as Iraq starts to build a new government," Secretary of State John Kerry said this week.
Rolling back the gains the Islamic State militants have made in recent months will be difficult. They control about one-third of Iraq, including Mosul, the country's second-largest city, according to Pentagon estimates.
"The retaking of terrain is a different thing," said James Jeffrey, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
Sheik Jassim, leader of the Albu Soda tribe, was part of the U.S.-supported tribal revolt that helped drive al-Qaeda fighters from Anbar province in western Iraq in 2006, when the country was last torn by sectarian war. With U.S. air support, his troops fought a key battle in November 2006 that helped rid Ramadi of militants.
Today he said he is mostly fighting alone. "ISIL's support is international," the sheik said, referring to the militants' former name, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. "Nobody is supporting us."


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Science and Ecosystem Management in the National Parks
William Lee Halvorson, Gary E. Davis
University of Arizona Press, Jan 1, 1996 - Nature - 364 pages
Our national parks are more than mere recreational destinations. They are repositories of the nation's biological diversity and contain some of the last ecosystem remnants needed as standards to set reasonable goals for sustainable development throughout the land. Nevertheless, public pressure for recreation has largely precluded adequate research and resource monitoring in national parks, and ignorance of ecosystem structure and function in parks has led to costly mistakes--such as predator control and fire suppression--that continue to threaten parks today. This volume demonstrates the value of ecological knowledge in protecting parks and shows how modest investments in knowledge of park ecosystems can pay handsome dividends. Science and Ecosystem Management in the National Parks presents twelve case studies of long-term research conducted in and around national parks that address major natural resource issues. These cases demonstrate how the use of longer time scales strongly influence our understanding of ecosystems and how interpretations of short-term patterns in nature often change when viewed in the context of long-term data sets. Most importantly, they show conclusively that scientific research significantly reduces uncertainty and improves resource management decisions. Chosen by scientists and senior park managers, the cases offer a broad range of topics, including: air quality at Grand Canyon; interaction between moose and wolf populations on Isle Royale; control of exotic species in Hawaiian parks; simulation of natural fire in the parks of the Sierra Nevada; and the impact of urban expansion on Saguaro National Monument. Because national parks are increasingly beset with conflicting views of their management, the need for knowledge of park ecosystems becomes even more critical--not only for the parks themselves, but for what they can tell us about survival in the rest of our world. This book demonstrates to policymakers and managers that decisions based on knowledge of ecosystems are more enduring and cost effective than decisions derived from uninformed consensus. It also provides scientists with models for designing research to meet threats to our most precious natural resources. "If we can learn to save the parks," observe Halvorson and Davis, "perhaps we can learn to save the world."
I. Introduction
1. Natural Resources Management in U.S. National Parks: Evolving from Belief to Science
2. Management in National Parks: from Scenery to Science
II. Long-term Versus Short-term Views
3. Fire Research and Management in the Sierra Nevada National Parks
4. Yellowstone Lake and Its Cutthroat Trout
5. Moose and Wolf Populations on Isle Royale National Park
6. Saguaro Cactus Dynamics
7. Alien Species in Hawaiian National Parks
III. No Park Is an Island
8. Water Rights and Devil's Hole Pupfish at Death Valley National Monument
9. Urban Encroachment at Saguaro National Monument
10. Karst Hydrological Research at Mammoth Cave National Park
11. Air Quality in Grand Canyon
IV. Protection Versus Use
12. Rare Plant Monitoring at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
13. Wilderness Research and Management in the Sierra Nevada National Parks
14. River Management at Ozark National Scenic Riverways
V. Summary and Analysis
15. Summary of Long-term Research Applied to Major Resource Issues in U.S. National Parks
16. Lessons Learned from a Century of Applying Research Results to Management of National Parks
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Pentagon plans 11 days of furloughs
Declaring he had no choice, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Tuesday the Pentagon will furlough most of its 800,000 civilian employees for 11 days this summer beginning on July 8 to help pay for budget cuts under sequestration.
The Pentagon had originally planned for 22 days of furloughs, then last month cut the number down to 14. Hagel vowed to continue to try to find savings in hopes of cutting even further, but made no promises.
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"We'll continue to search for ways to do better," he said during a town hall meeting with civilian defense workers at the MARK Center in Alexandria, Va. "Right now I can't run this institution into the ditch. We've taken it as close to the line as we can."
"We don't have a choice," he concluded.
Hagel praised the workers for their commitment to the Defense Department and told them he wanted to have a "fair, honest conversation" about how budget cuts would affect them.
The furloughs are expected to save the department about $1.8 billion this fiscal year.
Hagel said the decision to furlough was a "difficult choice, but we had to make it."
"We did everything we could not to get to this day, this way. But that's it. That's where we are," Hagel said. "I'm sorry I have to come to you today on this. My thoughts and prayers are with your families."
Hagel, who detailed the furloughs in a lengthy memo to his top Pentagon managers, said there about 120,000 civilian workers would be exempt, mostly in jobs vital to national security or emergency personnel, but said he wanted to be fair and spread the pain across the department.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, for one, said he had found savings within his department and would be able to avoid furloughing his civilian employees. But Hagel shot down that notion in recent weeks, saying the cuts would be implemented across the services in a "one-team, one-fight" approach.
The Navy's 30,000 shipyard workers and nuclear staff will be exempt, defense officials said. School teachers at military bases will be furloughed for 5 days at the beginning of the next school year, so that students can finish out this year.
All uniformed military personnel are exempt from the furloughs.
There will be some flexibility in how the furloughs are implemented, the officials said.
The issue of furloughs has been looming over the Pentagon for months as defense leaders tried to find a way to pay for about $37 billion in automatic, mandatory cuts from sequestration, which began on March 1.
"This is one of the most distasteful tasks I've had to do in 30 years," one senior defense official said. "We are devastating the readiness of the military right now."
Defense officials also said they were worried about the impact of furloughs on morale. "Losing 20 percent of their pay — that has to impact them clearly financially and clearly morale-wise," another senior defense official said.
Stan Soloway, president of the Professional Services Council, said he had hoped the Pentagon wouldn't have to resort to furloughs.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 444 diseños de 36 diseñadores freelance.
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"Buena Vista" dance school is the leader in the areas of Cuban salsa, Caribbean dances and Argentinean tango in Montenegro, although it is one of the youngest dance schools in the country. Its founders and teachers had the opportunity to learn from some of the best dancers in the world, and are working diligently on sharing their enthusiasm with their students. Now we are looking for a fun, catchy logo that would help us round up an already great image.
All teachers and students of "Buena Vista" are adults (age 18-40), with great majority being young people between 20-30 years old. They all come from different educational backgrounds, but they do have one thing in common - they all enjoy having great time while dancing.
We want a logo with a simple, symbolic graphic part, and the text part, that could work separately.
The graphic part should symbolize dancing or movement in general, and not any specific dance or country (like Cuba or salsa, for example). We would like the text part of the logo to be as original as possible too. We think that this part should be written entirely in lower case, and it may, optionally, include "dance school" (if it makes the logo look better).
We would like something simple, without the complicated dancers' figures, complicated shadows or gradients. We do not want it to look too corporate and serious, we want it to look fun, but not childish too.
We also do not want too many colors, 2-3 would work best in our opinion, and it would be great if logo could work on both light and dark backgrounds.
No clip art and stock images, since originality is one of our top priorities.
To sum it up, we would like people, when they see our logo, to think: "Dance, fun, passion!". In that order.
IMPORTANT: If you have an idea that does not satisfy one or more of the above mentioned criteria, but you feel it's great, feel free to experiment and share it with us, we are quite open minded, so you might prove our original specification lacking.
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WSJ Touts Discredited "Judicial Hellholes" Tort Reform Report
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A Wall Street Journal editorial promoted the American Tort Reform Association's release of its 2012/2013 "Judicial Hellholes" report to attack state court systems, specifically California, for so-called "frivolous" lawsuits while failing to note the report's lack of credibility. The report, which annually lists states that have court systems ATRA considers to be the most "unfair and unbalanced" to defendants in the civil justice system, has been previously discredited for having no valid methodology and relying on unverified anecdotes drawn from press accounts.
The Center for Justice & Democracy at New York Law School describes the ATRA's members as being "largely Fortune 500 companies with a direct financial stake in restricting lawsuits." It is unsurprising, therefore, that the "Hellholes" reports regularly feature jurisdictions that corporate defendants feel are not favorable to their interests. In fact, the report describes its methodology as largely based on vaguely described "feedback" from ATRA members. The report uses these member complaints to rank states according to "places where judges in civil cases systematically apply laws and court procedures in an unfair and unbalanced manner, generally against defendants." This unscientific method is not, as the WSJ claimed, an explanation of the "costs" of any type of lawsuit, let alone "frivolous" ones.
Rather, the ATRA seems to have compiled its 2012/2013 report by the same method it used to compile its 2007 report, a method it admitted is subjective, and not based on data. As The New York Times reported:
[J]ust because the business lobby has a stake in the civil justice system does not disqualify it from speaking about it. The question is whether the report's arguments make sense, are supported by evidence and are applied evenhandedly. Here the report often falls short.
It is, for starters, a collection of anecdotes based largely on newspaper accounts. It has no apparent methodology.
"We have never claimed to be an empirical study," said Darren McKinney, a spokesman for the association. "It's not a batting average or a slugging percentage. It's no more or less subjective than what appears in The New York Times."
The "Hellholes" report's lack of empiricism and use of distorted statistics, and the WSJ's uncritical recycling of its attacks, is especially obvious with respect to California, which the report lists as this year's top offender. The WSJ cites the report to claim "If Oscars were given for abusive class actions, California would take the prize." The report, in an attempt to give a veneer of statistical validity to its claims of corporations victimized by injured consumers and their lawyers, states that "more than million [sic] lawsuits" will be filed in California this year.
This "million lawsuits" in California claim is based on a gross distortion of the facts. Statistics from the nonpartisan Court Statistics Project show that only 57,833 "tort" suits were filed in California courts in 2010, the most recent year for which data are available. This type of suit, in which victims of wrongdoing seek compensation for their injuries, are the relevant measure for the sort of activity the "Hellholes" report claims to examine. The much larger number of over a million suits appears, based on the Courts Statistics Project's data, to refer to the total number of filings in California courts, including family law (divorces and adoptions), probate (wills), and juvenile cases. It is highly deceptive for the "Hellholes" report to cite this much larger number, mostly consisting of routine cases having nothing to do with "tort reform."
Perhaps the report engages in this deception because the actual data flatly contradict its narrative of an "unfair and unbalanced" California court system. According to the Courts Statistics Project's data, tort filings in California have actually dropped sharply over the past decade, from 75,243 in 2001 to fewer than 58,000 in 2010. This 30 percent decrease in the number of suits the WSJ and the "Hellholes" report claim to be so concerned about came during a period when California's population increased by approximately 10 percent.
Such distortion is reason to wonder whether the "Hellholes" report is any sort of valid examination of state court systems at all, or whether it is best understood as propaganda for a corporate power agenda.
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|Longitudinal Beam Motion in the KEK Digital Accelerator: Tracking Simulation and Experimental Results
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Beam commissioning in the KEK Digital Accelerator*, which is a small scale induction synchrotron (IS), has been conducted since the middle of 2011. Longitudinal beam motion in the induction synchrotron, which utilizes induction cells (IC) for acceleration and confinement, is characterized as barrier bucket acceleration. . These ICs are driven by the switching power supply (SPS). Pulse voltage is fully managed by the gate control for solid-state switching elements in the SPS, where FPGAs and DSPs take a key role**. A tracking code has been developed to understand the longitudinal motion affected by longitudinal space charge forces, under programmed settings of confinement and acceleration voltage. This code, where the trigger control scenario is fully implemented, calculates temporal evolution of momentum and phase of macro-particles. The simulation result has well reproduced beam commissioning results, such as bunch squeezing experiment and barrier bucket acceleration. In addition, the code is going to be applied to explain the rapid growth of micro-bunch structure in the injected ion bunch.
* T. Iwashita et al., "KEK Digital Accelerator" , Phys. Rev. ST-AB 14, 071301 (2011). And K.Takayama et al., in this conference.
** S.Harada, Ms. Thesis (TCU) (2011).
|KEK Digital Accelerator and Recent Beam Commissioning Result
|injection, acceleration, ion, kicker
The digital accelerator (DA), which is a small-scale induction synchrotron "*" requiring no high-energy injector and capable of providing various ions, was constructed at KEK"**". Beam commissioning has been carried out. The KEK-DA consists of a 200 kV high voltage terminal, in which a permanent mag. x-band ECRIS is embedded, 15 m long LEBT, ES injection kicker, and a 10 Hz rapid cycle synchrotron equipped with the induction acceleration system. An ion pulse chopped in 5 micro-sec by the newly developed Marx generator driven Einzel lens chopper"***" was guided through the LEBT and injected by the kicker in one turn. 3 micro-sec ion pulse was successfully captured with a pair of barrier voltage-pulses of 2 kV and accelerated up to 12 MeV with another flat induction-acceleration voltage-pulse through an acceleration period of 50 msec. Beam commissioning started with a He1+ ion beam of 100 microA. Details of fully digital-controlled barrier bucket trapping and induction acceleration are described, although the acceleration/extraction is still at a preliminary stage. Some of unique applications, such as laboratory space science using virtual cosmic rays, will be introduced.
* K.Takayama and R.J.Briggs (Eds), "Induction Accelerators", (Springer, 2010).
** T. Iwashita et al., Phys. Rev. ST-AB 14, 071301 (2011).
*** T.Adachi et al., Rev. Inst. Meth. 82, 083305 (2011).
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What to keep? - Part 7 Final - Amongst My Momma's Treasures
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I see according to Geneabloggers, today is your 4th year anniversary since you've been blogging. Happy Blogiversary.ReplyDelete
Regards, Jim
Hidden Genealogy Nuggets
Thank you Jim! I haven't blogged for a while on this blog - to many memories that made me sad. However, I did begin a new blog on Word Press called "I'll be seeing you in all the familiar places". I don't blog as often as I used to, but, I still share fun stories and video's that I create. Hope you'll visit me there. http://illbeseeingyouinfamiliarplaces.wordpress.com/ReplyDelete
I just wanted to say this fit with me today. Stuff of mothers. Including cards. Mom must have kept nearly all of them and dads and grandpas too. I did find a few letters that were a godsend when I began research. Especially a centennial church book. I regret tossing one with out knowing it's worth. Some things my dad kept himself in a pouch for safe keeping.ReplyDelete
I also learned as a young child how my cousin copied her mother by keeping special clippings and pictures in her bible. I thought that was so neat. Again I was admiring your website too. jo


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Good news, everyone: The United Nations didn't take over the Internet! After two weeks of heated negotiations between 193 member states of the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU), absolutely nothing is different, at least not if you live in the United States. And we have our totally sweet federal government to thank for that – no joke.
U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer, who led the U.S. delegation at the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai over the past 12 days, announced in a call with reporters Thursday afternoon that the U.S. "cannot sign the ITU regulations in their current form." A coalition of other Western democracies and other nations, including the United Kingdom and Canada, have also rejected the ITU resolution. Their reason? Because they don't want to give the ITU or any world governments the power to mess with the Internet.
"It's with a heavy heart and a sense of missed opportunities that the U.S. must communicate that it's not able to sign the agreement in the current form," said Amb. Kramer at WCIT on Thursday. "The Internet has given the world unimaginable economic and social benefit during these past 24 years. All without UN regulation. We candidly cannot support an ITU treaty that is inconsistent with the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance."
The rejection of the ITU regulations, a treaty known as the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs), by the U.S. and more than dozen other countries served a death blow to the WCIT, effectively rendering the entire conference a giant waste of time. In addition to the U.S., U.K., and Canada, the other countries that refused to sign the updated ITRs include Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Sweden, the Netherlands, Kenya, the Czech Republic, Japan, New Zealand, Qatar, Serbia, Greece, Finland, and Poland. A total of 55 countries refused to sign the new ITRs.
Of course, many countries did sign the new ITRs – 89 out of the 144 that were eligible to sign – which go into effect in January of 2015. Which begs the question: Won't that make at least a little difference? Even a tiny bit? Nope. Not really. Still, there were some things we learned from the complete train wreck that was WCIT 2012. Here's the condensed list.
The rise of a 'second Internet'
One possible outcome of WCIT is that, because some countries have signed the new treaty and some haven't, we could see the global Internet fracture into disjointed networks, which operate with different technological standards. The Economist describes the outcome of WCIT as the beginning of a "digital cold war," with authoritarian regimes that want governments to have greater control of the Internet on one side, and the U.S. and its allies in this fight on another.
Such an outcome is relatively unlikely, says Amb. Kramer. Though he does admit that "anything is possible."
That said, the World Wide Web is already less than worldwide. Russia has different social networks than the U.S. China blocks websites like Facebook. Iran has long floated plans to create its own national Internet that is disconnected from the rest of us. In other words, nations already have the power to operate on a separate Web to which none of us in the U.S. have access.
Still, says Amb. Kramer, the U.S. and its allies in this fight must be "vigilant" in persuading other countries to not begin "erecting barriers" between themselves and U.S.-based Web companies like Google or Facebook. Whether countries will decide to do that remains to be seen. But because the ITU resolutions formed at WCIT that deal with the Internet are non-biding, "they don't have teeth in them," says Kramer.
U.S. Internet companies will not be charged a "tax"
One of the big issues on the table at WCIT was a mandatory business agreement generally known as "sender party pays." This would have required Web content providers – like Google or Facebook – to pay Internet service providers (ISPs) in other countries for the traffic they send over those networks. "Sender party pays" was removed from the new ITRs, so nobody has to worry about that.
"Spam" is a big deal
The new ITRs gives signatory nations greater ability to regulate the blocking of "spam." Which sounds good, right? Wrong. As Amb. Kramer explained, regulating "spam" opens the doors to governments regulating "content" on the Web, which could in turn mean the blockage of political dissent or other forms of legitimate speech that are crucial to democratic society. This was one of the top five reasons the U.S. and other nations did not sign the ITRs.
No one-size-fits-all for cybersecurity
Another major point of contention were efforts to establish International standards for dealing with cybersecurity issues. "At the end of the day, [cybersecurity] is heavily a regional issue. It's not a global issue," said Kramer. He continued: "So then, you gotta ask the question, 'Why exactly would you want to put terms in a global agreement on cyber?' And, you know, there's not a very good answer."
Some countries just don't get it
We in the U.S. take the Internet for granted. Using the Web is perhaps the one thing that we all have in common. But such is not the case in developing nations who are still coming to terms with what the Internet and the Web are.
"There are a lot of nations that are still kind of getting their heads around what the Internet is," said Amb. Kramer, "the opportunity, what are the issues of spam, what are the issues of roaming." He added that, eventually, countries "will come to the conclusion that [not letting individual governments control the Internet] is the right approach."
The nightmare isn't over
While WCIT was expected to be the big conference where the world's governments would figure all this stuff out, it wasn't. It failed miserably on that point. However, that doesn't mean all of this is resolved for good. Smaller meetings of the same nature take place every couple of months. And according to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell the U.S. faces an "even more treacherous" negotiation of the ITU treaty set to take place in South Korea in 2014 because "[t]hose talks could expand the ITU's reach even further."
Pictured: ITU Secretary General Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré, via ITU/Flickr


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Playing Valhalla Knights 3 I had to wonder, 'who is this game for?' Is it for the people who love a good sadistic challenge ala Demon/Dark Souls? Is it for the creepy voyeurs who thought that Killer Is Dead's 'Gigolo Mode' didn't go far enough? Or is it just not a very good game that isn't really for anybody out there now that the Vita is getting more quality content these days? Unfortunately I think it might be the later in all that and it looks like the team at XSeed picked up a bit of a dud to hold us Vita owners over until the long awaited day when a new Y's game comes out.
Valhalla Knights 3 stars your mute hero as he/she descends upon the hell that is Carceron Prison, a once heavily populated castle that has been turned in to a penitentiary, where the inmates literally run the asylum. The castle is supposedly hiding the great treasure of W. Flockheart who was such an irredeemable soul that he was put to death. I wonder if he's as bad as half the inhabitants that now reside within Carceron Prison. Upon arrival, your party is quickly broken up, some biting the bullet almost instantly, while another character is dragged off and sold in to slavery. Survival of the fittest rules the realm here, and you're going to be struggling quite a bit just to survive, and that's after the purported change to the game's difficulty for the Western release.
My initial hours into the game were not helping sell me on this game. I assembled my crew, and went out for a bit of a grind session since this is a JRPG, I figured leveling up will be a necessity. What I didn't expect was to have to grind the first mob of rabbits for multiple levels before I could take on more human opponents. Nor did I expect those human opponents to wipe my party, and to revive them was going to cost the entirety of the cash I had on hand, leaving me to grind for quite a while to get back to a point where I could afford gear. Thankfully those rabbit mobs had a quest associated with wiping them out that paid decently, too bad their spawn rate is agonizingly slow. Yes even most failed MMOs figured out that high spawn rates of low level trash mobs were good for something, too bad in this game, for all its MMO trappings, they got that wrong, along with a few other things.
So this game plays somewhat like an MMO, combat is in real-time on the overworld, there is no maneuvering via a map, which is nice, but it makes getting to outer zones a bit of a chore. When you want to fight a mob out on the field, you've got to be the one to initiate contact, that poses a bit of a problem when it came to my archer. She can't initiate combat with ranged attacks. What?! A quick press of the select button though and I'm a melee character who can bash stuff with his fists, and he makes a good tank. But still, a ranged character in most MMOs is the most valuable asset when it comes to pulling mobs, how could that not be the same here with a game that feels like it desperately wants to be an MMO?
You control one character at a time, and each other character acts independently based upon their personality that is generated when you create them. From there they can level up and learn new skills or characteristics that build upon the character type they are trying to be. So the Fighter class will learn skills for close combat and earn stat bonuses that apply to strength and HP. The wrinkle here is that you'll want to swap jobs every now and again so you can earn more bonus points to increase your stats and to cross pollinate between skill classes so that you wind up with something of a hybrid class. There are also special classes that can be unlocked through side quests, or by participating in some of the seedier activities in the game. This growth system is probably the strongest part of the game as building up characters winds up being the most enjoyable thing. The party system allows for some pretty diverse setups and you can even nitpick the formation of your group, though with enough melee attackers it often becomes a shoving match between your allies, trying to get in close enough to hit your target.
Quests will be your main form of income in Valhalla Knights 3, as there is plenty of dirty work that needs doing around Carceron Prison. A lot of these quests involve killing X number of Y objects, or pick up X number of Y drops, which means there isn't a whole lot of depth to the gameplay, and you'll be repeating a lot of these quests to get up the necessary cash to get gear which can be acquired in the seedy Lower District, or the somehow seedier Light District. In the Lower District you'll find cheap gear at low prices that will get you along well early in the game, but after a few hours and some coin later, you'll want to visit the Light District, and then you'll want to put down your Vita and go take a shower to wash the filth and disgust off.
The Light District is home to a number of shops that employ courtesans that act as your gateway to the shops respective services. Pay the escort their fare and they'll let you peruse more than the shop's wares. You can also give gifts to your favorite escorts who will repay your patronage with a 'Sexy Time' mini-game that is pretty off-putting. If you had a problem with 'Gigolo Mode' in Killer Is Dead, get ready for new levels of outrage as you rub the escorts to please them, but you've got to be on the lookout for prying eyes and be careful when it comes time to giving them a well placed kiss. All this 'work' at getting them into loving you will eventually get them to join your merry crew after a visit to the local love motel. It's incredibly creepy and you've got to wonder about the mindset of those coming up with gameplay modes like this, because it's not even like its fun, and it's actually kind of tough to get these escorts to join, but apparently they are ridiculously powerful members if they parley into your party.
Visually this game is a mixed bag, the overworld doesn't look like much, but the castle itself is bright, colorful, varied, but when you're out in the field and you will be spending a lot of time there, things kind of start to look the same after a while. The character models look alright, and are pretty varied thanks to the somewhat robust character creation system, that has a ridiculous emphasis on the breasts of female characters. You'd think that these proportions were dreamed up by a twelve-year old who had only just discovered the female form, it's borderline offensive to me as a male, and I say that just because they are so ridiculous that they make me laugh. Audio is also a bit scattershot, the music is decent which seems strange for a Motoi Sakuraba score. The voice acting is decent but features a lot of repeated lines, and the escorts have lines to go along with their sexy time minigame that makes things all the more uncomfortable.
While I hate to trash on a game, Valhalla Knights 3 contains a lot of elements that don't quite work together very well, or seem underdeveloped. The MMO aspect of gameplay is fine, until combat becomes an unorganized mess, or mobs become scarce. This game is downright ugly at times, saving its best visuals for mini-games that are meant for titillation but come off as amateur and simply off-putting. I can't find a whole lot in Valhalla Knights 3 to recommend to people, and really I'd say that you're better off saving your money for what we all know XSeed is bringing us later this year, another Y's game.
A pretty flawed experience from start to finish. The bits of joy you get from being able to shape your characters is undone by unenjoyable combat, repetitive quests, a middling story, and a difficulty that has me wondering how much more difficult this game was in Japan. Give this one a rental if your curious, otherwise, stay away.
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by David Barca
If last year was any indication, 2014 should be another exceptional year for home sellers across the Bay Area. In the Palo Alto market, 2013 was an amazingly strong year, with the median sales price averaging $2.1 million. In Menlo Park, the median sales price averaged $1.6 million.
A home's price, size, floor plan, neighborhood and school district are clearly the primary factors by which a buyer will judge its attractiveness. Still, it's important not to lose sight of smaller details that you can control: Some home-improvement projects will go a long way to helping your property stand out above others.
These seven upgrades have the most influence on buyers -- and can help your home sell more quickly.
1. High-end kitchen appliances.
One trend we've noticed across our region is that buyers gravitate toward homes with modern kitchens. In particular, stainless-steel cooktops, dishwashers and refrigerators from high-end manufacturers are quite popular these days. Pacific Union's real-estate professionals in Silicon Valley also report that gas stoves with at least six burners are a must-have kitchen feature for many home shoppers.
2. Natural stone countertops.
While you're renovating your kitchen, you might also take a look at upgrading the countertops with a stone-like material. Although granite remains a popular and cost-effective countertop option, limestone and marble are among the most desirable materials today and will help imbue kitchens with a sense of luxury.
3. Fine-tuned details.
Although updating faucets, light fixtures and cabinet knobs in kitchens and bathrooms might slip below the radar of some home sellers, a local interior designer has assured me that such renovations definitely add value.
4. Lighter, brighter floors.
In terms of replacing worn-out hardwood floors, our real-estate professionals have noted that some sellers are bypassing traditional, darker stains in favor of lighter and brighter shades of oak, walnut and pecan. In an even newer trend, some homeowners are opting for matte flooring materials, albeit those with a natural appearance.
5. A garage that's more than a warehouse.
While buyers will likely pay the most attention to the living spaces of homes they are touring, the condition of a property's garage is becoming an increasingly important concern.
Many people will use a garage for its intended purpose, but others may employ the space as an extra room for living, working or recreational activities. As such, you might consider installing a coated, lightly textured surface on top of the standard concrete floor. Finishing a garage with Sheetrock is yet another improvement that can make the space feel more livable. Custom-built garage cabinetry can also add resale value to a home, particularly if the cabinets are built on the walls to help maximize space.
6. Improved curb appeal and landscaping.
Hiring a landscape architect to reinvigorate your home's yard could also help you receive the best offer when the time comes to sell. If your neighbors' homes are quite close by, you might be able to create a sense of greater privacy by adding plants or trees that act as screens.
Our real-estate professionals in Silicon Valley have also seen increasing use of manicured, artificial turf rather than grass. Such turf-based lawns don't require as much maintenance as grass, and they will keep an aesthetically pleasing appearance year-round -- even when there's a drought.
7. A new coat of paint.
Last but not least, remember that giving your home a new paint job is another way to add value to your property and offers perhaps the biggest bang for your improvement buck. If you don't have any experience with interior design, you might choose to retain the services of a professional to assist you with color selection.
Knowing what appeals to homebuyers in the current local real-estate market can go a long way to helping you decide what improvements will carry the most weight and net you the largest offer. And the more money you make on your current home, the more options you'll have when you buy your next.
David Barca is vice president of Pacific Union's Silicon Valley Region.


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SOCORRO – New Mexico Tech has again been included among the 64 universities that make up the third tier grouping in the "Best National Universities—Doctoral" category in the latest annual rankings published by U.S.News & World Report.
New Mexico Tech, a state-supported research university, also received mention in last year's survey among the third tier of schools, which includes colleges and universities ranked from about the 125th to 185th position, but listed in alphabetical order.
U.S.News & World Report's annual rankings of the nation's top institutions of higher education are part of the magazine's special issue of America's Best Colleges 2004, which goes on sale Monday, August 25.


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Awards recognizing outstanding performances and contributions to the 2010 Hope College cross country program have been announced by coach Mark Mark Northuis.
The Hope teams had a successful season with each finishing in the top ten at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. The Flying Dutch were second in the final women's standings of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) while the Flying Dutchmen were third in the men's standings. The Flying Dutch qualified as a team for the NCAA Division III national championships, finishing 19th in a field of 32 teams.
The honors are as follows:
Most Valuable Runners
Women: Emily Fischer, senior from Naperville, Ill. (Naperville Central HS)
Men: Nathan Love, junior from Midland (Midland HS)
Most Improved Runners
Women: Sharon Hecker, sophomore from Grandville (Grandville HS)
Men: Kyle Gibson, junior from Alma (Alma HS)
Rookies of the Year
Women: Camille Borst, freshman from Allendale (Allendale HS)
Men: Sam Pederson, freshman from Mt. Prospect (Mt. Prospect HS)
Dr. Vandervelde Coaches' Award
Women: Sarah Anthony, senior from Mt. Pleasant (Mt. Pleasant HS)
Men: Jordan Richardson, senior from Reading (Reading HS)
2011 Captains
Women: Kelly Lufkin, junior from Houghton (Houghton HS) and Karlyn Sikma, junior from Grand Rapids (North Pointe Christian HS)
Men: Nathan Love, junior from Midland (Midland HS) and Andrew McKeachie, junior from Milford (Milford HS)


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Student Achievements
Bethany Lutheran College is blessed with one of the finest departments for television and video production in the nation. Consistent exposure and recognition at the national level is vitally important to the continued growth of our communication program, which has already seen its share of success with students landing internships and jobs at such prestigious organizations as ESPN, Disney, FOX News, FOX Sports Net, MediaCom, and WSAW television.
Maverick Hockey Weekend takes first at BEA Festival of Media Arts
The Bethany-produced Maverick Hockey Weekend took first place in the Sports/Live event category at the 2013 Festival of Media Arts, sponsored by the Broadcast Education Association (BEA). This is the second time Maverick Hockey Weekend claimed a first place win. Maverick Hockey Weekend is a joint production involving Bethany Lutheran College, Charter Communications, and Minnesota State University.
Students receive three production and broadcast awards
The Upper Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Student Awards of Excellence were announced at a ceremony on Sunday, April 1, 2012, at the Theaters at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. Bethany Lutheran College students claimed awards in three of the four categories in which they received nominations. The Upper Midwest Chapter of the NATAS includes universities and colleges from Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and western Wisconsin.
Students win first place honors in BEA Festival
Student film Leaf Me Alone earned a first place finish in the Small College Video/Broadcast competition of the 2012 BEA Festival. This highly competitive festival features student works from many film and television programs throughout the country and draws nearly 100,000 industry professionals. The BEA Festival is part of the National Association of Broadcasters and Broadcast Education Association convention in Las Vegas. Student winners are invited to an awards ceremony where their work is screened and they collect their award. The film was created for and also won Bethany's Red Eye Film Festival, in which students are given one week to write and produce short films.
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Leaf Me Alone.
Hockey broadcasts receive Emmy nominations
In Bethany's first attempt at entering the regional Emmy competition in 2010, BLC Studios earned two Emmy nominations in the student productions sports program event category for its work on College Hockey Weekend and the College Hockey Weekend Pre Game show. The Emmy's recognize the finest in broadcasting. It's wonderful to see our student work identified as excellent by the highly recognized broadcast award society.
College Hockey Weekend is the Emmy® nominated live broadcast of NCAA Division I hockey. Students produce live sportcasts for Charter Communication and Minnesota State University, Mankato using Bethany's state-of-the-art high definition trailer.
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Student film wins national BEA award
The Bethany Lutheran College Communication Department annually attends the National Association of Broadcasters convention. The event is the world's largest new media show and attracts nearly a billion dollars in communication technology. For the 2009 Convention, Bethany had a large presence with ten current faculty and students attending and nine alumni taking part. Collectively, the nineteen members of the contingent combined to speak at ten conference presentations.
A number of communication students also attended the Broadcast Education Association's (BEA) annual Festival Awards ceremony to collect a "Best of Festival" award. Of the hundreds of entries into the national competition, Bethany students were selected as the "best" in their category. Their film, Summer Grasses, was shown at the gathering where they gave a speech about the project and collected $1,000 prize money as well as professional editing software worth $1,600. This is no small achievement for Bethany and particularly these students: David Kelly, Jeff Hendrix, Juliana Schreyer, and Dena Pech.
Watch the student film "Summer Grasses."
King's screen play produced for TV
Sean King, a 1995 Bethany graduate, had his first screenplay produced in a made-for-television movie on the Hallmark Channel. The movie Generation Gap aired in October 2008.
Sean King (right) with television personality Ed Asner (center) and Raymond Starmann.


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The University of Michigan (U-M) will expand its implementation of data center management software to all of its academic, research and medical systems.
U-M has been using data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software from Rackwise since 2009 and has implemented the solution in stages, most recently integrating the U-M Health System data centers in 2012. The university has now signed an agreement with Rackwise to expand its implementation of Rackwise DCIM X to manage all of the university's data centers, network closets and other non-data center IT assets, including workstations and cubicles.
The goal of this centralized approach to IT management is to improve overall IT operational efficiencies by improving visibility, assessment and management of IT-related assets and data center environmental information through a single interface. According to the company, this approach will improve the university's IT management productivity, including more meaningful capacity modeling.
"Complex computing ecosystems and IT infrastructures are required to support [the university's] extensive academic and research disciplines," said Guy A. Archbold, CEO of Rackwise, in a prepared statement. He went on to say that "advanced DCIM capabilities are essential so that data center managers and IT professionals can effectively plan and manage data centers and computing ecosystems to assure the highest level of reliability, discover hidden capacity and enable efficiencies to continually optimize IT operations and costs."
According to information on the company's site, Rackwise DCIM X supports centralized management of assets and energy, real-time monitoring, business analytics and intelligent capacity planning, and it can help save energy, provide insight into data center consolidation, and increase reliability through failure analysis.
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, MI. The university serves nearly 45,000 students and is home to 19 schools and colleges.
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