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While his "real" job took him from city reporter to sports reporter to sports editor and now senior news editor, the Powerplay column has been a constant add-on. With the advent of online gaming, the spectrum of gamers has been blown wide open, and being on the cutting edge of technology is a bonus. Having two kids means the full gaming range is served in the Chapman household, from Disney's Sing It to FIFA Soccer, Halo and Guitar Hero. It all gets played. A veteran of many Electronic Entertainment Expos, Paul has seen the gaming world change from the old plastic cartridge world to the high-def download entertainment choices we have today.
Gordon Clark is the editorial pages editor of The Province, which, unfortunately for the people who sit near him, means he has an opinion on everything. His column, Gordzilla in the City, appears in the newspaper on Mondays and online at various times, depending on how lazy he's feeling. In his desperately limited free time, he can occasionally be found flying, sailing, building stuff out of wood, or coaching and attempting to play hockey.
"Vancouver is celebrated worldwide for its stunning natural beauty. Its arts scene deserves to be equally regarded.
"Having worn both performer and producer hats over the years, my theory is that if you can understand how a show or exhibit came into being from both the technical and the creative side, you can tell a better story about it. The arts columnist's job is a constant learning process and you can follow the journey on theprovince.com, twitter.com/stuartderdeyn and on my HearCandy blog."
A graduate of UBC, Stuart Derdeyn started his journalism career in student media, then freelancing and has worked at the Province and other media outlets.
Tony Gallagher is the Province columnist focusing chiefly on the NHL, a league which he has covered extensively since he covered his first game in 1972.
Having covered 22 Stanley Cup finals including the Vancouver Canucks run in 1982, Gallagher is a vice-president of the Professional Hockey writers Association and one of the better known media people amongst players and management.
He was recruited by the Province when he graduated from UBC where he was writing for the campus paper in the late 60s and began working in hockey when the New Westminster Bruins of the WHL came west from Estevan, Sask. In 1972 he moved on to the WHA Vancouver Blazers and in 1976 became the paper's lone beat writer doing the Canucks. He was promoted to general columnist in 1987 and left the paper in 1989 to host a national, network open line radio show called 'Gallagher on Sport' on the Satellie radio network. He returned to the paper as NHL columnist two years later and also wrote extensively on the NBA.
Gallagher lives in Vancouver with his wife of 33 years. Two of their three sons are lawyers practising in Vancouver, and their youngest is studying engineering at the University of British Columbia.
Bob Lenarduzzi is president of the Vancouver Whitecaps, a former Canadian international soccer star, and has been a columnist at The Province for more than a decade. Lenarduzzi played for the Whitecaps for 11 seasons and won the NASL Soccer Bowl in 1979, and was a member of the last Canadian team to play in the World Cup, in 1986. Lenarduzzi's Free Kicks column appears in The Province every Friday.
Province columnist Michael Smyth, 38, wanted to be a newspaperman ever since he was a kid watching his dad read the Toronto Star over breakfast every morning.
Smyth was so keen to be a journalist he even started a family newsletter pounded out on a portable typewriter he got for Christmas when he was 10 years old. In high school, he started up another newspaper and tormented his teachers and student-council reps with hard-hitting columns and editorials.
Some things never change.
The journalism program at Toronto's Ryerson University was a natural fit for Smyth. It's a practical, hands-on school where students are taught by professional journalists. He graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree.
Smyth's first job was in Wayne Gretzky's hometown with the Brantford Expositor, where he was amazed someone would actually pay him to interview NHL stars at Gretzky's annual charity tennis tournament.
His next stop was the London Free Press in London, Ont. He covered the city beat and later served as the paper's bureau chief in Woodstock, where he covered everything from the courthouse to the cop shop.
In 1988, Smyth joined The Canadian Press, Canada's national news agency. He worked four years on the Ontario Desk in Toronto, winning a CP award for his coverage of the Ben Johnson steroid scandal.
In 1992, Smyth came to British Columbia as CP's correspondent at the Victoria legislature. Four years as a national writer caught the attention of editors at The Province. In 1996, Michael Smyth was hired by The Province as its political columnist.
Michael Smyth is also a regular on TV and radio. You can catch him every weekday morning at 7:10 a.m. on the Frosty Forst Show and every Monday afternoon on The Jennifer Mather Show, both on CKNW AM-980. Smyth is also the host of "This Week In B.C." on Shaw Cable television and appears each week on "The Angle," a lively panel discussion on B.C. politics that airs every Sunday during the BCTV morning news. Smyth is also an in-demand public speaker in British Columbia.
"Being a political columnist in B.C. is like being a kid let loose in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory," says Smyth.
"Some days, I hardly know which story to pick. It's a bare-knuckle game played by colourful, outspoken politicians. I love my job and value the relationship I have with readers. Whether they agree with me or not, they let me know by letter, voice mail or e-mail. Thank-you, Province readers: You're the best!"
Read Michael Smyth every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday in your Province newspaper.
Sports columnist Ed Willes was born in Ottawa in 1955. Growing up, he moved across the country living in Ottawa, Montreal, Regina, Chilliwack, Toronto, Kingston, and Victoria. He remained in Ottawa to complete his third year of journalism BA at Carleton, but, alas, never obtained his degree.
Willes' first newspaper posting was for the Medicine Hat News in 1982 when he covered the WHL Tigers, minor league Blue Jays, rodeo, and more curling than he cares to remember.
In 1996, Willes moved to Regina where he reported on the WHL Pats and Saskatchewan Roughriders. He was working on a feature about a woman darts thrower when he was offered a columnist job at the Winnipeg Sun.
In Winnipeg, he spent two years as the General Columnist before moving on and becoming the Jets beat writer and hockey columnist. This stint led him to cover the tragic demise of the Jets while he also took on the role of the first beat writer for the IHL Manitoba Moose.
After Winnipeg, Willes spent a year as a freelance writer in Montreal appearing regularly in the New York Times.
Willes was finally drafted to The Province in the fall of 1998.
Aside from his extensive writing career, Willes boasts a single-digit handicap in golf, an encyclopedic knowledge of pre-1982 pop music and an "inexplicable fascination with movies and popular culture as a whole."


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Romanair will pay approximately $1,000 per month more than the company's previous 30-year lease required. Previous attempts to renegotiate that lease failed due to the discrepancy between the approximate $2,200 per month Romanair owner/operator Rob Mancini said he could afford to pay for the 16,000 square foot building and 7-acres of land he leases and the $11,490 per month authority chairman Frank Nocera initially requested.
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The NFL was reportedly reviewing Bill Belichick's actions when he grabbed an official after Sunday night's loss to the Baltimore Ravens.
A league source told NFL.com it is looking at a possible fine for Belichick's illegal touching.
Belichick grabbed an official as he was leaving the field following Sunday night's loss to the Ravens
Monday, Belichick said that he meant no harm. The Patriots head coach said he was trying to get the official's attention so he could talk to him about the Ravens' game-winning field goal. Belichick thought the kick should have been reviewed to make sure that the ball passed through the uprights.
"I did try to get the official's attention as he was coming off the field. I have never meant any disrespect or in any way tried to abuse or be disrespectful to the officials."
Belichick said some of the Patriots' players on the field thought the ball looked like it was outside the upright, and that Belichick wanted to know if the officials were going to review the field goal.
The NFL fined Denver Broncos head coach John Fox $30,000 and defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio $25,000 for their behavior during a Monday night loss to Atlanta in which they publicly criticized officials.


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The New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics released a report that Lopez had clearly violated official standards of conduct by inappropriately touching women in his office and forcing them to massage his hands.
"I expect to run a vigorous campaign on the issues facing citizens of my community and hope to continue to service them as a member of the City Council," Lopez said in a statement. "I believe that the voters of the community should decide who should represent them."
Former Lopez chief of staff and current City Councilman Stephen Levin called for his resignation following the announcement of the JCOPE report.
"I was shocked and saddened to read the findings in the JCOPE report on Assemblyman Lopez," Levin said. "During my time in his office there were never any incidents or allegations of sexual harassment. If there had been I would have contacted the authorities immediately.
"Due to the circumstances, I believe it is the best thing for everyone concerned that he voluntarily step down."
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In 2004, the Dana Arts and Cognition Consortium brought together cognitive neuroscientists from seven universities across the United States to grapple with the question of why arts training has been associated with higher academic performance. Is it simply that smart people are drawn to "do" art—to study and perform music, dance, drama—or does early arts training cause changes in the brain that enhance other important aspects of cognition?
The consortium can now report findings that allow for a deeper understanding of how to define and evaluate the possible causal relationships between arts training and the ability of the brain to learn in other cognitive domains.
The research includes new data about the effects of arts training that should stimulate future investigation. The preliminary conclusions we have reached may soon lead to trustworthy assumptions about the impact of arts study on the brain; this should be helpful to parents, students, educators, neuroscientists, and policymakers in making personal, institutional, and policy decisions.
Specifics of each participating scientist's research program are detailed in the appended reports that can be downloaded from www.dana.org. Here is a summary of what the group has learned:
1. An interest in a performing art leads to a high state of motivation that produces the sustained attention necessary to improve performance and the training of attention that leads to improvement in other domains of cognition.
2. Genetic studies have begun to yield candidate genes that may help explain individual differences in interest in the arts.
3. Specific links exist between high levels of music training and the ability to manipulate information in both working and long-term memory; these links extend beyond the domain of music training.
4. In children, there appear to be specific links between the practice of music and skills in geometrical representation, though not in other forms of numerical representation.
5. Correlations exist between music training and both reading acquisition and sequence learning. One of the central predictors of early literacy, phonological awareness, is correlated with both music training and the development of a specific brain pathway.
6. Training in acting appears to lead to memory improvement through the learning of general skills for manipulating semantic information.
7. Adult self-reported interest in aesthetics is related to a temperamental factor of openness, which in turn is influenced by dopamine-related genes.
8. Learning to dance by effective observation is closely related to learning by physical practice, both in the level of achievement and also the neural substrates that support the organization of complex actions. Effective observational learning may transfer to other cognitive skills.
The foregoing advances our knowledge about the relationship between arts and cognition. These advances constitute a first round of a neuroscientific attack on the question of whether arts training changes the brain to enhance general cognitive capacities. The question is of such wide interest that, as with some organic diseases, insupportable answers gain fast traction and then ultimately boomerang.
This is the particular difficulty of correlations; the weakness and even spuriousness of some correlational studies led to the creation of the consortium. Correlation accompanies, parallels, complements or reciprocates, and is interesting to observe, but only an understanding of mechanisms drives action and change.
Although scientists must constantly warn of the need to distinguish between correlation and causation, it is important to realize that neuroscience often begins with correlations—usually, the discovery that a certain kind of brain activity works in concert with a certain kind of behavior. But in deciding what research will be most productive, it matters whether these correlations are loose or tight. Many of the studies cited here tighten up correlations that have been noted before, thereby laying the groundwork for unearthing true causal explanations through understanding biological and brain mechanisms that may underlie those relationships.
Moreover, just as correlations may be tight or loose, causation may also be strong or weak. Theoretically, we could claim a broad causation, akin to "smoking causes cancer," with randomized prospective trials showing that children taking arts training can improve certain cognitive scores. Yet, even such a clear-cut result would be weak causation, because we would not have found even one brain mechanism of learning that could suggest progress in understanding such mechanisms to guide optimal arts exposure. Nor would we have found by what mechanisms the brain generalizes that learning, nor anything about developmental periods where the brain is particularly sensitive to growth from specific types of experience.
A vast area of valuable research lies between tight correlation and hard evidence based causal explanations. Theory-driven questions using cognitive neuroscience methods can go beyond efficacy-of-outcome measures by framing experiments that demonstrate how changes in the brain, as a result of arts training, enrich a person's life, and how this experience is transferred to domains that enhance academic learning. Such mid-ground studies would significantly advance our knowledge even though they are not at the level of cellular or molecular explanations.
The consortium work on dance is a good example. Our research indicates that dance training can enable students to become highly successful observers. We found that learning to dance by watching alone can be highly successful and that the success is sustained at the neural level by a strong overlap between brain areas that are used for observing actions and also for making actual movements. These shared neural substrates are critical for organizing complex actions into sequential structure. In the future we can test if this skill in effective observation will transfer to other academic domains.
Nailing down causal mechanisms in the complex circuitry of the brain is a tall order. The arts and cognition studies by the Dana consortium during the past three years lay a foundation for understanding the mechanisms needed for action; we believe they offer the validity essential for the future studies that will build on them.
A life-affirming dimension is opening up in neuroscience; to discover how the performance and appreciation of the arts enlarge cognitive capacities will be a long step forward in learning how better to learn and more enjoyably and productively to live. We offer several suggestions for extensions of the research reported herein:
1. Previous work has established that different neural networks are involved in various forms of the arts such as music, visual arts, drama and dance. Future studies should examine the degree to which these networks are separate and overlap.
2. We also require evidence of how high motivation to pursue an art form will lead to more rapid changes in that network and must find out to what degree such changes may influence other forms of cognition.
3. The links between music and visual arts training and specific aspects of mathematics such as geometry need to be more profoundly explored with advanced imaging methods.
4. The link between intrinsic motivation for a specific art (e.g. music and visual arts) and sustained attention to tasks involving that art needs to be followed up with increased behavioral evidence and imaging methods that can demonstrate that changes in specific pathways are greater for higher levels of motivation.
5. The search for individual indicators of interest in and influence by training in the arts should continue to be examined by a combination of appropriate questionnaire research, use of candidate genes already identified and whole genome scans.
6. Further research also should pose these questions:
a. To what degree is the link between music training, reading and sequence learning causative? If it is causative, does it involve shaping of connectivity between areas of the brain network involved?
b. Is the link between music and drama training and memory methods a causative one? If so, can we use brain imaging to determine the mechanism?
c. What is the role of careful observation and imitation in the performing arts? Can we prepare our motor system for complex dance movements by simply observing or imagining desired movements? Does the discipline and cognitive skill to achieve this goal transfer?
The consortium's accomplishments to date have included bringing together some of the leading cognitive neuroscientists in the world to sort out correlative observations on the arts and cognition, and to begin the analysis of whether these relationships are causal. The consortium's new findings and conceptual advances have clarified what now needs to be done. The specific suggestions noted above grow out of the project's efforts—and surely others are possible as well. These suggestions represent a further deepening of a newly accessible field of investigation. Fresh results as well as new ideas are presented herein on how to continue to research this topic.
In my judgment, this project has identified candidate genes involved in the predisposition to the arts and has also shown that cognitive improvements can be made to specific mental capacities such as geometric reasoning; that specific pathways in the brain can be identified and potentially changed during training; that sometimes it is not structural brain changes but rather changes in cognitive strategy that help solve a problem; and that early targeted music training may lead to better cognition through an as yet unknown neural mechanism. That is all rather remarkable and challenging.
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ODDSAC - Finally seen it
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Firstly, greetings to one and all. I've been meaning to find an Animal Collective forum for ages now, so finally got my arse into gear this weekend - mainly because I've (at long last) just watched ODDSAC. I'd say I've been a pretty avid AC fan for about 3 years now but I was slightly dubious about the whole ODDSAC concept (didn't think I'd enjoy the visuals etc.) and it was always really expensive when I looked so kept putting it off. Anyway, bought it in the end and I'm absolutely blown away with it - it's far surpassed my expectations. Musically I enjoyed 'Screens', 'Tantrum Barb' and 'What Happened' the most. 'Tantrum Barb' is such a delightful high after enduring the long psychedelic visualization sequence in 'Urban Creme', and I though 'What Happened' was an exhilarating ending. Visually, I think the opening sequence with the fire dancers, and the camp/marsh mallow & vampire scenes made me smile the most. Sorry that my first post is just me rambling about AC.. but none of my friends like them so, meh.
It's a GOOD thing here when your posts are rambling on about AC. It's a Very Good thing when you take the time to introduce yourself (hail and welcome!!!) We like AC. A lot.
I was honestly scared by some of the scenes in odd sac, especially fried camp. But I know what you mean, none of my friends like AC either so I don't have anyone to talk to about it
Welcome! We are AC nerds! We ramble on about random EP's and shit! My favourite scene is inbetween the initial scene and the creek scene where all the epileptic stuff happens. I'm embarassed that I don't know the name of the songs but honestly I treat ODDSAC as more as a psychedelic movie than an album.
The Animal Collective Expeirience featuring their ODDSAC.
Is it just me, or is it pronounced Odd Sack? ...
Odd Sack it is. I think. I love ODDSAC
I love it when he explodes all colors of paint. I wish my blood was paint. I'd be filled with purple
(great movie)
you watched it but did you really SEE it? ...
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the blink, it appears. hooray!
still havent seen this idek how long ive known about it... i am disappointed in myself
I still have only seen it on my computer and not the actual DVD version.
I was surprised, I got the dvd, but the quality didn't seem very high for a dvd. It was all pixelated. Did anyone else experience this?
Yeah. It's a DVD. They need to bluray this ho. That would be awesome
Well it seems I didn't miss out then.
I don't have a bluray player but I would download that ho.
we must stop blue ray from happening! they're trying to transition / force it upon everyone! oh dear god? WE MUST STOP THEM!
I don't have a Blu Ray either, but they should have at least have made a HQ DVD.
i kinda like it being glow-fi! if anything imagine had they made it a VHS and purposefully made it all warped like it was some found tape from years ago! i guess people would have found that too gimmicky!
I thought the DVD quality was good actually.. maybe a couple of places where I noticed pixelation, but it didn't detract from the video for me. I think it depends if you're used to watching Blu Ray films (I'm not). It's easy to get used to the quality of things like improved media formats, and pretty soon you don't appreciate it until you go back a step!
I've never actually seen a blu ray dvd in my life. I have seen one of those hi-def televisions though, those are scary! The quality wasn't that bad, just on some of scenes the pixelation was distracting, such as the kaleidoscope-like scene.
I saw ODDSAC live in Atlanta and own the DVD but never really watched it...I have listened to it, though. I have trouble sitting still for movies unless I am in a theater in the dark.
Yeah I have to be in a certain mood to watch movies, but when I am in that mood, I watch like, 3-4 in a row.
Just watched ODDSAC again: 2 things! - Firstly; I love the way they produced this. Having read about the way they passed it back and forth with Danny Perez during production made me watch it more closely this time. I remembered reading some belligerent review saying "...I thought all movie sound-tracks were about making a sound which fitted with the film" but he/she so didn't get it. They did this is a kind of Chinese whispers way: You visualize what you hear *pass* we create music to what we see *pass* You visualize what you hear etc. - Secondly, who is that dude who keeps flashing up in 'Tantrum Barb' (the drumming on the beach song) in the blue jacket/White vest with long black hair & beard? I can't work out what era he is supposed to be from! He reminds me of a Roman Chariot racer; like he's whipping the reins from the carriage! I'm probably way off there, his attire doesn't look right - but I think AnCo like you to have your own interpretation.
Most of the guys are in the movie, I always assumed Noah was under that blonde wig. I've seen it 4 times now
Noah is indeed under the wig. He wore that when they toured Europe in '04. Also, you can tell cause of the spastic drumming style aha. Best visuals: Tantrum Barb Best music: Mr. Fingers IMHO anyway
geo is the angry whippin the reins (of heaven!) dude! both tantrum and fingers have a GREAT audio/visual connection barbule is just blissful stimulation overload! fingers has the emotional pull! (cuz we can't hold back the black goo!) and they're coming after you! (it's what they DO)
just watched this! it was exactly what i expected. awesome i was weirded out by the quality. it's awkwardly between hi and lo-fi. i like how they filmed it with film cameras, but it seems sort of digitalized. i could be wrong though, it just seems like film. actually, not film, tape. there's a big difference. what this movie couldve used is a talented director of photography. some of those moving tripod shots - YIKES!
also, the screen was black when i tried to watch it on my bluray. anyone else experience this?
blue ray is the past man! VHS is the future! life after lazer diskies!
I have a VHS tape of the Batman & Robin movie, possibly one of the worse movies ever made, but it makes me laugh so hard. [img]http://i.qkme.me/3557c3.jpg[/img]
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* On the 40th anniversary of the MLK Assassination last year, our founding editor New Frontier wrote this remembrance of the tragic events which took place this week in 1968. We wanted to share it with you again today.
— Aeschylus, as quoted by Robert Kennedy upon the death of MLK
40 years ago this week brought us to a critical turning point in the American experience.
By March of `68, with the peace movement rapidly growing and anti-war sentiment at its' peak, it seemed that things might finally be turning around for the better. Robert F. Kennedy had just entered the presidential race opposing the war. There was a brewing sense of hope that a Kennedy presidency would be restored five years after the death of JFK.
Little did America suspect that the era known as "Camelot" was not to rise again. On the contrary, it was about to come to an abrupt, ironic, tragic, and bloody end.
Over the course of just five short days, we watched in shock as President Lyndon B. Johnson stepped aside and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was brutally murdered. We saw race riots erupt in the streets of our cities, and wondered if the whole world just might burn. We heard one of the most stirring pleas for peace and unity ever spoken by any politician when Robert F. Kennedy delivered the news of Dr. King's assassination in the heart of an Indianapolis ghetto.
Looking back with the hindsight of history, we can now fully comprehend the importance of this pivotal moment. Those who lived through it will never be able to shake the memory. For for the ones who weren't old enough to remember or had not been born yet, the events of that week still fascinate, even when experienced secondhand through books or grainy old news footage.
It's a tale of stunning upsets, unimaginable horrors and stark contrasts: of presidents and peace, of war and love, of confusion and clarity, of Kennedys and Kings. Of pain which cannot forget – even after forty years.
The first jolt came on March 31, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned the nation with the surprise announcement that he would not seek re-election to the presidency in 1968.
Appearing on TV at 9 p.m. that evening, LBJ first announced that he was taking steps to limit the war in Vietnam. He outlined his plan at some length; then, in what seemed almost an afterthought, dropped this unexpected bombshell:
"Fifty-two months and 10 days ago, in a moment of tragedy and trauma, the duties of this office fell upon me. I asked then for your help and God's, that we might continue America on its course, binding up our wounds, healing our history, moving forward in new unity, to clear the American agenda and to keep the American commitment for all of our people.
United we have kept that commitment. United we have enlarged that commitment.
Through all time to come, I think America will be a stronger nation, a more just society, and a land of greater opportunity and fulfillment because of what we have all done together in these years of unparalleled achievement.
Our reward will come in the life of freedom, peace, and hope that our children will enjoy through ages ahead.
What we won when all of our people united just must not now be lost in suspicion, distrust, selfishness, and politics among any of our people.
Believing this as I do, I have concluded that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year.
With America's sons in the fields far away, with America's future under challenge right here at home, with our hopes and the world's hopes for peace in the balance every day, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office–the Presidency of your country.
Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
President Johnson addresses the nation on television – March 31, 1968
At that exact moment, Kennedy (who had just announced his intention to run for the presidency two weeks earlier) was coming in for a landing at La Guardia airport. The New York State Democratic chairman, John Burns, raced aboard the plane and breathlessly told Kennedy, "The president is not going to run."
Kennedy just stared at him. "You're kidding," he said.
On the drive in from the airport, RFK seemed lost in thought. Finally, he said, "I wonder if he (LBJ) would have done this if I hadn't come in."
Bobby wouldn't have much time to ponder Johnson's motivations. While on the campaign trail four days later — again on an airplane — he recieved word that Martin Luther King had just been shot and killed by a sniper in Memphis.
Kennedy "sagged. His eyes went blank," said New York Times reporter Johnny Apple, who delivered the news to RFK.
By the time Bobby arrived in Indianapolis, King had been reported dead. Fearing a race riot, the chief of police advised Kennedy to cancel his scheduled appearance in a mostly black neighborhood. Ignoring the warnings, RFK arrived at the speech site – a wind-blown lot surrounded by tenements – in his brother's old overcoat with the collar turned up.
About a thousand people were gathered there, rallying and cheering for Bobby with all the usual excitment generated at his campaign stops. The crowd awaited his speech, happily oblivious to the news that Dr. King had been shot down.
Throwing out his prepared remarks, Bobby pulled from his pocket a crumpled piece of paper with his own hastily scribbled notes and began to speak in quiet, reverent tones, his voice occasionally cracking with nervous emotion:
"Ladies and Gentlemen – I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening. Because…
I have some very sad news for all of you, and I think sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee.
(Audible gasps and cries of "No! No!" can be heard from the crowd)
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it's perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in.
For those of you who are black – considering the evidence evidently is that there were white people who were responsible – you can be filled with bitterness, and with hatred, and a desire for revenge.
We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization – black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.
For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.
But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond these rather difficult times.
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
(Interrupted by applause)
So I ask you tonight to return home, to say a prayer for the family of Martin Luther King, yeah that's true, but more importantly to say a prayer for our own country, which all of us love – a prayer for understanding and that compassion of which I spoke. We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times. We've had difficult times in the past. And we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; and it's not the end of disorder.
But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings that abide in our land.
(Interrupted by applause)
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people. Thank you very much."
Late that night, a sleepless, restless Kennedy was seen wandering the halls of his hotel alone. At 3 a.m., he knocked on the door of Joan Braden, an old friend who had also worked on JFK's 1960 campaign. Bobby confided to her the true source of his agony.
"Joanie," he said, "that could have been me."
Two months later to the day Robert Kennedy was gunned down during a celebration following his victory in the California primary, June 4, 1968. He would die 26 hours later.
While it would be easy to look back after 40 years and dwell on 1968's sorrows, its' crippling series of tragedies, perhaps we should instead remember and take to heart Bobby Kennedy's advice:
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
"And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?
Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind.
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land.
I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!
And so I'm happy, tonight.
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man!
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!!"
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final sermon.
Memphis, TN, April 3, 1968
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Zack Snyder has been making waves in the fanboy community for months. Whether it was casting Ben Affleck as Batman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, or Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, his decisions have been put under a microscope more powerful than even Superman's X-ray vision.
While some might be shaken under the immense pressure, Snyder has kept his cool. In a recent interview, the director talked about fan reaction to some of his decisions, as well as his hopes for the highly-anticipated sequel.
Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Snyder acknowledged fanboy angst, but countered that "the fans don't know the material" and if they could see the script they'd understand his rationale better.
"We're casting according to what's happening in the script. And we're hoping that leads to enough originality, enough perspective on what we're doing that you get something fresh and exciting. I understand the canon. I'm not crazy. I know what these characters need from a mythological standpoint."
Talking about Eisenberg as Lex Luthor specifically, Snyder also commented on the actor's sterling credentials, saying:
"I think Jesse is going to be an amazing Lex. Let's not forget he was nominated for an Academy Award. It's not like I just grabbed my friend to play the guy! This guy's the real deal."
Not that he cares too much to defend his decisions. He's too excited about bringing these iconic characters together on the big screen for the first time to worry much about Internet chatter.
"As a fan, it's an amazing opportunity. You know, Superman and Batman in the movies have never existed in the same frame together."
Snyder then went on to explain that his hope is to 'explode' the 'Batman' and 'Superman' universes and let the characters loose.
"[The movie] literally takes the 'Man of Steel' and 'Batman' universes and explodes them. You're not as tied to the mythology. In 'Man of Steel,' we had to create an origin story, a mythology, and there's a lot of energy into that, which we love doing. Don't get me wrong. But when you think about how fun it is to — now that you've got these characters — to now let 'em loose. That's fun!"
Admittedly, when you talk about exploding anything outside the realm of special effects, you're going to make people nervous. But I don't think that fans should read too much into Snyder's comments here or assume that he's reinventing Batman or Superman from the ground up.
Remember that actor Harry Lennix read a famous passage from The Dark Knight Returns when the film was first announced at Comic-Con, and Snyder has acknowledged that Frank Miller's seminal graphic novel has influenced "the history" of the film (whatever that means).
Snyder is simply saying that this film will be different than any Batman or Superman movie we've seen before. And in this case, different is probably a good thing. If DC and Warner Bros are going to compete on the same level as Marvel (which is building huge buzz for a film that features a raccoon as a main character), they're going to have to take some chances.
Either way, you know there are going to be plenty of people in seats when the film premieres over two years from now.
What do you think of Snyder's comments? Are you worried or do you trust him to take these characters in the right direction?
Batman vs. Superman hits theaters on May 6th, 2016.
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Energy-or lack of it-will produce some of the largest consequences imaginable around the world. The institute at Duquesne will provide a needed source of serious research, fair and impartial discussions and substantive policy recommendations and advisories. -- Dr. Kent Moors
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The real reason why we got HLK10-strict down:
Wall feasts. This is what happens when you get superstitious with raiding. You spend 30 seconds of buffing time trying to get a fish feast stuck in a wall, and everyone waits patiently without complaint, because IT IS NECESSARY FOR SUCCESS.
Been a busy week. Scythe and I had been working on changing up the guild website and using different, integrated software for its front page, and it's finally up and running. We've had stick-figures in the margins on the forums previously, but now we get to have them on the front page, too. I like the personalization, it gives it more of the guild's character.
Has gotten big.
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Don't even say that man!!!! lool... I WISH!!! i'm facing 7 degrees Celcius in here... if i was in Brazil i'd be in cousy lovely 27... tshhhDude Portugal is not in spain it is in brazil.
that would be paradise.
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You guys are seriously fucked up…
I'll pray for you :)
You guys
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Please, no mods delete this or anything. I'm doing a project for school on FSMism, but I don't have a printer. Since venganza is one of the only sites not blocked by the school, I'm using it to get this to a school computer so I can use their printer.
Worshiping The Noodly One
Pastafarian prayers:
A first rule to Pastafarian prayers is the mandatory "R'Amen" at the end of the prayer. And yes, both the R and the A are capitals.
Our Pasta, who "Arghh" in the colander, Swallowed be thy sauce. Thy serving come, Thy strands be wrung, On forks as they are on spoons. Give us this day our garlic bread, And forgive us our starchiness, As we swashbuckle, splice the main-brace and cuss, And lead us not into Kraft parmesan, But deliver us from Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, For thine are Meatballs, and the beer, and the strippers, for ever and ever. R'Amen.
I did not create this. I did try to find the original author, but there are many versions, all of which are very popular as prayers, and it is spread via the internet. I tried my best, but I could not find the original author.
Give thy strong believer the pasta of faith,
The spirit to see his loving appendage above,
For we know his eyestalks watch over us.
Let thy free pirate taste the sauce of knowledge,
Like thy midget that has passed,
For we trust in the noodle that has touched us.
Trust thy honest Pastafarian with the meatballs of truth,
The holy taste which we love,
For we rejoice in his presence,
Another way to worship is to go to http://www.venganza.org (the official church site), click worship, scroll down to the subpages, click on FSM the game, click the icon, and play the game. In it you play the FSM and you try to convert people to FSMism. To reach down with his noodly appendage simply use the mouse, but don't touch the hardcore Christians at the bottom of the screen.
Lastly, you can also worship the FSM by peacefully converting people his religion. To find out more information on how to convert people please read the book.
…And with our fucked up minds, we pray for you too. :3
You are seriously fucked up…
I'll pray to fsm for you :)
-Ernie B.
The style of writing is quite familiar to me. Have you written guest posts for other bloggers?
You don't have to, we are more than capable of doing it ourselves thanks.
Why am I writing this?
mariahjosh, I'll give you my standard answer to "I'll pray for you" –
"I hope you come back to reality soon".


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R&C's Real-World Performance Shootout
Tim Nesmith had the farthest to drive of all six competitors. Tim saw the invitation in the April '03 ROD & CUSTOM–it requested owners to submit a photo of their vehicle for possible participation in R&C's annual check 'em out, ride 'em hard, beat 'em up, have a ball shoot-out–so he sent in a photo of his homebuilt, small-block-powered, indigo blue '41 Chevy coupe. When Tim was informed that R&C readers had voted his Chevy as one of the six final participants in our crazy performance showdown, he started prepping for the 2,000-mile trip from Hartselle, Alabama, to Burbank, California (starting point of the third annual ROD & CUSTOM Asphalt Ego-Rama).
The excitement started to fade in the middle of the night near the Oklahoma/Arkansas border, as Tim and passenger Jeff Parker pushed the coupe, out of gas, down the highway toward the nearest town. A handful of Southern Samaritans helped him get gassed up and back on the road. Things were looking up again.
The cars and drivers that would duke it out in this competition congregated in the hotel parking lot in Burbank on day one of the week-long road trip. Norm and Terry Cowdrey (later to be joined by their son Dan) with their dark blue '56 Nomad, Larry and Gloria Metz in the orange '32 cabriolet, and Don Dillard and "Rotten" Rodney Bauman with Don's suede brown '30 A coupe were all Southern California folks and didn't have far to travel. Rex and Deby Marshall drove their red metalflake '55 Chevy from Salt Lake City, and Fred and Shirley Douglas brought their black '48 Olds convertible from eastern Kansas, accompanied by bodyman Roger Ward. And you've already met Tim and Jeff.
We kicked off the week with a visit to Barris Kustom in North Hollywood. George and striper Tom "Itchy" Otis treated us to a guided tour of the shop. The shop is like the Smithsonian of famous Hollywood rides. Grand National Roadster Show trophies clutter the shelves, and photos of the hundreds of stars who have been customers cover the walls. Barris seemed to enjoy checking out the Ego-Rama rides as much as we enjoyed soaking up the historic hot rods on display at his shop.
At the Tuesday morning drivers' meeting, we explained the Ego-Rama agenda. In addition to cruising across the Southwest, visiting points of interest, we would be conducting a competition in nine categories: Acceleration (10 percent), Braking (10 percent), Cornering (10 percent), Gas Mileage (5 percent), People's Choice (15 percent), Engineering (15 percent), Ride & Drive (15 percent), Budget (10 percent), and Style Points (10 percent). The first four categories would be determined by objective testing. The People's Choice category would be based on spectator voting at the Goodguys Southwestern Nats at the end of the week. In the Engineering category, the R&C judging staff (Jim Rizzo, Dan Kahn, Damon Lee, and I) would evaluate craftsmanship, imagination, and technical excellence. R&D was based on overall ride quality and practicality of each vehicle. Budget (anti-big bucks) awarded lower-dollar buildups, and Style Points awarded the sportsmanship of the participants.
A short freeway ride took us into Los Angeles. Destination: the Petersen Automotive Museum, where museum curator and car builder Pete Eastwood took us down into the basement. This huge area, closed to the general public, is where the museum stores recent acquisitions, vehicles rotating into or out of the galleries upstairs, and Robert Petersen's private collection of rods and exotic cars.
We got to Hot Rods & Custom Stuff in Escondido late for dinner. Shop owners Randy and Peaches Clark and the staff showed us their facility, including their impressive new body shop. Dalton's Roadhouse Catering put on a feast that couldn't be beat. In addition to our gang, the Clarks invited a number of customers and their rides, including the M-80 Chevy, R&C cover car and the '01 Ridler Award winner.
We got a late start on Wednesday, after waiting for the word on Don's condition. This was our longest drive day, approximately 400 miles to Scottsdale, Arizona. With not much on the schedule except to enjoy the scenery, R&C staffers got to do Ride & Drive and Engineering evaluations.
Every car in this year's event was roadworthy and comfortable. We had anticipated that Rex and Deby's Gasser-style '55–with its go-straight suspension, tube axle, and Mickey Thompson slicks–would have a little trouble in the wet and windy mountain roads, but the car never fell behind. Another surprise about the '55 was its pure '60s styling, from the metalflake red paint and fenderwell headers to the JC Whitney headrests. This car was originally built in 1966 as some kid's high school project. Rex remembers seeing it around before it went into storage for several decades. It took a little coaxing to get the owner to sell it and only a moderate amount of work to the body, suspension, interior, and drivetrain to refresh it to its mid-'60s appearance. One more surprise: the '55 turned out be the most fuel-efficient car in the pack, which we chalk up to the Richmond six-speed gearbox.
The other Shoebox Chevy in the bunch, Norm Cowdrey's small-block-powered '56, was hands-down the best entrant in the Ride & Drive category–no surprise at all. Once a rusted hulk, the Nomad now rides like a late-model luxury car with a splash of sports car. It ought to. Norm has been building and racing sports cars his whole life and applied his experience to the Nomad. It rides on a chassis built by Paul Newman at Car Creations and modified with '96 Corvette idependent suspension at both ends. On the inside, it's first-class seating with leather-bound Lexus seats and every amenity.
Fred Douglas' big '48 Olds was our favorite in the Engineering category (as well as People's Choice winner at the Goodguys show). Fred, who performed much of the buildup in his basement shop with help from Larry Love and others, says he wanted to keep the car smooth and simple, without skimping on comfort or power in any area. He ordered the 502 Ram Jet the day he heard about production. Fred also designed the interior, built by Richardson Custom Interiors. Roger Ward shot the black basecoat and clear.
Our Acceleration testing took place Thursday at Speedworld Motorplex in Wittman, Arizona. We expected the big '55 to trounce the rest of the field, and with consistent e.t.'s in the mid-12s, it was a full second quicker than the second-quickest car, the '41 Chevy. Tim's Chevy made straight and consistent passes, with a best time of 13.68 thanks in part to an owner-built tube frame with Speedway NASCAR front antisway bars. The coupe was an eight-year project for Tim. He said it was a rough non-running car when he first trailered it home, but his daughter Britney, 7 years old back then, repeated her dad's words, "It's not much, but it has potential."
After everybody made several passes, we set up the radar gun for the 60-0-mph Braking competition. Much of our performance testing was handled by Andrew Schear, from our sister publication, Super Chevy. Larry Metz took the first pass, getting a little sideways when he hit the binders. At 2,700 pounds, Metz' flathead-powered Deuce is the lightest car in the bunch and is equipped with front Wilwood discs and rear 10-inch Bendix drums, stopping the cabrio at 138 feet. The next-lightest car, Norm Cowdrey's Nomad, has 1,000 pounds on the '32 but is equipped with 13-inch rotors in front and 12s in the rear; the wagon came to an effortless stop in only 129 feet.
The '55, with a rearend full of broken spider gear teeth, was unable to participate in brake testing (Rex didn't anticipate anything higher than fifth place in this category anyway). With the Gasser on our trailer, we headed back into Phoenix to Industrial Chassis, where the car stayed until the next morning when the munched rearend gears could be replaced.
On Friday, while Rex fixed his Chevy, the rest of us got coffee, donuts, and a shop tour at Hot Rods by Dean, followed by a visit to the Rod Factory. After lunch we visited to the Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving at Firebird Raceway. We enjoyed the tour of the school but will probably remember the laps around the road course a lot longer. Staff drivers gave each Ego-Rama participant and R&C staffer a ride around the road course in race-prepped Corvette C5s. At 100 mph, those guys were probably sandbagging but still managed to squeeze the last bit of ego out of any of us who thought we were hotshot drivers. Ego-Rama participants then had a chance to take their own cars out on the course for a few laps.
Andrew got busy setting up the cones and radar gun for skidpad testing. This is a new test for Ego-Rama and consists of making clockwise and counterclockwise passes around a 200-foot-diameter circle of cones. Two of the cars we expected to shine in this area, the Olds and the Nomad, didn't compete–Fred was attending to personal business and Norm was out of commission with a failed ignition module. That's how Rex and Deby's lumbering '55 scored third place points in this category. Tim's coupe, which had done well at the dragstrip, wowed us with some impressive handling, too. In the end, though, this was Larry Metz' time to shine. Larry was able to run that '32 around those cones like a tether car.
We'd never seen a body quite like Larry's 'glass '32 cabrio. It's a New Zealand-built "California Cabrio" imported by Limeworks. Larry dropped it over a TCI chassis. He relocated the crossmembers, added a new K-member, and pie-cut the frame to raise the rear, giving the car a more aggressive rake. Larry's been building flatheads since he was a teenager. This one is fed by a homemade manifold, four-barrel, and modified Eaton blower. His wife Gloria and sons Randy and Mike also worked on the Deuce, which has been on the road for about 4 years. The cabrio excelled in the areas of Gas Mileage and Braking and finished first in the Cornering category.
Goodguys saved us a primo spot at the Southwest Nats in Scottsdale on Saturday. People's Choice was calculated by spectator voting, and the response to the Ego-Rama cars was so good we ran out of ballots and had to go make more. Norm's '56 was absent for the first few hours as the ignition chip was replaced but still chalked up a lot of votes. The crowd favorite, however, was Fred's big black Olds 98.
That evening, we headed back to Industrial Chassis, where owner Steve Szymanski hosted an open house, with a buffet provided by his girlfriend, Celeste. ROD & CUSTOM expresses a big thanks to this shop for the food, fun, and mechanical help.
Saturday night, the R&C staff calculated all the numbers and percentages from the judging categories. As usually happens, the winner was a car that didn't dominate in one particular category but performed consistently well in every area. At Sunday morning's awards breakfast we presented the R&C Asphalt Ego-Rama King of the Road award to Tim Nesmith's '41 Chevy.
After a week on the road, we'd covered approximately 800 miles, had a bunch of fun, and made new friends. Tim Nesmith went back to Alabama with the King of the Road plaque. Every other participant went home with memories of a great road trip. We came back to work with this story and car features on all participant cars, which we'll be publishing in upcoming issues. We're already making plans for Asphalt Ego-Rama IV with a whole team of new participants. Maybe you.


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This is the time to both look back at 2010, which is ending, and look forward at 2011, with hope that we will exit it as well off as we did this one. Given current conditions this, unfortunately, may be an overly aggressive goal. In any case, there is a lot of cool stuff coming next year, I'll try to pick the things that will play pivotal roles.
Personal cloud
The idea of your stuff being available to you wherever you are and on any device you want is becoming vastly more popular. With efforts like SugarSync, Apple's MobileMe, and Microsoft's Live Mesh, it is spreading broadly to the major vendors, and has at its core the realization that you want your stuff when you need it, and not just when you are on your PC. This is likely where the cloud becomes real to all of us, and will make new products like the iPad far more useful over time.
I've seen the challengers lined up for early 2011, and most of them suck. An increasing number of us wonder if we should agree with Roger Kay and pronounce that, like the iPod, the market for this new device is owned by Apple. Still this little product is getting a lot of folks to look at the market differently, but Google and Microsoft won't have a good response until at least 2012, Notion Ink is still way too small to compete with Apple, and HP doesn't have a great record coming through in this area either, but it ironically may be the best bet in 2011. I say ironically because HP came the closest to taking out the iPod early on, which was why Jobs talked HP into doing an HP-branded iPod. This could be payback, but the smart money remains on Apple. Outside of HP and Apple, I don't expect much of anything.
This will be the make-it-or-break-it year for OnLive. The company has proven that the service works, and in 2011, it will begin to take it to the next level. Part of this is their version of streaming movies and videos. The advantage with OnLive's approach is that it use an extremely thin client, allowing the service to more easily move across platforms than alternatives, which require more client-side technology. This could open the door to blended entertainment where the lines between movies and games are truly blurred. OnLive represents the biggest threat to the client-side status quo currently in market, and in 2011 it should hit its stride.
While it is not clear yet if we can even agree what 4G is, clearly 2011 will be the year we are inundated with this name. We are heavily bandwidth constrained with 3G, and if we want to be able to use services like OnLive on our phones, 3G just doesn't cut it. I doubt 4G will be enough either, but just like 3G took the market by storm the year the iPhone launched, 2011 is the year that 4G becomes the favorite way we do stuff.
Windows 8
Yes, I know most of us just got Windows 7, but in 2011, we will start getting ready for Windows 8. Right now, we don't yet know that much about the platform, other than it is designed to run against products like the iPhone and ChromeOS. This will undoubtedly be as big a rethink of the Windows platform as Windows Phone 7 was of Windows Mobile. Expect sweeping changes of the user interface, an even bigger diet than Windows 7 got, and just a little bit of magic, because this round Microsoft has some marketing people in the mix, and that typically means less "what were they thinking" and more "oh wow."
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Thomas M. Menino is serving his fourth term as Mayor of the City of Boston. The first Italian-American Mayor of Boston, he was elected to his first term on November 2, 1993, winning 64 percent of the vote and 18 of the city's 22 wards. Mayor Menino was re-elected to a second term without opposition in 1997 and won
a third term in a landslide victory in November 2001. Most
recently, Mayor Menino won a historic fourth election in November,
2005 with 68 percent of the vote. Prior to his election in 1993, he
previously served four months as Acting Mayor and nine years as a
District City Councilor from Boston's Hyde Park
Massachusetts. Mayor Menino and his wife, the former Angela Faletra, have two children, Susan and Thomas, Jr., and six grandchildren. During his tenure as Mayor of Boston, Mayor Menino has worked hard to
improve the quality of life for all of Boston's 589,000
residents. As President of the United States Conference of Mayors
from 2002-2003, Mayor Menino championed homeland security and
housing availability. He has been an advisor to the National Trust
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New Green Prefab Idea: 500K Billboards as Modular Housing
There are nearly 500,000 freestanding billboards in the United States alone. What if any number of these could be converted en mass into functional, modular prefab homes that could be shipped and installed in rural and urban areas around the country – eco-friendly, cheap new housing from recycled old billboards.
Prefabrication and portability are nothing new in architecture and transportation, but world-changing modular and mass-producible visions like this concept by Nocturnal Design Labs are few and far between. Unlike most conventional prefabs, these spaces are planned with interior layouts, sun paths and wind patterns in mind, giving the result a distictive and dynamic shape.
From the curved modern shell and functional interior spaces to the high-up locations with varied views, there is more to this than simply a clever idea from a forward-thinking designer – these are best understood as prefab building prototypes, the potential start of an entire movement in adaptive reuse already being explored by various architects and designs.


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HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. – The No. 18 Georgia College golf team slipped beneath the cut for the NCAA Finals on the third and final day of action at the NCAA South/Southeast SuperRegional, finishing in ninth place with a three-round score of 35-over par.
Taking on a tough 20-team field, the Bobcats needed to finish in the top-seven to advance to the NCAA Finals, missing that mark by eight strokes. The Bobcats shot 313 today, combined with a 291 and 295 in the first two rounds on the par-72, 6,928-yard El Campeon Course at Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort.
Junior Victor Monte (Chantilly, Va.) was tops on the team in 21st place overall among 108 golfers. The SuperRegional marks the first time Monte has posted the tournament low for Georgia College. Monte carded rounds of 73, 72 and 77 for six-over par. The round started with a birdie for Monte on the par-five No. 1, but he wouldn't card another sub-par hole on the round.
Junior Bryan Fox (Roswell, Ga.) finished a stroke behind Monte in 28th place. His rounds of 73, 74 and 76 were good for four-over. Fox also started with a birdie on the first hole, but finished the front nine with bogeys on each of the last four.
Senior All-American Taylor Smith (Mansfield, Ga.) was 55th at plus-13, carding rounds of 77, 74 and 78. Smith was one-under after six.
A stroke behind Smith at plus-14 was sophomore All-American Ryan Trocchio (Norcross, Ga.) showing rounds of 73, 75 and 82. He didn't manage a sub-par hole in round three.
Rounding out the scoring was senior two-time All-American Patrick Garrett (Kennesaw, Ga.) finishing 78th at 17-over par. Garrett had rounds of 72, 79 and 82.
No. 1 Nova Southeastern University ran away with the SuperRegional title at nine-under with a 287, 284 and 284. No. 2 Barry University was second, a whopping 16 strokes behind. The other teams that qualified for the NCAA Finals are No. 9 Columbus State University, No. 6 Florida Southern College, No. 8 Lynn University, No. 24 University of West Florida and No. 3 USC Aiken.
NSU's Ben Taylor won individual medalist at six-under par, besting teammate Recardo Celia by just a single stroke.
The season has come to a close for Bobcat golf, one that saw Georgia College take top-five finishes in three different tournaments, while also putting two on the All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) teams.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Singapore Science Centre with PUB Singapore main content.
Part of the Water: H2O = Life exhibition.
The Singapore Science Centre (SSC) is the national science centre of Singapore dedicated to the promotion of science and technology to students and the general public. It is one of the oldest and largest science centers in Asia, and achieves its mission through an extensive program of exhibitions and enrichment and promotional activities. Not only does SSC champion science literacy in society, it also plays a critical role in nurturing a future workforce in scientific professions.
PUB, Singapore's national water agency, manages the country's water supply, water catchment, and sewage in an integrated way. In 2007, PUB Singapore won the Stockholm Industry Water Award and was named Water Agency of the Year at the Global Water Awards 2006.
"The Singapore Science Centre is glad to be a collaborator of Water: H2O = Life. Water is and will continue to be a vital resource for Singapore, being a compact city-state with few natural resources. Through its involvement in this exhibition, SSC aims to impress upon visitors the beauty of water and value of this precious resource--water."
Dr. Chew Tuan Chiong
Chief Executive
Singapore Science Centre (SCC)
"The importance of having a sustainable and reliable water supply is essential to the development of cities. Indeed, sustainable water management is key to a country's well-being. As the world faces the effects of climate change and increasing urbanization, we need to be mindful about any impact that our actions may have on our environment."
Khoo Teng Chye
Chief Executive
PUB Singapore


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Reading Your Academic Requirements Report
These are instructions for students. FACULTY: Go to to www.registration/faculty_help/faculty_arr.html for instructions on how to run the ARR from the Advisor Center, but you can use this page to learn how to read the ARR.
From your Student Center, you can view your Academic Requirements Report (formerly known as the DPR). This report tracks the completion of all degree requirements.
- The ARR is a report that tracks the completion of ALL degree requirements in one place
- Lists all courses completed at SSU, uses courses in-progress, and any transfer or test credit courses that have been submitted on official documents
- The ARR is dynamic and displays new information:
- After registration
- After grades are posted and Records runs their repeat checking process
- After a major or minor is changed
1.) From your Student Center page, click on "My Academics" from your Student Center
2.) Getting to ARR: From the My Academics page, find "Academic Requirements" and click on "View my Advisement Report".
3.) NOTE: Faculty, Advisors and Students. At this point you should be viewing the Academic Requirement Report. See figure below.
- Current Academic Objective contains all officially declared Majors and Minors.
- Requirement Term refers to Catalog year requirements.
4.) The "Degree Audit icons" (left area) will indicate completion status of requirements throughout the report.
5.) The "Course Icons" (right area) indicate what kind of course was used towards that requirement
|A course taken at and Completed with a Grade at SSU
|A course being taken at SSU, but still needs to be graded before it clears any requirements
|Transfer or Test Credit that has been posted to your student record, submitted to SSU on official documents
|Course being used during a What-If report simulation
6.) You can view different sections of your ARR. These include: Academic Objective and Academic Summary, General Information about the ARR, Report Legend and Graduation Requirements. See figure below:
7.) Below are the requirement icons:
8.) Below is an example of courses that are being used to meet a requirement. Note that a course must receive a Grade before it will satisfy the requirement:


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